North Carolina Newspapers

ETTE Local jQotton 25 Cents Home Edition VOL. XLIII. NO. 306 GASTONIA, N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 23, 1922 SINGLE COPY S CENTS OASTONIA DAILY GAZ T L IIIUI BEFORE A CIVIC BODY Talk Of Forming State Church Is Ridiculous' Says Governor. - DOESN'T DESIRE CONTROL. Trinity Doesn't Want To Join .With University In Con trolling College. RALEIGH. Dec. 22. (Dy The Associated Press.) Formal approval of Trinity College's offer to aid the tat in establishing a medical eollego operating under a state charter ami a board created by the general assem bly wjth governor r.a chairman, was given by Gov. Cameron Morrison thi.i afternoon In tin address before a civic organization. "This talk of the Methodisls, the plain outspoken Methodists, trying to tstablish a state church, in ridiculous im its face," said the governor. "With a generosity and bigness worthy of this great day of tolerance and progress, Trinity 'came forward with a proposi tion that if Ihe university could not establish a medical school there might be some way for the two to build one. "Before we could get out a formal statement to the public on the proposi tion, the devil broke lno.se and the In dians got busy scatterig poison. "Trinity ri not want to control the proposed school. Nor does it. want , j to join with the university in controlling it, but desires the in t it iition to be charted by the state, to endow jl with $1,000,Wip, let it be run by a -'board, with the (governor as chairman, .just as all other state ideational institutions are governed . " Outlines Ship Plan. An outline of his proposal to eatab lissh a Mate-owned shipping lino cor poration to handle' the commerce of North Carolina' today was also present ed by Governor Morrison, who declared the pustiagr of such legislation by the general assembly would be "one of the greatest forward stops the Mate could take." Briclly, the governor would have, the chips operating from North Carolina ports tinder the direction of a board created by the general assembly. The corporation, he said, would he strictly t. n Viiaimt.j l.nuia iitnl .ililil imf lu I ' ii-.i I i.. ' i.' .1.. ...i :.. 41.., lis called It Mli'!tll , I Itllll liars 111 1 1 iv j . Mate would be. lowered and with the resources' now commanded sufficient business could be given the line to result iu 'material lionetit t North Carolina at large, if "Ihe people de Hired. ' ' he continued . "There is. not a place,"' he mtserted, "between Jlorehead and Norfolk that a ship cannot travel in the canal, which is 2 feet deep and offers pro tection from all dangers of Hatteras. With the state's excellent system of highways there i no reason why inifTici ent business bliouid not In- kept moving to cur wnterfroiits." The chief executive expressed the opinion that the state should not wait on private capital to establish a ship ping Iiuo to handle commerce of North Carolina, but that if after competent ex perts had investigated and found plans for a state-owned corporation practical, ''should go ahead. " TO VISIT CAPITAL CITY! ! Class Of 1923 Will Visit Wash ington In May Only Those Who Pass All Work Can . Make The Trip. - present Senior classy of the (ins Ionia high fx-hool. with thirty-six mem bers, i rapidly making plans for a sightseeing trip to Washington next spring, the date set for the itinerary being May I'd, JOi. Bract ically fhe entire class ' will go, their leave of ab sence being allowed ' if' they have no back work to 'make, up; and are pass ing ou fill their subjects at that time. O. E. Hope, '2.'!, : writing; of the propo-.ert- trip 111 ine cm rem issik; ui the Li-'h school maue..iiie, say the fob ' Jowing: ' ''The educational value of this trip j will be great; .even the ioaehers will j admit-that it will be of mo'is value to 11s tluiii the lii.al .exams. several 01, tl.c Seniors have already been to Wash- j ii'gfon. bur it will be interesting to them ' also . for one can go to Washington' (lorens "of times without exhausting it j pcenie nud historic wonders. The - jner las certainly is going to put. this thine across and hopes to see it. Is--affair in Uastonia come an .intiual Jiigh school . " The trip was Jiay Arinst rung, alter to foliov. -them. Mis.s Lll:i suggested by l'rof. iiid tlu; class was the plan l.tid ln-fore t Hradlev and l'rof. A nil si i-in'ir the capital will city chaperon the class to Ti e firm of Michael & l!ivi ns to day !!( ribiiU-1 tifty Christmas baskets to the litv in u tvhn are 011 their pny J'ii. An lot tr 1 st ing - feat ore of the Ci.ri-t'iia eerc'ns at the I'irst llap-ti-f thiircii Fj-bi;.y night was the ren- litiou of "Silent Si;hi ' as a violin iifia N r with. nr--itetia ne- i-uipanimeiit I'.v't!,.- ten iiiUii'hh of Mis. F. C. liichai 1 'i 'e,j. clas. I, HOOIS POOS PRAISED BY MORRISON COLD WEATHER IN SIGHT FOR CHRISTMAS WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. Any hope for a "white Chistmat" south of the Mason and Dixon line ap parently was dispelled tonight by the weather bureau which announced that generally fair weather will pre vail Saturday and Sunday in the Atlantic and east jrulf state, Tenn essee and. Ohio valley, with no ma terial change in temperature, al though it will be alightly warmer in the southwestern state Saturday. "There is no cold weather in sight," the bureau stated. The disturbance that developed Thursday night off the North Caro lina coast had moved rapidly north eastward and tonight was central near Cape Cod, the bureau reported. TRINITY ALUMNI BANQUET SATURDAY NIGHT, DEC. 30 Senators Overman And Sim mons Have Been Invited To Deliver Addresses Drs. Spence And Flowers Also On Program Fathers Of Alumni And Graduates Of Local High School To Be Guests. Klaborate preparations are being made by the program committee, of which Mr. VY. (1. Gaston is chairman, for the annual hn liquet of the Gaston County Alumni Asocial ion of Trinity college, which will be held at the Country club next Saturday night, December .'ioth, at 7 o'clock. (Senators Lee fc. Overman, and Foniifnld M. Simmons, both :f "horn are graduates of Trinity, have been invited to be present and deliver addresses and it. is altogether probable that one or both of these men will he present. It is also expected that Prof. It. L. Flowers and Or. II. K. "Spence, members of the faculty of the college, will be present and make addresses. There wiil lie, in addition to these, short talks by prominent local Trinity men. Music for the occasion will be furnish ed by an orchestra. A new feature of the Trinity annual l..'ihiucl this year will be the presence I of the fathers of i.iemliers o the asso ciation. Those in charge o the affair nro anxious that every alumnus who can pos sibly do so bring his father with hini. All the members of the graduating clu.su of the (iastonia high school have been invited to le the guest of the association at this huiniiiit. I Tickets may be obtained from Mr. ! Charles Jordan . chairman, Mr. John Durham or Mr. Cecil Coruwell. Ihe price The I'omiiiete uro'Tram for the eva ding will bo published next week. MANY PROTEST AGAINST N. Y. FANCY DANCER XKW YOHK. Dee. Bishop William T. Maiming- intervened re cently to prevent Isadora Jhincan, classic (btneer, from appearing at the Kpisiopal church of St. Mark's in the lioiivverie, a notice to Episcopal publi cations from the bisho-pn office today revealed . Announi-ement,'that Miss Duncan, who was M-heduled to address the forum on "the moralizing effect of dancing in the human soul,' ' would not appear Christ mtis eve was made in a brief stateineut by I!ev. William Norman Guthrie, rector of the church, after his original statement had created a storm of opposition. llishop Manning's statement read : "The bishop of New York has re ceived letters of earnest protest from iiianv iart8 of the country in regard an announcement widely published in the newspapers mat a uaucer wnose exhibitions have aroused great cnticium iu many of our cities, would appear and .-peak at St. Marks in the Houwerie, New York. "In answer to these letters of pro test Bishop Manning wishes to state that the dancer referred to will not ik at St. Marks church nor sip ....... . ir professionally 111 tiny connection with the church or its services. MRS. MAY FORD RELEASED UNDER $15,000 BOND ""dKTKOIT, Dec. Mrs. May 15. Ford", arrested a fortnight ago on a charge of attempting to .engage a pmifessional gunman to kill her hus band, N". J. Ford, fanner, of Dear born, a suburb, was released, from the county jail early today under liond of f 1.3,1 '00. GASTONIA COTTON. Receipts Today Piice. ' " .12 .25 Rule. Cents North Carolina Has Fine Typhoid Rating WASHINGTON; Dec. 22. (By The Associated Press.) The ty phoid death rate increased from 7.8 per 100,000 of population in 1920 to nine in 1921 in the death registra tion area, which comprises 34 states and 83 per cent of the population of the United States, the census bu reau announced today. The number of deaths reported from this cause totaled more than 8,000, only nine, states showing lower rates in 1921 than in 920. Rhode Island, with 2.6 per 100,000. had the lowest rate last year and South Carolina, with 26.5. the higest. The states which reported de clines in 1921 were California, Connecticut, Maine, Michigan Mon tana, New Hampshire! North Caro lina. Vermont and Washington. NO Relatives Will View Bodies Cast Up From Bottom of Lake Believed To Be Bodies Of Watt Daniels And Thomas Richards Mysteriously Missing Since August 24- Additional Troops Are Rushed To Scene Attorney General Accompanies Militia. MEB COUGE. LA., Dec. 23.. The wire bound mutilated bodies of two ineu recovered yesterday on Lake La Four cho by state troops, believed to be those of Watt Danicds and Tliouius Kichnrds, who disappeared after- being kidnapped by masked and while robed men last August, were further identified this morning when viewed by Richards' widow; J. L. 1)aniels, aged father of Watt and a score. of other relatives and friends. Identification of at least Watt Dan iels is complete, according to authori ties, because of the initials "F. W. D. " found on a belt buckle uud which bucklo Duniels is said to have worn at the time he was spirited away. The bodies are lying in the Masonic temple, v here they are guarded by a detachment of Monroe national guard. The guards a,-e aimed with automatic rifles, and were instructed by Captain Cooper to shoot persons who may at tempi to spirit away the bodies. Tho inquest probably will be held late this afternoon, according to a mes sage received hero this morning from Dr. Fred l'atterson, Morehouse parish coroner, who eturned today to Bastrop. Dr. Patterson said no effort had yet Ihm-h made to officially identify the bodies. He said lie was awaiting in stmi tit in from she a'torney general as to how to proe ' A toeeial train carrying two com panics of national guard troops ordered nut yesterday by the a.Ijntant general for. duty in Morehouse parish to aug ment the Monroe company now on iluty here, passed through Monroe at ":2."i o'clock1 this morning and was due to ariive here Del ore noon, . inggao car and caboose were loaded with ma chine guns, rifles and field equipment. Attorney General A. V. Coco and two eminent pathologists or -New i;r leans accompanied the troops. MONKOE, LA., Dec. Attor ney ueneral coco nas set .lanuary o M the date lor Hie .viorenouse parisu open hearing in connection with the Morehouse kidnapping case, it was learned here today . chill The attorney general ami a sp train with two companies of Louisiana I liiistnm this I V"..lti..l f'ltir.t ri-i-itil 111 camp on the courthouse square. The attorney general held a conference with Judge Fred M. Odom, of the sixth judicial court immediately upon hi urrival hero and the date for the hearing, which will be before Judge vi,. ! (iv,.,l ii ... Pi,rt,..( lii i-,. that ihe arrests ' nt several men believed to have been ring lcadrs of the August white robed mob will be made today. k II EH HOl'C.E, La., Dec. -'.'!. At tempts to positively identify the mutilat ed bodies of the two men cast up from the bottom of Lake LaFourche yester day morning by a heavy charge of dy namite placed there by unidentiliod per sons will be made today, lie la ti vex and friends utter viewing the bodies yester- ARMED MINE GUARDS TERRORIZEDTHE COUNTRY Law Abiding Citizens Abused By Guards Is Evidence That Comes Out At Trail Of Her rin Mine Men. MARION, III., Dec 2X (l!y the As sochited Frew.) The terrorizing of a peaceful countryside, abuse of law-abiding citizens and, finally, the killing of an unarmed union miner was charged agaist the armed guards at the Lester mine by witnesses for the defense today at the trial of live men charged with murder in connection with the Ilerrin riot. Oniy two witnesses for the defense wi re heard at the morning sesion and the cross examination of a third, held over from yesterday completed when court recesed over the holidays to reconvene January 2nd. Under cross examination, Kdward Crenshaw, defense witness, today said ! had lsen a miner for fifteen years. He said he knew most of the union men who worked at the Lester mine until they were discharged just before the coming 'of the non-union workers and guards. 1 Tin? witness said he was working in Iternii June l ami 111:11 some one luti him he had Udter ;"' home and that a crowd of about a hundred armed lmia passed his house going toward the mine ! about two o'clock that afternoon. "Did vou know auy of these men?" ' "No.''' "Didn't thev make your hou headquarters iu attacking the, mine?" I "We!', there was shooting and lml i lets came from tho mine toward mv house aid I saw Henderson fall.'-' ! ''Was here any shooting about jour house.'" ' "The firing was from the road in front of thchousf." i "What was Henderson's bu-iiie-s: there.'" : j.' '1 don't know, he walked up with tho bunch. " The -witness said he saw some oue carrviiig. V'sonitthing t the top m j embankment at the mine, concealed it," with clump of brush and that after wards he hearl shots coming from this: spot. He said he had uot seen the pri-: oneix t.iken from the mine the 'lies', morning. After HendiTSdu -was .-hoi. 'r- n-lii v .testified the crowd increased to about '"' 'jH-rsous. fifty of whom bore arms day expressed the Indict' that they vtoic those of Wati Daniels ami Thomas liich urds, mysteriously missing rimsi the night of August when thev kidn.-m- M'd by a sooded band together with j three other prominent citizens of this 1 town. , j The partial identification of the boilies were made by means of the belts worn by I the two ;ueii j..nd a few shreds of cloth ; ing. The beads, arms and portions jf tin lejs ob both were missine, believed j to have been torn off when they we.-e damif Iknow from th bed of the lake, j The torses were hound wilh heavy wire.' Mrs. Anna Garrctson, of West Monro", ; mother of Kichnrds, will arrive hero thu morning and view the bodies. Before led vine; Monroe she said she would be I able lo Mdit it y tier son. Company A, Louisiana National guaul of Alexandria, and a machine gun com pany I rum -New Orleans, orilereil to pro- l.w.,j. to Morehouse parish, were line io arrive here ot at Bastrop early today, it was not deiiailelv known at which pli.ti they would be stationed. Attorney Creucra! Coeo, who is to lake charge of any legal proceedings growing out of the kidnapping neeompniiicM the New Orleans militiamen. The attorney general is said to have stated that tin additional troop would be used to protect those engaged in the investigation' of the kidnapping and 'o prevent a possible clash between oppos ing elements. Two pathologist-, from New Orleans will arrive this moriiiug and hold an au topsy on the bodies to determine if they were killed before being thrown into the lake. Dr. Fred I 'at lerson, coroner, viewed 1 the bodies late yesterday but deferred I the holding of an inquest.' It was stated I that it v.ould probably be held today. ! ,o.ii.l ill I... tie, 'nit fi i Hi.. I liv.'l ii. ".- s. ...... ..... ..v I the bodies until I lie completion or' the i autopsy and inquest and an exhaustive f..rr,,i-t it iwiwitiv-i. iifi. nt i (lent inn lias been made. It was generally believed that arrests of at least twenty persons in More bouse parish and the Mer Kongo neigh borhood. aliened members of the hooded bund, whose minis are said to have been securi'i 1 by department 01 jumico ageuis, will follow if'the bodies of the two ncm j Kichnrds. Prominent citizens of t he par , ish are said to have been involved m the j investigation. The arrest of several j others in Arkansas and Mississippi is j anticipated. It was officially stated that no one Iconuected with the search of the missing men in an official capacity was involve. 1 in Ilie iiynainii ing 01 1 no him-. 11 is came frishteiied and tied before they disi-overed that the bodies had risen from their watery grave Another attempt will probably oe made tonight by a diver to locate the heads and other missing portions of the victims. An effort was made yesterday 10 find them and the weights that have hc'.d the bodies on the bed of the lake led conditions there were found to be too dangerous to complete the work. I C. D. JONES SUES COL. SPRINGS FOR MILLION Brings Action Against Springs, Stevens And Others Lan caster Man Charges Con spiracy To Ruin Him Fanan cially, Socially, Profession ally. LANCASTER. S. C. Dec. s: . -Alleging a conspiracy among the de fondants to wreck and ruin him tluau cially, socially and professionally, Char les D. Jones, of luicasti-r. today tiled an action for damages in the court of common pleas here in the sum of one million dollars against Leroy Spring.-, John T. Stevens. II. Ii. Wright, and! William J. Shecter, national IwiiK ex aminer. The bill of complaint Was placed in the hands of Sheriff Hunter, and will be served on Springs Stevens Shecter in the and Wright immediately and on as soon as he can be located .state. The bill of complaint is oin of the . longest ever filed iu the mon ideas here, and is oiirt of com i divided into j many allegations. 1 lie clner leatures of these allegations are that Junes I charges that the defendants entered in- i to a conspiracy to wreck :ui.J riiin liini jand that Shecter entered into an agree ment with Springs, .Stevens and Wright a (to give coiilidelitial information about ithe plaintiff iu his examination into (the affairs of the rirt National bank, Of Lancaster of which Jones is presi jdent. The complaint alleges that the i bank examiner' report was fabricated jof falsehoods and was drawn iu a con spiracy with the (lefeiidnts. i Further allegations in Mr. Jones' i complaint are that in the trial here las March before Judge Ittiwinaii, Shecter certified I'nlsely against him. J is generally uieler-tood here that all these charges1 will be specially and vigorously denied by tin: defendants. ; v --Miss Marjoric N'oriimiid, who is a student fhifl year at () ford sclnw.) for Kir'W. Oxford, is home fir the l'hrit mes ho'i l.iv s . - 'oi-xri-- smaii ! in jtlie city days with hi A I.. -.Friday faudly l!u!iiik!e. to sjhicI nvi Lol the Client for Life run;am ! v , - . '- '" ';i'v V y. It wasn't enoush for Attornoy Ttaine Elwell ot New York to win a damage, suit for his client. May Stamp, "There's a little lovo suit I'd Uko to tnkO'Up wltU you," ho jBaia. expect an Immodiato do :l6lon nnd If necessary I shi:Il ap peal." So they inarched btuk Into itlio couruoom wtru aarried. " CHRISTMAS VESPER SERVICE SUNDAY EVENING AT FIVE! I I Specially Attractive Program' l Has Been Provided For! . o . m. . Christmas service At Main ! Street Methodist Church. 1 1 "Wlii; - difts for the .King-Self. N-rvice, Substance ' ' will be the leading feature on a vesper hervice at Main Street .Methodist church Sunday after noon at I oYloi-k, when the congregi t ion of that huivh, including tlie Hun day school, will gather to cirlehrate.! ( hrist. An especially attractive pro gram has been provided ami the puhlb is cordially invited to attend. Following is the program in full: Prelude --( t -.::, ."i:UU) S leeted. Call- to I'raver 'hoir "Come aio Worship the New liorii King"- Wil sun. (Congrceutinn with bowed heads) Hymn l:i - "Silent Night lloiy ! Night" Joseph .Mohr. I I'rayer. Anthem tilery lo (Jo,i est " -- Helton. in the Hiy'i Ucading -' The Home Coming of Jesus, Miss Eliwibeth WolU. I Ant In in ' ( ilad Tidings ' ' Spence. i Heading ' The Spirit of Christina. I Miss Mahcl Hankin. i rresentation of "While Cil'ls" Self. tlu! different Serva-e, Sulistame. (lv classes of the Sunday school. Hymn .il."i "Jesus Call I's, Tumuli ' ' Alexander. Story ' I In i 'hrist mas Dav Morning ' 'The Pastor. i J'rayer. 1 1 111 II IIHW-"0 liolielt Cray. Benediction. I 'list hide JSelectc Worship the Kins The Day's News At A Glance Unyielding attitude of Turks again dims alisfactorv hope of near east conference at Lausanne. Ir!: government di cides to establish to stop persistent system of blockhouses 1 train wrecking. Thousands of students protest Client I'nivei'Mty tion . I'iclgian university against changing into Flemish institu l'llS cyclical t'i titrate. l'ius completes important containing program of his en poll Aus- Labor makes t nil in ii general substantial gain elections . Cardinal Logue criticises Irish north ern government for refusal to relax cur few rest ict ions which would petitit Catholics to attend midnight mas.-, iu Armagh Cathedral Christmas eve. Abraham Decker convicted of fir-t degree murder iu causing death of wife who was found buried in shallow pit in the lironx. New York. Aged Cardinal He thaH repeated tires tions provide grea'ti gin, of Quebec, says in Catholic institu st trial of his life. Jim- Lynch gt judges ' mith. ilecimon iu i for bantam contest with M weight title. Ill get Kailroads rush in and est in city'i reported that C'uritmas out of Nt iv VtTk is hcav i history. F.riar Cliff lodge insures golf pion Gene Sara.eu for tlnO.'ilhJ a; accident or death . ham ;aiust ' Typhoid death rate increases from'T.S; kt one hundred thousand of population j in I'.iJM to nine in Failed States regis-) tratioii area. Xoveiulicr Inirdiic.- conditions 'show ; incresiw in production and distribu-! tioli, government reports dhow..' 'Iwelve tuousMid i-piare miles of I'aci -tic au '-v bottom charted by Fnited ' States Het rovers. - lireaf tdio'.oiirapliic plates bearing pic tures of star near the sun reach Lick i Hi.-ervat.ii-.v f.o ti-st of Kiu.stein tlteorv. i I'retllier government l'oi.nare commits French to niti;icaiioii of Washiiii'- itou uuvaj' agreement, No Paper To Be Issued Monday, Christmas Day In accordance with the custom of this office there will be no paper is sued Christmas Day, Monday. This is the only day of the year which The Gaiette takes -as holiday for its employes. The paper will appear as usual Tuesday afternoon Decem ber 26. CHRISTMAS AT WHITE -HOUSE WILL BE QUIET Mrs. Harding's Illness Will Preclude Any Festivities Usual Spirit Of Times Gone By Is Absent. WASHINGTON. Dec. Christ man at tiiu White House will lack much of the usual Mpirit of times gone by be cause of Mrs. Harding's illness. . There will be no house guests and 110 Christmas tree. Neither the President nor Mrs. Harding has made any holi day plans. She may come downstairs in her wheel chair and preside at the table for Christinas dinner, but other wise the day will be like any other since he was taken ill. To add a little cheer, the White House has Vuletide wreathe iu the win dows, and there will be a profusion of (lowers. . ii...- ... . . .1 1 . . I s a, itnsuuas present to me nious i ...i ,.t ... ,.i, ...... i....i 1 Harding is-ued an executive order clos ing the government department at noon todav, ami at that hour most high ot dosed up their desks and iieials as well went home. The Senate, too, joined in the early beginning of the Christmas fteasoi:, hold ing only a short season, but the house went ahead with its consider-ation of approaching bills. BURIED IN CHINESE CEMETERY WITH HONORS I'OliTI.AND, Ore., Dec. Mrs. Mary arkley lies buried today in that soualid r. and fenced off aire of ancient Lone Fir j cemetery, which is set apart for tlej graves of Chinese. It was by her reipiest made just before her death two days ago, -and the request of the Chinese among , whom she had labored as a missionary, I that her final resting place was among 1 graves mostly headed by wooden boards marked with Chinese characters and fre i)iiin I H described with, cooked fouls in 1 iitceno sticks. , At her funeral iu the First Baptist I'hurch several staiil Chinese merchants I were among those who wept perceptibly. I Mrs. Baker was 7n years of age and j had done mi.isionarv work anion;; the 'Chinese here since Portland was a small O'er lie': town. The ' Chinese have . arranged to ; place a marble monument over her grave. j I ',, I - . . r- . HOLIDAY BUYING IN NEW YORK BREAKS RECORD NEW YOKE, D-v. L':i. Holiday buy-, ing in New York has broken all records and ir'J.'iOjHKi.OOO has been spent b.v nhoppers here, it was estimated today in business quarters. This sum represents an increase of from J. to l!0 per cent over last year. Nearly every tine of Christmas trade has reported an increase in sales and more persons than ever have been re quired to handle te business. Iu the ."i.IMIO dry r; Is stores alone nearly "JOO,- 000 people have been employed. NEXT WEEK'S WEATHER. Middle Atlantic States, considerable cloudiness; normal temperatures; rains or snows probably the latter part of lie week. South Atlantic States and Lust (.unit talcs: tici.erallv fair except rains iir. i probably the latter part ol wot the latter part of week; tern I perattire normal; frosts likely except i;t ithe Floriday pensinsula. West Culf States: Generally fair; nor i nial temperature but with a . propabilifi of local rains the middle of the wi L0WELL COTTON MILLS IS TO INCREASE CAPITAL STOCK HALFKill. Dec. 22. Charters granted by Secretary' of State Grimes' today included one increasing the capi tal Mock of the Wachovia Dank and Trust Company of Winston-Salem and llalcigh from two to live milliun dol lars. Another increased the capital , tick of the .Meyers Company, Greens iboro, from . 1(10,1)110 to t.'!5lM". The Lowell Cotton Mills, of (iastonia, ;of which John C. iiankin is president j was .-(Uthorizr.l in amendment' to it .charter to. ini-na-e the present capital slock nf I.Vi.imiii to it 1. (mo, Pod. The j Mansfield Mills. Inc., of Lunibortim was ; grant i.i I a charjer to take over twn i mills now in operation and the. c:i pit;' I lock ot Ilie new corporation hxed at. one of one million dollars. A. W. McLean, Liimberton, is vice president and of the incorporators. THE WEATHER Fair tonight i warmer tonight. and Sunday; slightly No Santa Por Baby Mother Would Die CHICAGO. Dec. 22. (By The Associated Press . ) The prospect of a cheeiless Christmas with no money to buy presents for her six-year-old son. Bobbie, caused Mrs. Florence Fern -Golden to tie her fon to her back and leap into the Desplaines river today, she told police after she had been rescued by two boys from tbe ice caked river. Both, it was announced, will recover. !..-. ek. LOS ANGELES SYNDICATE ACQUIRES BIGGEST OIL CONCESSION IN MEXICO Biggest Oil Transaction In History Of Mexico Says Report. POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE. Forty Per Cent Of Gross Pro duction Goes To Mexican Government. LOS A.N.iKl.KS. j,v. 2L The Lo. Angeles -rimes to.lay reported an an iinuiicement from the promoter that 8 gionp of l.os Angeles mauufaeturers, b::aker ami oil operator has obtained from the .Mexican government what "amounts to u blanket foncs,siou on all government lands in the oil district of the east const. ' "It is by far the biggest oil trans action iu Mexican history," The Times said, "and probably tin; most import nut deal of its kind in the world, for it involves 1 1,000,001) acres of land ad joining rich workings of the oldest estab lished companies in the Tampico and Tuxpun districts." The paper further declared "the transaction also lias important uolitieal significance, coming as it does after the extended controversy between Uin fl.. j rogon government and the American oil ,1 ompanies, iu which the. United Mtatos goxernmeiil has I ice a yet a usuccessful 1 a rbit rat or. ' 1 -. 1 It is announced ). iJ)s Angeles group will go into the Mexican article '7 and under a Fin le ml concession on the mime royalty basis which established eompaui.M h. ive declared eoulisciry. The eonc.es-' slou, it is tated, peruiitw them to drill on lauds immediately poiniiig the richest veils iu Mexco. The announcement came after the re turn here, from Mexco City of W, W.' Wilson, C. K. Moreland and Oeorgn J. Lushmiller, who .stated they obtained the 1 oiiiiossioii after an interview with I'resi diint. (ibregou who personally went into the details of the enterprisi;. The concession, they Htatod, was madfl out under the direct aupervisiou of M. Alesriu iiobles. The concession, they stated, was made' i. -it under the direct supervision of AI .Mesrio Kohles, secretary of industrv. 1 1 unmerce and labor iu the Obregou eabj- l it. .Mr. Wilson said tho Inndd designated comprise virtually nit FcderaF oil land extending along the, gulf count from J, point, north of Tampico ti Tuxpam, close to holdings of tho Htandanl Oil eompnny, the Doheny interests mid other promi nent oil companies. The concession al- m includes tho island of Jaumt Hahiirei, is.iid to have been long ouglit by Ameri- ,,.., (.omnanics because, of its important location in e-eolo'dcal .surveys. The concession provides that forty, per cent of the gross production go t Monurics pay five pesos u year n heetar , for the lauds they will exploit; that deposit of ti)0,(ino, pesos be mad and that -'00,000 pesos be invested in worki and exploration kwithiit'a year. Two years are I'iven for exploration' laud the concession runs for twenty yean 'with provision for renewal. The exploitation will be financed en tirely by Los Angeles capital, it is an nounced, and plans already arc well ad vanced for the selection of centers foe I the active work of. the undertaking.. Wilson and Moreland are nianufaetur- . (its of oil drilling inochinery and l!ush- miller is an oil operator. Other member I"1 . ""' i ucnucu ' '" eorponnioii, nieinrto. liarry.w -M.tn.u. cap lalisT ; aus in u. aiania. i iiaiiKer ; .ioiiii Ki. t.oveiry,. capuanst ; Austin, (). Martin, banker; John O. t overly, capitalist ; Ferdinand J. Bush: miller, oil operator, und Dr. L. I. Jones, Iiysjciau and capitaliht. Mr. Martin and Mr. Moreland arc ex- ;I1MH" " return to .vicxico v-iiy io pui i Vl:,n "1T" operaum, as soon as po- ;si,,ll. " s:"'i- ' BE OF GOOD CHEER IS Success Attained In Enforcing Prohibition Gives Every Rea son For Hopefulness And Gratitude. I i WAS HINCTOX, Dee. ;:." 0f I guild cheer, "' was l'rohibition Commi- spine i" llaynes' - ("iristmns mesaite to- I day to '.me nt, ' ' ' friemls of the (dghtcenth amend in which he declared the sneeen ; at laieei d in loolilbitioii enforcement rave '"every reason tor lioiiefumess, gratia cation and cougratulatilons. ' . . . . .. "n -not be deceived nor dismayed," -iid Mr. ll.iyni's, "by a nation wide program of misrepresentation, eimstitut ing as it does the most pretention, most 'pernicious propaganda to undermine en- ; ' j'orcement. since the enactment of th jamendmeiit, ."'Admitting, of ciiiirse. tkit there hr violations of : .'the Volstead act im fortunately tiy Ssonie who hold them selves above the law the fact cannot and will not. be conscientiously denied that the oast year has leen marked witk rapid .strides toward tho samo. clegro1 of enforcement -of this law as obtained in respects ti all other hivfs, nouo of wbirh" are enforci-d Jiin per cent. " Mr. Hubert I'. Craig has the firm of local grocers. accepted Harry- liuLr -it ion with Compruiy. A b.iiios of lo jwr i cut n distri bllted amoii the-emp'ovvs. iit t'i r.ns Nafioiiat Daiiit by order of f ilinvtors iif n recent inettiiig. Thu boom came in the 4ia.p; , f a t'hrint uia-t psent toJuj', - j