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D^^^lES VOLUME XXVII 25 New Bills Offered In Lower House; Many Others Given Thought Seven of the 25 Measures Were of State-Wide Sig nificance.—The Muscle Shoals Debate Up. TAIL LIGHT BILL THROUGH SENATE Requires All Vehicles to Carry Tail Lights.—Says State Has Nothing to Do With Muscle Shoals. Raleigh. Feb. 11.—(/P)—Twenty five new bills were introduced today in the House, seven, pf state-wide sig nificance. Representative Price, of Mecklen burg. and others, sent the first work men's compensation law of the ses sion. It is modeled closely upon the present Virginia law. Judge Winston put np a resolution to ask Congress to erect a memorial ut Kitty Hawk N. C.’ the scene of the first successful airplane Sight. Representative Ridenoutte moved to mnke barber anil beauty shops safe, and sanitary, by providing state health Inspection. Representative Creekmore, of Wake, sent up a bill recommended by the state, police association.. It would give the county and city officers right to pursue a man suspected of a fel 'ony into any county of the state, and arrest and bring him back to the county where pursuit started. Representative Hart, of Anson, one of the house “official adjourners,” pre- sented his first bill of the session. It Vr ns»dd provide a bond issue for a eoun j fjt Home in Anson. Twenty local bills were passed, either finally or to the Senate for rat i-'fieation, before the usual morning de bate broke. ' The senate was called to order, pray er offered, and a House messenger brought over a large number of new measures which were referred to the, committees. Senate committees re / ported the results of their labors,] thereby putting a larger number of new local measures on the calendar for the tlfixfc day. frtic Senatb committee on education J naused fay/able consideration of the] effort of. Senator Spa inhour to reduce j —■ 4h«. wmntarri*- ro ,mh smi-M tfirifaowd of Education for Morganton, and to i abolish the office of city superintend- 1 ent. Following introduction of ten new senate bills and passage of two local bills, the senate passed without any discussion the bill offered during the first week of the session, requiring that all vehicles be equipped with tail lights. Several other bills on the public cal endar of the upper house amending statewide laws likewise passed with out comment or debate, until the Mus cle Shoals resolution came up, per mitting open bidding on the part of] I the engineering work. M' 'Senator Smith of Mecklenburg, did; J 'not see why the North Carolina leg-] Mature should “butt In" on the Fed- i eral measure, he did not know any-; thing about Muscle Shoals, and he did not believe the Senate knew about ] it. Senator Spencer, of Hyde ex plained the “innocent purpose” of the measure, and it passed to the House. House debate meanwhile came over the bill sponsored by Kluttz of Ca tawba. to reduce legal working hours' in manufacturing plants from CO to fifi hours per week. Senate Adopts Resolution. Raleigh, Feb. 11. —(A 1 )—Joiut reso lutions providing for memorializing Congress to make surplus power gen erated at Muscle Shoals available for industry of Southern states, was pass ed by the senate today. The bill was introduced in the House by Representative McLean of Beau fort, and paased by that body. It set out that the government will require of the Shoals lessees to re serve a certain amount of power gen erated for use in wartime emergency. The McLean resolution would simply mnke this power available for peace time industrial improvement. The resolution now goes to Con gress upon ratification in the house. The Smoky Mountain national park bill was set as a special order for next Wednesday at the, expiration of to ddy’s session, in tha senate. , The motion to set this measure as a special order i was made .by. Senator Frank Dunlap, pf 4 nson county. The bill was presented to the appropria tions committee last night, and imme diately following the bearing the Sen ate committee adjourned to its cham ber and voted to report the bill favor ably. The bill would provide a bond issue of $2,000,000 for the purpose of pur chasing land in the Great Smoky Mountains to be presented to the National government for * national park. 8. D. Moody Goes on Tptal. Wilson, N. C„ Feb. 11.—(A*) —S. D. Moody went on trial today on the riiarge of killing his wife, Irma May Moody. A special venire of fifty Jur ors was summoned to hear the case which Is expected to consume all of today and tomorrow. Alvesta \ Ayem, pleading guilty to second degree murder of his wife, Bertha Ayers, and his father-in-law, W. D. SUHing, on August 24, 1026, was sentenced to 20 to 26 years in the state penitentiary late yesterday. ■Juggernaut (“lord of the world") was the Hindu idol under whose char gjpt wheels the people flung themselves. The Conqemrd Daily Tribune fi Lea<sfcng Small City Daily hEART OF AW PLAN IS HUMAN, NOT MATERIAL S s-lal Workers Are Told That Human ity Comes First In “State Plan ning.” Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel. ! Raleigh. Feb. 11.—“ The heart of I any plan is human', not material. It jis men. women, and children first; j not lands or forests or rivers or even jthc work of men's hands," said Edward IE. Hunt of Washington, I). C„ As -1 sistant secretary of Commerce in dis ! cussing "State Planning" before the j closing session of the State coference 1 j for Soenl Service nt its 15th annual meeting here. "Study your physical j resources, and study your people in ; order to find out what they can do ; with you plan of development, whether jit is the best plan in the world. You i must decide if they will be able to do i a first class job of State making, or a second class job. ( "Two words sain up the great Amer ican problem," stated Mr. Hunt, “they are 'Drift of Mastered.” Our economic and social development in the past I has been left too much to drift; noth ing is so certain as that In the fu ture, it will be mastered; nothing is so certain as that those who plan will lend," he said in conclusion. “Surely this conference might well assume leadership in State planning for the future." In a discussion of “The Industrial Community,” three papers were pres ented advocating the Christian way of file in industry, iu order to diminish conflict and misunderstanding and to promote community fellowship aud co operation. "Chief among the ills of modern in dusary is the social isolation of the workers," Dr. IV. A. Parker, of Ashe ville, Held secretary of the Recreation Asscintion told the Conference, chief of the needs of these workers, is a wider sense of human fellowship, which can not develop behind social barriers. The cardinal need he the abolition of caste, for while that exists the mill villager will bear in his heart the sting of his involuntary* status. One way of successfully do in away with this social isolation is by the means of recreation and com munity play, concluded Dr. Parker. Stressing the need for a clear real isation of the dependence of school and industry qpou each other in their co-operative effort on the part of in dustry dud the schools to bring about better possibilities for contentment in living and power of production, Prof. E. \V. Boshnrt, of the North Carolina State College read a pajier on “The School and Industry.” “Our indus tries,'' he said, “are clamoring for workers who are prepared not in mind alone, but in head and heart and mind so that they may take their places with that feeling of contentment, which will tend toward more stab ilized employment." Conclusions on the development of mill welfare work, after a scientific study of over 300 North Carolina Mills were giveu by Miss Harriet L. Herring of the University of North Carolina. "Soeial work in the mills has always been based on what seems to be very humanly satisfying rela tions of patron and proteges,” said Miss Herrirtg. “The trend toward the use of regularly constituted agencies is unmistakable; it is the only way the •mall mill can carry 011 its program, and is the logical and healthy demo era tie way for it to be done. “I suggest that anyone who wants <0 do any reforming of mill problems, would better start with the people who surround them—the towns and rural sections and eventually the state ns a whole. There is a more fruit ful field than denouncing the mills or pitying the mill people.” EDWARD W. CHAMBERS PLUNGES TO HIS DEATH Fell Four Stories From Hospital When Seised by Fit of Tanporary Insanity. San Francisco, Feb. 11.—(A»)—Ed ward W. Chambers, of Chicago, vice president of the Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fe Railway, plunged four stor ies to hie death from a hospital win dow here early today after; having been seised with what, apparently was a fit of temporary insanity. Mr. Chambers, who was one of the best knotn railroad executives; in the United, States entered the hospital about ten Mays, hgo for a minor oper ation, HeWa»re|K>ited to be making normal progress 'a convalescing. Hospital authorities said that short ly bsfore 3 o’clock this morning, Mr. Chambers jumped from his bed, grab | bed his special nurse and thrust her I out of the room, locking himself in. j Before the nurse could secure help, he | smashed a window, and jumped over tbs gill. New County Nurse in Cabarrus. Mooresville Enterprise. Miss Bernice Cornelius has accepted a position as county nurse for Cabar rus and has gone to Concord to enter upon her duties there. Miss Cornelius is a graduate nurse and had been lo cated in Charlotte. , Bhe is a daughter of Mrs. Levi Cornelius and a very callable young woman. Spatlali In Drgsaes at Fisher's. Today, Saturday and Monday Spring frocks will be on display at > Fisher’s in sisee from 13 to 60 and at prices from $8.75 to $25.00. Ray on knickers for SI.OO and real fall fashioned hose for the same pries, are > others specials being offered -far the - week-end at this papular store. See . ad. lor particulars. MOLEU , KILLED AS RESULT! OF LONG DEBITED j In the State Capitol Then I Is Feeling That Rropd| ents Have Talked tfl ! Bill to Death. LONG ARGUMENTS I MADE THURSDJ| Those Who Are Opposeml Bill Were Bitterly Jm sailed by Proponents in the Measure. The Tribune BiircJjmjl Sir Walter Hujm By J. C. BASKERVILL 1 Raleigh, Frb. 11.—Despite thej||jl that the propuuents of the BfiMK Poole evolution bill talked themdMff almost hoarse for three hours day ufternoon in arguing that 9H monkey business must stop," uet : jt: ripple wns left on the surfnee of t»J legislative pool today into whijU many oratorical rocks had thrown and the sentiment conttgifij to prevail that an unfavorable mSm] on the bill would be returned. jSTS,J “The only thing the hearing eefiJ vineed me of was that a retdnHß fee had made a monkey of Bowie," said one member of tvig gen-; eral assembly in commenting mESHm hearing, and the eoneenaus of today seemed to be that the mentalists and Bible )eague|j|lpt] talked their own bill to The bill was still, breathiidjOßH faintly, when Tani Bowie, tI&9H speaker for the bill—there wjSnXH speakers against it—eoncludedy ipfiw than 45 minutes of vociferous about 40 minutes of which wiSBP ed to the tracing of the history ligation ns lie understood it, anaWjjH] five minutes to the discussion 41? the] bill. Following Mr. Bowie Kerfew, a liaint salesman frotHHM? ton-Salem, who quoted from aamnl text book beiug used at- the ]fljp|f| sity of North Carol-ink as uu flßpn§M of the kind of teaching the bfiEfifa-j signed to stop. Next the RjwAVlKj liam Black spoke,, and his apMPgsr£j| -one of the most effective of tHpMMw lot. being less bitter and inf (Scant The final blow against the bill was delivered by the Rev. Dr. McKendree Long, president of the North Carolina Bible league, .when be spoke for more than un hour, supposedly iu favor of the bill. But his ultra-superior atti tude of sophistication, his overbearing intolerance and his patronizing indulg ence of the ignorance of his audience served to erect a barrier of hostility from the outset, and the longer he talked the farther he got from attain ing his purpose. Virtually every speaker made a bit ter attack upon the newspapers of the state, which for the most part have opposed the Bowie-Poole bill. Mr. Kerfees in the course of hie speech snid: “What hurts me is that the Oth erwise great newspapers of the state are standing behind the devil in this thing.” -jJj , And Dr. Long was no exception, venting his spleen upon tile newspa pers of the state iu exaggerated rhet oric and excessive verbosity. He pro fessed to have great respect for tfie press and its representatives in- Ids introductory remarks, but heaped fire and brimstone upon if later. Dr. Icing is nothing if not dramatic, and according to some who observed him before the committee, he should have essayed the role of an actor rath er than that of a clergyman. It waa recalled by some that he originally as pired to be 9 great painter and studied art in Paris and New York' before de ciding to enter the ministry. Becoming somewhat, affronted and lieeved because the time for his speech had been limited to a given number of minutes, be foreniscaßy declined at first to speak at all unless he should be allowed to have all the time he needed. Finally, when this was grant ed by the committee, he mounted to the speakers stand with an armful of books, documents, manuscripts and notes, whereupon he began his survey of ancient aud modern philosophy, eth ics, science, psychology aud what not. in an attempt to trace the origin of the preseut 1 modernistic movement which he- mahitaiued U now threaten ing to destiny the very -civilization, of this age—aihd vibich he maintains 'the Bowie-Poole bill will 'prevent. After the first thirty minutes of his oratory had been weathered, the crowd began to thin, and as the hands of the clock neared six—he had begun to speak before four-thirty—few were left in the bouse except the goodly number of fundamentalists and the weary ami worn members of the com- mittee. And so the “monkey bill* was talked to death by its own parents. May it rest in peace! Fleetwood Hotel Com Carried to Fed eral Courts. Ashevile, Feb. 10.—An effort on the - part of the creditors of the Fleetwood - Hotel corporation to remove the case from the state courts to the federal courts was seen today when a petition was filed in United States court ask r ing that the corporation be placed in t involuntary -bankruptcy. | Voluntary bankruptcy was sought . today -by G. W. Buchhnls. contractor. | who is said to have failed as a result s of the hotel affair. I 1 The woodcock carries its young in Its claws when flying. CONCOf- M. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1927 fNption To Proposal That State Departments Be Combined | > Tribune Bureau, f ' Sir Walter FI -tpi. W G. BASKF.RV ILL. Feb. 11.—Will any of, *|Ule state eoihmiri-uons. bureaus and yJK-fItjMMM s be combined or con- ] ts<-Ptiatf-T a** the* feflitlr of the ro-ofu- j SMB that dins been panted by the] nflKpi bsftte ii committee to In-' ftdv'uabi iiy of making] gßliap-. cfifl-Hil'idations? And if so. 1 JprlwA will be affected?: s*' jjfnMtf a bill has been offered ] (bmWdiu for the consolidation of 'jr'is|trries Comms-xion with the; 9|MH|Hpt)t of Conservation and Dc-j jpiedAflfcetit. and Representative Poole several bills design-! the number id’ depnrr- KgflHfjßßt. thine failed to get far. P j?bwy comes the sugges .fttioti .in several quarters that it possible to combine the 7Public Welfare Department and SHkllrf Welfare Commission under the BffSnfrrkl direction of the “tate Hoard Ijof Health, and thus bring about »greater! co-ordination and 'thorp HMjHfl administration, kvSth a MjjPlifffrdin* saving to the state, ; of this plan argue tfipllljt'o » « similarity of effort ill (all tfcljik of these departments, aid: MnMhS a result. their netivites ■fljjHHp better eo-ordinated tinder of the Board of Health. ; Rut. the State Health Officer, Dr. mMHI: O. H. Laughinghou.se, does not approve of the suggestion. HpljKjming could be more unfortun- - Much a consolidation, as ISEHHfte, the. Board of Health and ' |thin Departments of Public ami Chi’d HBBB> would all suffer,” said Dr. ' the furctions of the Bonrd of Health 1 i«Mt flk IVelfare Department are eu- IrtlillrfHcparate and distinct, since |HB9faetioha of the Board of Health HH chiefly to physical well HUME and the prevention of disease [and ijpose conditions which bring HmUp physical and moral degeneracy - KSSjHk which the IVelfare have to Ideal That is, the Welfare Depart- I meat takes up the work where the ■KfiM of Health either leaves off or MMftltn function properly, and this HNMM it necessary that the two de fjMggßffnta be continued as absolute jawifetc and distinct departments.” this same stentiment was limplied by Mrs- Kate Burr Johnson, mmEm fights terror IN UNDERWORLD HMgtWpnh.. Rampart In Mem ; pM, -RlMr Arrest By Ingenious . IBSpipf*. m—Herrin may warfare. Chic ago ilsmßnHH|Br bandits amt thrill tnuniekera but Memphis can boast the noMmmot of unappreheuded criminHls drtii evpr made their deblit in underworld circles. A naked burglar has terrorized a southwestern section of the city for many months. He greases - liis, -body and creeps through the shadows, In inn-fashion. He has thrice been fir ed upon by citizens and police but eludes his pursuers like a greased eel. A barefoot thief, who successfully walks about the houses he loots be tween midnight and dhybreak without half a hundred looted houses in his wake during the past few months. Bare footprints are always left out side the window. ’ | A pettiug part)!, bandit. Not the usual type, a coition thug. Rut a middle aged man, who uses a shot gun and preys upon couples found 1 parked on the roadsides- in automo biles. lie Starts the robbery with shouting “that's nify daughter,” ami then gets the drop on the couple. A bicycle bandit. A callow youth, three huge payrolls during the past two weeks. Under guise of a bicycle messenger, this youth clings on the fender of a payroll car and steps over on the running board, pistol in hand, and successfully escapes with the cash. A pyromauic who loves to hear the thrilling scream of fire sirens and see the giant engines roar by, has ] been -starting fires of homes in the eastern section of the city. An auto bandit, suffering with a . publicity complex, who robs a store ; or a restaurant, gives the money hack to the owner or throws it into the ; street, drives a few blocks away and calls police headquarters and “kids" the detectives, telling them he. js tjie "lone wolf,” is among these unusual criminals, - ... There are many others, strange iu actions, but dangerous criminals, say the police. ~ ; t I f , A school: for' foe instruction and 1 ‘ iservbte of tboke' iit th* kid art of hand weaving has been estab ' '.ished in Cambridge, Mass. League H&ppy Over Coolidge Plan, But Sees One Objection Geneva, Feb. 10.—Reaction at Gen eva to President Coolidge’s recommen dation for • supplementary five power naval accord was two-fold. League of nations was happy to see any thing done to further the cause of disarmament but this was coupled vitb doubt as to whether France and Italy and even Great Britain, would we their way clear to negotiating a naval agreement limiting cruisers, des troyers and submarines, unless the accord was linked np with an a gree ns nt on military and aviation prob lems. Experts are of the opinion that f France and Italy in the long run accept participation in a five power conference they will be almoet cer tain to make the reservation that the treaty mint not enter into farce un* IfConimL-vioner of Public Welfare, flhiitigh she would not "fl'Hicuss rhe question as fully ae Dr. Laughing j house, merely stating that \slie i thought nothing wouhl he gained tfrohi the consolidation, j Others go still further in opposing ;I he consolidation, one man in par j ticiilar, hut who does not wi»h to: |ho quoted, stating that merely from l|» po'itieal consideration, if from no f filter, it would be bad poliey to i diange the present administration of I he Department of Piiblie Welfare, | nni-e it has become a valuable as- I ief as a “buffer" department, in ad- L lftion to the excellent work it has | seen doing, especially in occupying \ he attention of the women of the - date who are interested in politics ! mil in participating in the work of he state. ; “No one knows how valuable this iVelfare Department is to all the j ithed departments of tiie state, in - ibeorbing “kicks" and petty griev i tiers from numbers of people, many ;if them women. Mrs. Johnson has ] he faculty of being able to talk to he-c people, satisfy them and send hem away happy. If this were not | one, these comp'aints nnd griev p nces would be taken from one de t nrtment to another, and even to the j (overnor. v “Then the women of the state gave come to look upon this depart ment as theirs, since a woman has ■ren placed in charge of it—the only 4'oman head of a state department -4-aml it would be a fatal political move evr to attempt to take this (|tpnrtment away from a woman—or Women. Aud the results accomplish ed by this department indicate that Mrs. Johnson and her assistants are felly callable of handling the de partment, despite the fact that some of the women of the state, who think they know how to run it and who really know nothing about it. are all the time trying to tell Mrs. John son how to run her department, it wkl be disastrous to think of com bining this department with any other." i And this neems to be tile general run of opinion among those who hove given the matter thought, all agree, too, tjiat liftie if nny money Could be saved to tfie state through such consolidation. TWO TOWNS ARE AFTER RUTHERFORD COLLEGE Board of Trustees Names Committee ► to Determine Whether to Move Institution. ■ '\c * '•. "^r^WMfrcfintte^ietiow oil the removal '-of -Rutherford College from its present site to some other location will be taken within the next sixty days after a complete in vestigation has been made of the of fers of other towns for the institu tion, it was decided at a meeting of the colleg bonrd of trustees held this afternoon. The sentiment expressed by the majority of the board members was that the college would remain wnerc it is, provided adequate financial re quirement for rebuilding the burned dormitory can be met. Strong bids for fh(j' college were made by Morgan ton and Lexington lifter fire destrp.vC(l' the boys’ dor jraitory on January'B, and the ques tion of removing tfie institution to -ome other-location'came; up. A com mittee was appointed this afternoon to take np the matter with officials : ih Lexington and Morganton and re {'port back to the board no later than (10 days. On the committee to mnke the in vestigation with Rev. H. 11. Jordan, chairman of the board of trustees, are G. F. Ivey, of Hickory; W. F. Starnes, president of Rutherford col lege; c, A. Stieneer, of Mprganton; It- SV. Alexander, Connelly Springs; W. Tt. Love. Monroe; U. G. Rankin, (Fastonia ; and IV. B. West. Lincoln tnn. Dredges Accomplish Much. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 11.—(INS) — ! A dozen moderately constructed ] dredges, to keep the channel of the Mississippi river nine feet deep from Oairo, Illinois, to the mouth of the river at New Orleans and comtfiit low waters, is worth $3,000,000. This fleet of dredges is stationed at Mem phis. Major S. C. Godfrey, who maintains a corps of assistant;* who have a good knowledge of the river channel from years; of experience, is in charge of (be- tjeet. . A machine shop for the buildiug of more boats, if necessary, is also oper ated by Uncle San) at-Memphis. The entire fleet is located on the vrkht \ bauk of the Mississippi river, 'across the river from the city of Memphis. til a satisfactory pact is achieved relative to military and air matters. On the other hand, it is admitted that a general international confer ence (tearing on all the aspects of arm aments with Russia refusing to parti cipate would stand little chance of attaining important results, especially Ehtropeau and continental army re ductions, and that there is something to be said in favor of the American idea of handling disarmament in con crete stages among the powers inter ested in particular armaments. It is also remarked, however, that if France and Italy accepted a sep arate naval parley they would risk losing American and British support for a : later conference on -military and aiC problems. Invades Ohio Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles evangelist, waved good-bye to Chicago as she left for revival meetings in Ohio. _ (loternstloosl Ntmrml.) THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady at Decline of S to 6 Points, May Selling Off to 14.02. New York. Feb. 11.—(/P)—The cot ton market opened steady today at a decline of 3 to (1 points. May selling off to 14.02 and October to 14.41 un der-realizing or liquidation, promoted by relatively easy Liverpool cables, and prospects for somewhat better weather in the South. A little southern selling was ab sorbed b.v trade buying to fix prices, and the market held steady during the first hour, prices showing rullies from rtie lowest. A good deal of business was attributed to the evening-up of small accounts in preparation for the adjournment over Lincoln’s birthday or pending action iu Washington on the farm relief bill. Private eables reported fair trade calling and cover- Big which nbsorbed hedge selling in Liverpool, and that more idle looms Were beipg restarted in the Manches tcr *nmhn -miltiU - ~ : ... Cotton futures opened steady: March 13.70; May 14.03; July 14.24; Oct. 14.42; Deo. 14.00. With Our Advertisers. The Parks-Belk Co. is offering gen uine bargains in the men’s and boys’ department. Suits, sweaters and ov ercoats at unusually low prices. The company wants 25 salesladies for Sat urday. Apply in person. New dress styles that will appeal to all are carried at Efird’a. Frocks are priced from $5.05 to $34.50 and Spring coats from $9.95 to $24.50. Work done at the Shepherd Shoe Hospital gives lasting satisfaction. You know you are getting the best when you trade at the Ritchie Hard ware Co., says new' ad. today. Their hardware stands the test. > The Iteid Motor Co. has made a reduction in Ford labor repair rates. You eon' get your motor overhauled now for sls. See new ad. in this pa per. ' Smartest styles for spring are be ing exhibited at the footwear exhibi tion at the Merit Shoe Store Inc. AA to D widths in newest materials and colors. The G. 11. Moeer Shoe Co. is re ceiving new footwear daily. Pastel Parehmeuts, Rose Blush. Patent aud Kid Persian Trim. Pumps, Straps, Ties, High Spike, Cuban Low Heels, from $1.95 to $5.95. The Concord Theatre will offer elev- j en reels of pictures Saturday and in; addition will present a slight of hand artists. All for the regular admission prices, 10 and 25 cents. Pat Covington is offering many bar gains. “Trade With Pat,” he says, and “You’ll Get Fat.” Read careful ly his ad. in this paper. Freßh shipment of many good things to eat the the J. & H. Cash Store. Meats, canned goods and fresh veg etables for the week-end at C. H. Bar rier & Co. New. spring suits, from $25 to $35, already received b.v W. A. Overeash. Now is the time to get fitted out. Vaudeville and, pictures tonight at the Concord Theatre. Prices 25 and 50 cents* • It) a- new ad. today are enumerated somlv'o! the grocery specials bring of fered in Concord A. &P. stores. Read the ad., carefully. See the Concord & Kannapolis Gas Co. about an Autohot tank water heat er.' The company will allow you $lO for your old heater and give you easy terms ou the new one. The Gray Shop will open tomorrow at 9 o’clock at 22 South Union street. Every woman calling at the store during, the day will get a souvenir. See ail. for pnrticultrs. VAUDEVILLE - ALEX SAUNDERS “COHEN’S NIGHT OUT” A Better Show Than Tuesday's and Clean, Too —AIso— “THE LONE WOLF’S RETURN” Hie Most Thrilling Crook Melodrama on the Screen Tonight 25c 50c Concord Theatre President’s Plan For Disarmament Is Given Muck> ...oval So Far COOLIDGE PROPOSAL IS FINDING FAVOR SO FAR Proposal For Further Limi* tatioti of Naval Armament Finds World in Receptive Mood. Washington, Feb. 11.—UP)—Presi dent ('Oolidge's proposal for further limitation of naval armament appears to have found the maritime powers in a receptive mood. First impressions as reflected in news dispatches from abroad indicate that the President's plan to discuss the question next month at Geneva probably will be accepted, but that specific methods of limitation will have to be left for determination by the conference itself. Responsible officials of both the British and Japanese governments are quoted as agreeable to the discus sion of the subject broached by the President, but are not certain bis sug gestions for the extension of the 5-5-3 ratio to all classes of warfare can be accepted in advance. France and Italy, the other two na tions to whom the proposal was ad dressed, were reservingg decisions, but they were not expected here to refuse to discußS limitation should the other powers agree to Ruch a discussion. The immediately favorable reaction in Ixmdon and Tokio apparently did not surprise officials here, although they still professed to be without offi cial advices, it is the URiial thing to send out informal diplomatic feelers whenever a government contemplates such a step as that announced yester day by Mr. Coolidge, and to be more or less certain how the land lies be fore there are any formal negotia tions. Whether this was done in the present ease, the State Department will not say. CANTONESE PARTY SPLIT WASHINGTON HAS HEARD Conservatives and Radicals Are Draw ing Farther and Farther Apart. Washington, Feb. 11.—( A ’)—Indica- tions of an impending spilt in the Cantonese nationalist party with the conservative and radical wings draw ing further and farther apart, are epu tained in official ndvicea. received from Chips, both fey the government and. uninterested diplomatic Circles. Ob servers here attach great significance to these reports, although they are not complete enough to furnish a clear pic ture of the internal situation in the party. In some diplomatic circles it is be lieved that ultimately conservative con trol of the nationalist party will be established, to be followed possibly in an understanding between Chiatig Kai- Shek, Cantonese war lord, and some members of the alliance of northern Tuchnns, in which Chang Tho-Lin is now the dominating figure. Whether it will come before there lias been further fighting on the fronts where Cantonese and northern forces are now in contact, and what form of realignment might take, the diplomat ic observers are unwilling to predict. Much depends, it is said, to the ex tent to which the two chief leaders in the Peking and central China areas are able to trust each other in an at tempt to recapture Shanghai from t'.ie Cantonese, moving down the line of the Peking-Ilnnkow railroad from the Hwang-Ho, or bellow River front, where the rival northern and southern armies now face each other. Lea Comity to Raise Fun For Fami lies of Three Officers. Sanford. Feb. Ift.—At a meeting of the citizens of Sanford held in the rooms of the Lee county chamber of commerce Wednesday evening a com mittee was formed to raise a fund for relief of the family of the late Sheriff Turner, and of the families of Officers Craig and Utley. These men were shot down while o n a mid after blockaders on January 3ft. Sheriff Turner's death on Tuesday resulted from wounds received nnn the other officers are still in the I hospital. It is expected they will re- j coven’ if no complications arise. The- committee that will have] charge of administering this fund' ate three prominent citizens of San- j ford: W- 11. Fitts, mayor: J. C. Gunter, chairman of the board of -of Lee county, and T. S. Cross, president of the Lee coun ty chamber. . Range Sale At Yorke A Wadsworth Hardware Co. The Yorks & Wadsworth Hardware Co. will have a special sale of |)er-Clad ranges during the week of February 14 to Ift. There will be gifts to those purchas ing ranges, the price of which will be uuusualy low. Read carefully the company’s ad. in this paper for full particulars of the sale. Reject Muscle Shoals Bid. Washington. Feb. 11.—OP)—Neith er of the_ two pending bids for lease of Muscle Shoals has been found ac ceptable by the house military sub committee. It rarely happens that good eating habits are developed in young chil when who eat at the adult table.— Children, The Magaaine for Parents. Ten Pages Today Two Sections »«■ ■■■ . «i TODAY’S NEWS TODAY j NO. 30 Great Britain Ready to Da 1 j Anything Possible to j Put Into Effect Cool- || idge’s Proposals. || french"studying PROPOSAL CLOSE!# | Will Not Make Comment at Present Time, —ltaly 1 Ready to Discuss Matter ] Fully. London, Feb. 11.— (A>) —The Brit* I ish government heartily endorses the tfHj I principles of President Coolidge’s nav- 3 al disarmament proposals. Thi% wq» made known at the foreign office to--’ .3 j day. j "The generally favorable press cqjg- ; ments on the President's note voices both the public find private opinion oY Great Britain,” an official told the Associated Press. It was asserted that Great Britoig& i support of American efforts towffeg c r ,i disarmament, as enunciated by Lgja Balfour at the Washington confn* jjj enco, would be accorded Mr. COM- g idge's plan at Geneva. French Study Proposal. Paris, Feb. 11.—04>)—1 “resident I Cool idge's proposal for further naval j i limitation is receiving careful study, it was said, at the French foreign off- % fice this morning. Official comment Iff X reserved until the whole bearing of tMt | suggestion upon the present oetiytf ties of the league of natious appettm clear, and the eventual conseqUehM: of a new naval disarmament J ence are weighed. It is remarked that Mr. Cooliffin addresed his memorandum only to : those powers who were represented at tlie Washington conference, and question arises whether the league Ig .5 likely to take offense at a program that would seem to take the question of naval disarmament out of its hands. It is suggested in official quarters, however, that this difficulty can be bridged over if the Washington gov- - eminent is willing to associate the % leage in the new conference. .. Italy Ready to Discuss Matter, Rome. Feb. 11.— UP) —It is under- . Ji stood in political circles that an ex- -I change of views on President Coed. *8 idge’s naval armament bo sought by Italy with England and France, and probably Japan. Premier eg Mussolini is said to have discussed the president’s memorandum at length cs with Marshal Vadoglio, chief of staff of Italy’s entire armed forces. vji The general opinion continues to prevail that Italy will agree to join in a discussion of further naval limi- \> tations, with some reservations, among ,/jj them an insistence upon confirmation of the principle > sanctioned at the j Washington conference, of an equal ’■ ratio of strength between the Italian and French navies. Japan Will Accept. Xi Tokio, Feb. 11.—04 s )—Rengo, the Japanese news agency, learned offi cially today that the -Japanese gov- ? eminent already had decided to ac cept the proposal of President Cool- ■ idge, suggesting a new conference for the reduction of naval armament, and pj it is expected a reply to the Proof* dent’s message will lie forwarded to' : J Washington soon. It was- understood that Japan J basing its acceptance on three prom- .J ises: first, that Foreign Minister J Shidehnra had expressed to the diet Japan's intention of furthering addl-Kjfj lionnl equitable disarmaments iu ev- y, Jj cry way possible; second. Japan's unucial and economic condition makes furtherdisarmament most welcome jis - a relief from tax burdens: and'tbifdL | Japan feels her international rcepoi)- j s'.bilities make necessary her whtjje*®! hearted co-operatiop with other pdw‘ 1 ers for armament reduction. < sj Taken in Charlotte On Charge Ot j .Swindling. Charlotte. Feb. 10.—Charges of J swindling I and of using the mails to defraud were imped upon the hentl of J. 11. Tyler, alias Maim, well-dress* < ’ w hite man about 40 years of age, who * $ was aroated here this niormng gt 4 the Clayton Hotel by Detectives 1 er and Porter. A telegram from Police authotitfea at New York City was received ask: | ing that he be held on the swindling 1 charge, and Alex West, Chief of po* Yjj lice, said the Federal Government wlll|£m seek indictment against him on the C | ! allegation that he used the mails to-." 4 | defraud. - Three Millions of Taxes Are Overdue. ~ Charlotte, Feb. 10.—Owners of *4 j $3,000,000 worth of Mecklenburg. .county's broad acres and building lota A stood perilously on the brink of losing * ! their holdings today, when the county X, \ government sent out final notices that jy. unless tnxeß overdue from lft3s were-'-", paid promptly the county would take, j«|| over title to the pro|>erty aud It would •. . pass into public holdings. "'S’wSM ■ •.,' Continue Charges Against Judge Coop er. Washington, Feb. 11. —®he house today directed its judiciary edwtfefl mittee to proceed with the invitation ‘ii> of impeachment chargee brought S against Federal Judge Frank Cooper, jjl of the northern New York district, '*l WEATHER FORECAST. 7j|j ‘j temperature. Gentle variable Wind*, '!