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K.;, .' iif i nu.iaatat ion had |
Ky i' tii < "olidge on !
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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
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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.
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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
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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 |
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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.
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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