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A Have You Registered For The Tuberculosis Hospital Election? rOMIA DMLY 0 ETTE Weather: : Cloudy i Local Cotton 161-2 ants VOL. XLHI. NO. 26. CASTONIA, N. C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 31, 1922. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS L ; GAS DIRECTORS COUNTY FAIR MAKE PLANS FOIM BIG EVENT IN FALL OF 1922 Col. Thomas L. Craig is Re Elected President New Names Added to Board of DirectorsFred M. Allen Is Executive Secretary For An- Receiving report from the 1921 Big Gaston County Fair, electing officer to take charge of the 1922 fair and trans acting routine business, the stockholders of the Gaston County Fair Association held the annual meeting at the chamber of commerce auditorium Monday after noon at 4 o'clock. 'The new tmard of directors met immediately after and elected Fred M. Allan soerctary-trensur-cr,, act the dates for October 10th to 14th and. passed a resolution authorizing the president and secretary to cnX-r into nec essary contracts. A majority of the stock was represent ed when Col. T. L. Craig culled tlu stockholders meeting to order. The statement of the 1121 fair was received showing a deficit of $3,ti00. However, the stockholder were well pleased, being delighted with the fact that not only had the change been made' to the new grounds with the best plant in the .State but also the best fair iu the Carolina was held in October here. Col. T. L.-Craig, president since, the organisation of the fair, made a Ktrong )un effort to step aside this time, nut -nc I10 all,i the section headed by meeting was insistent on hm keeping on ; (.arilill.,, Ml.rrv ,M Vnl, which hud been his good work, much commendation be- rmliu., witn "favoring Cardinal Malti.is ing given his administration He was rtP(, a roa(ly for a compromise be wnammously re-elected and W f. Kan- qk tm bal!oting bt gins. Kin was uilliuiiuoiiiiiy rc-cinicu u -'iva- ident. The new board of directors is compos ed of K. It. Kay, John L. Deal. 1). M. j JoncA, John Frank Jackson, T. A. Hen-j ry, J. 1'. Bivens, John R. Rankin, J, liee Robinson, J. White Ware, Fred D. j Hartley and J. Lander Gray. , In order that the work on the new fair may be started at once, the new board j was ealled into session immediately uion ' adjournment of the stockholders' meet ing. ; Fred M. Allen was re-elected seereta-, ry-troasurcr. The dates were set for the customary date in October and the preti- i dent and secretary were given necessary authority for the proper currying on of the fair's business during the year. ; Many matters in connection with the fair were discussed. I Winston Adams Gives Facts As To Textile Wages In The South Secretary Adams, of American Cotton Manufacturers Associa tion, Answers Statement Made in Recent Address by North ern Manufacturer Gives Figures Gathered by National In dustrial Conference Board. Mr. Winston I). Adams, neeretary and treasurer of the American Cotton As sociation, lias replied to certain charges made against the wige scale prevailing in the fouth, mado by Edwin Farnham Greene, treasurer of the Pacific Mills, of Uostou. ' Kecontly Mr. flreene delivered an ad dress in New York and in the course of his discussion of ilio textile situation un dertook to make1 comparisons of the wage wales in the two great sections of 1ho industry to the disparagement of the south, aiud this statement is the oc casion of Mr. Adamv' reply. In view'of the fact that many Xorth ern niillai are now announcing further re duction in wages, averaging about 20 per rertt, such statements as1 those by Mr. Greene and others are beinc used, Mr.Adams states, iu apparent justifiea lifflfh of tho further enta. Some New lnc1and manufacturers have even gone n f,i nm lo decl ere h:it miiroK iii mnnv i wouthcrn textile mills are now back to , pre-war levels, he states, and that only j in tho larger centers aro they as much ns ; 50 iK-r cent above pre war. j Mr. Adams' letter shows that wages; in the south aro one! have been always; on an nrtnroximato naritv in the north! aml the south, all things considered, and! eites figures recently compiled by the' national industrial conference ljoard, of Jcw York, in proof of his statement. In ! .view of tho fact that tho conference board is considered tho greatest autbori- ty in the country on the subject, the iorcfi vi mfl taiuuiiiuu us me ruurei noteworthy. Mr. Adams' preliminary statement,) contained in an open letter to the mem-j fliers of -hc American Cotton Association,! is appended herewith, followed by the, m . m ii.. A.i i.. .it . l . . Jetter to .Mr. ureene: I You have fiouotless ooservea in; i; .Mississippi, i; Maryland, ; ortu uiorge nampion ann joe ieiia are m ICorthern and Eastern papers recently j Carolina. 2; South Carolina, 11; Tennes-1 jurecl. The naiijes of the missing could various statements of representative New see, o; Texas, 2; Virginia, 2. j not be obtained. tngland manufacturers regarding com- "Returns were received from 38: Officials here of the company left ear- paratire wages in the tsoutn ana the, orth.- Almost without exception mc: justification given for pending reduc-j tions of wages in New England Mills is on tho cronnd thxt heretofore existing levels have been ao gTeatly higher in the; North than in thej South, .some citing, Southern, wages to be back to pre-warl levels in tho majority of cases, while' country. In tho average Southern cot others declare that Southern wages to-ton mill town, company houses and ac- day are only 50 per cent above pre-war: ns compared with mil .New Jbngiaod ai 120 per cent, above pre-war. "Of course we have nothing to say a bout New Kngland reductions ycr v but when our Nort hern friends seek to ' justify their course by such erroneous statements, I fee! in justification to our Southern Lidustrjr some correction should Lo made. "Your attention Is tlierefore'directed to the attached letter addressed to Mr. Edwin i'aruhaiu Gretna, Tteasuxer oft COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BUY TWO MACHINE GUNS. PITTSBURGH, PA.. Tan. 31. The purchase of two machino tuna and an automobile upon which to mount them was authorized late yes terday by Allegheny county com missioners. The weapons are to be need to aid in combatting bandits, it waa said, and their purchase was au thorized following the observation of the county court on the Grafton bank robbery Friday when the robbers es caped after killing the assistant cash ier. The machine guns will cost $430 a piece and the automobile $4,000. The appropriation for the purchases was made from the budget for the at torney general's office. MUCH INTEREST IN THE POPE'S SUCCESSOR. ROMK, Jan. .11 Interest in t h e choice of a successor to l'ope Benedict is increasing as the time draws near for assembling of the Sacred Conclave, and niHtty attempts to find an indication of the result are being mude. Cardinal Laurenti, secretary of the congregation of the propaganda, al though raised to the purple only last year, is understood to be favored by at least thirty members of the. Kaered Col lege who believe in a Tapprochement with the Italian Government, At the simp time he is said to be acceptable to those opposed to closer relations with the Quirinal. The name of Cardinal Katti, arehbish oii of Milan, mentioned previously as favored by the ''peace" group headed 1... I '.. pll,,.,! iinauni-ri iu Tin henrd RO NOTRE DAME WAS TRYING TO STOP PROFESSIONALISM SOUTH BKN'Il, INI)., Notre Dame University ollicials today -made public copies of a letter sent sis weeks ago to seventy middle western colleges calling attention to the threat of professional ism in college athletics and asking co operation in a concerted movement to clean it out. The letter was mailed on December 16, six weeks before there was any pub lic hint of the football scandal which hast result ed in disqualification of nine Illi nois and eight Ntre Dame men, and to day 's announcement- of it followed on the heels of an announcement in Chicago yesterday that thrMvestern conference planned a wholesalo'fnvestigation. the Pacific Mil!?, Boston, which 1 believe is a fair statement f the facts and which is given you for your considera tion." Mr. Edwin Farnham Greene, Treasurer, Pacific Mills. Boston, Mass. My Dear Sir; Your address before the National Wholesale Dry Goods Association on I J. L. Hynum . Tuesday, January 17th, in New York.j .Tno. W. Reeves contains several broad references to com- V. Y. Roberts pnrativo wages in the North and tho W. J. fashion JSouth which in my judgment are more;jas. Moore ... calculated to dibturb conditions in the I South than to help them in the North. 1- have pot the official text of your address i but the Press reports are in such accord that I assume them to bt accurate. You are (pioted as saying: "(Southern milU incrnii .! warn three time, to 200 i , " - - , ' ,, per cent atiove pre war levels. iney were the first to reduce wages and have broutrht these figures down to about "0 per cent above tire-war leveis. In innny mills in South CarolvSa and Georgia, the present wages are less than 50 per cent. above pre-war, as compared with New Kngland wages at 120 per cent, above pre-war." 1 beg to call .your attention to the in- vestigation of the subject by the Na .1 tional Industrial Conference Board, thei report on which is now in press audi contains the following statements: "Cotton Manufacturing South." ' "As in the Northern cotton mills, this wage investigation among cotton manu- . c . : n.. ucc... iaeiuriu; oaucs in ine ccnoii.ciii iu.c.3 , is confined to establishments engaged in spinning and weaving and finishing of: cotton fabrics. The geographical distri - bution among 10 Southern Stabs is as follows: -aianania, weorgia, o: jvemucay. plants, employing Js,781 wago earners i ine nign iioiui in ocpie'mix'r, ivav. Women were employee! in all of the es tabli.tbmcnts." "Any comparison of wages iu North ern and Southern cotton mills must take into consideration the differences in liv ing conditions in. the two sections of the companyiug facilities are usually provid- ea ny toe operators, at a nominal price, whilo in Northern cotton manufacturing centers, snch provisions are generally not made. This additional compensation in Southern mills must, therefore, be con sielercd in-any discuwion of compara tive wages." "Wages: ! (a) Hourly earnings: Composite hourly earnings of all wage earner show an increase of 222 per cent. (Cuatinuial oa pags six) WITH SHANTUNG ISSUE SETTLED, CONFERENCE IS READY TO ADJOURN Some of Delegates Expect to Start Home by End of This week Naval Committee of Whole Is Meeting Today. j WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. Virtual settlement by the Japanese and Chinese of the long-debated fcShantung question and dual agreement on the text of the five, power naval limitation treaty hud brought the Washington conference very near to tho conclusion of its labors to day with some of the delegates expecting to be on their homeward journeys pos sibly by tho end of the week. I I'lcdietion that the last details of the plan tor restoration to China of Shan tung province would le settled at to da3' ' meeting was made by Dr. Ko.", of the Chinese delegation, following an a-; greement reached last night between the Japanese anil Chinese covering all prin ciples required as a basis for disposal of , the Tsingtao-Tsinanfu railroad question. The basis of settlement is understood to have been the compromise plan support- ed by President Harding. Meantime the naval committee of the whole was meeting today to give final' approval to the text of the naval treaty' as completed yesterday by agreement in j the naval committee of 15 on tho Pacific j fortifications article. The treaty tomor-j row will bo announced to the world at a plenary session of tho conference. The Far Eastern committee at the same time had been called in sission to day to clean up the collateral ismies now remaining in that field, w hich with Bhan tung out of the way, was expected to take but a few days. It was the expecta tion of conference, officials that another' plenary session would be called tonior row afternoon, following that for the naval announcement, to permit formal ! ratification of the dozen or more resolu tions relating to China, which have now received committee approval only. The fortifications article, which has been holding up completion of the naval pact for several weeks, was settled yes terday by an agreement under which the fortifications "status quo" in the Paci fic, is to include the American Aleutian islands, a part of Alaska, as well as tho Bonin Islands group of Japan. WO0DR0W WILSON FOUNDATION FUND Contributions have been received IV) far to this fund as follows: Previously acknowledged . . J. II. 8epark Mrs. J. W. Wilson, Gaatonia A. M. Smyre From McAdenville: K. C. ltav J. A. Wells K. L. Hughes fip.00 lOO.Ob 1 .00 5.00 1 .00 1.00 jeo. Ij. htoo i.oot is. M. i 1LHOIS K. U. Kav .1. C. l'oolc t.i x' : .1 . i i i n .. i 1 -00 ! 1 .01), 1 .00 1.00 1 .00 ' 100! l.oO ; 1.00 j 1.00 1.00 Geo. K. Tate . . Lube ATiernathv W. H. Kay H. H. Keid I. V. Mabry . . . . '. W. Nipper . . Tno. I?cntlv Will Itentlv J. R. U.d.l Geo. Wright K. C. A.lcock . . . Geo. F. Webb . . Boyd Adcoek . . . O. .T. Duncan . . . 1 .00 . f ' 100 i i ' imi ''" ' 1.00 1.00 1 .00 i.oo 1.00 Total $201.00 A check for $26 covering the above McAdenville contributions is sent in by Mr. R. L. Hughes, who savs: "We made no regular campaign here but Hi.l irivo ,.rt -rinnr,!,, )t,o i.rivilcrrn : r .T v. v.,... ! ' ox i-uiiiiiijuiiic unci um une m-ciiin-ci. jcci -yfn-Jjs c addition to this amount there has beenj jt wa, hi, Mirrin M()ri, of ,,, .,, at least one large contribution from onejth;it firs, al,r.,(.(,.(l Mrs. Stephens' at- ux uur ciiizeiis sent direct, to ix.iicigui. It is The Gazette's desire to show in this list the total contributed to this runcl ny OasTon people. It anyone has , sent a contribution direct to Raleigh; please let Tho Gazette know the namei ana amount so n can ne aetcnoivie.igco. in i his column, ii is noi necessary wiai we handle the monev. . FOUR KILLED IN COAL MINE EXPLOSION (Rv The Associated Presn.) P1NEY1LLK, Ky.. Jan. 31. Four niiuers were Kiiieo, io were lnjuren se- j riously and two are missing as a result j of an explosion in the Iay man-Callow ay i - oal mine at Layman, Ky., 20 miles j from here, last night. i The dead are lien Rapier, Earl If.imp- ! . i.;n.i l . ... ... . ton, a. r. nit-wen nnu wane Jiay. ly totay tor tne scene or tne accident, i inning .in inn-si iganoii mrj- ninn.i jioi express an opinion as to whether gas or powder caused the accident. ARGUMENTS IN ARBUCKLE CASE ARE POSTPONED. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. .11. Argu ments in the case of Rnscoe Arbuekle may be postponed until Wednesday af ternoon, while rebuttal witnesses culled by the state occupy the ptand. The ar guments may extend into Thursday. Pislrb-t Attorney Brady announced that the state was awaiting the arrival of a witne?s from Chicago whose testi mony wjll be offered in rebuttal to thai of Mrs. Florence Hates. Mrs. Bates testified that Misa-IiapiK!, while employ ed as a model in a Chicago store, was seized with illness similar in its symp toms to that . she suffered at tho party in Arlucklt'V room. A NEW YORK, Jan. 31. Whei Thomas A. Edison formulated hit famous and much abused question naire last spnng, he had no idea tha the only man who could answer i correctly would win his .way into tha V.diann familv tint aitrh th rlAPl Samuel A. Halsey. of Newark, N. J.,1 will tonight marry Misa CMarlotte W. Hawkins, sister-in-law of Charles Edison, son of the inventor. The wedding will take place at the Charles Edison home in West Orange, N. I. Mr. Halsey, who is now manager of an Edison concern in this city, was one of the first to get the famous questionnaire issued February of last year. Instead of ridiculing it, he answei cd it listing correct answers to every question and was given an A A grading by the inventor himself. He was given a job juggling figures in the Edison factories, but he didn't stay at it long. In his advance hi reached the pest of chief of the per sonnel staff, and met Miss Hawkins, who was doing welfare work in the plant. It was here that Mr. Halsey fram ed his own questionnaire of but one quertion. Miss Hawkins also graded him A A. METHODISTS HAVE SERIES "GET TOGETHER" MEETINGS Bishops, Presiding Elders and Prominent Officials Meet in Memphis. (By Tho Associate! Tress.) MKMI'HIS, Teun., .Tan. :il. "(Jetj together" meetings and informal eon-I fercnecs of missionary leaders of t h e I Metnoclisl episcopal Cliurcli, houtli, were in progress here today preliminary to I the formal opening tonight of ;i church- j wide conference of biehops, presiding el ! iters, and representatives of missionary and connect ii ma 1 boards "to take st'ick" I of accomplishments of the centenary inis- I Bionary rampnign. inaugurated in inn. and perfect plans for tne reinain.ler ol "-"'"" i Missionary seen-times from n or the home conferences and representatives of the ehur.h in n-veral of the fereign sion mas are exiieetea to aiieii.i .ne conference. Bishop 1'. V. W. Darlington, of Huntington, W. Va., was announced as he presiding officer for the opening scs J .cm tonight . ''us for arousing greater enthusiasm an members of the church in the til ' ! tiniate s ' ess of the campaign, in which ' i $)(l,liOll,(n,., was pledged for home and j foreign mis-ioiiarv work ill be discuss-1 THIS MAN ANSWERED FAMOUS EDISON QUESTION '"led. and an effort launched to collect ). UOO. OHO m outstamiiiiK iiledKes, in order '"'jttiat the centenary committee may 1 -00 before the general conferenc, in . . . . I Hot I (Springs, iu May, with the full amount duo at that time in the treasury. Con-: federation of this intensive campaign! for the next three! months will be the; principal subject taken up at the i'insi! day of the conference, which is t cuu- j Untie three dnvs. . HEIRESS TO MILLIONS TO I WED ENGINE MACHINIST j r f i.. . .... . r, I fRv Tho Agsoci.ite.1 Press. 1 i , aUCACrO. Jan. 31. Mrs. Mai ion B.j Stephens, .laugher of the late Norman j ll- R,am of '"'"'""So, heirew to a fortune, in,.,t.,rl l.i.rl. n. 1(1 I II II I I II 111 he , ............. .,. , ., .... nounced her engagement to Alexandre-; vitch Yansiatskv, an emtilo.ve of the Baldwin Locomotice works in T'hiladel-; phia, according to a story jmldished in the Chicago Tribune. j Mrs. Stephens, reports said, n n n rmii .1 the wedding would take place in the litis- j cinn I'hcireh Tmc Yorlr V'i cai'il sc.- v c' said to have insisted that he remain a- mong the working men and Mrs. (Stephen i , "..'... ' .. ..' ! willingly consented to i:v nome in liic tactorv secii.ui near tlcei.,i ; ii,,, i teiition. friends say, while the two we re in 1'arLs in 1010, whore they first be came acquainted. He served as tin en gineer in Ko!c link's Ormy. :,.. ; Kohl.Mk's nm.v I Mrs Hteph.ns husband, Redmond D Stephen, attorney, obtained a divorce ; lflS on the grounds that "Mrs Stephens' wanted to travel all the time; wantecl to come and go. she said a she pleaded, and wanted to be free.'' SENATE RETECTS AMENDMENT ! OFFERED BY SIMMONS, in,. Tt. t.m..;..,i rM AV SH I NliTOX I'm M noher rffnrt (n i,it the' a'tiiority of the pro- Allied dibt refunding conimission to defer interesd payments on the eleven billion dollar fore ign debt failed today jn the Senate. An amendment by Seii.i ' ' ..',.., , , i . ,Pr simtnons. North Carolina, wliieh would have provided that interest pay ments could not be pot polled for more than three years v ithnut the consent of Congress was rejected, 1 to 27. j.-,mr l.public.-ui .lohnson I .add. 1 Follette and Norris joined with the sol ii Democratic minority in supporting the amendment . Th. vote came fifteen minutes after the Senate convened and no discussion preceded i' . Senator Simmons offered his soldiers' Ixinus amendment, but later withdrew it at the rifpic: t of Senator Norris, Repub lican, who asked thst consideration b deferred until after the Senate had acted on his substitute bill proposing to an tlioriw the secretary of the treasury to refund the foreign debt under conditions and terms laid down by the existing lib erty loan acts. Thorne Appointed . WASHINGTON". Jan. 31:, Vt,n..int ment of Rolicrt T. Theirne, of Own villi, I tS. C, as a Federal prohibition agent J for South Carolina, was announced by j Commbsioucr llayucs today. ' I SIXTY PATROLMEN IN PITCHED BATTLE WITH BOSTON NEGRO DESPERADO Renzy Murray Holds Police at ' Bay Two Policemen, Ne- i gro Man and Woman Shot j t Trouble Began When He' V Ejected a Tenant. ! O'y The Associated Press. 1 i R-OSTON. Jan. :t 1 . r-iixty patrol- I 'men. armed with riot guns, battle. I more 1 than an hour early today against Ib'iizy Murray, a negro, who, barricaded in his limn, in in,' south end. shot and serious- I ly inu:ulc.l two patrolmen, 11 Depress and ! a mem. and set t'ire to a bed in which i an iut'a,,' lav. Murray surrendered un injurd li u a dozen eifli'c. l broke down tin- door of tlie house. , Shouts of l ... Ii 1, i ui ' were made by i 'he croud that fought to get at him. He : was roughi.v handled before Hie officers' put him in a patio! wagon, j The trouble liea'i when Murray eject-j ed a le-gn-ss t, naut and fired several, shots at her. 1 I'atrolmea Dnlton and .McMliaue at- 1 tcmp'ed !o enter tile house and McShano j uas .hot in the stomach. Another bill- i j let wound.. I Iialton in the cheek. ! j A riot rail :; sounded and police-) iii-n armed with riot guns, were sent to j the scene. Tile house was stirrnundil 1 and In, lit N were ni. raved onanist ft.' while Murr:i On the tup husband jj t ir. .1 shots into t he t rc floor, tile negress tenaiJ held fear of Murray, h ihliiig his h; .it him twit al.v in his arms. Murl: The liil.l fell on I be.l ami Murray set tire to it. .lack said. The infant was removed to n I pi la I suuVring from burns. Oecupa of houses pc Ted from their windows til shois drove- them to eover. Mrs. )ia Seott wn struck in the baud by bllllet . As tlie h.itlle prot'ceilcd liremen were ealled an. I lines of hose were laid to Mood Murray out. I ' it i oltnan Kdnard .1 . Wyiui, braving the negrn's tire, smash ...I . v.mi ,!,, ti.-.t i',.. ..,..,1.1 I... i,r,,,, ;, ,,.,v. Meanwhile Police I ,S(.ri;i,lllt J..IM .,,, , - ..niet-ta. battered :ilown the entrance and the negro sur- ! ...... I j '' " I HEAVY EARTOUAKE I cmirv rc DPTriDnii-n ( I!v The Associated Press.) WASIUNCTON", Jan. :!l . -An earth ijiiake of greatest intensity, probably 'J, "iii't to L'.Oih) miles Mouth of Washington, was registered early today at the (ieorge lown : eiKiiiograp.hieal oliHcrva t iry . The cpiake began at about SiL'.'i a. )n. and 10 minutes later the tremors had become so pronounced as to thron the registering neeilics off the scale. CAMHIflDCK. MANS.. Jan. An earthquake shock so violent that it put .,. i; . ,, . '.. ii.i- c.-. tn.iiny aj'i'.ii a i o.s hi i lie narvnr.i I'niwTsily scisiuographis station teiu porarily out of ejjjiiiiiission. occured to ii'.v. Its sc-.iie was computed roughly at '.77'i in i i -, from here, by Professor .1. I!. Wihidworth. in what direction he was unable to say. The il. latum liegan til S:2I a. in. and at H:pl beeaiiic so violent. Professor Woodworlh said, that the loccllc were thr.twu ofl" til,, clriitit on wl.ieh tli,. vit.ri- i i ic ii s aie II C'IM. C'Cl. v. A.IIl N . TON. Jan. :U. - The .,kl. .,,, registered on the seismo- ..... ... ., jjiapu oi tne weainer liuteau, olticia.s oj i,i,., ,is. , ;i.,i ;t ,,. ,,, ti,. ; l.'cvi n nd l'r.uii is Ton.lorf. direc tor of I t he tieorgeti.wn seismographical observa lory ajid one ot the foremost earthquake 1 authorities of the mo.-ld, said the quake ' . norm. ins. Doth machines wen still registering tin- jai:ke at 10 o 'clock. DK.VYKK Jan graph at 1 ( : i " i s C 11. The seismo i ge hi re today regis- mo-i severe arthquakc record est fifteen years, according to Father Forestall. The disturbiiilce wa cs'inKitcd by Father Forestall to be approximately 1,000 miles south of Din er. The shis-k was i veil gre ate r than that registered here at the time of the san 1'ra n.i art hquake IIP At. O. Jan. An unusually I .severe earthquake was recorded on the seismograph at the I'nivcrsity of Chica go thi morning. The first wave was re j corded at 7:2:1 a. m. and it was followed I by anothe r at ":''- a. ni. The distance was approximately l.'.'iv miles I rum1 1 Chii-.tg.,. ! matioii regai'ling the variety and the WASHINGTON. Jan. ."I. - Dr. W. .1. D.q.artnient ' plan for assisting the far Hiiniphtcvs, the Weather P-nrr.iu's earth- ,,. j establishing it on his farm, quake specialist, reported at 11 o'clock ' ui, ,)( ,,,,, , h.r, fore, if vou that the tremors still were continuing: . " but had greatly diminished in intensity.!"'" kindly furnish us not later than February 2S 1022. addressed franks for vlmc voiii.- 1.... ! : i. the 000 quart-packages of cotton seed in New York seeking to locate the earth- pian,e which today shattered scisino grnplM in various parts of the I'nite-il states estimated that the slunk origin ated alonij the west coast of South Anier icn, somewhere between the Panama canal zone' and Ecuador. Cotton Market CLOSING BIDS ON THE NEW EW YORK MARKET an. .,1. Cotton NEW YOHK. J tures closed strong March 1U1: May July 1 3.81; October lo.41; Spots ltj.70. TODAY'S COTTOS MARKET Cotton Seed ...45c Stxict to Gael lS;Jiling lojic LIST OF DEAD DISASTER s: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CALENDAR Tuesday. 4 p. m. Department of Traffic and Transportation Affairs. 7:30 p. m. Chamber of Com merce Glee Club. 8:30 p. m. Community Chorus. Wednesday 2 p. m. Industrial display com mittee. 4 p. m. Department of Civic Affairs. 7:30 p. m. Textile Superin tendents. Thursday. 3 p. m. Department of In dustrial Affairs. 4 p. m. Board of Directors. 5 p. m. Community Service Play Rehearsal. 7:30 p. m. Pythian Band. Friday. 4 p. rru Girl Scouts. 7:30 p. m. Chamber or Com merce Glee Club.' 8:30 p. m. Community Chorus. MAJOR DULWINKLE HAS SEED FOR DISTRIBUTION Has Variety of Seed For Farm ers or County, Including Quart Packages of a New Cotton Seed First Come, First Served. 'origressnnn A. L. Itulwinkle, liouse Office f!uildiiiL' WashiiiD-rmi II (' 1.-,. for lislribiilioii over the Ninth Coneres sional Di.-trirt the following .",(1 four-pound iackaces 1 " t' Knnsas- grown alfalfa seed. "'0 I""'" I packages of Soybeans i lut one pound a, kagcw of Sudan t grass seed . 1011 two pound beans . packages of Velvet , It is the desire of the Dejiart nient of Agric ulture that those applying for seed should use them at an experiment and I after te sting them out, report to the De ;pnrtiucnl the rosult of such test. Only one package of seed of any one variety will be sent to an individual. Te the first .100 farmers applying to Mr. i Miiluinkle for package of seed, the re quested variety will be forwarded. From the accompanying letter enclos ed in Congressman Itulwinkle 's note it is .also inferred that a quantity of quart packages uf eel ton feed are also nv.-iilu Me for farmers in this district. The let ter from the Department of Agriculture i reads : ; IIou. Alfred I., liulw inkle, ! llnus" of Representatives, j.r: i With n view to increasing interest in new and improved types of cottrin, it is j proposed to furnish each Senator and , Representative iu cotton-producing ter : ritoiy with 000 quart packages of seed the coming season. The i ize of the package is sufficient to enable a fanner to make a satisfactory preliminary trial of the variety ill coniiia risen with othe r varieties now grown iu his locality. It is therefore, deemed advisable that no individual receive more than one pack age. Aft.r conducting this test, if the far mer is convinced that the new strain is superior to the one he is already grow ing, and will submit a detailed report of bis results in accordance with instruc tions, together with sample bolls pro d.iceil from the quart package1 of seed, the Department will arrange to furnish hiru luxt car with one-half bushel of s c. I for a practical start with the now variety. This quantity if carefully han dled under favorable conditions should enable him to produce mid market a bale of cotton and secure a seed supply suf fieient for a large planting the following season Each package of seed will be aeeom rwi'ied bv a circular giving full infor : mu'le available tor your consuiucms. Rcsectfullv, WM.'A. TAYLOR, ..thief of liureau of Plant Industry Trial Delayed. (Ry Tho Associated Pre.) ATHENS, Ga.. Jan. :'.! . The trial of Cnl Hawks. Jim ant! Hanip Dudley, 1 II. ..I , Tl.. h.,,.1 ...... ... I. r in connection with the killing of three negroes, lKembcr o, which was to j , m vc onru. .c.-r v fuit je.dge is $H,3M) and that of a Unit til omorrow. The delay is brought a- , , J ' g ; 'bout because tbt' court at Watkinsvtllo j . . . .I. w .:... to .lispose of some leaner lu-faM before taking up the muni criminal ier cases. THE WEATHER North Carolina, paitly cloudr tonight; warmer in west portion; Wednesday Cloudy, probably rJn in south and west i portions. , IN THEATER REDUCED TO 07 THREE-FOLD PROBE OF CAUSE OF COLLAPSE OF ROOF IS IN PROGRESS In Addition to District of Co lumbia Commissioners, Fed eral Grand Jury and Coro ner's Jury Are Invstigating Catastrophe Preparing to Raise Walls of Theater. Ninety-even jH'rsons. according to a final and olVicial list U.-ued today by the Distrirt of Columbia authorities, lost their livts in the collapse Halurday night under a burden of snow of the Knicker bocker theater roof. Any additions to the list, it was said, would result from the fatal teramiatiou of injuries sustain ed by otiur victims. WASII1NUTOX, Jan. :jl. Whilo the city began tho burial of its dead to day, DistiM of Columbia authorities l ushed their investigation of the Knick j erhocker theater disaster and the Senate ! van expected to take action on the reso- bit ion of Senator Capper, Republican, of i Kansas, proposing; an independent in- quiry by that body. A resolution for I the same purpose also was pending in tho i House. I A re-che'ek of the death list by the po t lice today showed that tho final total, ; outside of tho expected deaths of injui- el, of which there are now three, prob j hably would be reduced to !)5 from the ! total of 10.) carried yesterday, j Of the total of 133 injured, 62 re- maiued in hospitals today, with a dozen reported in critical condition. K. G. i Shaughuessy, second Assistant Poutmas : ter General, although included among these-, was g-.iid to bn still -howing im . provemcnt today. j In addition to an exhaustive investi- caMon of (he disaster btiing pressed by i the District of Columbia Commissioners, i the Federal grand jury was ready today . t.. call the first vitae8ca :ia ir effort to fix the blame. The coroner's jury, al so investigating the cause of the deaths, had requested the War Department toeiay : to assign army engineers to make a study of the structure of tho motion picture theater which was wrecked Sat i unlay night when its snow-laden roof caved in on hundreds in the audiencu be , 'ok Preparations to raise the walls of tho theater were under way today, the search I of the ruins for victims having bccij com- pli'ted yeste rday. ! Colonel Chariest Keller, engineer Com missiouor of the District, held the opin ion today that the collapse of the roof j was caused by a defect in material and - i'ot by a fault of design. Building Cora i inis.sioner H.aly also believed that plans , for the roof were practical and sound, j He mid it was of tho truss typo of con ( striictidii and a standard design used to cover a large expanse of interior where , it is desired to avoid tho use of girders and columns as supports. Practically ull the larger motion picture houses uso the same design, he said. liVdiietions in the death list which the police early today believed would be final resulted from the tentative elimination of eight names- for which the police have been unable to rind any addresses.' There aie'. morc'iver, no unidentified bodies which might account for theso and a careful che.-k of hospitals and under taking establishments bail failed to es tablish anv victims of these? names. They are: D. N. Walsh, Miss M. K. Walsh, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Maine, Albert Paker, l'anUis l.amby, W. M. Crawford and F. If. Hall. In addition to these. Miss Gertrude Taylor, of Washington, was foiinei to have been reported elead by .rror and Ernesto Natisllo, who Wat kill ed, was i'oufRt to'bnvc been listed against as Krnest MarteUo. These tiMi elimina tions would reduce the total to 93, SENATOR KENYON ACCEPIS NOMINATION FEDERAL JUDGE (Bv The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 .Senator Kenyon, uf Iowa, announced toeiay fce weinid accept the nomination as Federal judge for the eighth circuit t-'ndetetl to him by President Harding and s?nt to the Senate. . . Th" Senate ron after receiving the nomination conf iiMied it in open execu tive session, an honor rarely paid to nominees . Senator Kenyoit, who entered the Rn. nte in 101 1, and is one of the leaders of tin- agricultural bloe, was under consili ent ion by the president last OctoVtcr for the Federal judgeship for the northern Iowa district. The Senator was in formed that he could have thcappoint me'iit if he so desired, but after consul . cring the matter etcvided lie could bo of greater public service by remaining in tlie Senate. The eighth circuit, to which five judg es are itssigned. inclueles tho states of -"s'"', v,,Kmwltn Colorado, Kansas. Oklahoma, Wyoming. 1'tah, New Mexico ami North 11 1 "uuiu I'dBUiii a iw diwaij vfc m tic- ... .... . :...:. 4 u? iHaru cot ruuuijr rojrunfS9iuii:i .- iii Rei-Ial sNsion at noou today, opened a large number of bids for the construc tion of thrvv Si-Ttions of road kaonn as tho Now Hope rood, the Stanley road and tho South Oastonia road. The larg numlicr of bids on the several types of road anbmittel required tho holding tf another s;itm thin afternoon, hv.;jii.i at three o vun.s.