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mko"- Ui WIS PUN ||l UP STATE If FLOBIDft SOON V. ' officials Aiding Kpedcriii Agents. InTTVXrKS | T O i?K WATCHED I Than 30 Vessels Al lv are There and Oth- Rnil Join in Drive to L State Dry. I /P) —A new ' ‘ , n enforcement ■P ot Zd'' in Florida within Bl» 6nn - h r the direction iti o h headqu art e rs. p(K nre being moved t<v t 0 w seeret orders to fr-Vnttnok ngfiinst the ruin nl '-Tishiner from the 'v r -operation with Efef'destrovers nre now off R ]ina toward Florida wat ■ . t K PV will join a patrol or ■f o,) Government vessels. ■ r - to blockade the Florida W { j}jo rum runners. IT, s on -, will be doubled to ■ than 50 agents in the ■ , will specialize on weeding Ittoen'shincrs from the Ever ■ d intercepting liquor motor Bjllanpt, have been allocated B roast guard on the Florida ■ be used in spotting mm run ar.d distilleries in impene ■ ampaign' is being chartered ■tie personal direction of Com- L Doran, who regards Flori- Bwe of the main sources of Bed and moonshine liquor. I pH fiE-HEARING | OF BKOWN WILL CASE ■Lnnied Dur Petition Will Be ■ More State Supreme Court. Bit Nov. 26-—On the strength Btkes*F>rvdgen's and Clarkson's Bh the Brown will case, «e- Bte week against the appeal B George 11. Brown, propound- Btie dead judge’s will, it wan B today tbaF a petition to re- Bid be brought to the Supreme I ■ «tory lacks confirmation by ■torney appearing in the case B Brown, but it has all the ■of truth. It .is said that the Bp for Mrs. Brown will carry Be to Chief Justice W. P. Sta- Bd that he will be urged to B ligitation to further consid ■Kwrer of the dissents have lm- Baany eminent members of tha Bo cannot clear themselves of Brrssion that Judge Daniels Bsiderable help to a jury in ar ■it its conclusion that Judge ItH. Brown, who a few years B regarded perhaps the ablest Boa the bench since the days Bin, Seattle, Rodman and Pear- Bus not mentally capable of ■ i last will and testament ■ Brodgen found the court’s B>g too subtile. Judge Brown Bdto Angue P. Mac Lean that Bthe Browm SBOOO.OOO fortune ■p to the Mac Lean connections- his mind. Justice Clark- Birded his tribute to his wife, B® he gave everything, the Bd crown of a grea life, the f a -t of an illustrious career. Busily chosen I FOR murder TRIAL |Wn (in Jury to Try Mrs. BJW Lilliendahl and Willie BHoom. May> Landing, N. J., jury of seven men Women, a 1 ! the women listed wi’i hear the case of RjWref Lilliendahl and Willie ■ charged with the murder of a o''d husband. Mrs. Car- B Jlkins, an elderly Atlantic wa s selected at the pot the jury. I ■ ctfd in an hour V quarter, I s of the seven men I " re given as fol- Ki ' -ealer, bank em | r city clerk, news- I iJ und bookkeeper I t lively proven t I rom the scene r-f I Rilliendahl, proce- I ciry in his opt.\- I ;p is an alibi a d I his eo-defenda..t, Bfrsi ' ! ss calmly, the I ling as the pros it. f! ! details of the IIHF STflrr ■ Eiriv MARKET BmfO pfti . Characterized I Market Today. ■ — (/p) —Mixed ■ i.‘Hi prized the op ■ k market. Radio I t - 7-S to 93 on the Bjji.'l , ' uri-Pacitic coin- I if “iit Stores each ' T ';tla 1 gains of a Bg Wf>r “ recorded by Case BiOup/,"; National Bis ■W *° Proceedings. ■ % u 28.—OP)—Jndi- W: Born; , . ri v V Sinclair, Wil ■jjbj f o :i ; t! - p ir four associ mi.SiJjr,,''." rrri,| t, of court in B^ul f ) ia , U ■ -' ur - v shadowing Bfegs j. "'-D or to block the B . h ; P‘“ ,f li ns double jeop ■ Vhl:i V when Burns, ,' * n-n Burns, and C. ■ re b^r with the con- THE CONCORD TIMES J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher^ ! Charge Counties Lose Much By Present System of Collection The Tribune Bureau, Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Nov. 28. —Counties in North Carolina have been and still are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars annually—and perhaps mil lions—through the failure of boards of county commissioners to compel sheriffs to make a full accounting of tax collections each year, according to the findings of the County Govern ment Advisory Commission, as • a re sult of its investigation of government al and fiscal conditions in the various counties. But the County Government Advis ory Commission, because its functions, are just what its name states—advis ory is absolutely without any power or authority to compel sheriffs to make complete settlements each year, or tb compel the county commission ers to do so, although the law gives the county commissioners ample au thority to force the sheriff to make a complete settlement each year, though the majority of the boards do not ex ercise this law. For largely through carelessness ©r negligence, they accept the tentative settlement made by the sheriff, accept what cash he has col lected, and tben proceed to forget about the uncollected balance. What, then, is to be done to cor rect this condition? Should the state continue to permit these counties to cheat themselves out of thousands of dollars of revenue, or should it, through additional legislation, give the state power to compel the various counity commissioners to force the sheriff to settle in full? Unless the county commissioners show greater energy within the next year or so than they have in the last five or six years to compel sheriffs to make final, instead of tentative set tlements for back taxes, there is a feeling in some quarters that the state may have to take a hand, as it has in Virginia. In Virginia, of course, some advaloorem tax is collected for state purposes, and there the state is com pelled to supervise the collection of taxes, as well as the yearly auditing of the county books. And up until 1921, when the state of North Caro lina also collected advalorem taxes for state purposes, the state exercised some supervisory functions, and saw that a far greater proportion of taxes Text Book Problem Is Not Settled In State Publishers Are Meeting in Raleigh Today and Books to Be Chosen Will Be Determined Probably, at the Meeting. The Tribune Bureau, Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Nov. # 28.—The State Board t>f Education has by no means solved the text book question, even though it has already disposed of the question of what form of contract is to be used, and today will begin its meeting with the six publishers whose texts have been recommended by the State Tex book Commission, to hear these pub lishers present the relative merits of their books. Under the present system, the State Texbook Commission will recommend changes to be made in two texts each year. This year the changes are in English and Health texts, and the commission has recommended three texts, or series of texts, in each of these two subjects. From these three recommendations, the State Board of Education must select one English text or series and one Health text or series, for which ( a contract will be let for a five yeai* period, extending from June 1, 1928 to June 1, 1933. Thus nearby a dozen representa tives of the six publishing houses whose books are under consideration are on hand ready and primed for the l USED PLANE TO GET THE SERVICE DESIRED Paul H. Waddill Went From Raleigh to August* By Air When Father Became Fatally lIL Raleigb, Nov. 28.—04 s )—The air plane played a grim service Sunday in transporting Taul H. Waddill from 1 European Leaders Uneasy As Discord Grows Serious \ . London, Nov. 26.—Uneasiness over : the more or less serious threats to European peace from a half dozen dis ■ turbed areas from the Baltic to* the Balkans ruled the chancelleries of the great powers today. The strained relations of a num ber of smaller countries constitute a difficult problem, it was freely admit ted by officials, but today’s crop of reports were less pessimistic than yes terday. Consequently in Downing street as vcell as Berlin and Paris authoritative opinion was that there is not likely to be a blaze from the smoldering in ternational discord unless some par ticular country should lose its head completely and commit an overt act. In the* week-end reports of the ap parently critical Polish-Lithuanian situation there was a degree of calm ness uot apparent during the past few days. It is felt that in view of the fact that council of the league of nations will treat some aspects of this problem next week, neither Poland nor Lithuania will do anything to prejudice a proper inquiry or make relations worse. ; Soviet Russia’s friendly note to ! both countries expressing concern over their strained relations, stated that a peaceful termination of the | problem was Russia’s only interest. ■ British officials consider that the ap prehension felt by Russia over the were settled for by the Sheriffs in the various counties than is now the case. But with the discontinuance of any advalorem property tax for state purposes in 1921, the collection of th£Se taxes was made a purely local matter in each county. It is usually true, too, that the sheriff and the county commissioners are personal as well as political friends, so that when at the end of the tax year, the sheriff makes the tentative settlement, and carries over a few thousands of dol lars on his books as uncollected taxes, the county commissioners frequently carry this amount over from year to year, and in time it becomes forgot ten and lost. A number of counties have been found, according to Charles M. John son, secretary of the County Govern ment Advisory Commission, Wherb no complete settlement has ever been made by the sheriffs since 1921, and where from SIO,OOO to $50,000 are still being carried on the books as uncol lected taxes, with a number of the sheriffs already out of office. In one county several years ago, the sheriff was unable to make final full settlement and gave the county com missioners a mortgage for about $6,- 000 for the remainder. This mortgage has never beVn paid, not even the in terest, though it is listed on the and the actual mortgage is now miss ing and canot be found. And similar conditions might be multiplied in many other counties. And ©ftentime incoming boards of commissioners do not even know of the * deficits that have accumulated under previous boards, and thus through lack of in formation and lack, of interest, permit these losses to continue from year to year. As the law now stands, even under the new county government laws, the boards of county commissioners must compel full and complete settlement by sheriffs each year when they turn over their tax books. But even now, many of the boards of commissioners are continuing to accept tentative set tlements, as in the pagt, and ar® mak ing no effort to enforce the law. .Thus it would seen that eventually the state must step in and compel these boards of county commissioners that will not enforce the law, to enforce it anyway, in spite of local political affiliations or conditions. , fray, and it is expected that several days, if not several weeks may be consumed before all these publishers are heard in detail, and final decision reached by the board as to what books will be selectedi Since most of the books in the Grammar and Health aeries will be in use in almost all of the grades in the elementary schools, the contract when finally will entail the supplying of approximately 80,- 000 books a year in the State—a plan which is being sneezed at by any of the publishers. But the letting of these two con tracts is not all. For as soon as they have been let, the board will then con tinue its efforts to contract for the remaining textbooks, already, for terms of not less than one year and not more than five. All of these con tracts will be of course, on the re tail price contract basis, which form was approved within the last few days. This contract contains the price at which the books must be sold to the school children, which is approximate ly 20 per cent higher than the whole sale price, 10 per cent going to the central depository in Raleigh, and 10 per cent to the local dealer. here to Augusta, Ga., and back be tween the hours of 6 a. m. and 3 p. m. W T addill’s father, J. E. W r addill, J prominent Carthage citizen, died at Augusta late Saturday night. Con fusing reports were received, and the son took the air. to get quick advice. The funeral was held at Carthage to day. < Polish-Lithuanian situation is justi fied to a certain extent because of natural concern regarding events on her frontier. In Rumania, where the death of Premier Bratianu has created uneasi ness over the domestic situation as well as foreign relations, the political parties are marking time, until the late'premier's funeral on Monday af ter which new liberal leaders will be chosen. Bucharest dispatches indicates that Minister of the Interior Duca, who is one of the leading members of the cabinet, will respect the wishes of his late leader and stand aside in favor of Bratianu’s brother, Vintila. Neither official nor press dispatches from Rumania report any disturbances in the country. Even in the Balkans proper, the view of British official circles is that the - new defensive pact between Italy and Albania, which was suddenly an nounced to an unsuspecting diploma tic world on Thursday, has not caused the uneasiness that might have been expected. The British view is that both the French and Jugoslav press as well as officials seem to view the situation calmly with no serious fears for the future. Reports received in Bucharest yes terday of an outbreak in the Ukraine in the town of Kamenetz-Bpodolsk were depied today at Moscow by the soviet foreign office. t CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER, 28, 1927. DRUNKEN DRIVERS ON INCREASE IN' NORTH CAROLINA Twice as Many Arrested on this Charge in November Than Were Arrested During October. 329 ARRESTED IN LAST 5 MONTHS Other Charges Lodged • Against Drivers Include Speeding, Reckless Driv ing and Manslaughter. Raleigh, Nov. 28.—C4 3 ) —Twice as many automobile drivers were arrested for driving while drunk in November in North Carolina than were arrested last month, the % State Highway De partment’s tab sheet showed today. A total of 78 were arrested during November. To date, from July 1, 1927, when the new law went into effect, calling for the keeping of these records by the department, 329 drivers have been drunk while driving, and when arrest ed. Other automobile driver convictions for this period: speeding, 179; reck less driving, 107; miscellaneous, 61; violation of the automobile license law, 29; ataault with deadly weapons, 6; manslaughter, 6. SESQUIOBSERVANCES FOR BARON STEUBEN Numerous Cities Will Hold Celebra tion In Honor Os Noted Pioneer- Washington, D. C., Nov. 28.-e-In Washington, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Buffalo, 4 Detroit and numerous other cities the patriotic societies have arranged to hold meet ings and exercises this week in com memoration of the 150th anniversary of the arrival in America of Baron Frederick William von Steuben, one of the few men without whom Ameri can independence probably would not hrfve been achieved. Baron Steuben, a soldier who had fought with distinction under Frede rick the Great, resigned honorable titles and lucrative rank in his na tive coutry of Prussia and came to America to make an army out of a horde of awkward squads who Had only the most rudimentary ideas of discipline or organization. Arriving in America Dec. 1, 1777, after a dangerous ivoyage of 55 days In a French gunboat, Steuben, after landing at Portsmouth, N. H., wrote to Congress, offering hm services- He made only one condition; that if the colonists were successful in ob taining independence he waa to be remunumerated for his services. If the coloniets failed he asked for noth ing. Washington immediately appoint ed him inspector-general of the Con tinental Army. The Army jay en , camped at Valley Forge, where Steu ben first saw it. The sight took his breath away. The half-«tarved sol diers, poorly armed and only half-clad were a spectacle which while astound ing him, told him that there was tne stuff of which herpes are made. From the day that he began to discipline and organize this strange horde the whole military system as sumed new shape. Steuben could * speak English only very imperfectly, and the awkwardness of the men drove him at times into wild burste of fury. But he was kind to the suf fering and forbearing to the willing, and the whole army came to know the real tenderness of his heart and to love .and respect him. The country at large could not see thj work that Steuben was doing, but Washington and others saw it and appreciated it. Historians are agreed that no major-general in the field did half so much toward success as this grea.; organizer and disciplinari an. At the battle of Monmouth Alex ander Hamiltons eyes were opened when he saw Steuben arrive upon the ' field and. taking the retreating ana disordered troops of Gen. Charles Lee, rally them like veterans. Hamil ton admiringly said that he had nev er known till that day the value of discipline. Steuben published a manual for the army, furnished with diagrams to explain his rules. He was sorely disappointed because he never obtain ed the opportunity of showing what he could do with a large separate command in the field. In 1790 Congress voted Steuben an annuity of $2,500, and he was pres ented with grants of land in Virginia, 1 Pennsylvania and New York. He re tired to his large estate near Utica, N. Y. Here he built him a large . house where he lived the rest ot his life, devoting much of his time to literature. He was stricken with paralysis on Nov. 22, 1794, and pass ed away 183 years ago today, Nov. 28, 1794. He left his entire property to Colonel North, his aide, and was buried near bis housed wrapped in bis military cloak, and with the star of honor on his breast. / Thinks Students And Alnmil! Drink Less At Games Now. Charlotte. Nov. 26. —College stu ■ dents and visiting alumni drink less and behave better at football games now than they formerly did, In the opinion of Ben C. Sharpe, deputy : federal prohibition administrator. “When I was in school a few years* ago the boys drank much more than they do now,” he said. “Even in the first few years after the 18th I ammendnient was passed there was a great deal more drinking thah there . is now. i - - Come in and Get one of our v VEST POCKET MEMORANDUM BOOKS ! For 1928 Which Are Now Ready k BRATIANU BURIED WITH TOLL HONOR AS PEOPLE MOURN Late Premier of Roumania Given Full Honor By People of Country He Served Many years. QUEEN MARIE IS AJdONG MOURNERS When Guns Boomed Salute Young King Michael Wanted to Know if War Had Come to Country. Bucharest, Nov. 28.— C4 s ) —When the guns boomed out in salute to the late Premier Bratianu as his body was borne through the capital, six year old King Michael who had been kept at home, turned to his mother and said; “Oh, mamma, do you hear the can nons? Has war conj,e?” Princes Helen replied reassuringly: “No, no, my child. Peace has come to your great, good friend, Mr. Brat ianu. He is dead, and the nation is saluting him for the last time.” A tearful tribute to the late Premier was paid at the funeral by Queen Ma rie, who lamented the death of M. Bratianu as a great loss to the try which she said he had served well for many years. SHRINERS PIjAN GREAT OCCASION Nobles To Journey From AH Over Western Part Os State To char lotte. Charlotte, Nov. 26.—One of the greatest ceremonials ever held by Oasis Temple of the Myrtic Shrine will mark the end here January 19 of a pilgrimage of noble« from all over the Western part of the State for their first formal gathering in six months. An announcement issued today at the business offices here of the tem ple said several committees at Char lotte already have begun preparing for the approaching two-day session, the dates for which were determined here several days ago by C. M. Van story, of Greensboro, illustrious potentate, at a conference with mem bers of the temple’s divan- _ The usual fall ceremonial of Oasis Temple was , deferred and the nobles were called by Potentate Vanstory to attend the recent dedi cation of a Shriners’ hospital for crippled children at Greenville, S. C. A large class of candidates, who had anticipated making last fail the memorable journey across the hot sands of the desert which all other Shriners have trod, yet is awaiting the call for the caravan to form. Their numbers steadily are being increased by others whose great de sire is to share the secrets and tne joys of the red-fezzed nobles, ac cording to officers of the temple. This situation bids fair to result in one of the largest classes of novices in tfie history of Oasis Temple being initiated at he next ceremonial. Much of great interest to the nobles is expected to be brought up for consideration at the business session of the temple, according to Potentate Vanstory and Recorder Thomas Griffith, of Charlotte.* One of the most important of these pros pective matters of business will be the proposal to operate a special train to Miami, Fla., next May for the accommodation of the members of Oasis Temple who will attend the annual meeting of the Imperial Council of the Shrine. Present indi cations are from 250 to 300 members of this temple will join in that pil grimage. which probably will attract from 20,000 to 25.000 Shriners and many thousands of other visitors The nobles of Oasis who will take this trip will he absent from this state about one week. Miss Mercedes Gleitze, first En glish woman to swim the Channel, Won a championship at knitting dur ing the late war. • THE STOCK MARKET^ Reported by Fenner & Beane. Quotations at 1.30 p. m.) Atchison 191_ American Can 70% Allied Chemical 150% American Smelting 173% American T. & T. 180 Atlantic Coast Line 193 Baltimore & Ohio 117% Chesapeake & Ohio 208% Chrysler 57 New York Central ~363% Dupont 319 Erie 62% Fleishman 68% General Electric 132 Gold Dust 70% General Motors 126% Gen. Ry. Signal 120 Houston Oil- 156% Hudson Motors 69% Mo.-Kans. & Texas 42% Kennecott Copper 82% Kans. City Sou. Ry. 63% Liggett & Myers 121% Lorrilard 40% Mack Truck 108% Mo.-Pacific Pfd. .114% | Montgomery-Ward 96% Nash Motors 89% Packard Motors 53% Penn. R. R. 65% Phillips Pete. 42% Reading R. R. 108 “B” Rey. Tob Com. 157% Rock Island R. R. 106% Sears Roebuck 80% Southern Railway 139% Stand. Oil of N. J. 40 Sou. Pacific R. R. 120 Sou. Dairies Pfd. 21 Studebaker Corp. 58% Tobacco Prodc. 107% Union Carbine 147% Vicks Chemical 61% \Veßtinghouse Elec. Co. 89% West. Maryland R. R. 53 Woolworth 193 U. S. Steel. -145% • - .-MM- ‘ A “COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE” /- ~q~t . yy i,r< jp I t -' **^tL / «9^b y^ ,3. .i : LA 1% .. .n 'jflgSHgj ;*’Jb "^p* wt JB y •^ajyy’^Syifaß^Wgfe, 4 > '■-. ' «afiH|Sa^jKH jBS >£» f >■ i ", (^■'■j '/ ■ ij§| ~* . ■':,*rtl*»A» '.v» ~#. As <* iW!T*iW>i ■-aa—U'A .. -. V / Aubrey Clay Roselle and Josephine H&ldeman-Jullus of Kansas City become man and wife In first “companionate marriage’* on record. The unique pact is made with full consent of the parents of both of the: young pgonlfu- • “JUNIOR SPEAKING” WILL BE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR Costly Features of Davidson Holidoy Have Been Elimenated This Year. Davidson, N. C., Nov. 26.—Score another for the collegiate iconoclasts. At Davidson College they have dis carded another tradition, and for once in their lives they seem to have re ceived the approbation of everybody concerned. From time immemorial members of the junior class at Davidson have celebrated an annual spring festival and known as “Junior Speaking.” Hard-pressed students have turned their pockets inside out to support this most important of all social events on the college calendar. Hundreds of dollars have been thrown to the winds each year in splendor and ex travagance. _ But, Davidson students are large ly Presbyterians, and their Scotch penchant for thrift has* at last con quered their love of thrills^There will be no jupior epeakyjg at Davidson this year, insofar as the social whirl is concerned. Mac King, of Bristol, Tenn., president of the class, is authority for this statement. Sober-minded juniors have express ed themselves in favor of a more dignified and less costly celebration. They will observe the occasion purely out of respect for tradition, but look at the program planned. An oratorical contest in the college auditorium, a special program by the college dramatists, and an inexpensive re ception on the college lawn. All the glamor[ and splurge of former speak ings w|ili be missing, and there are those who speak with conference, say ing thqt junior speaking at Davidson is headed for the dump-heap to take its place among the numerous other discarded customs of the past. WILL UNVEIL TABLET TO LaFAYETTE ON WEDNESDAY Will Be Unveiled at Georgetown, S. C., Where LaFayette Landed First In America. Georgetown, S. C., Nov. 28.— UP) — A tablet commemorating the first land ing of the Marquis de LaFayette in America will be unveiled here at nbon Wednesday. Speakers on the program include Birgadier General Frank Parker, U. S. A.; the French consul general at New Orleans, Rear Admiral Newton A. McCully/Thos. R. Waring, Charles ton editor, and the Rev. H. D. Bull, rector of the Church of Prince George Winyah. Mr. Bull is chairman of the committee on arrangements. Two United States destroyers will be in the harbor for the occasion, while the Marine band from Paris Island will participate in the ceremonies. The flag covering the tablet will be drawn aside by two litttle girls of French descent, Miss Carol ; ne Bull and Mise Margaret Siau. A parade will precede the unveiling. COLBURN HEARING IS SET FOR WEDNESDAY Asheville Man Charged With Death of Samuel Mitchell at Valdese Last Friday. Morganton, Nov. 28.— UP) —Prelimi- nary trial for Burnham S. Colburn, , Jr., of charged with man slaughter in connection with the death last Friday of Samuel Mitchell at Valdese, is scheduled at 11 o’clock Wednesday morning before Magistrate W. F. Hallyburton, it was announced here today. The trial was set for this afternoon, but upon motion of coun sel it was continued until Wednesday. A Hickory law firm has been re tained to appear for the family of the dead youth, who was fatally in jured when the car alleged to have been driven by young Colburn side swiped a truck on the opposite side of the road and crashed into him. Col burn will be represented by Morgan ton and Asheville law firms. Publishers es Textbooks Heard Raleigh, Nov. 28.—CP) —Hearing of publishers of textbooks occupied the state board of education today, prepar atory to opening of bids here on De cember 14th. r New texts are to be adopted in lan guage and hygiene under a new sys tem of taking up one major and not more than two minor subjects eact year, instead of going over the whole list every five years as formerly. The price of cotton on the local market today is quoted at lO 1 cents per pound. , * # # A. t . $2.00 a Year, Stfictly in Advance ' 5 • STATE RESTS IN REMUS CASE DURING DAY Motion For Directed Verdict of Not Guilty Denied by Judge Shook. Cincinnati, Nov. 26.— UP) —The State rested its case against George Remus, on trial for his fife for slay ing his wife, at 11:22 a. m. today. A short time before'the alienists appointed by Judge Chester R. Shook officially reported that they found Remus was sane when he killed his wife here October 6th, and is sane now as he is on trial for her mur der. With an hour and ten minutes of today’s court session left, the first witness was called for the defendant. He was Leo A. Burke, a Cincin nati attorney, who represented Remus at various times during the last sev eral months. Immediately upon Chas. P. Taft’s, 11, declaring the State had complet ed its direct case, Chas. H. Elston, co-counsel with Remus who acts as hi&.airn chief of counsel, leaped up with the motion usual in such cases, one for a directed verdict of not guil ty. . It was denied by Judge Shook. Elston next moved to have much of the State’s evidence stricken. He asserted that the State had failed to prove that Remus acted as an agent of a four-sided conspiracy when he shot his wife. The State maintained that it had proven at least part of its conspiracy charge. Judge Shook reserved decision on that point. Elston moved that the three alien ists who just previously had given their report, be removed from the ju dicial dais. They took their seats there just back of the judge a few days ago. Judge Shook explained that he had requested the doctors to sit with him. “I have advised with them from time to time’’ he said, “but if either side objects to their presence here, why of course I shall request them to take seats elsewhere.” With Elston still explaining - his position, Remus got to his feet and suavely and smoothly begged 'the court to disregard Mr. Elston’s re quest and to continue to permit “these honored alienists” to eit where they were. Despite Remus's tone, E'ston was plainly nettled by the interference of his client, co-counsel. Judge Shook was also provoked. He summoned Sheriff William An derson to the bench. “Sheriff,” the court directed, “I want you to see hereafter that but one attorney for each side addresses re marks to the bench. That applies equally to the prosecution. If more than one attorney for each side arises at the same time, I direct you to use the porper force to stop it.” False Pretense In Selling Speedway Bonds Is Charged. Winston Salem, Nov. 24—Charged with false pretense in connection with the sale of Charlotte speedway bonds, Fred J. Lassiter, 45 of this city, has been arrested and released under $5,- 000 bond.. Lassiter surrendered to police after a warrant had been issued at the in stigation of Nathan Harris, of this city. The warrant alleges that Las siter sold Harris $5,5000 worth of bonds, representing them to be worth par value. It is charged that he told Harris he received the bonds as com mission for selling the Charlotte speedway and that the speedway was a sound corporation, making money on each race. Lassiter came to Winston-balem yesterday and surrendered to police. Bond was arranged and he asked for continuance of his case until Satuiv. day. King George’s Plate. King George’s plate at Windsor palace is valued at something nae $10,000,000. It includes a gold ser vice, ordered by George IV for accom modating 140 persons, and one of the finest wine coolers in the world, a shield formed of snuff boxes worth $45,000, and 30 plates Worth $50,000. There is also a variety of pieces brought from the colonial and East ern possessions. Wijh a kitchen apron over her black dress, Queen Mary recently put in a busy day helping to check and sort thousands of garments collecte! by the Needlework Guild for distri bution among London's sick and poor. ANOTHER INSANITY : RULING FOR REMUS AIDS PROSECUTION Court Says That Independ* ence of Insanity Must Precede Opinion of Lay Witnesses. LONG ARGUMENT OVER QUESTION Jury Was Sent From Room While Arguments Over the Point Continued For More Than Hour. Cincinnati, Nov. 28.—OP)—Inde- J pendent evidence that George Remus’ mind was diseased when he shot and killed his wife in Eden Park, October 6th, would be necessary before the de fense could present opinion of lay witnesses or testimony concerning causes, Judge Chester R. Shock rul ed in the former “king of bootlegg ers’ murder trial today. The ruling came after an hour of heated arguments. J They started when Franklin How ard Shaw, a timer of races horses at various tracks, was called.by the de fense. Preliminary questioning indi cated that he was to tell of the ac tions of the slain woman at various places. Interrogation of Shaw was not pur sued. The jury was excluded during the argument of more than an hour, the argument of more than an hour and was brought back immediately af ter the argument was finished, and Judge Shook had announced his rul ing. Wm. Mueller, for eight years care taker at Remus’ $750,000 mansion here, was called, but another argu ment developed immediately and again the jury was sent out. Mueller told of a changed Remus upon the defendant’s return from the Atlanta penitentiary. He was asked whether he had ob served indications of a diseased men-' tality. Charles P. Taft, 11, chief prose cutor, maintained successfully that a lay witness could not be asked for expert medical or legal testimony. Mueller testified that upon Remus’ return home from Atlanta he started raving at times. r “He would raise his hands above his head end say ‘My God. could* it be possible that woman could de this’?” f i Mueller said he observed such con duct on four occasions. At those times Remus’ face would be “all red and puffed up like,” Muel ler said. It was his opinion that Remus was “completely out of his mind.” Court Rules For Remus. Cincinnati, Nov, 28.—UP)—Suf ficient evidence had been introduced to show that the defendant once had a diseased mind,- Judge Chester R. Shook ruled in George Remus’s mur der trial .today. He permitted the defense to begin citing the alleged causes, thereby opening a very wide field. The ruling was. the second important one of the session. Judge Shook previously ruled that the defense would have to show independently that there had been signs of diseased men tality before the causes of it could be proved. After three witnesses In a row had testified that in their opinion Remus had been insane prior to the time he shot and killed his estranged second wife, Imogene, in Eden Park here last October 6, the court ruled that the other matter could be gone into. THE COTTON MARKET Market Opened Easy 7 to 12 Points Lower, Later Making New Low Records For the Movement. New York, Nov. 28. — UP) —The cot ton market opened easy today 7 to 12 points net lower, and early in the day continued downward, making new low records for the movement and for the entire month. Quiet general selling was attributed to weakness in Liverpool and in Alex andria, also on unfavorable interpre tation of trade accounts in general, including the tendency toward curtail ment in dry goods trade and poor de mand for spot cotton in the South, where the basis was reported to be showing some signs of weakening. Prices continued downward with temporary rallies, making further net low records and showing losses of about $1.50 per bale frmn the final of laet week. New Orleans, Liver pool and the South generally were the principal sellers, while asid* from— trade buying and covering the demand was slow. January sold at 19.02 and May at 19.42 around midday. Cotton futures opened easy: Dec. 19.25; Jan. 19.23; March 19.17; May 19.34; July 19.57. With Our Advertisers. The smartest of headwear at Fish er’s. Prices range from $3.95 to $5.95 in one group and from $9.95 to $14.95 in another group. Belk’s carries a big line of men’s furnishings and the prices are un usually low. Broadcloth shirts from 75 cents to $1.98, socks from 10 cents to 48 cents and neckwear from 25 cents to 98 cents. Read ad. .care fully. * jfe Efird’s has men’s and young men’s suits at $14.95. Also all wool suits from $18.50 to $19.50 and boy’s suits at 11.45 to $14.95. wmm Generally fair tonight Sind Taafe /day, wanner tonight in irfcat portaofW 3 NO. 42
The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.)
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