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PRESS
DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVI
Four States Prepare
To Fight More Rains
And Swollen Streams
Thirteen Are Dead and 4,-
000 Homeless in Arkan
sas, Mississippi, Tennes
see and Kentucky.
NASH VILLE FOLKS
FORSAKE HOMES
3,000 in That City Forced
to Leave Because of the
Rising Waters.—Much
Corn Destroyed.
Memphis, Tenn,, Deo. 28.— UP) —
Willi the known dead in three south
ern stntes at thirteen, nnd approxi
mate!)' 4.000 homeless ns a result of
Hooded streams, Arkansas. Mississip
pi, Tennessee and Kentucky today
prepared foi* more rain. Property
damage in the flooded areas has been
estimated at more than a million dol
lars.
Six persons were reported dead in
Arkansas, five in Mississippi and two
in Tennessee as direct results of the
Hoot). Three thousand were driven
from their homes in Nashville when
the Cumberland River overflowed its
hanks, and the crest had not been
reached early today.
The product of thousands of acres
of corn was being transferred from
the lowlands of Kentucky and In
diana ns a result of flood stage being j
reached in the Ohio River, with nn i
expected further rise of five feet, as
waters from the flooded streams pour
into it before the crest is reached.
Much ungnthered corn hns been ruined
by flood waters in these two states.
Rain was foreeast for every south
ern state today, and while the waters
of many of the smaller streams '.tad
begun to recede, apprehension was
felt in some sections over the aspect i
of further downpours. Tomorrow, I
will be generally fair .over!
the South.
Only in a very few isolated places |
hns relief work been hindered accord-j
ing to available reports. Train ser
vile has been badly crippled, with!
some schedules being entirely stopped, |
while others have Iteen stopped by
necessity of many detours. This is
exceptionally true in Mississippi and
Tennessee.
*-“"The Inrge4- rivers of Tennessee still
were rising, today but many of the
,'etuaftia- reported hs getting
back to normalcy. The general) con
dition in Mississippi was reported to
he improving with the flood waters
slowly receding. The worst of the
floods which have caused six lives to
bo lost and hundreds of thousands of
dollars in property damage in Arkan
sas was reported to have passed.
The lowlands along the Ohio River
in Kentucky and in Indiana are just
beginning to be badly flooded, dis
patches from those sections says. Ala
bama has been '.tit by the floods in
some sections but property damage
was not estimated ns great as in the
other neighboring states.
The greatest property damage was
said to be In Nashville, where nearly
100 city blocks were flooded, hundreds
of business houses and homes desert- ]
ed, and great damage to crops and the
outlying territory.
Most of tile death reports have been
due to highway traffic accidents.
Scores of minor automobile accidents
have been reported as t'iie result of
slippery roads. Many highways have
been impassable for as long as a week.
So far us is known, no great amount |
of suffering has resulted in ratio to
the number who have been driven from
their homes.
ASHEVILLE MURDER
MYSTERY NOT SOLVED
Arrest of Negroes I>oes Not Entirely
Clear Up -Mystery of Nurse's!
Death.
Asheville, Dec. B.—(A 3 )—Asheville's
moot mysterious and gruesome Christ
mas tragedy was apparently little
nearer final solution today than it I
was nearly four days ago when the I
mangled and lifeless body of Miss
Mary McGuire, e'derly hospital dieti
cian, was found by a negro laborer in
j\ie early morning hours of December
25th in mud and water at the entrance
|>f Campbell'ep W<kkl under the brjght
fays of a street light.
• Two. negroes, YVlJliam Avery and,
ills Wife, Addle, residents of tjhe, Cniqp
bell Woods sect km were placed updor
arrest about 1 o’clock this morning
after they had been brought to police
headquarters for questioning. They
arc being held in jail without bond
on warrants charging aiding and abet
ting in murder, nnd ns accessories af
ter the fact. The arrests were made
after several hours of questioning by
the police. Avery and wife declare,
however, they know nothing of the
events in connection with the tragedy.
ALBERT B. FALL
CONFINED TO BED
WITH PNEUMONIA
El Paso, Texas, Dec. B.— UP) —
Illness again lias confined Albert
11. Fall to his home hero. The
'former secretary of the interior
contracted an irritation of tbe
lungs over the week-end. which yes
terday was diagnosed ns pneu
monia. Although bis ailment was
characterized as serious, his condi
tion today was reported as gener
ally satisfactory.
The Concord Daily Tribune
North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
■ liUDAIVER
IS STILL RISING
3
i Weather Observers Think
l\ Crest of Flood Will Be
1 Reached Sometime Dur
j ing Wednesday.
Nashville. Tenn.. Dec. 28.— UP) —
With more than 2500 persons made
homeless by flood waters in Nashville.
* j lntl comfortably sheltered. weather
' j bureau officials declared early today
| that there is likelihood of the Cunt
’’l berland river which now stands at
1 51.5, still going to a higher mark and
I that the crest will probably ibo
■ reached tomorrow.
Several towns upstream from Nash-
II ville, however, already hard hit by
> the flood, reported the river rapidly
* rising with a steady rain falling.
i Rain was also falling in Nashville
i having started early last night, and
i was continuing at an early hour to
i day. Weather officials' reported it
would take at least an inch of rain to
i increase the rise of the river here,
i j Forty-three of thp 4T business hoits
■ es of Rnrtsville, Tenn., were flooded
1 1 by backwaters from the river n mile
i I away, nnd many families were forced
: from their homes.
Seventy-five houses at Celinn,
Tenn., are under water, and 25 of
them are wrecked, while 75 others up
and down the river were abandoned.
Buffalo Valley, a town of about
200 people, is completely submerged,
all businesses being suspended, and
: the population sheltered in nearby
farm bouses.
| As Ashland Ci<y, OlarksijilJJ
Oalnsboro and other towns along the
I river outside of Nashville were dom
i aged by the rising water.
I Tile predicted rise here is expected
Ito root more families from their
j homes. In nearly every instance fani
j ilies lmve been induced to move out of
| their homes before the waters reached
them.
ALBERT FALL SERIOUSLY
ILL WITH PNEUMONIA
Farmer C«lk<u* Oftrar- Mdk it Gaud
Chance to Recover. Doctor Says.
K1 Paso. Texas, Dec. 27.—Albert
B. Fall, former Secretary of the In
terior. who recently was acquitted in
Washington with Edward L. Do-
Itchy oil charges of conspiracy to de
fraud the government in eonneotio-i
with California naval oil land leases,
was seriously ill at his home here
with pneumonia.
A bulletin issued by Dr. 11. T.
Snfford said Mr. Fall was “resting |
easy" his condition showing little
change.
Although the former secretary's
illness was described as serious, his
physician said that unless complica
tion develop recovery way expected.
Mr. Fall is 65 years old
| Hunt Is Renewed For Elusive “Ket
tlefoot.”
Boone. X. C.. Dec. —(A s )—The an
nual hunt for “Kettlefoot’' is tinder
way.
For tbe past decade, hunters have
gone forth into the Black Mountain
district, but rarely have they caught i
even o glimpse of the famed creature.
I "Kettlefoot" is a black bear- Hunt
ers who declare they have approach
ed near enough to take a shot at him
say that he weighs around COO
pounds, is extraordinarily fleet, ami
possessed of nn uncanny ability to
avoid capture.
Herders and farmer of the B'ack
Mountains know "Kettlefoot” in
timately. looted barnyards, devasted
en roosts, and trampled truck patch
es have been regarded as signs of one
of bis visitations. The big bear got
his name from the peculiar shape of
his track which is said to resemble
jail old-fasbioned iron kettle.
Receivers Named- For Tanenhaus
Stores.
Charlotte, Dec. 28.— (A 3)—Tanen
haus Brothers, credit clothiers, a
New York corporation, operating a
string of stores in North Carolina nnd
Soplb Carolina, today was operating
under a receivership. L. Taiicnhniis,
treasurer of the company, said that
$11“ of. the stores would continue to
operate with the present officers and
personnel but under the direction of
David Mosinsohn and Percy Micheal
bacher, of New York, who were nam
ed receivers late yesterday.
The company operates stores in
Durham, Greensboro, Winston-Salem,
Charlotte, Ashe ville, Gastonia and
SoliSbury. N. C„ and Columbia, S. C,
Aged Man Found Dead Beside Guil
ford Road.
Greensboro, Deo. 27.—The body
Os an old man, found thin afternoon
a mile nothwest of the Guilford bat
tle ground, six miles from here, was
unidentified here tonight. It ts in n:i
undertaker's establishment.
Heart failure is given as the rea
son for death. The old man had
built a fire of twigs in a ditch by the
roadside and was evidently crouched
before it when he toppled forward on
his face in the ditch- He appeared to
have been dead several hours.
A gymnasium building which in
cludes a swimming pool and running
track will be a feature of the new
<1,850,000 United States Veterans
Bureau hospital now under consrtuc
-1 tion at Fort Snelling.
CONCORD, N.C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1926~
New Linotype Machine of Latest
Pattern Added to Our Equipment
The Tribune and Times Office,
has just installed a new No. 8 Lino-1
type machine, which is the latest |
word in Linotype construction. The
tqndhine has all the improvements
tip to date, with electric melting pot
and equipped with three magazines.
Our office is now equipped with
four Linotype machines,, two Model
ARREST TWO NEGROES
IN ASHEVILLE MURDER
Negro Woman Tells Horrible Story
in Connection With Killing of j
Miss McGuire.
Asheville, Doc. 28.—At 1 o'clock I
this morning. 70 hours after ,\l i-.<
Mary McGuire's body was found at
the entrance to ChampbeU's wood*,
the first step in what police bein'-,
will be the solution of Asheville's
most puzzling Christmas murder,
came in the arrest of William Av< rv
and his wife, Mary, negroes, who are
held without bond as accea,soi-ice
a/WX the murder, V
'' The warrants Ivcre issued gust be
fore 1 o’clock ns the climax to a
night of investigation by City Solici
tor .Tames S. Howell. Policemen
Frank Hagan and Harry Noland,
and the Averys who had been
brought to the police station for a
gruelling examination conducted by
the solicitor and the officers were
promptly lodged in the city jail to
await preliminary hearing.
From the lips of Georgia Lee Hen
ry, Hannah Robertson, her half sister,
and the mother Lilly .Tones, who trve
next door to William Avery came the
story of n horrible drnmu played
under the glare of city are light at
the entrance to 'Campbell's wood. It
was this story which stood up under
a gruelling fire of questions that
brought about the arrests which the
police hope will mark the first step
in the solution of the mystery.
“I was at a party on Hill street
nnd went home to get some pickles
to go with some chitlings," Hannah
Robinson told the police. "As 1
passed by the corner I saw a cat
parked near the gate posts. I went
on and got my sister, Georgia Lee
nnd we wont back nnd then came on
home. As we started up in our yard
we beard n woman screaming and
looked out toward the street. We
saw a man with a long dark over
coat on lending a woman who was
heavy set down the street. She was
screaming. Her head wobbled from
side to side like she was drunk or
hurt nnd her coat collar was turned
up like his so we could not see net
face. The light made a shadow so
we could not tell whether they were
white or, b’ack. Then we got scared
and went in the house. When we got
in mamma called and asked us what
was the matter, that she heard some
body screaming. We heard it too then
and went to the door and looked
through the glass. The woman kept
on screnming nut by the posts, then
she stopped. Then we saw two men
with flash lights run up on William
Avery’s porch."
Avery himself admitted that while
the dance,: was in progress he sat
near the front door and took the hats
and coats of those that came in and
hung them up.
“Did two men with flashlights
conic in that door just before word
was brought by Clyton Yarborough
that there was a woman lying out
thare in the road?" he asked.
"No I did not see any men with
flash lights,” Avery said.
“Did two men come in the door
just before the body wns found in
the road.”
"What do you mean just before?”
“Well, 15 minutes before.”
“No. nobody came in 15 minutes
before."
“Well one minute, or two, or three,
or six. or eight?"
"No, I didn’t aec two meu come in
the door.”
“Do you deny that two men came
ih that door just before the alarm
wns given?”
"I can't say. seven or eight came
in. there was lots of them come in.”
Georgia Lee Henry sHt in another
room at the police station and told
the some story as that told by Han
nah in regard to the events that hap
pened at the street intersection dur
ing the early hours Christmas moni
tor ,
| 14's. one Model 8 nnd one Model K.
lln addition to this equipment we
I have a Ludlow machine, which Is used
to cast the lines for the larger type
used in setting advertisements, and
also an Elrod lead, slug and rule
caster, used for making border, col
umn rules, lends and slugs needed in
the make-up of the paper.
TANENHAUS BROTHERS
ARE IN RECEIVERSHIP
Federal Court Judge at New York
| IMaoes Receivers in Charge of
Business.
I New York. Dec. 27.—David
Mosinsohn and Urrey Michaelbueher
today were appointed equity receiv
ers for Tanenhaus Brothers, I tie., »
New York corporation operating,
chain clothing stores in North Caro- |
lina and South Carolina. They were i
required to furnish bond for $7,500. 1
Stein, Shafer nnd company add
L. Hnrtz and Bank, both of Balti
more tb.p. petitioner*, avowed, Tanw.
Wus, Inc., owed $158,000 to mer
chandise creditors and $65,000 to II
banks, hut had face value assets ot
$520,000 and may be rehabilitated j
through efficient receivership.
The Tanebaus difficulties, the
petitioners said, chiefly were due to
nn overlong insufficiency of liquid
assets. A creditors committee re
cently offered a 100 per cent settle
ment oti the basis of 50 per cent, pre
ferred stock. 20 per cent casii and
the remainder in notes, but some
creditors refused this settlement and
the Citizens National bank, of Gas
tonia, N. C., brought suit for s.'!,-
500.
Tanenhaus stores are at High
Point. Charlotte, Gastonia, Greens
boro. Durham, Salisbury and Ashe
ville, N. C.. nnd Columbia. S. C.
Home Dances Rare; Guests Too
Numerous.
New Y’nrk, Dec. 28.—(A 3)—F.x
pnnding guests lists arc darkening
the .ballrooms in New York man
sions.
Only « few of the families in
Knickerbocker society still use their
own homes for dancing parties. The
scene of daughter's debut has shifted
to tlie fashionable clubs, restaurants
and hotels, where the debutante of
today makes her bow to a thousand
guests.
Each year there have Iteen more
poisons to whom the daughters must
be introduced. Cutting-in beeame
the vogue at dianees and the young
ladies, measuring their popularity by
the number of young gentlemen who
sought them out, insisted upon a
“stag, line” of as many eligible men
as possible. Boy-friends from college
and other friends of the invited
guests increased the attendance.
Some of the older families,, how
ever, consider it unnecessary! to in
clude such a large representation of
society at their parties, so they con
tinue to use their homes for the af
fairs. ' They include Mrs. . Corneliu
Vanderbilt, the .Tames A. Burdens.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, the O. B.
Alexanders, the Otto. 11.- Kahns and
overal others.
Charlotte Doctor Advocates Change
in Marriage Statute.
Charlotte, Deq. 2*. —Examination
of applicants for marriage licenses
by county physicians instead of by
any physician they may choose was
advocated here, today by Dr. W. U
McPhattl, citv-eounty health officer.
This should be done without any fee
he said.
Asserting that the present law is
becoming a “farce," Dr. MePhanl
said that "the law needs more teeth
in it.
“The present statue,” he con
tinued. “is of good educational value
and that is all I can say for it.
“What the state needs if such a
law is to be on the statute books, is
a law requiring that marriage appli
cants be examined by the county
health officer and make it nnlnwfu’
for a private physieinn to issue a
medical certificate for marr : ate."
WEATHER FORECAST.
Rain tonight, colder on the south
coast; Wednesday partly cloudy and
colder. Freirti to strong cast winds,
shifting to northwest late.
. PROHIBITIOII AGENT
j SUSPENDED FOB NOT
1 FOLLOWING ORDERS
R. H. Lovelace is Said to
Have Been Suspended
for Firing on an Alleged
j Moonshiner.
ANDREWSGAVE
j ORDERS ABOUT THIS
This Is First Agent in Dis
trict to Be Suspended for
j “Promiscuous Shoot
j ing,” It Is Said.
| Charlotte, Dee. 28.— UP) —R. H. I
j Lovelace, of Elkin, prohibition raid-!
ier of note, who gained some fame ]
j through his raids on mountain liquor
strongholds, hns been suspended by
; R. Q. Merrick, of Richmond, admin-
I istrator for North Carolina and Vir
j gittia. on charges that lie unlawfully
! shot an alleged moonshiner,
j This was learned here today and
confirmed from Merrick's office at
Richmond, but details could not be
ascertained. Mr. Merrick is in Ashe
| ville today, it was said at his office in
i Richmond.
i This is the first suspension in this
district since General Lincoln C. An
drews announced that prohibition
agents “must cease shoot-ng promiscu
-1 ously."
I The suspension was made, officials
here said, on receipt at Richmond, of
I an affidavit signed by an alleged moon
■ shiner, who said he would be willing
• to “make a clean breast of it all." He
i is said to have asserted he was run
ning away when Lovelace fired, nnd
j managed to escape.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady at An Advance of 5
to 8 Points.—March Goes to 12.96.
New Y'ork, Dee. 28.— UP) —The cot
ton market opened steady today at an
advance of 5 to 8 points on a continu
ation of yesterday's buying movement
inspired by the relative firmness of
the near months and reports of eon-
I tinned unfavorable weather for saving
the balance of the crop in the South.
! Tlie advance to 12.00 for March
j and 13.28 for July contracts met con
siderable realizing, while there also
seemed to be a little Southern selling.
) Prices eased off 7 or 8 pointsjfrom the
-best by the end of the first hour. Buy
ing was less active yesterday, sug
gesting that the short interests had
been largely reduced.
Private cables said there had been
continental buying of distant months
in Liverpool, supplied by hedging nnd
liquidation.
Cotton futures opened steady : Jan.
12.71; March 12.00; May 13.07; Jttlv
13.26; Oct. 13.40.
With Our Advertisers.
Elird's after-Christmas’ nnd before
stock-taking sale will commence Wed
nesday morning. December 20th. nnd
last for four days, through Saturday.
TJie Caroline at Ivey's is only SB.OO
a pair. They fit your foot as it
should be fitted.
The Cabarrus Candy Company still
has a lot of candy at Christmas
price*.
The Standard Bttick Company lias
seven used cars for sale or exchange.
Sec list in ad. today.
See the new ad. today of the For
est Ilill Cleaning Company. Phone
175. T.
W. A. Ovoreash has reduced the
price on 150 suits and all overcoats.
Take Vinol after those winter
coughs and colds. At Gibson Drug
Store.
Telephone 670 for your lumber
wants, tlie E. L. Morrison Lumber
Company.
Big reduction in men’s nnd boys'
clothing at thp Parks-Belk Company.
You will find extra added price reduc
tions in the dry goods department be
fore takfng stock. All left ever toys
to 'be sold jut from 30 to 60 per cent.
Off. :
Pre-Inventory Sale at Fisher’s.
, No left overs at Fisher's—therefore
everything must go. The Pre-Inven
tory Sale begins Wednesday morning
and will continue all the remainder
of this week. Dresses, coats and hats
will be sold at from one-fourth to one
half off. Many other things are also
included in this big reduction. Ev
erything must go. Early goers got
Eho choice. Read half page ml. to
day.
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«JOHW W p. AWTONA SEHETONA. \
ADMIKAV SAH ROBERT 5 VOZ-IAR,
Pardon was sought for ex-Representative John W. Langley, j
of Kentucky, paroled after having been in prison for violat-!
, ing the Volstead act. Antona Smetona, former President,
staged a successful coup, gaining control of Lithuania, j
Admiral Sah was in command of the naval forces of the 1
South in the Chinese war. The United States is the only!
power without a constructive sliipbuilding programme, R. I
Stanley Dollar, shipping magnate, said on his return from i
Europe. -
VUerxuUooal Newsreel.)
WELL KNOWN GEORGIA
ATTORNEY IS FLOGGED
- Wimberly Brown Seized on Christ
mas Eve as Result of Statement
in Newspaper.
Lyons, (la., Dec. 27.—Tonni b■■
county, scene of numerous Hoggin n..
one of tvich resulted in the death of
Willie Wilson last July, was tbe
scene of another Hogging Christmas
eve. it has become generally known.
A crowd of 30 men sai<j to have
been hooded, rode into the town of •
Lyons, Christmas eve, at twilightj
nnd seized Wimberly E. Brown. I
prominent attorney here, who assist
ed the state in the prosecution of
men accused of Hogging Wilson.
Brown was carried some distance
into the country stripped of bis
clothing and beaten, it is stated. He
\vas then brought back to town and
pitched into the street in front <>t
the drug store, where lie was sewed-
The spokesman of the Hoggets is
said to have addressed Brown 1
“Now. when you write again Le
the damned Macon Telegraph be sure
that you write the truth.”
EMPEROR IIIROIIITO
OUTLINES HIS POLICY
Had First Formal Audience Receiv
ing About 300 Ccurt and Govern- 1
nirnt Officials.
Tokio, Japan, Dec. 28.—(A 3)—Em
. perot- Hirohito held hi* first forme] !
audience today, receiving about 300
court and government officials to
whom he delivered an Imperial mes
sage.
The new Emperor enunciating the
principles upon which he expects the
leaders of the empire to base their
actions, declared for simplicity in- j
stead of vain display, originality in
stead of blind imitation, progressive
ness, national harmony, beneficence
for all classes, and international
friendship. The Diet adjourned this
afternoon after passing the funeral
budget of 2,980.000 yen (nearly sl.-
500.000) which \yill be spent on rite*
for the late Emperor Y’oshihito. The j
Diet will re-nssemble January 18th. j
Odd Fellows Meeting at High Point !
High Point, Dee. 28.—(A 3 )—Hun- ;
tlreils: of North Carolina Odd Fellows
are slated to gather here Thursday
, for the order's “Great Holiday Fete."
The celebration will be limited to
one day. It will begin with a parade
nt 1 n'cloek nnd end with degree cer
emonies at nig'.it. Preliminary ini
tiatory work will continue throughout
the day.
Repiton Lodge No. 63, High Point,
will act as host to the visiting Odd
Fellows. A host of high officers,
past and present are expected, among
them being Grand Sire E. \V. Brad
ford. Washington, D. C.; Grand Mast
er R. L. Spaulding, Grand Secretary
L. B. Mcßraycr nnd Grand Patriarch
1. H. Paris.
Beats Husband for Sheriff
Greensburg, Kan., Dec 28—The
next sheriff of Kiowa County will
be a woman. Her husband will he
I deputy.
1 Mrs. Frank-Chase, the mother of,
four cbuldren, won the office which |
I her httsbnnd has held for the last
four year*. Although the law dis
, qualifies the present sheriff from
holding the office more than four
years consecutively, he may accept
. appointment as deputy. 1
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WOMAN TAKES LIKE
AT STATE HOSPITAL j
Mrs. Uls Usher. Mother of Five <?hil- j
•Iren. Hangs Self with a Leather
Belt.
.Raleigh. Pec. B.—(/P)—Mrs. Lois j
f slier. 34 years old. of Sampson coun
ty. mother of five children, committed j
suicide at the Stale Hospital for the I
Insane early today. It was the third j
suicide at the hospital in six months. |
Mrs. I'slier cnme to the institution
■ eight days ago for observation after |
i she is alleged to have attempted to kill j
one of her children.
Her body was found dangling from j
a bath room window at 5:40 o'clock I
by Miss Slielor, an attendant. AI
leather belt was around 'iter neck. I
Coroner L. M. Waring found the body |
still warm. He said he regarded an j
inquest as unnecessary.
Coroner Waring had criticised the j
hospital management after the first'
suicide last July, but in this latest j
case lie said that it appeared that ev-j
ery precaution bad been taken to pre
vent the act. His statement was a
formal one. ~
A Problem That Confront Creameries. I
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
! Raleigh. Pec, 27.—One of the big-
I gest problems confronting the crcarn
j erics of North Carolina is the large
I number of cream patrons who sell less
than 200 pounds of butterfnt annually
per farm and flic creartj which they
do sell is of inferior quality, accord
ing to W. L. Clevenger, of the animal
husbandry department of state. These
two items alone prevent the cream
eries from paying as much as five
I cents or more a pound for butterfnt !
than they do. It costs just as much
to collect, weigh, test for butterfnt,
handle, tabulate and make out a check
for a small quantity of cream as for
a large quantity. Generally speaking,
the smaller the amount of cream pro
ducted on the farm daily, tile poorer
the qualify, because of longer periods
jof time between deliveries and the
j less cure and attention given to it
j while on the farm, according to Mr.
i Clevenger.
“The saying that ‘an empty stall
is better than an unprofitable milk
cow' is also applicable to those farm
ers who sell their cream to a cream
ery. The. creameries that are now
making the best butter, manufactur
ing it at the lowest cost per pound
ami selling it for the highest market
prices receive from their cream pa
trons nil average of 1,00 pounds of
butterfnt annually per farm or the
product from live cows producing 200
, pounds of butterfat per year. Un
der such conditions, these creameries
operate most profitably and their cream
patrons also find much profit in dairy
ing. They receive from five to ten
dollars per cow each month.
Birds. Crippled By Frozen Tails,
Swarm on Streets.
Stanford, Conn., Dee. 27. —Resi-
dents of this city this morning found
scores of stmtlings nnd pigeons hop
ping on streets, lawns nnd sidewalks.
, apparently unable to fly. The birds
| tails were frozen, resulting from the
sleet storms which swept this soc
tiion of the state early today.
Kind-hearted persons picked up
numbers of the birds and carried
them into homes where they were
‘thawed out.
THE TRIBUNE !
PRINTS I
TODAY’S NEWS TODAY!
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NO. 305
BELIEVE SITUATION
'"vicmoi
r IS MUCH iPBOVEB
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Meager News Dispatches 3
and Official Reports Lead
to This Belief at Amer- j
i ican Capital.
NEUTRAL ONE IS
WELL PROTECTED jj
President Diaz Has Heed- \
ed Warning and Troops
Are Recalled From Pearl
Lagom Zone.
Washington, Dec. 28.—t/P)—Tor
munition of the situation which led 1
Rear Admiral Julian Latimer to land
American bluejackets and marines at
Cubezas was thought to be nearer to- J
day by Washington .observers aftxdt
reading the news dispatches and me*-
gre official reports from Nicaragua.
; They regarded as particularly sig
nificant in this respect the decision of
President Diaz to withdraw the eon- &
servative government troops from the
Pearl Lagoon fighting zone, and the
spread of neutral zones established |»y
Admiral Latimer for protection «<
Americans along the east coast which
lias been dominated for some time by
the liberal forces.
Official accounts of the four-day
battle at Pearl Lagoon in which tire
Diaz troops were defeated, were lack
ing in Washington, but a dispatch
from Managua last night placed the
liberal strength at 1.550 well nTtned 1
against 1.300 in the withdrawing .:
force, nnd quoted the American eot
leotor of customs at Bluefields as s* j- :
ing 300 Mexicans had been reported
; fighting with the victors.
! It has been made clear to the Din*
! authorities as well as to liberals that s|
j they must disarm if they enter the y
j neutral zones, which 'have been -eSt
i tended to include El Rluff ns well as
! Puerta Sabezns. the seat of the gov-
I eminent set tip by Jnnn B. Snoasa and
] recognized by Mexico, and Bluefields
land Rion Grande Bar. Decision ns l
{to withdrawal of American forces
j rests with Admiral Latimer, who has S
j command of the special service squad- |
Iron maintained in the navy, in fen- :'i
j trill American waters.
Washington authorities hold that
| the landing of naval forces at Puer- 3
!to fabenbzas ami Riot Grande'Bar djf
j does not amount to intervention in the >
! Nicaraguan civil strife, but neverfbe* i 8
I less agents of the faensn here nnd at J
I Mexico City insist that it is intervtn- ;
jtion. and have found a supporter in
'the contention in La Nacion. publiab
|ed at Santiago. Chile, which said it ;
I was not necessary for protection of
j Americans, but "deliberate support of 2
I a government whose legality is as 1
| questionable as that of the government
; it opposes ill eivil war.’’ The faeaitt. j
jagents also charged that censorship
j is preventing the public from receiV
! ing news of events in Nicaragua and
lis barring messages addresed to them. |
jt’OBB AND SPEAKER
MEET IN CLKVELANtt |
' Conferred With Attorney in Planning
I Defense Against Ijeonard Charges. 1
| Cleveland. 0.. Dec. 28.—0W — Tris '
| Speaker and Ty Cobb, arrived here
j this morning from Washington to
| plan their defense against charges of
Dutch Leonard that they conspired
j to throw a game between Detroit and
: Cleveland September 25. Bill).
They were accompanied by nttorney
W. 11. Boyd, representing Speaker, ’j
and immediately went into consult!*- ;
tion. They would not discuss the
ease.
Cake and Candy Making in Stanly,
Albemarle, Dee. 28.—</P)— Statlli 3
county women arc perfecting the ari ji
of cake and candy making. !
Recently Miss Elizabeth Bridget S
I home agent, has been giving demon’
strations at all club meetings— perfect
attendance was nearly always thg
rule. Miss Bridge estimated that it ‘
.large part of the confections serve 4 .
in Stanly county during file Christ*
mas holidays were of the home-made
variety.
Miss Bridge reported that a no\y
woman's club laid been organized i!j
Badin. Officers have been elected! i
committees appointed nnd a lino-uij " ’
of projects for the oomirtg venr com-
I pleted.
The Care and Management of Forest si |
Whiteviile. N. C.. Dec. 27.—OW— i
Demonstrations in care anil manage- j
nient of forests are bein;; lick' |
tliroughout .North Carolina.
County agent ,T. P. Quinerly today ~M
made report of demonstrations in 9
three communities in- Columbus a
county recently. The meetings were fj
in charge of U. W. Graeber, extern- 3
sion forester fi r the agricultural ex
tension service at State College.
Mr. Graeber spoke fit local .'M
Rotary Club on the necessity of pro- ‘M
tecting the timber supply. More than
70 high school boys and farmers gt- i
tended these forestry meetings. „
MELLON WANTS TO || j
GIVE BACK TAXES I j
ILLEGALLY TAKEN fa
Washington, Dec. B.—fiff ftiliißß ]
gress was asked by Secretary Mek:*| :
ion today to give the treasury au
thority to refund $174,120,177. H- I -J
legally collected in taxes for tirtfl
fiscal year 1926, and prior years. 1| -
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