■mi; i- HEELERWINS k FIGHT FOB, k 111 COURTS, I Court of District Imbia Upheld Con ft> of Senator In ■by Government. ITHERS ARE lEED BY COURT booth and Gordon bell, Indicted Joint [th Senator, Have IThrown Out. 2!). — UP) —Sona- Wtc \Viie**l**r. of Montana. lit;lit t<> have all I;. gainst him by the* the books. retention of the already been acquit ■reiM riuii the*charges cou ■ einspiiai’.v iud’ctinen* re- Bjj.t him here had been ■T demurrer to tli.». indict* Kv'Venaf-r Walsh, of AIOII - counsel, was up ■irirh the dismissal of the the court also I tie charges against Edwin Ur solicitor of the Interior and (lonlon Campbell of fwlie were indicted jointly L The three men were Lj t h conspiring to defraud Lmeiit in connection with Ling of oil and gas land per f decision ioares Senator free of all charges unless the nt should succeed in winning |to the higher courts. Whetli i step will he attempted was I dear, but tee Wheeler coun ts ip such development. HE GOES IN FOR SMOKE ABATEMENT [Engineer Makes Survey and to limits His Report. k Dec. 2S. —John Hunter. Lenient engineer from St. it was employed by the city L study of the smoke prob- N mpletod his work and hae special report the [’f' ci'.'ii: oam-kklrt 1 v»f ta« nf Commerce. L»rr of Mr. Hunter, accord- A. H. Malone, chairman of Biitee. has been drawn up in |rm and will be open to all hiring Information about the loke situation. He inter- Banagors of local industries |tftW all of the large fur- I the downtown district. His |ort is a compilation of sug |lie has made to industrial id gives full instructions as [furnaces should be fired to pt benefit from coal burned, pi return to Asheville during for several days and will h consultations with all who so opinions as to the smoke the suggestion of Air. Hunt rille has employed a smoke f in the person of C. A. Sig-' h "ill direct the carrying 1 pp engineers’ recommendations ' p co-operation of local busi es. I i | AT BI RLINGTON I ENTERED by robbers pdy SSOO Is Stolen From I Shoe Store. Rton, Dec, 28. —Approximate- ■ j as stolen from the safe of < ■w Sioe Store, on Main WMa» between the closing i jWiy night and Monday representing a part of business, was deposited , manager, Dover G. Mfkurday night before he B?** and went to his home ( ■ ,w _ a t*l**rk, discovered the ■ i-13 o’clock this morning ■[/'* Ile(1 the store and saw , ■w® 0Vf T the floor, from the , B*r door. When he • |7 iscovery. Air. AVicker ■Z f. locked it, and went , ■L orp u 'herc he got Ben Eirit im^an * v Idoi back to the Rf? his discovery. He EZn ai ! aser H, ‘ rita ge, and Bp) ‘ * kter the police de llj 0 tbe stf rre was made It,* y f door - the lock of Iko!e U £V Vitll a I,aßs key I loop / fl! b,v " gouged in the ■ look 1,1 E >as> W "'as left ErJ A r ve in Florida. lores' in a - I,w - 28.—(/P> »formed t ‘ XTl, ‘ ll i«- northwest Wn aw r " as low :ls t 0 |^rolrl i r r l "' A ' J ‘ M'tchell. l^rtiJlt was advised tonight r ' l, ' Kr '* es short_ tn L t**mptures at ! ‘ J an official ■ Ta!i a y.. ' a K,v, ‘ wro before rp,K,rtp d ,('n»Pera r^' r 'l!'" l t r Patrol. E« 10:45 ■ytroy *1 A h lr-h tfireat- F 'Vas irilM ‘ I;tl1ln Furniture ■ *” ( 1 the fi a !° SI ‘Adirely under ■a* officials Uas ,)<>Pn ®®ti* P- f ’ concern at THE CONCORD TIMES $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. Proposal Suggested By Minister Doumer ! Adopted By Cabinet I —‘—♦ THE COTTON MARKET Quiet During Early Trading After -j Qnening Easy at Decline of 9 to i 2s Points. ‘ j Xew York. Dec. 20.— UP) —The cot j ton market was quiet in today’s early j trading. Prices were lower under realizing by recent buyers who ap peared to be disappointed by relative j iy weak Liverpool cables and falling I off in demand for near month shorts. The opening was easy nt a decline of 0 to 23 points with AlaEch selling off to 10.1)0 and Ala.v to 10.07 in the first few minutes, or about lo to 2.1 points net lower. Offerings were not particularly heavy, howeverm. The decline seemed to bring in a little fur ther covering and prices held fairly steady at the end of the first *iour. At, that high point of yesterday, the market showed advances of 75 to 165 points from the low prices of last week, ami the setback of this morn ing was considered partly the result of an easier technical position. Cotton futures opened easy: Jan uary 18.60 ; March 10.50; May 10.10; July 18.60; Of-tober 18.30. PROGRESSIVES .LP AND COMING SAYS MORRISON Rest Assured They “Are Not in Re treat,” Former Governor Says In Raleigh. Raleigh. Dec. 28.—‘‘The progres sive of North Carolina are upv and coming.” former Governor Cameron Morrison declared while a visitor here for a few hours today. “I have nothing to f*ay along poli tical lines or in rega~d to public mat ters, but you may rest not in retreat,” he said. Governor Morrison ca’led on Secre tary of State TV. N. Everett, who is ill at his home on Blount street, and on Auditor Baxter Durham and Ag ricultural Commissioner TV. A. Gra ham. while here. He drove over from Durham, where he and Mrs. Mor rison. his daughter, Alias Angelina, and hks sister, Aliss Ida Alorrison, are spending the week. He said he was feeling fine aivd in the best of spirits. INVESTIGATE FINDING OF PARCELS POST SACK Effort Will Be Made to Learn If It Had Been Stolen. ‘Asberhif. -Dwrr investigation of the possibility that the parcel post mail sack found in the furnace room of the Farmers Fed eration Building destroyed by fire on Sunday morning was stolen and taken in the building by thieves To be rifled, will await the arrival here of TV. P. Garrison, post office inspector. Mr. Garrison went to his home at Glen Alpine..to spend Christmas with his family and is expected to return within the next few days. He is in charge of postal investigations for Western North Carolina. If the sack were stolea" he will direct the investi gation when ordered to do so by the Department at Washington, according to Dan TV. Hill, postmaster. Temperature to Rise Slowly, Says Forecast. Washington. Dec 28.—The weath er bureau said tonight ‘in its report of conditions: “Abnormally cold weather pi*e vails over practically all section east of the Rocky Mountains and the temperature ie from 20 to 30 degrees below normal over middle and south ern—sections. The temperature at 8 p. m. tonight at Brownsville, Texas, was 26 degrees and was the same at New York, Philadelphia and Boston. Sleet and snow has fallen in south em xTexas. “Mostly fair weather will prevail Tuesday and Wednesday east of the Mississippi river. The temperature will rise slowly Tuesday and Wed nesday in the Ohio valley Tennessee andthe South Atlantic and East Gulf states Chain-Gang System to Be Readopted Rutberfordton, Dec. 26.—For the first time in about 12 years Ruther ford county 'has a chain-gang. The county commissioners completed the details this week and the first day's work by the convicts, was done Wed nesday. The old jail will be head quarters overnight and Sundays. They will go out into the county to work on he roads in trucks. Thomas Blanton will be superintendent with Guy Edwards, guard. The prisoners will sleep in the cells. Heat and water has been installed in the sleep ing quarters. As long as the convicts behave and work they will be given tobacco and cigarettes and five days off of each month. When the refuse to work or behave they will lose their credits rnd tobacco. Only able bodied men will be compelled to work and they will be examined regularly by the county physician. Hot lunches will be sent to the men. The county now has from 20 to 30 able-bodied young men in jail. With these many roads should P e built soon. According to recent reports the seventeen building trades unions in the United States now have an ag gregate paid-up membership of 864,- 000, representing a gain in the last two years of approximately five per cent. - —t- More than one hundred horses have been nominated for the annual run ning of the $65,000 Coffiroth Handicap at Tia Juana next March —the rich est race in the world. French Cabinet Will Give Support to Fiscal Meas ure Proposed as Present Need. r FULL PLANSARE GIVEN TO PUBLIC Cabinet Hopes Proposal Will Stabilize the. Franc, Which Is Declining |n Value Now. Paris, Dec. 20. — UP) —The French cabinet meeting this morning agreed to support the fiscal measure oi Fi nance Minister Doumer. The ministers unanimously approv ed a scheme for balancing the budget and stabilizing the franc, and author ized the finance minister to introduce the bills in parliament. It is understood that AI. Doumer will submit his measures this after noon and that the chamber’s finance committee will discuss them during New Year’s parliamentary recess. The finance minister announced that he estimated the budget defied at 8,800,000,000 francs ($352,000.- 000). He proposed to meet this by increased income taxes, reinforcement of the fiscal administration, a tax on bourse operations, higheer prices for tobacco which is sold under govern ment monopoly, a tax on exports, ami “an extraordinary and temporary stamp tax on sales.” Two billion five hundred million francs of new revenue ($100,000,000) will go to a sinking fund, 2.000,0f)0,000 francs ($80,000,000) to reimburse the Baukfl of France for advances made to the state, and the rest to balance the budget. . Today’s decision by the cabinet brought an end to the sharp race of the last ten days between Premier Briand and the lenders of the major ity on which he has relied in the chamber of deputies. The Premier although distanced in the first stage by the hasty introduc tion of financial bills, prepared by the coalition leaders as substitutes for the governmental measures, won the final lap by a vigorous aud daring maneuver that took his adversaries off their feet. To the radical ministers VuUJ****t eried to resign and break up the cab inet he calmly replied “If you must go, I cannot retain you, but for my part I shall remain.” The deduction from this way that the premier already had prepared to replace the radicals and socialists in his parliamentary majority with the groups from the center and right to forestall the socialist eongree which is meeting on January 10th to pass upon the question of a socialist govern ment or socialist participation in a radical government. M. Briand’s move was immediate and extreme. The rad ical ministers hastened to declare that they did not decide to quit. Behind the maneuvering on both sides is an apparent desire to mend political fences before the dissolution of par liament aud elections which are being more and more talked of in all the po litical groups. FOUR SMALL CHILDREN CAPTURE LIQUOR STILL They Find it While Gathering Holly, Load it on Cart and Take it Home. Tarboro, Dec. 26.—Four small children between the ages of seven and eleven captured a still in Ingram township a few days before Christ mas. These little folks, Mildred, Al mond, Alaebell and Derwood Keene, were out in the woods about a mile from Four Oaks gathering holly to prepare a Christmas tree to be held at the Baptist church. Hidden care fully in the underbrush, they found a still. They succeeded in loading the cap tured* still in their cart and carried it home, leaving it in the custody of Mrs. R. A. Keene. The citizens of the neighborhood congratulated the chil dren in helping to make for a quiet Christmas in that vicinity. Frieda Hempel Feels Effect of “The Spirit of Locarno.” Hamburg, Dec. 21). (A 5 ) The “spirit of Locarno,” has been extend ed to Frieda Hempel, the prima donna who aroused the ire of the Germans by singing on behalf of the Liberty Loan in America during the world war. Arrangements have been made for her to appear next year in a con cert and operatic tour of the leading cities of Germany. The Germans resented the fact that Mme. Hempel, although of German birth, supported the Amer ican side of the war. She was there fore persona non grata with the muscial bureaus, which feared to ar range concerts for her lest there be hostile demonstrations. Mine Hem-. pel’s point of view was that- Amer ica was the land of her adoption and that there was nothing else for > her to do except to side with Amer i ica. As secretary of the National Pe troleum Marketers’ Association. Aliss ' Eva Arnstein handled alll of the de tails of the big convention recently held by the association in Louisville. % Forty-eight bacon packing houses ) in Denmark are conducted o the co ■ operative plan. The co-operative es tahliahmenta have a membership: of CONCORD, N. C.~ MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1925 Seek Pole 1 George H. Wilkins (above) «d “Sandy” Smith, (below) plan to lop off next March from Point Bar ow. Alaska, for a flight over the iorth' pole. They will have an, apeciallyjDuilt plane for their 800- SERGEI YESSININ COMMITS SUICIDE Ef.centric Russian Pees, Former Husband of Isa* dora Duncan, Takes Own Life In Moscow. New York. Doc. 29.— UP)— Sergei Yessinin, the eccentric Russian poet, lms committed suicide in Aloscow. He was the divorced husband of Isadora Duncan, the classic dancer whose em ulation of terpiscliore while bare foot ed and in dishabille made her famous throughout the world. Yessinin was about 30 years old, some ten years younger than Miss Duncan. They were married in 1922, and the wife divorced him last year. Shortly after the wedding the young Bolshevik writer came to the United States with the dancer aud after some trouble with immigation authorities they were permitted to enter the country. FRENCH DISCOVER USE FOR HULL OF PEANUT Process to Make Industrial Alcohol Reported; May Mean Aluch For the South. Washington, Dee. 28- French scientists have found that industrial alcohol can be made from peanut hulls, and a factory to produce it is planned for Alarseilles. This may means a great deal to peanut grow ers of the South. It is estimated that 350.000 tons of hulls are thrown away annually, and now* there is to be a demand for them. This news came to. the Depart ment of Commerce from France to day. Vice-Consul F. G-. Carney, sta tioned at Marseilles, has made a re port on it! An expert at the French government powder factory at Ser genes is said to have discovered a new chemical process for breaking down cellulose, and scientists at the University of Aix-Alarseilles essert that alcohol can be manufactured for three cents per liter or about 12 cents a gallon. Coates to Answer University Critics. Charlotte, Dec* 28. —The Univer sity of North Carolina alumni in Charlotte will give their annual din ner to high and preparatory school seniors at the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday evening at 6:30 o’clock. Albert Coates, of the University-law faculty, is to be the principal speak er. , Mr. Coates, it is said, will speak on a subject of much interest to the University men, answering criticisms which have been “directed toward the institution recently by organizations and individuals. The speaker is rated as outstand ing among members of the Univer sity faculty. , Charlotte Branch Office Will Not Be Closed. Charlotte, Dec. 28.—The , branch office here for the issue of State automobile license tags will not be f closed January 1. when branch of ’ fices in several other citi'es will be suspended, according to information • reaching Charlotte today. It was learned that six branches that are i likely to be kept open after January -1 are located at Charlotte, Asheville, ■ Greensboro, Durham, Winston-Salem E and Wilmington. Catherine the Great’s Ten Rules of Conduct Found in Winter Palace Leningrad, , Dec. 29. —While dis mantling the sumptuous drawing room of the late Empress Alexandra i* the famous Wiliter Palace, the Bolshevik authorities j discovered a quaint set of, rules of social conduct written by Catherine the Great in 1785. Cath erine, who iwas one of the most ver satile’ and gifted women of her time, caused these “Ten Commands” to be posted nt the entrance to the Imperial chambers: il. Leave your rank outside, as well as your hat, and especially your Word. 2. Leave your right of precedence, your pride, and similar feeling, out side the door. '3. Be gay, but do any thing; do pot break Or .gnaw any thing. 4. Sit, stand, walk as you will, wjthout reference to anybody. 5. ‘ Talk moderately and not very loud, so ns not to make the ears arid heads of others ache. 6. Argue without anger and with out excitement. '7. Neither sigh nor yawn, nor china Wants to run HER OWN AFFAIRS Is In the Throes of the Birth of a ; • Spirit of Nationalism. Nishvile, N. C., Dec. 29.—OP)— China is in the throes of the birth of a spirit of nationalism, and, like the young boy, juct coming to manhood, who think>s he knows more than his father or any older head. China wants to run her own affairs with out advice or interference from other nations, declared Rev. Wesley AI. Smith, returned missionary in a lec ture here. Afr. Smith, who is a Southern Methodist -missionary wtationed at ' Cbangs-hu, has been a resident of China for the past 15 years. He is now in this country on furlough. Referring to China’s natiouaiistic birth. Air. Smith declared: "To be a good father to a son at «uch a time of life means allowing the boy to go his own way, even if he does make mistakes, aud yet standing by to help him out oi Trou ble. And that is what a real friend of Chinn must do in the face of the situation today.” “Unless a man is ready to lay aside his pride aud self-conceit and to stand by and help without letting the Chinese know he is helping, he is not the man to go to China today as a missionary, declared the speak er* The first demonstration. of the student movement, said AR\ Smithi made in 1919 against the Jproads of Japan upon China, was led largely by Chinese students and was popu larized by the patriotic demand for honesty and inegrity among Chinese officials. Air. Smith’s personal belief is that the labor element was intro duced into the movement in 1925 for a two-fold reason —to pull to gether all the warring Chinese fac tions, and to horn off foreign nations. It was not necessarily the result of the spread of Bolshevistic ideas, he said. “The idea of China for the Chinese was one that would appeal to all classes, high aud low, and for this reason it has been stressed in an ef fort to unite all Chinese against a common foe. The question in China today is, ‘Shall a man be a patriot or a foreign slave?’ ” Alissionaries are in sympathy with the spirit of nationalism, the speaker said- And he cited, as an example, the fact that at a recent meeting of the' China mission conference of the Alethodist Episcopal church, South, missionaries unanimously voted to waive all claims to protection under the "toleration clauses” in treaties’ with foreign countries, and that this act has been officially approved by the board of missions of the church. HIGH HEALTH GOAL SET FOR ASHEVILLE Dr. Sevier Proposes to Make It Most Healthful City in America. Asheville, Dec. 28 —“Asheville, the most healthful city in America.” This is the goal set for the health department by Dr. Dan E- Sevier city health officer. Backed by city ordinances and state laws that cover almost every phase of sanitation, handling aud distribution of foods, milk produc tion, and control of contagious dis eases, the present head of the mu nicipality’s health department is waging persistent warfare against forces that make for ill health. And Asheville has a good chance to attain premiership in matters of public health if advances made in the past few months are pushed for ward in quest of the ideal. While a national association given to study of public health matters recently adopted resolutions decry ing the “slip-shod methods” employ ed in the average American com munity in matters of health, Ashe ville continues its progress by strengthening the personnel of its public health staff, and by adiing machinery and equipment; to assist its technicians in carrying on their work for the public welfare. Catawba River Frozen Over in South Carolina. Chester, S. C., Dec. 28.—The government thermometer here early this morning registered nine above zero, the coldest in two years. Nearby streams were frozen over and Catawba river was frozen over, it is said, for the first time in many years. A number of kitchen tanks burst and the damage to water works pipes in many residences will be heavy * llie ear of the katydid is situated in the tibia of the front leg. / make anybody dull or heavy. 8. In all innocent games, whatever one proposes, let all join. -9. Eat whatever is sweet and sav ory. but drink with moderation, so that each man find his legs upon leav ing the rooms. 10. Tell no taleu out of school; whatever goes in at one ear must go out at the other before leaving the room. Transgressors of these royal regu lations were obliged, upon the testi mony of two [witnesses, to drink a g’.nss of cold water for eaclr offense, “not excepting the ladies.” They also were compelled to read a page of the ‘‘Telemachiade,’? a thoroughly bad poetic composition by Tretiakofsky, an unfortunate native poet of tiie time. whose : literary reputation there by became ruined. Those who broke any three of the rules during the same evening were required to commit six lines pf the “Telemaehiade” to memory. Any of ' fender against the tenth rule, was | never again admitted to Catherine s , presence. r CAPITAL SOCIETY WOMEN ATTACK IMMODEST DRESS Begin Campaign Against Some of the Present Tendencies. Washington. Dec. 29.—0 P ciety leaders in the national capital have begun a campaign against some Os the’present tendencies in the dress and habits of American women. Airs. John B. Henderson, long an influential figure in the exclusive cir cles of diplomatiq and official Wash ington. today maide public a set of resolutions to she and other so cial leaders here j have subscribed, J calling on society I women everywhere “to abandon cigarettes and immodest attire,” Officers of the Daughters of th* American Revolution, the General Federation oX Women’s Clubs, and. the. National Congress of Parents and Teachers, Airs. Henderson said, had assured her they are ready to combat as far as possible habits which threat en the perpetuity of the American nation. As made public by Airs. Henderson, the resolutions endorsed by influential society women here are as follows: “That we are deeply interested in tliei efforts oC certain high dignitaries of phurrii and schools who have met hoping to modify undesirable prevail ing, fashions for women’s apparel, and have hopelessly laid the blame to mothers, calling upon them to come to the renciie; that we feel that they do net realize tbitt Dame Fashion is a powerful potentate 1 ; that a large num ber of American girls now work for an independent living, and if chided by helpless mothers concerning ques tions of fashions they simply regard such mothers as out of date and old fashioned. "That the best women of France and England, also as here represented in tlieir embassies, also by the royal family of England do not follow fash ions of women’s apparel not in good taste, quite regardless of ftlphions which are dictated by the underworld of Paris. “That we suggest for street wear dress skirts broader and of ankle length. “That we call upon society women iof America everywhere to band to jgether to condemn sudi vulgar fash ions of women’s apparel that do not tend to cultivate innate modesty, good taste or good morals! “That in the interest of future pub lic health and efficiency, we pray that the comparatively new fashion of cig arettes be abandoned, in that reserves , from health capital, expanded to save the living organism from perils of poi son inevitably lead, sooner or later, to physical bankruptcy and race degen eracy. “That women’s colleges whose mis sion it is to teach \rtiat best befits girls for future life, viz: life’s great est asset, normal physical health, could aid in discipline by dismissing those who refuse to conform to col lege rules.— KANNAPOLIS BOOTLEGGER CAUGHT DISPENSING WATER Crawford Captured in Chestetr. S. C., and a Sizeable Fine is Plaster ed Upon Him. Chester, S. C., Dec. 27.—8. Frank Crawford, of Kannapolis, N. C., was tried before Mayor S. Churchill Car ter on the charge of selling whiskey and was senenced to pa a yfine of SIOO or serve 30 days on the Ches ter county chaingang Crawford was said to be a qnique bootleger apfl practiced the old game of selling water in a can with enough moonshine on top to give it the odor of whiskey. In court he ad mitted the selling, but argued that no statutedenied one the right to selling water. However, Alayor Car tter ; enlightened him on the laws of tihs municipality by informing him ; he could not sel 1 whiskey, even ; thoqgh it was a small amount nest ing 'upon the op of the water. Rising Temperatures in Florida. Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 29. — UP) — 1 Rising temperatures were in evidence in Florida with a continued rise > promised tomorrow, the bu r reau here reported. * Citrus fruits in the northern sec tion of the state were affected by the freeze, reports here indicated, but this ’ constitutes only a ( small portion of the Florida crop. t i General Pershing to Return Soon. ; Washington, Dec. 29. —OP)—For- mal announcement of the early return of General Pershing to tfne United i States was made today at the State department. J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher 15 Years gUIP 1 *M.Wmm . i ■ (Vith a prison term of 15 years hang Ing over his head, Roscoe Warre* 18, of Kansas City, Mo., has maiyie M)— Thirteen persons were injured, none seriously, in the wreck of the Atlantic Coast Line passenger train No. 181 early this morning near Oades, S. Cj The locomotive and five coaches left the tracks, the derailment being caus ed by a broken rail. The following statement on the de railment was issued by the general of fice of the road here: " , ‘‘Southbound passenger train No. . 181 was derailed at 12.10 today 1 1-2 miles from Cades. The derailment , was caused by a broken rail. The en . gine and bagage coach, one passenger coach, one diner and two sleeping . cars left the rails. Five passengers, i the engineer end fireman, ami six oth , er employes of the Atlantic Coast Line were slightly injured.” : \ Section of City Appears Doomed. / Baltimore, Dec. 20. —C4P)—A sec tion of Ocean City, Md., including two hotels, and several residence blocks • appeared doomed by fire at noon to day. The Ocean City central tele phone office was out of commission ‘ shortly after the fire started. Re ports from a banking house at Ber . lin, Md., maintaining the nearest tele ! phone to / the fire, said that the Sea . side Hotel and the Atlantic Hotel , both were ablaze. Snow Hill and E Salisbury, Ntd., reported that . the . flames originating in the electric plant at tiie Eastern end of Baltimore Ave » nue, were working into the residence district. Assistance was sent from i Salisbury, Snow Hill, Pocomoke and t Berlin fire departments. . Cabo age and Lettuce* Crop in Wil t mington Section Killed. , Wilmington, Dec. a low - mark of 11 degrees above zero the f cold wave which struck here last i night had apparently destroyed the i entire crop of cabbage and lettuce . and had damaged the onion crop fifty per cent. Weather officials fore cast even colder weather tonight. Meets Death While Wrapping Live e Wire. e Albemarle, Dec. 27—Henry Smith, a machinist at the Norwood Manu facturing Company, was electrocuted while wrapping a live wire at the plant. Hie fingers were burned to e the bone. He was 40 years old and s leaves a wife and four children, e Colder Weather Tonight. Wilmington, N. C., Dec. 28.—(4>)— With the low mark of 11 degrees, the •- cold wave which struck here last n night,, apparently destroyed the entire d crop of cabbage and lettuce and dam e aged the onion crop 50 per cent. Cold er weather was forecast for tonight. MINERS AND MINE § OWNERS GATHER IN METROPOLISTOOAY Hope For Early Settlemnt of Coal Strike Revived With Opening of Con ference This Afternoon. M _ 9 SESSIONS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC 4 Operators Expected to Sug- x gest the Miners Go Back on Wages That Held When Strike Started. New York. Dec. 20.—0 P) —Hope for early resumption of mining in the an- x thracite coal fields of Jj was revived today as representative.!! of miners and operators gathered for Jt their first meeting since the deadlock at Atlantic City last summer. Separate informal conferences of the two groups of six men each pre- cede the actual parley between the ne- j gotiators scheduled to begin at 3 p. m. at the Union League Club. Alvin | Markle, chairman of the joint | tion committee, who called the meet ing, was designated to preside over the joint session. Major William Inglis, chairman of l the anthracite operators, headed the \ operators’ delegation, and John L. ga Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers, headed the un- H ion group. Although all sessions were closed to the public and, no formal statements were planned, it was generally con ceded that the operators would bring g up for early discussion their offer of last Saturday to the 148,000 striking | miners to return to work at onee un der the wage scale in the contract that expired August Ist. Will Open Books For Inspection. New York, Dec. 20— UP) — W. W. Inglis, spokesman for the anthracite operators conference, and chairman of its negotiating committee, said today that the operators were willing to open their books for public inspec- % tion. POKED COCKED PISTOL INTO PEOPLE’S RIBS This was Stokesdale Man’s Way of Celebrating; lias Changed Face * Greensboro, Dec. 28. —Ed ’ I«eley, white man. looking for trouble in the village of Stokesdale, Guilford coun ty,' went around poking a cocked pistol in people's ribs, was the al legation made in Magistrate D. H. Collins’ court here this afternoon. He was celebrating Christmas on Saturday and seemed to think he was a Texas cowboy. After the Stokesdale people had picked him up. when a resident who resented "the pistol, had stamped on Iseley a bit, a deputy sheriff arrest- J ed him. He was charged with carry ing concealed weapons having whis key and assault with deadly weapon. * He didn’trhave the SIO,(XX) bond re quired anil went to jail to wait for Jj Superior Court to open. Ten years ago, the magistrate stated, the man wouldn’t have been allowed to live two minutes after he started looking for trouble in Stokes dale, but refining influences of civili zation have made for law and order and all he suffered was a changed face. President’s Father May Lose Use of Limbs. Plymouth, Yt., Dec. 20. — UP) — While the condition of Colonel John' C. Coolidge, father of the President, was reported improved today, his physician, Dr. Alfred W. Krara. of Brigewater, said it was improbable that he would ever recover fully the use of his lower limbs. Colonel' Coolidge has been unable to walk for several days. \ —i f -3| Quick Clothing Sale at Richmond- Flowe Co.’s. The entire stock of men’s and boys’ clothing at the Richmond-Flowe Co. yj must be moved in a week. One-fourth off is being given ih the prices. The j I prices range from $13.13 to $30.00 on i men’s suits and overcoats and from 1 $7.50 to $15.00 on boys’ mits. See half-page ad. in this paper today. --4 Man and Wife Burned to Death/ ‘ Mobile, Dec. 20.— UP) —James G. V Campbell, golf professional, and his w'ife, were burned to death w’hen the Mobile Country Club was destroyed by fire early this morning. The char red remains of the Campbells were found in the ruins, they having been trapped in their quarters on the third floor by the flames. ■ ■ ■ ■ 1 ■ ■ ■ ; - 11 1 SAT’S BEAR SATSI L * I t Fair tonight and Wednesday, not ?■ quite so cold tonight and in south - portions slowly rising temperature - Wednesday. Moderate north and northeast w’inds. NO. 50