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VOLUME XXVII CONCORD, N. C„ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 0, 1927 ~ •' NO: 28.*
BBT mis in
Will ABOUT
TO BERtLLEO OFF
Outstanding Among These
is the Poole Monkey Bill
7 —Appropriation Bills
Are About Ready.
WILL THERE BE
t EXTRA SESSION?
Some of the Biggest Pro
posals Are Yet to Be Pre
sented, Including Eight
Months Schools.
(By Intermitionn! News Service)
Un’.cigh, -Feb. !). —Mid-season finds
t'.ic 11127 general assembly yet to enact
its first' important statewide measure,
nml faced with a more gingerly time
during the next thirty days.
appropriations and finance
committees, getting off to nn early
start, are about ready to tarn their
major bills toward the floor.
The finance and appropriations com
mittees have been studying the ap
propriations. maintenance and fiuance
hills for the past few weeks, and have
not so far seriously disturbed the bal
anee of the two bills worked down to
a nicety by Governor McLean and his
advisory budget commission.
T'.ie appropriations and maintenance
bills are expected to be in final shape
early next week, although they may
make their appearance on the floor be
fore that time.
AVhat are regarded ns the biggest
fights in the present session are just
in the offing, waiting on the mooted
I sail’s to be returned from the committee
rooms. Outstanding among these is
tile I'oole anti-evolution bill to pre
vent the teaching of t'.ie so-called evo
lution theory in North Carolina state
supported schools.
Softie of the biggest proposals are
J'et to be presented before the legis
lature, including the eight months
school term bill. Proponents of the
eight months school term are waiting
to see what the appropriations com
mittee will do about the recommenda
tion of the education commission for
a $4,000,000 equalization fund.
Tlie amount recommended for the
equalization fund by Governor Stt*
Isan in his budget message was $2,-
I looted to be intfodneed during the
present session is the proposal em
jMiwering the governor to fill I'nlted
States senate vacancies by appoint
ment. The proposed hill already has
been the center of wide discussion.
Bills carrying out the recommenda
tions of Governor McLean regarding
county government reform are also ex
pected to be dumped in the hopper
wit-hin the next few weeks.
With the present session just past
its half-way mark, tlfe question of an
extra session persists in being a mat
ter of speculation around the capitoi
I corridors.
I Reports have been current reeent-
ly that a possibility exists of Governor
McLean calling an extra session of
the legislature soon after the present
one goes home, but Governor McLean
has refrained from any expression
along this line.
The purpose of the extra session
would be for the enactment of tux
legislation.
More Suits Filol For Usury in
Salisbury.
Salisbury, Feb. B.—Following hi
the Ideal evening paper publication
of a number of usurious interest
cases by salary buying concerns in
Salisbury and Silencer, the securing
of a judgment against the Spencer
Brokerage Company by Belton Bol
er. qolored wtorker, Salisbury law
yers have received a number of other
suits to be instituted-
The law provides that one can col
lect double the amount of usurious
interest, and Belton Boler charged
that he had paid $40.00 above the
legal rate of' interest and received a
judgment against J. V. Hill and J.
N. Grice, operating as the Spencer
Brokerage Company, for SBO or
double the interest paid.
It has been difficult to secure evi
dence on the salary buyers because
the concerns would not give receipts
f stating that the payments were for.
Ope man was allowed to pay on
the principal when he insisted on
> paying the interest with a check.
This man owed, he said, $lO. He
asked what be owed and was told
that the interest was SB.O0 —he had
not paid for several pay days. When
he wrote check for that amount and
returned the following week with
another check, he was told that can
celled the principal. He had been
paying at a rate of SI.OO every two
weeks for six months. r
W. I. Little underwent an opera
tion for appendicitis at the Concord
Hospital th’B morning. ,
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“RUSTLING FOR CUPID”
With
Anita Stewart, George o*Drisa
Other Big Attractions February
9th, 10th and 11th
j Co-ed Suicide
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Bernice Richardson, twenty, q
Matoon, 111., took poison a
Milliken College, Decatur, II)
She was the eighth student if
the country to commit suicidi
within the past few weeks.
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TAYLORSVILLE MAN IN
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE
Bonnie Rowe Slashed Wrists With a
Razor in Hotel at Tampa, Fla.
Tampa, Fla., Feb. 9.—lA»)—Slash
ing his wrists with n razor at a hotel
here late last night, Borin ie Rowe, par
achute jumper with an aerial show
which has been touring Florida, sat at
a table and began a letter to a woman
he uddressed as “Alina”, and continued
tv write until he fell to the floor un
conscious from loss of blood.
“Forty-five minutes and I shall face
eternity,” the letter said. "Here's
lioping I keep my nerve in death as I
have in life.” The remainder of the
'otter was filled with protestations of
love.
Physicians at a hospital where the
man was taken said today that he
probably would recover. Hotel em
ployees , declared Rowe reached there
.egrly last uiglit, sent n telegram and
registered letter, and asked not to be
disturbed- wbeu he wrtit to his room.
attracted to the room by the sound
of Rowe's fall, found him lying in
a pool of blood. Rowe's home is in
Taylorsville, N. C.
Wife in Charlotte.
Charlotte. Feb. o.—o*»>—While her
hushund lies in a Tampa hospital re
covering from self inflicted wounds,
Mrs. Bonnie Rowe was somewhere in
Charlotte today preparing to go to
Atlanta to meet his body and bury
him.
Relatives of Mrs. Rowe, who live in
Taylorsville, this morning received a
telegram saying Rowe had been killed.
They notified Mrs. Rowe who wps vis
iting in Charlotte.
Advised of an Associated Press dis
patch stating Rowe would probably re
cover they sought to notify his wife,
but up to noon had been unable to
locate her.
Mrs. Rowe. formerly lived in Tay
lorsville. Lately, however, the Rowes
have made their home in Atlantal
SOCIAL SERVICE TOPICS
DISCUSSED AT MEETING
Child Welfare, Mothers’ Aid, Juve
nile Court Among Subjects of Dis-
Raleigh, Feb. 9.— (A*) —A variety of
social service topics was spread be
fore delegates at the opening of the
second day of the fifteenth annual so
cial conference today. Child welfare
agencies, mothers' aid, industrial mi
gration, recreation organizations, juve
nile court workers, family welfare
bodies were among subjects to be dis
cussed in round table discussions.
The league for abolition of capital
punishment with Rev. H. L. Canfield,
of Greensboro, as chairman, met as
a part of the conference to lay plans
for legislative enactment, making pun
ishment of criminals “more construc
tive and less barbarous.”
The Wake couuty council social
agencies planned an informal recep
tion following the day’p sessions, while
tonight Frank Graham, of the IJnivqr
sity of North Carolina, was down for
an .address. ,
“ART" MAGAZINES SPARED
Can Print Anything Seen in Galleries,
Says Baltimore Official.
Baltimore, Feb. 9.—State Attorney
O’Conner has advised Police Commis
sioner Gaither that he will not prose-,
cute vendors of so-called art maga
aines that are camplaiued of as ob
scene.
The Commissioner, acting on com-,
plaints, had his policewomen gather
about twenty-five such publications
from news-stands and then, not feeling
competent to pass upon their propri
ety, “passed the buck” to the State's
Attorney. Mr. O’Conner says:
“The magasines submitted were of
several types, hut all included pictures
and photographs of females in widely
different poses. Every one so includ
ed, however, had its counterpart in
the art galleries of our metropolitan
centree, and a great number of the
photographs are of actresses shown
in the costumes in which they appear
in widely abvertised musical revues.
“It obviously cannot be held that
pictures or statuary are decent when
exhibited in art galleries and Indecent
whan reproduced In magazines.”
DIM WES TAKE
CBMDEGA AFTER
DEFEATIN6REBELS
City Is Key Position Be
tween Corinto and Man
agua.—Much Hand to
Hand Fighting.
railroaFheld
BY DIAZ TROOPS
Diaz Forces Lost 150 Men
in Chinandega Fighting.
—Rebel Losses Are Not
Yet Known.
Managua, Nicaragua, Feb. 9. — OP)
—Chinandega, a key position between
Corinto and Managua, and the scene
of mutr'.i hand to hand fighting between
the liberals and conservative forces,
is again reported to have been re
gained by the conservatives, who were
forced to retire from a part of the
town several days ago. The report
is made publie by the eonservntive au
tliorities, who hear that the railroad
I station is in the possession of their
troops.
The conservatives, who are fighting
for the cause of President Diaz, '.lave
had 150 men killed in the Chinandega
region. The number of killed in the
liberal ranks supporting President 8a
; casa is nipt kriopm. Forty-seven
wounded of the conservative army
reached Managua last night. They
bear wounds from maehetten, bullets
and clubs.
“UNCLE DAN” RHYNE
REMEMBERED AT HICKORY
Board of Trustees of Lenoir-Rhyne
Gives Birthday Party.
Hickory, Feb. B.—Daniel lSfird
Rhyne, of Lincolnton, who is known
throughout North Carolina as “Un
cle Dan." was given a little birth
day party here this afternoon by the
board of trustee* of Lenoir-Rfayne
College. Uncle Dan was 75 years
old today.
Among the playmates who were
asked to the party, which was held
at Hotel Hickory in the form of n
midday dinner, were little boys like
G- \V. ltabb, 85-year-old Catawba
County citizen ; A. C. Lineberger, of
Belmont; J. 8. Mauley, of Kings
Mt. Holly; and J. 8. Propst, a Hick
ory youth of 75 years.
Bnt Uncle Dan was the friskiest
little boy at the party. He came in
hia working clothes, the clothes ami
the work that have enabled him to
give hundreds ,of thousands of dol
lars to Lenoir-Rhyne Co’lege and
mission churches of the Lutheran
denomination throughout North Car
olina. He did not wear a tie, and his
trousers bogged. Uncle Dan would
be mad if anybody tried to picture
him as dreevted up. He is “just a
plain man" as he himself will testi
fy. but his friends swear that he has
the biggest heart of any man taey
know.
Speech after speech eulogized the
little man that slouched in his chair
at the end of the table, and story
after story of his religious generosity
went the rounds of tile banquet and
never once did he pass a remark
further thnn the two friends on eacli
side of him. He was presented with
a gold-hahdled cane and umbrella,
and a bowed an smiled his Apprecia
tion. At the end of the party Uncle
Dan shook the hand of each of the
40 guests and the patty went out to
Lenoir-Rh.vne College where the stu
dents were holding a celebration in
his honor. He received almost 100
birthday cards and letters today
from the students who are being af
forded an education because of hi*
generosity.
COLLECT NEARLY
10,000 VOLUMES
Campaign For Library For Lenoir-
Rfcyne Clows; Splendid Results.
Hickory. Feb. B.—Between 9,000
and 10,000 books were collected in
the campaign for a gift library for
Lenoir-Rhyne College which was
closed Saturday. T3ie' drive tor
books started soon after fire had
destroyed .almost 8,000 volumes
when the administration building at
Lenoir-Rhyne Colltyre was burned on.
January C.
A library commission was formed
by Hickory' friends of the institu
tion and three weeks from the oqte
the drive started, ft had gone con
siderably over the goal hoped for
and in another week, over 1,000
more books had beep added to the
fast growing list in addition to
$914 received .in cash, .for purchas
ing books. The majority! of the books
came from Hickory. although a
number were sent in by friends of
tbp college in other North Carolina
cities. Booth Carolina and Virginia.
■ The college will continue to re
ceive books as long as its friends
•end them in.
Falls to HU Death.
Miami. Fla., Feb. o.—OP)—Samuel
Risman. 52, of Buffalo, N. Y.. long
term lessee of the Henrietta Towers,
fashionable Dallas Park apartment ho
tel, fell ten floors from the top of
the building to his death early today.
The body was found in a parking
'.ot adjoining the structure by a guest,
who “notified the police.
Cobb to Play With Athletics.
Philadelphia, Feb. o.—oP>—Ty Cobb ;
today made good his announcement of
last night that he would be a member
; of the Philadelphia Athletics this sea
son by signing a contract for one year.
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C SLEKP HtCMOLA? IONOVORTH
A meeting between Calvin Coolidge and a Texas delegation
headed by R. B. Creager, Republican strategist, was considered
to be a manoeiiver preparatory to Coolidge’s candidacy fo*
re-election in 1928. Meanwhile, C. Bascom Slemp, who failed
to get a cabinet post despite effective work in 1924 was i
reported praising Speaker Nicholas Longworth to Southern!
Republicans. .< |
' (laiaraitional Kewscpl)
SIMMONS URGED TO
OPPOSE FARM RELIEF BILL
Textile Men Opposed to the McNary-
Haugen Bill.
(By International News Service) ,
Lexington, Feb. 9.—Senator Sjm-
to do all. withlfh
Tits power to defeat the McNar.v-
Haugen bill now before Congress by
.7. M. Gamewell, of Lexington, presi
dent of the Cotton Manufacturers As
Dr. Haywood’s Threat to Run for
Governor Does Not Frighten Anyone
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Feb. 9. —If the house con
tinues to believe in a “hands off" pol
icy concerning legislation with regard
to religious beliefs, with the same ve
hemence that it believes in the futility
of making people moral through legis
lation, as evidenced in its 75 to 2H
defeat of the Haywood "purity” bill,
those who arc opimsed to having
thought and investigation hampered as
is proposed in the Bowie-Poole anti
eyolution bill, have little to fear.
That there is a goodly majority in
the liftuse who are capable of think
ing for themselves, and who have the
courage of their convictions, was
shown when after three quarters of
au hour of impassioned oratory in
which Dr. Haywood, the "purity” leg
islator from Montgomery, had alter
nately threatened the members of the
house arid then pleaded with them. 75
members expressed their belief in the j
futility of trying to make people moral
by legislation and defeated the effort I
to plnce this bill on the calendar. !
Neither the small amount of logic \
used by Dr. Haywood, for the large I
amount of sentimental oratory, coup-,
ledT with the statement that he could
take the three "morality” measures Me j
has introduced so far and successfully j
run for governor with them as a plat
form, o rthe threat that be would do j
so if the houst "trifled” with him, suc
ceeded in shaking the convictions ofj
the members. Neither did the t'.ireat I
that the members were afraid of a 1
roll trail vote, and that they had been;
hiding behind uri adverse committee re-1
port, bring forth more than indulgent j
smiles from the bouse members. Not I
even did his peroration; regarding the!
power of wbmen in the world, their
sublimity and diastity, and the state
ment that this bill was designed pri
marly to protect them produce 'much
of an impression. And when theques-;
tion came to a vote the only woman
member of the house voted "no"—with |
the majority.
Hence, with this striking examp’e of'
state of mind generally in the house I
with regard to legislation affecting
more or less intangible relationships
such as morality, religious beliefs and
like, tfiere is a growing feeling here
that the so-called' Bowie-Poole ' “evo
lution bill” stands 'little chance for
enactment even should it reach the
floor of the house on a minority re
port as did the Haywood contraceptive
bill. For it is argued that if the ma
jority of the members of the house be
lieve in the futility of trying to make
people moral by legislation, that they
will hold it equally ineffectual to try
to legislate as to what |>eople may
or may not believe, sa.v or think. And
that is just what the Bowie-Poole bill
attempts to do, its opponents point
out. fl x
This latest evolution bill, the public
hearing concerning which will be held
tomorrow, ddba not limit its applies
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soeiateon of . North Carolina, it was I,
• learned here today.
, Gamewell, declaring that lie was ex
■ pressing the view of virtually every
textile executive in North Carolina,
i stated that the McNary-Haugen bill
: wonld not be of benefit to Hie south
if*" aimers, and that it would proved,
■‘disastrous” to the textile' irtßustty.
iTte textile industry, he pointed out,
right now was in a depressed eondi- j
tion.
tion to the teaching of the theory of
evolution ns a fact—but prohibits the
teaching—that is, t'he presentation—of
a theory merely as a theory, and not 1
as a fact, if it in any \tay conflicts i
with "contradicts or denies the divine! i
origin of manor the universe as taught
in the Holy Bible.” The bill gbes
even further and prohibits the teach
ing of the useful arts and sciences
in such a manner as to "contradict the
fundamental truth of file Holy Bible.”
The bill is termed “the most ex
treme measure in restraint of teach
ing science in' the public schools and
in colleges receiving aid from the
state” ever introduced in any legis
lature, according to an editorial in
the New York Times of Sunday, Feb
ruary 7th, entitled "Against Teaching
Science." After ipioting the substance
of the bill and mentioning the fact that
a hearing would be held in it this
week, the editorial goes on to sav :
“The enactment of this bill (which
is hardly conceivable in a state'as for
ward as North Carolina is in the use
ful arts and sciences and in higher
education) would make the Scriptures
and ultimate authority in the realm
of science, for all truth partake of the
‘fundamental.’
“It is only the fool who says in
his searching 'of nature that there is
no gpd. The evolutionist, in trac
ing creation back throng’d millions of
years, does not thereby disclaim or dis
prove a divise origiu. Some chem
ists have traced all organic life back
to the sen, but the sea declares that
the secret of life is ‘not with me.’
The further man has searched, the
more in awe of the source of all life
he must become, even if he cannot,
without discrediting hie God-given
senses, accept as a textbook in astron
omy, physics, chemistry and biology,
what was meant for man’s spiritual
elevation and inoral guidance . ... ”
There followed several more para
graphs equally pertinent to the ques
tion.
There are others who feel that the
enactment of such a bill would have
the same effect it has had in Ten
nessee—the opposite effect from what
its authors intend—-namely that inter
est in evolution, Darwjnianism and oth
ier theories, but as farts instead of
| theories, would be stimulated. For
'that Is just what happened in Ten
nessee. It Is a psychological law that
the wind in its formative state seeks
moat after that which is denied it.
Thus in Tennessee, is reliably report
ed that school children and students—
those whoin the bill is designed to pro
tect—are More interested in delving
into these subjects than ever before.
I Thus those who deplore the intro
duction of the present Bowie-Poole.
bill and who see in it danger and
harm rather than good are taking hope
in the refusal of the house to pass
“morality” legislation as evidenced in
the decided defeat of the Haywood
ANOTHER COLD WAVE
GRIPS MIDDLE WEST
AFTERIILD SPELL
i Snow and Sleet Sweep Out
of the Rocky Mountain
Region on a Five-State
Front.
I
MERCURY DROPS
TO LOW POINTS:
Fifteen and 20 Degrees:
Below Zero in Some of
Western and Mid-West
ern States.
Kansas City, Feb. 9.—( A* )—Snow
and sleet swept out of t'.ie Rocky
Mountain region today on a five-state
front, bringing freezing temperatures
to the middle west and southwest af
ter more than a week of unusually
mild winter weather.
Starting in Canada Sunday, the
storm moved southward through Mon
tana. Wyoming and Colorado, leaving
a heavy blanket of snow and forcing
tem’peratures to sub-zero marks. Pre
ceded by sharp drops intemperature
tile clouds banks rolled slowly over
the Dakotas, Nebraska. Kansas and
Okla'iiomn yesterday to cover the
southern part of this section with two
or more inches of snow, or to bring
a corresponding amount of rain or
s>et.
Snow continued in Kansas and parts
of Missouri and Oklahoma today with
the mercury varying from 15 to 30
degrees above zero. Rain or mist was
genera! in northern Texas, with Abi
lene reporting a temperature of 34
above at midnight, ns compared with
04 above at noon yesterday.
“CATHOLIC PLOT” IS
NIPPED IN THE BUD
i Tlicse Found Guilty Expected to
Face Firing Squad.
j Mexico City. Feb. B.—The Mexi
| can Government today announced
j that it bad nipped in the bnd whHt
j officials describe as another “Catho
| lie plot” for a rebellion in the
States of Qneretnro and Quamijunto.
The government also reported
fvirther defeats of rebel groups in
other sections of Mexico.
• General Alvarez, Chief of Staff
•to-Btooident Cnltes, said today that,
tin null-government plot by the
League for the Defense of Religions
Liberty was discovered in the City
of Qneretnro. Eighty rebels, who are
alleged to be attempting an uprising
under this plot, are being pursued.
Federal forces killed one of these
men and captured three, the latter
i of whom, the government says, con
fessed that the League for the De
fense of Religious Liberty had plot
ted the uprising.
"The government has ordered that
the necessary measures bo taken.”
General Alvarez said, this being con
strued ns meaning that those found
guilty will face a firing squad.
RAIL STOCKS CONTINUE
ACTIVE AND PRICES RISE
More Than Dozen Stocks Sold at the
Highest Levels in Their History,
Going Up Hourly.
New York, Feb. 9.—(A I )—Feverish
speculation in railroad stocks, inspired
by rumors of new combinations and
competitive bidding for control, was
resumed on the New York Stock Ex
change today. More than a dozen is
sues were bid up to their highest prices
in years, some to the highest level
ever recorded on gains of 1 to 4
points on the first hour of trading.
Would Issue More Stork.
Washington. Feb. 9. — OP) —The
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad
asked the Inter State Commerce Com
mission today for authority to issue
222,276 shares of new Common stock
to relieve a stock shortage which has
occasioned a disturbance on the New
York Stock Exchange. It is to be
nsed iu change for preferred stock for
common stock in accordance with the
eharter of the railroad.
With Our Advertisers.
Springtime is building time. Get
the quotations of the National Lum
ber Co, on any building or materials
you may want. See ad. in this pa
per.
Get the Spartan starting mash for
baby chicks at the Cabarrus Cash
Grocery Co. Phone 571.
Watch for the announcement of the
Gray Shop in Friday’s Tribune. Store
at 22 South Union street.
Efird’s have just received new pat
terns in congoleum gold seal art rugs,
which are specially priced at $10.95.
Make your clothes serve yon well.
See ad. of the Wrenn Dry Cleaning
Co., of Kannapolis.
The famous D’Orsay face powders
are sold at the Gibson Drug Store.
The Parks-Belk Company is giving
from 25 to 50 per cent, reductions on
all ladies’ and children’s winter un
derwear. outings, wool flannels, etc.
Big reduction on other winter goods
also.
Marathon Hats for spring at. J. C.
Penney Co.’s, only $2.88. A new ar
rival for young men.
For real comfort get a pair of
Ivey’s Constant Comfort shoes, only
$5.85.
Extra special Saturday morning—
s6.oo end tables for only $1.95 cash.
.at H. B. Wilkinson's. Now is your
time to get a big bargain.
Twenty-two farmers of the Eure
ka Community in Wayne County
have treated their tobacco seed for
I leaf spot diseases.
! VARIETY OF BILLS
OFFERED TODAY II
STATELESS
Three Bills by Rep. Martin
i Would Deal With Sale
and Use of Fire Arms in
the State.
(GAME LAWTANGLE
GIVEN THOUGHT
: Members of Two Commit
tees Held Joint Session
to Get Agreement on the
Bill.
.State Capitol, Raleigh, Feb. 9.— CP)
—The senate convened at noon, the
house an hour earlier today.
In the house introduction by Rep
resentative Martin, of Davidson, of
three bills designed to tighten restric
tions about the sale and use of fire
arms in North Carolina featured l'he
presentation of nineteen new bills.
11l the triple offering were recom
mendations contained in Governor Mc-
Lean's biennial message, looking to
less crime and less accidents. The
Martin measures would amend the
present laws to make them more dras
tic as to sale, concealment and use of
pistols.
Other bills of general interest came
from Rhodes, of Alamance, seeking
state reports for Elon College; Price,
of Mecklenburg, seeking to repenl cer
tain contract specification laws; and
Connor, of Wilson, to prevent ma
licious damage to property.
Sutton of Lenoir, in an offering by
request, would authorize Wayne
drainage to levy taxes. Moss, of Ruth
erford, had one relating to cemeter
ies.
Three bills were ratified in the
House, and more than a score re
ported back from committee and cal
endared.
Among bills reported adversely was
the measure designed to increase
courts and judicial districts, but the
committee recommended passage of a
committee substitute, incorporating'
differences of the several different
bills of this nature' that had been in
troduced.
Upon the senate’s convening, three
bills were ratified; a house message
containing 15 hills was *read ; hifls re
. .test
measures were add M-to (fie cal
endar on committee 'reports.
The Blount bill with its teaching of
the Federal Constitution in schools
provision met opposition of Senator
Claude Currie, of the 18th district,
in the belief that purchase of addi
tional books would be required, and
in contention the teaching should be
left to the individual schools to de
termine. The bill was killed, 19 to
18 in a rising vote.
Os the dozen new senate bills, Roan
and Swain would prohibit issuance of
bonds in the town of Franklin with
out popular vote; Sharp, of Rocking
ham, would stop giving bonuses to
Rockingham officers; Whitmire, of
Henderson, would regulate operation
of Henderson county pool rooms;
while Broughton of Wake, Whitmore.
Ebbs, of Buncombe. Hines of Guil
ford, and Roy of Orange, would li
cense real estate brokers in certain
counties. Hines of Guilford, would
operate a real estate association of
county auditors.
Game Law Debated.
Raleigh. Feh. 9. — (A 3 )—Proposal to
untangle North Carolina's game law
snarl was debated in joint meeting of
the general assembly game committees
today.
The bill introduced by Representa
tive Sutton, of Lenoir, and sponsored
by the State department of conserva
tion and development, held t'.ie center
of the stage.
This embodied the outline of a state
wide law expressly to take the place
of the 100 conflicting sets of local laws
at present on the books.
February Clearance Sale at .Concord
Furniture Company.
The Concord Furniture Co. will be
gin its February Clearance Sale on
Thursday morning, February 10th,
and will continue it for nine days.
Among the bargains on during this
sale;
$140.50 3-pieco suite, $08.50
$179.00 10-piece suite $110.50.
$28.50 twin beds, $19.75
SIO.OO cotton mattress, $6.90.
These arc only a few of the many
bargains this'store will have for you.
All goods marked in plain figures
showing regular price and sale price,
which is i 5 to 50 per cent, under the
regular price. All goods delivered.
British Troops Going to China.
Shiughai, Feb. 0. —(4*)—Proof that
Great Britain has,not called back the
troops which she recently ordered to
Shanghai was given here today it was.
announced that the- second battalion
of a Gloucestershire regiment had em
barked at Hong Kong for Shanghai.
The move was made in spite of pro
test.-! by both the Peking and Han
kow governments, and the declaration
of Kugenc Chen, Cantonese foreign
minister, that no agreement with Great
Britain would be made with his con
' sent so long aa troops are being land
ed.
War Risk Insurance Appeal.
President Coolidge urges all veter
• ans bolding war risk insurance to con
vert it into the regular life insurance
offered by the government. Many
vetergns have not as yet done so.
- The time limit for snch conversion
■ has been frequently extended. The
present date of expiration is July 2.
oporto mm
MEN BUT LISBON
. rIGHTING NOT OVER
i Carmona Forces Victors .in
i f Revolt in Parts of Port#- ‘
i j gal But Not in Lisbon So
! Far.
I FOREIGNERS SAFE 1
j IN THE CAPITAL
'Sixty Said to Have Bedn
! Killed in the Fighting at
Oporto, Where Reb£l§
Were Defeated.
London, Feb. o.—OP)—The insnr
gentk at Oporto, northern Portugal,
who rose against the Carmona dicta*
torship last week, have capitulated to
the government forces says official .ftp
vices received in London this afto.r
, noon.
Firing continues in Lisbon, tbe cap
ital, however, and there have been
many casualties in the fighting of tjw /
past three days. The dispatches give
assurances that no American or Brit
ishers have been injured.
An indication that President Cgt<-
monn's adherents are holding their
own in Lisbon is seen in special jis
patehes saying that all cable and
wireless stations are in the hands 64
the government.
Travelers arriving over the border
in Spain are quoted as expressing be
lief that the uprising has been Stqi
pressed, and frontier dispatches re
ceived in Madrid tell of a minSK vic
tory for the Carmona forces in
. iug off a rebel column headed south
ward from Valencia-do-Minho, In the
direction of Oporto.
An evening news dispatch Bjngl
- Vigo, Spain, says sixty were kffled
■ and several hundred wounded during
the fighting at Oporto. The city Wg»
occupied, yesterday afternoon when tbe
: revolutionaries there surrendered. j
Before surrendering the revolution
■ nries asked that all sergeants, corpor
i aim and private soldiers involved in
the uprising be freed of’ responsibility
for it. The government commander
■ agreed, except with reference to the
sergeants.
• During the fighting a grenade hurst
1 in an asylum for girls, killing one
• and wounding another. • ij
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CONCORD HIGHS TO PLAY
ALBRMAKLE FEBRUARY 11th
■ Will Be First Game For Teams in the
High School Basketball Series. . •
Salisbury, Feb. 9.—OP)—Faculty
• ropresen tnfives and coaches of the 04]
1 teams in the western part, of the state
entered in the championship basket
ball series of the North Carolina High
1 School Athletic Association, meetng
here last nght, mapped out the ached*
. uie for the first sets of elminatfotf
games.
Right groups were formed and group
champions will be determined by ffeb
; ruary 19th. The eight champions
will then meet to map out the final
schedule for determining the western
champion. Winner in the west meets'
the winner of the east at Chapel Hill
on March sth for the state title.
Tlie schedule includes: Group m
Concord vs. Albemarle, at Albemarle
, on February 11th; Granite Quarry
vs. Salisbury at Salisbury. Feb. Iff; ..
Cliurehland vs. Bmlin at Badin ort
February 12th; Welcome vs. Chink
Grove at Spencer on February lltb:;
Group VI —Huntersville vs. States
ville at Statesville on February 10t.fi;
T'nion Grove vs. Kannapolis at ITnSgjl
Grove February 11th: Harmony V#,
Troutman at Statesville on Fetaffi.
ary 11 : Landis vs. Scott’s at Moores
ville, February 11th.
THE COTTON MARKET f. I
Showed Renewed Firmness at Op«>-
ing. May Going to 14:20 and Octo
ber to 14.57.
New York, Feb. 9.—-(/P)—The cMb
1 ton market showed renewed flrmnip
at the opening today, prices advaae
■ ing on reported prospects of early ad*
i tion on the farm relief bill in W4«fi- |g
, ington and the firmness of Liverpool, 4
First prices were 2 to 8 points high
- er, the market soon showing net
gains of 10 to 11$ points on covering,
while there also appeared to be tradq
bnying to fix prices and large commie* ■
sion house demand. May contradfs '
sold up to 14.20 and October to 14.57. .
The market was within a point or 2
of the best at the end of the first hour,
although the advance met considerable ,V
realizing and a little more hedge sell
ing from the South.
Private rubles reported trade catl
ing, with London and continental (
buying in the Liverpool market. , v)J
Cotton futures opened steady; '
March 13.87: May 14.10; July 14-34} t
October 14.50; December 14.70.
Cook Asking For Pardon. ’ -
Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. B.—Hr, J
Frederick A. Cook, Arctic explorer
and oil promoter, convicted heie
November 21. 1923. on 12 counts for ,■
using the mails to defraud ami sen
tenced'to 14 years and nine mouths
in the Federal Penitentiary at ,
Leavenworth. Kan., has filed Bppp)f||
cation for probation over a period of J
five years, his attorney, H- C.
of Forth Worth, announced taoK|ii£
WEATHER FORECAST.
Cloudy tonight and Thursday,
aibly rain; colder tonight in e&f§Uj9
west portion and in west portion \lls|
Thursday. Moderate to fresh norti* j
east winds.