DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVII
Truce Sends Scores Os
ShanghaiWorkersßack
To Posts After Strike
Nationalist Labor Leaders
and Marshal Sun Ckuan
Fang Reach Agreement.
—Executions Halted.
CANTONESE CAUGHT
WITHIN THE CITY
Were in French Set
tlement Holding Meeting
—Strike May Break Out
Again at Any Time.
Slmngliai, Feb. 24.—MP)—A truce
was declared in the conflict between
nationalist labor in Shanghai and the
lot taring regime of Marshal Sun Child n
Fang tonight.
SilnDltn neons proclamations sent
scores of thousands of workers back
to their jobs and called off the exe
cutioners of General Li Pao* Chang,
Shanghai defense commissioner, who
beheaded more than 100 agitators dur
ing the five-day walkout which in
volved more than 100,000 Chinese.
The strike began to wane at once.
Strikers thrown back to work partly
tier a use of lack of funds and partly
because of atmosphere of terrorism
which has hung over the native city
and even penetrated the foreign set
tlements where the strike started.
Although nothing official was ob
tainable to verify the report, it was
learned that' General Li’s agents pene
trated the French concessions and kid
nupiied at least thirty members of
Cantonese agitators who were holding
a meeting there this evening. A few
kidnappings also were reported from
international settlements, but could
not be confirmed.
! Those kidnapped were taken to Gen.
Li’s headquarters and their fate is
unknown.
One of the proeiamations issued by
General Li in w'.iich he revoked orders
for execution of strike agitators now
being held, admits the shootings and
beheadings carried out by his decree
during the last five days have totalled
100, half of which were in public.
Foreign officials believe at least lUO
more were executed in the military
enclosures of defense authorities.
The general iubor union issued the
other proclamation in which Its offi
cials announced that Ihejr had ‘‘taken
steps with it view to ending the strike
for the time being.” The lahorites
action was only a truce, and that they
cx|i«cted to strike again when the
time is ripe. Tliis is' taken to mean
that they would act when the military
situation becomes more definitely fav
orable to the nationalists.
Meanwhile disquieting reports here
from Sungkiang, 28 miles south of
Shanghai, where the broken army of
Marshal Sun has taken a position for
a last stand against the approaching
Cantonese. The reports said Mar
shal Sun’s forces were looting the rlca
and silk shops there, and thnt many
of the soldiers had been executed by
their own leaders in an effort to main
tain discipline and face the southern
advance.
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Studying Plantation Melodies.
(By International News Service)
Ferriday, La., Feb. 24.—For the
first time in the history of the local
high school the entire student body
—over 400 in number —meets twice a
week in the school auditorium and
biend their voices with old time plant
ation melodies and the leading patri
otic anthems of the nation. This
group singing in the school has helped
considerably to endear the school to
teachers ami pupils. Also, it has
served to create a spirit of loyalty on
the part of every student for sing
ing.
Two hundred song books were pur
chased recently and more will be pur
chased soon, the principal, Prof. R.
t\ Childs says. The State depart
ment of public, education at Baton
Rouge has highly commended the prin
cipal and local school for showing such
progress! veness.
Home of Oliver Twist.
London, Feb. 24-.—As all lovers of
Dickens know, the scene of Oliver
Twist's memorable audacity in asking
for more was Mint Street Workhouse,
Southwark, and the local Authorities
arc seeking to acquire the freehold
' interest in a part of the workhouse,
k which was closed some time ago for
public purposes. It was the home in
ids early days of Oliver Twist, and
the copper from which the gruel was
ladeied into the ' basin held by the
trembling bands of the pauper bojr is
iiMf in the possession of the borough
council. It was also in the locality
of the Mint Street Workhouse that
Little Dorritt spent her childhood
days.
Opinions are like watches. No two
are alike, yet each man believes in
bis own. -\\ ...
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| SURVEY OF WOMEN IN
INDUSTRY NOT WANTED
Clamor far Survey Died Down As
Suddciily As H Started And Is
Dead Issue For Present.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILLE.
' Raleigh. Feb. 24. —“Such is grati
tude—when you give them what they
want they don't want it," said Rep
resentative R. O. Everett today in
discussing the bill he has introduced
settiug up an “Agricultural and In
dustrial Labor Commission” which
would be empowered to conduct a sur
vey similar to the “Survey of Women
in Industry” for which the various
women’s organizations of the state
elnmored so loudly Inst summer, and
which clamor ceased so suddenly some
months ngo,
All of which bears out the state
ment of this correspondent several
days ago that the move for the sur
vey of women in industry had been
definitely abandoned by the various
interested women's organizations, at
least for this session, because they
could not agree as to the kind of sur
vey they wanted or on who or what
agency was to make it. Some thought
that it should be conducted by women
only for women only—a sort of harem
affair. Still another faction thought
that it should be conducted' by the
Department of I-abor Women's Bur
eau in Washington—that is, u federal
survey—while others wanted it con
ducted by Mrs. Kate Johnson of the
State Department of \Velfare or not
at all—and there the matter hung.
So it is not surprising that this bill,
tossed into the hopper of the house by
Representative Everett, should have
created consternation and opposition-*-
the more so because none of the var
ios would-be women leaders in the
womeir-in-industry survey were con
sulted in its preparation.
“In the first place. I think that a
survey should be made to determine
if conditions are really ns bad us the
club women say they are,” said Mr.
Everett, “and then I wanted to see
if the women wanted this survey* as
much as they said they did. Conse
quently this bill was prepared with
the end in view of making the survey
possible, uml of actually determining
conditions. But the real question
seems to be more of who was going
to get the credit for the survey rather
thou Jhe survey itself.”
This bill sets up what he considers
thorough and unbiased investigation,
and return an accurate report, Mr.
Everett says. It Includes five mem
berg named in the hill itself—the com
missioner of Public Welfare, the At
torney General, ns the legal advisor
of the commission, the Secretary of
the State Board of ‘Health and the
State Superintendent of Public in
struction—with three other members
to be appointed by the Governor, one
of whom must be a representative of
the laboring element —a wage earner.
And Frank Carter, of the Child Wel
fare commission, the indirect cause of
the collapse of the survey last summer,
is eliminated.
But still, according to Mr. Everett,
the woman will have none of it, and
are going to fight the bill.
So the old question arises—do the
women really want a survey of women
in industry—are they really interested
in the welfare of the workers—or are
they more interested in as to who will
get the glory—or the blame?
It is n question for the thoughtful
to ponder.
GRADY’S SUCCESSOR
HAS NOTHING TO SAY
Any Statement Must Came From
Grady or the Imperial Wizard, Says
Morgan S. Reiser.
Raleigh. Feb. 28.—“1 have no state
ment for the public ami organization
business will be transmitted in the
usual prescribed manner,” declared
Morgan S. Belser, of Atlanta, who
has been designated by Dr. Hiram W.
Evans, imperial wizard, to assume
charge of the Ku Klux Klan in the
realm of North Carolina on Satur
day.
Any statement, Mr. Belser said here
today, must come from the imperial
wizard or Judge Henry A. Grady.
Mr. Belser was in Raleigh, he said,
to get acquainted with the office af
fairs before assuming control Satur
day. 'He said he will not be grand
dragon of Nprth Carolina, to succeed
Judge Grady, resigned, unless be is
officially appointed by Dr. Evans and
his appointment is ratified by klan
delegates in regular session.
This can not be done under 30 days,
Mr. Belser said.
Rudner Is Convicted in Don Melleit
1 Cam*
Canton, Ohio, Feb. 23.—Ben Rud
ner, Massillon, Ohio, hardware mer
chant, was convicted today of sec
ond degree murder iu connection
with the slaying last July of' Don
R. Mellett, Canton editor.
The verdict carries a penalty of
life imprisonment. , >
E. L. Mills, defense counsel, told
Judge After be would file motion for
a new trial. < '
Husband Beating Wife With Chair
Is Ait By Son.
Springfield, Mo., Feb. 23.—Angered,
he said, because his father was beat
ing his mother with a chair, Calvin
Frederick, Jr., 11, today shot and pro
bably fatally wounded Calvin Freder
ick? Sr., 46, formerly of Hdrrison,
Ark. The charge from h ' shut gun
struck Frederick in the temple and
blew off the top of bis skull.
“I’m not sorry and I’d do it
again,” the boy told neighbors.
ILITIL! HOPE TUT
CONGRESS WILL DO
MUCH DURING WEEK
i■» . ' I
With Adjournment Set for
Tomorrow Week, Little
Chance for Other Major
Legislation to Pass.
FILIBUSTER IS
DEATH TO BILL
Halted Action on Boulder
Canyon Measure.—Will
Try to Pass as Many
Laws as Possible Now.
Washington, Feb. 24.—04*)—Facing
adjournment a week from tomorrow,
and with the filibuster germ that
practically killed Roulder Dam leg
islation for the present session spread
ing to other controversial measures.
Congress today entered upon a pro
gram to dean up as many bills ns it
ean. but with- little prospect, of pass
ing much additional major legislation.
Although the Swing-Johnson bill to
dam the Colorado River at Boulder
Canon was due to come up again to
day in the Senate at 2 p. in., after its
sponsors were blocked in their efforts
to bring it to a vote by a three senator
filibuster during a 30-hour session,
there appeared little prospect for ac
tion since the republican leaders had
planned to displace it two hours inter
with the alien property return meas
ure.
Once laid aside in the Senate, the
bill will stand virtually no chance of
a vote in either house at this session,
since the House steering committee
has decided that it will not be taken
up in the House unless acted upon in
the Senate.
Meanwhile under an agreement
reached at another night session the
Senate had planned to devote its
first two hours today to consideration
of other subjfcts including the Tyson
emergency officers' retirement bill,
while republican leaders hoped to ob
tain an agreement to take up the ad
ministration’s prohibition and cus
toms reorganization measure. Two
hours have been set aside for consid
eration of Muscle Shoals legislation
tomorrow.
The House, proceeding under a ten
tative program mapped out by its
steering committee, gave right of way
verted senate amendment provldhtg
$1,200,000 to begin work on three
light cruisers which the House already
has rejected in modified form.
After disposing of this subject it
plans to take up the $03,400,000 defic
iency supply bill, and the Hawley
medicinal whiskey measure; then two
bills authorizing approximately $30,-
000.000 for various naval activities
including funds for improvements at
five naval bases, modernization of the
battleships Oklahoma and Nevada,
and completion of the airplane car
riers Lexington and Saratoga, and
the submarine V-4.
Would Give Pardon Commlsioner
More Power.
Sir Walter Hotel.
Tribune Bureau
Raleigh, Feb. 23. —The Governor
and the Commissioner of PardonH are
given the power to subpoena witnesses
and put -them under oath in connec
tion with hearings on pardon matters.
Under the terms of the bill introduced
in the senate by Senators Broughton
and Woltz, and which is assured of
passage.
The bill was prepared by Senator
Broughton especially at the sugges
tion of Governor McLean and H.
Hoyle Sink Commissioner of Pardons.
Frequently the Governor has been
hampered in securing the necessary
witness at as pardon hearings, since
at present it is not possible to sub
poena witness, or to put them under
oath.
Under the terms of this bill, it
will be possible for the neceessary
witnesses to he subpoened for any
given hearing, also to have them
sworn, which will eliminate much of
the delay which i)as heretofor at
tended many of the hearings.
It will be possible, under this bill,
for the commissioner of pardons to
subpoena a number of witnesses in
advance in various parts of the state,
and be sure of haviug them present
on the date set for the hearings, thus
materially reducing the amount of
time that heretofore has been consum
ed by these hearings. ,
The bill seems to he assured of
speedy passage in both the senate
aud bouse,
Inventor of the Voltaic Battery.
Rome, Feb. 24. —'Within the next
ten days Italy will enter upon an elab
orate commemoration of the one hun
dredth anniversary of the death of
Alexander Volta, a son of Italy who
ranks among the / world’s greatest
. physichists and students of electricity.
Volta was born at Como in 1746 and
died March 5, 1827. In 1799 he pro
duced his voltaic battery after many
years of Rudy in atmospheric elec
tricity. 1 He was professor of physics
in the Royal School at Como for sev
eral years and later was appointed
professor of physics in the University
of Pavia, where be remained for
threnty-five years. Napoleon Bona
parte made him a count and gave him
a gold medal in recognition of his
electrical discoveries. It is also a
matter of history that while in Paris
Volta became acquainted with Benja
min Franklin and was deeply im
pressed with the American's genius
and learning, i.
CONCORD, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24,1927
VESSELS CRASH IN
FOG; PASSENGERS
ESCAPED INJURIES
j
i Steamer City of RichmotuJ
] and City of Annapolis
Crash at a Point off the
Virginia Coast.
I ONE VESISELIN
CRASH RUINED
There Were More Than 100
Passengers on the Twd
Steamers But They AS
Escaped Injuries. f
——— |
Baltimore, Md.. Feb. 24. —OP)—’Oi|
ba.v steamer , City of Richmond wal
returning to Baltimore today with tbl
passengers and crew, 103 persons id
all, of the steamer City of Annapolis,
which the forager craft rammed and
sank in a dense fog in Chesapeake Bay
about 2 a. m„ a mile off Smith’s Point.
Vn„ wireless messages to the Chesa
peage .Steamship Company, owner of
both vessels, stated today. The wire
less said that none of those rescued
suffered dangerous injuries. The Cttjf
of Richmond with her bows stove in
was expected at Baltimore about noon.
There were 53 passengers, men,
women and children, on board the
Annapolis, about half of whom were
said to be from Baltimore. The City
of Annapolis sailed from West Point.
Va., last night; the City of Richmond
was bound from Baltimore for same
port with about fifty passengers.
Captain Charles O. Brooks, of the
Bay steamer City of Baltimore, tele
phoned from Old Point to the Mari-,
time Exchange here this forenoon that
his ship arrived off Smith’s Point just
as the last survivor was being taken
off the sinking vessel.
He said: “It was foggy, one of those
dripping thick kihd that shut out ev
erything. I cun eusily sec how a col
lision might have occurred. When
I saw 1 therp Mj»* nothing to do, I kept
on down the Bay.”
The City of Annapolis lies in about
sixty feet of water, with her two
smokestacks protruding above the sur
face. Tiie owners have sent a tug
to court)? the City of Richmond to
mu*/"* V - ■
ME HOPES PREACHING
MAY BE REVITALIZED
Sun. Mmdm SOzUir tofatotu
00* Pulpit In Order to Do “KwT
Lance’* Work.
San Francisco, Feb. 24.—1 n a
city "of not. less than a miiliou
population,” the Rev. James L. Gor
don, former Congregational minister
of Washington and San Francisco,
wd| establish a "Metropolitan Pul
pit” in which he will serve ns a free
lance.”
He is not going to establish a new
church, he emphasized, but merely
exercise the perogative* of "Old Tes
tament Days" when preneliers ami
prophets were uot restricted by m
many creeds “hut could preach re
ligion as they were inspired.”
The _ noted pastor , who resigned a
$15,000 a year pulpit to "start out
anew without a congregation or a
church or financial organization.'’
said bis sermons will be founded on
the belief that:
‘The old time sermon lias gone to
seed and that its power can only be
revitalized by making it interesting
enough to compete for an audience
with the movie, the drama, the radio
and the automobile.
“That a preacher doesn't have t.>
be mad at somebody to preach.
“That oratofy is not necessary,
but eloquence is. -
"That to interest the masses a
preacher must talk common sense n<
it is linked with the spiritual.
“That when the scientist actually
proves an existing theological be
lief wrong, rheology can be bent to
conform wthout detriment to re
ligion.
‘That the minister should stop
trying to help run the universe and
direct a dozen or more allied church
organisations to devote his entire
energy to giving his ewrmons the
absorbing interest that a dramatist
puts into his play.”
Matineeßuties
by William RCourtnej
The Tribune will, in a few days, be
gin publication of a new serial story
- entitled “Matinee Ladies.” This is a
i splendid story and we are sure will
please onr readers.
V ' 7 T "'- —■ —r
More Talk Os Special Session
Os Legislature Heard This Week
The Tribune Bureau
1 .- Rir Walter Hotel 1
By J. C. BASKERVILL
| Raleigh. Feb. 24.—The possibility
• lof iin extra session of the legislature:
I in 1928 loomed as nn even more likely
possifiiiity today as a result of the
; introduction of a bill by Representn-
I live Francis I). Winston, of Bertie,
J providing for a revision of the State j
1 constitution, and its ratification by |
|l three-fifths of the members of the gen- '
T era! assembly in special session, after '■
■ which It would be submitted to tt vote
• of the people in the general election of
' 1928. If ratified by the people, it
H* 'would become effective With the be-
(tinning of the fiscal year of 1929-30.
!• Ttiis bill by Representative Winston
follows close on the heelsof the bill
introduced by Representative "Sandy”
tirahnm, of Orange, providing for the
crention of a tax commission, to make
it thorough study of the tax structure
■i of the state, with a view to shifting
J the tax burden somewhat and to get
I it on a more equitable basis. And to do
I this a constitutional amendment or
I amendments would be required, nnd a
I special session of the general assembly
* would be neceiwnry before the amend
* inent could be submitted to a vote of
f- tiie iieople two years henep.
J But evidently this was not sufficient
i for Judge Winston, who thinks that
| instead of amending the constitution.
, the entire document should be revised
and brought up to date. And there
‘ is no doubt in the minds of those who
* have devoted serious thought to the
i question that this is the case, and't'.iat
; the present taxation muddle—and a
‘ muddle it is—will never be solved un
’ til certain substantial changes are
i made in the eonstitution.
j Hence, since it is generally admit
s ted thnt the greatest defect in the
state's governmental system at pres
-i COMMENDS EFFORTS
TO HALT STEALING
t
i Roberts Finds Officers Determined to
Break Up Auto Stealing Ring.
! The Tribune Bureau
• Sir Walter Hotel
Italeigh, Feb. 24.—C'ommendBtiou of
i the efforts of western North Carolina
1 sheriffs who are banding together in
an effort to break up the automobile
t theft ring that is foeusing its activ
> ities in the vicinity of Asheville wag
■ made today by C. W. Roberts, vice !
1 ‘president of the Catorlina Motor Club, J
> In commenting on the wave of thiev-1
Cry in the Land of the Sky. -
Between December 15th aud Feb- '
ruary 15th therewerc 141 cam stolen
Asheville, Mr. Roberts pointed out I
y y-uui average of 70 per month.
irtrirhlß number wßLehow a pareuptible
•flMense, Mr. ‘Roberts believe*? win*'- ]
ing repeal of the title registration law
by the South Carolinn legislature.
“Many of the stolen cars in the past
have been spirited across the state
line into Tennessee, which has no
title law," Mr. Roberts said, "and
easily disposed of. With the South
Carolina line less than fifty miles
away and paved all the way this af
fords another boulevard for the car
thief—both the - so-called professional
“rings” ami gangs who make a rdgn- ,
lar business of trafficking in stolen j
machines and parts aud of the iiidi- j
villus Is who steal cars to haul ailond
of liquor or to make their way south."
Motorists themselves are making it
easy for the ear thieves, Mr. Roberts
says, pointing out that in a majority
of the 141 eases teh owners admitted
the cars had been left uulocked. “By
all means lock your cars,’ ’he urges.
"If it is a closed ear lock the doors ami
and be sure all windows nnd the wind
shield are dosed. Asheville’s peculiar
topography lands itself admirably to
the purposes of car thieves because
they cau roll a car off—in many in- j
stances for several blocks —and pick
looks at leisure.
“During the two-month period nine
ears were stolen belonging to mem
bers of the Carolina Motor Club.
Eight of these have been .recovered
througli the efficiency and effective
ness of our stolen car system. Gpc
of the cars recovered was returned
for the second time having been stolen
during November. In each instance
| the owner left it unlocked. Lock the
| car even if you expect to be gone only
a few minutes and leave it in a eon
. apicuous place.”
FIND TWO BODIES IN
BURNED BRITISH TANKER
Ship So Hot Following Explosion
Thorough Search Could Net Be
Made. >
New Ybrk, Feb. 24. —OP)—Two
. bodies have been found in the hulk of
the burned British oil tanker Black
Sea, which is beached on Bed Hook
Flats in the harbor off Brooklyn.
A wireless dispatch from the tug
Resolute, which is standing by the
tanker, to police headquarters today
requested that a police launch be sent
to the scene.
jf When the police launch reached the
tanker, two bodies, presumably those
i of, seamen, were found on the port
Side of the steamer. The starboard
side of the craft was still red hot as
a result of yesterday's explosion, off
Bayonne, N. J., and firemen and po
lieemen were unable to determine
whether there were other bodies in the
wreckage.
Meoresvllle Votes For $50,900 School
Bonds.
Mooresville, Feb. 28.—With a regis
tration of but 301 voters, an issue
ot, $80,900 bonds for schools was au
thorized by a special election here.
Os those registered for the election,
212 voted for the isaue.
[ ! Ten Pages Today
i Two Sections
jent is its basis of taxation by which
the heaviest burden is imposed upon
the property owners in the counties,
and since it is generally admitted that
this cannot be remedied without a
thorough study of the situation ami
the enactment of certain constitutional
amendments, there is a decided senti
ment in favor of attacking the prob
lem immediately, and calling a special
session if necessary to finish the job.
But Representative Winston is
nothing if not un astute and far-seeing
statesman, which is as it should be.
since he is past seventy years of age
nnd has the wisdom of years together
with the vision of youth—for his
mind is as young and virile ns any
member of the house. Hence he de
cided that since a special session of
the general assembly in 1928 is, al
most inevitable anyway and since the
constitution would have to be amend
ed, that now was the time to set the
necessary machinery in motion for a
general revision of the constitution in
its entirety.
Hence his bill promisee that as soon
as the present session of the general
assembly adjourns thnt the house and
senate committees on constitutional
amendments at once undertake the
task of re-writing the constitution.
The bill provides that all necessary
funds be provided for this work, and
that the committees shall have the
assistance whenever in need of the
members of the supreme court.
It is further provided that when the
constitution has been re-written that
the committees shall then report to
the governor who will then call a spec
ial session of the general assembly
to consider the re-written constitution
nnd decide whether or not it will be
submitted to a vote of the jieoule.
Bo what at first appeared to he only
the vaguest possibility, now emerges
into the realm of very ronf likelihood.
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
TOURNAMENT IN MARCH
Many Schools Expected to Take Part
hi the Tournament at State Col
lege.
Italeigh. N. (’., Feb. 24.—The size
of the Second Annual High Scboo.
Basketball Tournament at State Col
lege, according to athletic officials at
the local institution, will be limited
only by the member of boys who can
be cared for in the College dormitor
ies. To date, more than 130 high
school squads, made up of approxi
mately 1300 players, have applied
for' admission. Tournament dates are
March 4 ami 5.
The number of high school stu
dents who are planning to spend
two days on the campus is only
.slightly lens than the number ot
sOTenfs cnffill'M ' "Tn '
With the College dormitories al
ready filled to capacity, the problem
of absorbing almost an equal num
ber of youngsters presents a good
many difficulties.
State College- students, -it is
stated, are cooperating wholehearted
ly in providing quarters for the great
throng of visitors. The various fra
ternities. county clubs, and other
organizations, ns well as individual
students, are working shoulder to
shoulder With the athletic authori
ties in arranging to care tor the
crowd.
The playing schedule and the pair
ings for the first round of the tour
nament will be announced ou Mon
day. February 28. According to ten
tative plans, two games will be play
ed simultaneously on the courts ot
the Frank Thompson gymnasium, be
ginning early in the morning of
each day and continuing until 11
p. m. Finals in each class will be
played on the large varsity court on
Saturday evening, March 5.
Trophy cups will be awarded to
the winner and runner up ia each
class, hud the players representing
the first and second (dace teams in
ench division will also receive
souvenir- watch fobs. The Spalding
Trophy, emblematic of the champion
ship, will go to the winner in Class
A. Leaksville won this trophy last
year.
History' of Moravians.
The Tribune Bureau
Sit Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Feb. 24.—The North Caro
lina Historical Commission has just
distributed the third volume of Rec
ords of the Moravians in North Caro
lina, edited by Adelaide L. Fries,
archivist of the Moravian Church in
America, southern province. Volumes
II and 11, containing the records be
tween the years 1753 and 177 C, were
published by the historical commission
in 1922 and 1925, respectively. The
current volume covers the years 1776
to 1779. Miss Fries is now at work
on the fourth volume, which will cover
the remainder of the Revolutionary
period. This series of records con
tains much new information on the
eighteenth century history of North
Carolina, has been widely used by his
torians of this country and has at
tracted some attention in Europe.
Judge Shoots Dice With Prisoner.
(By International News Service)
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 24.
Throwing dice with a defendant, with
a “pass" or a “natural” meaning
freedom, is the latest of many legal
eccentricacies devised by Judge H,
B. Abernnthy, ot county court of mis
demeanors.
Judge Abernathy gambled recently
with Jubilee Early Richards, negro,
arraigned on a gaming charge, to de
termine "whether the culprit would toil
on the county roads. Handing the
defendant a pair of enormous wooden
dice, nearly a foot square, the jurist
■commanded: “Shoot!”
The negro threw a four and groan
ed. Rolling desperately, sweat soon
pouring down his brow. Jubilee fin
ally made his point ami was allowed
to depart in peace.
AUSTRALIAN BALLOT
BILL DOOMED WITH
HOUSE
House Votes to Table Bill
and Puts on “Clincher’,,
Which Keeps It With the
| Committee.
| GAME BILL IS
GIVEN APPROVAL
| Bus Franchise Bill Moves
! Along But the Width of
the Busses Will Remain
as at Present.
Raleigh, Feb. 24. —G4>)—Virtual en
act nifiit into law of statewide game
measure and a death dealing blow to
the Australian ballot bill stood out
in legislative procedure today. Both
houses were bent on working day and
night.
Tile house killed the Australian, or
secret ballot bill. 58 to 49, in a suc
cessful motion to table, to which vote
the “clincher motion" was put, mak
ing it unparliamentary henceforth to
move to pull it from cotnmittee.
N umerous proposed amendments
flowed into the chair in the midat. of
debate carried on from yesterday’s dis
cussion, including 27 proposals from
representatives to exempt as , many
counties from the provisions before the
adverse vote closed the debate.
Passage of the measure which cre
ates a state game commissioner and
provides for uniformity of game regu
lation throughout the state alone
awaits a nominal step, ratification by
House Speaker Fountain, to put it
into effect.
The Senate passed the bill 40 to 3
intact, and without amendment. Lieut.
Governor Long presiding said it was
the first time in his many years’ leg
islative experience that he had had
opportunity to see final passage of
such a bill.
Final passage also was given to the
House bus bill in which a Senate vote
was 38 to 3, after the Senate had
adopted an amendment which gives
the bus companies a six-year fran
chise. Permitted width of the bus
remains at 84 inches.
Second reading in the house of the
$30,000,000 road bill saw it advanced
to third reading intact and without
amendment by a vote of 99 to 1.
The House judiciary Committee No.
the-senate ijnmaskUy*. bill
passed n nnniinOusTy in- "the “ upper
body yesterday. A two-thirds house
vote necessary to secure suspension of
the rules to' enable immediate passage
failed.
A bill introduced by Senator Han
cock, of Granville, and Itoyall, of
Wayne, to place a tax of 1-2 of 1 per
cent, on the stock of foreign corpora
tions would. Mr. Hancock said, put
$4,900,000 in the equalizing fund for
schools.
This tax was abolished several years
ago when there was about $375,000,-
000 worth of stock of this nature list
ed. Senator Hancock said that a
much greater amount would be put on
the tax books if the owners had the
assurance that the rate on this class
of property would not consume a large
part of the dividends on this class of
stock.
The Senate also received a bill by
McDonald, of Moore County, to in
crease the salary of the Governor
from $0,500 to $7,500. Other consti
tutional officers would get increases of
$1,500 each, making their salaries SC,-
000.
ATTACKS REED AND IS
ATTACKED IN RETI’RN
Missouri Senator Answers Charges
Made by Senator Robinson, of In
diana.
Washington, Feb. 24.—C4>)—The
methods of Senator Reed, democrat,
of Missouri, in conducting campaign
funds inquiry were assailed in the
Senate today by Senator Robinson, re
publican. of Indiana, who in turn was
accused by Reed of making a “cow
ardly insinuation that the does not
dare to make openly.”
Robiuson assailed particularly the
lone hand investigation of Reed in
Indiana, as chairman of the senate
campaign funds investigating com
mittee, declaring the Missourian had
basked there as one “in the sunlight of
publicity.”
He also opposed granting Reed's
committee authority to hold meetings
during Congress’ recess, declaring that
although he did not know that Reed
would do so, it would give him the
opportunity to “go into states and get,
delegates to the Democratic National
Convention.”
“Insinuation is the last refuge of a
coward,’' Heed shouted when Roberts
had concluded. “A manly man stands
up like a man and says what he has
to say.”
See* N* Necessity for Trip.
Washington, Feb. 24.— (AP)— After
. consulting with President Coolidge,
j Secretary Kellogg has written Chair
man Borah indicating that the admin
’ istration sees no necessity for the
projected visit to Mexico and Nicar
agua by the Senate foreign relations
committee. The Secretary who is ill,
1 said the committee could obtain full
information regarding the situation in
those countries from two .state Dep
‘ nrtment officils who were directed to
1 appear before committee at Us session
today.
Memberi) of a religious sect in
1 Siberia reside underground from the
■ age of forty till death. The cave
l dwellers call themselves “Subterran
ean Dwellers."
■ —1 i j
TODAY’S NEWS TODAY®
NO. 40 i
GREAT BRITAIN t~l
SEND CRUISER TO j
NICARAGUAN POUT
Vessel Will Be “Place of 1
Refuge” for All British J
Subjects Endangered fey |
Warfare There.
NO CHANGE IN 1
POLICY OF NATlOft ]
Cruiser Sent Because Hie |
Americans Could Ntft 1
Guarantee Protection feS I
the British.
rmt’l
London. Fob. 24.—OP)—The British f
government has decided to send a : J
cruiser to Nicaragua as “a place of |
refuge” for British subjects endang- T
ered by t\ie civil wnrfare going on j
there, it was officially stated todg'fe S-C
Dispatch of the cruiser, it is midef
stood. does not indicate a
in the fundamental British policy in Ti
Central America, nor n change ill the *
attitude toward the Monroe Doctrine, ;5j
A definite decisfim to send a ernurt*' ■ ;; Ji
came after the British charge de
fairs at Managua notified his gover** ,3
ment that the American minister
not guarantee to protect British lltrn *s
and property in the event of ronew£§ J
street fighting.
Going for “Moral Effect.”
Washington, Feb. 24.—UP)—Thtt i
British ambassador formally notified
the State department today that the
British warship Colombo would IKM J
rive at Corinto, Nicaragua. FebrlMß id
28th, for the “moral effect” its pre#-
ence njight have, but that under |
circumstances would British 4 (MH ;|
forces be landed.
THE COTTON MARKET
■
: Opened Steady at Advance of 4 to lU
Points, May Going Up to 14.14.' :
New York. Feb. 24.—OP)—'The We l
, ton market oi>ened steady today itfc
an advance of 4 tp 10 points in rpt
, spouse to tile persistent firmness Os
’ Liverpool and the rather bullish im- |
pression made on sentiment by stop
page of March notices Issued here ye*- '
, terday. The advance met consider#- S
hie realizing and some southern aeljr t
ing. ami after selling at 14.18 at the |
start. May reacted to 14.14. October $
sold off from 14.58 to 14.55, but 3
L enough covering and trade buying held <•
. rfce market Atmtrty at net nrhmucot-w**
, 5 or ti point-- ai the end of the first
hour.
Additional March notices aggregate-1
ing somewhat over 10,000 bales were s
. reported in the market.
■ A feature of the early news wan
. tiic continued active spot business in
. Liverpool where sales of 18.000-hpjH§]
were reported, including 13,000 balm' :
. of American.
Cotton futures opened steadv. Mam
; 14.05; May 14.18; July 14.30; Ctei,
. 14.58; Dec. 14.74.
With Our Advertiser*.“
The Auction Sale of houses anj *
lots on Franklin Avenue, W'liich was i
1 scheduled for Wednesday morning, trfs
| postponed until Saturday moHi- :
ing, February 20tli. See big 'ad. in
this paper.
“The Scarlet Letter” is being ohoda
‘ at the Concord Theatre today and ,ipvj
morrow. Lillian Gish is featured in
\ this picture, and it is said to be hep
very best. On Friday night there will
ba vaudeville in addition to the pic
ture.
You can get a 98-piece Complete
Table Service at the Concord Furni
tore Company’s store on Friday, Sat
urday or Monday for only $39.90. All
’ you have to pay down is 95 pentad ditd
the balance SI.OO weekly. See biglK. f]
in tiiis paper for illustration of the
set, and other particulars. . :ij§H
* Vegetables of all kinds at the
' H. Cash Store. Also rools, cinnnmtm
5 buns and other good things to
‘ For hauling or moving of any
* long ilistance or short hauls, see ZSt j
I’, .(’ruse, the moving man. Phone
or 133 J. He also has a storage wa» ; : ;
house, and does crating and shipMK.t
New coiton fabrics in a rainbow «
1 colors at Robinson’s. They come fit < (
\ lovely weaves of cotton and eottßfc”
‘ combined with silks, and can he had
1 at various prices.
1 Have your photograph made at the ;
Boyd TV. Cox Studio. See new ad. tb
s day.
J Hundreds of new spring rugs are
now ready for your inspection at tbe •
Bell & Harris Furniture Co. Go see
‘‘ them.
j 1 New spring hats that speak iu terw*
of chic at the millinery departm<(ilK|
at Kfird's. Prices $2.95 to $3.95, -.1
n New spring hosiery for men at -<j|y|
s A'. Overcash’s. Big range of new P«K J
s terns at 50 cents, 75 cents and sl.<Kh "%
8 Economy dons a false musta<dl*' -|
when you don a S2O suit. Read jKrejlß
ad. of Hoover's, and go see the ngjgfj
suits by SclUoss Bros. & Co.
r ;; ,v&SH
’ Widespread Search For Missing Gutt- ■'i
” ford Baby.
* Greensboro, Feb. 23.—Widespread |
.. search is lieing conducted for thg 10*
K month-old son of Mrs. Nannie Brown 4
I Baldwin, missing since Sunday ftft*#» ..4
ii nou,> .
„ Guilford welfare officers are wthfei-aj
ing on the theory that the child wSi||j
„ taken by its father, who is estrAnggiijjfl
n from the mother.
u WEATHER FORECAST, 4
e Partly cloudy tonight and FKtfrlflß
i- not much change in temperatdre. Mod*ll
crate west .and northwest wind*,