• ASSOCIATE? ft ft PRESS ft • DISPATCHES ft • ftftftftftftftft VOLUME XXIV Oil Atmosphere Felt At Chicago Meeting Atmosphere at Republican Convention in 1920 Sur charged With Oil, One Witness Declares. WITNESS DELEGATE ! FOR GEN. WOOD Said the Oil Interests Were! Ready to Give Votes If ' Allowed to Name New Sec retary of Interior. c ♦By the Ai«rtot,4 Prekß.l Washington. Mareh 19.—The atmos plere of tho Chicago republican conveu-I tion in 1920 was surcharged with stor ies of "oil deals." the oil committee was 1 tolil today by Tiffin Gilmore, deputy sec retary of the state of Ohio, who was at, Chicago as a Wood supporter. One story was, Gilmore said, that oil operators had pro|iosed to throw delegate support to Major General Wood if they were permitted to name the Secretary | of tlte Interior. lie declared he knew! nothing about it "first hand." but that ' it was common talk that "a deni had, been consummated between oil operators j and the possible nominee." “Who were the operatorsV” ho was asked. , | “1 do not know, except that they were big operators in the western district." j "Who made the proposition?” "1 do not know, 1 could not say. The' proposition wns made to General Wood." t In a conversation lie had after the convention with Carmi Thompson, an Ohio republican leader, who as the ffoHL ineo of his party for Governor in 1922. Gilmore said, there was some discus-1 sion of a land claim Thompson wns in-' tcrested in. "What land diil you refer to when you asked Carmi Thompson if he gad got the land?” asked Senator IJnrsnu, re-1 publican, of New Mexico. “The whole air was so surcharged 1 i cannot tell. My impression wns that it j was some land adjacent to Kakcrsficld. Cal. 1 had never heard of Teapot Dome, at that lime.” "Did you gather the impression that i Mr. Hamon (.Take llnmon. republican national committeeman for Oklahoma) had anything to do with it?” i "I don't know what oil companies were in it. 1 do think, however, Hint a young man named Meltor told me Hamon-was mixed up in it.” by Senator,,Wnishf, democrat”, of if -h’.k»nv what “WrlWtriffuT nfMFW (Tin propawlt iMßfore said: i ”1 was told he walked up and down at: his hotel, and said it was n shady deal: tlint lie would have nothing to do with it, | and that they would have to defeat him.” Witli that the witness was excused, and the committtee called .Ins. G. Dar den. a man of mnuy adventures, whose name has been interwoven with disclos ures in both the Daugherty and Teapot Dome inquiries. Process servers had reported failures to locate him for near ly a month, but he denied he had tried to avoid service. He said he was away from home a good deal Dut had seen from.the -newspapers he was sought, and immediately notified Wm. .1. Burns. Darden said he had known President Harding a long time, mid became inti mate with him during the. pre-convention campaign in 1920. He said he did ev erything he could to uominntc Harding. "Did you raise any money?” ”1 did. now and then, a very little." ' Where did you raise the money V “Among my friends, some of my dem ocratic friends, including North Caroli na.” Darden said lie met .Tos. Hall, of New York during the Harding campaign. He also became intimate with Attorney ■ General Daugherty during the campaign. Senator Walsh took the inquiry to Teapot Dome, and Darden launched in to a long recital of how he got claims ih the Salt Creek field as well as in the naval reserve. He said there were ICO acres in Teapot involved, and twice as much outside. It was during the Wilson administration, Darden said, that he took the matter up with the Interior Department. Asserting that a Mr. Taylor had de cided to contest with him his right to the Bind on Teapot Dome, Darden con tinued : “Mr. Taylor came down and employ ed a Mr. Wilson, the President’s broth er. ’ Mr. Payne, the Secretary of the Interior, decided in our favor for a small acreage. He never said anything about, the ICO aeres. *T never discussed oil with Mr. Hard ing or Mr. Daugherty iu iny life until this matter came up,” said the witness. Durden explained that he got ,his claims from the Belgo Company, one of those Harry F. Sinclair bought out af ter ho received the Teapot lease. He presented what purported to be a copy of the deed which was included in a bill of complaint against the Mammoth Oil Company by Darden and his partners, John F. Campion and Robert G. Tay lor. “What did you pay for your share of WHAT SAT'S BEAR SAYS. rrm • ’ , / * increasing cloudiness followed by rain late tonight or Thursday. The Concord Daily Tribune ’JBflg- ■ ~ • v~. - * * * ARE YOC PROTECTED * * AGAINST SMALLPOX? * - * "This disease is prevalent now in I Jfe many communities. Successful vac- rfc Ish eilintion assures you protection. -K ■M. See your physician or health officer. IK il * * SK * * * W* * * 58 IK * * I i - . L - CAROLINA COTTON MILL FAR AHEAD OF ENGLISH Head cf Rig Liverpool Cotton Firm' Amazed by Conditions in Villages. Charlotte. Mareh IS.—The worker in English cotton mills cannot eonceive I working conditions so nearly perfect as prevail in cotton mills of North Carolina, ‘ according to K. H. Blackburn Sr., president of Alexander, . Acelcs and pom , pany of Liverpool, the largest and one jof the oldest cotton firms in the world. | Mr.'Blackburn. E. 11. Blackburn, Jr.. 'J. W. B. Blackburn, all of Liverpool,, Louis M. Bourne, of Dallas. Texas and | Hen J. Humphrise. of Memphis, Amcri- I can partners of Mr. Blackburn, arc meni ' hers of a party of textile capitalists now i in Charlotte on an inspection tour of tho j cotton mills in this, section. | ”1 really do not know to express my self when 1 look iuto the happy condi | tions surrounding your cotton mills and I the operatives," Mr. Blackburn declar j od, "and I can't imagine workers being j hostile to mill owners who have taken so much trouble to create ideal condi i tions for workers to live in. The Eng lish mill worker could not understand it, so much better are the conditions l ore than those obtaining in the big textile centers of my country. I ‘The mill owners seem to have taken every opportunity to make conditions ideal for the workman. The workers ought not, it seems tto me, put any ob stacles in the way' of the operators." j Mr. Blnekburn was especially struck ■ by the sanitary condititons found at the | mills visited by his party, declared that ! the arrangements here to guard the health and general welfare of the opera , fives is far above the stnndard obtaining j in English textile communities, i The party visited Albemarle and Kannapolis and were high in their com mendation of the situntion there. "There i is nothing in nil England,” Mr. Black burn said, "tike that village of Kannapo lis with its swimming pool, club rooms and neat nomes especially built for the mill workers' needs. I did not go through the gaitls but from what I .am told and Iriimi’JitsiHe abpearaiiecs,there 'TsTtm? fi.fcJb’afctred Vlic way STroic | venlenees and comfort of the operatives.” Conference for Social Service. I " (By the Associated Press.) Charlotte, March 19,—The twelfth an nual meeting of the Nortli Carolina Conference for Social Service will be held in this city March 25, 2ti and 27, it has been announced here. Among the principal speakers will be: John J. Tigert, U. S. Commissioner of Education, who will talk on "Educa tionand Public Welfare, Dr. ASva Tay lor, secretary of tile Board of Temper ance and Social Welfare of the Chris tian Church; and Dr. Wortli M. Tippy, social service secretary of the Federal Council of Churches. A number of well known North Caro linians will also speak, among them Dr. William Louis Poteat, Dr. E. C. Bran son, and Commissioner Kate Burr Johnson. A whole morning will be devoted to the discups’siou of the church and social service with the Rev. Louis Taylor, of Roanoke Rapids, presiding. At other meetings industrial social progress will be discussed. There will be considera tion of prison problems and of the coun ty ns a unit for social work. Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, of Asheville, is president of the North Carolina Con ference for Social Service, and Miss Minnie E. Harman, executive. The Bloodhound Vindicated. Salisbury, Mar. 18.—Friends of the bloodhound as a tracker of law-break ers elairn another demonstration, of the unerring instinct of the animal. Deputy Sheriff Brown, of Rowan, was called on to bring his dogs down into Cabarrus to track n murderer or murderers. A negro boy about ten years old had been shot and killed and two other negro boys said they saw some white boys do the shooting. These negro boys were helping the sheriff look for the white boys when Deputy Brown put his dogs down for the. trail. The dogs failed to take up any trail except one that led to the sheriff’s party. This aroused the suspicions of the officers and one of the , negro boys aged about 17 was searched i and a pistol was found on him. lie and ' the other boy were arrested and lie is , said to have later confessed that he > shot the boy but. claimed that it was an < accident. It usually happens that about the ! time a Chap gets himself loaded with the idea that he ig the big fun of the f establishment he is fired. this?” asked Senator Waist-. “I don’t know exactly. Campion and Taylor were to finance it, and I was to pay my proportion.” Robert 8. Bright, counsel for Darden, said the land was gained as a result of a compromise with the Belgo Company which had a dispute over claims with Campion and Taylor. Darden declared he had learned through gossip two months in advance that Sin clair was to get the lease. The committee which adjourned until 10 o’clock tomorrow, expects at tomor row’s session to again question O. D. Wahlberg, former secretary to Harry F. n Sinclair, and op Friday to recall Sin clair himself. CONCORD, N. C„ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1924 ■- .• ■ ■■; ' ■ - ~ SUBMARINE SINKING \ WITTI 44 MEN ABOARD Vessel Part of Japanese Navy and Was Damaged During Maneuvers. Sasebo. Japan,' March 19 (By tlie As sociated! Press.) —The 800-Jbn subma rine 43, of the Japanese navy, collided to day with the warship Talsnta during minor maneuvers and sunk with four officers and forty men in 29 fathoms of water, 10 miles outside of Sasebo har bor. Several, hours /Inter the navy of fice ascertained that while attempt)* at rescue were proceeding, there was little hope there would he any survivors. The submarine went down suddenly after the collision.. The -13. constructed two years ago, is the second submarine of the Japanese navy lost in the past seven months, an other having Sunk oft’ Kobe last August. With Our Advertisers. The 53rd series of (he Cabarrus Coun ty I!. L. & Savings Association is now open. All slock is non-taxablc. 11. S. Ritchie, administrator of Luther Ritchie, will sell at public auction in Mt. Pleasant on Friday. March 21, a lot of personal property of the deceased. The sale will begin at 11 o'clock a. di. See notice in this paper. Music, souvenirs and fruit at the for mal opening of the Concord Furniture Company's new store this evening from , 7 to It) o'clock. The Big Anniversary Sale will start Thursday morning. Now is the lime to let Bob's Dry Cleaning Co. get your summer clothes ready for service. \V. A. Overeash has received a new shipment of Briber suit eases, hand bngs and trunks. See IV. J. Hetheox for anything eleo- I trieal. Phone (Kit). The Musette has just received the spring, and Summer line of Spalding ath letic goods. New silk material at Efird's—all shades and designs in figured .crepe de chine. Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be coffee days at' I)ove-Bost Co.'s when their demonstration of Feradell Coffee will give you au opportunity to learn about coffees. Sandwiches, relish, dress ing, etc., will be served from 10 a. m. to | 5 p. m. A safe investment is assured by the certificates of, deposit of the Citizens Bank and Trust Co. Prehistoric Skeleton Found in Side of Cliff. (By (lie AmorltirS Press.) Lewiston, Idaho, March 19.—A huge skeleton, believed to be that, of a pro historice human being, has been discov ered in the Salmon river country, south of here, byt two members of tile state highway department who have brought their find to this city. The lower jaw and vertabrn will be sent to the Smith sonian Institution at Washington. D. for analysis as triTh* probable date * ' —w- >• . The bones were found in'flic side of a cliff at, a depth estimated to be 50 feet. Nearly the entire skeleton was recover ed the excavators proceeding with mote care after determining that the find might prove to be of scientific value. Measuring more than eight feet in height and possessing numerous strange features, the skeleton has aroused wide spread interest. There physicians who examined it pronounced it to be that of a woman. Belief thnt the person wns of a her bivorous race has been expressed, ow ing to the peculiar formation of the paws and teeth. Both the upper and low er paws have only 10 teethe eneli and all are intact. For Underwood or McAdoo. Atlanta, Ga„ March 19.—Delegates to the Democratic national convention to be held at New York next June arc be ing selected by Georgia voters, in a State-wide primary today. The 24 del egates from this State will cast their votes either for Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama, nr William G. McAdoo, as the only candidates enered in the pri mary. Glorify Your Work ; Working with a hap py heart I No job is little if you but make it big. | “I thank God for an unconquerable < soul” —that is the spirit in which you s. should save or do any . other decent i thing. Whether you push the keys of n •• mises expressed by citizens as Btate motive which Chief of Police J( might have had in the alleged the shot, which ended the life of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Jones. Amid the entanglements of the situa tion several have suggested a possible agreement between the two parties something like the following: Mrs. Jones said. "You shoot me and then shoot yourself.” To this Jenkins responded. “Wo agree and I'll do it.” The woman then turned her back and the fatal shot was fired into her body. Then Jenkins left with the intention of carrying out his part of the agreement at some other place. But the second thought seized his brain and his nerve failed hint or in some way lie was restrained. An officer hero states that a rigid and searching investigation was being plan ned with tip- purpose of revealing, if possible, the maritial relations, if any. of Jenkins, and that Jenkins had reason to believe that such a course had been determined upon. It is believed by peo ple who were in close touch with the man that Jenkins and Mrs. .Tones had been considering together the disgrace that would follow an exposure of their conduct aud that tho decision between them to end it. all was the result. An insurance man here states that the second day of February this year lie wns filling out an application for in surance Tor Jenkins and in response to the question, are you married? Jenkins answered, "yes." but the insurance man to be sure asked him again the question and lie replied, "no." so the application went into the local Woodmens lodge with an untruth on its face for now Jenkins states that ho has a wife and two children at Greenville, S- C. The late Mrs. Jones when leaving home at Appalachia. Va.. stated her husband. Thomas Jones, here yesterday, had a nine-cluster diamond ling and a wrist, watch, both of which she was wearing at that time, but when she was found after death she did not have on either and neither could lie found among her belonging. As to what became of these valuable articles, both of which were gifts to her from Mr. .Tones, can not be determined nt this time by any person here. It is said Mrs. Jones was with her husband at. the homo iu Virginia about 20 days before the tragedy here which ended her life and neither she nor tile little girl even hinted a word in his presence of the alleged escapades of his wife in North Carolina. Mr. Jones and adoped daughter Pearl aceompanied the hotly to Memphis where they arrived tonight. ' Jewish Feast of Purim. New Y’ork. March 19.—Sunset this evening ushers in one of the most im portant and joyous festivals in ‘the Jew ish religion. This is the feast of Purim, which is held on the 14tli day of Adar according to the Jewish calendar. Tho events celebrated are usually be lieved to have occurred between 150 and 100 B. C. Ahasuerus. Kingof Persia, wanted another wife, and picked upon Esther, the adopted daughter of Morde cai the Jew. Later on Mordeeai fell foul of Hainan, 'the King's chief minister. Byway of revenge. Hainan persuaded the King Ito issue commands for the massacre by all tho Jews in Persia. Misled by false statements, Ahasuerus gave the order, and Hanuin then cast “lots” (purim) to decide the day upon which to carry it out. Choice fell upon the 14th day of Adar. Mordeeai, however, with Esther's help, frustrated the plot. He delivered his compatriots from their peril, slew Ha inan and his tert sons, and brought about the slaughter of some 75,000 of the enemies of the ehoson i>eople. Mordeeai then became chief minister and ordered a feast to be held every year, in thanks giving for their deliverance. This order has been faithfully obeyed through all the centuries, and Purim is the time of great rejoicing among the Jewish people all over the world. It is variously celebrated by the exchange of gifts, feasting, entertainments such as Purim plays, fireworks, and donations to the poor. Stingless Bees Appear. (By the Associated Press.) Tacoma, Wash., Mar. It).—Stingless bees now are available to add to the scientifically developed world under class—the spikeless cactus, the string less bean nnd the seedless grapefruit. The stingless bee is an exhibit shown to beekeepers in this region by E. .T. Campbell, of Tenino. Wash. The bee, which is of the Adel strain, has no of fensive armament whatever, and if at tacked has no recourse save flying away. According to Campbell, the Adel bcc is an excellent honey gatherer and a great little playmate for the children. 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