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. <X
The Richmond-Flowe Co. has com
plete line of fancy grocerise-r-every
thing to eat for man and beast.
John Gilbert in “Flesh and the
DevH" at the Concord Theatre
Thursday and Friday. *
The sooner you start your bank
account the sooner you will be on
your way to financial independence.
See new ad- of Citizens Bank and
„ Trust Company.
L
The Concord Daily Tribune
North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
——
; MARINES ORDERED
J TO QUANTICO, VA.
Five Hundred Withdrawn
From Mail Guard and
Some of Them Will Be
* Concentrated at Camp.
Washington, Jan. 25.— UP) —Five
; hundred marines were withdrawn to-1
tday from the mail guard.
They will be concentrated at the
marine base at Quantico, Va., and
San Diego, Cal.
. An additional 500 for similar con-
J centration will be withdrawn from
J their present assignment of guarding
, the mails on or. before February 15.
J Recently an emergency marine bat
, talion of marines was organised at
L San Diego to be held for any contin
. gency that might arise. The detach
, ment of 300 at Guam now is under
orders to move to Cavite, Philippine
, Islands, to be nearer the trouble zone
, in China, but thus far no orders have,
been issued to replace them at Guam.
’ Should the battalion now at San
Diego be moved to Guam -its place
j presumably would be taken by the
I new detachment to be assembled from
the men withdrawn from the mail ■
guard.
The Marine Corps Commandant,
iUWst General LeJeune insisted to
day that the latest movement of
! - troops had no bearing on the Chinese
. or Nicaraguan situations.
l BROWNING CLAIMS HIS
WIFE ABANDONED HIM ,
Hearing In Notorious Cans' Opens at 1
Carmel.—ls Transferred to White ;
Plains.
Carmel, N. I, Jan. 24.—The first i
act of Edward W. Browning’s separa- (
tion suit trial against his wife, the ,
former Frances (Peaches) Heenan.
■ closed here 1 today. The stage was ,
deserted and all the property men ;
started south for a new “opening" to
morrow at White Plains, N. Y., to ,
which Justice Beeger ordered it trans- .
ferred. ,
The main street of Carmel, whWi i
at 10 o’clock in the morning was
Magk with automobiles, sleighs, pho
tographers, reporters and formers, to- i
"St White Plains, however, technical ■
men were busy installing wire loops I
and phone and telegraph circuits, for
an army of press representatives. The
courtroom there is scheduled to open i
at 10 i. m. when for the second time
-Supreme Court Justice Seeger will '
conduct the trial, this time in the
town and jurisdiction preferred by ■
Mrs. Browning.
In 35 minutes today, Mr. Browning,
51-year old New York real estate man 1
and plaintiff, ended his case, charging 1
that the bißh school girl he married
twenty miles east of here in April,
1026, “wilfully abandoned” him in Oc- 1
tober, the same year. She is now 1
16.
He used two witnesses, his foauf- 1
feur, Edward P. Carney, and his sec
retary, John T. Gorman, and did not
personally take the stand. ‘ 1
Carney testified that he moved Mrs
Browning’s trunks from Mr. Brown
ing's Kew Gardens home on Long Is
land to the home of Mrs. Browning's
mother, Mrs. Catherine Heenan.
He said the move was ordered by
Mrs. Heenan, from whom he took or
ders, although employed by Brown
ing.
He told of a telephone conversation
whk-h Browning called to him to
“listen in" on, when Mrs, Heenan is
said to have declared her daughter
, “through” with the real estate man.
Both Mrs. Browning and her mother
had likewise said they were through,
"sick and tired," and “would never go
back," the chauffer testified.
LEXINGTON CHAIR CO.
DAMAGED BY BLAZE
Machinery Building at Plant Com
pleteiy Destroyed.—Loss $40,000 or
«SOJWO.
Lexington, N. C., Jan. 25.— UP) —
The machinery building, a wooden
structure of the Lexington Chair Co.,
was destroyed by fire at midnight last
night,- entailing a loss estimated at
from $40,000 to $50,600. The loss,
it is understood, was at least partly
qoVered by insurance*
The fire w»» first' discovered just
before midnight, but the flames had
gained snch headway that the firemen
Were only able to keep them from
spreading to nearby buildings.
The building destroyed was a wood
en structure erected 20 years ago. The
machinery was badly damaged.
The Lexington Chair Co. is owned
by George L. and Fred R. Hackney.
They manufacture several grades of
chairs.
To Shuh Cotton Acreage.
(By International Newa Service)
Raleigh, Jan. 25.—A concerted ef
fort is being made throughout the to
bacco growing country of North Car
olina to pursuade growers to slash
their acreage in 1027.
(she movement is being sponsored
by foe Tobacco Warehouse Association
of North Carolina. Directors of the
association adopted a resolution point
ing out a period of “disaster and de
pression" that would follow in the
‘ wake of a heavy production tblß year.
Thousands of copies of the resolu
tion have been mailed to newspapers,
chambers of commerce, leading grow
-1 era and other individuals and organ!-
cations throughout the South.
REBELS IIKO
«0M
IN SEVERiL AREAS
26 Entered Milpa Alta and
Had Charge of Town Un
til Federal Troops Drove
Them Out.
POLICE OFFICERS
SLAIN BY REBELS
Chief and Six Policemen
Killed at Tonila—l2 Reb
els and 2 Soldiers Killed
at Xoclipala.
Mexico City, Jan. 25.—UP)—Twen
ty-six rebels yesterday entered Milpa
Alta in the federal district, 40 miles
southwest of Mexico City, but soon
were forced to fiee into the mountains.
The town was under the protection
of only two policemen when the reb
els appeared. Policemen sent word
hurriedly to Mexico City and troops
put the rebelß to rout.
Twelve rebels and two soldiers
were killed when Federal troops un
der General Manuel Alvarez dispers
ed a rebellious band under Victorian
Barrcnns at Xochipala in the state
of Morelos, while al police chief and
six policemen were killed by rebels
at Tqpila in Jalisco.
HIT AND RUN DRIVER
gives Himself up,
As the Driver of the' Machine that
Fatally Hurt Carl A. Knowles.
Greensboro, Jan. 24. —Harry Omo
hundro, employe of a local filling sta
tion, gave, himself up on Monday
shortly aftet- noon ns the driver of the
rrtachine which on Saturday night in
flicted * fatal Injury on Carl A.
Knowles, local accountant, the acci
dent occuring three miles south of the
city on the Asheboro road.
Omohundro is in the county jail*
on a charge of murder preferred by
Sheriff Stafford. His case will tomor
mow be presented to the grand jury,
now in session, and it is expected that
i manslaughter Warrant will be exe
cuted against him. Trial may be held
at thia term, of court.
The young man is given an excel
lent reputation by many, although
there is general condemnation of hit
Knowles directly enough to knock the
body a number of yards.
Omobundrq says he did not know of
the. injury to Knowles until Mouday
morning, and (hat ha at once notified
the sheriff of his intentions to surren
der.
He. says he was headed south when
he saw the lights of what he took to
be a car approaching through the fegfl
He says there was n slight impact, but
he though neither car had been dam
aged, He kept on and came back
-tome time later. As he passed this
time he noticed a group of people on
the road,' but did not stop from fear
of n wrangle over the collision.
At the time Omohundro surrender
ed himself the officers were looking
for a car from which a light rim had
been knocked off at the time of the
collision. The light rim had been
picked up on the spot. It was found
to fit Oinohuudro's car.
Three Kannapolis Cage Stars Cap
tains.
Kannapolis, Jau. 24. —Three local
boys who once glittered for Kanna
polis High school have latched on with
college and prep school basketball
teams and have been, elected captains.
Catawba college picked. Gene Peeler,
who, in his freshman year, made the
grade and in his second term bagged
the pilot’R 'pob.
“Smoky" Johnson, who received
nothing but p chorus of praise when
registered under the local High school
regime, has gained much distinction
at Christ school, Arden. In addition
to election as cage commander, John
son has been selected to lead the foot
ball eleven at the Episcopal school
during the 1927 campaign.
Over at Leuolr-Rhyne, Overcash,
another homeling, has seated to un
usually lofty heights in athletics.
This season he was appointed to guide
the distinies of the Lutheran cage
clan.
Foreigners Leave Chengdu. ..
Shanghai, Jan. 25.— UP) A Reuter’s
dispatch from Chengtu dated January
22nd states that ten l Americans and
thirty-eight British including the Brit
ish consul had left the city for Chung
king. Twenty-four Americans and
twenty-five British remained. Obeng
tu ia the capital of Szechwan, an in
land province.
Tonight 7:45
COURT HOUSE
Fraser Revival
First Healing Service
SEATS FREE—GOOD
MUSIC
CONCOfrD, N. C., TUf SPAY, JANUARY 25, 1927
Principals in Suit
''tOl’Al.D V K.WSINS
f§
FRANCK? BT2OWKINQ
NORRIS CASE WILL GO
TO JOKY LATE TODAY
Arguments and Judge’s Charge May
Be Completed by 4:30 Today.
Austin, Texas, Jan. 25.—(AO — The
Nqrrix murder trial ’which has been in
1 progress since January 10th, drew
toward a close today with final ar
guments to the jury.
At noon recess legal arguments had J
two and one-half hours to run, indi
cating that foe jury would have the
case by 4:30 p. m.
Attorney Isaac D. White, of Aus*
tin, started the argument for the de
fense.
i aR “vSJ
of the pastor. Dr. J. Frank Norris,
with the, life of the man he killed,
Dexter E. Chipps.
Defense attorneys, especially Mr.
Moses, declared that the chief motive
inspiring the state's case was the al
leged hate harbored by special prose
cuting attorneys against Norris.
“Bill McLean hates Mr. Norris
with all the intensity (hat an Ameri
can character can hate another,"
Moses said.
Apart from abnormal cases, the
arteries may begin to harden at 40
or as late as 55 years of age.
Purpose of the State Highway Patrol
,/ Tribue Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
BY J. C. BASKERVILLE.
Raleigh, Jan. 24.—Assistance for
motorists in trhuhle, information to
tourists courteously imparted, the re
moval of hazards from the highways
through the oppression of reckless
drivers, and the prevention of de
struction of highways by trucks too
heavily loader! —these are the outstand
ing aims of those who would have in
North Carolina a state highway patrol
force, whose officers would use their
power to arrest only in case of ex
treme emergency.
I’atrol forces of this type are now
maintained and regarded as a necessity
in . New York, Maine, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland,
Virginia, Michigan, Illinois and Ore
gon, and Wisconsin, Ohio, Nebraska
and Rhode Island are Organizing such
forces. And in all these states the
personnel is carefully selected and
trained, a semi-military discipline
maintained and the fundamental idea
of accident prevention and courteous
treatment of the public implanted in
the minds of the officers, to' the end
that the power to arrest be employed
i only as a last resort,
j Just how these officers operate, the
duties’they are called upon to perform
' and the advantages that accrue as the
J result of -their work has never been
' better told than in an article entiteld
' “Mile-A-Minute Men” in the Saturday
' Evening Post of January 22. So
improved have those been with this
• article that a copy of it will be placed
in the hands of all the members of
the general assembly and state offi
cials within the nevt few days so that
I they may see what these patrolmen are
doing for other states, and what a
similar organization could do for
North Carolina.
Saving roadbeds from destruction
under the wheels or overloaded trucks,
educating, assisting and protecting the
motorist and curbing the reckless
drivers are the three primary duties
of the state highway patrol-the new
type of policemen who differ widely
from the more familiar city police nr
rural constable. By protecting the
roads from damage they save their
states many millions of dollars annual-'
I ly. By aiding the motorist they in
-1 crease both the pleasure aud safety of
driving. By warning on the road in
either truck or passenger car, they
reduce the accident rate and often
remove an incapable driver from the
common highway.
"PEACHES'SOBS AS
SHE TESTIFIES AT
SEPARATION SHIT
| Court Was Halted Five
Minutes After She Had
Been on the Stand for 25
Minutes.
j COURTSHIP TOLD
BY THE WITNESS
She Bndce Down While
Testifying About First
Night She Spent After
* Her Wedding.
! White Plains, N. Y„ Jan. 25.—Mrs.
i Frances Peaches Browning broke
) 4«wn in tears on the witness stand
: after 25 minutes of testifying today
in the separation suit brought against
| her by her husband, Edward W.
[ Browning. The court declared a new
r bye-minute recess. She had been tes
tifying on the first night she and her
; husband had spent together after the
f wedding. c
Mrs. Browning gave her age as 16
| on June 23, 1926.
She said she first met Browning
j at a McAlpine Hotel dance, March 5,
j 1926, when escorted there by a young
- man named Morris. The dance she
! understood was given by a girls’ sorr
ority, and 200 persons were present.
| At 11 p. m. she said Mr. Browning
> 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, <b expected
to -be reported by the elections com
mittee early in the week. Hie Aus
tralian ballot is regarded as the most
important item on the platform of
proposed election reforms which the
Legislature will be asked to .consider
at its present session.
The State-wide game law, provid
ing uniform regulations for hunting
and the protection of wild life, prob
ably will get some attention during
the week, It is believed. Its author is
Representative Sutton of Lenoir.
The Weather Saint.
Washington. D. 0„ Jan. 25.
This is St. Paul’s Day, formerly an !
important anniversary so the farmer !
—that is. if there is anything in the!
weather lore of our forefathers. For i
their belief was that the weather on I
this day settled what was. to follow ‘
for a long period ahead. |
So firmly was this quaint belief I
cherished in olden times in England ■
that when January 25th was other
wise than fair, the custom among the
field laborers was to take the saint’s
image and duck it in the nearest
river or pond, presumably as a ‘ re-1
minder to him to try and do better
the next year-
Mississippi Town ’ls Purified By
Fire As Result Os Revival
New Orleans. January 23—Mn<r- i
nolia. Miss., today was purified by
fire.
Into a community bonfire, 1,500
citizens consigned all playing cards,
dice, questionable literature, sa’ac
ious pictures and other ‘playthings
of vice.’
Telephone calls from the little
Pike county town tonight told of
how the citizenry had gathered a
round the flames under i!.e ehadow
of the Methodist church spin* |o f'lng
to fling cards and dice upe-t the fire
as the conflagration gathered force.
The bonfire wag precipitated by re
vival services conducted by Howard
S Williams, laymen evageliet, who
> 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