] B SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher VOLUME XLVIII. K Mitchell Palmer Is ■To Be Examined Soon ■ By the Oil Committee a. !e Has Been Men- Several Times in ms Sent to E. B. i from Capital. VOOD’S NAME SO MENTIONED Senator Denies He red In Any Way ie Purposes of the tee Members. Feb. 28. —A. Mitchell, general in the Wilson \, I be (.ailed before the mil; i <■<*. -•<» deierniined today ,<.l the reading of addi :,x •ui i>. Edward H. Me- i the Washington Post, h. . ..iieeming the oil in |. detaoerat. of Washing ;ii :i i I’m Inter should law h. had Im eh I In l "go-lie- . .■ delivery of McLean'* ie committee. . read today. John Major,’ a jt!oj ee here. reported to in* \va- "busy with I'nder ami Zev." j lnJen tood by the commit- , r to .1. W. Zevely, personal try F. Sinclair. . editor of the Post, tele n on January 3rd that jur -aw "Curtis” who me "Lenroot.” ul v Fed us" the telegram nderw.H.d We saw Under unised to speak to Walsh, , would not do any good." he telegrams in the record. [ * members made no an : identification of the per to. leaving the public to conclusions. signed "Johns.” sent to that "Willis" say "party rted the party- to be in a . the me'-age s ;l jd. a (hiding of the ojty.” needing", interrupted Seua- Montaiia. "I desire to say Fiulerwood called a few on tin- leohouc and said t imerhing it. the that lie had endeavored to com mv purpose to subject lo • I m examination, a conclus- 1 on sonic ->f the telegrams i m!eiwood never attempted ' conduct in the matter in ' «ve i.(i recollect ion of Sen-• >d -peaking to me in the j that one morning in the! •r he asked me if I hadj to having inserted in ti e lieeord a letter to me by . ml I said 1 had not. iderv.o id in his eonversa tlii' morning said further! ■quest o, Mr. Bennett lie • hing in me about whether J to a'k (lie appearance of j ml that I told him it had I .•ranged that I was going and take ti e testimony of Senator Fader wood having j conversation had taken' e it did. but I have no ! it ;»t all." - reading the committee i of a telegram sent by Mr. I Palm Beach on <'hristmas Major that he had a tip lied in tin* oil inquiry and j 'aimer be retained to reo- I I —'>»>< ssion of matters." f, d McLean on January 29 eii the "principal” and rie ig*-, that thvre would be no boat, and no resignations” • x pee ts "reaction 1 from un- Weal attack.” Fer. confidential adviser to ‘"il Daugherty, telegraph i January 1(» that the oil inu stigating whether Mc- M M«HI i„ the bank at the s AT S BEAR SAYS. and Friday : little change ■e. THE CONCORD TIMES : DAUGHERTY REFUSES ! TO DISCUSS STATUS i Arrives in Chicago to Trans act Government Business. —Plans to Go to Florida , From Chicago. Chicago. Feb. 2-.—Harry M. Daugher . t.v. Aifanny General of tin* Fniied State-, arrived here to.my ostensibly in connec tton with tin* Federal grand jury inves tig.lt ion of tin* Veterans' Bureau. 1 refused to add t-i his previous statements relative to the oil inquiry at Washington. 'The Attorney General said In* lad no public statement to make, and did not know that he would have any before late in tin* day. ’That lie expects to continue to hold his place in tin* cabinet was in - dicated when he stated he was here on government business, and expected to remain until that business was complet ed. 1 What he might say later. Mr. Daugher ty indicated, pro.bably would In* in con nection with the government's action in . the Veteran's Bureau ease. hut 'Jn* indi cated that what the Senate oil committee might do or announce would have some I bearing on what he might have lo say himself. Mr. Daugherty said he hoped to com plete the government business promptly so that he might go direct to Miami. Fla.. to join his wife, who is there for her health ( INSURGENT Kl KLUXERS VOTE |TO ESTABLISH A NEW OKER Congress’Caller! by Clarke Bans Secrecy and Masking in “Knights of .Mystic Clan.” Atlanta. (la-. Feb. 2(»—-The Klnn congress called by Edward Young Clarke, former Imperial Giant, "to re vive the original principles on which the Kii Flux Elan was founded, hut which have been perverted." at a meet ing here today voted to establish a new (*rder called tin* "Knights of the i Mystic Clan." i Up ward -of-Jttewen oiqroscd to he present administration attended the meeting and those in charge said that Klnns in Mary and. Ohio. New Jersey, Connecticut., Kentucky. Missouri. Kan- Alabama. Tennessee. Georgia, North Carolina and Colorado, were represented. | Want Bids on Shipping Board Fleet. Washington. Feb. 28.—Bids on the entire shipping board fleet of 1,3.‘T0 ves- I sels under slightly changed contract term* were asked for today by the board. Offers received on or before March 13 will be considered, atid no award will be made before that dare. time he claimed ho gave A. B. Fall cheeks for that sum. The Rochester was a niglft letter, and ended with ti e state ment "1 thought you should bo informed." Rochester was formerly managing ed- I itor of the Washington Post. ! At the conclusion of the reading of the i telegrams Carl C. Schuyler, a Denver at 1 torney. was called to the stand, j He took the inquiry back to the Tea pot Dome field, explaining that he had represented the Mid-West Refining Co. i and the Pioneer Oil Co. which had claims lin that field. He reviewed at great length ! the now famous conference at Kansas i City at which Harry F. Sinclair agreed j to pay $1,000,000 to J. Leo Stack, Den -1 ver oil operator, and Frederick G. lion tils. publisher of the Denver Post. The witness denied that any newspa per influence entered into the settlement. "After my introduction to Sinclair, lie testilied "and without further prelimi naries I said: ‘Mr. Bontils has told me that your last and final offer of settle ment is SIOO,OOO, and a one-half interest | in the net profits from the operation by j you of 120 acres to be selected from your lease. On behalf of Mr. Stack 1 decline I this offer.’ ' “Sinclair said. ‘Stack will not get an other dollar.' "Col. Zevely and I then engaged in con versation. I supported my contentions with a partial recital of the facts and principles I have already discussed. “Sinclair broke into the conversation with the remark that SIOO,OOO is a lot of money, and Stack ought to be satisfied with it. The conversation between Mr. Sinclair and myself led to the settlement conversation lasting about an hour and a half. "I said ‘Mr. Sinclair, if any young man came to you today and created a situa tion for you to enter upon whereby you might secure an oil property as valuable as the Teapot structure, would you think of valuing his services at less than sl,- 000.000 r “Mr. Sinclair finally said. ‘well, it's a big thing, and perhaps you arc not ask ing too much’." Would Examine Tax Returns. Washington, Feb. 28.—Inquiry by the oil committee into the income tax re turns of E. L. Doheny and Harry F. Sinclair and their oil companies was proposed in a resolution today by Sena tor McKellar, democrat, of Tennessee. Not St nator Willis. Washington. Feb. 28. —Senator Willis, republican, of Ohio, issued a formal statement today declaring he had no idea who was referred to in the telegrams placed before the oil committee, saying that Willis was concerning himself in » the oil inquiry in behalf of Edward B. McLean.” Now' in the Limelight v fg|t HHn R mm w lliis photograph was taken in December, 11)2". and shows Attorney General i Daugherty, (left) talking with former Secretary of Interior ANh. it B. Fall, both ' ot whom are repeatedly brought to publi e attention in tin* imitigation of naval i oil land lenses. - It was snapped just out side White House executive offices. - HIGH SCHOOL GIRL MAY BE JUDGE OF INSTRUCTOR WHO KISSED HER Kansas City. Mo.. Feb. 28. E. E | Damon, printing instructor at tin* Kan sas City. Kan.. High School, who with drew his resignation at aftmeting of thej bmint of 'crfmartibTT 'ttrt so of* he would ask a hearing on i>is ease ; before the school hoard. He nVi ac-1 cased C. T. Rice, principal, of trying to' ‘‘get" him. Datum resigned following! an incident in which he kissed Miss' Margaret Pratt, a senior at the school. "I tendered my resignation to «nvej anv one embarrassment." Damon said. “There was nothing secret or surrepti- i ti,ous about the incident. It was the: day the class color demonstration and all were jubilant. One of a growd of girls snatched my pencil out of my pork- > et and another my handkerchief. “I did not care to be peevish ; 1 grabbl'd one of the girls and jokingly ' asked the other girls what I should do TIIE C OTTON MARKET I ■ Failed to Hold Yesterday’s Improvement During Early Trading Tottery. New York. Feb. 28.—The cotton mar- ! ket failed to Judd yesterday’s improve- | ment during today's early trading. The ' opening was barely steady at tin advance 1 of 8 points to a ✓'decline of 22 points, ■ and the active months soon showed net i losses of 12 to 21 points under realiz-; ing and a renewal of local and southern selling. May contracts sold off from ; 20.72 •to 20 :4f* under this pressure which was promoted by disappointing Liverpool cables, the threat of labor dif ficulties in Lancashire, and more favor-1 able weather • conditions in .the South.! Notwithstanding the latter new crop l months were relatively, quiet, and sell-' ing was mostly in old crop positions. I About fifteen March notices were issued i but there was not much pressure against j March and tin* discount oh May nar rowed sligldy. ~ Cotton futures opened barely steady.) March 211.21): May 28.00; July 28.83:1 Oct. 20.00: Dec. 20.00. i Expelled From Stock Exchange. | New ork. Feb. 28. —The expulsion! of John Parson, of the firm of Parson' and Company, was announced today; from rho rostrum of tin* New. York Stock Exchange. The opening of tin* coming season j n ! the Michigan-Ontario league will be ! notable for the large number of new . players who will be seen with the varioius clubs. WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA IN GRIP OF WORST SNOW STORM SINCE 1906 Asheville, Feb. 27.—Asheville and western North Carolina were practical ly cut off from outside communication today by reason of one of heaviest snow storms in many years. Train i “ schedules were maintained, but the city was isolated all morning and for several j • hours tbits afternoon with all wires 5 leading from Asheville down or -out of ■ order. The property damage will be heavy, i particularly to the telephone company, • telegraph companies, and the Asheville' 1 Power and Light Company, whose wires i and poles are down by the hundreds. $ Damage was inflicted to trees and in ; some eases of buildings, wjhucfh 'gave ; i way before the heavy load of wet, cling- i . ing i now. ' In the residential sections the wires gave way through this heavy j PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1924 [ with her. They replied: ‘Kiss her’; I jokingly kissed li‘*r <.n, Bie cheek. Tt was broad daylight done in a spirit "i hilarity. v aKjhJfc-' "When 1 rlic principal ; was endeavoring to make the incident a i serious matter, rather than reflect oi any one. 1 agreed to resign.” Intimation that Miss I’ratt may siv a judge in the ease came today, follow ing the informal hearing before tin* hoard of education of the Damon resig nation and its withdrawal. “I believe Miss Pratt should be tiie judge." one member of the board said. "She is the recipient of tin* kiss and should be given tin* power to deal out punishment if she so desires. For tlr* ; heard to take action one way or the other might ease reflection on the girl’s 'character, which I know to lx* above reproach.” FALL’S HEALTH BETTER. HE PLANS LONG REST Doctors Refuse to Let Him Follow Oil Scandal in Papers. 1 El Paso. Tex., Feb. 28. —Former 1 Secretary of the Interior Albert 1». Fall, 'accompanied by Mrs. Fall, today return ed to their ranch home at Three Rivers N. M.. after a visit of several days at their residence in El Paso. Fall seemed much improved in health. He told friends that In* intends taking a long rest on his ranch, where exfen >ive improvements have been under way for the past year, and then would take I up the Teapot Dome question. Upon the ! advice of physicians, in* does not read j the newspapers. I -Cut Down Number of Immigrants. J Washington. Feb. 28. —The Census of i 10K) was definitely adopted today by the Senate immigration committee as the oasis for immigration quotas under the I new immigration law. The committee ! also decided by close view to reduce the i quota percentage from 3 per cent, to 2 J per cent. Senator Johnson in Ohio Race. I Columbus. (|„ Pel). 28.—Senator | Hiram Johnson, of California, today j tiled with, the Secretary of State his ! official declaration of candidacy for the j Republican n nnination for President. ! The fire chief of Poughkeepsie. N. \\. : reports that for the first time in the his tory of that city there were no fires on lust Christmas Day attributable to dec ; orated trees. load. A total of 7 1-2 inches of snow fell during the night and early morning, the j heaviest since If). I»y nightfall m >st jof the snow had disappeared, though large quantities remained on trees and j buildings. ! A record fall of IS inches of snow ; was reported on the Saluda Mountains by officials of the Southern Railway. The telephone company reported ofK) telephones our of order and over 10!) police'* broken down as the direct result ,of the burden of snow carried by the j wires. The snow clung so tenaciously j and heavily to the big street wires and I cables that the combined weight of all. with the snow, snapped off big telephone j poles as though they were toothpicks. DR. SWIFT SPEAKS HERE 01 SUBJECT “Pillars and Perils of De mocracy” Subject of Able' Address Delivered by Re form League Speaker, WORLD PROBLEMS ABLY DISCUSSED | Matters of Vital Interest to ( j America Also Touched j I Upon.—Local Churches Sponsor Meeting. Dr. C. F. Swift, an able represents* live of Iho National Reform Association. ( spoke in Centra! Methodist Church here i Inst night under the auspices of the . churches of the city and the orgnniza- j j Iron with which he i« affiliated. Despite the fact that it had snowed ' for several hours during the day ami | the weather was anything but favorable to a public gatherings. Dr. Swift was j heard with keen interest by a large eon-j gregation. He spoke on the subject.. “Pillars and Perils of Democracy.” In the beginning of his address Dr. Swift diems sed briefly the organization of the reform association and its pur-i , poses and then rushed forcefully into' I a discussion of world problems. I Tin* National Reform Association is jan instrument in the hands of the allied J Protestant denominations, organized for ; the maintenance of the ideals of our fa-th- I ers. who formed this republic. | Sixty-five years ago at the call of l Christian men and women east. west, j north and south, a hand of people gath- J ered and lead by the old Scotch covenant- | ers. organized the movement. I P*.ice was its first slogan. National j and international difficulties must be ’finally settled by arbitration instead of j war. was proclaimed in the early history l J of. the movement. Our National Heritage. Ours was a rich heritage. The Puri- : tans and Pilgrims were the product of more than a thousand years. They werp the genuine Anglo-Saxon products of whom you in this state are descendants. ! Highly you have preserved their nobie, race. Today you lend the 48 states of the I’ll ion in tile highest percentage of the ptuat.&nglo-Sftx.cin. what a rich her- ■ it.-tge i is forsaken and we are calling upon (. en gross to restore the Christian Sabbath ta the Capitol city of our nation. • The Heine. We have before Congress a bill call ing for a universal marriage and divorce law. At present we lead the nations of the world in the granting of divorces and broken homes. During the fiist sixteen years of this century there were granted in the United States 1.883.501 divorces. During the last five years there have THINK LIQUOR RAI SED DEATH OF ASHEVILLE MAN Three Other Persons Are Seriously 111 All Hail Been Drinking. A -heville. Feb. 2S.—One man is dead and three are in a serious condition to day as a result of drinking what attend ing physicians said was poisoned liquor. ’ James F. Quinn. <45 years plumber, died at a local hospital of pneuunnia following acute poiisonl __ Lindsay Campbell. V. S. Murdock and | Ed. Dewey are suffering from pioson ing - , - I The physician who attended Quinn said the contents of his stomach appear ed to be composed of red lye and wood alcohol. 1 Thirty minutes after drinking some | whiskey, it was said, the men began to j suffer severely and called a physneian. I Quinn appeared to be Hie worst sufferer and became unconscious soon after reach ing a hospital. His body wam taken to Columbia, 8. C., where his widow lives. V. K. COTTON THREATENED, Gains in ThdVs Production Menaces American Control. | London, Feb. 28. —A serious threat to •American control of the worldV; raw cotton is indicated in recent figures on Indian cotton production. For the five years before tho war India exported an average nf '>o.ooo to 150.000 bales to England. Last year the total was 275,-