rpj, SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
■VOLUME XLIX
limKEs
pOLOROS W HIS
■RESTISL SUGGESTIONS
■cal Estate Men Against Gov,
I enmient Regulation of Res
-11 idenee Rentals in All Parts
■ of District of Columbia.
Jeveral CHARGES
HAVE BEEN MADE
B\'ar Has Been Raging Some!
H Time and President HasJ
H 'Taken Hand—Tenants and
■ i,andiords Can't Agree.
■■ \V:i-iiingt"’f 'l; 111 - ' s - —President Cool
at ,i, e November election was given
extension of his lease on the j
SM-hite House, but nevertheless he is hav
plenty of trouble these days with
landlords.
H |: initiating steps to bring about per-
government regulation of resi
n'rals in tlie 1 bstrict of Columbia.
K,. L.'niidge inis brought down upon his
[■Vi the wrath of Washington real es-
HeUc. ‘
Developments which of late have
■linaomd to crowd from front pages of,
Hivasliitigton newspapers discussion of the!
B'rencli debt question, the postaL pay bill)
End the state of the navy, represent, how-j
Ever, only a new phase in a merry little
war that has been going on for several
years -between Washington landlords and
tenants.
The contest developed during the fall
to the point of near riots at public meet
ings held by the Tenants’ League. Mem
jin-s of the. league accused real estate
lmu of hiring agents to break up their
meetings, and owners of rental proper
ties charged the league with “bolshevtst
ideas."
IYesident ('oolidge entered the lists
about two weeks ago on the side of the
tenants, by requesting Richard Whaley,
chairman of the District of Columbia
rent commission, to draw up a regula
tory bid basin! on the police power of
rhe federal government to maintain san
itary ami moral conditions in the Dis
trict.
When Mr. Whftley completed his bill
the President sent it to Congress with
out passing on its merits,‘but with the
request that it be given serious consid-
I Oration. The biff wtmltT rrea'fe a per
manent commission to regulate rentals
ami would provide that rentals charged
in excess of those established by the com
mission would subject the owner to either
a tine or imprisonment or both.
Tin bill has produced an effect on real
estate men comparable to the bill land
the red flag. They have placed half
page ads. in newspapers proclaiming the
legislation “ a radical assault on the
fundmental rights” of property owners.
The President finally consented to a
conference with representatives of local
interests and with Lee Thompson Smith,
oLXew York, president of the Building
Owners and Managers Association. Mr.
Smith, after his conference, gave out a
siarenient that the President had told
him he was not convinced that legisla
tion was necessary, and that he was nos
familiar with the pending bill.
This statement met with a response
.frail the White House that the Presi
il'at stood where he always had stood,
and iltnt no real estate men interested in
defeating the legislation would be grant
el a conference.
assault made on dial liY
DEMOCRATS HEADS IN SENATE
Withdraws Address Made Saturday
Attacking Party. Robinson is Vitriolic.
Washington. .Tan. 7. —Bitterly assail
ed in the open senate by leaders of his
parry. Senator Dial. Democrat, South
f'arolina. finally withdrew today from
permanent record bis address of
Saturday blaming Democratic
members of Congress for the party’s de
- h'at last November.
Thus was closed one incident in the
r "'v which began on the Democratic
s idf* late last month with the delivery by
Senator I'nice. Democrat, Maryland, of
an aiblriv.s of import similar to that by
Senat«»r Dial. The Maryland senator,
1"' has'been the object of open assaults
hy the regularly constituted leaders
among the Democrats, but hie address
Mdi stands the record.
Renewal of the verbal warfare to
' ;, - v came with a request from Senator
Dial to withdraw portions of the ad
dit-.s j„ w hi,.h im said the Democratic
l‘ :ir ty had lost the election because it
deserved to lose it. and charged political
v a hot age by some party leaders.
Interrupting to say that if Senator
Dm!, after reviewing what he had said
° n Saturday, d(wired to express a frank
iflxtlogy to his Democratic colleagues
! "V v<m]<i meet him “with pleasure,”
UobiriMon, of Arkansas, the
■ minority leader, said the'senator would
l::1vo to withdraw all of the address be
‘t appeared “to have been a de
-''l'ato affront to his colleages and a
.'’tiling of his own ntpst, a discrediting
■ "J tjhe constituency that honored him by
, him.”
(«as Explosion Injures Fifteen.
inc-innati. ().. Jan. B.—More,than fif
,pn "“ikinen were injured, and damage
‘'tmiate,! at SIO,OOO was caused, when
f I /'mkiiig in a main off-tank explod-
P 111 il, ‘ East End plant of the Union
Hh'ct fi(» (v>. today. The explos
oik , " aus * M * t-error not only among the
a ls , «>r more workers, but also
. ,i, >n * r ' 1( ' thousands of residents. Win
' broken in hundreds of homes.
shirc r r ,-' r, ' llnso r n not haunt the Che
llft „ Vi Tavern and it is doubtful if
f'Yjj M ‘atrred the tavern, according to
I'h Y ' Sl ' or,, ‘ r » historian- and farmerly
' u t of the Johnson Club.
THE CONCORD TIMES
, • Ml .• j
WILL SEEK 10.000 NEW
SUNDAY SCHOOL PUPILS
Western North Carolina Methodist Con
ference Sets Goal For the Year.
Salisbury, Jan. 7. —Ten thousand
new Sunday school pupils during, the
year is the goal sot for the churches
of the Western North Carolina Meth
odist conference by the workers’ council
of the conference Sunday school officials
who met in annual session at hirst
ichurch here. The object of the meeting
I was to outline the work fqr rhe year
and set up goals towards which to,
j work. The plans show advances pro-,
posed aong a’ number of lines of en
deavor. All the presiding elders of the
conference except Dr. T. F. Man-, who
is i 1. were present at the meeting, also
the district Sunday school superin
tendents and employed workers of the
Sunday school board. D. 'E. Henderson,
.of Charlotte, president of the board.
| called the meeting and turned it over to
iO. A’. Woosejy, conference superin
. tendent.
Report showed that during the past
* year 1(52 pastors took one or more units
■in the standard training school conduct
| ed. This coufereuee leads the south in
this matter of pastors taking tip the
practical Sunday school training. There
were nineteen of these standard train
> ing schools conducted during the year—
-1 more than were conducted by any other
conference in Southern Methodism.
Plans were made for 24 schools during
the present year.
The board decided to co-operate in
the campaign of evangelism as outlined
by the general Sunday school board, and
a’so to put money in the pastors’ sum
mer school at. Duke university.
1 Revolutions of thanks were drafted to
•T. B. Duke for liis munificent gifts for
i religious and charitable purposes.
Officials of the First Methodist
[church Inst night began plans far the
entertainment of (500 young people who
will be here in June to attend the an
nual Epworth league conference.
THREE CRUSHED TO DEATH
UNDER SOUTHERN TRAIN
Trio of Young Men Killed on Track
Near Asheville —Bodies ' Torn Into
Bits.
Asheville. Jan. 7.—Three Chicago
youths, who left their homes for a
pleasure and adventure trip to Ashe
ville. were killed by a Southern railway
freight train at Sky]and. four miles
south of this city, early this afternoon,
when they are believed to have fallen be
neath the moving train as a “rod” on
which they were “beating” their way
broke.
The youths, according to as complete
identification as couhl be obtained by
The Asheville Citizen, were Daniel
Bain, son of Mrs. Daniel Bain, 331
third boy known ns “Irish. ’ Bain was
18 years of age and bis companions are
believed to have been about the same
age.
Asheville. Jan 7. —Death in ghastly
form overtook a trio of young men, all
apparently about 18 or 20 years of age.
on the Southern railroad track near
Skvland today.
The horribly mangled bodies were
found along the right of way about 1
o'clock this afternoon. They had been
dead two or three hours, it is believed.
- All three of the bodies bad been be
headed. The multilated corpses were
scattered for a distance of 200 jatds
along the tracks.
There was not a piece of either body
’arger than the. size of a man’s arm.
Three blood stained caps, worn by
the unfortunate young men. were found
close together. A trade mark inside one
caps bore the name, Joe Fiddler, Ash
land Avenue, Chicago. 111.
AUTO ACCIDENTS COST
SIX HUNDRED MILLION
Even This Figure Does Not Represent
th£ Full Annual Loss as Result of
Mishaps.
Chicago, Jan. 7. —Automobile aoci
dents annually cost more than $600,000,-
000, according to Richard E. Ivropf, su
preme regent of the Royal Arcanum, in
a safety address here. This conservative
estimate is based on the usual_ $.>.000
for each human life lost and $175 as an
average of each case of personal injury.
Added to this is an average property loss
of SSO in each case.
“This general approximation is natur
ally far from complete,” said Mr. Kropf.
head of the Royal Arcanum’s accident
prevention campaign among its Ed
councils in the United States and Can
ada. “All the best fenders, smashed tail
lights and other minor car injuries can
never be estimated any more than can
the value of eye glasses, clothing, and
other property belonging to the injured.
“The economic loss in time frpm the
700,000 automobile accidents in which
personal injuries occurred cannot be com
noted The figures used in estimating
the cost of the 22.600 fatalities of the
past year and 678.000 non-fatal accident!
Tal only indict, vaguely the terribl.
cost in dollars and cents to America foi
lethal traffic conditions brought about bj
"VveHoddeut figure are . inconiplet,
due to statistical classification whiol
between mo„s an<
locomotives, The]
°sourcf le wiich are
reported to any sourc know ledg
“ll'cutomS accidents would uu
doubtediy swell the total into ■ 'on.
Senate Still Working on Muscle Shoals
Washington, Jan. 8.-The Senate pro
c eed£ with the Muacle Shoala proj™r
:'^Sed v^^rC n ycte,
the Norrk government operation me.
«ure. ___
Telenhone development in C*nad
,1 Jen from the year 1880, when the'lir.
the 5 Dominion wan incorp,
rated by act of parliament.
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Obenchain Weds Again , 1
gx.-jSw *#:»8
“The one man In a million” has married again Ralph R Obenchain. who
won that “title” Leea-usl of the defense of his divorced Wife. Madaiynne
Connor Obenchain. in .her three trials for the murder of J Belton Kenq
nedy in Los Angeles a few years ago, has married Miss Mabel Schmitz.
It. of Evanston. 111. Obenchain is a lawyer and theater manager of
Evanston.
THIRD ANNUAL RACE
RELATIONS SUNDAY
February Bth so Designated by Federal j
Council of Churches—Universal Ob-1
■servance Urged.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. B.—The Federal j
Council of Churches through its eommis-i
sion on the clptreh and race relations. |
has designated February Bth as Race Re- '
lotions Sunday,* and is .asking that the j
■ •hurdles of America dedicate it to the j
promotion of* mutual understanding and
mod will between the races. - Sermons]
and addresses on race relations, studies
>f negro achievement, poetry and mu-j
sic, ami the singing of negro spirituals;
■ire some of the suggestions offered for
the observance of the day. The com
mission has prepared a twelve-page pam
phlet suggesting progranTes, themes and
hymns appropriate to the occasion, copies
>f which may be had from the Federal
Council of Churches, 105 East 22nd i
Street. New York.
Race Relations Sunday was first ob- J
served in 1023 and more widely in 1024. |
It is expected that the third observance
of the day in both white and colored
churches will be more general than ever :
before.
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CHARGE BY BURGLARS
LEADS TO TWO ARRESTS
Burg Hits Declare They Were Promised
s.'>.<soo to Blow Safe, and Got Only
$750. j
New York, Jan. 8. —Finding only $750 i
instead of an allegedly promised $5,000
in a safe, two self-confessed burglars i
made a complaint against the two pro-]
prietors of a jewelry store which the bur- j
. glars said they were hired to rob. In
consequence Peter B. Oliver, United
States bankruptcy referee, ordered the
arrests of the jewelers, Israel Mannor
stein and Dominic Luchesi, yesterday.
The jewelers were taken to the Tombs
] prison and will be arrainged today be
* fore a United States commissioner. The
burglars, John Donahue and David
1 Plum mar, told the referee that the jewel
; cm who failed two weeks ago, had prom
ised them to plitce $5,000 in a safe as
their reward for the robbery which took
place in December.
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a tunity to get some big bargains.
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PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1925
THE COTTON MARKET
1 Opened Steady at Advance of 12 to 17
Prints in Response to Steady Liverpool
j Cables.
j New York. Jan. B.—The cotton mnr
j ket opened steady toddy at an advance ot
j 12 to 17 points in response to relatively
I steady Liverpool cables and favorable re
■ ports on the Manchester cotton goods
! trade.
| Covering and some trade buying on the
, opening atlvance earjri|d Mhy up to 24.23,
4 ,t>P“24 points nboeeFtW to *> leve I of yes-'
I terday. Realizing with local and south
jern selling choked the upturn at this hg
ure, and caused reactions of 6 or 7
points fbom the best, but trading was
comparatively quiet and prices were
steady at the end |of the first hour.,
Opening prices were: January 23.65;
March 23.00; May 24.21; July 24.38;
October 21’.85.
DEAD CHICAGO YOUTHS
ON SEARCH OF .ADVENTURE
Took Earnings Made During Christmas
j Holidays and Came to the South.
I Chicago, Jan. B.—Daniel Bain. Jr.,
I Frank Burwitz and Wm. Quin, the Chi
cago -youths killed at Sk.vland, N. C.,
yesterday while riding the rods of a
freight train, had worked in a Chicago
I department store during the Christmas
I holidays and then taken their earnings
j and gone adventuring in the South. Platts
! were being made today for some member
of one of the families to go to Asheville,
i N. C., to claim the bodies.
| The Bain’s boy father is employed in
j the two mile Crib in Lake Michigan. The
three had worked together, then had de
] eded to travel hobo fashion, despite the
I objections of their families.
Harbor Bill to Carry $38,000,000.
Washington, Jan. 5. —House leaders
1 agreed late today upon the passage at
this session of $38,000,000 rivers and
1 harbors bill.
I The bill, as reported, carried $57,-
000,000, but the rivers a,nd harbors
ij committee plans to meet tomorrow to
: pare down the figures to the amount
agreed upon by the leaders.
Daniel Guggenheim Seriously 111.
New York, Jau. 6. —Daniel Guggen
, heim, financier and a director of the Am
■ erican Smelting & Refining Company, is
- seriously ill at his apartment here. Three
j physicians are in attendance. Mr. Gug
genheim, who is 60 years old, collapsed
I in his room Saturday night. He has
been stricken with similar attacks befote.
WORK OF THE STATE
LEGISLATURE BEGUN
WITH SESSION TODAY
General Assembly Plunged
Into Its Business Program
as Soon as It Convened
This Morning.
COMMITTEESFOR
2 HOUSES NAMED
Resolution Invites Governor
Morrison to Address Joint
Session Before He Retires
From Office.
Raleigh, Jan. B.—Plunging into its bus
iness program immediately upon conven
ing this morning, the General Assembly
began’ to dispose of routine attars. In
the House a resolution was adopted and
sent to the Senate inviting Governor
Cameron Morrison to address a jo ; n.t ses
sion, but did not fix the time.
In the Senate the appointments of
Lieut.-Governor-elect J. Elmer Long, .of
standing committees were read by Lieut.
Governor W. B. Cooper. Speaker Pharr
in the house, also announced his commit
tees.
Governor to Make Address.
Raleigh, Jan. 8 (By the Associated
Press). —Governor Cameron Morrison will
address the genera! assembly in joint
session tomorrow at noon. Announcing
his decision to accept the invitation ex
tended him in joint resolution passed to
day, the governor stated he had not
meant to convey the impression that he
would not address the general assembly
at all before retiring from office, but that
he would not make any recommenda
tions.
“What I shall say,” lie stated today,
“will be substantially howdy and good
bye. As far as making recommenda
tions ate concerned, I do not feel I should
do that. I shal esteem it a pleasure
to appear before tire general assembly
for a little heart to heart talk—a sort of
love feast before I retire from office.”
A joint resolution .inviting the gover
nor to appear tomorrow at noon was in
troduced in the House of Representatives
Try Representative Graham, of Orange
county. It passed unanimously and was
/scat to tl*P Senate for concurrence.
CFRdfk ikk fViflrrt* and—**u**uL
tees were announced today. Each
branch recessed shortly after noon until
11 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Senators Gaston, of Gaston county,
Burgwyn, and Grady, were sworn in this
morning. In addition Senator Burgwyn
took the oathof office as President pro
tein of the Senate.
Complimentary to Governor-elect Mc-
Lean, Senator Johnson, of Robeso l coun
ty, introduced a resolution making Jan
uary 14th a legal holiday in that county.
Following a short just before
noon. Lieut.-Gov. Cooper turned over the
Senate gavel to the new President pro
tern. Senator Burgwyn. He will preside
until the inauguration of Lieut. Gov.-
elect Long on January 14th.
Representative Townsend presented the
report of the eommitte on rules to the
House. The reported rule against em
ployment of newspaper men as clerks was
not contained in the report.
The rules, with one or two minor ex
ceptions, are substantially those used in
special session in August. Two addi
tional committees were provided for, viz:
a eommitte on comemeree and a commit
tee on public welfare. To the former
the proposed bill for creation of a De
partment ot Comqterce would be referred
if introduced at this session.
Representative Poole, of Hoke county,
introduced a resolution which is designed
to prohibit the teaching of the Darwinian
theory of the.evolution of man in the pub
lic schools of the state. It was referred
to the eommitte on education.
Miss Julia Alexander, representative
from Mecklenburg, and the only woman
in the assembly,, introduced her first bill.
It provides for the erection on capitol
square of a monument to the late Chief
Justice*Walter Clark, and calls for a pub
■ lie memorial service for him at a joint
public session of the House and Senate.
Representaive Dellinger, of Gaston
county, introduced a proposed amend
• ment to the constitution increasing the
11 pay of legislators to S6OO a year, with
i' S2OO compensation for extra sessions.
! Revival to Begin Sunday in Gas4onia-
Gastonia. Jan. B.—A city and county
: wide evangelical revival will begin in
I Gastonia on Sunday. February 7st, it has
been announced. The campaign will be
J sponored by the local ministerial a«s
ciation. *
I Rev. George T. Stephens, a native of
Toronto Canada, and well knows in the
South, will have charge of the services.
All plans for the spreading of the serv
i ices throughout the county have been
ieomleted and there will be a union head-
I quarters in one of the downtowm local
' buildings.
Discuss Law Enfroceroent With Presi
dent.
I Washington, Jan. B.—Law enforce
ment was discussed today around the
White House breakfast table. The Pres
ident's guests were Judge Elbert H. Gary,
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and other mem
bers of a special committee representing
the National Citizens Committee of One
Thousand On Law Enforcement, which
yesterday in New York closed its annual
meeting with the adoption of resolutions
for presentation to the President and
the governors of the various states.
World Court Plan to Be Taken Up.
Washington, Jan. B.—President Cool
idge’s proposal for American adherence
to the world courj will be raken np next
Wednesday by the Senate foreign rela
tions committee.
Miss Wilson
This is the latest portrait of Mar
garet Wilson, daughter of the lat<
President Woodrow Wilson. Sh»
makes her home (z> Washington
MILLIONAIRE BOOSTS
SOUTHERNER’S BOOK
Places Copy In Every Public Library in
the South.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. B.—Dr. W. D.
Weatherford, president of the Y. M. C. A. j
South College, this city, has been ad
vised that his new book, “The Negro |
From Africa to America,” has been i
placed jin every public library in the J
South by Julius Rosenwald. Chicago mil
lionaire philanthropist. Mr. Rosenwald (
has long been interested in the race is
sue in the South and is donnating three
hundred copies of Dr. Weatherford’s
book to southern communities in the be
lief that it has a real contribution to
make toward the right solution of this
problem. y
The new book is an encyclopedic vol
ume of five hundred pages, dealing at
length with the Negro’s African back
ground, the horror of the slave trade,
the best and the worst aspects of slav
ery, the progress of the race since eman
cipation, and the various agencies for
interracial understanding. The author
puts forward no ultimate theory of race
relations, but holds that just and friend
ly attitudes between the races today is
the surest guarantee of future peace and
welfare.
SALISBURY WOMAN ADMIRES
. .BABE -■ Jg
>- 4 -**-*»> ,<> |ilM*l|fr| I <»< ■>» .
Mrs. Christy, of Salisbury, Now Has
Baby She Saw on the Train.
Wilson, Jan. 7.—“ What a pretty
baby,” said Mrs. J. J. Christy, of Salis
-1 bury, to an attractive young woman on
the train running between Rocky Mount
and Fayetteville late Tuesday night.
“Do you like it?” asked the young
woman.
“1 do,” replied Mrs. Christy. f
“Then, you may have it,” emphasized
the supposed mother, who reached into
' the suit case and gave Mrs. Christy some
clothing for the infant.
Mrs. Christy accepted the child and
1 RO t off at Wilson, while the young woman
continued on her journey, without giving
her name, the child’s name or any other
' information.
‘ In order to avoid any litigation or fur
■ thor trouble over the posession of the
» baby. Mrs. Christ? secured the names of
several of the passengers who witnessed
• the transaction, and states that she will
i keep the child at all cost.
WOMEN STAGE A FIGHT
IN HOTEL OVER A MAN
Wife Meets Husband and Sweetheart Ap-
I cidentally ami Trouble Was Started-
Greensboro, Jan. 7. —A cave woman
• fight between two women for “the pos
-1 session of one man, which took plad:e
> in a hotel here, resulted in the man
■ skipping out, one woman being a de-
I fendant in municipal court and the other
putting up bond in the shape of her
1 automobile for the man who left,
i ' A wife and sweetheart were the ones
. who fought for the man, W. L. Bowers,
1 of Roanoke, Va., who came here with
f Margaret Evans, police say, and regis
tered at a hotel as man and wife. By
t’ a strange quirk of fate, his wife, from
. whom he had been separated, met them
i at the hotel and the fight began. Cases
- against the Evans woman charged with
e assault and violation of the hotel laws,
l were continued. Mrs. Bowers put tip
her automobile for her husbands apper
ance and he has gone.
L
MEANS CASE CONTINUED
AT REQUEST OF COUNSEL
Judge LimHey Continues Case Until Mon
day So Lawyer Can Prepare His Case.
New York, Jan. 8. —The trial of Gas
ton B. Means, Thos. B. Felder and El
mer W. Jarnecke on charges of conspir
acy to obstruct justice while was to have
begun in Federal court today, was unex
pectedly adjourned to Monday when
Counsel for Means told Judge Lindley
that he required more time to prepare the
case.
Order of DeMolay to Meet in Gastonia.
Gastonia, Jan. B.—Plans are now un
derway for Gastonia to he host to the
first state meet of the Order of DeMolay,
junior "Masonic order throughout the en
tire world, in the early part of March,
next. Officials of the local lodge of the
senior Masons and the junior Masons are
making efforts to have the state meet
held here, and hope to have a large at
tendance from throughout North Caro
lina.
The Gastonia lodge of the Order ol
DeMolay was organized on January 10,
1024. It now has seventy members, i«
was stated. It is understood that the
Charlotte lodge will assist the Gastonia
lodge in getting the state meet whici]
would last Tor two or three days, ac
| cording to present plans.
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
NAVY IS NOT BELOW
Li-s: ; „ATIO, SEC.
OF NAVY DECLARES
Secretary Wilbur Says Gun
Elevation Program Cannot
Be Carried Out Because of
Lack of | Money Now.
CHANGES MUST
BE MADE SOON
And As Soon_ As Changes
Are Made to Some Ships
the Navy Will Not Be Bd
low 5-5-3 Ratio, He States. •
Washington. I>. C., Jan. B.—Although
he declared the Navy Department want
ed a navy that would accord with the
5-5-3 ratio all down the line,' Secretary
Wilbur told the House naval committee
today that because of the administra
tion’s economy policy he would not rec
ommend a gun elevation program or en
dorse a pending $70,000,000 bill for new
construction.
Reaffirming his previous statements be
fore a House committee.
* Mr. Wilbur declared it was the policy of
I his department to apply treaty ratio to
| auxiliaries as well as to capital ships, so
that the navy ns a whole would' be the
equal of that of Great Britain and pro-
J ponlionately stronger in every class than
| that of Japan.
With the completion of certain repairs
on the battleship Florida, he said, the
battle fleet itself would be in first class
condition. The Florida, he added, would
be put in condition as soon as the money
is available. On that basis, he asserted,
there was no ground for alarm that the
navy was falling below the 5-5-3 ratio.
In a letter signed by him and presented
to the committee at the same time, he
said he could make no recommendation on ,
the bill proposing expenditure of $6,-
500,000 for modernization, as it would
be in conflict with President Coolidge’s
economy program.
Washington. I). C.. Jan. B.—Secretary '
Hughes in a letter read today to the
House naval committee, took the position
that the elevation of guns on American
capital ships would not violate the arms
treaty ? although it might have the un
fortunate effect of tending to .promote
1 naval com petition,
JT- The letter also recited that wjjile Great
I Britain had taken the view that the al
.! terations proposed would be a violation
of the treaty, .Japan took the opposite
view.
JOHN SNOOK NEW WARDEN <- 1
AT THE ATLANTA PRISON
Formal Announcement of His A point- ~
ment Made By Attorney General Stone.
Washington, Jan. B.—Formal an
| nouucement of the appointment of John
Snook, warden of Idaho state penitenti
, ary, as warden of the Atlanta Federal
prison, was announced today by Atto**-
' ney General Stone.
Mr. Snook will take office January 20.
It is expected he will have the full staff
of the prison selected by that date.
i
: American Oratory Finds Favor Among
Brazilians.
Rio De Janeiro, Jan. B.—A local
newspaper has published some sarcastic
comments on public speaking in Brazil,
contrasting the lucidity and directness
. of certain public speakers of North
1 America to the wandering vagueness,
nnder similar conditions, of well-known
Brazilians.
1 The writer says that in Brazil the
. public orator as a rule, has no idea of
> time or progress. In order to te'.l a "
! simple fact he piles up adjectives, brings
. rows of verbs into line, creates confus
r ion by abusing the use of details,
r metaphors and imagery. And this not
being enough, be makes his voice quaver
5 in order that the phrase and the speech
be lengthened.
Bay State Governor Inducted.
7 Boston, Mass., Jan. 8. —Alvan T. Ful
j ler, for the past two years lieutenant gov
i ernor of Massachusetts, was today in
-3 sailed in the governor, to which office he
i was elected in November to succeed
, Channing H. Cox. The inauguration
j was one of the most brilliant seen here
-in yecent years. The ceremonies took
place in the hall of the House of Repre
sentatives in the presence of a gathering
that fllTed the chamber to its capacity.
Following the-administration of the oath
4 of office Governor Fuller delivered his
- inaugural address, outlining the policies
of his administration. The new gover
nor was escorted by the first corps cadets,
* which has served as the governor's
cort on ceremonial occasions since 1741.
s In view of the increasing extent to
' which women are taking part in com
-1 mercial life ,in Britain, it has been de-
V cided to introduce a bill in parliament
e making them elegible t® positions as
harbor commissioners.
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