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fjave You Registered For The TubercutosSs Hospital Electtoh? ETTE Loo Cbtow 16 Cents rOL. XLIH. NO. 24. GASTONIA, N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 28, 1922. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS QASTONIA DAILY Weather: " Cloudy " KUSIC LOVERS WERE CUT IN FORCE LAST NIGH More Than Sixty Braved t! Elements and Attended Fir it .' Meeting of Community Ch rua When Mr. Hoffmeiste Told of Plan and Purposes1 for Coming Concert. Pospito the inelemont weather of last night more than sixty persons attended tho initial meeting of tho community chorus under the auspices of Gastonia Community Service in the auditorium of the Chamber of Commerce. W. L. Bal thbv president of the local Community tJerviee, presided at tlic meeting and in troduced Mr. Roy L. Hoffmeister of Na tional Cominunitf .Service, who made a short talk to the chorus and outlined briefly the plans for the community eon cert to be held in the near future. After the talk by Mr. IIoffmeiBter Mrs. D. II. Williams was named as librarian and Mrs. Harry Butter, Mr. J. Holland Mor row and Mr. J. Watson wtri; consti tuted an attendance committee. The meetings of the chorus will be held ' AC J ' SOY L. HOFFMEISTER. on Monday evenings promptly,, at o'clock nmt will end jsVomptly 'jk- 9 ? '-pb Tuesday and Friimy vreniuerstheijieet ing will be held at 8:H0 and will close promptly nt- D:J0 o'clock. -.' v' j The officers and directors of Gastonia . Community Servlec arc as -follows: W.I XJ, littlllllP, k O.I ,1 , , ... - . V.H.V .... , vice-president, R. X. Aycock, treasuri'r; executive committee, A. O. Myers, chair man, Mrs. O. W. Rngan, R. !. Rankin, J. H. Separk, W. T. Rankin; directors, W. D. Anderson, chairman, W. P. drier. Mrs. Joe S. Wmy, Miss Nell Pickens, Stephen B. Dolley, John L. Beal, Miss Mabel .Potts, Fred M. Allen, Mrs. J. F. Thomson, J. White Ware, K. G. McLurd. fl. N. Boyrc, D. M, Jones. Mrs. Front Torrence. Miss Blanche Heiseriniui is recreational director. Mr." lloffmcister, who is here to train a community chorua and put on a com munity' eoncert, hits 'lieen for the past three years engaged in this work under tho direetion of Community Service, Inc. In speaking to The Oazette this morning 1 ,,?. T , Up regarding the work in which he is en I RICHMOND, a., Jan. LS. -gaged and into which he is putting all l0''l '.v a blizzard that caused ..c i,i. .,., ,i i,.r..t Mr . I suffering and inconvenience, tho lfAfTniisiatr fiitidr , , , . i ginia early yesterday, had "I have seen music develop from the? , ..lv i-..(r:,. general music 'sing' to the community 1 t-tmcit '. ti r r tliit tiinnii mi it V I chorus. The old-time 'sin;:.' out of r.iui-u me 1'iwiieuii, lV ii tie-up of the street cars here, grew, was a gathering of the people of j Xbmls.in,ls of arsons walked to work a community for the purpose ot singing: hfir1 f0(ljJV .i)llpvs )(ping 01Prted lo' popular and religious aongs. 1 rom that the striki;ig troiiev'ear men moved with -beginning their tastes have developed j diffi(.ultv iimi mercantile ami other busi und grown to the point where now the i ' community chorus gives its attention very largely to the rendition of tho simpler masterpiece of tho great composers such, as 'The Pilgrim's Chorus' from the opera Tannhauser, Gounod's 'Send Out Thy Light,'- the 'Halleujah Chorus' from 'The Messiah' nnd similar works. Since the community music depart ment of Community Service has inaugu rated this work choruses are springing up in all sectionss,of the country and tbia special effort is developing more musical appreciation than any movement lias done heretofore. I am particularly interested in the personnel of the com munity rhorttsv that it shall ' represent every music lover in the community. This does not necessarily mean that nn in dividual needs to be able to sing very well but, to the contrary, if they are nhln tn rnrrv a f u ne and love music enough to give time to rehearsals they! are eligible and more than welcome. "Dr. Davidson, dean of the Harvard School of Music, very aptly expresses the purpose of the community, chorus and its place' in the community when be says: ' The commuuity chorus, -composed of mu sic lovers, rather than tnu.siciatis (mean ing of courM technical .musicians) fills a Held of service heretofore untouched and renders for the cause of music a thing of permanent social value in the community." "I am very anxious that Gastonia people will respond to the appeal that the local Community Service organiza tion is making for. members. I should like to see a great chorus organized to that the work we propose to do fdmll bei sole to render justice to the composer intentions and ideals. Music is the lan gnage jf the soul and because of this gnut fact it is fundamentally a part of yVery individual and one may find more inusie in their eouls than they ever dreamed existed, by -joining the com munity elionis." . "... Train Service Is Demoralized By Big Storm Washington Cut Off From Outside World So Far As TransDortation Is Concerned Heaviest K Snowstorm in History of Capital - Trains Are Stalled in Snow in Virginia. (By The Associated Tress.) WASHINGTON. Jan. 28. Washington was cut off from the outside world today so far as trans portation was concerned by one of the heaviest snowstorms in the his tory of the Capital. Officials at the Union Station shortly before 9 o'clock reported that no passenger trains' had left Washington since midnight and with the snow continuing, prospects of getting any trains out was said to be poor. Three trains bad arrived eince midnight, two from New York long overdue, and one Baltimore & Ohio express from Cincinnati. Train service from tho South, where snowstorm have been reported for two days and from which section tbe storm came, was wholly suspended. Hovenil Southern trains were reKrted stalled be tween Richmond and Washington, with others being. held at Richmond. Railroad officials were attempting to get a train, comprising day coaches ou ly, out before noon for Baltimore and possibly to Philadelphia and other points north. J ruins from the north werc reported held up in yards bet ween here and Baltimore and in the Maryland I The Weather Bureau announced this city. i morning that while there would be no Wellington and. the surrounding mid- "hatcment f the gale the wind was die Atlantic section was buried todav I sl(wy shifting and by nightfall would under the heaviest snowall since t h e ! w,nK to tlle northwest, blizzard of Februurv, 1MJ. Heavy seas are pounding the coast at Starting late yesterday afternoon and I Capo Henry. Many small craft art still continuing earlv todav the snow j anchored in L an Haven roads and larg had covered the national capital to a ! er vessels have postponed sailings uutil depth of from foot and ar half to two) the titorm moderates, feet. Street ear service was practically j Many dwellings at Williughby Beach sMii'iidcd earlv today nnd urosDcrtw were : are threatened by high tides. Several that all activity, governmental and oth cottages are surrounded by water and erwise, would lie greatly curtailed. j their foundations are in danger of giv The storm which covered a large sec- j ing away. Small boats are tied to t ion of the east, according to trsginon - tary reports available early today, did not come unheralded, as for two or three days snow had lieen falling in the Atlan tie States to the south of the Potomac river, in some States such as Virginia, breaking -long -standing records as to depth. Tho Weather Bureau yesterday had wsued a prediction of heavy anow inruugn uiu rust ;nu m im-rii j-uiiiou or tnr oum. , Absence of winds prevented tho for-j matioa of drifts but the depth on the level wase nough to check practically all vehicles except tliOBe of the t.VH' . Hopkins is expected to arrive here some Still Snowing at Raleigh. time today. RALEIGH. Jan. 2S -With seven Wtu anfhors UT Myy fuiA shi inches of snow, thoroughly pocked with : i,i,i; '.,;. i, aboat one-half inch of sleet covering this section as the result of the storm which visited North Carolina Thursday and Friday, snow began falling here again at 7 o'clock this morning with no signs of a let-up at 10 o'clock. , . . . . . 20 Inches at Lynchburg. LYNCHBURG, Va.. Jan. 28. The Wiathcr Bureau station at 8 o'clock this morning fixed the depth of snow liere after 37 hours fall at L't). 2 inches. The previous record, February, lSitt, was 12. o inches. Street car schedules were norni.il this morning. - Fol limch snow- j stormw hu h reached this section of Vil li ot spent its and commerce . . . . being at a .standstill in many sections of i Thn .vt'iTn inurn nmiiir mmiiHi ri miiti i tii'i m JAP AND CHINESE DELEGATES MEET TO MAKE FINAL DRAFT OF SHANTUNG Developments of Next Few Days May Clear Way For Final Settlement - Most of Conference Activities Wait on Decision of Shantung Ques tion. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2tf. A meet i preparations for such a conference, at ing of the Japanese aud Chinese dele-j which will be represented the United gates to draft into treaty form the States, Great Britain, Jaiau, France points of agreement already reached in the Shantung negotiations formed the only event on the arms conference calen dar today. Although it was announced that the central issue of the Tsingtao railroad would not be touched upon nt the meeting, the controversy over this appeared today to have been narrowed to a point where developments of the next day or two probably would clear the way for a final settlement. While most of the other activities of ei the conference wero waiting on a decision 'siof the Shantung controversy, the arma ment Committee meanwhile had formally agreed today on the railing of another international -conference to: rewrite the laws of war fur the ubinarine and "oth er new agencies of attack on land. A resolution adopted by the committee at a brief session yesterday provided that From The North nisi wits nt a standstill until hikers nnd tttitomobilo passengers could arrive in the downtown districts. The snow had reached a depth of 1(5 inches here at 8 i today while the flakes continue) to fail. Later in the day the Virginia Rail way & Power Coiniiaiiv wan liiakimr ef forts to elear some of its tracks and op- ! crate a uumls-r of cars. Many trains arc reported 'delayed. The snowstorm j is the worst in Virginia in '-'.I years, i Practically the entire state is in the grip J of the storm. Shipping Suspended. (By The Associated Press.) NORFOLK, Vn .. dan. 2S. A blow reaching a 'velocity of 5li miles an hour cHrly today crippled water front activi ties here a'ld practically suspended ship ping in Hampton Roads. Part of the business section is under water nnd car traffic through several su burban sections has a'so been susc.ndcd ! as the result of high tides. Last night's gale forced both the Vir- I giuiu anil Maryland pilot boats to seek idieltcr in the inner harbor. Foreign! and coastwise movements have been sus- landed until the storm abates. I porches. Off treacherous Wimble Shoal, near Hatteras, the ronst guard cutter Man ning is still standing 'by the half sub merged schooner Blanche C Pendleton, which is drifting toward tho beach at the rate of four miles an hour. It is feared by the Manning that she will lose I the Pendleton or" the high aeon made . putting aui anoiuer, waving, iia;w;sex liii , possime. The American oil tanker Robert K. j Hopkins narrowly escaped destruction on Wimble Shoals yesterday when driv-i enabled ber to get off undamaged. Th ; ieavy The cutu,r .QlinuN, and naval vessels conUnus to stand by the Arethusa. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. ''s. T h e only train from 'the south on the Peun- sylvnnia Railroad since last night pass- ,,,,, throUKh hlre iM.for,,9 :1. m. today. lit left the National capital at 4:2S a. in. and carried sleepers ordinarily mak- ing up the 12:10 and 12:20 a. m . trains The Pennsylvania said there was no .se rious interruption to service north of Baltimore. Snow was falling here to day and had reached a depth of four in ches at 10 a. m . WHITE OWLS INDICATION ; , OF ARCTIC WEATHER ; (By The Associated l'resn.) j BIDDEFOBD, MAINE. Jan. 28. ; Backing up predictions of a severe win-1 ter, huuters report an unprecedented in-! vasiou of this district by white owls. j Tho white owls, bimrods say, usually j inhabit regions where the thermometer: lingers below zero most of the winter. When he comes south he is following the arctic weather. I and Italy, shall be begun immediately on adjournment of the Washington con fcrom'c. ( The first phase of it he conference, un-1 der the resilrj1-wTs--wnll be a meeting of t two representative from each country to con-titute a "commission of jurists,") presumably without pleniotentuiry pow- j ers, to meet at a time and place to be ! selected by this government for tbe pur- 1 pose of working out a revision of the rules of warfare. When the commission j has reported its conclusions, it is provid- J ed that the five poers shall "eoufer as j to the acceptance of the rcixirt and the ; course to be followed to secure the con-; sideration Of its recommendations by j tho other civilized powers. ' The com-i mission is to be ap)ointcd within three I months ofti r ' the adjournment of the j present conference. I NEGOTIATIONS CHAMBEH OF COMMERCE CALENDAR Monday: 3 p. m. Brick plant sub-comrai; 1r 4 p. m. Gaston County Fair As: a- ciation 7:30 p. m Community Chorus. Tuesday: 4 p. m. Department of Ttaf ic and Transportation Affairs. 7:30 p. m. Chamber of Coi 1- mere Glee Club. 8:30 p. m. Community Choru Wednesday: 7:30 p. m. Textile Superinten ents. Thursday: 4 p. m. Board of Directors. 5 p. m. Community Service play rehearsal. 7:30 p. m. Pythian Band. Friday: 4pm Girl Scoots. 7:30 p. m. Chamber of Commerce Glee Club. 8:30 p. m. Community Chorus. POLISH ORPHANS ON LAST UP OF WORLD JOURNEY Two Hundred and Ninety-Two Homeless Polish Children Are Being Sent Back to War saw. (By The Associated Press.) NK.W YORK. dan. t-'s The steam ship Princess Natoik.i, Mailing today for lafizig, had on her passenger lis's L-'PJ Polish orphans who were beginning 'he last lap of a tlip arnun.l the world. They tied from their native laud two years ago to e cape starvation and death in the wake of the red bolshevist armies, then driving barda gainst the Polis'i for ees defending the capital of that repub lic. The little glolo trotters are to be re turned to Warsaw, where the Polish gov eminent will find homes for them. When the children awakened this morning aboaid the vessel, lied ('ros:. workers were on hand to present tln ni w'A'it gifts and wih lliem bun voyage. When the children reached Siberia in their flight, they were taken in linage by officials of the American Relief So ciety and sent to this country by way of Japan . From Seattle they were sent to ui' go, where they were placed in orphan usyluins. Almost two. j-ears idapsed be lory the cornpletiun- of nTTsngeiiunits i,w.i. .;n ti.,n. i,,..,,..- i in!.,ii.t opo Hrriv,,, j xew York in special j c "last n'ght and wi re inimt 'diati-ly i Mhonrd the Princess Matoika in rendiiu s for today's departure. MUST RESUME SERVICE OR FORFEIT FRANCHISE (By The Associated Pre.s.) PORTSMOUTH. VA.. Jan. 2:1. -City council, in a special session last night, issued a final warning to the Virginia Railway nnd Power Company, operating street car lines here, giving the com uanv which is impaired in a controversy with its employes over Wage reductions.' until midnight, January" resinu service or suffer forfeiture of its Iran chise. Fireman Killed . (By Tho Associated Pretax PETERSBURG. Ya.. .In. 2V The negro fireman .was killed a'ld the engin eer, (). L. Davis, aged 50, of Italeigh, N. C. was probably fatally injured ..i .1... i...:i..u l.:.. !..... ;.-.. Wlicu I in imiici ill ihcii ei; ii'oiiii iioi i or mo ncaoonrii "ir uiue passenger ii.no No. 1, southbound. New Y'oik to Jack sonville, blew up this morning at seven o'clock near Dinwiddle station about H miles from this city. BALTIMORE. Jan. 2". worst snowstorms in many Baltimore in its grip today was at a standstill; street One of lie years had Hupping ear service crippled andr ailroad service between i I here and Washington, except by the electric line, was virt ally .susx'tided . North and east of Baltimore, however, railroad traffic conditions were declar ed to be nearly normal. I' Steamers leaving Baltimore last night for Norfolk were forced to return, una Ide to push their way through the ice I fields; others due here this morning had (not arrived and were believed to lie fro I zen in . THE WEATHER i North Carolina, cloudy tonight, prob i ably mow in northeast portion; Sunday ! fair; no change in temperature; strong j northwest winds. J0T AWAY FROM HIGH COST OF LIVING 42 DAYS DETROIT, MICH., Jan. 28. Isaac White, a former policeman, re turned to Detroit today after being marooned, with scant food auppliea and shelter for 42 days, on a small island in the Upper Detroit river. He was rescued by Nela Nelson, after a perilous trip of two and one half miles over the ice floes. . White went to the island in De cember, planning to stay but three weeks, and taking with him supplies sufficient only for that period. Heavy Ice jams pretented hia return by boat and handicapped by a peg leg, White feared to risk a trip on the ice. His food gave out on New Years day and since then he had existed on fish speared through the ice and a few fowls he was able to shoot White said be went to the island to "set away from the high cost ef living," and is planning to return when the ice breaks up. . V i. G. THOMAS, CHARLOTTE AUTO! SALESMAN, GETS A SENTENCE HOF EIGHTEEN YEARS IN THE PEN Convicted of Second Degree Murder For Killing Arthur J. Allen at Kannapolis Last October Appeal 3 to Supreme Two Weeks. Concord, January 28 0. G. Thomas, the Charlotte automobile bak-snuu convicted of second de gire murder for the killing of Ar thur J. AlUn at Kannapolis, was sentenced today to eighteen years imprisonment. He appealed to the Supreme Court. CON murder 'OUli, .l.in. L'7. -- ''Guilty of in the -i con. I deirree. " i This was the vi rdicl rendered in I'ubar- Mr. ltartsell stated that on one oc ius superior court lu re tonight at U ' easion Mrs. Lowe expressed a desire to o'chek by the jury which for the put-t 'go to Winston-Salem for a visit. II day li id been trying (). (i. ("Hcd") . "Thomas told he if mIic would wail sev Thomas, ( harlotte auto salesman for the era! days he would be glad to take her. kiljng of Arthur .1. Allen, Maxtor plum-1 Of course ho was glad to take her. They ber of this city, in Kannapolis on the went by Oakboro, Salisbury and l.exing night ol" Oi tuber I'.lL'l. I ton, spent the night at n lawyer's house The M'idict w.is ri n ien d .just two; and came homo together the next day. hours and minutes after the case was given to th- j 1 1 1 at ti:'l o 'cl.ick this ii l't I I noun. The verdict, : Ii i . h was pronouiii ed by W. M. Anten. of No. !t township, fore man, was received by Thomas with little change of expression. .lu.st a i i i 1 1 1 1 1 - niter tho verdict, was pronounced I,, w-is smiling at John .1. I'.'ikir. one of his attorneys who fought masterfully, with the others, for hi.s free doin. Ili" wife, his mo' her, his sister, Mrs. HoaM-, and one brother, were in court with him. Just u single tear was seen on the I'-ice of tic mother while she was in ci int. N i emotion was seen on the face of his wife. She sat with downcast eyes wh ii the .jury tiled in, end only fur just a se, -olid did she raise them. That was to look at her husband :n he stood to ieciio t lie crdic. i Sentence Today i i .1.1.... i'.. . i. .... I ;i i. i morrow moining at ! o'clock when the Hciiti iice wid be l a.ssed. 1 I -nder the law of North Carolina, it was pointed out by lawyern tonight, a verdict of murder in the second degree carries with il a sentence of not more than :io years and not less than two years, in the discretion of the judge, and if the defendant aioxals lo the supreme court he is entitled to bail. The jurors wire W. M. Auti n, No ! township, fun man ; J. W. Hitch. N. I. Kliitl, W. C. K (ut t x, (i. I.. Blarkweldi r. W. T. Duiham. II. I". Lady. I'eriell W. Smith. W. J. CI ine, Jr., I!. I.. Ura.v, Xt. J. Bailey and W. IS. Any. The juiy reported at u o'clock that they were ready with their verdict, just two hours un '.ii minutes after the case was given t i them. ( Allen was killed mar the inter-section of Leonard street and Bell avenue at Bergerburg, .suburb of Kannnpulis, a j bout H o'clock on the night of October I 25 last. Thomas was placed in the Char ! lotte jail that night, where he remained ! until he was denied bail in habeas corpus hearing before Judge Shaw in 'Charlotte on November 1, after which ! he was brought to the Cabarrus jail here. -. trial started on Monday of last week. i 1 The iir.ua 1 motions for new trial will I be heard tomorrow . i 213 Witnesses Heard. i Arguments in the cse against O. 5. (.Red" i Thorna-, charged with tho jumpier of Arthur .). Allen, were con cluded this afternoon at ;i:.5 o'clock, and the ins' went to the jury at 0:21, following the charge l.v Judge J. Bis Rav. Two speeches er" made today. E. T Caiisier spoke during th.- morning f r the defense and L. T. llartsell during the afternoon for the State. Mr. Hart- ! sell made a oinpreh. nsive re lew of the I rvi.b nee aud pointed out what he be lieved to be the gtroligert "i;"its in the State 's test imony. ! The charge of Judge II'i.v eouisiuned i two bonis. Court, was not adjourned , and .lodge Rav .stated that bo would he ready to re.'.ivo tin' verdict at any time. Kleien days were consumed with the i trial. 21.'! uitn"-sis were presented to the court, and 2 1 h nr ami -U minutes I wen- i'-ot.-d to arguments by counsel, Judge l:;,y -itutcd in his charge. lie told the jury to return such a ver-' diet as th. v thought tiie evidence tusti ' lied. Hartsell Speaks. Mr. Hirt-eil said that the defendant had brought many character witnesses here, but that most of them knew him years ago. and did not know bin real' heart. "All men iu th" prisons once hail good rcptititioiis. " he said. "How do they lose them.' We have an example here. "What is a good character' Love nnd f'-ar of ; obedience to the law; fair play with your ft How man. Iloes the defendant lit the-,ef " We see by his own testimony that he was always armed. Mr. Can.-ler said that a man tliat did not go armed now was a foo!. 1 .5 a man a foal tliep lie aso he iI.m's not violate the law ? The law doe sot permit pistol toting. I cau't believe a man has a good character when I knw he violated the law, He' killed his frien He went aronid the; country with another friend's wif that playing -fair!" Pistol and Woman. ;vtore Moreili, who aid he had been 1 Mr. Hartsell declared that there is employed by the unidentified man to Te ; one thing combined with pistol toting : distill denatured alcohol, was seriously i that eansis hell oo earth. "That is ajinjuredb y leaping from a window. He woiiinn." hs snid. ''When I ne a limn ! said he knew his eundovcr onlv bv the j married riding around the country day' Court Trial Has Lasted t after day with a woman, 1 know he ! hasn't much character. He is a married man that runs around with marriid ; women and young girls and the first t thing he docs is to lay a pistol on her lap. You would think wo lived in the i heart of Africa wbero there are no laws. "Hp is the alienator of the affections ! of a man's wife. I don't care how , many character witnesses they brin' here, j I know what this man has been deini;. Mrs. Lowe even forgot to make tho visit." Mr. Can.der stated, Mr. Hartsell mid, that you hardly evpr picked up a n wa pafier that you did uot see of crime, rob bery and murders. "And you hardly ever read a paper that you don't see where Nome man slew Mime hound for interfering with hid domestic, relations," Mr. Hartsell said. Judas 0. K. Until Judas was nil right, Mr. Hartsell said, until the love of money got the best of him. Before he betrayed Christ With a kiss he could have shown a good charac ter. It's the same with carrying a pis tol and going with women, the speaker said "It is not wrong at tirst, but aftei a while we get where we can't do with out the pistol and if we associate with .1 sweet woman enough we will fall in lovo with her." "Thomas knew Allen wa in Kanna polis, for he said he saw him between 7-.:!0 and S o'clock,". Mr. Hartsell eon tiued. "Thomas went tin thn street to iet a pistol. There is something socrct n - bout that pistol, for the State never waw it until it was presented in court. Why didn't Thomas give it to the police that night.' Why hide it in a desk drawer? " Mrs. Kimball did not go to Kannapo lis with Allen, Mr. Hartsell said. He pointed out that one witness said he saw her near Mangum's homo that afternoon between 5:-'i0 and ti o'clock. "She says she left Concord with Allen at 7: '.'i o'clock, that thev turned off and went to a point near Lawing's store, where she waited while Allen got Man gum from the mill. "Then how did Thomas see Allen in Kannapolis between 7 :'.HI and S o 'clock f "He testified on the stand that he saw him. Alien couldn't have been in two places at one time. " RATS AND MICE ARE OVERRUNNING BUDAPEST BUDAl'KST, Jan. 2K. Rats and mice are migrating in swarms from the Russian famine area, and Budapest is now overrun with them. All efforts to rid the city of this scourage have failed, and the devastation caused by them goes on. Market Halls, food stores and warehouses are swarming with the rod ents. So uangeriiis havo they become that when disturbed they will turn and show fight. Several merchant have been bitten. The situation is aggravated by the dearth of cats in Hungary. During the war, when food was scarce, thousands of families ate their cats. Since then the increasing demand for cat fur as a cheap substitute for expensive furs, has taken a further toll. As a consequence, the comparatively exorbitant prices of .'!,i'(Ui to 4,in0 gronen is being offered for a kitten. GATHERING UP LOOSE ENDS OF EVIDENCE SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF., Jan. 2. Counsel were determines! today to get all the loose ends of cwdence nut of the way in the second trial of Iioscoe Arbucklc. on a charge of manuslaughter growing out of t lie death of Miss Vir ginia Rappc, and it appeared the effort might bo successful. The last witness yesterday was Mrs. Catherine Fox, of Chicago, who testi fied she had known Miss Rappe since childhood and that sbe had lived with ber at different periods. Mrs. Fox was (filled by the prosecution to refute tes-. timoiiv introduced by the defense that t Miss l.'appe had had a lisorder which caused her at times to faint, sbrief with pain and tear her clothes. Mrs. Fox said she had never seen Miss Rappe ill or in pain. j The prosceiiptinn charges1 that )l i. Rappe died as ji result of a bladder rup ture caused when Arbucklc attacked 'her in his rooms at the St. Francis hotel on Svptemlier 5, last. The defense contends MiM Rapiie died as a result of chronic trouble. Still Explodes. NEW YORK. Jan. 2S. An cxido- sion of a still in the basement ef a house in the liorough park section of Brooklyn is.totiny set fire to the building and bum- ed an unidentified man to death. Sal name of Frank. " SCHOOLS ENROLLED IN TRIANGULAR DEBATE With Exception of Guilford County With 23 Schools in Debate, Gaston and Bun combe Lead in Number of Schools Enrolled Total Number Schools Enralll 250. Nine Gaston county high schools have enrolled in the Higb Pchool Debating Union of North Carolina for tho ap proaching triangular dibutes on the League of Nations to bo held throughout the State on March 24ttht. The schools which have enrolled are as follows: fiastonia, Boiinont, Mount Hoi- l.v, Stanley, Dallas, Lowell, Bessemer , City. heir.vville and Ranlo. The contest this year marks the tenth .annual ...ntest of the High School De bating Union, (iastnn County schools have taken a prominent part in tho eon ! tests of the past. The fiastonia high j echoed was one of the first schools to i join the High School Debating Union , when the movement was begun in 1913 and has taken part in all of tho contests that have been held since. Last spring the fiastonia debaters triumphed over Shelby and Lincolnton ' in the triangular contest and took high rank in the final contest at the Univer sity for the Aycock Memorial Cup. The lireensboro atlirniMtive team and the Durham negative team, which debated finally for the Aycock Clip, were made to look sharply to their laurels Iry tbe i Castouia representatives. With an enrollment of nine schools each, (iaston Countv unit Hnncimih j County 'cad the State, with the 'sole , inception of (iuili'or l Cimnty, which hss ; an unpre ciie. enrollment of ,23 m-hiHi's. Nash County has 8 schools en i rilii J; Robeson and Rowan have 7 each; j KilgccomV. Wilson, Wake, Mecklenburg I mid Johnston have 0 each; Alamance, I Cabarr us, Iredell nnd Northampton havo i 5 each. Ninety ono counties are repre i sented iii tiie membership of the High School Debating Union, the only counties ' without representation being Ashe, Cor j taret, Graham, Hoke, Jones, Mitchell, Stokes, Tyrrell and Wataun. The total number of schAohi Enrolled 1 this year is 251). The ipiery is stated s ie.li . . 1 a in,i . . r - joiimvs; ' j,csoiveii, 'mni ine linuen States Should Kilter the League of Ns- 1 tion. CLAIM VOCATIONAL TRAINING IS A FARCE AND FRAUD. (By The Associated Press.) CINCINNATI, Jan. 2S. That vo cational training at Csmp Sherman, OH- b,.., the. Ohio, is "a f.irce and a fraud" ; h th" statement, made by Judge Bobert 'fc. Marx, of this city, national comman- der of the Disabled American veterans of the World War, in a report presented in Washington, today to Martin B. Mad den, chairman' of the committee on ap- nr.o o-i:i ( ion j of tlot Ittiotte nf HefirPH4nt. atives. The report is the result of a persona) visit made by Judge Marx to the camp . "The schoolrooms have been made over in a makeshift fashion," says Marx in the report. "la the electrical school which has un enrollment of SO there were only :t7 men actually present aud of this ' number only two were doing anything. " Not a single s'udeiit was in the plumb ing mIiooI, according to Marx. There was- a dearth of equipment here as also was the case in tlu bakery, be declared. "It look, d like real work was being done in the tailoring school," the re port srd "There were only two or three lie n n li.i seemed to be idle and it appealed that instructions was being giwn." Th shoe re airing school, the report staled, was the busiest in the camp. "We did not find a single student who expressed satisfaction with t h method of teaching or with the courses of iiisirucion lie was receiving," Judge Mar sa id . PLANNED TO WRECK TRAIN FOR LOOT. fBy Tiie Associated Tress,) LO ANC.KLES, Calif.. Jan.. 28.' A forni r seitchmaii named Lambert son was shot, probably fatally, by offi cers la t night after he had nailed down a derailing device in an effort to wreck this until bound shore Line Limited of the Southern Pacific system at Glenn da ie. a suburb. The train carried money said to be in excess of 7",tiio, and the supposed mo tive of the attempt at wrecking was to obtain this. Snnie reports placed the amount aboard the train at as high as f loll.tMlll. Lambcrtsou is raid to be wanted in . Seattle to un wer two tharges of murder and by the government for alleged syn dicalism, lie is .'l.S years old. Tin. itnli.'n uir.' w.i i.l tsi lit v mcA nt his nl!..,,,,! t.b.n. Un it i n-iril !. confided in a Los Angeles detective without knowing the latter 's identity. j the- hope of obtaining assistance, , mwaMaaMaaaaMMBi Cotton Market CLOSING BIDS ON THE NEW YORK MARKET , NEW YORK, Jan- 2S. Cotton fu tures closed steady at the following quo- -tations: March Io.Cj; May 15.41: Julyld.lt); October 15.6n; December 13.51; Spots 16.35. - " . v TODAY'S COTTOI LTArET Cotton Seed Strict to Good aLdJurj .4';