ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES 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 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. Minus Smile m i m 0 M ■ I : j ■Enifln W ’ : - 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. 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. THE TRIBUNE 1 PRINTS 2 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. - uS* 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* 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. * 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. ■■ 1.. m 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