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!'«£&»* • PRESS * • DISPATCHES « VOLUME XXIV Vanderlip Questioned About Statements He Made In Late Speech New York Man Admits He Had No Facts Whep He) Brought Name of Harding ' Into Oil Inquiry. THOUGHT DUTY TO BROADCAST RUMORS: Not Trying to Reflect on the Dead President, But Was Trying to Do What He Considers His Duty. (hr Anaocinted Prr«a.) Washington, Fob. 15. —Frank A. Van-’ deriip told the Senate oil committee today that lie bad 'no facts whatever to ga on when be recently brought the name of President Harding into oil scandal. Chairman Lcnroot began questioning of the New York banker ns to his speech on Tuesday night at Ossining iu which he discussed the oil scandal and said the circumstances of the newspaper's" sale should foe investigated. The witness said he stated emphatical ly in his speech that he knew nothing of the fnets in the case. lie said he pre faced his statements about the sale of the Marion Star by saying ‘There are rum ors emanating from Washington, becom ing current throughout tile I tilled State's deeply affecting the public mind." He said he considered it a “patriotic duty to bring the thing to the surface 1 '’ because it was "known iu every newsjiaper office l ." "Can you give this committee informa tion on the subject," Senator lam root persisted. “No, no legal information.” Vanelerlip answered. “I have heard some things about it in quarters which I respect. I've hen yel the price was $550,000 for it, with a consid eration of SIO,OOO a year to be paid to a contributing editor." Under questioning lie said he under stood that country newspapers were us ually valued on the basis of a 12 per cent, earning power. "1 have.heard the Marion Star earned around .$30,000 a ye*ar." lie continued, "with SOO,OOO in a particular year.” “That would justify a value of $360,- 000 for tiie paper?" Senator I/enroot asked. "Yes," Mr. Vandotlij) continued. "All the inference's were ip these rumors- that, Mb' muclTwirfr YhMwfcf: USt“I never said .unyboely connected with the oil business had paid any money in the transaction. I hoped that by bringing out the slander you gentlemen on this committee would get at the truth and clear the memory of President Harding." He regarded the rumors, he saiel, as akin to the "whispering campaign” that marked the last month of Harding campaign in 11120. "I had full basis for what 1 said.” he continued, “that these were current ru 'lllOlS."’ "You thought it your public duty to foroaelcast rumors which, if he>t true, were a reflection on the elead?" asked Senator Lcnroot. "1 thought i't my patriotic duty— “l thought it my patriotic duty to bring out the truth and thus scotch the riiiueirs," was the 1 reply. Mr. Vanderlip snid he was a lifelong frieuel of Mr. Ilarel ing and that his purpose l was to'elear his memory. Askeel why he did not come to the committee first Vnnderlip saiel he did not assume that the oil committee was inter ested in the sale of newspapers. The banker said he hhd heard rumors about the sale of the Star from many sources, but none of them who related to him claimed to know any facts. "I believe it is important that these rumors be stopped. There is a distinct difference between rumors and gossip. When you get these things in responsible quarters you’d better look out.’’ "You’d have this committee believe your only purpose was to clear Mr. Hard ing’s memory?’’ “It was.” Chairman Lenroot read another excerpt from the speech to the effect that the committee, hnd failed to press the Fall examination because the , ex-Secrctary might "peach" on other men. Mr. Vanderlip admitted that he had not known that Secretary Fall refused to testify claiming immnnit.v although that’ fact was published prominently in practically every newspaper in the coun try. Senator Adams, democrat, of Colorailq. took up the examination: "How many -people spoke to you con cerning these rumors about the Marion Star.” "Oh, possibly a dozen. Rumors were current in New . York and Washington. They were general. Rumors were more serious than gossip, mere tittle tattle," IMesseed for names, the witness answer ed. “I do not care to give names. There were many people. In no case did they profess to know facts." The committee could kill scandal, the WHAT SAT'S! BEAR SAYS. Fair tonight, colder In extreme west portion; Saturday, Increasing cloudiness and colder, probably followed by rain or snow in extreme west portion, .V. i.-' 1 j The Concord Daily Tribune *" ! CARTER "ABANDONS THE I TI’XOR TOMB TASK * * Discoverer Clones Fiiaroah’s Coffin When ihe Native Officials Deny Entry to‘ Women. Luxor, Jlgypt, Feb. ISr—Owing to 1 what he characterized as the “diseour- j , tesy" of the Egyptian Public Wofiks | j Department. Howard Carter, head of the exenvntion work, closed Tutankhamen’s tomb today and abandoned operations. ! It is understood the crisis wan precipi . tated by, the refusal of the Egyptian | government to permit the wives of the excavators to visit the tomb this morn ing. The following notice was' posted in; (lie hull of the Winter Palace Hotel i shin afternoon: LUNAR. Feb. 13. Owing to the imiMissihie Restrictions and discourtesies on the part of the Public Works Department and its an tiquity section all my collaborators, in protest, have refused to work any fur ther upon the scientific investigation of the discovery of the tomb of Tutjink ahinen. lam therefore obliged to make known to the public that immediately nfter (he press view of the tomb, be tween 10 o’clock and- noon, the tomb will be dosed and no further work will be carried out. HOWARD ('AltTklt. Tile news that Mr, «irlor hud de cided to close the tomb came like a thunderbolt. For a long time there has been a disagreement between the Egyptian government and himself, large ly arising from official questioning of the contract he concluded with a Lon don newspaper by which he promised it ■priority of ail news from the tomb. TO CONSIDER HUtTIfES’ PROPOSAL NEXT WEEK Secretary Hughes Wants Japanese Im migrants Restricted as Other Na tions. By ,l.e Associated ftwr.> Washington, Feb. 15.—Members of the House immigration committee decided today to iiostpono consideration of Sec retary Hughes’ recommendation on re strictive immigration legislation until next week. A committee meeting prob ably will be held on Monday for a dis mission of the secretary’s objections to the Japanese exclusion provision in the Johnson bill, and his suggestion that the same quo|a. I as—- • _ _ witness said ‘’by the word of them who actually bought the paper." Vanderlip said he had never heard of any '"million dollar slush fund,” until he saw the headlines on it in the patters this morning. Vanderlip's examination ended after he had been on the stand one limlr ami 42 minutes. Tells of Purchase of Marion Star. Washington, Feb. 15. —Louis H. Brush, one of the men who bought the Marion Star from President Harding testified about the details of the sale* today before the oil committee. "The Associated Press account of Mr. Vanderlip’s speech which was sent to its members throughout the country and the iworld was verified as correct by Mr. Vanderlip," Mr. Brush said in beginning his testimony. The Marion publisher testified that lie and Roy I). Moore had been the sole pur chasers of the Star and that the funds were their own except for such as they borrowed froflt Ohio banks. "Against these (Ordinary loans.” he added, “the stock of the. Star had been hypothecated as collateral for the loans.” Foreman of Fall Ranch Heard. Washington, Feb. 15.—Thomas John son, foreman of Albert B. Full’s, New Mexico ranch, was called as a witness today before the oil committee, but could give no information as to the cost of improvements made to the ranch subse quent to the oil leases. Schuyler to Testify; DenVer, Col., Feb. 15.—Oarl C. Schuyler, Denver attorney, who repre sented J. Leo Stack in enforcing Stack’s claim in the Teapot Dome oil lease con troversay today made public pbotostatic copies of letters received from John C. Shaffer, newspaper publisher of Chicago and Denver, concerning Shaffer's interest in the Teapot Dome. Schuyler an nounced he would appear 1 at a witness before the Senate investigating commit tee next. Monday. Fall on Way to Texas. St. Louis, Feb. 15.—Albert B. Fall, i former Secretary of the Interior, and conspicuous figure in the Senate inves i tigation of the Teapot Dome Oil leases, . passed through St. Ism is last night on • his way to El Paso, Texas, where he had been summoned by the serious illness of ■ his wife. , ‘ Not Implicate Harding in Oil Scahdal. Washington, Feb. 15,—INte Senate oil committee went into the story about the ‘ sale of President Harding's ‘Marion Star , today without finding any evidence to implicate Mr. Harding in the oit scan dal. At one point in the cross-examination of Mr. Vanderlip regarding the Star story the banker declared flatly that he had not connected the sale of The Sar with the oil scandal in his new. f odious speech at Ossining. A moment later, he said, he had verified as correct a story of the speech submitted to him by the 'Associated Press. < Turning its attention to other mat ters the investigators heard from Th6m gs Johnston, foreman of Albert B. Fall’s New Mexico ranch, a flat denial that he had ever received any $68,000 payment t from the Sinclair oil .interests. Reports s of such a payment have been brought to r the committee recently by Archie Roose velt. CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1924 WO# - ■ ■ ■ ■ .... PLAN FOR' ANOTHER COMIC .MAGAZINE AT UNIVERSITY The Editor Will Be Earl 11. HnrtseH. of HfauflUd. i ■ Chapel n;a. Reb. 15.—-A third at tempt will be made, by the ruidents cf tii? U uiversity to start ji comic publica tion that will hear tse tdatnp of-official 1 approval. No name ho* yet been se | lected for ilie latest magazine blit It will Ibe published immediately under the | auspices cf the Publication Union, how i ever, at present, the Union will not con tribute to ihe magazine’,) financial sta jtus. I The trials of rhnsc attempting to pub riisli a hulnarous and comic magazine lat the University have hern numerous and difficult. Plans for this attmnpt |at a comic mngazine that will receive i the approval of the faculty’ have been forming over since the Ball Weevil edi torial staff was dissolved last Fall by the action of thg faculty. The 801 l Weevil iu ,-t ill being published, but ml as an official organ of the University. Steve Brody, the manager of/the Boil Weevil, states that he intends to con 1 - tinuc ifs publication. ' The Tar Biby ; was the firsf official comic magazine tlint j (vas published here. It was successful | for some time and then failed into oh-1 ,Kvi«H under poor management. Two issues of til* new publication will be printed between now and commence- ] ment. The first will appear l around . Ens(er. it is expected. The editor of the unnamed poriodirttl is Earl H. Hartsell, of Stanfield. He is a senior and has a reputation as a good .student writer. He will be as sisted in the selection of a business man ager and an editorial staff by (’. P>. Colton, editor of the Tar Heel: George! Y. Ragsdale, editor of the Carolina Mag-' azine; V. U. Proctor. A. B. Martin, and G. B. Bishop. Ml 1 . Hartsell proposes to hold a state wide contest for a suitable name for (lie publication. He also slated that he would attempt to keep the magazine clear of the usual ‘•wine, women and s.ong" type of humor and would seek only the cleverest and the most original of of wit and satrical writings. Professor A. 0. Hibbard, of the Eng lish department, a former newspaper man. lias expressed his confidence that there was room for such a publication as it gives the outlet for the xpression of the students. FORMER CIIARLOTTEAN 18 CHARGED WITH ABDUCTION Believed to Have Run Off With the Pretty Wife of a Greensboro Man. Greensboro, Feb. 14. —A warrant charging E. C. Stewart, a salesman of this city, with abduction, was is sued Tuesday, upon complaint of I. 0. Apple, also of this city, who thinks, police said he stated, that Stewart has' gone with Apple's 7 wife. Tile matter be wife. Both had been working at the same place. The woman is and pret ty. Stewart is snifi to 'be between 45 and 50. partly bald, gray hair, and married, and to have eonte here some months' ago from Charlotte. He is said to have to’d friends he was going from here to Char lotte, then to Asheville and on to De troit to stay. Tomarkhie Coming With Penumonia and Tuberculosis Serums. Rome. Fob. 15.—Leandro Tomarkino. who claims to cure pneumonia by his anti-carabuin, will soon leave for Amer ica to give clinical demonstrations at the invitation of the Rockefeller Insti tute. The clinics will not only demonstrate his pcnmmiia cure, but also a new treat ment for pulmonary tuberculosis, which lias been an enormous success in Roman hospitals. Tomarkine says: "M.v new treatment for tuberculosis is entirely by chemicals, one gram of yel lowish powder being sufficient for 1,200 injections, administered by disolving the. preparation in sterilized water. Seven ty per cent, of the patients treated, all in the first or second stage of tubercu losis. have been ennbled to work and be come useful members of society. “I do not pretend to cure tubercu losis. but do claim to aleviate the ]«t tients’ suffering and to arrest the prog ress of the disease so that they can lead normal lives. Within five or six years I shall be able to say whether they are permanently cured or not)" ShemWeli Paroled For Thirty Days. Raleigh. Feb. 14.—Through interces sion of Bishop J. M. Horner of the Asheville Episctqutl diocese, and Paul Ratter of Lexington. Baxter Shemwell drew a parole of 30 days today to give him opportuniy to visit Mrs- Shemwell , in Asheville. Bishop Horner was doubt ful that executive clemency could come soon enough to allow Shemwell to see i Mrs. Shemwell living. The wife of the . prisoner is critically ill. The parole is good for 30 days on a sencncc of 30 months, slightly more than one-fourth of whielt has been served. The visitors [ told the governor tha' Shemwell is a deeply' contemplative and greatly chang ed man. He spends his jail hours in [. reading the Bible itud reflection upon a I misdirected life. : Half Minion People Attend India’s Great Bathing Festival. • Allahabad. Feb. 15.—India's great [ bathing festival, Adit Kumbit. held every ! six years, recently attracted 500,000 ]>eo ple to the sacred spot at tile junction 1 of the Gauges and Pumna rivers. Gov " eminent authorities had erected harriers restricting the area for battlers because 1 iff the shifting of the rivpr bed, but f j Hindu extremists pulled down the fences, ■ apparently with the idea that pilgrims r should drown if fated to do so. j • • Two million pilgrims were exjtectetl to | • bathe in the rivers during the festival, 1 which lasts a month. r .* Courses hi Physical Education at Trin ity. Durham, Feb. 15. —The twenty-five » students who are taking special courses e in physical education at Trinity College t will soon be demonstrating their ability s| as instructor.! in this line of work. They o ' are to begin instructing the pupils of the - j Watts street school of Durham in phy sical Paining at onoe. Rebuilding the Shenandoah disastrous flight when It broke from Its mooring In a storm. Photo . allows the extent of the repairs being made in Lakehurat, N. J. GERMAN EULOGISTS WOfDROW WILSON In Speech at Trinity College Says World J Would Be Better jf Wilson’s Plaits i Had Succeeded. i Trinity College, Difrham, N. <*.. Feb. 15.—-" It is better tojjfnit in si cause to day that shall win llisii to succeed today in a cause thill shall itji This was the way Woodrow Wilson was enlogizid lit yp. von Xriinlze-tjttpwniitz, ( ,f ihe I'ni versit.v of Freiburg,'(term.!n.v. in an ad dress to a large andtin-v in the Y. M. C. A. Hull at Trinity'College last night. The speaker, who is ; u German Liberal anil who was a memicr of Ihe German Reichstag during the! War representing the South German Dtoiocratics. has been for the past 25 years fiend of the Depart-/ ment of Economics i® the University of Freiburg, in Baden. |He chose as his subject "The Peace As Versailles and tiie Reparation Problem The uponkdv began »y relating the po litical and economic Aspects of the war in England Germany ami France, and pointed out how mueii better each coun try would have been \in Wilson's noble plans had succeeded,-i Wilson, he said, was one of the few men in tiie world during the war with ijeals; and lie stuck to them with tenacity. The entire ad dress was interwoveifcWft h tiie ideals of Wilson jo-trying to {Haetuate peape. Dr, von Sch4ze-.q|§pmitz aborted that Europe today is hSmy disrupted ami is on (he'verge of another war. If holies does not come soon, an economic upheaval is inevitable. Tile audience was sur prised to hear that there are today one million more armed men in Europe than there were in P.)14. This takes into account that Germany has a very small army. The speaker spared no words iu his* de nunciation of the 33 billion dollar indem nity imposed on his country, ami he de clared that such n debt is impossible for Germany to pay as it is for her to pre sent the moon to her enemies. Economic conditions' are impossible for the paying of such a debt. In closing, the speaker expressed, un told faith in tiie ideals of Woodrow Wil son as regards the future peace of the world. With Onr Advertisers. Fast color linen suitings from Irish looms 79 cents a yard at Robinson's. ' From February s to 21. inclusive. ] Bob's Dry 'Cleaning Co. will clean one pair of gloves free with every ladies' gar ment sent to them to be dry eleeaned or il.v'ed. See new ad. The Cabarrus Cash Grover.v Co. lias just received another shipment of King ana’s pure lard. Hoover's spring stocks are complete, suits, hats, shirts, underwear, etc. Get a Willard threaded rubber battery at the Southern Motor Service Co. Ihitt Covington is gonna have a big sale at C-ovington's Corner. See ad. You can get a 30-cent bottle of Apinol, for only 20 cents this week only, at any of ttlie durg stores of the city. This medicitie is a wonderful-antiseptic. Sec ad. on page seven today. . Jackson Wins Salary Suit. (By the Associated Press/! Milwaukee, Wis.. Feb, 15.—Joe Jaek sou, former outfielder for the Chicago club of the American league, emerged a victor in his salary suit and $18,500 bonus claim when a jury in circuit court here today brought in a special verdict awarding him $15,700.40. The first match game of lacrosse ever played in America by women took place the other day in Los Angeles. Seizes His Sweetheart From Rival On Train and Weds Her in Triumph Hickman. Ky„ Feb. 14.—Somewhere in I the south today a lass is spending her I honeymoon with her husband while tiie spirit of St Valentine soothes as best it can the heart of another who eloped . with the same ntiss last Tuesday, but [ who was overtaken on ilia love flight by the successful wooer and- forced to turn j the girl over to (he present bridegroom. | Tiie romantic flight occurred when i Miss Virginia Wright. 15, eloped with Etbeibert Morris, of Fulton, intending to be married at Union City, Tenn. Her ■ former enthesrt, Melvin Dotßon, 20. ot, Hickman, learned the couple had ! boarded a train here, hurried to the sta i tion and arrived in time to see the train 1 pulling out of the station. He jumped ' into an automobile, drove reckless’y to ’ the East Hickman station, expect lngc to * board the train there, but the train - heeded not the spirit of St. Valentine and continued on its way. HOWARD JONES COMING TO TRINITY MARCH FIRST Famous Coach Will Take Charge of Ath letics There, Including Baseball. Trinity College. Durham, N*. ('.. Feb. 15.—A considerable degree of reassur ance reigns around tiie Trinity campus over the news emanating from lowa City. lowa, t tint Howard Jones, famous Coach of the University of lowa, will leave there on March 1 to come to Trin ity anil take charge of athletics includ ing the baseball team of this year. , As a matter of fact, the College Com inanity has never had reason to doubt Jones’ coining since he signed up a five years' contract sometime ago. The re cent dispatches from lowa that Jones was contemplating asking for a release front his contract with Trinity were stoutly denied by the renowned coach ill a letter addivssd to I’rof. It. L. Flow e.-s. To make things sure, though, Grad uate Manager of Athletics Ruff, who h'as had full charge of dealing with Coach Jones, went West last week to see the nCxv Trinity mentor personally. Though Graduate Manager Ruff has not yet re turned from his trip, yet the Associated Dress dispatches from lowa settle the question us to Jones' coming: and the campus will receive him on or about March 1. In the meantime ifieridters of last year's . basebaß -skjyti ' niy iqokiug. forward to getting out on' the field these pretty days to prepare for another emi nently successful season. Winning Htate honors last year, the team made a claim for Southern honors which could not be bettered by any other team in the South, Only two members of the 1923 tijne were tost by graduation r Ormond, first base man. and Johnson, eentertielder. Trin ity has a wealtlt of new material to till these vacancies; and under the leader ship of Captain Sanderson, star pitcher of Inst year, and tiie coaching of Howard Jones Trinity supporters ate looking for ward to the htiselmll season with a great degree of interest and enthusiasm. . Manager Geue Bolicli is working on a schcdul for the Trinity nine, but as yet has no definite announcement to make. IiLAN. LEADER ARRESTED ON TEN CHARGES Carl Wilson l'inter Arrest on Ten Lar ceny Charges Filed at Marlon. 111. ! /By me Associate!'. Presa.) Marion. 111., Feb. 15.—Carl Neilson, exalted cyelops of the Kit Klttx Klan at Herrin, was under arrest today on ten charges of larceny, growing out of whole sale dry raidi! conducted in this county recently. The Klan has been backing the raids whirh resulted in last Friday night’s disorder and which caused the troops to be sent to the county. Income Tax Rates Up Tuesday. (By (he Associated Press.) 1 Washington. Feb. 15.—The House J agreed today to take up on next Tues day the income tax rates of the revenue bill, a major point of the controversy, with amendments in order. Leaders on both sides predicted that under the arrangement cvrrj.tlctiou of the measure will be possible. Two days probably will be taken up by tiie ineome tax rates section. 1 The agreement specifies that the dem i oeratie income tax reduction plan will 1 he in order ns one amendment, and that : then tiie proposal of Representative Frenr, republican, of Wisconsin, will be in order ns a substitute amendment. San Diego is to have an up-to-date nth ' letic club, patterned after similar clubs in the largest Pacific Coast cities. I Thwarted, he again -smight his auto ' mobile and made a dash for another station two miles away. This time he was not to he denied and succeeded in hoarding the train, where (lie ternnl triangular scene again was enacted. Waiting until the train pulled Into I’nion City, the former lever pushed the eloping girl’s companion back into his seat, took his maid off the train told an officer tluit he and Miss Wright were going to be married and that * Morris was molesting him. Morris was taken in charge while Dotson and Miss Wright immediately were married, and depart ed for the southland. Tip Hntil a few weeks ago the bride and bridegroom had been “keeping com pany,” but Dotson had been forbidden to come to the house by the bride fath er and during the past few weeks Miss Wright had been wooed by young Mor . riß, whose suit her father favored. NO. 36. EDISON’S 77TH BIRTHDAY itnTus HIM AT HIS DESK Fi Up Yeung an at 40. He Kays, and Good Jor 10 Mr re Y’eais in Labora tory. New York. Feb. 15.—Thomas Alya Edison was 35 inrhutes late to*work Mon day. But the executives at the West Orange labo. at'.rifu arc disposed to len iency in his case, it b> understood!, and will give him another chance. Thex pointed out it was his seventy-sayeE.sk: birthday. Newspapermen, warned that the greiit] inventor would arrive at the shop at 9 o'clock .waited long in die snow outside the gate. A few belated employees scut tled down the street. At 25 minutes to 10 n well known squeak sounded on the frosty air. and a rattling o]ten flivver drew tip at the entrance to the plant. Iu the back seal, chin buried deep in muffler and chat, was Edison. He hau used this same Ford now for two years. ’ Interviews were received in Edison's study, a great cluttered oak pannelied | room, three stories high, with balconies around the sides. An enormous globe is shoved ipto a fireplace. Tito walls are crowded with pictures, portraftu of men like Ford, and men like Harding, and men like Humboldt, cartoons, sketch es. photographs of factories and engines. Edison looked up with a laugh when a written list of questions wasjnid before him. “A questionnaire for me?" he said. ' "All right; let's see if." Thirty questions covering all phases of 1 life and thought and science ho answered with rapid-fire precision, writing down ’ his opinions With n firm hand. 1 llow docs lie feel at 77? The same,ns lie felt nr 49. anil lie's good soy It) years more in hit laboratory. Where will we get power when coal 1 and oil are (folio? Sun. wind and tides, ' vegetable krowtli. IVill We ever communicate with the people on Mars? I don't think so. i Does lie believe iu surgical rejuvena tion of men? Only in a small way. ‘What application of electricity not yet ' worked out would be of greatest benefit? For power and transportation. Is the world growing better or worse? Better : the percentage of fine people is 1 gradually increasing. Has criticism of the modem young woman been too severe? The modern young woman is all right; her actions are foolish, but not serious. What about tiie fight between modern ists and fundamentalists in the church? It is the transition from myth to facts. Who would he choose for president of these presented iu the newspapers so far? Coolidgc. Smiling good-bye, without a word. Edison turned back to his desk, and was lost to his surroundings in n fraction of a second, deep in his studies. HEARING ARGUMENTS Several Attorneys Have Already Spok en.—District Attorney to Close Argu ments. , Wilmington. X. ('.. Feb. 15 (By the Associated Dress).—Lieut. Governor W. B. Dooper and his brother. Thomas E. Cooper, today sat in United States Dis trict court here ami heard themselves de nounced by - government counsel as men who had taken money from tiie Commer cial National Bank for themselves, their kin and their associates, and then de fended as the heaviest losers when the batik failed. Tiie brothers are charged with conspiracy in connection with the failure of the bank. Assistant district attorney Joint f). Darker opened for the government. He was followed by R. C. latwrenee. of Lum berton, with tiie opening argument for the defense. W. F. Jones then took up the defense argument and was followed by John 1). Bellamy and Herbert Me- Clammy. District Attorney Irvin B. Tucker will close for the government. MAY ENTER NAME OF WALSH IN PRIMARY Senator May Be Voted oil For Presiden tial Nomination in Georgia. (By the Associated Press.) Atlanta, Ga.. Feb. 15.—State Repre sentative A. S. J. Stovall, of Elbert county, today issued a call for a meeting to be held here on February 18 "to consider the advisability of entering the , name of United States Senator Thomas J. . Walsh, of Montana in the coming pri , imiry in Georgia for the Democratic presidential notiiinatiou.” "i have authoritative information that Senator Walsh would not oppose our on > tering his mnne in Georgia." Mr. Stov ; all’s call for the meeting declared. SHARP COLLAPSE IN THE PRICES OF STOCK I Report That Prominent Operator Turned > Bearish Cause of the Collapse. (By (he Assocla(ed Press.) New York, Feb. 15.—A sharp collapse in stock prices took place just after ■ nnin in today's market upon the wide * spread circulation of reports in the finan cial district that otic of Wall Street's most prominent operators had suddenly turned bearish on the theory thnt pub lic confidence had been undermined by the Washington oil disclosures. New Liquor Treaty Approved by the .Senate. (ay .hr AMNoefalr'l Prewt.) Washington, Feb. 15.—The new con vention with Great Britain concerning the suppression of rum smuggling was ordered favorably reported today by the Senate foreign relations committee. Carter Cannot Enter Tomb. Luxor, Egypt, Feb. 15 (By the Asso ciated Cress). —Howard Carter present ede himself at Tut-Aukh-Amen's tomb i today and was refused admission by the chief of police, who presented a written ; order from the government. Mr. Carter then retired. Two" Killed in Fine. (By the Associated Press.) i ' Montpelier, Vt., Feb. 15.—Two per - sons were killed and nine are missing i and believed to have lost their lives - in a fire which destroyed the Lawrence • building on Main Sfrcet early today. - «•****•« $ TODAY’S « • NEWS m * TODAY m CHARGES THAI FALL AND DENBY PLANNED JMinnpE LEASE John F. Ballaine, of Alaska, Says Matanuska Field Was to Be Leased by the Two Men. PLANS WERE NOT CARRIED THROUGH : Ballaine Says Interests Are at Work to Hinder All the Work of the Government in Alaska. (By the Associated Press.) Washington. Feb. 15.—Former Secre tary Denby v( rc declared in a letter laid before President,’ Coolidge today by John E. Ballaine, an Alaskan railroad constructor, to have entere3 into nego tiations in July. 1021. for transfer and lease of the rich Matanuska coal re serves of Alaska, along the same lines as were later followed in the Teapot Dome oil lease. The Alaska coal lease was not execut ed but the latter said the Sa vy depart ment largely through the efforts of Itear Admiral J. K. Robinson, bad aoddonsly refused ever since to permit, use of Alas kan coal by the Navy. , Mr. Ballaine, who constructed the Alaskan Central Railroad, the forerun ner of the present government line, pre sent!* bis letter to the President as a supplement to previous charges thnt powerful interests are at work to hinder the government of Alaska. He also lias presented charges to several Sena tors. including Chairman Lenroot. of the Senate oil investigating committee. CALIFORNIA CLIMATE KI NS THERMOMETER TO EXTREMES Has Greater Assortment of Climate Than ' Any Other State. San Francisco, Feb. 15:—-California boasts about its climate. And Califor nia has lots of climate to boast about, ac cording to the I'nited States weather bureau here, which says California has a greater assortment of climate than any other state and more contrasts. The following official weather reports prove California can delight an Eskimo or Soothe a savage from darkest Africa. ~ - Mr hwteestr in'rap ~worlil was in Death Valley. July 10. 1015. when the mercury rose to 154 degrees fn the shade. Bouie. in Mono county, holds the Cal ifornia record for the other extreme, with 38 degrees below zero. While many parts of the state have never seen snow, Alpine county had a fall of 73 feet in the winter of 1006-07. Del Norte county registered 155.5-1 inches of rainfall in a single year. Lake county had 71.54 inches fall in a single mouth. THE COTTON MARKET Yesterday’s Break Followed by Irregular Fluctuations During Early Trading. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Feb. 15.—Yesterday’s big break was followed by very nervous and irregular fluctuations in the cotton mar ket during today’s earTy trading. Li verpool full met yesterday’s local decline, but there was a good deal of covering and considerable’ trade buying in the market here, and after opening at a de cline of sixteen points to an advance of eleven points, aetive months sold about sto 14 points net higher. July was relatively firm advancing to 30.88. while May sold up to 32.15. Cotton futures opened Irregular. March 31.65 to 31.75: May 52.00 to .31.00; July 30.60 to 30.55: Oct. 27.25 to °713- Dec. 26.70. Got 10.000 Cases of Uqnor in N’e-.v York. New York. Feb. 14.—More than 10.- 000 cases of liquor, five barrels of alcohol and a completely equipped ‘‘cut ting" id ant were seized by federal pro hibition agents tonigiit in a downtown warehouse. The building is on Water street, a few blocks from city hall. The agents had loaded about 100 eases of gin, 30 eases of whisky and the barrels of alcohol on a truck and were about to leave thei building when the electric lights in the warehouse-went out. Con tinuing their search with flashlights and lanterns they , found a stairway leading from the second to the third floor at the end of which was a barred door. Forc ing this entrance the agents discovered the 10.000 eases of liquor and the equip ment for making whisky from alcohol. Hundreds of empty bottles and a large quantity of spurious labels also wer« fount) on this floor. UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE THE TIMES-TRIBUNE OF FICE' ! WILL GIVE 10 Per Cent. Discount > ON ALL ORDERS FOR Engraved Wedding Invitations and Announcements and Monogram Stationery w \ We represent one of the best
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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