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VOLUME XXVII CONCORD, N. C, WEDNE SDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1927 NO. 22
Another Suit Entered
By Dr. Pentuff Seeks
MoneyfromNewspaper
Former Pastor of McGill
Street Baptist Church
Asks $35,000 Damages in
His Libel Suit
EDITORIAL CAUSE
OF THE ACTION!
John A. Park and O. J.
Coffin Defendants Along
With Raleigh Times.— j
Papers Already Served.
Another RUit for damages has been
filed in Cabarms Superior Court by
counsel for l>r. J. K. Pentuff against
tbe Raleigh Times, John A. Park and
<>. J. Coffin. Damugis to the extent
of $35,000 are sought in the complaint j
which ia signed by Zeb V. Turlington, j
of MooreavUlc, and Caldwell and Cald-:
wed, of Concortl, counsel for the for-!
mer Concord pastor.
An editorial which appeared in The ;
Times on March 2-4, 11)20. forms I’.ie
basis Os the suit. it is chnrged that
.statements carried in the editorial con
stitute “false, contemptuous, malicious,
defamatory am) libelous matter" and
objection is made tg the following ex
cerpts from the editorial:
“One J. R. Pentuff of Concord, by
profession a preacher and Ph. D. and
by practice of recent montha some
what of an’ agitator presumably in
the interest of the faith founded some
two milleniume glace by a certain
Carpenter of Nazareth, has filed suit
against the Times Publishing Co., John
A. Park, president, aud Oscar J. Cof
fin, editor. •> * * *
“There has not to our knowledge
appeared jin public within the memory
of the present generation of North
CarulininuH a more ignorant man than
Petituff, or one less charitable toward
men wlio might honestly disagree with
him. * * * ■ i ,
• • There is nothing to add to*
what has been said; there is no de
sire or intent on tlie part of The Times
to subtract anything. In our opin
ion J. R. Pentuff is ignorant, be is
unmannerly in debate and he is un
charitable in his dealings with good
and intelligent men of even his own
deuoininatiou.”
Several months ago counsel for )jr.
ts rial which appeared in The Times In
February, 1026. This ease was non
suited and in bis decision Judge A.
M Stack said that had the action
been based on the March editorial in
stead of the February ’editorial he
would have allowed it to have gone to
the jury.
Paragraph four of the complaint iii
the second salt rends:
1 "That said article set forth in par
agraph 3 of this complaint was writ
ten and published wilfully and mali
ciously by defends nts in consequence
of the suit Hied by plaintiff in the
Superior Court of Cabarrus County,
' Nort'.i Carolina, for a former libelous
aud defamatory attack upon theplain
’ tiff. * * *”
It •is /-barged in paragraph fivo of !
the complaint that because of the ar
ticle “the plaintiff has been and'still j
is injured iu his good name, fame, '
credit, character and reputation both
as an individual and professionally os
an educator and ns a minister of the,
gospel * * •"
H is charged further that this edi-j
torial, coming after the first oucq,j
shows malice; and further in the com-:
p aint it is charged that because the
statement that the plaintiff “is -'ig
norant" nnd an ‘ignoramus’ ” the said
plaintiff has hud difficulty in securing
work.
One paragraph in the complaint
reads;
“That by reason of said false and
malicious and libelous and defamatory
publication a second time by defend
ants, plaintiff has suffered heart men
tal anguish both personally and jn
contemplation of the pain and suffer
ing caused to the plaintiff's wife on
account of aaid publication by defend
ant, and plaintiff now finds himself
a minister without a Church, a teach
er without a school and has been de
prived of his average annual salary of
$2,600 per year.’’ • ■ ",
Another reads:
j. “Tfiat by reason of said salsa and
malieionit and libelous and defamatory
publication and the said injury to hit
character ang reputation ft« an,educa
tor and as an individual and as a min
ister of the gospel and the said mental
anguish and suffering as above set
forth, the plaintiff baa been and ia
still damaged in the sum of thirty
five thousand dollars.’’
Ca’dwell and Caldwell, local counsel
for Dr, Pentuff, stated this morning
that this suit has nothing to do with
the first one, whieh his been carried
to the Supreme Court of the State.
‘•This is a separate action,” M. H.
Caldwell stated, "and has no bearing
on any decision to be rendered in the
case already carried to the State Su
preme Court.”
After Dr. Pentuff had spoken at
Fuqfiay Springs The Times carried an
editorial in which Dr. Pentuff was re
ferred to as an “immigrant ignoram
us.” The editorial also Mid he was]
so "unmannerly" before a house com
mittee that he had to be "suppressed”
by the chairman. These statements
were set forth as reason for the first
suit *
When notice of the suite was served
on The Times, of Which O. 3. Coffin
S^fPAffttSSS
plaint, and this second editorial ia
the ground for action in this second
suit. Ia this editorial the editor re
* t " ’*
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THE HIGHWAY BILL.
V
I Has Been Passed by the Senate, But
What Will Be Its Fate in the
House?
Tribune Bureau
• Sir Walter Hotel. !
j Raleigh, Feb. Ift. —Now that the]
j Smith-llargett bill, giving the highway .
| commission broader powers in the I
! location, abandonment and dlscon- !
| tinuance of roads, has been passed
1 ! by the senate, what will be its fate
jin the Royse?
■| This is a question that is proving
more nnd more puzzling, in face of
the fact that it is daily becoming more
and more difficult to forecast what the
house is going to do, not only oil
the highway bill, but any bill. For so
far. the house has been voting more
according to its feelings than anything
j else, nnd if it feels good, is not hun
gry or not getting sleepy, it may pass
! a bill; on the other hand, irrespee
-1 live of the merits of the bill under
j consideration, it may take a notirfn
■to adjourn and "go eat” or to go to
I bed. as the uiuod may strike it.
Thus it is that the fate of several
important hills nlrendy passed by the
senate, among them the Smith-Hargett
highway hill, the state wide game bill,
and numbers of others, is far from
settled, for no man knoweth the day
or the hour when the house may act
on them, or how it will ast. For not
only do the members of the house
believe in individual liberty and free
dom of speech— and especially the
latter, and tn large quantaties—but
they refused to he hurried along in
their consideration of anything. And
at the present pace of devoting more
than two hours of consideration to
each bill, it will be at least the first
of Aiwil before the geiternl assembly
can adjourn, -j
I For instance, the house yesterday
consumed more thin two hours dis
cussing a’ bill that would license the
practice of "Natureopothy” in the
, state on the same basis that osteo
pathy and chiropractic are licensed.
The two hours of debate was an in
tresting and entertaining show, but
rather a Sorry exhibition of legislat
ing, as the debate surged on, most
of it facetious and wide of the ques
tion, ad nauseam. Finally the hill was
killed by a vote of 1)0 to 16 after the
(Xfiy two men .showing any ability
in leadership, namely Nat Towsend
'g^aagfewaftfr
stead of everything in general.
Thus, while it Is expected that the
Hmith-Hargett bill will pass the bouse
—it still “all depends." It has been
said that one reason -for the uncer
tainty In the honse at present is be
cause of the absence of leadership.
That may be one way of looking at
it, but others say that the trouble
is not so much the absence of leader
ship, ns the refusal of any of the mem
bers in the house to follow the learer
ship of auy one man.
This was evidenced Monday night
during the debate on the Jury Reform
'bill, recoipmended by the Judicial Con
ference. There was plenty of lead
ership, and plenty of wise and ctyre
| ful thought on the measure displayed
! by both Representative Van B. Mar
tin of Washington, ami by Represen
j tntive H. G... Conner of .Wilson, who
i thoroughly explained the bill, showed
how it would be advantageous, how
it had been worked out by the cream
of the legal and judicial minds of the
state and recommended as one of aev
: era! methods of speeding up court
; procedure for the benefit of the people
' who come into court. But the law
yers were ‘‘agin’ ” it. The hour was
getting late. And so when Repres
entative Moss of Rutherford said that
he thought the old system was good
enough, and that it ought not to be
changed, and move that the bjll be
tabled, the house acquiesced—not be
cause it agreed, so much as beaause
it was getting latie and the members
wanted to go to bed.
Thus it is not to be wondered that
much uncertainty is being felt as to
the fate of the various important
measures that are expected to come
before the house in the next few days,
provided it does not get hung qp in
endless debate on bills of minor
portance, as it did Tuesday,
unless a leader develops, who.can j-eaSJy
lead, many feel that there are many
sleepless nights, in /store for those
whose .interests are dependent upon
the action of the house’on the man)'
important/bills yet to be taken up.
Revenue Bill At End of Wtek.
i (By International News Service)
Raleigh, Feb. 16.—The general as
sembly will get its revenue Wll toward
the latter of the week, Indications now
point.
The appropriations committee is ex
pected to have the appropriations hill
ready a few daya later.-
. , Work was started on the two bills
early in the session. It hs under
stood that the ttviu bills have not been
seriously altered, and the balance
worked down to a nicety by Governor
McLean and his advisory budget com
mission, has hot been disturbed to auy
great extent, according to members of
Among English premiere William
ES. Gladstone holds the record with
1 four terms. His total service extend
; «d for about fourteen years
fused to retr*ck from his first edi
l Mr, Bark is still owner of The
i Times but Mr. Coffin at present is
I head Os the School of Journalism at
the State University,
i - Col. Albert L. Cox, of Rsleigh, and
to? Mtodwto* CO " COrd ’ reP '
ffHK ID UAL!
NOT FAVORABLE TO
.! HHDEHT’SPLI
J Hopes of Effective Naval
>i i Limitation Conference
Jolted by Answer Given
| by France.
(ITALY EXPECTED
TO DISAGREE
Reply From That Nation
Expected to Be Unfav
orable to Plans for the
Conference.
Washington, Feb. 16.— OP) —Hopes
of the Washington government for an
effective naval limitation conference
have been jolted severely by a polite
rejection from France, and a fore
cast that Italy also will decline to
participate.
With the declination last night of
France , the opinion here was that
Italy would accept, and still make
possible the gathering of representa
tives of a sufficient number of nations
to bring practical results in the limit
ing of armaments not touched upon at
the Washington conference.
A semi-official communique issued
in Rome today, however, announced
that Italy would follow the lead of
France in demurring to the proposal
of President Coolidge for the confer
ente, leaving as a matter of conjec
ture the next step of the American
government in seeking methods of ob
taining the agreements it has hoped
for.
Tentative consideration has been
given to a possible. four-power con
ference, participated in by the Unit
ed States, Japaq, Italy and Great
Britain, even before the unfavorable
French reply was received. Accept
ances of the Cooildge invitation were
considered as having been assured from
Japan and GreAt Britain but obviously
the attitude of Great Britaiu may
not be affected by the position of
France and Italy.
For the moment it is likely that
any plan of action will be formulated
here in the absence of the British and
Japanese* -formal replies.
The French communication is bas
ed on the main coutention that the
American plan might compromise the
Access of the prtffmmary disarm*?
rnent commission created by the
League of Nations. - Whether its
tenor has left room for hope that
further correspondence with Paris
might create a better understanding
of the American, suggestions was not
disclosed. Secretary Kellogg will prob
ably defer decision until the Italian
reply is before him. ’ *
The statement issued by Mr. Kel
logg last night calling attentiton to
evidences of misunderstanding in
Paris did not go beyond expressing
the hope of ultimate French agree
ment. The Italian note may offer
similar possibilities to the official eye,
but the immediate effect of the Rome
announcement ia the creation of an
obstacle to any proposal for limiting
cruiser, destroyer and submarine ton
nage in accordance with the Washing
ton treaty theory, or of ! reconciling
that theory with French and Italian
views.
Will Follow France's Lead.
Rome, Feb. 16.—(A*)—Italy will
follow France’s lead in rejecting
President Coolidge’s naval disarma
ment proposal, it was announced in n
semi-official communique this morning.
The Italian reply is ready and will
probably be delivered some time to
day.
The reasons for Italy’s rejection are
not announced, but it is understood
they are based upon the insistence
tllat a reduction In submarines, de
stroyers and other light naval vessels
would jeopardise the defense of the
long coast lines of Italy proper, and
her African colonies.
SOUTH LINKED WITH THE
BRITISH ISLES ON ’PHONE
Sitting In Atlanta, Ben 8. Read Talk
ed With Col. H. 8. Schreve In Lon
don. ’ ; •
Atlanta, Feb. I6>—CP)—The south
was linked with the British Isles to
day by telephone.
Sitting in his office in Atlanta, Ben
8. Read, president of the Southern
Bail Telephone & Telegraph Company,
galled “long distance” at 7:30 o'clock
this morning, and almost immediately
Col. H. 8. Schreve, transmission en
gineer of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company iu London an
swered. The distance was more than
4,000 miles. «
This call formally inaugurated the
service between England, Scotland and
Wales, and the states of Georgia, Ken
-1 tucky, North Carolina, South Caro
'' lina, Tennessee, Virginia and West
( Virginia.
H. S. Richardson Defines Intangible
Wealth.
’ Ohar'otte, Feb. 15.—H. Smith
Richardson, of Greensboro, speaking
bore today before the Rotary Club,
1 advocated reform' of the tax system
‘ of Bie State.
He defined intangible wealth as
that which “If mistreated has the
. power to get up and get ont. Move
ab'e preperty including accounts at
■ banks, stocks and bond come under
thw head."
* The interest rate of bonds now
' consumes one dollar out of every five
1 that the State collects in taxation,
he said, and he advocated reform
I whereby la more economical system
• of city and county government could
bo introduced.
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Tried Again
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Harry M. Daugherty, former
Attorney General, appeared
tired and careworn as oe at
tended court in New York fiw
his second trial on charges of
conspiracy -to defraud thd
Government in the handling oi
alien property.
McNARY-HAUGEN BILL
SUBSTITUTED IN HOUSE
By Overwhelming Vote Lower Boffiy
Os Congress Decides To Substitute
It for Bill It Has Been ConslderWg.
Washington, Feb. 15.—The MeNary-
Haugen farm bill, as passed by the
senate was substituted by the house
today for a similar measure it has been
considering. ’ The vote to substitute
was 201 to 62.
Shortly thereafter general debate on
a farm relief was concluded and the
enacting cla'use of the senate measure
read. This brought the bill to a point
where nmendmeuts are in order.
The house then adjourned, lealta's
agreeing to postpone taking up toe
i measure until Thursady to make way
tomorrow for a batch of other bills chi
the calendar.
Just as Discussion came to 'close,
Representative Aswell, D e mo c r a t.
Louisiana, announced that as soon as
the McNary-H&ugen bill was brought
up again he would seek to strike ont
its declaration of policy and substitute!
that iu his own bill. Should this
motion carry, he said, he would move
substitution of his measure for the
McXary-Haugen bill.
This motion is expected to be a full
test of strength on toe AsWell plan.
Should it fail, the Aswell .bill would
be practically tot of "the running ami
the fight narrowed bet Weep the ,Mo-
Nary-Hnugen measlier and the Curtis-
Crisp bill.
The vo(e today to substitute the
senate hill was not construed by either
supporters or opponents ns constitut
ing a. tefjt of strength as a number of
members supporting the motion have
announced they will vote agninst pas
sage of the measure.
With Our Advertisers.
Spring lingerie in an exquisite dis
play at the Gray Shop. Priced from
$1.95 to $5.95. ;
Don’t fail to see “Fine Clothes" at
the Concord Theatre tomorrow.
See the ad. today on “Frigidaire
Low Prices" of the Standard fiuiek
Co.
New advanced styles in coats for
. women at Fisfiier’a. A smart style,
white with blue buttons, only $30.00.
_ Spring frocks for juniors at J. C.
Penney Co’s. $9.90 to $24.75. All
the charming colors -of spring.
There are only three more days of
the February Clearance Sale of the
Concotd Furniture 'Co., as this sale
erida next Saturday night. Prices
have baen cut from 25 to 50 per cent.;
See big ad. in today’s paper.
A full line of Buiat’s garden seeds
‘ at the Gibson Drug Store. '
'Your clothes will look right if you
take them to Wrenn at Kannapolis.
Curiae blue serge' suits reduced to
$30.00 at W. A. Ovejfcashtg. All sizes I
in slims, regulars and stouts,
It is a mighty good time these pretty
days to have you clothes dry cleaned.
See ad. of Forest Hill Dry Cleaning
! Co. Phones 187 W and 175 J.
You can get Bibles at the Kidd-
Frix Co. from SI.OO to $15.00. They
, have also a fine line of prayer books
I and testaments. v
Bedroom finishings ft every kind
. at the Parks-Belk Co’s. They have
anything you want. .
\ See that copper clad range demon
stration all this week at Yorke &
, Wadsworth Oo’t.
i Mr*. Walter King Waite 60 Years
for Her Wedding Ring.
Charlotte, Feb. 16.—Married fifty
i yearn. Mm. Water A. King, received
her wedding ring today.
• The ring was toe golden anniver
‘ sary present from her husband.
“I did not give her a wedding
t ring when we -Were married.” Mr.
J i King explained, “so I - gave her one
today.”
At the golden anniversary were
' Rev. F. H. Cheater, of Montreal.
, who married tie couple a half cen
i tury ago, and W. 0., Benton, who
I was bast man at the wedding. Six
1 of the couple’* seven children alos
warn present. '
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HERE’S LOWDOWN
ON INSTALLMENTS
New York, Feb. 16. —Here is the
"lowndown” on the much-debated
question of installment buying-—-
• ont of the mouth of an expert :
i 1.. Don’t buy anything oil cred
it to suit a quick whim.
*• 2: Don't buy anything on cred
it unless you'know it's true value.
3. Don't buy anything on cred
it thrit will wear out and lose it’s
I value before you have finished pay
! ing for it.
4. Don’t buy anything on credit
tbart you do not desire greatly
• enough to be willing to undergo
j. sacrifice in some d : reetion.
i The rules are propounded by
j John J. Raskob, chairman of the
I finance committee of General Mo
j tors, in an interview in this week's
j Colliers. He’s an expert because
t] he has 600,000 credit accounts.
Today seventy-five per cent, of
*1 the motor cars are sold On credit,
II he declares. But four-fifths of all
! j cars in use are fully paid for, he
: adds., ; . v
► i AUSTRALIAN BALLOT BILL.
■ Wifi Probably Reach the Floor of the
House in the Next Few Days.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Waller Hotel
Raleigh, Feb. 111. —The amended
Falls-Broughtun Australian ballot bill
has been favorably reported by the
house committee on ejection laws and
will probably reach the floor of the
1 house within the next few days.
| The amended bill has not been ma
, terially changed from the way it was
> originally drafted, and those who sup
l ported the original bill, and many who
| declared that they would rather have
no Australian ballot than the wrong
I kind (this includes the women) are
satisfied. with it ns it now stands.
The most outstanding (flanges are
, those pertaining to the section on ab
sentee Voting, and section 26, render
ing assistance to voters. Section 26.
as amended, provides that assistants
be appointed by the comity boards of
elections to help disabled or illiterate
voters, an equal number from each po
litical party. In case any assistant
so appointed shall not appear the vot
er request one of the judges of elec
tion to help him. In small precincts
where the vote is light, the county
board of elections may omit the ap
pointment of assistants, the judges of
election rendering assistance to any
voter w'jo shall seek it.
The section on absentee voting pro
vides that a ballot similar to the one
used by the regular voter shall be pro
vided for the abseutee voter, but it
ahull be marked with the latter "A”
tto- disringuMi it front tht pnUn.atFj
The main opposition was led by
Representative Brown, repubiionn,
Wilkes county. Mr. Brown voted
against the bill in committee. Repre
sentative H. G. Connor, of Wilson
county, on the other hand, came out
openly and stated’that while lie would
Wte against a statewide Australian
baljot bill, he. was in favor of report
ing the bill favorably from the com
mittee, without altering its content.
He represented that element of the
opposition who seem to feel sure of
the final defeat es the measure when
it comes up on the floor of the house.
Senator Broughton, of Wake, and
Mr. Humphreys represented the pro
ponents of file bill. “For my coun
ty x I would rnther have no Australian
ballot than one which allowed the poll
worker to enter the booth with the
voter,’:’ said Mr. Broughton. ’’lf
he is to be there at all, I'd rather
see him do his work on the outside."
The bill Was favorably reported
witfi a vote of eight for and three
against it.
OTTO WILL OCCUPY.
THE SAME OLD CELL
He Win Be Returned to North Caro
lina by the Indiana Authorities.
(By International News Service.)
Raleigh, N. 0.. Feb. 16.—When
Otto Wood, North Carolina most
notorious bandit-s’ayer, is returned
to State's Prison here he will oc
cupy the same cell along Death’s
Row that he did before lie made his
sensational third escape from the
prison on November 22.
George Ross Pou, prison superin
tendent. said today that he intended
to place Wood in his old cell. Wood
is being held for North Carolina
authorities in Terre Haute, Ind.,
Where he was wounded in an at
tempted single-handed drug store
holdup on January 25-
fThe “oqe mhn crime wave” will
Bot, it is understood from Indiana
advices, fight extradition to North
Carolina. He lias about 30 years,
more -to serve on a sentence for the
staying of A. Wi Kaplan, Greens
boro pawnbroker;
Everything All Set For A Great Kill
big.
. Charlotte, Feb. 15.—Report of a
Mack snake sunning itself on a limb,
in dead of winter, in lower part of
Mecklenburg County, was brought here
today by Parks Kirkpatrick, a tax
collector.
Fruit trees are blooming, other
trees have leaves forming and every
thing is al set for a big killing at
the first cold snap.
STAR THEATRE
THURSDAY-FRIDAY
“BERTHA THE SEWING
MACHINE GIRL”
With Madge Bellamy, Allan Bimpson
HER BEST PICTURE
TODAY—WEDNESDAY
“THE GOLDEN STRAIN”
With Madge Bellamy and Kenneth
Harlan
T' ADMISSION sc—loc
SENATE PASSES OH ;
2ND READING BILL!
FOR NATIONAL PARK
Only One Vote Was Cast 1
l Against Agreed Substi
! tute Bill Carrying $2,-1
000,000 for the Park.
MARRIAGE BILLS
NOT ACCEPTED i
Five Bills Covering Mar
riage and Divorce Were
Given Unfavorable Re
! port Today.
; State Capitol, Feb. 16.—(A s )—The
’ ! senate today, 42 to 1, passed on sec
iond reading the agreed substitute
Great Smoky Mountains National
8 Park bill, and tomorrow will vote on
passage of the bill to the house on
third reading.
Senator Lawrence, of Hertford.
I cast the only vote against Pile bill,
• which provides $2,000,000 appropria
' tion for buying the land for a na
-1 tional park. As it is a roll call bill,
8 a day must intervene between the sec
ond and third reading,
j Unfavorable Report on Marriage Bills.
State Capitol, Raleigh, Feb. 16.
, < A> )—Unfavorable report on the five
. marriage and divorce bills sponsored
, by a state ministers convention at
, High Point was brought into the house
today.
, The session got underway half an
. hour earlier than usual, in order to
. attack the heavy public bills calendar.
Upwards of a 'hundred bills were
, reported back to add to the alrefidy
r congested house calendar. Among
. those reported favorably were:
Governor McLean's anti-pistol tot
: ing bill; making jail sentence manda
. tory on drunken drivers; allowing
. county officers statewide jurisdiction;
; consolidating fish commission and con
servation departments;, increasing ju
. dieial districts; Australian ballot; ami
> to abolish absentee voting in pri
maries.
Unfavorable report came in on the
. Poole anti-evolution bill.
■ Cope Fear Bridge Bill Passes Second
Reading.
State Capitol, Raleigh. Feb. 16.
(A*)---Without discussion the Honse to
win p
- eastern Carolina counties on the sec
, ond reading, and will vote on the bill
I tomorrow on the third reading on the 1
question of sending it to the senate.
The vote was unanimous.
The Sutton game bill inaugurated
: the daily debate* lasting through the
noon hour, but discussion was mainly
on the details of open season and bag
limito of the various game.
Explains Measure.
State Capitol, Raleigh, Feb. 16.
OP) —The Smoky Mountain park meas
ure came up in the senate with Sena
tor Ebbs, of Buncombe, speaking for
the measure, an agreed substitute car
rying no material ghange, but insur
ing state reimbursement in every event
the venture does not materialize.
Senator Ebbs reviewed the whole
history of the creating of a national
park for North Carolina and Ten
nessee.
“T'ais bill does not meet what I de
sire for the state, but it carries every
safeguard,” Mr. Ebbs said, adding pro
ponents and opiiouents favored the
substitute.
"I sec in the newspapers there are ]
1 otily a few opponents,” he said. "The
park is being advertised in cosmopoli
tan newspapers, and the magazines."
He then offered several amendments
to meet points of view of all inter
ested, but leaving the bill jn the same
general shape, an appropriation bill
covering $2,000,000 for the land pur
chases. . .
Governor Favors BUI.
State Capitol, Raleigh, Feb. 10.—
<A>)—Coincident with virtually unani
mous favorable second rending of tile
substitute Great Smoky Mountain Na
\ tional Park bill, 41 to 1 in the senate
today, preparatory to passage to the
house tomorrow, Governor McLean
’ made public a statement explaining
, safeguards put on toe substitute bill.
“I am of the opinion, as I have al
[ ways been, that it is to the interests
t qf North Carolina to make a contrl
, button of: $2,000,000 if that amount
, will assure the establishment eontem
plated in the act of Congress,” the
’ governor declared.
MAL S. DAUGHERTY IS
HEARD DURING THE DAY
Telia of Ledgers That Were Burned
By His Brother Harry M. Daugh
erty.
New York, Feb. 16. —(A*> —A story
of how he rose from janitor to be
President of two banks was told to
day by Mai S. Daugherty, government
witness in the Daugherty-Miller trial.
Mai was recalled foF cross examina
tion as the trial began for the day. He
testified yesterday about missing rec
ords of the Midland National Bank,
one of the two Washington Court
house, Ohio, banks of which he is
president.
He told of how his brother, Harry
M. Daugherty, former attorney gener
al, burned ledger sheets which the
government contends would show that
part of the alleged bribe of $441,000
went to Harry Daugherty’s account.
Harry Daugherty and Thoa. W. Mil
ler, former alien property custodian,
are charged with defrauding the Unit
ed States of their beat services in con
nection with the transfer of $7,000,-
000 of impounded assets of the Amer
ican Metals Company.
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Greatest Storm In The j
History O s Pacific Is j
At Present
DR. HAYWOOD TO BE
I HEARD BEFORE GRAND JURY
: Will Have Opportunity to Prove Ills
| Charges of Gross Immorality.
(By International News Service)
Raleigh, February Ift.—Sensational
! charges of immorality in Raleigh, laid
i before the House of Representatives
| by Dr. Oscar Haywood, crusading min-
I ister-legislator of Montgomery county,
J will be retold before the Wake county
; grand jury here on February 28th.
The former pastor of the Baptist
Church of the Covenant. New York
City, declared here today that he
would answer the summons issued by
the inquisitorial board Saturday call
ing on him to give certain informa
tion regarding alleged immoral prac
tices at Raleigh dance halls.
The grand jury summons was is
sued after Representative Haywood’s
address on the Door of .the house in
support of his “nati-morality” bill
whic-h met defeat by an overwhelming
vote.
The grand jury wants to know, par
ticularly. the name of the Raleigh po
lice officer who Representative Hay
wood said furnished him with his in
formation. The jury also would want
other information the preacher-solon
may have of alleged immoral practices
in Ra'.eigh and Wake county.
While legal opinion was divided ns
to whether the legislator could be Meld
responsible outside the legislature for
a speech made on the floor of the
house. Representative Haywood said
lie was willing to appear before the
inquisitors if they wanted him to.
"If they want me to tell what I
know. I’ll do it," lie declared.
Aetion on county government re
form proposals is expected to be taken
by both brandies of the general assem
bly toward the latter part of the week.
Two bill.s designed to bring about
improved conditions in county gov
ernment. are now before the judiciary
committee No. 1 of both file house
and senate.
It is expected that the bills will bo
reported by the committees late in
the week, and they probably will get
back to the legislature before the week
is over.
The county government reform bill
was introduced in the senate by Sen
ators Johnson, Moore and Hinee. In
the house it was introduced by Rep
resentatives Smith, Wilson aid Sul
reform bill are two additional bills
which were introduced in the two
Mouses by the same six senators and
representatives.
j One of the bills provides for the
administration of fiscal affairs of coun
ties and the other for the issuance of
bonds and notes of counties and for
property taxation to repay the notes
and bonds with interest.
The batch of house and senate bills
went to the judiciary committee No.
1.
The house has not been able to cn
cur in the senate amendments to the
Connor bill relating to rewards for
the capture of liquor stills and a com
mittee from each house is now trying
to reach a compromise.
The committees arc composed of,
three members of each house. They :
are expected to report this week.
Early actiou on the twin bills in |
the house and senate to maintain the
six mouths school term was expected
here today.
With the introduction of the bill |
in the house by Representative Ora- i
I ham, of Orange, t lie proposal now j
rests before both branches of the gen
eral assembly.
The bill had been introduced int he j
senate earlier in the season.
The bills would amend the school
law of North Carolina and would pro
vide for the support and maintenance
of a six months' terms by the levying
of a uniform state tax.
The house bill is expected to be
reported by file education committee
within the next few days.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened at -Advance of 4 Points to De
cline of S Points—May Fluctuates.
New -York, Feb. 16.— OP) —The cot
ton market opened steady today at an
advance of four points to a decline of
three points, (n°st months showing
slight advances in response to relative
ly steady Liverpool cables.
Buying was much less active after
rather heavy covering of yesterday,
however, and the advance to 14.17 met
southern selling and realizing. Prices
eased, the market showing net losses
of about 4 to 8 points at the end of
the first hour when May was selling
at 14.05 and October at 14.49.
Private cables said there had been
Manchester buying and good trade
ca'ling in Liverpool with a large busi
ness in cotton clothtbs in Manchester.
Cotton futures opened steady:
March 13.93: May 14.17; July 14.34;
Oct. 14.56; Dec. 14.72.
Brown Trial Far Embezzlement In
Rowan Postponed.
Salisbury, February 16.—The case
against Frank R. Brown, former
secretary of the Perpetual Building
and Loan asaociation, . was post
poned Monday to the May term of
superior court. The continuance
wan for the state and wa* made on
motion of Stah'e Lin", representing
Commissioner Stacy WaJe. The com
plete audit of the books of the as
sociation was received by the re
ceiver ouly last Saturday , and there
has not been sufficient time to study
the audit. The former secretary is
charged with embesslement iu xT
counts embodied in t true bill found
at a previous term of court
Sixteen Are Known to
Dead and 21 Injimpl
, While Great Property
Damage Has Resulted.
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! AVALANCHES ARBUi
; FATAL TO MAsfljr|
High Waters Also
Menacing Many Secttajp
as Bridges Give Away.*--
Lowlands Covered.
San Francisco, Feb. 16.—flfhd *
tail-end of the greatest storm that ever
swept the Pacific slope to as far.wetlt ‘
as mid-ocean in the history of the J
United States Weather Bureifo,
tinned today to pound with diraißgjjj- J
ing violence iu southern and cqj£jßf|l
' California, while the death tdU ifcjoft |
at 16 dead, 21 injured, and much frrijjr- ,
erty damage.
The greatest tragedy was in tipi i
mountain camp of the Southern <jll- ;
ifornia. Edison Company, tjS |w i
east of Fresno, where 11 persons JkMwe
killed in a double avalanche eurftr
yesterday. The first snow slide cnw>
ed bunk houses and sent ten
their deaths. As rescuers dug ife-fM)I
accumulated soiiw for the bocUetcffi
their companions, the second avalai&he >
struck, amt took another life.
Flood waters in Puente Creek
Whittier, which have' assailed JBfe ,
steel trestle across the stream fitjr J
three days, so weakened the llnflEl
that it collapsed as the fast LoajHw*
geles-Chicago flyer of the Union 4ft®- ]
ific moved across it Inst night. pHHKb
ing engine, tender ami two coacj(B{
into the flood. Two known dead a&fi ;
three others are believed trapped W
one of the coaches. Six personspeeift
injured.
Two were killed in Los Agnm',
tarffic accidents. A boy was drowned
when he fell from a San Diego Rikß. Ij
road trestle into a raging torrehjt j
which two days before had been a
dry creek bed. 100 suburbanites 'in
the Sail Fernandino Valle*- near Loa d
Angeles, marooned in their homes Ay
the flood waters were fescued by the
police in row bouts commnndeafcdfront
an amusement park.
Belief was expressed today that
Edison Company officials said ifRSiS
the injured will recover. *
Rude coffins were fashioned out of
the available lumber at the camp for
the bodies which had been taken ont
of the slide.
One hundred men were at work
in n tunnel about a mile under the
surface when the first avalanche
struck. They were brought out im- ?.
mediately.
The slides mercifully left the camp
hospital building standing, but (learnt?
ished every structure near it. Saw*
buildings were crushed to splinters,
The loss was put at $25,000.
The entire Pacific coast felt some
manifestation of the storm. A slight
earthquake shock was felt in fitan §
Francisco yesterday afternoon. The 1
| tremor caused some exeitemeiit, hut ’if
ino damage was reported. '-/If®
I Hollywood firemen rescued a group ‘
of motorists who were left stranded
when a bridge went out near UlAver
sal City.
Highway traffic throughout the 4
Southland was demoralized by land- |
j slides and high water. Rail eommupi- j
cation between Los Angeles ami Hun J
Diego was cut.
j Deris Duke Has Right to Get New* J
port Estate.
Providence. R. I„ Feb- 15.—Wie Ij
Rhode Island supreme court, in jfi-SS
decision today, granted to QjfgKH
Duke, 14-year-old daughter of the |
late James 15. Duke, millionaire t$H
bncco man, the right to ncqufMi
ownership of "Uought Point,”*
father’s Newport estate. wi|hohfi
being required to bid for it at suc
tion.
Executors and trustees are *
orized to make a direct
of the estate without conducting -afi -
auction sale, as provided for in the
will. Under the provisions of, the
. will, the daughter was bequeathed
money to be used in the purchatqimfe-’a
her father's residences when they '
. were put up at auction,; but. tntifejf 3
the court ruling no auction sale need]
be liehl., -
Similai decisions! already have j
' bee made in other states in regard to '
I the disposal of the Duke residence*
; in New York city and near Cfiaf ll
' otte, N. the daughter being given <§
the right to acquire each
‘ without the formality of ail auction j
• sale.
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Examining Case Employee,'
Dr. D. G. Caldwell, county <
officer, announced today that he lxA j
completed the examination of 65
sons who work in ctifes In the
It was said that there are
mately 85 workers in enfes <«' 'wEpgj
city and that the remaining 20 per*
sons would be examined wlthin'te^
Formerly mutinous sailor* ‘strfi(||»||
the ship’s yards un’’ their grijgS}
ances were redressed, and the MmIJ
strikes’ thus came to mean a wflflttj