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VOLUME XXIV
Robert Franks Killed
By Two Millionaires
State’s Attorney Crowe Says
Nathan Leopold, Jr., and
Richard Loeb Confessed to
the Franks Murder. ■
PLANNED MURDER
SOMETIME AGO,
Were Not Decided on Vic
tim, However, Until Short
Time Ago, According to
Their Alleged Confession.
Chicago, 111., May 31 (By the Assoc
iated Press). —State's Attorney Robert K.
Crowe, after announcing early today that
Nathan K. Leopold, Jr., nnd Richard
Loeb, sons of millionaires, had confess
ed to the kidnapping and slaying of Rob
ert Pranks, 13 year old son of another
millionaire, declared that they said they
once had considered kidnapping a son of
Julius Rosenwald/ internationally known
philanthropist.
They planned kidnapping and murder
for ransom ns early as last November,
Mr. Crowe asserted, and until shortly
before the kidnapping had not definitely
selected a victim.
It was a spirit of adventure and a de
sire to obtain ransom that prompted
them to plan such a crime months ago.
the prosecutor said they admitted.
Jyopold was taken into custody after
ownership of a pair of spectacles found
heaer where the body of the Franks boy
had been stuffed into a railroad culvert
on the far South Side, was traced to him.
In two nights of strenuous examination
he steadfastly had denied ownership of
tße glosses, or any knowledge of the kid
napping and murder of the lad on May
21st.
■ Both Leopold and Ixieb are graduate
students at a University here. They had
nought to establish an alibi which had
withstood a pounding examination of 36
hours. A break in Leopold's composure
came when the family chauffeur, Sven
Knglund, informed Mr. Crowe that younff
Leopold's gntomobile had been in the ga
rage during the time Leopold and Loeb
said they were joy riding.
The kidnapping was carried out in ev-'
ery detail as planned, including the vic
tim’s death, Mr. Crowe said. He said
lampoid admitted writing a letter to the
father of the Franks boy, demanding $lO,-
000, and that the automobile used to j
spirit away their victim was a j-ented
ukachine.
, "The finding of the spectacles J)e*x. f
'"Boy’s body provided our ohb' tangible ■
clue," said Mr. Crowe. It was through
them that the kidnapping and slaying
were trawl to young Leopold. Mr. Crowe
said he expected to have the typewriter
used, and the clothing stripped from
young Franks by this afternoon.
"The little fellow was killed by a blow
on the head, and then strangled," the
state's attorney said. "A chisel wrapped
with tape was used to strike the blow.”
The chisen was found by Herald & Ex
aminer reporters about four blocks from
the school which the Franks boy attend- ,
ed. The state's attorney added that
ether was to be used if the boy had not
been killed as he was. This, he said,
was all explained in the confession. The
killing, the two admitted. Mr. Crowe said,
was done in an automobile of the same i
make as owned by Leopold. Leopold and ,
Loeb each accused the other of striking
the fatal blow. \
The discoloration of the boy’s lips was ,
caused by acid, the state’s attorney said.
Similar aciff, he said, was found in Leo
pold’s room. The acid was intended to
disfigure the slain boy to prevent identi
fication. M
Loeb is a son of Albert L. Loeb. mil- ,
lionaire vice president of Sears, Roebuck
& Co.
Leopold's father is n wealthy box man
v ufacturer, said to be especially well
known iu Lake shipping circles.
Both youths were together the night
of the kidnapping and after the killing
when Mrs. Franks, the mother, was call
ed to the telephone by a man who told
her her son had been kidnapped and was
safe.
The following day Mr. Crowe said,
young Loeb telephoned from a drug store j
to the Franks home, directing the method
of delivering the ransom.
Jacob Franks, father of the slain boy,
said it was difficult for him to conceive
that the two boys or any other person
had kidnapped and killed the little fel
low. He said he had just slept for the
first time in 36 hours, when awakened
and informed of the alleged confessions.
Relatives of both youthful prisoners
refused to believe the story of the state's
attorney. “That’s a lie, that boy can
not be guilty,” said Nathan Leopold, Br.
Ernest Loeb, brother of Richard Loeb,
also received the information given out
by the state's attorney with incredulity.
“It cannot be so,” he asserted. “We
know exactly where' Dick was every
hour this particular Wednesday,"
All of the kidnapped boy’s clothing
except his shoes and belt were burned
in the Loeb home, the State’s attorneys’
men allege they were told. The shoes
and belt were expected to be found in a
prairie. A robe said to have been used
to wrap about the dead boy was being
sought.
At an automobile rental agency the
State’s attorney’s men learned that Leo
pold iming the name of “Morton D. Bal
lard,” established credit on May Ist. The'
car rented on May 21 was kept 24 hours
and run 118 miles.
Young Loeb collapsed in h faint when
identified by Mrs. Gertrude Bariah, own
er of a cigar store as having gone there
with Leopold on May 22nd, the day after
the killing, and used a telephone. He
was rushed to a hospital.
In giving part details of the kidnap
ping, the state's attorney said that the
Franks boy was struck with chisel aa
the three sat in a rented automobile,
The Concord Daily Tribune
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CONFESSES TO HAVING
KILLED J. H. FLETCHER
Jim Wilson. Young Georgian. I’nder Ar
| rest at Gastonia.—Girl Mixed in the
Tragedy.
I Gastonia, May 30.—. Tim Wilson, a
I young white mmi, 22 years of age, arrest
ed here today as a suspect in the mur-
Ider of J. H. Fletcher, whose body was
found in his cabin lust Tuesday at Low
ell. confessed this afternoon to having shot
Fletcher, according to ti e officers.
Wilson -was arrested this morning ns
he Was trying to sell a single barreled
Iver-Johnsnn shotgun in a bnrbef shop
on the outskirts of the city. It had been
stolen from Fletcher's home a few days
previous tto the homicide, nnd it was the
supposition of the officers that it was the
weairon with which the crime was com-:
mitted.
, Confesses to Crime.
He denied any knowledge of the crime
at first. He was locked up to await de
velopments. Late this afternoon he con
fessed to a member of the local force, im
plicating another man. falter, before the
coroner, solicitor, sheriff and newspaper
men he made another statement, in which
he admitted that he alone was responsi
ble.
Wilson says that he was spending the
night with Fletcher, nnd that a quarrel
arose some time in the night, and that
after some words had passed, he got tip l
to go, whereupon Fletcher pulled his
pistol from beneath his pillow nnd threat
ened to shoot him. Wjlson says he back
ed into one corner of the room, picked up
the shotgun and ran from the house.
Fletcher shooting at him as he ran. He
says that he rnn around the house and
shot the old man through the hole in the
back door.
Sheriff Rhyne and Chief Adderholdt do
not believe this story. They believe the
crime hapjiened just as lias been surmiz
ed, viz.: that Wilson, knowing Fletcher
had money, went to the door, threw bricks
to arouse him, then went around to the
back door and shot him. Neighbors of
Fletecher say his gnn had been stolen
t\vo days previous.
Wilson came here from Georgia. He
says he has no relatives save a step-fath
er last known of in Augusta. He has
no steady occupation and lives anywhere.
.Story of Sordidness.
He will probably be arraigned at next
week's term of criminal court, Judge
Stack presiding.
Behind the story of the arrest and con
fession of Wilson is another story of crime
and sordid living among n certain element
in Gaston county, together with a clever
bR of defective w««k on the part of the
local police force, headed by Chief Adder
holdt.
Sunday night at one of the mills in
tlie- eastern part of the city a party of
four or five were arrested for disorderly
conduct. The woman in the case, in this
instance, a mere wisp of a girl 14 years
old, Hannah Barker by name, was con
fined in the county jail.
It has been learned from Lowell sources
that a man and a woman had spent the
night Tuesday a week ago with Fletcher.
When questioned, the Barker girl told
Chief Adderholdt that, a man named Jim
Wilson and she had spent the night with
Fletcher nnd that they had helped the old
mnn count his money.
The next step waif to find Wilson. He
was sleeping in the woods along the
Gastonia-Lowell highway, and had hid
den the gun in the woods. When he was
caught trying to sell the gun for $2.50
this morning, the net of the officers clos
ed in on him and he was taken in tow.
Got the Old Man’s Money.
The girl tells that Wilson had talked
to her of some scheme by which they
might get the old man’s money.
Wilson persists in his statement that a
quarrel between him and Fletcher preced
ed the shooting. Officials, however, be
lieve they have reconstructed the crime.
Sheriff Rhyne was the first man to dis
cover that Fletcher had been shot from
the back door of the cabin, he making
this discovery the morning after the body
was found. Up to this time the suppo
sition bad been that the shot had been
fired from the front as the man opened
the door.
It is reported here this evening that
Fletcher, known as “dad" Fletcher, has
lived and worked around Charlotte. A
Charlotte man is reported to have said
that he had seen Fletcher, in Charlotte
many times.
For more than forty years J. Henry
Blaser, a St. Louis telegrapher, has nev
er missed n day’B work or been late in
reporting.
and then a gag was thrust in the boy's
mouth, strangling him. Mr. Crowe de
clares that the solution has depended en
tirely upon the spectacles found near the
spot where the boy's body was discover
ed.
The wealthy Loeb family is very well
known. Leopold's family, Isrs rich and
less well known, nevertheless has been
prominent. Homes of both families
were great houses in the wealthy Hyde
Par(t district on the South Side, imme
diately north of the University of Chi
cago. •
Leopold’s father, on the verge of col
lapse apparently, and accompanied by
Jacob Loeb, wealthy insurance man, for
mer President of the Chicago School
Board, and uncle of Richard Loeb. went
to the state’s attorney’s office, accompa
nied by an attorney. Neither would say
anything, although the lawyers said they
had come “to find out what it is all
about.”
Leopold Sr. appeared to have aged ov
ernight, the state's attorney’s aides said.
A speedy trial for the two youths was
Indicated today by Chief Juetice Over
ly of the criminal court. Speaking from
the judicial standpoint, he said, “This
murder is no different from any other. I
•hall urge that the case go to trial as
•peedily as possible. Within 30 days
justice should be served.”
CONCORD, N. C„ SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1024
—■ ' ... gWi- -ar* —„ . ——
PICNIC WEATHER
GERALD JOHNSON WILL
TRY THE UNIVERSITY
Associate Editor of Greensboro Npws
Slated For Professor of Journalism.
Thomasville. May 30.—Gerald John
son. associate editotr of the Greensboro
News, in slated to become professor of
journalism at the University of North
Carolina, according to news received
here. His election to the position by the
board of trustees is expected. The exe
cutive committee surveyed the field and
found Johnson fitt ed it fie shoes they
wanted filled.'
Thomasville is the 'home town of
Gerald, as his home people like to call
him, and it was here that he spent his
boyhood ami did his first newspaper
work. His parents, Dr. and Mrs. Archi
bald Johnson, have their home here. No
man in newspajter work is more favor
ably recognized in the State than his
father, who. for many years, has been
editor of Charity and Children.
After graduating from Wake Forest
College, young Gerald went with the
Lexington Dispatch after a brief stay
in Thomasville. and his work 'there was
such as to attract the attention of the
Greensboro News, and for well night
ten years now he has been doing edi
torial work on that paper. He went
overseas during the war.
WOMAN IS FOUND
NUDE IN CEMETERY
Preacher Holds Back Crowd While Po
lice Wrap Blanket Around Her.
Wilmington, Del.. May 30.—Katie
Dzama, 25 years old, was ■ arrested this
noon, completely nude in a local ceme
tery.
When the police arrived several hnn
dred persons had gathered about the eem
etery and were being held back by Rev. t
Robert Bell. *
The woman had been arrested earlier in
the day in another section'of the city
for wearing only a nightgown on the
street. .
She refused to put on any clothing, and
police had to forcibly wrap her in a
blanket. She is held pending an exami
nation as to her mental condition.
Billy Sunday is Recovering From Re
moval of His Tonsils.
Rochester, Minn.. May 30.—Mrs. W.
A. Sunday, wife of the Rev. “Billy”
■Sunday, famous evangelist and former
big league Baseball p’ayer, tonight de
clared her huobnnd is recovering nicely
from a tonsil removal operation per
formed yesterday.
The kidney ailment which necessitat
ed Mr. Sunday’s cutting short his re
vival at Memphis, Tenn., and his jour
ney here 'has been entirely cured, Mrs.
Sunday said.
Today Mr. Sunday was able to take
liquid nourishment, she said, and was in
the best of spirits.
The broken pelvis which Mrs. Sunday
suffered in the fall at Memphis is so
nearly cured that she is able to walk
about, she said.
Rev- and Mrs. Sunday plan to leave
next Thursday for their home at
Winonn Lake, Ind., where they will
spend a few days nnd then go to their
ranch at Hood River, Oregon.
Dr. Trowbridge Re-Elected President
Weaver College.
Asheville, May 30. —Dr. C- H. Trow
bridge will head Weaver college again
next year as president following his re
election by 'the board of trustees at its
annual meeting yesterday afternoon.
H. A. Dunham, . Mmirman of the
' board, said today that the past year
was a most successful one and the board
> was well satisfied with the progress
made by the school.
‘ |
i In many sections of China the women
attribute magical properties for the cure
i of certain diseases to water drav?n af
i ter midnight of the seventh day of the
seventh month. j
FINALS AT DAVIDSON
TO BEGIN ON SUNDAY
Baccalaureate Set-men Wilf Be Preached
by Rev. Edward Mack—Exercises
Monday.
Davidson, May 30.—The 1023-24 ses
sion of Davidson College will end Sat
urday afternoon with the last examina
tion, and commencement exercises will
begin Sunday. Saturday will also mark
the eighty-seventh year of existence of
Davidson College.; j
Graduation exefrtaevt will begin Sun
day morning with the’ baccalaureate ser
mon by Rev. Edward Mack, D. D„ yvlio
is connected with Uyiion Theological
Seminary. Rev. J. D. Henderlite, I).
D., pastoff of the Fihst Presbyterian
Church of Gastonia, will deliver an ad
dress at the Y. M. C A. service that
evening.
Monday will be taken up with class
day exercises, a fraternity-reception in
the afternoon and a dramatic eluß presen
tation in the evening. The annual
literary address will be delivered Tues
day by Dr. W. D. Melton, who is presi
dent of the University of South Caro
lina. On the same occasion Dr. Thorn
ton Whaling, of Louisville Seminary,
wijl present literary society awards. All
of the speakers that have been secured,
for commencement exercises are well
known, and .are forceful talkers.
Seventy-three diplomas will be award
ed'to graduates of Davidson College this
year. Four students, who have com
pleted a fifth year course, will be award
ed a degree of master of arts.
.T. I. Smi(h, of Greenville. S. C., is
valedictorian, having averaged 96.32 for
his four-year course. A. M. Hillhouse,
of Waynesboro, Ga„ president of the
student body during the past year, made
j the second highest average. 85.06, and
will be salutatorian. W. M. Cox, of
Mobile, Ala., was elected by the seniors,
as elnss valedictorian. D. B. Walthall,
of Waynesboro, Va„ will act as orator,
and W. Z, Bradford, of Charlotte, is
respondent at the nlnmni banquet on
Tuesday.
Gasoline Price Drops Tlmee Cents a
Gallon in St. Paul.
St Paul, Minn.. May 30. —Gasoline
prices dropped approximately three
cents a gallon at nil filling stations in
St. Paul and Minneapolis today. Low
test gasoline sold for 18 against the
previous price of 20.9 cents and high
teat sold for 21 etgits jagbin.-t 23.9.
The reduction followed action of the
St Paul Automobile • club in selling
gasoline to its members in au attempt
to force reduction by the filling sta
tions.
The New York cotton market is closed
today.
Mrs. J. Edward Johnston Left Estate of
60 Millions to Husband and 5 Chihldren
Winston-Salem, May 30.—Mrs. J. Ed
ward Johnston, who died in a New York
hospital last Friday night, left an estate,
variously estimated at from 50 to 60 mil
lion dollars, to her husband and five chil
dren, each sharing alike. Mrs. Johnston’s
will, which was probated here toiday, was
executed in New York in March of this
year and her husband, J. Edward John
ston, is named as executor of the estate
ill North Carolina, while the husband and
the Safe Deposit aud Trust company, of
Baltimore, are named as joint executors
of the estate outside of the state.
The will provides that the husband's
| share in the estate be delivered to him at
onte, without any conditions or reserva
tions attached. The stares of the chil
dren are to be held iu trust for them dur
ing their lives.
i Mrs. Johnston also provided that one
LIMITED PARKING ADVISED
TO SOLVE TRAFFIC JAMS
(By the Associated Press.)
Discontinuance of Parking Cars in Con
gested Districts Recommended.
Albany, May 31. —Traffic experts of
■ New York state have recommended the
discontinuance of parking cars in con
gested districts as a relatively easy
solution of the< automobile problem. The
immediate question confronting cities is
to fit ttigffic to the streets, they declare,
• The* end be done -srrt4t- GlVte. expense
and delay by proper control of park
' ing. The ultimate problem is to fit the
1 street to traffic, which will cost much
money.
"Eventual prohibition of parking
must come,” the report of the experts
says, “in view of the fact that traffic
will continue to increase and that at
: tempts to relieve congestion by parking
i time limitations, traffic diversion and
. other restrictions do not and can not
satisfactorily and finally care for the
interests of the public generally, the
merchant and the automobile owner.
“Those who have, studied the auto
. mobile traffic problem are agreed that
streets are arteries of traffic and thnt
moving vehicles should have preference
over standing vehicles."
1 BURTON WILL MAKE
NOMINATION SPEECH
President of University of Michigan Will
Put President’s Name Before Conven
tion.
tßv the Associated Press.)
Washington, May 31.—Marrion L.
Burton, president of the University of
Michigan, probably will place President
Coolidge in nomination at the Republi
eah national convention.
Selection of Dr. Burton, a long time
friend of the President, is understood
tot have been virtually agreed upon by
William M. Butler, in charge of the
Coolidge campaign, and his associates.
A formal announcement is expected be
fore Mr. Butler leaves Washington to
morrow for Cleveland.
Japanese Protest Delivered.
(By the Associated PrAn.)
Washington. May 31.—Ambassador
Hanihara, acting on instructions from
his government, today delivered to Sec
retary Hughes the protest made by the
■ Japanese government against the exclu
sion provision of jhe new immigration
act. Neither the ambassador nor the
■ secretary wonld make any statement.
Muscle Shoals to Come Up Monday.
Washington, May 31. —The Muscle
Shoals issue will not come up on the
Senate floor before Monday, Chairman
|. Norris, of the Senate agriculture com
mittee, Raid today.
tenth of the income from the estate be
expended by the trustees for religions and
charitable purposes.
The following legacies were named by
Mrs. Johnston in her will: To George
Orr. manager of the estate, $10,000: to
A. C. Wharton, superintendent of Rey
nolda, Inc., $10,000; to Miss Blanch
Gunn, secretary to Mr. Orr. $2,000; to
Miss Kate Kurreskchke, stenographer,
$1,000; to Miss Emma Howison, house
keeper, S3OO. Otter household servants
were remembered in gifts of from SSOO
to SI,OOO. Miss Henrietta Vandenberg.
» nurse who has been in the employ of
Mrs. Johnston for several years, will re
ceive an annuity of SI,OOO a year during
her life. Mr. and- Mrs. Zachary 'Smith,
of Mount Airy, parents of Mrs. Johnston,
will each receive $2,000 annually dur
ing their respective lives.
FEAR BIILDING BOOM
HAS PASSED ITS CREST
Monthly Review Issued by the Fifth Fed
eral Reserve District.
(By the Asaaeinted I'rcxx)
Richmond. Va.. May 30. —1 t would be
a difficult task to point out a definite
trend of business development in the,
Fifth Federal Reserve District since the
middle of April; according to the month
ly Review issued by the Federal Reserve
Bank here. However, the review explains
that on the whole available evidence
shows that further hesitancy and slack
ening in the activities of the business
world is apparent. Part of the decrease
is attributed to seasonal conditions, es
pecially the full period following the pre-
Easter weeks, and to the uncertainty
about future prospects.
The review maintains, that the prosper
ity in the District during the past 18
months had been due to the activities
in the building industries and the improv
ed financial conditions of the farmers. It
also states that there are fears that the
building boom has passed its crest and
(mints out that there is no certainty that
1!124 will be as satisfactory a year as was
F. 123 for the farmers of tile Fifth Feder
al Reserve District.
Reviewing business statistics for April,
reiiorts front regularly reporting mem
bers show reduction in outstanding
loans to customers and in re-discounts at
the Reserve Bank, both reductions be
ing contrary to average seasonal de
mands for credit,” says the review. "De
mand deposits also decline during April.
Time deposits in reporting member
banks, however, and deposits in mutual
savings bunks gained in comparison with
March totals. The Federal Reserve
Bank's total rediscounts for all member
banks declined slightly during April, an
other movement counter to the expected
seasonal trend. Debits to individual ac
counts in clearing house banks in 23 of
the District's leading cities showed sub
stantial decrease during the four weeks
enAng May 7 of this year in comparison
with the preceding four weeks and with
the corresponding weeks of 1023,
"Business failures in the Fifth Dis
trict were more numerous than in either
March this year or April last year, and
the total of liabilities involved was also
greater than during April 1023. though
much less thau in March 1023 when a
single corporation failed for approxi
mately $40,000,000,
“The labor situation in the District is,
on the whole, satisfactory, except in the
matter of farm labor. In all other lines
the supply and demand are reasonably
near a balance, and consequently no
shortage or surplus of any importance
exists. Coal mines are producing less
than at any previous period on record,
excepting times of general strikes, but
customers’ needs are being supplied
promptly. Textile mills have curtailed
runuing time very materially in the ab
sence of forward orders, and are mark :
la* time until it- 'becomes possible td
judge the prospects for the 1024 cotton
crop with some degree of accuracy.
"Cotton prices fluctuate from day to
day, but the fluctuations are between nar
row limits, and during the past month
quotations have been higher thau dur
ing . the same period last year. April
consumption of cotton was somewhat
greater than had been expected in view
of widespread reports of curtailment in
operating time at the mills, but the
amount of cotton consumed was about 17
per cent, less than the number of bales
used in April 1023.
“Agriculture is getting away tto a late
start, due to an unusually wet spring,
but agricultural experts think that the
outlook for the season is fairly good, and
prospects for fruit are the best in several
years.
“New construction is bolding up in a
remarkable volume, both the number of
permits issued and the estimated valua
tion in the Fifth District during April
being greater than any other month on
record, except April 1023.
“Retail trade was better in April than
in April 1023, but improvement was
chiefly due to the lateness of Easter this
year. Wholesale trade in April was
better than in April 1023 in groceries,
shoes, furniture, and drugs, but was
less in dry goods and hardware. Collec
tions were distinctly harder to make
during April than during the correspond
ing month last year, judging from re
ports sent in by 103 wholesale firms.”
,1. T. STAINBACK. OF
ROANOKE RAPIDS. DEAD
Was Editor and Manager of the Roa
noke Rapids Herald.
(By (he AMoelMted Press!
Henderson. N. C„ May 31.—J. T.
Stainback. 26 years old, editor and man
ager of the Roanoke Rapids Herald, died
at his home in Roanoke Rapids at 5
o'clock this morning, according to mes
sages received here today. Acute indi
gestion was believed to have been the
cause of death.
Mr Stainback was associated with
State Senater W. L. Etmg in publica
tion of the newspaper. He is survived
by his widow, four children, and his
father. C. E. Stainback, the latter of
Henderson.
Trial Board Gets Bishop Brown Case.
Cleveland, 0., May 31 (By the Asso
ciated Press). —The charges against
Bishop William M. Brown, of uttering
doctrine outside that held by the Protes
tant Episcopal Church was given to the
trial board of the House of Bishops to
day. Arguments of attorneys wound up
the proceedings after Bishop Brown had
corrected his admission of heresy on di
rect examination yesterday.
Deported Belgians Lose Suit.
Geneva, Switzerland, May 31 (By the
Associated Press). —The monster collect-!
ive damage suit brought by the German
government by 80,000 Belgians who were
deported for forced labor into Germany
during the war, which has been on trial
here for the past three months before
tha mixed German arbitration tribunal,
has been lost-hy the plaintiffs.
According to a CaechO-Slovakian super
stition, if when a traveller sets out on a
journey, you stock Mm with round cook
ies, he will surely return.
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NO. 126
DAUGHERTY HEARING
TAI^rJHNAS
Tries to talk
A. L. Fink, Who Introduced
Senator Wheeler to Roxie
Stinson, Demanded That
Committee Hear Him. 1
SAID WHEELER GOT
LIQUOR FROM WOMAN
This Senator Wheeler De
nied Later—Senator Lodge
and Gaston B. Means Oth
er. Witnesses Heard.
(By the Amoelnled Press!
'Washington D. C., May 31.—s
A. 1,. Fink, who first introduced Sen
ator Wheeler to Roxie Stinson, suddenly
became the center of a new outburst of
fireworks today in the Senate Daugherty
investigation, while Gaston B. Means was
rounding out his long story of under-cov
er transactions and investigations extra
ordinary. -
Bursting into the committee proeeedure
without invitation. Fink said he wanted
to testify how Senator Wheeler “got
booze for Roxie Stinson” and how Frank
A. Vanderlip offered him moDey to give
perjured testimony.
The committee prosecutor himself was
not present, but Chairman Brookhart re
stored silence with the aid of the police,
and Fink departed. lat ter. Senator
Wheeler asked that he be recalled, but he
could not be located, and the Senator
announced his opinion that Fink was
“just a liar” brought in by the Daugher
ty attorneys ns a part of a "frame up.”
Means took the stand after Senator
Henry Cabot Itodge had appeared volun-'
tarily to directly deny any inference in
previous testimony that he had been
concerned in scuring a whiskey permit
for a New York firm. Means later reit
erated that he had not charged any
wrojig-doing on the part of the Massachu
setts Senator.
Repeating under cross examination his
story of how he passed on SIOO,OOO to
Jess Smith for the Hitsui company, which
was interested in the Standard Aircraft
claims. Means declared he did not con
sider at the time whether the transaction
was illegal
At the end of Means' cross examina
tion. CVtrirman Brokhart announced that
the deriretr to MUtP (Witter At
torney General Daugherty next Friday.
Porter Man’# Honey Disappeared Sud
denly.
Porter, May 30.—One of oar neigh
bors, who worked in town, was one eve
ning homeward bound, when a young
fellow of a dusky hue accosted him say
ing. “Howdy do. Boss, how about a
ride?” as he the vacant back seat spied.
Onr friend said. "Howdy do. Y’es, I
will be glad to accommodate you.” Oil
his way home he stopped some honey
to buy. this is all the truth, it is no
lie: in the rear of the car the honey
was set. Now the youth thought some
honey I must get as on their way they
went, an odor of honey to the front was
sent. Tire odor became more strong,
our friend said something is wrong.
Then this question he asked the youth,
“Are you eating my honey, now telj the
truth?” “Oil no boss.” the youth re
plied. but a light revealed that the fel
low had lied, for in his hand honey was
found and from his fingers honey was
running down. Now our friend is no
cursing man. I admit, but his next words
I must omit. Out in the road the fel
low was put and given a good start by
our friend’s big foot. Is this the way
you a kindness repay? You will re
member this next kick for many a day.
With Our Advertisers.
The entire stock of the Browns-Can
non Co. is being offered at the reduced
sale prices.
All kinds of tools for . every purpose
at the Rltchie-Caldwell Co.
You can use your idle dollars at four
per cent, at the Cabarrus Savings Bauk.
Electric fixtisres of character fur
nished by W. J. Hethcox.
The New York Case is now under new
management. Special chicken dinner ev
ery Sunday. See menu for tomorrow
in ad. in this paper.
The Studebaker won second place in
the Indianapolis speed contest yesterday.
Overcash’s sale started off with a
rush. See some very low prices on shirts
and suits in new ad. today.
You can create a reserve fund by op
ening au interest account of one dollar
or more at the Citizens Bank and Trust
Co.
Robinson's iR having a sale of tub silk
dresses at $6.60.
You can cook a full meal with 25
minutes of gas if you use a Chambers
Fireless Gas Range, wihich cooks with
the gas turned off. See the Concord and
Kannapolis Gas Co., and be shown how.
Queen Marie, of Roumania, has writ
ten and published several novels.
WHAT SHITTY'S WEATHER CAT
HATS
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Partly cloudy tonight; Sunday, little
change in temperature.