T. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher VOLUME XLIX I Solons Await Message I From Governor-Elect _ I ▲ fceiieved ThattNo Really Im- T portant Laws Will Be Made Lentil Mr. McLean Has Made Recommendations. Revenue bill is £ TO COME FRIDAY ■)ther Important Bills Have || Been Presented But There I Is Little Prospect of Ac tion On Them Now. ■ Raleigh. Jan. 12.—Beginning with art* exepeted tt) be brief sessions ■- th,* Senate and House tonight at 8 ■oitH-k the general assembly will enter second week of the 10215 biennial ■Liun. Members who spent the week- H,d at their homes throughout the state. Here returning today to be on hand for 'sitting. ■ The opinion is expressed by many of members remaining over in Raleigh ■ r week-end. that the enactment of important legislation may not be before the general assembly H urs tl'e new governor’s recommenda ■o. After his -first formal message ■ Jaw making body which will like- be delivered between bis inauguration and February Ist there will H* conferences between the executive aud Hem hers "f various legislative commit ■ Several important bills, however, al- Beady have been introduced. One that Bvill likely call forth much debate is the King bill designed to repeal the exemp tion on foreign stocks. Then there has *>on placed in the hopper a bill designed ;o regulate commercial motor traffic. The [Vole bill, designed to bar teaching of ‘volution in the public’ schools is with he commit tee on education and may be ■eported out soon. This, as it has noth r.g to do with what are generally known is policies, is’ expected to call for no par icular lineup. • Jiust what turn the dis ■iissions might take may not be subject i, much expressed opinion. The new revenue bill is expected to >e ready by Friday of this week. This )ili will be submitted to the State budget lommission which after recess of nearly wo weeks will meet again on Tuesday n the governor’s office. The revenue till F being drafted by the State board >f ssesssments, composed of R. A. >oughton. State commisaioner of reve ille. W. T. I,ee. chairman of the North fCatoliita Corporation Commission, and Llantes S. Manning, the attorney general. fTbe law requires that the revenue bill be drafted within ten days after con- j vening of the geueral assembly. In drawing the new bill the framers j are said to have discarded the idea of j any sales tax to raise additional reve- 1 nues. ‘ The inauguration of Governor McLean j will be one of the most important events ' of the week. The ceremonies incident * to this will take up nearly all of Wed- • nesday beninng at noon. Members of the general assembly will meet in their' respective halls and then go to the audi-J torium where the new governor and other j ,elected State officers will take the oath, j Although the new executive generally touches upon the policies in his inaugural address, thus is not what is termed a ’’me-sage to the general assembly” in the strictest terms. There will be a meeting of the house committees on courts and judicial dis trict' tomorrow, at which time definite action is expected looking toward a mea sure to'increase the number of superior court judges and increasing the number of judicial districts. There will be a joint session of the Boise and Senate tomorrow for the pur pose of declaring the results of the 1924 elections. The electors chosen to cast the State’s vote for John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan for President and Vice President were called to meet in Ra loigli at noon today. Want Jobs as' State Policemen. Raleigh, X. C.. Tan. 12. —Applications f"r jobs as state policemen have already begun to come in. The first, receivede at thd office pf the secretary of state, was from Rosemary. The applicant, knowing that a bill for the establishment of a State constabulary will likely be intro duced if a favorable report is made by the commission studying this question, gives hF course-at a school for detectives as reference. “I am a graduate detec tive.' la* writes, “I am now just after '"day making my inspection with your officers on the farm. 1 pan identify any man or anyone *»'.v time lie might escape from your farm. 1 mu now employed but will accept a job with you as a guard and I will prove my work." •‘Yours truly, ‘‘L. W. E.” P 8. In answer kindly refer to the ■number in upper left hand corner of this letter, Thanks*! Exhibition to Be Made at Next County Fair. committee from both the city and tiiral schools mets in the court house on li ls ' Saturday aijitl drafted a premium f° r a school •'exhibition to be made tliP county fair next wall. This list I ‘ " i’tdcs work through the primary de ■ hartment. grammar school department B ,u ‘d liigli school department. It pro- B ' . f" r some handsome prizes and a ■j" s ty ~ f articles to be exhibited. The ■ will he confirmed by the fair asso- H n*? r *° n ' P r ‘ ntp * and Put in the hands of ■ the teachers throughout the county ■ bn'' r *" mxt * ew d a >' s that they may ■ H B>u at once to provide their products ■ for the fair. I sIM *; 1 n ' tP( * States government pays ■in i‘ V more than ten cents for each B e/l serv< soldiers. Three meals for cost the army 31.65 cents. THE CONCORD TIMES r ’ , FURNACE MYSTERY IS ;1 DISCUSSED BY PASTOR 5 Rev. Mr. Sheatsley Breaks Silence Re garding Cremation of Wife in Fur nace. Columbus, Ohio. .Tan. 11.—Anonymous I letters, purporting to have been written ' by members of his congregation today caused Rev. C. V. Sheatsley. pastor of Christ Lutheran church, of Bexley, to \ discuss before his congregation the mys- J tenons cremation of his wife in the fur - ( nace of the parsonage on November 17. . It was the first time the pastor had mentioned the tragedy since resuming his pulpit. “Several anonymous letters, purport - i ing to have been written by members of » my congregation,” the Rev. Mr. Sheats ! ley declared, “have asked me why we “ have not mentioned the tragedy that t took place in our home.” j This statement brought Rev. I)r. Ed , ward Pfeiffer, professor of Capital uni versity. where the Rev. Dr. Sheatsley is I professor of religion, to his feet with an j appeal for the pastor to discontinue his remarks. I "This congregation has gone on record ns expressing absolute confidence in the j innocence of our pastor and of every , member of his family. I, personally, was dissuaded with difficulty from offering a | reward of SI,OOO for information leading i to the conviction of any person or per ; sons guilty in this affair. What do the people want? Did our resolution have no weight?” I)r. Pfeiffer declared. | Columbus newspapers have printed a ■ number of letters bearing on the Sheats ley furnace mystery, many of them de nouncing the pastor and members of his family for not offering a reward for a solution of the mystery. Tt was publica tion of these letters and others, written directly to the pastor, that caused him to discuss the matter before his congrega tion. The Rev. Mr. Sheatsley stood silently, and with bowed head, while Dr. Pfeiffer talked, then answered : “Dr. Pfeiffer has misunderstood me. It is I. not the congregation, who has been questioned. I wish to ask my con gregation to wait in patience until the rigid aud thorough investigation now be ing conducted by the regularly constitut ed authorities is completed and their findings made public, and I wish all of you to rest easy in the confidence that when findings are made public, neither I nor any member of my family will be in any way criminally implicated.” The pastors’ last remarks were direct ed toward stories carried in local pa that County Prosecutor King had sub mitted evidence gathered by his investi gators before a grand jury. Mrs. Adie Sheatsley's body was found lin the furnace of the Bexley parsonage ! late in the afternoon of November 17 j when the minister returned from town. A coroner made a preliminary exami nation and expressed belief that the wo -1 man was a suicide. Prosecutor King, . however, was not satisfied with the de cision aud began an investigation which } lasted for several days. Failure to un 'cover any new information led him to ac- I cept the coroner’s official suicide verdict, j Prosecutor King would not discuss the j evidence alleged to have been presented to the grand jury. ENGLAND AND FRANCE ARE AGAIN FOG-BOUND Number of, Street and Rail Accidents Oc cur in London and Paris. London, Jan. 12 (By the Associated Press. —London is again fog-bound. The worst fog in many years yesterday caus ed a number of street accidents and some deaths. Traffic stopped almost entirely. There were numerous cillisions between buses in which passengers were injured. Causes Wrecks in Paris. Paris, Jan. 12.—Three rear-end train collisions occurred in the Paris railroad yards this morning during one of the heaviest fogs France has evei 1 experienc ed. Nine persons were slightly hurt in one of the collisions. To Study Problem of Distribution. Washington, I). C., Jan. 12.—A nation wide investigation intended to clarify problems of distribution is to be launch ed at the first meeting of the National Conference on Distribution, which will open in this city Wednesday and will con tinue over Thursday. The call for the gathering was issued by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and has met with a hearty response from many representatives of the manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing interests. Rep resentatves of the “consuming publc’ v are also on hand to take part in the con ference, which is expected to name com mittees and outline the plans for inves tigation. This survey, dealing with an essential factor in the nation’s economic life, is understood to have the approval of Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, and of a number of industrial leaders January White and Clearance Sale at the Parks-Belk Co.’s. The big White and Clearance Sale at the Parks-Belk Company will begin on I Thursday morning, January 15th, at 0 o’clock. The store will be closed all day i Wednesday so that the prices of goods ! may be marked down for the sale. T. e : sale will last through Monday, February ' 9th Everything in the whole store will t be reduced except contract gooods. Read ■ two pages of ads. in this paper today 1 and be ready for this feast of bargains. - Kellogg to Accept the Secretaryship. f Paris, Jan. 11.—Frank B. Kellogg, the 7 American ambassador to the court of bt. 7 James, will accept the poet of fVe secre * tary of state tendered him by Coolidge on the resignation of C harles Evans Hughes. s —' . Thi» date in Sport Hfetory (January r ifi 1928) —The Passaic High School i®Ae.Fal team rvon ita 5,745th conae eutive game today. CHARLES TC HCnuro Who has resigned as Secretary of State in President Coolidge’s Cabinet. TIIE DAIRY COW j Tliere Are 300,000 Cows in the State, Producing: Yearly 03.000,000 Galons. Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 12. —That North Carolina is interested in the dairy cow ‘is evidem*ed by the fact that the annual i farm of the dairy products of this ! state averages $37,000,000, according to an announcement issued here today t>y John A. Arey, dairy extension specialist for the State College of Agr'culture. There are 300.000 milk cows in the state that produce annually 93,000,000 'gallons of milk, or about 41.2 gallons of. milk per inhabitant, says the annouuce | meat. However, all persons in the state get their share of milk, it is point ed out, because much of this production is converted into butter aud in the east ern counties there is a scarcity of cows. To {ake care of this production of milk, the specialist asserted, there are now in operation in North Carolina 75 creamer ies, which make ice cream, cheese, but ter and pasteurized milk. These factor ies. it was explained, received their raw product from approximately 10.000 farm ers aud paid them in cash each month. “While uot all cows producing milk in the state are of purebred lineage,” says Mr. Arey, "we have bred one cow which has given over 20.000 pounds of ~ milk in one year. This cow is owned by R. E. McDowell, of Mecklenburg county 1 and is one of the leading dairy cows in the United States. She is an exception, however, because the average milk pro duction per cow in North Carolina is less than 3,000 pounds per year. “Our- great problem now is to learn how to feed our cows better: to establish fetter pastures and to build up the ex isting herds of-eattle by-*h». use of better sires. We are making progress along all three of these lines ahd I look to see the day, not so far in the future, wlied the average milk production of 3,000 pounds annually will be greatly increased.* I al so look to see the time when the number of milk cows will be increased by several thousand above, the 300,000 now on our farms.” ORGY OF LOOTING AFTER LATEST CHINESE COUP Soldiers of Chi Hhich Yuan and Chang Yung Min Are Raiding the Country- Shanghai, China, Jan. 12 (By the As sociated l’ress). —Both victor and van finished in yesterday’s coup, by which i Chi Hsieeh Yuan, deposed limitary gover nor of Kiangsu province, regained con trol of Shanghai, united this morning in an orgy of looting. Soldiers of both General Chi, whose attack was a defiance directed at the < I rovisional gfvernmont in Peking, and of the defending forces led by the Peking appointee. Chang Vang Min, ran wild through Nantao. the native city, which O'ijoins the French settlement here on the Smith. The native merchants and household ers today were frantically removing their possessions into the protected foreign quarters iu defense of which the volun teer corps, composed of most of the for eigners in Shanghai, had been called cut. The volunteer corps, aided merchants and members of the Chinese fire fighting brigade, was this morning making futile eff >rte to cope with the situation. M ILL WAGE BITTER FIGHT AGAINST DIAL Democrats Do Not Want Him Appoint ed to Interstate Commerce Commis sion. Washington, Jan. 12. —Arosued by re ports that President Coolidge plans to appoint Senator Dial, Democrat, of South Carolina, to she Interstate Commerce Commission, Democratic -senators are preparing to wage a fight on the South Carolina senator, should his nomination b>; sent to the Senate, and have ouveyed notice of their determination to the Pres ident. White House officials have re fused to acknowledge that Senator Dial is uuJer consider alien. Will Commercialize 801 l Weevil’s Plans. ! Washington, Jan. 11. —The part of the boll weevil in the scheme of national de fense is assuming some degree of import -1 ance in army circles. Secretary Weeks has been informed that an Ogdensburg, N. Y., company, is ; ! being organized to equip airplans to spread poison over infested fields, and ' such a new outlet for production is held ‘ tot be on benefit in supplying a new * commercial aircraft market. r Ninety-five per cent, of the airplane orders in the United States at present, Secretary Weeks said he had been in formed, come from the government and ? either outside patronage. t Supreme Court Decision. g • Washington, Jan. 12 —The States have no authority to compel a private carrier by motor vehicle traffic to engage in pub jr lie traffic for hire, the Supreme Court de -1 cided today in a case brought by the - Michigan public utilities commission and | others. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CONCORD, N. C„ MONDSDAY, JANUARY 1^1925 WARRANTS fin GOV. DAVIS HiSSELL DAVIS ARE ISSUED Governor of Kansas and Son Are Charged With Solicit ing and Acceding Bribe In Exchange For Pardon. GOVERNORStIRE OF HIS GROUND Says There A*e No Grounds For Warrants and That the Bribe Was Plot by His En emies to “Get” Him. I —— I Tokepa, Kansas, Jaji. 12 (By the As sociatede Press). —Jonothau M. Davis, governor of Kansas, ami his son. Russell. 28 years old, were charged with solicit ing and accepting 'a bribe of $1,230 in | payment for-a pardon, in a warrant i sworn out here todag by Tinkham Veale, county attorney. They are charged with accepting a bribe for pardoning Fred W. Pollman, banker. County and State officers at a confer ence yesterday agreed that • warrants should be sworn out and served on the governor and his soft before the inaugu ration exercises at which Mr. Davis will relinquish his office. Formal filing of the charges would be welcomed as an opportunity to “clear his skirts,” Mr. Davkr asserted. “I don’t believe there is sufficient evidence to jus tify the filing of a','charge,” he said. "However, if they want to file, let them come ahead.” The governor assented that while his son hail accepted th«- $1,250 last Friday night, upon delivering a pardon to the banker, the trausactftHj was a frame-up to hurt him politically, and that his son had returned the motley when he realized what had happened. _ Governor Davis pefrwinlly appeared in court shortly after the warrants were is sued to answer to them. The bond of each defendant was jjet at SI,OOO and a hearing was set for January 23rd, at 10 o’clock. When he appeared >Sn court the gover nor had not decided-’, whether he would attend the inaugurafeperemonies for his successor, Governor-Elect Ben S. Taulen. He had prepared a-J>fApf address to be de livered as YetMngbut his at torneys differed in -advising whether he should attend. THE COTTON MARKET Opened 5 Point Lower and Sold 12 to 14 Points Below Saturday’s Closing. New York, Jan. 12.—The cotton mar ket opened five points lower and sold 12 to 14 points below Saturday’s closing under liquidation and local and southern selling, promoted by disappointing Liv erpool cables. March declined to 23.74 and July to 24.26 although there was con siderable covering and a little trade buying an a scale ddwn. The opening prices were: Jan. 23.60; March 23.82; May 24.17; July 24.38; Oct. 33.85. With Our Adverstires. You will find some wonderful dresses at clearance prices at Fisher’s during his sale. Corsets at half price. Ten per cent, off on all hosiery. Some big opportunities for saving await you at the Parker Shoe Store. Coat values at the J. C. Penney com pany at only $9.90, made of block cut polaries, angoria polaries and other styl ish cloths. Fancy sleeves, button trim- novelty pockets. Cline & Moose just now are making a big drive on flour. They sell Melrose, Cream of the Lake and Liberty Self-Ris ing. They have just received a big ship ment on contracts that were made at lower prices. If you have butter fat to sell, see H. A. Casper, Concord R. 4. He will call for it. Average price paid for butter fat 45c per pound from January Ist to December 31st, 1924. Mr. Casper rep resents the Mooresville Creamery. The 1925 cross-country cycling race for the international championship is to be started from Paris on the morning of Febuary 8, the day following the annual Union in the French capital- France, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, and several other countries will be repre sented in the race. iiaß " a;aaaa f | ONE YEAR FREE , * W© Will Give The Progressive F armer —AND— THE CONCORD TIMES j I* BOTH FOR ONE YEAR For Only $2.00 \ THE PRICE OF THE TIMES ALONE The Progressive Farmer is the greatest farm paper published and “ every farmer should have it. I This offer is open to both new and old subscribers. If you are al- | ready taking The Times, all you have to do is to pay up to date and $2.00 more for another year and The Progressive Farmer will be sent | ? you a whole year absolutely free of charge. _ = If you are already paid in advance to The Times, just pay $-.00 p for another year, your subscription will be so marked and we will send | you The Progressive Farmer a full year. Address ! THE TIMES, Concord, N. C. i . i Ui,. iiiiiiiaiifaiifii'iSiigKii«iililiSiiig..ii^i' 1i -ITT II .j ..11.1.-11 11. ■iliiii.i.i.". 11l T I ■ [ At Conference. HiUIBBBi 0 ... Sb b Colonel Jame£ A. Logan,, observer for the Reparation Commission, wiR ‘sit in” on the finance ministers* conference in Paris* TRIAL OF GASTON MEANS UNDERWAY AT PRESENT Jury Is Being Chosen by Judge Lindley, Who Will Preside at the Trial. New York, Jan. 12.—A judge-picked jury will hear the testimony at the trial of Gaston B. Means, former department of justice agent, and his one-time attor ney, Thomas B. Felder, on charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice. The trial began today after many days with Means in court as the result of a bench warrant served on him at his Con cord, N. C., home where he pleaded he was too ill to appear in court. Federal Judge Walter E. Lindley, of Danville'. 111., refused to permit the defendant’s at torneys to question the prospective jur ors undertaking the task himself. At the request of Felder’s attorneys, he asked the talesmen concerning their at titude toward the Ku Klux Klan. It was said that the star government witness would be Means’ former secre tary, Elmer W. Jarnecke, a co-defendant, who-pleaded guilty a week ago. The three wore charged with having accepted S6S,(XX) from members of the Crager System, a stock selling organization, on me representation that they would bribe former Atttorney General Daugherty and other government officials, to prevent their prosecution for alleged stock frauds. NONE KNOWS WHERE SEALS stay during winter One of Nature’s Secrets Which Baffle the Scientists—Animals Disappear Mys teriously. No one knows where the seals go in winter. In Alaska they begin to appear on the islands of St. Paul .-and St. George about the end of April or the first part of May, and toward the latter part of August or in the first weeks of September they disappear as strangely and mysteriously as they came. This is one of nature’s secrets, which she may keep most successfully hid from the scientists as well as the prying eyes of the merely curious and inquisitive. Even in the days, -years ago, when the seals numbered 5,000,000 or more, apparently some signal unknown to man would be given and the next day the fog wreathed rocks would be bare, the seals having deserted the islands. 1 With their slipping! off into Bering Sea all trace of them was lost until the return the following spring. Then some morning they would suddenly reappear, disporting thpmselves in the water or on shore. First Anniversary Sale at Robinson’s. The First Anniversary Sale at Robin son’s will begin Wednesday morning. January 14. This sale will be combined with their second January Clearance Sale. The entire stock of silk and flannel dresses has been grouped and the prices boiled down. They keep only the best quality of goods, and of recognized standards. See big ad. in today’s paper for prices on hundreds of things this firm carries. Require Hubby’s Consent. The New York and Cuba steamshjp committee has served notice that~~it will not transport married women to Yuca tan unless they produce written consent from their husbands. Too many women have been journeying to the Mexican port just to get divorces. For dissolv ing marriages, Yucatan is said to heat Reno all hollow. ~~i | ';jH d in j RegarcTiu Reparations #• X SPECIAL SERVICE ON X * THE WORK OF THE 1925 * m GENERAL ASSEMBLY. * * * The Concord Daily Tribune has Wt. made arrangements to give its read- eps excellent service by wire every day on the proceedings of the State General Assembly. Read The Tr:b- SK une every day, and get today's news & today. ' * * 'Js nI/ M/ /Tn /f\ 5T\ /Tt tJ Jft /K porters. This afternoon when the vote f on the Wadsworth amendment for a com mission with power to lease came, it re , c-eived but five votes. Senator Curtis explained the Presi [ dent’s attitude to the senators and-rep-1 . resenatives of the press. , Coolidge’s Reason Given. “The President,” said he, “wants to get r into propositions, one for ! the leasing of Muscle Shoals and the > other for government operation until a lease can be made. For this reason, and j not because one bill was introduced by Underwood and another by Norris, tlie President favors the Underwood propos al. which covers the two important points . in his mind.” Senator Curtis added he had been for [ the Underwood bill from the start, and > thought it should pass. Should Right the Wrong. \ Raleigh News and Observer. 1 Representative King has introduced a . measure that seeks to repeal an inde . sensible piece of special privilege that was placed in the laws of 1923. By reason of the whispered promises that such ecome a citizen of North Carolina and there is no hope for larger inheritance taxes. Shipping Board Committee Meets. Washngton. D. C., Jan. 12. The House ' committee investigating the shipping | board was called today to receive further H testimony on the activities of that or * ganization and its subsidiaries. Commis [ sioner Plummer, vice chairman of the " board, was summoned at his own request | as a witness. > Editor of Lynchburg News Dead. I Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 12.—Walter E. It Addison, editor of the Lynchburg News, if died here at 9 o’clock this morning, after | six days’ illness of pneumonia. Kansas City Bank Robbed. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 12.—Four men I held up and robbed the Community State pi Bank here today, after forcing about sis -1 i ty customers and officials of the bank to ; % lie on the floor. $2.60 a Year, Strictly in Advance. . To Give 2 1-4 Per Cent, of i the Receipts From Ger many to America For Her War Damages. ; n ! OTHER POINTS TO BE SETTLED SOON ' * , Under Agreement Allies Will : Get Less From Germany i! Than They Thought Under the Dawes Plan. ■ ■■ - Paris, Jan. 12 (By the Associated Press). —Allocation of 2 1-4 per cent, of the receipts from Gertnany under the Dawes plan, beginning with the first an nuity, to payment of American war dam ages is the first definitely settled point in the discussions of the inter-allied finan cial conference. . v| The other points in which the Ameri can delegation is interested are in a fair way toward settlement to the satisfnc-' tion of Washington, but considerably more negotiation is necessary, and the chances are that the plenary meeting of the con ference which was postponed from today ' until tomorrow may be put off another day. The share to be reserved to the United States will decrease the percentages of the allies, France ceding the greater part or 1 3-4 per cent., but it is pointed out that extension of the period over which occupation expenses were spread, under the Washington agreement, com pensates largely for these concessions, as it will take 50 per cent, less from the reparations payments. <|| The decrease in percentages will be further offset by the fact that within a couple of years, after Belgium has been paid her priority in full, the Belgian per centage will fall from 8 per cent, to 4 1-2 per cent. kU Agreement Accepted in Washington. - Washington. D. ... Jan. 12.—The tenta tive agreement arrived at in Paris be tween American representatives and the allied finance ministers has ben accept ed by the Washington government. ' Acceptance of the arrangement was • made known todgy at the State Depart ment, where it was emphasized that no departure from the American policy to ward collection of claims under the Dawes r plan from German annuities was involv ed. • INQ gyCCESSOB NAMED , President Has Not Yet Named New Am erican Ambassador to Great Britain. r Washington. Jan. 12. — While President ! Coolidge deferred action on . of a new ambassador to London, the Senate moved today toward confirmation I of two of the major nominations sent to - the capitol last week. I The selection of Attorney General l Stone to a place on the Supreme Court was approved by the sub-committee of the ■ judiciary committee to which it had been referred. '(’has. B. Warren’s nomination to suc ceed Mr. Stone as head of the Depart ment of Justice was referred to a sub committee, as is the usual custom. Meantime, last week’s sudden upsets in high places of the government gave po litical Washington a tempting morsel of gossip and led to many rumors of other 1 important changes in the near future. One report even sought tot explain Sec retary Hughes’ resignation by forecasting his early appointment to succeed Wm. H. Taft as Chief Justice, but Mr. Taft’s friends indicated that he had no inten -1 tion of leaving the bench until he reaches the retirement age of 70 in 1027. Labor Board Can Compel Witnesses to Testify. Chicago. Jan. 12 (By the Associated Press), —Federal Judge Wilkereson to day for the second time upheld the right of the railroad labor board to oomi>el witnesses to appear and testify before it. Counsel for the defendants, J. Maguire, local chairman oof engineers on the Chi cago & Northwestern Railway, represen ! tative of the Brotherhood of Locomotive engineers, indicated an appeal would be taken. ' i - Does Not Want Investigation. Washington, D. C., Jan. 12. —Aroused . to public charges of liquor drinking by ■ members of Congress, Representative Till * man, democrat of Arkansas, urged the ‘ House today not to dignify them by au [ thorizing an investigation to determine 5 their troth. k T : Caught With Whiskey, One Year and 1 SSOO Fine. * Charlotte, Jan. 10. —EJoyd Dewese, : city policeman caught by Deputy Vick Fesperman recently with a lot of whis key, yesterday was sentenced by Judge 1 Stack to one year on the roads and SSOO 1 fine. r In the new Memorial Gymnasium the University of Virginia has the largest playing floor for indoor sports of any 5 college in the East. 1 r ■■■ ■ ■ —- WHAT SHITTY’S CAT SAYS r> Unsettled tonight; Tuesday fair, LIIH NO. 54