1 Editor and Publishei
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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
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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 .
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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.
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