North Carolina Newspapers

ME L pHVEFQR |i« feItETED ■an H a - iir^ident Je. ■ \v \V ft t T IiMX'iTION ■’lveparcd t o Hn e ath sentence K e; i He as Fed- HLner. IS .• ,i i - l::l|Himn mm i ■ ni ■V' nat » \ i in»|iris •••.l.Tal «<iurt of ft : In- IVcsi- R )] filing and |HV will'll till' dOO- Warden H. |V napuian. ■ w liil'ii liT . . in Gerald »•’ Hart ■ \ Hugh M* v to Warden t man. The ■L| ! .i !l ..y i.r.i'.ir* il to do , K : ~ii k• «1 another ■ ..if,.,"- ' : " k S'ate of ■n < l.:iianan for aia*‘< Skol- { ■g r 'tain oil October 12. i ■ i Ijoiion at 'ii'- -tati'- prison. I L-.- Hugh M Ad orn ad- 1 K.;, .' iif i nu.iaatat ion had | Ky i' tii < "olidge on ! ■jtir Mi'tir .i f-ii inal request ■ !m,i lie u made by him. ■ wa- in th.* nature of a ■ from the state's attor- in wliieli the de- : ■state of i oiiuect ient were j Bid the Kxeeutive order Btely signed. The request ! In had the approval of Itfral* Sargent, "'ho ltad Be his personal attention. ■ today also disclosed that ■a brief early in the srmi- B Eq»a lament of .Justice, nhe viev . -f. ;; u . matter-,' Sds, setting forth that its desirable iu the pub iand he today mainta'n bi entertained a doubt, ifci would be granted. Accept Commutation. Conn.. Nov. 11'. — (JP) —j iciuan has informed bis | le will nor accept piresi- t mutation ol' his robbery j ftstood in the absence of »nts that the comniunta-j ptaan's federal prison sen- j be the state's answer to [ b&beas corpus served on j Mt late yesterday order- j jrtxlure ('hapman before fctTiiomasin court at the Beit Monday. 6 ARE GIVEN DAY OF RECREATION Atlantic Deeper Wat stfeiatiui Have lioat Ride, h- X„v. (JP) Mem e Atiantio helper Water u'l5 n in eighteenth annual «»'. abandoned business] (, «lay. and enjoyed a boat i Byne Ray. \ A- . and Philadelphia "L for the lftJti meeting iftways Association. The Stcrday was featured aby •Jfaic-h irado development Ea was it,, predominant ftkte- Will View Game 7 Large Plane. • X°v. i>4.—Unable to .•Navy tickets except at by specula „ Lck f. mu bap enthusiast a Sikorsky. trans- J4 pasrien . Purpose of circling over p -d at the polo grounds L. !ll ° mi lt; M'y football from the air. * F <)r Warfare. . — UP) —Special “ p ’ btor government • • ii‘‘ :• Strnbane, in :ri< ‘ing the terri !*rtl'd award of f . b ' ■ n nision would '• have erected th l Faihp r Out Again. J'’ x, »v. L»4.— oP)_ Col. i ha. V '' ! ’ ' r '.f the Presi rt d : si •>'' U v rious, N’ here the ts Kl,: ‘° ° l!t °f his 6 a Vi .J,'' T llm<l today after ». A ' Klv ' a brief inter frt* OonodT \ V. .24.— UP) : l.iner Cfeve -4 of a '? lv * h fog near ; fioap,]". r ! , V ‘‘ r V \ h " ycstPr * of a n , u " it'h the as '■i ■ ' 'ugs. and is SttOs, 5 ,,~ ' tafjj. 'JI "-rat ure ever Uv/' 1 ’ ,v ar - ~n tlie Per «cr h a , blar-k bu’b solar register 187 de- THE CONCORD TIMES $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. Mystery ! ,A -' A ; - . ■ : \$ f ~ y x..<. w IHLi ■■ffr i r B ■r • ' - m •'liMsk -■. - : I wS^- This is an exclusive photograph of Mrs. John I{. Allen of Chicago, whose baby was found chloroformed to death in the .Vilens' apartment in a fash ionable hotel. Mrs. Allen and her husband suspect robbers of the crime. SHENANDOAH INQUIRY MAY BE HALTED NOW However, There Is Possibility That Col. Mitchell Will Be Heard.® Washington, Nov. 24. — UP) —The , navy’s long investigation of the Shen andoah disaster came to a provisional end today, the provision being based | en the possible snnnouing of Colonel j William Mitchell, who previously had : declined to testify before the naval j court of inquiry. As the court adjourned today sub j ject to call <*,f its ■president, Rear Ad- I tuiral Hilay P. Jones, it was announc ! od by Judge Advocate IxMftiard that should he find upon examination of Col. Mitchell’s testimony before the array court martial any matters ger maine to the Shenandoah inquiry, he ] would seek a process to bring the col j onel before the naval tribunal. This ] could not be done, however, until as , ter the army court martial proceed ! ings against Colonel Mitchell had been concluded, the judge advocate added. A f Should it be decided not to call Col. Mitched there will remain, the* s«m mlh«e up lAr counsel and representa t 'ves of the in teres fed iiat-tiflß before i proceeds to me forfeitTattcn f of its findings. " Sharp denial was made today be fore t'ae court by James H. Collier, av iation chief rigger, that he had told Major Frank M. Kennedy, of the army i air service, that four of the connect ing tubes between gas cells on the | airship had been tied off before j the accident. i “Did you know of any tubes that i were tied offV” asked Judge Advocate Leonard. , “I did not,” Collier said with em j phnsis. Mechanical BJnoodhound Finds 8.800.- 000 Radium. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 24.—Six weeks’ patient search with a mechan ical bloodhound has resulted iu the finding in a sewer pipe of a tiny tube containing SBOO,OOO worth of radium which disappeared from a hospital here. , Prof. Tarry A. Erikson, head of the physics department, University of Minnesota, constructed ionization chamber detectors which were attached to electrincopes and began to hunt i along sewers leading from the hos -1 pital. Today the detectors led him to a niue-iit*c-h pipe in a sewer tunnel. The radium tube was found within two inches of a mark he made on the pipe. j Eighty Years Old, Father of .Seventeen! and Has Never Been Juror. Lexington, Nov. 24. —R. J. Wag- 1 oner, of Lexington township, is now nearly eighty years old, he stated Sat urday, and has never been a juror iu court and never received a dollar of public money otherwise. He is the ’father of seventeen children, ten sons and seven daughters, all of them mem bers of the Democratic party. Mr. Wagoner is a Confederate vet eran and always attends all reunions that are within reach, including a number of -the southern reunions, the estate and county meetings. His ap pearance and vigor do not indicate his nearly four score years. Wants World Press Conference at Pe king. Chicago, Nov. 25.— UP)— S. N. Au- Young, director of the Chinese Goveru ' ment Bureau 6f Economic Information j 1 at Peking, today announced proposal l for a world press conference at Pe king in 1927. He said he was to con fer shortly with Dean Malter Wil liams. of the School of Journalism at • the University of Misouri, president ■ of the World Pre-s Conference, who * favored the proposal. ’ President’s Father Goes to the Wcod * pile. * Plvmoutb, Vt, Nov. saw Polonel John C. OooMdge, father of the President, up and out after figb ) ing a dangerous attack of 'heart dis - ease for more than a week. r Showing plainly the effects of his - illness but nevertheless exhibiting!-a - determination to carry on, the aged s colonel not only joked with news paper men but insisited on visiting his celebrated wood pile. ! A person with normal hearing r should be ab’e to hear the tick of a ; - watch held five feet away, in a quiet room. THANKSGIVING DAY Observed Annually Throughout the # l nif.d Stales. Washington, D. November 25.—- 1 Thanksgiving Day iu the United | States is an annua! festival <«f thanks giving for the' mercies of the closing j year. The day is fixed by. proe'.ama-; lion of the Presidents anH the gover iiow of the various states. The Pres ident’s proclamation makes the day a legal holiday in the District of Co lumbia, territories and possessions. , ■ In 1789 the Episcopal Church for- 1 mally recognized the civil govern ment’s authority to appoint such a i feast and in 1888 the Roman Catholic Church also decided to honor n fes tival which had long been nearly uni versally observed. The earliest harvest Thanksgiving | in America wait kept by the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth] in 1621 and was repeated often during that and the ensping century. Congress recom mended days of thanksgiving annually during the Revolution and in 1784 for the return Os peace—as did President Madison in 1815, following the close of the second war with «!Tcat Bri tain. The first truly national Thanksgiv ing was observed in 1789, on the exact day on which the holiday occurs this year—November 20th. The first Congress, sitting in New York, then thp capital of the young nation, adopt ed a resolution requesting President ! Washington to appoint a day of Thanksgiving for the general benefit and welfare of the nation. In compliance with the request Washington issued his proclamation on October 3, 1789. setting apart Thursday, November 20th, as a day “to be devoted by the people of these states to the service of that Great and Glorious Being who is the Bencfi cient Author of all the good that Kvas. that is, or that will be.’’ The peo ple were requested to pray for “the ! pardon of our national and other transgressions; for wise, just, anil constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; for a larger -knowledge and better practice of true religion and virtue and for the increase of science among all mankind.” In 1795 - Washington issued his second proclamation appointing a day for a national i Thanksgiving. In this proclamation, which named Feb ruary 19th as the day to lie observed, the President called attention to the peace and prosperity prevailing throughout the land, and asked that thanks be given for the suppression of the insurrection which had “so wantonly threatened” tlie tranquility of the nation. The insurrection re ferred to by the President was the so-called “Whisky Rebellion” which had octnrrv 1 in sevt al <*ouuties in federal tax laid on alcoholic lftprors and stills. 'The next Thanksgiving Day procla mation was issued by John Adams, the second President, in 1798, and a year later he again appointed a day for a national thanksgiving. No ob- j servance of file kind was held during the two administrations of Thomas Jefferson, but in 1815, following the qlose of the war, the custom was re vived by P-resident Madison. Then came a lapse of forty-seven years, from 1815, until 1892, before the na tion again was called upon to give thanks in a proclamation issued by President Lincoln, who summoned his countryment especially, to “acknowl edge and render thanks to our Heav enly Father-for the signal victories, vouchsafed by Almighty God. to the land and naval forces engaged in sup pressing an internal rebellion and for averting from our country the dang ers of foreign intervention and inva sion.”. Since 1863 the Presidents have always issued proclamations ap pointing the last Thursday in No vember ns Thanksgiving Day. Wilson Postage Stamp to Be Issued Deeeitober 27th. Washington, Nov. '24.—Postage stamps bearing the likeness of Wood row Wilson and Benjamin Harrison soon will be placed on sale by the | Post Office Department, the Wilson I stamp of 17 cents denomination and the Harrison of 13 cents/- A three-quarter faee portrait, taken about the time of America’s entry in to the World War, has been selected by Airs. IVi 1-son for the stamp in memory of her husband. It will be is sued for the Wilson birthday celebra tion, December 28. The Harr-.son atamp will be issued later. First plans to have the Wilson stamp of 13 cents denomination, on the ground that 13 was his lucky num ber. was abandoned. Dennis Hethcock Buried Today in Oakwood. Funeral services for Dennis F. Hetlicock. three-months-old son of Mr and Mrs. David Hetheoefe, were held this morning at the ■home of his par ents on Spring street, burial being made in Oakwood cemetery. The child was born on August Btlv jof this year. Although ill for sev ! oral days last week, its condition jvas 1 not considered serious until Satur day at which time a turn was taken I for the worse, death coming Monday j afternoon at 3 :30 o’clock. Must Pay Checks at Par. Washington. Nov. 25.-- -(A 3 ) The . regulations of the Federal Reserve Board requiring Federal reserve ar.d ■ member banks to pay at par checks f drawn upon them, was sustained to - day by the Supreme Court. Communist Leaders Convicted. , London. Nov. 25.-OPI-A verdict , of guilty was returned today against i t u e twelve communist leaders tried in - O’d Bailor on charges of conspiring r to publish seditious libels in v.ola ticn of the indicement and mutiny act. [ The record ofcy Young in win t ning 500 major league baseball | games has never been equalled. CONCORD. N. C„ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, f 925 ■ Your Uncle Sam Is Good at This | - - ' -•—...» r ‘- " ■- ■ ■ ■■ 1 *■ ■■■ ■■■■—J.'?.'” . ■■■■ m TWO PERSONS DIED WHEN HOME BURNED Mi's! “Kit” Brown and Her Grandson Perished ' When the Brown Home Was Burned. Wilmington, N-. f\. Nov. 25.—04 3 ) Two lives were lost when fire de stroyed the home of “Kit” Brown, near Sea Gate, six miles from here, early today. Mrs. Brown, 64, and her five-year-old grandson were burned to death. Mr. Brown was rescued by neigh bors and a boy, IS. whoso name was lfot learned, who lived with the fam ily. escaped with burns about the hands and face. , Origin of tht fire which started about 3a.ml is unknown. Neigh bors of the family forming a rescue party when alarm was given, succeed ed in saving the man and boy. but Mrs. Brown and the child were dead when found. Blue Devils Ready to Meet Wildcats. Duke University, Durham. Nov. 24 —Duke university’s Blue Devils closed their final afternoon of prac tice for the season there this after noon and will tomorrow entrain for Davidson where they will clash with the Presbyterians on Thanksgiving day. Coach Pat Herron put men through a stiff signal drill while the field was whiffed by a keen wind thin afternoon. With the exception of big Jack Caldwell's fractured cheek bone and several minor in juries suffered by other members of the squad the Methodist are in good physical trim and expect to take end give lots of punishment before the Turkgy day gridiron crowd. The game will be the last for several members of the Duke squad and they p’an to make every ounce of muscle count in order to bring the collegiate football curtain down with a bang- India has 50 cities with a popula i tion of over 100,000. Broadaway Convicted of Dynamiting Mother’s Home and Gets 7 to 10 Years Albemarle, Nov. 24.—A Stanly | . county jury returned a verdict of ' guilty against Will Broadaway at 5 ( o’clock this afternoon, and Judge Mc . Elroy promptly passed sentence against him of not less than seven nor more than ten years in the state penitentiary. It is understood there > will be np appeal from the verdict ; and judgment. His attorneys, Brown j and Sikes, who were appointed by s the court to defend Broadaway, have ' not definitely announced yet as to whether their client will take the case up. but it isc generally believed that they will accept the verdict and judg t ment as final for their client, t The defense was charged with plant i ing a stick of dynamite under his y mother’s bedroom on the night of - September 16th and then set it off. y Mrs Broadaway barely escaped wit'i her life, and her little grandchild, who was sleeping with her at the time, - who was blown across the hallway 1 ,and into the door of another room, is | considered permanently injured. . i " ■JEK-222..2— 2a.rj, J1" " t JCJ?— gP-'L-:. "g COLORFUL THRONG TO SEE FOOTBALL GAME Many State Officials to See the Caro ;l. lina-Virginia Game. Chapel- Hill, N. C., Nov. 25.—OP)— When the Tar Heels of Carolina aud the Cavaliers of Virginia meet on Efl»erson Field here tomorrow hi the annual renewal Us their gridiron class ‘sic. a colorful throhg will bo bn lirfnd. State officials of North Carolina will be led by Governor Angus W. McLean and it is certain that practically ev ery member of North Carolina's offi cial family will be on hand. Gov ernor McLean will be the guest of Dr. Harry W. Chase, president of the University. Governor E. Lee Triukle will not be present at the game, although Gov. McLean invited him to be his guest. The Executive of Virginia had prev iously accepted an invitation to ap pear at a football game in Richmond. It is expected however, that a num ber of Virginia officials will be on hand to see the Cavaliers give battle to ,the Tar Heels. Special trains will operate tonight from all sections of North Carolina to Chapel Hill and one or two also will come down from .Virginia. More than 15,000 persons saw the scoreless view of the game played here two years ago and it is expected that as great a throng will witness tomor row's game. For North Carolina it is the greatest fotball game each season and always draws a greater crowd than any other. Durham Doctors Make City Christ inas Gift; Raise Fe.e-s 20 Per Cent. Durham, Nov. 24. —Medical doc tors iu Durham didn’t wait until Christinas to give their patrons a gift. They handed it to them today and it is not to their liking. The medical men have decided that hereafter they will charge $3 for a call in the city during the day —and thejr day ends at 8 p. m. After that hour it will be more. Advice over the telephone will be at one dollar the give. Medical men say increas ed cost of living ha« made the in crease necessary. The inflation is one of the -20 per cent. Ohio is to have a Staite-wide as sociation for the control itnd regula tion of high school girls’ athletics. | The case which will attract most interest lo*»ally, as well as over the state, is flie hearing of evidence in ■the case against N. C. Cranford, su perintendent of Stunly county convict camp. That hearing will come up before Judge McE’.roy tomorrow, ac cording to present plans. The judge having brought Cranford into court Monday on a bench warrant, he will set as committing magistrate in the hearing tomorrow. As such he will examine upwards of 200 witnesses. If facts come to light which will justi fy such action, a bill rtf indictment will be sent to the grand jury for action. ~T’lie state has subpoenaed mere than 400 witnesses from this and adjoining counties and the defendant, it is said, has had around 140 wit nesses summoned to come into court tomorrow to testify in his behalf-. Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, state su perintendent of public welfare, is ex pected to be here for the hearing, ns well as several officials from her de | partment in Raleigh. 10 CHANGES TODAY IN STRIKE CRISIS The Operators and Miners Have Not Yet Agreed on Terms to Settle the Coal Strike. Philadelphia, Nov. 25. — i/P) —De- spite the activity of various interests in bringing about n resumption of the wage negotiations between represen tatives of the anthracite miners and operators, the situation ourthe surface at least appeared unchanged today. There were some, however, who held the belief that away soon would be found to bring the two sides together, and that the end of the long suspen sion was in sight. The more pessim istic could see no significance in the recent moves of leading operators and union officials, uor did they entertain any hopes of a settlement through the efforts of outside interests. Law Bars Thanksgiving Celebration in England. Oxford, Nov. 25. — (A 3 ) —Oxford Americans are to be virtuous and strictly observant of the laws and or dinances Which the wisdom and high morality of the University Fathers set down for their guidance, they must abstain from the usual Ameri can church service on Thanksgiving Day. It is not that the turkey, borry aud the Pilgrim conscience are under the ban- The prohibition wnieh applies to Thanksgiving services was enacted in the year 1250. and appar ently without thought of New Eng land. It provides that no feast or holiday of any foreign nation shall ever be celebrated solemnly in any church of Oxford under penalty of the greater excommunication. As the Fourth of July is seldom celebrated under cover, it wou’d seem not to come under the prohobition. Coming as it does in vacation vlme. . the Fourth is little known in Oxford,! and the dignified old Rhode islander who a few years ago <m this holiday j proposed as a toast, to his English friends. "Here’s to the day we liekcJ you,” was considered rather more eccentric thau witty. ‘ i BAPTISTS GAIN IN , THEIR SUNDAY SCHOOLS Increase cf From 1.606,871 to 2,536,- 953 During the Past Ten Years. Nashville, Tenn., Nov* 24.— UP) — 1 Enrollment in Southern Baptist Sun ’! day schools in the last ten years has increased from 1.606,871 to 2,536,953, 1 Dr. I. K. J. Van Ness, secretary of ’{ the Baptist Sunday school board, said * in announcing the fifth annual south - wide organized Bible class conference 1 at Birmingham, January 13, 14. ‘ j Dr. Van Ness ascribes this- increase 1, to new\ life brought into Sunday “ schools through the Impetus of rhe ' thousands of organized classes. "So r rapidly are many of the Sunday J school's growing that the churches are | having to greatly enlarge their plants 1 to take care of the increased number ’ of pupils,” he said. Representatives of hundreds of the leading organized Baptist Bible classes from seventeen states and t’ae District * of Columbia will attend the Birming - ham gathering, the secretary said, s - . The word “and” oceurs in the Bible no fewer than 46,271 times. J. Bi SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher i PROMINENT iN OF j ST. LOUIS FAC “ THREE URGES NOW | , Murray Carleton and For est Ferguson Charged I Felonious Making o f I False Statements. I BOTH MEN ARE VERY PROMINENT ! It Is Alleged That They Se- j cured Money Amounting! j, to About $3,000,000 From Several Banks. I St. Lflii s, Nov. 2**. —(4 s ) —Three in dictments oju-H against Murray Carlo-* ton and Forrest Ferguson, charging them with felonious making of false; statements to obtain s.‘t.OOO,of>o bank credit for the Fergusun-McKinney i Mfg. Company, now in receivership, j were returned today by a circuit court J grand jury. Carleton, 72 years old, and for! years a leading figure in business, so cial and religious circles of St. Louis, is critically ill at St. Luke's Hospital He is president of Carleton I)r.v Hoods j Company, now in liquidation, treasur er of Ferguson-McKinney, and presi dent of Carleton-Ferguson Company, controlling both. Ferguson is pres ident of Ferguson-McKinney. The alleged misrepresentation on which the indictments were based, were made to the First National Bank of St. Louis to which Ferguson-Mc- Kinney was owing SIOO,OOO at time ; of its collapse, the State National Bank of St. Louis to which it owed $200,000; and the brokerage firm of McCluney & Co., St. Louis, through which $1)00.000 of Ferguson-MoKin new commercial paper had been mar keted. Banks in New York, Philadelphia and Boston also were creditors. ‘ The total losses to stockholders and creditors of the Carleton-Ferguson concerns were estimated aVtnore than than $7,000,000. With Our Advertisers. Salt —Buy Silver Springs Salt! At Cline & Moose’s in all size bags. This is one of the best brands on the mar ket. " '' ' i The Parkw-Belh Co. wdllbave the grand opening of its Grocery Depart ment on Friday morning. November 27th. In this department will be of fered many bargains in groceries. It is located on the second floor, and is a self-serving department. Bead all about it in a half page ad. today. Anti-freeze for your radiator, free air and water and live gallons of gas free with each S2O cash purchase— all this is offered by the Yorke & Wadsworth Co. Read big ad. today. Seventy-live popular novels by the foremost authors are being offered at 75c each by Kidd-Frix Music & Sta tionery Co. See ad. The Atwater Kent Radio is sold in Concord by Yorke & Wadsworth Co. See them for particulars. Carolina Coaches Select All-State Football Team. Chapel Hill, Nov. 24.—Six Caroli- j na. two Davidson, two Wake Forest! and one Duke players are given places on a mythical all-state football eleven picket! here tonight by the several members of the Carolina coaching staff. The team lined us as follows: Ends —McMurray. Carolina and Doddcre;, Carolina. Tackles —Emmerson, Wake Forest and Robinson, Carolina. Guards —Vance Dnvhlson, and Wlwsnant, Carol! np. Cewter— tMelycr. Carolina. Quarter-!—Rnckley, Wake Forest. Halfbacks —Underwood, Carolina ! and Hendrix. Davidson. Fullback —Caldwell, Duke. Say Women and Children Were Killed. Beirut, Syria, Nov. 25. — UP) — Fourteen naturalized American citi zens who reached Beirut today with about 2,000 refugees from Rasheiya. | west of Damascus where tierce Druse ! attacks were ended yesterday by the relief cf the French garrison, say that in the han<|-to-hand fighting between the Druses and Christian volunteers file rebel tribesmen killed many wom en and children. How Cold Is It On Mount Mitchell? Raleigh, Nov. 24. — UP) —How cold ; dies it get qn Mount Mitchell, highest point in eastern America, in the wint er time? Nobody knows, because the weather bureau has never been able to persuade any one to stay on the mountain top through the winter to take the readings. But already this month rtie tein- I perature has dropped to ten degrees . below zero. This was on November . 20th. -Three days earlier, on Novem ber 17th—to illustrate the variety of » ; climate in North Carolina —the maxi ■ mum in this state was DC at Golds . boro. A difference of 105 degrees ( within the same state in a space of r three days! > 1 ' For the past two years, the weatbei* i bureau lias received part time reports •! from an observer on Mitchell 0,711 j fee* above sea level. The reports are »! made to Lee A. Denson, in charge of j | the central weather bureau for the t state here at Raleigh, who explained - t hat the minimum temperature in mid * \%inef on the top of Mitebell had never been recorded, * because nobody 5 could be tempted to spend a winter *;n the mountain peak. ; MEMBRUI SERVICE "Tun lb i E JAMES B. ! DUKE IS CONDUCTED i Service Was Held at Duke Univer&ity, With Many Notables in the Large ! Audience. * ] ‘GOV. MeLEAN IS CHIEF SPEAKER Praised Mr. Duke For ! What He Did “For the soul of North Carolina” Through Its People. ’ j* Durham, Nol. 25. —14 3 )—As spokes man for the ]>eople of North Cato- *-? lina. Governor Angus W. McLean. | i speaking at the memorial service for i | the late Jns. B. Duke, held at Craven ! Memorial Hall at Duke University id j here today, paid tribute to Mr. DukeV memory for his material contribution to the state's growth and development, ! to what Mr. Duke did ‘‘for the soul i of North Carolina as expressed in its young men and women.” % “The story of Mr. Duke's life af fords a striking example of wjiat the American boy with the right, kind of stuff in him, can attain.” the Governor declared. ' • “Not in many generations.” he ■said. ‘‘has North Carolina produced a man of more business acumen or broader vision than the late James Buchanan Duke. Such men are not everyday products. They cannot be forecast like the reappearance of some planet, but develop in our midst unheralded, and when we have analyzed their achievements it would seem that they were given to the world to play a jmj - - ticular role in the age in which they lived. So it was with Mr. Duke.” While North Carolina has produced many \inusual men, “the life Os Mr. Duke presents an unusual growth and remarkable developments which few of our citizens have attained.” said the Executive. MITCHELL ENDS RECITAL BEFORE COURT-MARTIAL v' . Explains His Famous Phrase “Almost Treason.”—Stands Behind Charges. Washington, Nov. 24. —Colonel Win. A. Mitchell concluded late today a ten hours' recitation of air service troubles of the army and navy which he delivered in his own defense before the court martial trying him for in subordination, and then prepared, with his counsel, to rest h’s case to morrow. The conclusion of his testimony found the air officer standing square ly behind the famous charges he pub lished, accusing the war and navy de partments of incompetence, criminal neglect and almost treasonable con duct of the national defense. After he had passed *h? direct ex amination. faced the prosecution cross examinations and then answered new questions put by h : s counsel, ihe court itself took a turn with flic air service critic. His last words on the staud. were a definition of the “almost trea son’* as he mqant it to he understood / * when he used that phrase in his pub-/ lished statement. It was; / “I mean that the people have put (their trust in the war and navy •*’» « partments to guarantee •> proper nat ional defense and that thr,- have fail ed it that trust.” _____ 738,555 People See Grange and Mates Do Stuff. Campaign, 111., Nov. 24. —Nearly three quarters of a million persons have attended the games in which Red Grange and his University of Illinois team have participated in the three years of his college football career. Figures made public today showed ! thart the three-years’ total of paid ad missions was 738.555. In Red's first i year, with the star absent, from only one game, the attendance was approx imately 185,000. The next season the figures dropped to 182.000, Red stay ing on the bench for two games. Appearing in every game in 1925, Red saw the attendance figures jump to 371,000. Mr. Sharp’s Remains Sent to Moores ville. 9 j Henderson, Nov. 24.—The body of F. R. Sharp, drainage foremap, wPhn was killed early "Monday at a grade crossing in Franklinton when a Sea board Air Line train hit his automo- J bile, was shipped today to his borne in Mooresville for burial. Ilis widow, who was accompanied here late yes ! terday by Rev. R. A. White, pastor of the Mooresville Presbyterian Ohurcfi. j of which the family are members, left today for her home accompanied by Mr. White. r . SAT'S BEAR SAYS: c — ’ ' i ■! Increasing cloudiness and warmer I .tonight; Thursday rain, warmer in ■ i east and folder in extreme west por i j tion. Moderate to fresh southwest | winds. • NO. 41