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VOLUME LII CONGRESS TO FACE ITS HARDEST WORK ! JETER THE RECESS. It Has Done Some Work But This Is Small In Comparison With What Remains To Be Finished HOUSE BUSY SO FAR IN SESSION Most Os Bills Ready For Action Have Developed In Lower House-Impor | taut Hills Pending. \y , ;-lull. 1 >CC. 2*2. (A 3 ) If the | h Congress is swilled with i its legislative ucroinpFsh iring i li<‘ few *la\ v of its ox ii had don a puncture I |i, frw hills launched down the ! i,:it lead toward tlx 1 President'* ; of thrm by tlx- industrious jl„ u .. .-.nd now impounded in tlx* Senate, are as nothing, i,| with tix.se remaining and Jrtiijrtfiiug attention. I . ~p. iiing days after the New \,.;i! |,minise tu he busy ones with lilitie> of both branches going at . M ,eed. Here ate some of the whose doing what about •i,mi. and when : ’ Mn-ele Shoals— House military Ainiii it tee hearings soon after .lan -4:ll' v Itll. !• | Control —Public hearings to v . iiitimied after recess by House n'tllll: it tee. |;, ,iider Canyon Ham House irri* , .ii committee jjanunry Sth; Son :;i, irrigation eommittee .January 17. Ha I road < ’msolidatinn —II o u s e (I ,i:a,iittee hearings continued when f.’.v-s (Mills. Administration's $715,000,000 nav -5; construct ion program—no date set h House naval committee.' Smith-Vare Contest —Special Sen ;’i> campaign funds committee to take Smith ease .1 unitary 7th. No date - I'm- \ are case. M.-xieaii Slush Fund—Special Sen* o l unmiMtee to continue sitting eith *■ during or after recess. Added tu these are many others of. ii or les*s importance to be taken and ’ acted upon by the Congress the Christmas holidays. Hear Killed Near Chimney Rook. Uutherfordton. Dec. 2*2. — (IN'S) — A grimly bear weighing all of ,‘127 (winds lias just been raptured and killed on Young's Mountain, six miles i ;rt (least of Chimney ijtock. After a long chase by a party of kilters up and down the mountaiti bruin was hayed. The dogs L;:tiiy overpowered the huge animal. IT was skinned and the meat divid 'd among the hunters. It was said that t was the largest hr ever filled in this, section of the •"nittry. Nr*. Snyder and Gray Sane, Board of Alienists Holds. Albany,. N. Y„ Dee. 21.—Iiuth j Nader and Henry .Judd Gray are ane, in the opinion of a board of liieiiistu who have examined the pair, Cmvieteil of tin* killing of Albert %di r. the woman’s liusband. A re »rt mi their sanity has been made to W-.rinr Smith, it was learned to- Bight . Their single remaining chance '('si-aping the elect ric chair to which titty were sentenced is through excel!- j tve clemency.' i IUK STOC K .MARKET. lit ported by Fenner & Beane. iQimtut'ons at 1 :30 p. in.) Atihivon 194% Anuriean Can 75-% •Vllied Chemieal 154% , Amrriean Smelting 185% •Aiiii>jEwnn T. & T. __| 179 | Atlantic Coast Line 180 Usltiinore & Ohio 117% Nlilehein Stmd 58% A’iu-ysler . ' til % ( '"rii I'roducts __ 60% W A irk Central 104 j - 322 Eh , i>i,i, t ,|“ 07% ■uis-Francis. Ry. 108% t.,' Fleetr'c 131 7 /s I ‘"'hi ! Mist 1 75 ■j-'iTa! Motors 133% | "g- K.iilwav Signal 118% "Mon Oil’ 161% | -Hu.i-. tU _ Motors 80% j JMva.ts. & Texas 41% , ;, tt Copper 87% t &i Mvers 122% ''ii atd I_l 38% Truck 106% •'i" i'mitk. l*fd. 113% wait gomerv-Ward 120% Motors 98% “'i u’d Motors _• 58% •'A ‘Vrtnia Railroad 64% - Pete. 41% •'M’s and Refiners 26% Railroad 106% . ’ R. y Tob. Com. 157% Island Rv. 108% Roebuck 90% Railway 145% <h! of X. J. 39% 'HI Paeitie Rv. 124 t Pa ries. Pfd. 27% •fudehaker Corp. 59% Prodc. 4 114% 1 ’at hide ' 147% s Fhcinical i 59% 'V'■ Cab and Truck 34 %i«lus,rt|, 150% • s '>" 1 149% -u. 130% THE CONCORD TIMES JA B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher Fate of State Fair Is More Uncertain Now Than Before The Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel By .1. C. BASKERYII.L Raleigh. Dec. 22. —The question of j a State Fair in tlx 1 fall of 1928 has been thrown back into the limbo of j still deeper uncertainty as a result |of the ruling by the State Supreme : Court in its last hatch of opinhms this year, that road argument on the te*t case with regard to the validity ;of the bond issue by the .City of Raleigh, whereby 875.000 was to he i donated to the State by city for use in establishing a State Vair, must .be presented when the court re-eon* ! venes : n February. The case Imd been appealed under Rule 10. calling for its submission on briefs, without oral argument, and an opinion had been hoped for this term. But now. since the eourt has called j for oral argument — -and that not unti February—it will probably he .March I or April before an opinion on the val ! idily of the bond ; ssue will be forth | coming. If the bond issue is not held valid, there will of course be no State lAtir. And even if it i upheld, there will hardly be time i> which to erect buddings, prepare th grounds and attend to tlx 1 hundreds of details which will have to be at tended to if a State Fair is to b< held next fall. Raleigh, o cfourxe. is trying t< avoid talking about' the matter at all now, since it is a very sore ques t on here. But those who have foj ’owed the situation earefull.v. and whi have approved of the action whirl Governor McLean has taken in th< matter, are smiling rather broadly a RFLFS KI DWELL CHARGE Ml ST BE CLEARED UP i bis Is Next Step in Contempt Hear ing, Justice Siddons Rules Washington, Dec. 22. — (A 3 )—After counsel in the case had agreed to combine the contempt and intimida tion charges in the oil jury tampering ease. .1 ust ice Siddons today decided that first the government must clear up the accusation that it had intimi dated witnesses during the hearing. Defense counsel on suggestion of Justice Siddons. conferred overnight, and agreed that the two> issues be combined but after argument in court today. Justice Siddons ruled that al though the contempt charges remain ed before the court, the statement o’’ Edward J. Kidwell that he had been mode to sign an affidavit containing untruths, must be disposed of*. The attorneys representing Harry F. Sinclair and Win. J. Burns, and others, who are under charges grow ing out of the shadowing of tlx* haP Sinclair oil jury, of which KidweP was a mcmlter. promised to produce a number of witnesses. THE STOCK MARKET. Price* Moved Irregularly Higher at Opening of Market Today. New York. Dec. 22.—’(/P)—Stock prices moved irregularly higher at th 1 opening of today's market. A bloc ■ of 5.000 shares of International Nick el changed hands at 82%, a new high record. American Sugar opened 2 {prints higher, and American SteC ! Foundries was up 1%. New York, j Ontario and Western had in'tial dc j dines of 1%. Old Christmas Customs London. Deo., 21.—Christmas cus toms that have been handed down for hundreds of years are still observe' in many of the rural districts o f England. Collecting money so Christmas cheer on St. Thomas' day which is today, is still practiced b j women and boys in some parts of tlx j country. They leave a sprig of holly | with each donor. In Devonshire and Sussex the ol j custom of blessing the apple trees at ! Christmas is still maintained. One j tree is chosen to represent the or chard. It is then sprinkled with c der. or a bowl .of liquor is dashed against it. The incantation which follows usually runs: “God bless thi. ; tree to the master. May it flourish and bring forth abundantly enough to fill a hat, to fill a basket, to fill* a cart, to fill a wagon.” Liner Majestic Sets Record With 17.- 661 Sacks of Mail. ; Washington. Dec. 21. —The S. S. ! Majestic today bore the distinction yl ' having carried the largest consign ment of mail ever received in any port from a single veseoT. \Y. Irviilg Glover, second assistant ' postmaster general who went to New York to superintend the unloading on the arrival of the ship last night. ! ported to Postmaster General New | that 17.661 sack* of mail were re ceived. It required nearly 12 hours. 165 men, one boat and four barges to transfer the mail'to the postoffice. There were fifteen truck loads of let ters in 4.206 sacks. Man Married Ills Aunt And l>idn’t Know It ■Greensboro, IVc. —1. —A peculiar ! divorce suit is that of Luther Miles, jof Greensboro, against Mary Miles, j whom he married in Danville, claim i in* she is the half-sister of his father and under the law that amounts to ! the fact that he married his aunt. ! Union with one closer than first 1 cousin is forbidden, he says. He mar i ried in ignorance of his relationship. Women Golfers Go to Asheville. Asheville, Dec. 22.—(INS) —The ! annual Carolinas women’s golf tour i nament will be played over the Bilt j more Forest Country Club course here I next May, according to an announee ‘ rnent today. The exact dates of the ! tournament are •to be decided latei. | the turn matters have taken, though they are regretful that the Stale Fair question tdiould continue trt remain tied iqi as it is. But that the situation is paradox ical cannot be denied. For in Sep tember. a certain cilque in Raleigh startivl a systematic campaign to force the governor to name the S.nte Fair board, claiming that further de lay might endanger the entire, fn’r. The clamor continued insistently throughout September pad October. Finally, toward tlx* latter part of Oc tober, the governor announced tlfa he was ready to name the now board as soon as the $125,000 which the old Agricultural Society had agreed to, pay over, and the $75,000 from the [ Raleigh bond issue, had been paid I over to the State treasurer, accord ing to the law. Both the officers of the Agricultural SocVty and of ticials of the ('it.v of Raleigh were surprised that this money had to he paid over in cash, none of them ap parently having read the law care fully enough to realize that this wa; necessary. And now this case has gone over until the February term of the Su preme Court for oral argument—with a final op’nion in the offing some time during the spring. Yet. the Raleigh bond issue was • voted on by the citizens of Raleigh in July, 1927. and a test .suit could inve been brought any time * after that. Yet it was not filed until the last of November. . But in September Raleigh was ac-1 •using the governor of delaying the j Mate Fair, and endangering its es-' ablishment! ' ASHMORE TO TAKE NINE MEN ON SOUTHERN TRIP Tar Heel Cagers Practice At Chapel Hill For Holiday Trip. Chapel Hill. V. C.. Dec. 22- Twelve members of the University of North Carolina basketball squad will remain here until the latter part of this week for daily practice in preparation for the games with Char otto Monograms and Tulane on the holiday trip for New Orleans. Regular quarterly examinations j have broken into the team’s train ing during the past .veek, and this holiday work will t> ■ necessary to put the Tar Heels in shape for the . -ompet it ion they will i meet. Examinations were over Tuesday, and beginning yesterday afternoon.. Conch Jim Ashmore will put his •burgers through stiff workouts oae't day. Tiro Carolina tossers have nl "ead.v taken two practice games into \‘imp. defeating the Durham All-. Stars 49 to 5 and Salisbury “Y” 45 j •o 12. but there were a number of imperfections uncovered in these tilts that will hare to be remedied before they t a*ke on the C-liarlotto Monograms in the first game of the N( uithern jaunt. , The Monograms will be met at the Queen City on Tuesday, December 27, and immediately after that game rhe University squad will leave for New Orleans to meet Tulane's big j green team on Thursday, Friday and •Saturday nights of that week. Three hive games with Tulane mark the first clash with the Green Wave since they met Captain Jack Cobb and his Tar Heels in the finals of the South ern Conference Toiirimmnt in Atlanta Mi 1925. Carolina won that game 31 to 26 after it great last quarter come back. Coach Ashmore will take nine men on the, long trip southward, and the men making the trip will be chosen from the dozen remaining here for holiday practice. Those men asked •o stay over are Hackney, Price, Yans tory. Satterfield, Perkins, and Cathey, forwards; Purser and Harper, cott ers; and Captain Morris, Brown. Y\ i ey and Smith, guards. Big Bill Dod derer. former All-Southern forward and center and captain of the South ern Champion Tar Heels of 1920, will join the team in New Orleans for the Tulane games. Old and New Friends in the Toyshop New York, Dec. 21. —Every year toys grow* more wonderful — so much so that it is now only the most strong-minded of fathers who lets his children have first chance with their own presents on Christmas day. Some modern toy's, indeed, seem to | have been made for grown-ups rath r j thau for the kiddies —they are so | complicated and elaborate. But the toymaker of today kno s what he is doing. The parent who shakes his head over one of the new model trains —“they demand too much technical knowledge; more than I’ve got”—has no need to hesitate. Let him take the model, home —on Christmas morning his eleven-year old sou will show him how it works. Toy (soldiers have been kept in the background lately. Some grown-ups have been inclined to frown on them as encountering “militarism.” But the children whose stockings contain a “regiment” or two and a model gun will have no scruples about staging a new war on the nursery floor. I’. S. Rhodes Sc 1 tolars Superior to Britishers in Athletic Sports. (By International News Service) Loudon, Dec. 22.—An athletic su periority of United States Rhodes scholars over those of the British Empire might be inferred from the general statement issued by the Rhodes trust for the academic year 1026-27. Ninety-three Empire Rhodes schol ars and ninety-four American Rhodes scholars were in residence during the year. Os thirty-two who represent •*d tlx ford University in sport against Cambridge, nineteen were Americans. CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY DECEMBER 22, 1927 BUSINESS BLOCK IN. MONROE DAMAGED BY EIRE THIS MORNING I . Drug Store, Hardware Store And Newspaper Plant Destroyed By Ear ly Morning Fire. LOSS WILL REACH i ABOUT $200,000 Aid Os Fire Apparatus Os Charlotte Was Called To Aid In Fighting The Flames. ! Monroe. Dee. 22 — (/P) —Fire break- j ing out in the early morning hours j ' swept a main business block here i I today, destroying, a hardware store, newspaper plant and a drug store, with damage estimated at between $200,000 and $250,000. before it was I brought under control at 7 :30 a. m. The aid of fire fighting apparatus from Charlotte, 30 miles away, was called to fight the flames. A lire truck from Marshville. a nearby town , was also on hand. The combined ef | forts of these, with the local depart j ment. after a bitter early morning j I fight brought the blaze under con- j j trol about four hours after it was do- • • teeted in the office of the Monroe ! Hardware Company. The fire quickly spread from the hardware store to the plant of the -Monroe Enquirer, and Union Drug Store, in spite of the efforts of the local firemen to check it. The news pnj»er plant and the two stores with their heavy holiday stocks were com- j pletely destroyed, owners said, before the flames were extinguished. Neigh boring businesses were threatened, and the stock of T. P. Dillon & Sons t furniture store, damaged by water. j The loss was ‘partly covered by in- I ! surnnee. the exact amount which was , j not learned. Members of the fire de partment said they estimated the loss would mount well above $200,000, possibly to $250,000. The firemen today were without a theory as to the possible origin of the fire. SIGNED STATEMENT i WITHOUT READING IT j Tliis Is I>o/eiise nf Bank OfiiekJs j Now Ou Trial at Wllkesboro j ! Wilkes boro. Dee. 21.—C4>) —Asser- i it ions that they had done very little j active work* ill connection with (he i Bank of Wilkes, and admission that • they had signed a statement of con- j dition of the bank, alleged to have] been fraudulent, without read it, sea- j Hired the testimony in Superior court j here today of A. G. Mendren, W. B. • Somers and W. IT. Foster, on trial on - charges growing out of the failure of the bank. The defense rested after j hearing them. The defense examination of Ilon dren was short, but the state went into the situation surrounding sign ing of the statement a year ago thoroughly. Hendreu said he had i faith iu_Clem Wrenn, president of the j defunct institution, who yesterday j took on his own shoulders on the i witness stand till the blame for the situation. Wrenn already had plead ed guilty to ti variety of charges. Somers, the second defense witness of the day, said he signed the state ment without reading it. lie added that he had deposited $l,lOO in ihe bank the day before it was closed, and that his child had nearly S2OO in the bank. . Gross examination was ended after Somers admitted signing the statements. With Our Advertisers Cline & Moose has a big supply of Christmas ami holiday goods and the prices are unusually low. Cakes, I nuts and fruits for the holiday sen- son. Don't fail to read new ad. in this paper. The Gray Shop has many gifts “she” will admire. Coats. dresses and hats at prices lower than usual in addition to shawls, scarfs, sweat ers, lingerie, jewelry and other gifts. Coats and dresses greatly reduced in the filial reductions on all winter apparel at Belk’s. Bloomers, teddies and vests only 98 cents while attrac tive hosiery is being offered at the same price. The coats and dresses sell from $2.95 to $24.50. all new de signs and materials. Read half page ad. in this paper for particulars. Slippers make a Christinas gift of comfort and utility and the J. C. Penney Co. has a complete line of them. They range in price from 79 cents to $1.79. I Every boy wants an Iver Johnson bicycle. You can find just what you I want for him at the Ritchie ITard | ware Co. j Save on shoe* and lied room slippers ' by seeing the largo stock at the G. A. | Moser Shoe Store. Shoes for the j whole • family at prices much lower than usual. Mrs. Lindbergh Reaches Tampico Mexico City, Dec. 22. — UP) —The ! Western Union Cable Company re ' ceived a dispatch from Tampico shortly after It o’clock, Central Stan dard Time, saying that the plane of Mr*. Evangeline Lindbergh was just passing over Tampico. A few min- I utes later the cable company an ! nouneed a message saving that the plane had landed. Miss Davie* McMurrnr, of Lntta, S. 15, is spending the Christina ; holi days with Mrs. J. A. Kennett. TRIBUNE AND TIMES TO HAVE HOLIDAYS There will up no issue of Thl 1 Daily Tribune on Saturday atpd Monday, following the usual cus tom of allowing two days for rest til this season of tlx 1 year for two employes. There will he no issue of The Concord Times on Monday. | Ministers of the city who wish | to insert Church notice* for Sun- 1 day are advised that they must be brought to th : s office early tomor- j row morning so they can be pub- j ished in tomorrow's Tribune. ! ! CHRISTMAS IN BETHLEHEM Many Pilgrims Now Go To Holy I .and for Yulotide Season. j London, Der. 22. —How will Christinas be celebrated in Bethlehem this year? Since the war brought an end to Turkish tyranny many pil grims have gone to the Holy Land from the various countries of Europe jto spend the Christinas season and this year it is expected that a record 1 number of visitors will be on hand to I witness the impressive and elaborate j religious ceremonies in commeiuorn | tion of the birth of Christ. The Christmas festivities and cere monies in Bethlehem last for the best part of a month. In the town there are three chief sects, the Latins, who celebrate Christmas on December 25; the Greeks, who hold it thirteen days later; and the Armenians, who have their Christmas feast *n fortnight lat er still. The services are all held in the i church of the nativity, probably the j oldest and most remarkable Christian I church in the world. It is really a 1 number of churches and monasteries under one roof. The Holy of Holies of the church is the Grotto, or Man ger, a small underground chamber j below the main floor of the church. I This is believed to be the actual site of the stable where the Savior was born. It contains a beautiful altar, and many scores of elaborate lamps and linterns, fifteen of which have continually been alight for many hundreds of years. The actual eeremony on Christmas day is as follows: A procession is j formed in the market place of Beth lehem headed by the patriarchs and j priests dressed in gorgeous robes. The procession marches to the church, and there holds rhe lengthy service, con sisting of the chanting and reading of every scripture that has the the slightest reference to . the birth of Christ. Jn addition there are many ' collects, prayers and litanies. The service is extremely elaborate. I with beautiful music and burning of i incense. It is brought to an end by i the laying of a beautiful wax doll in Li gilded wicker buskeet ill the Grotto, j where it remains for twelve days. I Afterward ii is sold for an immense j sum to sonic Catholic church in Ku j rope. ' PF,F. DEE BRIDGE STRUCK BY BOMB Direct Hit Tore Holes in the | Concrete and Others Dam aged Bridge Approaches. Albemarle, Dec. 22.-- (A 3 )—A verit able rain of high explosives was turn ed loose on the Swift Island bridge, j rendered useless* for public highway | purposes by a power development, by I the United States army aviators J when they resumed their bombing : practice today. Twenty-three slieiis weighing 30 > 1 pounds each, and each containing 150 i pounds of high explosives, were drop ped at the ribbon-like structure from an altitude of 6,000 feet on the first 1 flight this morning. One of ihe 'bombs struck the bridge squarely. 1 blowing out great chunks of eoncret * and steel, and a dozen others atruo.t j one of the approaches creating as ; many craters. j The direct hit was scored by Lieui. 1 David L. Dehneke, a reserve officer ‘ attached to the Langley field forces, from an airplane, piloted by Lieut. 1 Harold Wheaton of the regular army. Manteo Linked With Outside World Manteo, Roanoke Island, N. 0., Dec., 21.—(INS)—This picturesque little island off the North ( arolina coast —“the Genesis of civilization in America”* —at last has been linked ' with the “outside world.” | The four mile causeway and bridge connecting Roanoke Island with th' 1 ! mainland one mile below Nags Head * lias been completed and for the first it is now possible to drive an auto mobile from the mainland to the Dare county capital without recourse to a ferry. ; The project cost $390,000. Manteo is noted for the annual celebration of the birthday of A irgin ia Dare, the first child of English parentage so be born in America, and who vanished with the remainder of 1 the members of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1 ill-fated "Lost Colony.” 1 Each year a celebration is held, 1 commemorating the first white child * 5 birth, and attracts a crowd from all * parts of the country. i * Kansas City Man Claims World Walking Reconi. i (By International New* Service) I Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 22. —Ed- -1 round P. Knauer, an employee of u * local department store, believes be ) holds a record for indoor walking. * In hi* twenty-three years of employ- E ment. Knauer has carried a pedo t meter wjth h : ua constantly, and fig - ures he has walked about 225.000 - miles, or approximately nine times around the earth. Other computations reveal, Knauer 1 said, that he had in the same time . ' directed more than 10,000.000 eus - tomer and had autographed over 2.- 395.000 articles of merchandise. Hunt For Hickman Now Centered T Seattle; Watch Can;, ianßorder ** |CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WILL BE REMEMBERED i Be No of Christmas Cheer at Soldiers Home In Raleigh « The Tribune Bureau, Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Dec. 22. —There will be no lack of Christmas eheer for the old Confederate soldiers, in the horn** maintained for them here by the State, nor for the wives of Confed erate veterans, in their home at Fay etteville, according to Colonel Fred A. Olds, of the State Historical com mission, and who is chief assistant to Santa ,Claus in arranging a happy Christmas for the veterans ol the Sixties. Perhaps the greatest credit should go t(* the United Daughters of the Confederacy in all sections of the state, who see to it that no old sol dier or widow of an old soldier shall be forgotten at Christmas time. In this joyful work of bringing good cheer and happiness to the old sol diers of the Confederacy, the U. D. C. has been assisted by the public, as many individuals independently have sent gifts to both homes. All week barrels of apples, crates of oranges and sacks of nuts have been coming in to these homes from thoughtful donors in all parts of the state. In addition, every chapter of the U. D. C. in the state have prepared boxes of gifts which they have sent to the various homes, so that everyone will be remembered with plenty of gifts. And the members of the U. I>. C. know well that the old soldiers tire especially partial to gifts of tobacco, candy, cake, fruit and other tooth some delicacies. At the Old Soldiers Home here in Raleigh, the Christmas trees will be set up, one in the hospital, in charge of the Children of the Confederecy of Manley’s Battery, “and the boys' auxiliary of the Johnson Pettigrew chapter, U. C. V., /while the second will be in the recreation hall, in charge of Ihe Girls’ Friendly Society and the Good Shepherd Church, Ral eigh. Colonel Fred Olds will as usual play the role of Santa Claus on Christmas morning, and assist in the 1 distribution of the gifts. The child ren will sing Christmas carols,‘and do their part to bring eheer to the hearts of the old veterans. At noon a sumptions Christmas dinipNC will he served to every one of the old sol diers. The observance of the day will be similar at the Confederate Wom en's home in Fayetteville. THE COTTON MARKET. Opened Steady Today at Unchanged Prices to Decline of 7 Points I. n der Liquidation. New York, - Dec. 22.— (A 3 )— The cot ton market opened steady today at unchanged prices to a decline of 7 points under liquidation of January, in anticipation <>f notices next month, and spiling of the later months which appeared to conic partly from the South. Trade buying and covering cheeked tlx- decline at 18.88 for January and 19.23 for May. however, and the mar ket soon rallied, prices showing net advances of 4 to 5 points at the end of tlx* first hour. Tlx* market showed continued firm ness later in the morning, flurry of covering by a few shorts sending De cember to 19.20 or 12 points net higher, and about 20 points above January. At this premium a few notices appeared, and the prices drop ped back, the last sale of December reported being at 18.96. or 0 point net lower. Cotton futures opened steady : Jan. 18.95; March 19.17; May 19.29: July 19.23; Oet. 18.70. TO SETTLE WAR CLAIMS. Alien Property Bill Passed By House; Vote 253 to 26. Washington, Dee. 20.—8 y a vote of 223 to 28 the house today passed the alien property bin providing for ultimate return of all German property seized during the war and settlement of all war claims held by American citizens against Germany. The house also adopted tin amend ment to the bill to prevent tiny pay ment to Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, notorious draft evader, now a fugitive in Germany, for property seized during ! the war. < 3t ** * _ I Bodies of Hardings Laid in Their Final Resting Place. Marion, <>., Dec. 21. —A military . salute rang out over Marion cemetery today a* the bodies of Warren G. Harding and his wife were lowered to their last place of rest within the half million dollar memorial erected in tribute to the nation’s 29th President. Only a small group of friends and relatives, in addition to a detachment of 10th infantry soldiers, witnessed the brief and unpretentious services which I concluded the ceremony of removing I the bodies from their temporary vault 'in Marion cemetery where they had lain three years. i W. Pleas Barber Passes Suddenly At Rowan Home. | Salisbury, Dec. 20.—W’. Pleas Bar ber, prominent citizen of Barber, • this county died suddenly this after j noon at 4:30. The wife and several children survive. Funeral arrangements had not been completed tonight but interment will he sometime Thursday at Christ church, Cleveland. $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance ■ f \ % . C - Os The S2O Bills £ ?h Father Os Dead & Paid To Kidnapper ; is Located In Seattle. DOUBLE EFFORT TO CATCH HIM All Along The Canadian Border Officials Will Keep Watch For Sight Os Hickman. (By The Associated Press) William Edward Hickman, accus'd kidnapper and killer of little Marian Parker, in Los Angeles, was huuteri today in Seattle after one of the *'2o bills which the girl’s father gave tlm abductor had been passed in a Seat tle haberdashery by a man believed to be the one wanted. Los Angeles police rested for the first time in four days as chief of detectives Herman Cline announced belief that Seattle officers had the real frail, and that "the search is near the end.” Twelve hours, however, after the Seattle haberdashery incident, the combined police forces <>f a dozen cities of the Pacific northwest had been unable to lay their hands on the suspect. His apparent escape front the city, despite the fact that the police were put on his frail a few minutes sifter he purchased some clothing stt flic store and slipped out into the night, left the searchers with hut one es- ( oecinlly important place to watch— i ' the ('anadian border. Immigration and customs officials along the border were given instruc tions to leave nothing undone in tin ir patrol of the inlerinttinnnl line. In Kansas City, Hickman's form er home, th“ resilience of I)r. Herbert L. Muntz, whose automobile, stolen some months ago, was used in deliver ing the mutilated body of Marian to her father, was guarded after .anony mous threats were made again the physician’s children. Muntz was un attie to identify niekpmWs -photo graph as the man who held him up and took the car. Col. (.’has. E. Edwards, described as Hickman's closest friend, broad cast an appeal fro pi Kansas City ask ing Hickman to communicate with him, and relieve tlm mind of the hunted mau’s distracted mother there. Scientific investigation in Ix>s An geles revealed that Marian was neith er choked nor given anaesthetics as first believed. The exact manner in which she was killed lias not been de termined. hut results show she may have suffered the agony of mutilation while in full possession of her senses. SO LONS ENJOINED BY DISTRICT CO CRT DEI REE Cannot Hold Special Session and Cannot Impeach Any State Officer. Oklahoma City. Dec. 21. — UP) — Members of the Oklahoma legislature were permanently enjoined today by he Oklahoma County District court from holding a sjieeial session. The court ruled that the self-con vened session of the legislature is il legal. that its mcniliers cannot meet, and that they cannot continue with ’tup* nchmenl proceedings against any state officer. The injunction also further prohibits further invest'ga tion of state officers. The permanent in.uiuetTon was is sued to Gov. Henry S. Johnson and his attorney Warren K. Synrier. who filed the suit as governor and tax payer, respectively. Noted Scholars To Meet Washington, D. Dec. 22. —The knowledge acquired by thousands of men of learning and science will be placed before the people next week, when 2,(400 celebrated scholar*, in cluding economists, historians, socio logists. statisticians and others gat ti er in Washington to take part in an nual meetings, lasting four days, of seventeen {earned societies of national scope. The assemblage will Is* held under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies and it is expected to he one of the largest and most representative gatherings of, noted scholars ever held in the I idl ed States. The program calls for discussions covering a wide range of subjects, from "History of the Ancient Medi terranean Peoples” to "Statistics of Crime.” Several hundred addresses and papers will be presented by men of wide reputation in their respective fields of science and learning. One of the notable teatures ot »h** gathering will he a dinner <4 his torians and political scientists, to he presided over by Dr. Herbert Put man, librarian of Congress. The speakers at this dinner will ' include Herbert Hoover, secretary of com merce; Governor Alliert C\ Ritchie, of Maryland; Owen D. Young, ar.ri Congressman A. J. Montague, of \ ir ginia. Schaefer Wins* Over Cochran New York, Dee. 21.—Jake S<-hae fer, 6f Chicago, son of the “old wiz ard" of the same name, tonight won the world’s 18.2 balk line billiard crown when he defeated the cham pion. Welker Cochran, in a 1..V1D point title match. 1.-VN) to TWO ARRESTED FOB ROBBERIES DURING EARLY HOURS TODAY John Ramsey And J. R Brinkley Arrested Ir Asheville For Robbing Restaurant Owners. i TAXICAB DRIVER [also being heli A |He Said Men Gave Hilt $75 As Hush Monej When They Used Hi? Taxi For Their Robbery Asheville. Dee. 22. — UP) —Fowl partners in the ownership of twt Asheville restaurants were held oj and robbed of S2SX early- today by two masked robbers lurking in a sforf doorway. After searching their vie rims the robbers ordered them to re turn to the bus'nesv district. tm( themselves spi*d away in a waiting taxicab. Three hours later John Ramsey, a former newspaper reporter, and J. R, Brinkley were arrested and charged with the robbery, - DarC Corn, the taxicab driver, was arrested as a witness. The sus pects were identified by Corn, wlm said they had given li : tn s7o as hush money. Ramsey and Brinkley wen* held to Superior' Court in hail <»f SIO.OCHI each, in police Court today, and Corn was put under bond of Xl.o(K) as si witness. FEEL CERTAIN MEN ON SI B ARE DEAD j - i Rescue Operations Go Forward With out Hone of Aid To Trapped Men. I’rnviiicejowii, Mass., Doe. 22. — -Rear A’dmiral Frank 11. Brumby in charge of the salvage operations at r the sunken submarine S-4- admitted at 11 o'clock today that there was no longer-hope that life existed on board the submarine. "I have not the slightest doubt that there is no life on the S-4.” Admiral Brumby said. The admiral said he was unable t<» announce when rescue operation)) would be suspended. "That is; up to the Navy depart ment in Washington,’’ lie said. "MV have been keeping Washington in formed. and action on suspension <**, operations must come J'i'Mtu then’. Admiral l’rmnhy's statement* was made 110 hours after the S-1 was sent lo the I’mltotu in collision' with the coast guard destroyer' Paulding, last Saturday. Thirteen hours had passed since air lines were attached to the listening tubes of the S-4. cod air forced into tire torpedo roo* n . Since rescue operations were re sumed yesterday after bciug held up for two days by gales, the oscillator* of the mine sweeper Faison, flagship of the salvage fleet, has sent signals at 10-minuie intervals to the S-4. Then’ lias lieeit no sound from lhe ship. DAVISON AT BRIDGE FOR AIRPLANE TESTS Arrived an Amphibian Plane Neat Ratlin During the Morning. Badin, N. <'.. Dee. 22.--</F)-- An amphibian plane ln*ar ng the Assis tant Secretary of War F. Trubo* I>a v isoii to the -scene of the Albe-J marie bridge bombing, landed here at II o'clock this morning. The landing was on the big la!<( owned by Andrew Mellon, s cretaiy of the treasury. Tin* lake ha;; a straightway of nine miles, and the water i- <SO feet deep. | (General Itowley, commandant Ol Fort Bragg, who will put on the big arCilery show Saturday when the bridge will Is* bombarded with bun range guns, met the secretary. Doing Man Freed of Charge of Assault < 'harlot te, Dec. 21.*—Mrs. Belle M’hite. of the Mount. Htrlly road sec tion of -Mecklenburg county. today refused in county recorder’s court. t« testify against George Williamsotij young man charged by Jv T. White husband of Mrs. M’hite with attempt ed criminal assault upon Mrs, M hit) I and Williamson was acquitted. J He was arrested yesterday ttpoil complaint of the husband but th« woman said there was m tiling im proper in the conduct j»f Williamson toward her. Eight “l inos” for South Atlantic. Durham. Doe. 22. — 11X V umpires have been signed by I re** dent William Br.tmham of the Sous It Atlantic League for the KtBB season. | Seven of the umps have been re* j served from last year’s list, wh'.n Ed Mahley was signed at the Dalln* baseball meeting. He worked in | the Three-1 league last real*. | Tl ,«■ i-oinid* te. list of umpires foil ‘lows: B. S. Mitchell. George M Ros~. F. M. Kroh. AHie Anderson. H ,J. McLaughlin. Pat Donahue. K. E Stringer and Ed Mahley. WEATHER] I1 . t Fair, continued cold tonight FHtj • day inerc,*s : ng cloudiness.. Moderate northwest and west winds. A NO. 49
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