I B. SHEKKILL, Editor and Publisher. VOLUME XLVIII. Construction Work In City Set New Record During the Past Year CONTRACTS AWARDED AND WORK finished CONSTITUTE RECORD Permits Issued, Together With Building Done That Required No Permit, Indi cates 81,250,000 Was Spent 21 PERMITS IN THE CITY PROPER Os This Number 137 Were For New Homes. —Textile plant and Two Bank Buildings Included. 1 > building activity the year closing r iay has been .me of the greatest and i.,,,.t proiiHiined in the history of Con i, i-i|. Ami in ether lines 11)23 has 1„. ( ~ ;i n .-urd year f >r this city, as shown ] \ statisti.*s covering "civic improve* Dt.'iiis in many lines. niim: t-> Frank B. Mund. city building inspector, contracts awarded ,1,1,1 htiildings completed during 1022 valtied at more than 51.000.000. w i!e improvements in various suburbs ~f |,sty. which are fed directly by tl. city, were made at a cost of another c . -:.r of a million dollars.,'- Mr. Mund stated that during the past year he has issued 210 building permits in the city proper, the value of the holdings t<> be erected being placed at $1)40.770 by persons applying for the permits. This total is far in excess cf the 1022 total and is greater than any t >tal since Mr. Mund has been in charge of the inspection work. Os the total of 210 permits issued. Mr. Mund added further. 137 were for homes. This total of new homes is als' in excess of the mincer issued iu 102*2. which was also a good construc fh.n year for (MnedrVl. * The remaining 70 permits issued by Mr. Mund were for various kinds of! buildings, his n*cords show. Included among tin- buildings were two new sell.ids. one new church, a large addi tion to another church, several business hotis.-.. in the business and other sections of the eity. two handsome bank build ing* ami additions to several cotton mills. The new high school building, which wa< tarte.l early in the present year, will cost i,n the neighborhood of $170,- 000. The building was authorized in a bond election held more than a year ago. Another school authorized in this, deeri-m is for colored children and this; structure, erected at a cost of more 1 than $37,000, i s also nearing comple tion. In addition to these two new* hui'dings. a large addition, costing in | tie* neighborhood of $27,000 was erected j at 2 school. Early in the year lht* new primary building at Central Sch <>i was completed, bur this work wa* emit rated for and almost completed in 1022 and it not included in the 1023 total. . I ' i»* new home for the congregation of F‘* First Baptist Church i:< included I, 1 die more prominent permits issued 1 inng the year. The church will be y n " ‘ I 'be largest and most complete in ! ne city and has been under construc tion f.>r several months. The build- J, : - " T**n c 'luplefmj will represent an i extieiiilitine of more than $70,000. 7 s.,iiimmt addition to the Forest Hill • bodh ( liureh was completed this fur the handsome addi 'be church were made in 1022. '' : ' ,v •re not fulfilled until this *be addition was-.erected pri -1 art ud mort seating capacity ‘ 11 ""u'oli and to care for tlie rapidly ' ' S| nnliiy School. 1 ", ( F ! 's building, the Citizens Bank! , ' Company's new home, the! ,i die Linker building, anti j j. 1 " ‘'otiio of the Cabarrus Savings j : ong the most prominent of 't matures completed or be-| * " past year. The King] - 'ini -ie Cabarrus Savings Bank i I . - •••ujiv a position facing on! '' ! near the court house and '* ' that had been standing T j 1 ‘j* ber of years. ! 'dv huildfng is a loombina ■j l; ‘ and apartment house. '!' is fitted for business pur '• second story is given over ‘' 11 '• 0,, e of which is oceupietl j; ( - 'Her of tin* building, Mr, E. •J - K, 'T building, being erected .at * imrch and Depot streets. - -story structure and probably i . ""’Mded by the Bell & Harris .p •" ' umpany. !* * ', ! ."; ins Savings Bank building ~ , ! “ !, "dinn of being the highest It will be six stories high * ;‘ r 'd its building is b y *‘*mf architects as prac i; vv'i . 1 or Purpose for which , "'ected. The building is very ai ,j , . ' modern in appearance, • h uit $77,000 T;. ' ,an Alotor Company, (has um addition ti its home; the l,i p "r<*f-te«l a large and handsome , s ' ,l! the cotton platform; new • l “ s wer * erected by Messrs. W. '' "Ptinued on page four) THE CONCORD TIMES GOOD PROGRESS MADE IN ERADICATING THE TICK | I’r.der the Zrn'e Plan Lf.ialized by the East Legislature. j Raleigh, Dec. 31. —“We are making I good progress in eradicating the tick from eastern North Carolina under the zone plan legaliz'd for us by the last General Assembly.” said Dr. William Mcore. chief of veterinary work for North Carolina State College and the .State Department of Agriculture, in a statement issued today. "On our re commendation the secretary of the I'nifed i States Department of Agriculture lias [released Bertie. Camden. Gates, Hert |fi rd. \Vrquimans and portions of Dare I the BeauiV.'t counties from quarantine. This was made effective on and after ' December 31st by order N >. 2N7 of the I bureau of animal industry and signed jby Secretary \Yallaee. * “We will be ready to begin work in |zone two beginning with the new year. Last year, at the height of our work in the first zone, we have about 77 men employed as inspectors, range riders and supervising veterinarians. The govern ment furnished us experienced veterin arians to supervise the work in each county and with the exception of a few • herds of cattle on some local farms and some other ' wild or semi-wild animals in the swamps the first zone has about been cleaned up. “Besides cleaning up the tick in those counties released from quarantine. Dr. Moore said-he and his co-workers' had found it necessary also to clean up large area that had been re infested due to ticks coming back from infested coun ties. lit* said, however, that the tick will he pushed into tin* sea within .three years of the people will co-opt rate in the movement. Fourteen counties in fested with the tick remain in eastern North Carolina. In carrying on the work this year in zone one 380 dipping vats were built and 7.(i54 (herds of cattle containing 22.(12.8 head, "were dipped, said 1 Dr. Moore. THE COTTON MARKET Tlifrc Was Renewal of Realizing Today. —Opened at Decline. -New York., Dec. 31.—There was a renewal of realizing or liquidation in the cotton market today and after open ing steady at a decTfne of 2 To 12 points, the active months sold 27 to 37 points net lower, with March declining to 37.07. kbout 23 January notices were report ed, and January was relatively easy. General business was comparatively quiet, and the market seemed sensitive to selling orders owing to the absence of any aggressive support. Cotton futures opened easy. Jan. 3-1.87; March 37.28; May 37.4 ft; July 34.77; Oct. 28.77. BAILEY DECIDES TO PIT OFF ANNOUNCEMENT W ill Abide by Request of Chairman of Democratic State Executive Commit tee. Raleigh. Dec. 31; —(By the Associated Press). —Josiah Bailey, prospective can didate for the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1024. will not announce bis candidacy for the present, lie said here today. Mr. Bailey's statement was made after he had received a dis patch carried in the morning paper in which Chairman John (J. Dawson urged prospective* candidates to make a short campaign for the nomination, as this would Im* for the best interests of the party in the State. Mr. Bailey also made public a letter which he had addressed to Mr. Dawson as chairman of' the Democratic execu tive committee in which lie acquiesced in Mr. Dawson’s desire for postpone ment of announcements, but in which he stated be had been prepared to an nounce himself as a candidate today. Mr. Bailey stated that “I have the ut most regard for Mr. Dawson and I shall endeavor to meet his wishes. I am sure mv friends will realize that I am acting prudently under the circum stances.’* Methodist, Preacher Gives S6OO to Pay Church Debts. Winston-Shlem. Dee. 2S.—Rev. J. S. Hiatt, pastor of Burkhead Methodist church- today gave the members and friend* of the Hiatt Memorial M. E. church congregation a most unique Christinas present in a check for $(500 which completely liquidates the in debtedness on the church building and will make possible unhampered progress during the new year. The church was compleed a year ago and named in honor of Rev. Mr. Hiatt, under whose direction it was built. The Black Forest of Germany, which has long been famous for its profusion of gaifie, has been virtually stripped of its feathered atid furry denizens by hun gry Germans. WHAT SAT’S BEAR SAYS. / ' NJ / / ii \ Rajn tonight, colder in west and cen tral portions; Tuesday rain, probably changing to snow in west and central portions, much colder Tuesday and Tues day night, cold wave in west portion. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS Atlanta Prisoners Make a Sensational Escape Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 31. — In the mo*; sensational jail delivery in the history of the Atlanta federal penitentiary, four convicts, one a partner of Gerald Chap man? million dollar mail bandit, today were at liberty, having wormed their! way to freedom through a narrow tunnel j under fifty feet of concrete wall encircling i rhe prison, late yesterday. Os the quartet the most notorious i.* ! George Anderson, who was serving a 27 year sentence for participation in the! million dollar New York mail robber,.* for j which Chapman was alsa convicted. An- ; derson is thought to have engineered thej escape. Chapman escaped several ] CATCHER COMMUNITY QUIET DURING DAY Following Race Riot Which Took Place There Late Yesterday. Fort Smith. Ark.. Dee. 31.—Quiet pre vailed today in the Catcher community, twenty miles from this eity. where a race riot late yesterday resulted in the serious wuimding of one negro and the arrest of eleven other,; as the aftermath cf the killing last Friday of Mrs. Rob°rt Latimer. Ten of tin* negroes arrested are being held in jail at Van Buren on charges of night ridings. The eleventh prisoner was*charged with having held up a party of white men at the point of a pistol. The two negroes, Spurgeon Ruck and William Betris, charged with killing Mrs. Latimer are in jail at Little Rock. Circuit court officials were preparting today for a special term of court which will convene 'Wednesday for trial of Bettis and Ruck. Both men have waived preliminary examination and the eases tvill be taken up by special grand jury Wednesday. PROMINENT f'OTTON MAN OF GREENSBORO DEAD B. S. Robertson Died Sunday Night iu Norfolk Hospital. After Undergoing Treatment. Greensboro. Dec. 31. B. S. Robert son, .one of the best known cotton men in this section, died Sunday night in a hos pital in Norfolk. Ya., where he had been under treatment. He had be**n engaged in the cotton business here for a number of years. He will be buried at Norfolk on Wednesday, according to word re ceived here by friends and business as sociates. GATLING’S HIdInGIPLACE IS NOT YET KNOWN Man Charged With Double Mnider Has Not Been Located by Officers. Raleigh. X. C.. Dee. 31.—N0 trace of Lawrence Gatling, who Saturday night, it is alleged, shot and killed his wife, and Owen Stevens, has not been found this morning, according to police officials. Police of nearby towns hav * been requested to be on the lookout for the man. Birthday Party. The fifth .birthday of little Miss Fran cis Gibson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 11. G. Gibson, was the occasion of an af ternoon of much enjoyment, when qn December 22nd, it was celebrated at the home of her grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Ridenhour. on West Depot street. In the den. where .the little hostess re ceived her friends, the many pretty gifts were displayed on a table, where a min iature Christmas tree, beautifully decor ated. reminded the young guests that Santa time was near. After admiring the presents the young folks enjoyed games on the yard awhile. Then they were invited into the dining room, which was aglow with the mellow light of red candles in crystal candle sticks. The centerpiece was a big white birthday cake on which were burning live wee red candles. After everyone had been generously served with ice cream and cake, the lit tle guests were shown into the hall where they stood around a big Jack Horner pie. from which they pulled most attractive souvenirs. Higgins Will (' ase Settled. Asheville. Dec. 31. —A special term of the Rutherford Superior Court was to convene at Rutlierfordton today for tin* purpose of confirming the terms of an agreement reached at Shelby on Saturday between parties contending over the will of the late Wesley of Laneey County, who died April 2, 1!)22. The settlement provides for an equal distri bution of the estate between the Method ist Church institutions and Joe and Dav id Higgins, nephew and brother respect ively, (if the deceased financier. The ac tual value of the estate is not known, but it is estimated to Im* worth $300,000 to $700,000. With Our Advertisers. See (heNiew ad. today of (lie Specialty Hat Shop. The Bell & Harris Furniture Co. thanks tin* public for the splendid trade in 1023. Miss Idell Towy*end. of MVodleaf, spent the holidays with her sister, Mrs. John Price, of No. 2 township. BfJT CONCORD, N. C„ MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1923 months ago. Three of the men wFre thought early today to be in hiding pear Macon, Ga. Wirb Anderson wero Hiram L?pper, sentenced in Baltimore in 1014 for fifteen years; Ludwig Solunit, JCGerman sailor. I sentenced in Rochester.'. X. Y., to serve 110 years for mail robbery, and Frank ! Haynes, sentenced in Chattanooga. Tenn., I to serve 18 months. V • I Warden Sartaiu declared lie had re- j | ceived information that Anderson plan-' ! ned to escape and hap had him closely j [watched. The tunneliled from the ecu- 1 ter of a small tent in sthe prison tuberen jlar zone to a point! 70 or more feet j away, and outside rha big stone wall. I NEW YEAR REVELS ON BROADWAY EXPENSIVE It is Estimated That It Will Cost Them $300,000 Tonight. I New York. Dee. 31 —The welcome of i 1024 which will be tendered at the J thresh hold of Broadwri* at midnight to* l night will cost 70,000 revelers something j like $300,000 for fbe| privilege of ex tending their greetingaE Special squads of prohibition agents. I some of them undersfiftod to be from Washington. were ffeted ineognitio | among the 70.000 holding reservations !at cabarets, hotels and clubs. The number of reservations, most of them made at $7 each, but many at $7 to S2O and a few at* even more, was one of the biggest in Broadway’s mem ory. lb.tel managers. And federal agents said ii would be a dry welcome, but. there was pome difference of opinion on this point. COLD WAVE WARbfING ISSUED FOR THE SOUTH i [ Already Zero Weather is Reported in i Texas—Wave Spreading Eastward. ; Washington. Dec. 31.*—The great cold j blast from Alaska today had overspread ; the Rocky .Mountains and northern pla teau regions, the Plains States, the Mis souri valley and tin*-anterior of the* West Gilf States, with zero temperatures as I far south as Texas panhandle. It was ! 20 degrees below zei > at tnany points j in the northwest, and at Yellowstone Park. Wyoming. 34 degrees below was registered. Cold wave warnings lias been issued for many eastern and southern states, j B. & O. FASf EXPRESS j DERAILED IN OHIO ■ - H HG Derailment Caused f> V Damage to tlie Tracks by H#*of Rains, 1 Cincinnati. ().. Dec. 31. —According to reports to the local Baltimore & Ohio office here today, the Baltimore & Ohio fast express from New York to Conein nati was derailed two and one-half miles west of Zalisky, Ohio. According to tin* information received here, hundreds of passengers on the train were shaken up but no one was (seriously injured. The derailment, the report said, was due to the track being washed out by heavy rains. The train was proceeding at a slow speed. Rabbi’s Wife Was Drowned Accidental ly. Jury Decides. Wilmington. Dec. 28. —A coroner’s jury investigating tin* death of Mrs. : I* Minsky, wife of the rabbi of B'Nai j Israel synagogue here, whose body was ! found in a bathtub of her living apart ment Thursday afternoon, today return ed a verdict of death as a result of ac cidental drowning. The body will be sent to New York for burial tomorrow. Death of .Mrs. Annie B. Edward*. Mrs. Annie B. Edwards, widow of the Jute F. M. Edwards, died at her home in No. 2 township Friday night at 7 :17 o’clock, following an illness of more than a year. Death was due to cancer of the stomach. T Mrs. Edwards, who was almost 01 ! years of age, iis survived by ten chil dren. six daughters and fofir sons. Her husband died about twelve years ago. | The surviving children are: I. L. Ed wards and Mrs. Verdie Hickman, both of Rocky Mount; Mrs. Gertrude Ball, of Mars Hill; I»e;*mce Edwards, of Rocky ham Miss Mary Edwards. Mrs. Annie | McPhatter, Mrs. Lula Pair. Mrs. Maggie Uollines. and Messrs. John and .lames Edwards, all of this county. The funeral services were held at the home on Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, conducted by Rev. R. G. Short, pastor of the West Concord Baptist Church, of which church Sirs. Edwards was a consistent member. Fatty Arbuckle’s Wife Given a Divorce. Providence. R. 1., Dee. 31. —Minta E. Arbueklc. wife o's Koseoe E. Arbuekle. was granted a divorce in the superior court here today. The case was heard before Justice Barrows, on depositions, and was granted on the ground of neg lect to provide, and desertion. The divorce will become absolute in six ! months. Mr. Geo. R. Edwards lias returned to I [Rocky Mount, after spending Christmas | here with Mrs. Edwards and little son. Hyland Patterson. at= the home of Mr. and Mrs. John K. Patterson. NEWSPAPER ARTICLE SAYS KESTLER STILL HAS CHANCE Stcry in Ccneord Observer Says Posf ttiaetcrshlp of City Very Muth in Doubt. The Civil Service Commission may have little to do with the appointment of •* pr -tmaster at Concord, judging by a story which apjieared in the last is sue cf tlie Concord Observer, weekly newspaper published here by Mr. G. Ed. Kedler, on of the seven. Republicans who is seeking the local postmastership. j Tlu* commission in a recent letter to the ! editor of The Daily Tribune announced that one of three men to be certified by it would be appointed by President Coolidge. but the article in The Ob -1 server denies this, and states that the 1 Republican executive committee really holds the balance cf power and fhar m> candidate who has not been endorsed by the committee can be appointed, re gard lets of any action of the commi-- sion. Mr. Kestler was not among the three men certified by the commission. The ir n certified are John L. Miller. Wil ! Ham B. Ward and S. S. Neal, but in the (article in The Observer it was stated that Air. Kestler still has a chance to ger the appointment. The writer of the article goes fully into the facts as he sees them, declaring that fifty-three members of the execu tive committee endorsed Mr. Kestler while only, one endorsed Mr. Ward and time endorsed the other candidates. Tlie Givil Service Commission, the article states further, chooses three men, but the commission nets only ats a helper to | the President who wants to get facts I about all candidates before making a se lection. Any candidate to get the ap pointment. it is stated, must have the endorsement of a majority of the execu tive committee, and Mr. Kestler was the only candidate to get such endorse ment. The Observer article follows: The Civil Service Commission at Washington asked for apidieantss for postmaster for tlie vacancy to exist at Concord, N. C„ January 28. 1024. Seven men and one lady put in their j applications, viz: J. L. Miller, present Democratic post- 1 master: S. S. Neal, assistant postmast-1 er; W. B. Ward, J. F. Harris, G. Ed. Kestler, Mr*?. H. S. Williams Thomas Smith and W. L. Robbins. Later this commission announced that Miller. Ward and Neal got on. To be postmaster at Concord now the J Republican executive committee, com posed of eighty-five members, five' from each prqcinet, according to the Re liean plan of organization, muist endorse some candidate, or in other words the winner mtist have forty-three signatures,! or a majority of the committee. With tlr«! the state chairman, Mr. Bramham, will natnV ’ 44h»- -mem *~ -Without .theac.' signatures no one can be appointed. G. Ed. Kestler has the signed and written endorsement of fifty-three of these mem bers or ten more than is needed. Mr. Ward has one. The county chairman cannot ecommend any one until a ma-1 jorit.v of the committee orders him to do so. and of course lie does not want to do so as his wife is an applicant, also. _ Now the issue is, does the Republican committee want Mr. Miller, Mr. Ward or Mr. Neal? If it does not then there will be no postmaster appointed! from the selections of the Civil Service Commission ns it now stands. This j would force Mr. Miller, or Air. Ward, or Mr. Neal to withdraw . from the race and th<*n three names from the other applicants would lie put before the com mittee. What three stood the highest among the other five is not known as tin* commission keeps secret its rating. Jf the fifty-three who signed the pe tition of G. Ed. Kestler stick by their choice against Mr. Miller. Mr. Neal and Mr.'Ward then lie can bo appointed, if others withdraw, and he gets his proper rating. He asks his friends to allow their signed endorsements to stand as given. The plan of organization, the word of the State chairman and all the rules and regulations are back of this posi tion. In fact that purs postmasters under tin* Civil Service Commission.' Mr. Coolidge has recommended this as a law but it lias not yet been offered in Con gress. Until it does pars he can ap ooint whom he pleases as postmaster. Still by a former order he asks that the commission hold these examinations as a matter of information to him but there is no law abmt it. But under there orders, which we are now under, no out* can he appointed until the Re publican committee, eighty-five strong, approves some one. or a majority of this committee, forty-three, and fifty-three* have endorsed Kestler. Auxiliary to Meet. An inspirational meeting of the Wom en's Auxiliary of the First Presbyterian Church will he held in the church this [ ; evening at 7:30 o'clock. At this time! pictures will be shown representing thej missionary interests and enterprises! throughout the world. These pictures | are very entertaining and interesting. M and the public, especially the young folks j of the town, is cordially invited to ben present. Mr. and Airs. T. E. Brumley and Ah*, and Airs. AI. A. Deaton, <>f mar Alooresville, visited the Jackson Tra ; n- School and friends in Concord this weeJf, ’ i £ lllilUlfl AMERICANS WOUNDED BY RAIDS IN KSr BY CHINESE BANDIT One Missionary, Mrs. Julina Kilen, Was Captured by the Bandits, Who Also Wounded Two Others. CHINESE OFFER HEAVY REWARD For the Capture of Bandits and Release of Mrs. Kilen. —Were Forced to Leave -Mission Work. I’ekiu, Dee. 31 (By the Associated Press L —Follower* of the notorious h;-n --dit leader Lao Yao Jen, captured a;» American missionary. Airs. Julina Kilen and wounded two other Prof. Bernhard Hoff and Mrs. Hoff. J n a raid On the town of Tsaoyang in the 'northern Hupeh province, near the bor der town of Siang.vangfn. acording *o ad J vices received here today. The American legation has taken act ive steps to bring about the eapfur* of the brigands and the liberation of Mrs. Kilen. The Chinese government lias of fered a bounty for the capture, dead o: alive, of tlie bandit lender. • The three missionaries are representa tives of the church of the Lutheran •Brethren of the United States and were conducting a mission when the town was raided. Warned of the activities of the bandits in that vicinity by the Tueh on, or military governor of the province, (they had vacated their station atid em j barked on a river craft' for safety before tlie raid. Later, however, on receiving assurances from the Governor that the bandits had been suppressed, they re turned. AMERICANS GOING TO HELL IN' CARLOAD LOTS That’s What Billy Sunday Tells His Charlotte Audience, Raps Foreign Im migrations. Charlotte, Dec. 30.—This afternoon [Mr. Sunday said,® “The man wdio buys whiskey from a bootlegger is just as bad as the bootlegger, he is as black, as he can be." .■ , .Speaking of opostoljc .he said : “If there’s anything that makes me tired it is talk about apostolic succession. Henry the Eighth of England, was a Roman Catholic. lie wanted to divorce his wife and marry another woman, and the pope wouldn't let him. so he organ ized a church of which lie was the head, calling it the church of England, or Epis copal church." Air. Sunday's lext tonight was "Thou Art Weighed in the Balances and Found Wanting." In describing Belshazzar’s feast, he said, “that was no common lag ger beer, pretzel, weiuerwurst blowout, that was a bunch of high rollers who went to the feast." Jiefei :Bng to America s revels and feast, he said, "America is making moil ed by tlie bucketftills, but we are going to hell in car lots on excursion rates, the lying for money, the hoarding of money, the envy of money, the adultery for money, is sending America to hell. In reference to breaking the Sabbath he said, "we have stopped out ears and are rushing like stampeding cattle down to hell." There has been a fearful let ting down iu this country in 27 years and foreign immigration is largely re sponsible. twin boy accidentally KILLS IIIS LITTLE BROTHER Little Charles Moore Shoots Brother With Shotgun at Wilson Home. Wilson. Dec. 20.—Funeral services over the remains of Alaster Charles, the 7-yeai-old twin son of Dr. and Mrs. Karl C. Moore —who was accidentally killed by his twin brother. Doyle, while playing with a loaded .44 shot gun 1 ri day afternoon, was conducted from liis lace home on West Nash Street this af ternoon by Rev. E. W. Baxter, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. The | remain* were interred in Maplewood cemetery beneath a mound of fragrant Hewers. (Tlx/ child was a nephew and name sake off Air. Doyle B. I’rivett. of I’lain.*-- lii ld. N. J.. who is well known in Con cord, and is a son- in-law of Air. J. B. Sherrill. — Editor). * New Year’s Greeting From the Chamber of Commerce The Chamber of Commerce wishes you a happy New Year. Remember us in your New Year's resolution. “There has never been a time in the History of Ameri ca when a Chamber of Commerce program was as neces sary as it is today. Whoever co-operates in that direction is a real asset to the Nation”—Warren G. Harding. The year 1923 has gone. You cannot recall it, but you can profit by vour past experience. The past year was a success from most every angle and to show a gain next year will be constant hard work. The Chamber has a plan to make this year 1924 the greatest in the history of Con cord, but you must help, must pull together, for there is only one pull that counts and that's the Pull Together. Make it your business to boost your city and its people. Another good ,resolution: I will SUPPORT the Chamber of Commerce. $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. PUNS fnOR SALE OF ARIS TO MEXICAN LEASER State and War Department - Officials Continue Consul tations Over Details of the Proposed/Sale. SEVERAL POINTS NOT YET CLEAR Exact Quantity of Materials, to Be Sold Has Not Been Revealed—Mexicans Make Request For Arms. Washington. Deo. 31.—The State ami War Department officials continued their consultations today over the details of the plan to sell a quantity of war materials to the Obregon government of Mexico. Secretary Hughes discussed the sub ject at length with Secretary Weeks, who said afterward that several points re mained to be settled before the War De partment orders Major General Edward M. Lewis, commanding the fifth army corps area, to turn over the purchased property to the Obregon representatives at San Antonio. The exact quantity of materials to he sold has not been revealed, but it appar ently will be confined to rifles, ammuni tion and airplanes. In connection with the assertion by rebel factions in Mexi co that the Obregon government also ask ed for some light cruisers attention was called today to the following provision in the Washington naval treaty: “Each of the contracting powers un derstakes not to dispose of by gift or sale or any mode of transfer any vessel of war in such manner that such vessel may become a 1 vessel of war in any navy of any foreign power;” The authorized statement Saturday at the State Department relative to the proposed sale made no mention of the re quest to purchase naval vessels. It is obvious, however, that the United States as a party to the naval treaty, could not sell Mexico any vessel of war. Fighting at Camargo. Brownsville, Texas, Deb.- SH.-'-Tele pfcone reports today from Jkrfnerieafc army 'ports DT fighting between Mexican and federal and rebel troops at Camargo, on the Rio Grande, forty miles above Mata moros. The town is garrisoned by a small detachment of federal troops from Mataimros. No report on the result of the battle was obtained at noon, but the American military officials say the firing which started at daylight was very heavy. Rebels Marching on Pachucha. Vera Cruz, Dec. 31 (By the* Asso ciated Press). —Rebel forces under Gen. Cavazos are marching on Pachucha, capital of the state of Hidalgo, situated fifty-five mileq northeast of Mexico City, according to advices received by officials here. He is operating independently of the main body of the insurrectionists, and is said to have considerably in creased his forces, having been able to extend the insurrection to a large area in the states of Peubla and Hiladgo. General Sanchez, chief rebel military commander in the eastern zone, made a complete survey of the battle front yes terday. JAPANESE CABINET IS DETERMINED TO GET OUT Tender Resignations Second Time When Prince Regent Refused to Accept First Ones. Tokio, Dec. 20 (By the Associated Press L—The Prince Regent this morn ing returned the resignations of the members of the cabinent presented on Thursday, refusing to accept them. Pre mier Yamamoto tendered the resigna tions again this afternoon, however, indi cating that the cabinet ministers do n