North Carolina Newspapers

ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVII I Would Change Date for I Securing Auto License I From June toDecember R State Senator. Canaday H Says Droughton and p Page Favor the Proposed K Change in Law. 1 WOULD AID THE | FARMER, HE SAYS ■i Senator Sharp Is Against Equalization Fund and ■ His Bill Would Change Matters Some. , Raleigh, Jan. 34.— (A 3 ) —A measure | 1° change the automobile registration | slntnle anil one to equalise mxes on H property were presented today in tlie R State Senate.. Senator C. C. Canaday, of Johnston, | proposed to amend the Consolidated | Statutes, changing the automobile H registration date from June 30 to Do- E ' ember 31st. He announced that his ? bill has the approval of Revenue Com- K missioner R. A. Houghton, and High [ way Commissioner Prank Page. The bill calls for the issuance of two | sets of licenses this year. On June 30 when present licenses expire, own ers of cars would bo required to pur ehase tags good only until December F 31 when they would be required to buy licenses for 1028. Senator Cannada.v said the bill will be favorable to farmers who have more money in December than in June. He wanted the senate commit tee on judiciary No. 2 to consider bis bilL a Senator J. M. Sharp, of Roeking 1} bam, would repeal a section of the (r Consolidated Statutes to the effect that public schools of the state coqld be operated for G months from funds raised by equalized taxes on property. His bill is designed to relieve counties from levying any tax on public schools, and would put this obligation on the State. It would require every SIOO worth of property to pay the same rate of taxation wherever sit uated, the Senator said. He termed the equalization fund n “fallacy” be cause “it does not do more than to give the weaker counties a six months school.” He said all property holders . should bear an equal share of the tax ation for school purpose?. tinn of state assessing hoard to fix the formal rate of taxation for school, pur poses. The board would be empower ed to revalue property any time it niiglet see fit. The money necessary to operate the free schools for six months would be computed by the state hoard of education upon bud gets furnished by that body to the County Commissioners. Work in the House. State Capitol, Raleigh, Jnn. 14. (A 3 ) —After heated argument on the question of re-submission to commit tee, the Turlington bill providing for placing all Confederate veterans not k inmates of the puLlie institutions) on the pension roils was passed on sec ond rending by the House today. It will come up for final reading Tues day. The House committee toduy showed | evidence of hard work and reported hack more than n score of bills, among which was Representative Car rie McLean's first bill. It was de signed to relieve the Charlotte Wom an’s Club of special taxes and received a favorable report from the Senate committee to which it was referred. Previously it had passed the House on a suspension of rules. Bills sent hack today were mostly of ft local na ture. Another state b : ll of unusual inter est was offered by Senator Lawfence of Hertford. His measure would change the date of holding stnte-wide primaries from the first Saturdny in June to the first Tuesday in June. Tlie bill would also provide that any, candidate who thinks he has been de frauded in the count, may within five, days demand a recount of the ballots. Before adjourning, the Senate agreed not to introduce any statewide bills tomorrow, and not to begin the session Monday night until 8:30 on ac count of bus schedules. The meeting I tomorrow was set for 11 o’clock. Lit-1 tic committee activity was scheduled i k over the'week-end. 1 ,t CHAPUN WILL FIGiIT'TO •> | GET HIS CHILDREN Denies Charges Brought by Wife in Her Suit For Divorce. New York, Jan. 14.—A —Charles . Chaplin, film comedian, who is being Bued for divorce by his wife, Lite' Gray . Chaplin, arrived today from Chicago, I and reiterated that be would “fight to , the bitter end for his children.” He was greeted by a small army of news paper men and camera men to whom lie refused to make any Statement, other than a denial of the charges which he characterized as "ridicu lous.” "The whole affair was instituted by her family,” Chaplin said. "My chil dren are not in the bands of respon sible people. They are after money and not the children. I will never give up the attempt to gain custody of my sons.” Opposes Mexican Policy. Washington, Jan. 14. — (A 3 )—The house was asked in a resolution today by Representative Moore, democrat, Virginia, to go on record that there is “nothing in the Mexican situation which would justify the severeance of our diplomatic relations” with that government, or forcible intervention in > ‘ its affairs. The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily r SOME IMPORTANT WORK OF LEGISLATURE stitutr L'fe Imprisonment for the Death Penalty. T’.ie Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel By J. C. BASKERVILL Kiileig’h. Jan. 13. —The introduction of t’.ie revenue and appropriations bills in tile bouse nnd offering of three i bills looking toward the expansion of , the present judicial system through the creation of four additional judi i cinl districts, with a revised form of districting and rotation, introduced by R. O. Everett, of Durham county, were the principal items of interest that developed in the general assembly Wednesday, although there was a total of 23 bills introduced in the house and seven in the senate. Considerable Interest was shown in the hill offered in the senate by Sena tor J. M. Broughton, of Raleigh, to substitute life imprisonment instead of the death penalty for three of the four present capital offenses, invoking the death penalty only in ease of con vietion of rape. Some interest was also expressed in the bill offered by Senator M. K. Blount, of GrpenviUe, requiring the constitution of the Unit ed States to be taught In the schools of the state. This referred to the committee on education, nud in the session of the committee it wns brought out that this is already being done in the public schools, from the sixth to the eighth grade. If com mittee findings sustain thin as fact, it is likely that the hill will be killed in committee. Another senate bill of some interest is the one offered by Senator W. G. Clark, of Tarboro, to so mend present laws to enable groups of counties to establish and maintain general hospitals ns well as maintain hospitals for the treatment of tuber culosis. This latter bill raises the question as to whether rfje treatment of a state's afflicted, especially its tuber cular, shall he undertaken by the coun ties individually, or by the state; whether the people shall pay one tax for the maintenance of a state insti tution, or a double tax for the main tenance of both a county and state institution. Thus the progress of this Guilford county residents should hold a celebration as the result of in troduction of a bill by the entire Guilford delegation providing for the repeal of the 1923 "dog and game” law, and for the re-enactment of the old law that Was in effect prior to 1925. Os course, the final celebra tion must be deferred until this bill 'is enacted—and that ia in doubt. It will be recalled that the 1923 "dog and game” law produced a liear-revo 'ution in Guilford at the time it was up. and tlie three present representa tives from that county ran on n plat form to use their efforts to the law. A bill introduced by Miss Carrie L. McLean, of Mecklenburg, to exempt the Charlotte Woman’s Club from payment of taxes on its property, passed readings and was sent imme diately to the senate. The senate, however, decided to adhere strictly to rules and referred -the hill to the prop er committee before taking! action. Not that it was any less gallant than the members of the house, or any less courteous to the only woman member of the general assembly—merely more methodical. What smacked considerably of “blue law” legislation was the bill offered by the Rev. Dr. Oscar Haywood, rep resentative from Montgomery, to pro hibit the operation of soft drink stands or “other mercantile establishments" outside the limits of incorporated towns on Sunday. Assigned to slum ber in the committee on propositions and grievances. FOR MORE STRINGENT ANTI-LYNCHING LAWS Governor McLeod Urged South Carp | Ilna Solons to Tighten the Statute. (By International News Service) I Columbia, 8. C„ Jan.’ 14.—Chances lof tl|e .South Carolina general ail; seinHy’ai passing mork stringent atdi | l.vnchfng! legislation , appeared more I likely today following the .delivers hee of 'Govet-hor McLeod's' farewell ad dress to' the 77th session. The governor urged the legisla tors to tighten the state’s anti-lynch ing statue. He discussed the recent trio lynching at Aiken, and defended , his record in connection with the in -1 cident, declaring vehemently that be had been "misrepreoented” in the af fair. The governor strongly recommended that the state assess a heavy penalty on any county in which a lynching occurs. Furthermore’, the chief executive ad vocated a law disqualifying any per son convicted of complicity, in a lynching from citizenship and a re quirement that puhlic officials be forced to subscribe to an oath before taking office to the effect that they have not in any way been connected with a mob action. The governor declared that he had zealously endeavored to bring the guil ty parties in the Aiken lyuching to justice and added that the investiga tion of the lynching is being vigorous ly pushed. Archery, a comparatively new aport in Kansas, has made a big bit at both the Univeraity of Wichita and Friends i University. | Fundamentalist ■ I m • j s p* ■ Rev. John Roach Straton, ; militant New York church' i man, started a lecture cam . paign against evolutionary teachings, as an agent for the 1 Supreme Kingdom, a Funda mentalist organization. ! ANOTHER COLD WAVE COMING i TO THE SOUTH j WaiAiington, Jan. 14.—C A 3 ) —A j , wintry blast moving rapidly north- , eastward, and attended by Varying , winds, sub-freezing temperatures | and snow over a wide area is due j to grip the Atlantic seaboard states tonight and Saturday, stretching j from northern New EDglund to northern Florida. THE COTTON MARKET 1 Opened Steady Today at an Advance of S to S Points.—March 15.28. New York, Jan. 14.— (A 3 ) —The eot tou market opened steady today at advances of 3 to 8 points in response to relatively firm Liverpool cables, reports of increased spot sales in the Liverpool market, and Indications that the present rains would be followed by another cold wave in the South. Further realizing and some south ern selling were absorbed, active months showing net advances of about 8 to 10 points in the early trading. March was selling around 18.29 ami Private cables reported an early de cline under hedge selling, and realiz ing in Liveriiool had been followed by rallies on good trade calling and spot sales as officially reported in the Liv erpool market were 14,000 bales, com pared with 10,000 yesterday. Cotton futures opened: January i 13.15; March 13.25; May 13.47; July I 13.07; October 13.80. ADMINISTRATION POLICY , ATTACKED BY SENATOR Senator Dill Says America Has No Right to Run Nicaraguan Govern ment. Washington, Jail. 14.— (A 3 ) —The ad-. ministration policy in Mexico nnd j Central America was assailed’ in the senate today by Senator Dill, demo crat, Washington. "I do not propose to sit silent with out protest against a policy which might involve us in a conflagration over land laws in Mexico, which t’.ie government of that country has of fered to arbitrate,” said Senator Dill. Referring to Nicaragua he declared that “precedent is no defense for a wrong action.” “The people of the United States have no sympathy in my judgment with a policy which presumes to tell the people of Nicaragua they must have the kind of government we want them to have." the Washington sena tor continued. ALLEGED members of KLAN ARE SENTENCED Ten of Twelve Defendants Are Given Road Sentences and Other Two Are Fined. New Bern, Jan. 14.— (A 3)—Sen tences ranging from 3 to 12 months Were imposed today on ten of the twelve defendants'who pleeaded guilty to an assault on Ray Mcllwain on a night in October. TTie other two were fined, one s2<)o and the other SSOO. The defendants, alleged members of Hie Grand 'Tiger Klan, were arraigned ;in superior, court charged with attempt to kidnap Kay Mcllwain, alleged secret assault with intent to kill, and other charges of lesser degree. Their pleas of guilty of assault with deadly weapon was accepted by the state. The evidence was heard by Judge E. H. Cranmer, and sentence was passed after the court had let loose a caustic verbal attack in con demnation of the alleged acts of the defendants. New Committee Rooms. (By International News Service) Raleigh, Jan. 14.—The general as sembly’s new committee rooms are > ready. Offices on the fourth and fifth floors of the new Revenue building have bees completed. There .are sixteen large committee 1 rooms on the two floors. 1 - Dies of Burns. (By International News Service) Atlanta, Ga., Jnn. 13.—Because he was unable to pick up n cigarette he had dropped on his bed, O. li. Work ' man, of thla city, a victim of paraly sis, died aa the result of burns re i ceived when the cigarette set fire to the sheets, CONCORD, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1927 MIMS 111 OF ECONOMY GONE BEYOND THE IRK? With the Result That thq i General Assembly is Go* ing to Overdo the Matter, 1 Is Question Asked. ' WHAT IS RESULT GOING TO BE?! I . ; Committees Are Inclined to take Budget Recommen dation as Maximum In i stead of Minimum. Tribune Bureau. Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. j Raleigh, Jan. 14. —Has Governor JA. W. McLean's economy idea ovor jshot the mark, with the result that |tbis general assembly is going :o, , j overdo the matter? This would seem’ lat least plausible, in view ot tenden cies already .noticed in both house j and senate, and in the two realative ily short hearings on the appropria tions bill before the house and sen-’ late committees.. These committees I are already showing a tendency to I take the recommendations offered by 'the budget commission ns a maxi | mum rather than as a minimum : limit and to prune it down whenever j possible. j What, then, is the result going to jbe? Nothing else than that a num ber of state departments and institu tions are going to find themselves with an appropriation far under — not what was requested—but less than what was. recommended by the budget commission nnd Governor McLean, according to a number who have been watching the trend carefully for the pest ten days. “Those who thought GoWrnor Me- I.enn wns stingy in his budget recommendations are now almost ready to admit he is an advocate of extravagance compared with many of the members of the general as sembly,” said a close observer of the legislative trend today. “Why," many of the members of the house and senate have come up here with, a pruning shears in every pockety avid ami eager to lop off as lmieb a number of these legislators in (heir)] discussions and have become almost j, convinced that the Governor is a j spendthrift with them.” Whether these are indications nfjl merely a tenqiorary condition. or 1 whether the eondition is likely to I grow, eannot now he foreseen, ot 'course. But should it remain am) continue to grow, it is generally ad- i I nvitted that there might lx- some ] danger for the administration’s pro gram'as a result of it. So it is not i an impossible supposition that the | economy program, first advocated by the Governor, and sold to the i state as a whole by hint, might now i act as a boomerang ami serve to em barrass him in the completion of his ] program. | ] Already a number of items in the appropriation bill have been suli- i jected careful questioning nnd close I scrutiny by tlie members of the sen- i ate and house committees. One of the first things to draw fire was the pro- ] posed appropriation for public edii- l catioh, with its increase of $1,000.- 000 yearly for the equalization fund. I which does not portend good for the t attempt which is to be made by A. < T. Allen. State superintendent of < public instruction, for an eight I months school term. The nniount asked for the state board of chaitio j | and public we]fare also come in for ( i criticism, one member of the com-1 ] mittee openly advocating the nbo'i-1 tion of this department entirely, , stating that “it was always trying , to run everything.” However, this I item was allowed to stand for the |, time being. , The appropriations for the Gov- I ernor’s office and mansion was also criticized, and all the items had to | be carefully explained to the com- i mitteemen before they were allowed | to pass as approved. Even the office > of the attorney general cam* in for , some • criticism for extravagance. , The i recommended appropriation | of SIIO,OOO for the. Department of | (looser™tion and Developpient (ins i not as yet been fofmei-ly considered by, Wednesday that it’ would not ap- , prove this budget item withou a thorough investigation and explann- > tion- But when Phillips apppeared ready to go before the committee, iie was informed that the committee , had decided to defer consideration ( of item relating to his department until a later date. Later it was j rumored that Governor McLean would appear in person before the , committee to explain the appropria- | tion asked for the department ot con- | serration. That the educational appropria- i tions arc pot going to fare any too i well is already evident from the > fight which has already been started by Senator Spainbour, of Morgantou. Burke county. At any rate, there is no doubt about this being an economy legis lature. All Space Token at High Point Show. (By International News Service) Hig'i Point, Jan. 14.—Every inch of exhibit space on th« ten floors of the mammoth furniture exposition building her* has been taken up for the mid-winter southern furniture show, January 17-29, exposition offi cial* announced today. WOODEII MODEL OF NORRIS OFFICE IS 1 OFFERED IT TRIIL I The Model Shows Room in g Which D. E. Chipps Was Killed on July 18th by 1 the-Noted Preacher. | MODEL WAS FIRST EVIDENCE GIVEN \ Rev. J. Frank Norris Is Be ing Tried for His Life in ■ Austin for Slaying of the Lumberman. Aiistil); Tex.. Jan. 14.—C4>)—A ‘ wooilen model of the Rev. J. Frank | Norris’s, office and its surroundings at I Fort Worth was introduced by the [ prosecution as its first, evidence when l the trial of tlie Baptist minister was j opened today. He is charged with the murder of D. E. Chipps, Ft. Worth .lumberman. The model shows the second floor of the 4-story building adjoining the ( (ffiurch' in which Chipps was killed.. It shows the stairway up which he climbed to his death last July 18. the ante-room he entered before approach ing Norris, and the office in which he was shot three times as he protested Ito the pastor against attacks on Mayor H. O. M each am, of Fort Worth. The exhibit was placed in front of the witnuess stand where the jury may look down on the roofless inter ior as though it were on an Adjoining building peering down into the Norris office. About fifty witnesses were sworn, ih, Mayor 11. C. Meuchnm did not respond when liis name was culled, but William McLean of the prosecu tion counsel, said he was in town and would appear in a few minutes. The prosecution attorneys made the location of the four bullet wounds on C-hipp’s body a prominent part of the initial testimony in an effort to show the position of Chipps when he was shot. An embalmer nnd an undertaker de scribed the wounds in detail. The purpose of the state is to show- that Chipps was moving away from Nor ris when shot and that he had bis h hands up ,in the attitude pf protecting inmeif.. . . ... | „ ' One ’Wound wns in the left side, the bullet moying to the heart, and two others were in the right side near the neck, witnesses testified. The bullet in the right side also penetrated the el bow ns Chips had his arm across his body, a witness said. With Our Advertisers. " Winter hats, silk ties, new shirts and other men’s clothing at lower prices at Parks-Belk Co.’s. The Shepherd Shoe Hospital makes new shoes of old ones, says now ad. today. * The Concord Furniture Co. has re ceived many new process Columbia records. See new ad. today for list. Ask for Elmer’s candy at Cline’s Pharmncy. Always fresh and good. Phone 333. Good high quality slippers, mostly several sizes, 50 cents a pair at the G. A. Moser Shoe Store. Good qual ity, new styles, all sizes, $1.95 a pair. The tools you get from the Ritchie Hardware Co. hold their edge. See new ad. today. Ivey's want 300 Indies with small feet to come to their store Saturdny and Monday. They have several hun dred low shoe sizes, 2, 2 1-2, 3, 3 1-2 and 4, which they are going to sell at from 55 to 95 cents a pair. See list of the 1C best sellers in phonograph records during December and January in the new ad. of the Kidd-Frix Co. Red Circle coffee at the A. & P. stores, 42 cents. Lard 11 cents. For other bargains see new ad. todny. See Robinson's new ad. for some more big bargains in his January clearance sale. Big reductions also in millinery and ready-to-wear. If you kuow what real bnrgaius arc in clothing and men's furnishings, go to Hoover's during their big sale and take advantage of some of them. Their entire stock is offered at prices ranging from one-fourth to one-half off., ,If you haven’t the money to buy, it will pay you to^.borrow it at the bahk. Sale forrorisla only—nothing charged. : See big jul.l today. Alt silk popgee, only 49 cents, at J. C. Penney Co's. ” Trial In McGuire Murder Case Jan uary 22nd. Asheville, Jan. 13.—The trial of five negroes held here in connection with the mysterious death of Missi'Mar.v McGuire, aged deititian, will be held ia January 22. The mangled body of the Asheville nurse was found in a negro section here on Christmas morning. The preliminary hearing, was scheduled to be held this week, but was postponed in order that the case might be thoroughly investigated. Attractive Winter Rates Offered Apply Manager Hotel Concord In the News of the World **■ - ■ - ■ -■ -- D TYS*OKT „ CHARJ/ES* CUTRTIS. . ; I - ~ " piiy " ; *%HWr IMiSg-y J||i.'?'Jr 4WFjf ■ - qk v «T/ M HnWn a| %*Jm ■■ » *fars ; iSSf <H| -■■ Hr Wg m '®-2Bb ■HPfI ■ . m K1 . ' «X Bundle, < ©tjitle'R. Senator Lawrence D. Tyson, of Tennessee, was accused of spending $1,000,000 in his campaign two years ago by John R. Neal, defense counsel in the famous “monkey trial.” A Federal board to arrange farm relief was proposed by Sena tor Charles Curtis, of Kansas. John W. Butler, author of Tennessee’s anti-evolution hill, proposed a law prohibiting gossip. General Smedley Butler charged that the dry law was “class legislation.” ——i __________j SALISBURY OFFICIAL QUARREL IS SETTLED Mayor Turns Over Cheek to Alder men After They Threaten? to Take Legal Aeflon. ' Salisbury. Jan. 13.—Peaceful set tlement of differences between May or C. M. Henderlite, of Salisbury, nud the board of aldermen, came this afternoon when Mayor Hender iitc turned over to the city treasur er a check around which a disput; has raged for several weeks. The check was drawn by the city of Spencer, payable to flic city of Salisbury. to cover engineering super vision of the Spencer end of Salis bury avenue, connecting link be tween the two cities. Mayor Henderlite claimed the cheek on the ground that the super vision was done by him personally and the city treasurer turned the check over to him several weeks ago over the protest of the aldermen- The board demanded its return, threatening legal action after noon today. The check was returned this aft ernoon. Son of Bishop f'andler is Seeking Decree of Divorce. Atlanta, Ga., Jnn. 13.—John C. Candler, son of Bishop Warren A. Candler, senior bishop of Hhe M th odist church south, has filed suit in De Kalb county against his estrang ed wife, Mrs. Henrietta Candler, seeking a divorce. He alleges in h's petition that she is a believer in "what is comonl.v known as free love" and that she possesses an un controllable temper. The suit alleges that the “de fendant professed to be a believer in what is commonly known as ‘free love’ nnd that in furtherance of this alleged belief she disregarded all si cial amenities or standards of decen cy and persisted on carrying on flir tations with other men to such an extent as to cause petitioner great humiliation and when he undertook to remonstrate she would become en raged and tell him it was her ' pur pose nnd intent to do any tiling sue saw fit.” Assault Cases Against Trip Char lotte Cops Nol ITossed. Charlotte. Jnn. 13—Oases against three Charlotte policemen charged with assault with intent to kill against A. A. Tarrant, reported to be now in Greenville, S. C., were nol Dressed in criminal court here toduy when Tarrant failed to appear ns a witness. The policemen—O. G. Overeash. J. O- Huges and L. W. Bowlin are alleged to have shot Tarrant while he was fleeing from a liquor ear after a pursuit by the officers. Two gallons of Whisky were reported found in the machine. Tarrant's former home is said to be in Greenwood, S. C. No Trials Until Governor Retires. San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 14- —Trial of all criminal cases in Bexar county was suspended today as a means of stemming the Hood of pardons being issued by Governor Miriam A. Fer guson. A motion by District Attorney C. M. Chambers continuing nil criminal cases until after Governor Ferguson retires from office January 18 was granted by Judge W. W. McCrorjr. The prosecutor acted upon learn ing that aman convicted here last week hab been granted a full pardon today. — ■ SUPER WHALE IS GERMANTS NEW RECORD PLANE Biggest Hydro-Plane in World Is the Boast of New Craft's Sponsors. (Tty International Neivs Service) Berlin, Jan. 14.—Germany eau lionet of owning the biggest plane of tilt* worltl. The new “Super Whale,” just completed by t'ue Hornier works at Friedriohnshnfen, famous birth place of Zeppelins, lias made its lirst successful flights across the Bodensee and will he employed in the regular air passenger service, preferably on longer routes. The new super-whale is a hydro plane capable of lighting on and as cending from the water. The boat part of the plane measures about 23 meters. Back of the bow is a cabin with accommodations for thirteen pas sengers. Bctiind this are a toilet loom, room for the pilots, baggage room and another cabin for eight pas sengers. Carry 21 Passengers. In addition to the twenty-one pas sengers two pilots will be carried. The whale can carry fuel for a 1,200 mile non-stop flight. It has two Uolls-Koyee motors with a capacity of 1,300 horepower. There is room enough in the gondola to permit me chanics to work at the motors during the flight. The wings measure about 03 feet. However, this super-whale will bo only an infant ns compared to the new colossus now under construction at the Junkers Works near Dessau. This new plane will be able to carry a hun dred passengers on a trans-atlantio flight. From wing tip to wing tip it will measure more than 202 feet. It will bo equipped with four motors of about 1.000 horepower each and the total weight of the plane will be Ino lesN than 30 tons. The new giant machine can carry nearly 2,500 gal lons of fuel. The hotly of the plane will be nearly 80 feet long and the wings could cover an area of about 0,000 square meters. \ Cabins for Passengers. There will be fourteen cabins for two passengers a piece, twelve double cabins with beds and some larger cab ins for passengers. Altogether there will be plenty of room for 100 persons, including a crew of twelve men. The plane will be equipped with all imag inable eomfoirt, i including a dining saloon, lounge rooms with sofas, a kitchen, a smoking room aud even a small card room. The plane is being built for a “reg ular trans-Atlantic passenger air ser vice between Europe and America’’ and will be completed about the middle of 1027. Death Wipes Case OfT Court Docket Charlotte, Jan. 13.— Death has taken from the courts the ease of a man who had been convicted in Mecklenburg Superior court and won n new trial by ruling of the State Supreme court. It was ordered that records in case against Boy Humphries be removed from the files, Solicitor John G. Carpenter announcing “the case has been tak en to n higher court." Humphreys was charged with too severely chastising a child and the case had been in the courts three years. Hum phries filed Tuesday. Asheville Has 47,506. Asheville, Jan. 14.—Asheville has a population of 47,506 people with in its corporate limits, according to eurvey just made public here. - "■ "■ ■ - ■*' WH THE TRIBUNE d \ PRINTS 5 TODAY’S NEWS TODAIf i NO. 7 Vision wr nu DAMAGES MUST ] BE PAID TO NEGRO i ; i J. I’. Harden Sues for $25,- l 000 Because He Could | Not Get Pullman Ticket j in Atlanta. NO PREJUDICE SEEN IN CASE The Company Says It Sells Tickets to Negroes and Thus Complies Fuujr ( With the Law. —— -* ' vs*s§B I Washington. Jan. 14.—C4 5 )—An ef | fort to collect damages from the I’ull -1 man Company for refusal to sell tick- fj lets to a negro while at the same tins® such tickets were sold to white per sons. failed today when the Inter state Commerce Commission held tliak the section of the law under which an action was brought could not bp violated by such n refusal. The commission took the positjjs£ \ that the refusal was not a discrimina tion under section 2 of the commerce act since it did not involve any situa tion by which one person obtained * transportation for less than another. A complaint made by .T. P. Harden, a negro lawyer of Chicago, seeking $25,000 damages from the Pullman Company on the ground that it re fused to sell him accommodations was dismissed. The Pullman Company at the same time denied that its agents or em ployees were ever authorized or in structed to refuse Pullman accommo dations to negro passengers. Harden alleged that he attempted to buy a Pullman berth from Atlanta to Chicago on July 7. 1023, aud that the ticket agent and the Pullman con ductor on the train, both refused to make the sale. Both of these men testified they had frequently soM berths to tiegroes, and had lio recol lection of refusing to make such a sale If | at any time. | “The general agent of the Pullman Company stated that the company makes no distinction in favor of white passengers against colored,*' the de cision said. “Througbont the South they ate accommodated in the same ears with the whites when trnvtflng" I *** interstate. , “The complainant offered no evi dence in support of his claim for dam ages and undue prejudice has not been alleged or established by proof. The refusal alleged would not consti tute unjust discrimination in viola tion of section 2 of the commerce net which prohibits charging one person more titan another for a like rind eon- ' temporaneous service. “Such refusal lias not been proved. We find that the allegation of. tfio complaint lins not been sustained.” KELLOGG’S CHARGES BRING TWO REPLIES Mexican Foreign Secretary and Labor Leader Deny Charges of Bolshev ism. Mexico City, Jpn. 14.—(A3)—Devel opments in the situation between the United States and Mexico now are believed to hinge on possible notion by the Washington governpient. j.' Among the possibilities seen hero are the withdrawal of the American am- ; baosador and the lifting of the enibnr- % go on shipments of arms into Mexico J from the United States. Secretary Kellogg's declaration re garding communistic activities ip JMex- J ieo aimed at the United States, batr drawn reports from two hiitgh sonreos —Aaron Saenz, the Mexican foreign secretary, and Ricardo Trevino, acq-, retary general of the regional eonfpfi eration of labor, the dominant itibntt group in t'.iis country. * The foreign; secretary asserted that Mr. Kellogg's. statement before the for eign relations committee of the Amer- ; iean senate did not prove the that Mexico was attempting to «*>tab lish a bolshevlst hegemony in Latin- , America. , As for decisions taken by foreign organizations, nobody could hold Mex- i ieo responsible, be said, but ,it was necessary “energetically to reject those charges against the Mexican gov ernment, especially regarding its re- 1 lations with Russia." Gets Six Years On Robbery Charge. Charlotte, Jan.l2.—Wade Reynold** wlm pleaded guilty to highway robbery aud assaut with a deadly weapon iu "A connection with a hold-up of J, H» s Sloop, barber shop proprietor, was sentenced to serve six years on the roads by Judge T. B. Finley in criia- -Jp inal court here today. Sloop testified that Reynolds stop ped him on the street here at in id» a night several days ago and rendered pa him unconscious by' a blow with a a bottle. Reynolds then is alleged to have taken S2OO from Sloop. Three Killed in 'Accident. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 14.—-I Three persons were killed aud one so. J riousiy injured today when their no tomobile was struck by a westbound jj Northern Pacific train 25- miles north ‘ of here. The dead are: Ed. Andcr* ,Jj son. Hazel Tiioma, and Annette John son, all of Minneapolis. - pi WEATHER FORECAST. fWm Mostly cloudy and colder, possibly 1 i rain on the coast tonight ; SatoalifiVß fair and much colder, cold wave the west portion. Winds becomiaa fresh northwest.