Wednesday, January I#, 1025 «-^s=ssss9as=s Works in Means-Felder Case - I , V New Tork World. For the first time, in two major cases. the system recently adopted by Federal Judges whereby the Court interrogates prospective jurors instead of the ques tioning being dene by counsel,. was put into effect here yesterday. In one trial, that of Gaston B. Means and Thomas B. Felder, for alleged con spiracy to bribe Government officials, the new,method was employed by Judge Lindley without a word of objection to its employment from either prosecution or defense, and 'a jury was chosen in four hours. In the opinion of counsel in the Means- Felder case, the innovation served to % speed up tie selection of a jury, A slight hitch came as the result of a request by. Mr. Walsh that was equally startling to those in the crowded court room. “If I mky do so without being offen -1 sive,” the attorney said, “I would like I the Court io ask the talesmen whether ft any of than are now, or ever have been, Cl members dt the organization known Ss jjp the Ku Klhx Klan. M . At first Judge I.indley demurred, stat-, S. ing that the question seemed covered by Hfthis query already put to the talesmen as Bto whether any of them had “religious, B racial, political or social prejudices” W that mightf>3nterfere with bis judgment. rW'T must Insist that this specific ques ft'wm be asked as I have put ft, or elSe ■ take an exception,” continued Mr. Walsh., S "There is I very particular and signlfi ® cant piece of documentary evidence that p will be introduced here that has a direct « reference to that organisation.” ■ E He Ba|d He Caught Some. Husband '(returning from angling trip) : —What, do you think of these beauties? Wise —Don’t try tb deceive me. Mrs. Naybor daw you in the fish shop. “Os course she did. Why, I caught so many- I simply had to try to sell' some.” W s n i ■■ i itmmmmmmmrnmmmmmlmmm—mn. i| rtfii n i m It’s a | SAVING HABIT j I TO SEND YOUR CLOTHES TO ME EACH WEEK I 2 They like it—you like it—and clothes DO LAST LONGER ! j when they are properly cleaned and kept so. « M. R. POUNDS - DRY CLEANING AND TAILORING | CHIFFON SILK HOSIERY QA i I 8 Allen A. Chiffon Stockings are here in the present day colors. Priced $1.50 and $2.00 I Gun Metal, Beige and Russia Calf j Richmond - Flowe Co. j Now is the time to have your garments cleaned for the 11 holidays. Call us. j I , QUALITY COUNTS MOST AFTER ALL EAGLE COMPANY , v v RHONE 648 * - THE FLINT FORTY • I A car with refinement ia now in our show room. This car conies equipped with four wheel brakes and Ballobh tires. Ffye Walloon tires and cover for same. Also burflpter, YnotOt- meter-wing, Windshield wiper standard -quipment. Delivered Price ia $1195.00 J.GBLUME’S GARAGE il • 'V' ’ v-‘v -7 • Whereupon the Court put'the question. • which wjs answered negatively by each man in the box. Felder’s array or counsel, already.com ' prising Mr. Walsh, former General Ses sions Judge Bobert 8. Johnstone and EmanUel Harris, was augmented yester i day by the arrival from Atlanta of Thos. W. Hardwick, former United States Sen : ator, and former Governor of Georgia. With the jury box filled and its twelve occupants sworn in shortly after 4 o’clock, adjournment was taken to 10:30 o'clock this taorning, when Mr. Todd will open the Government’s case. Means, a former /special agent of the Department of Justice, and Felder, a New Tork lawyer, are named in an in dictment with Elmer W. Jarnecke, Means secretaryy, charging conspiracy to bribe former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, United States Attorney Wil liam Hayward and Peter J. McCoy and John Holley Clark Jr., two of Col. Hay ward's assistants. Jarnecke, who pleaded guilty last week, . is expected to be the Government’s prin cipal, witness. The iadfctuieiit alleges the three- obtained $65,000 from Samuel 8a ! fir Atal 'Other WMftbei* 4 T the (Yager Sys tem, Inc„ by representing they could pre vent the latter's indictment for misuse Os the malls in connection with the sale of stock Os the Glass-Cnskbt Uorjibra tfoh. “ Shout twefl’tt coiivWlbtfN Velfmted from the triajs the present defendants are alleged tb tbive conspired to “fix.” Twenty-three other talesmen were ex-, amined and excused, eight because of previously formed opinions. sous for other reasons and eleven nnder peremptory challenges. - 1 . 3—. Judge E. Y. Webb has written Sena tor Overman that a thitd federal judicial district is badly needed in North Caro lina. The two court dockets in the State are badly eroVded .With business steadily increasing, reports Judge Webb. Prohibition enforcement largely acCOubts for the immense increase in cases. ■I . non THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE 'lp"-■Ti'- ~r I-., -„1 ■ Mr- J In and About the City , Soso IS CANefcUUSD / 11 ’ AM) MEANS ARRESTED f - : Is Take* 111 Custody as the Conspiracy Trial Opens. • | New Tork, Jan. 18.—Because of his 1 experience “In getting a man named/ Morse out of a certa’n matter” for which • “he didn’t get anything.” Gaston B. Means, of Concord, N. C., former de partment of justice agent, at first re-, } fused to interest himself in a deal to ■ quash indictments in connection with the Altoona Glass Casket Co. 'mail fraud 1 case, It was testified today, by Samuel Rosenblatt, one of the defendants In the t casket case. Trial of Means and Thom i as B. Felder, jointly charged with con ■ spitacy to obstruct justice in taking $65,- i 000 on representations that they could, ; influence Harry M. Daugherty, at that . time United States attorney general, . William J. Burns, then director of the; I bureau of investigation, of the depart-, . ment of justice, and other high officials to stop action in the casket case, opened in United States district court here to-j ! Ay. i . Eimer W. Jarnecke, indicted witbi i Means and Felder, recently pleaded guil-i . ty and will be the Chief Witness for the . prosecution. , Means ‘was iMtrqdneed to company of , firials in Washington where they said . they feund him sitting in Burns’ chair I with his feet on Burns’ desk, it was tes , tified. After his first hesitation, it was Aid, be told them that he would “stand , foiAanything that Jarnecke had said he [ wcujd do., Felder was described to the . casket men as an “out,” or person used , to Hre regularity to the transaction as ah ldpearancc''of regularity. 'Affitenblatt t&ttfifed that after paying. 6ej money demanded to “fix” the pis 4 id having, been told that “all their trou ewvwere over,” they learned that ’the; 1 indictments had SCHi found after .ail. When protest was made t{v'- Felder, * Rosenblatt said, they were told that jit 4 Was “an honor to be indicted these daj/fi” ■ and that they “didn't have a thing to 4 Worry about.” Felder offered so fur -41 sh bail for his clients as high as $75,- » 000 if necessary. Ronseblatt said. I Earlier in the day Judge Lindley an i nouheed that the bonding company which | had furnished bail for Means had can- I celled its bond. He ordered Means placed j in custody of a marshal and kept ih «us- L tody at his hotel when not in court. [i WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS? [ Safety Coach Drivers Told j 0 Stay oh the E Road, Regardless of Violations of the [ Law. | The Greensboro News has the follow - [ ing which will be of more or less interest J here and everywhere:' ’ Safety Coach line drivers are under or [ tiers to stay on the road, to giye way . to i nothing. I They are told to make their schedule, I regardless of the Violation of speed laws, t However, it is understood that if they > are cuught the drivers, and not the bus l line, pay the fine. j ’ (They are informed .that the bus-line I carries insurance which protects' ft so > fat- as maiming or killing- people in auto : mobiles or other vehicles into .which they i; may crash and that schedules must be | maintained. |- J. E. Johnson, hetter known as Firpo, | who drives a truck between Greensboro I and Sanford, which each morning carries J tlie Daily News to Sanford, is resposi-. I %le for these statements. Saturday he i learnetl that the Safety Coach line needed l a driver. He applied for the job. His : I instructions, among other things, indud t ed those enumerated. Mr. Johnson says J lie has a conscience and that he has de-j j cided to continue driving a truck. Mr. Johnson was informed that there j was a vacancy because a driver had, 3 failed to enrry out the instructions. He i tad left the road in an effort to avoid 1 a collision and was fired, Mr. Johnson I Ways he learned after lie applied for the I position. > Tt BERCI M RSE TP BEGIN WORK FEBRUARY 1 Miss Margaret ». Ford Ekaployed by the ’ County Tuberculosis Association. TMe Cabarrus Couuty Tuberculosis Association is pleased to. announce thaj, they have secni-Cdc a nUt-Wc io Yurc for patients suffering, with tuberculosis in this county, nud -tci put on an active fight against the disease by means of organized prevention. Slie is Miss Margaret D.’ Ford, and i-xpdcts to 1 Begin her duties j February Ist. Miss Ford is a graduate |; "ol Tourney Hosjlbtal, Sunttere, S. G.,_'a 2 ploKt-graduute of Bellevue Hospital. Newe. 1 York City, and was supervisor of medi -5 cal and tuberentbsis wards, Harlem 2 Branch of this same hospital. She did S the same work in the Grand Hospital, I Columbus, Ohio. She was surgical super s viSor 4t Sea-/View .‘Hodpßal for Tubercu . 16«fs, Staten Island. N. A'., ‘arid lias also | done school work in Brooklyn, N. Y. The l committee a pointed to efnploy a nurse for I the Tuberculosis Association and the Ited I Cross feel ’they have seeured -one with ex-, 1 perience along the riglit lines and hope J great gootl will resilt from her efforts. 5 We aghin ask tlie Co-ojieration of our people, and will appreciate having report ed to us patieutfc who slioitld be visited. Kannapolis Boys /Vie SHJffi Working Hard Kannapolis, Jan. der , seated iu the majority of games played ■ tli ! s season, Coach Gill’s youngsters rep t resenting the Kannapolis basketball team R put the finishing touches on their final D Workout tonight in lireparation for the X gme with the fast Welcome quintet iu B Lexington on Tuesday night, ts Each year the two teams clash on a ? neutral court. Last year they met iu Ohurchlnnd on January 11, with Kan i. hkiiolis slightly outpointing them 24 to i U This year the Welcome lads have al ii ready defeated the Black and Maroon g cXgers -n Welcome. With 12 victories out of 13 starts to their credit they are confident of winning. With Coach Gill drilling the locals through an intensive ho.ur und endeavor jifig chili off tlie rough places ou his I j team it is probable that a somewhat dif ferent aggregation wiil face the Welcome boys than KauUapofis put .up against them previously. Ou Friday the locals will do battle with Pat Crawford's undefeated cugers iu Gas tonia. ~ s 1 Matty an uuhappy youth him found' • that Because be woftrted to kies a gth he Was obliged to keep her for iße. ® . . 1 „. / t... * n in ^ —u (By Gourteay of Radio Digest) Program for January 15th. WBB -Atlanta Journal (428) 8-9 en- 1 tertainment; 10:46 organ, if ! WEEI Boston (308 ) 6 Sinfonians; 7 musiaal; 8 harm; 9:30 Sinfonians. WGB Buffalo (319) 6 manic. 1 WMAQ Chicago News (447.5 ) 6 or gan ; 6:30 orchestra; 8 talk; 8:15 Scout talk ; 8:30 announced ; 9 lecture ; 9:15 musical. WLS Chicago (345 ) 6:30 organ; 6 -.50 ’ specialties; 7 specialties; A«0 Saddfer feature. WgR .Tribune (370) 6 or gan; TJ:3O concert; 8 classical; 10 jazz. KYW Chicago (538) Tihoncert; 8 I reading; 8:20 musical; 9talk; 10 at home. " r - > ■ WfiW Cincinnati (423) jff Concert; 9 j special, nrfcmwti-a. Radio 10 trio, melody boys. "■ J. Cleveland (390) 7;Y( > n<'ei-t. WFAA Dallas 'tfews :30 sing ers; 11 'orrtiestYa. WOC Davenport (498) Orchestra;- 11 orchestra; 12:15 Kpeht&l. WWVf DWroft Newh News orchestral, ftofrWTtO; 9 donee; 10 News Orchestra. j WBAP Fort Worth Star-Telegram (472.9) 7 JSOS :30 rthssical; »:30-10:45 popular songs. C ’ KNX Holjywood (837) s'"music; 9 orchestra.': R) "features ; 12 orchestra. I WQB Jefferson City (440 ff 8 operat-/ < * numbers., address. *3 A WDAF Kansas City Star> (411) 6-7 ichool of the aiT; 11:45 Nighthawks. WHAS Louisville Times (400) 7:30-9 concert. '■ KHJ Los'Angeles Times (395 ) 8 con ' 11l lil» lT I I ...l I Ml g'W*.,) ■>. ■■ ; ~ V*! .45..-A r...... /. ~ ~ TEXTILE WAGES. American Wool and Cotton Reported - The Cost of production of textile pro ducts must belowered. On the face of ft, it appears that at least a JO per cent ens in wages innecesnary, ' and the (jtsiest way. Already in many mills a JO per cent decrease is in effect. Fall River ie going to make a similar 4 re duction.and probably New Bedford. Boon this reduction will become gen ital. Is this the best plan? We are familiar with one very suc cessful cotton mill of nearly 100,600 t spindles and about 3.000 looms, where less than six 'hundred opeatives are employed. A few Tears ngo, there were twelve hundred operatives. Thin mill is jjn the Best of physical condition, and al though it Is an old ewipoVAtidn,< practically all of its machinery is new —or. brand-new within a Jpw years. All of the looms are automyic. All of the spinning is long frmnegT* Within the last "year*-there .has been a constant doubling up of equipment per operative. After this doubling-up plan was consummated, tlie operatives doing more 'work had their wages in creased. For every dollar saved, the management gave the operatives 20 cents increase in wages. An the number of looms per weaver was increased from twelve to twenty-four—that is not tlie exact proportion, but will serve as an example—a saving in wages ot 100 per r cent was made—find of this 100 per cent the weaver goj, 20 per cent. The re -1 suit was that the hest weavers staed. and the best operatives in all depart ments —production remained constant, "■i■ " ■ t Bml’s Le^er BY BARRY B. HUNT NBA Service Writer TffiTABHINGTON —A new Cool- W idge cognomen hag appeared. Now it's "Clever Cat." This name is bestowed In recog nition ot COoltdge'R canny move tn sending to Hie Senate the nomina tion - cert; 8 :30 children ; 9:45 talk ;10 sea- j ture; 12 orchestra. WCCO Minneapolis-St. Paul (417) ' 6:30 concert; 7:30 feed talk; 7:45 < health talk ; 8 program ; 10 orchestra. 4 WMC Memphis Commercial-Appeal l (503.9) 8 bedtime; 8:30 concert. CKAC Montreal (437) 7:30 program 5 from CNRM. " a WEAF New York (492) 7 lecture; _ ' 7:30 talk; 8 harmony four; 10 orches- g tra. g WHN New York (360) 6:10 employ- 2 ment; 10 orchestra; 11 dance; 11:30 Wigwam club. WJY New York (405 ) 7:15 pkotog- u raphy ; 7 :30 gee club. KGO Oakland (312) 6 orchestra; 10 | drama; 12 dance, soloists, ] WOAW Omaha (526) 6 story ; 6:45, program ; 9 popular ; 10 :30 Wowl frolic I WAAW Omaha (278) 7:30 bridge', talk ; 8 educational. * WDAR Philadelphia (395) 6:30 talk. 1 1 WFI Philadelphia (335) 6 t*fk; 7 re- | cital; 8 concert; 9:05 orchestra. WCAE Pittsburgh (462) 6:30 Uncle 8 Kaybee; 6:45 Rpecial; 7 i3O concert. 1 KbKA Pittsburgh (326) 7 program; 2 7 :30 concert; 10 concert. ,i 1 WKAQ Prorto Rico (360) 6:30 con- J cegh ? WKBF Providence (286) 7 talk. l WOAI San Antonio (385) 9:30 or-: I chestra. J WGY Schenectady (380) 6:45 new: S books; 7 piano, soprano: 10:30. organ. i s W*BZ Springfield (337) 6:15 income G tax; 6:30 music talk; 7 saxaplione; 9 7 :15 program ; 8 ;15 violinist ; 8:30 ten- Jj or; 8:45 trio. 1 WCBD Zion (343 ) 8 string quartet, S soprano, piano, reader. 1; seconds were not increased andthe mills 3 saved several hundred thousands of dol- j lam per annum in wages. "Beading mills throughout New Eng- , land have gone through, or are going through, the same doubling-up process. Any mill that does not do this is bound to fall behind. Some of them will fail utterly. A year or two ago it was an'un common mill that operated more than sixteen looms per weaver. Now there are many mills operating 30, 40, 50'and some averaging more than 50 looms per week, with a similar doubling-up in all departments. The operative can do it. Everywhere in textile mills the production per per son has been very much too loV. The operatives themselves can increase their ■ wages, rather than submitting to a de creased if they are in the frame of mind •to do it. But the mill management should be the leader In matters of this’ kind, and it is up to the management to point out to the operatives (hat they can have more money rather than less, by doing a full day’s w r ork. Queen Cross-Word Fan. London. Jan. 10.—The prevailing cross-word puzzle craze has extended to. Sandringham, where it is stated that Queen Mary has taken up the pastime, of solving the problems published by the newspapers. The lesser members of the royal family arc also addicted to the word-hunting game. Word problems are not new to Queen Mary. In her younger days she spent! much time solving acrostics and com posing others for her attendants. USE PENNY COLUMN—IT PAYS the enemies made among the groups whose candidates had los* out. r By naming Stone out-of-hand, such a situation was blocked be-' fore it started. The naming of a successor to Stone, as attorney general, does J not present a correspondingly dtQJcult problem. For whereas an associate Judge ship on the Supreme Court is a high public office of direct interest to every cltizeif. a place on the president’s cabinet is a matter rather personal with the president himself, and is hot so subject to Influence by outside pressure. • • *. C)0 LI DOE’S action in the i , Stone appointment was rem iniscent of the promptness with i which Roosevelt was wont to tnake his selections for high office. Unless there were grave reasons for delay, or absolute doubt as to the fitness of the man he had In mind for a given post, T. R. al ways sent in his nominations In short order. • And he frankly admitted his chief reason for so doing was to ‘ escape the aftermath of enmities and wrecked hopes that follow a delayed appointment. A mediocre appointment, prompt- | ly made, he held to he a better 1 appointment, politically, thkn a prime appointment made after the waters had been muddied by a political tug-of-war ' • ':■* »« SENATOR FRANK BRANDE GEE, ‘’hard-botldd" old-guard senator, bachelor and refuse, who committed suicide In his home here three months ago, ts revealed as having been the owner of a most bizarre collection of art curie*. j • At an auction, where Brande gee’s personal possessions Weie 1 put on sole, there were Wore than i 100 paintings, some worth thou ( • sands, many worth little or noth ling. 1 There were miniatures, jewel ( Chests, quaint jade nhd IVory carv-, ■ * lags, lacquer ware, Old brasses. 0 And a fine etching by Anders Zorn—a beautiful woman, dressed • In the' style of rtflu, about the ! year Ltrandegee entered the : «enats! | DELCO LIGHT ; 1 Light Plants and Batteries Deep and Shallow Well Pumps for Direct or Alter nating current and Washing Machines for direct or alter < nating current'. 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It is as dependable at three o*tlock in the morning as it is at din- v ner time, because there are loyal work-* i ers who make it dependable. , The gas business does not shut up shop, take a vacation, or irtove away to some place where conditions are ( more favorable. It is literally staked to the ground, Its future is bound up with the future of the community it serves. It dare not let its fires go out. Concord k Kannapolis Gas Co. “If It’s Done With Heat, You Can Do It Better With Gas” ’ j We have installed a Cady Brake Lining Machine that drills and counter sinks the rivets so that the rivet heads | will not cut the brake drum. We also use a riveting ma , i chine that places the; tubular rivet in place just like factory equipment. Don't forget we carry a full line of accessories. Genuine Ford Parts. 9 STUDEBAKER SALES AND SERVICE S' J AUTO SUPPLY & REPAIR CO PAGE SEVEN