North Carolina Newspapers

1 Editor and Publishei L pSCOTT mikoice Lie long? I, # ( State's Attor ing He Will lg .Asylum. ItiHEAD IpENIES REPORT I Ha? Not Said That ■Change Has Taken I Recently in Scott’s pion. | An un ml. ~f die (-raff of State's was «iuotenl by the Hj ExstniH*" 1 ' today as saj- K,.,1l T. Scott, convicted be returned from the f or Insane within Kt) fa.e the (’"ok county Es more. Em said the attache of the Ej f dc office had revealed- ELai! decision that Scott Ep had been made by Dr. Etoidvi. superintendent of Ej and that the latter was Cv rttrrobcration of his de consultant experts be- L Scott back. Eptji touch with Dr. E eariy today were unsuc- K other Frsons at Chester E talk. Emtk was taken to Ches- IjjarT bad capped the cli- Eeitraordinary efforts to es ■nllows by finding him in |r faced hanging three tiineg L smtcfied from the noose Einptctpd eleventh hour de- Etlio last time on July EJudge Joseph David grant- Eof execution pending the Enriag f>r four hours before I march. Scott's commit- Es ordered that he be con fcestrr until death or until Bad sane. | Denies Reports. I 111 Aug. 24. —(4 I )—Dr. Stubblefield. superintendent lie hospital for criminal in tern- characterized reports til T. Scott, convicted mur ! been found sane, as ‘‘all N AND SCIENCE SEEN AS UNRELATED an Leader Says Miracles Be Taken Apart From Nat- R. Lake. Ind. Aug. 24.—0 P) ? and mysteries of the Bi -1 not be considered from the of natural laws, declared ■ Erdman. Moderator of the ® General Assembly, at 11 Bible Conference. 2 hew of facts and laws es h modern science, no in- ChrMian need doubt the ®vine creation, of the mira ct«! history or the inspira * Bible." he sa id. r the unsolved mysteries both scientist and theolog -1 'how humility and charity, and theologians usu h-n a teacher of physical mes erejition and postulates of miracles he has fj pcr sphere and entered that ipk or religion. Lifts of science are estab s - y beyond a doubt. Such , iy*' °f certain essential I thnstianity. The latter 11 * I,lv ine person and re „ of (iod in the person KNEW Stl ‘ WAS DANGEROUS Says He Told Mack- J** 1, Tha t Boiler Was 5; I. Aug. 24.— UP)— fc r John Grant,- of the 1£ ; T e - the boiler of which Tuesday, taking fifty ! the "* le ''’‘i n geTous con d ftn T't'fore the steam iu,. ‘ e ill-fated excursion, to‘ >ul)n iittcd today at the rti f .n S 7 ,n ! lu< ' n ‘ ( l here under to,; of tlle Fwleral Steam- TOloa Service H (w, had kl' 1 a u ’clder, testified pa r *1 upon to do could ° n 1P but would i , (1 ° t,le work be fenkine ut ho(, , n neces »ary to Ito bt. 15 fore cou ld reach &of th W , araf,(l Grant of the “mi 2hr break and told him W u , ■■ gf,f t 0 Newport and knoi\- A>- tiiat Grant re told him “in Wk. ,,r ’ '^, S to Ka y “it was y Parent testi mony of Gassidv- ' anotbor welder, •' s Story. Storm, killed , ' —Three per whe? 1 " * ales Gity late a j lOU6e i Q which fiU < h r( ' fl ! Ke fr °ra . a j»S. h ßhtuing. e rt Pitts on 1 c:,re s ar yt ii; f l*hey ~ an<J Tonej * Webb all . the uhildrei , City, d t )r °niinent citizei s.r„ ud *< u toe crops. THE CONCORD TIMES Street Car Service In This City Is Halted N. C.. Public Service Co. Authorized Managar of Local Plant to Cease Op- 1 erations in City Saturday COMPANY~OWES CITY $33,000 Mayor’s Commitee Is Work ing on Matter But Has Not Been Able to Reach Solution to Problem. Concord’s Street car service ended at midnight Saturday and so far as its known now the service is ended for good. Services on the local lines of the North Carolina Public Service Co was suspended on orders for the main offices of the company, sent to •T. A. McEachern, manager of the plant here. j Mr. McEachern received his orders Saturday afternoon and the last,run of the cars was made tfoat night, the orders to Air. McEachern indicating that so far as the North Carolina Public Service Company Co. is con , corned the line will not be operated again. Suspension of the service did not come as a surprise due to the fact that aldermen of the city at their August meeting 'were advised by a representative of the public service company that the lino here was being operated at a loss of about $7 a day and that the company would be forced to cut out this .loss. Mayor C. H. j Barrier at the meeting appointed a committee to make inquiry into the value of the company’s plant and also to ascertain whether the city could operate the line. The committee has given thought to ! the’ matter but it is understood that it has not yet reached a definite de cision as to what should be done. The Public Service Company owes the ( city of Concord about $33*000 for 1 street paving and interest and the 1 committee appointed by ftayor Bar- j rier is understood to have devoted its , conferences and study to means of, securing at least part of this money : from the company’s equipment and: property in Concord. It is also un- j derstood that the company’s plant here to heavily mortgaged, but Con cord’s claim is understood to come first, and ff the property and equip ment are sold the city is expected to get the major portion of the proceeds from the enle. However, it is said, by persons who know something of, the value of the company’s equipment • and property, that the value of these j is not enough to cover the company's debt to the city to say nothing of | any mortgagee held by Mother parties. ) The street car system has never j been a paying proposition in Concord., according to various reports made to city officials by the public service com pany. For a number of years the company operated without loss, but during the past six years, at least, expenses have been more than receipts j and it has been known that the com-! pany was anxious to dispose of the property or cease operations. Soon" after the World War the fare .on the line here was raised to seven cents, but the increases did not raise enough revenue to make the line a paying jTroposition. The company has maintained that the street assess ments could not be paid because the property here was a liability instead , of an* asset. However, the company | always paid its taxes and for that reason its properties in other cities outside of Concord cannot be touched by the city in its efforts to get the $33,000 debt. It is said equipment of the company here to in bad repair, requests for new equipment having been refused due to the fact that the company was con -1 templating suspension of the line here. A storage battery car, said to have been the first in the South, was sent to Concord when the public service ► company started its schedule in t’.ie city. Later this car was abandoned ■ and a trolley system was installed, > such as are used in other cities. The lines of the company extend - from the depot of the Southern Rail s way Company to the Gibson Manufac i turing Company, and to a point on - South Union street near the home of J. Leonard Brown. The South Union . street line has not been operated for several years, however, its schedule 1 having been suspended by request of the company which stated that only a few persons ever used the system from the square to its terminal on , South Union street. * The commitee appointed by Major ? Barrier to make a study of the sys -1 tem here probably will report at th * September meeting and it is under- J stood that nothing will be done un -1 til the commitee is ready to report. It is also understood that the commlt f tee plans a conference with officials 1 of the public service company rela- tive to the $33,000 debt. A6 the tracks of the street ca system are on paved streets, R m 1 believed they will be left, as repai s ® to the streets caused by their remova f would cost more than the rails would ** bring The committee appointed to the matter by the city is composed of , Mayor Barrier, Aldermen Howard and Hahn and City Attorney J. Lee Crow . ell While this committee has not ! yet completed its work, it was. stated by one of its members this morning that one proposal has been agreed on . by the members, this being that the ; city will square off accounts w.ththe n public service company if the latter “ will turn-over to the former all of its d real and personal property m (Con (Continuea on Page Three.) GOVERNOR McLEAN i MAKES INQUIRIES Says No Patients at State Sanatorium Will Be ! Moved For the Lack of Money From State. Raleigh. Aug. 24.— (A 3 )—No pa tients will be sent away from the state sanatorium for tuberculosis until Governor McLean has made a per i sonal investigation of conditions there j which were recently said to he such ! that sixteen patients must leave in the immediate future and twenty oth ers in the next six months to make way for cases on the waiting list pre senting more hope of being cured. In a statement last night on his re turn from a vacation Governor Mc- Lean stated he was “very much sur- I prised" to learn an emergency existed at the sanatorium and added “there must be some mistake about the mat ,ter.’’ Pending completion of ri per sonal investigation, the Governor said he would at once request the Board of directors to refrain from dismissing any of the patients in question. BURGLAR SHOT TO DEATH | Another Burglar Makes His Escape. —Suspect Arrested But Proves an Alibi. Reidsville, Aug. 22. —Edward Car ' ter, 25-year-old white man, was shot and instantly killed at about 10:30 o'clock last night by B. H. Franklin in ‘his home on Thomas street, East Reidsville. Carter and another thief entered Franklin’s home. The second thief plunged through a window when | the shooting began and made his es ' cape. The robber, evidently realiz ing that he was trapped, fired several shots, two of the bullets inflicting flesh wounds in Franklin's neck and leg and Mrs. Franklin being wounded |in the shoulder from behind by the * unknown thief-after she had run into j the yard to give the alarm. I Both Mr. aud Airs. Franklin will 1 recover from their wonnds. which are not considered serious. Both were i highly unnerved today after their ex | perienee and are suffering from shock. 1 Franklin, with a shotgun, sent a load into the midnight thief below the heart and he dropped in his tracks. Before Franklin Could ifet bto iir&d. which he kept near his bed. Carter had fired several times. The ex -1 perienee was a terrifying one for tl\e ' young man and his wife, both, of ! whom were in bed and who were prin cipals in a midnight duel in the dark j ness with deadly missiles speeding in j every direction. !klan to rescue torch DROPPED BY VV. J. BRYAN Organization Is Committed to Throw Strength Behind the Fundamental ist Move. Sandusky, 0., Aug. 23. —The Ku Klux Klan has unequivocally commit | ted itself to a fight for fundaraental ism in religion, Clyde W. Osborne, grand dragon for Ohio, declared in ap address at a district meeting of the organization near here last night. “We will take up the torch as it fell from the hands of William Jen nings Bryan, carrying on his tight for the religion of our fathers.” Exactly how the klan will pursue this course probably will be deter mined at the national meeting of grand dragons at Buckeye Lake, a re sort near Columbus, next week. “Our great army of men and women believe in the teachings of Christ as recorded in the Bible and in the im maculate conception, but we do not necessarily believe in a literaly trans lation to the extent that it is neces sary to believe that a whale swal lowed Jonah,” he declared. Rowan County’s Tax Rate Is Fixed at $lO7. Salisbury, Aug. 22—The county board of commissioners have fixed the tax rate for the coming fiscal year at $lO7 on the SIOO valuation of property, this being an mcrease of 15 cents over the present rate of 92 cents. Os this increase 14 cents is for the general county school fund i and one cent is added to the present J public health fund. The poll tax re ‘ mains the same, $2. .. , I The general tax of $1.07 is divided as follows. Oue cent for maintenance of county home; two cents for main tenance of bridge; 15 cents for con struction and maintenance of county roads; two cents for health work; 12 cents for principal and interest on public debt; 60 cents for special county school tax. . , . , ‘ In addition to this there is levied an eight cent road tax, incorporated towns exempt, this to be used ex clusively for road work in the town ships in Avhich collected. There are ' also 14 special school tax districts in the county with a rate 10 cents to 50 cent on the SIOO. The rate is based on a property * valuation in the entire county of ap [ proximately $50,000,000, and the general tax exclusive of the special 1 school district tax and the township road tax. is expected to bring a re ; venue of about $850,000. Os this f about $340,000 will go schools, in ad -1 dition to that derived from the ' special school tax in districts where E such tax has been approved by a 1 vote of the people r - - 1 Convict Dorothy ElUngson «i Charge i of Manslaughter. ? San Francisco, Aug. 22—Dorothy ’ Ellingson, 17 year old confessec * matricide, was found guilty of man - slaughter by a superior court jurj tonight. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CONCORD, N. Q, MONday. AUGUST 24, 1924 World’s Largest Posies 1 By Haßufr ms Mafll W Sflk. jb^hhßßßk Jg jgr m > - • M S' Ii W ' I BH *V * _ /'V . j (| v.;.y 1 The world’s largest flowers are being made to decorate the pageantry ot ’ the International Petroleum Exposition at Tulsa, Okla., October I*l®. Hire Is pretty Mary Mclntyre, with a huge magnolia blossom for scenery. She will be one of the oil princess'* in the pageant. i ? : CANDIDATES ENGAGE | IN VERBAL BATTLES ' New York City Candidates i For Mayor Spend Week- End Throwing Criticisms at One Another. | New York, Aug. 24. —</P)—Refer- ences to millionaires, high brows with ' ui barrel, and a wide open town fig|/c ] in tfie latest appeals to New Yorkers as liow they should not vote for some ’ of the candidates in the mayoralty , nominations in the primary ou Septem ber the 15th. Wm. M. Bennett and John J. Lyon, ( insurgent republicans, regard the reg ular republican nominee, Frank D. Waterman, as a “carpet bagger Dem ocrat, masquerading on the republi f can ticket,” and as a “millionaire, hand picked by a group of million , airesc” While airing these views on the Sab bath, Mayor Hylan was giving warn i ing that a wide open town is being . sought by Tammany, which is oppos . ing him. Mayor Hylan commenting on the [ defection of two Brooklyn women ! leaders to the Tammany camp of his ’ rival, State Senator James J. Walker, said: “I am grieved to learn that any good t woman would support a candidate who is backed by those who want a ; wide open town. The powerful inner - circle of Tammany Hall is planning [ to clean up millious in traction deals - and also revive old days of pool rooms and gambling houses, just as wide i open as Saratoga is today.” , ■ Government Takes Charge of Bodies, t . White Sulphur Springs, W. V., • Aug. 24.—UP) —A War Department • representative has been placed in ■ charge of the bodies of Capt. Fra zer Hale and Private Earle C. Nor ris, of the army air service, who were I burped to death yesterday when their plane crashed on the Greenbriar golf r links here, in sight of hundreds of j players and spectators. 1 Death Claims 50. 1 New Port, R. 1., Aug 23—Death • had claimed 50 lives in the boiler ex -5 plosion on the excursion steamer 1 Mackinac, up to early tonight, when t Sarah Powers, 15, of Central Falls, ‘ R. 1., succumbed to burns. Earlier in the day death ended the suffering of 1 James Henderson and Charles Koe - ford. All were patients in the naval • hospital. 7 ; Toadstools Kill Man After His i Cat Survives the First Mess 1 ' Philadelphia, Aug. 24.—Oswaldo - Massara, who lived at No. 8116 e Devon street, Chestnut Hill, went i ont last Sunday to pick some mush -3 rooms. He gathered up a basketful of what he thought were mushrooms y and took them to his home. ‘ Oswaldo had read something about e toadstools, which he knew were \ poisonous. So he cooked some of the P plants and gave them to his cat. The “ cat showed signs of distress, but it s quickly recovered e| “Well,” said Oswaldo, “if that’s e all the harm these things do they're certainly not toadstools. If they were the cat would have died.” So Oswaldo cooked some of the e plants for himself, and on Monday, at lunch time, he ate heartily of them, y When he had finished his meal Qs d waldo became violently ill. He was i- hurried to the Chestnut Hill Hos y pital. Efforts of physicians to revive him failed and he died yesterday WANT SETTLEMENT ABOUT LOST LAUD Effort Being Made to De termine Ownership of Florida Land Which Is Claimed by Two Now. Marco, Fla., Aug. 24. —(/P)—First definite action designed to determine tfie ownership of disputed* property on Marco Island in the cotrtf’oVerfcy be-* tween Baron G. Collier. New York ad vertising magnate, and Walter Wil liams, owner of the township of Mar co, was expected today, according to announcement by .Williams. The old settlers reported today by Captain Jim Daniels who has lived on the island since 1870 and who has staked a claim on property claimed by Collier, planned to cut a fence erected by Collier’s agents around the dis puted property. They expect Captain Daniels to be arrested by Sheriff May nard of Collier county on charges of trespassing and malicious destruction of property. • Williams announced he would back- Captain Daniels in carrying the case to the circuit court, thus compelling Collier to prove ownership of the land. Williams and the settlers hope' by this action to obtain a court decis ion as to whether the property, said to be unsurveyed, belongs rightly to the New York advertising man or to the United States. Seaboaord Extension Talk is Ac centuated. Asheville, Aug. 22.—Since the first rumors became current that the Seaboard Airi Line might built an extension of its line from Ruther fordton to Asheville through the Lake Lure development at Chimney Rock, a large number of officials of the Seaboard ’have been seen in this section. The Seaboard’s east and west line already extends from Wilmington to Rutherfordton via Charlotte and by constructing a 43- mile extension into Asheville the road would have a direct line from the seaboard to the mountains. Prepare For Long Flight. San Francisco, Aug. 24. UP) —Three U. S. naval seaplanes which will at tempt a non-stop flight to Honolulu next Friday, wore anchored off Cris sy Field today undergoing final prep arations for the 2,000 mile voyage. Carrying the crews which will pilot them on the flight, the three planes arrived here yesterday. afternoon. Jane Massaro, daughter of Os waldo, told Coroner Patton yesterday that her father was passionately fond of mushrooms. For the last lve years, she explained, he had gone out regularly and gathered mush rooms in the fields along the Wis sahickon Creek and alongside the Philadelphia Cricket Club. The latter is a favorite haunt for boys, who gather the plants by the basketful and peddle them among the house wives in Germantown and Chestnut Hill. . “Father knew she difference be tween mushrooms and toadstools,” explained the daughter, “and I am at a loss to know why he misjudged the batch he picked on Sunday. He was a bit dubious about them, on his return, but when he fed the plants to the cat and the cat didn’t seem to suffer any, he apparently figured he had selected mushroems and decied to eat thgm.” YOUNG UNIVERSITY STUDENT KILLED IN EIGHT WITH GUNMEN John Henry Klassin Slain by Gangsters and Male Companion Was Badly Beaten. EIGHT ARRESTS MADE SO FAR Police Say Four of Arrest ed Men Have Confessed. Klassin Killed With Pav ing Stone. Chicago, Aug. 24. — UP)— A univer sity of Chicago medical student was beaten to death and a companion slug ged by gangsters yesterday following a fancied insult to three sisters which was resented by the escort of the girls. slain student was John Henry Klassin, 25, of Mankato, Ivans., a junior in the school of medicine, and his companion Jas, R. M'itcham, a son of P. M. Mitcham, wealthy oil oper ator of Fort Worth, Texas. Eight men including Archie Carlini, 21, nam ed by the police as the leader of the attack, are under arrest, confessions having been obtained from four of them. Klassiir's skull was fractured, ap parently by a paving stone, and he died without regaining consoiousness. 4 ' HOUSE SEES WAR’S END IN LEAGUE OF NATIONS I President Wilson’s Adviser Urges That America Be Permitted to Take an Associate Membership. Geneva, Aug. 22—Colonel E. M. House, once personal adviser to. Presi dent Woodrow Wilson, in making his first visit to the League of Nations he helped to evolve, revealed that he took an option on 1000 acres along the shore of Lake Leman, six miles outside of Geneva, when the covenant was drafted in Paris. The plan was to erect a large palace and a great "gate way to peace” in honor of the war dead, bqt the idea was abandoned when the United States did not enter tIM? League. - Colonel House told newspaper cor respondents that the League was on ly half a League while the United States, Germany, and Russia were outside, and urged American associate membership without covenant obliga tions. “Had the United States maintained her wonderful enthusiasm and joined the League, war would have been ban ished for all time,” declared Colonel House. He added that he had embod ied the essentials of the peace proto col—arbitration, security and disarm ament —in the first draft of the cove nant he wrote in 1918, but President Wilson thought he went too far. LOST ALL HE HAD IN FLORIDA DEALINGS Distinguished Looking Man Passes Through Danville Walking Back North. Danville, Va., Aug. 23. —A distin guished looking gentleman well dressed and bearing a gold mounted cane walked into a local service agency this week and made inquires of the roads north of Danville. The assumption w T as that he had been to Florida and was returning many road inquiries being made almost daily. The information was given by the assistant and discussion turned to the type of car the stranger was traveling in. It developed then that he was walking home to a northern state, that his investments in the distant state had been unfortunate and that he had lost all that he had. He admitted, that people on the road had been generous and that he had been given friendly lifts by north bound 'travelers and that lie had done little walking. The stranger did not give his name and left the office after securing the needed information- Chapin-Saeks, Inc., to rle Taken Over By Southern Dairies, Inc. . New York, Aug. 23.—The South ern Dairies, Inc-, today announced it had made plans to acquire Chapin- Saeks, Inc., ice cream manufacturers, through an exchange of stock on a share for share basis, Stockholders of Chapin-Saeks are given the right to exchange their stock for the class A stock of Southern Daries, which is non-voting, but the holders of which are entitled to mon-cumulative dividends at the rate of $4 per share. In addition to the offer Chapin- Saeks stockholders are offered the provilege of subscribing for 3,000 shares of class B. stock of the South ern Dairies at S3O a share. Wit 9 Our' Advertisers. The new Robert-Wicks suits at the Browns-Cannon Co. are beautiful. Dashing frocks of silk for girls and small women at J. C. Penney Co’s, for from $9.90 to $29.75. Right from the fashion center of New York. Sizes, 15, 17 and 19 years. See il lustration in ad. today. Klansmen Gathering. Columbus, 0., Aug. 24. —C4*)—Led by Dr. H. E. Evans, Washington, Im perial Wizard, grand dragons and ti tans of the Ku Klux Klan were ar riving today for their annual meeting at Buckeye Lake near here,, starting tomorrow. JOHN EDNEY BEING HELD FOR KILLING JIM CLMir 1 The Men \ . Have Quarreled Over Woman and Edney Shot Clarke Just Above the Heart. WERE RIDING IN AUTO AT TIME Stopped to Fix Puncture and Argument Started— Men Had Been Friends For Years, It is Said. Hendersonv’lle, Aug. 24.—C4 s ) John Edney, a resident of Edneyville, of this county, is being held in jail here without bond cmharged with the killing early this morning of Jim Clarke, 20. T l he killing is alleged to have taken place near Edneyville this morning about 4 o’clock during the progress of au automobile ride, in which Edney and Clarke participated. The men are said to have gotten out of the car to fix a puncture when a quarrel arose between them con cerning a woman. During the fight which ensued, Edney is said to have fired one shot which struck Clarke just over the heart. A man named Lyda notified a con stable in Edneyville. W. J. Rogers and J. A. Garren went to the scene, where they found Clarke’s body ly ing in the road. Edney was arrested and brought to Hendersonville, where . he is being held pending a coroner’s inquest tomorrow morning. , Clarke is survived by his parents, three sisters and a brother. The men | are said to have been friends previous to their quarrel. SENATOR COPELAND IS BACKING HYLAN Formally Indorses Mayor’s Candidacy —Mrs. Minnie Abel Throws Her Support to Walker. New York, Aug. 23. —As the prin cipals in New York’s mayoralty cam paign rested Saturday in preparation for the campaign of ortitory scheduled for thTs week, M&yor Hyft'h granted an important recruit when United States Senator Royal S. Copeland, once a member of New York’s official Demo cratic family, issued a statement in dorsing the mayor’s candidacy. His action marks a break with the leader ship of Governor Smith, but was not entirel y unexpected as the senator long has been a friend of the mayor. In Brooklyn, however, the mayor lost support through the defection of Mrs. Minnie J. Abel, eo-leader of the 17th assembly district and a member of the Kings county executive com mittee. “If Senator Walker is good enough for Governor Smith, hq is good enough for me,” said Mrs. Abel. On Monday night Frank D. Wat erir£*, Republican-citizen candidate for mayor, will open his campaign with an address. Governor Smith will make his ad dreess in behalf of State Senator James J. Walker, the Tammany desig nee, on August 27th, in Brooklyn. THE COTTON MARKET. The Market Opened Unchanged to » Points Lower, But Later Tone Was Steady. New York, Aug. 24. —04*) —Early trading in the cotton market was confined largely to further evening up of accounts in advance of govern ment crop reports. Liverpool quota tions were lower and there were pri vate reports of lower temperature in the south with showers in southern parts of Texas over the week-end. Scattered selling resulted, with the market opening unchanged to 9 points lower, but the tone was steady and prices fairly well sustained during the first hour. Cotton futures: Oct. 23.30; Dec. 23 60; Jan. 23.10; March 23.40; May 23.72. Marines Sleep While Guarding Presi dent. Swampscott, Mass., Aug. 24. — UP) — Two marines of the special detail as signed to guard the summer white house, were found asleep at their post of duty early this morning. Charges of- neglect of duty have been pre ferred against them, and Captain A. Andrews, the President’s naval aide, has ordered an investigation. Will Consider Philadelphia Record Proposal. Miami, Fla., Aug. 24.— A) —Mrs. William Jennings Bryan today "an nounced she would give immediate consideration to the proposal of The Philadelphia Record for a national memorial to Mr. Bryan. Alfred Mace, eldest son of Jem Mace, one of Britain’s most famous boxing champions, has found a calling far removed from the prize ring. He is a revivalist _ preacher, and a member of a strict No neon forstinist sect. No Word of Boycott Received. Washington, Aug. 24. —< A *)—No word of a boycott of American goods at Changhai, reported in a dispatch to • the Liverpool Post, has reached the State department. Diamonds in their natural state are usually of a dull lead color. $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. FRENCH DEBT WITH. I GREAT BRITAIN IS 1 " PARLEY DISCUSSION ; Joseph Caillaux Goes to London for Conference With Winston Churchill Regarding the Debt* FIRST PROPOSAL MAY NOT STAND j* Hardly Likely That France Will Agree to Pay 20,- 000,000 Pounds Sterling Yearly as Suggested. London, August 24. — UP) —Joseph , g Caillaux, the French minister of fi- |! nance, was here today for a conver- jf sat ion with Winston Churchill, chan- « cellor of the British exchequer, re garding the terms for the settlement of France’s debt of $623,000,000. No time has been set for the dura tion of the conversation, and specula tion as to the length varies from three days to a week or more. But in any case the talks will not | finally settle the question for M. Cail- | laux will make report to his govern ment before any decision is taken. Recent statement in the French press have created the opinion here that France is not prepared to con sider payment of anything like 20.- 000,000 pounds Sterling learly which Great Britain mentioned as being an acceptable sum when French financial experts were here recently, and ex pectation is that M. Qaillaux’s offer | will not exceed 10.000.000 annually, although it is expected this will be ' increased if France is able to make I advantageous arrangement with the United States repsceting her debt to that country. QUIET WEEK PROMISED PRESIDENT COOLIDGE Will See Few Government Officials But Hasn’t Many Appointments. Swampscott, Aug. 24. — UP)—Presi dent Coolidge began another week of . his vacation today with indications that it would be perhaps the quietest he has enjoye<l since he arrived here late in June.. He plans to continue . his practice of conferring from time to time with high government officials and Congressional leaders but few ap pointment have been made for this week. Thus far there has been no indica tion as to when the President will tq- 5 turn to Washington although there is. a strong possibility he will remain 1 s here until after Labor Day. The impending tieup of anthracite mines scheduled for a week from to morrow as a result of the failure of operators and miners to agree on a new wage scale is not likely to have any effect on Mr. Coolidge’s plans. It is understood he does not consider that suspension of operations would necessitate in any way his return to the capital as he is determined for the present at least to maintain a hands off policy . ■ -- i ■- Memory of Bill Nye Will Be Per petuated by North Carolina. Fletcher, N. C., *Aug. 24.— UP) — Five memorials to Edgar Wilson (Bill”) Nye, grouped about his last resting place in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, at Fletcher, will be formally dedicated Tuesday, August 2oth. These reminders of the famous 1 humorist include a memorial window in old Calvary Episcopal Church ; a bronze tablet marking his grave in the churchyard ; a monument on which a bronze tablet will tell a brief story of bis life, on the Hendersonville- Asheville highway; a memorial flag stajf, the gift of the city of Ashe ' ville, and a memorial shelter, erected by the Masonic fraternity of Ashe ville. Dedicatory exercises over these me morials will mark the 75th anniver sary of the humorist’s birth at Shir ley, Maine. Frank W. Nye, son of the humorist, and Mrs. Eugene Pharf, a daughter, will be present. Miaa Dunn Killed in Motor Acci dent. Charlotte, Aug. 23. —Miss Susan Dunn, for six years a member of Queens College faculty, was killed Saturday night in an auto accident in Lancaster, Ky., her old home. She was to return to Queen* in Septem ber. She was 50 years of age. During the summer she rece’ved her masrer’s degree. She was a valued member of Queens’ faculty. Minister to Haiti Found Dead in Bed. Montreal, Aug. 24.— UP) — Ballly Blanchard, United State minis ter to Haiti, since 1914, was found dead in his bedroom at the Mount Royal Hotel early today. SAT'S BEAR SAYS: Clomt. on Ih. —. -t .nil Tinnllr cloudy in interior tonight and Tues day. NO. 14