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ASSOCIATEb PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXV JINOTKER MOVE FOR I LIFE OF CIUPIIHN ISNOWCOSIPLETED Federal Sentence of Gerald Chapman Has Been Commuted by President Coolidge. CLEARS WAY FOR HIS ELECTROCUTION Chapman Prepared t o Fight Death, Sentence Under Plea He Was Fed eal Prisoner. Hartford, Conn,, Xov. 25.—Of*)—Tito t Federal sentence of Gerald Chapman lias boon commuted by President Cool idge. Tbe executive order terminat -1 ing the sentence of 25 years impris onment imposed in the Federal court at New York for the robbery of a mail truck, was signed by the Ihresi tlent at 6 o’clock Monday evening and was made public today when the doc ument was delivered to Warden H. K. W. Scott for service on Chapman. The official document which ter minated the Federal interest in Gerald Chapman was brought back to Hart ford by State's Attorney Hugh ■M. Alcorn, and was delivered to Warden Scott for service on Chairman. The warden immediately prepared to do this, and the action marked another J step in the efforts of the State of Coneeticut to execute Chapman for the murder of Policeman dames Skel ly of Xew Britain on October 12, 1924. v • Following action at the state prison, State’s Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn ad mitted the order of commutation had been signed by President Coolidge on Monday evening nfter a formal request for such action bad been made by him-. The request was in the nature of a romunication from the state’s nttor ney to the President, in which tliry de sires of the state of Connecticut were set forth, and the Executive order was immed’ately signed. The request of Mr. Alcorn had the approval of Attorney General Sargent, who /had given the case his personal attention. ' Mr. Alcorn today also disclosed that he had filed a brief early in the sum 'C mer with the Department of jftwtice, ig support of his views fn the matter such action was desirable in the pnb lic interests, and he today mninth'c ed lie nevpr had entertained a doubt, but his request would be granted. Will Not Accept Commutation. Hartford. Conn., Xov. 25.—14*) Gerald Chapman has informed bis counsel that "ue will not accept presi dential commutation of his robbery • sentence. It is understood in the absence of official statements that the eommuntn tiou of Chapman’s federal prison sen tence will be the state’s answer to the writ of habeas corpus served on Warden Scott late yesterday order ing bim to produce Cbapman before Federal Judge Tbomasin court at the state prison next Monday. DELEGATES ARE GIVEN DAY OF RECREATION v" ' Those Attending Atlantic Deeper Wat erways Association Have Boat Ride. Miami, Fla., Nov. 25.—C4>)—Mem bers of the Atlantic Deeper Water ways Association in eighteenth annual convention here, abandoned business for pleasure today, and enjoyed a boat ride on Biscayne Bay. Asheville, N. ~ and Philadelphia have made bids for the, 192 C meeting of the Waterways Association The program yesterday was featured aby addressee in which trade development of the South was the predominant note. i Can’t Get T'ckets Will View Game From Large Plane- Now York, Xov. 24.—Unable to obtain Army-Xavy tickets except at tbe high prices demanded by specula tors, a New York footbal' enthusilst today chartered a Si’kofsky trans port plane, accomodating 14 passen gers, for the purpose of circling over the playing field at the polo groSuds and viewing the military football classic Saturday from the air. Getting Ready For Warfare. Belfast, Nov. 25.—0*»>—Spec'al armed police of the Ulßter government in the Clady district near Strabane, in County Tyrone, and facing the terri tory which by the reported award of the Irish Boundary Commision would be transferred to Ulster, have erected sand bags at their outposts. - / Most Pay Checks 'at Ptr. Washington. Xov. 25.—!A*)—The regulations of the Federal Reserve * Board requiring Federal reserve and member banks to pay at jinr checks N drawn upon them, was sustained to day by the Supreme Court. City Tax Notice Effective December Ist, 19?5, penalty on city taxes. J Pay now and save additional cost. CHAS. N. FIELD, City Tax Collector. The Concord Daily Tribune Mystery Tills is an exclusive photograph of Mrs. John K. Allen of Chicago, whose baby was found chlorofopned to death in the Allens’ apartment in a fash ionable hotel. Mrs. Allen and her husband suspect robbers of the crime. SHENANDOAH INQUIRY MAY BE HALTED NOW However, There Is Possibility That Col. Mitchell Will He Heard. Washington. Nov. 24.— C4*) —The navy s .oiig investigation of the Shen andoah dkmster came to a provisional end today, 'the provision being based on the iiossiblo smmoning of Colonel William Mitchell, who previously had declined to testify before the naval court of inquiry. As the court adjourned today sub ject to cnil of its president, Itear AU miral Ililuy I*. Jones, it, was announc ed by Judge Advocate Leonard that should he find upon examination of Col. Mitchell’s testimony before the army conrt, martial any matters gcr maine to the Shenandoah inquiry, he would s*ek a process to bring the col onel before (he naval tribunal. This coqld not be done, however, until af ter the army court martial proceed ings against Colonel Mitchell liatj been concluded, the judge advocate added. Should it be decided .not to call Col. Mitehe4 there will remain the sum ming up by counsel and representa tives of the interested parties before -te. the faiuau'oeisw of its findings. Sharp denial was made today be fore (tie colirt by James H. Collier, av iation chief rigger, that he had told Major Frank M. Kennedy, of the army air service, that four of the connect ing tubed between gas cells on the airship had been tie<l off just before the accident. “I|id you know of any tubes that were tied off?” asked Judge Advocate Leonard. ”1 did not," Collier said with em phasis. Mechanical Mlnoodhound Finds SBOO,- 000 Radium. St. Paul, Minn., Xov. 24.—Six weeks’ patient search with a mechan ical bloodhbund has resulted in the finding in a sewer pipe of a tiny tube containing SBOO,OOO worth of radium which disappeared from a hospital here. Prof. Tarry A. Erikson, head of the physics department, University of Minnesota, constructed ionization chamber detectors which were attached to eleetrieeopes and began to hunt along sewers leading from the hos pital. Today the detectors led him to a nine-to h pipe in a sewer 'tunnel, the radium tube was found) within two inches of u mark he made on the pipe. Eighty Years O'd. Father of Seventeen and Has Never Been Juror. Lexington, Nov. J 4 J. Wag oner. of Lexington township, is now nearly eighty years old, be stated Sat urday, and has never been a juror in court and never received a dollar of public money otherwise He is the father of seventeen children, ten sons and seven daughters, all of them mem bers of, the Democratic party. Mr. Wagoner is a Confederate vet eran and always attends all reunious that are within reach, including a number of the southern reunions, the state and county meetings. His ap pearance and vigor do not indicate his nearly four score years. Wants World Press Conference at Pe king. Chicago, Nov. . 25.— UP)— 8. N. Au- Young, director of the Chinese Govern ment Bureau of Economic Information at Peking, today announced proposals for a World press conference at Pr king in 1927. He said he was to con ■ fer shortly with Dean Walter Wil - Hants, of the School of Journalism at I the University of Misouri, president i of the World Press Conference, who favored the proposal. Prasidbnt’s Father Goes to the Wood pMe. Plymouth, Vt., Nov. 24.—Today saw Colonel John C. Coolidge, father of the President, up and out after fight ing a dangerous attack of heart dis ease for more than a week. Showing plainly the effects of his illness but nevertheless exhibiting a determination to carry on, the aged colonel not only joked with news paper men biltr' insisted on visiting [ his celebrated wood pile. A persetfl wlti/ normal hearing should be ab’e to hear the tick of a watch hafy five feet away, in a quiet room. Tribune Witt Have Holiday Tlirrc will be no edition of The Daily Tribune tomorrow, a holi day to he given for Thanksgiv- lug Day, following a custom es lalii: ,i< it hy Hits paper several ycai-v ago. ■lnc Tribune will appear as usual on Frhlay afternoon. -i i" THANKSGIVING DAY Observed Annually Throughout the United States. Washington, D. C.. November 25. Thanksgiving Day in the United States is nn annual festival of thanks giving for the mercies Os the closing year. The day is fixed by proclama tion of the Presidents and the gover nors of the various states. The Pres-! ident.’s proclamation makes the day a legal holiday in the District of Co lumbia. territories and possessions. In 1789 the Episcopal Church for mally recognized the civil govern ment’s authority to appoint such a feast and in 1888 the Homan Catholic Church also decided to honor a fes tival which had long been nearly uni versally observed. • ) The earliest harvest, Thanksgiving in America was kept, by the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth in 1921 and was repeated often during that and the dipping century. Congress recom mended days of thanksgiving annually during the Revolution and in 1784 for the return of peace—as did President Madison in 1815, following the close of the second war with Great Bri tain. The first truly national Thanksgiv ing was observed.in 1789, on the exact day on which the holiday oeeurs this vear—November 2<lth. The first Congress, sitting iu Xew Y'ork, then the capitnl- of the young nation, adopt ed a resolution requesting President Washington to appoint a day of Thanksgiving for the general benefit and welfare of the nation. In compliance with the request Washington issued his proclamation cn October .'{, 1789, setting apurt Thursday, November 2(!th, as a day “to be devoted by the people of these states to the service of that Great and Glorious Being who is the Benefi cient Author of all the good that Aas, •that is, or'that will be." The peo ple were requested to pray for “the pardon of our national anil otlier transgressions: for wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; for a larger knowledge and better practice of true religion and virtu* and for the increase of science among all mankind." In 1795 Washington issued Mr, ri*m>nrt" prop r wpvmitrtrag -foil) ‘ * for n national Thanksgiving. In this proclamation, which named Feb ruary 19th as the day to be observed, the President called attention to the pence and prosperity prevailing throughout the land, and asked that ! thanks be given for the suppression j of the insurrection which had "so | wantonly threatened" the tranquility j of the nation. The insurrection re ferred to by the President was the so-called "Whisky Rebellion" which had occurred in several counties in Western Pennsylvania, caused by the federal tax laid on alcoholic liquors and stills. The next Thanksgiving Day procla mation was issued by John Adams, the second President, in 1798, and a year later he again appointed a day for a national thanksgiving. Xo ob servance of the kind was held during the two administrations of Thomas Jefferson, but in 1815, following the •close of the war, the custom was re vived by President Madißon. Then came a lapse of forty-seven years, from 1815, until 1802. before the na tion again was called upon to give thanks in a proclamation issued by l*resident Lincoln, who summoned his countryment especially to "acknowl edge and render thanks to our Heav enly Father for the, signal victories, 1 vouchsafed by Almighty God, to the land and naval forces engaged in sup pressing an internal rebellion and for averting from ’our country tbe dang ers of foreign intervention and inva sion." Since 1863 the Presidents, liave always issued proclamations ap pointing tbe last Thursday in No vember as Thanksgiving Day. ' Wilton Postage Stamp to Be Issued 1 December 27th. Wash : ngton, Nov. 24.—Postage stamps bearing (the likeness of Wood ' row Wilson and Benjamin Harrison. 1 soon will be placed on sale by the Post Office Department, the Wilson ■ stamp of 17 cents denomination and ' the Harrison of 13 cents. ’ A three-quarter face iiortrait, taken about the time of America's entry in to the World War, has been selected ' by Mrs. Wilson for the stamp in memory of her husband.' • It will be is sued for the Wilson birthday celebra tion, December 28. The Harrison 1 stamp will be issued later. 1 First plans to have * the Wilson ' stamp of 13 cents denomination, on the ground that 13 was his lucky num her. was abandoued. 1 Dennis Hctiwock Buried Today in 1 Oak wood. Funeral services for Dennis F. Hethcoek, three-months-old son of Mr and Mrs. David Hethcoek, were held this morning at the home cf his par ents on Spring street, burial being ‘ made in Oakwood cemetery. The child was born on August Bth of this year. Although ill for sev eral days last Week, its condition was * not considered serious until Satur- J day, at which time a turn was taken 1 for the worse, death coming Monday nfternoon at 3:30 o’clock. l Ten Pages Today i Two Sections North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily CONCORD, N. C„ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1925 Your Uncle Sam Is Good at This a i lifcg BSBS ~ ■■ ■ ' a»«aaea«a== = g=B= TWO PERSONS DIED WHEN HOME BURNED Grandson Perished When the Brown Home Was Burned. ; i Wilmington, X. Cl., Xov. 25.—(/P) | Two lives were lost when fire de | stroyed the home of "Kit” Brown, near Sen Gate, six miles from hero, early today. Mrs. Browu, 04, and her five-year-old grandson were burned to death. Mr. Brown was rescued by neigh bors and a boy, 18, whose name was not learned, who lived with the fam ily, escaped with burns about the hands and face. * Origin of tbt fire which -started about 3a.m. is unknown. Neigh bors of the family forming a rescue party when alarm was given, succeed ed in saving the man- and boy, but Mrs. Brown and the child were dead when found. Blue Devils Ready to Meet Wildcats. Duke University, Durham. Xov. 24 —Duke university's Blue Devils closed their final afternoon of prac tice for the season here this after noon nnd J will tomorrow entrain for Davidson where they will .clash with the Presbyterians on Thanksgiving day: . Coath Pat Herron put his meu througu a stiff signal drill while the field was whiffed by a keen wind his afternoon. With the exception if big Jack Caldwell’s fractured i ’hoek bone and several minor Injuries suffered by other members of ihe squad the Methodist are in good physical trim and expect to tftko ami give lots of punishment before the' Turkey day gridiron erowd. The game will be the last for several members of the Duke squad and they p’an to make every ounce of mu count in order to bring the collegia football curtain down with a bang India has 50 cities wit'j a popula tion of over 100,000. Broadaway Convicted of Dynamiting Mother’s Home and Gets 7 to 10 Years Albemarle, Xov. 24.—A Stnnlv | county jury returned a verdict est guilty against Will Broadaway at 51 o’clock this afternoon, and Judge Me- Elro.v promptly passed sentence again, st him of not less than seven nor more than ten years in the state penitentiary. It is understood there will be no appeal from the verdict . and judgment. His attorneys, Brown and Sikes, who were appointed by tbe court to defend Broadaway, have not definitely announced yet as to whether their client will take the case up, but it is generally believed that they will accept the verdict and judg ment as final for their client. The defense -was charged with plant ing a stick of dynamite under his mother’s bedroom bn the night of September ICtli and then set it oil'. ' Mrs. Broadaway barely escaped will her life, and her little grandchild, who was sleeping with her at the time, w'jo was blown across the hallway and into tbe door of another room, is considered permanently Injured. COLORFUL THRONG TO | SEE FOOTBALL GAME Many State Officials to See the Caro liua-Virginia Game. Chapel Hill, X.- C„ Xov. 25.—C4>)— When the Tar Heels of Carolina and the Cavaliers of Virginia meet on Emerson Field here tomorrpw in the renewnl of. their gritUron clas-1, W, a colorftiT"th'rOng will Be oil Baud. State officials of North Carolina will be led by Governor Angus W. McLean and it is certain that practically ev ery member of North Carolina’s offi cial family will be on hand. Gov ernor McLean will be tbe guest of I>r. Harry W. Chase, president of the . University. Governor E. Lee Trinkle will uol . be present at the game, although Gov. , McLean invited him to be his guest. , The Executive of Virginia had prev- ; iously accepted an invitation to np- I»ear at a football game in Richmond, i It Ls expected however, that a num- j her of Virginia officials will be on , hand to see the Cavaliers give battle , to the Tar Heels. Special trains will operate tonight , from all sections of North Carolina , to Chapel Hill and one or two also : will come down from Virginia. More , than 15,000 persons saw the scoreless view of the game played here two ) years ago and it is expected that us great a throng will witness tomor row’s game. For North Carolina it is . the greatest fotball game each season - and always draws a greater erowd < than any other. i Durham Doctors Make City Christ- i mas Gift; Raise Fees 20 Per Cent. < Durham, Nov. 24.—Medical doc- 1 tors in Durham didn’t wait until Christmas to give their patrons a I gift. They handed it to them today i and it is fiot to their liking. i The medical men have decided < that hereafter they will charge $3 i for a call in the city during the day ! —and their day ends at. 8 p. m. After that hour it will be more. • Advice over the telephone will bo at - one dollar the give. Medical men say.that, tbe increas ed cost of living has made the in- • crease accessary. The inflation is one of the 20 per cent. Ohio is to have a State-wide as sociation for the control and regula tion of high school girls' athletii's. I Th<> cnee which will attract most j interest locally, as well ns over the I state, is the hen vine of evidence in 1 :ho ense against N. C. Cranford, su- I lierintemlent of Stanly county convict : camp. That henring will come up I before Judge McElroy tomorrow, ac co*ding to present plans. The judge ! having brought Cranford into court Monday on a bench warrant, he will set as committing magistrate in the hearing tomorrow. As such he will examine upwards of 200 witnesses. If facts come to light which will jueti- I fy such action, a bill of indictment will be sent to the grand jury for action. The state has subpoenaed mere than 400 witnesses from this and adjoining counties and the defendant, it ia said, hax Had around 140 wit nesses summoned to come into court tomorrow to testify in his behalf. Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, state su perintendent of public welfare, is ex pected to -be here for the hearing, as well as several officials from her de partment in Raleigh. . i NO CHANGES TODAY IN STRIKE CRISIS The Operators and Miners Have Not Yet Agreed on Terms to Settle -the Coal Strike. Philadelphia. Xov. 2.".—UP)—De spite the activity of various interests in bringing about a resumption of the wage negotiations between represen tatives of the anthracite miners and operators, the situation on the surface at least appeared unchanged today. There were some, however, who held the belief that away soon would be found to bring the two sides together, and Hint the end of the long suspen sion was in sight. The more pessim istic could see no sign'ficaiice in the recent moves of lending operators and union officials, nor did they entertain .tiny hopes of a settlement through the efforts of outside interests. Law Bars Thanksgiving Celebration in England. Oxford, Xov. 25.— (A>) —Oxford Americans arc to be virtuous and ] strictly observant of the laws and or- i dinauecs which the wisdom and high morality of the University Fathers set down for their guidance, they must abstain from tiio usual Ameri can church service on Thanksgiving Day. It is not that the turkey, the eran-j berry and the Pilgrim conscience are under the bun. The prohibition Which applies to Thanksgiving services was | enacted in the year 1250. and appar- ( ently without thought of New Eng- I land. It provides that no feast or ] holiday of any foreign nation shall ever be celebrated solemnly in any i church of Oxford under penalty of i the greater excommunication. As the Fourth of July i« seldom celebrated under cover, it won’d seem i not to come under the prohobitiom ] Coming as it does in vacation lime. I the Fourth is little kuown in Oxford 1 and the dignified old Rhode Islander who a few years ago on this holiday ! proposed as a toast to his English I friends. “Here's to the day we licked I you," was considered rather more eccentric than witty. I The word “and’ 1 occurs in the Bible no fewer than 46,271 times. n TODAY n SUN-UP !l • t t Starring 3 Conrad Nagel, Pauline * j Starke J '■j ADDE DATTRACTION j t FRANCIS BURR , MITCHELL -j Dramatic Soprano 4 -Thursday and Friday. “CLASSIFIED” I • Starring Corrine Griffith ; ! PROMINENT MEN OF i ST, LOUIS FACING : THREE C^osoff Murray Carleton and For est Ferguson Charged Felonious Making o f j False Statements. I BOTH MENARE VERY PROMINENT | It Is Alleged That They Se cured Money Amounting 1 to About $3,000,000 From Several Banks. j St. Lou : s. Xov. 25. —(A 5 ) —Three ili j dictmepts each against Murray t’arlo- I lon and Forrest Ferguson, charging them with felonious making of false] i statements to obtain §2,ot)b.f)oo bank J I credit for the Feeguson-McKinney j Mfg. Company, now in receivership, were returned today by a circuit court grand jury. Carleton, 72 years old, and for i years a leading figure in business, so- I eial and religious circles of St. Lou’s, 1 is.critically ill at St. Luke’s Hospital. ! I He is president of Carleton Dry floods Company, now in liquidation, treasur- | or of Ferguson-McKinney, and presi dent of Carleton-Ferguson Company, controlling both.’ Ferguson is pres ident of Ferguson-MeKinney. The alleged misrepresentation on which the indictments were "based, were made to the First Xat ion;! I Bank of St. Louis to which Ferguson-Me- Kinney was owing §IOO,OOO at time of its collapse, the State Xational Bank of St. Louis to which if owed §200,000: and the brokerage firm of McCluney & Co., St. Louis, through which SOOO,OOO of Ferguson-McKin uew commercial paper had been mar keted. Banks iu Xe\v York, Philadelphia and Boston also were creditors. The total losses to stockholders and creditors of the Carleton-Ferguson concerns were estimated at more than than §7,000,000. With Our Advertisers. The Parks-Belk Co. will have the grand opening of its Grocery Depart ment on Friday morning. November 27th. In this department will be of fered many bargains in groceries. It is located on the second.' jjicKK, and K a self-serving department. Read all about it in a half i>age ad. today. Anti-freeze for your radmtor, free air and water and five gallons of gas free with each §2O cash purchase— all this is offered by the Yorke & Wadsworth Co. Read big ad. today. Hoover’s, the young man’s store, is offering three big specials fur Thanks giving for men. Bead the large ad. of this store in this paper. Uo see the new hats at Efird’s Mil liuery department. Priced $2.05, §2.05 and §4.05. A big selection to choose from. Warner’s Concord Theatre today is showing "Sun-Up” starring Conrad Xagel. Pauline Starke. Added attrac tion : Francis Bur Mitchell, dramatic soprano. Thursday and Friday "Clas sified." staning Oorinne Griffith. Melrose Hour and Liberty self-ris ing Hour at Cline & Moose. Both are especially good brands. Try them. Read the new ad. of Cabarrus Sa ings Bank about its'2B years of ser vice. The Xunn-Bush shoes are sold in Concord by Riehmond-Flowe Co. See new ad. today. / Seventy-five popular novels by the foremost authors are being offered at 750 each by Kiiid-Frix Music & Sta tionery Co. See ad. The Atwater Kent Radio is sold iu Concord by Yorke & Wadsworth Co. See them for particulars. Carolina Coaches Select VlLState Football Team. Chapel Hill. Xov. 24.—Six Caroli na. two Davidson, two Wake Forest and one Duke players are given places on a mythical all-state football eleven picked here tonight by the several raeniMrs of the Carolina coaching staff. The team lined us as follows: Ends—McMurray, Carolina ami Doddo-c •. Carolina. Tackles—Emmorson. Wake Forest and Robinson, Carolina. Guards—Vance Dhvidson, and Whisnant, Carolina. Center—Mclver, Carolina. Quarter —Rackley. Wake Forest. Halfbacks—Juder wood, Cnrolim and Hendrix.*)avidsou. Fullback—Caldwell, Duke. Say Women and Children Were Killed. Beirut, Syria, Nov. 25.— UP) — Fourteen naturalized American eiti -1 zetis who reached Beirut today with | i about 2,000 refugees from Rasheiya, . i west of Damnxenx where fierce Druse ! attacks were ended yesterday by the : relief cf the French garrison, say that ! in the hand-to-hand fighting between the Druses and Christian volunteers the rebel tribesmen killed many wont | en and children. ] Communist Leaders Convicted. I London, Nov. 25.—(A*)—A verdict 1 of guilty was returned today against the twelve communist lenders tril'd in ] Old Bailey on charges of conspiring i to publish seditious libels in viola ' ticn of the indicement and mutiny act. Downer Will Not Form Cabinet. Paris. Nov. 25. —<A>)—Senator Paul Doumer informed the President this afternoon that be was unable to form <o cabinet. THE fRIBUNF PRINTS $9 TODAY’S NEWS TODAII M NO. 280 MEMORIAL -"WHITE MSB, DUKE IS COHOUCTEDI I I Service Was Held at Dukefl University, With Mafty J Notables in the Large J Audience. j GOV. McLEAN”IS CHIEF SPEAKER! He Praised Mr. Duke For i ! What He Did “For the Soul of North Carolina” Through Its People. | Durham, Xov. 25 .—UP) —As spokeskp man for the people of North Caro ] liria. Governor Angus W. McLean, ; speaking at the memorial service for j the late .Ins. B. Duke, held at Craven 1 I Memorial Hull at Duke University J Imre paid tribute to Mr. Ituko’s memory for his material contribution J to the state’s growth and to what Mr. Duty' did “for the soul i of North Carolina ms expressed in ittC 1 young men and women. ’’ ! "The story of Mr. Poke's life af fords a striking example of whar tlie | j American boy with the right kind of ; stuff in him. can attain," the Governor*! declared. “Not in many generations," he said, 1 “has Xortli Carolina produced.« mail j of more business acumen or broader ] j vision than the late James Buchaibui’f? Duke. Such men are not everyday products. They cannot be forecast 3 like the reappearance of some planet, iff but develop in'our midst unheralded, j and when we have analyzed their achievements it would seem that they j were given to the world to play a par- m ticnlar role in, the age in which they lived. So it was with Mr. Duke." Jjl While North Carolina has produced .3 many unusual men, “the life of Mr. 4 Duke present* an unusual growth and J remarkable developments which few S ] of our citizens have attained,” said 1 the Executive. 1 V A MITCHELL ENDS RECITAL 1 BEFORE COURT-MARTIAL ; Explains His Famous Phrase "Almost | Treason.”—Stands Behind Charges. Washington. Xov. 24.—Colonel Wm. A. MRcheH concluded late tojbf 11 ...f s ton hours' recitation of air service* I troubles of the army and navy which he delivered in his own defense before ' the court martial trying him for in- | 1 subordination, and then prepared, | with his counsel, to rest his case to- f| : morrow. , The conclusion of his testimony j 1 found tlie air officer standing square- 1 ■ ly behind the famous eliarg'x fee pub-' | lished,, accusing the war and navy de- ; pnrtmcnts of incompetence, criminal ];-* ; neglect and almost treasonable con- j > duct of the national defense. ‘ After he had passed the direct; ex- ’| amination, faced the prosecution cross 1 examinations and then answered new I questions put by h : s counsel, the court ■ itself took a turn with the air service ' ' critic. His last words on tlie stand - were a definition of the ‘'almost trea- A son" as lie meant it to he understood - when he used that phrase in his pub* ■ lished statement. It was: “I mean that the people have put - their trust in the war and navy ('t - p.trlments to guarantee a proper slat- *\ ional defense and that they havf fail- , > ed it. that trust." . 738.555 People See Grange and Mates t Do Staff. Campaign. 111., Xov. 24.—Nearly throe quarters of a million persons , have attended the games iu whieh Red Grange and liis University of Illinois I team have participated in the three years of his college football career. ja Figures made public today showed 4 thart the three-years' total of jiaid ad- ’ missions was 738,555.' In Red's first t •year, with the star absent, from only s one game, the attendance was approx* , imately 185,1)00. The next season the I figures dropped to 182,000. Red Stay c rng on the bench for two games; 'i Appearing in every game in 1025, Red saw the attendance figures jump to 271.000. Mr. Sharp’s Remains Sent to Mcores vllle •.,8 Henderson, Xov. 24.—The body of F. R. Sharp, drainage foreman, who was killed early Monday at a grade- 5 crossing in Franklinton wlien a Sea board Air Line train hit hi* automo bile. was shipped today to his home in Mooresville for burial. His widow. 1 who was accompanied here late yes terday by Rev. R. A. White, pastor of the Mooresville Presbyterian ChltWWj ,v of which the family are members, left today for her home accompanied by Mr. White. SAT’S BEAR SAYS: Increasing cloudiness and warmer . tonight; Thursday rain, Warner ln:| east and colder in extreme west pbi%f| tion. Moderate to fresh southwest]'! winds. -