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HHtuin Vliout Maine Election.
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investigation of charges
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\<w Brunswick.
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lb- Si nate elections com-
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over fur a day on mo-
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leader, and Senator
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of the Senate on
Hade, republican.
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vi'ihly embarrassed.
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THE CONCORD TIMES
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Ad
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‘ WHITE HOUSE TO
> UNDERGO REPAIRS
It Is \otv “Equipped With AH Mod
em Conveniences ”
Washington, D. C. Dec, fi.—Mr. and
Mrs. Calvin Coo.idge. formerly of j
Northampton. A Lass., but for some !
time fiast residents of this city, have j
joined the army of house-hunters in j
the national capital. The house they !
now occupy, although generally con-j
side red the most desirable residence;
In the land, is nevertheless much out-j
of-date and sadly in need of altera- j
tions and repairs. As one former
mistress of the venerable mansion put
it, the p’ace is equipped with ail
modern ineonvenienees.
Ihe fact that Congress lias again
deemed it* necessary to overhaul t'.te
White House tends to formulate the.
as yet, rather nebulous idea held by
many minds that as the years pass a
new residence for the President of the
l nited States will become a necessity.
The construction of the executive of
fice building some years ago helped, to
relieve the situation for the time be
ing. but there are still so many rooms
of the executive mansion devoted to
public and official business tfiat the
Presidents and their families, the ten
ants at will of the people, have al- !
ways been limited in sleeping rooms
and other private apartments.
When the Prince of Wales visited
this country during the.administration
of President James Buchanan, the
President had to give up his own
bedroom and sleep in the corridor.
With the advent of t’iie six Roose
velt children official apartments had i
to be vacated for their use. Presi- j
dent Roosevelt with his half-dozen!
practical protests against race sui
cide was therefore responsible for the i
building of the executive.offices which j
are con nee tied with the main build- J
ing of passageways. Even with t’ie
relief this has afforded, so much of the
White House Is still devoted to pub
lic and official purposes that each new |
mistress must at times yearn for the
privileges and privacy of a home of
her own.
The cloudy idea which in the future
may be embodied in another structure
is that the nation should supply two j
residences for the chief executive —an !
official and a personal one.
The White House, rich as it is in i
historic associations, could be used as |
the public office building of the Presi-[
dent, be more accessible to the general i
public than it now is and be the of- j
ticial theater of state functions. In j
addition, and separate from this, the $
executive and his family should be
given a private residence in some de
sirable section, for with the growth of
the city the best residence section has
gradually receded from the historic old
location selected in the lifetime of the
first President.
It is almost 135 years since George
Washington presided at the laying of j
the cornerstone of the executive man- j
sion in the "Federal City,” ah se called j
the city which was afterward to bear
his name. This ceremony took place
on October 13, 1792, the three hun
dredth anniversary of the landing of
Christopher Columbus. Eight years
were consumed in building the “Presi
dent's palace,” and Washington had
been dead almost a year when the sec
ond President, John Adams, and his i
wife. Abigail, took possession of the
mansion. Despite the cries of ex
travagance, three hundred thousand
dollars had been granted by Congress
for the building and furnishing of the
house, in those days no small sum.
The plans of the building, submitted
in a competition for a prize of SSOO.
were drawn by a young Irish archi
tect of Charleston, S. C., named James
Iloban.
Favorite Wife Has Flirtation, Five
Are Dead.
Berlin, Dec. 6.—Five lives were lost
in a harem tragedy today when Has
san Maehmudeff, 70, of Kardjali, Bul
guaria, killed the favorite among his
five wives because of her flitation
with a youth of the village.
The victim wae Durda, eighteen
years old. '
Durda's screams of terror and
howls of agony collected a huge crowd
outside but nobody dared enter be
cause of the ancient sanctity according
to another man’s harem.
.When the doors were finally brok
en down, the aged Hassan was still
s ashing and stabbing the inert bodj
of his young wife.
As the intruders entered, Hassan
stopped his butchery just long enough
to seize a pistol and kill four who
attempted to interfere.
With Our Advertisers.
The Parks-Belk Co. has just re
ceived from New York a lot of coats,
that are specially priced from $9.95
to $22.50. Sizes 16 to 54. Christmas
gift buying at this store is now in
full sway. All sugar tickets must be
cashed on or before January. 1. 1927.
Phones 138 and 60S.
High class winter coats at very
moderate prices at J. C. Penney Com
pany’s. Styles the latest and service
able fabrics. Special price $29.75.
Fisher’s is ready with a great as
sortment of beautiful gifts for Christ
mas.
Every boy wants an Iver Johnson
I bicycle. Go to Ritchie Hardware Co.
and get your boy one for Christmas.
They will keep it till Christmas for
you.
Written by Marie, Queen of Ru
mania, her novel, “The Voice on the
Mountain,” is to be adapted to jtbe
screen by a British firm of film pro
ducers.
ance.
I'DERMOTT BEING !
TRIED FOfi MURDER
OF DON R. lELLETT
, i
First Move Made by De-j
fense'Denied by Judge!
! Edwin W. Diehl, Who Is!
Presiding. i
i I
S DEFENSE COUNSEL
TAKES THE STAND
• Tells About Efforts to In
j terview. Star Witnesses
Called by the State in
the Case.
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Court. Room, Canton, ()., Dec. fi. —
6d*) Patrick Eugene McDermott,
charged with the murder of Don It.
MeHett. Canton publisher on July IG.
went on trial for his life here today.
Judge Edwin W. Diehl presided.
Immediately on opening of court E. j
L. Mills, Canton attorney, counsel foe j
McDermott, took the witness stand!
and under examination by Homer C.!
Durand, his associate counsel, tesiti-j
fied that his attempts to interview j
Steve Kascholk and Peggy Cavanaugh, 1
the state's star witnesses, had been j
! thwarted. lie contended that McDer- j
mott had been denied his constitu-1
tionnl rights in this respect.
Prosecutor MoCiintock contended
that the state supreme court had held
that defendants in court can be barred
from interviewing state witnesses.
A motion by the defense that it be
permitted forthwith to interview Kas
c'iiolk and Miss Cavanaugh was over*
j ruled. The court then proceeded with
J the selection of a jury.
MISSIONARY COUNCIL.
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j
| Os the Methodist Episcopal Church,;
South, to Re Held at Ijouisviile.
Nashville, Toon., Dec.fi. — (A 3 )—Fivej
bishops of the Methodist Episcopal \
j Church, South, and one bishop of the j
Northern Methodist Church will be j
platform speakers at the first annual j
meeting of the general missionary;
council of the Methodist Episcopal)
Church. South, to be held at Louis- j
| ville, Ky., December 15-16, according j
! to the tentative program announced ;
1 from mission board headquarters here j
1 today. *
With the exception of Bishop IT.;
; N. Ainsworth, who is in the Orient, j
! n full attendance of the bishops of the j
| Southern Methodist Church is expect- 1
1 ed. Those who will appear on the j
program are: Bishops \V. B. Beau
champ, Sam, R. Hay, W. F. McMurry, i
Warren A. Candler and A. V. W. j
Darlington.
Bishop Rrancis J. McConnell, of i
Washington. D. C., of the Methodist j
Episcopal Church, is expected to de-1
liver the outstanding address on Wed- J
nesda.v morning, December 15th. His;
| subject will be “Home Missions.”
Dr. W. G. Cram, general secretary
;of the board of missions, Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, will organ
ize the body and explain the plan and
purpose of the formation of the new
council, which is in accordance with
a ruling of the general conference of
192fi of the denomination. Upwards
of 100 leaders of the church’s mis-1
sionnry program arc expected to at
i tenef
FIRE BURNS INFANT
TO DEATH IN ITS CRIB j
Nine-Mon tbs-Old Child of Mr. and
Mrs. Roscoe Brown Meets Horrible
Fate,
Winston-Salem, Dec. 4. —The nino
months-ohl son of Mr. and Mrs. Itos
eoo Brown. Union Cross, Yadkin
county, was burned to death in its
crib about 11 o’clock Friday morn
ing, according to a message to The
Sentinel today. The parents were
out in the yard at the time killing
hogs and had left the child in its crib,
sitting in front of the fireplace. It
appears that some coals from the fire
rolled under the crib, igniting it. When
| discovere dthe room was filled with
• smoke. Investigation showed one of
the infants hands had been burned
off, while its face was burned almost
to a crisp.
STRIKE IN HANKOW
DID NOT MATERIALIZE
Situation Easier Owing to Efforts
of Leaders to Effect Industrial
Peace.
Peking. Dec. 6.— (A>) —Little news
from Hankow’ w’ns available here to
day, but belated dispatches from for
eign sources there show the general
strike did not materialize Saturday as
planned. The situation was said to
be easier largely owing to the efforts
of Chinese leaders to effect industrial
peace.
Foochow’ still is suffering from labor
agitations.
Practically all American firms in
Swatow are tied up by strikes or
threatened with them.
KING FERDINAND
HAS OPERATION;
CONDITION GOOD
Bucharest. Roumania, Dec. 6.
(A*)— King Ferdinand today un
derwent an operation shortly after
the return of Queen Marie from
her tour of the United States. Hi«
physicians announce that the oper
ation was most successful.
CONCORD, N. C. ( MON
PREDICTS GENERAL
: WILL BE ELECTED
! PRESIDENT IN 1928
(Commissioner Grist Says
History Is Due to Re
! peat Itself and He Will
| Be Chosen.
SAYS HE IS THE
LOGICAL MA#
Will Be Selected as a Com
promise Candidate Be
tween Smith and Mc-
Adoo, He Says.
Rn’eigh, N. C„ Dec. fi.—
“Ilistory is due to repeat itself in
1928 and General John J. Pershing
will be elected to the Presidency.-
predicted Frank D. Grist, commis
sioner of labor and printing, here to
day.
Commissioner Grist predicted that
General Perilling would ride to vic
tory on the Democratic ticket after
he had been nominated as a com
promise candidate between Al Smith
and W. G. McAdoo.
"Smith can't possibly carry the
South, and McAdoo would probably
lose the North,” the state officer
summed up the situation. “Thus
Pershing stgnds out at* the logical
man for the Democrats to select as
a standard bearer.”
He said that he regarded the Gen
eral’s recent fiat refusal to consider
the National Commandership of the
American Legion as a direct indica
tion that he did not want to place
any possible encumbrances between
himself and the White House.
"Outside of General Sherman, look
at the great United States Generals
who have ascended to the Presidency.
It’s history that red-blooded Ameri
cans honor their military leaders
with high office. General Pershinjf
won't refuse the nomination and
nothing can stop his election,” Mr.
Grist stated.
He said that Pershing, himself,
was saying nothing, but that his
friends were going to launch the big,
drive at the proper time, and then
the voters would fioek to the band-;
wagon.
"Smith's strength is due largely to
the fact that many people Delterr
has the inside track and are snpport
!ng him just to be on what looks like
the popular side, but just wait un
til Pershing gets in the race and
you'll see them coming over in
droves.” he emphasized.
NO MATERIAL CHANGE
IN YANGTZE PROVINCES
Situation There Remains Same Pend
ing Action by Marshal Cluing.
Shanghai, Dec. 6. — UP) —No materi
al change in the situation in the
Yangtze provinces is expected pendipg
possible action by Marshal Chang Tso-
Lin, Manchurian dictator and head of
the new* alien movement against the
Cantonese. ...
It is generally recognized that the
southerners have a great task before
them in consolidating their position in.
t’.ie territories acquired by their re
cent successors.
Reception For Contonese Troops.
Amoy, China, Dec. G.— (A 3 ) —A great
reception is planned for the entry into
Foochow of the Cantonese troops this
week. Chinese mariners and local au
thorities are attempting to maintain
order in the city. American and
Japanese destroyers are standing by.
but will not land any forces unless the
situation becomes more crit'cal.
50 KILLED IN SOUTH
IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
284 Others Were Injured, According
to Associated Press Survey.
(By the Assocdiate Press)
Traffic accidents in the South last
week left fifty persons dead and 284
injured, the heaviest toll in injuries
in many weeks, it was shown in re
ports to the Associated Press today
from eleven southern states.
An increase both in number of dead
and injured over the previous week
when 44 'were killed,, and 265 injured
w*as show’ll.
Grade crossing fatalities decreased
to three, two of them in Georgia.
The drowning of six negroes in
Florida when two boats capsized was
not included in the traffic survey.
The compilation by states showed
six dead and sixteen hurt in North
Carolina.
Mrs. Hall and Her Two Brothers Plan
To Institute Suit Against Newspapers
New Brunswick, X. J., Dec. 6. —
With the threat of libel suits by those
who were accused of having slain the
Rev. Edward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor
Mills coming as on'.y a backwash from
a storm, the Hall-Mills case today
passed into the limbo of temporary
public sensations.
It was announced by Robert H.
Neilson, one of-the counsel for Mrs.
Frances Stevens Hall and her broth
ers, Henry and Willie Stevens, v/ao
w’ere acquitted last week after a 30-
day trial, that libel suits, will be filed
“at the proper time” against several
newspapers and that criminal action
will be taken against the editor of one
publication.
In addition to their acquittal of
charges of having killed Mrs. Mills,
the indictments against the three de
fendants and their cousin, Henry Car
EMBER 6, 1926
iAY, DE
ROBISON EXAMINED
AT LENGTH ABOUT
NAVAL OIL LEASES
I Called Back to Stand in the
Fall-Doheny, Case, He
Was Asked Many Ques
tions by Roberts.
ADMITS MISTAKE
IN STATEMENT
Says He Did Discuss Oil
Lease Contract With Do
beny Before the Lease
Was Made.
Washington, Dec. 6. — (A 3 ) —Navy
testimony in defense of the oil leas
ing policy of 1922 was. put ou t'ae
dissecting table today by government
counsel in the Fal'-Doheny conspiracy
trial.
The witness chair was occupied by
Rear Admiral J. K. Robison, who
spoke for the navy department in the
negotiations which resulted in award
of several oil contracts to Edward L.
Doheny while Albert B. Fall was sec
retary of the interior. Owen J. Rob
erts. of government counsel, conduct
the the crow examination that brought
the admiral under a pehing storm of
questions about many vital features,
of his previous testimony.
The witness conceded that he had
made a mistake in saying in the Los
Angeles civil trial for cancellation of
the leases that he had not mentioned
the matter to Doheny during talks
they had in New York.
He also permitted Roberts to cor
rect from the official record n state
ment he had made about what took
place at a leasing conference at the
navy department, and identified a
draft of a letter in which Fall had in
serted “or otherwise” after a stipula
tion that the leases w’ere to be award
ed by competitive bidding.
Recalling Doheny’s statement be
fore the Senate oil committee that he
expected to make $100,000,000 out of
the Elk Hill contract, Roberts pressed
the admiral to estimate the value of
the whole Elk Hills reserve. The
witness replied that he valued the en
tire tract at half a million.
“You have testified that the Pan-
American (Doheny) bid sot) the Pearl
Harbor, Haw-ait project. was $245/i
000 lower than the next best bid,
Roberts said, “and you knew that con
tract carried the preferential rights
clause?”
“Yes.”
“Then you valued the Elk Hills re
serve at $235,000?”
“No. there were other savings to
the government under the Pearl HarT
bor contract.”
“Well, how’ much did they amount
to?”
i “Perhaps as much again.”
“Then in approving the Pearl Har
bor bid you valued the oil in the Elk
Hills reserve at about $500,000?”
"That’s ju«t the figure. That's the
| figure I used in talking with Secre
tary Denby,” said Rob ; son.
“They got the contract on that ba
sis?”
ELEVEN DEATHS ARE
ATTRIBUTED TO STORM
Heaviest Snowfall and Coldest Weath
er of Season in Northeast.
New York, Dec. 6. — UP) —Sunshine-
and rising temperatures came to the
rescue of the northeastern states to
day after the heaviest snow’fall and
coldest weather of the season. Eleven
deaths were caused, railroads and mo
tor traffic was crippled, and coast
wise and inland shipping hampered.
New York was fettered by a snow
fall ranging from seven to fifteen
indies, with a death toll of seven.
New York state reported three deaths,
all in Buffalo. There was one death
in New Jersey.
High winds from the northern At
lantic lashed many coast sections dur
ing the snowstorm. At Bangor, Me.,
and at Malone, N. Y., the temperature
dropped to tw’enty degrees below zero
during the height of the storm.
Women Cause Problem For Smokers
on Train.
•Chicago, Dec. 6.— 04 s ) —Abolition
of smoking cars may come about in
favor of a car devoted to those who
abhor nicotine, according to traffi -
managers of the Illinois Central rail
road, who have been facing u new
problem with the introduction of m-w
cars on the electrified suburban
lines.
pender, charging the murder of the
minister w’ere dismissed.
Mrs. Hall w - as reported to have
spent a very quiet day at her home.
Because of t'ue nervous strain she had
been under no celebration was held.
Her callers were confined to relatives
and the Rev. J. Mervin Pettit, Mr.
Hall’s successor as pastor of the
Church of St. John the Evangelist.
Willie Stevens, whose hobby is fire
apparatus, has not yet visited his
friends at the New Brunswick fire
house. A turkey dinner was prepared
Friday night in the belief that *ae
would be the guest of honor after his
acquittal, but Stevens failed to ap
pear and the firemen celebrated with
out him. Stevens' spent most of his
day before the trial in gossiping with
the firemen and running errands for
them.
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True happiness was spelled in the features of Mrs. France*
Stevens Hall when she returned to her home in New Bruns
wick, N. J., after a jury had acquitted her and two brothers
of the murder of Mrs. Eleanor Mills, her husband’s sweet
heart Mia, Kali if shown with her cousin, Arthur Car
nomt/vK
Saxaphone Music Is Bugling By Imps
to Call Wicked to Hell, Says Preacher
(By International News Service)
Cleveland, 0., Dec. 6.—The lugu
brious saxaphone and the baleful slip
’uorn are bugles, blown by imps and
calling the wicked to assemble in hell,
according to the Rev. Homer L. Cox,
prominent local minister.
Moral color-blindness and atrophy
of the brain cells are caused directly
by the vibrations of syncopation caus
ing the sufferer inevitably to become
mentally Intoxicated, he declares.
“Syncopated music violates the
three essential elements of music—
rhythm, melody and harmony,” the
minister declares. “The syneopator
MOTHER ANf) FOUR
CHILDREN BURN TO DEATH
Father Was Killed Fortnight Ago in
Accident in Mine.
Strader, W. Va-, Dec. 4.—A moth
er and four children were burned to
deaath when their home was destroy
ed today, two weeks after the father
lost his life in a coal mine accident.
The dead were : f
Mrs. Velmah Teney Koon.. 2S, an 1
her children, Hartzcl. Thurman,
Lawrence _and Althea May, whose
ages ranged from 12 years to one
year.
The family lived in a house of the
G-reen (\>al Company. There is nn
fire department here, and efforts of
neighbors to extinguish the blaze
were unsuccessful. It started from
an overturned oil lamp.
In addition to the Koon home,
a vacant house, adjoining, was tre
st royed. the total loss being placed
at $2,500.
Neighbors who rushed to the little
company house where Mrs. Koon an 1
her children lived were unable to en
ter as the flames had already gained
great headway.
When the house had burned to the
ground, the bodies were found char
red almost beyond recognition. There
was no indication to denote whether
the family had been warned of the
fire’s existence in time to make any
attempt at wcape.
The entire Koon family has been
wiped out, the father having been
killed a fortnight ago in an accident
in the Green Company’s mine. (
HELD FOR COURT ON
BLACKMAIL CHARGE
Negro Student Said to Have Mailed
Threatening Letter to J. D. Nor
wood.
Salisbury. Dec. s.—On a charge of
b’ackmnil J. W. O. Hoard, a stu
dent at Livingstone College, has been
sent up to April term of -Federal
court by Judge W. L. Ray. U. S.
Commissioner, under a SSOO bond.
Hoard is charged with having sent a
letter to .T. D. Norwood, former
chairman of the Statae Democratic
executive committee, and former
prominent banker of Salisbury, de
manding that $2,000 be sent to him
at Livingston College- If the money
was not forthcoming, according .o
the letter which was produced in
court, Norwood’s life was going to
be in danger. The letter was deliver
ed to the Norwood home in this city,
Mr. Norwood not being at home, and
was later turned oyer to the post
office department, Hoard waived ex
amination and only government wit
nesses were heard.
Sheriff R. V. Caldwell, Jr., stated
this morning that Sunday was unusu
ally quiet with him. “I did not have
an important caR all day,” he said,
“and this is something unusual for
it seems that always people wait until
Sunday to need me.”
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
begin his tone on an unaccented part
of the measure and carries it through
the accented part of the succeeding
measure.
“With such instruments as the sax
aphone and the slide trombone sbe off
tone is produced which augments the
spirit of abandon, until the vibrations j
produce atrophy of tha bfiiin .cells, j
This is followed by mental intoxica- ;
tion and often moral color-blindness.
“This music necessitates a nervous,
jerky movement which invites immoral
variations. The dance is an effort to
interpret the music. When the music
is vicious the dance cannot be other- j
wise.”
STANLY COUNTY MAN
HAS SERIOUS INJURY!
J. YV. Hatley, Prominent Farmer,
Knocked Down and Run Over by
Car at Albemarle.
Albemarle. Dec. 4.—J. W. Hatley,
a well known farmer, is in the Yad
kin hospital here dangerously injured
ar< the result of having been struck
by an automobile on the main square
of the city here this afternoon about
2 :30 o’clock.
Mr. Hatley was crossing the square I
When the driver, a negro named Isaac
Pemberton, of Mt. Gilead, ran hisj
Ford, which is said to have been i
minus brakes, against him. Hatley
was knocked down and the wheels of
the machine parsed over his body be
fore the colored man could bring it
to a stop. Tl»e injured man was
picked up and earried to a local phy
sician's office where examination dis
closed that his injuries W’ere serious, i
if uot fatal. Up to this time phy-!
sicians have not been able to tell the
full extent of the injuries, but Dr.
M. Lentz stated that Mr. Hatley was
bleeding at both Y>ar« and that indica
tions are this his skull is fractured at
the base. The negro was arrested
and lodged in jnil pending further de
velopments. Mr. Hatley is a man of
family, he is one of the county s be*t
known farmers and is about sixty
yeans old.
SOUTHERN TRAIN IN
WRECK AT Rl THERFORDTON
One Negro Slightly Injured and Num
ber cf Other Passengers Shaken Up
in Wreck.
Rutherfordton, N. C.. Dec. 6. W*)
—One negro was slightly injured and '
a number of other passengers shaken j
up when Southern railway passenger J
train No. 113 bound from Marion. N. ,
C., to Hock Hill, S. C.. was w recked ,
near the Seaboard Air Line depot I
here early today. The wreck appar
ently was the work of train wreckers,
railroad men asserting that an investi
gation showed that at least ten spikes
had been drawn from one -rail and
several others partly drawn.
The train was not running fast
when it struck the loosened rail and
the locomotive with Engineer George
Hammerjrfy in charge did not turn
over. ’ •
The tender, the baggage car, and
the negro ooach were overturned. A
stretch of track about 300 feet long
was torn up. Will Wilson, a negro,
received cuts about the face.
Colored teachers of the county held
their first meeting of the year Satur
day afternoon at the court house.
Prof. J. B. Robertson, county school
superintendent, met with them and
outlined the work to be done at the
various meetings to be held through
out the scholastic year. Practically
all of the colored teachers were pres
ent.
GERMANY WILL ASK J
NATION OF THE
MILITARY CONTfim
This Question More Im- ?
portant Than Reduction j
of Army of Occupation, j
the Germans Think. -
LEAGUE COUNCIL
TO HEAR REQUEST !
The Germans Also Oppose 1
League Inquiry Into the i
German Armaments, It Is §
Pointed Out.
Geneva. Doc. G. — (/P) —Germany wiU J
make a determined effort before her |
delegates leave to seeure a definite 1
agreement upon an early date for c*s- g
sation of the Inter-allied milittiry Con- |
trol.
The declaration was made to thfl |
Associated Press today by a member
of the German delegation at the end '
of the first meeting of ttofi 43p£ »es- 1
sion of the league, of nations cOttfkCil. *
Bitterness among German peoplf j
ever inter-allied control is stea< any
growing, the spokesman continued, \
and the question is even more import* \
ant that reduction of the army of oc* J
cu pa tion.
Moreover. Germany will insist on jj
I modification of the project to invest |
'the league with the right to invest!#
' gate German armaments which it i# §
! expected will be substituted for inter
j allied control.
The council, after disposing of fon*
| tine matter*, adjourned until after*' t
noon.
Foreign Minister St resemali!», of j
Germany, did not insist, as was ex- 1
peered, on immediate discussion oft»«
plan for investigation of German ar- I
maments by the league, and thu* cre
ated Pile impression that he hoped to *
secure concessions in the private con* ]
versations. Failing there, he un
doubtedly will push the matter pub
licly in the council.
ROUTES TO THE SOUTH
Six Rotfbes From the North to Florl* .
ida Through Nortti Carolina.
Greensboro. N. C-, Dec. G.—C4*l— ?
i Six route* from the North to Florida
\ through North Carolina are described 1
jin detail by the latest bi-weekly road
condition report issued by the Caro
lina Motor club.
The route* are shown with option
al roads and complete information
regarding detours, of which there ap
; pear twenty of major importance of «j
I the six route* between Washington ;|
1 and Jacksonville.
The report outlines the ‘‘Coastal
Highway.” a heretofore little navmr- \
I tised route, entering the stats It
, Weldon and passing into South
!ina over route 202 from Chadbourn.
This route leads through Charleston, ]
Savannah and .Tackrtonville.
The “Cottonbelt Highway” from
Washington to Jacksonville strikes
through North Carolina byway of
Greensboro and Charlotte.
The ‘‘Woodpecker Route" kiwi
options of going either by Durham, <
Greensboro and Charlotte or byway !
jof Chapel Hill. Aberdeen and Rock
jingham into South Carolina. T v
The “All Weather” strikes the
i Piedmont section of North Carolina
! and into Spartanburg, S. *o*. the*
down through Athens. Ga.. and into
Lakp City. Fla-
The other two routes are not
designated by name*, but one leads
from Hagerstown. Md.. through thu
Shenandoah Valley Yirgl-ih*,
through the mountains ’of ..North
j Carolina, touching at Asheville. Jill
then into Georgia byway of Atlanta.
F6r eastern traffic it Is ut of thp
way. *The last route is directed by
way of Richmond. Raleigh and
Columbia, and thence «outh by Op
tional routes.
Independent of the Price of Cettetl-
Albemarle. N. C., Dec. 6. —(4*1 —
Brood sows, poultry flocks and the
dairy cow Jins made T H. Almond, oi
Albemarle Route 6. in Stanly county,
independent of the price of cotton, ac
cording to O. H. Phillips, county ag
ricultural agent. Some years ago,
says Mr. Phillips. Mr. Almond found
that he realized greater dividend*
from hi* farm in the long run by
planting pastures, building house* for
livestock ami going in for other things
j besides the fleecy staple.
Minnesota creameries are produc
ing powdered sweet buttermilk. The
product is used ip the manufacture of
bread, pancake Hour, ice cream, candy
and sausage.
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