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SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher ■glume xlix ■litical pot now BOILIIO IT CAPITAL Boused: IN ,*oning of General Asssem- J§W !v on Wednesday Draws to ■■state Capital Many Lead- Politicians of State. Hi APR PRACTICALLY K CERTAIN OF POST H]l Be Chosen Speaker of Swßuise.—Senate President H> ro Tem Has Not Been HB[)etided Lpon. However. J;vn. Tl"‘ political pot ■H boiMns here today as legislators were ■ v l , for flic opening of the general on Wednesday. Ldgai W. ,f Charlotte. speaker House, arrived last ntglit. jßHaik about tlie lobbii'- relay developed HB )nv legislation wliiili will come up ■HconsidoraCon. Most of the early ar were roiirornt'd mostly about the of educational and road 9^H(lin. r programs and the question of !,\ in.-'it ut ions and departments H enlarged appropriations. senate president pro tem opening HH. earning a great deal of discussion Only two names had been men- ;i~‘ probably candidates, but it was indicated that either had lined up considerable support. They were Sumner Burgwyn. of Jackson, appeared definitely settled in the with Edgar TV. Phaar the only for speaker. tßm Inaugural plans were beginning to take today but their final formulation await appointment of special house senate committees. It appeared. that the incoming governor, W. McLean, would take the oatli Ks otfice on January 14th, it being ad- by Chief .Tubice Hoke, of the Court. Mr. McLean will ar- lit re from laimberton on e. special the morning of inauguration. —— Klssrnildy WiH Be Marked By Sanity ■ and Conversatism. V Charlotte. Jan. 3. —The 1925 session ■of tlie, North Carolina general assembly wil/go down in history as a legislature market by sanity and cou^ervafbnn,' according to Edgar TV. Pharr. of this ort.v, who is slated to be selected for the speakership of the, house at the Demo cratic caucus to be held in Raleigh Tuesday night. However. Mr. Pharr pointed out. the lig'slafure. will make just as liberal a response to the imperatives of progress as the financial structure of the com monwealth will permit. Mr. Pharr committed himse’f, by in ference. to support only legislation tending towards the strictest economy, lie declared that the legislature would mu vote, at the most, more than $25,- OOO.ilofl in bonds for continuing the state's highway program, will deal with requests of state institutions for ap propriations as liberally as possible in view of the state's financial condition and will refuse to consider returning to the ad valorem plan of taxation for raising state revenues and also will re fuse to consider the proposed sales tax. Enough. taxes will be levied to ratfse revenue sufficient for the state to live within its income, he declared. 4 The legislature this year will be manned by men who are conversant j with the financial situation of the state, who are conservatively minded, but who are not reactionaries, he said. The people of the state, Mr. Pharr sififl. want a halt in bonded indebted ness and he premised that the legisla ture this year will be extremely critical of all requests for money. I-cader of Peasants’ Party Arrested. Belgrade. Serbia, Jan. 5 (By the As sociated p r css). —-’Stefan JRadieh, leader of the (Toatian peasants’ party, was "ar rested this morning in a secret room at the home (i Deputy Kochoutitch and tak (,u to Zagreb prison. Grorge T. Morgan Dead. » Philadelphia. Jan. s.—George T. Mor-j snn. engraver at the mint here for forty 'ight years, died at his home here yes teiday. He was 79 years old. He be cu’.ne ill a week ago. | - ONE YEAR FREE | * “ . W© Will Give Th« Progressive Farmer i * _. |1 —AND — 1 THE CONCORD TIMES L BOTH FOR ONE YEAR< For Only $2.00 ; THE PRICE OF THE TIMES ALONE The Progressive Farmer is the greatest farm paper published and | f V °iy farmer should have it , .. T . _ rt „ _ nl _ ! This offer is open to both new and old subscribers. If , jj taking The Times, all you have to do is to pay up todate and - § $2.00 more for another year and The Progressive Farmer will be sent 4 s " u a "hole year absolutely free of charge. «000 ? n If you are already paid in advance to The limes, J p * J " r ““"ther year, your subscription will be so marked and \ “ 2 - Vftu Tl| e Progressive Farmer a full year. Address THE TIMES, Concord, is. t. - 11. I. ■■■ !W!ffWl U l’ -- ::l ,J THE CONCORD TIMES ! ISSUES BENCH WARRANT FOR GASTON B. MEANS Warinnt Issued in New Yock City by Federal Judge Limlley. of Illinois. New York, Jan. s.—Federal Judge Limlley, of Illinois, today issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Gason It. Means, former _ department of justice I ' agent, when he failed to appear in court ! with hiis attorney Thomas B. Felder, and II his secertary Elmer W. Jarnecke for ! trial on a charge of conspiracy to ob struct justice. . | The warrant wag issued on request of I Special Assistant Attorney General Todd, I after he had produced a telegram from . Dr.— .Toe A. Hartsell. of Concord. N. C . stating that Tleans was too ill to start for New York today. Mr. Todd told the court that Means had been under surveil lance by government operative since his ( conviction for conspiracy to violate the prohibition law last summer, and that J these agents had reported to him last Fri- M day that Means was in good health. No attorney appeared in court for ; Means, although his co-defendants, Fel der and Jarnecke were represented. The charges against the three grew out of an alleged conspiracy to bribe the (le - partment of justice officials to maintain a hands-off policy regarding the sale of the stock by the Cragcr system and the Glass Casket Company. Later Jarnecke appeared in court and announced that he desired to change his plea to guilty. He told Judge Lindley who came here from Danville, 111., to conduct the trial, that he was without funds, and wanted the*court to appoint an attorney to represent him. This was done. It was understood that Jarnecke would be a witness for the government. An inquiry by a reporter of The Trib une this afternoon brought the informa tion that Mr. Means had been confined to his bed since Saturday night. Dr. Hart sefl stated to a reporter that Mr. Means had been suffering with gall stones for j four weeks, and that he had advised an operation. M. P. CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD IN HIGH POINT Ministers and Young People Will Hold Joint Meetings There This Summer. High Point, Jan. 3. —Committees in session here this week decided to hold a joint 'summer conference of pastors and young people of the North Caroliha Meth odist Protestant denomination at High J’oint next June. Heretofore the young people’s confer ence hats been held at Weaverville each year, while the pastors have held their sessions at the Methodist Protestaht Chil dren’s Rome in this city. It was de clared by the committees that it would be advantageous to hold both conferences together. The pastors will open their meeting on (he night of June JJ, continuing through noon on June El ttrffe conference of young people will begin June 16 and will continue through June 26th. The committee in charge of arrange mehtfi for the gathering hope to bring several men of national prominence to the city. Mayor’s Resignation Accepted By Aldermen. Hendersonville. Jan- 3. —In the short est session ever held by the board of a’dermen of this city, the board this afternoon accepted without comment the resignation of Mayor Sam Y. Bry son. Mayor Bryson's resignation was tendered as a result of a personal en counter he had with B. L. Brooks, a local barber, last Saturday and the sub sequent filing of a suit by Brooks against Bryson chargeing him with alienation of the affections of plaintiff’s wife. Mayor pro tem TV. R. Kirk automa tically became chief executive of the city upon acceptance of Mayor Bryson’s resignation. In his letter to the board the Mayor asked the citizenship of the city to withhold comment upon his case | until trial of it. He is said to have de clined a settlement of the ease out of court and his attorneys indicate that he will fight the case and will return to this city to live. He has been in Ashe ville since the trouble accurred. . With Our Advertisers. The Parks-Belk Co. has many bar gains after taking stock. Wonderful val ues in coats, dresses and hats at from 20 to 50 per cent. off. Men’s two-pants suits at special prices also. . The quantity buying of the J. C. Pen ny Co. assures you lowest prices. Read the ad. and learn how it is done. If you spend all your wages you will find they go into someone's bank account. Why not your own? Read ad. of Citi j zens Bank and Trust Co. and profit. The University of Pennsylvania base ball team has scheduled twenty-eight games for next season. I’iS. ROSS BECOMES j GOVERNOR OF STATE i IN BRIEF CEREMONY r For First Time In History of i Nation Woman Takes Oath of Office as Governor—Sue ceeds Her Dead Husband. ; NO INAUGURAL RECEPTION HELD . Mrs. Ross Asked For Quiet Ceremony Out of Respect to Memory of Her Husband Who Died 4 Months Ago. Cheyenne. Wyo., Jan. 5 (By the Asso ciated Press). —The reins of government of Wyoming today passed to the hands of a wpmaioAmerica’s first feminine gov i ernor. Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, swept into of fice at the November election by a plu rality of 10.000, planned to receive her oath of office at noon, clad in mourning for her husband. W. R. Ross, who dentil removed from the executive clmir four months ago. and to retire immediately to the seclusion of the Governor’s mansion. The senate chamber was thrown open to the public, but Mrs. Ross requested that there be none of the carnival atmos phere which heretofore has surrounded the. inauguration of a Governor. Even the customary gubernatorial reception was dispensed with. Mrs. Ross in a statement made when she took the oath, dedicated her efforts to the state "relying upon Divine help for strength and guidance.” Her statement was short and simple, in keeping with the atmosphere of the ceremonies. ROWAN METROPOLIS SHOWS BIG GROWTH Fire Loss For 1924 Less Than Preced ing Year—New Equipment Respon sible. * Salisbury, Jan. 3.—During the year that has just closed Salisbury built more than 200 homes according to the record of City Ehgineer E. W. Cole. The total of buildings of all kinds within the city limits wan a little over one million dol lars. This included a number of busi ness houses and additions to houses al ready firnffried.' .Trod oiitsidr* of the city limits there has been considerable build ing which is hot included in the above total. During the year the fire loss in the city was only $20,570. This is consid ered a very small loss where the total property valuation is $20.000.0900. Dur ing the year firemen answered 76 alarms. The previous year they answered only 52 alarms but the fire loss that year was $135,000. During the past year the firemen had improved apparatus and bet ter equipment for fighting fires and this is given ns one reason for the small loss. During the life of the Rowan county court which was established fifteen years age 17.611 criminal cases have been docketed. Os this number 1,659 were docketed during the year which has just closed. Violators of automobile laws had a good lead over all comers and many of these eases went off with the pay ment of costs. Fines going to the coun ty school funds augmented by a few from the Superior Court totaled over $13,000. CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING RAISED BY r PRESIDENT Provides Best Means of Stabilizing the Country’s Agricultural Market Organi zation. Washington, D. C., Jan. s.—Co-opera tive marketing can and should be made a success in America because it provides the best means of stabilizing the coun try’s agricultural market organization, President Coolidge declared today to the annual convention of the national coun cil of farmers co-operative marketing as sociations. Addressing the delegates at the White House, the President warned that co-operative marketing possessed no magical atributes and asserted that it must start from the soil and be developed upward. ? f “There is a school of co-operators who seem to believe that the program can be started at the top and built downward,” he added. “They want the government or the banks or philanthropists or Prov idence to lay out a scheme big enough to cover the country, set its machinery mov ing. gather in all needed capital, and then invite the farmers to sit in.” Road Builders in Session Chicago, 111., Jan. s—Fifteen5 —Fifteen thou sand contractors, engineers, public of ficials, manufactures and others identi fied with highway construction are ex pected in Chicago this week to take part ( in the annual convention of the Ameri 'can Road Builder’s Association and the j meetings of various allied bodies' The I sessions began today and will continue j through the week. The program takes lup every angle of the billion-dollar busi 'ness and provision is made for ( a full discussion of every paper presented. One subject that will be discusse<l in considerable detail is that of highway maintenance. \ T ermonter Cuts Wood On His 109th Birthday. St. Johnsbury, Vt., Jan. 5. —John Mar ron. of Victory, celebrated his 109th j birthday today by vigorously attacking I the woodpile at the Lynaugh farm, near J fjprp. where he makes his home. Mr. Morron claims to have been born in New Ireland. P. Q., on New Year’s Mrs. Philena Drown, of Kirby, a few miles from hefe, who will celebrate her 104th birthday in May. is Mr. Morron’s closest rival for old age honors in the north country. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1925 Vanguard of General Assembly Arriving in Raleigh at Present Raleigh. Jan. 4.—The vanguard of the I general assembly was arriving here to j night for the session which will formal -1 ly open Wednesday at noon with many legislative matters of importance before it. Early arrivals included many out standing figures of both the senate and the house. Among those due to arrive tonight was Edgar W. Pharr, who it is almost certain will be named as speaker of the house. Although the 1925 ses sion will not open until Wednesday the actual preliminary “ parliamentary skir- | mishes will get under way Tuesday night when both tlie senate and house will hold caucuses. The immediate business be fore the senate will .be the naming of• a president pro tem while the house will be engaged in the electing of a speaker. Numerous names been mentioned today and tonight for the senate opening but there seemed to tye no definite crystal-1 izaticn of opinion, K>n the other hand. | it seemed fairly wc| established, unless. uqforscen developments take place. At I the caucus it is expected that forces of both upper and lowei- bodies will formu- j late policies to be followed out during j the coining session. The legislature will face a mass of re- j ports and recommendations from various committees which will report to the body. | , Among these are prison commission, ' the bus regulation commission, the bud get commission, the state constabulary: MRS. HELEN JOURNEY IS REFUSED DIVORCE j Chicago Judge Declares He Believes Pro- ; fessoi’s Wife Still Loves Him. — ls I Stubborn, Chicago, - an. 3.-—Mrs. Helen Journey was today denied a | divorce from Prof. R. C. Jour hey, of tHjp State agricultural! college. Raleigh. N. jb. In announcing his decision. Judge Joseph Sabbath said l he believed Mrs. Journey still lived her 1 husband, “but was too stubborn to admit it.” Professor Journey’* cross-bill was tak en under advisement! Judge Sabbath wagned Osead Harmon. I young law student, gained as co-respon dent in Journey’s bilf, against remaining a member of the Journey • household. “Despite the evidence against you,” the court told Harmob, “and despite the usual interpretation % of your actions, I am not* convinced of Mrs. Journey’s infi delity. But too ij|ueh nonsense has been going on between you. Professor Journey is wrapped Up in his work. He is a man of unusual intelligence and unwise in the ways of the world. “Mrs. Journey is. a charming little woman, cultured and refined, and was once fond of her bfffUf&'mTT But when yon came into their lives her love for him began to ebb away. I think she still loves him, but is a bit self-willed and stubborn now.” _- - - HALE AND LEAK ARE ELECTROCUTED AT PRISON Pay With Lives For Murder* of Charlie * Garwood, Lexington Taxi Driver. i Raleigh. Jan. 5. —Keneth Hale and [ John Leak, negroes, were electrocuted to- i day at the State Prison for the murder of Charlie Garwood, white taxicab driver of Lexington, N. C., last August 7th. Both negroes had confessed to partici pation in the crime some time ago. but each blamed the other for the actual kill-' ing. | Hale went to the death chamber first | and was seated in the chair at 10:25 o'clock. The 1800 volts of electricity j passed through his body four times before ‘ lie was pronounced dead. Leak was im- i mediately brought into the chamber and at 10:37 o’clock the current was turned, on. Two shocks of less than a minute, each were necessary for Leak before he was pronounced dead. THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady at Unchanged Prices to Advance of 8 Points. New York, Jan. 5. —The cotton mar-1 ket opened steady today at unchanged I prices to an advance of 8 points on the fairly steady showing of Liverpool and a further advance in Sterling exchange, but. soon turned easier. . i Except for slight trade buying and covering, little support was in evidence and prices worked off from 24.15 to 23.76 for March and from 24.45 to 24.10 for May before the end of the first hour, under liquidation and Southern and Wall j 1 Street selling. These prices represent- J ed net declines of about 30 to 37 points. I While there were moderate rallies, the tone of the market was unsettled, owing to increased offerings from the South, j Cotton futures opened steady. Jan. 23.85; March 24.13; Mav 24.44; July 24.60; Oct. 23.88. | Southern Settles Suit by Paying $6,- 000. | Greensboro, Jan. 3.—The Southern J railway today settled with the estate of : J. D. Powell of Ahoskie, who was killed 1 in a crossing accident here Christmas day, paying his father six thousand dol lars. It wad a compromise. Mr. Powell was killed when his automobile was struck by a Southern passenger train. ' The crossing watchman, W. H. An drews, was given a hearing on a charge of manslaughter, but was able to prove that the gates were let down upon approach of the train. i ! Robber Confesses and Large Part of Loot is Recovered. I Chicago, Jan. 3—George Connell, ar rested in connection with $200,000 jewel robbery at the fashionable Park way hotel Christmas eve, confessed to day that he had been one of. the hold up men. Information he furnished, the police stated, will lead to the recovery of virtually a’l the loot. In an attempt to forestall premature release of Connell, several victims, in cluding Mrs. Fannie Bell Wood, daugh ter of Major General Bell, signed a warrant charging him with robbery. It’s about as hard for a man to keep a diary as for a wowan to keep a sharp I, lead pencil. \ commission. North Carolina national park commission, financial educational investigating committee, and the budget commission. It also will have before it the biennial reports of the various de partments' of the state government and the reports of the educational and char itable institutions of the state. The report of the budget commission will not be available, according to pres ent information, before the first week in February. The commission is faced with cutting sharply the requests made by in stitutions for approximately $17,000,000 for permanent improvements and approx imately $23,000,000 for maintenance and administration during the biennium. These figures represent great increases over the appropriations recommended for the last biennial period and the commis sion has announced that for every dollar | it recommends be spent, it will show a dollar which will be derived in taxes to j handle the expenditure. During the first week of the session, | the general assembly probably will hear j the finql message of Governor Cameron Morrison. The Governor has indicated j that his address will be short but he has given no intimation of what he will say. | Governor-elect Angus W. McLean prob ably will be inaugurated on January 14. aud his inaugural address will be pre sented to the body. ! JUDGE SHAW CHARGES CABARRUS COUNTY JURY . Judge Tells Jurors to Use Common Sense in the Hearing of Cases. I In a charge delivered in a very infor mal and conversational manner, Judge T. J. Shaw pointed out to the Grand Jury 1 this morning that the qualifications of their office required common sense, an 1 honest mind and the courage of convic tions. The entire talk was one of plain, common sense, which he urged the jurors to use in determining the merits of the cases presented to them to pass on. Especially important, said Judge Shaw, ; was the use of common sense. Rules had been devised for the protection of life, limbs and property and the rules had to be enforcerd. Os course at times there would be a hardship on persons when the rules were enforced, yet there must be a common sense enforcement. The more people there are, the more rules there will have to be. This was brought out in the traffic rules which had to be made for the'heavy traffic in the busy section of Concord while in the sparsely settled sections of the county, the same laws would not be needed. Ev en where, there were two people, there had to be rules and where there were many people, there had to be many laws. Judge Shaw urged the jurors to de j cide whether or not persons were guilty [of violating the law's and not to try to pass on the usefulness of laws. It was I not the duty of the courts to decide whether they w'ere good or not, it was l their duty to punish the offenders. The Grand Jury was urged to do their i work in a business like way. They should not, said Judge Shaw, waste time in talking about cases which were ob viously true cases. He spoke briefly about the duty of jurors to tell of all the cases they knew and gave a brief sum -1 mary of the other duties of the grand 1-jury. j On the Grand Jury W'ere the following: J. A. Caton, foreman, Don Widenhouse, 1 C. 11. Hartsell, M. V. Murph, B. H. Cov ‘ ington, S. A. Green, M. L. Rowland, Wm. ; F. Glass, C. A. Smith, C. A. Furr, W. M. Faggart, C. A. Boger, John F. How ell, Arthur Culp, E. F. Williams, Yates ' Caldwell, Pink Howell and Willie Slough. ZEB A. DAVIS CHARGED W ITH STRIKING WOMAN Alleged That He Was Driver of Car Which Struck Miss Foy Smith. High Point. Jan. s.—Zeb. A. Davis, a Winston-Salem insurance man, was ar rested by local police last night and re leased under SI,OOO bond for his ap i pearance for trial at Winston-Salem to -1 day charged with assault with a deadly w'eapon. He is alleged to have been the driver of an automobile which struck and seriously injured Miss Foy Smith, young white woman, late yesterday afternoon at Waugh towm * j The driver irf alleged to have failed to j stop his automobile after it had knocked the woman down. He drove to High Point where he w T as caught by the police ( w r ho had been requested to watch for • him. v Chief of Police Blackwelder, of High , Point said that Davis admitted that his ! car struck the young woman. He said that Davis said he failed to stop his au- I tomobile “because I was excited.” Death of Mrs. Lizzie Burris. i Mrs. Lizzie Ann Burris, aged 60 years, died at her home on Kerr street early this morning after an illness of several weeks’ duration, her death being due to an at tack of heart trouble. i Mrs. Burris was born and reared in Stanly County, moving to Concord 25 years ago. She joined the Meadow Creek Primitive Baptist Church in early life, later moving her membership to the Con cord Primitive Baptist Church. She was a faithful member until ill health forced her to discontinue her church activities. | She was married to J. F. Burris on February sth, 1877, and to this union tw'elve children were born, eight of whom survive her. They are J. R., W. D., Lee and B. C. Burris, Mrs. J. A. Cauble, Mrs. W. L. Bost, Mrs. Willie Dorton and Miss Ada Burris, all of this city. Funeral services will be held at Mea dow Creek Primitive Baptist Church on Wednesday at one o’clock, Rev. Robert Helms, pastor, conducting the services. The famous Stanley Cup, emblematic of the Canadian amateur hockey cham pionship, was offered in 1803 by Lord Stanley, then Governor- General of the Dominion, and was won in that year by the Montreal A. A. A. 'ASSOCIATE JUSTICE J M'KENNNA’S HEALTH 1 MAKES HIM RESIGN Resignation of Oldest Mem ber of Supreme Court Has Been Accepted by Presi dent, It Is Said. ADVANCED YEARS MADE HIM FEEBLE Justice McKenna Had Been . Member of Court For Up ward of 30 Years—Served On Bench In California. Washington, D. C., Jan. s.—The res ignation of Associate Justice Joseph Mc- Kenna was announced today from the bench of the Supreme Court. By virtue of upward of thirty years’ service on the supreme bench. Justice Mc- Kenna is the ranking associate justice of the court. He retired because of his ad vanced age. He is in his 82nd year, and three weeks from today will mark the 27th anniversary of his elevation to the supreme bench by President McKinley. Before that appointment he had serv- 1 ed in Congress as a representative from I California, and had been a U. S. Circuit court judge under the Harrison adminis- j tration, and had occupied a place in Mc- Kinley’s cabinet as Attorney General. His health had been unusually robust I for a man of his years and he has ap plied himself with great vigor to the heavy tasks of the court. Several months ago, however,-the death of his wife added an additional weight to his advancing years and he decided to lay aside official cares. It is the general supposition that the retirement of the aged justice will be followed by the ap pointment of another member of the court from the Pacific coast. One of those mentioned is Secretary Wilbur, of the Navy Department, who before he entered the cabinet was chief justice of the California Supreme Court. Chief Justice Taft in announcing the resignation said it had been accepted by President Coolidge. SMALL FORTUNE LAY UNNOTICED Bag erf GoW Passed _B*jd Repassed bar Hundreds for Five Days. Greensboro, Jan. 3. —Slightly under SB,OOO, piost of it gold coin, lay in a bag near the Southern Station at Thomasville from Friday, December 26th, until Tues day, Decmber 30th. before any person noticed it, according to R. L. Lambeth, prominent manufacturer of that city, who told the story here. Northbound Southern passenger train No. 36 has been running in two sections, the first section grabbing the mail at Thomasville with a crane. On December 26th, it is said the heavy sack of coin was placed in a mail sack to be sent from the First National Bank, Thomas ville. to the Federal Reserve Bank at Richmond. the weight of the j coin caused it to deop through the mail sack. Word was sent from another point further north to see if something had not been lost when the mail was snatched, but this word miscarried. On December 30th, Station Agent Pritchett, at Thomasville, while strolling about the station, found the sack of money, with the seal unbroken and it was returned to the Thomasville postal authorities. The valuable bag, wdthin a few feet of the crossing' watchman’s shanty, within 20 feet of the main street crossing, was passed and repassed by hundreds of peo ple, unnoticed. FRENCH MEMORANDUM GIVEN TO SEC. HUGHES Sent to Him for His Personal and Pri vate Information," It Is Said. Washington, Jan. d.—The French mem orandum regarding payment of France’s war debt to the United States was trans mitted today by Secretary Hughes to Secretary Mellon for his “personal and private information." Inasmuch' as the document was pre sented by the French finance minister to ambassador Herrick as an unofficial and private communication, State department official would make no comment on the suggestions embodied in it. They did say. however, that “it was hoped the Clementel memorandum might be made the basis for a follow up.” Father of Fourteen Adopts Eeight More. Anderson. Jan. 3.—Although the father of 14 children, June M. Sweeney,, Anderson county farmer, has under taken to provide for eight more. Not long ago the mother of five children died, leaving only an invalid father to take care of them, when Mr. Sweeney came to the rescue and took the children to care for and adopt as bi» own. He had already his daughter-in-law and her child. This makes a family of an even tw’o dozen, but this does not phaze Mr. Sweeney at all. He says he be lieves that the Lord will provide—that is, give him strength and health, as that is all he needs to make them com fortable. It isn’t very pleasant to read of in dictments in connection with promotion of fraudulent bankruptcies and find that nearly every one of the twenty-five or thirty who were indicted were Jews. It seems that we have some house clean ing to do among outselves and it is high time that we started it.”—Charles H. Joseph, Jewish syndicate writer, in De troit Jewish Chronicle. -i ' Walter Lee Smith has gone to Lake Waceamaw on a ten dajp* fox hunt. He recently attended a sox v hunt at Seven I Springs. * i $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. NO. 52 PREPARE EOR THEIR MEETINGWEDNESDAYi Meetihg to Be Held in Paris Is Arousing Great Interest In All Quarters. —Wonder What Will Be Done. DEBT PROBLEM IS TO BE DISCUSSED This Is General Opinion In Paris as Result of the Ap pointment of Several Aiper icans to Be Delegates. Paris. Jan. 5 (By the Associated Press). —Final arrangements for Wednes day’s conference of finance ministers have been made, and as the day draws nearer interest in the subjects to be considered is growing more intense. The chief ostensible aim of the confer ence is to apportion the billion gold marks in reparations received from Ger many. but the general imj)resson is that this business will be overshadowed by what in the lobbies and the * words “inter-allied debts” are on everv I lip. j Announcement of the appointment as | delegates of American Ambassadors Kel- Ilogg and Herrick, as well as Jas. A. Log an, the regular reparations commission {observer for the United States, has serv ed to strengthen the public belief that the debt problem wilj be a subject of unoffi cial conversations, and it is hoped that these will help' bring a solution appreci ably nearer. The thorniest problem before the con ference proper is that of the American share in the Dawes plan yield. While France, Italy and Belgium each admits, that the United States has a right in equity to share in the Great Britain denies such a right. At the same time those allies which admit tlfe Amer ican claim, ask that their own percent ages be not affected, thereby opening up an extremely important question, namely, the widening of the scope of application of the Dawes plan. « Great importance is attached to the meeting today of the British cabinet, and it is hoped some arrangement may be de vised which will permit settlement of the difficulty over the American claim. Should the British refuse to modify their attitude, it is thought probable the dis pute will be sent to The Hague court for final pronouncement. VOTE ON POSTAL SALARY - BILL VETO TOMORROW After That the Senate Will Again Take Up the MusCle Shoals Problem. Washington, Jan. s.—Congress squar ed away today for the remaining two months of the session with the house fac ing a week that will give other legisla tion including the McFadden banking bill a chance along with' Appropriation bills while the senate tackled the postal 'pay increase issue. As the Senate took up the President’s veto of the postal pay bill with a parlia mentary situation complicated by the pending administration postal rate in crease measure, the house gave over the first day of the week to consideration of measures on the unanimous consent cal endar. The latter body will get back to appropriation bills tomorrow’ when it is expected to reach a final vote on the army pay bill. Proceeding with the postal salary bill veto under an agreement requiring a vote before 4 o’clock tomorrow’, the senate with that disposed of will go back to Muscle Shoals and other legislation. Note Delivered to Germans. Berlin. Jan. 5 (By the Associated Press). —The British, French, Italian and Japanese ambassadors and the Belgian minister today presented Chancellor Marx with the allied governments’ note regarding postponement of the evacuation of the Cologne zone which was set -for January 10th, under the treaty of Ver sailles. $500,000 Fire at Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. s—Two firemen were injured, more than a dozen business firms suffered losses, and an entire down town business block was threatened to day w’hen flames swept a ten-story structure on Pensylvania Avenue, caus ing damage estimated hy the fire chief at $500,000. First Woman Governor Installed Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. s—Extreme simplicity marked today’s inauguration of Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross as governor of Wyoming. The ceremony was per formed in the governor’s office in the presence of State officials and a limited number of invited guests. The oarn of office was administered by Chief Justice Potter of the State suprem court. WHAT SMITTY’S CAT SAYS A//* . L' -J I Fair tonight and Tuesday; not much , change in temperature. _
The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.)
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