wmw«p « 9 v ' • ASSOCIATED * • PRESS • DISPATCHES < VOLUME xxiv HU FISK STONE SELECTED US HEW ITTORHEVGEHEU Announcement of Selection Made by President Cool idge Following a White House Conference. STONE FORMERLY LAW SCHOOL DEAN Witness at Daugherty Hear ing Says He Believes That Daugherty and Others Can Be Indicted. (By the ANMocinted Press.) Washington. April 2.—Harlan Fiske Stone, of New York, Ims been selected by President Coolidge as Attorney Gen eral. He was until recently dean of Co lumbia Cniversity Law School. Mr. Stone was a breakfast guest of the President, and was presented by Mr. Coolidge to a group of senators called to the White House to discuss the legis lative situation. Mr, Stone had served since 11)10 as dean of the Columbia Cniversity law schools, and recently resigned to become an active member of the New York law tiriu of Satterlee, Canfield & Stone. He received his law education at Amherst and Columbia, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1898. He is a direct or of ti e Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railroad Co., and other corporations, and is a republican, although he never has taken a leading paid in politics. He is a native of New Hampshire. Thinks Daugherty Can Bp Convicted. Washington. April 2.—Continuing his complaints about the failure of the Jus tice department to prosecute various war fraud eases, H. 1.. Scaife, once a De partment investigator, told the Daugherty investigating committee today that in his opinion Harry SI. Daugherty, Secretary John W. Weeks, and others ought to be indicted in the Wright-Martin aircraft case. The witness came to the Wright- Martin case after he had renewed his charges regarding the sale of the Bosch Slagneto Company and had declared that on the very day the army airship Roma j was destroyed at Norfolk in 1921, he | hud tried to start a department of Jus- | sfep LhfUiry into that subject, bat had i itCEs-ms judgment,' T^catJe’ sitTffTniat ' the Wright-Martin case was one “catting | for indictments.’* Pressed by Senator I Moses, of New Hampshire, lie named Secretary Weeks, former Attorney Gen eral Daugherty. Charles Hayden, chair- I man of the Wright-Martin board, and | Guy D. Goff, former assistant attorney i general, as those who should be indict- 1 od. The indictments, the witness said, should be drawn up. “on charges of con spiracy to defraud the (.*, S. govern ment.” “Hut all of these facts,” Sepator Mos es said,, "concern things which took place in 1918 and 1919, and when Mr. Weeks was not Secretary of War." “lint these letters were written after that, ' said the witness, referring to the I correspondence about proposed prosecu tions. Scaife said his investigation into the Wright-Martin case was completed, and tlie matter ready for suit before he left the Department of Justice, but that “they I refused to briug suit.” Verdict in *IO.OOO Libel Suit Is Won By Defendant. Charlotte, April I.—Finding no evi dence of malice through the fault of charges uttered, a jury in Mecklenburg county Superior court today returned a verdict for the defendant in the libel suit for SIO,OOO brought by P. K. Tucker, former local Textile Union of ficial. against Henry Entough, organiz- j er of the United Textile Workers of | America. Originally the textile union was made I a party to the suit with Entough, but a demurrer was entered and sustained by an appeal to the state Supreme court. The Concord National Bank I UK m- HI * 1 mMm NEW SAVINGS QUARTER ... ; Did You Ever Notice That people with money in the bank have a certain air of inde pendence? Start saving and experience that same feeling of independ ence. If you will call at our Savings Window and obtain a “MONEY BARREL” you will soon ba on the road to success. IThe Concord Daily Tribune OIL! OIL! OIL! ltffrgfst. Subject for Discussion in America Ttoda.v. Washington, D. C\. April 2.—The biggest subject of discussion in America today is represented in a little word of three letters—Oil,. Everywhere the earth is being searched for oil. Every day immense fortunes are being smeared I with oil. Tlie latest commission ap , pointed by the President is one to as certain the best menus cf conserving the nation'* oil. “A world revolution in three letters.” Sc John D. Rockefeller once described the oil that has floated him to his many millions. In the days of our grandfathers pe troleum was practically unknown te us except as a medicine or chemical agent. Today it floods the whole world wilh light; tens of thousands of houses and buildings are being heated with it ; it is the world’s great, motive power on sea and land and in the air: and in a hundred forms it plays a vital part in the world's industries. Curiously enough, petroleum was bet ter known thousands of years ago than in the early part of last century. The men who built the walls of Babylon and Nineveh made their mortar from it; Herodotus saw pitch drawn from a lake in Zacynthus f>oo years before Christ was cradled; the holy fires of Baku, worshipped countless centuries ago, weer nothing but blazing oil: and the North American Indians were drawing it from the earth long before the coming of Co lumbus. Everybody thought Colonel Drake had gone “clean crazy” when one day. in 1859, he set forth to what later became known as the Oil Creek region in Penn sylvania on his absurd quest of oil, of. which he knew nothing except that it was tlie basis of a liniment made by a New York firm of druggists. With “Tineeum Bill,” a salt-well bor er, as assistant, be put down his first drill on the first of July: and on the morning of August 30th, having left the work the night before with the drill down nearly 70 feet and still no oil in sight, lie found to his delight that the well was full of oil. Not long after Drake's sensational I discovery, the “Funk” well was gushing forth at the rate of 1.000 barrels a day, and Farmer Funk fould himself a mil lionaire within a month. Soon the “Phillips” well on the Tara farm was spouting at the rate of 2.000 barrels daily, and gold was pouring into Jim Tarr's coffers at an amazing rate. And still more romantic was the experience of the famous “Coal Oil Johnny" and of Jim Sherman, who bought a lease of the Foster farm for SSOO, struck oil al most immediately, and within a few years saw his SSOO converted into mil i lions. Such are a few of the romantic I stories of the cradling of this gigantic j industry, which In United States | .Sc,rm - t IrStO-UiUWotls .gallons ' a day, and made multi-millionaires of | dozens of men. I In more than a dozen states today j the earth is yielding oil in tens of mil -1 lions cf barrels yearly. Similar re- Iservoirs are being tapped in Canada and Australia, India anil South Africa, Per | sia and Japan. From the crude petroleum thus yield ed by the earth for man’s use we get material for lighting, cooking and gas making; lubricating oils; paraffin for candles, for chewing gum, and other pur poses; vaseline and a dozen similar salves and ointments that the druggist sells; and fuel for engines of all kinds. It is the motive power of incalculable millions of motor vehicles: of every ma chine that flies: and of large fleets of vessels, from motorboats to trans-Atlan tic liners. So fast is the supply of petroleum that the pipe lines in America alone, which carry it from the wells to central points for storage or to refineries, are more than long enough to girdle the earth at the equator. Bones of Earthquake Vietlms Cast Asliore by Japanese Gales. Tokio, Japan, April 2.—During heavy storms which have whipped the eastern coast of Japan recently, scores of bodies and many bones, believed to be those of victims of the September earthquake, have been washed ashore at Koyasn, a summer resort and fishing village near S Yokohama, according to Japanese corre | spondents. Many of these bodies are believed to !be those of Koreans nr supposed Ko i reans who were killed by the fisherfolk of this and neighboring villages during the panic succeeding'the earthquake. Evangelistic Services Be Concluded Tonight i Last of Services in Trinity Reformed Church Will Be Conducted by Dr. Charles Schaeffer. CANNOTSERVE TWO MASTERS Character of Elijah Subject of Sermon Tuesday Night. —Must Choose Whom Is To Be Served. Tomorrow will be the last day of (his series of services, said Dr. Schaeffer, in introducing his sermon Tuesday night in Trinity Reformed Church. Let us make it tlie crowning day of all. Dr. Scl-aeffer, then announced his subjects for today: 1 "How to Meet Modern Temptation.”- at the 3 o'clock service, and "The New | Church in the New Day” at the night service. Mrs. Worn bio has the best song service of all for tonight, a chorus by the choir, a chorus of mens' voices aud a solo. r Dr. Schaeffer spoke on the character of Elijah. Text: I Kings 18:21, “Ildw long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow Him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The sermon was as I dramatic as the scene from which the* ■ text is taken. He spoke in part as fol- j. lows: Elijah was one of those strange, mys'- t terious characters who came unherald ed. appeared suddenly on the scene and as suddenly disappeared. We know noth ing of his ancestors, nothing of his childhood, lis boyhood, his youth. He was a full grown man when lie appeared in the court of Ahab. , He was a very striking figure. His hair was long anil j wavy as a lion's mane. His clothing I was the rough camel’s hair cloak thrown about his loins. His face and body was tanned. All at once this strange, mys-1 terious person appears in the court of | Ahab. His message is just as abrupt, i just as mysterious: "As Jehovah. tlie| God of Israel liveth. before whom I , stand, there shall not be dew nor rain' these years, but according to my word." Ahab. son of Omri, was a weak vasei lnting King over Israel. He sought an alliance with the Sidonians. He made a most unfortunate alliance in marrying the daughter of the King of tlie Sidon ians. Her name was Jezebel. That name is significant. It is a corruption of Baal ! —Baal was tlie male god of the Sidon ians. The female was Astiierolh. Tlie religion was an appeal to the excessive, seifcnah ntdtdgenees; lefi’ij jTieehtlons anjif degrading Ahnd not only got Jezebel and her household furniture but he got her gods, her idols. She brought with her | 45 priests and they ate at her table. He had to make groves for her heathen religion. He got his hands full when lie got her. Two types of religion, the religion of Jehovah God and tlie religion of Baalim cannot be observed in the same house, nor remain in the same country. Tlie people had come to the place where they were halting, undecid ed. Then suddenly as a bolt of lightning out of a clear sky Elijah appeared in Ahab's court and made the strange an nouncement. Elijah fled to a brook where the rav ens fed him and he drank of the brook till it dried up. Then he went ,to a poor widow and asked her for her last cake of bread. She gave and God mul tiplied that cake to the feeding of her- i self, her son and the Prophet for a long time. There was no rain, no dew. Soon the tiny rivulets died up. then the brooks, aud the rivers. The land was parched. And the King began to say “Where is that troubler of Israel?” God told Elijah to go back. lie called the people to meet on Mt. Carmel. The priests of Baal were invited. The propo sition was that the priests of Baal would offer a sacrifice and he would offer n haerifiee and the God that would ans wer by fire would be God. The priests of Baal accepted the challenge for Baal was the sun-god. They were given the j first chance. They cried, they cut them selves. and for all that Baal did not answer. Surely the noonday Baal would (Continued on Page Five) Your OWN home is the place ho raise children Maybe you have the wrong idea Some.people think that we are trying to serve only those who are planning homes. • Thnt’s not correct. 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C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1924 .♦ LENOIR-RHYNE PLAN'S FOB NEW DORMITORY Architect Submits Plans For Girls’ Dormitory. 10-Aere Tract is Purchased. Hickory. April 1. —At a meeting of the board of trustees of Lenoir-Rhyne college, plans for a new girls' dormitory were submitted b,v George C. Mnum. of Philadelphia architect for the college, and members of the board state that actual work of construction will begin at once. The new dormitory will ac commodate 109 girls ami will be modern and fireproof throughout. Bed rooms will be large and well ventilated with hot and cold running water. Tlie plans for an infirmary to he provided in one wing of tlie new dormitory and glass en closed sunpai'lors in both wings. The building committee presented architects’* plans for renovating Higli - land hall. The trustees neeepted the l plans and instructed the committee to proceed with work at once. I J. A. Moretz. chairman of the com mittee to secure additional ground for the college, reported flic purchase of a 10-acrc tract known as the old athletic field, and the possession of an option son another 7-nerc tract' adjoining the campus. His committee was instructed to 'purchase the 7-acre tract at once. This additional 17 acres increases the land holding of the edllege to .‘{9 acres. J The college finance committee was in , structed by the trustees to make all nacessary arrangements for additional I building operations to take place in the near future. INCREASE IN ESTATE TAX UNPOPULAR WITH MELLON Secretary of Treasury Denounces In crease as Made by tlie House as “Economic Suicide.” (By the Associated Press.) Washington. April 2. —The increase in tlie estate tax rates made in the reve nue bill by the House, was denounced ! today by Secretary Mellon before the , Senate finance committee as “economic ■ suicide.” ' The estate tax is a levy on capital ; primarily, and carried to an excess differs in no way froth the "revolution ists of Russia." Mr. said. He argued that this form of taxation should be left principally to the states. McNAIRY-HAUGEN BILL IS OPPOSED BY TARIFF EXPERT Member of Tariff Commission Says Rill Would Be Exceedingly Difficult to Ad minister. (By the A«sqeM|rd fret*. 1 Washington, April 27—Chairman Mar vin of the tariff commission, appearing today before the House ways aud means committee, declared that the McNairy- Haugen agricultural export bill, as in troduced, would open up a wide field of government supervision and control thal it would be exceedingly difficult to ad minister. Davis Would Not Sacrifice Practice. Washington. April- I.—John W. Davis, former Ambassador to Great Britain, whose availability for the Democratic nomination for President has been widely discussed, has written a friend in the Senate rejecting any sug gestion that, he drop his present legal connections in order to strengthen his political position. “Any lawyer who surrenders his in dependence by trimming his professional course to fit guests of popular opinion in my judgment, not only dishonors himself, hut degrades his great profes sion.” the letter said. “I tell you in candor that I would not pay this price for any honor in the gift of man.” Twenty Drowned by Bridge Collapse. (By (he Associated Press.) Madrid, Spain, April 2.—At least. 20 persons were drowned in the collapse of a bridge over the Guadalaquivir river, near the village of Algaba, in Seville, on [ Sunday, according to details of tlie ac cident received here today. Tlie longest jump on record is report oil in Chicago. A man jumped bail in 1910 and only recently landed in jail. MEANS OF SPEEDING UP LEGISLATION IK SENATE DISCUSSED Matter Came Before Break fast Conference Held at White House With Many Leaders Present. PRESIDENT GOES OVER SITUATION Matter of Appointing Suc cessor to Daugherty Also Came Up—The President Wants Action Now. (By (lie Associated Press.) Washington. April 2.—Moans of speeding up legislation in the Senate were considered at a White House breakfast conference today attended by about n dozen Republican senators. President Ooolidge went over with his guests the entire situation and an en deavor was made to map out a program for the remainder of the session similar to that agreed upon last week by the executive and republican of the House. While the conference was concerned primarily with legislative matters the President is understood to also have sought the advice of the senators with respect to appointment of a new attor ney general. After the conference, it was learned that this appointment might be announced at any time. The conference today was the first of its kind held by the President, although from time to time he has invited indi vidual senators to confer with him on particular measures before the Senate. MAYOR OF WINSTON-SALEM MARRIED IN NEW YORK Mayor James G. Haynes and Miss Mary Walton Ruffin Married at Hotel Am bassador. (By the Associated Press.) New York. April 2—Miss Mary Wal ton Ituffin. daughter of the late W. O. Ruffin, of Winston-Salem. N. 0.. and granddaughter of the late Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin, of Winston-Salem, was married to James (Jordon Hanes, mayor of Winston-Salem, last night at the Am bassador Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Hanes sailed today on the steamship Paris on their w'‘(filing trip. income And profit taxes SHOW INCREASE FOR YEAR Bulk of First Quarterly Payment Ag gregated $480,000,000, an Increase Over Last Year. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, April 2.—Collections of income and profit taxes, the bulk of the first quarterly payment on last year's' incomes and profits, aggregated approxi mately .$480,000,000, or about $17,000,- 000 greater than collections in the same period last year. Baby is Bom on Southern Train. Danville, Vn.. April I.—The infant son of Mrs. J. F. King, of High Point, X. C., will be entitled to e’nihi birth in North Carolina and Virginia. The lusty youngster was ushered into ex istance at an early hour this morning on the Southern's fast north bound, ex press speeding between Pelham, X. C„ and Danville, Va. A hurry call was sent on arrival here for a doctor and an am biance. The train being delayed pending their arrival. Mrs. King and her baby were re ported at the hospital where they were taken, as doing well. Mrs. King was on her way, from High Point to Norfolk. T. W. Dixon Dead. (By the Assoelated Press.) Charlotte. April 2.—T. W. Dixon, of Charlotte, secretary of the Carolinas Hardware Association, died suddenly this morning in an uptown drug store as a result ol' a heart attack. WHAT SAT'S BEAR SAYS. m Fair and continued cold with frost to night ; Thursday fair and farmer. PIEDMONT TODAY AND TOMORROW WILLIAM FOX Presents BESSIE LOVE —lN— “Gentle Julia” From the Novel by Booth Tark ington Bessie created quite a furore by her characterization in “Human Wreckage" and, according to advance reports, she handles this Tarkington role in a manner that invokes even higher praise than her I previous effort. Julia was a girl who I could have any man but the one she I wanted. And sbe thought sbe had him I —until she found out he was married. It’s a typical Tarkington tale. ANOTHER DEATH OCCURS IN' SCBI'KI! OF CHICAGO Killing Broke Morning Quiet Following Stormy Village Election T