fIViE i l‘ fc CONTINUES; B. Hwwr I I'Din hi ■ H<* ( ame As ■ j-ier '' And Couii'i‘l In C ase Is sTI IHKS i-gv ( ARLi - 1 LI A l Court Room Be ■ indue Arrived— ties To Ri'i‘ Him ■S Character. I, r»... v i#)- H m r\uU" aini ■ ' ~r u.l I nil.'l I .Hit - I u;|v I'll for I ii.i'li-r i.'isil. ■ ; hi - criminal ■ inif friend ■ .lifomlant in ■ :1 n it- for court I A v;i'i i lie mine lo Bp ~ | i ,i,trader, and H :i v a nattorney . > I'.uU coininis ■ came to tes- I ; lc. a< (lid Jos ■p ' f,iriiit 11. sober ftth. B«ini' in;., curl ten min ■u^|Uij-, (’ii<-ier R. Shook ■ ,1;, ml '■eeimsl to j Ktiiiie 'r■ i* 1> mg tlie jury, his 1 Kvj f r „iM ihue to timc. and j I u ,■!: hi*. in.m rimmed : Bi(<-::. :•> v' ; ..iiclici| far down in B i«ro'i| ami talked in H .f 1 :uT:I cr - Komola >r t!ic trial to pro- B of <• mrt. Remus B, Amir Honor, i B’>i" \oii and the jury Hgpa.mu cmiuct of y ester- Mu. !•••'(...: and Ifemus ■ -t.-!:e.l Mir lit ]y and Hr.} :-:rri,*i- display of enm- H Harry Triiesilale raced H> rr:i.;>::ii|>-r ...f his murder ■ K- r!ie afternoon Hot mi:, v.ii.ai ii crept into Hi :hat jii-r. 1 ::»rIn- was l>eing H Mr. Hi ina* i iiat if his wife Hi so! "f woman. to double B ami in m kill him. that I li'i'iln riie -aim- to me.” I -Tory to Rem ■ : R'-i. a- i.ad a n outburst I I li.nl i.ad m > elm nee to ■ If 111 >ee him lonigjit ■ a-.. ’ " li. 1 'lhuesdale. ■ a !li-i{ ;i v a witness BfW"!! i i-.is- examination PRI'H MW HA I TO MK Y ICO CITY stalls l initial o ;ml to Have Imitation to Him. i-':!-.. ! It. S (/P)- Till* n w:i.- ;n|vised today in Mrxic,, City 11ii ir I’ l ' l iiit < 'all**- had mvitat;>>n to < '<>l. ('has. | ltTsr '‘ ,n !iiak<- a non-stop j \„rk t j, Mexico ( ty. ' ; "rti'i.ds would not dits- | flirt h*-f than to say i ’ a government '‘Him-. I*-rift every assist- Lutilixi-gli if In* de >itoli a flight. . ar, ‘ “"t permitted to cross '■ '‘idler government ex .r»! I‘" ! mission, blit it was r I.milo-r-j.ii would not en difficult ies_ j. :l|v lacking., it ap “ Wn «ili he some time ■fV Up 1 n-akev it possible j .l , !l ’ * may extend his ' Me\ ico C : ty or pos- Mtfel 1 I!:|S *‘ Sails For Home. : V 1 X r - Dec 8- -Dr. president of the, J .Nurth Carolina, who' •“hat-oi.e f,-,r tin* last six, f absence, is on tir'c **'' •»i l‘*tl yesterday liner ].a Salle, 1 hdeatis Decent- I ’ ii s ''Mae’ed in Chapel ; ‘•i.n.i j .\l ls . Chase and] H will remain in 1 1 ‘'"'litlts longer. LJ' f ’ i! . llir ' ret urn will be his I's! ' 'iil.iuitted to the !ft of January. 1 s hMk On Increased tP j|Vldp "« l Basis i s '&)—Common rd- ,1 ‘ * 1 Railway company ii increased an fij x~ ’ ". i:M "f $S a share, Hi y ' ]’ :i .quarterly dis •it a re. payable \ “''l'l'Ts of record Jan % n lt , quarterly of V Wj, . |,p re,l also was an ' •hunni ry 16 to '' nd December 27. THE CONCORD TIMES J- B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher Graham Looks Forward To Dinner With “Capt. Jesus” After Death The Tribune Bureau. „ ... s *r Walter Hotel. Knewli. 1n..-, S. ••I Be soin . ra, ,' linl "' r "Hi, cam. Jmiis tomorrow -rlhey never put u man boliine the bars up there." So it is that with his mind fixed unswervingly upon spiritual things. :ind a land that is fairer than dav." Ileelur G rah a rn. big Hoke county negro who is |i> die in the electric chair tomorrow morning for the inur (!er of Captain Paul Johnson, war veteran «>t Hoke county, is facing his fate with a smile, because of the faith that is in his soul. Still protesting his innocence of the premeditated murder of Captain Johnson, and claiming that he killed him only in self defense. Graham says that he is "ready to go." He is fearless Os death in the new-found faith that is his now. I' don t make any difference whether you are white or black to ■li >nv. Hector said, "and everybody gels a si|iiare deal up there. This THREE TIMES AS MANY BIRTHS AS DEATHS IN CITY \ * ta l Statistics Report Shows 40 Births and 11 Deaths in Month.—Total For the Year Is Given. More than three as many births were reported in Concord in Novem ber as deaths, and the total for the year has been about the same, ac cording to figures compiled hv \V. M. Sherrill, registrar of vital statistics for Concord. During November. the report shows. -40 births were reported, and tor ,tlie same month there were only 11 deaths reported to the registrar. Mr. Sherrill's report explains that the births were reported by only five of the city s physicians, indicating that the total probably would have shown even greater figures had all of the physicians reported. The deaths were reported by yiree un dertaking establishments and no doubt are complete as these are the only funeral homes in the city. Fur the first eleven months of the year, ending November .‘{oth. the re port shows. STS births have been re porter! as against 147 deaths. This is art average of about 51 birtns a month and 15 deaths. So far fewer births and deaths have been reporter! during the second six months as compared with the first half of the year. If the record of the first six months is reached 40 births and 22 deaths must be report ed iu December. The former figure may be reached but it is unlikely that the latter will be. During the first six months 00 deaths and 102 births were reported, and while there has been no marked decrease in births during the second half of the year, there has been a rather marked decrease in deaths, with the result that the total for the second half of the year is not ex pected to reach that of the first half. Heart diseases accounted for 4 of the 11 deaths reported in November, this total being the highest for any one malady. Two deaths were (•.•ttts ed by pneumonia and two front ac cidents. One person was electrocuted and another died from shock after being attacked by a cow. The second pellegra death of the year was reported, the victim being a (5-year-old negro girl. Measles re sulted in one death and there was one Tstill birth reported during the months. Five tailored iiersons were among the 11 and 4 of the eleven were males. Os the 40 births reported-during the month 23 were of male children this being about the margin of ad vantage enjoyed by the male sex throughout the year. Eleven of the 40 were colored, this being the largest number of colored children reported any month since July. Two illegitimate children .were re ported during the month, one being white and one colored. Honor Roll of White Hall School. The honor roll of White Hall school for the second month follows: First grade —Murlin Barbee, Law rence Bresson, Hay Kiser, James Shoe and Geneva Howard. Second grade—Eupheinia Arthui. Leola Lowder and R. P. Arthur. Jr. Third grade—Yyonnie Walters. Geneva Graham. Craven Mabery. Ed gar Barbee, Bunyon Graham. Willard Miller. Verna Louder. Inez Thomp son, Mary Lee Ilartsell and Bertie Ilartsell. Fourth grad**-—Huy Bar boo and Edith Shoe. . Fifth grade—Howard Kiser. Glenn Kiser. Harry Lee Kiser. Sudie Cor zine. Fay Babery and Robert Yow. Sixth grade—Amie CoJey. Margaret Shoe and Ixds Talbirt. Steals Three Tons of Coal Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 8. —(IKS) A hard-working thief pulled a mean trick on Mrs. Eva Fink here the other night. Alarmed over the cold snap, .Mrs. Fink bought three tons of coal, which was stored in an old shed be hind her home. Next morning the coal was gone. “He must have worked mighty hard to haul away three tons in one night,” say police. Hear Arguments for Mrs. Montague Raleigh. Dec. 6.-The Stat* su preme court today heard arguments in behalf of Mrs. Anna K. Montague, Asheville nurse, convicted of slaying her employer. Mrs. Mary R. Cooper, and sentenced to from 12 to 20 yen is in prison. world, most of it. is prettv rotten anyway. Only once did Graham show am sigus ot weakening when talking with reporters, and with his relatives, that was when he looked over at his wife and three small children, his sister and brother-in-law-—and as ho saw their grief and heard their sobs tears welled up in to his eves for u moment—but not for long. His wife and other members of the family left here this nftcjruoon to re turn to Hoke county, as they did not wish to be in Raleigh the day of the execution. His body, will lie sent to them there by the State. < -O first prison officials feared that Graham might give some trouble, since he is a powerful men weighing more than 200 pounds, and more than six feet tall. Hut in his present state of mind. in which religu, thoughts are uppermost, it is not thought that he will give any trouble, hut that his faith will carry ».:, n through the terrible ordeal. COUNTY AGENT GIVES REPORT OF WORK FOR PAST TWELVE MONTHS R. D. Goodman Travelled 11.081 Miles on Official Duty.—Held Conferences With 3,029 Farmers. Fulfilling the duties of his office during the fiscal year just ended re paired County Agent it. I). Goodman to travel 11.081 miles, almost equal to half the distance around the world. This is revealed in the summary of the county agent’s work for the fis cal year, ending November 20th. Mr. Goodman was in the field 225 days and in the office 70 days. He held conferences with .‘5.020 farmers, and answered 1.700 telephone calls. Visits in the country carried the agent to 74.7 farms, and 2.’l lield meetings. During the year 40 specialists and county agents visited Mr. Goodman regarding work. These experts were proficient in many phases of the ag ricultural industry, conducting in many instances special demonstration meetings. In the vaccination of 1,805 hogs the sum of 8500.58 was ox |tended for serum, ithe report shows. Two hun dred head of cattle were dehorned. The comity agent supervised this work as well as sponsoring the co operative wool sale, and aiding Ca barrus farmers to secure 10.500 pounds of government explosives. The agent’s summary follows : Days in field 225 Days in office 70 Conferences 5.020 Telephone calls 1.700 Letters written SSO Farms visited 745 Field meetings 25 Community and other meetings held and attended 55 Miscellaneous meetings 25 Hogs vaccinated 1.805 Cattle dehorned ' 200 Acres terraced 050 Farm buildings planned ........ 10 Miles traveled 11,081 The report of Mr. Goodman was presented to the board of county Com missioners Monday, tin* hotly express ing its compliments to excellent work of the agent. Lindbergh Has Close Call; Ilis Plane Damaged. Hasbroucks Heights, N. J.. Dec. 5. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh narrowly escaped injury today when one of the wheels to his Spirit of St. Louis, struck ii hole and tilted the plane sufficiently to damdge the propeller at the Teterboro Airport, according to information from the Gates F.ying Circus company. Lindbergh was taxiing across the field, ready to leave, when the acci dent occurred according to company officials. They believed that if the hole had been slightly deeper, the plane might have been thrown over. Whether Lindberg’s plane had been repaired so that be could resume his flight was not learned. Irregular Price Movements Occurred At Opening of The Market Today New York. Dec. 9. —OP)—lrregular price movements occurred at the j opening of the stock market today, j with the more important stocks tend ing downward. National biscuit which had a 10 point jump yesterday, open ed 5 1-2 points lower, while United States Steel, Western Maryland, and Calumet and Arizona were off a point or so at the outset. Atlantic Coast Line opened about 1 1-2 higher. Six Hurt In Wreck Atlanta, Dee. 6. —Six men were se riously injured, 1 probably fatally, when the locomotive an.il 12 cars on an Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast freight train left the tracks near hero shortly after midnight today, starting a blaze from derailed gasoline tank ears that for a time threatederi to destroy the entire train. Kid well Case I'p Again. Washington, Dec. *6.—CP)—Edward j. Kidwell. known as the talkative juror in the Fall-Sinelair oil trial, again was brought into the Sinclair contempt proceedings today when counsel for Sheldon Clark, asserted that the real reason for the oil mis trial was the approaching of Kid well by two persons. No action against these persons has been taken by the district attorney, he asserted. Cans of aluminum are now propos ed to supplant the familiar tin can used as a comtainer for fruits and vegetables. CONCORD, N. C„ THURSDAY DECEMBER, 8, 1927. JURY IN MURDER CASE NOT AGREED Court Room. Mays Landing. N. J.. Dee. 8. —( A *) —Seventeen hours after the case was placed : n Iheir hands, the jury in the Lilliendahl murder trial reported .to the court today that no verdict had been reached. The jurors were «-:on! back to continue their dclibera lions. After a night of deliberation the jury called for breakfast at 0 a m. today. The usual drift of rum ors was floating about the court house; The most persistent was that the jury stood Ift to 2 for conviction. CIVILIZATION AIDED BY SANITATION SAYS NOTED GLOBE-TROTTER W. G. Archer Appeals to the Rotarians Here to Enforce Local Cleanliness at Any Cost. "Sanitation has been the making of every great and powerful city since the world began." said \Y. (J. A reli ef, globe trotter extraordinary and former military adviser to the King of Arabia, in a talk on “Sanitation and Civilization," made to the mem bers and guests of the Concord Ro tary Club at their regular weekly luncheon yesterday in the civic club dining room of Hotel Concord. The speaker declared that sanita tion and cleanliness were the most tremendously moral questions ever known to the world and he appealed to the Rotarians. in keeping with their motto, to get behind and stay behind movements to assure this city of increased civilization through the necessary channels of proper sanita tion. Taking his listeners on a geogra phical tour of the world. Mr. Archer told of pipes and other paraphanalia he had found in the ruins of am lent Babylon, authentically proving that city to have been equipped with a system of sanitation similar to that now used in our greatest city, New York, when it was at the hey-dey of its power. He told vividly of the re markable civilization reached by Rome of the middle ages and attrib uted it to their ultra-modern meth ods of keeping filth and disease from becoming rampant. in asserting that every particle of filth in the world is a menace to civi lization. Mr. Archer said: "No civilization bo* been destroy ed since the world began by people who bathed. All of the great trage dies and disasters of. history nave been caused by the unbathed, igno rant multitudes. "Foul, grimy peasants, who bathe perhaps twice in a lifetime were the cause of the overthrow of and untold suffering to the Russian nobility. The constant turmoil in Turkey has the same basic reason, and, in Mexi co. death, destruction, revolution, ar son and crimes too numerous to men tion" have been caused by lack of sanitation.” The speaker declared that the world moves in cycles and that the same conditions faced today were faced centuries ago —that the various periods of civilization have passed through tlie identical experiences as mankind. Interspersing his talk with humor ous or pathetic parallels, as the oc casion demanded, Mr. Archer dis played a gift of oratory seldom seen. His closing words, after the manner of the Arabs whom he learned to love so well during his two years and a half with them, were exceedingly well-chosen, showing the spirit of Rotary in its fullest meaning. Prior to the feature address, Pres ident Byrd called the meeting to or der and the minutes were read by R. E. Kidenhour, .Jr., secretary, who reported that the meeting last week had had a hundred per cons attend ance. W. G. Brown, chairman of the better citizenship committee, read a letter from Govefnor A. W. McLean asking the civic clubs to give all the possible assistance in aiding ex-pris oners become worthy and respected citizens. His committee was instruct ed to comply with the governor's re quest in every possible way. . Station Without Trains London, Dee. B.—There is an un derground railway station in London which, although "no train has ever passed through it. lias probably held more valuable'property than any oth er station in the world. It is where the Crown Jewels and National Gal lery paintings were deposited for safety when the Germans were drop ping bombs on London during the war. This strange station has seventy feet of standard underground track, used for teaching engineers and sig nalmen of the London Cnderground Railways the intricacies of their jobs. At one end of, the station is a large lecture room for sixty pupils, while regulation signals are installed along the track. By means ot toy cars, drivers are taught how t<> avoid collisions and how to use the electro pneumatic signal system. Beginning next Monday night many of the department and other stores of the city will remain open each evening until Christmas in order to serve the shoppers. The stores -will likely remain open until 9 or 10 o’clock. Nearer Christmas all stores , will remain open until late each night. Many paupers have lived to be 100 years old. but there is no record of a multi-mollianaire having attained that age. REPUBLICANS WILL GATHER IN KANSAS CITY FOR MEETING In Lons: Fight In Commit tee Kansas City Won Over San Francisco, Wich Started In Lead. CUT VOTESFROM NORTH CAROLINA This State Will Have Two Less Votes In Next Con vention—G. O. P. Will Meet Before Democrats.] Washington. Dec. N. (A 3 )—The battle of ballots for a Republican presidential candidate to succeed Calvin Coolidge will be waged in the Civic auditorium of Kansas City, it was decided by the Republican Na tional committee late yesterday on the 20th ballot. Kansas City won out only after a dogged fight that tit one time founec. S. — (A 3 ) —The spirit of California, tri-motored mon oplane. took off from Mills Field at 7 :55 a. m. today, on a third attempt to break the world’s endurance rec ord by remaining aloft more than 52 hours, 20 minutes. Weather was said to be favorable for the attempt. TIIE STOCK MARKET. Reported by Fenner & Beane. (Quotations at 1:00 p. m.) Atchison 194 American Can 09Vs Allied Chemical 140% American Smelting 171% American T. & T. 178 Atlantic Coast Line 190% Baldwin Locomotive 251 Baltimore & Ohio 118 Bethlehem Steel 53 Chesapeake & Ohio 208 Vi Chrysler 57% Corn Products 05 New York Central 160-% Dupont 311 Erie r 02% Fleishman 07% St. Louis-Franeis. R. R. 53% General Electric 131 % Gold Dust 73% General Motors 125% .General Railway Signal 120% Houston Oil 150% Hudson Motors 09% Mo.-Kans. A: Texas 42*% Kennecott Copper 80% Ivans. City Sou. Ry. 02 Liggett & Myers 1 121% Lorillard 39% Mack Truck 107% Mo.-Pacifie, Pfd. 112% Montgomery-Ward 113 Nash Motors 95% Packard Motors 52% Phillips Pete. 1 40% Producers and Refiners 23% Reading Railroad 197% *B" Rey. Tob. Com. 150 Rock Island It. R. 107 Sears Roebuck r 85% Southern Railway 146% Stand. Oil of N. J. 39% Sou. Pacific R. R. 122% Studebaker Corp. 57 , Tobacco Prodc. 119% Union Carbine 145% Wabash Railway 65% i lYestinghouse Electric C’o. __ 89% I Wes. Md. R. R. 51 Vi Yellow Cab and Truck 32% Woolworth 190 U. S. Steel 139% Coca-Cola 124 Cold Winds Sweep Dixie And Send * lercury Down; ColderY . atherComirig TONSIL CLINIC HELD \ WEDNESDAY; CHIDRL 1 UNDERGO OPERATIOI King's Daughters Sponsor Third Clinic Within Past Few Weeks —Dozen Have Tonsils Removed. 'File final of a series of clinics for the removal of tonsils was held Wed nesday morning in the office of l>r. It. B. Rankin under the auspices of the Concord chapter of the King’s Daughters. Three indigent children suffering from tonsilitis, underwent successful operations. Dr. Rankin performed the operations while l)r. D. (J. ('aidwell, head of the Cabur ins Health department administered the anesthetics. Three tonsil clinics have been con ducted during the past few weeks by the King's Daughters, twelve chil dren submitting to operations and restored to good health. It is proba ble that the King’s Daughters will supervise additional clinics during the year of .1028. ROMEO PADGETT NOT TO GET IIIS FREEDOM Federal Officers In Ohio Revoke His Parole And Order Him Returned To Prison. Charlotte. Dec. 7. —Romeo Pad vet t's hopes for freedom on bond were dispelled today when state offi cials were notified that federal offi cers at ChillicoAe. 0., had revoked his parole and ordered him returned to prison there to complete 18 months of a three year sentence. He had been convicted for theft of an automobile. Padgett was held by officers here for his alleged participation in a gun battle in which Rural Policeman Henry Mosely was seriously wound ed. His efforts to gain freedom here were unavailing when he was unable to raise ss,Wftft bond required by the court. IHITY REACHES PARIS ON HIS WAY HOME Will Sail Saturday .After Being Re leased From French Foreign Legion. , Paris. Dee. ft. — UP) —Bennett I. Doty, who was released from serving his enlistment with French Foreign Legion, arrived here this morning from Marseilles. He immediately went to a first class hotel, where he registered as Bennett J. Doty, profession student, address, Memphis, Tenn. Coming from the warm climate- of Sihi Bel Abbes, Algeria. Doty was not supplied with overcoat and shiv ered in the hitter cold here.' He in tends to sail for America on the Co lumbus on Saturday. With Our Advertisers. The G. A. Moser Shoe Store is of fering tnony saving prices on footwear In a new ad. today this company enumerates some of the many price bargains it is now offering. Read the ad, without fail. The Gray Shop's Annual Coat Sale, an important event for wom en and misses, is announced in a new half-page ad. in this paper. One hundred fashionable winter coats, comprising every favored coat made are being offered, and in addition this shop is offering remarkable dress values at $lO. Millinery, offering mAny unusual bargins, also being of fered at reduced prices. Don't fail to read carefully this attractive ad. Christmas' is just around the cor ner advises the .T. C. Penny Co., in a new ad. in this. paper. For the Yuletide season this store has hun dreds of attractive gifts that will make ideal and serviceable presents. Read carefully ad, in this paper and call at store to see the variety of goods offered. Stealing A Roof London. Dec. S. —The modern thief is catholic in his tastes. He will de vote just as much attention to turs and costly gowns as to cash, silver ware. and jewelry. But his latest “line” in robbery is rather a curious one. For three months a plumber was seen plying his task on the roof of a large railway station. It was as sumed by the employes that he was engaged in repair work. One day. however, a railwayman noticed that the bag the plumber was carrying home with him looked suspiciously heavy. The man was stopped and his bag was 'found to contain fifty pounds of sheet lead. He then today. Hut a 14 degree drop in the mercury by <> a. m. tomorrow was forecast, while freezing weather was forecast by C. F. Von Hermann, weather bureau chief here, and all of < 1 corgi a and the northern coast of Florida tomorrow. Old man Winter, riding high and handsome on a wave of freezing air sweeping southward over the country, got to points in Dixie liefore he reached such cities as New York and Washington today where tempera tures of 52 and oti were reported at (i o'clock this morning. Weather bureau observers here said the grip of the cold would ex tend today and tonight to include eastern cities, as well as those of the south. The force of the cold wave had not struck North and South Carolina and Virginia early today, where cold to freezing weather is due tonight. New Orleans today reported a reading of .‘>4 at 7 a. m.. St. Louis 4 above. Wilmington, X. (*.. <>2. Washington Ati. Nvw York .*52. Sa vannah lis and St. Paul called it the worst blizzard in four years. Sr. Paul and Sioux Falls. S. Dak., were among the larger cities forced to close their schools, while at Muincapojis classes were dismissed at the Cnivcrsity of Minnesota for the first, tune, in history. British Divorces Show An (netease London, Dec. S. —tINSt—Accord- ing to official figures just published, divorce petitions in Great Britain last year numbered 5.7 K?. or 572 more than iu 1025, an increase <>f 17. X per cent. Reasons given for the increase are the alterations in the Poor Persons' Rules, by which proceedings can now be started at 25 district regisnies and heard at IS assize towns instead of 11. The number heard at assizes was 1104 or 512 more than in 1025. The full effei-t of the change is not yet apparent, but there has i>een an increase of 1052 or 51.7 per cent, in the applications for poor |»ersons' certificates. These figures represent one divorce in every hundred marriages in Kng land. Will Hear Appeal Friday New Orleans, Dec. S. —(INS) The Louisiana State Supreme court will Friday morning hear a petition by Mrs. Ada Bonner G-bouef and Thomas K. Drehcr, both of Morgan City, appealing for a new trial after Criminal Court Judge I K Simon re fused a similar request. The two were convicted of killing the woman's husband and sentenced to death. Star Theatre Today is your last chance to see "Two Girls W anted." Joe Host was right when he this picture was a knockout. Played to a crowded house last night. See it and he con vinced it is the best picture of the season. Friday and Saturday. Buck Jones in '‘Whispering Sage." JO and 25 cents. NO. 45 COTTON PRODUCED THIS YEAR SET IS 12.709.000 BALES In Its Final Report Os Year Government Show ed Decrease Os 53,000 Bales. FALLS SHORT OF THE 1926 CROP Prior To December First Less Than Twelve m lion Bales Had Been Ginned In This Country Washington. Dec. N. — (A 3 )— Cotton production this year was 12.750.tb1A equivalent 500-Ih. bales, the Depart ment of Agriculture announced 1 <>er 1. tin* Census Bureau an nounced today, totalled 11.712. v 4»ti running bales, including 45lk*>5il round bales counted as half bales, and excluding linters. tiiniiings to December 1 last year totalled 14.044.070 running hales, including 272.502 round bales. New York. Dee. s. (A 3 ) — Cotton prices failed to develop any sensa tional movement on the New York cotton exchange today after publica tion of the final government, .crop estimate, indicating a yield oft 2.-. 75D.000 bales, a decrease of only .'>2.000 bales compared with the pre vious month’s estimate. Values, however, moved up about •<1 a hale on covering and buying by trade interests. WANTS “INSII4K STORY" OF ARMS CONFKRBNCE Butler Wants Facts So I*eoj>ie WW Know America Worked Hand in Get Anns Reduction. Washington. 1 tee. S.— (A 3 ) —An ef fort to obtain what he described as the “inside story" of the Geneva nav al arms imitation conference, will is* made yum by Chairman Butler of the House naval <*ommitfee. Ho said today that he proposed to ask his committee for authority to call before it the American d eh'gates , to the parley so that the Amerieap people could he “satisfied that we made our he-t t'fTort, ami the reasons why we failed." “Tiiis inquiry will not lie for the purpose of terrorizing other nations,** lie declared, "hut to enable us to give the public the reason why the Amer ican commission failed to obtain Gregt Britain’s consent to further limita tion." THE COTTON MARKET Prices Did Not React .Much To V*,9Y* eminent Estimate of Cotton V?W. of I2,7K».4*)-—4 'niton market opened steady today, at an advance of 5 points to a decline of 1 points, and soon sold 5 to 7 points net lower under liipiidation and, Southern selling. Buying cheeked the decline around 10.11 for January, however. »ihl the market rallied to about yesterday’s closing figures before tin* end of the first hour on covering. Trading was fairly active, but on the whole or ders seemed to lie evenly divided, and dealings were attributed chiefly to further evening up in advance of government crop reisirt. • New York. i tec. o.— (A*) Cotlnjjt future o|H*ned steady. Deo. 10,20; Jail. 10.20; March 10.55; May July 10.52. ANOTHER CHANGE IN TAX REDUCTION Bl^ Win Ask For Cut of $232,755,000. Chairman Green Makes Report To day. Washington, Deo. K.— 14A —The Hew revenue bill will call for a total cut in taxes of $252,755,000 instead of X 250.000.000 heretofore estimated |iy member* of the House ways and means commit tee. Chairman Green formally advised the House of the estimate today iu a rejtfirt on the measure. The n**w estimate is only X7.755.tMMt above the maximum of X22S.tNMt.OtKI ns-oin n tended by Secretary Mellon. The chairman suid thHt requests f