me 1 P I'LEAN [)| I HEW I si mm luramt- Mon Gov- I, Will Prosper ■jjuvine-' Methods |v Its Employes. I SCHOOLS If OK TRAINING K>[cn and M omen Kan to Enter Gov- KtWork—Gllsof Lin State. ■ ■; . ,/p Governor a Ciint soveni- H " licing at- ; Ho iv.-i methods * !1 UU 0(1- Life a: their nine-' ■ in session H. 1 1;1 ',.Jiiia executive ■ 8 ,.. r tiie efitieisin that V-i nation, is centered on i K.; ileeiare.i t’.iat the | ■ >netn<"l-s that prove! J\ irinl! , rprise should j ■ t ,i g,..venut!'-iital affairs; j Li rhar tl;* 1 re should be j ■in ihe A -i< an eduea- * K, f or ■[;,iiuitig in -the! Ej [H-httii|ue «,f efficient ' ■ nistfaiion" for those I their • lives in ( m il.f ••intended eriti- K win ll ftilij analyzed, bo- Jositive e anpliment. t’lutf ■ centered on “business and ins." the North Carolina lid : peculiar thing, this sug :in seeking to apply more itkoih to the conduct of! c and public- business we j drily garb ourselves in ! j. forgetting entirely to! piritual values, not gauged c a price tag. re all agree that the true' !fs< in every undertaking, f and public, is not that id save money, but the use it, in our contribution to j k So far from feeling] mbarks-ment on account j twtlWinefw methods, we] linize our habits in order (mess methods more nearly j i both cur private and pub- ! I Aintiii-a has developed a ' Irsflure which looks on the; its legitimate* territory; if! x»t the largest fortunes, j st wealth per capital, and t -tandartls of hying among 1 gclasses; iflshe has accura te If of the world's gold -w natural and industrial sre without parallel in the at: in-, the answer is that j -Ated individual ambition j t'*- and lias loft her citi-J !; ably free to enjoy the' kir enterprise and to pur-! :p '' : n their own way.” Wcr pointed out that it is i want that government, in i c to business, should use j m iegree of regulation and absolutely necessary to 1 me f h«als and a fair chance “ e tlien pointed out the "it "mote complex civili * bow these changes have industrial age in which *; liiip-ed new and vastly upon government. Wnization of st>-nn and 'H the telephone and ihe iti'Oii who would live the 'ffiuividtialiv-, avoidng par •t the affairs of society as !1 ! Rovermuent. is doom- Wntment. * theso new obligations, . *• M it is to survive and ; Ponition, must show a •••■teasing ability to meet upon it by provid -111 "hereby government | T ail >‘ onhii ged functions , onestlv and j, *. i,:is ( 'etH' nstrated that i ,ir!- Vat< ' hu-ines-i ; s largely r , :!l “ application of hii ll0 " n ri| i ,,s involving) 'najiaget; ent and busi- i S ,V ; >i> learn to 'U.- to r,ie conduct ' certain that we tk" Nlllle .I'** -Its approxi- Ifj. ; ~ •••ninient as in i11,..' - ate enterprise. a tion . gw-.. business pnn - both logical i ' J -' l ay the business ith intimately in -81 - *" of the citi- H f 10t ? H • 1 both are so Pf >g-V3l es lhf 1 ' sympathetic i*- L;tvr' J ; / r ' . fn TimPS Past inclined to give 'Sdueti!!; bUKiDeBB - ltk * Huk w ,R k’ov. rninent be- Mrw H| ” '"la.i and were ' bow, v „, l l!lw - t sources. N in f , B | • ,f Aes. federal, M»v e ‘o lAv have the selection here of a big line > of Christmas gifts for every member . of the family. Read the two pages > of ads. in today’s Tribune, and you will find just what you want for Christmas. - New York For Major General Sladen. Washington. Dec. 3.— UP) —Assign- t ment was announced today of Major p General Fred W. Sladen. now super- P intended at West Point, to command e the Philippine department, succeeding! F Major General James H. Mcßae, who has already been designated to com mand the ninth corps area, San Fran cisco. i 000.000 people, nearly all of whom 1 think otherwise." General Fries said, j ‘"hat that is what we are trying to! do.” - ' 1. Tn the judgment of the chemical officers, fear of the after effects of gas In the minds of the veterans is the most difficult obstacle to overcome in changing the views of these millions of people on the general question o£ using gas in war. Almost every body, General Fries pointed out, has talked with veterans who sincerely felt Chat they had been forever im paired physically by reason of a touyn of gas. On the possibility that gafisinjf'in duces subsequent tuberculosis, the war casualty reports of the surgeon gen eral are illuminating. They show that 73 cases of tuberculosis occurred in 19J8 among the 70.552 men in the army who had heoen gassed, the rate per 1.000 being 2.45. The annual rate for troops in Europe-that year, other Cuan the gassed men, was 3.50 and in the following year 4.30. “It would seem apparent.” the sur geon general commented, “that tuber culosis did. not occur any more fre u-quently among the soldiers who had beeh gassed than among those who! J hfld not been gassed.” ‘“Deaths from gas are at least lower than one to ten compared with ether war weapons, permanent dis abilities are practically negligible and after effects are of no monument,” General Fries contended, adding that compared to older methods, *gas—war fare “niust be commended instead of; being condemned.” TIIE COTTON MARKET Opening Was Barely Steady at De cline of 6 to 11 Points.^—Crop Esti mates Given. New York, Dec. 3.— UP) —The cot ton market opened barely steady to day at a decline of G to 11 points in response to relatively easy late cables from Liverpool and private crop re ports tending to encourage larger es-! timates of the yield. Private cables reported there had been selling in Liverpool on the ad vance in the Bank of England rate. There also was some Wall Street selling of cotton here, which was at-, tributed to apprehension that the ad-' vaitcc abroad might be followed by higher money here. Considerable trade buying and covering at the in itial decline met liquidation or hedg ing. and at the end of the first hour prices had worked off to 19.68 for Jan uary and 19.33 for March or about 12 to IS porints net lower on active positions. Two private crop reports were is sued. one placing the yield at 15,194.- 000 bales and the other at 15,651.000. One of these reports made the ginnings 13.631,000 to December Ist. Cotton futures opened fairly steady ; December 20.48; January 19.72; March 19.68; May 19.33; July 19.05. FOOTBALL COACHES TO GATHER IN GEORGIA Will Coosickr Proposals Affecting Play in Hie Southern Conference. Athens, Gn., Dec. 3.— UP) —Coaches of Southern gridiron teams meeting here tomorrow and Saturday in con nection with the annual session of the board of directors of the Southern Conference, are expected to consider several proposed changes in rules. One of the questions to be discuss-! ed is selection of officials for the vari-: | ous games. There is n difference of ] opinion as to the method of cnoosing I these officials, some contending they j should be named by a committee rep-j resenting the institutions partieipftt- j Ing in each particular game, and -oth ers arguing that they be appointed by the rival coaches. | Action will be taken relative to the presence of coaches on the playing field during games, and penalties may be provided for public criticism of of ficials by coaches. With Our Advertisers. The first consideration of the Citi zens Bank and Trust Company is the safety of its depositors. See the new ad. of the Ruth-Kesler Shoe Store on page three. New blond kid pumps, all widths at the Markson Shoe Store. Others from $2.95 to $6.95. Radios, velocipedes, guns, skates, he cycles, pocket knives, coasters, and a store full of other things for Christ mas gifts at Yorke & Wadsworth CJo’s See list of new December Victor recordd ot the Bell & Harris Furni- I ture Company. Six Prisoners Saw Way to Freedom. Atlanta, Dec. 3.—oP)—Six white prisoners sawed their way throug l iron bars and escaped from the De- Kalb 'county jail at Decatur, near here, early today. Search was begun - at once for the fugitives, who are be-1 lieved to have fled to Atlanta. i Those who escaped were 1L E., Harrell, convicted of highway rob bery ; W. S. Bolton, prohibition law violator; Harry Arnold, automobile thief; Garland Ginguillette, burglar; C H. McDonald, automobile thief, find Arthur Bellew, burglar. Will Abolish Military Directorate Madrid. Spain Df*c. 3 King Al nhonso uao agreed to abolition cf the, I military directorate and its succes '“on bv civil cabinet under Captain General Prime de Divera. Tbe new government ia to take the oath of of fice before the king today. CONCORD, N. C„ THURSDAY, DECEMBERS, 1925 * SHENANDOAH TRIAL j FOLLOWED BY TIE I ! MITCHELL HEARING 1 ! \ *■ — Court Martial Hearing j Following Along Trail Covered in the Shenan doah Hearing. NAVAL COURT HELD INQUIRY Charges Made by Colonel Mitchell Result, in Re hash of Some Facts as Given at Inquiry. Washington, I)ee. 3. — UP) —The Mitchell court martial followed the t trail of the Shenandoah court of in quiry today covering : .n many particu lars the same field previously explored by the Navy court. While the naval inquiry sought to fix responsibility for the Shenandoah wreck, however, the army court h?R as its objective the rebuttal of Col. Mitchell’s charges that the Shenan doah accident was the result of gen eral ineompeteney and criminal neg ] ligenee in the conduct of the national defense. Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, senior surviving officer of the Shenandoah, and navigation of ficer of Hie ship during its fatal mid west flight, related to the court mar-- tial today many details of the crash, lie was called as a prosecution wit ness. Much of Commander Rohendahl's ] testimony today repeated his state | montts before the Shenandoah court, j He read to the eourt martial his of-, i fieial report )»f the disaster, already a | part of the records of the naval tri bunal. SEVEN CHILDREN IN ONE FAMILY GO BAD Story Told of Tragic Breaking Up of Grrfup After Father Died. | Madison, Dec. 2. —A story of, the tragic breaking up of a family after the husband and father died that is probably without parallel in the state wa*> told here a few days ago by Miss Elizabeth Simpson, county w elf art superintendent, who stated that ,liv< of seven children in one family nr-.- now in North Carolina correctional institutions. Two hoys are at the Jackson Training School and three girls at Samarcand. The family moved to this county from Surry a little less than a year ago, following file death cf her hus band and father, and had resided here and at Mayodan since. Some how the mot'ier, it is said, failed to exert any influence over her children and they became incorrigible and a public menace. Misfi Simpson, in her capacity as welfare officer, was called on to rem edy the situation and succeeded in placing the children, for at least four of them are under 17. in the in stitutions mentioned. One boy is only 9 while the otfier is 11. The two youngest girls are 14 and 16. The mother now has only one of her seven children with her. Her oldest boy is said to be working on a farm in Surry county. She and her baby have been returned to Sur ry county and placed in “the care of relatives. It is said the family was getting along well until the death of t'iio father. Paul Caleb Goodman Dies in Rowan County. I Mooresville. Nov. 30. —Paul Caleb I Goodman died at his home near Lan | dis. Rowan county, on Thnnksgivinv j Day, aged 80 years. He was strick en with pneumonia the day before lie died. He lived his long and useful life near where he died. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Good man, one of a family of nine children, all of whom are dead except Milo Goodman, cf Hickory, and James H. Goodman, of Mooresville. He joined Mt. Moriah Church when a young man. Funeral services were held at Mt. Mariah Lutheran Church, which is in sight of the home by-, his pastor, the Rev. J. S. Messinger, assisted by Rev. C. A. Brown, of China Grove, and the remains were laid to rest in the cemetery nearby. Florida Favors Unification. Orlando, Fla., Dec. 3.— (A*) —The proposed plan of unification of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, with that of the Methodist Episcopal Church was voted upon todaby the Florida annual conference in session here. A total of 259 votes was cast, of which 149 were for unification, and 110 were against. I THE CONCORD TIMES AND THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER BOTH ONE YEAR FOR ONLY $2.25 The Progressive Farmer is the best farm paper published, and its jjj price is SI.OO a y£ar. You need not pay for the Progressive Farmer at the same time you pay for The Times. ‘ We will get it for you a whole year at any time U on payment of only 25 cents. Pay your subscription to Tbe Times to any contestant, but come j- He’s Winner j i " m | 4 p ■ i. ■„ • ■.. /•£.'£ 4/ i <''4s '■■■ < .. • V.V.V.V.-.; deet** Willard Tibbets/* Harvard’s jrcat little distance runner, who von a heart-breaking x*ace from Loucks of Syracuse in the recent in iercollegiate cross-country champion thip in the east. He beat Loucks >v a scant yard in one of the most jhrilling finishes in the history die event. Tibbets covered the shy miles in 30 minutes, _34.seconds.. CODICIL BLUFF IS DAMAGED BY BLAZE Damage Estimated at More Than $1,000,000 Result ed From Fire in the lowa Town. Council Bluffs. La., Dec. 3. —(>4*) — Fire caused more than $1,000,000 ■ damage- in the business district of Council Bluffs today. The flames started in the basement of the Continental Furniture Com pany when a boiler exploded. J. Mo- Manigal, night watchman at the build ing. was badly burned about the head and body. Eighty guests at the Grand Hotel were safe, although forced to flee in scant attire when (’lie flames enveloped an later destroyed the ho tel. Their personal property was lost. Eight fire companies from Omaha and Council Bluff battled with the flames and for a time it appeared that the fire would spread through out the entire down-town district. LUTHERANS WILL ERECT A HISTORICAL MUSEUM Old Data Regarding Activities of Denomination in This State Will Be Assembled- Hickory, Dec. 2. —A church his torical museum will bo erected in the near future on the campus of Lenoir-! Rhyne college here, through the ac tion of the North Carolina Synod of the United Lutheran church in America at its" recent convention. Forty thousand dollars have been ap propriated for the building and addi tional $25,000 a year was voted for the purchasing of historical material pertaining to the Lutheran church which will go into the museum. Thousands of early records tire in existence somewhere which will yield the intimate workings of Lutheran congregations in the old south dur ing the period of colonization prioir to the Revolutionary War. Many churches moved with the shifting I population from tbe old towns along the seacoast up into the piedmont section, and it is expected that a vagt amount, of history relating to these churches will be uncovered and permaently placed in the historical museum. Searching For Albert W. Gilchrist, New York, Dec. 3.— (/P) —Police of the Missing Persons Bureau today started a search for Albert W. Gil christ, former governor of Florida, who disappeared after he had been, visiting friends in this city. The search was started at the rrequest. of Charles A. Finley, secretary of the Florida State Senate. Gov. Ferguson Has M‘‘de No State ment. Austin, Tev., Dec. 1. — UP) —Govern- or Miriam A. Ferguson has made no -1 formal annuoncement on the matter of I I calling a special session of the Texas I legislature, as demanded by a num ,! ber of the lower house, her husband, I Jas. E. Ferguson, said today. LEFTWICH ARCADE BUILDING VISITED BY ANOTHER FI ■ For Fourth Time This Year the Building Located in Greensboro Is Damaged by Stubborn Blaze. firemetTsaved ALL OCCUPANTS Means of Escape Were Blocked by Blaze Until Firemen Reached Them by Outside Walls. Greensboro. Dec. H.——(A 3 )—For the : fourth time this year fire took a heavy | property toll shortly before 6 o’clock this morning in the Leftwich Arearde budding on Elm street. Fourteen persons who reside in apartments on the second and third floors were cut off from escape and were rescued by firemen. Fireman Crumpler was injured as a result of cutting an artery in his leg when he kicklced a glass out of a door. The damage to the building alone probably will exceed $30.00() a,nd loss to stores on the majn floor froim wat- ( er damage will equal or exceed that amount. As a result of the fire an investi gation is being conducted with a view to condemning the building, it was annoiyiced by Capt. Shaw, of the fire department. T. J. McAdoo. city building inspector, and W. L. Scott, fire commissioner of the state, today are inspecting the structure. REV. R. W. BOYD DIES AT MOORESVILLE Was Prominent Presbyterian Minis ter and the Founder of Barium Springs Orphanage. Mooresville, Dec. 2.—Rev. Robert Warren Boyd died at the home of his son. Pascal S. Boyd, on Eastern Heights, at 9 o'clock tonight, follow ing an attack of pleurisy arid compli cations. The deceased was born in Chester county. South Carolina, De cember 8, 1839, and had he lived until next Thursday would have at tained his 88th year. He was edu cated at Erskine College, Due West, S. C.. and the University of North CnroHrm. He was a student at the university at the out break of the war between the states, and enlisted in Company F, 12th South Carolina reg iment. . He studied medicine under the late Dr. Wiley, of Chester, S. C.. after the war. but on account of all the colleges of the south being de stroyed during the war and being un willing to go to a northern school, he gave up his medical course and entered the ministry, bavind devoted iiis time to teaching and farming, prior to securing his degrees from Co lumbia Theological Seminary. In 1886. May 24th, he was married to Sarah Jane Baekstrom, of Chester county, South Carolina, and to them were bom six children, two of whom are dead. The funeral services will be held at Little .Toe’s Church at Barium Springs at II :30 o’clock Friday morn ing. Three Quarters Million in Auto License Taxes. Raleigh,' Dee. 2.—Gasoline and autpmobile license taxes collected by the state during November totalled more than three-quarters of a mil lion. dollars, the figures made pub lic by the motor vehicle bureau us the state revenue department here today show. The figures were Gasoline tax collect ions, $656,534.42, as com pared with $440,909.27 during No vember. 1924, and license tuxes $106,537.38, as compared with $104,- 882.40 during November, 1924. The total of both gasoline and license taxes for the first five months of the present fiscal year is $7,642,963-21, more than a million ahead of the collections at the end of November, 1924, when tht figure for total col lections of these, tow tax items of $6,482,356.24. Postal Inspectors Watch Florida Land Deals. Tampa. Fla.* Dec. 3.— UP) —Postal inspectors “by the score” have been assigned to Florida, according to Wil liam M. Gober. United States district attorney, and are maintaining a vigi lant watch on all questionable promo tions in real estate. Mr. Gober said the transactions of many realty firms and developers are under surveillance, and a “goodly* number of operators willl be prose ' cuted as soon as tire investigation is completed.” Knew Nothing cf Discoveries in Mis / scurf. Hannibal, Mo., Dee. 3. — UP) —Citi- zens of Bowling Green, Mo., today declared they had no information as to any discoveries by a party from St. Louis which has been carrying on excavations on a farm one mile north of t’.iat town, intermittently for sev eral months. Press dispatches had stated that R. D. Burehard, and assistants announc ed the discovery of ruins of a buried j city, possibly of pre-glacial age. = Wants to Renew Debt Funding Mat ■ ter. ? Washington, Dec. 3.— C4*) —Secre- tary Mellon has received word from Finance Minister Loucheur, of France expressing hope for an early renewal of negotiations for funding France’s j debt to the United States. J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher . Clubber e • : ' v ' ' *•>• '• . s*: .Jp&J ■KK:: :-- :<, !^x^&:v:;^jr - JRg, 'xSk. |y||§ Ssbbh v ... ...jHBiMKHH \ ff This man. Robert August of Tole do. < >.. was arrested on suspicion of j being the “clubber’’ who has attacked nine women in the fashionable resi- 1 dence district of that city. lie was found wandering in the woods near! town, his hands bloody and carrying ! a hammer. Xotv, however, police | doubt that he is the guilty party. BANK OF ENGLAND CHANGES ITS RATE f Finds It Is Necessary to - Raise Official Minimum Discount Rate to Five Per Cent. • >m j London, Dee. 3. — UP) —The Bank of England today raised its official mini mum d : seount rate to 5 per cent., an increase of 1 tier cent. The increase in the official minimum was found necessary in order to cheek the outflow of gold which has amount ed to 19,000.000 pounds Sterling since the bank rate was reduced in October. ! and over 10,000.000 pounds Sterling on balance since the country returned to the gold standard. It is Understood there were pros pects of further withdrawals of gold, and as the New York Exchange is hovering near the gold point, a pro tective measure was ..thought neces sary if the bank's proportion of re serves so liabilities was not to be far-' tlier lowered. HOST OF COTTON CHOP lIAS BEEN HARVESTED Favorable Weather During Past Week For Farming -in Southern Agric alt liral Belt. Washington, Dee. 2. —Favorable weather for picking and ginning cot ton continued in the western and northwestern portions of the cotton belt during he past week with most ly ideal conditions for field work pre vailing in Texas and Oklahoma- The weather bureau, in its weekly summary of crop and weather condi tions in southern states, made pub lic today, added that in Texas-pick ing lias been early completed, except in the northwest, where the crop is nearly out in most section of Okla homa. There is much unpicked cot ton remaining on the lowlands of Ar kansas but that which is still out is generally badly stained and of a low j grade; cotton is mostly picked clse whee in the state. There is still con siderable to pick in parts of Ten nessee and some remain in the fields : in Norli Carolina. There was some | damage by rain in the Imperial val- j ey of California. Hardy vegetables show improve- j ment in the South Atlantic states and conditions were favorable for stripping tobaeeo in the middle At lantic area and Ohio valley. Conditions by states include: Vir ginia—Week comparatively dry and cold. Winter grains doing well. Pas tures fair to good; • favorable for marketing tobacco and for the usual \ farm work of the season. North Carolina: Week cold, rain fall light- Favorable for farming. Good progress housing crops, but still some cotton and com remaining in the field**. Winter grain and hardy truck doing fairly well. Seeding let tuce completed in southeast. Rotarians to Hold Meet in Charlotte. Charlotte, Dec. 2.—More than MOO clubmen from eight clubs in this district are expected to come to Charlotte next Tuesday for the Rotary inter-city meeting at the chamber of commerce- Fred Kent, of Asheville, district * governor, will be present and outline I the pupose of an inter-city gathering ; of Rotarians. Several of the members will speak on various phases of club activities. The opening session will be held at 10:30 o’clock at the chamber of commerce auditorium. Luncheon will . be served at 1 o’clock, at which time , Rabbi Joseph Marks, of Atlanta, ( will speak. Adjournment will occur in mid-afternoon. This will be the second consecu tive inter-city meeting of Rotary clubs to be held at Charlotte. Last year 307 clubmen attended a sim ilar gathering here. TLe committee ' arranging for the convention is com posed of Norman Pease, chairman; H. C- Jones, club president; H. C. Sherrill, C. A. William*, Jr.. Frank ■ Moser, Tom Lar.e and Tom Barn liardt., Jr. ~ > Agreement on Boundary Question. 1 London. Dec. 3. — iA*) —An agree -1 ment has been reached on the Irish ? boundary question. Details will be announced today. <. n „u J CABINET IS FIRST POINT I IN FINANCE FIGHT After Fight Which Con tinued All Night, Cham ber of Deputies Voted": With the Premier. FIVE VOTESTOF FAITH TAKEN 'ln Each Instance Premier Briand Marshalled Suf ficient Votes to Carry the Point at, Issue, Paris, I)cc. ;{.— (A*) —Premier Itri- |8 | ami's new cabinet lias won its first I victory. After an all night and all % forenoon fight in the chamber of dep- g ut’cs for his financial measures, the * Premier succeeded in forcing adoption !of new advances from the Rank of ! France to the government of 9.000,- *] i 000.000 francs •and a new paper tnon- ■ ; ey issue of 7.500.000.000 francs. The titiul vote on the bill as % j whole was made a question of ermfi i dence. and was carried 257 to 229. a | majority of 2S. It was the fifth vote , / jof confidence during the lengthy ses- V sion. M. Briand made it plain during the debate that the government was stak ing its existence on the measure in its entirety, and thar if the financial pro-* groin as outlined by Finance Minister '.*■ Loucheur was rejected the ministry would step down immediately. The bill now goes to the seuate, the /xj finance committee of which under Fi nance Minister Doumer, is meeting this afternoon to examine it. , , The inflation voled today is the fourth measure of the kind in a year to be passed by the chamber. Before the final vote this afternoon the Pre- - $ mior in a speech in which ho rose 'to heights of eloquence he has never sur passed, excoriated \ those deputies who wore unwilling in a national cri sis to forget petty political consider ations and think only of their eoun- | try. The veteran orator impressed all, and convinced some, as was evidenc ed when on the first vote of confidence on a motion to proceed to discussion of the bill, most ; of the principal op position groups abstained from voting. | and he wits upheld 29H to TIM. Arti- ~ ■ eles authorozing emission of 7,500,- 000.900 francs in new paper, bringing total circulation to 5fy500.000.000, was voted by a show of hands. The climax of the session came ‘I when the provision for a further ad vance of 000,000,000 francs from the bank of Franca to the government 4s was carried by a narrow margin of 0 votes, 245 to 239. Premier Briand calmly conversed with Senator Bereuger in the Cham- , | ber lobbies while the vote on which the , fete of the ministry hung was being taken. NEW HIGHWAY TO LINK CHARLOTTE, GASTONIA Will Be Built Early in New Year at a Cost of Frcm $500,000 to $900.- 000. , j Charlotte, Dec. 2. —Approval of a recent survey and a definite decision jto build early in 1920 anew highway linking Charlotte and Gastonia, cut ting the distance between the court houses of Mecklenburg and Gaston j from 21 1-2 miles to 17 miles, was ! announced Wednesday hp W. ('. Wil [ kinson, of Charlotte, commissioner for ! the Sixth state highway district. The new route, which is to Is* 40 feet wide. 20 feet of sand day; will 1 cost from $500,000 to $900,000 and it will be built with funds allocated by the state for use in the sixth, highway district. The old road be- - m tween the two cities, state highway route No. 20. has carried more traf fic than any other highway in North i Carolina. ■ ‘m For several months surveys have been made along the Charlotte-Gas tonia route by engineers of the state highway department under the supervision of J. B. Pridgen, district highway engineer. Os ' the surveys Mr. Wilkinson announced that what appears to be the most practiable one has been adopted. * 8 Finds Greece Should Pay Damages. Geneva, Dec. 3.—OP)—The League of Nations commission which inquired into the recent Graeco-Bulgarian i frontier incident finds that Greece t should pay Bulgaria 20,000.000 leva ! damages. The leva, nominally worth 19 cents, | now is quoted at .73 of a cent. When bears climb up on aspen their scratches leave a permanent record or: the tree. SAT’S BEAR SAYS: - Fair tonight, slightly folder in ! southwest portion; Friday increasing ; cloudless, probably showers in ex •, treme west portion. Diminishing west ; and northwest becoming variable. NO. 41