ASSOCIATED DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVII What New Move, If Any Is Government Willing To Try With Mexicans? Mexican Act in Cancelling Drilling Permits Brings Matter to Head—Wash ington Saying Nothing. ARBITRATION IS BEFORE SENATE k . Robinson Resolution Is Up for Consideration But What Will Be Done if It Is Finally Accepted? Washington, 25.— UP) —What move, if any, wilt be made to solve the Mexican oil and land ownership dispute, which in the opinion of the State Department officials now has reached another point nearer a show down through Mexico's cancellation of American companies' drilling per mits, is far from a settled question here. Arbitration bobbed up again here today, with the Senate consideration planned for the Robinson resolution, proposing application of that princi ple to the question, but what effect that body's approval or disapproval would have on the administration's plan is doubtful.' Secretary Kellogg, has said he would welcome such AR .MBression. on. the pact of the but he as wefl is President Coolidge had emphasised' more than once that in cdhsidering ‘ the possibilities of arbitration the ad ministration's sole concern was whether American private properties were to be taken without compensa tion. An indication of an equivalent to confiscation of private property in Mexico which has been feared as” the “overt act” that would bring further developments in the situation is seen by the State Department in cancella tion of drilling permits of American oil companies which have refused to accept Mexico’s new laws. Despite the fact that the courts have been resorted to by the compan ies. the official viewpoint here ia that cancellation of the permits deprives the owners of the use of the property to which they have titles. * Thus far, no new step has been de termined upon by the administration. White a definite move to arbitrate is j a protocol outlining specifically the points to be arbitrated, some observers see a possible means of settlement in the general claims con vention of 1023, between the two countries. MAN MISSING FROM HOME SIX DATS Body of Frank MeLaurin With But -1 let hi Head Found By Party of Girls. Fayetteville, Jan. 24—Sheriff N. H. McGeachy and Coroner R. A. Al good are tonight searching for some t clue' to the mystery surrounding the .A death of Frank MeLaurin, who body ■ was found in the woods south of Victory mills this morning with a < bullet hole through the head. Mc- I. had been missing from his home since Tuesday, when he was last seen on Hay street, and his family Friday notified authorities of bis disappearance. The body was found by a party of girls living in the neighborhood, near the Cumberland mills rpad. The authorities investigating the death do not believe it a case of suicide, and there are several features of the af fair that are mystifying. Tracks of an automobile, apparently a Ford, were found near the body. A new .3.M calibre revo’ver was lying near by with one exploded shell and tour unexploded. The dead man's body lav on a ropy of a newspaper, dated Jon uar.v 13, and his feet on his overcoat. MoLaurin’s cap and coat, a box ot cigarettes and three cigarette butsa lay nearby. The officers are working on the theory that MeLaurin was killed in Fayetteville, or another part of the county and bis body carried to the lonely spot,' or that'%e was carried there before being shot. ▲ suicide theory could hardly be reconciled with the presence of the automobile and the four-day-old newspaper, p. McLaurin did not own. a car. Hel ' atives say that be had no reason to kill , himself. He had apparently been dead several days, and it ts believed that his death occurred shortly after his disappearance. , McLaurin operated an automobile repair shop here with his three brothers. He leaves a wife, formerly Miss Mabel Beard, of Parkton, and two small children. He also has two sisters living here. He was 28 yearn old. With Our Advertisers. Co-Ed frocks are now on display at Fisher's, only $15.00. Other 00-Bd frocks for Spring. s2s'to $35. Sec ad. today for Illustration of three of the sls styles. -• . Wednesday is family Day at tee Concord Theatre. 10 cents to all- Blanche Sweet in a big love thriller. If you want a lucrative job, see ad. of General Agent, Box 352, Charlotte, N. arrived. He was pointed out to her j standing ,in the middle of the ball i room, .she said. s All the girls greeted him, she said, and Ethel Bass introduced her to him. r He asked if she were a member of the sorority, and if not, said he would like her to join and wear a pin, : she testified. The sorority, she said, waa called by Greek letters, meaning | “Pretty Little Things.” She said the next time she saw him I was when she accompanied him a few nights later to The Everglades Club. Then followed a recital of many dunces, parties, suppers and theatre [ visits. Mr. Browning, she said, had a ; penchant for green handkerchiefs, i aud used to carry “hundreds of them" ■ and to bestow them one by one on any I. young woman who admired them. He took her. she said, to “A Night f in Paris” and bought her coa )f«ttniug improper pictures. ; . Browning wanted to her evet-y day after St. Patrick’s Day she said, but her mother objected. If he couldn't see her in the evening, could ne see her i» the afternoon, she testified that he asked. She said she then began to see him in the after noons. Has Heat Wave. v Buenos A ires. January 23—(AP) —Buenos Aires and other Northern Argentine cities are sweltering in ah intense heat wave. The temperature has been ns high as 95 degrees fahr enheit. Numerous prostrations, a few serious, have oecured- Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Ore gon patrols are under control of the state highway commission while in others they are units of the state pol ice organizations. , In the state in which the unsigned writer of the interesting and informa tive story in the Saturday Evening Post, worgs there are four details, viz: pati-oling detail that rides the highways on the lookout for infrac tions of the motor laws; the weighing detail which establishes roadside sta tions or patrols with portable scales to checkup overloaded ‘ trucks; the headlight-inspection detail that works at night and stops cars whose lights are glaring too brilliantly or improper ly focused; and the licensing detail which conducts examinations of new ifaotor drivers to determine their fit ness to operate cars on the public highways. Members of the patrol are given two months intensive training and sujected to rigid physical and thorough mental tests. The majority of men are assigned to the patrol detail and the average member of this group goes on duty about noon and off betweeh 10 and 11 p. in. His beat is ap proximately 50 miles in length—a 100 mile run for the day. At the far end the postmaster places the town post mark on the patrolman’s report card. In the peformance of his numerous duties the patrolman exercises greater dicretiou than is permitted most pol icemen and his purpose—and it iB constantly impressed upon him—is not to harrass but to educate and assist the motoring public. Warnings are frequent; arrests are last resorts. The article says: “Those state governments which maintain them in . sist that the highway patrols more than pay their way. ‘lt costs our ! commonwealth $50,000 a mile to bfltld the best type of improved road,’ W. H. Connell, head of the Pennsyl , vania Highway Department said. 'For j $150,000 a year—the cost of three miles of new construction—l could add 100 men to our present highway ■ patrol. The economies these men > could effect in repairs and mainten ■ ance costs by enforcing the provisions - against overloaded trucks, by report - ing surface breaks or threatened dam s age, by increasing the safety factor i on our present roads would amount probably to millions of dollars. And > we could do all this Wmply- by post three miles of new road con struction for twelve months.’” DR. CHASE STATES NEED OF FUNDS AT ! STATE UNIVERSITY • ! Tells Board of Trustees That $2,000,000 Neces sary to Bring Building Equipment Up to Date. NEED TO DEVELOP , HUMAN RESOURCES State Cannot Progress, He Thinks, Unless Human Resources Keep Pace With Natural Resources. Raleigh, Jan. 25.— UP) —Some $2,- 000,000 are necessary to bring building equipment of the University of North Carolina up to date. Dr. Harry tV. Chase, president, said today in his annual report to the Board of Trus tees in session here. "The University has not yet reach ed a basis on which it can stabilize itself,” he said, “a basis wHlch might be regarded as a normal and safe standard in terms of which its future may be outlined. “This is true of its building pro gram, for which some $2,300,000 are still necessary, to bring its physical equipment up to date, and the com pletion of which will mean the at tainment of a basis from which build ing can proceed much more slowly with tlie normal expansion of the in stitution. It is even more true of the basis of its maintenance.” Development of the state’s human resources must keep pace with the de velopment of the state's natural re sources if there is to be any enduring basis for progress, he added. “More and more will the develop ment of the stute in all of its phases require trained leadership, and it is greatly to the advantage of the state that such leadership should be devel oped within its own borders.” North Carolina is one of the out standing commonwealths of the Un ion, and conditions which determine its life are more, and more national in scope, he said. “With its enor mous waterpower, its good roads, its variety and fertility of soil, the nat ional advertising it has received, its fields oft opportunity are infinitely wider thgn even 10 years ago, and Ahy #Ol broaden yeer bv- year.” ire said. “The State is nationally known. Men and capital from other States and sections are being attracted to its borders, and will be increasingly.” Dr. Chase expressed the hope that the University would be given suf ficient appropriation by the present legislature to insure its continued de velopment. TO STUDY INCREASE OF SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES Sub-Committee to Be Apointed to Study All Bills (By International News Service) Raleigh, Jan. 25.—A sub-committee of the house committee on courts and judicial districts will be appointed this week to study all bills relating to the' increasing of superior court judges and districts. Representative R. O. Everett.' of Durham, has introduced a bill which would provide for an increase in the number of superior court district to twenty-four. This also would pro vide for four more judges and four more solicitors. 6 Still another judgeship bill has been dumped into the hopper by Represen tative McLean, of Beaufort, provid ing for a constitutional amendment which would empower the general as sembly to increase the number of so licitors. and authorizing the appoint ment of four emergency judges for a period of two years. Representative Nash, of Richmond, has introduced a bill which would call for the appointmept of six emergency judges, their terms being four years. THIRTEEN NEW BILLS OFFERED IN ASSEMBLY Propose Abolishing State Board of HeAth.—Want Better Prohibition Enforcement. State Capitol, Raleigh, Jan. 25. UP) —Thirteen new bills of statewide importance were introduced in bot'.i branches of the general assembly here today. They proposed to change things all the way from abolishing the State board of health to securing better en forcement Os prohibition laws. The health board bill came from Repre sentative Poole, of Hoke. It would create a commissioner of healfo in place of the present board. Mr. Poole also presented a bill that would amend the law governing the State fisheries Commission. Press stolidly towards achieve ment- Let others chase fame. MUSICAL COMEDY Cupid Up-to- Date THURSDAY, JAN. 27th H. S. AUDITORIUM 8:15 P. M. GOOD CAST, PEPPY CHORUSES, BARRELS OF FUN Ohio River Is Falling j At Some Points Today j i And Rising At Other# j IN THE LEGISLATIVE ' HALLS THIfl ■ Monkey Bill I'nderg vision.—Other (By International J- .service) Raleigh, N. C\, Jan. 24—The 1927 edition of the Poole anti-evolution (bill was scheduled to make its appear ance tonight. i The widely-heralded “monkey” bill, delayed for a week because it was mis , placed by the author, has undergone a thorough revision. The Hoke editor placed (he finish , ing touches on his pet piece of legis lation before he left the Capital for , a week-end at Raeford. He said the bill was ready to be dumped in the . hopper on Monday. It'is designed to prevent the teach ing of the so-called evolution theory in State-supported schools of North ! Carolina. Representative Poole divulged that his pet bill would bar the teaching of the so-called evolution theory in the State-supported schools of North Car olina. Representative Poole divulged that his pet bill would bar the teaching of all “controversial” books in public schools. The editor-legislator did not say whether he .was - re-introducing his. . 1925 bill on his own hook, or spon soring the anti-evolution program of some fundamentalist organization. However, despite the fact that foe evolution issue has come to the fore front atop a wave of fundamentalist modernist controversy, it is not ex pected to take up any great amonnt of the legislature’s time tliis week. If precedent counts for anything, the 1927 General Assembly is inter ested, foremost and primarily, in mat ters which relate, in- one way or an other, to taxation, finance and govern mental machinery. Doom for any further “blue law” legislation already has been sounded. The House decided to let Represen tative Haywood, the preacher-legis lator from Montgomery, enforce his | Sunday closing law in his own coun tl, but thwarted any attempt to make the law State-wide in its application. Another of the Montgomery repre -1 sentative’s bills, design ed to prevent “petting” along the 1 State’s highways, was slaughtered, in . a committee room. A third Haywood 1 bill, aigrnd to "prevent immorality” ■irwWySHMKOW la a committee" room how. The titanic combat of the coming' 1 week is expected to center around the ’ eight months' school term which is recommended in the report of the ; Governor’s Eduction Commission. ; The report already has been Bent, to Governor McLean and is expected to be transmitted to the Legislature ear ly in the week. The method of financing the addi tional two months' school is regard ed as the pivotal point around which the looked-for combat will revolve. No plan for financing the plan was recommended in the commission's re port, it has been ascertained. The commission was divided as to how the plan should be worked out, and whether it should be put into effect at once or gradually. Judicial and county governmental reforms are two other big items which are yet to come before the pres ent session, and which may come ,up next week. The seven Connor House bills, embodying the various recom mendations of the Governor’s Judicial conference, are oow being gone over within committee rooms. The Australian ballot bill, which was introduced in both the House and the Senate this week, formerely published a Hattiesburg newspaper. * TODAY’S NEWS TODAY j NO. 15' i ] g Its Upper Reaches Water Is Falling and Crest of the Flood Is Re- \ lieved Over. IS| ALONG THE SOUTH ji RIVER IS RlSH^qi At Cincinnati River Start|f 57 Feet and Is Expecs|il*j to Rise Two More Fe|jt During the Day. J Cincinnati, Jan. 25.—(A s ) —Flood 1 waters in the upper reaches of the | lOhio River began slowly to recede tO»4|§ day as the crest of the high wat«tg fa ; which inundated many river tgpHg|'~|| i moved down the fin*. The Ohio River w«e failing last f night at I’omeroy, Ohio, and it *g* expected that the river would he with- • in its banks there today. Yesterday % the river flooded railroad and urban tracks and low lying are*# of.' 9 the town. J Further south the river’s rise oon- S tiuued, however. At Ironton 160 jw- t ilies were forced from their bom4Pwj :! the flood us the water neared tho So ' '1 foot mark and continued to.fSM J slightly more than an inch an hog)j& f At East Liverpool where water iso lated the city, the damage was esti- | mated at more than SIOO,OOO. The river stood at 57 feet here ip* J day and a rise of approximately '2l, of an inch an hour was recorded tajfc -| night. It was expected to reacjp'k stage of 59 feet today. Passenger service continued, ; last -M night despite the fact that it had bwft ig announced that a stage of 55 figft < would necessitate abandonment ot'thp '** railroad station. Traps in the sow ers through which the water fonn#|» backed up into the approach of3|jjjjh W depot held the water back. If thgi| -M continued to function, railroad official# said, there would be no interrujppA /■' to traffic unlees the river continued to rise beyond present prediction*. Small streams were falling today and a forecast of clear weather gave promise of relief from the flood. fcjsS Huntington in West Virginia, wag .J'M preparing for a crisis in the flood situation today, although the river A was falling at up state points, bring- ,f ‘ ing' relief'to .“several" cities; visiSedcd**"— the high water. School officials at Wheeling planned to resume public school sessions suspended yesterday because of the flood. Damage in the West Virginia territory has not b*ei*. J large. ! As the Ohio River situation began to clear, heavy rainfall in several I Southern states sent many St regia* | out of their banks hampering Ugh' •' J way and railway traffic. Arkanj***, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri Utd Texas bore the brunt with ice tnMt- 1 followed .the rain adding to the ttW tress. THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady at An Advance of 1 j to 4 Points But Later Eased -Q)jr Several Points. New York, Jan. 25.—OP)—TljgMd ton market opened steady today at Jin advance of 1 to 4 points on covering by near month shorts, overnight buy* ing orders which appeared to have been brought in by the comparatively f steady ruling of prices yesterday, and reports of eOntiiMied steadiness w I Southern spot markets. a; Liverj>ool cables were lower than due, however,, while the final". Janu- i ary notices were estimated about fl,- ; 400 bales, and the market eased Hf under liquqidation and a little South ern or local selling. January reacted from 13.45 to 13.36 while May sold off from 13.73 ; i(g 13.60, with the market about nef un- .'3j changed to 3 points net lower «* ift* end of the first hour. Cotton futures opened steady. J March 13.50; May 13.71 j ' October A 14.08; December 14.29. Mexico Is Out of Nicaragua Picture, isl Says Senator Willis. Washington, Jan. 24.—Unless Me*- 'M ico "horns in on the picture,” she will m not, become any more involved in'the United, States’ "personal affair Nicaragua than if she were a distant J constellation,” Senator Frank B. Wit- M lis, republican, Ohio, has informed 1 : bis constituents in Ohio in reply to mI I le.egrams which have been flooding M j into his office from the Buckeye State 'Jm during the “crisis.” Many natives of Ohio and many J Ohio business concerns have direct ”1 connections in Nicaragua, Willis noOfl explaining Hie unusual interest dig played by his state in the niatter. V ■ “Unlesa Mexico insists upbn sup- nil plying arms and ammunition so the ’j combatting factions, w she will net be J drawn Intq foe embroglio,” he declared; 1 | “The United States, I believe, is I 1 thoroughly justified in taking the part | she is in Nicaragua to protect th* “Sf lives and property of her natioDaSiH there.” ■ Mrs. Mary Honeywell haa Hvag.ijjiqß the town of Newport, England, fSjJH 102 years ami has seen the place fro* il from 11,000 inhabitants to over 106.- 1! 000. | WEATHER FORECAST. Cloudy tonight and WedttMtfiiiw probably rain Wednesday — 7 Ilf lMifi extreme west portion toniuhtfl mueh change in temperature. Gentle to moderate northeast and ei*t WiaAp