ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXV THE DEBT MISSION PERSONNEL IS NOT KDOill 111 FREE Briand and Caillaux Have Failed to Agree So Far and Matter Has Been Postponed. CAILLAUX SURE TO HEAD PARTY It Is Planned For Him to Come In Advance of the Mission and Stay in This Country Only Few Days. I>nr : s, Aii K , 28.— OP)— Finance Min ister Caillaux and Foreign Minister Briand have failed to agree eoncern iiiK the composition of the French X—/debt mission to Washington and the A council of ministers again today post* ' poned final decision in the matter. Mr. Caillaux and Briand will hold private conferences to decide the per centages of political personages and financiers to be included in the mis sion and wifi report the next cabinet meeting. it is virtually certain M. Caillaux will go to Washington with one min ister, it is expected will remain Am erican capital only a few days, and delegates will take up work where he leaves it. The disagreement between the fi nance and foreign ministers is not re garded ns fundamental but is aseribr •si rather to their lack of opportunity to get together since M. Caillaux’s re turn from London. No pessimism is expected as to an ultimate accord be tween them regarding composition of the debt mission. . MV SOLE SHOALS POWER WILL BE AVAILABLE Government to Allow Power to Be Sent to Aid Industries Affected by , Drought. Washington, Aug. 28.—r its transmission lines from Mus cle Shoals. The maximum carrying rapacity of the transmission line is about 85,000 kilowatts. LAYING OF POWER LINE LEADS TO TWO DEATHS Sheriff Perry Dawson and Dean Wear. er Killed. Trouble Starling Over Site for the Line. Selma, Ala., Aug. 28.— OP) —Two prominent citizens of Dallas county are dead here today incident to a six months controversy over the laying of a power line of a public service company over private property. Percy Dawson, sheriff, and Dean Weaver, widely known property own - ers, are the victims, shot down in an - affray which occurred at Weaver's | place near here late yesterday. Weaver shot Dean to death as the Rheriff and hie deputies approached his house to see about re-setting some traction poles which the owner had cut down. Weaver was immediately slain by Hugh Sinclair, the sheriff’s CONCORD j THEATRE (The Cool Spot) Today and Saturday : “One Exciting Night” I Thrills, Laughter and .Romance A Griffith Special Attraction With a Griffith Cast Like Mystery? Then See This One. Alm Paths News No. M (Always a Good Show Here) ... , f yy i . The Concord Daily Tribune Operators and Miners Again Fail to Agree Can Not Agree on Rules to Govern Pumpmen, En gineers and Watchmen During Miners’ Strike. NECESSARYTO PROTECT MINES If These Workmen Strike Mines Face Dilemma Ev en More Serious Than] Walkout of the Miners. Philadelphia, Aug. 28.—UP)—An thracite operators and miners today remained deadlocked on the employ ment rules for pumpmen, engineers, watchmen and electricians to be left In the mines after the suspension or dered by the union last night becomes effective in September. Discussion of the matter still con tinued, however, at the meeting of the anthracite board of conciliation at the Reading Terminal here. Leaders of both sides expressed the hope that agreement be reached by night. Oth erwise, it was said the mines would face a dilemma even more serious than the walkout itself. Where idleness would be only temporary in ill ef fects, flooding and cave-ins which maintenance men are left in the mines to prevent, would be very serious. A week’s neglect might easily cost the industry a million dollars in damage, it was said. A full meeting of the an thracite industry will be held this afternoon at the offices of the anthra cite operators’ conference. Crisis Passed. Philadelphia. Aug. 28.—G4>)—The anthracite operators and miners here today reached an agreement on the question of maintenance men for working t'.ie mine during the suspen sion set for September Ist. The arrangement provided that ’’normal conditions that obtained dur ing the idle period in the past shall be the basis of the agreement.” REVENUE FI TTER IN FIGHT WITH SMUGGLERS CutUr Fired on Vessels Which Are Believed to Have Carried Liquor. Jfolt Palm Beach, Fla., Aug. 28. Firing oqe-pormd .welts as test as its single gun could be loaded and discharged, a revenu cutter last night 1 engaged in combat with smugglers ttid liquor runners inside the Lake Worth inlet, and forced the tw'o smug- 1 gling and rum craft out to sea where ’ the battle was continued. 1 Capture of the runners was regard- 1 ed as certain but bad not been report- •’ ed this morning. Six negro aliens wlio were being ; brought Into the United States on the 1 smuggling craft were captured by ■ Palm Reach deputy sheriffs after they < had jumped overboard to escape be- * Ing struck by the revenue cutter 1 shells. ‘ i A search' was being started for oth- ' er aliens who may have escaped last night. The government prohibition agent on board the revenue cutter unexpected ly came upon the liquor smuggling boats just inside the inlet just after midnight. A search light revealed attempts being made to land a cargo of liquor and aliens. Full speed ahead the boats started through the inlet to the ocean, with the cutter in close pursuit. After firing several warning shots at the fleeing boats, the cutter com menced direct firing, but so far as could be learned, none of the ‘shots took effect. Mrs. William J. Moose Dies fat Greens boro. Greensboro, Aug. 27.—Mrs. William J. Moose, aged 04 years, beloved Greensboro woman, died at her home, 630 Joyner street, Wednesday morn ing at 1:30 o’clock after an illness of about one year. Mrs. Moose had long resided in Greensboro nnd for the past several years had lived in tbe western part of the city, where her neighborly disposition and inclination I bad endeared her to a wide circle of friends’. (Mrs. Moose formerly lived in Concord, her husband having bees in the photographic business here a num ber of years ago.—Editor.) The best grade jewels used as bear ings in watches Are made of sap phires o~ rubies, the cheaper graue of garnet, and the lowest grade of ordi nary rock crystal. Josephus Daniels Speaks to Students of Furman University Greenville, S. C., Aug. 27.—(vP>—“I»i there any way to wake up the shell shocked world absorbed in money get ting or dancing to jaza music?” That was the question propounded here tonight by Josephus Daniels, of Rttleigh, N. C., editor of the Ral eigh News and Observer, and Secre tary of the Navy under Woodrow Wil son, in the firat of two addresses here before the Political Institute at Fur man University. “Above any iasue or political poli cies. lies the imperative need of arous ing the millions of somnolent citizens and getting them to take part In their government,” continued Mr. Dan iels. He then answered his own ques- i tion in hi* declaration: “It is the youth we must look to— ,♦ = *************** * | * nOOSIER BOOSTERS. 1 * * * Too many people can under- jK jK stand only what they know. -K jK Business goes where it is in- -K jK vited and stays where it is well -K | jK treated. & sK Your town is just as big as IK IK the people in it. 5K SIK To sit idle while others are up IK , IK and going is to see nothing, jK IIK know nothing and be nothing. IK lIK Prejudice often blinds a man jK iK to the truth. IK IK Your police are the walking, jK 5K talking billboards of the commun- jK ; * to- * IK No matter bow big a grouch in IK jK his home or office every old jK ■ jK bear is, he is a pretty good jK IK scout on a motor trip. jK * Organization is the method by iK 1 jK which people act together. I n- jK IK less they act together they are jK * weak individuals with few com- * 1 * petent to stand up against adver- jK ; jK series. jK j£ * *)KjKjKjKjKjK)KSKjKjKjK^ RICHMOND COUNTY JURY WILL TRY W- B. COLE Defense Not to Ask For .Jury From Another County—Will Not Seek Delay. Special to Greensboro News. Rockingham, Aug. The six attorney,- for W. B. Cole, charged with killing W. W. Ormomt here Au gust 15, met here today in confer ence. These lawyers were James H l’ou, of Ra’.cigh; Aubrey 1,. Brooks, of Greensboro; Jnmes A. Lockhart, of Charlotte; Osmer L. Henry, Fred W. Bynum, J. Che.dey Sodburry and | L. S. Boggan, all of Rockingham. Upon the conclusion of the con ference this afternoon, the Daily News correspondent was informed by the lawyers that no statement what ever will be given out now or at any time prior to the trial, which is set for the special term on September 28. The defense attorneys were asked as to whether they would sees a postponement on September 28, and 1 whether a special venire from some other county would be seucured. The answer was neitiier would be entire ly ready for trial September. 28. aitA-. they -wtmlj neither .l-L :\;r a iicsye ponement or for a jury from another county. A spokesman for the defense Rtated that after carefully going over their oral and documentary evidence, they were more firmly convinced than ever that their client would be acquitted ami in fact that they were not con sidering any phase other than entire acquittal. They expressed the utmost satisfaction with the progress of their defense, and, as A. L. Brooks jocularly remarked, “Wo are the cookevest looking set of lawyers vou ever saw." But as to detailing the nature of the defense, the attorneys insisted that a duly nppoiuted jury of 12 men is the proper place, and that the defense will not bo tried through the papers. CHARGED WITH FIRING HIS STORE LAST NIGHT Mav Same*. High Point Merchant, Al. leged to Have Set Fire to Store in Stokes County. High Point, Aug. 28. (A>) —Max Sa met, local merchant, was arrested here early today cltarged with setting fire to his store which he had been con ducting at King, Stokes county.' The store was destroyed by fire late last night. Samet accompanied by a loeal at torney, left here at 10 a. m. today for King, to arrange for a preliminary hearing. He is out under a bond of SIO,OOO. Samet denies the charge. He said he left King yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock, and did not know of the fire until Rtokes county officers went to his home and arrested him early this morning. Mrs. A. G. Tuttle Die* After a Long Illness. Greensboro, Aug. 27.—Mrs. Jane Gregory Tuttle, wife of Rev. R. G. Tuttle pnstor of Centenary Metho dist church here, died at their home today. She hatl been ill for about a year. She was born and reared here, moving with Mr. Tuttle where his itinerary called him, nnd they re turned here three years ago Funeral services will be held Friday afte rnoon t Centenary church and inter ment will be made here. She leaven in addition to her husband, a non and two daughters, Robert and Misses Emily and Miriam Tuttle. to the youth of faith, for Age fears the tilings that are hugh, and Pru dence is the foe to Progress.” Mr. Daniels, who was speaking on “The Btudent in Politics” then pro ceeded to discuss the part the col leges may take in fitting the youth of today for taking its place as leaders in the political program of the coun try. The oouqtry is faced by two prob lems, Mr. Daniels said. Men “who ought to be leading nre drifting;’’ and many voters are drifting instead of “choosing leaders and following them.” And the speaker quoted Dr. Charles W. Eliot and Will Rogers to confirm hia statements. The former he refer red to as “the moat eminent living (Continued on Page Two) North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily CONCORD, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 2a, 1925 Says Baby Story Is a Myth Jjk Bh| njL* iflr jffi " The marriage of Mr. end Mrs. Floyd Bonham, above, of Los Angeles, la threatened with a bigamy charge brought by Alvine Johnstone, below. Johnstone insists Mrs. Bonham is his wife and that a baby was born to them. Mrs. Bonham says she went through a marriage ceremony with ; Johnstone to help him in n legal matter, but that It was illegal. She de nie* the bohg was born to her. POSTAL EMPLOYES END CLEVELAND MEETING Election of Officers anil Consideration of Resolutions Last Business Met iers. Cleveland, Aug. 28. OP)—Election of ' officers and consideration of resolu tions brought to a close today the con ventions of the National Association of Postal Employes. Yesterday the ..delegates met in joint session. VirtiraHy all the organizations «au- Sldered the proposal of the United National Association of Post Office Clerks that all employes organize in to one body. Opposition to the plah wits expected from some of the Associations on the ground that their organization would lose their identity. This the sponsors of the movement deny, declaring each of the organizations would remain in tact, but members be eligible for mem bership in the big organization. SCRAMBLE FOR FLORIDA LAND EXHAUSTS FEDERAL ACREAGE Office at Gainesville Is Swamped With Applications, Only 10,000 Acres Left. Washington, D. C., Aug. 27.—The scramble to get possession of home steads in Florida rapidly is eating up the government’s available acreage there. General land officials said today that less than 10,000 acres of federal laud now remains open in Florida, aud at the present rate it all will be gone by the end of this year, except choice areas withdrawn by the interior de partment for sale at prices commen surate with present Florida values. The land office at Gainesville is flooded with applications to take up public land, and the applicants will take any sort of land they can lo cate. One June 30. 1024, the government 1 had 70,000 acres in Florida, but on last June Srttli its holdings bad dwin dled to 20,127 acres. BOWDIN FLOATING AGAIN AFTER NARROW EBCAPE I Vessel in MacMillan Party Grounded. for Ten Hours on Rock Ledge. Washington. Aug. 28.— OP) — | Grounded for more than ten hours on a rock ledge to be finally washed off ■ by swell from a bursting iceberg, is oue of the experiences from which the Bowdoin, staunch craft of the MacMillan Arctic Expedition has emerged unscathed on her return trip from the northern waters with the Peary.' The grounding occurred at 2 p. m. Sunday, more than a mile off shore in Murchison Sound. Two Aviator* Killed. Chicago, Aug. 28.—Two aviators in one plane were killed In a collis sion of two United States Army air planes 500 feet above tbe Maywood air field late'yesterday. The pilot of the second plane escaped uninjured, though his ship was partly wrecked. Lieut. T. T. Smith and his passen ger . Capt. W. T. Heptig, aviation re serve officer, former army colonel, a I member of the Chicago Board of Trade, and President of the Chicago ■ Chapter of the National Eeronautical Associntiton were the victims. Stock May Get BrooUnrt’s Seat. Washington, Aug. 28.—Oto—Wheth er Senator Smith W. Brookhart, re publican, or Daniel F. Steck. demo crat, is to occupy hereaefter the sen ate seat from lowa now held by the former, will hinge upon the verdict pronounced by the Senate itself on the validity of more than 7,000 ballot* which have been challenged and Midi aside during the recount here. | I THE COTTON MARKET Initial Declines of 5 to 8 Points at the. Opening—December Prices Fair j ly Steady. I New York, Aug. 28.—OP)—Initial declines of 5 to 8 points marked the opening of the cotton market today. Active positions old 5 to 10 points lower during the first few minutes under overingbt selling orders from tbe South and local pressure inspired •by relatively easy Liverpool cables. There was some bearish comment on the prospect for week-end figures shoeing heavy into-sight movement, but offerings were lighter than recent ly and after easing off to 22.03 for December prices held fairly steady at the end of the first hour on trade buying and covering. Cotton futures: Oct. 22.75; Dec. 22.07 ; Jan. 22.40 ; March 22.78 ; May 23.011. I PRESIDENT’S GUARDS ,1 HELD AS PRISONERS ’ Denies Guards Found Asleep Had | Been Kept on Long Duty as Wait -11 ers. 1 Swampscott. Aug. 28.—(A s )—Aboard , the presidential yacht .Mayflower to ' da.v as prisoners were Corporal An drew Chanton, of Cleveland, and Pri | yate Clarence Key, of Texas, marines who are to be court martialed on charges that they slept while on guard : at the summer white house. Statements, credited to some of the [ prisoners’ comrades, that the men who ‘ are now prisoners had been kept awake to act as waiters at parties in the camp of the presidential guard here are denied by Lieutenant Edgar Alien Poe. Jr. Marketing by Rural Carriers. Washington. D. C.. Aug. 28.—Prac tical aid to the farmer nnd the re i Auction of tile cost of living are ob jects which it is hoped to accomplish in some measure by means of the rural marketing service which the post of fice department has inaugurated in an experimental way on about fifty rural mail routes in various parts of the country. Both objects are ex- I pected to be accomplished through the elimination of the middleman, who at I present is held chiefly responsible for | the high price of foodstuffs in the | cities and towns. ! The new system is planned to pro vide one-day service from the farm to the city, the rural carrier who col lects the foodstuffs from the farmers 1 being required to deliver it in order to collect his commission of half the postage, which he is to receive in j addition to bis regular salary. I Any form of edible or drinkable farm products, with limitations on I the latter to conform to the Volstead law and other existing regulations, ‘ I may be sent to city customers with i 1 assurance of delivery on the day sent. Customers to whom the food is sent ' may be those of the farmer or ones 1 solicited by the rural carrier. They , must be either on the same rural carrier. They must be either on the same rural route or within tbe city or town from which tbe rural route emanates. i I American Fliers Make First Fighting . Flight. I Ouezzan, French Morocco, Aug. 28. —(A l ) —The entire group of American . aviators here made their first fighting flight over the enemy tribesmen's camp today, dropping 240 kilograms | of bombs, nnd scoring many direct ! fait*. ; Mexico and England to Resume Rela- ; tkns. London, Aug. 28.— (A")— Negotia- ] I tions are underway for resumption of i relations between Great Britain and i I Mexico, it ia learned from an author- t I ttative source. MILS'PHI TO POTimUT (MIL MOVED Mrs. Bryan Tells Josephus Daniels She Will Sup port His Suggestion for Placing Memorial. MEETING TO BE HELD VERY SOON Friends and Admirers of Mr. Bryan Will Be Ask ed to Meet Mr. Daniels in Greenville, S. C. Miami. Fla.. Aug. 28.—(A I )—Mrs. W. J. Bryan’s secretary today said she had approved the suggestions of Josephus Daniels that the national memorial to William Jennings Bryan be located at Washington, D. (’. Mrs. Bryan will not attend a con ference at Greenville, S. t'., called by Mr. Daniels but feels that she will be personally represented by the fam ily friends who will take part. Has Called Meeting. Greenville, S. C.. Aug. 28.—OP)— Josephus Daniels announced here late yesterday that a meeting of friends qf the late William Jennings Bryan would be 'held within a few days to consider the erection of a suitable me morial to the Commoner. He said he had suggested to Mrs. Bryan that the memorial be located in Washing ton. PAYS FOR OIL STOLEN FORTY YEARS BEFORE . Conscience Prompts Woman to Send Ten Cents to Greensboro Concern. Greensboro, Aug. 27.—Her con science gnawing, a woman has sent ; to the Odell Hardware Company, of . 1 this city. 10 cents, with a letter ex plaining that it was to pay for a I bottle of hair oil taken from the store ,45 years, ago. The letter stated “Odell Company: j “You will find inclosed 10 cents to , pay for a little bottle of hair oil ! I stole at your store 45 years age I when I was a little girl. Please for give me. . I want to get that fixed , up. I don’t -want trr meet that Btth , bottle of oil at the judgment. I told my mother you gave it to me. I ’ told a lie.” . Once before the Odell Company re . eeived conscience money, a year ago. , when five dollars was enclosed in a letter which stated that the sender had gotten religion and wanted to pay for merchandise worth that sum, stol en about ten years previous. Missionary Leaves For His Return Trip. Salisbury. Aug. 27.—Rev. I. I. 1 Shaver and family have just started on a long journey by auto. rail, and steamer. .Mr. Shaver is a Rowan county young man who has been a: missionary of the Southern Methodist j Church in Japan. In June of last I year he and his family came to Amer- i ica on furlough. He took a post graduate course at Duke University! last winter, securing a degree, and during the summer the family has been visiting friends and relatives and Mr. Shaver has been conducting meetings at different churches. Wednesday afternoon the familg left for the first leg of their return journey to Japan. They will travel by auto to New Y'ork where on Sep- , tember 3rd they will board the Presi- ( dent Garfield of the famous Dollar , Line going byway of Havana and San Francisco, stopping a couple of j days at each of these ports and then , on to Japan where they are due to land October 16th. , i Seven Pose as Klansmen to Whip a ' Farmer. Xolensivelle, Tenn., Aug. 28. —Seven colored persons, two of them women. ’ were held in the Williamson county 1 jail yesterday charged with posing as ' members of the Ktt Klttx Klan to ’ flog Will Copeland, 55, colored farm- 1 er. 1 County authorities said the prison- 1 ers confessed the flogging as insti gated by Freda Copeland, 35, wife of tile victim, who desired to frighten her husband out of the community. [ Gerald W. Johnson, of the Uni versify, spent the month of July on the editorial staff of the Baltimore Evening Sun, and for tiie remainder of his vacation will do similar work for the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. Lewi* Calls For Suspension In Anthracite Mines September 1 Philadelphia, Aug 27.—A suspen sion in the hard coal fields September Ist was called tonight by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. The suspension was called because the miners were unable to obtain from the operators a 10 per cent wage in crease, adoption of the check off. equalization of wages for day work ers and various other demands which they made conditional to renewal of the wage contract expiring August 31st. The order involves a walkout of 158,000 men, of whom about 10,000 will probably be left in the mines for maintenance work, such as the pre vention of flooding and cave-ins. The operators and the miners were for HikK I%P Here’s the outfit President Ooolidge wore on his recent tramp over the Vermont hills near his father's home at Plymouth, Vt. The typically New England long jtimjer an) — Germany’* reply to the French security is under stood to be a brief and courteous ac knowledgment of the French communi cation and an acceptance of the invi tation to a meeting of legal experts. It is regarded here as satisfactory and, that it will in the nature of things, lead to more rapid progress toward a settlement of the questions at. issue. Should the efforts of experts reaeh quick fruition it is probable that the foreign ministers of the various coun tries interested will take up the ques tion about tlie middle of September it Geneva or Lausanne, or some other Swiss city. WELL-DRESSED MAN CAN WEAR “GALLUSES’* Clothiers Decree, and He Should Have at Least Five Suits, High Hat, a Frock Coat and Everything. '■’r< Chicago, Aug. 28.—The well-dressed man of today must have the following assortment of clothes or be hopeless- 7 ! ly behind the times: ‘ A dinner coat for semi-formal oc casions. A full dress suit for formal oeoa -1 sions. Four sack suits for business wear. ' A si>ort suit. A frock coat for formal day wear. A high hat to be worn with frock coat and full dress suit. • Two overcoats, one of dark material for formal wear, and one of lighter color for business wear. The list was issued by the National AsSqffatTon of Retail ittathim irf Furnishers, meeting here. It was ah