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VOLUME XXV
KILL RUSSELL SCOTT
FACE GALLOWS ONCE
MORE BEFORE LONG?
Member of State’s Attor
ney Crowe’s Staff Quot- i
ed as Saying He Will
Leave Asylum.
ASYLUM HEAD ’
DENIES 'REPORT
Says He Has Not Said That
Any Change Has Taken
Place Recently in Scott’s
Condition.
Chicago, Aur. 24.—(A s )—An un
named member of the staff of State’*
Attorney Crowe was quoted by the
Herald and Examiner today as say
ing that Russell T. Scott, convicted
murderer, would be returned front tfie
Chester Hospital for Insane within
four weeks to face the Cook county 1
gallows once more.
The report said the attache of the
state attorney’s office hnd revealed
Chat an informal decision that Scott
is not insane had been made by Dr.
Frank Stubblefield, superintendent of
the hospital, and that the latter was
awaiting only corroboration of his de
cision by two consultant experts be
fore sending Scott back.
Efforts to get in touch with Dr.
Stubblefield early today were unsuc
cessful and other persons at Chester
declined to talk.
Scott recently was taken to Ches
ter after a jury had capped the cli
max of bis extraordinary efforts to es
cape the gallows by finding him in
sane. Scott faced hanging three times
only to be snatthed from the noose
by some unexpected eleventh hour de
velopment, the last time on July
24fh. when Judge Joseph David grant
ed a stay of execution popding the
insanity hearing for four hours before
the death maßdi. Scott's commit
ment papers ordered that he be con
fined at Chester until death or until
he was found sane. (
Denies Reports.
Chester, 111., Aug. 24.—<d*) —Dr.
Frank A s Stubblefield, superintendent
of the State hospital for criminal in
sane here, today characterized reports
That Russell T. Scott, convicted mur
derer, had been found sane, as “all
wrong.”
RELIGION AND SCIENCE
SEEN AS UNRELATED
Presbyterian Leader Says Miracles
Should Be Taken Apart From Nat
ural Laws.
Winona Lake, Ind. Aug. 24.— UP)
—Miracles and mysteries of the Bi
ble should not bo considered frbm the
viewpoint of natural laws, declared
Dr. C. R. Erdman, Moderator of the
Presbyterian General Assembly, at
the Winona Bible Conference.
“Even in view of facts and laws es
tablished by modern science, no in
telligent Christian need doubt the
truth of dlivine creation, of the mira
cles of sacred history or the inspira
tion of the Bible,” he said.
“In view of the unsolved mysteries
they face, both scientist and theolog
ian should show humility and charity.
Great scientists and theologians usu
ally do. When a* teacher of physical
science denies creation and postulates
the impossibility of miracles be has
left his proper sphere and entered that
of philosophy or religiou.
"Many facts 'of science are estab
lished virtually beyond a doubt. Such
too ran be said of certain essential
truths of Christianity. The latter
center in the Divine person and re
deeming work of God in the person
of Christ.”
Allaged Bank Robber Arrested.
Dayton, 0., Aug. 24.—(A 1 )—Fred
Nickel, Dayton manuCacturer, arrest
ed today, is said to have admitted to
detectives that he is the blue masked,
blue robed phantom* bandit who on
August 14th held up and robbed em
ployes of the North Dayton branch of
the Dayton Barings Bank & Trust
Cpmpany, escaping with $28,000, the
police announced thia morning.
KUnsown Gathering.
, Columbus, 0., Aug. 24.— (A>) —Led
by Dr. H. E. Evans, Washington, Im
perial Wisard, grand dragons and ti
tans of the Ku Klux Klan were ar
riving today for their annual meeting
at Buckeye Lake near here, starting
tomorrow.
I Concord
Theatre
(THE COOL SPOT)
Today and Tuesday
JOHNNY HINES in
“The Speed
Spook”
ADDED ATTRACTION
“Turk Mcßee,
Junior”
The World’s Wonder Xtyphon
-Ist and Mnaic Marred
At 3:30 and 0:15 P. M.
Also Aesops Fables and Pathe
News No. 68
USUAL PRICES
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The Concord Daily Tribune
Street Car Service In
This City Is Halted
N. C. Public Service Co. (
Authorized Managar of
Local Plant to Cease Op
erations in City Saturday ;
COMPANY OWES
CITY $33,000
Mayor’s Commitee Is Work
ing on Matter But Has
Not Been Able to Reach
V Solution to Problem.
Concord’s street ear service ended
at midnight Saturday and so far as
is known now the service is ended
for good. Services on the local lines
of the North Carolina Public Service
Co was suspended on orders for the
main offices of the company, sent to
J. A. McEachern, manager of the
plant here.
Mr. McEachern received his orders
Saturday afternoon and tlie last run
of the cars was made Hint night,
orders to Mr. McEachern indicating
that so far as the North Carolina
Public Service Company Co. is con
cerned the line will not be operated
again.
Suspension of the service did not
come as a surprise due to the fact
that aldermen of the city at their
August meeting were advised by a
representative of the public service
company that the line here was being
operated at a loss of about $7 a day
and that the company would be forced
to cut ont this loss. Mayor C. H.
Barrier at the meeting appointed a
committee to make inquiry into the
value of the company’s plant and also
to ascertain whether the city could
operate the line.
The committee has given thought to
the matter but it is understood that
ft has not yet reached a definite de
cision as to what should be done.
The. Public Service Company owes the
city of Concord about $33,000 for
street paving and interest and the
committee appointed by Mayor Bar
rier is understood to have devoted its
conferences and study to means of
securing at least part of this money
from the company’s equipment and
property In Concord. It is also un
derstood that the company’s plant
here is heavily mortgaged, but Con-
} cord’s claim is understood to come
first, and -if the property and equip
ment are Sold the eity is expected to
get the major portion of the proceeds
from the sale. However, it is said
by persons who know something of
the value of the company’s equipment j
and property, that the value of these
is not enough to cover the company's
debt to the city to say nothing of
any mortgages held by other parties.
The street car system has never
been a paying proposition in Concord,
according to various reports made to
city officials by the public service com
pany. For a number of years the
company operated without loss, but
during the past nix years, at least,
expenses have been more than receipts
and it has been known that the com
pany was anxious to dispose of the
property or cease operations.
Soon after the World War the fare
on the line here was raised to seven
cents, but the increases did not raise
enough revenue to make the line a
paying proposition. The company has
maintained that the street assess
ments Could not be paid because the
property here was a liability instead
of an asset. However, the company
always paid its taxes and for that
reason its properties in other cities
outside of Concord cannot be touched
by the city in its efforts to get the
$33,000 debt.
It is said equipment of the company
here is in bad repair, requests for new
equipment having been refused due
to the fact that the company was con
templating suspension of the line here.
A storage battery ear, said to have
been the first in the South, was sent
to Concord when the public service
company started Its schedule in the
city. Later this car was abandoned
and a trolley system was installed,
such as are used in other cities.
The lines of the company extend
from the depot of the Southern Rail
way Company to the Gibson Manufac
turing Company, and to a point on
South Union street near the home of i
n rrvi 1
J. Leonard Brown. The South Union |
street line has not been operated forj
several years, however, its schedule
haring been suspended by request of
the company which stated that only (
a few persons ever used the system
from the square to its terminal on
Bouth Union street.
The commitee appointed by Mayor
Barrier to make m study of the sys
: tem here probably will report at the
September meeting and it is under
stood that nothing will he done un
til the commitee is ready to report. It
is also understood that the commit
tee plans a conference with officials
of the public service company rela
tive to the $33,000 debt.
As the tracks of the street car
system are on paved streets, it is
believed they will be left, as repairs
to the streets caused by their removal
would cost more than the rails would
bring.
The committee appointed to study
the matter by the city is composed of
Mayor Barrier, Aldermen Howard and
Hahn and City Attorney J. Lee Crow
ell. While this committee has not
yet completed its work, it was stated
by one of .its members (his morning
that one proposal has been agreed on
by, the members, this being that the
city will square off accounts with the
public service company if the latter
will turn over to the former all of Its
rand personal property In Oon
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GOVERNOR McLEAN
MAKES INQUIRIES
Says No Patients at State %
Sanatorium Will Be
Moved For the Lack of
Money From State.
Raleigh, Aug. 24.—CA>>—No pa
tients will be sent away from the
state sanatorium for tuberculosis until
Governor McLean hns made* a per
sonal Investigation of conditions there
which were Recently said to he such
that sixteen patients must leave in
the immediate future and twenty oth
ers in the next six months to make
way fpr cases on the waiting list pre
senting mope hope of being cured.
In a statement last night on his re
turn from a vacation Governor Mc-
Lean stated he was "very much sur
prised” to learn an emergency existed
at the sanatorium and added “there
must be some mistake about the .nat
ter.” Pending completion ? of a per
sonal investigation, the Governor said
he would nt once request the lioard of
directors to refrain from dismissing
any of the patients in question.
BURGLAR .SHOT TO DEATH
Another Burglar Makes His Escape.
—.Suspect Arrested But Proves an
Alibi.
Reidsville, Aug. 22.—Edward Car
ter. 25-year-old white man, was shot
and instantly killed at about 10:30
o'clock last night by B. R. Franklin
in his home on Thomas street. East '■
Reidsville. Carter and another thief
entered Franklin’s home. The second I
thief plunged through a window when
the shooting began and made his es- ‘
cape. The • robber, evidently realiz
ing that he was trapped, fired several
shots, two of the bullets inflicting
flesh wounds in Franklin’s neck and
leg and Mrs. Franklin being wounded
in the shoulder from behind by the
unknown thief after she had run into '
the yard to give the alarm.
Both Mr. and Sirs. Franklin will
recover from their wonnds, which are
not considered serious. Both were
highly unnerved today after their ex
perience and are suffering from triiock.
Franklin, with a shotgun, sent a
load into the midnight thief below the ,
heart and he dropped in his trucks.
Before Franklin could -get hur-AML
which he kept ’dear his bed. Carter
had fired several times. The ex
perience was a terrifying one for the
young man and his wife, both of
I whom were In bed and who were prin
cipals in a midnight duel in the dark
ness with deadly missiles speeding in
every direction.
KLAN TO RESCUE TORCH
DROPPED BY W. J. BRYAN
Organization Is Committed to Throw
Strength Behind the Fundamental
ist Move.
Sandusky. 0., Aug. 23. —The Ku
Klux Klan has unequivocally commit
ted itself to a fight for fundamental
ism in religion, Clyde \V. Osborne,
grand dragon for Ohio, declared in
an address at a district meeting of
the organization near here last night.
“We will take up the torc'u as it
fell from the hands of William Jen
nings Bryan, carrying on his fight
for the religion of our fathers.”
Exactly how the klan will pursue
this course probably will be deter
mined at the national meeting of
grand dragons at Buckeye Lake, a re
sort near Columbus, next week.
“Our great army of men and women
believe in the teachings of Christ as
recorded in the Bible and in the im
maculate conception, but we do not
necessarily believe in a literaly trans
lation to the extent that it is neces
sary to believe that a whale swal
lowed Jonah,” he declared.
Rowan County’s Tax Rare Is Fixed
at $lO7.
Salisbury. Aug. 22.—The county
board of commissioners have fixed
the tax rate for the coming fiscal
year at sl-07 on the SIOO valuation
of property, this being an increase of
15 cents over the present rate of 92
cents. Os this increase 14 cents is
for the general county school fund
, I and one cent is added to the present
I public health fund. The poll tax re
mains the same, $2.
• The general tax of $1.07 is divided
as follows. One cent for maintenance
of county home; two cents for main
i tenance of bridge; 15 cents for con
struction and maintenance of county
roads; two cents for health work; 12
cents for principal and interest on
public debt; 60 cents for special
county school tax.
In addition to this there is levied
an eight cent road tax, incorporated
towns exempt, this to be used ex
clusively for road work in the town
ships in which collected. There are
also 14 special school tax districts in
the county with a rate 10 cents to
50 cent on the SIOO.
The rate is based' on a property
valuation in the entire county of ap
proximately $50,000,000, and the
general tax exclusive of the special
school district tax and the township
road tax, is expected to bring a re
venue of about $850,000. Os this
about $340,000 will go schools, in ad-,
dition to that derived from thei
special sehoo( tax in districts where |
such tax bos been approved by a,
vote of the people-
Convict Dorothy. EUingson cu Charge'
of Manslaughter.
San Francisco, Aug. 22—Dorothy
EUingson, 17 year old confessed
matricide, was found guilty of man
slaughter by a superior court jury
tonight.
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CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1924
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She will be one ot the cU princesses In the pageant.
CANDIDATES EIGIGE
IN VERBAL BATTLES
New York City Candidates
For Mayor Spend Week-
End Throwing Criticisms
at One Another.
New York, Aug. 24.—(A*)—Refer
ences to millionaires, high brows with
a barrel, and a wide open town figure
hTthe WfMt nnppats fff ’
as how they should not vote for some
of the candidates in tlie mayoralty
nominations in the primary on Septem
ber the 15tb.
Wm. M. Bennett and John J. Lyon,
insurgent republicans, regard the reg
ular republican nominee, Frank D.
Waterman, as a “carped bagger Dem
ocrat. masquerading on the republi
can ticket,” and as a “millionaire,
hand picked by a group of million
aires.”
While airing these views on the Sab
bath, Mayor Hylan was giving warn
ing that a wide open town is being
sought by Tammany, which is oppos
ing him.
Mayor Hylan commenting on the
defection of two Brooklyn women
leaders to the Tammany camp of his
rival. State Senator James J. Walker,
said: /
“I am grieved to learn that any good
woman would support a candidate
who is backed by those who want a
wide open town. The powerful inner
circle of Tammany Hall is planning
to clean up millions in traction deals
and also revive old days of i>ool rooms
and gambling houses, just as wide
open as Saratoga is today.”
Government Takes Charge of Bodies.
White SuHphur Springs, W. V.,
Aug. 24.— UP) —A War Department
representative has been placed in’
charge of the bodies of ('apt. Fra
zer Hale and Private Earle C. Nor
ris, of the army air service, who were
burned to death yesterday when their
plane crashed on the Greenbriar golf
links here, in sight of hundreds of
players and spectators.
Death Claims 50.
New Port, R. 1., Aug 23-—Death
had tlaimed 50 lives in the boiler ex
plosion on the excursion steamer
Mackinac, up to early tonight, when
Sarah Powers, 15. of Central Falls,
R. 1., succumbed to burns. Earlier in
the day death ended the suffering of
James Henderson and Charles Koe
ford. AH were patients in the naval
hospital.
Toadstools Kill Man After His
Cat Survives the First Mess
Philadelphia, Aug. 24.—Oswaldo
Massara, who lived at No. 8114
Devon street. Chestnut Hill, went
out lost Sunday to pick some mush
rooms. He gathered up a basketful
of what he rlpiught were mushroom*,
and took them to his home.
Oswaldo had read something about
1 toadstools, which he knew were
poisonous. So he cooked some of the
1 plants and gave them to his cut.
cat showed signs of distress, but. it,
1 quickly recovered
.! “Well,” said Oswaldo, “if that’s
. all the harm these things do they're
certainly not toadstools. If they were
I the cat would hare died.”
I So Oswaldo cooked some of' the
i; plants for himself, and on Monday, at
| lunch time, he ate heartily of them.
’ When he had finished his meal Oh-
I waldo became violently ill. He was
- hurried -to the Chestnut Hill Hos
i pltol. Efforts of physicians to revive
him failed and he died yesterday
WANT SETTLEMENT :
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ABOUT LOST LAND
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Effort Being Made to De- j
termine Ownership of (
Florida Land Which Is ;
Claimed by Two Now. i
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Marco, Fla., Aug. 24.—(A s )—First 1
definite action designed to determine
the ownership of disputed’ property on 1
rskreo Mamt m the controversy hs- i
tween Baron G. Collier. New York ad- l
vertising magnate, and Walter Wil- '
linms. owner of the township of Mar- i
co, was expected today, according to 1
announcement by Williams.
The old settlers reported today by i
Captain Jim Daniels who has lived on I
the island since 1870 and who has i
staked a claim on property claimed by ]
Collier, planned to cut a fence erected
by Collier’s agents around the dis- 1
puted property. They expect Captain
Daniels to be arrested by Sheriff Ma.v
nnrd of Collier county on ehnrges of '
trespassing and malicious destruction
of property.
Williams announced he would back
Captain Daniels in carry ing the case
to the circuit court, thus compelling
Collier to prove ownership of the <
land. Williams and the settlers hope
by thiS|action to obtain a court ilecis- l
ion ns to whether the property, said 1
to be unsurveyed, belongs rightly to 1
the New York advertising man or to
the United States.
Seaboaord Extension Talk is Ac- '
cent tinted.
Asheville, Aug. 22.—Since the 1
first rumors became current that the 1
Seaboard Air Line might built an
extension of its line from Ruther- '
fordton to Asheville through the
Lake Lure development at Chimney
' Rock, a large number of officials of
the Seaboard have been seen in this <
section. The Seaboard’s east and
west line already extends from
Wilmington to Rutherfordton via
Charlotte and by constructing a 43-
mile extension into Asheville the
road would have a direct line from 1
the seaboard to the mountains.
Prepare For Long Flight.
San Francisco, Aug. 24. 04b—Three
U. 8. naval seaplanes which will at
tempt a non-stop flight to Honolulu
next Friday, were anchored off Cris
sy Field today undergoing final prep
arations for the 2,000 mile voyage.
•Carrying the crews which will pilot
them on the flight, the three planes
arrived here yesterday.
afternoon.
Jane Massaro, daughter of Os
waldo, told Coroner Patton yesterday
that her father was passionately
fond of mushrooms. For the last
lye years, she explained, he had gone
out regularly and gathered mush
rooms in the fields along the Wis
sahickon Creek and alongside the
Philadelphia Cricket. Club. The latter
is a favorite haunt for boys, who
gather the plants by the basketful
and peddle them among the house
wires in Germantown and Chestnut
tiill.
“Father knew the difference be
tween mushrooms and toadstools,”
explained the daughter, “and I am
at a loss to know why he misjudged
the batch he picked on Sunday. He
was a bit dubious about them, on
his return, but when he fed the
plants to the cat and the eat didn’t
aeem to suffer any, he apparently
figured be had selected mushrooma
and docied to eat them.”
YOUNG UNIVERSITY
STUDENT KILLED IN
FIGHT WITHGUNIN
John Henry Klassin Slain
by Gangsters and Male
Companion Was Badly
Beaten.
EIGHT ARRESTS
MADE SO FAR
Police Say Four of Arrest
ed Men Have Confessed.
Klassin Killed With Pav
ing Stone.
Chicago, Aug. 24.—(A 5 ) —A univer
sity of Chicago medical student was
beaten to death and a companion slug
ged by gangsters yesterday following a
fancied insult to three sisters which
was resented by the escort of the
girls.
The slain student was John Henry
Klnssin. 25, of Mankato, Kans., a
junior in the school of medicine, and
his companion Jas, R. M-’teham. a son
of P. M. Mitcham, wealthy oil oper
ator of Fori) Worth, Texas. Eight
men including Archie Carlini, 21, nam
ed by the police as the lender of the
attack, are under arrest, confessions
having ’been obtained from four of
them.
Klnssin’s skull was fractured, ap
parently by a paving stone, and he
died without regaining consciousness.
SAYS ENGINEER KNEW
VESSEL WAS DANGEROUS
Edward Cassidy Says He Told Mack
inac Engineer That Boiler Was
Not Safe.
Providence, R. I. Aug. 24.—(A 1 )
Chief Engineer John Grant, of the
Steamer Mackinac, the boiler of which
blew up last Tuesday, taking fifty
lives, was aware of Hie dangerous con
dition of the boiler before the steam
er started on the ill-fated excursion,
said testimony submitted loday at the
hearing being conducted here under
the direction of the Federal Steam
boat Inspection Service.
Edward Cassidy, a welder, testified
that he had been called upon to do
some repair work on the boiler, but
that he could cot do the work be
cause it would have been necessary to
remove planking before lie could reach
the place to be repaired.
He testified he warned Grant of the
seriousness of the break and told him
the boat “might get to Newport and
might blow up,’’ and that, Grant re
plied “I know it.’’
He also said Grant hnd told him “in
case anything happens” to say “it was
a new break.” The testimony of
Walter A. Parent , another welder,'
sustained Cassidy's story.
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The new Robert-Wicks suits at the
Browns-Cannon Co. are beautiful.
Turk Mcßee, Jr., the wonder xylo
phonist and music marvel, at the
Concord Theatre today at 3:30- 7:30
and 9:30 p. m. Don't fail to hear
him.
Today and Tuesday at the Concord
Theatre, Johnny Hines in “The Speed
Spook.” Also Aesop’s Fables and
Pathe news. Added attraction, Turk
Mcßee, Jr., tile world's wonder mu
sician.
“The Devil's Cargo” today and
Tuesday nt the Star Theatre, with
Pauline Starke and Wallace Beery.
Wednesday there will be a big Para
mount picture. Thursday and Fri
day, “Wild Susan,” with Ilebe Daniels
and Rod Laßocqtte. This is a Para
mount too.
Dashing frocks of silk for girls and
small women at J. C. Penney Co’s,
for from $9.90 to $29.75. Right from
the fashion center of New York.
Sizes, 15, 17 and 19 years. See il
lustration in ad. today.
“The Wife Who Wasn’t Wanted,”
Wednesday and Thursday at the Con
cord Theatre with Irene Rich and
Huntley Gordon.
Sweeping price reductions have been
made in Hudson and Essex care. The
Hudson couch now $1195, and Essex
coach $7.95. See ad. on page two
today.
Marines Sleep While Guarding Presi
dent.
Swampscott, Mass., Aug. 24.— UP) —
Two marines of the special detail as
signed to guard the summer white
house, were found asleep at their post
of duty early this morning. Charges
of neglect of duty have been pre
ferred against them, and Captain A.
Andrews, the President's naval aide,
has ordered an investigation.
Will Consider Philadelphia Record
Proposal.
Miami, Fla , Aug. 24.— UP)— Mrs.
: William Jennings Bryan today an
nounced she would give immediate
consideration to the proposal of The
Philadelphia Record for g national
memorial to Mr. Bryan.
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■ Alfred Mace, eldest son of Jem
i Mace, one of Britain’s most famous
t boxing champions, has found a
: calling far removed from the priae
' ring. He is a revivalist preacher,
i and a member of a strict Noncon
forstmUt sect
JOHN EDNEV BEING
HELD FOR KILLING y
JIIUKETOIM
The Men Are Said to Have
Quarreled Over Woman
and Edney Shot Clarke
Just Above the Heart.
WERE RIDING IN
AUTO AT TIME
Stopped to Fix Puncture
and Argument Started—
Men Had Been Friends
For Years, It is Said.
Hendersonville, Aug. 24.— OP) —
John Edney, a resident of Kdneyville,
of this county, is being held in jail
here without bond cmliarged with the
killing early this morning of Jim
Clarke, 2ti.
The killing is alleged to have taken
place near Kdneyville this morning
about 4 o'clock during the progress of
an automobile ride in which Edney
and Clarke participated.
The men are said to have gotten
out of the car to fix a puncture when
a quarrel arose between them con
cerning a woman. During the fight
which ensued. Edney is said to have
fired one shot which struck Clnrke
just over the heart.
A man named I.ydn notified a con
stable tn Edneyville. W. J. Rogers
and J. A. Garren went to the scene,
where they found Clarke's body ly
ing in the road. Edney was arrested
and brought to Hendersonville, where
he is being held pending a coroner’s
inquest tomorrow morning.
Clarke is survived by his parents,
three sisters and a brother. The men
are said to have been friends previous
to their quarrel.
SENATOR COPELAND
IS BACKING HYLAN
Formally Indorses Mayor’s Candidacy
—Mrs. Minnie Abel Throws Her
Support to Walker.
New York, Aug. 23.—As the prin
cipals in New York's mayoralty cam
paign rested Saturday in preparation
for the campaign of oratory scheduled
' for this week. Mayor Hyian granted an
important recruit when United States
Senator Royal S. Copeland, once a
member of New York’s official Demo
cratic family, issued a statement in
dorsing the mayor’s candidacy. His
action marks a break with the leader
ship of Governor Smith, but was not
entirel y unexpected as the senator
long has been a friend of the mayor.
In Brooklyn, however, the mayor
■ lost support through the defection of
• Mrs. Minnie .T. Abel, co-leader of the
17th assembly district and a member
of the Kings county executive com
mittee.
“If Senator Walker is good enough
for Governor Smith, he is good enough
for me,” said Mrs. Abel.
On Monday night Frank I). Wat
erage, Republican-citizen candidate
for mayor, will open his campaign
with an address.
Governor Smith will make his ad
dreess in behalf of State Senator
James ,T. Walker, the Tammany desig
nee, on August 27th, in Brooklyn.
I THE COTTON MARKET.
The Market Opened Unchanged to ft
I Points Lower, But Later Tone Was
1 Steady.
1 New York, Aug. 2 4. — 04 s ) —Early
; trading in the cotton market was
- confined largely to further evening
up of accounts in advance of govem
-1 ment crop reports. Liverpool quota
i tions were lower and there were pri
. vate reports of lower temperature in
- the south with showers in southern
- parts of Texas over the week-end.
i Scattered selling resulted, with the
• market opening unchanged to t) points
lower, but the tone was steady and
prices fairly well sustained during the
first hour.
Cotton futures: Oct. 23.30; Dec.
23 60; Jan. 23.10; March 23.40; May
23.72.
No Word of Boycott Received.
Washington, Aug. 24.— OP) —No
word of a boycott of American goods
at Chnngltai. reported in a dispatch to
the Liverpool Post, has reached the
State department.
Diamonds in their natural state
are usually of a dull lead color.
I STAR THEATRE ijj
Program For Week of August ij i
24th to 2ftth
Monday and Tuesday i [
"THE DEVIL’S CARGO” • |
With Pauline Starke, and Wal- j
lace Beery, [
It’s a Paramount Special 1
Wednesday Only j
Will Be a Paramount Picture.
Big' Special with Special Music
Also
Thursday and Friday
“WILD SUSAN”
With Bebe Daniels and Rod Lit
• Rocqye J
It’s a Paramount
Saturday
A Five-Reel Western and a
Comedy
th£ tribune {
PRINTS I
TODAY’S NEWS TOD&jB
no. m
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BRITAIN IS 11
PARLEY DISCUSSIOH
Joseph Caillaux Goes to H
London for Conference
With Winston Churchill
Regarding the Debt. -1 ||
FIRST PROPOSAL % I
MAY NOT STANDI>
Hardly Likely That France V
Will Agree to Pay 20,- 1
000,000 Pounds Sterling'S!
Yearly as Suggested. ||
London. August 24.— 0P)- —JosetjjKjflra
Caillaux. the French minister
nance, was Here today for a convef*':HH
sat if. n with Winston Churchill,
cellor of the British exchequer,
gat-ding the terms for the settlemeftjfejsHit;
of France’s debt of *623,000,000. H
No time has been set for the
turn of tlie conversation, and specUt|tgU|S
lion as to I lie length varies from 1
days to a week or more. Eg
But in any case the talks will
finally settle the question for M. CftSkjSn
laux will make report to his govevi§f|H3
ment before any decisiolt is taken.
Recent statement in tile Frenca'lßl
press have created the opinion hm|K4
that France is not prepared to
aider payment of anything like 20,*
000.000 pounds Sterling learly which, )H||s
Great Britain mentioned as being an HiS
acceptable slim when French financial |Hf|
experts were here recently, and egproHS
pectation is that M. Caillaux’s olferjSg||
will not exceed 10.000.000 annually, 9
although it is expected this will MrHB
increased if France is able to
advantageous arrangement with tiaSHB
United States repsceting her debt
I that country.
i QUIET WEEK PROMISED B
PRESIDENT COOLIDGB Jli|
Will See Few Government Officials Sc
But Hasn't Many Appointments. J| f
Swampscott. Aug. 24.—(A s )
dent Coolidge began another week
his vacation today with indicafliMH'S
that it would be perhaps the quietetjtsHfc
j he lias enjoyed since lie arrived her«f|Blß
late in June.. He plans to contiu!gjjJßj||
1 his practice of conferring from time .ffi|§
1 to time with high government officials ■
and Congressional leaders but few ap*
pnintment have been made for
week. ." “rffß K
Thus far there lias been no
tion as to when the President will
turn to Washington although there
a strong possibility he will remainH
here until after Labor Day.
The impending tjeup of anthrttcSM!f|BS
mines scheduled for a week from
’ morrow as a result of tile failure ofyHf-l
operators and miners to agree 'Ott-IS^B
■ new wage scale is not likely to hßijiHE
any effect on Mr. Coolidge’s planjKijH
i It is understood he does not.
i that suspension of operations woajmHH
necessitate in any way his return
■ the capital as he is determined
the present at least to maintain a Kjj
i hands off policy , |H
Memory of Bill Nye Will Be Per
petuated by North Carolina. Bag
Fletcher, N. C.. Aug. 24.
Five memorials to Edgar WilatMuß'f
(Bill”) Nye, grouped about his lagfjH:?
resting place in the heart of the
Ridge Mountains, at Fletcher, will be H|
formally dedicated Tuesday, AttgtllllK
25th. These reminders of the famoug;»9§j
humorist include a memorial wiiidolff|B||
• ! n old Calvary Episcopal Church ; aHi
bronze tablet markiug his grave
the churchyard; a monument on whidqHl
a bronze tablet will tell a brief atMXjKg
of his life, on the HendersonvilJaHHg
Asheville highway : a memorial |*dH
staff, the gift of the city of
1 ville. and a memorial shelter, erected HR
by the Masonic fraternity of AMtMHp
Dedicatory exorcises over these me- H§
morials will mark the 75th
sary of the ’humorist's birth at Shin* Hs
ley, Maine. Frank W. Nye,. son of
the humorist, and Mrs. Eugene
a daughter, will be present. • - ,'3* Bfl
Miss Duihi Killed in Motor Aett*
dent. H
Charlotte. Aug. 23.—Miss Suasn-jHI
Dunn, for six years a member of fi|
Queens College facility, was UOkB
Saturday night in an auto
in Lancaster, Ky., her old home.
was to return to Queens in ‘Septetto
her. She was 50 years of age.
the summer she rece’ved her
degree. She was a valued
Queens' faonlty. Bb
Minister to Haiti Found Dead In
Montreal. Aug. 24.—(A 3 )—
Bailly Blanchard. United State
ter to Haiti, since 1914, was
dead in his bedroom at the M(mH|
I Royal Hotel early today. "’jS 'H
; —-■= = g^B
SAT'S REAR SAYS: fj| ||
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Cloudy on the coast and
cloudy in interior tonight nd Tuk®§
dftJ ’