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VOLUME XXVII
Poole Presents Long
Expected Bill Which
Is Against Evolution
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BUI Was Taken to State
Capital Tuesday by Tam
Bowie, Attorney for the
N. C. Bible League.
EDUCATION REPORT
ALSO SUBMITTED
; Report Shows Commission
Appointed by Governor
Could Not Agree—Poole
Bill Gets Attention.
State Capitol, Raleigh, Jan. 26.
—Governor McLean presented the
education commission report to the
general assembly today.
The voluminous document was ac
companied by a short message of trans
mittal which set forth the chief ex
ecutive’s belief that the report “with
its wealth of facts and statistics will
be found of great value to the mem
bers of the general assembly and to
all who are interested in education,
the most important of all branches
of public service.”
The long heralded report presented
the information that it would coat
the state a million and a half dollars
more than it is now Bpending in sec
ondary schools to extend the public
school from six to eight months, and
found the membership divided on the
advisability of submitting the proposal
for a constitutional amendment. The
majority was against it.
Representative Poole, of Hoke, sent
forward his evolution bill at the And
call for new bills.
The bill was brought to town last
night by Tam Bowie, Ashe county, at
torney for the North Carolina Bfble
League. It is entitled “A bill to
be entitled an act to prohibit the
teaching of evolution in certain schools
and colleges in North Carolina.”
It would make unlawful for any in
structor in any state supported or
aided school to teach any "doctrine or
theory of evolution which contradicts
or denies the Divine origin of man
or of the universe as taught in the
Holy Bible.”
lie bill specifically states that it
shall not be construed as prohibiting
the teaching in such Schools of useful
arts and science when they are twmfe£
in such a ntanuer as not to coatrfgiojt
It provides' pertaltlc* of fine ahd
imprisonment in the discretion of the
court in case of violation.
Prior to the session Representative
Poole told the Associated Press that
he was not a member of the North
Carolina Bible League, but that he
was the friend of all who favored an
ti-evolutionary measures.
Several Statewide Bills.
State Capitol, Raleigh, Jan. 26.
(A>)—Presentation of the education
commission's report and introduction
of Representative David Scott Poole's
anti-evolution bill featured the session
I of the North Carolina general aasem-
A bly here today. There were also a
■ number of statewide bills introduced
in the house.
One was in the form of a resolu
tion from Representative Stancil, of
Mecklenburg, which seeks abolition
from Congress of federal estate taxes.
Another from Representative Price,
Mecklenburg, would do away with the
“stop law” and in its place provides
that motor vehicles slow down to eight
miles an hour When approaching cross
ings over which more than two trains
a day pass. t A third bill from the
Mecklenburg delegation was present
er! by Miss McLean. It would raise
the commission collected by private
employment agencies.
The senate introduced eight new
bills of minor importance, passed
several local bills, and adjourned.
Chaplin’s Wife Again Blocked In,*At
tempts to Collect AHmaay,
Ixts Angeles, Calif., Jan. 25.—Re
ceivers named as a result of Lita
Grey Chaplin’s suit for divorce were
restrained temporarily, 'at least,
from further Interference with the
California properties of Charlie
Chaplin today, when the Second Dis
trict Court of Appeals, Division One,
issued an alternative writ of pro
hibition sougt by the comedian's at
. torneys. V »{ ' > %
■» The wrjt also' restrains ;the Su
perior courts from further * action in
(he divorcb suit. A hearing on wheth
er the writ of prohibition should be
made permanent 'Will 6* held by Abe
neit
The writ makes it impossible for
Mrs- Chaplin to collect for at least a
week any part of her bill of $14,400
for alimony and court coats granted
her by the Superior Court.
Benjamin Franklin invented a
musical instrument called the “har-
Aionica,” for which music was com
posed by Mosart and Beethoven.
Concord Theatre
today
FAMILY DAY
10c TO ALL 10c
RONALD COLEMAN
. ! -IN
BLANCHE SWEET 1
“HIS SUPREME
MOMENT*
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The Concord Daily Tribune
North Carolina's Leading Small City Daily
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MOTHER AND FRIEND
OF “PEACHES” TALK
Tell Something of Married
Life of 16-Year Old Girl
and Her Wealthy 51-
Year Old Husband.
White Plains. N. ¥., Jan. 26.—(A0
—Mother Carolyn Heenan and her
woman friend of five years, Mrs. Cath
arine Mayer, today came to the aid of
Mrs. Frances “Peaches” Heenan
Browning, and added their testimony
to t’je 16-year old girl's in an at
tempt to allow that her six. months
of marriage with Edward W. Brown
ing, wealthy New York realtor, was
a life of quarrels—at least one
“scream"—and many frights.
Mrs. Heenan was the third witness
of the day following Mrs. Mayer, the
friend and companion, and at times
the house guest of the two women,
who lived with Mr. Browning.
She said she first met Mr. Brown
ing on March 15, 1026, when he vis
ited their home to call upon Frances,
then fifteen years old.
thought him a very fine gentle
man,” she said, “and he showed me
many beautiful letters to prove it
They were from young women who
wanted to marry him, and in one
case there was a letter from a man
offering Mr. Browning a stepdaughter
for a wife.”
The mother dressed in black georg
ette, testified to the questions put to
her by her daughter's chief counsel,
Henry Epstein. She said She “al
ways waited up for her daughter,”
when the girl and the real estate man
went out at night.
Mrs. Mayer before her had testi
fied that one night at Cold Spring, N.
Y., where the couple were married,
she had heard Mrs. Browning scream,
and when she and Mrs. Heenan rush
ed to the bed room of the couple, they
found the girl in tears, and saying
“Mother, please take me away.”
Mrs. Browning, who was held over
from yesterday, took the stand today
on the continuation of cross examina
tion by John E. Mack, attorney for
the raid estate man, and spent most
appearance iden
efPflfrratirerous lettess addressed by
bjg to the realtor.
ged at bis collar and scorned more
nervous than his wife in the witness
chair. The letters, together with file
after file of tabloid duplicates, came
out of this huge black suit case at his
elbow, wherein he had preserved the
written words recounting his and his
wife’s venture into marriage.
KILLS HIMSELF AFTER
LOSING AT SOLITAIRE
Body of Man Found Sitting in Chair,
Ona Hand Clutching Gun, Other
HIIh of Hearts.
Miami Beach, Fla., Jan. 25.—Ap
parently depressed in losing a game
of solitaire, Frank Davis, 30. of
Detroit, Mich-, committed suicide by
shooting himself once through the
head at a hotel here today.
The body was found upright in a
chair, with the right hand clutching
a revolver and the left hand holding
the nine of hearts, while on the bed
before him lay other cards of the
deck crumpled together in a heap.
Hotel attendants told police they
believed the man, Greek, had used
a fictitious name in registering there
four days ago. He was well' dressed
and affluent in appearance.
NEW TRIAL GRANTED
TO R. B. CROWDER
Supreme Court Rules With Former
Cashier of Defunct Bank at Hen-
Raleigh, Jan. 26.—OP)—The Su
preme Court today granted a new
trial to R. B. Crowder, former eas
ier of the defunct Farmers ft Mer
chants Bank of Henderson, found
guilty last spring of embexxlement of
i»Jkori suoijnjijsuj oau jo spun} aqq
court judgment aefcaside by the grant
ing of a new trial waa in Vance county
superior court, and his sentence of
twenty years in tile state penitentiary
was generally considered the longest
ever meted out la a 'case ot this na
ture in the state,
Employment M«r. Reopen-
Charlotte, Jan. 25. — Probability
that the Federal-State employment
office will be re-opened here, after a
long impasse between Frank Grist,
State Commissioner of Labor and
Printing, and city and county au
thorities, was apparent today.
This follows a visit here by Mr.
Griat, who conferred with city of
ficials, county board of commission
ers, and C O. Hues ter, chairman of
the chamber of commerce.
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John Caswell Tate Dead.
Charlotte, N. C., Jan. 26.—OP)—
John Caswell Tate, aged 50, presi
dent of the Tate-Brown Company, and
for many years one of the leading fig
ures in the business and church life
pf Charlotte, died at bis Borne 300
Park Avenue this morning at eight'
•’dock, following an attack of apo
plexy. , V
. Joint Committee Meeting.
Raleigh, Jan. 26.—(INS)—A joint
hearing of Hons* and Senate Com
mittees on the Australian ballot biU
will be held here this afternoon, ac
cording to an announcement by the
chairmen of the two committcea.
FLOGGING LAW OF
STATE IS UPHELD
BY HIGHER COURT
Supreme Court of North
Carolina Reverses Judg
ment Entered by Superi- 1
or Judge A. M. Stack.
CASE WENT UP
FROM BUNCOMBE
Court Holds That Corpor
al Punishment for Pris
oners Was Not Abolished
by. the Constitution.
Raleigh, Jan. 26.—OP)—The Su
preme Court of North Carolina today
upheld the State flogging law.
The Supreme Court reversed deci
sions from Buncombe county by Su
perior Judge A. M. Stack. Judge
Stack had fined L. B. Revis, superin
tendent of tile prison camp in Bun
combe county, $25 and costs when he
had held that corporal punishment for
prisoners was abolished by the State
constitution, and that the flogging law
of the 1023 general assembly Was void.
This judgment the higher court in
effect knocked out.
The law upheld by the court pro
vides that when any prisoner or con
vict becomes unruly so as to make it
necessary to whip him, the superin
tendent “shall” call in two persons of
good moral character to witness the
flogging.
CAPTAIN C. M. THOMPSON
DIES AT THE AGE OF 83
Well-Known Banker and Manufactur
er of Lexington Succumbs.
Lexington, Jail. 25.—Capt. Charles
M. Thompson, former State Senator
•and Representative, banker, farmer
and maufacturer, who had been active
in the life of this city and county for
over a half century, died at his home
here at ten o'clock today after an ill
ness of several mouths, aged 83 years.
Fuueral services will be conducted
at eleven o’clock Thursday from First
Lutheran Church here by Rev. B. S.
Brown, Jr., pastor, and Rev. E. Fulen
wider, of St. Johns Lutheran. Church,
Salisbury, former pastor here.
Surviving are the widow, who mar-
Thompson, of Lexington, and three
doughters. Mrs. C. C. Hargrave, and
Mrs. W. H. Mendenhall, of Lexington,
ami Mrs. J. D. Heilig, of Salisbury,
and two half brothers, G. M. Thomp
son. of this county, and Richard
Thompson, of Salisbury.
Leaving his studies at the age of
seventeen, Captain Thompson entered
the Confederate Army at the outbreak
of the war and served three years.
In the battle of Spottsylvania he lost
his right arm at the shoulder. Re
turning home he entered the wood
working business with his father at
Tyro, later moved the plant here and
operated it forty years and then sold
to his sons. He was vice-president of
the Bank of Lexington, director in
several textile plants and other enter
prises here and the, owner of voluable
farm and business propertly. He re
presented Davidson iu the House in
1899 and in the Senate in 1917, and
served for several yedrs as chairman
of the road commissioners.
With Our Advertisers.
The Yorke ft Wadsworth Co. not
only sells Goodyear tires but they
maintain complete service facilities
for giving their customers any con
venience. They put tires on your
rims correctly, inflate them to the
proper pressure—also inspect rims,
valves and wheel alignment.
Ten cents to all at the Concord
Theatre today, Blanche Sweet in
“His Supreme Moment.”
Year round Zephyrs, Dummarette
prints. Miss Muffett prints, Every
faet Playtime prints, only 29 1-2
cents a yard. Thursday, Friday and
Saturday only at Robinson's
Send your, summer frocks to
W(euns at Kannapolis for a
thorough dry cleaning. ;
The Yorke ft Wadsworth Co. sella
many of the ' world's standard lines
in hardware. See list in new ad. to
day.
The January Clearance Sale of the
Parks-Belk; Co- is the most success
ful this big store has ever conducted.
YOU will find a number of big bar
gains enumerated in a new ad. today.
.'Musical Instruments at popular
prices at the Kidd-Frix Co.
Distinctive coats for spring at J.
C. Penney Co’s., in sport fabrics and
fine woven twills. For. women and
misses, only $14.75 to $24.75.
Gastonia Child Dies After Hit by
Auto.
Gastonia, Jan. 26.— (A*) —William
Henry Brawley, aged six, son of F,
W. Brawley, died in a local hospital
last-night as a result of injuries sus
tained Saturday when he was struck
by an automobile driven by Will Long,
a negro. Witnesses said the child
stepped in front of the machine, and
absolved the driver from blame. The
child was apparently only slightly in
jured, but became unconscious on
Bunday afternoon.
Twelve Die When Steamer is Wrecked.
Odessa, Ukrainia, Jan. 26.—G4>)—
Twelve men were drowned when the
Greek steamer Anastasia was wrecked
against the cliffs at Bupatoria, Cri
mea.
The Greek steamer Laxoa foundered
in a storm off the Turkish coast, dis
patches say. The lorn of life is not
known. . .
CONCORD, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JAN UARY 26, 1927
Educational Commission Favors
Extension Os The School Term
By Legislature Enactment Only
And Not by a Constitution*
al Amendment.—With
Definite State Aid Plan
for Schools.
THE MAJORITY M
REPORT GIVEN OUT
Report of the Commission
rL Submitted by Gov. Mc4
Lean.—Seven Members
Render Majority Report
Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL. J
Raleigh, Jan- 26.—Approval of thl
extension of the school term in tpi
state to eight months by legislative
enactment, bnt not by oonstitutjdwu
amendment is contained in the'ma
jority report of the educational pom
mission in its report submitted to the
members of the general assembly by
Governor A. W. McLean today. A
minority report, signed by the seven
dissenting members of the eommW*
sion maintained that an eight month!
term by <#onstitutional amendment
was necessary and that it should be
provided, even if the cost was heavy.
The majority members of the com
mission held that the imposition y»f
the eight months term by constitu
tional amendment would impose too
great a tax burden, on the state in
that it wou'd cost in exce-s of sl7#
000.000 to maintain the schools in
their present scale for the eight
months term, and would require in
addition a state equalization fund of
more than $4,009,000 a year front
the state as a whole.
The reason given by the seven
members of the commission who sign
ed the majority re]>ort —J. 0. Carr,
chairman. J. Y. Joyner, secretary, J,
K. Norfleet, Edgar W. Pharr, Stan- j
ley Winbome, Sam C. Lattimore,
Capt. Nathan O’Berry—are set down
as follows:
“I- That the eight months school
terms as it now exists in the locals
ties which now have it, has been
secured by a local vote of the people
The growth by this means has be*4
one urging, and when acquired by
volnntnry action is better supported
find used. At present 08 per cent ot
the white children of the state and
or more. If it has been Wise, and Ve
think it has. to develop a term of
school beyond six months by the
voluntary action of the communities
up to this time.- It certainly is wise lo
continue' this policy. We believe that
by a continuance of such policy wo 1
will reach an eight months school '<
term by easier stages and with
greater public support than by a
constitutional amendment.
“2. Not a half dozen states in the
union have in their constitutions a
minimum school term requirement
and the most progressive states in
education are among those which 4
have no constitutional requirement.
We can find no support for the
theory that a constitutional provision
is in any essential to the exten
sion of our public school term, and
we believe that some freedom and
elasticity for the exercise of the
legislative will have an advantage
over n constitutional requirement
for a minimum school term.
“3. That the present local tax
burdens and the deplorable financial
condition of the local school system
may* be traced mainly to the fact
that a constitutional amendment pro
viding for a six months school term
was adopted WITHOUT PROVID
ING a Definite and con *
STANT SOURCE OF REVENUE”
In further explanation of this
third reason, the report goes on to
say that when the six months term
amendment was adopted, a plan
could easily have been provided
whereby local property could have
borne on-half or, two-thirds of the
cast of the schools,, «nd, a statewide
tax on all property in the state
could have borne the either half or
third, or such other relative propor
tions as might have bedn provided.’
“Under such constant tax scheme
the local burden would have been
eqdalized with a uniform' state bur
den, but no such method ae this was
resorted to, and immediately after
the adoption of the amendment, ft
became necessary for the counties to
raise the funds by' local taxation,
the county commissions could not see
their way tp continue to 1 increase
taxes in most instances, and the
county boards of education demand
ed it because of their necessities;
and the courts bad to intervene and
require the commissioners to levy a
tax sufficient to support a six
months school term, leaving in the
air the question of how much It
should cost to support such a term.
“The result has been that in or
der to support the six months terra,
the counties have been hardened with
taxation which, in our judgment,
they cannot continue to carry with
out disaster to the agricultural and
business interests of the state and
increasing antagonism to the public
school system.
“The addition of two months to
the minimum term by constitution
al amendment WITHOUT A CON
BTANT REVENUE SCHEME AT
TACHED THERETO. would not
lessen, but would increase the dis
-1 Acuity of the problem and give no
relief to the local tax payer.”
The only remedy »o far devised
for the situation as it now exists, the
report goes on to say, is the equali
' ration fund, and which is inade
. quate to equalise or lift the burden.
“We, therefore, conclude, that an
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NO CHANGE TODAY IN
CONDITION Os E. W. GROVE
Asheville Capitalist and BniMer la;
I Critically 111 With Pneumonia at
Asheville.
I Asheville, Jan. 26. —C4*)—The con
dition of E. W. Grove, multi-million- j
(lire capitalist and builder, of Ashe- I
I villc, -St. Louis and St. Petersburg, i
‘ Fla.,. who is critically ill here, was
reported as unchanged today. Air.
Grove is 77 years old. He arrived
here from Philadelphia on January
! 7tit, where Ale had been tinder treat
ment for a minor ailment. His con
dition improved for several days, but
pneumonia developed Sunday, and
since that time he has been serious
ly ill. Members of his family are
at his bedside.
PENDER’S STORE SAFE
FOUND NEAR ASHEBORO
TWevra Left Valuable Papers in It
But Teak Around SSOO in Money.
Asheboro, Jan. 25. —The safe tak
en from Pender's store last Sunday
night was found this morning about
one mile north of Aslievoro near the
H. P. R. A. and S. railway tracks.
The safe still contained valuable pa
lters, but ail the money, which
amounted to between S4OO and SSOO
was gone. No clue to the robbery has
yet been found.
The finger ring is believed to
ha ye been used as a symbol of slav
ery. the master putting his ring on
all household slaves, including his
wives.
eight months school term should be
secured in North Carolina by legis a
tivc enactment and in the speediest
ixtssihle way, with a definite state
aid plan for financing the schools,
supimrted BY SOURCES OF CON
STANT REVENUE NOT DE
PENDENT UPON CHANGING
CONDITIONS; but that the demo
cratic policy of local self govern
ment be not denied to these com
munities which wish to determine
for themselves their school prob
lems.”
The report of the majority then
takes up the question of cost of the
eight months term, calling attention
that the cost- to the counties would
be in excess of $17,000,000 and that
the equalization fund would- have to
&> ~ tScrekKPd- to “ s4.6oft>o*f~3BWff
ly, This fnnd was only $1,500,000 a
year for the past two years, and it
is now proposed to increase it to $2.-
500,000 a year for the next two
years of the biennium.
“As desirable and needful as an
(eight months school term is, we be
lieve that the safest, sanest, surest,
justest way to get it is to lengthen
the term gradually through an in
crense in the equalization fund from
year to year from the state revenues
until that fund is large enough to pro
vide the balance needed for a minimum
eight months term in every county,
•tpn the same basis a six months term
is now provided, without necessitat
ing any increase in the uniform county
rate of taxation recommended else
where by the commission for a six
months term.”
Those who signed the majority re
port hold that the only way an eight
months school term can be brought
about and made state wide is through
constitutional amendment, and say
that they disagree not only with the
main proposition of the majority re
port, but “with substantially every
statement submitted in support of this
jropoaition." It also states that those
j who signed the majority report evi
dently “did not keep clearly in mind
, the distinction between the state school
iterm and the local school terms.”
The five dissenting members of the
commission—Mrs. J. A. Brown, Mrs.
E. L. McKee, Mrs. James G. Fearing,
C. E. Teague and T. Wingate Andrews
—hold that the adoption of a constitu
tional amendment is the only fairway
to decide the matter, since it will
give an opportunity to all the people
in the state to say whether or not
they are willing to be taxed for the
benefit of all the. schools of the state.
The minority .objects to the proposal
to gradually increase the equalization
fund as more aqd more schools adopt
the eight months term, on the grounds
that it is taxing, the ' people of the
entire state for the benefit of an eihgt
months school in some counties and
only a six months school term in
Others. , .
i It argues tha by increasing the
equalization fund to $4,300,000 a year,
the eight months term could be pro
vided for the state as a whole, and
that as a result local taxes would be
reduced for the communities now sup
porting an eight months term by at
least $2,800,000, leaving the actual
increase to the people as a whole at
only $1,500,000. Ou the basis of an
equalization fund of $4,000,000, then,
tlie minority report makes the follow
in recommendations:
1. That the major .responsibility for
the support of the eight months term
rest upon the several counties of the
Mate.
2. That because of the great in
equalities that exist among the coun
ties in their relative abilities to sup
port education, the equalization fund
for the support of the eight months
school term, should the amentment be
voted on favorably, be increased to at
least $5,000,000.
3. That the present general assembly
authorize the appointment by the Gov
ernor of a State Tax Commission with
powers to study “thoroughly and at
ld««th" the entire system of taxation
In North Carolina, and that it be re
quired to submit a comprhensive
scheme for both, local and state taxa
tion by April 1, 1028.
01 STILL RISING
BUT FLOOD’S CREST
IS EXPECTED TODAY
Absence of Rainfall Over
i Watershed Led to Pre
! diction That Water Will
! Recede Rapidly.
RAILROADS FEEL
STORM’S POWER
Train Service From Cincin
nati Interrupted on Two
Lines.—Buses Replace
Street Cars in City.
Cincinnati, 0., Jan. 26.—04“)—Indi
cations today wejre that the Ohio Riv
er, which has flooded Qbio and Ken
tucky lowlands for a week, would
reach its crest at approximately 59
feet before nightfall. The river was
rising at the rate of barely one inA
an hour.
Absence of rainfall over the water
sheds led to the prediction that the
waters would recede rapidly as soon
as the surplus accumulated up stearin
had passed. Nearby tributaries were
back within their banks, except at
points near their entrance into the
main stream, where they were being
retared by backwater.
Suffering among the inhabitants of
lowlands on both the Ohio and Ken
tucky sides of the river was alleviated
by the prompt action of relief agen
cies and city officials.
As the water continued its steady
climb until virtually all of the streets
in the lower west end of Newport,
Ky., were submerged, city commis
sioners kept a fleet of flat boats busy
moving flood victims and their furni
ture to higher ground. Coal and food
were supplied to the need. The same
program was carried out by city offi
cials in low-’.yiug districts of Cov
ington.
Transportation was hampered and
several street car lines in Cincinnati
cut off by tiie high water and they
were supplanted by temporary bus
lines. All railroads with the excep
tion of the Pennsylvania and Louis
ville division of the Louisville & Nash
ville, which uses the Pennsylvania
station, were operating out of tem
porary terminals as the result of the
flooding of the approach to the central
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THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Barely Steady at Decline of
6 to • Points, With May Going to
13.46.
New York, Jan. 26.— (JP) —The cot
ton market opened barely steady to
day at a decline of 6 to 9 points in
response to lower Liverpool cables. A
more reactionary or bearish senti
ment seemed to have developed since
the passing of January contracts yes
terday, and offerings increased after
the opening, prices selling off to 13.46
for May and 13.88 for October, or
about 10 to 12 points net lower.
Part of the early selling was at
tributed to the belief that spot de
mand wqs likely to fall off after the
tilling of January' commitments, and
the early buying was attributed chiefly
to covering, although there was some
Irnde buying oil scale down orders.
Private cables reported increased
hedging, with London and ManAeS
ter selling in Liverpool.
Cotton futures opened barely steady :
March 13.30; May 13.50; July 13.71;
Oct. 13.90; Dec. 14.10.
One Hundred and Fifty New Homes
Go lip at Kannapolis.
Kannapolis, Jan. 25.—With the
mil ion dollar addition to the Can
non towel mills nearing completion
the erection of 150 new, dwelling
houses has begun. Skeletons of more
than 20 residences can now be seen
and the remainder will get under
way at once.
The new houses will occupy sev
eral acres of land in’ North Kan
napolis, about one half mile over the
Rowan boundary line. The houses
will all be of wooden structure and
will add to the appearance of this
section of the town.
The erection of these houses paves
the way for homes of some 500 or
more operatives who will' be employ
ed .by the new milL
Lenolr-Rhyne Fire Bug Not Vet Ap-
Raleigh, (INS)-The
identity of the alleged fire bug who
is reported to have recently set fire
to two buildings at benoir-Rhyne Col
lege, at Hickory, is yet to be ascertain
ed.
According to Inspector F. M. Jor
dan, of the State Insurance Depart
ment, who has been detailed to the
case, no trace of the* fire bug has
been found to date.
No definite clue that might lead to
the discovered of the alleged fire bug
has been made, Inspector Jordan de
clared.
He is still working on the case.
MUSICAL COMEDY
Cupid Up-to-
Date
THURSDAY, JAN. 27th
H. S. AUDITORIUM
8:15 P. M.
GOOD CAST, PEPPY CHORUSES,
BARRELS Os PUN
British Forces Ready
For Action In China!
Fleet Now Assembling
TWO KI LI JED. r _
HURT IN
ALLR ..tttNER
Camden, Ark., Jan. 26.— <JP) —
j Two men were killed and three
! wounded in a pitched battle be
i tween a sheriff’s posse and an al
leged moonshiner near here last
I night.
j Deputy Sheriff Zach Norton and
Paul Stanley, whose tent home
was raided, are dead. Sheriff Ar
thur Ellis, Jack Lewis and F. D.
Deering, of Louann, Art., a by
stander, were wounded.
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AUSTRALIAN BALLOT BILL.
It Now Seems that Some Kind of an
Australian Ballot Law Will Be
Enacted.
Tribue Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
BY J. C. BASKERVILLE.
Raleigh, Jan. 26.—Although the pro
posed Australian ballot bills are not
by any means out from under the
cloud of opposition which has been
growing more menacing for several
day, a rift through this cloud was
seen following the committee hearing ■
held on the bill Tuesday afternoon.
As a result of this meeting, a sub
cymittee composed of Senators Brough
ton and McNeill, authors of two dif
ferent bills, and Representatives Falls’,
Connor and Creekmore, was named to
attempt to work out a composite bill
that would prove accepts be 1 to all
factions, and thus increase the hope
for its passage.
The trouble has heretofore been in
finding a type of Australian ballot
that would prove acceptable in all
sections of the state, since one sec
tion wants one type 'and others an
other. The stringent regulations in
the Falis-Broughton bill are also said
to be drawing opposition from many
railroad and traveling men in the
state.
However, it now looks reasonably cer
tain that some sort of Australian bal
lot bill will be acepted by the general
assembly, though it is equally doubt
ful that it will be the one embodied
in the Fall-Broughton bill, which has
the complete enrorsement of the North
Carolina Legislative Council of Wo
men-
itTiunphrirr
pervaded the house during the hear
ing on the bill, and two representa
tives of the women's organizations
spoke in hehalf of the Australian bal
lot measure, which has been a “pet
measure" of the women's clubs in the
state for years.
Miss Mary Henderson, vice-chair
man of the Australian ballot law and
urging that it be approved, since she
said the majority, of the voters of the
state desired it and it was up to the
Democratic party as the dominant
party, to provide it.
Senator Broughton outlined and ex
plained in full the various details of
his bill, so that it might be better
understood.
HEARING ON MATTER
TAXING THE BUSES
Change Urged from Receipts Basis to
That of Weight.
1 Tribue Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
r BY J. C. BASKERVILLE.
Raleigh, Jan. 26.—Change in taxa
tion from six per cent of gross rev
enue to the weight and milage basis
recommended in the budget bill will
result in lower taxes for operators
holding large and profitable franch- '
ises and increase the levy on the lit
tle fellows, the joint finance commit
tee was told yesterday afternoon at
a hearing at which representatives
of practically every bus company in
the state attended.
The proposed legislation, bus own
ers reiterated, would throttle bus line
development bnd progress and might
result in operators substituting lighter
equipment for the present ’’heavy"
buses, in order to keep down taxes. >
The budget recommends that buses
be taxed one-seventieth of one cent
per month for ea.ch 100 pounds new
weight of the vehicle, multiplied by
the number of miles authorized by’ a
schedule aproved by the corporation
commission.
Bus owners and R. O. Self, chief
clerk of the corporation commission
and Mr. Cates, of the Department of
Revenue, in charge of collecting the
tax, reiterated that revenue; to the I
state will be approximately the same
under either of the methods.
It was brought out that under the
current adt. lines doing the largest
business pay the largest tax and the
little fellows, many of whom are try
ing to get a foothold and who are
operating at a loss in an effort to
build up patronage, .pay only accord
ing to their receipts. Under the pro
posed law bill all lines will be taxed
alike, whether the buses are running
filled or empty. General Albert Oox
, was the first spokesman. He briefly
outlined the current and proposed sec
tions relating to bus taxes. Mr. Self
spoke next and explained that he drew
the tax section at 'the instigation of
the budget commission but in answer
to a question from Representative Nat
Townsend, denied that he recommend
ed changing from the present six per
cent gross revenue levy.
11. H. Paterson, of the Carolina
Coach Co., Raleigh, said the new’ law
Would have a tendency to keep the
good lines out of communities that
might In time prove profitable routes.
Mr. Bland, of the same Company,
said the present tax is uniformly and
It' equitably applied and the proponed
measure will “penalize progress.”
i II .I.I—II I I MIIILW * i—*—
THE TRIBUNE
TODAY’S NEWS TODATj
No,ia
,-uers Call for Most Im
pressive Fighting Flotil
la Mobilized Since Ar
mistice Ended World W
mistice Was Signed.
PROTECTION TO
ALL BRITISHERS
Land and Naval Forces t&e* J
ing Concentrated for Ac
tion.—Nearly 21,000 Sol
diers Available.
> London, Jan. 26. — (/P) —BritishJ
and naval forces are converging 09
China to protect British life and pfej»
erty. L , aSSSS
When the fighting ships ordered,■s
proceed to Chinese waters join Mt
warships already on the scene, three ;
will be assembled the most impreSHpP
flotilla of fighting units since tliejjf
mistice ended the World War in ;<
Estimates of the total number of mx -
fectives which will then be ready f**
eventualities both on land and fM
place them at between 19,000 and flu
000. The land forces will be
-command of Major General John Dottf
can, who had notable service ini jp# >;
World War. He left for the *#(l ,
East yesterday aboard the tranagltfre i
Megantic, just as 1,000 marinep were
leaving Portsmouth for Shanghai. Rf*
fore the end of the week it
peeted that more than 11,000 infant
trymen will be en route to China*
Although going 011 steadily
preparations, the officials of ,the §«W
eminent have not lost hope that In
amicable settlement will be reached
and that it will not be necessary id
resort to arms.
Prominence Is given by the princi
pal morning newspapers to the: 4qK
nouneemeut that the American si)i<sfc
tary of state, Frank B. Kellogg;
would make a statement outlining the
views of. the white house as regard! *
China, and the decision of the house
foreign relations to report on the
Porter resolution favoring an inde
pendent position for the United Stated.'
The newspapers printed long de
scriptions of the embarkation of ma
rines and of the other preparations
with pictures giving their pages a
warlike appearance.
«y. iii.p. ■ 1
C. E. BOGER APPEARS
BEFORE COMMITTEE
...... a.
Tells of the Crowded Condition of tW
Jackson Training School.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Ra'.eigh. Jail. 26.—The .joint ap
propriation committee expects to Mat.
plete its hearings tomorrow if ev
erything continues to move as sched
uled With the University of North
Carolina being the last institution to
be heard by the committee on Thajla
day afternoon. Chairman Z. V. Twt,
lington of the house committee eaidf
Senator Pat Williams, chairman of
the senate committee, expect to start
work immediately making whatever
revisions to the bill the committee* de
cided upon, hoping to get the eutire
bill ready to submit early next week,
though it will have to be held «p
until the joint committees on finance
submit their revised revenue bill—
and this may be some time yet. /.j
The committee was asked Tuesday
afternoon to allow the appropriation
of $5,500 for additional hatchery ponds
for the fisheries commission to stand,
and D. C. Bullard, of Fayettevilfc;
, told of the extensive work already be
ing done by the commission with t)to
limited facilities in hand. jJ*!
Charles E. Boger, superintendent «>?»
the Stonewall Jackson TrafcjjfStit ■ t
School for delinquent boys at Can
cord, appeared before the comtriMiis 8
and told of the crowded condition?
there and dsked that "provisions be
made to take care of the inereSSl#*
popu'ittion at L'.ie school. He was fol
lowed by a representative pf the t|
ing school for delinquent girls at Sms
areand, but 110 extensive iudrwHrj
over budgeted appropriations
mended were asked for. Two othoi
institutions that were to have/MS*.j
peared notified the committee that
they were satisfied with the adjjHwJ
priations recommended and would not
take up any .of the time of the com*
inittee with a hearing. “"jfejKl
The outstanding fact that basebefd
brought out as a result of the hegjv
| ings before tihs committee, accordiiqi
to a number of the melhbetis who have
been listening to the pleas of the va
rious institutions and department* ft* /
several days, is the apparent imptoaP\
bility of these institutional beads to :
look at their needs from a statewide
standpoint, instead of from an IMjfet I
1 vidual point of view.
"All of them seem- to think their fl&d
dividual department or instittltton hi
the most important in the stht| and
tjius entitled to preferential consider^
; tion.” one member said. -•-.#?
Indications are that few chaiMKp
will be made in the bill, and tfcdt'
; what changes are made will- be tto
; visals downward, instead of upwa«l;*jf
[ Fear 25 Fishermen Perisha* ' |
Mariupol, Ukrania, Jan. 26.—(/W~.,
'■ Twenty-five fishermen carried out to
sea ou a huge cake of ice, are' f f§|j
lieved to have perished. No trW»i,
I of them has been found by ueaujjjjijjjß
I ice breakers.
ij—~^l
I I \ — l .
■ I Cloudy tonight and Thursday, njHH
, ably rain, changing to enow; ojfcMj
1 tonight, much colder Thursday"!*®
1 wave iu west and porth portiS!
Fresh northeast and north winded