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_ ••••••••• fjK! The Concord Daily Tribune • w f »•*««#s*« VOLUME XXV iy reicu counts SOMETIME TOMORROW NIGHT, IT IS SAID ROW Experts Working irt Shaft to Cave Where He Is Held Think the Zero Hour Will Tomorrow Night. WORKING HARD AT ‘THE DIGGING TASK Military Board Told by the Workmen in Shaft They 'Heard Collins Bearth and Cough in Cave Friday. Cave City. Ky.. Feb. 14 (By the As sociated Press)'.—The roof of an avenue expected to lead to the natural rock trap where Floyd Collins has been imprisoned for fifteen days, was only three feet from the diggers in a resede shaft at nine o'clock this morning, according to the official bulletin. M,. E. 8. Posey, executive secretary of ■the State Highway Department, who was sent here by Governor IV. J. Fields, wired the Governor at Frankfort today saying that he had fixed 8 o’clock Sunday night as the zero hour, unless unexpected dif ficulties are encountered. It liad token 9 1-2 hours to complete a three foot section last night, the 'bulle tin said. Four workmen testified before the military board of inquiry yestyrday that they had heard the impris ined man breathe and cough. Three feet immediately ,below the earth still to be removed is a layer of lime stone, also estimated to he three feet thick; H. T. Carmichael, in charge of the work said. Once they have penetrat ed this roof they expect to find a pas sage through which they can reach Col- lins. 20 Hours More to Work. Cake City, Ky./ Feb. 14.—Men in the natural passage to Sand Cave talked to men in the rescue shaft being cut toward Floyd Collins, entombed cave explorer, while making soundings at 11 o'clock this morning. "H. T. Carmichael and Al bert Marshall, a miner, went to the bot tom of the shaft and held distinct con versations with Ed Brenner and two oth er nieu who were in as far as jtlie cave-in, - ’ said the official state- - that we will reach Collins in approtimatHy'^O'Tidurs, provided no other difficulties occur. Wr still have six more feet before we reach the original limestone top believed to. be the roof of the cavern lending to Col lins.” The shaft, according to Mr. Carmichael, will tap Boud Cave between Collins and the point where the onve-in occurred in the natural passage last week. The point between the cave-iu and Collins was estimated at 20 feet. The penetration of Band Cave will be in front of Collins. Previously it had been believed it would be behind Collins. Digging will continue until 3 o’clock this afternoon, when n new section of timbering will be towered into place, one of the diggers said at nooil today. “ThiM will take until about -8 o’clock tonight and when the digging is resumed we may cut through to Sand Cave at any minute,” be added. Collins Is Still Alive. Cave City, Ky., Feb. 14 (By the Asso ciated Press). —Only a few feet of earth early today separated the Sand Cave rescue party from the cavern they be lieve will lead to Floyd Collins, impris oned in Sand Cave for two weeks by a boulder on his foot. The shaft was more than fifty-five feet down, and at sixty feet a diamond core drill has .indi cated n cavern approximately nine feet high, although the depth at the shaft is small due to accumulations of mud and sand. Collins is still alive, members of the military board in charge of the situation declared late yesterday. Five of the miners on the rescue squad said they heard soughs or groans from him, some through the crevice located yesterday morning in the shaft well, and two heard them from the upper side of the cave-in down in Sand Cave. Ed Brenner, of Cincinnati, and Alex Bailey, of Louisville, convinced . General H. H. Denhnrdt and others of the mili tary board that they really had heard these souns from Collins, and the court expressed the conviction that Collins is alive. “Before hearing this testimony,” Gen. Denhardt said “some members of the board said they had felt resigned to the fact Collins was dead. There had been no airing of these for fear .they might exert an. adverse influence on the morale of the rescue workers. “Now these melnbers are optimistic - that a rescue will be effected and the prisoner will be brought out alive.” The last official word of the situation at the bottom of the shaft was that it was fifty-two feet deep and three more was about to be timbered. Material en countered was limestone buolders in very wet earth. ■ Considerable trouble has been experienced with slides in the last few feet MRS. LONOWORTH GIVES BIRTH TO DAUGHTER Baby Was Bom In Chicago and She and Mother Are Both Doing Nicely. (By the Associated Press) Chicago, Feb. 14.—A daughter was born to Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, for merly Alice Roosevelt, here today. Physicians in attendance said both! mother and baby, who was born at 10:90 o’clock, were doing well. — *■■■■■» < Mrs. Joe Dennis and Miss Lena Crav en, of this city, left yesterday for a week end visit at Kinston. ’; ’ im FML . ELIHU ROOT Who Will Celebrate the Eightieth Anni verywary of His Birth Tomorrow t I EUHI' ROOT REACHES FOUR SCORE YEARS His Career in the Public Service Has Been Equaled by Few Men. New York. Feb. 14.—Elihu Hoot, whose career in the public service has been equalled by few men in the whole history of the nation, will reach the age of eighty years tomorrow. Still vigorous for a man of his years, Mr. Hoot, though he Stepped out of the nrena of active pol ities some years ago, has never ceased to take an active interest in all that con cerns the public welfare. Mr. Root's eightieth b’rthday is to be celebrated by the Carnegie ! Endow ment for International, Peace, of which he is president, in the publication of a tribute to his services to international law. The tribute has been written by James Brown Scott, with n preface by 'Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University. Elihu Root was borii at Clinton, N. Y., February 1(5. 1845, the son of Prof. Oren Hoot of Hamilton College. He was graduated from that college in 1864. taught at the Home Academy in 1865 and was graduated at the University Law School in New York City in 1867. In 1871 he took part iu the Tweed investigation by the Committee of Seventy. He attracted attention at the bar from the beginning, aud his talents once rec ognized were not permitted to want for occupation. Long before he was 50 he was rated ns second only tto Joseph H. Choate in legal learnings. One of his admirers was Chester A. Arthur, and when Mr. Arthur became President he appointed Mr. Hoot ns United States district attorney for the Southern Dis trict of New York. Mr. Root, began -big. national career on August 1, 1899, when President McKin ley appointed him to his cabinet as Sec retary of War. Mr. Root at that past fell heir to the chaos of the Alger regime aud he attacked the problem of reorgan ization with the systematic thoroughness of the preparation of a complicated aud important law case. He became Secretary of State on July 1, 1905, and his achievements there car ried ins fame around the world. Four years after his retirement from the eabi: net he was elected United States Sena tor from Nett York and continued to sit in the Senate until 1915. While Secretary of State Mr. Hoot worked unceasingly to promote Hie friendly relations between the United States and the Latin American republics and his efforts along these line's have made him deeply revered in all the coun tries of South and Central America. He trained Cuba for self-gpvemment, helped pacify the Philippines and framed the organic act for both islands. These and other labors he performed while a mem ber of the cabinet securely established his claim as a statesman and an advocate of peace. The award of the Nobel prize for 1912 to Mr. Root was n worthy recogni tion of his great services. He was a member of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal in 1903, counsel for the United States in the North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration in 1910, and in the same yean he became a member of the Permanent Court of International Arbi tration at The Hague. He followed the policy of Secretary Hay with regard so the open door in Cbfna, and exchange notes which guaranteed the integrity of the empire. He negotiated arbitration treaties with Japan and with twenty-five other nations. Mr Root was made an LL.D., of Ham ilton College In 1896; Yale 1900; Colum bia, 1904; New York University 1904; Williams 1905; Princeton 1906; Univer sity of Buenos Aires, 1006; University of San Marcoc of Lima, 1906; Harvard 1907, and University of Parjp, 1920. Named Secretary of Agriculture. (By the Associated Press! Washington, Feb. 14.—William M. Jardine, president of the Kansas Agri culture College, was selected today by President Coolidge to be secretary of agriculture. He is to take office on the retirement of Secretary Gore, who on March 4th becomes Governor of West Virginia. I Along with Mr. Jardine's nomination, | the President today sent to the Senate the nomination of Frank B. Kellog, of I Minnesota, now ambassador at London, | to be secretary of state after Secretary Hugest leaves the cabinet March 4th. With Oar Advertisers. Men’s overalls and jackets and men's hickory' shitrs, only 98 cents, at the J. C. Penney Company. See H. B. Wilkinson’s ten-piece suite for only 1178.50. High grade electrical work always by , W. J. Hethcox. Only the best tires bandied by How ard’s Filling Station. You will be surprised at the big bar gains you can get at the Jfeth-Kesler . Co’s, during their I See change today in j Browns-Cannon The present year AgjHHßjHlffiMie hundredth annivorsatf'-'iiwfolfe p’etion and 'Erie CONCORD, N. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1925 “AS EVERLASTING AS THE CONTINENTS AND OCEANS” ' , ■Z - ■.i'Jfcr-., W***T<.f -I^ ■'-'***- M-■ -i at ;} 1*■ .-..a ::bbbpimh I • '>'bl% i: sHI If Atlanta’s skyline could be transported to the plain in front of Stone Mountain, the Memorial to the Confederacy would tower above it as shown in this picture This interesting composite, photograph shows the skyline of Atlanta, taken from the top of the Terminal Station, as it would appear if transported to the plain in front of the precipice on the northern side of Stone Mountain, upon which is being carved the supreme monument of human history in memory of the men and women who dared all, suffered all and sacrificed all for the Southern Confeder acy. The carving shown in this picture is EFFORTS FOR RECONSTRUCTED ROAD IN NO. » TOWNSHIP Ask That Road Be Worker! From Martin Bost Farm to Stanly County Line. Determined efforts nre -being made by residents of Number 9 township and by business men of Concord to have a road built in that township immediately so that the people of the section may have an access to Concord. The present road leading from Num ber 9 and connecting with the improved road near the farm of Martin Host is s»kl to be in a very disreputable condi tion. It is so )>ad that during the win ter; months and during any other wet Weather, it become* pfWCtlcafly impass able. Number 9 residents have tried in vain for over a year to get workd one but the Cabarrus County Highway Com mission lias been ioaded with work, they say. Two petitions have been circulated, one in Concord and one iu Number 9, ask ing that steps be taken toward an im mediate reconstruction of the rouds. Merchants, especially," in Concord are anxious to have the road built since at present the people are going to Stanly County' towns to do their, trading. One merchant tells of liow last winter lie bought some produce from a resident of this township and then in delivering this produce lie was forced to go to Albe marle ami then into Concord, more tiiau doubling the distance., The road for which improvements un being asked starts near the Martin Bost farm where it branches off the improved highway and joins the Albemarle-Char iotte highway near Stanfield. About six of the eight miles are in Cabarrus coun ty. The Stanly county road officials have already promised to build a new road in the two miles which is in their counfy. A hearing has been promised by the Cabar rus County Highway Commission for the ■first Wednesday in March. * The petition which has been circulated in Concord has over 200 names of the most prominent business men of the city on it. The text of the petition is as fol lows : “To the Cabarrus Highway Commission, “Gentlemen “We the undersigned citizens of Ca barrus County respectfully ask that you forthwith cause the road leading from the forks of the road .near the Martin Boat farm to the going via Boat Mill.• arid GwjteevfH*/ • be worked at once. The Highway Cqpn missiou of Stanly County has agreed to work the said road in Stanly County leading to the Cabarrus line connecting with the road to Concord. By opening this road and especially in view of the fact that the road in Stanly county will be improved to the Cabarrus line, it will open up a large territory to Concord that would otherwise go to Oakboro, Al bemarle, Midland, Monroe and Char lotte.” The Kiwanis Club of Concord, in reg ular session Friday, took up the matter of the road and endorsed the movement, the text of which was as follows: Whereas; The Citizens of No. 9 town ship and the merchants and business men of Concord are petitioning the Cabarrtis Highway Commission to improve the road leading from Concord to the Stanly county line, via Bost Mill and George ville and connecting with the Charlotte 1 to Albemarle Highway at Locust Level, and , ' 'Whereas, the Chariot te-Albemarlq Highway crosses our county and we, at , this time have no improved road connect ing with this Highway into Stanly coun ty, and believing this condition a great injustice to the. business men of Con . tort, < . Therefore, be It resolved: First: That the Kiwanis Cl*ib of Con i cord, heartily endorses this petition and h earnestly request the Highway Commis r sion to cause this road to be put in good t condition at the earliest date possible. Second: That this resolution be spread s on our minutes aud a copy attached to ' the petition. the great central group of the Memorial as it will appear when finished. This group represents the Confederate high command and consists of seven equestrian Figures—l’resident Jefferson Davis, Gen eral Robert E. Lee, General Stonewall Jackson and four outstanding Confeder ate Generals to be selected. This group alone, were nothing added to it, ■ would so far surpass all' other monuments that history affords nothing comparable to it. The figures of Dairt*, Lee and Jackson IN THE LEGILATI RE TODAY Road Bill and Pardon Commission Bill Paas Third Reading Jn Senate—Both Branches Adjourn Till Monday Night. Raleigh, Feb. 14 IRy the Associated Press).—The third reading passage of the $20,000,000 bond highway bill with its companion financing measure and the pardon commission bill by the Senate, and the introduction in the House of Represenatives of two bills embodying the governor’s recommendation for an executive budget and a judicial confer ence were the outstanding features of to day’s sessiou of the general assembly. Both branches adojutned until 8 p. m. Monday. . -w - In the House it had been agreed to take up no statewide bills sos discussion today. There developed, however, a lo cal matter that caused prolonged debate. It pertained to the proposed increases in the salaries of Catawba officers. Representative Kluttz, of that county, vigorously opposed the measure, declar ing that his people did not want it, and were not able to be taxed for it. The bill was killed. The legislature budget bill was intro duced by Representative Connor. This measure would vest in the government a more d ! reet supervision over state de partments and institutions. Under its terms the Governor would appoint an assistant director of the budget, he being the director, and two ottlier persons in addition to the chairmen of the Senate and House finance committees, who would be ex-officio members. These chairmen aud the persons appointed by the Governor would be the advisory bud get commission, and would meet each January and July. Also they would meet every two years to make up esti mates of the needs for the subsequent bi ennial period. The judicial conference bill introduced by Representative Graham of Orange, would include the Chief Justice, who would be the president of the conference, the Attorney General and Supreme ami Superior Court judges. They would sit twice a year, together with a bar mem ber from each judicial district to be ap pointed by the Governor. The Senate met this afternoon with the intention of transacting as much bus iness as it was possible in two'or, three hours, but it had only a small margin over a majority present. The first roll call showed only 31 of the 50 members in < ,the chamber, and the roll calls on the -lyighway appropriation and revenue bill brought only 29 votes; Nominated to Be Governor of Alaska, Washington, Feb. 14.—George Alex ander Parks, of Alaska, was nominated today by President Coolidge to be gover nor of Alaska. Mr. Parks, who has been stationed in Alaska for several J years, will succeed Scott O. Boone, whose j term as governor will expire in several I months. ' j MY wlhtdie I M Cocttt&tt : | God gave me a Valentine, long, long ago. | It’s mine so I guess I’m the one who should know, | The love and the heart, in full measure, were there, ; And sweetness surrounded it—sweetness to spare. |1 jj A simple affair, yet it’s well worth its weight j In gold, is the Valentine, valued so great. ! With love did it come and with love does it stay, k l And fully as real as of always today, j I’m rich in this Valentine; yea, so are you, ’ For all have been jjiven this sweetheart type, too. * | ! How easy to guess it; there can be no other, ' | l Each person’s real Valentine simply is MOTHER. • (Copyright, 1925,, NEA Service, Inc.) !L ' ' ‘ >'*> i in the central group are well advanced and will be unveiled ill finished form, down to their saddles, in the summer of 1925. The finished group in its entirety will be unveiled in the late autumn of 1926, according to present plans. Some idea of the colossal magnitude and grandeur of this sculpture may be gathered from the fact that Davis. Lee and Jackson each will measure about one hundred and sixty-five feet from the crowns of their hats to the hoofs of their THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady at Decline of 3 Points to Advance of 3 Points.—May off to 24.66. (By the Associated Press) New York, Feb. 14.—The cotton mar ket opened steady today at a decline of 3 points to an advance of 3 points. Rel atively easy Liverpool cables, appeared to be offset at the start by the prospects for continued large exports and a bullish view of the Census report showing 580,725 bales domestic mill consumption for Jan uary, against 578,408 last year. The itemauil was supplied around the initial figures, -however, and prices soon turned easier under realizing, for over tile week-end, and selling promoted by less favorable Liverpool advices. May eased off from 24.81 to 24.66, the general list showing net losses of about 12 to 17 points by the end of the first hour. Opening prices were: Mffreh 24.45; May 24.80; Jifiy 25.06: October4.4s: May 24.80; July 25.05; October 24.97 December 25.02. NINE OF NINETEEN ESCAPED PRISONERS HELD Additional Posses Are On Trail of An other Prisoner and His Capture Is Ex pected Soon. (By the Associated Press) Raleigh, Feb. 14. —Nine of the nine teen prisoners who escaped-froui the Cale donia prison farm had been recaptured by noon today, according to George Ross I'ou, superintendent of the State prison. Mr. I’ou said thqt in addition a posse was on the trail of.another prisoner outside of Scotland Neck and his recapture was momentarily expected. The following is a list of the re captured : Kendall E. Johnson, Earl Jackson, alias Shannon, Carl Talley, Joe Smith. Will Phillips. Frank Pope. Luther Kir by, William Bailey aud John McNalley. ABE POWERS AGAIN HAS ESCAPED FROM PRISON FARM Was Serving Sentence at Georgia Con vict Farm When He Made His Es cape. (By the Associated Press) Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 14.—Abe Powers, convicted of complicity in the activities of n group of confidence men two years ago in Atlanta has escaped a second time | from the state prison farm at Milledge ville, it was learned today. Powers is said to have admitted his real name was Frank Pollard, of Waco, Texas, and his wife is in Boston. Powers, said to have been a leader of the Floyd Woodward group of national ly known confidence men. was serving a j sentence dl from two to five years at the I' Milledgeville institution. Powers and another prisoner drove away in a orison automobile. horses, or as lvgli ns a modern twelve story office building. All other figures in the central group will be in scale with these. But the central group will be only the beginning of the stupendous plan pro jected by Gutzon Borglum, the renowned sculptor. A plan which calls for three other groups—artillery, cavalry and in fantry—which with the central group will form a panorama. BANDIT GUTS 'PAYROLL FROM CHARLOTTE BOOKKEEPER E. C. Whisnant Is Knocked Unconscious and $809.40 Takes From Him. | Charlotte, Feb. 14—E. C. Wisnant, forty years old, bookkeeper for the Ath erton Cotton Mill here, was knocked un (tonseious by a bandit here today, and t}ie weeks* payroll of the mill taken. The bandit escaped with $80,940, it was said. The robbers, according to Whiseuant, who was taken to a hospital, but who is said not to be seriously hurt, jumped onto the running board of his automobile, us be was stopping to alight at the mill, eti-, Called the poflice. and} The men escaped in Whisenant's car but soon abandoned it, and are believed to have token to the woods. The offi cers this afternoon said they believed they had surrounded the two bandits in the woods on the Sharon road, several miles from the city. DEFENSE PRESENTING TESTIMONY AT PRESENT ' 1 Albert Phillips Testifies in the Trial of ' Fletcher, Sartain and RieM in Atlanta Court. Atlanta. Feb. 14 (By the Associated Press). —Albert Phillips, a prisoner in the Atlanta federal penitentiary, today testified in the trial of A. E. Sartain anil L. .1. Fletcher, deposed warden and dep uty. respectively, of the instution, and Lawrence Itiehl, of Columbus, Ohio, that he heard Graham Baugh n. a government witness threaten to queer the two of- ; fieinls. , Phillips was the first witness at the morning session called by the defendants who are charged with conspiracy and bribery. While Sartain was in Washington in December and an agent of the department of justice had taken charge of the prison, the witness stated, Banghn carried F. L. Dodge, a government operator, to town one night and on his return had asked him to search the automobile. Baughn convicted in the Savanah rum ring ex posure was the warden]*! chauffeur. JURY ACQUITS DEFENDANTS IN BAILEY BROTHERS CASE Roaches Unanimous Verdict After One Hour of Deliberation. Greensboro, Feb. 13.—A verdict of acquittal was rendered this afternoon here in the case of 20 defendans, former officers and stock salesmen of the Bailey- Brothers Tobacco company, of Winston- Salem, until it went broke in 1923. They were tried in federal court on charge of using the mails to defraud. The jury deliberated an hour on the case and was unanimous for acquittal on the first suggestion for an expression of opinions, it was learned. When the jurors came into the courtroom at the j hour named by the judge after lunch j and did not hang up their coats and • j hats it was believed tliat the verdict was acquittal, a belief soon established as, a fact. ! Judge Webb, presiding, asked the clerk 'to question the jury concerning a verdict. The foreman said the jury nad arrived at a verdict, and standing, the jurors said, “Not guilty.” ' Judge Webb told the jurors he had no quarrel to find with the verdict; if he had been on the jury he thought he would have voted for acquittal. But he thought it. a fine thing that the matter had been investigated. He said he felt like the government is satisfied and the public, too, and everybody else. Hearing just the prosecution’s side at first, he thought there might have been some fraud in the sale of stock, but when everything was unfolded he thought differently. Airing the matter has been good for everybody, he thought. Sands Not Guilty. (By the Associated Press) Albion, N. Y., Feb. 14.—Lewis E. Sands, world bean king, today was ac quitted of grand larency by a jury which deliberated twelve hours. He was im mediately arrested on a federal warrant. NO. 39 Jf|j fume ii KANSAS CITV BLUE Fire Destroyed Autos and Parts Valued at $1,500,000. —Cars Were Being Shown &t Auto Show. burnpdTSjelding VERY COSTLY ONE Fire Is Believed to Have Been Started by Faulty Wiring Among the Deco tions in the Building. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 14 (By the As. sociated Press). —Motordoin’s newest of ferings for 1985 were reduced to a mass of twisted and charred wreckage early today in a fire that ended the Kansas City motor show by destruction of the American Royal Livestock Pavilion. Three hundred pleasure oftrs, approx -75 tracks. 2 airplanes and ac cessories destroyed were valued at sl,- 500.000. The $050,000 building was lev eled. Capt. John J? Crane, 65, Kansas City’s oldest fireman, and head of the only re maining horse-drawn engine in the de partment, was burned to death. He was caught on an incline between the main building and an annex. Most of the cars on display had been shown at this year's New York, Cleve land and Chicago motor shows, and were intended for the San Frincisco show after tlie d'sjdn.v ended here tonight. The firy. the 713th of the year, broke out iujbe last few minutes of Friday, the 13m The fire originated in the annex among flimsy decorations, due. it was believed, to faidty wiring. The flames quickly spread to the main structure. Blast after blast rocked the building as the flames reached the gasoline tanks of tile oars. George Bond, manager of the show, de clared all tanks itad been drained-, but that the fumes in the tanks probably caused the explosions. Virtually all apparatus in the twfli Kansas Cities were called to the scene. Many of the exhibits were specially de» signed by the manufacturers. Five n'okle plated chassis built especially for show ftiHl vwimif wtTNßiMm# *hHr COOPERS TAKE STAND ;N WILMINGTON BANK TRIAEi Lieutenant Govek-nlor Forced From Of fice Because He Pressed Collections, He Said. Wilmington, Feb. 12.—Taking of testimony by she defense consumed to day in the trial of former Lieltenant Governor W. B. Cooper and Mr broth er. Thomas E. Cooper, indicted in con nection with the failure of the Com* mercial National bank here. The de fense expects to rest its case tomorrow morning, with the government finishing its rebuttal at once, it was said tonight, by attorneys of both sides. Both of the defendants were on the wi-ness stand today. The former lieutenant governor in testifying said that he was virtually forced from office as an official of the bank by the feeling among his subordinates that he was -pressing the collections too hard, and ruining the bank.’’ He said that this spirit later led to his resignation, and that he accepted the chairmanship of the board ns an honorary position. Federal Judge Rose held a conference tonight with attorneys of both sides in which he outlined the proposition of the law which he will lay down to the jury in his charge- MAN TELLS POLICE HE KILLED MRS. SHEATSLEI? Walks Into Headquarters at Birming ham to Give Self Up. Birmingham, Ala.* Feb. 12. —A man who says that since his crime he has forgotten his name and all about him self. todaV walked into police head quarters and declared he killed Mrs. Ad dip Sheatsley. in her home, near Colum bus. 0., last fall and stuffed her body in to the furnace. “My mind -has been a blank,” he said, “since I shoved that woman’s body in l * to the furnace, slammed the door and ran.” His description, finger prints and t>ho graph are being rushed to Columbus, al though the police here are inclined to doubt his story. Mrs. Sheatsley, wife of a minister, was found dead in the fur nace of her home by her son. It was at first, thought she hnd climbed into the furnace while mentally unballanced, but the authorities later decided this would have been impossible and that she was pushed in. No arrests were made. Reuben Utley, Tribune press operator who injured his foot Monday afternoon, is improving rapidly. Hospital author ities say that he will probably leave the hospital Sunday. WHAT SMITTY’S CAT SAYS *- . § '*> ifei Mostly/ tfoudy tonight and Sundays probably showers in west portion, eomfr what wanner tonight.