s HEK rilL * Editor and Publisher volume l m DEBT iitussijr Visiting at His For flome the President ,p|es With Perplex- Problem. 0\ ASKED FOR HIS advice • the President Has „ No Hint as to ,t He Thinks Should )one Now. ~, vT Ans. 17. —cm— l ln ,' (1 ,- {|,j. (Jiinint hamlet, today grappled toX MS an,! 1: "‘ n ‘ a( ,ling ! problem. kt , American T’ WEEKS V ShT TDK OCTOBER ■ .Mcmiotv-d as I Yob ■ Success,,,.. El',. Ma ,r- .-A"2. 13 0 /'/’/ •• 1 next. ter consid ■ h.s not been Hd'i' prominent ■ ' aar! I*. Hi lies, of ■hlltf'r" ■ ,,f ' Var o p - ,ln< ‘ tlme - B ,' n ‘‘'jiine that his Euld m h )roved » v; a,J "' to continue Week. ■tie. - • ores re pa(..'-;,v;, I ‘-;>2 the pro ■ He r 'ip" !l‘":■■■■’ will not h wiU Wm - :v or Sat- ■ approval B4 f ;; n t!;" i:ia! ‘ ■ oh. Is; ; A,r "b THE CONCORD TIMES Eddie Off the Field A \ Eddie Colling r manager of the l m \ ‘-'hicago White K ' 4 ■ r 1 Sox, enjoys pgjp ■ nothing better sy \ '» than a good game of soli '*?**'* w,>'jß taire after a £?«■ ' MmL hard day gn the .. B ball field. He ■ BBssW- i NhH B finds it restful HB recreation. Ed- Bhk| die, by the way. KI ■ ,| 5 «V, y ' is quite a card f§&H, ■ W* shark and can \\ m hold his own - with any of s them. The above photo was taken HI Imß B in the east just B ',!O B B after the White B B Sox had finished B f B a tough series. Eddie seems to , M be in deep M thought over the B M next play. fl I -v - ' * C >;a ■ 2* ■ T*7. “ —Giamoco de Martino, Italian ambassador to the United States, arrived here today from America to discuss with his govern ment the Italian debt situation. He went immediately to the foreign office where he conferred at length on Pend ing questions between the United States and Italy. Anderson Again Evades Dragnet Spread For Him at Farm House Muncie. Ind., Aug. 16.—several squads of Muncie police and me bers of the sheriffs force who late to day received a “hot tip” that George (Dutch) Andemon, named by Ren Hance in a dying statement as tne slayer of himself and wife, was in a farm hous near Hartford City, Ind., returned to this city tonigh . Early tonight several . ®* l police in command of Chief o Randolph and Chief of Pf^ t,ve l Fred Puckett, armed with not left headquarters for a . fa ™ !j* i£ T !J f1 y between here and Hartford City, I •» - where Anderson was re P ort ! d t j! . in hiding. Arriving at the farm the officers cautiously cloeed m on the place but found that Anderson, who DIRIGIBLE IS NOT ~ READY FOR WARFARE Will Be Some Time Before Lighter Than Air Craft Can Be Used on a Broad Scale, Experts Agree. Washington, Aug. 17. —G4>)—Rank- ing naval officials ace planning an ex haustive study of efficiency of air di rigibles in national defense, but they do not agree w 7 ith wide pub’’, had pre dictions that a lighter than air naval squadron, can be created in the near future. Admiral Aberle, chief of the naval operations said today it would, be a long time before sufficient lessons, could be learned to warrant adoption of any policy for use of dirigibles on a broad scale. , He added that the navy does not . ’contemplate the. building of any big dirigibles for a long time to come. The naval estimate for the fiscal year 1927 now before the budget bureau con tains no request for extensive dirigi ble development since the navy pre fers to adopt the role of onlooker for the present, while private industry ex periments in the building of lighter than air craft. Measuring Height of Clouds. Pairs, Aug. 17. —Measuring the height of clouds is now a current prac tice at Montsouris Observatory, near ‘ Paris, and au ingenious invention I shown there is expected soon to find j its way to all aerodromes. The ap paratus consists of two huge mirrors on the ground; one is a shallow lake of black water, the other is a horizon tal crystal mirror, whicli rotates on its axis. From a “watch-tower” at ‘ a distance the observer sees' certain clouds reflected in the water mirror and causes the crystal mirror to re volve until its reflection coincides with ;the other—thac" is, until the same parts of the same clouds are seen in both mirrors at the same time. The angle to which the crystal mirror been tilted for the purpose is theu measured, and a table that has already been compiled gives the height of the clouds for each particular an gle. r , Rifflans Are Rallying Again. Fez, Aug. 17. — UP) —A French communique dealing with operations against the Riffian rebels say that in the region north of Ouezzan the en emy, scattered after the operation in Djebel Sarsar, is reported to be par l tially rallying around Caid Haddou Er Riffi. v There is little activity beyond the > routine operations along the front, Russian goods sent to Great Bri tain and Northern Ireland last ylear were valued at nearly $100,000,600. has been sought for more than a vear by federal authorities following his escape from the Atlanta prison, had evaded the drag net they spread for him. Throughout the day officers ran down numerous “tips and took time to collect additional evidence against Anderon »nd Charles (One Arm) Wolfe who also was named in Hance’s dying Statement as a com panion of Anderson* Anderson, a pal of Geram Chap man, notorious mail robber, gunman ”nd jail breaker has been sought by “nartment of jnat.ee agents and xfvate detectives ever s.nce they Scaped together from Atlanta. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CONCORD, N. C„ MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1925 OFFICERS KEP UP HURT FOR GEORGE “DUTCH”ANOERSOR Various Persons Have Seen Him Since the Slaying of Ben Hance and His Wife. KEEPS OFFICERS ON THE HIINT Several Places Have Been Raided But Anderson Al ways Manages to Be Absent. Munoie, Ind., Aug. 17. — “Dutch*' Anderson, mail robber, jail breaker, and pal of (Jerald Chapman today still was being hunted for his latest crime, the slaying of Ren Hance and his wife, who informed ou Chap man. Anderson, who has eluded seofes of Federal officers, private detectives and police departments of the entire Coun try since he escaped from the Federal prison at Atlanta nearly a year ago, has been reported seen numerous times on the streets here and in apart ment houses since the slaying of the Hances last Friday night, but each time the police raid the place Ander son is missing. Anderson is wanted by the government to complete a 20 year sentence for robbing a mail truck on the streets of New York. . Last night the police received n hot tip that Anderson was hidigg in n farm house between Muncie and Hartford City, Ind. Armed \yith riot guns several squads of police closed in on the place, but after a complete search df the place Anderson was miss ing. Hance, the police say, has paid with his life because he violnted the un written code of the underworld in squealing on Chapman. Chapman is now being held in the Connecticut state penitentiary under death sen tence for the murder of au officer. HOLMES-POISSON BID STRIKES TECHNICALITY Cheek for Fisheries Prodwets Cob*- pany Property Should Filed With Receivers. Wilmington. Aug. 15.—The Holmes- Poisson ten per cent increase qver the Keith-Scott* hid for Hilton plant of the Fisheries Products Company has struck a snag, according to a letter from former Judge W. P. Neal, of Laurinburg, a receiver of the defunct concern, to Owen D. Holmes and Louis J. Poisson, the latter of Roun tree and Carr, attorneys, and to H. Ford, deputy clerk of the United States court here. The technicality is that the check for $4,876.30, given by Holmes and Poisson, was made payable and de posited -to the credit of the UhSted States district court of East Carolina when it should have been deposited with the Fisheries receivers, Judge Neal and Judge J. E.' Weskett. As the matter now stands, it is stated that Holmes and Poisson, in order to make their 10 per cent in crease over the bid of B. F. Keith and David Scott, would be required to make a new check payable to the receivers as th£ deputy clerk here is not authorized to draw this money from the bank without an order signed by Judge Issac M. Meekins, of Eliza beth City, who is in Europe. DRY' OFFICE WILL BE OPENED IN CHARLOTTE Field ’ Man in • City Arranging For Opening Bureau in Old Mint Building. Charlotte, Augg. 10. —.T. D- Tay lor, field suprvisor of the federal pro hibition department, is in Charlotte, to direct the setting up here by Sep tember 1 of headquarters for this district of the prohibition Service. Under the revised plan )f prohibi tion enforcement headquarters for the states of North and South Caro lina and Georgia will be located in Charlotte and Mr. Taylor is here to establish the office. He has visited the prohibition headquarters at Salisbury, Atlanta and Greenville, S. C., and furniture equipment now used in those offices will* be here for use in the district offices. Crimes of 300 Years Ago. Berlin, Aug. 17.—Traces of crimes committeed in the sixteenth century have been discovered near Noustadt. Workmen digging on a site occupied in the Middle Ages by a hostel for pil grims unearthed two human skeletons. The hostel was kept by a mother and her son, and it was discovered in 159? that for years they had been killing and robbing rich foreign pilgrims, burying the body beneath the cellar floor. The son’s sweetheart overheard a conversation between the two crimi nals aud denounced them. Mother and son were beheaded in the public square of Mussbach. Anti-Strike Situation Quiet. Canton, China, Aug. 17.—OP)—De spite rumors of trouble yesterday, the anti-foreign strike situation remained quiet today. A few foreigners are en tering Canton and have not been mo lested. A Chinese newspaper says the government has issued a proclamation stating its intention to attack Honan Island for the purpose of driving out Li Fook Lum, former mayor of Can ton. His 50th »Term ' Ind I ||| I B B&23&. SB pgHMfcf -m jfl ■ gr JEg i§ n :J B B ■L Tb WI ■ ■ "‘■ixjkr 1 " >» *■+- „ .. tfiylWWpwnM. • f It was nothing new. to Abe L. Wood to .be elected recording secretary of th« • Jacksonville (III.) Trades and Labor Assembly... He is x now, start . Ing his 50th* term in. that office. I ■DRV” CHIEFS MEET IR CAPITAL CITY General Conference Pre liminary to Launching a New Enforcement Pro gram Underway Now. "Washington, Aug. 17. — (A*) —En- larging upon previous plans, • head quarters of prohibition enforcement here has called to Washington every state second divisional chief now ou duty in continental United States for a general conference preliminary to the launching of the new enforcement program. The conference will be held tomor row, aud previously only thirty of the higher officials were expected to at tend. It is now expected that the chiefs of Hawaii, Alaska and Porto Rico will be Pile only absentees. ' Assistant Secretary Andrews, of the treasury, creator of the plan for de centralization through appointment of regional administrators, wound up a series of preliminary conferences to day with his associates in the work. WAGE CONFGERENCES ARE NOT TO BE RENEWED There Seems to Be No Chance For Settlement of Goal Wage Difficul ties. Philadelphia, Aug. 17.— UP) —No in dications of any progress toward a re sumption of the wage contract confer ences, halted by a disagreement-in At lantic City ten days ago were appar ent today at the headquarters of eith er the anthracite operators or the 158,- 000 hard coal miners who have threat ened to lay down their tools at the ex piration of the present scale on Aug ust 31st. - John L. Lew r is, international presi dent of the United Mine Workers, de clined to discuss reports that a re sumption of the wage negotiations was iminent. He said he had “nothing to report right now/’ but there might be developments in a day or so. Mr. Lewis has established headquarters at a local hotel and plans to remain here for several days. Find Silos a Necessity. Asheville, N. C., August 17. AP ' —Farmers of Buncombe County are building silos to take care of the short corn crop, reports Farm Agent L. D. Thrash. In one community, he said, a dairyman started to build a silo and before he got it finished four of his-neighbors had decided to build also. Mr. Thrash stated that the drouth had cut the corn crop to such an ex tent that it would be valueless as grain and farmers were putting it up as ensilage. Legume Campaign in Gaston. Gastonia, N. C., August 17, —AP —A countrywide legume campaign is being put on in Gaston County, re ported Farm Agent L. D. Altman. Leaders in the communities are tak ing orders for the cooperative pur chase of seed and the acreage of soil improvement crops will be seeded this year that there has ever been in Gaston County. “This is the most important work that we can do at this time,” said Mr Altman “and it is in line with work being done in other counties of the drouthstricken area.” New Liquor Law Ruling. New York, Aug. 17. agents must procure evidence of ac tual sale of liquor before they obtain search warrants against private dwell ings under a ruling today by Federal Judge Atwell, of Dallas, Texas, pre siding temporarily in a local court. Judge Atwell revoked a search war rant under which the home of Daniel Massine in the Bronx was raided. LA FOLLETTE READY TO CONTINUE ME I STARTED BY FATHER Makes Plea for Himself and Not Solely Because; of the Fine Record Made by His Father. no newTolicy GETS ATTENTION Will Strive to Carry on the Policies Advocated by Voters at Time His Fath er Was Elected. Madison, Wi«., Aug. 17. —(^) — Robert M. Follette. Jr., candidate for nomination at thpe Republican pri mary for t’iie unexpired term of the late Follette, today pledg ed himself U> continue his father’s policies. Mr. La Follette said he did not ask support because he was Mr. La Folletfe’s son, assenting that “at the same time relationship does not dis qualify me.” He declared he was “free from any political entangle ments.” “I am a candidate on the platform ; endorsed by the voters of Wisconsin r three years ago, when Robert M. La i 1 Follette was elected to his fourth term \ in the United States Senate s If I ] iam chosen to fill the unexpired term, j I shall do all in my power to fulfill j the pledges and carry out the program outlined in that platforim” THE COTTON MARKET Opened Firm at Advance of 13 to 17 Points, December Selling Up to 23.85. New York, Aug. 17. — i/P) —The cot ton market opened firm today at an advance of 13 to 17 points. Failure of over-Sunday weather reports to show anticipated rains in the south- . west evidently disappointed some of . Saturday's sellers. This combined with relatively steady Liverpool cables led to considerable covering or rebuying and the market sold up to 23.85 for December after the call, or about 23 to 24 points net higher ou active po sitions. These figures appeared fd attract* southern or local selling, however, and there were reactions of several points, although prices held fairly steady at the end of the first hour. Cotton futures opened firm. Oct. 23.50; Dec. 23.70; Jan. 23.22; March 23.65 ; May 23.85. i Politics Causes Riot In Sing Sing Prison; Two Convicts Injured. Ossining, N. Y. Aug. 15.—Eight prisoners were locked up in solitary confinement and two more were in the hospitaltoday as a result of a riot in the Sing Sing mess hall winch threw 7 the prison ipto an uproar. Asked what started the uproar, one attache replied: ‘‘Why prison poli tics, of course. The combatants on one side belonged to the “Tammany’ party that won the recent political election in the prison and the other J: fellows belonged to the ‘Cheese’ |. party that lost.” The attendants de- j clared that knives, razors and I crockery were used as weapons and i one prisoner was seriously injured. James Cleary, leader of the minority < party, also was hurt. Wisconsin Democrats Name William Bruce For the U. S. Senate. Wilwaukee, Aug. 17-—William George Bruce, president of the Mil waukee harbor commission and a leader in civic affairs, late Saturday was chosen by the democratic state conference as a candidate, for the seat, in the United States senate left vacant by the death of Senator Robert. M. LaFollette. Mr. Bruce is one of the leaders in the St. Law rence Deep Waterways association. W. W. Ormond Fatally Shot By W. B. Cole, of Rockingham Rockingham, Aug. 16. —A con ference of the attorneys of W. B. i Cole, charged with killing Bill Or mond here on the streets Saturday afternoon, was held—here tliis after noon and it is understood that it ' was decided to abandon the proposed plan of going to Carthage Monday aud seeking by means of habeas corpus proceedings the liberation of Mr, Cole under bond. The attorneys who so far are said to have been retained for Mr. Cole’s defense are Bynum and Henry J. Chesley Sedberry and IL 8. Bog gan, all of Rockingham, and James H. Pou, of Raleigh, and James A. Lockhart, of Charlotte. Mr. Pou was in Rockingham today in consul tation. It is scarcely likely Mr. Cole will seek his liberty under bond at all, but await the October sth term of court to present his defense. No statement has been made by either Mr. Cole or his attorneys as to why he took the life of young Or mond, though his friends insist that he was justified and that all will be explained in due time. i It is generally reported that young ■ Ormond, who was 30 years old, and Miss Elizabeth Cole, who is about • 26, had been going together for sev eral years. A series of letters is ■ said to have passed between the two 1 men in which earfi is alleged to have threatened the other. At any rate, FbilEycjri^)^ ■Jmn. James Robert "Wilson, Rhea Springs,' Tenn., aluminum plant worker, and father o£ five children, wants them taught) evolution.! To insure this, he !has filed in' the federal court at (Knoxville a bill which would make Tennessee statute r against leaching evolution null and void. STILL SEEKING «T BASE IN THE ARCTIC Planes in McMillan Party Find Water But When They Get Ready to Land Ice Has Formed. Washington, Aug, 17.— (A*) —Two messages-from MacMillan Arctic party yesterday told the fiflVy depart ment a story of a battle by the expe dition’s air unit to establish an -in termediate operating base at Flagler Fjord in Ellsmere Island. They related how the navy planes at last had located' open water there, only to return a short time later to find this water clogged with ice. A brief description also was given of the ice skirted shores of the; fjord and it was said that the plaine NA-2, dam aged by Ice several days ago, was be ing repaired on the deck of the Perry and would be ready for service with in a short while. Repudiates Reported ConfessWn. Manchester. N. H., Aug. 17. — UP) — Louis Labombarde, of Merrimac, N. H., who the authorities assert con fessed- to the killing of the Misses Helen and Georgiana Gillis. aged sis ters at Hudson, N. H., on July 22nd, has denied participation in the crime and has repudiated the purported con fession, his counsel announced today. County Solicitor Haselton &aid that he had not been informed of the de nial. Farm demonstration agents at work in piedmont North Carolina held 156 meetings in July at which there were 9.152 folks. These agents also visited 307 communities, near ly 1,400 farmers and traveled about 16,000 miles carrying on their work, reports district agent E. $. Millsaps. Every business house in Apex, Wake County, save two/ ottered to some North Carolina counties. Ormond and his brother, Allison, came from Raleigh to Rockingham Saturday morning, on their way to Byrfle Beach, S. C., and stopped off for the day. It is not alleged that Ormond attempted to Ree Miss Cole; in fact, he was out at Ledbetter’s i*>nd during much of the afternoon where a number of friends were in swim ming! Returning to the city Portly before 5 o’clock, he phoned another young lady that be would be up to see her in a few minutes, and then stepped out to his Ford Toadster, which wan parked against the curb headed east, just fifty feet east of the Manufac turers building steps on Main street. Mr. "Cole was standing on the steps or porch of the building and saw Ormond get into the car a few feet distant, or he either came on the porch just after Ormond had gotten in the car. Without a word, and unseen by Ormond, he walked rapidly to the car, the occupant of which is said to have had his back to the-ap proaching man, and getting abreast of Ormond, be began firing. No struggle took place, other than when Ormond seized the pißtol with his right hand. One bullet ploughed through Ormond’s hand and covered his band with powder smoke. Mr. Cole then snatched the weapon loose and fired twice more, one bullet pierc ing just above the right lung and (Concluded on page four.) \ $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advfeftct. POLITICAL POT IN NEW YORE BOILING - HIGHER THEN EYE! - - . Nomination Petitions Mus Be Filed by Friday, St All Candidates Are Get ting Affairs in Shape* • BOTH PARTIES IN M MIDST OF FIGHTS" Charges Waterman Is “Injf visible Candiate” anc Gov. Smith Is Asked t< Save City. New York, Aug. 17.— UP)- —Wit? * the time for filing nomination peti tions expiring Friday, the municipa ; political pot is boiling strongeh tbai. ever. / aaf William H. Bonnet, so-called in 1 surgent republican candidate for may , or, last night called ‘for a real repdb lican conference to designate a mai t, in place of Frank D. Waterman fountain pen manufacture, who h« charged was an “invisible candidati handed out ou a slip of paper” bj Charles D. Hilles, republican nation al commmitteeman, and city commit i tee chairman. Former Assemblymar | Thomas Wilmott, chairman of the mu nicipal civil league, called upon Gov / Smith in the name of loyal Brooklyn : democrats, to rescue that‘“borough ©J 2,000,000 people from “tha .blight Hynaism.” The governor lifts alread) promised to stump every borough fto the Tammany ticket. The Womens’ Democratic Union, under the leadership of Mrs. Jotin* Blair, endorsed the Tammany ticket ' headed by State Senator James J. t Walker, against Mayor John F. Hylao who is seeking renomination. ‘LOVE PIRATE’ HAS 54.000 WILSON WOMAN’S GEMS , Man Arrested in Norfolk Admits It But Says He Didn’t Intend to , Keep Jewels. Norfolk, Aug. 15. —Charles Watts, 40, alleged love pirate, was held j under $5,000 bond today following a i preliminary hearing on charges he In veigled women of three states out qf \ a quantity of jewelry. Watts admit ted having possession of $4,000 worth of jewelry belonging* to & Wilson, N- C., woman when faced by bis accuser and identified today but he declared he. did not intend to.. keep the valuables. Another hearing has been set. for August 27. A woman from Bluefield, W. Va.. has been called to identify Watts and police meantime asked the court to hold the prisoner as a fugitive from justice for North Carolina authorities. Women allege Watts gained I ms session of their valuables on pre texts assumed after he had made swift love to them. Pola Pays $57,000 Penalty on $47,- 000 Worth of Jewelry. New 7 York, Aug. 13.—The sum of $57,000 was deposite with the cus toms authorities today by Pola Negri, screen actress, in full pay ment of the fines and penalties and duties imposed on undeclared jewel ry, which was received when she ar rived on May 12- It the case had been closed.« , - \ The jew 7 els consisted of. a diamond pendant and other precious stones, which Miss Negri had purchased abroad. Their domestic value was $47,000 to which the additional snm of SIO,OOO in fines and penalties was acsessed by Collector Elline. ' ” —— Taking Testimony In Dhmr Trial. Richmond, Va., Aug. 17. —(A*)—Tak- ing of testimony in the trial of Ru- < dolph Disse, 20 year old slayer of > three persons on July 28 last, was started in Hustings Court today. Commonwealth Attorney Dave Sat- terfield in the prosecution’s opening ; statement to the jury characteriaed ; the killing of Henry Grady Carter, | Disse’s rival for the affections of Mrs. j Vivian Tomlin Peers, 18 year old j clothing model who was alsos killed, as ] a “wilful, premeditated murder." With Our Advertisers. An automobile dealer may be cor rectly judged by what has been thp experiences of his owner with him“. Read the ad. of the Keid Motor Co, * Read the letter of appreciation of a user of Goodyear balloon tires in the ad. of the Yorke & Wadsworth Co. L- Part of Japan Flooded by Rains. Tokyo, Aug. 17. —C4*>—A violent rain storm floodwl various parts of Ja pan today. Several parsons were . drowned. Damage is estimated at be tween $15,000,000 and $20,000,000. SAT’S BEAR SAYS: in Eg ' [ Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; little change in temperature. r :• *1? NO. 12r.