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ASSOCIATED PRESS , DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVII Routime Matters Hold Interest In House At Brief Meeting Today With the Poole Bill Against Evolution Not Present- 1 ed, There Was Little In-! ' terest in Bills Offered. WANTS “BLUE LAWS” TIGHTENED AT ONCE Rev. Oscar Haywood In troduces Bill Touching on Observance of Sab bath in All Parts of State. State Capitol, Raleigh, Jan. 18. — <49—The much-heralded l’oolc nnti ovulalion bill failed lo come to tbc House today ami that body contented itself with routine during its brief css'oti. The imly llnro up came in the presentation of a bill by Rev. Oscar Haywood, of Montgomery, to tighten state “blue laws." A number of senators not due to convene until half an hour later, were in the House chamber, and a fair crowd was In the rear and in the gal lery. Prayer and foutine of reporting the journal passed without incident, ami the crowd dwindled when it was talked about the evolution bill would not come up. Representative 1). Scott Poole told the Associated Press that 't probably would be next week before his bill would be in i^tope. He said the copy of his original bill was mysteriously missing from Jits desk drawer where lie had left it over the week-end. and he desired to ineor l«irate several amendments in the new measure before it %as brought up. He emphasized it would not be the same resolution that was defeated last ses sion, after an e|>oelial battle on a minority committee report. Representative Turlington, of Ire well; obtained a rehearing by the peen siuns committee on the statewide bill providing increased pensions for the Confederate veterans and widows. Representative Townsend, of Harnett, insisted that the measure go back to the appropriations committee, but Mr. Turlington won his point. Three of She fourteen new bills in the House touched ou statewide Is sues. The single bill passed on its Hiineombc county. Rev. Oscar Haywood, of Montgom ery, father of the nnti-]ietting bill, introduced last week, came forward' with another measure tlmt would lighten “blue laws." It provides for closing all soda j fountains and drink stands in the state j between 10 and 1 o'clock, the accept- 1 cd church hour. It would not af fect cigar and periodical stabds of) drug business, outside of soda fouii-1 tains. Representative Everett, of Durham, 1 presented a memorial from the Dur ham chapters of the I'. D. I", and Jun- V ior Order, endorsing his bill offered * last night, which Would increase ten sions of Confederate veterans and their widows. Representative MoDcvill, of Madi son, put in a statewide revenue bill to amend the 1925 act, regulating taxes on newspaper and magazine sales. The hill calls for a sls annual tax ou wholesale and retail stores selling pe riodicals in towns of less than 0,000 population. The tax rate runs front sls to $lO5, according to population. A newsdealer in a city of more than 20,000 population but less than 25,- 000, would have to pay $75 tax. ! THE COTTON MARKET Opened at Decline of 3 to 7 Points I'iider Liquidation and Local and , Southern Selling. New York, Jan. 18.—OP)—The cot-1 ton market opened today at it decline of 2 to 7 points under renewed liquid ation, coupled with some Southern aud local selling. Tile latter probably was promoted by reports of a falling off in spot demand after the completion of the mid-January engagements, but early offerings were rapidly absorbed by ooveruig or buying on continued favoreble reports from Liverpool, und predictions for another cold wave in the South. '1 March Steadied after easing off to 13,28 and rallied to 15.32 by- the end of I the first hour, when the genera) market,teas within a point ot- two of yesterdhy’B closing quotations. Private cables' skid hedging had liven absorbed by trade calling and Manchester buying in Liverpool, and there was large inquiry for cotton cloths from India. Cotton futures opened steady: Jan. 13.17; March 13.30; May 13.50 ; July 13.70; Oct. 13.88. A viola found in Edinburgh has a body 17 1-2 inches long, or 2 1-2 inches longer than the average viola'. It was made by Hieronumotw Ama ti, the master of Stradivarius. Hotel Concord SPECIAL ROOM RATES $30.00 and $35.00 Per Month Single $40.00, $50.00 and $60.00 Per Month Double Coffee Shop Open From: 6:30 A. M. to 9:00 P. M. * The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily <• < say cmrr; made .| VIOLENT THREATS j Victim of Dr. Nogris' Gun Pictured as “Had Man” When Intoxicated. , Court Room. Austin. Tex., Jnn 17. —Dexter E. t’hipps threatened in 19211 to "start u graveyard and put Dr. J. J i Frank Norris in the same grave" with a Fort Worth policeman, the police man testified here today in Norris’ murder trial. Chipps was killed by Norris about five years ufter he made the alleged threat. This was but one of (he numerous , threats made by Chipps against Dr. Norris, according to the testimony of a long line of witnesses, who de clared t’.int Chipps was a bad man when drunk, and kind and courteous when sober. Demon Ruin. According to the picture painted of the mart who was s’Hin by Norris in the pastor’s Fort Worth church study last July, the demon of rum in mo ments turned a gentleman into a light ing nnd dangerous character who had many brushes with police, fought his friends and threatened ip* enemies. It was as early as January. 1921, that Chipps expressed animosity to ward Dr. Norris, according to the story of John Woodruff. Fort Worth policeman. The patrolman met Chipps on a winter night "arguing with some fellows on the street.” “He wanted to take me up and get me a drink,” said Woodruff. “1 de clined and he asked me if I knew what be. was going to do. “ ‘l’m going to start a graveyard and put Frank Norris nnd you in the same grave." I asked him who Nor ris was, and he said ‘He's a damn preacher'.” Habitual Drinker. Woodruff said Ciiipps was a habitu al drinker. “The truth is, you uoew Ciiipps didn't mean a word of that graveyard statement, didn’t you?" Kpeciul Pros ecutor Mil.cun asked. The witness said he thought Chipps meant its Woodruff told of four fights be had with Chipps. Business men. hnukers, barbers, po licemen ami fellow club members of Cjniqis' told the invariable story throughout the day that Chipps was a '"bad man" and had a bad reputa- They mid he was just the opposite when sober. Many testified that Chipps was a habitual drinker, and that during the | ast few weeks of his life he was | drunk about "half the time.” A half dozen barbers who hud done Chipps’ barber work testified to this effect and to the effect that Ciiipps was iutoxi- I eated the day be wns killed. Home Witnesses. Witnesses were brought from Luf kin. Texas, where Chipps lived twenty I years ago. to tell that he was ob streperous. These witnesses, however, j ' did not get to tell much as they knew nothing of Chipps' standing in Fort Worth The day develoyed numerous wran ; gles among the attorneys and on hnlf a dozen occasions the judge bad to call the attorneys to his bench to straighten out the tangles. The judge’s overworked gavel broke under the insistent hammering for order as the attorneys fought every poiut. and the packed courtroom grew restless. The testimony went to the extent of Chipp’s baldness, and how much bnir he had. and to the question of it sear on his face. I RENEWED COLD WAVE DIE IN MIDDLE WEST lutense Cold Will Last Until Tonight —■Still Another Frigid Wave Fol ' | lowing. ! Chicago, Jan. 17.—A renewed cold 'wave was hastening upon the middle west tonight with a promise of snow I flurries and zero weather by morning. , The intense cold will lust until Tues • day night or Wednesday morning, i said the weather forecaster and it will 1 be cold Thursday. Right back of that cold wave is another one, moving in from the Me , Kensie river basin an already making itself felf in the border states of the , northwest. In the southwest a cold I wave warning was issued, with a fore ! east of temperatures of from five to ten decrees above zero, aCeoibpanied , by a light snow beginning tonight. E l Today moderating temperatures . I gave a respite to most of the middle [ west. Through train service was bat ter than for a week past. . f In Chicago the warmer weather 1 j brought great relief to hundreds of I poor families caught with insufficient • coal, but charitable organizations pre ' |>ared for a new rush of calls for help tomorrow. The weather map today showed two ' low pressure storm centers which had ■ centers in the northern lakes region • and the far suothwest. Virtually all the northern tier of states reported precipitation but the • entire south was dry. Several Canadian stations reported sub-zero temperatures, but .Willlston, N. I)„ was the eoldest place iu the United States with miuuß 12. Rural Policeman Hurt In Motorcycle SnuMih. k Charlotte, Jan. H.-Howard Wil son, Mecklenburg rural policeman, was near death touigh, the result of a „ spill this afternoon from his motor ‘ cycle. ‘His skull was fractured and other inpuries sustained. A coincidence was that when hurt he was ou bis way to the city hall to mail applications for group insur ance for the entire rural police force. Royal Visitor jb ' Dk m m ! I i ■ , tm H Prince William of Sweden, brother of Crown Prince Gus tavus Adolphus, arrived for a lecture tour hi America. Satasas Konst ttmoa ■ —— HAYWOOD OPPOSED TO ANTI-EVOLUTION LAW Does Not Think legislature Should Pass Any Such Measure. The Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hofei Raleigh. Jan. IS.—While he holds that the conduct of the youth.of North Carolipa may be regulated by legis lation , Dr. Oscar llaywood, of anti petting bill fame, is vigorously op posed to any attempt by the law mak ers to curb the Clinking of the young er or any other generation. Dr. Haywood refers specifically to the evolution question which will un doubtedly come up if Representative Poole makes good his promise. "I shall vote solidly against auy bill which attempts to prohibit the teach-, lag of ewlndooe he soys. <*&»>- islation which at tempts to shut off certain fields of investigation is dan gerous. Youth is a period of ques tioning. of skepticism, and no amount of legislation can or should repress this natural tendency,” Dr. Haywood declares. Resides. Dr. Haywood feels that legislators ha<l better confine their aetivites to other fields than evolu tion until they have made a more thorough study of science. Rut Dr. Haywood lias more than one .pot boiling in the leg s utnre. In | addition to his sensational hill de- I signed to “regulate public roads." he is sponsoring another blue law which would Hose ail soft, drink stands on Sunday, the new marriage law, re quiring couples to register two weeks before the date of marriage, ami a bill advocating the erection of a pro tective strueture around the home of Andrew Johnson in Pullen Park, Ral eigh. TWO NEW GOVERNORS BEGAN DUTIES TODAY Major John G. Richards In South Carolina and Dan Moody in Texas. Columbia. S. C., Jan. 18.—049 The ship of State of South Carolinn took on a new pilot today. With the inauguration at noon of Major John G. Richards as governor succeeding Thomas G. McLeod, there began the first oeeupuuey of the eliief executive's office by an official elected for one term of four years. Pre viously the term was two years. Youth in Office in Texas. Austin, Texas, Jan. 18.—(4*)— Youth—exemplifies! by tbe Titian haired Dan Moody and his bride—to day stood at the head of the new Texas political order, to take over the gubernatorial duties from Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, who with her husband, James E. Ferguson, occu pied the state’s highest office for near ly five of the last ten years. With Our Advertisers. Tomorrow is Family Day at the Coupon! Theatre. Tcu cents to all. Wednesday only at this theatre “The Call of the Klondike," a red-blooded romance of the northland. The big store of the Parks-Belk Co. will be closed all day Wednesday to give an opportunity to mark down the goods for the big Clearance Sale to begin Thursday morning at nine o’clock. Watch for four page an nouncement iu The Tribune tomorrow. Last times today at the Concord Theatre Corrinne Griffith in ‘Synco pating Sue.” Equal to “Classified." and that is saying enough. Visit the lumber yard of E. L. Mor rison Lumber Co., You will be wel come. At the Citizens Bank and Trust Co. you will find financial service for bus iness men organized for today's busi -1 ness needs. Tbe number of dials in Atwater Kent Radios has been reduced from 1 three to one. Go to Yorke & Wads worth Co.'s store and let them show I you ’ In accordance with a very o:d • custom, special honors and fine rairn i ent are bestowed on the first Infant - received on Christmas Day at tbe . foundling asylum in Lyon*, France. CONCORD, N. C.. TUESDAY, JANUARY 18. 1927 THE M’NARY HAUGEN FARM RELIEF BILL OFFERED TO HOUSE Chairman Haugen Sup ports Measure, Saying ! Farmers Are Entitled to j I Some Aid. ; BILL’S FEATURES ' I ARE DEFENDED !No Subsidy or Price Fix-! : ing Agreement in Bill Which Carries an Appro- i i priation of $250,000,000. j j Washington. Jan. IS.—(4*)——'The re (licf which the MeNiiry-Huugen kill l | aims to give the farmer is an expert-] I meat ill the publie interest, and therefore the government should as sume the risk of the pioneering work. Chairman Haugen declared today in reporting the measure for the Houro Agrieulturue committee. ’The principle is well established," he said, “that the government shall assume the risk of pioneering and ex-i permeating iu many fields where t-h«*j publie interest is involved, nnd to do, so in behalf of the public welfare." | The problems of American agriettl- j tun- have become so profound, he added, that they are "beyond the power of individual farmers or their rela tively small. organizations to solve." Admitting that the bill carries a large; appropriation—s2s9.ooo.ooo—he held nevertheless, that this was merely to set'the-plan in motion, and was no | different from advantages the govern ment had extended to various lines of industry. He explained the provisions of the; hill which carries the controversial 1 equalization fee, as compared with the Curtis-Crisp, and A swell measure*,; which do not include such a fee, to control crop surpluses. There was no subsidy or price fixing agreement in the McXary-Haugen bill, he said. Haugen held that the $250,000,000 revolving fund is not different in prin ciple from the monetary, reservoir which began the functions of the Fed crnl Reserve Board, or that contribut-j ed to the stabilization of railroads. After the plan is once set in motion. , he added, the fee will provide neces- j saty jfojaHteakJMafengs. * r, PLAN TO ARBITRATE ! THE OIL DISPUTE L Proposal Said to Have Endorsement ' of Chairman Borah anil Senator', Swanson. |, Washington. Jan. 18.—(49—-A con-jt eerted move toward arbitration of the oil dispute with Mexico was made to-; J day in the Senate j t A resolution favoring such an tul-; 1 justuient was introduced by Senator H Robinson, of Arkansas, democrat ir i floor leader, who said it had the hack-! • ing of Chairman Borah, of the foreign ' relations committee, and Senator!, Swanson, of Virginia, the committee’s I ranking democrat. j 1 The proposal was submitted after; the Aleviran-Nicaraguan tangle had ■ been debated in both the Senate and!' House, and after the White House liad I restated the President’s attitude to ward Mexico and Nicaragua. In Mex ico the President feels that the whole! 1 question is whether American hold- • 1 ings are to be confiscated, and in; 1 Nicaragua he believes the American ( 1 government lias aeted strictly in ac- i 1 cord with the Monroe Doctrine. J 1 Senate Can Have Ballot Boxes I Philadelphia, Jan. 18.—(4*)—-The i State Supreme Court today dismissed 1 the appeal of Joseph Cicalese to pro- 1 vent the taking of Philadelphia hallo; boxes iu the Vare-Wilson senatorial], contest to Washington. WILL NOT ACCEPT COSTA | RICA AS MEDIATOR Diaz Declines President Jlminez’s Os ! , fer to Bring Peace In Nicaragua. ( Wasttlngton, Jan. IS.—(4*)—Dt'-ij elariug Costa Rica was the only coon- ] \ try in Central America to "refuse | flatly the American government’s in- 1 vitation to join it in, recognizing my j government,” President Diaz of Nic aragua has turned a deaf ear to l’rcs-1, ident Jiminez's offer to mediate the | liberal-conservative dispute. , The action of the Atnerican-recog-! ilized Nicaraguan executive caused! little surprise at the State Depart ment. although administration officials 5 had encouraged the Costa Rican move' aud hoped it would succeed. Eighty Freeze to Death In Russia. Samara, Russia, Jan. 18. —(4")—i Eighty persons have been frozen to j deal'j in outlying district of the gov ernment of Samara in the southeastern 1 part of Russia. Eighteen others have, perished from the cold at Pugnehez,; while many deaths from the intense! cold nre reported from isolated vil-l lages along the Volga River. For several days the mercury has stood at forty below zero, the Coldest weather ever known in the region, and i cattle are dying by the thousands. ! King Cotton Hotel Is Opened To; Guests. Greensboro, Jan. 17. —Opening its | doors to guests this morning. King', ■ Cotton, Greensboro's new million dol- , lar hotel, was a busy scene through- : out the dny. Guests were continually : arriving and registering, by motor and train and tonight the registetr con : tained a goodly number of names. E. A. ■ Casselle, of Los Angeles, Cal., was the first-guest to inscribe his name. Unruffled by Murder Trial k'MuynyM|M i. MW lljyk J ' ■a * * I M Jl, K ir IffUi f /ml mi— flev. Frank Norris, of Fort Worth, calmly read a newspaper during less important phases of his trial for the murder of D. E. Chipps, wealthy lumberman. His attorneys are shown conferring in the foreground. This picture was taken in the courtroom at Austin, Texas. flntmroa LianAJ K*vdmll ; -■ - - - - ■ j George Sanders, Defaulting Treasurer j Os Baptist Board, Is Given 20 years ; Richmond, Jan. 17.—Twenty years in the state penitentiary was the sen tence given George N. Sanders, de-' faulting treasurer of the foreign mis sion boanl of the Southern Baptist j convention by Judge W. Kirk Mat-- ' thews in Hunting court here today. Sanders pleaded guilty to bwo indict ments at the February tern* of court., 'lDirve Satterfield. coflMnonwhattb-'s at torney, said following the sentence. The entire amount of the defalcation of the former frensnrer over a period of seven years was $103,000. The two indictments charged San ders with the theft of $3,884.59 of mission funds on October 20. 1925 nnd of $3,980.07 ou May 12, 1925. Two witnesses, A. M. Pulen, of Richmond, head of the firm who audit ed the books and I>r. T. B. Ray of the foreign mission board were called by the prosecution. The defense offered no evidence. Sanders' attorney presented his ease in a short but earnest idea for eleiu- BI’LL RAN YOUNG INTO WATER FIRST And He’s Stayed Tltere Ever Since. Ilis Mother Says; Is a “Good Boy." f Toronto, Out., Jan. A 7. —11 may hnve been a $25,000 prize that ttrg of George Young to victory in j the Catalina swimming nmruthon I against a field of more than 100 men and women, and then against it nitty | hnve been thought of a maddened I bull's hot breath on the back of his ] neck. Mrs. J can Young, the youthful I swimmer's mother, told today of her | son’s first departure from dry land. He was 5 years old at the time, she j recalled, and was walking with her! and ait aunt near a creek. Suddenly I the aunt shouted “Here's a bull !" j “Gerorge ran right into the water." Mrs. Young laughed, “and lie'* stayed there ever since." Tlie mother said she did not thing the hoy wou'd "get his head turned at all" by tiis success, because 'il< is a good boy, aud I have talked to him a lot about the world." Too Much Powder and Paint. fßy International News Service) Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 18. —Too ! much powder nnd paint! ! That’s what ruined'' pretty Eliza beth Gibson’s visit to Memphis, Her 'visit was cut sl(ort by police iip re j quest of her father. ' ' Elizabeth, Hi, and a friend, Martha tMaroney, 17, both of Blythevillo, Ark., ran away from homo a few days ago. 1 Elizabeth's father railed Memphis police. “You can recognize iter right away. ! She uses too much powder and paint,” i said the father. Ami tbe police did. The two girls were taken in cus tody by police and returned to their parents. HOLIDAY NOTICE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19th ROBERT E. LEE'S BIRTHDAY being a legal holiday the banks of Concord will not be open for business,. CONCORD NATIONAL BANK CABARRUS SAVINGS BANK CITIZENS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY i enoy. ; , “Wo have absolutely- no defense whatsoever to make," Gordon E. Am bler of defense counsel said. "We have only the statement of Mr. San tiers himself that for all these years . ! he was trying to buy the love of his ! wife which he already 'aad. I want i 4to deny a rumor that teh defalcation ] is- largely <Me f» the- extravagance -of ! Afr. Sanders' family. His family is ] not in any way to blame.” | The judge in sentencing Sanders j said that the money was taken front ] funds contributed at "a grant saeri ■ lice" by the Baptists of the south for | the "greatest cause known to man kind, that of spreading the gospel throughout the whole world, and for the Christian education of a pagan I world." The trial took but 30 minutes, San- i dors sat with his counsel looking at | the table. None of his family was i present at the hearing. LONDON TIMES HAS A WINDOW FEATURE Displays Each Day Its Issue 100 Y'ears Ago in Office Window. London. Jan. 18.—The Times Time* makes a feature in its uptown office of displaying each day a copy of the news paper of that particular date just 100 years ago. I The Times, England’s most eon jservative and staple paper, today, as I a century back, still devotes its first I lmge to advertisements, and in 1826 ! there were just ns many housewives jus now in sareh of a maid of,all j housework or "cook general.” | Quite a number of the Times’ j firs t page advertisements of those j days set forth the advantages of various ships which were taking on j cargoes for all sours corners o the I earth, certain ones of which special ized iu accommodations for passen gers during the long lonesome voy age of many months. NORRIS I Lis, HIS TRIAL DELAYED SEVERAL HOURS Pastor oil Trial for Murder is Suffer ing With Tonsilitis. Austin. Texas. Jan. 18. —(4 s )—The trial of I>r. ,T. Frank Norris was de 'ayed here today because of serious illness of the defendant. Judge Janies It. Hamilton adjourned court until 2 p. in. on request of the defense, made just before court op ened. Dr. Norris, who is on trial for kill ing D. E. Chipps, was ill at his hotel room with tonsilitis. Defense attorneys said they did not want to delay the trial, nnd would bring the defendant into court oti a stretcher, if necessary. On the Twin Ilutttes road between Tucson and Continental, Arizona, scientists declare there is every known variety of cactus to be found in the world. ! )! 1 POOLE Itll.l, NOT PRESENTED TODAY TO LEGIBI > Raleigh. lan. 18.— ./'t wntalivi* Pim»>*h anfi-oiv was not introduced today. Ho said it possibly may not Im» oflFeml until next week. Im>kk of tho bill last night and amendments he desires to make are holding it ; j PLANS BEING PERFECTED FOR LEGION CONVENTION ' i More Than SOO Members From North j | Carolina Going (o Paris in Fall. The Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel j Raleigh. .lan. 18.— Holding of the i annual convention of the American | Legion in Paris during the week of! September 19th of this year will be j a distinct contribution toward world peace declared Ms j. Wade Phillips, j past department commander and a \ member of the national convention j committee, following Mis return from Indianapolis for a conference on ar rangements. Major I 'lt ill ips reports that General Albert Greenlaw, of Maine, a member of the committee, ban returned from Paris, and reported features of the arrangements. The "Trocadero", ft famous building on llio left bank of the Seine River, has been obtained j for the convention, tin l Palais d’ennay for the 10 and 8 and the Continental Hotel for tbe Auxiliary. Reservations were being made for tbe convention at fee rate of about 100 per day during the time which Major Phillips spent in Indianapolis. Iri anticipation of the crowds that are j | expected to go to France for the oe- j easion tbe convention committee has reserved 25,000 beds in Paris hotels at the lowest price for which they have ever been contracted. Indications are, says Major Phil lips, feat the quota of 300 which has been assigned to the North Carolina department will be fully taken and he advises Legionnaires who are con templuting tnHking the trip to make ■ their reservations early. I ‘‘The purpose of bolding the oon i vention in Paris,”! he declared, “is j not a junket but to make a sacred i pilgrimage to the graves of our sol [ dier dead, and to renew our asaocia ! tion with the people of France and i jof other countries with which fee j American soldiers made such close con tact. ] “First hand reports show the wliole j hearted eo-operatiou of the French j government, and no event sinec the 1 war has stirred the French people as j the anticipation of fejp convention. •! There i« -absolutely «u> ,feeling anumg the French people' against flic Ameri cans at this time. “General Greenlaw termed reports recently published to the contrary as: coming from ‘ignorant and ill-man-1 tiered tourists,' and he gave several examples to prove his point of view. “It is the feeling of the committee that the convention will be « great success and will prove to be a distinct contribution to world peace. Most of the Legionnaires will make side | trips which will take them into many j of the countries of Europe, bringing j them into closer contact and enabling a better understanding of these peo nies. Some of the countries into England, Germany, Switzerland, Italy which side trips will be made include: and a number of others.” | “KINGDOM” UNDER BLUE SKY INQUIRY Gorgia Grand Jury Scrutinizes Sale of SI,OOO Certificates By the Or ganization. At'nnta, Gn., Jan. J7. —While no official announcement has neen made, it is reported on good’ authori ty that the Fulton County Grand Jury is considering whether officials of the Supreme Kingdom, so-called j “anti-evolution” organization. have | violated the "blue-sky” laws of Geor-: : gia relative to sale of stock. The Su-' preme Kingdom, headed by Edward | Young Clarke, former acting Im- i prriai Wizard of the Ku Klux Klnn. ] is engaged in a membership, cam-j pnign in the South and plans to ex-1 ■ tend its activities throughout the country. Dr. John Roach Straton, otic of the most vigorous of the "Funda ■ mentalisUt.” has just concluded" a series of lectures in Georgia advOeat ■ ing the principles of the Supreme Kingdom and aiding the membership • drive. It is understood he received ■ SSOO for each appearance. He left t Atlanta this afternoon for New York, but .Clarke, who wns scheduled I to speak from I)r. Straton's pulpit . Sunday, did not accompany him, the . New York engagement having been canceled at the last moment. The Grand Jury investigation is 1 understood to cover the alleged acti vities of Clarke and his associates in [ selling certificates of SI,OOO each to I iieiwons whim he interested in the , organization from the standpoint of financial venture. With each sale of a certificate goes a contract guaran ( teeing a return of $20,000 after a year The authorities believe the cer titivates come under the law. govern j ing sale of stocks and other securi ties. No permit has been issued by the State Securities Commission to ‘ the Supreme Kingdom and while the commission declines to comment, it is known that all phases of the Supreme Kingdom’s operations arc being investigated from the financial angle. Aided by Department of Public Wel fare. (By International News Service) Raleig'.i, Jan. 18.—Nine hundred and thirty persons were aided by the department of public welfare and eharltiea during the past biennium, it waa announced here today. This was an increase of more than 200 cases over the preceding biennial report, it was said. ■* . \ THE TRIBUNE 1 I PRINTS I TODAY’S NEWS TODAYfi 8 NO. 10 ..MID KITH 1 MIG WED THE ] (MpOltE The Boston Herald Quotes ,] Henry Ford With Saying ; Mexican Trouble Due to ; j Financiers’ Desire. THINKS PEOPLE J ARETOOSMARf Will Not Be Led Into War 1 With Mexico for Such a i Reason as This One, Ae ■ is Quoted as Saying. J I Roston. Jan. IS.—C4 s )—Tbe Boston y ! Herald today quotes Henry Ford os ! ! saying that, talk of war with Mexico a is due to the fact that “some financier j wants something in Mexico,” but that § the idea is "ridiculous.” Interviewed at liis Wayside Imi at 1 Sudbury, the Herald says Mr. Ford | I said: “They are talking war because iUUk' .4 financier wants something in Mexico, ; They will never get it, because 4h J public is too intelligent and well port ed to stand for it. They want to fight for the same reason that we fought in j Cuba—to give the financiers control, | in this case control of Mexico;” > ‘ TAKES ATROPINE .AND . 1 DIES IN GREAT AGOXt f School Boy Gets Wrong Bottle; JM 1 Stone Blind and Imckjpw Sets hi. ’ Shelby, Jan. 17.—Grady Davis. It* 1 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Davis, of the New House district, ‘ died ati agonizing death at the Ruth erford Hospital at 4 o'clock Thursday, it was learned here jester* i day as a result of having taken, bjf mistake, an overdose of medicine colt 1 taining “Atropine,” a highly volatile poison. The child took the dose at school j | Wednesday and was immediately tak- ; len ill, and Thursday afternoon waa ’ rusiied to the hospital totally blind | j and with his jaws locked as with j tetanus in the hope that doctors at the institution would lie able to ovef* J conic the poison with an antidote. -:J But he was beyond medical aid. The eircumatanccH of the case were 3 ffrflwr-A-Mnrtw- to Davis home Tuesday to prescribe for ” Grady. Medicine was prescribed, con* tabling “atropine" with directions to ' , he given six drops at intervals in water. The child wns well enough { to go to school Wednesday, but his mother wished him to get the benefit of the medicine, and to Ithis end dropped six drops of the prescription in a bottle filled witli water, and told T Grady to take it to school with him and at the hour npixiintcd, drink it. In his Mastc In getting off from home the hoy took from the shelf not the bottle with the six drops in water, but the original bottle, containing the unadulterated solution. At the ap* pointed time Grady took the dose, and almost at once it took effect. lie went stone blind and developed hallucina tions within an hour. Before the school took in that morning the chil dren played a game of hunting the | rabbit, and Grady's hallucination took the form of the rabbit hunt, while the ! school children, his friends and pals stood around the stove aghast and jjj wondering, the little fellow whooped it up in the school room, chasing the imaginary rabbit, hitting at it as the <j vision darted among the bcuc-be», J Meantime the pupils of his eyes had ■ I dilated until they took on an imp | natural and wild appearance. He waa f ias sightless as the sphinx. j “•tjjtW j A physician was hurriedly sent for in the hope of administering! a fill antidote, lint |iy fee time ihc doc-, j tor arrived the jaws of the .sufferer j were so locked together simulating | the form of lockjaw that it was im- M possible to pry them apart. * Vi T J Who's Got the Spigot!? ? J (By International News Service) . | Asheville, Jan. 18. —“Who's.-. gat ti : the spigot?” 1 This is the question being asked by | t’.ic sharpest sleuths on the 1 police * force here, following discovery recent ly that despite the vigorous campaign . against liquor running, a considerable quantity of the beverage may stifl he found here. owadßraO 1 According to C. U. Bartlett, com* missioner of public safety, Asheville's liquor supply has been stopped But, evidently somebody has got the spigot. ' For H. Q. Merrick, federal probibi- | . tion administrator, thinks there is 1| f plenty of liquor in Asheville uml else* | t - where, and what's worrying the law j is how to stop it. 4 "W tm's got the spigot ?” is the ques* ~ . tion being asked. . Hunters Find Youth Frozen In Moutf. t r tains. n Doughton, N. C.. Jun. 15.—-f*nrm!eb >' e Billings was found dead Wednesday ; morning, Jan. 12, in the woods near .| p Austin, N. Wilkes County, by some 4 P hunters. 1 When found, he wor lying on hid j back with arms stretched out as if he had fallen. The coroner's decision |. wns that he came to his death by ! freezing, and hnd been dead for about two days. d .uHjjnWfl d WEATHER FORECAST. £ it Cloudy with occasional rains tgJj n night and Wednesday; MUtyMlaß t l warmer tonight. Moderate nortbMgil shifting to east and southeast —'ntWFnl „'A