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LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF NEW YORK WORLD- NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE To Advertisers The Observer leads In circulation ALL newspapers Morning and Evening in the states of North and South Carolina It is lue largest newspaper between Richmond and Atlanta and Washington and Birmingham The Observer occupies the unique position of being the only mormug newspaper in AMERICA pubished in a city of less than 100000 population having circulation in excess of 45000 dally and more than 48000 Sunday The Observer leads all newspapers both Morning and Evening in the two state in volume uf advertising earned each year It led the afternoon Charlotte paper by nearly a million lines last year Washington News Bureau Correspondence Hundreds of Special Correspondents Over North and South Carolina Circulation Yesterday City and Suburban 40448 Country 5290 TOTAL PAID 45738 It is interesting to note that of The Observers 45 000 DAILY and 48 000 Sunday circulation 41-000 or more than 83 -la city and suburban circulation Charlotte' immediate trading ter ritoiy Ninety per cent of the other clrcula-ton la within convenient shopping radius of Charlotte Foremost Newspaper in the Tico Carolinas Circulation Books Open to Bounded 59th year TWENTY PAGES TODAY CHARI OTTEN SATURDAY MORNING JANUARY 12 1920 PRICE: FIVE CENTS TEN CENTS SUNDAY THOUSANDS CHEER GARDNER AT INAUGURA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS- Committee Votes To Treble Funds ROGERS CALLS VERDICT PROOF OF WITCHCRAFT POMP MARKS FORMALITIES AT RALEIGH Turn It Over to You Is Parting Word as North Eighty-Fifth Executive Takes Desk for First Time Crowds Applaud Administration Pledges of Inaugural Address mount to Be Added to $13-500000 Appropriated Colonel Lindbergh to Pilot First Mail Flight to Panama Speed to Charlotte Oh entr tkh yoric jun In- papers that Pennsylvania July sentemed that 14-year-old boy to life im- pi isoimient lie- ea Use lie in viitili-ffSciift lor all iie hnl ever been ru-ad up to lie Like sen-teniing ono of uir children for at tmg according to their te-lignnis beliefs No doubt being vvlti lu 11ft in that eoun ry: the Jury ver-iln shows that plainer than deed become of an old-law thev tailed of I think still vogue among the riel dt my rale Tic Lord certdinly hnl that dozei in mind when lie said fm giv them they Kiiov not what they Atdy your state's gone haywire i Olll ILL IGGEST SUM IN HISTORY IS TECHNICAL COUNSEL 'ets Expected to Aid Drys in Putting Enforcement Bill Through Senate Will Pass on All Routes Airports Equipment and Other Details YYAMlIXtiTOX Tati ithout solicitation by the adminis-4 1 loti the somite appropriations mniUlec today toted to treble the ml for enforcement of prohibition approved a pruKal to increase dry latv allotment by $25000000 licit would lie added to the $13 0000 already appropriated The increase if accepted would ovale for prosecution of the dry ns the highest figure ever made ailable in the history of the Vol-ad nit VYAIIS RTPOUT Ke fore voting of the ptopo-al vv ever the senate intently to wait a report from the prohibition lean as to just how this money julil he spent and several wets in senate have indicated that they 11 not oppose the inercase it in ir Judgment the funds are prop-ly allocated Senator Hunts democrat Georgia 10 recently described present en-rcement conditions ns a voented the large increase He feretl a motion for the $2500001)0 ost betore the appropriations com- Mrs LeBouef and Dr Dreher to Live 15 Days While Court Reconsiders Staff Photo NEW GOVERNOR TAKES OATH Am id military pomp and society gaiety Max Gardner of Shelby was inaugurated as governor of North Carolina at ltaleigh yesterday Upper view shows Governor Gardner (left) and ex-Governor McLean retiring in the reviewing stand as the parade passed along Fayetteville street Lower photo shows a crack company from the State college leading the parade NIM YORK Jan 1 1 (P ol Imrles Lindbergh aniiniinicil today tlml lie will fly the plane which will ok-ii llic nicricau ir- 1 ways Inc new mail route from 1 Miami to the Panama canal tone on February 4 putting into effect the United States-foi'cign mail contract recently awarded tlic company At the same time the corporation announced that Colonel Lindbeigh had been retained as technical ad- visor to the Pan-American Aliwis and its affiliated operating eornpi-' nies and also as consultant to Aviation Corporation of the Amln-cjs the holding company THREE-DYY TRIP Colonel Lindbergh said lie ix-pected to leave Miami Fla at 6 a in Eastern Standard time on February 4 flying through British Honduras and Nicaragua to Cristobal in the Canal zone where he is scheduled to land about 4 February 0 Although the Hip will reimlie approximately thiee days he said the actual flving tinip would be ahout 19 1-2 hours A Sikorsky Amphibian plant- will he used for the flight After Colonel flight the Pnn-Amei an Airways Ini expect to opei ate about twice a month It is expected that pis-cn-ger service will tie added within six months after the establishment of the mail setviee and tint bv that time trips will be made i ly Il l'll IMLIIN H'ltlMh HOI TH Tile inaugural ion of the seiviie between Miami and the Pinun i i-nal zone by the an Airways mark the establishment of tho company's fourth niteinit Iona 1 air mail service under contracts with the postoffue department of the United States between Miami and Nassau Miami and Cuba and Miami and Rico In his capacity as tei hnietl advisor to the company Colonel Lindbergh will pass on dll matters pertaining to routes airports and equipment and all teihmenl matters relating to Pun-Amriicin service Colonel Lindbergh also said tndn that within a few ilivs he planned to fly over tile transruntinel airtransport route to tiie Pn I tic roast He said he possible would make the trip with Tones trans-ecintinental air-transport pilot but did not disclose the purpose of the flight (Turn to 5 Column 3) lISTRICTMAYGET 35 DRY AGENTS eaders in Senate Anxious to Give Hoover Free Hand in Enforcement Plans Governor's Inaugural address Page Ten RY YKE YY YI) Special 4'orresniient RALEIGH Jan 11 Oliver Max Gardner distinguished son of Cleveland county today was inaugurated as tha eighty-fifth governor of North Carolina Five thousand persons from all sections of the state saw the ceremonials They were simple and beautiful The attendant features someYvhat in contrast Yvere elaborate and glamorous Never has the state essayed an inaugural program of greater pomp and impressiveness At 12:30 Governor Gardner was officially inducted into otlice Chief Justice Walter Stacy administered the oath Five minutes later Governor Gardner Yvas delivering his inaugural address a message advocating certain specific legislation but dealing more largely in ideals and generalities lh -poke tor 40 minutes He dievr Ills first applause five minutes after ho hud commenced talking when emphasized that ho was entering oillce free He said owe no pnvate obligation to any man or Intel ost aside and apart from tha public good 1 am not hampt'ied by miv pledges or It) It Thev applauded again when ho expressed approval of the primary in the elei lion By stem And tho house peopled by many women and many tepubllcans came down when ho declared himself whole-heartedly In favor of the Australian ballot Governor Gardner's audience save -I'nilar demonstrations of approval to his charUplomnu ol woi amen's compensation1 fluidity health eduia-tlon refoim in futility government iirtit 1 merit of taxation and agricultural development and protection The now governor did not recommend that the General Assembly puss any eight months school term He opposes it tlow though he believes in time it will come He ad-vin ated diteellv one piece ot tax legislation He would have the gasoline tax raised to live cents But that he pointed out would reallv mean taxation tellef The endless roiul taxes would be removed Ho expressed himself as being emphatically oppir-eil to diverting the gasoline tax to utlur purposes than roads IT I 15 Anent agiimiltmc Gov ernor Gardner said of the in ijor ulms ot niv administi ution shall lie to improve agiicuiture and i urul Ute in North riiollnu With Camerson administration one always associates his igtiltleent road building program Angus Wilton McLean leives an administration witnessed the institution of a lifesaving budget svstern Max Gardners crow tiHig achievement the next four years may be along the lino of ugrkulluie The inaugurat progiam began tills morning at the executive mansion at It Governor and Mrs Gardner had spent the night there as the guests of lie retiring governor urul Mrs McLean thereby setting a precedent Officials gathered as official photographs were made anil the first parade was for moil Fayetteville sheet was decorated with Amciiean flags hint bunting of led white and green why tho green nobody few noticed the single discrepancy In the otherwise fitting ami well placed trimmings The skv was laden ami overcast but thn side walks were thronged as tha paiide with a decidedly military fiivur passed ori to tho auditorium tlillTOHKM auilitoiium hail been filling caily Hv the time the official party arrived it was jammed sive tor few vacant seats on the upper hal-conv Scores stood in the rear and on the sides on the first floor Perhaps two dozen negroes were In the -pace served fur them on the first balcony The auditorium was pro-lu-elv decorated The General Assembly senate and house filed in solemnly taking their seats the center aisle The North Carolina State college band then (Turn to Page 5 C1 3 and 4) Cl SEAT Reapportionment of Membership Finally Endorsed by Representatives 1 WASHINGTON -rail After ignoring for almost 10 years tile constitutional mandate to reapportion Its membership the house late today passed tho Fcnn hill to preset I he a method by which ils seats shall be alloted among the states after the next eensus In 1930 if congress bhould fall to act at that time A storm of debate tlmt held the house for two days pieieded Its passage With some exceptions mosf of the membeis taking part tn the tight disregarded party lines and favored or opposed the measure largely according to whether their states would gain or lost? repi esent a tion ITIOVI'-IONS The proposal provides on the fiist day of the sieond session of tho "1st congress secretary of cotn-nieice shall transmit to It a statement showing tho population of eu state anil the number of representatives eat state would be entitled to tinder an allotment of the piesent 4 35 setils Although the measure was sharply contested the opposition was beaten on cvriv material change proposed Ailvolitis of the hill submitted flgurts estimating that states would lose mi inbi th sh follows Alabama I Indiana 2 Iowa 2 Kansas 1 Kentui ky 2 Louisiana 1 Maine 1 Miissaihusetls 1 Mississippi 2 Missouri 3 Ncbiuskn 1 Now York 1 Nmlh Dakota 1 1 Tennessee 1 Vermont 1 Virginia II was istunalefl states would gain membeis iih follows Arizona 1 California 6 Conneetieut 1 Florida 1 Ml lilgan 4 New Jersey 2 North Carolina 1 Ohio 3 Oklahoma 1 Texas 2 und Washington 1 Inimeilmitly after passage of tho mousiiic tho house adjourned over the week end MRS OLDFIELD SUCCEEDS HER HUSBAND IN CONGRESS WASHINGTON Jan UP) Mis William A Oldfield today took the oath of office to succeed her husliunil ns democratic tepresen-tatlvo from Arkansas FRENCH DEPUTIES VOTE CONFIDENCE IN POINCARE PARIS Jan 11 UP) Tho French "i Opposition To Favorites For Cabinet Is Heard By Hoover Nye Adds to Protest of Brookhart Against Selection of Mellon Donovan Draws Fire in Race for Post of Attorney General 1 NEW ORLEANS Jan 11 UP) Mrs Adi Bonner LtiJouef and Hr Thomas Dreher condemned to death tomoriow for murder of tile woman's husband today were granted 15 more days of life for their attorneys to file an appeal for rc-hearini of the -supn me court decision that Chief Justice Charles A O'Niell had no right lo stay their execution lastl'rlday meht over protest of four associate justices This new lease of life was given by the- supreme court which at tho same time dmied the plea of the condemntd couple for a lunacy coin-inisvion to deli i mine iliur pie-ent sanity The ecuit at the same time also handed down the decision againt the ehitf justice Mrs and her alleged lover were scheduled to die last Saturday hut Governor Long postponed execution alter the action of the chief justice I'ridav The new lease of life was not a legal stay of execution hut memhers of the court said the etteet of allowing defense attorneys 15 days for the aopeal would he the same as a formal stay The court however suggested to Governor Long that he grant a reprieve of from 21 to 30 dav Mrs LeBouef and Dr Dreher in their diath cells in the Franklin jail were jubilant over (lie latest development in their rase LIFE SENTENCE PROBABLE FOR WITCHCRAFT SLAYER YORK Pa Jan 11 (P) A verdict of murder in the first degree with a recommendation of life Imprisonment was found today against John Curry- 14 year old accomplice in the wichcraft slaving of Nelson Rehmeyer College Association Elects University of North Carolina to Membership WASHINGTON Jan President-elect Hoover nearing the end of his first Yveek of conferences in Washington since election today heard opposition voiced to some of those mentioned as likely cabinet selections A group of senate republican in- Fmm The Observer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Jan 11 Presi-nt-eleet Hoover is to be given a ee and full hand for prohibition forrement Dry leaders of the juso and senate aro readv to join opponents of the ISth amend-ent and the Volstead act and give ith a lavishness heretofore un-nown for a real test of the If the Harris amendment goes rough the district including North rolma will have 435 dry field ents Senator Overman a member of appropriations committee voted the Harris proposal "We should give the incoming evident all the money and latitude desires for the enforcement of said he him see hat he can idea about this said nutor Harris that we should iproprlate enough money for real 'forcemeat We have a farce now or instance we have 15 prohibition ents in Georgia With this addi-ornil appropriation we should have ve times that many The regular ipropriat ion is half absorbed by id overhead of the bureau No more ople are needed hero but the new nd can be applied to field Mr Harris has made a partial sur-y of tho senate and believes that is measure will be agreed to with-it a roll call and that the house ill accept it Other senators hove that it will be carried in the 11 when It goes to the president his signature and that he will iprove it NORTH CAROLINA LEADS IN TOBACCO PRODUCTION MYV YORK Jan 11 (V) Increased consumption of cigarettes has made North Carolina (lit leading tobacco producing state In the union latest statistics show North arolioa Is prisliujiig more than twice ns much tobacco a nny oilier state including Kentucky which was tile leader up to lt)2ti Of tho billion elgiireltes turned out annually North Carolina contributes more than half CHATTANOOGA Tenm Jan II (P) College administratin' meeting here in the Association of American Colleges tonight were asked to take over complete control of college athletics anil tho association was asked to enforce "maintenance of a wholesome athletic life and prai tb as a condition of membership In tho nssoeia I ion IN REPORT Tho move came in the repiut of tho association commission mi college athletics headed by Prof Beit Young of Indiana univirsilv which suggested lhat the set of rules to bo diuvn up by tho association all athletic inteiesl lo a proper place in the scheme uf and provide for "definite control of athletics by the ailmmistis-tlon of the college rather than a vague control by the facility In a short business session this afternoon the assoeiation eleited to membership the colleges of min of the following institutions: Catholic Cnlversity of America Washington Cumberland nmveisity Lebanon Tenn University of North Carolina College of the City of New Yolk University of Geoigia Merier uni-veisity Milligan College (of Tennessee) Wagner college Npvv Volk Salem college Salem New Jersey College for YVomen New Brunswick Nazareth college (of Kentucky) YVest Virginia Collegiate institute ANNE $3000000 PLAGIARISM CASE ENDED By Lew irj rorr The New Yotk World NEW YORK Jun 1 1 The $3-000000 plagiarism suit brought by Anne Nichols against the Uni'ersal Pictures corporation on the ground that their motion pit mo Cohens and Killvs" was stolen from her play Irish was brought to a close today Federal Judge Goddard who has listened to testimony for several weeks reserved decision afti he accepted in evidence deposition from several mole experts who were unable to appear to testify FORMER CHANCELLOR OF GEORGIA UNIVERSITY DIES ATHENS Gil Jail 6P) Dr David Crenshaw Barrow chancellor emeritus of tho University of Georgia died at his home here tonight shortly after 6 clock dependents appeared to he behind concerted drive against the reip-pointment of Andrew YY" Mi lion as secretary of the treasury and It has born Indicated that his selection would meet with determined opposition in the next senate NYE Senator Nye of North Dakota added his voice today to that of Senator Brookhart of Iowa opposing the appointment of Mr Mellon The reappointment ol Hie Mr Mellon Inis been regarded in well Informed ciri les as practically a foregone i onclusinn and II Mr Hoover inis been influenced by wlmt has been said In opposition to the vi teran Pennsylvania iibinet officer there have been no indications of it around 1ns headqum ter A lilt of political gossip which has been going the rounds in Washington and which lacks confirmation is that pressure against the appointment of YVilliam Donovan of New York as attmni) giioial has caused the president-elei to cast about for other likdv ininifnl for this post with the pi ohaliillly that he would name a piisnnnl friend A liart of this story was llpit YV Lamb of Chicago was under consideration Mr I and) a member of tho law firm of Butler Lamb Foster and Dope was law offher for the food administration during the war and while Mr Hoover wag secretary of common he served two years as solicitor for the commerce department It appears to he faitlv definite now that the pi eslihnt-elect will withhold a nnmim ement of IiIh of-llclal family utdil just before his inauguration One contributing factor to tills decision no doubt is the fights opened up fiom rertain quarts is against some of those who for Borne time linvo been regarded as more than mere possibilities LOS ANGELES MAY HAVE TO ABANDON MIAMI TRIP FORT KT JOE Flu Jan Tho navy illiigihle Los Angeles was weather hound tonight moored to the must of the tender arid may lie furred by unsettled conditions to itbandon her Intended cruise to Miami Fla and go hark to the hangar in Lakehuist Yl YNl RI REYI) SARASOTA Fla Jun 11 UP) Andrew Jergen 76 founder of the Andrew Jergen company of Cincinnati manufacturers of soap JO JO SAYS Sunday Observer Specials iliumlier of deputies tonight voted lonfldeme In the government of died at Ids apartment hero late Premier Raymond Poincare The today 'count was 317 against 253 WHATS DOING IN CONGRESS Tennessee Averts Having Another Scopes Trial AMEKTOWN Tenn Jan II UP) Firecrackers playfully ed by the Fentress county board of education which accepted Gentry's defense that lie had MRS OWEN IS BARRED BY WILL FROM CATHOLICISM By looted from 7 he New York MoWd WASHINGTON Jan 1 Should Min Elizabeth Owen of New Jmn the Catholic chinch she In to lore a life annuity of $111000 and her children a fund of $230 000 and she will lereivo instead only a request of Jewell by the terms of the will of her aunt Mrs Elizabeth Bisl-ind YVetmore widow of ChaileH YYetmore who died January 6 What you will find in your Sunday Observer in pait LIFE A I) LETT LUS OK WOODROW WILSON Another lilieial installment of Ray Stannard autobiography of the great wir president dealing paiticularly with his advent on the politii al lionzun as a candidate for the governoi ship of New Jeisey DISTILLERY PLAY 11) PART IN 4 AROL1N ROl NDYRY SI RY Line dividing tw-o states run 200 years ago found to be approximately true Old pine tree marker found to carry original blazing In its heart I-V THE REST Ol 111 jn Puns It's in is the subject of an aiticle by Sam Heilman famous humi)ild to appear in Tho Observer tomoiruw This i one of the weekly senes of the of Gaiety" written by a group of the leading humorists of the win Id being published in The Sunday Observer and no other newspaper in this territory 1NYEXTIOX YY WOODWORKING Elkins mechanical genius builds machine that anil sandpapeis many blocks of wood In one operation Furniture people all over world curious and interested EASTERN CAROLINA 'PRUNING SCHOOL Where boys who fall off beaten path are trained to lives of usefulness School badly in need of more room and equipment Purpose is to cure the canker and make useful citizens RI-H YBILITATED WORLD SOLDIER MYKES SI ESS Crawford has established poultry business that a model of common sense Started out with a wife and baby some pullets and ten dollars in cash Plant now worth thousands These are a few of the main features to be found in The Sunday Observer There will he other by such well known writers as Will Rogers Bruce Barton McIntyre William Ellis Kathleen Nor-jris Nina Wilcox Putnam Roger Bubson It Barnum and others The Observer is tho onlv paper in charlotte that Is served by the world famous Associated Press on Sunday morning This Nervine is supplemented by that of The New Y'ork YVorld News Scivli-e anil the North American Newspaper Alliance i lly th Amik lined 1're-s President-elect Hoover conferred on cabinet appointments Tin national contetenee on influenza was concluded Tho house passed the bill providing for re-nppouitment of its members The Kellogg anti-war treaty was attacked In the senate by Reed of Missouri Increases in pottery tariffs wore sought betore the house ways and means committee The senate appropriations com-mittwo approved a $23090000 increase tor prohibition enforcement President Coolulge believes the question on repur itions is the settlement of the final amount to be paid by Germany The federal trade commission continued Its inquiry into publicity activities of public power utility companies not taught evolution He admitted however that he had permitted un of to be placed In the school library Tha prosecuting witnesses and tholr attorney did nut appear but the hom'd decided to proceed with tho case and heard tho testimony of Professor Gently After giving the school principal a clear bill tho board went into executive session while 103 spectators and three newspaper correspondents who hud heard the proceedings filed out tout hed off during a Christmas celebration at the Clark Range county high school here started a tialn of events that threatened a second Scopes case hut the teacher accused of violating anti-evolution statute Elmore Gentry won a sweeping victory this afternoon Charges of teaching tho theory of evolution in violation of the state luw and of assault and buttery filed against Gentry by thn fathers of two boys suspended as a result of the Christmas prank were dismiss- A ROCK HILL HERALD WINS CONTESTED CONTRACT Special to The Charlotte Observer YORK Jun 11 The ftwuril of the pi Inttrig of tho semi-annual statement of the receipts and disbursements a bond of contention among York county newspapers for years was todav made to The Rock Hill Evening Herald by the county hoard of commissioners The Evening Heiald and The Yorkvllle Enquirer -were the only two papers considered In the North and South Carolina Fa I id colder Saturday Sunday fair ith rising temperature colder inday night WEST POINT CANDIDATES ARE NAMED BY OVERMAN Irttm The Ohrve Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Jan Senator Overman today denlgnuted Alston Giimes of Washington as prlnilpnl Kit hard Edwin Yates Mocksvllle first alternate and Claude William Hanford of Lnurln-btirg hm his prlnilpal and alternates 4o fill the vaittniy which lie will have ut West point in June Lots of people are less Inteiested the Kellogg anti-war pact than ey are in weeing Keeri and Borah ght it out on opposite sides of the nip.