DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVII
Many Major Measures
to Come Up in the State
Legislature This Week
Little or No Statewide Leg
islation Has Thus Far
Been Finally Enacted.—
Busy Days This. Week.
30 publicTbills ON
HOUSE CALENDAR
Southern Power Co. Says
Passage of Winston Bill
WwiMCostlt About sl,-
000,000 Annually.
KnieiHh, 14.—DP)—Proponed
chanjhw in eowPr'jirocediire and in the
election laws were before bolti houses
of tlin general assembly 6n entering
the loaf tltirtl of its sixty-day biennial
session tonight.
Both houses had recessed from Sat
urday noon over the week-end in con
clusion of the sixth week of business,
favorable committee reports on the
Great Kinoky Mountains national park
project and the bridge project over
the Cape Fear River at Wilmington,
and hearing on the North Carolina Bi
ble League anti-evolution bill, brought
major legislation closer to the two
'.louse bails proper.
The Smokies $2,000,000 appropria
tion question was set for considera
tion in the Senate this Wednesday.
The statewide game bill, reported wKh
unanimous favor, was to be consider
ed in the house the same time. Ju
dicial reform measures were set for'
consideration in the house Thursday
night.
The house education committee
planned to vote on the anti-evolution
bi,l tomorrow and the bill whs afire
1o reach t'ue house floor under favor
ub'c Or unfavorable report.! ' . -
•In the senate tomorrow the compro
mise Committee bill giving the high
way- commission authority to locate
roads copies too, with favorable re
ports. . . ■
Senator Walter Woodsop, senate fi
nance committee chairman, said the
revenue bill would be reported out
probably Friday.
Heport to the education committee
of both houses fro msub-committees
on supplying revenue for school terms
was due early this week.
Meanwhile with little or no sflfTP"
wide, legislation finally enacted, the be
"f the seventh week, saw tkia t»
public bills on the house calendar ami
on the senate eighteen. Tomorrow
the joint elections committee has the
Australian or secret ballot bill before
It for disposal. 1
Tonight’s calendar had the Canaday
bill to change the date of (he primary
election from June to August for con
sideration in the senate, and the house
bfd the judicial reform measure to
shake up the present jury selection
system for vote. Other judicial con
ference measures suggested- by jurists
of the state recently were to be con
sidered in special house meetings
Thursday night.
On tefnight's house calendar also was
tlie t'reekmere bill sponsored by the
State Parent-Teachers Association to
increase the. age limit from Id to 10
years' for compulsory school attend
ance of all children who have not com
pleted tlie eighth grade. i
Southern Bower Company counsel
maintained passage of the Winston bill
by the general assembly would curtail
hydro-electric development. The meas
ure, introduced at the latest house ses
sion, aimed through taxation to raise
$1,000,0000 revnue annually, would
cost the company from $700,000 to
$1,000,000 annually, it was maintain
ed.
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
ON IS-YEAR OLD GIRL
Three White Men of Yakdln County
in JaM for Alleged Serious Offense.
Winston-Salem, Feb. 14.—OP) —
Jonah Speaks, 02, Leroy Pendergrass,
24, and Garland Cildress, 21, all white,
are in Yadkin county jail awaiting
trial in charges preferred by Miss Ed
na Speaks, aged IS, who accuses Hie
three of enticing her to go with them
for a ride and assaulting her. Mias
Speaks had been living with Mr. and
Mrs. U. A. Martin, near Yadkinvll’.e.
She alleges that vae three men came
there and told her that her mother was
ill and wpnjted her at home. Instead
of, taking her borne, they 'parried her
tq an abandoned house where she was
kept for a 'day. It. is said that When
rescued thdgiri «vtii|iijj a pitiful condi
tion. •«"" ® y{2 •
The three will be' given a prelim
inary hearing before a magistrate this
week.
STAR THEATRE
MONDAY-TUEBDAY
“EVERYBODY’S ACTING.’’
With Betty Bronson, Ford Sterling,
Louise Dresser, Lawrence Gray and
Henry Walthall. It’a a Paramount.
Also Fox News and Pa the Sport Reel
WEDNESDAY (Everybody’s Day)
“THE GOLDEN STRAIN”
A Peter B. Kyne etory with Madge
Bellamy, Kenneth Harlan, Hobart
Bos worth and Ann Pennington. Alao
Fox News and Cat Comedy.
ADMISSION AND
THURSDAY-FBIDAY
“THE SEWING MACHINE GIRL”
With Madge Bellamy and Alan Forest
You have seen “Sandy" and also
“Summer Bachelors’’, now sea her beet
The Concord Daily Tribune
North Carolina’s Leading- Small Citv Dailv
i OTTO WOOD MAY BE
TRIED IN INDIANA
If He Is Convicted There the Authori
ties Are Advised to Have a Safe
Place to Put Him.
The Tribune .Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Majelgh. Feb. 14.—Now that Otto
Woodo. Hie Hand ini of North Caro
lina’s prison guests, has been captured
in Terre Haute. Indiana, following
his third escape from the State prison
here, people arc wondering if the In
diana authorities will be able to keep
him incarcerated until he can either
be fried there or returned to North
Carolina. J
For there is no getting around the
fact that Otto N about ns difficult n
man to keep in ’prisons, be it jail or
penitentiary, as it hne been the mis
fortune of the Norl'.i Carolina prison
authorities to deal with. In fact, it
is now generally admitted that Wood
undoubntedly has a peculiar type of
criminal insanity—a sort of “espaeeo
manlac”—whose greatest thrill is to
get in prison and then get out. For
contrary to the belief of many. Wood
is not a vicious man—not n “killer”
us he often has been depicted. He
aayn that he has never shot a man,
and once said that he would rather be
shot than shoot first. His specialty
has been larceny—principally automo
biles, and in making escapes from
jails, chain gangs and state prisons.
H« record of escapes is unequalled
in North Carolina, and doubtless in
other states as well. When he left
the State prison here in the gray dawn
of November 24th through a gate in
the back wall of the prison enclosure,
which a guard had “forgotten” to
properly bar, it was his third escape
from this prison. Home nine months
before he had crawled into a concrete
culvert pipe in n freight car —and let
the switch engine do the rent. Then
before that he had gotten away in
an automobile, as it left the prisdn
yard. And previous to coming to
North Carolina to achieve fame ha a
slippery customer, he had escaped
from the state prisons in Virginia,
West Virginia, Maryland and Tennes
see.
Hence it is not surprising that peo
ple here are wondering if the Indiana
authorities will be able to keep Otto
in prison until such a time as bis fate
"Shall. be determined, for despite tlie
fact tlmt be, has but one hsl)d—-his left
Ing and nerve and nn uncanny al&ity
to do the unexpected—and get’ by with
it.
Because of these qualities, many
who are inclined to admire Otto are
wondering, If he did. not r permit him
self to be shot when he was captured
in Terra Haute trying to hold up
a drug store, rather than exchange
shots with the druggist who shot him.
Reports here so far do not indicate
whether Wood fired his gun or not.
And though he has participated in
numerous holdups, he hag always
maintained that he used a gun merely
for bluff, and that he has never shot
anyone. Even In the killing of Kap
lan, the. Greensboro pawn broker, for
which he was serving a 'thirty-year
sentence in State prison here Wood
ilk] not shooto him but hit him over
the head with the butt of his gun.
And Wood still maintains that he had
no intention of killing Kaplan, and
font the blow he struck was not hard
enough to eg use death.
Before holding up the drug store
on January 25th when he was cap
tured after being seriously wounded —
the druggist’s bullet went entirely
through hit body, a few inches below
the heart—Wood had participated in
anotbe rholdup in Terre Haute, hav
ing held up n railroad brakeman and
taken his watch, some money and con
sltlerable clothing. This was on Jan
uary 19th. The fact that he was
driving a Ford coupe which had been
stolen from Roanoke, Va., on Janu
ary 11th, indicates also that he was
up to his old tricks of stealiug auto
mobiles.
The stealing of this coupe also com
plicates Wood’s present status, since
the government authorities are seek
ing him now on a charge of inter-1
state trafficking in stolen automobiles,
while the maximum penalty in In
diana for holding up the drug store
in 26 yearn in prison. So whether
or not he will be tried there, or turned
over to the federal authorities; for
trial or returned to North Carolina to
serve the rwst of his thirty-year sen-,
tehee for, second degree .murder, re
mains t(> be determined,;! V-’l
Positive identification of Wood by
the Terre Haute police was not made
until February 3rd since be had been
too ill until then to have Us finger
prints taken. These tallied with the
descriptive circlars and then a pic
ture of him nod the finger prints were
sent to the prison here, where the
identification was made positive, ac
cording to George Roes Pou, superin
tendent of the prison. Who said “yes,
it's Otto, all right.”
House To Hold Night Sessions.
Raleigh, Feb. 14.—(INS)—The
House will hold its first night meet
ing of the present session this week.
The body will meet on Thursday
night by special order to consider judi
cial reform bills that have been in
troduced thus far in the session.
The House will take up the various
bills that have been introduced that
relate-in one way or another to in
creasing the number of judicial dis
tricts in the State. * (i?
The committee substitute bill pro
viding for the creation of sven addi
tional districts ip the State haa pawed
the Senate. The bill produced the
most extended argument the Swat*
REVISED REVENUE
BILL TO BE READY
NEXT WEDNESDAY
The Bill Win Be Submited
i in Practically the Same
Form in Which It Was
Drawn.
IA FEW MINOR
CHANGES MADE
It Will Take the Senate and
House at Least a Week
to Consider It.—Other,
Bills of Importance.
TriHune Tturenn
Sir Walter Hotel*
BT J. C. BASKERVILLE.
Raleigh, Feb.—The revised and re
j written revenue bill will probably be
presented to the general assembly by
the joint finance committees on Wed
nesday, it was learned today from one
of those in dose touch with the work
of the committee. While a number
of minor change** have been made in
the bill, and n few sections have
been altered, the bill, will be submitted
much in the same form it was drawn
by the advisory budget commission,
it was said. ,
When the bill in finally submitted,
at least a week will be consumed by
both the senate and bnuse in consider
ing it, it is estimated, since both
houses will probably take the bill up
section by section. It is thought that
consideration of ths bill can be com
pleted within a week, unless some un
expected danger should be encount
ered.
A number of Other bills of state
wide importance 'are on the calendar
for this week. The statewide game
bill has already been reported favor
ably to both the senate and house, and
it has been set as special order at the
close pf the house session Wednesday,
and will probably come up Monday
night or Tuesday in the .Senate, The
bill was on the calendar in the house
Friday bnt action was deferred until
Wednesday. It seems assured of pas
sage.
The various bills relating to in
creasing the number of the judielnl
districts in the state have been made
special order for the bouse Thursday.
Plfihk.AWl.tt Jfeia titflg the
ing the number of judicial districts,
judges and solicitors from 20 to 27
will be taken up, as well as the Mc-
Lean bill to create four permanent
enjprgency judges, pending the enact
ment of a constitutional amendment
proriding for more jbdges Without
solicitors.. This bill was defeated in
the senate when offered as a substi
tute for the bill adopted.
The bill creating the seven addi
tional judicial districts will probably
be approved by the house, close ob
servers here believe, though many
members feel that more solicitors are
not needed, though the judges are.
Final committee hearing on the
FaUs-Broughton Australian ballot bill
has been set for Wednesday, at which
time the bill will receive its death
blow, according to many who have
been following this bill. Two con
cessions have already been made,
have greatly weakened it. These pro
visions leave the absentee voting laws
virtually as they are, and provide for
additional markers at the polls, to
give help to those who desire it. The
original bill would have greatly tight
ened up the abaentee voting regula
tions, and would not have provided
additional markers.
The original bill had the support
of the various women’s organizations
of the state, but so many changes
have been made, or will be made, that
there seems to be a possibility that
they will not support the revised hill.
The delay in considering the Austra
lian ballot hill, and the numerous
changes, in it, both seem to hare been
brought about by the. various influ
ences which have been opposing it.
It la understood that Colonel A. 1).
Watts, who has been in Raleigh al
most continuously for the l«Ut two
weeks, h as been leading the attack
on the bill. The old timers in the
legislature, even those who are for
the bill, now see little chance for its
enactment.
The bill changing the date of the
primary from June to August—but
still on Saturday, so pity the news
papers—has passed the senate and
may get pest the house, but will fact
» Miff fight, the bill to compel all ve
hicles bn' the highways to carry tail
lights, including horse drawn Vehicles,
entitled “An act to prevent suicide
on the highway*'’ goes to the house
for concurrence with Hie senate, and
probably be passed, if Mark Squires
of Caldwell, who knifed a similar bill
in the senate two years ago, can be
modified and convinced that the bill is
necessary. Tfie bill to prohibit the
use of smoke screens on automobiles,
aimed at the whiskey runners, already
.passed by the house, goes tp the sen
ate for concurrence.
Several more of the judicial con
ference bills, notably the jury reform
bill, will also come in the course of
the week - .-
Radio Pictures From Paris
4 Parte, Feb. 12.— One of the big wire
lees stations In Paris is to broadcast
pictures. These transmissions will
be for the benefit of listeners who have
installed a “telectograph”—a picture
receiving outfit.
Many a man will pay a lawyer
for telling him he is wrong, and
never would thank hie wife for the
same advice.
CONCORD, N, C., MON JAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1927
In the News Spotlight
m, \
f^X : ''
1 (I;«
IdU
NicHd/As k.buhcr. HbsteA honoun
Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the Park Avenue Bam
list Church, New York, urged confessionals where Protestant*
could be comforted by their ministers. Pat M. Neff, formef
Governor of Texas, was appointed to the Board of Railroatj
Mediation. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia
(University, predicted that Calvin Coolidge would not be a
Presidential candidate in 1928. Mme. Hosra Honoun, thirty*
jtwo, was the first woman attorney in Turkey.
(latweattom Kmndl
CANNONS START ACTION
AGAINST MILL COMPANY
Want $1,700,060 Now Held As Sur
plus to Be Declared In Dividends.
Albemarle, Feb. 12, —An action tai
-vAviniC' .-$1,7011-000.. won
'Sfnnly* ‘eodiity-Hnperror court here to
day when the law firm of Brooks,
Parker, Smith and Haynes, of Greens
boro, representing the plaintiffs, filed
n mandamus suit to compel the di
rectors of the Wiscaßsett Mill com
pany to declare in dividends the sur
plus of the corporation over and above
the capital stock and the amount re
served by the stockholders as working
capital.
Tile suit is entitled J. F. Cannon
and M. L. Cannon against the Wis-i
cassett Mill company and the direc
tors. It' is said that the capital
stock of the corporation is $3,600,000,
while the working/capital set up by
the company is $1,800,000, The sur
plus of the corporation over and above
the capital stock and the working
capital is placed- *£t $1,700,000 and it
is this amount that' the plaintiffs
through court action seek, to comjiel
the directors to declare in dividends.
Tlie action is made returnable be
fore Judge J. 1,. Webb at Shelby on
Saturday, February 26, Judge Webb
being the Superior court judge holding
the Courts in the district in which the
Wiscassett ‘mill is' located :
Among the prominent directors of
the mill are C. A. Cannon, directing
head of the Cannon Manufacturing
company of Kannapolis; E. T. Cans*
ler, of Charlotte, and A. L. Brooks,,
of Greensboro. J. F. Cannon, of.
the plaibtiffs to the action, owns and
controls more than 25 per cent of
the entire cnpital stock and although
for 20 years he has been connected
with the mills and its tremendous
success he is now excluded from any.
active participation in its manage-;
ment. .«
The Wisacsxett mill has been oncf
of the most successfully operated in
the country. It has not 'only piled
up tremendous working capital and
surplus, but it is said that of the
$3,600,000 of capital stock nearly
$1,500,000 is represented by stock
dividends. /■
f . .a, , -■ 'i
Girl at Head of Women Troops cap
tures Town. .
Managua. -‘Nic., Feb. 11.—A bat r
talliqn of women formed and led by a
2b-year-old firl, assisted , the eonscr*
vative forces which recently recap
tured the town of Chluandega from
the liberal troopß, thus restoring
communications between Corinto and
Managua.
Sixteen of the women were wound
ed, some seriously while passing u>i *1
ammunition to conservative soldiers in
trenches, cleaning gum* and passing
food. Natalie Gargia, of Managua,
lender of the battalion, was shot
through the left breast and is in a
serious condition-
Smith Highway BUI Up Tuesday.
Raleigh, Feb. 14.—(INS)—The Sen
ate Tuesday will face one of the
stillest assignments of the present
session when it considers, by special
order, the so-called Smith Highway#!
bill. ' , ■ ■ 1
The bill, a substitute offered by that
Senate Roads Committee in i!eu of the
biU intorduced early in the Session by
Senators Smith and Hargett, is de
signed to empower the. State Highway
Commission to designate the route and|
The bill WM>t>laced on the special*
order calendar by motion of ita co-l
author. Senator Smith of Wake.
i, iu i ■urn i ! i'll
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PAT K NEFF*
0
PRESIDENT READY
TO EXERCISE VETO
Now Preparing Message That Will
Kill McNary-Haugeii BiU, Says
Lawrence.
’ Wadhim*** -Feb. . IZ-ePraakteat.
‘Coolidge will assume the leadership
at once in the fight against the type
of legislation represented by the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill just passed by the
Senate. The President is preparing
a veto message, for it is confidently
expected that the bill will pasa the
House next week. The margin of
eight votes in the Senate, however,
indicates that the measure cannot
command a two-thirds vote for pass
age over at veto, so farm relief leg
islation of the MeXary-Haugen kind
may be said to be dead so far as the
present Congress ■ is concerned.
There is real gratification in ad
ministration tfyarters that the Pres
ident will take tlie lead and write a
message Which will for the first time
cite the detailed objections of tlie
administration to the McNary-Hougeu
bill. Until now not a word lias come
from the White House except by im
plication when the general subject
of price-fixing has been discussed.
'Cabinet officers have been unable In
their speeches or statements to say
a word in direct opposition to the
McNary-Haugen bill because the Pres
ident himself had not spoken. Now
‘fce opportunity will be unrestricted
to argue the case before the farmers
of the country.
Mr. Coolidge feels that the Mc-
Xary-Haugen bill will not benefit, but
actually injure the farmer. The Mid
dle West has heard only one side of
the story, in the opinion of administra
tive officials,' and now when the other
side is fully presented, it is exiiected
that there will be a division of senti
ment. At least the President’s veto
message will be something around
which the more or less conservative
elements iu the Republican party can
:*filly.ii,
: Opponents of the McNary-Haugen
bill concede that the President’s veto
message will crystallize sentiment and
make a clear-cut issue. It will of
citturse, be a dominant political* issue,
with the forces of fprmer Governor
Lowden. of Illonois, taking up the
cause of the McNary-Haugen bill. It
might even transpire that Vice-Pres
ident Charles G. Dawes Will enter the
dkbate, for he has a right to his
lopinions, even though they may differ
from those of the Chief Executive.
He has been participating in confer
ences of Senators looking toward the
adoption of the McNary-Haugen bill
In the Senate and if thp vote had been
tied, he would have to cast his ballot
in favor of the measure.
Doubt as to Reason For Second K.
K. K.
Charlotte, Feb 13.—Because the
local Ku Klux Klan got so big that
a hall couldn't be found large
enough to hold all the members at
once was given ms the eason for
[femation of another Klan here, ac-
I cording to information obtained to-
Iday. But a high official in the ortgln-
I al Klan here declared that, while he
{had heard of the second Klan being
I formed he knew nothing about tr.»
[plans. He said that what appeal* to
be a brand new Klan, nation wide,
|la being formed from Indianhpolis.
t A spokesman for the second Klan
[declared that the new one will he
[vary thorough in scrutinizing appli
[canto for racmbetehlp and many ap
plying couldn’t make the 'grade and
STEPS TAKEN FOR
RETURNOf OTTO
mono STATE
George Ross Pou Presents
Paper to Gov. McLean
for Extraditing the No
torious Criminal.
REWARD MAY
REDIVIDED
If Indiana Governor Hon
ors Paper Wood Will Be
Returned to Prison Here
| * After His Third Escape.
—
Raleigh, Feb. 14.—C46 First steps
(for the return of Otto Wood, North
I Carolina's one-armed outlaw, were
taken today when George Pou, state
prison superintendent, presented papers
to Governor for his signing
extraditing the notorious criminal from
Indiana.
Mr. Pou was assured of the flover
onr's signature to the papers before
he presented them. The superinten
dant did not plan to go to Terre Haute,
Indiana iiersonally to present the
papers to the Indiana Governor.
If the Hoosier Governor honors the
papers, Wood will be returned to pris
on here after his third escape. His
last escape occurred last November.
The SSOO offered by North Carolina
for Wood’s return will, be left to In
diana authorities to award. It, ap
peared her likely that, the amount
would be split between the druggist
in Terre Haute who shot Wood down
last month when lie attempted single
handed robbery of a drug store, and
the officers who made his arrest a lit
tle later.
Wood's record, photograph, finger
prints, description, charges against him
and alias were received from the In
diana jail by authorities here.
Charges against the notorious crim
inal since his confinment here in Dec
member 1623 for murder of A. W.
Kaplan, Greensboro pawn broker, in
clude : Three escapes from state pris
on here, added to his record of two
escapes from Ohio and Tennessee jails
previously; violation of the national
auto theft net and Virginia theft law;
attempt to rob; nn assault with deadly
weapon under the Indiana Jaw.
Government’s Effort to Show That
Miller Was I'nuaumlly Interested In
Passage of $7,000,000 Claim.
■ New York, Feb. 14.—(A*) —Bent on
proving that Thos. W. Miller, former,
alien property custodian, was unusual
ly interested in passage of the $7,000.-
000 claim on impounded assets of the
American Metal Company, the govern
ment today sought for the second time
to procure admission of telegrams sent
to Miller by his private secretary.
To do this, the government recalled
Harrison Rouse, investigator of the
general accounts office, to identify tel
egrams taken from government files.
Two of these telegrams were sent to
Miller at Pittsburgh by Fred H. Wil
son, his secretary. One telegram ad
vised Miller that Wilson had learned
unofficially that the claim had been
passed. The other advised official
passage.
The government sought to prove
that in the three years Wilson was j
secretary to Miller, he sent no other
telegrams about claims.
Miller and Harry M. Daugherty,
former attorney general, are on trial
for the second time on charges of con
spiracy to defra’ud the United States
of their unbiased services. The first
trial ended in a disagreement.
The charges grew out of the trans
fer of nearly $7,006,000 of the assets
of the American Metal Company
which had been impounded as enemy
owned, to Richard Merton, agent for
the Societe Suisse Pour Valeurs de
Meteaux. The deal was effected in
1921.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Firm at an Advance, But
Prices Eased Off.
New York, Feb. 14—OP)—The cot
ton market opened firm today at an
advance of 14 to 18 points in response
to higher Liverpool cables. There was
further covering and buying based on
the passage of tlie farm bill by the
Senate after the close of business last
week, but the advance brought in
heavy realising while there 'may also
have been some selling for a reaction,
j i May contracts sold up to 14.18, and
October to 14.63, on the initial de
mand, but soon lost 16 or 12 points
oi the advance, May ruling around
14.06 and October 14.50 at the end
of the first hour.
The census report showing domestic
consumption of 604,315 for January
last year was scarcely up to bullish
expectations and probably increased ;
the disposition to take profits on re
font purchases.
Cotton futures opened firm. March
13.90; May 14.15; Jply 14.87; Oct.
14.61; Dec. 14.78.
COLD WAVE AND SNOW
STORM VISIT THE WEST
Originating in California Storm *nd
Cold Wave Are Sweeping Into the
East.
Kansas Oity, Mo., Feb. 12.
Warning of a cold wave in Montana
and snow in the middle west tonight
and tomorrow was issued today by
weather bureaus.
Utahans awakened today to find a
two-inch blanket of enow on the
ground and predictions that the
snowfall would continued tonight
and tomorrow.
WANT SUBSTITUTE |
Fdßil RELbIiL
t
Friends of the Measure Ask 1
Authority to Substitute
the Bill as Approved by
the Senate. /.
MEETING OF THE
COMMITTEE CALLED
Substitution of the Senate
Bill and Its Passage
Would Make Unneces
sary Conference Report.
Washington, Fob. 14. UP) —Friends
of the McNary-Haugen farm relief <
bill appeared today bgefore the Honse 1
rules committee, and asked authority i
to substitute the bill as approved by <
the Senate for the companion mens- i
ure now under consideration by the
House. 1
After hearing Chairman Haugen of
the Agriculture Committee, the rules <
group requested him to enll a meet- 1
ing of his committee ami have it for
mally authorize a request that substi- (
tution be permitted. 1
Substitution of the senate bill* and
its passage without amendment by the !
House would make unnecessary a
conference report to the Senate and '
the consequent danger of a filibuster ]
against the measure there in the clos
ing days of the session. i
While a final vote on the measure
which was passed last Friday by the i
senate, is not expected to be held in
the house, before tbe end of the week, ■
its supporters confident of its pas
sage, are pressing towards this show
down so that the bill can be placed in
the hands of President Coolidge by 1
Saturday.
Its supporters, led by Chairman
Haugen of the house agriculture
committee, a co-author of the measure,
however are planning to bring it to
morrow to a test vote as an index of
its strength on the parliaipentary
handling of the bill.
The measure, football of Congress
for the past three years, although ad
mittedly in the most auspicious posi
tion of itis legislative career, faces
another barrier erected by its House
opponents in an eleventh hour effort
for its defeat. These adversaries are
Senate for eonferepoe WITT be newesl
tated. There its Senate enemies hope
to bury it. so there will be no oppor
tunity for a conference report before
the present session ends.
Representative Haugen evidently
anticipates such a move against hi*
measure, and today is expected to at
tempt to thwart it.
STUDY CLASS OF MISSIONS
BEGINS AT CENTRAL CHURCH
Missionary Addresses by Prominent
Visitors to be Given at Central
Methodist Church Starting To
night.
In connection with the program of
Mission study that is being held in
all the Methodist Episcopal Churches
South, there will be a mission study
period starting at 7:15 and a mission
address at 8 o’clock every night this
week except Saturday at the Central j
Methodist Church, beginning tonight
and lasting through Friday uight.
The mission address will be given
by Rev. A. D. Wilcox, pastor of Trin
ity Methodist Church, of Charlotte;
Dr. E. K. McLarty, of Statesville, will
speak Tuesday night. Charges Ireland,
Conference Lay Leader, of Greens
boro, will speak Wednesday; Rev.
R. G. Tuttle, of Salisbury, will ad
dress the meeting Thursady; and Rev.
H. C. Sprinkle, Friday evening.
In connection with. the adressed,
the mission study class will make a
study of ‘‘Yet Another Day in Me
thodist Missions," which is just off
the press and gives a comprehensive
view of the missionary situation.
MEMORLYL FOR BROWN
BY TRUSTEES OF DUKE
Missionary Address by Prominent
With Mid-Year Meeting to Be
Held February 23.
Durhaain. Feb; 12.-—ln connection
with the mid-year meeting ot the
i trustees of Duke university here on
; Februnry 23. there will be a me
| morial service for Joseph G. Brown,
I who died at his home ill Raleigh a
I short time ago and who for 10 years
(had been chairman of the board.
The election of Mr. Brown's suc
| cessor will not be up at this meeting,
| since, according to the statutes of
j the university, the officers of the
j board are elected annually at the
| meeting which is held in connection
| with commencement, in June. In the
I meantime. Dr. T. F. Mnrr, of Way
] nwvllle, is ‘vice chairman oi the
board.
Students, officials and faculty
members of Duke will join in the
memorial service, to pay tribute to
the memory of la man who has served
the institution through every state
of Its deve'opment.
State Convict Escapes
Raleigh. Feb. 14.—</W—-Bill Young,
serving three to five years for larceny,
has escaped’ from the Four Oaks prison
road camp, Btate Prison Superintend
ent George Pou reported today. Young
comes from Guilford county.
Farmers of Catawba County ship
ped 151,000 pounds of poultry In co
operative shipments during 1926.
Thte amount will be Increased 50
t Ai!kM>" t " t *' c * unty A ** Bt
THE TRIBUNE
PRINTS . i
TODAY’S NEWS TODAY
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NO, 31
CHOICONSIEB
ufllG JANUffifg
WHS 604,584 BALft
There Were 7,873,007 Ba}e|
on Hand January 31st-*
During January 56,93$ :
Were Imported.
EXPORTS WERE M
1,115,792 BAIH
Cotton Spindles Active tR
January Numbered
633,550. Statistics |g|§
States Given.
Washington. Feb. 14. — OP) —Cotton ,
consumed during January totalled
004.217 of lint and 54,010 or h'ptf|jK|
in December; and 582,315 of lint
(12,230 of linters in January,
the census bureau announced today.
Cotton on hand January 31st
held as follows:
In consuming establishments,
852,087 bale* of lint and 161,T8$
linters.
In public storage and at comprqagM|y
0,070.020 bales of lint and 57,SjsjT|R!
linters.
Imports for January totaled ttjll
030 bales.
Exports for January totalled 1-Vs%k
702 bales, including 41,437
linters.
Cotton spifidles active during
ary numbered 32,033,550.
Statistics for cotton growing sti||9£.
included: v;
Cotton consumed during JanuMSt,.
437,788 bales.
Cotton on hand January 31st.
held as follows:
In donsuming establishments, 1,272,.
740 bales.
Cotton spindles active (Hiring
unry numbered 17,482,420.
With Our Advertisers. t : S|
Get Squibb's milk of magnesia aftl
Cline's Pharmacy. Phone 333.
For this week oniy the Concopd
Furniture Co. will sell a $149 50
3-piece suite for only $98.50. X<m
can also get from 25 to 50 per cent,
off on other furniture during the ftgpi
Wary Clearing Sale.
Tlie Goodyear tire chains are made
of rubber. Get them at tbe York*, :
& Wadsworth Co., who earry a full
G**fiyi*<* isne.- ■»—-m—.. ns.
The Ritchie Hardware Co. has ev
erything you need for spring house 1
cleaning. See new ad. today *bow ;
ing illustrations.
Every boy should bring bis dad. and
every dad should take his son to see
Richard Barthelmess in "The White
Black Sheep" at the Concord Thea
tre today. . -V-viSal
The Belk buyers have been in New
York for two weeks buying newsprint
merchandise, and the Parks- Be’.k Co
here is receiving these goods dailSk.
C. H. Barrier & Co. want 300- tag
liens at once, and will pay 200 oHMpt
a pound for them.
Cooper's “Allen A" union suits are
the acme of comfort. Get them at ■
Hoover's.
Everybody is invited to the FhWMi
Hill Cleaning Co. at 7 :30 o'clock to-'
morrrtw night. Free to alii Taka
your tickets with you.
E. B. Matthews, representing the
Storrs-Schaeffer Co., will be at the
store of the Richnsond-Flowe 00. Wed- •
liesdny and Thursday of this week. .
The J. & H. Cash Store says it can
settle the food question for you.
Quality is always the first consider
ation at the store of the J. C. Penney
Co.
See the new ad. today of
W. Cox Studio. - ! ViiSBB
Men's suits from $!).95 to $22.59 at
Efird’s. Other attractive prices, took, i
Protect your clothes with a ced*sf
chest. The Bell-Harris Furniture vK.
has exactly what you want. 'i[
JAMES W. PHARR DIES V ' >«#
SUDDENLY' IN CHARUytijl
Found Dead In His Bed This MMg|j|.
by His Son, Fred Pharr.
Charlotte, Feb. 14.— UP) —.Inrfies Mfe
Pharr, 63 years-old, one of the hew
known citizens of this city, died sud
denly sometime last night. E(e was
found dead in bed when his soq, FtSjj
Pharr, went to call him this-
ing.
Mr. Pharr Was born in Stateevifijl'
in 1863.
He was for many years a isen£N»
of the board of trustees of the' Uniwp
Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va.,
and of the board of trustees of David
eon College.
His wife died last September. ./-Sgl
Funeral' services will be held
morrow.
JAPAN MUST MAINTAIN 'JIB
HER NAVAL STREKOt#
Both Her Land and Sea Force* Arf
Necessary to Her ProtMCMfclfl
Tokio, Feb. 14.—— PremtsrxSjSj
katsuki told the upper house of |fi|
diet today that Japan's " present .4B
Itary and naval forces are neeeMHjß
to maintain and protect Japan's oK
is ting position and rights.” -/IM
“Unless there la a marked ck*Sfl(f
in Japan’s international positieriH
the world’s general condition in eM&
similar circumstances, Japan aSB
maintain her present strength on |m|
and at eea.”
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WEATHER FORBOABQF. J
Partly cloudy tonight, colder ep
treme west and warmer in central alpt
a nest. southwest whs