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VOLUME XXVII
BUDGET ACT 111 NO
SENSE GIVES VETO
POWER TO ANYONE
It Does Not Give the Gov
ernor or Anyone Else
Power to Scale Down
Appropriations at Will.
WHAT THE ACT
DOES REQUIRE
Impression Created by the
Raleigh Morning Paper
Are Incorrect.—Require
ments in Emergency.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
"Raleigh, Jan. 21.—There is nothing
In the present appropriations and bud
get art which in any sense gives the
director of the -budget anything akin
to the veto power, and attempts that
have been and are being made by
some people in Raleigh to made it
appear that the budget act makes a
dictator of the Governor are being
resented by a number of the members
of the general assembly aud the bud
get commission, who helped frame the
act. j
The budget act does not give the
Governor power to scale down appro
priations at will. What it does do
is to specify that in case of emergency
only, and when it becomes positively
apparent that the revenue is not going
to be sufficient to meet the appropria
tion, then the Governor may, with
the concurrence of the majority of
the members of the budget commis
sion, reduce the appropriation to
match the income. Rut this can only
be done in case of emergency, or when
it bec<lines apparent that more money
line been appropriated than is actual
ly needed.
The budget act does not give the
Governor power to transfer appropria
tion from one department or institu
tion to another, as lias been charged.
It is impossible for the Governor or
anyone else to transfer money appro
priated for the State Hospital at Hel
eigh to the Caswell Training School,
for instance. -Rut the impression has
been deliberately created by a Raleigh
morning newspaper that this is the
case.
What can be done under the prts
ent act, however and this clause was
empower the director of the budget
to authorise the head of a department
or institution to re-allocate certain
fnds, contained in the appropriation,
to other uses than those originally
specified. But this can be done ouly
at the request of the head of the de
partment or institution, and only as
this head recommends.
According to one of the members
of the budget commission, this clause
was inserted without the recommenda
tion of the Governor, because the com
mission felt that it was for the benefit
of the various departments and insti
tutions.
“Take a hypothetical instance just
ns an example. Suppose that a year
from now, President Chase of the
University finds, thnt the imrticulur
sum nlloted by the budget for personal
service—that is, salaries for instruc
tors and professors—is not adequate"
explained the budget commission num
ber. Rut on the other hand, there is
a surplus in the amount allotted for
fuel and heating amounting to sev
eral thousands of dollars. This sur
plus is not needed in this particular
bracket for fuel and similnr puriioses,
but it could he used to good advant
ages iu the personal service bracket.
“Thus, under the act as it now
stands, Prsident Chase could remotn
niend that the director of the budget
allow the transfer of these funds from
the fuel -brackets to the personal ser
vice brackets, and thiiN increase the
efficiency of the entire institution and
prevent the possibel waste of the ex
cess money under the other head.
"In other words, the budget commis
sion has ncted in the assumption that
the various heads of institutions, and
not even the legislature itseK, can
forsee assurntely every demand for
the ensuing two years which the ap
propriations cover, and that some elas
tic provision must be included to en
able the various departments and ins
titutions to meet the varying needs as
they arise. But Governor, not any
one else, can make any of'these trans
fers—really, re-allocations—of funds,
unless such a change is defiußely ask
ed by the head of the institution or de
partment. Consequently the Governor
has no external authority whatever,
merely being the agent of the institu
tion or department head which desires
such a change.’ '
Thus the bugaboo which has been
generally spread about that the Gov
ernor Could dip into one appropria
tion, aud ladle it over to some other
department or institution which he
might favor over another, would seem
to be pretty well banished, though
many will preslst in holding to this
view.
When questioned directly as to this
I (articular clause in the appropriation
hill, Governor McLean said that while
he thought it was of distinct advan
tage to the various departments and
institutions, that since he did not re
commmend it in the first place, he
would offer no objection should the
committee on appropriations decide to
strike it out. It gives no direct power
to the director of the budget, although
it does five consideralble power to
institutionsl heads, and should react
to their advantage, he said.
A third point in connection wi4
the appropriations budget which hall
been the brunt of criticism, Is the
The Concord Daily Tribune
North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
Rich Broker by Day,
Taxi Driver by Night
New York, Jim. 21. What appears
to be. for tlie present a I least, a good,
ohPfushined mystery developed yester
day in Traffic Court. Late last night,
Still unsolved, it hung about the head
of John Bennett Carrington, broker,
Yale graduate, son of u wealthy bank
er of New Haven—an. mysteriously,
taxi driver for the Yellow Taxi Cor-
Mr. Carrington, who lives in an
apartment at No. Sfl'i Park Avenue,
appeared in Traffic Court yesterday
morning attired immaculately in a
dark blue business suit, tight-fitting
overcoat and derby. He walked'up
to the bench when the clerk called
out, • “John Carrington, taxi driver,
failing to keep to the right."
Magistrate Gets a Shook.
Magistrate Knrrell looked at the de
fendant in amazement. He nsked the
clerk if he was sure the defendant
was a taxi driver. The clerk said he
was.
s "That's correct," said Carrington
smoothly.
"But 1 don't understand,” insisted
the Magistrate.
“Well,” said Carrington. “I'm a
broker in the daytime, but I drive a
taxicab at night. 1 work at No. 74
Broudway,”
And after paying his $T> fine Car
rington dodged reporters and fled.
In the offices of' Libraire & Co.,
brokers, at that address it Was ascer
tained that John Bennett Carrington
was one of their floor salesmen. Mr.
Carrington at first did not wish to be
interviewed, but finally offered an ex
planation.
“I did it for a bet," he said. "Just
for one night,'the night of December
17, when 1 a Was arrested. That's all
it was. Really." i
Records Confute Bet Story. I
But Erneat Miller, President of the
PAST COURT RECORDS
OF PASTOR REVIEWED
Number of Years Ago Norris Was
Indicted For Perjury and Arson,
He Admits.
Austin, Tex., Jan. 20. — -f)r. J.
Frank Norris sat in the witness box
for only five minutes in his trial
here today to tell that lie had been
indicted three times in 11)12 and
11)13 for arson and perjury.
The celebrated fundamentalist's
appearance on the stand came sud- '
denly near the end of the court day
after he had listened to witnesses
tell of threats by D. E. Chipps to
kill ham. Chipps was kllltd by Norris
in the pastor’s study July 17 last.
He was placed on the stand by his
toftnsel to testify as to -oho-' previous
three charges of 14 yearn ago.
The jury was excused while Nor
argued over admissibility of evidence
as to the arson anik perjury indict
ments.
The defense had offered evidence
throughout the day of Chipps’ visit
to Norris’ office when he was killed,
of man / circumstances surrounding
this visit and further evidence that
Chipps had threatened to kill Nor
ris-
REV. JOHN E. W'OOHLEY
DEAD AT GRKNNSBORO
For 44 Years Deceased Was Active
Minister in Methodist Conference.
Greensboro, Jan. 21. —OP)—Rev.
John E. Woosley, aged 7ft, for 44
years an active minister in the Meth
odisteonference, died early today at his
home hery following a week's illness
with pneumonia. He was a native
of Davidson county, and united with
the church at the age of sixteen, be
coming a member of the North Caro-)
lina Conference at the Statesville
meeting in 1883. During his life he
had served many pastorates and en
deared himself to thousands with
whom he labored.
Surviving are his widow, three
daughters, three sons and four broth-;
ers and three sisters.
Funeral will be from Mount Olivet
Church, Davidson county, on Satur
day afternoon at 3 o’clock, conducted
by former presiding e'deiM under whom
he had labored.
size of the recommended appropria
tion, and whether they are to be con
sidered as maximum dr minimum
limita.
The intention of the budget comml
sion is that the sums recommended
should be considered as a maximum
limit.beybnd which expenditures should
fortell the exact financial needs qf an j
institution or department, and the
estimates have been expanded as m-uch
as possible to take care of any normal
conditions. But if it is found that
the appropriation was too copious,
and that the needs of the institution
or department were not as great as
had been anticipated, then aud ouly
then—is the budget director empower
ed to scale down the appropriation,
and carry the remainder over as a sur
plus. lliough the exercise of this
power the state was able to show a
surplus of $1,260,824 on June 30. 1026,
instead of a deficit of $11,404 as
would have been the case had the
maximum amount of all appropfifiria
tlons been expended.
Thus if the power to oversee and
direct the expenditure of appropriated
funds is taken away from the budget
bureau, members of the budget com
mission and of the appropriations de
clare that then the amount of the ap
propriations will hare to be scaled
down as a minimnu instead of a max
-1 imum limit, and that a departments
1 and institutions are likely to suffer
I much -more than under the present
system.
"If the people only understood how
the budget works as we do," said a
memeber of the appropriations com
k.aittee, “they would offer no objec
tions,” < I
Yellow Taxi Corporation, took the
trouble to look up the records.
I "John Carrington." he said, "giving
his address ns No. stlfi Park Avenue,
started working for us on Dec. 11 and
tins been with us every night since."
He added that lie had records liefore
‘him. could not he mistaken, and re
fused to divulge any further informa
tion.
Was it, perhaps, a ease of financial
embarrassment?
Paul Engle, a member of the broker
age firm, was certain that was not it.
"Mr. Carrington is quite well off,"
he said. “He has an account with us
las well as being our employee, and I
can assure you that he is not in need
of a taxi driver's salary."
Other Details Doubtful.
Mr. Carrington told reimrters he
had obtained the cab to win the bet by
bribing one of the drivers. But it
was learned that he had obtained a
taxi driver’s license at the West 20th
Street Bureau on December 0 last.
Patrolman James Reynolds, who i
made the arrest, was as astounded as
any one when Carrington appeared in
court.
"He had on a Yellow driver's uni- |
form," said Reynolds. "He looked just
like n taxi driver to me."
Even Mr. Carrington's valet, Rus
sell Smith , could not solve the mys
tery. At the Park Avenue apartment
Hie servant said his master was “a
broker, not a taxi driver." He admit
ted he hail seen him don a chauffeur's
uniform one night aimot two weeks
before Christmas," but added that "lie !
must hnye been going to a fancy dress
ball."
Mr. Carrington's room mate, 1 .con
ned S. Platt, of the Bankers' Trust
| Company, thought the whole thing
I "ridiculous" and did not care to dis
cuss it.
MAN AND WOMAN KILLED.
Southern Railway Official and Wo
man Found Shot to Death Near
Birmingham.
Birmingham, Ala-, Jan. 20.—Mys
tery tonight surrounded the slaying
of A. B. Moore, 4ft. superintendent
of safety and sanitation of the
Southern railway, and Mm. Ruby
Thornton, 33, on a lonely mid near
Birmingham late Inst night.
Literally decapitated by a shot-
I gun charged which he received full
in the face, Moore’s body was found
on the ground at the side of his au
tomobile which had been parked in
a pine thicket.
Tile hotly of the woman was found
about 75 yards away with a shotgun
charge in the back of her bead anij
goUce advanced, jhe theory that-aft,
liu MnTn t» ulipnWrliynllßl'fW'
car.
A shotgun nnd several empty
shells were found near the body.
Although authorities believe the
slaying took place last night the
bodies were not found until this
morning by a negro farm hand on
his way to work.
-Mrs. Thornton, the mother of n
niue-year-old daughter, had been liv
ing with her parents here during the
absence of her husband, J. C. Thorn
ton. an insurance agent, who it Is
said, has been away from the city
for several months.
Moore was last seen by railroad
officials here yesterday when he an
nounced plans for attending a con
ference of Southern railroad officials
in New Orleans tomorrow.
Mrs. Moore and her three children
left Birmingham last November and
have been residing with her parents
In Chattanooga, Teun. Moore’s par
ents have denied the couple had sep
arated.
Police believe that SSO which was
taken from Moore’s body was an ef
fort to mislead authorities in their
investigation.
Mrs. Thornton's parents said she
had known Moore but a short time.
What is believed to have been
Moore’s last act yesterday was filing
a voluntary petition in bankruptcy.
STATE GETS WARNING'
OF THEATER DISASTER
Fire Chief Brorkwell Says Then-
Are Conditions Here Same as in
Montreal Theater.
Raleigh, Jan. 21.—“ North Caro
lina's turn is coming.”
Fire Marshal Brockwell tells the
legislature so.
"There are conditions here the
same as in the Montreal theater
where 76 children were killed," lie
told members of the joint insurance
committee, "We've just been lucky
so far.”
| The warning was issued for the
insurance | department which wants
more adeipiate laws requiring suf
ficient exits'.for theaters nnd hospi
tals.
Legislators wero told thnt at
least half the theaters in the state
would be veritable death trails in
case of an actual fire or a cry of j
fire.
Hospitals, they learned, were little
better.
“You’ve got a chance to remedy
this,” Mr. Brockwell emphasized,
“and the time is now. If you don’t,
you’re going to wake up some day
nnd find North Carolina furnishing
black headlines for the whole coun
try just as Montrenl did last week.”
Stacy Wade, state insurance com
missioner, promised to hove a drnft
of the laws ihis department thinks
necessary for fire nnd panic preven
tion ready to present to the
tee late today.
Steal 243 Chickens.
Charlotte, Jan. 20.—Sam Davie,
negro, was arrested here today and
police announced, confessed stealing
245 chickens. He admitted, police
said, operating an automobile and
keeping books on his activities. "I
Sot away of catching them so they
on’t make a bit of fuss,” officers
quoted him as saying.
CONCORD, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1927
InicHi
ORDERfO TO PEKIG
I
! TO SEE CONDITIONS
! '
Minister Mac Murray and!
Family Left Peking: Jan
uary 18th for Visit to the!
United States.
CONDITIONSNOT
FAVORABLE NOW
For This Reason Minister
Was Advised to Return
to Post So As to Watch
Developments.
Washington, Jan. 21.— UP) —Ame#-
I iean Minister Mac Murray en rout**
home for conferences with Secretary
! Kellogg, has been intercepted by tts
- and ordered back to Pejcihg
, as a result of the increasing serious
ness of anti-foreign demonstrations
and rioting in China.
Mr. Mac Murray left Peking Janu
ary 18th with his wife and two chil
dren.
It was emphasized at the State De
partment thnt the general increase in
the anti-foreign movement and Its
I spread to Foochow and Amoy within
- the last day or two had prompted Mr.
Kellogg to order Mac Murray back to
his post notwithstanding the Secre
tary’s desire to talk over the situation
in person with the Department’s rec
ognized authority on Chinese and other
Far Eastern problems.
No immediate conditions at Peking
had called for the change in plans,
it was said, the Department not as yet
having ben advised of the fears felt
by diplomats there that the trouble
might spread to the capital itself.
Action of the American charge,
Ferdinand Mayer, nt Peking in ar
ranging a code of day or night sig
nals by means of which American res
idents there ean be quickly concen
trated in the legation compound, un
der protection of the marine guard,
probably was in line with a decision
as the diplomatic corps that steps were
necessary as a precaution against out
breaks in Peking, it was suggested at
the Department.
With Our Advertisers.
The Browus-Cannon Co. is now giv
ing from 20 to 50 per cent, off the
‘ wucc of suits aud overcoats, during
, the geaa-amiual Bale now going ourgt I
this store. Opposite Hots! Concord.
Men's and young men's lrats, latest
colors and styles, $1.95 to $3.45, at
Efird's.
Cline & Moose have several barrels
of genuine Cabarrus county sorghum,
the very best to be had. Also fresh
comb honey at 30 cents a pound.
Phone 330.
Fresh vegetables and country saus
age at the J. & H. Cash Store.
See list of new Columbia records at
the Concord Furniture Co.
Coal free from dirt and slate sold
hy A. B. Pounds.
The work of the Shepherd Slme
Hospital gives lasting satisfaction.
Heavy bath towels, plain white or
fancy border, size 22x44, only 25 cents
art J. C. Penney Co.’s. Many other
tidings at this store just as low priced.
Sec the new ad. today of S. W. 1
I'reslar. It will interest you.
Make an appointment with the
Boyd W. Cox Studio. Over Correll's
Jewelry Store.
Many satisfied customers went away
from the big store of the Parks-Relk
Co. Thursday ladened with big bar
gains secured at the January Clear
ance Sale now going on. You can
get bleaching at 5 cents a yard and
hundreds of other bargains just as at
tractive.
The Ritchie Hardware Co. wants to
sell you hardware as long as you live.
Their goods always stand the test.
New parchment kid ties, patent
pumps, Persian trim, high spike, cub
and low heels, all go in the Change
of Ownership Sale at the G. A. Moser
Shoe Store. New prices range from
$1.95 to $4.95. With each pair of
shoes size 3 you get a pair of silk
hose free.
Pototoes, 4 1-2 cents a pound, at
1 the A. &P. stores. See ad. today
' for other bargains.
Wire wheels are now optional on
' Tudor nnd Fordor sedans at no ad
ditional cost. All cars are in colors.
See new ad. of the Reid Motor Co:
l’uone 226.
i
ELECTION OFFICERS ARE
CONVICTED OF FRAUD
; Charged That Pittsburgh Officials
Made Fraudulent Returns at Pri-
I i mary in May.
Pittsburgh, l'a., Jan. 21. —(AW—Two
, Pittsburgh election officers were con
victed today of making fraudulent re
. turns at the May primary. Twocleiks
were acquitted of the same charge,
and all of the defendants, three women
! and one man, were likewise acquitted
, of conspiring to make false returns.
! James A. Battles, judge of elections,
' and Miss Bessy Cnmby, an inspector,
. were found guilty on the one count,
[ while Mrs. Violette I.oiiihil.v 'and Mrs.
i Margaret E. Conner, clerks, were nc
- quitted of both charges.
The criminal prosecution followed a
contest of the official count of the
votes east in the tenth district of the
22nd wnrd for the republican nomi
nation for the state legislature.
j
! Major Btedman 86 Years Old.
Raleigh. Jon. 21. — INS. —Major
I Charles M. Stedman, oldest member of
[ the House of Representatives, will cel
r ebrate Hfa 86th birthday on January
9 28th. He fought under General Lee
In the War Between the States.,
BAPTISTS OP SOUTH
DISCUSS PROBLEMS
OF SUNDAY SCHOOL
IJ. N. Barnett, of Hickory,
| One of Speakers at Con- i
! ference, Is Being Held!
! Now at Memphis.
RURAL CHURCHES
GIVEN THOUGHT
Standard Sunday Schools;
Prove Benefit Wherever
Used, Tar Heel Speak
er Tells Conference.
Memphis, Tenu., .tan. 21.—(/P)
The observance of a vigorous Sunday
school program will put new life into]
the financial and evangelical efforts of
the churches, ,T. N. Harnett, of Hick
ory, X. declared in an address to
day before the South wide Baptists
Sunday School Conference here. i
Mr. Barnett, who is rural Sunday
school- specialist for the North Caroli
na Baptist Convention, presented fig
ures to show that rural churches in .
his state without standard Sunday
schools reported an average of seven
baptisms per congregation last year;
while those with standard schools had
an average of 17.5 baptisms each.
“If we could get all pastors in the
Southern Baptist Convention to use
faithfully the standard of excellence i
as a program of work in their church
es. the Baptist churches of the South
instead of giving $10,000,000 or less
per ytar to all misionary and benevo
lent objects, would immediately go to
giving $25,000,000," Mr. Barnett said.
"And in place of reporting 200,000
buptisms per year, these churches
would be able to report at least 450,-
OM) members received."
The rural churches, said the North
Carolinian, are suffering from lack of
a program, and "not from lack of abil
ity."
"Our rural churches are not dead,
but sleeping," lie aserted. “Not ex
hausted, but unworked; not weak, but
undeveloped: not barren, but unculti
vated : not indifferent, but neglected.
What they need is real lenders with n
program of work.”
MOTION TO QUASH
FINANCE SUIT DENIED
C*a* (Jrowing Out of. Failure of
Charlotte Concern May Go to U.
S. Supreme Court.
Charlotte, Jan. 20.—A motion to
quash a suit brought by H. B.
Adams, of IVaxhaw, receiver of the
refunct Southern Staten Finance
company, ngninst officers and direc
tors of the company was denied here
today by Judge E. V. Webb in fed
eral court.
The motion on the $438,000 suit,
which is expected to be taken to the
Supreme court of the United States,
was filed by attorneys for E. S. Can
non, of Wilmingtou. Del., ri-oeiver
appointed by a Delaware federal
judge.
The motion was made on the
ground that Judge Webb was with
out jurisdiction in appointing Mr.
Adams receiver as the Deleware fed
eral judge had adjudicated an in
voluntary petition against the com
pany prior to the time Judge Webb
issued his order.
Judge Webb denied the motion
but set February 21 as a date for a
further hearing. Meanwhile he ad
vised James O. Lockhart, attorney
for Mr. Adams, to file a motion be
fore the Delaware judge to re
linquish his jurisdiction.
Attorneys for the Wilmington re
ceiver predicted that the case wou'd
be taken to the Supreme court.
In his suit Mr. Adams alleged
that the officers and directors wrong
fully used funds of the eomisiny.
WILLIAM M. HILL
KILLED BY ENGINE
Charlotte Man Found Besfile Track
In Dying Condition—View Ob
scured By Fog.
Charlotte, .Tail. 20.—William M.
Hill, 58. died at a local hospital this
morning of injuries sustained when
he is supposed to have been struck
by a Southern railroad train at the
West Ninth street crossing.
Hill's body, with life practically
extinct, was 1 found by the side of the
track by negroes going to work early
in the morning. He. was taken 1 1 a
feospStal but died without recovering
consciousness. It was presumed that
he was walking along the track and
did not see the approaching engine
in the heavy fog of the early morn
ing. Baitroad officials knew little oc
the accident and promised a full in
vestigation.
Mr. Hill, a native of Union coun
ty, had lived in Charlotte for "0
years. He is survived by his wife
ami two daughters.
Charlotte' Woman la Suing Beautv
Parlor For *20.000.
Charlotte. January 20. —Vanished
locks, a charred scalp and excruti
tating pain as a result of a beauty
parlor treatment “going wrong"
were alleged in a suit for $20,000
filed by Sirs. E. 11. Westerfield. of
this city, against Mrs. Mathilda Rol
lins, of the Lorraine beauty parlor.
The plaintiff alleges that ns a re
sult of the ill effects of the treat
ment she suffered blood poison and
was force to remain in bed for many
weeka.
The British Undertakers’ Wood
work Association predicts ‘brighter
burials,’ following the adoption of
new casket design^ 1 of beautiful and
graceful workmanship.
t
STATEWIDE LAW TO
CONTROL Gl[ NOW
BEFORE THE HOOSE
This Was Most Important
I Bill Presented to House
! During the Morning Ses- j
sion Today.
GAME WARDEN FOR I
STATE PROPOSED!
I
(Measure is Said to Have
Support of Various Or
ganizations.—New Bills
in Senate.
State Capitol, Raleigh, Jan. 21.
| C4P)—lntroduction of a state-wide
I game law in the House formed the
principal business of the General As
sembly today.
The game bill is modeled in part
from statutes which have been found
satisfactory and beneficial in other
states, and with consideration of lo
cal conditions in North Carolina.
The bill has received the approval
of officers of the North Carolina Game
and Fish League, and of the Depart
ment of Conservation nnd Develop
ment.
High spots of the bill include the
creation cf a state gartie commission
for the administration of the regula
tions ; the establishment of game
sanctuaries; a uniform hunting sea
son for the various game; bag limits;
and a uniform license fee.
Acting under appointment and di
rection of the commission the bill au
thorizes the appointment of a state,
game warden to have general super
vision over the appointment of a
state game warden to have general
supervision over the administration
of the law. A salary of not to ex
ceed $5,000 a year is set for- the ward
en. With the approval of the Com
mission the warden would have au
thority to appoint deputy wardens
over the state.
The committee on roads reported
favorably bills to prohibit use of smoke
screens on vehicles; so build bridge
across the Virginia border; to re
quqire manufacturers to adjust head
lights in accordance with the state
laws on automobiles. It also stamp
ed favorably several local bills.
Three of the four new bills intro
duced in the Senate today were im
portjuit jttgje-wide measures. One was
the general pensioin bill offered by
Senator Woodson of Rowan. The bill
sponsored by Col. A. H. Boydcn, of
Salisbury, reduces the classifications
from four to two for the soldiers and
one for widows. Totally disabled vet
erans and widows who were married
prior to April 9, 1865, would get S3OO
n year; partially disabled veterans
and widows married prior to April 9,
1865, $240; and widows of soldiers
who married after the above date
SIOO.
One of Senator Askew's bills would
make counties liable for fire preven
tion in their counties by requiring
counties to pay the costs of lighting
such fires.
The other bill would make it a mis
demeanor punishable by line or im
prisonment to neglect efforts to con
trol tires on his lands, nnd would re
quire saw mills to clear a space of
150 feet around the mill before op
erating during dry periods.
War on “Jaywalkers.”
(By International News Service)
Atlanta. Ga., Jan. 21.—A police
war on "jaywalkers" here has cul
minated in a veritable epidemic of
arrests of public officials.
Former Senator Hoke Smith, Mayor
I. N. Ragsdale and Guy Dobbs, mayor
pro-tern, all were served with "jay
walking" charges within the short
period of two days.
And so that it might go down in
records Hi at practically all branches of
the city, state and national govern
ment have been represented in police
court, thus slighting no one. a request
has been made that Governor Walker
and a few supreme court justices
kindly allow themselves to be caught
crashing the red signals downtown.
Yes, a small number of “common
citizens” have had to answer to sim
ilar charges. The fine is $5.00.
Guatemala Again Offers to Mediate.
Managua. Nicaragua. Jan. 21. —(A 3 )
—Guatemala through its minister at
Managua has again offered to mediate,
with a view to bringing peace between
the two factions in Nicaragua, the
conservatives under President Diaz,
and the liberals under President Sa
casa. Tlie conservative government
has refused the suggestion with tile
explanation that Guatemala was used
as n “revolutionary base by the lib
erals and Mexicans."
Wife of Durham Business Leader
Charges Assault.
Greensboro, Jan. 19.—Mrs. Olivia
Jones today came from Durham with
her nttorney to secure a warrant
charging her husband, Thomas R.
Jones, prominent business man, with
assaulting her here in the O. Henry
hotel on the night of December 9.
Mr. Jones is head of the Jones Bot
tling company in Durham. The wife
alleges her husband followed her here
and then beat her violently with his
fists, inflicting a number of injuries
about the face and bady.
Building Permits In Asheville.
Asheville, Jan. 21.—INS.—Build
ing permits issued by the City of
' Asheville In 1926 totaled $9,299,546,
I the largest In the city’s history, and
I an increase over 1925 of $3,276,536,
it was learned here today.
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A\ orry over his wife’s divorce ac
tion was plainly written on the face
of diaries Chaplin. He loosed for this
picture in Chicago.
AN IMPORTANT BILL
To Prevent Dance Halls and Road
Houses From Using Names of Col
leges Merely to Draw Crowds.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Jan. 21. —Likelihood that
tlie move to purify public morals may
spread into educational circles and
that a bill to regulate dance halls
in Buncombe county add preveiu .them
from using the names of denomina
tional colleges or universities in con
nection with public dances may be
made into a state-wide measure wns
evident following the hearing on this
bill, introduced by Representatives
Lee and Nettles, before the house com
mittee on education. This fact, and
the decision by the committee to work
out a composite bill dealing with a
state side valorem tax for school pur
poses, from tlie number of bills which
have already been introduced, were the
principal developments in the commit
tee meeting. An opportunity to be
beard will be extended to all those
interested before this composite bill
will be drafted, it was announced by
H. <l. Connor, Jr., of Wilson, chair
man.
Tlie hill is not designed to prevent
college students and their friends from
having dances, to prevent the giving
of bona-fide dances for students, ac
cording to Charles G. Lee, Jr., of
Asheville, one of the authors of the
bill, who appeared before the commit
tee in its behalf. Harry Nettles, the
other member of tlie Buncombe dele
gation had been granted a leave of
absence and could not be present.
Originally intended to apply only to
Buncombe county, and to prohibit
public dance halls and road houses
from exploiting college events through
the use of college names, the’commit
tee was so impressed with the intent
of the bill that it may be widened in
scope and made state-wide in its ap
plication.
"The measure is a purely protec
tive one, “Mr. Leo told the committee,”
and is designed solely (o prevent dance
halls and road houses from using the
names of colleges and schools merely
to draw a crowd and make more
money. For instance, a public road
house of unsavory repute near Ashe
vill, advertised u “Wake Forest
Dance" (here at the time Wake Forest
football team played >there this fall.
The dance was characterized b}‘ drunk
eness and very disorderly conducted.
The authorities of the college investi
gated and found that not a single
Wake Forest student was present.
Yet the happenings caused the school
to be discredited. This bill is designed
to prevent this." i
Although not a member of the com
mittee on Education, Representative
Oscar Haywood of Montgomery, noted
preacher ami Klan Lecturer who has
already won renown as the reform
legislator of the general assembly as
the result of the "purity" measures
lie lias introduced recently, appeared
bofore the committee in favor of the
Buncombe county measure, urging
that it be made statewide in scope,
and that such n measure would awak
en a responsive note in the hearts of
the better people over the state.
“If those conditions exist in Bun
combe county, they undoubtedly exist
in other counties and in most college
comm unities,” Dr. Haywood said, so
I think the committee would d<* well
to consider making it a statewide
measure.
No definite action was taken, with
indications that the bill would re
ceive further consideration.
The Sesquicentennial Stadium in
Philadelphia, with a seating capacity
of 160,000 is by far the largest in
America.
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TODAY’S NEWS TODAY!
NO. 13
AMERICAN REFUGEES!
FROM FOOCHOW IEUJI
Os VIOLENCE THERE
65 Missionaries Arrive in
i Manila and Tell of Demr
onstrations in the Chi-
nese City.
WIFE OF^CONSUL
IN THE PAR^V
Trouble Started When fop
Bodies of Chinese Chol
era Victims Were Car- j
ried From Convent.
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Manila. P. 1., Jan. 21—OW—'
five American missionaries,
from Foochow. arrived here today on :-i
board the United States destroyer A
Pillsbury with stories of the anti-fpr- "
oign demonstration in file Cbinesijii
city which resulted in violencetm %
American and British women.
Tile refugee party was made up o{
.'il women. .'{l children and three meil
from the Methodist. Baptist nnd i
gregational missions of Foocliow. The.
majority are Methodists.
Among them was Mrs. E. G. Price,
wife of the American consul at IpSBIa
chow, nnd her four children.
Mrs. Price said that the trouble i!
started when bodies of Chinese who
had died of cholera were carried out
of a convent while rioting was ill
progress. The rioters, not knowitjj| “
the .cause of death, attacked nnd loot* |
ed tlie convent.
Misionaries leaving Chunkkdf.
Shanghai. China, Jan. 21. —G4>)—A
dispatch from Hankow, dated TjVedr
nesday night, says that 27 Amentfjt
missionaries wtre leaving Chunkiau
in Szechwan province for Hankhw
day. 25 other missionaries arrived
there from the interior yesterday* <!
The message said it was belieyftd in
Chinese circles that Eugene Ci>e)£
Cantonese foreign minister, had fteeff
tlie danger in tlie situation caused Hy
tlie continued anti-foreign agitation*
but that lie’was helpless against* the
radical element of the Kuomiutang
party which is backing the Cantonese
government. Tlie radicals were snid
to be insisting on continued violent i
measures against foreigners in spttit i
of Chen's attempts to obtain revision Tj
of Ciiina's present treaties throughout
diplomatic channels.
Men Now Seekfi* Safety.
Peking, Jan. 21.—04*)—'Hie anti* '
foreign situation nt Hankow has de
veloped seriously, says a telegram jut* j
reived today from unofficial souroeif .
ut the Yangtse River City. Ond 1
thousand American and British inetl
are leaving, the message says.
There is no official confirmation of"
the telegram from private sources of I
tlie evacuation of the American and I
Britisli men who had remained nt
Hankow after sending their wonted
ami children to Shanghai, and
where for safety after the riotous
onstrations by Chinese mobs, Ilocem*
her .'lrd and 4th. * <f
The British concession at Hankow ’
lias remained under control of the ONMM- 3
tonese or nationalist government
tlie coolie nnd) swept over it early this 1
month. American and British war
ships lie in the Yangtse opposite Han- A
kow ready to assist their nationals If ;5
necessary.
THE COTTON MARKET ' r f 4
* 'i'£Pl
Opened Steady at an Advance of 2 to
5 Points.—March Goes Up to 13.30,
'New York. Jan. 21.— (A 3 ) —Tfce cot*
ton market opened steady today at ail
advance of 2 to 5 points arid showed j
somewhat increased activity ib, the
early trading. Prices advanced fi>
13.50 for March and 13.00 for July]
or about 0 to 10 points net higher oil ij
covering by recent sellers, a rencWMt -|
of trade buying, and a somewhat s
broadening commission house demnnflt 1
Steady Liverpool cables ami COQ*
tinned absence of selling pressure ftoifc J
tlie South appeared to be the ifntSpfi:|
on the advance.
Private cables attributed the stead* |
incss in Liverpool to trade cnUjigK |
with continental buying of late mojttftii
and reported a fair business in cotton
clothes' in .Manchester. / ,}•'■„ .•] jjj
Colton futures opened steady': Janl'i
unry 13.32; .March 13.47 ; ..May «3‘,®l'J
July 13.85; October 14.05.
“CATHOLIC REBELLION” s
HAS PASSED ITS PEAK f
Minister of Interior for Mexico Says ,
Catholic Clergy Made Mistake in i
Starting Rebellion.
Mexico City, Jail. 21.— (/P)—Ada!- J,
berto Tejeda, minister of interior,- Ist >1
quoted by tlie newspaper Excelsior as
declaring that the "Catholic rebellion" .
lias passed its peak.
The Catholic clergy, lie said, maif#";jß
a fundamental mistake in atteniptiiifr
to organize such a movement. The
uprisings now being put down fe thfe j
federal trooiis were the maximum es- J
forts of which f.ie clergy were cap* K
able, he added. I
The political and social defeat of ®
the clergy was long ago attained; log* J|
ically the armed rebellion was due to .IS
failure.
WEATHER FORECAST.
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Mostly cloudy tonight and Satur- m
day with light rains in the extreme f
west tonight and in the west portion -1
Saturday; continued mild
tures. Gentle to moderate aontheaMjlK
winds. Jj