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l n!1 Senator Called in
f Pall-Doheny Trial to
| Abou ( His Oil In-
Kip-ation.
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Kandllis <1 i
f e the Public A'l the'
fcAbmil leaser
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■ r<ftt 7 Li.ira.-s tru.i. after
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■r p nM..n«.,v of th- S-nate
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Kin, information ah-uit SIOO.- ,
E had come into Falls pos- «
friilo **•*««« V" d ;
■ the lease of the Llk Hills.
K] reserve, which later was .
L r to Dolieny’s company. .
■ rep lf said the money came 1
K ar J B. McLean, publisher
■fashington Post, but later it
Kgpfd'thnt it eame from Do- j
had described it as a '
H
won another point
admitt-'d in evidence
obiirtion. a It>22 con
j Hen the Pan-American Com-J
Khe A- i:"'l Oil Co., of'
|H under whidi the Pan-Am-!
0 i! p» tin- Associated. The I
H offered the contract in
it.mention that the oil
the Elk Hill con
immediately sold to the
at a premium of
defense witness was
Lambert, counsel for
opening statement in
the government
a poor case. The de
well *i'est w rhout fur
[Hfe he said, but would go
(tit of stipple
d.
lawyer related the j
|Htli;it tlif government was*'
the remaining naval re-j
■'.X’l and 1-H22. because the 1
wa- being •*bled“ of itsj
l,y tln» wells of pri
set along the edge of
reserve.
■t the long friendly re-
Dolietiv and Fall,
nr, citispirat-y could have
Biupon siieli relationship. He
Hto the jurors that Fall was
HlaFederal judge in the New
by President Cleve-
Hithereafter served in the U.
V Wore he was appointed
of the Interior.
character
show the standing of •
bolieny in hj s community,
president of the South
s' Portland Cement Co.. Los .
■ said he had known Doheny 1
■J'orilO years, and held him
BEfooti repute and honesty, in
■ iotism. I<
B_H.Pftvvell. of I,os Angeles, a
of Leonard, testified Do
• foj-einost. j»at riot in
BWiad known Doheny since
Eii'M appearance with n 1
it < alifornia. more than
he said, and had been
his next door neighbor.
E ,,|) <»ll hobs it*.
is Ke|Htried to Have
■ Wt (oniiany.
■5,‘W! many. Dec. 1. —
Bergdoll. draft
fnan justice from
|BJ!. ■ has left, his refuge
|B’Dirh the declared inten-
Germany.
■ ' ir 'lestinatiou could not
IK* much mystery sur-
B Hovemeni
Grams Nothing About
M Grcver.
■2?;, I,,w ' 1 -—Mr«- Em
inorlier of Grover
late today she did not
■, 8 Sl>l ‘ was or of any de-
Ina > rave to come
m r ' hl Gt.it if neople would
. ' <s o!|r of his affairs he
10 thL country.
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HIS CHRISTMAS
EARIV ' have vou?
■ Shopping days
pl/H-k CHRISTMAS
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THE CONCORD TIMES
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
ONTARIO IS WET
AGAIN. ELECTION
RETURNS INDICATE
Toronto. Ont.. Dee. 2. — (A*) —
The province of Ontario, jdry tot
fen years. Lias gone wet. In elec
tions he’d yesterday throughout the
province for the 112 seats in the
legislature, at least SO members
pledged to support Premief* G.
Howard Ferguson’s policy sos gov
ernment control of the sale of
spirits and beer, were elected. On
ly one remote constituency re
mained to be heard from.
A BIG INCREASE IN
FEDERAL TAXES SHOWN
Most of It From Cigarettes—Nearly
sir> 000,000 in One Month.
Raleigh Tribune Bureau
j Sir Waller Hotel
| Raeigh. De<\ 2. —Already $81t.750,-
002 iu federal taxes has been eolleet-V
od in North Caio ina during the first
five months of the fiscal year—and
most of it from the tax on cigarettes!
During November alone, collections
amounted to $14,87.T.°»02. as com
pared with $1.T.000 r 73U in November.
102.”, a gain over the same months
last year of $1,182,6i>6. And indica
tions are {hat if collections keep up
at the present rate, the total for the
present fiscal year will be at least
$200,000,000. according to ‘Gilliam
Grissom, of internal revenue
for Norcb Carolina.
“Just let them on smoking
cigarettes at the present rate, and the
collections will run a million dollars
a month more than they have,” said
Mr. Grissom. When asked if by
“them” he meant women as well at>
men smokers, Mr. Grissom only smiled,
but said not a word. However, it
is tacitly admitted by tobacco manu
facturers and dealers that since wom
en have taken to smoking cigarettes,
mi’.ions more are being consumed thaln
formerly. And the records of the
collector of internal revenue tend to
bear out thiis fact. Not only are
women smoking more cigarettes each
month, but by so doing they also have
encouraged men to smoke more than i
formerly, dealers say, since men who
formerly refrained from smoking in
the presence of women, now smoke
freely in their presence or with them.
The increase in collections so far
for the first five months of the pres
ent fiscal year over the same five
month;? in 1925 is $7,536,636. a gain |
o considerably over $1,000,0000 a
n „uh.
i ntion is called to the fact by
M ssom that while bj- no means
are .a’l these ip
Norl’h Carolna. all these cigarette* are
consumed In the United States, since
those cigarettes which are made for
export to foreign countries do not bear
the United States revenue stamps. He |
also mentioned that while all these'
taxes are paid in this state, because J
the cigarette* are manufactured here, !
the tax is really paid by the consum-1
ers in all sections of the country. j
SHERIFF COCHRAN AND
DEPUTY TO ASHEVILLE j
Charged With Failure to Serve Cap
ias Committed to the Sheriff.
Charlotte, Dec. 2.—C^) —Sheriff W.
O. Cochran and Deputy Sheriff Avery
B. Johnston left here early today for
Asheville, where the sheriff hae been
cited to appear in Superior Court to
show cause why he should not be ad
judged in contempt of court for alleg
ed failure to serve a capias commit
ted to him. The capias was for the
arrest of Hugh Rogers, of Charlotte,
charged with embezzlement.
Sheriff Cochran contends thpt the
boy was placed in charge of his fhth
er. A. M. Rogers, a policeman, who
took his son to Asheville to adjust
the matter, but failed to report to the
court.
TRAIN CRASH
Only One Man Hurt When Passenger
Train Sideswiped Another at Cross
ing.
Etowah, Tenn . Dec. 2.
neer W. T. Wife was injured and sev
eral passengers severely shaken up
when the “Southland,” Louisville and
Nashville passenger train from Cin
cinnati to Jacksonville, sideswiped
northbound train No. 18 at Mamin
j go, at a siding at Fairy, Ga., 34 miles
south of here last night.
The engine of the Southland, run
ning three hours late, hit the rear end
of the other train as it was heading
into the siding, damaging three Pull
mans. all of which, however, remained
upright.
New Pastor at Salisbury.
Salisbury, Dec. I—Rev.1 —Rev. B. J. Wes
singer has been called as *pastor of
Haven Lutheran church, this city,
and has accepted the'call. Mr. Wes*
inger has for several years been pas
tor of churches in Lincoln county.
He has a wife and several children
and the family will move here tis
month. Mr. Wessinger takes up is
new work January 1. Haven church
has been without a regular pastor for
several weeks, their former pastor.
Rev. G. Herman Cooper, having gone
to Chicago to accept work.
Star Theatre
TODAY—FRIDAY
“IT’S THE OLD ARMY GAME”
With W. C. Fields and Louise Brooks
Every Black Jack Player Should See
This Picture. It’s a Paramount
Special
The reason why we did not run
“The Sheik” was the bus driver turn
ed over between Newton and Char
lotte, and could not reach Concord.
DIRECTS RELIEF
IN OUAKE ZONE
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; &
bL jßk m
i, J. W. Beach
Managing Director of the Neai
East Relief, who Is directing re
fief work in Jthe earthquake zone
of Armenia. A native of Bangor,
Me., and a Yale graduate. Beach
ms been engaged In aellef work
it ace the Armistice.
POSSIBLE METHODS OF
INCREASING REVENUE
Sales Tax Opposed.—National and
and State Deinocrack on Record in
Opposition to It.
• Raleigh Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
By J. C. BASKERMLL
Raleigh, Dec. 2.—Since it is now
almost a settled fact that the incoming
legislature will have to deal largely
with the question of taxation and will
possibly have to find away to increase
taxes to take care of increased ap
propriations, especially if those who
are iu favor of lavish expenditures put
their program across, consideration is
being turned toward possible methods
of increasing revenue. And naturally
one of the first means of increasing j
revenue, that comes to the popular!
mind in a .sales tax.
But the sales tax, when examined !
closely, especially in the light of Dem-j
ocratic precedent and past experience,)
present a number of difficulties, as \
well as certain complications which i
are likely to prove embarrassing to j
any who might have the temerity to j
propose such a tax.
In the first place, the Democratic i
party as a whole has steadfastly op- i
posed any sales tax, as the record of!
the party in Congress will show, on !
that it f* hased mq n r ;iW j
economic principle, in that it passes *
the burden of the tax on the consum- |
er. Democratic leaders have consist-J
entiy argued for years that such a j
system of taxation is unsound and
unfair, in that those against whom
the tax is levied really do not pay
it, but merely pass it on the consumer
in the form of increased prices. Thus
the increased taxes ate really paid
by the consumers, who theoretically
should benefit from other forms of
taxation.
But the national Democratic party
is not the only organization opposed i
to the sales tax. The last state Dem
ocratic platform, in conformance with
the ‘national platform of the phrty,
contains a very plain-spoken plank
against the enactment of any sales
tax in North Carolina, definitely
pledging the party in this state as
opposed to a sales tax in any form
Viiatsover, for any purpose. Thus
any democratic member of either house
of the legislature who may under
take to introduce a measure calling
for a sales tax of any kind in North
Carolina will be faced with the task
of shattering two very powerful prec
edents, and the winning over of the
members of the legislature to a policy
which has been openly and vigorously
declared against by both the state and
national branches of the Democratic
party.
Nor arc these the only reasons tend
ing to show that any proposition call
ing for a sales tax would have hard
sledding before the North Carolina
legislature. Manufacturers would vig
orously fight such a proposal on the
ground that it would increase living
costs of consumers, and thus decrease
their buying power, which would au
tomatically reduce consumption so
that production would have to be cur
tailed. This condition would then,
of course, tend to increase the cost of
production with consequent higher
prices all along the line. And the
final result would be decreased busi
ness activity and an unfavorable econ
omic condition as the vicious cycle
is completed. And the manufacturers
are right, although they would not
have to pay any of the tax directly,
though ultimately they would be af
fected by the tax.
Btit even more than the manufac
turers, are the merchants themselves
opposed to a sales tax. They realize
that while their customers —the con
sumers —would have to bear the main
burden of it, that it would add num
erous complications to their business
itself, in (hat the machinery for its
collection would largely have to func
tion through their individual busi
nesses. The tax would add an end
less amount of additional bookkeep
ing, inasmuch as it would be neces
sary to keep records of all sales, when
made, and the amount of tax due on
each sale. But more than this, they
object to the necessity of passing on
I the increased cost to the buyers for
they know that they are thus reduc
ing the buying power of the public,
upon which they are dependent.
Then there is talk of a on
tobacco. But the same drawbacks
exist in a sales tax on tobacco as
on anything else, and such a tax
would undoubtedly prove exceedingly
unpopular. It will be remembered
that one southern state enacted a to
bacco sales tax a few years ago and
then, because it proved so unpopular
CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1926
WINTER LAID SEIGE
TO EASTERN STATES
DURING THE NIGHT
After Sudden Sortie Out of
Northwest, Winter Gave
December Cold Debut in
Plains States.
MERCURY FALLS
IN MANY STATES
While Temperatures Rose
During the Day Weather
Bureau Warns of Anoth
er Drop for Tonight.
Chicago, Dec. 2.—<>P)—Winter laid
siege to the eastern half of the coun
try today after a sudden sortie out
of the Northwest that gave December
a shivering debut in the plains states.
Spreading over the Alleghnnies and
southward to send the mercury scur
rying in the upper edges of the Gulf
states, the cold wave held sway from
the eastern border of the Pacific slope,
to the Atlantic seaboard.
Temperatures rose slightly from
near zero levels in the central west
today, but the weather bureau warned
of another disturbance moving inland
from the northwest, and another drop
for thermometers.
The premature advance of winter J
cost two lives in the mid-west, im-;
periled many others and worked havoc;
in Great Lakes shipping. J
With Minnesota blanketed with‘l
snow and (hilled by gusty winds.
Clyde Gaskill, 45. was found frozen
to death near Austin, while at Chicago
the body of Andres Korjack was found
huddled along the Illonis Central rail
road track.
Rescue of 31 automobiles marooned
for two days by snowdrifts in the
Sierras served to increase apprehen
sion for hunting patries in upper ends
of Minnesota and Michigan. Trans- 1
portation was cut off by snow, and
telephone and telegraph communica
tions were demoralized.
THE SESQUI-CENTENNIAL
LOSS WAS $20,000,000
Closed Thursday Night—9oo People
Lose Their Jobs.
Nov. 30.—The JIJH
qnieentrnnialt Exposition, which has I
cost Philadelphia more than $20,-
000,000, closed tonight following a
belated observance of Connecticut
Day. Os the 1.000 employees, 000
lost their jobs. 100 being retained ;
through December.
Mayor Kendrick made a tour of in
spection, participating in the final !
celebration.
“In away,” said the Mayor, “I
am glad the exposition is going to,;
close, as it. will definitely put.to n i ’
end all of these whispers that have j
been prevalent since it opened.
Gov. John 11. of Con- [
nectieut, with his staff, took a promt-;
nent part in the day’s activities’
The death knell of the Sesqui in i
1927 was sounded yesterday, when a ,
proposal for continued operation :
next summer was withdrawn at « !
meeting of the directors. The grounds
will remain open through Decem
ber, with an admission charge of 25
cents, but demolition of many of the
buildings will start at onee.
City Comptroller Hadley is wrest- J
ling with the problem of unpaid bills
for the Sesqui, amounting thus far to
$5,224,100. with more coming, j
enough, according to officials. to j
bring the total well over $6,000,009. i
It is proposed to have the city ap-1
propriate another $5,000,000, which I
wou’d bring the city's total grants to
approximately $17,000,000. exclusive
of the $3,000,000 subscribed by busi
ness firms and individuals.
Mountain Recluse at 83 Learns to
Read.
Asheville. N. C.. Dec. 2. —MP)
After living for 83 years without
being able to read. Brigman Keith
has learned the . mysteries of the
printed word.
Three years ago Keith, who makes
his home in a mountain cabin mar
here, decided that if he was ever
going to learn to read he had better
begin. Now he lias achieved con
siderable success.
His reading is confined largely to
newspapers and the Bible.
To Investigate Patterson Death.
Charlotte. Dee. I.—An investiga
tion into the death of Mrs. Bessie A.
Patterson, who was fatally injured
Thanksgiving day when her car was !
struck by a fire truck, will be made i
tomorrow by Coroner Frank Hovis.
Funeral services for Mrs. Patterson
were held today.
Publisher Quits.
■Mancie, Ind., Nov. 20 —Shots fired
at his home several days ago were
given by George R. Dale, crusading
publisher, as the reason for an an
nouncement in his weekly newspa
per tonight in which he said he will
sell or give away his paper.
To Enlarge Queens College.
Charlotte, Nov. .‘lO. Another unit
consisting of a new dormitory with
library quarters attached, costing
between SBO,OOO and SIOO,OOO will be
added to Queens college, it was learn
ed today. Plans now are being drawn.
and unproductive, promptly repealed
it at the next session of the legisla
ture.
So it seems that a sales tax of any
sort is not likely f o r North Carolnia.
RUM SCHOONER AND
KIDNAPPED AGENTS
ARE STILL MISSING
• ——
Coast Guard Cutter Talla
poosa Comes to Port for
Fuel and Will Resume
Search for Schooner.
i
FEAR AGENTS ON
BOAT ARE HARMED
Men Were Guarding the
Schooner After Capture
When Crew Overpower
ed Them and Put to Sea.
Mobile, Ala., Dec. 2. — (A 3 ) —TjTio
coast guard cutter Tallapoosa, of Mo
bile, which has been searching two
days for the runaway rum schooner
Arsent ,T with two American officials
on board, presumably as captives, ie
returning to Mobile this morning to
get more fuel to continue the search.
At the same time fear is expressed in
official circles that the two kidnapped
officers hpve-come to harm.
Besides the Talapoosa, the fleet of
patrol boats from the base at Biloxi,
M : ss., and the cutter Comanche from
Galveston. Tex., are engaged in the
search for the rum boat with B.
Matthews, assistant prohibition ad
ministrator at New’ Orleans, and coast
guardsmen Bandley of Biloxi, aboard.
The two officers were left on the Ar
sent w’hieh flies a French flag, after
she had. been captured by a patrol
boat from Biloxi. The officers were
left on the rum schooner as guards
while the patrol boat went ashore for
fuel. When *he returned to pick up
the captured schooner to tow her into
port, that vessel had disappeared.
Kidnapping Officially Reported.
Washington, Dec. 2.—( A *)—The kid
napping of two prohibition officers of
New Orleans by the escape of a rum
ship which the officers had boarded,
was officially reported to coast guard
headquarters here today. • Both coast
guard and prohibition officials here
said the case was being left entirely
in the hands of their representatives
on the Gujtf coast.
FIND BODY OF GIRL
MISSING TWO' MONTHS
Hi
Body of Clara Olson F#und Today
Near Mt. Sterling. Wisconsin.
I’rairio du Chien. Wise., Dec. 2.
(A 3 ) —The body of Clara Olson, miss
ing since September 9th. was found
today near Mount Sterling, Wise., by
a searching party.
Arrest Made.
Dwight, 111., Dec. 2. — (A 3 ) —A young
man w’ho said he is Walter Christian
son, of Porter, Wise., w r as held here
today on the suspicion that he .is
Erdman Olson, of Prairie du Chien,
Wise., sought on a warrant charging
the murder of Clara Olson, to whom
lie had been attentive.
RELIEF IS IN SIGHT
FOR FOREIGN COLONY
Colony’ at Foochow. China, Has Been
in Danger for Several Days.
Amoy, China. Dec. 2. — UP) —Relief
was in sight today for the big foreign
colony at Foochow, which has been
in danger for several days, as north
ern and southern troops fight for the
control of Fukien province. Tele
grams from there say that Japanese
gunboats have arrived, and are the
first to reach the port as the result
of the appeals of consuls for protec
tion. In the fighting south and west
of Foochow yesterday, 300 casualties
were reported.
With Our Advertisers.
Dr. J. A. Shauers announces that
lie has resumed his practice at his of
fices in the Cabarrus Savings Bank
building, rooms 203-204. Phone 620.
Beginning with Friday evening of
this week the of the Starnes-
Miller-Parker Co., jewelers, will be
open every evening till 9 o’clock un
til Christmas for the benefit of the
shopping public.
Buy your wife a Red Cross Mat
tress and a Blue Ribbon Spring at
the Bell & Harris Furniture Co. Read
their new ad. today.
Every boy wants an Iver-Jolinson
Bicycle. Get it at the Ritchie Hard
ware Co.
The big $250,000 Christmas drive
at the Parks-Belk Co.’s is now on. Go
and look at the better toys depart
ment on the second floor. You will
find in the bargain basement a final
clean up of all cotton goods, notions,
and men’s and boy’s clothing. All
sugar tickets now out must be cash
ed on or before January 1, 1927.
The J. C. Penney Co. buys for 745
stores and say they lead the world
in women’s coats. See new ad. today.
Church Will Open Spooning Parlor
to Working Girls.
New York, Der. I.—A spooning
parlor for self-supporting giris wi'l
be opened next months by St. Marks
M. B-. church. It will occupy part of
a new community building, and the
pastor explains is designed to fill the
need of a place in which young wo
men may entertain without necessity
! for attending unquestionable and un
i desirable places of amusement.
An unusual photographic exhibi
tion was recently opened in Paris, the
chief interest in which is in the fact
that the subpect of each of the
seventy portraits shown is a woman
of the French aristocracy whose
family has for at least two hundred
j yearn contracted no marriage with a
foreigner.
TAX REDUCTIOH TO ■
BE BIGGEST ISSUE
111 NEXT CONGRESS
Democrats in Both Houses
Have Agreed on a Plan
to Cut the Present Tax
Rates.
i
PLAN IS OPPOSED
BY REPUBLICANS
Plan to Dispose of Alien
Property Seized During
the War Also \VIII Bring
Bitter Fight.
L 4 Washington, Doc. 2. — UP) —With
tho reconvening of the 69th Congress
only 4 days away indications are rap
idly multiplying 'that the principal
battle of the short session will rage
about the issues of tax reduction.
Already the battle lines have been
clearly defined, with the democrats
determined to bring about immediate
revision of the tax law. and the repub
lican leaders equally determined that
nothing of the sort shall be done un
til the present statute has been
at least another year of practical test
ing.
At the same t'me lines are emerging
from confusion of pre-session talk
which will show' that the bill being
drafted by the house ways and means
committee to dispose of alien property
seized during the war, and adjust
American and German claims will be
the center of another vigorous fight.
Thus far the democrats are the only
group that has formally drafted a tax
reduction proposal aimed at the im
pending treasury surplus. It was for
mulated by Representative Garner, of
Texas, and other democratic members
of the ways and means committee, af
ter conferences with Senator Simmons
of North Carolina, ranking minority
member of the senate finance commit
tee, and is designed to reduce the
Federal revenues by $350,000,000 a
year.
IN THE INTEREST
OF FAIR PLAT
Mexican Consul Protests Against At
tempt of Liberty Magazine to De
ceive.
New York, Nov. 30.—1 n the Inter
ests of fair play- to the people of
Mexico, 1 wish to submit, to all edi
tors in North America the enclosed
exhibits.
One is a photograph of page 55 of
the issue of the weekly magazine
“Liberty.” You will notice a pic
ture printed thereon purporting to
be that of “Catholics withdrawing de
posits from the Bank of Mexico in
protest against the seizure of church
property.”
The other exhibit is a copy of the
picture taken in front of the Bank of
i Mexico on its opening September 1,
I 1925, eleven months before the at
tempted boycott.
The pictures are the same. In
reality, in place of being a picture as
claimed by “Liberty” of persons tak
ing funds out of the Bank of Mexico,
it is a picture of persons waiting to
put funds in the new bank after
it had been officially declared open by
President Calles, who wis government
officials was present within.
It is not my purpose-to enter into
any criticism of the series of articles
on Mexico in “Liberty.” The con
tents of these are their business, not
mine. It is my business, however,
and the business of every editor who
cherishes the ethics of his profession
to protest against such a deliberate
attempt to deceive the public of North
America as to happenings in Mexi
co.
On the 2nd of September,. 1925,
the morning of the day following the
opening of the Bank of Mexico, “El
Democrata”, a paper then publishing
in Mexico City, published the same
picture of the inauguration of the
new bank that “Liberty”, the maga
zine owned by the Chicago Tribune
tricked a portion of tile American
public into believing was a picture
of something entirely different.
It may interest the editors of North
America to know this was not the
only “faked”’ picture in these ar
ticles. A United States engineer
operating mines in Mexico, E. R.
Torg’.er, of Cleveland, Ohio, had a let
ter in the New York Times of No
vember 14th, charging that a picture
which “Liberty” claimed depicted the
hanging of peons in Nayarit as a re
sult of a religious riot was in reality
a hanging of bandits two years be
fore and that he had had in this pos
session for over a year the identical
photograph that “Liberty” had claimed
was a picture of a recent happening.
As the consul-general of Mexico, I
take the only means open to me to
roach the people of this country in
an attempt to expose such sinister
methods to place Mexico in a false
light before the great American peo
ple. And I know that the vast ma
jority of editors will resent this out
rageous violation of fair play as
strongly as myself.
Yours sincerely,
ARTURO M. ELIAS,
Consul General of Mexico.
Mills Gets Job.
Washington, Dec. 2—(4 s )—Gerrard
B. Winston, under secretary of the
treasury, will resign soon and be suc
ceeded by Representative Ogden Mills,
of New York, Secretary Melllon an
nounced today.
Canada’s population has increased
75 per cent, in 25 years.
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
ANOTHER AMERICAN
heires:;--‘N .
FATHER IDR BARON
Miss Marjorie Clendenin
and Baron George Tor-|
now, Late of the Russian j
Army, Are Married.
FATHER OF BRIDE
MADE OBJECTIONS
Girl Escaped From Home
and the Litttle Church
Around the Corner Was
Marriage Scene. - 1
Now York. Doc. 2.— -UP) —Baron
George Tornow, interpreter for a stock
broker, and formerly a colonel in the.
Imperial Russian army, today has for j
a bride an American heiress whose
father, Joseph Clendenin, vice presi
dent of the American Smelting and
Refining Company, forbade the mar
riage.
The couple roamed the streets of
Manhattan in a taxicab last night,
pursued by telephone calls from Mr.
Clendenin, seeking a minister or mag
istrate to marry them, and finally
were married by the Rev. William
Phillips, of the Little Church Around
the Corner, famous haven of eloping
couples.
The New York American says in a
copyrighted story today that Mrs.
Tornow escaped from the country
home of her parents at Arsley, N. \\,
after two weeks of virtual imprison-;
merit that followed a declaration of
her intentions.
Baron Hornow and his bride, who
was Florence Marjorie Clendenin, ob
tained a license just before the license
bureau closed. They asked if anyone
there could marry them at once, but
were informed that the only one with
proper authority had gone. They left
and soon afterward Mr. Clendedin
called up and asked if any license had
been issued. He declared he would
never give his consent to the mar
riage.
MRS. CHAPLIN LEAVES
HER FAMOUS HUSBAND
Says She Has No Idea of Returning.—
He Is Seeking Reconciliation.
Los Angelos, Dec, 2—<*>)—The-j
second matrimonial ship th bFlaunched ;
by Charles Clmplln is on the rocks, j
but the motion picture star is mnk- j
ing efforts to salvage the wreck.
This first became known yesterday
when Mrs. Lita Gray Chaplin made
known that she had taken her two
children and left the actor’s home.
She declared she had no intention of
returning. She said she and the chil
dren had gone to live with her grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William E.
Curry, of Beverly Hills.
'The separation, she said, followed
a disagreement with Chaplin during a
party given in their Beverly Hills
home last Monday night, in, honor of
the Baron and Baroness MiUe de Pre
court, shipboard acquaintance whom
she met on her return voyage from a
recent trip to Honolulu. She left the
forty-room Chaplin mansion the next
day, taking her babies wilth her.
Chaplin said today that he was
making overtures for a reconciliation.
Moor esvi lie Man Attempts to Kill
Self in Charlotte.
Charlotte. Nov. 30.—Ernest Mills.
36-year-old insurance man of Moores
ville, was found today in the bath
room of his home with a bullet
wound in his left temple, advices here
said. He was still living tonight and
physicians said he had a chance to
recover.
Mr- Mills has been in bad health
for some time it was stated. After
borrowing a pistol from his nephew.
Hugh Mills, to kill ft dog with, h*
went to the bathroom, it was report
ed, and a short time later a shot was
•heard. Members of the family found
him lying on the floor with the wea
pon by his side.
Mecklenburg Papers Effect Consoli
dation.
Charlotte, Dec- I.—The Mecklen
burg Times, published in Charlotte,
and North Mecklenburg News, pub
lished in Huntersville, will be con
solidated after the Thursday edition
and will appear as the Mecklenburg
Times, it was announced Tuesday.
B. Arp Lowrance, secretary cf
the North Carolina Press Associa
tion and pub’isher of the Times
since its foundation two years ago.
will be publisher of the consolidated
paper and Legetle Blythe, publish
er of the News, Will be editor.
Leaves Orphans Fifty Thousand.
Wilmington, N. C., Nov. 29.
William E. Springer, prominent In
the affairs of the city and also in
business circles, a former, mayor of
Wilmington, who died last Friday fol
lowing a long illness, left a trust
fund deposited with the People's Sav
ing Bank, trustee, of $50,000 to be
used in the construction of a memor
ial building for the North Carolina
Methodist Orphanage, Raleigh, ac
cording to his will made June 5, 1926
and admitted for probate today in the
office of the dark of Superior Court.
Nearly one hundred cities in the
United States now operate municipal
golf courses, with fees ranging from
10 or 15 cents a round in some places
to as high as a dollar a round in
New York, Los Angeles, Detroit,
Cincinnati and several other cities.
According to a scientist, 2,30 ft
silk-worms produce one pound of
' silk.
°TATEARGUMENTS 'f
tomorrow in the!
HALL-MILLS CASE
Summing Up by Defense
Will Be Concluded Dur
ing the Day, It Is New
Believed.
LAST DEFENSE
LAWYER SPEAKS
Simpson Expected to Ask
Court to Allow Him to
Wait Until Tomorrow to
Speak.
Court House, Somerville, N. .L, pee*
2.—o4*)—Summing up by defence in i
the Hall-Mills ease will be concluded
this afternoon with indications tlurt
arguments for the state will not be
made until tomorrow.
Clarence E. Case ’hod spoken for
one and one-half hours ut luncheon
recess, following Robert 'H. McC*rte#«
who finished his address soon after
court opened.
It was expected that Mr. Ca£«
woul dspeak another hour and thirty
minutes in the afternoon, in which
event Alexander Simpson, special
prosecutor, will ask that his summing
up for the state be deferred until to
morrow.
It seems certain that the case wilt
be given to the jury early tomorrow
afternoon, exactly one month after it
opened.
Mr. Case opened his case by criti
cizing the methods of the prosecution,
terming them “nasty, unfair 1 and vin
dictive.”
This was the note on which Mr.
McCarter closed his summing up. say
ing “if the level of the New Jersey
liar has sunk to that level, then thank
God I am old.”
The veteran attorney had just re
ferred to what he had termed an ef
fort by Alexander Simpson, special
prosecutor, to cast slurs upon the par
entage of William Stevens, one of the
defendants.
“If his statement had been made
South of the Mason-Dixon line he
would have been knocked down,” ne
said.
In closing his summing up, McCar
ter again said James Mills, husband
Jof Mrs. Eleanor Mills, who was slatur*’-.
I with the Rev. Edward W. Hall, waa
|in a better position to know of the
[ love affair between the minister and
! choir singer than was Mrs. Hall.
He also said that while Mrs. Hall
has been attacked by the state for
what was characterized as inadequate
spreading of an alarm of her husband
on the day after he hisappenred, Mills,
whose wife was missing, did abf»-
lutely nothing about it.
Case after bitterly arraigning the
state for its methods, described as
“hitting below the belt,” launched in
to a discussion of the calling card
which the State contends bears the
print of Willie Stevens’ finger.
The defense attorney offered a sug
gestion as to liow the calling card
found its way near the body of titii
slain minister.
“I believe Raymond Schneider rilled
that body.” he said, “arid tho card
fell from the poeketbook of Mr. Hall
and remained where it fell.”
Mistrial Move Fails.
'Somerville, N. .1., Dec. 1. —The
state’s failure to have a mistrial de
clared today in the Hall-Mills case
allowed the trial to progress to tho
speech-making stage. The first of a
series of extended summing ip
speeches way begun this afternoon,
with indications tonight that tho
case would be given the jury Friday.
All of tomorrow and a portion of the
next day are expected to bo occupied
with addresses to the jury.
The application for a mistrial was
denied by the court without com
ment.
• Simpson Wants Foreign .lory.
Jersey City. N. J., Dec. I. —Sena-
tor Alexander Simpson tonight said
that he wou’d ask for a foreign jorv
to try for the murder of the Rev. fed.
ward Wheeler Hall the three defend
ants now on trial for the murder of
Mrs- Eleanor R. Mills at Somerville.
Senator. Simpson, as special prose
cutor. in the Hall-Mills case, said he
would go before a supreme conrt in
Trenton tomorrow and ask for a
jury other than in Somerset cruttf
to try Mrs. Hall. Henry Stevens and
William Stevens as he felt that ther*
would be an acquittal in the present *
case.
No More Trials if Hall-Mills Jury
Disagrees.
Newark. N. J.; Dec. 1. —The New
ark News says today that it has
learned from a high authority in the
state government at Trenton that
there will be ifo more Hall-Ylills -
tria’ft when the. jury, now trying the
ca«e finds a verdict or disagrees.
If the jury disagrees, the article
continues, no retrial will bbe sought
and if a verdict of acquittal is found
the defendants will not be tried on
other indictments.
to the official spokes
man the Case has been tried In
Somerville courthouse and in every
newspaper in the land for a month
and “that is all the trial there is
going to be.”
Great Britain ha« 990 hockey
clubs affiliated in one national or
ganization.
THE WEATHER
'wSt
Fair tonight, Friday partly cloudy,
rising temperature.
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