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PRESS
DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVII
KILL COMPROMISE
BILL OH EVOLUTIOH
' BE INTRODUCED?
One Fundamentalist Fac
tion Has Become Skep
tical of the Constitution
ality of the Poole Bill.
HEARINGTOBE
ON FEBRUARY 10
It Is Claimed That Peti
tions for the Poole Bill
Have Been Secured in
Cabarrus County.
(By International News Service)
Raleigh, Feb. 4. —Poised ostenta
tious.y at the door of the house educa
tion committee. North Carolina's pro
posed anti-evolution legislation today
becnme the source of new political
rumblings.
One fundamentalist faction, which
has lately become skeptical of the con
stitutionality of the drastic Poo e bill,
is considering tbe introduction of com
promise legis'ation before the Poole
bill hearing on February ltith, ac
cording to reports which have gained
wide currency here.
Meantime, reports emanating from
Statesville, the unofficial headquar
ters of the former‘'Committee of 1(H)",
are to the effect that the organization,
which is'sponsoring the Poole bill, is
bringing up reinforcements for a battle
royal over the spasmodic issue.
The Poole bill, which would provide
a prison sentence for any school teach
er convicted of teaching the so-called
» evolution theory in a state-supported
school, is expected to have the staunch
support of the entire fundamentalist
1 organization, however.
The compromise bill, which is sched
uled for early introduction in the
house, would .require every applicant
fur the office of school teat’.ier in
North Carolina to sign a pledge that
the applicant "believes in the being
pf Almighty God.”
.Rut cofue what mny in the way of
a.compromise bill, the ltaeford editor
and his supporters are all set to ignite
n modernist-fundamentalist contest 1
that might temporarily overshadow
all pecuniary legislation, according to
«ae of tile ‘ fundamentalist organiza
tion's spea -rs.
J'udauutrti by "unofficial pnlK' of
the general assembly and forecasts
pro and con, the North Carolina Bible
League—the outgrowth of the famous
"committee of 100“ that championed
the 1925 Poole bill—is planning a
"fight to the finish” when the hearing
of the Poole bill is held on February
lOtM, according to reports from the
organization’s headquarters.
These pame reports have it that the
Bible League is now active collecting
hand reds--of petitions with which it
Will flood the general assembly. Al
ready these petitions have gone forth,
it was said, . and from one eounty
alone—Cabarrus —it was boasted that
f 1.000 names were obtained.
[ These petitions are literally pour
* ing into tbe organization’s headquar
ters, it was claimed. Already there is
almost a suitcase full of petitions ’on 1
display in the offices of the Bihlc
League, according to reports reach ing
here from Statesville.
The i>etition campaign will be con
tinued until the hearing on the Poole
bill this month, it was declared.
"With 00 per cent, of the people
of North Cnrolinn firm believers in
the Bible, we do not intend that the
other 10 per cent, s’.iall dictate what
is to be taught in our schools," was
the ultimatum one official of the Bi
ble League was quoted ns declaring.
The "compromise" bill in the can
ady automobile registration proposal
will not be introduced in the senate
by Senator Barvin Blount, of Pitt,
until definite action is taken on the
Canady bill.
The Pitt senator made that much
clear today when he openely came
out in favor of the Blount bill which
would chnnge the automobile regis
tration .date from June 80th to De
cember 31st.
A public hearing on the proposed
bill requiring theater owners to pro
vide both front and rear fire escapes
in their amusement bouses' is sched
uled for Wednesday afternoon at 2
- o’clock, it was revealed here today,
c i The proposed bill, which being
r ' v Sponsored by the Rtate insurance de
partment, is expiM-ted to be ■ intro
duced in the house by Senator
Vounce, Guilford, at an early date.
Representative Harrison Yelverton,
of Wayne county, is going to intro
duce a bill 1
He said so himself. He’s going to
break his record for not contributing
a single bill to tbe house hopper dar
ing his term of service.
During the entire session of the
1029 legislature the Wayne represen
tative did not introduce a bill. He
hasn’t -so far this term. However,
he is going to introduce an “im
portant” bill within the next few
days, he said.
The Legislative Manual is expected
to be off tbe press within the negt
few days, containing biographies of
every member of‘the two houses.
Collections of gasoline taxes, auto
mobile licenses and title registration
fees are coming in faster this year
than they did last year.
This, information was contained in
figures furnished today by the auto
mobile bureau of the State .depart
ment of revenue.
The only remaining abeolute nton
archa in the world today are tbe
rlees of Abyssinia, Afghanistan and
Siam.
The Concord Daily Tribune
North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
conn
BILL IS TO IVE A
1 FOVORABLE REPORT
■ Gives Highway Commis
sion Power to Locate,
Change, Abandon or
Substitute.
I PROVISIONS COVER
THE OBJECTIONS
The Commission Will Have
No Power to Change or
Alter Roads That Are
Already Constructed.
Tribune Bureau.
Sir Waller Hotel.
Raleigh. Feb. 4.—A hill will prob
ably be reported favorably either
today or tomorrow giving the high
way commission power to locate,
chnnge. alter, abandon or substitute
roads for any section of the state
highway system ns now maintained
—but with a number of provisions
which so far seem to cover all me
objections that were originally voic
ed against the Smith-Hargett bi l.
Tbe principal objection was that it
would give the highway commission
authority to abandon, change or
alter roads already constructed and
made a part of the state highway
system. And upon this peg the ques
tion hung for several days.
However, the two differing fac
tions have at last been brought .to
gether. largely through the mollify
ing efforts of H. G. Connor, Jr., of
Wilson, who refused to admit that
the question could not be arbitrated
and both sides satisfied. As a result
of his efforts, with the able assist
ance of the other members of the
sub-committee named , to work out a
compromise bill, the present meas
uree has been evolved wth the pro
visions that now seem to remove the
objections of the opposition and
which at the same time goes a long
way toward giving the highway com
mission greater freedom of action
locating and taking over roads ami
making them a part cf the highway
system.
The first safe-guarding proviso
make* it plain that the highway
commission cannot reduce the num
ber of highways entering the eor
-fcnl* of any
principal town without the consent
of the street governing body of the
city or town—which means without
the approval of the town itself. Thus
no two roads that now enter a city
nr town over different streets could
be combined into one “stem” road
outside the city limits and made to
enter the town over one street, un
less the governing body of the town
agreed to the plan.
The second important proviso sets
forth that no potion of the state
highway system which has “hereto
fore or which shall hereafter be
located and constructed in accord
ance with the plans of the highwn.v
commission” shall be changed or
abandoned without the full consent
of tbe road governing body of the
coonty or counties involved-
The third proviso, applying to all
roads not included under the first
and second provisos, and ' over the
wording of which the bill is tempor
ari’y being held up, and without re
stricting in any way these first pro
visions. states that before any roads
not included under provisos one and
two. can be changed or altered, no
tice of any proposed changes, to
gether with a map must be posted,
and if objections are made, a hear
ing before three members of the
highway commission, will be he’d.'
An appeal may be taken from the
hearing to the entire highway com
mission, whose decision will be
final.
Counties, will be permitted to re
ipcorporate abandoned sections of
state highways into the county sys
tem. as the counties majr deem de
sirable, the bill further sets forth.
Some of the stiffest opposition to
the original Smith-Hargett bill came
from Robeson county and Catawba
county, where Newton and Lumber
ton feared that the law might be
come retro-active and nullify the
supreme court decisions .In these two
noted caste. In order ’to reassure
these people, the further ■ provision
has been added that changes and al
terations made by tbe highway com
mission until the enactment of the
.bill, ratified. #ith the ex
ception of any portions that may
now be subject to litigation, al
though it does moke legal all the ac
tions ofthe , highway commission
which heretofore have not been ques
tioned in the courts.
The final provisions of the act
make it impossible for any action to
be taken against the highway com
mission in the courts with regard to
tbe location or abandonment of
roads, since it makes the entire
membership of the highway com
mission the court of laat resort.
Thus the possibility of further re
straining orders and suits is eli
, initiated.
Rail Strike In Portugal.
Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 4.—OP) —A
general strike wss declared this morn
ing on the state railways in southern
and southeastern Portugal. The gov
-1 erament is taking measures to avoid
• paralyaatlon of .traffic.
Ten Pages Today
i Two Sections
GROVE WILL LEAVES
BULK Os ESTATE TO
HEMSOffMILK
■ WiH of Estate Valued at
, About $10,000,000 Filed
for Probate iiite Thurs
day Afternoon.
DIVIDES BULK
I IN EQUAL PARTS
i If Any Benficiary Contests
Will His or Her Part Is
( Revoked.—Leaves Some
Funds to Charity.
Asheville, Feb. 4—(A*)—Direction
that the Buneombe county properties
of the late E. W. Grove "be not put
on the market and sold ns a whole or
in part, but be handled and sold as
during my lifetime" was given in
Mr. Grove's will, filed in probate court
in St. Louis late yesterday. Tills in
formation was contained in a special
dispatch from St. Louis received to
day by the Asheville Times.
Mr. Grove's will, bequeathing an es
tate estimated in value at $10,000,000,
directed that the bulk of the estate
be held in trust for the equal benefit
of hia widow, Mrs. Gertrude Grove,
of St: Louis; his daughter, Mrs. Eve
lyn Grove (Fred L.) Seely, of Ashe
ville; and his son, Edwin W. Grove,
Jr., of St. Louis.
The document named the St Louis
Trust Company and E. W. Grove, Jr.,
as executors and trustees. It provid
ed that “in event of a contest during
the life of this trust by any beneficiary
or prospective beneficiary, the income
or gift to him or her under this will
is hereby revoked.”
The will was dated .Tune 11, 1021,
and contains three codicils, the latest
one dated January 80, 1020.
Among the minor bequests were the
following;
A lifetime monthly allowance of
SSOO to Mrs. Margaret Grove (Ken-,
netli) Wood, of Columbus, Ohio, who:
lived with the Groves virtually as,an
adopted daughter from infancy until
her marriage some four years : ago;
SSO a month to the Rey. B. M., Taylor,
of Bentonville, Ark., "in recognition
of his ever kind consideration of my
father"; $16.10 each Sunday, and
S6OO additional annually to Kings
JJigUWiiy J?rcsb>t»rian W»e
Louis, for a period of five years; and
SI,OOO a year to the Provident Asso-I
elation of St. Louis.
GROVE'S WILL PUTS
HIS ESTATE IN TRUST
Income Divided Equally Between Wi
dow, Son and Daughter. Worth
Over $10,000,000.
St. Louis, Feb. 3.—The will of the
late Edwin W. Grove, multimillion
aire president of the Paris Medicine
company, of St. Louis, filed in probate
court here today, provides that the
bulk of his estate, valued at! taore
than $10,000,000,' is to be , placed in
trust, the iucome to be shared equally
by three members of his family. 1
Groves died of pneumonia at'Ashd
ville, N. C., January 27. Thy mem
bers of hia family named in the in
strument are : Mrs. Gertrude Groves,
his wife; Edwin W. Grove, .1n.,! his
sou and a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn
Grove Seely. Upon their death -the
income is to go to their descendants,
WHEELING AND LAKE
ERIE STOCK AGAIN UP
Common Soared to New High Record
of 64, With Preferred Only 3 Points
Lower.
New York, Feb. 4.—UP)—Spectacu
lar fluctuations in the shares of Wheel
ing and Lake Eerie Railroad took
place on the New York Stock Ex
change today as authorities extended
their investigations into reports of a
technical "corner” in the common and
preferred issues.
The common, after opening two
points lower, at 71, soared to a new
high record for all time at 84, com
pared with a low of 27 1-2 last month.
The preferred moved up 3 points to a
new high at 81. A report of daily
transactions in both issues has been
aaked by the Business Conduct com
mittee of the- exchange.
Dawes Invited to Chapel Hill.
Chapel Hill, Feb. 4. —(INS)—Vice-
President Charles G. Dawes has been
invited to address the annual meeting
of the’ National Association pf Alumni
Secrtaries, which will be held here
April 28-30, it was announced here
today.
A tentative list of speakers for the
convention was announced as follows:
President Hopkins, of Dartmouth;
Hamilton Holt, former Editor of the
Independant, now president of Hol
lins College, Florida; Christie Meade,
secretary of the New York Merchants
Association, and R. V. Cartwright,
secretary of the Carnegie Corporation,
New York.
Star Theatre
Your Last Chance To See
; “THE NERVOUS WRECK ”
Showed to Packed House
1 Last Night
’ All Claiming Best Picture of
the Season
See HAROLD LLOYD
MONDAY and TUESDAY
CONCORD, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1927
Immense Advantage of Establishment
Os the Great Smokey Mountain Park
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
BY .1. C. BASKERVILLE.
Raleigh, ’Feb. 4.—With the only
area ever approved by the National
Park Service as being worthy of de
velopments as a national park, be
• tween the Mississippi and the Atlantic
ocean, within its borders, and with
1 the Federal government not only will
! ing but nnxious to establish this park,
is North Carolina going to let this
opportunity to establish q meoca for
(millions slip away V J
This, in the final analysis, wns the ,
fundamental question presented to the
members of the general assembly by .
the two members of the Southern Ap- !
pnlachinn Park Commission and by |
the acting director of the National
Park project yesterday, and in which j
they pictured the tremendous advaut- I
ages that would accrue to the state ,
as a whole—not just one section of ,
it—from the establishment of the .
park.
Realizing that the principal appeal *
for the establishment of the park must
be an economic one, expressed in dol
lars and cents, the speakers dwelt
but lightly on file aesthetic and hu
manitarian aspects of the park, which
are worthy of much consideration, and
directed their principal efforts to pic
turing to the members of the general
assembly the material value of the
park to the state, emphasizing the
fact that the $2,000,000 which tbe I
state ie being asked to expend in se-1
curing tbe land necessary for the
park, is but a relatively small invest
ment that will eventually brig back
untold returns when the jiark becomes
a reality.
Other states, with nothing like tbe
scenic grandeur that ie to be found in
North Carolina, sensitive to the times
and appreciating the pull which nat
ural scenery ami the out-of-doors has
for people today, are spending millions
of dollars in developing state parka,
according to Major W. A. Welch,
member of the Southern Appalachian
Park Commission, and director of
state parks in New York, who parti
cularly emphasized this phase of the
situation. California, with four na
tional parks ju its boundaries, has
been quick to realize the “pull of
liarks" on tourists,; and has establish
ed numerous state parks at ita own
expanse, .and which it maintains, and
the California legislature has just
been asked to authorize and addition
al bond issue of $6,000,000 for the
state parks. ,
“In the little state of Vermont, with
its diminutive mountains and but in- ,
differeut natural scenery as compared I
with the Great Smokies, more than
Zummer" aTonersaid MajorWeich/
"and the outdoor season there is but
a few months, as compared with an
almost year round season in North
Carolina.”
In the Palisades State Park in New
York, one of the parka of which !
Major Welch is director, more than •
83,000 children, from the cities and 1
towns, camped for periods of from a 1
few days to several weeks, and he 1
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady at an Advance of 11
to -5 Points, and May Went to
13.78. j- • ;
New York, Feb. 4.—UPI-nThe cot
ton market opened steady today at
an advance of 1 to a .points in re- j
sponse to higher Liverpool cables ami j
held very eteady in the early trad- i
ing on trade buying and covering, j
The latter was .Jfitributed partly to i
reports of prospects of early action on !
the McNary-Haugen bill which some!
traders here believe would liave a bill-!
lisli effect on tbe immediate market. 1
Business was fairly active; but!
there was considerable southern sell-1
ing on the advance which carried the
price of May contracts up to 13.73
and October to 14.14 or 4 to 6 points
net higher. j "
Cotton futures'opened steady : March
13.48; May 13.70; July 13.92; Oct.
14.12; Dec. 14.30.
Curtailment Os Production Os Yarn
May Be Necessitated.
Charlotte, Feb. 3. —Curtailment of
production in the yarn spinning indus
try appears probable unless a buying
movement materializes in the hear fu
ture, a bulletin; issued - today by the
Hbuthern Yarn! Spinners association
said. . ;
There has been no! accumulation
of stock iby the yarn mills, it was
stated. Qrders to last for several
weeks have been placed'with spinners,
who appear- disinclined to increase
their operation?. j,,
Future commitments, Sthe rerairt in
formed', have been discouraged with
yarn . prices stiffened because of the
stability of cotton.
The yarn market remained un
changed during the past week with
purchases still confined to small
quantities for quick delivery, it was
stated.
The bulletin declared there was no
intention manifesed by Bpinners to
grant concessions. .
Name Os Gladstone Stands Unsullied?
Jury Returns Verdict Against Wright
London, Feb. 3.—Hie honor of Eng
land’s grad old mau stands unsullied
before the world. The jury in the
libet suit brought against Viscoupt
Gladstone by Captain Peter Wright
gave a verdict today for the defen
dant.
A rider waa delivered with the ver
. diet, in the words of the foreman to
Justice Sir Horace Avery: “My Lord,
we wish to add that It if our nnanim
ous opinion that the evidence placed
before us has completely vindicated
the high moral character of the late
Mr. WT B. Gladstone.”
*1?
(dated that ih New York the parka
gre looked upon as being among the
most essential of the state's activities
in the prevention of disease arid crime.
Four years ago New York state au
thorized the expenditure of $15,000,-
wQO on its state parks, and just a few
finis ago Governor Smith asked tbe
jfgislnture to appropriate $2,000,000
pore out of the general fund for the
.maintenance of these state parks.
pH,, in North Carolina, with a Na
tional park in its very door asking to
jpo laken in, there is hesitatin to ap
i frofiriae $2,000,000 which would be
jho last and final expense, since the
.government would pay tbe cost of
.jwiintaiiiing the park,
h "hy the area in the Smokies in
. both North Carolina and Tennessee
[Was selected as the best suited for
Ijiationai park purposes out of the en
,jire Appalachian range, was told by
Congressman Henry W. Temple of
j Pennsylvania, chairman of the com
| mission appointed to make the selec
?von■ Ho said that lie had visited
Virtually all of the National parks in
♦he United States, but that lie cou
•idered the Smokies area the most
beautiful and alluring of all. He
mentioned the fact that this park
was the most accessable t,o the large
♦enters of population, being within
24 hours of 90,000,000 people, nnd
predicted that when established it
( woul rival even the Yellowstone and
I Yosemite parks in popularity.
| The manner in which the govern
ment develops parks after it takes
charge of them was explained by Arno
B. Cammerer, acting director of the
national park service, the third mem
ber of .the delegation from Washing
ton. Mr. Cammerer traced the his
tory of the National park movement,
scarcely 90 years old, and showed the
increasing popularity of these parks
and the pulling power they have upon
travellers. In 1»17 only 300,000
people visited the National parks in
(be United States, while in 1926 more
thnn 3,000,000 people visited these
same parks, he said. And yet all of
these are west of the Mississippi river,
and from four to live days journey
from the eastern seaboard, the center
of the greatest population. . The re
turns from the tourists travel alone,
which would travel all sections of the
state, would pay many times over the
original investment asked of the park
serveie from Nopth Carolina he de
clared. The National park service is
expending more than $2,500,000 year
|ly on permanent improvements in the
national parks, he declared besides
the special appropriations.
I Hie entire delegation, including
. Colonel D. C. Chapmau of Knhxvilte,
(iWr coinmissioLiT’Senatbr
Squires of Caldwell, chairman of the
North Carolina park commission, Rep
resentatives Harry Nettles and Sena
tors I'lato Ebbs of Buncombe and Don
Elias of Asheville, spent the greater
liart of the afternoon with Governor
McLean going over the situation with
him, in an effort to map out a definite
program toward the acquisition of the
territory necessary for the prak.
CHARLOTTE OFFICIALS
AFTER RESCUE FOLKS
New Offensive Launched Against
American Rescue Workers Oper
ating in Queen CHy.
Charlotte, Feb. 3.—A new offen
sive against the American Rescue
[Workers was launched today when
Major W. R. Robertson, comhtfs
| siouer of public safety, instructed
j Chief of Police Alex West to arrest
liinyoue soliciting alms on the streets
j without license.
! The chief of police also was di-
I reeled to notify American Rescue
| Workers that the municipal ordi
-1 nance prohibiting soliciting of nlms
without a license would be enforced.
Refnsai of Mrs. Kate Burr John
son, head of the state board of char
ities to issue the Workers a license
nnd the alleged action of the organi
zation in declining assistance from
charity agencies in Charlotte, led
Mayor Abernethy and Major Hob
rtson to declare they thought the
city had been as leniicut as pos
sible
Realty Purchases Want Notes Can
celled.
Charlotte, Feb. 3.—Th?. “|in-boom
in$ i ’ of the western North Carolina
real estate boom last year-cut a swath
in legal circles here today when scores
of lot buyers prepared to untangle
themselves from their purchases, six
ty-three local plaintiff’s suits against
the holders of Oaroljnaa’ Hollywood
notes are in prospect, it wqs said.
William C. StickelentKer, oif Char
lotte, was the first to 1 file suit for the
caaiqeilation of the notes against him,
declining that the development did not
become “one of the most beautiful
model cities in America,” as allegedly
promised, but that the property was
practically worthless.
A Fob Angeles woman seeking a
divorce testified that she and her
husband had only one quarrel, but it
lasted all through their married life.
A packed assembly of politicians
and members of society in the dim
oak-jianneled court watched the clos
inf states of the treat human drama
with intense interest.
Captain Peter Wrltht brought suit
for libel against Viscount Gladstone,
the 78-year-old son of the great prime
minister for describing Wright as a
“Uar, coward and foul fellow,” in a
letter to the Bath club after the publi
cation of a book in which Wright
charged the elder Gladstone with Im
morality.
SEVERAL MEASURES
OF IMPORTANCE IN
STATE ARE PASSED
Day Proves One of Most
Profitable of the Present
Session of the General
Assembly.
BILL WOULIT
EQUALIZE TAX
Wants the County Taxes
Equalized to Support the
Schools.—Score of Bills
in the Senate.
oe>—House received a bill designed
State Capitol, Raleigh, Feb. 4.
to equalize county tares for the sup
port of the state six months' school
system, as the outstanding feature of
the legislature today. The Senate
postponed action on issues slated for
debate, to pass more than a score of
and local bills, none of outstanding
importance.
The education bill was introduced
by Representative Folger, of Surry,
and provides for a property tax of
47 cents and a poll tax of $1.41 in
each county for the purpose of main
taining the legal six months’ school
term.
The tax would be collected by sher
iffs as at present, and the assess
ments would be made by a state com
mission composed of seven citizens
appointed by the Governor, with the
commissioner of revenue as ex-officio
member.
County boards of education would
act as agents for the State Depart
ment iit gathering the funds, but the
money would be disbursed through
state channels. The funds collected
under the provisions of the bill would
be used for maintenance and not for
construction of buildings or perma
nent improvements.
The bill states that its purpose is
to provide equalization of taxes for
schools and equal opportunities for
children.
Passage of a host of House local
measures :u the lower body and con
sideration of important bills in the
Benate stood out in the hour’s ses
sion before adjournment over to to
morrow at 10 a. m.
The measure to merge the fisheries
■ «»«i coimetWUw dt^Mtaumts
state with the conservation depart
ment in charge was introduced, out
standing in the bulk of bAsic maihin
ery of bill introduction, committee re
ports and bill readings, while galler
ies for the most part droned.
The senate postponed virtually all
of its big measures after some discus
sion of each over to next Tuesday and
next Wednesday.
The senate passed up the chance for
whnt promised to be a real contest
when it postponed consideration of
the bill providing $1,500 annual in
crease in the salaries of all judges.
The bill was set for a special order
at. the conclusion of the noon hour.
But when it was reached, Senator
Moore, of Martin, author of the orig
inal bill for which this one is a com
mittee substitute, ordered that it be
not considered today, but be made a
special order for next Tuesday.
Consideration of two other state bills
was postponed to Tuesday. One was
the bill proposing the re-distiricting
tlx 4 state or superior courts, and the
addition o seven new districts, was
made a special order or next Wed
nesday.
( With Our Advertisers.
New frunitiire store in Concord will
open February 17th. See ad.
Advance spring millinery showing
at Fisher's. $2.95 to $9.95.
The G. A. Moser Shoe Co. has just
received a big shipment of shoes for
spring, and ail will be sold below
the usual prices. They range from
$1.95 to $5.95. Full fashioned ’ silk
hosiery $1.60. See big new ad. to
day.
You will find many bargains in
groceries at A. &P. stores. See ad.
in Tribune today.
Bedroom suites of value at the Bell-
Harris Furniture, Co.
Smart hats in. the season's newest
styles, ready Saturday at Fisher's,
Hats from $2.95 to $9 95 for all faces.
Beautiful coats and dresses also for
little money.
It is important, that you make your
will. See officers of Citizens Bank
and Trust Company. They are expe
rienced in this work.
Efird’s is offering the latest styles
in spring footwear at most reasonable
prices.
Good lubrication is important for
any automobile. Consult experts at
the Auto Supply and Repair Co.
Fresh vegetables and also fresh
meat and fish at the Sanitary Grocery
Co.
Don’t forget the extra special val
ues at the Parks-Belk Co. during last
three days of big sale. See ad. for
t particulars.
Send Elmer’s Chocolates for Valen
* tine. Sold by tline’s Pharinacy.
Latest models and colors in men's
suits and hats at the J. C. Penney Co.
' Prices are reasonable,
i The Ritchie Hardware'Co. sells only
■ reliable hardware. Give the company
4 an opportunity to demonstrate its de
pendability.
t :
, Millions In Property Not Listed For
> Taxes.
i Oharldtte. Feb. 3., —Millions of
i dollars of personal property In
- Charlotte is not lfeted for taxation,
t it was indicated, today at the city
ball here from a study of the rec
‘ ords an effort wifi be made to get it
oa tho tax books. "■
LIKES THE NEW
HEADS ON OPR
SECOND PAGE
A former newspaper man now
temporarily in Concord was “tick
led to death" with the new 12-
point heads on page two of The
Tribune. We writes:
“Let me congratulate you '
the tremendous improvem*"' .<1
the make-up of The TV
new hegds make 'all tl. pfjfP
in tbe world.’ They* just
about as 'snappy' and fhrf of life
as any I have ever seen."
Ernest boswell fovnd
GI'ILTY IN WILSON COURT
Verdict of Second Degree Murder Re
turned.—Wlil Be Sentenced Later.
Wilson, X. C.. Feb. 4. —(^)—A ver
dict of guilty was returned against
Ernest Bosweli, charged with the mur
der of C. E. Beeinan in February,
1925, by a jury in the Wilson County
Superior Court t.odny. Judge Dunn
announced that he would pronounce
sentence later. Boswell was being
tried on a second degree indictment.
The conviction !n Boswell's second
for the offense. He was granted a
new trial by the Supreme Court in
the first case, on the ground that im
proper testimony had been introduced
by the State.
Boswell was convicted of killing
Beaman, a slot machine salesman, on
February 7, 1925. His trial consumed
two days. The defendant was the
last witness on the stand.
TOO MUCH COUNSEL
TO GO TO COLLEGE
High School Principal Points Out
Error Which He Thinks Is Com
mon.
Statesville, Feb. 3.—R. H. Lank
ford, principal of the Harmony high
school, speaking .before the States
ville Rotary Club here expressed the
opinion that boys and girls in the
high schools today are counselled too
much to seek a college education.
Practically everybody who talks to
high school students urges them to go
to college, said Mr. Lnakford, and as
a consequence of'this advice the minds
of the .students become so focussed
upon college as an end in itself that
there are many boys and girls who
have no vision and no plan for life
extneding beyond a course in college.
If the work the student plans to un
dertake requires college training, then
he ought to go through college, but
he should look upon his college train
ing as a means to an end, a prepara
tion, instead of an end in itself. A
student's high school training ought
to give him some idea of tbe necessity
one thing well. And for this reason
there should be vocational training
in every high school lit Iredell county,
he stated.
RELIEF WORK FAR WATER
SUFFERERS IS INCREASED
Creiws Are Fighting to Keep Levees
From Breaking—Many Desert Their
Homes.
Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 4.—OP)—Re
lief work in the flooded districts of
Arkansas where the White, Cache and
St, Francis rivers have been on a
rampage for several days, was car
ried forward with renewed energy to
day while crews of workmen fought ,
valiantly to strengthen the levees aud
prevent further destruction and suffer
ing. ,
In the Brassfieid and Cotton Plant <
areas the relief work has settled down j
to a well organized system. Hundreds ,
of persons who were forced to flee
from their homes are being cared for i
in temporary quarters. The Red Cross
lias the situation well in hand.
~_ ' i
\oung Erwin Man Dies of Hydro- ,
phobia.
Erwin, Feb. 3.—Elain Dudley, 22
bridegroom of two months, died here !
this afternoon with what local ph.vsi- i
cians diagnosed as hydrophobia. He :
was stricken yesterday afternoon.
The young man, according to the i
three local physicians, died a horrible
death. He was bitten, it was said,
about a year ago by a eat, but paid
little atteution to the .Wound at the
time. ' '
Tuesday afternoon he was sudden
ly stricken with a malady'which at
first baffled the physicians.: Develop
ments'led the doctors to believe that
the young man had contracted hydro
phobia!
Revolutionists Surrender.
Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 4.—CP) The
revolutionists- of the garrison at Opor
to who began a movement against the
government of President Carmona yes
terday, have surrendered to the gov
ernment troops.
VAUDEVILLE
TONIGHT
“KING BRADY’S LOVE
PIRATES”
—IN—
“SMILES”
Also
‘SUMMER BACHELORS’
Entire Change of BUI, Specialties
and Picture
25c—50c
Please Come Early For Choice
Seats!
PICTURES AT 7 and 9:45
VAUDEVILLE AT 9:00
The Concord
COMING MON. afid TUBS.
“THE WINNING OF BARBARA
WORTH”
From the Famous Novel by Har
old Befi Wright '
THE TRIBUNE
PRINTS
TODAY’S NEWS TODAY!
NO. 24
SHiIGHIIiWIHG '
BITTLE NElfi CITY;
rOKESE &TBOIG
Battle May Determine Pate
of Republic as Weil as
as Possession of City of
Shanghai.
FANG DENIES FOES ffl
DRIVING HIM OFF
Defender of City Says He
Is Holding His Own.—
Wounded Soldiers Are
Crowding Hospitals.
Shanghai, China, Feb. 4. —CP) —Qojt-
flicting reports left Shanghai in donbt
today as to the military situation
south of here where northern afitl
southern troops have taken positions
for a battle which is expected to de
termine possession of this city, con
trol of the Yangtze Valley, and pos
sibly the fate of the republic. -hS-SRI
Hadquarters of Marshal Sun Chuajl
Fang, defender of the city against tl|s
Cantonese advance, declared he w*
holding his own. Nationalist circlN
forecast his early collapse. « 'wIS
Missionaries arriving from the bat*
tie front in Chekiang province repott
ed today that 500 of Marshal Sufi’s
wounded soldiers had reached Hang
Chow from his Yenchow front, crowd
ing hospitals and necessitating the
moving of overflow wounded to the
Southern Presbyterian Mission Hoit*
pital at Hashing.
U. S. Forces Moving Closer. Ji
Washington, Feb. 4.—CP)—As the
northern and southern Chinese force*
gird themselves for battle in the cen
tral Chekiang provinces, with
liai as the possible ultimate goal)
United States naval forces including
1.450 marines, are being moved close):
to the danger zones as a precautions® ~
measure to provide protection vo
Americans.
Meanwhile Secretary Kellogg is
awaiting the reply which Eugene Chen,
Cantonese foreign minister, has said
he would make in a few days to the
American open invitation to both maj
or Chinese factions for conferences
looking to the drawing up of new'
equalization treaties with China. '> '.>£
The State department has empha
sized that none of the men being moved
to will be landed —»thrm n j
develops an emergency clwffrfjrlfilficat
fng that American lives are in danger.
If Foreign Minister Chen raiaefi "<■
the question of the purpose of Ameri
can forces in the Shanghai area, which
it is regarded as likely he will do in
his comment on the Kellogg overtures,
Washington officials are prepared to
deal on the point. They contend that
the Marine movement merely is in ac
cordance with a policy to have availa
ble a sufficient mobile force to extern)
American citizens, protection shoufil
the need arise, and feel that the hold
ing of additional warship and ma
rines at Honolulu, Guam and Manila
is evidence that the United States con
templates no large scale landing op
erations in China.
Special Committee For Negotiation*.
London. Feb. 4.—CP)—A special
cabinet committee lias been formed to
deal with the Chinese situation. It
is understood this committee will in
clude Premier Stanley Baldwin, Sir
Austin Chamberlain, foreign secre
tary. and the Earl of Balfour, lord
president of the council.
Negotiations at Hankow are viftu-
ally at a standstill through the in- ,
sistence of Eugene Chen, the Cftnton- -
ese foreign minister, that there be no
concentration of British fences at
Shanghai. All is calm in th« conct-S- -P
sion city where serious anti-Rritijh
rioting in December led the British .
authorities to take precautionaeff if
measures.
Cabinet meeting hns been called io i
determine upon a plan to meet Chant*
attitude. One outstanding sugges- |
tion is that an attempt be ,jnat)e to
please the Cantonese leader by prom- »
ising that there will be no extensiv*
landing of troops at Shanghai, MW* S
menacing devefopments make it neccfi- '
sary. “s \V' ! '®
The general public appears to favor ,
t'lie maintenance of the defense forde
nt some nearby place, like Hong Kong,
so that it 'could be dispatched'tti tire ;; -
scene without delay if the occasion ;
warranted.
This defense in being steadily aug
mented. as transports and watg&lpt Jl
arrive in Chinese waters. The cruise):
squadron and a battalion of Durban* ,|
infantry arrived at Singapore yeater- 'f.
day, the troops proceeding to
hai. _Another regiment of Suffolk
infantry which left Gibraltar Decern: %
her 2nd before plans for the Shanghai jfc
defense force were arranged, is* eg* ■ : :
pected to reach Hong Kong in a day §
l or so.
Charlotte Cotton IS Cents First Haw
Since October.
Charlotte, Feb. 3.—Spot cotton M
quotations on the Charlotte market ®
touched 13 cents today for the first
time since October, 1926. ’■WfM
Since that time tbe price dropped
steadily until December 4, 1926, wfim i
11 1-4, the low for tbe season, to)*
reached. A gradual climb then wait -M
begun to today's quotation.
The market today opened at 12 3-4* |
wet to 12 7-8 at noon and then mM
a sudden spurt to 13 cents whscn-lt ‘d
closed for the day.
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WEATHER FOHROAff^I
Increasing cloudiness, probably |jjjjjh4s
lowed by rain in the west PortlaaqMW
night and Saturday; colder toniffttt'lfcto|
the east portion. Moderate fiartiM&jf]
winds. ■'