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0 ASSOCIATED • 0 PRESS • • DISPATCHES • <»***••**• VOLUME XXV Solons Await Message From Governor-Elect Believed ThatlNo Really Im portant Laws Will Be Made Until Mr. McLean Has Made Recommendations. REVENUEMLL IS TO COME FRIDAY Other Important Bills Have Been 'Presented But There Is Little Prospect of Ac tion On Them Now. (By fee AMMtaM Press., Raleigh, Jan. 12.—Beginning with what are exepeted to be brief sessions! of the Senate and House tonight at 8 o’clock the general assembly will enter the second week of the 1925 biennial session. Members who spent the week end at their homes throughout the state, were returning today to be on hand for tonight’s sitting. The opinion is expressed by many of members remaining over in Raleigh for the week-end, that the enactment of really important legislation may not be expected before the general assembly hears the new governor’s recommenda tions. After his first formal message to the law making body which will like ly be delivered between his inauguration Wednesday and February Ist there will be conferences between the executive and" members of various legislative commit tees. Several important bills, however, al ready have been introduced. One that will likely call forth much debate is the King bill designed to repeal the exemp tion on foreign stocks. Then there has been placed in the hopper a bill designed to regulate commercial motor traffic. The Poole bill, designed to bar teaching of evolution in the public schools is with the committee on education and may be reported out soon. This, as it has noth ing to do with what are generally known as policies, is expected to call for no par ticular lineup. Just wliat turn the dis cussions might take may not be subject to much expressed opinion. The new revenue bill is expected to be ready by Friday of this week. This bill will be submitted to the State budget commission which after recess of nearly two weeks will meet again on Tuesday in the governor’s office. The revenue bill is being drafted by the State board of ssesssments, eomposeu of R. A. Cfrolrna Corporation Confftiliisfon, and James ;8. Manning, the attorney general. The law requires that the revenue bill be drafted within ten days after, con vening of the general assembly. In drawing the new bill the framers are said to have discarded the idea of any sales tax to raise additional reve nues. The inauguration of Governor McLean will be one of the most important events, of the week. The ceremonies incident! to this will take up nearly all of Wed-1 nesday beninng at noon. Members of> the general assembly will meet in their i respective halls and then go to the audi-| torium where the new governor and other elected State officers will take the oath. Although the new executive generally touches upon the policies in his inaugural address, this is not what i» termed a "message to the general assembly" in the strictest terms. There will be a meeting of the house committees on courts and judicial dis tricts tomorrow, at which time definite action is expected looking toward a mea sure to increase the number of superior court judges and increasing the number of judicial districts. There will be a joint session of the . House and Senate tomorrow for the pur pose of declaring the results of the 1924 elections. The electors chosen to cast the State's vote for John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan for President and Vice President were called to meet in Ra leigh at noon today. Want Jobs as State Poieanem. (By the Associated Press.) Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 12.—Applications for jobs as state policemen have already begun to come in. The first, rcceivede at the office of the secretary of state, was from Rosemary. The applicant, knowing that a bill for the establishment of a State- constabulary will likely be intro duced if a favorable report is made by the commission studying Jhis question, gives his course at a school for detectives as reference. “I am a graduate detec tive,” he writes, “I am now jußt after today making my inspection with your divisional officers on the farm. “I can identify any man or anyone any tin* be might escape from your farm. 1 am now employed but will accept a job with you as a guard and I will prove my work.” “Yours truly, “L. W. E.” “P. 8. In answer kindly refer to the number in upper left hand corner of this letter. Thanks.” More than fifty per cent of all the rubber tires fn the world are produced by the factories of Arkon, O- CENTRAL and ST. CLOUD BARBER SHOPS Will Raise Prices, Going Into Effect Monday, January 12, 1925: All 35 Cant Jobs to 40 Cants All 65 Cant Jobs to 75 Cents Neck Shave f Cent* Extra Mustache Trim 10 Cent* Shaves 80c The Concord Daily Tribune - ' , . - -i t ... - ♦ ; FURNACE MYSTERY IS DISCUSSED BY PASTOR I Rev. Mr. Slieafeley Breaks Silence Re garding Cremation of Wife in Fur nace. Columbus, Ohio. Jan. 11.—Anonymous letters, purporting to have been written by members of his congregation today caused Rev. C. V. Sheatsley, pastor of Christ Lutheran church, of Bexley, to ! discuss before his congregation the mys terious cremation of his wife in the fur ' nace of the parsonage on November 17. It was the first time the pastor had mentioned the tragedy since resuming his pulpit. "Several anonymous letters, purport ing to have been written by members of my congregation," the Rev. Mr. Slients j ley declared, “have asked me why we have not mentioned the tragedy that took place in onr home.” This statement brought Rev. Dr. Ed-, ward Pfeiffer, professor of Capital uni versity, where the Rev. I>r. Sheatsley is professor of religion, to his feet with an appeal for the pastor to discontinue his remarks. “This congregation has gone on record ns expressing absolute confidence in the innocence of our pastor and of every member of his family. I, personally, was dissuaded with difficulty from offering a reward of SI,OOO for information leading to the conviction of any person or per sons guilty in this affair. What do the people want? Did our resolution have no weight?” Dr. Pfeiffer declared. Columbus newspapers have printed a number of letters bearing on the Sheats ley furnace mystery, many of them de nouncing the pastor and members of his family for not offering a reward for a solution of the mystery. It was publica tion of these letters and others, written directly to the pastor, that caused him to discuss the matter before his congrega tion. The Rev. Mr. Sheatsley stood silently, and with bowed head, while Dr. Pfeiffer talked, theft answered: * “Dr. Pfeiffer has misunderstood me. It is I, not the congregation, who has been questioned. . I wish to ask my con gregation to wait in patience until the rigid and thorough investigation now be ing conducted by the regularly constitut ed authorities iB completed and their findings made public, and I wish all of you to rest easy in the confidence that ythen findings are made public, neither I Bor any member of my family will be in any way criminally implicated.” The pastors’ last remark* were diT*et- HW W* HtwT MPHT that County Prosecutor King hall sub mitted evidence gather#! By his investi gators before a grand Jury. Mrs. Adie Sheatßley’s body was found in the furnace of the Bexley parsonage late in the afternoon of November 17 when the minister returned from town. A coroner made a! preliminary exami nation and expressed belief that the wo man was a suicide. Prosecutor King, j however, was not satisfied with the de letion and began an investigation which I lasted for several days. Failure to un cover any new information led him to ac- Icept the coroner’s official suicide verdict, j IVoscentor King would not discuss the I evidence alleged to have been presented to the grand jury. ENGLAND AND FRANCE ARE AGAIN FOG-BOUND Number of Street and Rail Accidents Oc cur in London and Paris. London, Jan. 12 (By the Associated Press. —London is again fog-bound-. The worst fog in many years yesterday caus ed a number of street accidents and some deaths. Traffic stopped almost entirely. There were numerous cillisions between buses in which passengers were injured. Causes Wrecks in Paris. Paris, Jan. 12.—Three rear-end train collisions occurred in the Paris railroad yards this morning during one of the heaviest fogs France has ever experienc ed. Nine persons were slightly hurt in one of the collisions. To Study Problem of Distribution. Washington, D. C., Jan. 12.—A nation wide investigation intended to clarify problems of distribution is to be launch ed at the first meeting of the National : Conference on Distribution, which will open in this city Wednesday and will con . tinue over Thursday. The call for the gathering was issued by the Chamber, of , Commerce of the United States, ami has i met with a hearty response from many • representatives of the manufacturing, - wholesaling and retailing interests. Rep • resentatves of the “consuming pubic’' are also on hand to take part in the con s sere nee, which is expected to name com . mltteqs and outline the plans for inves i tigation. This survey, dealing with an r essential factor in the nation’s economic life, is understood to have the approval of Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, and of a number of industrial leaders Duke University Five Defeated by the Wildcats. Davidson, Jan. 10. —The Davidson Wildcats ran wild over the Duke Uni versity quint tonight and its second straight cage victory, the score being 39 to 22. Dnke scored first with a field goal in the opening period but the Wildcats soon shot ahead as McConnell caged three in a row. From then on they were never headed. £t the ball the score stood 17-10. ■ - Kellogg to Accept the Secretaryship. Parle, Jan. 11.—Frank B. Kellogg, the American, ambassador to the coart of St. James, will accept the poet of the secre tary of state tendered him by President Coolidge on the reoignation of Charles Evans Hughes. This date in Sport History (January 1«, 1928) —The Passaic High School baskethaal team won its 8,746th conse cutive game today. CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1925 CHARLES B immica Who has resigned as Secretary of State in President Coolidge’s Cabinet. THE DAIRY COW There Are 300,000 Cows in the State, ' Producing Yearly 03.000,000 Galons. (By the Associated Press.) Raleigh. N. C., Jan. 12.—That North Carolina is interested in the dairy cow is evidenced by the fact that the annual farm value of tile dairy products Os this state averages $37.0(XX000, according to an announcement issued here today by John A. Arey, dairy extension specialist for the State College of Agriculture. There are 300.000 milk cows in the stnte that produce annually 93,000,000 gallons of milk, or about 41.2 gallons of milk per inhabitant, says the announce ment. However, ail persons in the state do not get their share of milk, it is point ed out, because much of this production is converted into butter and in the east ern counties there is a scarcity of cows. To take care of this production of milk, the specialist asserted, there are now in operation in North Carolina 75 creamer- ' ies, which make ice cream, cheese, but ter and pasteurized milk. These factor- 1 ies, it was explained, received their raw . product from approximately 10,000 farm ers and paid them in cash each month. ! “While not all cows producing milk ; in the state are of purebred lineage,” says Mr. Arey, “we have bred one cow which has given over 20,000 pounds of 1 milk in one year. This cow is owned by 1 R. E. McDowell, of Mecklenburg county ! and is one of the leading dairy cows in | the United States. She is an exception, however, because the average milk pro duction per cow in North Carolina is less than 3,000 pounds’per year. “Our great problem noy is to learn istin'g herds of cattle by the" use of better sires. Wc are making progress nlong all three of these lines and I look to see the day, not so far' in the future, when the average milk production of 3,000 pounds annually will he greatly increased. I al so look to see the time when the number of milk cows will be increased by several thousand above the 300,000 now on our farms.” < ORGY OF LOOTING AFTER LATEST CHINESE COUP Soldiers of Chi Hhich Yuan and Chang Yung Min Are Raiding the Country. Shanghai, China. Jan. 12 (By the As sociated Press).: —Both victor and van quished in yesterday’s coup, by which Chi Hsiech Yuan, deposed liTfitary gover nor of Kiangsn province, regained con trol of Shanghai, united this morning in an orgy of looting. Soldiers of both General Chi, whose attack was a defiance directed at the I rovisional gevernmeht in Peking, and of the defending forces led by the Peking appointee, Chang Yung Min, ran wild through Nantao, the native city, which unjoins the French settlement here on the South. The native merchants and household ers today were frantically removing their possessions into the protected foreign quarters in defense of which the volun teer eerps. c< inf used of most of the for eigners in Shanghai, had been called cut. The volunteer corps, aided by Chinese merchants and numbers of the Chinese fire fighting brigade, was this morning making futile efforts to cope with the situation. WILL WAGE BITTER FIGHT AGAINST DIAL Democrats Do Not Want Him Appoint ed to Interstate Commerce Commis sioig (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 12.— Arosued by re ports that President Coolidge plans , to appoint Senator Dial, Democrat, of South Carolina, to she Interstate Commerce Commission, Democratic senators are preparing to wage a fight on the South Carolina senator, should his nomination be sent to the Senate, and have conveyed , notice of their determination to the Pres ident. White House officials have re fused to .acknowledge that Senator Dial 1 is under consideration. Labor Board Can Compel Witnesses to Testify. Chicago, Jan. 12 (By the Associated Press). —Federal Judge Wilkereson to day for the second time upheld the right of the .railroad labor board to compel witnesses to appear and testify before it. Counsel for the defendants, J. Maguire, local chairman oof engineers on the Chi cago A Northwestern Railway, represen tative of the Brotherhood of Locomotive engineers, indicated an appeal would be. taken. There has never been any necessity for a woman’s movement in Albania, , have been accorded equal rights and privileges with their men folk, as a mat | ter of course. Though under .parental rale daring her minority, after that per iod the Albanian woman la absolutely. Before and after marriage she is end [ tied to hold property in her own right, . and to manage it according to tier own ideas. Hni DIB I HD Governor of Ktngas and Son Ace Charged With Solicit ing and Accepting Bribe In Exchange For Pardon. GOVERNOR SURE OF H|S GROUND Says There Are No Grounds For Warrants and That the Bribe Was Plot by His En emies to “Get” Him. —, — ti —. Tokepa, Kansas, Jap. 12 (By the As soeintede Press).—Jonotliau, M. Davis, governor of Kansas, nod his son. Russel!. 28 years old. were charged with solicit ing and accepting a bribe of $1,250 in payment for a pardftn, in a warrant : sworn out here today by Tinkham Veale, , county attorney.' They are charged with accepting a bribe for pardoning Fred W. Tollman, , ba’liker. ■ County and State fflfficets at a confer ence yesterday agreed that warrants sltould be sworn outnand served on the governor and his son’before the inangu- • ration exercises at which Mr. Dnvis will 1 relinquish his office. Formal filing of the charges would be welcomed as an opportunity to “clear 1 liis skirts.” Mr. Davis;asserted. “I don’t believe there is sitffieMftt evidence to jus tify the filing of a (charge," he , said. “However, if they wa it to file, let them come ahead.” The governor asserfed that while his son had accepted theHl,2so last Friday night, upon delivering a pardon to the banker, the transaction was a frame-up ' to hurt him politically, and that his son had returned the money when he realized : what had happened. Governor Davis personally appeared in court shortly after the warrants were is sned to answer to them. The bond of each defendant was set at SI,OOO and a hearing was set for January 23rd, at 10 ' o’clock. | When he appeared in court the gover- ' nor had not decided whether he would attend the inaugural ceremonies for his 1 successor, Governor-Elect Ben S. Paulen. He had prepared a brief address to be de livered m .retiring, ei&trtive, bat "Ms at torneys differed in atfrising whether he should attend. THE COTTON MARKET Opened 5 Point Lower and Sold 12 to 14 Points Below Saturday’s Closing. (By the Auomtra Press) New York, Jan. 12.—The cotton mar ket opened five points lower and sold 12 to 14 points below Saturday’s closing under liquidation and local and southern selling, promoted by disappointing Liv erpool cables. March declined to 23.74 and July to 24.26 although there was con siderable covering and a little trade buying an a scale down. The opening prices were: Jan. 23.60; March 23.82; May 24.17; July 24.38; Oct. 23.85. With Our Adverstires. On next Thursday, January 15th, at 11 o’clock a. m, the Southern Railway will sell at the freight depot one boiler shipped to the Crystal Damp Laundry. See ad. on page six. Your property value increases when a complete modern bathroom is installed. See new ad. today of E. B. Grady. Phone 787 is Bob’s Dry Cleaning Co., who wants to be your valet. Chiffon silk hosiery $1.50 and $2.00 at the Riehmond-Flowe Company. In gun mrtni, beige and russia calf. Rexal laxative and- aspirin cold tab lets for colds, at the Gibson Drug Store. Get a bottle om Mel-Bro Lotion at any drug store and have a smooth, clear com plexion. * You will find some wonderful dresses at clearance prices at Fisher’s during his sale. Corsets at half price. Ten per cent, off on all hosiery. A checking account saves time, money and annoyance. See new ad. of the Cabarrus Savings Bank. See the Corl Motor Company for DodgJ Brothers service. Complete line of parts carried. , Bome big opportunities for saving await you at the Parker Shoe Store. Coat values at the J. C. Penney pom pany at only SO.OO, made of block cut, , polaries, angoria polarise and other : sty 1-' ish cloths. Fancy sleeves, button trim mings, novelty pockets; : < Big’'reductions in ladies’ and misses’ ; coats at EHrd’s. Prices range from $lO to $25, and they are worth mueh more. | The famous Chatham-Elkin blankets are now being sold by the Parks-Belk Co. at lower prices. They have also cotton blankets from 68 cents to $3.98. Mixed blankets, $4.45 and up. WiH Commercialize 801 l Weevil's Plans. Washington, Jan. 11.—The part of the boll weevil in the scheme of national de fense is assuming some degree of import ance in army circles. Secretary Weeks has been informed that an Ogdensburg, N. Y., company, is being organized to equip airplans to spread poison over infested fields, and such a new outlet for production is held tot he on benefit in supplying a new commercial aircraft market. Ninety-five per cent, of the airplane orders in the United States at present, Secretary Weeks said he had been in formed, come from th* government and either outside patrdnage. Since the Intercollegiate Basketball League was started in 1901 the oaost successful teams have been those of Yale, and Pennsylvania, which have six championships each’to their credit. At Conference f ,v * , .< : v • >1 * -BE! Vs Colonel Jamep A. lagan, observer for the Reparation Commission, wtffi *alt In” on the finance ministem.’ conference in Paris. TRIAL OF GASTON MEANS UNDERWAY AT PRESENT 1 • i Jury Is Being Chosen by Judge Lindley, ’ Who Will Preside at the Trial. I (Ur tfee Associated Press.) New York, Jan. 12.—-A judge-picked * 1 jury \yill hear the testimony at the trial of Gaston B. Means, former department of justice agent, and his one-time attor ney, Thomas B. Felder, on charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice. The trial began today after many days with Means in court as the result of a bench warrant served on him at his Con cord, N. C„ home where he pleaded he was too ill to appear in court. Federal Judge Walter E. Lindley, of Danville. 111-, refused to permit the defendant’s at torneys to question the prospective jur- i ors undertaking the task himself. At the request pf Felder’s attorneys, he i asked the talesmen concerning their at titude toward the Kfl Klux Klan. It was said that the star government i witness would be Means’ former secre- 1 tary, Elmer W. Jarneeke, a co-defendant, who pleaded guilty a week ago. The i three were charged with having accepted $65,000 from members of the Crager i System, a stock selling orgauization, on . tne representation that they would bribe former Atttorney General Daugherty and other government officials, to prevent i Iheir prosecution for alleged stock frauds. none Knows where seals - , STAY DURING WINTER One of Nature’s Secrets Which Baffle the Scientists—Animals Disappear Mys teriously. No one knows where the seals go in winter. In Alaska they begin to nppear on the islands of St. Paul and St. George about the end of April or the first part of May, and toward the latter part of August or in the first weeks of September they disappear as strangely and mysteriously as they came. This is one of nature's secrets, which she may keep most successfully hid from the scientists as well as the prying eyes of the merely curious and inquisitive. Even in the days, years ago, when the seals numbered 5,000,000 or more, apparently some signal unknown to man would be given and the next day the fog- Wreathed rocks would be bare, the seals having deserted the islands. With their slipping off into Bering Sea all trace of them was lost until the return the following spring. Then some morning they would suddenly reappear, disporting themselves in the water or on shore. Want Vote on Muscle Shoals. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 12. —Disposal of the Muscle Shoals problem in the Senate be fore adojurnment tomorrow was the task to which leaders set themselves today as the issue entered another day of the long debate. Although foiled in every attempt thus far to fix a date by agreement for a final vote, Senate leaders hoped for success in that move today. Caught With Whiskey, One Year and SSOO Fine. Charlotte, Jan. 10.—Floyd Dewese, city policeman caught, by Deputy Vick Fesperman recently with a. lot of whis- Ikey, yesterday was sentenced by Judge Stack to one year on the roads and SSOO fine; In the new Memorial Gymnasium the > University of Virginia has the largest playing floor for indoor sports of any college in the East. ♦ * ****** ******* * INCOME TAX IN A NUTSHELL. * WHO? Single persona who had * net income of SI,OOO or more or * * gross income of $5,000 or more, * * and married couples who had net * * income of $2,500 or more or gross * * income of $5,000 or more must file * * returns. * * WHEN? The filing period is * * from January 1 to March 15, 1026. * * WHERE? Collector of internal * * revenue for the district in which * * the person lives or has bis prinei- * * pal place of business * * HOW? Instructions on Form * * 1040 and Form 1040; also the law * * and regulations. * * WHAT? Two per cent normal * * tax on the first $4,000 of net income * * in excess of the personal exemption * * and credits. Four per cent, nor- * * mal tax on the next $4,000. Six * * per cent, normal on the balance of * * net income. Surtax on net income * * in excess of SIO,OOO. * * ************ 4 Agreement Reached in Regard ' [ ’ /r\ /Ts Jt\ * Av JtC ™ /Ts As * SPECIAL SERVICE ON I * THE WORK OF THE 1025 * * GENERAL ASSEMBLY. * * —-: * The Concord Daily Tribune has )K made arrangements to give its read ers excellent service by wire every day on the proceedings of the State * 3K General Assembly. Rend The Trlb- IK une every day, and get today’s news * today. * * * PLANS TO MAKE CATAWBA A GRADE A COLLEGE Drive to Raise $250,000 to Increase En dowment to Required Size. (By the Associated Press.) Salisbury, N. C., Jan. 12.—Plans are under way now to make Catawba College, -located here, a grade A college when it opens its doors here next September. A local committee headed by H. A. Rouzer, has just been appointed to conduct the drive in this city and the surrounding counties to raise $250,000 and other com mittees are seeking enough money else where to increase the endowment fund to the size rquired by the Southern As sociation of' Colleges to be classed as a grade A college. The plant of the school, situated on the Mocksville road, is said to be worth ap proximately $400,000. The officials state that with the $200,000 that Dr. Elmore Rhodes Hoke, president of the college, is raising in the northern states, the $250,- 000 expected to be raised in the counties surrounding the school, and the $150,000 already donated to the institution by the Reformed Church of which denomination the school is a part, that the endowment fund will be sufficiently large for the grade A rating and that it expects that the school will open next September as a full accredited grade A college. According to the president, the school will carry the A. B. and B. S. courses and will have one of the best faculties in the state. He also expressed the opinion that students should not specialize in any subject until they had received a general training and said that for that reason he had recommended that only the general courses be included in the curriculum of the institution when it first opened. COOLIDGE OUT FOR THE UNDERWOOD PLAN < * nt A V *J ,^*B * -pMF* fl .fUiMPHI' -Ujpg ' Because of Its Leasing Feature. Washington, Jan. 10. —President Cool idge is now squarely behind the Under wood Muscle Shoals bill. He let it be known between the time the Senate ad journed last night and met this morning tbat the Jones amendment for a com mission to investigate and report to Con gress does not appeal to him. Senator Curtis, Republican leader, told his colleagues early today how the Presi dent left. Soon the news spread and had a withering effect on the Wadsworth amendment and the Jones measure sup porters. This afternoon when the vote on the Wadsworth ameudment for a com mission with power to lease came, it re ceived but five votes. Senator Curtis explained the Presi dent’s attitude to the senators and rep resenatives of the press. Coolidge’s Reason Given. “The President,” said he, "wants to get into conference two propositions, one for the leasing of Muscle Shoals and the other for government operation until a lease can be made. For this reason, and not because one bill was introduced by Underwood and another by Norris, the President favors the Underwood propos al. which covers the two important points in his mind.” Senator Curtis added he had been for the Underwood bill from the start, and thought it should pass. Should Right the Wrong. Raleigh News and Observer. Representative King has introduced a measure that seeks to repeal an inde fensible piece of special privilege that was placed in the laws of 1923. By reason of the whispered promises that such fl law would induce millionaires to come to North Carolina, and become citi zens, and make their big estates subject to the inheritance tax, and arguments that sounded plausible, a bare majority of the legislators voted to exempt stock in foreign corporations from all tax. , Mr. King reports that by reason of that law Guilford county lost $40,000 1 tax last year. If that much can be traced, the loss is greater. By putting a premium on investing in foreign stocks there ie less incentive to buy and improve . lands and build houses. More than that: ; Exemption from all taxation has given 1 larger markets for foreign securities. If \ Guilford has lost $40,000 in these few • months, it will lose many time that ; amount in the years to come. , 2 And not a single millionaire has been ‘ induced to become a citizen of North i Carolina and there is no hope for larger i inheritance taxes. | Shipping Board Committee Meets, i illy the A»w'it-.l Pre«».' i Washngton, D. C., Jan. 12.—The House i committee investigating the shipping K board was cnlled today to receive further If testimony on the activities of that or- K ganization and its subsidiaries. Commis- If sioner Plummer, vice chairman of the If board, was summoned at his own request If as a witness. If ’ If Editor of Lynchburg News Dead. If (By the Aessrtated Press.) * Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 12. —Walter E. £ Addison, editor of the Lynchburg News, •f died here at 9 o’clock this morning, after Jfjgix days’ illness of pneumonia. ' If! Eighty-six per cent, of the teachers in l *« IWbUC ***** °* Lw,isi “ n * at * wo #•••§•§•< • TODAY’S « • NEWS m » TODAY ' 0 NO. 10 To Give 2 14 Per Cent, of the Receipts From Ger many to America For Her War Damages. , OTHER POINTS TO BE SETTLED SOON Under Agreement Allies Will Get Less From Germany Than They Thought Under the Dawes Plan. Paris, .Tan. 12 (By the Associated Press). —Allocation of 2 1-4 per cent of the receipts from Germany under the Dawes plan, beginning with the first an nuity, to payment of American war dam ages is the first definitely settled point in the discussions of the inter-allied finan cial conference. The other points in which the Ameri can delegation is interested are in a fair \vay toward settlement to the satisfac tion of Washington, but considerably more negotiation is necessary, and the chances are that the plenary meeting of the con ference which was postponed from today until tomorrow may be put off another day. The share to be reserved to the United States will decrease the percentages of the allies. France ceding the greater part or 1 3-4 per cent., but it is pointed out that extension of the period over which occupation expenses were spread, under the Washington agreement, com pensates largely for these concessions, as it will take 50 per cent, less from the reparations payments. The decrease in percentages will be further offset by the fact that within a couple of years, after Belgium has been paid her priority in full, the Belgian per centage will fall from 8 per cent, to 4 1-2 per cent. Agreement Accepted in Washington. Washington, D. ~ Jan. 12.—The tenta tive agreement arrived at in Paris be tween American representatives and the allied finance ministers has ben accept ed by the Washington government. Acceptance of the arrangement was made known today at the State Depart ment, where it was emphasized that no departure from the American policy to ward collection of claims under the Dawes plan from German annuities was involv ed. N ° “"KSBPTkELUHSt President Has Not Yet Named New AHN erican Ambassador to Great Britain. (By the Associate* Press.) Washington. Jan. 12.—While President Coolidge deferred action on the selection of a new ambassador to London, the Senate moved today toward confirmation of two of the major nominations sent to the capitol last week. The selection of Attorney Genera! Stone to a place on the Supreme Court was approved by the sub-committee of the judiciary committee to which it had been referred. Chas. B. Warren’s nomination to suc ceed Mr. Stone as head of the Depart ment of Justice was referred to a sub committee, as is the usual custom. Meantime, last week’s sudden upsets in high places of the government gave po litical Washington a tempting morsel of gossip and led to many rumors of other important changes in the near future. One report even sought tot explain Sec retary Hugheß' resignation by forecasting his early appointment to succeed Win. 1 H. Taft as Chief Justice, but Mr. Taft’s ' friends indicated that he had no inten -1 tion of leaving the bench until he reaches the retirement age of 70 in 1927. Does Not Want Investigation. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, D. C., Jan. 12.—Aroused to public charges of liquor drinking by members of Congress, Representative Till man, democrat of Arkansas, urged the House today not to dignify them by au thorizing an investigation to determine their truth. Kansas City Bank Robbed. (By the Associated Frees.) Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 12.—Four men held up and robbed the Community State Bank here today, after forcing about fif ty customers and officials of the bank to lie on the floor. Supreme Court Decision. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 12—The States have no authority to compel a private carrier by motor vehicle traffic to engage in pnb lic traffic for hire, the Supreme Court de cided today in a ease brought by the Michigan public utilities commission and otherß. Hie 1925 cross-country cycling race for the international championship is to be started from Paris on the morning of Febuary 8, the day following the annual Union in the French capital. France, Switzerland, Belgium. Germany, and several other countries will be repre sented in the race. WHAT SMimrS CAT SAYS I" SJL “1 . I ■ i V i,P Unsettled tonight* Tuesday ffcig ‘^Jjj