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VOLUME XXVII CONCORD, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1927 . ’ NO ~
British Soldiers Take i
Up Defense Positions
To Defend Foreigners
—— ' ! !
Increase in Number of Chi
nese Soldiers Reaching
.Shanghai Cause of Brit
ish Troop’s Movement.
THREE THOUSAND
REGULARS USED
They Have Been Stationed
in International Settle
ment to Offer Protection
to Foreigners There.
Shanghai, Feb. ’ 25.—W) —Three
thousand British regulars took up de
loiise positions along the borders of
the international settlement here to
night because of the situation erented
by the arrival of Chinese troops in in-'
••teasing numbers in rite eify. 1
With the regnlars iu position Volun
teer defenders of the foreign settle
ment remained on the alert to aid in
preventing native incursions, as op
' posing Chinese government struggling
for possession of the city, continued to
eonecntrnte their armies south of here.
A volunteer machine gun company
also was mobilised this morning, and
held in readiness i.hile British troops
pnrnded two six-inch motorized How*
itzers nlong the boundary.. The pre
cautions were taken mostly to guard
against invasion by defeated troops
of Marshal Bun C.itmn Fang.
The American defense force having
been augmented with 1,200 Marines
from San Diego. Calif., yesterday, was
strciigthcned further today with the
ni-rivnlof three destroyers, the Preble,
Non and Hulbert, from Manila.
More of the northern Chinese troops
nnder General Chang Tsnng Chang,
» military governor of Shantung, l ar
rived this morning, and it was esti
mated thnt S.OOO will have reached !
the city by tonight.
Officers of the Shantung forces said j
that the northern Chinese battle squad- ,
ron of sixteen ships was due very
shortly at Woosung anchorage off
Shanghai. Tlte vessels, one of which
is manned by Bussiaus, also are bring
ing considerable Shantung land forces.
It was reported t'.iat a clash oc
curred yesterday north of Hashing,
between the' nationalists and soldiers
of Marshal Sun OhuStt
Pang. The/ engagement was not de
cisive, the ufethern nnpy jmvijytJwra.
ilefiertions Atid iow^lta
morale. It was also learned today
that nationalists arc operating trains
between Hnngkow and Hashing, hav
ing captured some of rolling stock
formerly controlled by Sun. North
ern forces have retired to Sungkiang.
only 28 mi.es from Shanghai. It Is
estimated that t'jeir strength there is
not more than 1(1,000 men, and that
(piick reinforcements will be needed if
the city is to be held against the ad
vancing southerners.
Says Chinese General is Hungarian.
Budapest. Hungary, Feb. 24. — iA") —
Feng Yu Hsiang, the "Chinese Chris
tian general”, is in reality a Hungari
an adventurer who served for a time
in the American nrmy before going
to China, says Judge Fengya, of Has
an, Czeclio-Slovnkia, who declares the
general is his brother.
Judge Fengya asserted that Fengya
held a commission in the American
army ns a captain, but finding Amer
ican life too tame, he wandered to
China, marrying the daughter of a
native prince.
McLean Grants 20-Day Parole To |
Tom Cooper.
Raleigh, Feb. 24.—Acting upon the
request of It. C. Lawrence. Lumber
ton attorney, Governor A. W. McLean
late today agreed to grant a 20-day
parole to Thomas E. Cooper, Wilming
ton, who will be released from the
federal prison at Atlanta tomorrow,
and who is under sentences totalling
eight years on the New Hanover coun
ty roads for violation of the state
banking laws. Bond of $25,000 must
be posted before the pnrloe can take
effect.
In February, 1924, Cooper was sen
tenced to three years in federal prison,
and hia brother, former Lieutenant
Governor, W. B. Cooper, was given an
18 months sentence. W. B. Cooper
secured a new trial and his case has
not bequ pressed under agreement of
counsel.
Child With Toy Automobile In Hia
Stomach Still Livoa.
Winston-Salem, Feb. 24. —The fiVe
year-old sou of Mrs. James Devine,
of Keruersvllle, near here, is alive
today with at top automobile in his
stomach. He may recover.
The child, according to the story
told by his mother, swallowed the inch
and half toy several days ago while
playing with it.
The boy was taken to a, Kerners
ville physician who expresses the
opinion that nature will remove the
toy, but in the event it does not, an
x-ray will be used.
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: CONGRESS EKTERS
fill WEEK WITH
:. mifllK
In the Senate Prospects
•Are That Usual Fire-'
works of Short Sessions
Will Be Seen.
HOUSE MOVES
ALONG CALMLY
In the Lower House Mem
bers Dping All They Can!
to Clear Slate of More
Important Legislation. '
Washington, Feb. 25.— OP) —The
09th Congress entered its filial week
today with prospects in the senate
of the usual fireworks thnt attend
short session eliinaxes, but with the
house in a more orderly mood, and
driving determinedly to dear its slate.
While both houses moved today to- 1
ward consideration of the deficiency j
bills, additional fuel for senate debate
was promised as a result of a par
liamentary situation, leaving the mW.i-!
kicked-a bo lit Bounder canon darn mens-!
lire as the unfinished business.
Filibusters against this bill and the
Tyson emergency officers retirement
proposal to prevent their reaching a |
vote arc threatened, however, by of-1
| forts to invoke the rule limiting de-1
1 bate.
WILL CHANGE VETERANS
LOAN ACT WITH BILL
Measure Presented in Legislature
Meets Requirements of Bond Ex
pert.
Raleigh. Feb. 25.—A new Dill
authorizing the issuance of the $2,-
000,000 in bonds for the World War
I'eterniT# Act, already authorised bv
vote of the people, was introduced
be. given final approval by the senate
today.
The former bill bad many inper
feetions, ami Chaster 11. Mnxslicli. •
New York Bond attorney, who is al-1
so bond attorney for North Carolina, j
had refused to approve any issuanee i
of bonds under the -original act. As a
result a test ease was brought in the
Supreme court, and is still pending
th re.
However, in order to eliminate all
doubt, the present new or substitute
bi’l was drawn' by Mr. Masslich.
with the full approval of the com
missioner of the act and all interest
ed in it, so that there might be no
further delay in the issuance of the
bonds. For while the bond issue w.is
approved last November at the gen
eral election, the commission created
to administer the act has been un-'
able to function and make loans as
provided, Ix-cnuse no bonds could be
issued under it.
Now, however, tt x ls expected Hint
the bond enn be issued immediately,
so that the commission will not have
Ito wait for the supreme eourt de
cision.
The substitute bill is meeting with
no opposition, since it is in reality
merely an “enabling act” thnt clears
up certain imperfections in the
veterans' loan act.
See Extra Session.
Raleigh. N. C., Feb. 24.—8i1l of
Representative F. D. Winston, of
Bertie, introduced in the General As
sembly today, would call for revision
of the State constitution, ratified by
three-fifths of the Assembly member
ship in special session.
After ratification the 'proposal
would be submitted to popular vote in
the 1928 general election and if ap
proved in that election the revision
wauhl become effective July l 1, 1929.
Special session prognosticators
professed to see in the bill added prob
ability of a special session being call
ed by Governor McLean for next win
ter. The Governor has remained non
committal.
riry Ridge, Ky„ Destroyed by Fire.
Covington, Ky„ Feb. 25.— (A) —
Fourteen buildings including the fam
ous 40-room Carlsba'd Springs Hotel
in the business district of Dry Ridge,
Ky„ 34 miles southwest of here, were
destroyed by fire early today. The
loss is estimated at between $175,000
and $200,000.
About three-fourths of the town was
destroyed. Approximately twenty per
sons were left homeless as a result
of the fire. ■
THREEDEADBODIES
FOUND IN CHICAGO
! HOTEL EARLY TODAY
Bodies of Woman, Her Son
and Hotel Manager Were
Found in a Fashionable
Hotel in Chicago Today.
IN SEPARATE
I PARTS OF HOTEL
Woman and Son Appar
i ently Were Asphyxiated
*, While Manager is Believ-
I I ed to Have Taken Life.
i Chicago, Feb. 25.— OP) —Several
! hours after a woman guest of the
■ hotel and her small son hud been
found dea'd early today, apparently
asphyxiated, John Rich, wealthy man
ager of the Rich apartment hotel in
the fashionable Rogers Park neighbor- 1
| hood, was found shot to denth in the
; basement of the hotel,
j Police who had awakened Rich to
tell him of the guests' death, returned
at the call of n house man to find the
manager lying dead on a coal pile in
the boiler room. Apparently, they
said, he was a suicide.
The woman and child were the fam
ily of Howard Renenu. manager of n
branch office of the Postal Telegraph
Company, who returned home to find
them dead. They npi>enred to have
I been killed by poison fumes seeping
i into their room from an adjacent
| apartment fumigated yesterday, detec
tives said after a preliminary exnm
! illation.
i i Fumes in the apartment were so
I heavy that isilice experienced diffi
jculty in entering and a physician de
clared that a samll quantity of the
fumes evidently from use of liquid
cyanide ns n fumigating agent would
| be fatal.
Hotel employees said nothing was
,xeen of Rich between the time he
was told of the denth and when his
body was found by the janitor. -The
manager, who had a wife and two
ste|i childern, was shot through the
heart. Renenu was held by the police
while investigation pogressed.
The hotel was said to be owned by
state Senator Janies Barbour, of
Springfield IH. .'2Bs’ *S.
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THE COTTON MARKET
■til mutt
on March, But Later Rallied 3 or
4 Points.
New York, Feb. 25. — (A) —The oot
j ton market opened steady today at h
i decline of 5 , points on March, but
| generally unchanged to 3 points high
j er on reports of continued large spot
business in Loverpooi. There was
some realizing and Southern selling
hut offerings were not large and the
market showed a generally ’ steady
tone after the call, March selling up
from 13.84 to 13.92 on spot house
buying, while May advanced from
14.04 to 14.08, the general list show
ing gains of about 3 to 4 points.
There were reiterated reports that
Japanese and Chinese mills would sub
stitute American cotton owning to the
relatively high price of East Indian,
and the comparatively small East In
dian crop. Private cables said trade
calling and continental buying in Liv
erpool had been offset by realizing and
Bombay selling.
New York Feb. 25.—( A )—Cotton
future opened steady. March 13.85.
May 14.04. July 14.25. October 14.48.
December 14.65.
ONE KILLED. TWO HURT
WHEN BUILDING COLLAPSES
Building Occupied By I'rband Store
in Winston-Salem Collapsed Thurs
day.
Winston-Salem, Feb. 25.— OP) —As
a result of the collapse of the Frank
Urband store building-on Main Street
late yesterday, Mrs. Sallie Snow, 50
years old, is deßd and Mrs. Anise Car
son, 24 years old and her 3 year old
daughter, are uuder the care of phy
sicians badly injured. The injured
will recover, it is said.
All three were on the second floor
of the building whenJ it collapsed.
S. C. Hampton, a clerk in the store,
ran from the building and escaped in
jury when he discovered that it was
falling. The collapse was the result
of excavations being made for erection
of another building adjoining the Ur
band store. The toss sustaiuted by
the owners of the property is estimat
ed at $25,000.
Statesville Bar Indorses iJniwy.
. StatesvHle, Feb. 24.—The mem
bers of Statesville Bar Association
have endorsed Frank A. Liuney at
• torney for the Western District Fert
t eral Court, for judge, of the new
i Federal District just formed in this
State. Letters have been "forwarded
i President Coolidge by the local oar
. urging the appointment of Mr. Lin
: ney.
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CONCORD THEATRE
GOVERNOR CANNOI
IMT SENATOR
1 UNDER U Us;
i Passage of Bill Means Ptt
-51 mary Will Be Held lo
; [ Name Candidate for Un
| expired Term.
(ROAD BOND BILL *
, MOVES FURTHER
- Number of Local as W«1
I as Statewide Meastis|s
Get Legislative Atten
tion Today.
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I , Raleigh, Fgb, 25 OP) —Final passage
• into law was given by the gener«f»r
--i sembly today to the measure to tijfce
• from the governor the power to ap
point a United States senator wlftii
i a vacancy occurs. The hill iia»an<l
the house, ami upon ratification trill
1 go into effect. A special election ny
the people henceforth will fill sncly :i
• vacancy. J
Passage. 87 to 11. from the house
to the senate of the $30,000,000 road
bond issue stood out ainoug a number
of other important bills passed from
one house To the other. Special or
ders for consideration, the biennial ap
propriations bill, and Cue administra
tion county government improvem«i»it
bills were taken up by the house (Bid
senate respectively for afternoon die
enssion.
The Outstanding ratification of the
day was that of the Great 'Smokies
park bill which became law.
The senate today tabled the Aus
tralian ballot 1)111, echoing yesterday’s
house action.
Senator Broughton, of Wake conn'
ty, moved that the bill be recalled j
from the committee and tabled be- ;
cause tlie house had done so yester- j
day. He took passing occasion to ex- j
press approval of the measure, which I
is dead for tin's session, ami eompli- j
mented women of the stqte for trying'
to get such a law on the statute books.
A number of local measures were
finally passed ready for ratification,
among them provisions for validating
creation of the South'* Buncombe
watershed district, and one attending
Greensboro's charter.
New senate bills included one by
Roy all of Wayne, to authorize Wayne
Mouse square, one from Woodson dr
Rowan to authorize the state revenue
department to settle litigation with
telegraph companies, and one by
Broughton to require comities to ad
vertise Bond sales and also to adver
tise contracts.
The motor traffic bill sponsored by
the Carolina Motor Club was unan
imously passed by Senate to the
House without discussion. N
l The Senate also passed to the
House, 35 to 4, the bill of Senator
Royall of Wayne county., introduced
at the instance of Governor Mcl.enn,
to fix the limit for bonded debt at
5 ]>er cent for other purposes, and
would make other provisions for coun
ties haring already reached 4 percent
for either of these purposes. The
measure providing a constitutional
amendment would be submitted to
popular vote in the 1928 election if
passed by the House also.
The senate passed the motor vehicle
license measure with an amendment
reducing the number of license plates
from two to one, as the proposed new
law for the next two fiscal years be
ginning July Ist, and with license
fees remaining the same. Another
amendment adopted makes the expira
tion dates for the license year con
form to the bill which was recently
passed into law. The amended meas
ure goes to the House.
Buckner to Resign.
New York, Feb. gß.—<A)—An
nouncement of his intention to resign
his office as United States Attorney
for this district was qfadc by Emory
R. Buckner today at the-opening of his
argument in the Daugherty-Miller con
spiracy trial.
The price of cotton on the locnl mar
ket today is quoted as 13 to 14 1-2
cents.
Matinee Undies
by Williamß.Courtnej
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The Tribune will, in a few day*, be
gin ptibiica ton of a new serial story
entitled tlM»nee Ladle*.” This is a
splendid story and we are sure will
- please Oar readers.
Four More Judicial Districts in
, State Most Certain To Be Made
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Waiter Hotel
By .1. C. RASKEKVILL
I Raleigh. Feb. 25.—The senate want
|Od seven additional judicial districts
I I —bdt the house said “no." Now the
’ aouse proposes to add four more ju
j dieinl districts, with two additional
’ [ permanent emergency judges. Will
“j-the senate say “yes?" It will.
) This, at least, is the sentiment of
j the majority of those who have been
' | following the attempts to obtain an
! expansion of the state's judiciary sys
tem. 'Another encouraging factor is
! that the several factions which for
several weeks refused to agree upon
’ anything now stand united. There
j was the group w’.io stood out for seven
I additional districts—and nothing else;
! there was the group that wanted four
i permanent emergency judges, and
nothing else: then there was the group
’ that fuvored four more judicial dis
tricts, and only four. But when the
house killed the senate bill providing
for the seven solicitors were an un
necessary exjiense, ami it became ap
, parent that if some compromise was
not made, that there would be no nd
! ditioiml courts at all, all throe sac-
I tions got together.
So when the committee substitute
bill was brought up in the house
Thursday as special order, it had as
its basis the original bill offered by
Representative Everett, of Durham,
for four additional judicial districts,
hut further provided for two perma
nent emergency judges, with equal
jurisdiction with regular superior
court judges who would be assignable
lo any district or county in the state
as necessity might require.
Tims in reality six superior court
judges nre supplied with but four ad
ditional solicitors. Some Piling that
tli is arrangement is much superior to
| the original senate bill thnt would
have provided for seven more judges,
in that by making the two emergency
judges, they may be sent to any coun
ty or any district any time conges
tion develops or any time a special
term is needed to relieve tile docket.
U
j GRAHAM WARNS ABOUT
BOND CAPACITY OK STATE
I Says North Carolina Must Not Is
sue Bonds in Future Without
Serious Thought.
Tribune Bureau.
Sir Walter Hote'.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, Feb. 25.—Warning that!
the state is rapidly nearing its bor
rowing limit, anil thnt if it does not l
begin to curtail iii issuing bonds Unit,
more, since there will he no Tit! ’
was sounded in the house during rfm
consideration of the $30,000,000 road j
bond issue. This bill is expected to !
pass its third reading today.
The notes of warning was sounded
by Representative Sandy Graham of j
Orange county, chairman of the'
house finance committee, in amend- ,
ment to reduce the size of the bond
issue authorized in the bill from !
$30,000,000 to $20,000,000. Mr. Gra
ham said that while he had been a
member of all the other legislatures
that had voted highway bonds, and
that he had voted for them before ns
recommended, he felt that it was
time to retrench.
"The bonded indebtedness of the i
state is now $143,000,000. and by j
tiie ned of this session, it will be
increased to more than $180,000.-
000." Mr. Graham declared. “And
while I am in favor of highways and
progress. I do not think thnt. we i
should endanger the credit of tin
state' in order to obtain them. And
thnt is what we are doing, because
if we do not stop borrowing now.,
we will not be able to borrow any
thing much longer.
“The constitutional limit for bond
ed indebtedness of the state is $210.-
OOO.OliO—and by the end of this
session we will be within $30,000,- j
000 of thnt limit. We have voted $2.-
000,000 for a national park. $1,200.-
000 fqr a bridge across the Cape,
Fear at. Wilmington, the public un-1
provements hill, with appropriations
totaling ss.soo,ooo—and then this
bill proposing $30,000,000 ore mfor
highways. This will make the State's
indebtedness more than $181,000.-
000. And that is time to stop.”
But there were few who agreed
with Mr. Graham, even Representa
tive Turlington, another apostle of
governmental economy, stating that
in this case he thought the full $30,-
000,000 should be granted, since at
least $12,000,000 of that amount was
, -to go back to the counties who had
already loaned it to the state.
And the majority agreed with Zeb
Turlington, that the counties had
loaned this money in good faith 1>
the state, speed up road ‘ con
struction iftid that now the state
; was morally bound to repay these
loans, and that if the full $30,000.-
000 was not authorized now. many
of counties would be greatly
■ -burdened as a result.
; “We nil know thut the greatest
burden of taxation rests at present
upon the counties, and that one of
things we are trying to find how to
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■I • • IF YOU USE THE COTTON SYSTEM.
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HOO Lb. Lots 40 cento per hundred.
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1| A. B. POUNDS
| So the group that more
\ districts is pretty well satisfied.
But this is not all. Even the group
that, wanted ail the judges to be
! j emergency judges, pending the enact
■! ment of n eoustutional amendment
! that would permit an increase in the
I i number of superior court judges, wit'D
ll out an increase in the number of so
| licitoro. is satisfied. For with the
'! judicial bill was introduced a comphn
i ion measure that would authorize the
i changing of the constitution, so that
• the number of judges or solicitors in
i the slate coiild be increased or de
- creased at will by the general assem
bly. At present this cannot be done
> since the constitution provides lhat
there must be one judge and one so
licitor for each judicial district. But
- if this amendment is adopted, t’ite gen-
I eral assembly ratty create two judges
i in one district, if necessary, or have
but one solicitor for several districts.
iTtliat is found advisable.
So it is that those who saw a real
need for enlarging tile judiciary of
the state—aiid there is a real need
for it—are greatly encouraged at the
outlook, confident that the senate will
quickly ratify the substitute bill sent
j over by the house.
But that will not end the matter,
by any means, since as soon as thes-e
bill are ratified by bof.i honses, the
general assembly must undertake the
task of redistrieting the state and of
making up'the terms of court for the
various districts and counties. And
that is a large task to undertake in
the last two weeks of the session.
The bill now pending that the dis
tricts shall ho in two divisions, the
eastern and western, with twelve dis
tricts in each division. Now, ull
these districts must be worked out to
the satisfaction of ail concerned—and
there comes the rub. Greensboro and
Guilford want a district all t'aeir own,
as do those from Charlotte and Meck
lenburg. Winston-Salem’ and Forsyth,
to say nothing of many others.
But it will all be worked out some
way. and the state will have more
courts.
|
CHARLOTTE GETS
BRANCH BANK
Washington, Feb. 25.—OP)—Es
tablishment of a branch of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Rich
mond at Charlotte, N. C., was ap
i proved today by the Federal Re
serve board.
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'^■^yCH^RTsO^ERSNOVvI
i Wlien Spring Comes Prisoners Find I
More Incentive To Try to Escape. !
Atlanta, Gn„ Feb. 25.—(INS) —
Wardens of county convict camps
1 have been warned by (he state prison
I commission to redouble their preeau
i tions watching prisoners, since Spring
jis in the air. The cal of the open in
' Springtime is as hard for a convict
to resist, as it is for a school boy,
the commission records indicate.
The largest number of eseai>es from
! prison camps occur in April nml the
I second largest in October, when the
leaves begin to fall, according to V. L.
i Stanley, secretary of the prison oom
! mission.
| "During the winter the average
number of escapes from prison camps
!is small,” Mr. Stanley said. “Let a
tew green leaves come out and a
j prisoner contemplating escape will
make a dash for freedom. He knows
he can hide in the woods and subsist
on foliage and an occasional fish until
“During harvest time in October,
1 a fugitive can find even better ‘pick
ings.’ but the urge to make a dash
for freedom is never so strong as in
early Spring.'
The master-key of Old Bailey, one
: of London's famous prisons, opens all
! the cells in the.building, and is nic-k
--: named "Charlie”.
i - ■■■"""
do is to ro’.icve this local tax bur
den to some extent,” said Mr. Tur
lington. “And I feel that to a very
large extent we can relieve that
burden by ratifying this bill, so thut
the counties can get hack some of
the money they have loaned to the
state.”
Representative Grant of Davie was
o{ the same mind, ns was Represen
tative Wpollard of Edgecombe, who
led the fight for the highway bond
issue.
j Mr. Woodward explained thnt tnis
j $30,000,00 had bran agreed upon by
t all concerned axthe very smallest
; aniquiit that could be asked for at
! present and still be able to repay the
counties and carry on the road build
i ing program without seriously ham
! pering the work of the highway com
mission. He also explained the man
ner in which the $12,000,000 would
be nl'.nted to the various counties.
| So the bill was approved. But the
J minds of the members of the house
' | were much more serious with respect
i j to. bond issues.
PRESIDENT VETOES
FARM RELIEF BH 1
.
His Action Means That No
Farm Relief Legislation
Will Be Possible at Pres
ent Session of Congress,
GIVES REASONS
FOR HIS ACTION
The Chief Executive Says
the Bill Is Not All Right
Because It Would Not
Benefit the Farmer.
Washington, Feb. 25. — OP)—Pres
ident Coolidge today vetoes the Mc-
Xary-Haugen farm relief bill.
The veto virtually killed all hope
for farm legislation at this session,
both advocates and opponents of the
bill having conceded that it will be
impossible to muster the two-thirds
majority in Congress necessary to
override the President's disapproval.
In both the Senate amt House the
margin by which the bill was passed
was small.
The President said in special mes
sage to the Senate that he had de
clined to approve the bil because “the
measure discriminates definitely
against products which make up what
lias been universarry considered a pro
gram of safe farming.”
"The chief objection to the bill is
that it would not benefit the farmer"
the President continued. “Whatever
may be the temporary influence of
arbitrary interference, no one can
deny that in the long run prices will
be governed by the law of supply and
demand. To expect to increuse
prices and then to maintain them on
a higher level by menus of a plan
which must of necessity increase pro
duction, while decreasing consump
tion, is to fly in the face of an
economic law us well established us
any law of nature."
“Experience shows that high prices
in any given year mean greater acre
age in the uext year."
“The bill singles out a few products,
chiefly sectional,” the President said,
■‘and proposes the raise the prices of
those regardless of the fact that thou
sands of other farmers would be dl-
I rectly penalized.”
i Mr. Coolidge declared that the hill
j “It gives the proposed Federal
1 board almost unlimited authority to
j fix prices on the designated commod>-
itics,” he said. "Nothing is more cer
tain thau such price fixing would up
set the normal exchange relationship
existing in the open market, and it
would finally have to be extended to
cover a multiude of other goods and
commodities. Government price fixing
when once started, has no justice and
no end.”
Will Not Fight Veto.
Washington, Feb. 25.—t/P)—Chair
man McNary, of the senate agriculture
committee, said he would make no ef
fort to override President Coolidge’s
veto of the farm relief bill.
STATE-WIDE GAME LAW
NOW FINALLY REALITY
For Years Efforts Had Been Made To
Get Passage of Such a Ijtw.
Tribune Bureau.
' Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh. Feb. 25.—With the pas- j
sage of the Sutton state-wide game |
bill on its final reading yesterday by !
the Senate with nil overwhelming vote j
following enactment by the House, a
battle which has been led almost since
“the memory of man runneth not to>
the contrary" on the part of sports
men and conservationists has been
won and the State will new set out
a program to bring back the lost val
ue of her wild life.
Efforts to delay and amend the
House bill on the floor of the Senate
were vigorously opposed by Senator
W. L. Long of Roanoke Rapids, who
has led in numerous previous occas
! ions for a state-wide bill, but which
were repeatedly defeated.
Virtually all details of the bill ns
offered by Representative Fred I.
Sutton of Lenoir were included in the
measure as finally adopted by both
houses, one of the chief changes being
the classification of the fox as a pred
atory animal and allowing a continu
ous open season for the animal.
The bill is made effective June 1,
so as not to interfere with any of this
year’s hunting season, and the next
move toward bringing its terms into
operation is expected from the Gov
ernor after he has hud time to con
sider the personnel of a game com
mission, which will in turn name a
State game warden for the enforce
ment of its terms.
Duke Students to Debate Wake
Forest.’
Durham, Feb. 25. —Debating the
question of cancellation of inter
allied war debts, J. G. King and R.
G. Tuttle, Duke university students,
will tilt orally with debaters from
Wake Forest college on Saturday
night, the meeting to take place at
Peace Institute, Raleigh. The open
forum system of debating will be
observed. This will be the first time
that teams representing the two in
stitutions have met on neutral ter
ritory.
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TODAY’S NEWS TODAY*
SEARCH FOR NEGRO 1
AFTER MING OFj
GUILFORD OFFICER
i Deputy Sheriff- Bowman,
Killed About MidnifHgj
Frank Simmons Beings
Hunted.
ANOTHER NEGRO
UNDER ARREH
Officer Was Looking
Alleged Chicken Thiapl
When He Was Fatafy
Shot in the Breast.
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Greensboro, Feb. 25.—GW —WilKatteii
T. Bowman, for rhe past ten years ffc3
deputy sheriff in Guilford county, wapl
instantly killed shortly before mid 1 ' |
night last night, and today the eMMCI
countryside is being scoured for trHt j
assailanf.
Bowman is alleged to have beettS
shot by Frank Simmons, a negro. AfjKjl
other negro. Perry White, in companl
with Simmons at the time of the shews!
ing. was captured a few minutes ftfljHf'q
and is being held in the Guilord oqjiife,'*
ty jail.
The shooting occurred while the
nty sheriff, in company with other (Mpa
of pile community, was awaiting RS? |
appearance of alleged chicken thietftA ;
The two negroes were heard 'Ap
proaching. and as the deputy raiMA'Jf
up from his plhce of hiding, a li|Sfc'i
was thrown on him and witnesses WMa
someone cried "shoot him.” Two ■Ki’J
lets pierced the officer in file rejjlfipf
of the heart. This morning the tSIB I
tire sheriff's force, with the aid m'S
bloodhounds, was on the trail of the
alleged slayer, and it was thought he
would be caught within a short tin#. '
With Our Advertisers.
Full-fashioned silk iiose at fisher)* :
for only H 5 cents. New creations fgKB
the spring season are arriving daily, '
A. B. Pounds has reduced the price
of ice to 50 cents n hundred pound*} flt J
I yon use the coupon system, or 40 cents jj
per 100 in 300 pound lots.
The Concord Furniture Company;!
will sell you 08 pieces of chinnware ::
for only $39.90. with 95 cents
and SI.OO at week. See
in new ad. today. ,
The A. & P. stores here have soma ,
*
The stock of the Gray Shop is com
plete and Ihe stout woman can find
there.a variety of styles, as well as ;
t’lie small mms:
Yon will find new and charminjt
shoes for the spring season at the
G. A. Moser Shoe Co's. Phone 897,. |
A pretty oxford is roe-blush can,
suitable for business or street wear,
only $7.50, at the Merit Shoe Co. Al
so a two-eye tie with a "niiietedsfc;
eight" 'heel for only $5.00.
If you are figuring on building. J
the Ritchie Hardware Co. figure un
your bill of hardware.
You’ll enjoy looking over the ca**4v:
plete stock of new Simmons beds at
11. B. Wilkinson’s.
Let Ivey’s show you what’s new in
colored footwear for Spring. Price*
$4.50 to $lO.
Boys’ suits that suit, sizes 6 to jfi
years. $7.90 and $9.90 at J. C. Pen-,'
ney Co’s.
New coats to be shown for the firat |
time at Efird’s tomorrow, $9.95 and
$14.50.
j The Parks-Belk Co. has just receiv* .
I ed a big shipment of men’s suits, with
| one and two pairs of pants, in the new
i shades ami stripes, at $14.50.
i It is the policy of the Citizens Bank. >
and Trust Co. to give to the small 4(p!
1 tails and courtesies of their service
the same careful attention that applies
to the most important transaction}.,
Duke and Davidson Meet.
Davidson. N. C., Feb. 25.— Tfrifr'k
athletic teams of Duke UniveNraj
and Davidson College wilt meet here
Saturday, when the grapplers ep- j
gage in nil encounter at 4 oVloek’SE
the afternoon with the Wildcat map l
men. and thp varsity bnsketeers r iat -j
!itup at 7:30 that night. This cngjtf
game, will bo. the last one on the’
| Wildcat card.
The wrestling match was sohe
; duled for two weeks ago. but wftdv
1 postponed on account of the death |js|
the Davidson captain’s brother. CSdife;?
parative stores between the pgßfijj
teams indicate a gruelling contests
: Both sevens have wrestled V. B 'fig
and the outcome tins been almost the
• same.
* Duke University lias already tAS&j
en the measure of the' Wikleats JHH
basketball this season, when they Wm
seated Davidson in Durham. Th*-S
1 score of the affair Saturday ni|f»t ips
expected to he a close one, and; tft£:s
tilt exciting all the way
‘ Named Delegatee to Convention.
, ( flfy International New* Service);/®
Raleigh, Feb. 25.—Governor M&S
Lean today appointed four North Ca{s|
olinians to represent the state at tap
j annual convention of the American,
r Academy of I‘oliticnl and Social
t ence at Philadelphia April 22aBjljM
, The delegates were: Mrs. CotMljß
e I*. Harrington, Warrenton; Mw,
B ney P. Cooper. Henderson; Dr. H. WH
. Battle. Asheville, and Hugh Mefilfi
Wilmington. I
' WEATHER FORECAST.
Bain tonight, colder in the
and west portions; Saturday fidll
colder. Fresh south shifting to ifi
strong northwest winds. .WM
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