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ma' : - - Kuiists tiike mm i city M o at tio rhat Lasted several Hours The ‘‘re Fore ■j T() (iiu* < 1 r ound. !|K" take over *H|: i 11\ EKNMENT 1 Hand Hills. Telling K„|e Red Peas ' Ks uul S.ildiers" l’ro ■ i The Masses. H i/P) —(’mn- B" .Hl;iy look con- B . .iight n . nrnl «»f>|><>«<i- BH , . : ,i, is Hi' iho na- B ~i nani/.at ion who .. i hi* cimiiniin- BH -mil'll handbills iimialist organ- B ' - ■ a.\ of tin* revolu- B’ ~ ....i peasants and B ir ,. til.- "Hi s who fan |||,. uni HH - v\ tiii h Marled at Hi"..;. nsr had lasted six B, imta fit 1 ' issued a ■ that they had jH",,.- ~ ihf city and BV v , .-inii-revolutionary ' tficev H;» r \ DKCLINES m 10 11 >ll HIMSELF \n| Intel 'fere With Efforts BFriH'.ih in Make Him a C'andi i,. iii-. 11. —Still declin- H !::v ai. n;.’ and mil dfdaratioii ~ ;■ i.it.• for iho Rcpuhli ' , Frank < >. Lowdcr let Bb''io. however. that lie ii.t. with tin* efforts of i» ill' hr ha If. Bfirmer li-ve'-imr of Illinois de- H,r'rs.;n he still iii mystetry h\;.i Haltin' of his status ii:«' i,••initiation. but lit) . ,;..iirinini that "whnt ■ : a..' is. tiw'fe !is Nttin like ■ji; being changed.” a, npiiiion rtmt'' H, Ai.u'i>: 2. when President Hfc. his -(hi not choose" riie I thick Hills, I.owdeii H«>'i*'Vi't| Mr. <'ooliilge never in- KtnU a candidate in I'.VJS. and H. s'l'i .-tint itic.'ilion was mi ■■r t.i *■'ia\ i!i*■ •' him that the H eii flitireiy e.iminat - 11 ;ii 11 io 11 . the most Hrsh: i-M." tie- m-xt campaign i.si-i* are on an etpial Hfftitii .str\ and labor, and Hbl m- i.a <i 1..- brought about BftUetiiii nf a farm relief bill Hitt .Hjiiahzinu' fee to defray the o*ntndling 'in pluses. , v i,n i nine here to attend H ■!; 1' : ha liquet, declared ■ i'i ii- m.i l1 > other issues Hct in the i a mpa ig 11 . but he H' i’h the statement ■ nf agriculture was B’ Av In I'lniiiiiition. he said he Htmiati agreement with the "f this *| lestion by the H ai message, which ' iifoi'cement and ob- B**or h"tli : officials charged H"nf provisions of the H" A't and hv the public. HttREM K to |{E -1 MELD IN CAPITAL h|i|iitsTinn From Some Op ■ ll*.— (A 3 )—The Hr" l,l "l"'i:it"rs and mine un ■ r ais '•ailed by Secretary of B'lhis r.i here to discuss H?“ !n hiing suspension in the lieUls. w'll be held tomor ■ l 1 "'' i'his;il ~f many leading to attend. tn his i.rhce today after Kt" 1 ' absence, the labor score- | H M’foixisMi the conference at H^ Kf, '"i "f the union leaders r||H ''l'lies ro his call. and. Hi , th' meeting would ■ * aband<,„ w j I !HE *TO< k m arket Hriskiy Upward at B* v ,n e of Market Today K h or k. l>ee. 1J. —(>P) —I’rices E [ upward at the ojieii- Bini i'i S t,Ul United States »enoral Motors were a H p'' along with Nash E. s . r,,mul| i ,: -Catnous Players. began the day nali record, up more than f Rlul ’‘ r Lets Fmod Control E. Berth. iu*e. 11.—Charles Hhl'C I '! VSil '“ llt the Southern K tt >' übli, ' a » league, announced B "i— 'iniet of the league's HL r '* ''""ittiittee. which will ■ 1 ‘* l *trol ([uestion and H^i ll,Kt ''" '' XI to B (Wn l "'"' ia! " ,|ls t 0 Congress. ■ '•« iuded Marion But- I 1 : .lohn F. Jones, K* a , s '••• .ml Henry W. Bnhc ' 1 I'Otond, Va. B J'' 1 '" t"'"vi(ling for the com |v1 a,l " ! ’ ! " | l as the third au ;<i"i Hood control con ■ • gu< In New Orleans THE CONCORD TIMES J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher Quiet And Determined Drive For M’Lean Now Being Made In South Friends Os The Qovernor Are Not Saying Much But They Want Him As Presidential Nominee. campaignlvot IN STATE ONLY In Other Sections Os The South It Is Said Sup porters Os The Govern or Boosting Him. The Tribune Bureau. Sir Walter Hotel. »V ,|. <\ BANKER VILE Raleigh. I)pc. I",—There is a well defined movement both outside the state and in North Carolina as well, but still being kept under the sur tace. in favor of the candidacy of Governor A. W. McLean for the Democratic nomination for president. And as a result of this fact, which has become definitely known here only in the last few days, more than passing significance, is being attach ed to Governor McLean's visit to \\ ashington for several days during the past week, and his' week-end visit in Richmond with Governor Harry Flood Byrd, of Virginia. In the lirst place, political rumor here has it that Senator F. M. Sim mons spent last Sunday in Raleigh, conferring with Governor McLean, and that the chief purpose of his mission was to persuade the Gover nor to become at least a “Favorite Son” candidate, to' test out his strength in this and other southern states. While no one here seems to have seen the Senator, or to have talked to him. the rumor ;| ill per sists. Then, the middle of the week, Gov ernor McLean went to Washington “on matters |*ertaining to the State", especially to attend the Peidinont and Northern hearing Friday before the Interstate Commerce Commission. But this hearing was not until Fri day. and Governor 'McLean went to Washington Wednesday and of course conferred with Senator Sim mons. Friday night, Governor McLean vrent fron> Washington to Richmond, where he was joined by Mrs. McLean, and where they remained over Sun day as the house guests of Governor and Mrs. Byrd. It will be remember ed that after Governor Byrd had been the guest of Governor McLean in Raleigh, that ill his speech at South Hill, opening the new Vir ginia Highway Ml. Governor Byrd declared that lie was in favor of Governor McLean as the next Demo cratic candidate for president. And Governor Mcl*can responded that if Governor Byrd would nominate him, he would accept it. And while at the time these state ments were attributed more t<> “gu bernatorial courtesy" than to any thing else, there were many, includ ing several Virginia newspapers, that evidently took them seriously. And the two governors may have been more serious than their hearers thought. At any rate, the week end visit of Governor and Mrs. in Rich mond while apparently purely social, may have a much deeper political I significance than appears on the sur face. So much so, in fact, that po litical observers here are beginning to be considerably impressed. If Virginia is already lining up behind McLean as a Democratic presidential nominee, should not Nvirth Carolina begin to get more in f terested in hint? Have the North Carolina politicians, who have been merely smiling when McLean was mentioned as a possibility, been asleep on the job? Some are begin ning to think that they have. Not that there is any belief that Me 1 jean will be the next Democratic nominee—it is generally admitted that that is hardly possible. But if he is given the indorsement of North Carolina, and Virginia, and South ■ Carolina whtfh seems likely—and several other Southern states at the convention, it will indicate just how sentiment is in the South, at the Democratic National convention, and also serve as a deterrent to the Smith boom in this and other South ern states. And it might possibly put McLean in position to secure the ' vice-presidential nomination hut ! not on the ticket with Smith, i “There is no doubt but that if ' Smith is nominated, the Democratic ‘ party in North Carolina will suffer j materially,’’ said an astute politicsil , observer today. “Consequently, if ‘the Smith move is to be successfully 1 counteracted, it must be through ad- I vocating the candidacy of McLean, so • that the Smith forces may know that they cannot count on North ■ Carolina. And if North Carolina it i self gets back to him, and will sup -1 port him in the convention—at least long enough to see how the wind is blowing—a number of other Southern : ■ states will also fall in behind him. But North Carolina must get busy : now, or it will be too late. ■ | Governor McLean, of course, is ' still preserving a discreet, Scotch si vlence. But it is believed that he . might “choose” to run, if the demand ■ from the state—and other states I should become sufficiently convincing • At least, the situation is one that - j will bear watching. , Men get pearls from oysters but women get diamonds m • I DIKE GETS ANOTHER DONATION $200,000 C. C. Hula, of Liggett and Myers To bacco Company. Is Donor. i>r. Few Speaks. N< w \nrk. I)cc. 10—A donation ; of $200,00 to the endowment fund of Due Fniversity. Durham. N. C.. I by C. C. Dula, president of the l.ig get and Myers Tobacco company, was announced tonight, at a dinner nt Duke alumni here. Mr. Dula was fiiend and business associate of the late Janies B. Duke, founder of the university. rhp r announcement was made t>v Dr. \\ . I*. Few. president of the imi versity. who stated that the gift I came upon the third mini versify of the founding of Duke Fniversir.i, formerly Trinity college, under trust indenture of the late James B. I)uV\ Reading from this indenture. Dr. Few recalled the request of the .founder that only professors , i character, ability, and vision” be em ployed and that only students ‘'evin cing a wholesame and real ambition for life." admitted. Outlining me policies of the institution. I)r. Few said, there will be a rather sharp demarcation' between the work the first two years and tin* last two years. Students will he selected thru careful selective process and for tie* first two years will be under the guidance of teachers chosen for their personal qualities and teaching pow er, as weil as knowledge of the sub jects.” WILL FIGHT Wife Who Confessed She Killed Her Husband Will Fight Charges In Court. Painesville. 0.. Dec, o.—OP)—Des pite confession that] she had slain her husband with a hammer while in a blind rage. 21 year old Velma West today hail begun preparations to fight the murder V-barge against her. Her first defensive moved was made lute yesterday when she plead ed not guilty at arraignment. An attorney has been engaged, aijd rela tives have promised their full sup port. Funeral services wer4 planned to day for T. Edward West, fhp 20 year old husband, who Mrs. West .confess ed she struck dead with, a claw ham mer last Tuesday after a bitter quar rel. With Our Advertisers Flour, rice, sugar and coffee at special prices at Cline & Moose’s. This company carry a big stock of these necessities and can! afford to sell cheaper than the man who buys in small lots. Read ad.l today for price particulars. C. l*att Covington has a new ad. in this paper. ' Don’t fail to read it ca refully. Efird’s is offering Craddoek-Terry Shoes, regularly priced at $6.00, for $1.0.1. Call at the store without de lay so as to lie able to take* advan tage of this unusual offer in shoe values. The Starnes-Milier-Parker Co. lias a complete line of Bulova watches shat will make excellent Christmas gifts. Fur-trimmed coats in which quality of fabric and workmanship are out standing at the J. C. Penny- Co. Priced now at from $14.75 to $,‘50.50. This store is open at night until Christmas. Christmas Gifts At Fisher’s Fisher's this year has a store fill ed with attractive and sensible Christmas gifts. In the large stock can be found gifts that will la* ap propriate and useful for all members of the family. In addition to the regular goods carried, this store is offering many novelties and other useful presents in toys. The Christmas stock is lar ger and better than ever. A smashing clearance sale is being made on coats, dresses and hats. These are all of new and attractive design and material and are being sold unusually cheap, for this season of the year. Read without fail company’s at tractive ad. in this paper. Grid Coach Seeks To Turn Out Men Instead Os Stars. Nashville, Tenn., Deo. 7. —“Coach- es do not care about public praise: the biggest thing to them is that when temptations come to their men in after years what they have learn ed on the football field will stand them instead,” Dan MeGugin, veter an Vanderbuilt, mentor, declared to day in chapel exercises. He expressed belief that no individ ual on his team would ever do a “mean or base thing. The aim of football training he list ed as (1). Development of quick and clear thinking under stress: (2) eli mination of stimulants, late hours, and improper food to the betterment : of the body: and (3). instilling of loyalty and self-effacement. Seek Slayer of Wayne County Girl. Goldsboro, N. €.. Dec. o.—C4>) i While searching for his tifteen-yeav ■ old daughter, Beulah, who had gone > to a nearby negro’s home for a jar I of syrup, Eric Tedder. Wayne county - farmer, stumbled over her body in a . nearby tobacco patch. Bloodhounds early today led a posse and sheriff’s officers along trails believed to have been left by unknown t negroes who fatally slashed the little girl's throat. CONCORD, N. C„ MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1927. Co-ed Disappears i t 31 WsM pp|| j Pauline Rosencrance, 18, of Carson City, Mich., student tn Michigan State Normal School, has not been - seen in several weeks. Friends are using every effort to find the co ed, who was mentally depressed at the time she vanished. * > ’ —■ BRIGGS VENTS WRATH i ON ABDUCTOR OF GIRIJ Determined to Put Man Who Took Daughter Away in State Peni tentiary. Durham. Dee. 10.—“ There are two •things I’m set on doing." said James Briggs, father of 15-year-old Lillie Briggs, who he found last Thursday near Sanford with James McKnight. "First I'm going to stick by my girl whatever happens, and second. I'm going to put that man in the peni tentiary if there's law to do it.” The farmer returned to ( Durham this morning after having successful ly completed his state-wide. three month search which began when his daughter started to a circus and never returned home. Tears for his daugh ter and angry exclamations concern ing McKnight punctuated the story of the old man told W. E. Stanley, coun ty welfare officer, here today. The girl is still in Sanford, kept in jail, hut the father intends to bring her back to her home near here early this week. “I've got to get her some clothes. Them she has on ain't to wear, and then 1 want to have a tor examine her to see what condi tion she's in.” he said. Briggs said he had taken steps to have several other men arrested in connection with his daughter’s dis appearance—the men who carried Lil lie and Ruth Bass from Chapel Hill to Sanford. Briggs did not remember the names of the men but sent them to the Orange county officers as soon as he learned, from the girl, their identity. . Lillie Briggs and Ruth Bass, accord ing to the story Brjggs had from his daughter, were carried first to Chape. Hill and then to Sanford where they K[>ent the night. According to the girl's' story, it was not until they arrived at Sanford did they meet McKnight who tirst carried them to Winston-Salem and later, after the Bass girl had been dropiied from the party and found by her parents, to McKnight's father’s home, not far from Winston, where they spent two weeks. It was then that McKnight .and the girl went to the cabin in which McKnight was staying with Cleo Blakley. According to Brigg. McKnight and the Blakley woman had lived together for a year, though they were not married. "That cabin was not tit for a dog to live in." said Mr. Briggs. “Lillie told hip that all three of them had been staying in the same bed. The whole place was dirty as a hog pen. It mighty nigh kills me to think of my ■ girl being there with that man and that woman.” Mr. Briggs is not certain whether or •not Lillie was kept prisoner by Mc- Knight and the Blakley woman. He does know, however, that the door of the room in which she was found was fastened from the outside when he ar rived with four Lee county officers. The father also said that when Mc- Knight was arrested and brought be- I fore him that his wrath overpowered him and that he attacked the man with every intention of killing him. “It's the first time I ever wanted to i kill a man, God forgive me for it,” he | said today. "But when I saw him I - I just couldn’t help going at him.” : | Lillie told Briggs, he said, that ii t! was her stepmother’s treatment of, i her which caused her to run away. - j "But I don’t think Mollie-tried to be 1 i hard on the girl.” he added. “She was - just sort of strict and Lillie didn’t - understand.” • Lillie did not deny the sort of life ■ she has recently led with McKnight. i said the father. I “She told me everything.” he said. - “I hated to hear it but I wanted the I truth. But I’m going to stand by her. - She’s just a child and it ain't too . late to save her.’’ t • . • Clocks Stop In High Buildings 7»e eause Os Sway. I When a grandfather clock in a rail • Chicago hotel refus-ed to run. the - owner was perplexed, for it was in - perfect order, says Popular Me ) chanics Magazine. A clockuiaker ex r plained the apparent mystery. The ( building stands in an iso’ated spot t where it receives the full force of (he winds and sways slightly, espeoial s ly in the upper stories. When this s movement is in right direction witn i reference to the swing of the pendu e him. the clock stops, the era'tsinan explained. LEAGUE COUNCIL ENDS SESSIONS; MUCH WOUK DONE Four Big Problems On I Way To Settlement 'As I Result Os Work Os ■ League Os Nations. • ROME MAY GET NEXT SESSION So Briand And Mussolini Can Meet To Discuss Differences Between The Two Nations. Geneva, Dee. 12. — (A*) —With four international problems, including the Polish-Lithuanian controversy, on the way to settlement as a result of its •deliberations, the 48th session of the council of the league of nations ad journed this morning to meet in March. To the very end. it is felt in league jcircles a spirit of mutual concession in the interests of securing accords on the various problems dominated | the council deliberations. Officials said that no arrangements to convene the March session at Rome have been made, although | Rome has been suggested in some quarters as away of bringing about a meeting of Foreign Minister Briand of France, and Premier Mussolini, without the French foreign minister making a special journey to Rome for an opportunity to adjust Fran co ital inn relations. 1 LITTLE GIRL ASKS EXEMPTION FOR HAI) | I Writes War Department Pleading He j Not Be Sent To War- Washington. Dec. 10.— A letter: from a little Pennsylvania girl ad- J dressed to “Dear Uncle Sam” and | pleading that “my dear daddy and I Uncle Oliver” be not sent to war “if they are any more wars.” has reach- J ed Secretary Davis of the War De partment and drawn a reply from him that Uncle Sain hoped there will be no more wars. "I want to ask yon to do a tavor for ino." the letter, apparently work of a ten year <dd. said: "if there are any more wars please do not make my dear daddy and Uncle Oliver go, because my mother has died. 1 only have my daddy, except my aunts. If you will do this for me. I will appreciate it very much.” Secretary Davis replied that Fnc!" Sam had asked him to inform the writer that he hoped “from the bot tom of his heart that there will not be any more wars and he will do everything he can to prevent tnem.” CHARLOTTE ROBBERS ENTER TWO STORES Drug Store ami Case Robbed by Masked Men Who Are Believed to Have Escaped in Automobiles. Charlotte, Dec. 12. — (A 3 ) —The hold up and robbery by masked men of the Campbell Drug Store, and the Five Points Case here last night were today being investigated by police. About SIOO was taken from the drug store, and $125 from the case, it was reported. The men, two at the drug otore, and three at the case, after entering the establishments and taking the money at the point of a pistdl, es caped in automobiles. Officers believed the two robberies were the work of the same persons. One man was said to have remained outside while the drug store was robbed. REMUS LOSES BEOFRE STATE SUPREME COURT Court Refused to Grant Writ of Mandamus Asked by Man Being Tried For His IJfe. Columbus, 0., Dec. 12.—( A J)—lndi cating that relief he sought mitst come through error proceedings or by injunction in the common pleas court of Cincinnati, the State Supreme Court today refused to grant the writ of mandamus asked today by George Remus, on trial in Cincinnati for slaying his wife. Remus’ petition which asked that Prosecutor Charles P. Taft, 11., and Assistant Prosecutors Basler, Sib bald and Chippinger “be restrained from further unlawful and unethical intimidation and coercion” of witness es testifying for the-defense, was de clared by the eourt to be too gen eral. U. N. C. Expert To Tell Os State’s Problems. Chapel Hill, Dec. 12.—1)r Clarence Heer, taxation expert, and member of the University faculty, will address the North Carolina Club at its regu lar fortnightly meeting Monday night. He will speak in Saunders Hall at 7:30 o’clock and his subject will be "The Application of Ability Theory in the Distribution of Government Functions." Before coming to the University this fall. Dr. Heer was for two years a member of a Virginia tax commis sion. While a member of this com mission he made a rather exhaustive study of the taxation of railways and public utilities in the Old Dominion. At present he is employing a large portion of his time, apart from his work with the University, in making studies of the tax situation in North Carolina for Governor McLean and the state fiscal authorities. Soldiers Occu, | House And Refuse S'l ins The Right To Gainer There • . PAIL GREEN AUTHOR OF THREE NEW BOOKS :i One To . Contain 25 Short. Stories Anil Two To Be Composed Os Plays—Will Be Out Soon. Chapel Hill. Deo. 12.—Three vol umes by Paul Green. University pro fessor and author and plnyright, will he published shortly. Professor Green has been on leave of absence for the fall quarter, and has been working steadily on a of short stories and on two volumes of plays. | "Little Bethel Tales." containing some 25 short stories based on life Jan the author has observed it in | eastern North Carolina, is now in j the hands of the publisher. Robert Mcßride, of New York, and will be out soon. * One of the two volumes of plays will contain 12 one-act pieces and is entitled "In the Valley.”. It is be ing published by Samuel French, of New York, and is promised by De cember 15. The other volume, to be published early in the spring, will contain <hree long and two short plays. "The Connellys" and "Chil dren of Disobedience" are titles of two of the plays. THE COTTON MARKET. (Opened Easy Today at Decline of 12 U. 17 Points Under Renewed Liqui dation ami Selling. New York, Dec. 12. —(A 3 ) —The cot ton market opened easy at a decline of 12 to 17 points under renewed liq uidation combined with local and i southern selling, evidently influenced j by talk of probable domestic mill cur i tailment, and relatively weak Liver- I pool cables, accompanied by unfavor ! able reports from Manchester. ! Stop orders were uncovered as I prices broke below the previous points jof resistance, the decline extend-tig to ( 18.4(5 for January and 18.84 for May j before the end of the first hour, or about 30 to .*>3 points net lower. The market steadied slightly after tin* execution of stop orders on the j early decline, but except for a little j trade buying or covering, little de mand was in evidence, and prices weakened again later under renewed liquidation.- At midday January was selling around 18,45 and May a t 18.85, or 30 to 30 points net Tower. Some southern selling was reported here, hut offerings were attributed chifly to liqtfdatfon of old long ac counts. New Y'ork, Dec. 12.—Cotton fu tures opened easy. Oct. 18.71 : Jan. 18.00; March 18.82: May 10.01: July 10.00. SEEKING 22 MEMBERS OF DISABLED SHIP CREW Vessel Washed On Shoal In Great Italics and Broke In Two. Sault Ste. Marie. Mich.. Dec. 12 — (>P) —After 43 men had been rescued from two vessels wrecked in the Great Lakes, coast guardsmen today were seeking 22 members of the crew of the steamer Lambton that crashed on a shoal near here and broke in two The bulk, buckled amidships and completely sheeted with ice, was dis covered yesterday by the tug Gen eral, while en route to Detour with members of the crew of the steamer Agawa. which had been rescued from the wreck of the latter vessel oft Keweenaw Point, Mich. Unable to reach the Lambton be cause of dense ice formations, the General called the tugs lillinois and Sabin from here. the stock market. Reported by Fenner & Beane. (Quotations at 1:30 p. m.) Atchison 103 Va American Can 70 Allied Chemical 140% American Smelting 172% American T. & T. 170% Atlantic Coast Line 103% Baltimore & Ohio Bethlehem Steel 53% Chesapeake & Ohio 204% Chrysler 50% Corn Products’ *>s New York Central 162% Dupont 314 Erie 61% Fleishman 68% St. Louis-Francis. R. 11. 167% i General Electric 135% Gold Dust 77% General Motors 12K General Railway Signal 121% j Houston Oil 150% Hudson Motors 72% I Mo.-Kans. & Texas 42% j Kennecott Copper 81% | Liggett & Myers 122% ' Lorillard 41% I Mack Truck 110% Mo.-Pacific, Pfil. 113 i Montgomery-Ward 113% 'Nash Motors 00 { Packard Motors 58% I Phillips Pete. 42% | Producers and Refiners 20 , 1 Reading Railroad 107 . "B" Rey. Tob. Com. 157% ! Rock Island Railroad 108% i Sears Roebuck 80 'Southern Railway 140% Stand. Oil of N. J. 30% ’ Southern Pacific Railroad 124% Sou. Dairies, Pfd. 23% Studebaker Corp. 50 Tobacco Prodc. 112 ' Union Carbine 147% ■) Wabash Railroad 06% k ! Westinghouse Elec Co. 01% » West. Mrvd. R. It. 62 Yellow Cab and Truck 32% i Woolworth 192% I C. S. Steel 145 » Coca-Cola 126 $2.00 a Y trictly in Advance When Members Os The Oklahoma General As sembly Met They Were Faced By Troops. DETERMINED TO HOLD MEETINGS Leaders Say They Will Hold Meeting In Streets —Senate Ready To Act If It Is Necessary. Oklahoma City. Dec. 12. — (A 3 ) — Barred by national guardsmen from convening in their chamber at the state capital, members of the Okla homa House of Representatives were called upon today by Speaker E. P. Hill to meet in the streets of < >kla hoina City to receive impeachment charges against Governor Henry S. Johnston. After being held at bay for more than a half hour by the SO armed guardsmen who occupied the floor containing the legislative chamber, the legislators congregated about a roped enclosure on that floor. Speaker Hill and newspaper men were permitted to enter the enclosure. The speaker explained that session leaders had been unsuccessful in their efforts to persuade Adjutant General Charles P. Barrett to permit the meeting in the legislative chamber, and that the session would he held in the street. The group immdiatel.v dispersed. The legislators did not leave the capitol in a body, hut in small groups and singly. "The house will meet right here in Oklahoma City, the sear of the gov ernment." If. Tom Knight, chairman of the Homy* investigatin' commit tee told newspaper men. * Watch us for the next 12 hours.” "Will you take this matter to the Federal courts?" he was asked. “I should say not." A member of the senate said that hotly would not recognize the military guards, and would proceed to hold a session if tin* House succeeded in placing charges before it. Warren I\. Snyder, attorney for the governor, was called ’ jutant General's office for a confer ence, probably on Wluit action would be taken regarding the proposal to meet in "the streets of Oklahoma City," and what action should he taken should the senate court of im peachment order tin- military com mander to withdraw frhe guards. NEWSOME NOW HELD IN PRISON DEATH ROW Imitates There Believe Negro "Fak ing” With His Insanity Tactics. Raleigh, Dec. 12.— (A*) —In the same cell occupied by Hector Graham. Hoke county negro, who was electro cuted last Friday. Larry Newsome. Wayne county negro sentenced Sun day to die in the electric chair Tor the murder of a 15-year old white girl, lay on his cot today with his face buried in a blanket, and su’d he didn’t know why lie had been placed behind the bars. Newsome, 23 years old. has the men tality of a child of ten. Dr. W. t Linville. superintendent of the State Hospital for Negro Insane, said. In the word* of Will Taylor. Gaston county negro, who is condemned to die for tirst degree burglary, but who has appealed to the “Supreme Court, Newsome is "hoping to rule on the bug house train." a term Taylor used to explain that Newsome is "puttbig on in acting like he is crazy." In the opinion of Otto Wood. North Carolina’s most notorious prisoner, who is an inmate of death row as a result of escaping, and other occu pants of that sombre colony of men awaiting death, Nesqme is "just faking." WORLD WAR VETERAN CLAIMED SUDDENLY Walter Ashby Drops Dead At Filling Station In Albemarle While Hav ing Gas Put In Car. Albemarle, Dec. 10. —Walter Ash by. 32 years of ageptnd a world war veteran, dropped dead hen* this morn" ing at 10:30 o'clock while having gas placed in his car at a 'oca, filling station. While the ga* wa* being pur in the car. Ashby steppes! out U]s*n the ground and suddenly fell to his knees and was heard to say. "Lord have mercy.” Before he could lie reached, he was dead. Ashby was gassed while m active service during the Word War and had never recovered from the effects of this injury. Beside* hi* wife h«* is survived by several distant rela tives. Senate Also llonurs Lindbergh Washington. Dec. 12— UP) —Senate today followed action of the House in unanimously voting the Congressional medal of honor to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Mrs. Ceolidge’s Mother 111. Northampton, Mass.. Dec. 11.— Mrs. Elmira Goodhue, mother of Mr«. Grace Goodhue Coolidge. wife of the President, was removed from her home to the Dickenson hospital today, suffering from a severe attack of in fluenza. To dry-dock an ocean liner and clean it up takes about a week and costs anything up to $75,000. The operation is carried out twice a year. DfPLQIACY MAY BE. j NECESSARY TO SET ] OUESTIDNS OF LAW ! __ Hearst Charges That Cal les Offered Money To U. S. Senators Bring? Up Delicate Questjpjh' .| WANT MEXICAN AS WITNESS He May Claim That Con sular Officers Are Im mune From Subpoenas And Refuse To Testify. Washington. Dec. 12.— (A>) —Tun- neling for facts in its investigation of charges that President Calles. of Mexico, sought to pay $1.200, (Kg) to j four American senators, the special senate committee has unearthed a problem that may require diplomatic settlement. It lies in the committee's sub poena issued for Arturo M. Elias. Mexican consul-general in New York, half brother of the Mexican presi dent. and alleged to bo the central figure in handling of the million dol lar fund. Similar subpoenas demanding .their j testimony before the committee h(ive been issued for Win, Randolph Hearst. publisher of the papers ptinf ing the charges against Calles, and Victor Watson, managing editor of the York Daily .Mirror. The committee's right to summon Elias is questioned by the Mexican, j ambassador here, who maintains tljfat where international law is involved, consular officers are immune from > subpoenas. He doubts that Elias would come to Washington to testify, while the senate committee Jed by Chairman Reed, republican, Pennsyl vania, insists upon its right to sum mon Elias and demand his testimony. Whether the committee plan of ac tion definitely will lead the Elias problem to the State department for discussion with the Mexican govern- J meiit has not been revealed by cotU mittee members. State department has kept clear of the embryo contro versy thus far. although a disposition , J was noticeable to agree with the Mex- J -Jean ambassador’s viewpoint. SELF-HELP STUDENTS GIVEN REASSURANCE University Says That No Student Need Fail To Return After Christ mas Because Os Lack Os Fonda. * Chapel Hill. N. C.. Dec. 12—No etudent will lie justified in failing to return to the University of North Carolina after Christmas because of lack of funds, according to those in charge of self-help work here. Harry F. Coiner, chairman of the University’s Self-Help Bureau and Grady 11. Leonard, executive secre tary of the Bureau, have just mailed y a letter to all students who have in dicated an intercut in supplementing their funds by means of- self-help work, urging them to call at the bureau’s office in the Y. M. C. j building and talk over their financial difficulties. In the letter th<* 'guarantee that was issued in September of this year, that “if the lack of funds is the only reason for which a student may dtxtp out he will la* right in the graduating line at the end of his fourth year,, was reiterated. "The Self-Help Bureau is better equipp<*d than ever to help you work out the tinance problem, aqd we do not believe there is a case too hard for solution." the letter said. "The Bu reau has influence with all sources of employment, with the many loan, funds, and with all of your local creditors. It has a staff whose first duty to assist you at all time/*." In past years the vast majority or i students who have dropped out <*f cotAi lege before finishing up their coursed m gave for their reason “the lack of funds." The Self-Help Bureau, cop* | ducted at the State University us « j part of the Y. M. C. A.V program, has y set itself about the task of completely eliminating this class of men. No student has left the University * for financial reasons this year, so far av the Self-Help Bureau knows. 4 Sentimental Bad Man Is Captured. New York. IW. ltt. —A reputed ■% robber who became *o enamored of hi* victim that Ito "dated her up** was in jail today because the. young woman invited a detective to make a third at the reunion. Rose Roberts, of Riverside Drive, told police she was held lip in the street and robbed of a ring and #5 bv Frank Vrasso. who aim* demahded and received her telephone ntuuner. Later In* phoned her :iiml sought per mission to call, this meeting U> he •-*'l rather than financial. ;i-* R/bcrh*' assured Visttso he '■;tt\ received and then aeked po -lin i ' *'o*9 y ;he reception c*Hi»mie- U'izzo acknowledged! the truth oj* * 1 . Jlobert*' st<*ry and was hdd for •mthi ati on. ai lt of women are so thin there** - o the \ .. „„ldcr flier snap. at . probably occasional laift | |to Tuesday. NO. 46
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