l\i!-: L Irfportoii RAFT IS GIVES PiTTEEII Lot! Suggests That mMH) Annually for ■ ears He Spent for lanes. IekIiEPORT [will be made ■ Reid, of Illinois, lei For Col. Mitch- Kl Ask For Unified fcviee. A, ]i . |0. — i/P) —F.xpen- annually for • ‘infill <>f aircraft H. vy i- n-t omrnend §■ . he special house |H as agreed upon . "us \vhi« h con v department of ■"'■•■rinjf land, sor in l»v all morn K[ii. K’-id. of Illinois Ki !\u- Colonel Wil- K,.y ip wever. will lilo a Ei hi o f .'.'h oeming a uni- Eyd department of nation ■v, ild supplant the pres- Inil uavv departments, and ■ upf-essiiri’y give aviation a ■i?in with '.ami and sea ar- Oi'ier unmittee recom <: include: for all aviation u of civil iu-r nauties in the t of <• unineive. curefuent agency for all air hi resresentaticn f-r the air «"‘neral staff and pneral board. Dfflt ai« in the establisb tirwars and air ports, of all aeroplanes now in destruction of these found i ■ j i and maintenance of an I lir reserve. h IV mot i n opportunity for s. and pay commensurate hazards of their work. K>rt also 1 (‘commends that tal and development work ■a. iuii.tr .dt ciaii factory at iua and at McCook Field )■. be transferred as far as :c the bureau of standards j tt. however, ask for the elos- ;• 1 factory or the McCook Field | Bi n i- reeomtnended to pro- j ■ay f.” inventors in aircraft t >H'U:e redress for infringe-’ j r thtr than in the court of nty and navy are a"0 tired pert of failure to give proper to aviation as a factor in mal defense . tear. r,| national defense | P Ulllr Wt'rwi. t t‘it

; •' '•'“ prisous and tate\ '*• ( ome under bi>' ;iC ,| ,;1 When the I 1 in the Meck ifarc e< i if over ro I u:.,. :i ‘; ! There ie In • report, Mrs t , exactly the inspettions niiKii-ed upon •d with the Cl] p —*■ ■— ’Tori- -’il> Dividend. L r ‘ '“--I'ae Southern lay declared a H. an* , . '1~“> on com* of 50 cents a ' ! ! :!ts she st' ck ijv-,. j '' ith the pre •••is are pay 'tock of record b fifsf ~f : , tr * f*gaiu , ‘" 11 f l’ lo b winners, THE CONCORD TIMES $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. Honored . iWKL JjMSw , Julius E. Olson, pi-ofessor of Scant ! Mnavian languages at the Uni /ersity i Wisconsin, has been made a 1 ! knight of the Order of St. Olaf bj King Haakon of Norway. This i| In recognition of his service in thi • Aeld of Scandinavian ( activities. I WENDELL IS m \ BY DAMAGING EIRE J About /One-Third of Busi ness District of Town Is Razed by Fire Which Started Early Today. Wendell. N. C\, Dec. 10.—C /P) —An early morning tire here today razed -ne-tbird of the business district be- i fore it was brought under control. Engines from Zebulon and Raleigh answered a call for help and the blaze was said be under control shortly I after 4 o'clock.. The fire ate its way through six stores, doing an estimated damage of SIOO,OOO. THE COTTON MARKET Renewal of Near Month Liquidation and Southern SelHugrifc* Twb*?-* Opening. New York, Dec 10— UP)— There : was a renewal of near month liquida tien and southern• sel ing in Fue oot | ton market at tie opening today, and i a further dec’ine in prices. The ini : tial tone was bare’y steady at a do | cline of 9 to 12 points, and the nc | tive months soon showed net losses c f ' 13 to 28 points, with December selling off to 19 40 and May to 18 88. De cember notices amounting to about 1,- 400 bales were reported in circula tion, which probably accelerated liqui dation of long accounts, and the weak ness of December in which trading ends at noon today, appeared to pull down Jan»ery. Covering and trade buying gave the later months a tively steady tone, but prices were within a point or two of ffae lowest at the end of the first half hour. Cott n futures opened barely steady. Dec. 19.60; Jan. 19.05; March 19.21; May 18.92; July 18.68. Pardon Commissioner to Investigate Mansel. Asheville, Dec. 9. —George Ross Pou, superintendent of the state prison, Raleigh, has written the Asheville Prison* Re-form association the following letter regarding the j egro prisoner, Alvin Mansel. wfio j I was recently sentenced to death fol-1 lowing triai and conviction in su -1 perior court here on a charge of ( 1 criminal assault on a white woman. ’ jlt was also he who precipitated the j first mob last summer whinh broke; a precedent long standing in Ashe- j ville for peacefulness : ! “With regard to Alvin Mansel, now confined to the safekeeping de- j partment of this institution, I ad-1 vise I have talked with this prisoner and he fully maintains his innocence- i “I am advised by the commission er of pardons that he will make a ! thorough investigation of this case.’’ A number of Asheville citizens ; have requested the local association to look into the matter of persostbnt ; identity of Mansel. The prison re- i form association is impressed with the fact that these requests come from sources outside its membership Capture Still at Home of Negro Preachet. . Hickory. Dec. 9.—Federal officers I making raids n<*ar Hildebran cap tured a still at the home of Hosea Hildebran, negro preauher, and con fiscated qeveral pints ©f whiskey and around 200 ga’lons of beer which j they found buried under a woodshed, near Hildebran’s home- The negro, j who has been preaching for about 30 years, took his BfWe to jail him, the officers said. Extreme Earth Tremor Recorded. Chicago, Dec. 10 — UP) Extreme ( earth tremors at 8:33 this morning | were discerned by the seismograph at the University of Chicago. The m*'**j intense smock was recorded at 8:40 with total disappearance a minute ’ater. It is estimated that the [ tremor covered a distance of 2,100 miles. The original “Royal” hybrid wat-1 nut tree on Luther Burbank’s farm has for fiftten years paid in nuts and j . grafts an annual interest of six per cent on SIO,OOO. ! Interstate Commerce Commission Sends Annual Report to Congress Washington. Doc. 10. — l/P)—Con | grow was asked today by the Inter state Commerce Commission to repeal ] the law requiring it to work out a plan f( r consolidation of all :he coun try's railroad- into a sriiro or so or | systems. At the same time, it stig | gosfpd that the sections of the frans ! portafion net which contemplate the I gradual consolidation of existing rail- rondt into fewer systems he strength ened and extended, with the commis sion retaining povycr to approve or disapprove the mergers undertaken. The commissions; views were set forth in ft.s annuarreport, made pub lic today, along with the t,ex4 of legis | lation which it considered likely to accomplish the end desired. The ma jority of its rnemliers now believe, the report said, that •'results as good and porhape better are likely to lie accomplished wit’ii less loss of time if the process of eonsoldation is per mitted to develop, under guidance of the commission" in a normal way. In every case, the report stated, federal power to allow or block any particular consolidation should be lodged in the commission, in order to make sure that better service, addi tional economy, and no undue re straint of competition may result. In its ether annual recommenda tions to Congress, the commission re peated suggestions that a penal stat ute he cnaeted to punish shippers who bribe railroad employes to obtain car service; and that the sect lons of the i merchant marine law which provide j preference for American shipping in, j the maintenance of export and import i rates be modified. j Reviewing it* routine work for the fiscal year, the commission said that railroad earnings were still below T a fair return standard on the basis of the value of property but that better results were in prospect for the pres ent fiscal year. Railroads in 1924, it pointed cut, failed to obtain as Motorists Asked To Aid Police Officers ♦ SUPREME COURT PROVES DEAF TO TROTT'S PLEA • Plea of Drunkenness No 'Excuse For Killing Newton Girl. Ra’eigli, Dee. 9. —The plea of Wil fong Trott. young Catawba county white man, that he was dead drunk when his companion drove an autoinO 'hi e into a Ford, causing tiie of 15-yen r-oleatli of Aged Rowan * Lady. Salisbury, Dec. 7.—A fall several days ago in which an arm was broken and a severe shock sustained caused ! the death of Mrs. Joel Corriper at her home near China Grove this morn ing. Mrs. Corripet was eighty-eight years old. and is survived by two sons, will Corriper, who live with her. and Henry C. Corriper, of the i Salisbury letter carrier force. The funeral takes place from Zion Church, near China Grove, Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock. j i'he ordinary house fly makes 330 ! wing-beats per second, which is prob ably tbe world record for rapidity ! among all natural fliers. 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 price is SI.OO a year. We save you 75 cents. CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1925 much net income as they did in 1916, in spite of traffic and invest rneot in creases. “A partial explanation of these dif ferent results nearly a decade apart is that, in 191(5. tin* proportion of revenues going into the payroll of these roads was 40.8 per (pent." tin* report said, “whereas in 1921 it was 47.7 per cent. Tin* increase incests of material and supplies and other expenso-s, ami an increase in taxes, generally account for the remainder.'' In the endeavor to enforce new safety requirements upj-n ritilroaOs. during the last fiscal year, GD9.4 miles of line were equipped at the coimnissirn's order with automatic train control devices, the report con tinued. A slight reduction in the number of accidents at grade cross ings also was noted, from 5.218 in | 1923 to 5.217 in 1924. lii its task of fixing the valuation j of the railroad* of tin* country under j taken several years ago. the commis sion reported considerable progress. With respect to steam railroads, t»3 per cent, of the accounting reports, 70 per cent, of the engineering re ports, and G 4 per cent, of the land rejtorts have been completed, while work on the balance was said he well advanced. The valuation work is linked with the recapture -by tin* United States of half of railroad earn ings which exceed a “fair return" and this was declared to have brought payments of $5.947,3.39 to the treas ury, whore they are placed hi a rail i road contingent fund. The issuance by railroads of securi ties having a total par value of $907,- 777.000 was'approved during the year, and among the more important of its activities directly touching railroad charges, the report noted action tak en under the Hoeh-Smith congression al resolution, which directed investi gation particularly of rates on agri (Continued on Rage Six.) Chief Talbirt Urges Pub lie to Co-operate With Officers in Enforcing the Traffic Law. NEW SIGNSARE CONFUSING NOW But They Are Expected to Prove Benefit to Motor- j ists After They Have Been Used Longer. Chief of Police 1.. A. Talbirt is anxious to have the people help him ) in the regulation of traffic in (’on-j cord. It is only through co-operation that traffic may be handled effective ly, declares the Chief. With the installation of the new signal lights, a new era in CoucordV civic life has begun, it is jiointed out. Heretofore, the city was on a small town basis. It was every man for himself in traffic. Now, there is to be ian orderly, systematic arrangement, similar to that in the larger cities. “What we must have,” said the Chief this, morning in talking of the city's problems, “Is the assistance of all drivers of motor vehicles and of all pedestrians.” “It is necessary for the first class, the drivers, to be very careful in their observance of the signal lights. Os course we have our officers to enforce the laws and a penalty for the non obeyance of these enactments. How ever, there are many people who try to flip &Bsn fraction of a second by at- j tempting to get across before the sig- i nal changes while the bell is- ringing or start off just before the ‘stop’ light changes to ‘go’. These are the peo ple from whom we need co-operation. “It should be remembered that one case of thoughtlessness, similar to the above, may cost the life of a child. Naturally, if an accident were to oc cur, the person who had violated the law would be liable, to the full extent of punishment. “Pedestrians, also,” added the Chief, “should be careful to watch the changes in street signs and cross on the side where the ‘stop’ signal is j lighted.- In this manner, they will I lessen their chances of being injured.” j "White lines have been painted at all the intersections where there has been an installation of the new sig nals and motorists are asked to be > careful in the observance of these i traffic lines. At each of the corners, with the exception of the one at the “Square.” , a left turn may be made. | There are no storms or hurricanes on tbe Island of St. Helena. In the 1 course of sixty years only two flashes of lightning were recorded. There a:e no motor cars, no lawyers there, and, only five policemen. Red Grange Signing $300,000 Contract / ’* ■■Lx Ii jjiGßk hI i JIHmM imi’ijlipWHSMßffi JmMM aiafcsKli m MmSSm gas s T^nmlrniiio 1 |h| BP M MW it R f R R&i Hera L gßssjMj WmL#. |||jjL jhHH k m mm .on strokes being made by the cnrly-haired gentloman in the picture means just $300,000 in his young l : fe. The gentleman is Red Grange, and he's >igning a contract to appear in movies. About him W. E. Slial lenberger, who holds the contract; Harry G. Koseh, his attorney, and C. C. l*yle, Grange’s manager. $750,000 BLAZE AT SAVANNAH COMPANY The Southern Fetilizer and Chemical Co. Damaged j by Blaze That Was Fought Time. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 10.— UP) —The plant of the Southern Fertilizer -& Chemical Company on Mutchinson Is'-) land in the Savannah River here, was damaged by fire early today to the es timated extent of $750,000. The fire fighters were .handicapped in combatting the flames due to the position of the plant on tjm idand. Land apparatus was dispatched from , the city to aid fire tugs, which played streams of water on the burning -structure from the river. ! OFFICERS RAIDED ROOM OF VISITING BANKERS Repot! Finding of Liquor In Room hi Hotel at St. Petersburg, Fia.\. | St. Petersburg, Fla.. Dec. 10. — UP) I—A room in the Soreno Hotel, con vention headquarters of the Invest ment Rankers Association of Ameri ca was raided last night by three Pin olas county, officials and a quantity of liquor seized, officers announced to day , The liquor, they said, was in pos session of Jas. FI. Coad, executive Vice President of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Coad, the officers added, was not arrested last night, but they were quoted as saying “we are leaving for Clearwater at noon to ob tain a warrant for Mr. Coad’s arrest ” Clear water is the sent of Pinolas County, 1 TWO 'INSURGENTS ARE OUSTED BY REGULARS Representative Lampert and Represen tative Nelson Removed as Chaiimen of Committees. Washington, Dec. 10. — UP) —House I republicans today ejected two mem bers of the insurgent group from chair manships of committees in complet’ng its organization. In completing its organization the majority party removed Representa tive Lampert from head of the pat ents committee aud deprived Repre sentative Nelson from liis place a> chairman of the elections committee. Both are Wisconsin republicans. 81.500 Attended the State Football Games. Raleigh. Dee. 10. —( /P) —Thirty-five games in North Carolina during the 1925 football season brought together 81.500 persons. The figures, coin idled by unofficial estimates, show that all previous records for attendance were broken. Flack individual out standing game this season attracted a larger crowd than in preceding years. The greatest attendance war (at the Carclina-Virginia Thanksgiving classic, when 18,000 persons watched the Cavaliers and Tarheels battle tc a 3-3 ties. In 1923, 15.00 persons saw this encounter at Chapel Hill, i the game being played on Virginia territory in 1924, The .next largest : attendance of the season was at the 1 j Carolina-N. C. State games in Rn leigh. when 8,000 saw the encounter. On tire sidelines for this game last year were 7,000. , i Christmas at Hoover's. . You will find gifts at Hoover’s I Store for all the men. ranging in | j price from 25 cents to $75. Every- j I! thing there from collar pins to over i j coats. In a half page ad, today you I |; will find a complete list of t hings \ | which will make suitable presents for ) your men folks. ) Andre Beaunier Dead. | Paris, Dec. 10.— UP) —Andre Beau ! nier, critic and novelist, died today. [ "Woman is a thing of beauty, and \ an expense forever. RENEWS WORK AT STOKE MOUNTAIN Work Which Was Halted Some Time Ago Is Re sumed With Augustus Lukemann as Sculptor. Stone Mountain, Ga., —Work was resqmod here'today on | the gigantic Stone Mountain Confed erate Memorial, with Augustus Luke tnann, Virginia sculptor, in charge of the work. Resumption of car dug was accompanied by ceremonies partici pated -in by officials of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association. Mr. Lukemann, aud .lustice Price Gilbert of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Jus tice Gilbert, acting as jiersofirfl repre sentative for Gov. Clifford Walker, gave the signal for the drills to start, by waving the Stars and Bars of the Confederacy. CHURCHMEN ADD FUEL TO PROHIBITION BLAZE Dr. Clarence Wilson Says it Would Have Been Better to Have Nomi nated Smith. , Washington. Dec. 9. —More fuel was placed beneath the capital’s boiling prohibition pot today when the board jof temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist Episcopal church assembled in the Methodist building for its annual two-day gathering. The meeting, attended by promi nent ministers and laymen from all parts df the country, as told by the board's secretary, the Rev. Dr. Clar ence True Wi’sou, that he personally wished “wished we had let the dem ocrats nominate A1 Smith on a wet platform’’ in the 1924 campaign be cause John W. Davis and Charles W. -Bryan, who made up the ticket, were “too good to waste on the situation.” It would have been bet ter, he said, to have had “Smith, the wet Tammany heeler,,” defeated by about 12,000,000 votes, as this would have “toned up moral senti ment” and been a pronounned. de rision for enforcement. NUMBER OF MEN ARE REPORTED TO BE ENTOMBED Miners Are Believed to Have Been Trapped in Mine by an Explo sion. Birmingham, Ala , Dec. 10 — UP) — A number of men are reported en tombed-in Overton Mine No. 2, Ala bama Fuel & Iron Ckmpany twelve miles south of Birmingham. The men were said to have been trapped by an explosion. At the offices of the company here it was said that “no details were jret available.” p Later it was said seventy men were employed at this pit, with sixty of them “below.” Sub-Standard Ice Cream Barred From the Market. Raleigh. Dec. 9. — Sub-standard grade* of ice cream will no longer be allowed on the market, it was decid ed this afternoon by the state board of agriculture, which also agreed that it avould not sell any land on any of tne test farms before the next meeting, in .July, 1926. The board also approved Commissioner Gra ham's report and discussed reforesta tion, jn which the members possessed an interest- Commissioner Graham’s recent rulings on fertilizers were approved 1 and a rule adoptted looking toward the standardization of packages in marketing. The board rescinded a I ruling made 20 years ago which for l bade she giving oqt of amounts re ceived for fertilizer tags at any time before the end of each fiscal year. Will Keep Embassy at Vatican. Paris, Dec. 10. — UP) —The French chamber of deputies today voted 280 to 108 to maintain the credits for the upkeep of the French embassy at the I Vatican. J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher WANTS LEAGUE AND I AMERICA 10 UNITE I So That Naval Arms Con* ference and Land Arms i Conference Both Can Be Held In Near Future. i Genova, I)0(*. 10. — UP) —An intense, i eordiale, between the league of nations ■ and the United States for reduction of - armament was advocated by Afranio V Aiello Franco. Brazilian member of the ; league council, in a statement to the * Associated Press today. ■ Under this proposed intenie, the . league would collaborate in a second naval conference in Washington, and the United wquljd co-operate in ■ | the general land 4 (ffsarmaneul eonfcr , ence now being planned by the league. INHERITANCE TAX IS ATTACKED IN SENATE Senator Underwood Objects to Feder al Government Collecting Such 1 Taxes. I Washington, Dec. —OP) —The Fed- j eral inheritance tax provision of the j pending revenue bill was attacked in an address here today by Senator Un derwood. Democrat, of Alabama, as “communistic”" in principle and in un warranted interference with state’s \ rights of taxation. Addressing a committee of the Tex as legislature her/ to oppose the in heritance tax provisions, and repre sentatives of a dozen other state leg islatures, Senator Underwood oppos ed particularly the feature of the pro posed tax by which the Federal gov ernment would allow a credit up to the maximum of SO per cent, of its estate against that collected by a 1 state. Negro Sent to Jail When he is Cit able to Become Buzzard. Richmond, Va., Dec. 9. —Sam Washington, negro, was sent to jail j , today because he could not turn him- . self into a buzzard. . Sam was haled before Justice j Henry Maurice in South Side Police j court on a charge of obtaining sls I from a negro women whom he told! i' he could turn himself into a turkey- j 1 buzzard and obtain the release of a t j friend from jail. . I “Open that window,” Justice I Maurice instructed a court attache, j .: and turning to the prisoner said : : . “Negro, if you can turn yourself into . a buzzard fly out of that window.” “I was jes’ foolin,” jedge, I can’t * turn into no buzzard,” Sam auswer ( ed, whereupon he was remanded to | :jail to await further investigation of, , his case. \ Makes Charge Against Turks. ,1 Geneva. Dee. 10. — (A*) —Atrocious : acts of violence going as far as massa cre have been committed by Turkish 1 soldiers along the provisional frontier j I of Mosul in northern Mesopotamia, j Gen. Lai donee of Esthonia, special I league of nations agent, declared in a . report submitted at today's session of . the league council. I t I Senator Harrison Attacks Dawes. [ Washington. Dec. 10.-*-UP) —Vice President Dakes was the target of b, a satirical attack made from the floor . of the Senate today by Senator Har - rison* Democrat, of Mississippi, who I quoted speeches of the vice president jin his tour over the country for a l ' change of Senate rules. . I j —— I Earth Shark Recorded in St. Louis, i | St. Louis. Dec. 10.—G4»>—Central i America probably was the center of - the severe earth tremors reported at - St. Louis University between 8:25 and ? 8:38 this morning, seismologist Jas. B. McElwan said. He estimated the d:s tance at 1,700 miles. i Headed by M. Paul Appell, rector ) of the University of Paris, a num » ber of French scientists have signed p a protest against the verdict given in the Scopes trial at Dayton, Ten®. PLANS SETTLEMENT i j OF GERMAN CLAIMS ! f; n IIGES ; Awards Decided Upon by Mixed Claims Commis sion Will Be Acted Upon j Very Soon. germanYwill PROVIDE MONEY For Claims Be Paid by Reparations Money j Paid to United States by the Germans. Washington. Dec. 10.—( A *) —In or der to accomplish early, payment of awards by the American-German mix- i ,ed claims commission. Secretary Mel- .i i loh has worked out a plan for restora tion to German nationals of property seized during the war. together with : the issue of securities with which to. ! provide cash for a settlement of all classes. Details are yet to bo determined* -s but the prograiiv has gone far enough ! to forecast its early submission, to Congress. * ■ The plan would permit. *