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ASSOCIATED PRESS *' DISPATCHES VOLUME XXV BIG SUBSCRIPTION HMH CLOSED ' Sflltti OUT Miss Dorothy Roberts Won First Prize, Mrs. Herman Laughlin Second, C. H. Lipe Third, Miss Lucille Cline Fourth.. SIX WINNERS OF CASH PRIZES Campaign; Was the Biggest Thing of Kind Ever Un dertaken in the County— Many New Subscribers. The famous Tribune-Time* 410,000 circulation campaign came to a close .Saturday night and lias proven not only famous, but the largest. Piling of its kind ever undertaken in t'nbarrus county Two hours were required for the judges to complete their check ing of votes and the announcement of tlie results of the eleven-week race for votes was announced to a crowd of more than cue hundred which, jammed the lobby of the Cabarrus Savingß Bank where the final count was - made. This crowd included not •only .candidates, but also scores of friends and supporters who were as much interested in the outcome as were the workers themselves. The Tribune and Times are proud of the contestants who participated in this truly great gift effer and wont to express thanks for the splen did accomplishments they made pos sible. Hundreds of added subscrib ers -to both The Tribune and Times are prw members of the large family of readers of Cabarrus county's ouly daily and semi-weekly newspapers. Our field of influence for advertisers has been greatly enlarged and we now ’.lave many more friends and readers The list of winners is announced in today's issues of The Tribune and Times ami appear over the signa tures of the judges who made the final accounting and determined the vic torious workers. To these judges also, ig our thanks extended, for theirs was no simple task in view of the fact that a great flood of subscriptions nnd votes were polled in the fiiml week cf'tlie campaign. - *- - - DISNT REPORTS OP thb Railroad deal Scntem Power Officials Know Noth tng of Norfolk Southern Electri fication. Charlotte, Nov. 22.—High officials of the Southern Power Company, at headquarters of the "company here, said yesterday they know nothing of reports of a proposed electrification of the Norfolk Southern Hallway, which Las a terminus here. Press dispatches frsm Raleigh, ap pearing in State newspapers, an nounced a report there that a power company was contemplating acquir ing complete coutrot of the Norfolk Southern, electrifying the line '■ nnd making it,an important link in some vast transportation system that would practically cover this section. An official of .the Norfolk South ern Railway here, who has had long service with the line, was asked of the report. He said all he know of the proposal was what he had heard in the newspapers. He said that, from time to time during the past several years, he had heard gossip and rumors to tho effect that the Southern Power Company, the co called Duke interests, was consider ing making the rond an electric line, but he knew notfling definite gbout the reports. The Raleigh dispatches intimated that the Duke interests might be in tending some development of this line, if control could be acquired, which would have a relation to the proposed construction of an exten sioin of the Piedmont nnd Northern Electric Line from Charlotte to Win ston-Salem. Lumber Shortage Felt By Florida. Biloxi, Miss., Nov. 22.—Owing to an' embargo upon railroad cars to gether with tbe great demand for lumber as well as other building material in F'orida tho local cham ber of commerce has been flooded with letters and telegram* from Florida resorts asking them to as sist in supplying the demand' in the future. Output of timber from south MLssisippi is boing used chiefly by Joeal shippers hud builders but a plan is being discussed for inaugura tion of coastwise vessels to Florida fn order to handle tbe lumber situa tion for that section in the future. r ; A . Herman, Dr. Karl Muelleri claims to have discovered a process whereby it is possible to reduce metal foils to transparency. This wIT greatly benefit t&e telephone, radio and musical industries. City Tax Notice Effective December Ist, 1925, penalty ,on city taxes. Pay now and save additional cost. '" CHAS- N. FIELD, City Tax Collector, The Concord Daily Tribune 'Mother Sought in Kidnaping :M' ' Jtvjlfe' V > Vernous and Beatrice Walsh have not been seen since ‘ they disappeared While on their way to school in Peru, Ind., Sept. io. Their father, Thomas J; Walsh, divorced their mother five years ago and was awarded their cus tody. He charges the mother has kidnaped them. Vernous is 7 and * v Beatrice la •. ;| Colonel Mitchell On | Stand Repeats Cause For All His Charges i —-—. ; «. THE COTTON MARKET ' Opened Firm at Advance of 14 to 35 1 Points—Advances Aattracted Keal lilng. New York, Nov. 23.—0P>—The cot ■ ton market opened firm today at nil J advance!, of 14 to 35 points on a re newal of the buying movement in spired by Saturday's crop report and in response to relatively firm Liv C r-1 pool cables. The further advance attracted heavy realizing, but bouses with for eign connections were good buyers, 1 while there’ was considerable price fixing for the trade, and some broad ening of commission house demand. 1 This absorbed early offerings, and . prices were within a few points of the beet at the end of the .first ’.lour, to 20.*; aifchri®# Insntha showing net advances of about 1« to-2n points. Early buyers ap-* peared to be expecting an improve ment Jn the cot top goods trade, fol lowing the decrease in official crop estimates. Reports that exporters were buying in the South also may have been an influence. With Our Advertisers. Today ami tomorrow the Star Thea tre will present Bebe Daniels in "Lov ers in Quarantine.” a Paramount pic ture. Wednesday and Thursday. “The Painted Lady." with Grace O’Brien and Dorothy Markaiil. Friday "The Brass Bowl.” and a live comedy. See the new ad. today of the Reid Motor Company, Concord's Ford deal ers. A most appropriate gift for a man ia a high-grade watch. Sec ad. -of S. W. Preslar. Don'tf feed your man raw meat— get a gas range from tile Concord & Kannapolis Gaa Co. ■ _ See the ad. of the Dayton Automatic Water Supply System sold here by E. G. Grady. Look at the Christmas line of Olinc'a Pharmacy and buy your things before file rush. On Wednesday and Thursday there will be a splendid added attraction at the Concord Theatre, Frances Burr Mitchell, dramatic soprano, of Bos ton. See ad. Prices for George White's Scandals in Charlotte Thursday will be: Mati nee, *l.lO, *1.65 nnd $2120; night, t *1.65, *2.20; *2.75, $3.30. Excellent values on school dresses' at J. Q. Tenney Co.'s. From 6 to 14 years, ouly *2.08. • Western ammunition is sold here by the Ritchie Hardware Company. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQQOOOO<vy>oo<x?<X)Or> I Bobbed Hair A Dazzling Mystery Romance Twenty lamouh Authors b This wonderfully fascinating serial story will ]!; 8 begin in The Tribune Tuesday. qoooboooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooe ■ .... • . • Takes Stand in Own De fense at Court Martial. —Few New Develop ments So Far. TELLS WHY HE MADE CHARGES Ready to Subject Himself to the Same Direct and Cross Examination ,as Other Witnesses. Washington, Nov. 23.—OF)—Col. William Mitchell took the witness stand today before the pourt mania}, trying hitn for breach of discipline ’trt'n rrttttn c-t tttx- pnMlc TVltk-tsnr'w Fie ndipinh-lration of the army and navy air service*!. 'For the third time within a few months the air crusader repeated un der oath bis reasons for assailing those in charge of governmental avia tion nnd for his advocacy of a larger and better trained nml equipped air 1 force. Much of his testimony binged on the same points lie had stressed last spring before the aircraft com mittee. and Inter before tho Presi dents' special air board. When he took the stand in his own behalf he was informed of Jiis riglits by the law member of the court, Col. Blanton Winship, nnd replied that lie would subject himself to full direct and cross examination by the defense and prosecution counsel ’"the same as any other witness.” Latest Bcbs and Waves Now Avail able to Chinese Girls. San Francisco, Nov. 23.—(/P)—For the first time the beauty shop has invaded Chinatown. Two of them are doing a flourishing business. The operators are Chinese girls, graduates of hair-dressing and mani cure schools, and on the walls bang diplomas informing customers that , they are duty qualified. Most*of the natrons are Chinese girls who want the latest bobs and waves. However, an occasional Chi nese sheik, with pinch-bank cont and 22-inch trouser cuffs, can be seen op posite the manipulator of orange I stick, cuticle knife and buffer. The milk of the goat, % ass, nnd the camel carried hi skins was churned on the back of beasts of burden from the earliest days of recorded his tory. North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily CONCORD,. N. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1925 STiNDURD OIL CO.' LOSES OIL POUT I IN PROPERTY OSS I .' Ti Chief Justice McCoy, of District of Columbia Su preme Court, Rules With the Government. TO FIND OUT ABOUTTHELANp The Oil Company Secured In One of the Leasts Granted It in California. Granted It in the State of California. Washington. Nov. 23.—OP)—A move by the Standard Oil Company . of California to stop the Interior partment’s investigation into" the min eral character of certain of its Rlk Ilills. ChJiE,, land holdings, was over ruled Icdijy in the Supreme Court of* the District of Columbia." .Chief Justice McCoy, in denying a preliminary injunction sought by the ; company, declared the secretary of theJ interior was authorized by law- Ini press the inquiry, and Fin! no court | had a right to stop him. 4 j The land, a part of the Aval lie-, serve, was turned over to tile state of California for school purposes, un- i der the representation that it eon-' taine,! no minerals. Subsequently it! was acquired by the Stnnar.d Oil Com pany. Title of the company was j brought into question during the ad-' ministration of Secretary Lane, ami! later hearings were conducted before’ Secretary Fall. On the contention Fiat, the title had been finally awarded the .company without hearing of the government's! ease, the Senate on motion of Senator j Walsh, democrat of Montana, in structed the Interior Department to j bring notion for recovery of the lnnd.: SALISBURY GETS LARGE STEAM ELECTRIC PLANT Southern IJower Company Acquires I-and and Will Begin Work W Grading This Week. Salisbury, Nov. 21.—Definite an* ncuncement made ’here this afternoon by officials of tile Southern Power ..CdmWOflrJ that the new lflG.fM horsepower, steam electric plant of the company will be built at Salisbury, and that the project means more than the mere building of a supplementary steam plant is indicated by the amount of acreage purchased. Three hundred and seventeen acres are in eluded in the deed of transfer from Love Henharrier to the power o mi ps ny. The land lies two miles east of ' Salisbury and about an equal dis tance from East Spencer, and rail road connection will be made wiFi the Southern at the latter place. The land deal lias bw*n oolsed and right of-way procedure taken. It is an nounced that actual work of grading for the construction will begin newt; week. Almost all the equipment for the new plant has been contracted for. Included in this are two steam tur bines of 50,000 horsepower each con tracted for with the General Electric Company a few days after the death of J, B. Duke. This purchase set nf rest the speculation as to whether the company would carry on with its program of development after the death of Mr. Duke. With the new plant, it is announced, the Southern Power Company, will linve added 210.- 000 horsepower since the beginning of Fie present year. It is understood the plans of the power company will mean the coming to Salisbury of sev eral hundred employes of the most de sirable type. DUKE GIVES TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND TO KITTRKLL Announcement Is Made at Conference of, African Methodist Church at Greensboro. Greensboro, Nov. 22. —Following announcement Saturday at the session of the annual meeting here of the Western North Carolina .Methodist conference, African Methodist Episco pal Church, that B. N. Duke, of New York, has given $200,000 to KittreM College for negroes, located at Kit trell, the 'conference suspended busi ness and prayed for the recovery of Mr. Duke from his present illness. A resolution was also adopted thank ing him for the gift. The confer ence voted to meet next year in Ham let. Says Lespedesa Is Finest Clover Grown. Albemarle. Nov 23. — OP) —Math Mabry, of Route Np. 5, Albemarle, is so thoroughly convinced that ’.es pedeza is the finest clover grown that he is willing to borrow money to sow every acre on his farm to this legume. Such is the report of County Agent C. 11. Phillips, of Stanly county, who qiiotes T Mr. Marbry as follows: ; “When I started sowing lespedeza, my land wouldn’t produce over two or three bushels ‘of wheat per acre* and now this same land will produce 10 to 12 bushels. This year I pro duced 40 bales of cotton nnd that planted on lespedeza sod was the best, b.v far, I could oven tell to the row where the lespedeza stopped." Mr. Mabry is one of the progressive fanners in Stanly county, and has done much toward betteriug fanning conditions in. his vicinity, says Coun ty Agent Phillips. Contested | If ' r -^piq Sf | Jerald P. Nye, North Dakota editor, has been appointed to the U. S Senate by Governor Sorlie to fill tho j rncancy caused by the death of Sena lor Edwin F. Ladd. Now leading ; icnators claim Sorlie is not empow tred to appoint him, nnd a contest i »ver his right to enter the Renate is j , " in prospect. THIRTY-SIX DEAD IN AUTOW RECKS I In the States of the South i | During the Week-end.—j Ten Deaths Occurred in; Georgia. Memphis. Tcnn.. Nov. 23.—(/P) —' I Death riding over Dixie in an auto-! mobile last week claimed a toll of .'hi | lives and made attempts to take 170 j ; more, it is revealed b.v reports gath-j i ( red today from 11 southern states by i ! the Associated Press. ! Georgia yielded tlie largest mini- \ | her of deaths, her number being ten. I Louisiana and Virginia escaped with no deaths. A tabulation of reports includes: North Carolina—Deaths 7, injured 10. South Carolina—Deaths 2, injured THINKS “STOP LAW” ' , REDUCES ACCIDENTS Swift . Hooper, Veteran Southern Engineer, One Time on No 97, Gives His Views. Winston-Salem, Nov. 22.—Swift Hooper, for nearly 40 years an en gineer on the Southern railway and whi nt one time pulled the throttle on fatuous “No. 07," one of the fastest .trains ever operated in the United States, does not hesitate to express the opinion that the stop law" passed by he legislature seven! j years ago and which has been in es-j feet now for something like two I years, lias greatly reduced the mini- j ber of grade crossing accidents. ! He says that while many do not | stop nnd take the change of beating ! the train, the majority b.v reason of! tho law are far more careful than I they otherwise would be- In the days i gone by was the trndfc walker that | was the bane of the engineer's life-; but in recent years it has been the j grade crossing and the swift rushing automobile. Mr. Hooper is now on the run be tween this city and North Wilkes boro, and it has been on this run that he has spent the greater part of the 40 years riding an engine. FREIGHT STEAMSHIP IS ASKING FOR IIEU* Steamer Sueiierico Is Aground at Pun la de Matennillas. Cuba. New York, Nov. 33. — UP) —The New York freight steamship Sueiierico was aground today at Punta de Matermil las, Cuba. SOS calls picked up here indicated that the steamship was in communication with the radio sta tion at Pert an Prince, Haiti. The Sueherieo, 1,907 tons, after a recent trip from New York, left Ha vana for other Cuban ports. Faint wireless class were picked up last night b.v various stations, but the sender could not then be identi fied. The word Roorback originated in 1844, when there was published to 'the detriment of James K. Polk, then a candidate for President, an extract purporting to be froom Roorback's “Tour through Fic Western and! Southern States in 1530.” ; Program For Week of November ' 28-28 ; ’ Star Theatre j “Home of Paramount Pictures” ; Monday-Tuesday. Bebe Daniels in “LOVERS IN QUARANTINE’ ' Tbe story of a ship’s bride and a ' strange honeymoon. It's a Para- ! mount. 1 Wednesday--Thursday “THE PAINTED LADY” With George O'Brien and Doro- ' thy Mackaill. Tbe story rend by ' millions. It's a Fox special. Abo • —A Fox News Reel. FVittay Only “THE BRASS BOWL" With Edmund Lowe. Remember, ! One day only Comedy: “Dangerous Curves" A Fox Picture Saturday. Will Be a Five-Reel Western and n Good Comedy ' j i£ || JUDGES’ STATEMENT | Tribune-Times Campaign \\ e, the undersigned members of the Executive Com - I mittee appointed to have supervision of The i= une and Times Free Gift Distribution concluded tit ' = November 21, 1925, and who have been selected to" act as 2 j= counting judges and auditors, certify and state that we 5 ; = have this date made a careful check and count of all bal- = jr lots cast in this election and find results to be'as follows: §' 5 First Choice of Cars—Miss Dorothy Roberts, with E Iss--, votes. E Second Choice of Cars—Mrs. ]. 11. Laughlin, with I! = 22,100,550 votes. is Third Choice of Cars—C. H. Lip?. with 1 1,299,550 =. js votes. =, Is Fourth Choice of Cars—Miss Lucile Cline, with Hi - =■! |s 0,325 votes. ’ sj (§ Ford Special Prize—Mrs. J. H. I.aughlin,'with 131 1-2 I s points. s2o<\. Cash Prize—Mrs. R. M- Sappenfieid, with (>,- §j Is 291,250 votes. is S2OO Cash Prize—Miss Billie v Sapp, with 2,190.825 1 s votes. =! S2OO Cash Prize—E. Myers, with 9,613,800 votes. E : E. SIOO Cash Prize— ll. A. Allred, with 2,'55.055 votes, i SIOO Cash Prize—A. O. Maulden, with 494,800 votes. S' • 5 SIOO Cash Prize—J. E. Gray, with 4,012,800 votes. i We further find that the contestants whose names S 15 here appear received the number of votes opposite their = js names and are declared winners of the prizes listed be- s| ■ = fore their names. It is our belief that the Campaign has = ! : E been conducted in a fair and impartial manner to everyone si is interested and concerned and we commend The Concord Si iIS Tribune and Times and the Campaign management for = jS the businesslike methods employed in conducting the elec-, S iiS tion. • [S Signed: j» f= G. S. KLUTTZ C. W. SWINK E |= L. E. FOIL H. P. CATON =j |= BOYD RIGGERS- G. H. HENDRIX =| | C. L. PROPS'!' T. N. SPENCER S 1 GIVES IRE FACTS ABOUT SHENANDOAH - i Aviation Chief Rigger For the Craft Says He Has Kept Back Certain In formation About Ship. Washington, Nov. 23.—UP)—Ar thur E. Carlson, aviation chief rigger of tlie wrecked Shenandoah, told the Shenandoah naval court today that one of the surviving officers of the air ship. Lieutenant C. Haunch, had told hint not to give certain information to the court, unless it was asked for specifically. This information, which Carlson withheld when ’he first' testified at ! Lnkehurst, was that fifteen minutes before the Shenandoah broke up, lie j had closed off nt amidships, the in- I ternnl gassing manifold connecting ! the eighteen helium gas cells, and I designed to permit equilization of the !gas in the individual cells. I Car'ston testified tliut lie stopped j up the manifold oil his own initiative j because helium was rushing to the af ter eel'.s, and the ship already was up i by the stern. | Asked wily he had not given the court this information before, he said lie “did not regard it as material to the inquiry." Carlson said lie told Lieut. Bauch about it the night of the wreck. "What did he say ot you?" the wit ness was asked. “He said if they don’t question you on that subject'don't mention it. He no doubt lind the same opinion that I did. that it was immaterial.” The witness said lie also spoke to Lieutenant Mayer, another survivor, who replied that "he didn’t know any thing about that.' that it was up to me." “Bad Check" I .aw St ill Effective In Tiilft State. Statesville, Xov. 23.—Officers of tho North Carolina Merchants Associa tion. the organization which fathered both the laws now on tbe statutes of North Carolina against the giving of worthless cheeks, are very anxious to correct tlie impression which appears have gotten abroad that the recent decision of the supreme court nullified the new "bail check” law passed at the last session of the general assem bly. Inquiries have come to the state office here as to whether the law was "still ill force.” and State Secro ’ tar.v Paul Leonard is answering em- I phaticaliy that, it is. Buy Graham Truck Company. ! New York. Nov. 23.—(A5)—Pur | chase of a majority interest in Gra [ ham Brothers, said to be the largest independent huffier truck manufactur ers in tlie world, b.v Dodge Brothers. Inc., was announced today b.v Clar ence Dillon, of Dillon Read & Com pany. bankers. Who acquired control of Dodge Brothers last April in a cash transaction of $146,000,000. Dokies at Charlotte. Charlotte, November 23.— UP) —Suez Temple, Dramatic Order Knights of Kborassan, will be the niecea for the gathering of votaries Tuesday, when the fall ceremonial will be held. Twenty-five candidates are to be j initiated and more than 450 mom -1 bers are expected to attend. J A tournament for tbe ski jumping championship of Europe is to beheld 1 January 23rd at St. Moritz, the fam ous Swiss winter sports center. RHINEtiNDEH SUIT TO BE CONTINUED \ Counsel For Rhinelander Denounces “Myster Let ter” Presented by De fense Lawyer. - <■- - ■ ■White Plains, X. Y„ K’ov 23.— UP) —lsaac X. Mills, counsel for Leonard Kii» Khinelander in lr.s annulment suit against his wife, Alice, part Deg ress, issued n statement today charg ing that the so-called “mystery let ters" introduced last week, were a "deliberate attempt to trap the wit ness and force him to withdraw his 1 suit." Lee Parsons Davis, counsel for Mrs. Rhinelander, and who introduced the "mystery letter" last week, made a motion for declaration of mistrial when j court reopened. The motion was de ■ nied by Justice Morschauser. Mr. Mills in his statement had in dicated that the lefters, the contents of which had beeu guarded carefully, dealt with Rhinelander’s personal character. He charged that their in troduction was an attempt to "be smirch Rhinelander's character.” Mr. Mills first read the transcript of tile cross examination last week immediately preceding the presenta tion of the two “mystery” letters. He said that the method of questioning was deliberate, and its intent to force his client to withdraw. The letters had so shocked him. he admitted, that lie had lost all idea of tile proper method of procecdure last week. While ill-. Mills was making his remarks Mr. Davis arose and said 1 “This is a deliberate attempt to bring about a mistrial." After a lively argument, finally set - 1 tied by Justice Morschauser Mr. Mills said "We proceed with the trial." Present “Mystery” letters. White Plains. X. Y„ Xov. 23.—0 P) , —Tlic two “mystery" letters whose introduction in tho Rhinelander an- I liniment trial caused two adjourn ■ ments and rumors that the case would ■ he settled out of court to keep them , from being made public.- were placed . on record this morning. They were read before a court room I that had been emptied of ail but two women, the latter being newspaper women. Roth the letters were writ , ten from the Cliff Hotel in San Fran . cisco in 1922. and were concerned with pro-marital relations of Alice Beatrice Jones, daughter of a negro hack driver, and Leonard Kip Rhine lander. wealthy young society man, seeking annulment of their marriage. Tlic letters have been the center of a great mystery in the case beginning last week when Isaac X. Mills, coun sel for young Rhinelander, asked for a recess of several days to give him • opportunity to investigate them. They had been regarded as trump cards by ' Lee P, Davis, counsel for the defend-1 ant. Written by Leonard, they were held by the defense to offset tht> effect of Alice’s letters read at the beginning of the trial. Their contents adrait c tcdly were more orotic than the love , letters written by Mrs. Rhinelander. I j When reading of the letters began • | Alice and her mother left the coijrt II room and remained outside during subsequent cross examination on their p contents. The letters wore each about 500 words long, and were concerned with events that occurred when Alice and It Leonard spent n week at the hotel 1 Marie Antoinette in New York in - 1921. Picking up the second' tetter, which THF TRIBUNE PRINTS TODAY’S NEWS TODAY! NO. 2781 [ EXPECT BEHIND TOl I FOETH CUBIT IN ;">„niCE BIGHT SOOn \ Former Premier Is In Par|| jj and Has Been Coni ferring With the Frene| j, Pesident. j PAINLEVE GIVES l 1 UP THE OFFICE ! II His Cabinet Not Able to Solve Problems That- Confront France at the' Present Time. Paris. November 2.3.—(^)—“ArmtioS Hri'anri. riubbod "the man of IxK*arnsfi : sim-o his succpss at tho security c*i|j|| ference. is regarded as certain to be 1 II called upon by President Duumcrgjbi , to form a cabinet in succession to the j fallen Painlcvc government. The foreign minister, who has held ; I lie premiership seven times in 'ais j | lengthy political career, returned to t ! Paris this morning and had two long! telephone conversations with M. Dou ! morgue. Opinion is expressed that A the president succeeded in convincing” 1 I him of tiic patriotic necessity of his ; acceptance but no official summons to the Elysee Palace has been received, at the Quai d’Orsay early this morn-Y? ing. M. liriaml was suggested as tbe only man callable of leading France ’ out of tile present political and filian- "■ I eial jungle by the president of the seu j ate, M. de Selves, the president of tile chamber of depuities, M. Herriot, and ; 1 other parliamentarians consulted by I I the chief executive since -the begin- ; | ning of tlie cabinet crisis. -)sm failed to Presidential Palace. . Paris, Xov. 23.— UP)— Foreign Milt- .; / istei- Ilriand went to the Elysee Pulace , this afternoon accompanied by iiis secretary. The statesman chosen to ; form a now cabinet is customarily i summoned to the Elysee, the presi- I dcntial palace. Receives Invitation. Paris. Xov. 23.— (A I ) —For the ninth j time in his long political career, Aria tide .Rriand today received the charge J of the President of the Republic ©il form a cabinet, and tonight lie stands ; on the verge of accepting his eighth - premiership, M. Briand_ promised A j President' DomiTergueH'hfit'heWvoulct consult his friends and bring him a definite reply in the course of the eve- J ning. "The Man of Locarno*’ was the President’s first choice last spring to head tlic government after the fall of j M. Herriot, but the socialists refusedj a their support and compelled M. Doom,- Yj ergue. to call M. Painlcvc, the retiring 4 premier,. was by far more erotic than the first; a Mr. Davis said "Did you love this ei girl when you wrote that?" "Yes," answered Rhinelander; -JS Although he had kept his eyes fix- A cd on the floor during the read ; ng of 5 the more lurid passages, lie turned *1 squarely on" Mr. Davis and answered" il in a firm voice. His characteristic | stutter, however, recurred at ‘intervals la when the questions were more thau | usually intimate. Finally young Rhinelander said lie could-eco nothing wrong in his actions Y at the Marie Antoinette, Indicating J that lie did not agree with the shock- M cd attitude that Mr. Davis took on the revelations. Although that at first lie denied ; that these letters were written to leqd ji Alice on. lie admitted that in one of ;1 the letters written June fltli lie was 1 trying to tempt her. "I 'had lio other outlet to explain my emotion except | in iny letters." he said. “In them -j I put my heart and soul.” “Did you have any letters using I this kind of stuff from Alice?” asked J Mr. Davis. "Xo.” admitted the witness, .-25 “Did you intend to make this girl A your wife when you wrote these let- J ters to her?” he asked. “I had visions of it." In the midst of his cross examina tion on the mystery letters Mr. Davis a asked that the court be cleared in or- Y dcr that lie might show Alice’s skin 4 to the jury. Justice Morschauser in- M terposed an objection, ami it was fj agreed to retire to the jury room. Alice j returned to the court room and broke 3 into copious tears as tjhc walked into >j the jury room. Those who went with her to the A private room were Leonard, Mr. Davis, Mr. Mills, Alice's mother, Justice Morschauser, the court stenographer and tlic jury. Alice was wrapped in a heavy coat, and was comforted by ’ her mother. The party returned from the jury »i room about 11) minutes later. . .Y|jS SATS BEAR SAYS] J I Fair inniglil, aoWtV hi fantral nmt 1 1 east portions, probably freezing teitts J i perature to the coast; Tuesday fair. ’ Fresh to strong northwest winds this | i afternoon diminishing tonight.