DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVII
33 Reported Dead And
Many Hurt As Result
Os Tornado In South
Storms Struck in Various
Sections of Louisiana
and Mississippi, Especial
ly Among Plantations.
14 PERISHEIfIN
TENSAS PARISH
At Another Place Eleven
Were Killed and Scores
Hurt—Rescue Workers
Now in Stricken Areas.
New Orleans, Feb. 18.—UP)—Thir
ty-three persons were reported dead,
and an undetermined number injured
today ds reseue workers continued
their search into the tornado-torn sec
tions of Louisiana and Mississippi.
The heaviest toll of dead was taken
at plantations south of Newellton,
Tensas Parish, La., where fourteen
persons wen; reported killed and at
least two score injured. Eleven per
sons died and eighteen were badly
hurt hear Pleasant Hill, Sabine Par-
Mi, La., and eight were killed and
several others injured near Rose Hill,
Miss.
The storm apparently swept into
Louisiana near Shreveport, and trav
eled eastward across northern sections
of Louisiana and Mississippi.
High winds and heavy rains accom
panied the storm as it tore eastward
witli increased fury, striking near
Plensant Hill before nightfall. Res
cue workers were busy searching
through’ ruins of dwellipgs when dark
ness came. Many of th> injured there
were carried' to hospital!* in Shreve
port.
11 Dead at Pleasant Hill.
Shreveport, TJi., Feb. 18.— UP) —
W ; th 11 known dead and 18 serious
ly injured, relief workers today con
tinued a search of the debris in an
area a jnile and a half long and a mile
wide that was spent by a disastrous
tornado near Pleasant Hill in Sabine
Parish late yesterday.
The storm struck at 5:30 p. m„ and
the coming of nightfall hindered the
work of finding the dead and injured,
according to relief workers who reach
ed here early today from the seeqs of
the storm* bringing some of the In- :
Monroe, La., Feb. 18.—(A*)—Four
teen persons were killed and at least
two score injured in a tornado which
struck four plantations Just south of
Newellton, .Tensas Parish, at 7:30 p.
m. Thursday. Reports’ reaching ljTre
stated that the toll of deaths, mostly
negroes, would probably be increased
before the end of the day.
Many of the Injured were rushed to
a hospital at Natebei. A doctor from
Tallulah went to the scene last night
and It was reported that he dressed
the injuries of 35 persons wefore re
turning. The storm struck almost
without warning and flattened a num
ber of houses.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady Today at an Advance
of 2 to « Points.—May Goes to i
14.15.
New York, Feb, 18. — C4*) —The cot
ton market opened steady today at an
advance of 2 to 0 points, and showed
net gains of 7 to 8 points in early
trading on a flurry of covering and
buying which appeared to be based on
the continued ' firmness of Liverpool
and the passage of the farm bill by
the Houae yesterday. There was con
siderable realising, however, which
held the advance In check around
14.15 for- May and 14.59 for October
at the end of the first hour.
Private cables reported trade call
ing, with continental and Bombay
buying In the Liverpool market, »and
substantial sales of cotton cloths for
shipment to India.
Cotton futures opened steady:
March 18.87: May 14..10; July 1482;
October 14.63; December 1471.
RECORD METHODIST OIFT.
Francis F. Prentiss of. Cleveland
Donates $1,047,000 For Hospital.
Chicago, Feb. 18.—The largest
single o»sh gift ever made to a
Methodist Episcopal institution, sl,-
047,000, by Francis Flury Prentiss
of Cleveland, was announced today
by Dr. O. T. Nootson, Secretary of
the National Methodist Hospital and
Homes Association, at the conven
tion of that organization.
The sum was given to St Luke's
Hospital in Cleveland.
Announcement also was made of a
$500,000 gift for a new home for (he
Palmer Memorial Hospital in Bos
ton, recently founded to care for In
curab’e cancer patients.
Raleigh to Have SIOO,OOO Fool.
Raleigh, Feb. I&—(lNß)—North
Carolina’s capital will be a budding
city of 100,000 population before it
is lekely to face another serious water
shortage.
The Raleigh Board of Commission
ers decided this when 1 they laid plans
here to look toward Swift Creek, with
its 60.8 miles of unpolluted water, for
additional water supply. .
supply.
The approximate coat of the im
mediate development of the project
will be $400,000 it was estimated.
Plans were made to issue bonds for the
amount nnd to begin work on the
project at once.
The tallest known ferns arc foun t
in the Hawaiian Islands, where they
sometimes grow to a height of 40
feet.
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The Goncord Daily Tribune
> North Carolina’s Leading Small . City Daily
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INQUIRIES ABOUT
NORTH CAROLINA
Orost Interest From All Over the'
United States Is Shown.
Sir Walter Hotel. '
Tribune Bureau
I Raleigh, Feb. 19.—“ Please, would |
jyou he so kind as to send me all the |
data or literature about your great
State?" .1. F. Drummond, of Comp
ton, California. R. F. 1). No. 2, wrote,
the State Department of Agriculture.
He added. “I am going there to live
and should be pleased to have all the
ihforinatlnn I can get. I wnnt to
buy a good farm, with live stream or
small lake. I should also be pleased
to have map—and markets, climate,
rainfall, etc."
This is typical of many similar re
quests that are received frequently
by the Department. Jt has been point
ed out that the liepurtment is in no
position to negotiate the sale of farms.
However, through its official publica
tion, Agricultural Review, and through
the newspapers it endeavors to keep
the people informed as to the interest
of those outside the State. Agricultur
al Review, which makes it appearance
twice a mouth, has listed farms for
sale and the names of persons who
wish to buy farms, when they are
sent in.
Interest is confined to no one section
of the State, letters show. In its
Bulletin, the Department reproduced
a pen picture of North Carolina, by
Commissioner William A. Graham that
gives a detailed description of the
various sections—mountain, piedmont
and coastal, and copies of this issue
have been sent to many inquirers.
The descriptions are. condensed and
to the point.
From all indications there will be
a fine trend toward the mountain sec
tion during the coming season, it was
pointed out alt the. Department of
Agriculture, judging from the number
of inquires about that portion of North
Carolina ns a delightful and healthful
playground for American tourists.
Freguent requests are recivwl for in
formation about Aslievill, Henderson
ville, WaynesvlUe and other centers
to numerous to mention. These, after
the Department has supplied inquirers
with the information it has on hand,
usually are 'forwarded to the Chamber
olXCommerce in the town inquired
a desire to know more'a bout it, With
its farm lauds and their proximity
to wide-awake towns. “ ,
Eastern North Carolina, with ita
fertile soil, also has attracted interest
outside the State. Inquiry is made
about farm lands thef aud about the
coast resorts.
There is another class that frequent
ly inquires very much in detail about
North Carolina, it was said. This
is the student class. It has developed
that students all over the United
States—north, south, east and west—
are asaiffued lessons on North Caro
lina, a rather singular phase of this
situation!* as developed in Pennsyl
vania, where they seem to be studying
cotton probably more than in any
other State. Numerous requests have
come from Pennsylvania students re
cently for literature on cotton although
it seemed like sending seals to New
castle, many cotton bulletins have been
sent to Texas during the past ffew
weeks.
And Florida—for more than a year
the people down there have apparently
been looking at North Carolina with
a fixed gate.,. This, no doubt, is due
to the fact that many of these people
have come to Western North Carolina
during the. summer mouths and have
caught the spirit of jußt what this
State has to offer. Not a few Cal
ifornia folk, as demonstrated by the
letter quoted front at the beginning of
this- article, seem to regard North
Carolina as a favored spot. The Un
iversity of 'California, for example,
has written for bulletins ou North
Carolina. This is taken to mean
there is a demand for them-
A -letter was yesterday , received
from Arthur E. Daggett, R. F, D.
5, Lansing, Michigan, in whieh he in
quired about North Carolina as a
prospective home. “I am contemplating
raasinf a change,’ he wrote ‘'and would
be glad if you could adviseme of the
real estate value of farms. in from
10 to 49-acre tracts.”
GOVERNOR Me LEAN IS
' CONFINED BS ILLNESS
Will Remain at Mansion for Several
Days as Precaution, Physicians lie
elm.
Raleigh, Feb. 18,—(AO—Governor
Angus W, McLean, who is ill at
the executive mansion here with what
his physicians say is a bad cold, was
reported restiug easily this morning.
No adverse symptoms had been re
ported, it if said. . n
The governor will. be confined to
the mansion for several days ns a pre
caution, said a statement issued last
night. At that time it was said the
governor had no temperature, and no
unfavorable symptoms.
Moat Hand Over Election Books.
Pittsburgh, Pa , Feb. 18.—CFJ—Re
fused election tabulation books aud
other official records wanted by the
United States senate for its campaign
funds committee investigation of the
test Pennsylvania senatorial contest,
representatives of the senate today
went into court and obtained an order
directing Alleghany County Prothon
otary John Bogt to hand over the
papers.
China and India contain approxi
mately one-half the total population
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MORETROOPSSENT
TO WSM FOR
' EMERGENCY SERVICE
Pear of Further Fighting
| There Causes the Amer
| ican Government to Take
| Precautions.
IAMERIC ANSWILL
BE PROTECTED
All Troops There Will Be
Under the Command of
Rear Admiral Julian L.
Latimer.
Washington, Feb. 18.—UP)—Antic
ipating that an impending clash be
tween 1 lias and Sacnsa armies at Mat
aguljia will jeopardize American lives
and property, the is con
centrating additional forces in Nicara
gua. i
A force of 1,000 marines is being
dispatched from four bases to the Cen
tral American republic to be placed
under the command of Rear Admiral
Julian L. Datimer in charge of the
special service squadron in Nicara
guan waters. Their arrival will aug
ment the marine troops in that coun
try to 2,000 men. a detachment of 400
already being on duty at Managua,
the capital.
Among the units ordered is a full
regiment, 1200 strong, from the Quan
tieo, Ya., marine base, aud 200 from
Paris Island, S. C„ while another 200
ia to be taken on the cruiser Trenton
from Guantanamo Cuba. The trans
port Henderson which is expected to
said today from Philadelphia for New
port, R. 1., where 800 bluejackets re
cruits for the fleet at Guantanamo
will be taken aboard, will embark the
Quantico and Paris Island units on
her southern voyage. Under previous
orders, 200 marines nnd a division of
six airplanes are to be sent from San
Diego.
CRAVEN. WANTED IN
CATAWBA, CAPTURED
Man Who Made ThrHUng Escape
Caught in Charlotte—Mme Schu
mann-Helnk * Had to Sneeze.
Charlotte, February 17.—Catawba
county officers have been notified of
e&rge. ! • ;
Craven Was reoently arrested • iu
Catawba county bat made a thrilling
and successful break for liberty
when he leaped into the Catawba
river and swam away from his cap
tors when he was being taken to
jail.
He was accused of stealing cloth
ing from the .store of E- H. founts
and company ofNewton. Craven'Of
fered no resistance when approached
by local officers when they went to
arrest him at hia home in Camp
Greene here.
Madame Schumann-Heink, famous
contralto, now on her golden jubilee •
concert tour of the country, refused
to he dignified when she stepped
from a northbound train here this
morning.
A photographer was ready to
“shoot” when the tense silence was
suddenly shattered by a merry laugh
and Madame Scbumann-Heimt,
reaching frantically for a hanker
chief, said, "excuse me please, I
have to sneeze.”
FURNITURE PLANT AT
STATTEBVILLE DAMAGED
Factory No. 2 of Statesville Furniture
Co. Destroyed.—Damage Placed at
$500,000.
Statesville, Feb. 18. —Cto)—Damage
estimated at $300,000 was done by fire
that destroyed the Statesville Furni
ture Company’s factory No. 2 here
early today. Spontaneous combustion
is believed to have been the cause.
The fire was discovered shortly af
ter midnight, but soon was beyond
control of the local fire department.
Aid was summoned from Salisbury
and Mooresville, blit the firemen were
able to do little more than prevent the
flames from spreading, and seven hours
after It'wea discovered the big plant
was in ashfe. : M
Approximately 175 persons were
employed in the plant, which had
floor space of 100,900 square feet.
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, . | Coming Back Home.
jvMoortoville, Feb. 14—Ralph W.
Btiihchard, a medical missionary to
China, who has been located at Chung
king, West China, has sent a cable
gram to Mr. and- Mrs. G. M. Klpka
of this city, that they sailed fgpm
Shanghai last Saturday for the United
States byway of England, Mrs.
Blanchard is a daughter of Kipka’s
and the couple has been in China for
the (last four years. Since the out
break and unkindly attitude toward
foreigners iu China,- much apprehen
sion was felt here regarding Mr. aud
Mrs. Blanchard and son.
Bast Hl* Bom To Death With Monkey
Wrench
Valdosta, Oa„ Feb. it.—C. M. Lary
of Norfolk, Va„ employed as an auto
mobile driver fay W. E. Brady of
Tampa Floriad, today beat hia em
ployer to death with a monkey wrench
after an altercation, police say.
Witnesses who saw the fight told
police and they captured Lary six
miles from town. He had dumped the
body of his aged employer into the
hushes near Valdosta.
Brady was a fortune teller and had
employed Lary to drive a camping
car in which be traveled. The two
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Defeat Os The Bill To Make
Compulsory School Age 16 Years
The Tribune Bureau *
Sir Walter Hotel , f
By J. 0. BASKERVILL q
Ra'.eigh, Feb. 18.--The majority of
the members of the house at least
are not greatly concerned over the
educational status of the state, and
are perfectly willing that children
should stop school at the age of 14
nnd go to work, even if they have
not had the equivalent of four grades
In school.
Tills at least in the interpretation
generally placed here oh the defeat
of the bill that would have increased i
the compulsory education age limit)
from 14 to 10 years for those who
have not completed the fourth grade'
in school. The vote was the closest
yet taken in the house on any public
measure, 55 voting against the ‘ bill
and 31 voting for it. And those 54.
who voted for it were indignant that
the majority of the bouse should bd*
willing to permit children to stop;
school at 14 and go to work, whew
they did not have even a fourth grade
education.
However, the proponents of the hill
feel that many of the members did not
have a clear idea of the purpose of
the bill, and that if they had. the voter!
would have been different and the bill
enacted. As a result, it is
stood that a substitute bill is belnjs
prepared which eliminates the few sug
gestions which were offered against i|
and which will be introduced again
some time soon.
“We feel that the cause of educa
tion and child welfare has been dealt
a severe blow,” said Dr. O. 0, Abert
nethy, chairman of the legislative com
mittee of the State l’arent-Tea<*ber As- 1
sociation, which has been actively
sponsoring the bill. “At prsent North
Carolina has no educational requires
ment in its compulsory education law,’
although 33 _other states have such
requirements, and to give the children
of this state more assurance of ‘.lavf
ihg some schooling, at least before
having to go to work, we feel the bill
was most important and greatly re*
gtet that it dod not pass.
“The defeat of the bill that would
have increased the compulsory'school
NORTH CAROLINA VEGETABLES
Have a Value of Over Fifty Million
Dollars Annually.
Sir Walter Hotel. t
Tribune Bureau
Raleigh, Feb. 18.—The
grown in the farm gardeus of North
Carolina have a value of over lift*
million dollars. ,1
B. 'STorroW, extension ’ horticul
turiust at State College who lias been
making some thorough studies of gar
dens in North Carolina during the
past year. His figures are based on
records seen red during the year 1925
and his values are based on prices
prevailing during that year. He was
unable so get the acreage to gardens
in 1926.
A family garden one-half acre in
size will produce enough vegetables
for the average family, stated Mr. Mor
row. Using the prices whieh farm
women have received at their curb
markets and valuing the vegetables
.supplied to the family at these prices,
he finds that each hojf-acre garden will
return $275. More thau 30 different
kinds of vegetables were used in this
study and the prices used represent
whaat the housewife Would have to
pay for fresh vegetables had she pur
chaaed them at the curb market.
Each acre planted to vegetables there
fore has a value of $550, finds Mr.
Morrow.
In 1925, the home gardens of North
Carolina covered 92,466 acres. The
cotton acreage in the state during the
same year was 2,017,000 acres. The
money value of the gardeim was ssil,-
856,300 as compared with $102,423,-
260 for the cotton. In other words,
Mr. Morrow finds that though only
about one-twentieth of the land was
devoted to gardens as was devoted to
cotton yet the garden plots yielded
values of about one half of that re
ceived from cotton.
On au acreage basis, the garden
produced $550 worth of wealth while
cotton produces only $50.78 per acre.
The garden acre is worth eleven times
more than the option acre.
Mr. Morrow states’ that the home
garden does not suffer by comparison
with tobacco.- In 1925. North Caro
lina planted 547,000 acres of tobacco
which produced, a value of $83,035,-
000. The per acre value of the tobacco
was $151.80. /The per acer value of
the garden is about three and one
half times this amount.
Iu making public this information.
Mr., Morrow states that some will
probably be skeptical about these fig
ures but that they are founded on
facts and are true* The home agents
and othera have accurate records
which Show that farm women after
feeding the family fresh vegetables
throughout the year and giving away
much produce to neighbors and friends
have still sold enough vegetables to
assure a fairly good income. Mrs.
Amelia Davis of Elizabeth City did
this and sold $154 worth of produce.
Mrs. George Price of Rocky Motiut
sold $415 worth of produce. Mrs.
J. P. Rowland of Vance County fed
a family of seven and the neold over
S4OO worth of garden truck on the
Hendereon Curb Market. These are
only a few and their records are dupli
cated by hundreds of other farm wo
men who entered the State-wide year
round garden contest held by State
College bet year.
EMridge T. Gerry Dead.
New York, Feb. 18.—Oto— Eldrldge
T. Gerry, lawyer, yateheman, financier
and active for many years as the
guiding spirit in the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children,
died at fata home here today in his
90th year. , ,
Mr. Gerry waa the father of Eld
ridge T. Gerry, United States sena
tor from Rhode Island.
attendance age to 16 for those who
have not completed the fourth grade
in school is a decided step backward
• diieationally." said A. T. Allen, state
superintendent of public instruction.
Tie law would have been a good
one. and I am sorry^that it was not
passed."
• hie of the principal objections
raised against the bill was that it
would have served to congest the
school with "repeaters"—those who
do not have the ability to pass from
one grade to another—and to keep
these children in school year after
year until they Were 16, as long as
they were not able to pass Higher than
the fourth grade. But this would
not have been the ease, according to
Mr. Alien, since local school boards
now have the authority to deal with
those who are mentally incompetent
to advance into higher grades.
"It is a shame and a disgrace,” said
.Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, commission
er of public welfare, in commenting
on the defeat of file bill. “There
is no stute where a law of this kind
is needed more than in North Caro
lina. As it is at present, hundreds
of boys anil girls are going to work
at the age of 14 with little more than
a first or second grade education, mnny
of them never having beet* in school
for more than a few weeks, and some
not being able to even read or write.”
One ■ thing that militated ngainot
the bill was the bungling manner in
whirii it was bandied on the floor of
the house, no one seeming to be quite
familiar w-ith it and no one definitely
in charge of it. Thus it was bandied
about until many became ,afraid of it
and decided to vote it.
The prevailing idea of those opposed
to it seemed to be that the law would
handicap farmers—aud factory work
ers too—by compelling them to keep
their children in school until they were
16 years old. However, this would
only be necessary where file children
had not nlrendy completed the fourth
grade by the time they were 14 years
old.
What will be the fate of a substi
tute bill, if offered, cannot safely be
foretold in the light of the defeat of
the present bill.
EFFORTS TO CONTROL
THE FOREST FIREB
intensified Efforts Have Led to a
Number of Prosecutions.
Sir Walter Hotel.
Tribune Bureau
ltaleigh, Feb. IS.—lntensified efforts
toward controlling the forest .fire sit-,
uation in the eastern part of the
stole during the recent fliwrjl of fires
efarly in February and in the latter
part of January have led to a num
ber of prosecutions by the North Caro
lina Forest Service.
In Craven county alone fourteen
prosecutions on charges of violations
of forest fire laws were carried out
in one day under the direction of
County Wnrden Simmons. Os this
plumber, 13 were found guilty, one
(if whom appealed to Superior court
and the other paid fines assessed by
the court, and one was fonnd not
guilty.
W. ,C. MeComick, assistant state
forester, lias directed an intensive
campaign for the protection of the
forests against lire, ami for the en
forcement of the forest tire-laws. Re
cent rains nnd the activity of the
warden force have largely cut down
the number of fires.
As a result of the prosecutions more
than $l5O have been paid into the
school fund of Craven county, and
many checks for expense of fire fight
ing are being mailed to the Forest
Service office in Raleigh iu lieu of
prosecution. Charges on which ar
rangements have been made include
the setting of forest fires, carelessness
in the handling of fires allowing their
spread to neighboring woodlands, and
refusal to aid in fighting forest fires.
SAVAGE ATTACK ON
SHERIFF OF PERSON
Officer Has Almost a Life and Death
Struggle With Negro.
Koxboro, Feb. 17.—A daring and
eavage assault was attempted on the
life of Sheriff N. V. Brooks by s
savage negro man who has 'several
names, but who is better known as
Henry Frogeye. The assault was
made, in the home of Si Winstead, a
colored man whose home is in the
Oiub Lake section. Sheriff Brooks
and Deputy W. R. Gentry had done
into the home of Winstead to make
a search for some stolen
and while Deputy Gentry was bufly
Upstairs making the search Frogeye
demanded of Sheriff Brooks an ex
planation and before anything could
bo done he had Sheriff Brooks look
ing straight down the barrel of a
dangerous lodking shot gun, ad
vancing on him with a savage threat.
Fortunately Deputy Gentray came
down wrenching the gun from the
negro before a shot was fired, thee
came what looked like a death and
life struggle between Sheriff Brooks
and the negro-. In the scuffle me
negro -got hold of the sheriff’s pistol
and but for the lightning action of
Gentry the negro would have shot
him down with his own gun. Deputy
Gentry cooled the negro with a
heavy blow on the head after whieh
he released his clinch on the gun as
well as Sheriff Brooks. He was
brought to town and given a- bearing
and placed in jail for safe keeping.
Niagara Roan Through Ether For
Radio Fans.
Niagara Fails, N. Y. Feb. 17—
Niagara Falls tonight took its place
alongside the Liberty Bell, Big Ben
ita London, nnd the Pacific ocean in
performing for the radio. The roar
of tte falls was broadcast as part of
the ceremony incidental to the open
ing of the local studio of Staton
WMAK, which has ita headquarters
FLOOOWATERSARE
STILL MENACE FOR
CALIFORNIA FOLKS
While the Southern Part of
State Seems Safe From
Further Damage, Waters
Rising Elsewhere.
SEVERALRIVERS
STILL RISING
Dense Fog Along Coast
Adds to Peril and One
Ship Was in Wreck as
Result of the Fog.
I/OR Angeles, Cal., Feb. 18.— UP) —
Southern California today was prac
tically eliminated from the theatre of
danger as the five-day storm abated,
leaving 22 dead and property loss un
officially estimated at $2,200,000, but
Imperial Valley points along the Col
orado River, were threatened with
flood conditions, and northern Califor
nia coast cities awaited an approach
ing storm center from the Pacific.
Men and horses were thrown into
the fight against high waters along the
Colorado River near Calexico to pro
tect that district from a flood report
ed coming down the stream as the re
sult of the recent unprecedented
rains. A discharge of 55,000 second
feet of water was expected at Imper
ial and an additional flood was roar
ing down the, Gila River from Arizo
na.
The Gila River rise will pour Into
the Colorado Iliver above Yuma and
added to the already swollen volume
was expected to make a flow of 75,000
second-feet, 3,000 feet over the peak
of the flood which broke through the
Imperial Valley levees last June. s
Dense fog added a new peril last
night when the Standard Oil tanker
F. H. Hillman with 42 men aboard
and bound for San Francisco, from
London, went on the reef at San Nich-J
olas Island, 70 miles southwest of
San Pedro. After radioing frantic S.
O. S. calls and being aground for
more than an hour the distressed ves
sel succeeded in putting off under her
own power.
Farmers and Citrus growers pre
dict that the benefit to the crops by
the soaking rains will overshadow
their property damage in tfaorvatoa.
Although rail commnnicational wttfi
few exceptions had been restored, high
way traffic continued in a snarl as
crews of workmen set out to repair
roads, rebuild bridges and remove land
slides.
Trans-continental trains of the
Southern-Pacific were still being re
routed over the Santa Fe tracks.
Other roads were operating on almost
regular schedules.
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For the three big Dollar Days,
Friday. Saturday and Monday, rne
Parks-Belk Co. is offering manv
specials, such as men’s pajamas, $1
per pair; dress shirts valued at
$1 .25 for 65 and 95 cents; and!
ladies’ slinpers va'ued at $lO for
345. $3.95 and $4.95.
Fisher’s has received 200 beauti
ful Golflex coats at prices from
$9.75 to $59-50. Also exquisite hats
in the latest creations, from $2.95
to $25.00.
' You will find new versions of
dresses, coats, hats add lingerie at
the Grnp Shop, 22 South Union.
Phone 144. New styles for spring all
over the store.
Call 587, the J.- A. H. Cash Store,
for turnips, parsnips', carrots, toma
toes, lettpce and other fresh vegeta
bles.
Style, value ami quality are fea
tured in suits sold by the J. C. Penney
Co* Priced at f 524.75 with extra
pants for little additional. Read new
ad.
The Citizens Bank nnd Trust Co.
will faithfully carry out the terms of
your will if appointed executor.
TONIGHT
GREAT PASSION PLAY
IN MOVING PICTURES
CONCORD Y. M. C. A.
Two Shows: 7 8:30 P. M.
Special Price of 10c to Children at
7 K» O’clock Show
Admission 15c and 25c
Tfce First Showing in Concord ot
This Original Passion Play, made In
Germany at the Real Performance.
RATHER IMPORTANT
MATTERS TODAY
STATE LEGIST
House Postponed Action
on Highway Bill Until
Monday.—ln Session for
Three Hours.
JOHNSTON BILL
PASSES SENATE
Requires Primary for Se
lection of Candidates to
Fill Unexpired Terms of
Senators.
Capitol, Raleigh, Feb. 18.—
—The House postponed action on
the Smith-Hargett highway bill until
Monday night, passed bills ranging
from a state game law to prohibiting
dogs from occupying hotel bed rooms,
and adjourned after three hours ses
sion until 10 o’clock tomorrow.
The Senate tackled major legisla
tion and‘at 2 o’clock still was in ses
sion.
The upper house passed the bill re
quiring election of "United States Sen
ators in case of vacancy by death or
resignation, and the Royal bank
liquidation bill.
The senate passed the Royal bill,
supported by the State Bankers As
sociation, on the third and final read
ing. The bill amended received a ris
ing vote of 32 to 9.
The Johnson bill to require a pri
mary for selection of candidates to fill
unexpired terms of United States sen
ators who may die or resign, rather
than have them appointed by the Gov
ernor of the state, passed without de
bate or objection to the third reading.
Numerous public local bills were
passed.
Twenty-five local bills were passed
by the House to the Senate and three
Senate bills were concurred in.
The Smith-Hargett highway routing
authority bill, passed in the Senate,
came up on special order.
Representative Moser, of Randolph,
moved to continue on the ground that
the bill had not been printed.
Representative Murphy, of Rowan,
urged immediate action because of the
preps of important work coming up.
He made the first allpstou. on the
House floor to an impending battle on
Appropriation and-finahex; inejisntw..
Debate bFoke out on the question of
delay, until Representative Murphy
withdrew tiis objection and the bilt
was set for special order Monday
night.
Fewer leaves of absence were
granted, but it was decided by a vote
of 50 to 43 to take up the local calen
dar only on Saturday.
Representative Graham announced
that the finance committee was meet
ing today and tonight, and hoped to
have its state revenue bill ready for
introduction tomorrow.
Representative "Wright, Guilford,
moved to meet at 11 o'clock' Monday
morning and again at 3 o'clock Mon
day night.
EXPECT WOOD BACK LATE
TODAY OR TOMORROW
Extradition Papers Recognized and
Prisoner Is En Route to Raleigh.
Raleigh, Feb. 18.—04>> —State pris
on officials expected Otto Wood back
late tonight or tomorrow morning
from Terre Haute, Ind., where he was
captured after a third escape from the
penitentiary walls.
Word from Terre Haute, where
Wood was arrested after he was
wounded by a bullet from a druggist,
whose store the one-armed murdered
attempted to rob, was that extradi
tion papers signed by Governor Mc-
Lean had been honored. Wood has
recovered from his injury.
He has served several years of his
30-year sentence for the murder of a
Greensboro pawn broker.
Taxes Several Times Cost of the
Property.
Charlotte, Feb. 17-—Elmer Rey
koote, of this city, is in a position
to complain tbnt automobi e taxes
are too high. He bought a Ford for
$1.50 and then was stopped on the
road home by an officer because he
had no lights nor license tag. Elmer
paid $5,000 when he appeared be
fore a magistratae today.
Tax reformers who weep over the
North Carolina situation could take
Elmer’s case for a text —the taxes
being several times the cost of the
car. “But-it runs.”
Cantonese Take Hangchow.
Shanghai Feb. 18.—(A>)—The de
feated northern army of Marshal Sun
Chuah-Fang was in full retreat to
ward Shanghai today while the
victorious Cantonese war machine
rolled ipto Hangchow, picturesque key
city to the defence system of the low
er Yangtze Valley, without resistance.
Aitcmarie Man Charged With Attack
on Glri
Albemarle, Feb. 18.—OP)—Lonnie
Haywood, young white man of this
city, is held in jail in Stanly county
jail charged with attempted attack on
a 14 year old girl her* early this
morning.
British Cruisers Go to Shanghai
Hong Kong, Feb. 18.—C4>>—The
British cruisers, Oaradoc and Durban
left here today for Shanghai.
Many modern words and figures of
speech are based upon the devouring
of food. The word “nag” originally
meant to gnaw or nibble; “fret”
mtaut to devour ;^remome"
etrangle.
THE TRIBUNir|I :
TODAY’S NEw's TODAt}
NO. 3^
STATE GAME LAW
. gDOPTEO BY
' THE LOWER M
—: — ■ ms
Bill Arranging Compulse**
School Age to 16 Instep
of 14 Is Defeated in tip
House.
OTHER MATTERS M
OF IMPORTANT
Date of Automobile Reg|s*
tration Has Been ChMpr
ed From June 31st to 1
cember 31st.
Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel, ,
Raleigh, Feb. 18.—Both the houM
and senate are showing signs of Jpff 'f
ting down to work by begtamingKijiS
dispose of the bi lbs now on the cgP
endnr. Committees are fum-tiogafl
full blast, and reporting bills by jhfi
score, and while bills are rceeftjjK i
careful consideration in both hoVSjfc
the inclination to a argue cndtesMß ;
over matters of minor
seems to be disappearing.
The most important meniMfffr'jj
tbnt have been disposed of in (iM '
house are the statewide game
passed Thursday on third reading 4
sent to the senate, the bill ohanJMB.W
the date of automobile registrwpM
from June 31 to December 31.
ed yesterday by the house—this hgd
already been passed by the
and the bill prohibiting state nastZ
from granting loans to state NtlS ".
examiners, and prohibiting bank nj>.
aminers from seeking loans fjjgKH
these hanks.. The bill that whgM
have amended the compulsory aqHßpli
attendance law to require chiljwfS
to attend school until they ure 1 !®. f
years old instead of 14, if they haw
not completed the fourth grade,
defeated by the closest vote yet tBlp?
en in the house. 51 members vofflb| i
so the bill and 55 against it.
bill that would have fixed the <#£ .
count rate which agricultural credit
organizations charge. and whhSlr; ;
would have prohibited a rate higher
than 8 per cent was tabled by ratMi
a close vote.
Consideration of the bill to pro
vide for the consolidation of the
Fisheries Commission with the De
pa troent <rf OonaeevnHnn and
pnrtment of Conservation 1 and 1>- ™
velopment was carried over and
made a matter of special order for
next Tuesday.
Fraternal orders will be permitted
to organize insurance companies, un
der certain regulations by the state
department of insurance, under a bill
passed Thursday, and the Board ’W- '
Public Charities and Welfare is eft
powered to accept gifts and bequettto
under another bill that was ratified-
A bill amending the state bankthfif
laws, raising the capitalization
certain instances was also upprov4&
as wan a bill empowering the hoalrQv
of directors of the various hospitals
for the insane to utilize the
of patents as laborers when tMSB
physical condition Will peidilt| ;
Another bill, providing for the
mial registration of drug stores and
pharmacists was approved with hilt
’ittle discussion. This bill was sj|j&j
domed by the druggists as a means
of checking up on the various drug
stores, and is not a licensing act.
The resolution expressing the con
sent of the state for participatibß in
the benefits of the Purnell act."’ un
der which the state receives from '
tlie government some SOO,OOO yearly
for the vnri.ous agricultural expet)*
ment stations, was readily npjirorti.
The senate, aside from pmvdSfflf' .s
the Smoky Mountains Notional* Balfij
bill Friday by a vote of 40 to l.jS
third reading, n’so acted on a lam
number of local bills and htSw j
bi’ls. The bill providing for ‘'Wf-’l
bul’ding of a bridge across Roanoke
sound'was passed and sent to 'jjfoj
house, but the bill that, would lnmt
required automobiles tq stop befajg |
entering main highway from <dQb -
roads was held up, just-bofoXe' 'm |
third rending, ami recommittal
committee. The house bill. int<(&* ;
duced by Representative F. D. Whi
ston of Bertie, to make the
North State the official song of'Jfep
state," already passed by the hohlifi,
was approved on third reading and
has become law." 1 . MSB
Among the large number of new
bills offered in the senate, the hjfl ,
of Senator Woodson t<i provWe 'BBg
the listing of property at its re*l
value, was probably the more lift
portant, and was a dup’icate bill to ,
the one introduced in the house
Representative Graham of OrftnMiJ
These bills were drafted at tbe w ’■<
quest of tlie state taxing officials, it
is understood, and have the
of the administration. , JHB
The bill introduced in the
by Senator Royall of Wayne.
for a constitutional nrrtendwoot
limiting the property tax
segregating inangibles for
is also regarded as important. ,"
Jury Disagrees in $76,000 Domto*'
Suit.
New York, Feb. 18.—OP)—The i*M
in the $75,000 damage suit of
O. Peters of Haverhill, Maas., iralwn
Walter S. Wanl for the death of-'fir
son, Clarence M. Peteta, five ye*«t
ago, disagreed on a verdict
_
Rain and cloudy tonight, mftfcJgH
er in west porUon. Saturday ejfjfl