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VOLUME XXIV
Telegrams Sent From
Washington to Fall In
Florida Read Secretly
- - ' • . _
Oil Committee Received
Messages From Telegraph
Co’s, and Held Private Ses
sion While Reading Them.
TO MAKE PUBLIC ' 1
MESSAGE CONTENTS
If There is Anything in Them
Relating to Oil Inquiry.—
Messages Sent to McLean
Are Also Received.
(By the Associated Prenn.)
Washington, Fob. 26.—Presented with
a sheaf of telegrams ser.t from Washiug
ttn to Albert B. Fall and Edward B.
McLean, publisher of the Washington
I’ost, at Palm Beach, Fla., the Senate
oil committee suddenly went into oxaett
tive session today Jo examine them.
In ordering the hearing room closed.
C! airman 1 .enroot sni<l any of the tele
graips found to lie relevant to the in- ■
quiry would be read in public.
The telegrams were presented by the
divisional superintendents of the Western
1 uion and Postal Telegraph Companies,
and apparently numbered several score.
Feme of them contained hundreds of
words. .
Wilton .1. Lambert, counsel for Mr.
McLean, was present at the reopening of :
tlie public hearings at tile invitation of
Senator Walsh, who had sought a confer
ence with him. The purpose was not dis
closed, but it was stated that the time
for the examination of Mr. McLean by •
the committee was undetermined. j
A subpoena was issued today for W. 15.1
Wnlilburg, former private secretary to
Harry F. Sinclair, who will be questions]
ed as to the identity of Mr. Hayes, to 1
whom lip Ims testified he delivered 825,-
000 in Liberty li|>nds.
Contents Kept Secret.
Washington. Feb 20. —Suddenly inter
rupting ils published bearings the Senate
oil committee closed Its doors today and
spent nearly two hours looking over sheaf
of telegrams sent from Washington to
A. B. Fall and K. B. McLean, publisher
of the Washington,Past' 1 while they were
in Florido.
The results of the examination were
not disclosed but some eoiunjittee mem
bers; hinted that the files "Trad'produced ,
s, m#- highly iutgiftstiug inform!Hop. Some },
of ifie telegrams' are to be id'aced-tathe
public records, tomorrow.
J/Oeal managers of two telegraph com- [
panics have been sublioenaed in the tiope |
of establishing whether Fall or McLean j
had been in communication from Palm .
Peach with administration officials or I
individual members of (lie committee.
When the two witnesses laid on the tu
be tlio evidence they iiad been asked to
bring, there was a hurried consultation
among the Senators who got a look at
the messages, and an announcement that 1
the room would be cleared of spectators.
In announcing tlie executive session.
Chairman Lenroot said it was the com-1
mittee's desire to decide which of the
telegrams was relevant. At the end of
the long secret meeting lie said the task ■
had not been completed.
Another member of (lie committee. Sen-,
ator Adams, democrat, of Colorado, de
clared that no messages from individual
committeemen had been fpond thus far.
He added that there was a difference of (
"1 do not think there is anything highly j
sensational," said Senator Adorns.
"I do not think there is auy highly j
sensational" said Senator Adams.
The Chairman dismissed ail of the
witnesses who were waiting to testify
at today's open session, and said that ]
when the public hearings are resumed
tomorrow he will put into the record
sueh of the messages as the committee be
lieves pertinent to its inquiry
As soon as the committee adjourned
Senator Walsh returned to the Senate
floor and renewed his quarrel with the
News bureau of the Republican National
Committee by contradicting in unequivo
cal terms the Bureau's charges that he
sponsored the law under which the oil
leases were made.
lie declared the leases had nothing to
do with the general leasing act, and de
nied the asertiou of the News- Bureau
that he suppored the rider to the naval
appropriations bill in 1!I2<( giving Sec?
rotary of tlie Navy authority to exchange
royalty oil for tank storage.
* "It is not true tthat I supported it ns
the record will show, nor did any other
Senator say anything about, the amend
ment except the Senator from Utah, who
offered certain amendments, and these
were accepted without discussion of any
sort.”
I'pon request from Senator Walsh,
Senator Smoot confirmed his statement,
and Mr. Walsh then challenged "any re
publican senator to arise in his place
and state whether I have stated the facts
correctly."
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and the two
Boston clubs have the largest playing
fields in the major leagues.
WHAT SAT’S BEAR SAYS.
gST.
Rain tonight and probably Wednesday
morning; little change in temperature.
The Concord Daily Tribune
FAMOUS AUTHOR
DIES SUDDENLY |
George Randolph Chester
! Dies at New York Home
With Heart Attack.
■ I' y Ike Associated Press.*
New York. Feb. 20.—George Randolph
diopter, author and play wight, (Ted
early t:day. j
Mr. Chester left his home at an early
age and engaged in various occupations. •
Beginning newspaper work ns a reporter
on the Detroit News, he rose to become
one of the nation's most popular writers
of fiction. ' |
(Jet Rich Quick Wallingford and ;
Blackie I)aw were two of his most fa- J
mows fictional characters. He wrote |
a number of books and'plays in collabo
ration with his wife, Lillian Chester.
Mr. Chester was 55 years old.
Mr. Chester and liis wife worked late
last uight on a *sgy story.
Shortly after midnight he complain-1
ed of pains in his chest, nnd Mrs. Cites- ■
ter applied hot towels. Tile Itol nppli-1
cations failed in relieve him, and lie |
tot k a lif t bath and retired, joking with
Airs. Chester about his pain.
Shortly before 5 o'clock this morning
I Mr. Chester «ot up in his bed, awakened
his wife and said to her:
; "You know, dear. I love you.”
He fell back upon his pillow. Ilis
wife did net think him dead and at
tempted to revive him. Failing, site
calledj the superintendent of the npart
j ir.ent house, James Schultz, and he stiin
| limned an ambulance. Mr. Chester died
i of a heart attack.
J Recently Schutz said. Mr. Chester
j dime home and started running up the
stairs.
“I said Gnsli, Mr. Chester, but you're
spry.' and he told me he had just taken
cut SIOO,OOO life insurance, and the doc
tors had told him he was good for 50
years more.”
.COX AND McADOO ARE
NOW OUT, SAYS GRIFFIN
New York Congressman Says Tammany
Hall Would Not Support Kit iter.
Washington, Feb. 25.—Tammany Hall
will not support the I’residential candi
dacies of either William Gibbs MeAtloo
. nor of former Governor James M. Cox,
i »rs awioNlitng jUMUatemcntß -rootle oo
(he floor of the Httuse today by Rrcpre
t aentative Griffin, of New York City, mem
! bet- of the Democratic organization.
! Neither is Mr. Griffin certain the orgnn
* ization would support former Secretary
j of the Treasury Carter Glass.
In arguing for the excess profits tax.
I Mr. Griffin denounced former Gov; Cox.
Democratic standard Bearer in 1020, for
his stand against the tax and declared.
"James Cox has. no chance of again lead
, ing llie Democrats in a Presidential
race.”
ESTIMATE 75 AUTOS TO
HAVE BEEN STOLEN
Oars Have Been Stolen at Danville.
Hickory and Lineolnton.
I - (By the AsNiH- atol Press.)
' Hickory, Feb. 20.—Between 50 and 75
automobiles have been stolen by a gang
operating around Danville. Vn., Hickory
and Lineolnton, according to P. Hnr
i ris, state automobile insiieetor for North
j Carolina, who is here today. City De
tectives Lewis and Kessler, of Danvile.
j who came here yesterday, estimate Hie
| number to exceed that set by the inspect
or.
Luther Fry, held in jail at Newton on
j a prohibition chnrge. has confessed, ae-
I cording to officers, that he sold stolen
cars here.
I Bums Immoral Film, Endangering Hun
dreds.
Vienna. Feb. 28.—A highly moral mo
vie operator in a theatre here today
threatened the lives of hundreds of per
sons wifnessing the film La Garconne,
which has been banned by France. Eng
land and America, by setting it on fire.
A dozen persons were hurt in the
panic, but no one was killed, as the film
failed to buru.
General Victor Marguerite, tlie French
author of La' Garconne. created n furore
in I’aris last year when lie lost the Leg
ion of Honor because of his authorship
of the book.
! Two Bootleggers Pay 910,000 Income
Taxes.
Hartford, Conn., Feb. 20.—Profits
| closely approaching 9100,000 were ack
nowledged by two alleged bootleggers of
Connecticut upon whom the United
States Internal Revenue office made de
' mand during the past week for payment
' of income taxes aggregating nearly $lO.-
, 000, They promptly paid tlie ussess
, ments levied against them when assured
that none of the evidence they disclosed
would be used to incriminate them,
i They were the first two of a dozen
[ bootleggers understood to' have made
profits exceeding a million dollars in the
State to be investigated by a corps of
Federal revenue experts specially as
signed to this work under tlie direction
of Chief Field Deputy W. Ellery Al
tyn.
Although neither had filed an income
tax return fbr the past year, both quick
ly admitted their liability when con
fronted with irrefutable evidence show
ing tlie accumulation fcf comfortable
fortunes within less than two years,
nnd were glad to escape with fines of
SI,OOO each, fixed for siiph cases by the
Revenue Act. f
Want Vote on Ford Offer.
Washington, Feb. 26.—An attempt
will be made to bring the McKenzie
bill, authorizing • acceptance of Henry
y Ford’s bid for Muscle Shoals, to a vote
In the House next meel^.
CONCORD, N. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY' 26, 1924
Mgy
BITTEN WITH TflE WANDERLUST
THE COTTON MARKET i
Active and Irregular During the Early-
Trading.—Active Months Steadied
Liter.
(By (be Associated press.)
New York, Feb. 26.—The cotton mar
ket was active nnd irregular during to
day's early trading . The issuance of
- notices; estimated at about 50,000
bales caused some hear montli liquida
tion. Trade interests bought March
against sales of May at a difference of
ahmrf 3(6- fir Aa - poinlfST Wggesflng thaft
the notices were likely to be stopped,
and there was some seattred buying on :
the relatively firm Liverpool cables and
continued large Liverpool spot sales.
This steadied the market nnd after op- 1
ening easy at a decline of 23 points
to an advance of 7 points, active months
sold about 10 /to 27 points above yes
terday's closing. March rallied from ,
28.88 to 20.25 and May from 20.40 to
20.77. but the bulge met scattering liqui
dation and was not fully maintained.
New crop months were firm on reports
of unfavorable weather in the South.
Gotten futures opened stendv. March
20.00; May 20.40; July 28.05;. Oct.
26.25; Dec. 25.80.
TO BRING CROWDER TO
THIS STATE FOR TRIAL ,
Gov. Brandon Consents For Alleged Slay
er to Be Brought Back to State.
(By .(he Associated Press.)
Gastonia. Feb. 26.—Sheriff Rhyne left
last night for Decatur, Ala 1 ., to briug Ar
thur Crowder, self-confessed slayer of
John Ford, back to Gaston county for
trial. After more than two weeks of wir
ing. writing and talking between Gaston
county authorities, and Alabamif state
and county officials. Governor Brandon
finally consented to Crowder's return on
condition thaT he be\sent back to Ala
bama for trial on charges there if he is
not convicted here. The sheriff is ex
pected to, return tomorrow night.
Law Suit Settled After 82 Years.
Kome. Feb. 26. —The court of appeals
in Naples has just rendered a decision
in a law suit which has lasted for 82
years. It eoneerned land given at tlie
end of the sixteentli century by King
Charles X. to Cesare Fieramosea.
Knight, the brother of the celebrated
painter Ettore. Cesare Fieramosea did
not take possession, I hough the deed con
veying the property is in existence.
In 1841 an enterprising descendant
- started n law suit- to obtain money from '
the State to cover interest for tlie State’s
; use of the lands. The case, begun in
the eourts in the time of King Ferdi
nand 11. of the Two Sicilies, was con
tinued in the Italian courts when Na
ples became absorbed in modern Italy.
Now the judgment of the court of
appeals is that the heirs of Cesare
• Fieramosea have uo right to the $lB.-
1 (SIO,OOO or so demanded as interest, as
I their claims against the State are out- -
lawed.
i - — ———————
Big Meeting ol Church Alliance.
Newport News, Va., Feb. 26.—The -
■ annual meeting of the World Alliance
. of Presbyterian and Reformed churches, 1
i which assembled in this city today for
. a three-day session, has attracted an at
tendance of delegates from many see
■ tions of,the United States, Canada nnd
- South America, representing a ,total
- membership of more than 3,000,000.
. Many Inen notable in the religious work
■ of the world are scheduled to deliver
, addresses and present reports to tin 4 con
s ventioii.
Lieut, (lack Ordered to Cuba.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Feb. 2$. —First Lieut,
t Henry C. Clark has been ordered reliev
s ed from duty in the judge advocate gen
-7 eral’s office of the War Department, and
5 assigned as asistant military attache at
the embassy in Havana, Cuba.
CONCERTED MOVEMENT
AGAINST CWY OF JALAPA
Federal Troops Start to Take
City Froml Rebels. j
Yefa Cruz, Feb. 2s.— : (Ry the Anso-]
eiated Press), —A wfccerted movement
by government forced against Jalapa.
capital of the StateLof Yera Cruz,
which is still held by rebels, has been
started. General Afoiaznn left l’uebln
yesterday with seveAjen troop trains.
General Topetc k .kgSggg' Vera.-Cruz to
day witF 3jg)o men" -awl General Ja ru»
with 3.000 men. nssisTed by 2,000 others
from Almaaan's eolmnn, has begun an
advance on l’erote, an important out
post of the Jalapa rebels. It is ex-
Jpedted that the combined forces will
reach the capital this week.
Western Front Pacified.
Mexico City, Feb. 26 (By (lip Asso- 1
eiated Press).—“The western front has
been pacified, and constitutional order
is re-established in Jalisco. Colima.
Miehoacan t and Guanajuato,” President;
Obregon stated upon his arrival last
night fromt Guadalajara where he con
ferred with Federal commanders regard
ing the operations necessary to clear up
the regions which until recently were
under the domination of the rebels.
General Calles, interviewed after his
arrival at Monterey, according to spe
cial dispaehfes, declared he would short
ly. resign military post and resume
his Presidential campaign.
A HORSE-POWERED FORD
Fanner Adds Team to Motor Drive to
Plow Through Drifts.
Winsted. Conti., Feb. 25.—Alfred
Thomas today drove a Ford car ami. a
team of horses at the same time, to reach
Colebrook Centre, oil his way to Winsted.
He hitched the horses to the Ford, start
ed the motor and then took tlie reins.
Propelled by motor and horse power,
the machine ploughed through crust-cov
ered drifts to Colebrook Centre, where
Thomas left, the horses until his return
from insted Then he started home,
guiding the motor-driven and horse-drawn
automobile.
With Our Advertisers.
Specials for groundhog weather at tlie
Parks-Belk Co.
Read the new ad of the Carolina Case.
See the new ad. of Bob’s Dry Cleaning '
Co. They guarantee good service. i
Tlie S. S. Brown Shoe Co. has just
received a large shipment (if Selby
I Pumps in several of the most desirable de
signs for early spring.
Trio of Robbers Boldly Take Charge
Os Freight Train North of Spencer
Spencer, Feb. 25.—A trio of bold train
robbers giving their names as Tom Bni-
I ley, Ed. Pickerel and Amos li'ox. all
young white men of Lexington, were jail
ed in Salisbury Saturday uight after be
j ing caught near Spencer by J. Frank Mil
i ler. chief of the Southern railway spe
cial agents, assisted hy Officers L. I).
I H. Brown and J. I-I. Cook. Boarding a
southbound freight train at Thomasvilte
Saturday night the three desperados de
fied Conductor Currie Cates, Flugman
Ralph Cates and Brnkeman N. N. Moore
with threuts of shooting them if they in
terfered. When about ten miles uortli
of Spencer the robbers begau unloading
freight from a box Ohr, throwing off
quantities of shoes, merchandise, cloth
ing and such other tilings ns they could
get out of the train. Despite the ef
forts of the train crew to stop the rob
eryy a large number of boxes of freight
were strewn along the tracks for about
ten miles. Amox Fox, Sue who is said
to have been active in the robbery, fell
under the train and one Biot was cut off
by the wheel. He was picked up by an
automobile party pnssing-tbe highway and‘
VENTRILOQUIST BOOTLEGGER
FOOLS WASHINGTON POLICE
Negro Hurls Betties and Threats, and ,
Then Escapes in Taxi.
l Washington, I). C„ Feb. 20.—An un
armed negro with a gift of ventriloquism,
a supply of whiskey and a taxicab for
purposes of retreat proved too much to
day for the Washington police.
A watchman found him in the base- 1
meat of a drug store, and a squad of jki
lice who l.tried <jv caiitar.e him retired
* under' a bilf-tShV 'bdffres‘~bf
prescription liquor, intermingled with a
rain of threats that seemed to come
from several throats in various parts of
tlie cellar. Tear bombs were ordered. 1
hut some of them exploded prematurely 1
iat headquarters and produced general
jginfusion.
| Finally captured, the negro jumped
from the patrol woman, scaled a high 1
' wall, hailed a taxi in the next street, '
and got away. i
The Perfect Watch.
London. Feb. 26.—Tlie perfect watch,
though possible in theory, .is declared
to be impossible to manufacture. A
timekeeper 07 per cent, efficient, how
ever. has just been tested at the Na
tional Physical Laboratory at Tedding- '
ton. For years watches have been sent
to a special department of the labora
tory from experts ill Germany. France,
Switzerland, England, and America, but
not one bus been awarded 100 per cent,
marks.
Tlie new record has been set up by
a Swiss manufacturer, who, for 21 yeans,
lias obtained the highest award by the
scientific experts. His watch was bet
ter than 18,000 others. An expert in
horologieal science explains that there ,
are many reasons why the perfect watch '
cannot be made. 'Testers at the labo
ratory estimate that the finest time
keeper possible in practice is one which
in all respects is one and a half per
cent, less than completely scientifically
efficient. The latest product of the
Swiss manufacturer is only one-lialf per
cent short of this standard.
Spanish War derails Organize.
tßy (lie .laMH'laim Press.)
Winston-Salem. Feb. 20. Tlie J. C.
Resent l’ost of the United Spanish War
■ Veterans was organized here last night.
1 Many of the great tributorioA of the
Amazon River have never been explored,
while there are huge tracts of primeval
forests on its banks into which no white
no white man lias ever penetrated.
rushed to the Salisbury hospital for
treatmut. It was theu that Chief Miller
and his men were notified and went on
the trail of the other robbers who were
soon caught in a piece of woods near
Spencer and lodged in jail. The officers
took a hand car to I.inwood, loaded the
stolen freight along the main line of the
road, and brought it back to town. While
about this piece of work Chief Miller
rain into a pair of heavily armed negroes
on the side of the railroad near town
and by quick work saved himself from
being shot, disarmed the men and sent
them to jail. Two dangerous tier man
guns were taken from them, and also
something like a quart of cartridges
which they carried in a bag. The men
are believed to have escaped from, prison
at Richmond.
/ The robbery of the freight train is
described as one of the boldest pieces of
work ever pulled off in this vicinity. All
of the men taken were identified by Con
ductor Catest and Bniley has confessed
to the robbery and implicated the other
men Captured.
BOOM FOB DANIELS
GAINING STRENGTH
THROUGHOUTSTATE
>
A Petition Circulated in Ra
leigh Calls Meeting Thurs
day to Organize Daniels
For President Club.
RICHMOND COUNTY
SUPPORTING HIM
] Asks State Convention Go on
Record as Endorsing Him.
—Democratic Committee
Meets in Raleigh.'
(By the Associated Press.)
Raleigh. Feb. 26.—The friends ami
supporters of Josephus Daniels took an
other step last night toward putting his
name forth as a Democratic nominee for
President when they circulated a peti
tion urging his nomination and calling
for a meeting to be held Thursday (-vo
iding al the court house for the purpose
of organizing a "Daniels For President"
Club.
Want Daniels Endorsed.
Rockingham. Feb. 26.—A petition from
this town and Richmond County was yes
terday addressed to toe Democratic State
Executive Committee which meets in
I' Raleigh tonight, requesting that body to
endorse Josephus Daniels for„President.
. Will Convention Discuss Daniels?
Raleigh. N. ('.. Feb. 26.—The Demo
cratic State Executive Committee will
meet here tonight to fix the time and
place for holding the state convention.
The committee also will designate a com-
I mon day on which precinct meetings will
he held for the election of delegates to
tile county conventions, and tlie date on
which county conventions will be held for
the purpose of electing delegates to tile
state convention.
WASHINGTON PAPER IS
BOOSTING MR. DANIELS
The “News’’ Seems to Think Party j
Lacking in Intelligence if It Doesn’t
Nominate Him.
■Washington. Feb. 25.—Secretary
Daniels is being freely talked in con
nection with tlie Democratic Presidential
nomination.
Tlie News, n Washington paper,
prints ail editorial on its front page to
■day - -under - the headings "Josephus
Daniels as the Democratic Candidate.",
“One figure emerges untaiuted from
the foul oil mess.” it said. “It is that
of Josephus Daniels, for years secretary
of the navy."
The News then makes public a letter
that Mr. Daniels wrote Senator Isi-
Follette April 10. 1922, ill reply to a
communication. Mr. Daniels said an
effort had been underway since 1913 to
get tlie oil lands.
Daniels is pictured by the writer as
looming up "an heroic figure nnd one
that should, challenge the admiration of
the people of the United States irrespec
tive of polities." His letter to Ln-
Follette is described as "a perfect plat
form for Josephus Daniels as the Demo
cratic Presidential candidate, should the
Democratic party have the intelligence
to nominate him,"
—— I
MILLIONS OF OCARTS
EASILY SMI'GGLED IN
Rum Running Threatens Defeat of All '
Customs Laws, Datlinger Says.
Washington. I>. C., Feb. 24.—Adop
tion of President Coolidge’s. $13,000,000 :
program for the coast guard to more es- 1
fectively curm nun ruimiug was urged I
/by Representative Dellinger, republican, <
of Massachusetts, in a statement issued I
here tonight. .. <
“Today there are 108 seagoing vessels,
mostly of British registry, engaged in 1
smuggling liquor into this country,” he
declared. “Millions of quarts find their 1
way into the cities and towns along our
eastern coast. Only about 5 per cent, is
seized by the revenue cutters. Seventy- 1
five vessels entered this illicit trade dur- <
ing the last three months and six with- 1
in the last week.
“Every ship put into this trade and i
every company organized to put m >re :
ships into, it makes harder the task of <
the coast guard an dthe prohibition en- 1
foreement unit. • The ease with which i
these violators of our laws become rich I
is an increasing encouragement to the
smuggling iff eoe.ainp, and 1
will lead, if not stopped, to the defeat
of all our customs laws.”
Klau Congress Meeting.
(By the Associated Press. >
Atlanta. Ga.. Feb. 26.-—The Klan
Congress called by Edward Young Clark,
former Imperial Wizard, “to revive the
original principles on which the Klnn
was founded, but which have beyn per-'
verted." assembled here today. Mr. Clark,
who was to deliver the keynote message,
has announced that he will oppose the
formation of an order to supplant the Ku
Klux Klnn. which was taken to mean
that the activities of the gathering would ■
he limited to an attempt at reorganiza
tion of the order front within.
Boy Killed Over Game of Marbles.
Tarboro. Feb. 2o.—Orville Howell, ft,
shot and killed Jonas O’Neill. 12, here
yesterday morning following a quarrel
over a game of marbles, according to
the police. . The boy is alleged to have!
shot O'Neill with a .22 calibre rifle, j
the bullet entering the left lung, causing'
deatli in about thirty minutes. Howell |
was taken into custody by the policej
but was latter patroled in custody of his
parents. He will be tried in juvenile
court, but the date for the hearing has .
not been fixed.
Wireless licenses in England now nurn-l
her nearly 600,000.
t 9 V
i TODAY
NO. 45.
PRESTO CMS v
WITH ATTORNEY FOR
JTTfIP^ENERAL
Paul Howland, Who Repre
sented Daugherty in the
House Proceedings, Talks
With President.
DAUGHERTY MET
THE PRESIDENT
Conference Was Held Mon
day Afternoon at Which
Time Status of Datigherty
Was Discussed.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Feb. 26.—President Cwd
idge prior to today's cabinet meeting
had an hour's conference with Paul
Howland, of Cleveland, who was at
torney for Attorney General Daugherty
in the House impeachment proceedings
of a year ago.
White House and Department of Jus
tice officials declined to discuss the con
ference. Attorney General Daugherty
on arriving at the executive offices for
the cabinet meeting waved aside a ques
tion on the subject.
The conference followed a discussion
of similar length late yesterday between
the President and Attorney General, at
which they talked over the move by Re
publican Senate leaders to bring about
Mr. Daugherty's retirement.
Mr. Howland lias been in Washington
about two weeks.
Blnek - Passage of Wheeler Resolution.
Washington, Feb. 26.—Immediate con
sideration of the resolution of Senator
Wheeler, democrat, of Montana, for in
vestigation of the Attorney General’s
administration, was blocked today by
Senators Lodge, of Massachusetts, the
! Republican House leader, and Moses, re-
publican. of New Hampshhire.
DEMOCRATIC RATES
GO IN TAX SCHEDULE
Insurgents Fail to Vote With Republi
cans Who Sought Compromise.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Feb. 26.—Negotiations
between Republican organization leaders
and insurgents today on the Longworth
compromise income tax rate schedule for
the revenue bill developed a definitn
break ia .the ranks, yf the. .latter group
I which voted to pnt the Democratic rates
*in the bill.
Representative Woodruff, of Michigan,
one of the insurgent leaders, said he
would support the compromise providing
for a 37 1-2 per eent. maximum surtax
rate, and normal rates of 2 per cent,
and six per eent. on incoccs below and
above $4,000 respectively, in view of the
increase voted on estate taxes.
Representative Begg. of Ohio, who
conferred with Mr. Woodruff said, how
ever. that before the Democratic sched
ule could be thrown out of the bill when
it comes up for final passage some of
the Wisconsin delegation of eleven mem
bers must be won over to the compro
mise.
Gift Tax Voted by House.
Washington. Feb. 26.—A gift tax was
placed in the revenue bill today by the
House.
FLI NG OFF CHI’RCH TOWER
Two Children Victims of Woman Who
Leaps to Death.
London, Feb. 26.—A woman about 3T>
years of age threw a girl of five and a
baby boy from the top of the 280-foot
bell tower of Westminster Cat liedral to
day and then plunged to the j lavement
herself, falling near the bodies of the
children.
The identity of the woman lias not
been established.
Miss Katherine Craven Dies at Parents’
Home in Charlotte, i
Charlotte. Feb. 20.—Miss Kntherino
Covington Craven. 12-year-old daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. .T. 11. Craven, died in
Charlotte at 3 o'clock Monday morning
after a lingering illness wiitj.i heart
trouble lasting fnr several months. Tim
funeral will be at the parsonage at 2
o'clock Tuesday, afternoon anil the in
terment at Monroe which was the for
mer home of Mrs. Craven. Practically
all of the immediate relatives are in
Charlotte including the Covingtons and
Cravens from all sections of the state.
McAdoo Files Name in Ohio.
Columbus, Ohio. Feb. 26.—Wm. G. Mr-
Adoo will contest for delegates to the
National Convention in Ohio. Telegraph
ic authorization for Wilbur O. Wilkin, of
Cleveland, to enjer his name in the Ohio
primaries was rveeived by the Secretary
oof State from Mr. MeAdoo today.
iVdl Known Farmer Dead.
•Hr • !»*■ (■uui'iute i*hu.i
Winston-Salem, Feb. 26.—Tlios. F.
Holcombe, a well known farmer of Yad
kin Cotmt.V. died at the home of a son
here today, aged 77. He is survived by
seventeen children, ten sons and seven
daughters.
Steal $30,000 Worth of Fura.
(Kir the- AmtnrrNvM Prw.l
New York. Feb. 26.— Three bandits
broke their way into the Brooklyn ware
j house of Rases & Wolf, furriers, early
today, bound and gagged watchmen and
escaped with $30,000 worth of furs.
I The fire chief of Poughkeepsie, N. ¥.,
reports that for the first time in the his
tory of that city there were no fires on
. last Christmas Day attributable to dec
orated trees.
I There is nothing on earth whiter than
newly-fallen snow.