ASSOCIATED PRESS v DISPATCHES VOLUME XXV mum AIRCRAFT IS GIVEN BY COMMITTEEMEN The Report Suggests That $20,000,000 Annually for Five Years Be Spent for Air Planes. ANOTHERREPORT WILL BE MADE * Rep. Reid, of Illinois, Counsel For Col. Mitch* ell, Will Ask For Unified Air Service. • Washington. Dec. 10.—04»>—Expen f' ditnre of $20,000,000 annually . for five years for procurement of aircraft for the army ami navy is reoommend <•’l in lilt* report of the special house aircraft cenumnittec, as agreed upon today. The recommendations whiela eon tenuilate creation of a department of national defense, covering land, ser air, were coucurrcil in by all mcra hers Ucpresenativo Rei<|, of Illinois court martial counsel for Colonel Wil liam Mitchell, however, will tile a supplemental brief advocating a uni tied air service. The proposed department of nation al defense would supplant the pres ent war and navy departments, and would not necessarily give aviation a co-equal status with land and sea ar maments. Ot'lier committee recom mendations include: A separate budget for all aviation activities. A b'flreau of civil aeronautics iu the department of commerce. One procurement agency for all air activities. Increased representation for the air service on 't£)j*jpnuv gdneral staff and ‘ tlie navy general board. Government aid in the establish ment of airways and air ports. Survey of nil aeroplanes now in nse. and destruction of those found unsafe. Creation and maintenance of an adequate air reserve. Increased promotion opportunity for air officers, and -pay commensurate with the hazards of their work. Tile report also recommends that experimental and development work S' Payton, 0., be transferred a* far as IKMsihle to the bureau of standards It does not, However, ask for the clos ing of the factory or the McCook Field work. Legislation is recommended to pro vide away for inventors in aircraft industry to secure redress for infringed patents other than iu the court of claims. The army and navy are accused in the report of fnilure to give proper recognition to aviation as a factor in the national defense. A secretary of national defense would be empowered, t" take sue steps as necessary to bring about com plete co-ordination of alt defense forces. A proposal to provide for three sub secretaries with authority over land, sea and air activities was not ap proved by the committee. Commercial aviation is held in (tie report to be of prime importance as an adjunct to national defense and the proposed bureau of civil aeronau tics would bo directed to take all steps necessary for commercial air development. MECKLENBURG WAS NEEDLESSLY ALARMED Commissioner Johnson Has Not Threatened Indictments Because of Low Jail Score Raleigh, Den. 9. Mecklenburg people were excited somewhat Wed nesday over a report that the state board of health after inspecting the county jail had threatened the coun ty commissioners with indictment Tho 69 jails recently inspected did not include Meck enburg’s prison which scored 53- This was admitted ly low. There are several which scored worse, but no jail in a county of so many virtues as Mecklenburg has made a record quite so bad. Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, commissioner of public welfare, said that her depart ment bad not threatened any indict ments, but had found numerous vio lotions and as the inspector always docs, he asked the authorities to clean up, to obey the law and get the jail in proper shape within a certain time. The department of public welfare by arrangement with tho state board of' health scores the prisons and other institutions which come under the state’s direction. When the board finished its count in the Meck lenburg basti’e it turned it over to the welfare department. There ia nothing unusual in the report, Mrs. Johnson said today. It is exactly the kind made in numerous inspettions and the conditions imposed upon Mecklenburg arc identical with the others. Southern Pays Quarterly Dividend. ’ * New Yqrk, Dec. 10.—The Southern Railroad Company today declared p' quarterly dividend Os $1,75 on 'com mon stock, an increase of 00 cents a share. This aotlon puts the stock on a $7 basis, compared with the pre vious $5 basis. Divlndends are pay able February Ist to stock of record January oth. If 4t first you don’t pick winners, don’t try again. The Concord Daily Tribune Honored Mv*’ SSSm ' Julius E. Olson, professor of Scats llnavian languages at the Uni 'eraitj rs - Wisconsin, has been made s knight of the Order of St. Olaf to King Haakon of Norway. This it IU recognition of, his service in the -Raid of Scandinavian activities. HELL MED BY MIME About .One-Third of Busi ness District of Town Is Razed by Fire Which Started Early Today. Wendell. X. C., Dec. 10.— UP) —An early morning fire here today razed cne-lhird of the business district be fore it was brought under control. Engines from Zebulon and Raleigh answered n call for help and the blaze yns said to be under control shortly after 4 o’clock. The fire ate its way through six Stores, doing an estimated damage of SIOO,OOO. THE COTTON -MARKET Renewal of Nsar Month Liquidation and Southern Sailing st Today’s * OliVntlu Sew York, Dec. 10— UP)—' There wan a renewal of near month liquida tion and southern selling in the cot ton market at the opening today, and a further decline in prices. The ini tial tone was barely steady at a de cline of i> to 12 points, and the ac tive months soon showed net losses of 13 to 28 points, with December selling off to 19.40 and May to 18.88. De cember notices amounting to about 1,- 400 bales were reported in circula tion. which probably accelerated liqui dation of long accounts, and the weak ness of December in wbich trading ends at noon today, appeared to pull down January.' Covering and trade buying gave the later months a rela tively steady tone, bnt prices were within a -point or two of the lowest' at the end of the first half ho/ir. Cott' n futures opened barely steady. Dec. 19.60; Jan. 19.05; March 19.21; May 18.92: July 18.68. I’ardon Commissioner to Investigate Mansel. Asheville, Dec. 9. —George Robs Coil, superintendent of the state prison. Raleigh, has written the Asheville Prison Reform association the following letter regarding the egro prisoner, Alvin Manse', who was recently sentenced to death fol lowing trial and conviction in su perior court here on a charge of criminal assault on a while woman. It. was alto he who precipitated the first mob hist summer which broke a precedent long standing in Ashe ville for peacefulness: "With regard to Alvin Mansel, now confined to the safekeeping de partment, of this institution, I ad vise I have talked with this prisoner and he ful’y maintains his innochfice “l am advised by the commission er of pardons that he "will make a thorough investigation of this case,” A number of Asheville citizens have requested the local association to look into the matter 'of persostent identity of Manßel. The prison re form association is impressed with the fact that these requests come from sources outside its membership Capture Still at Home of Negro Preachet. Hickory, Dec. 9.—Federal officers making raids near Hildebran cap-, tured a still at the home of Hosea Hildebran, negro preo-nher, and con fiscated several pints of whiskey and around 200 ga’lons of beer which - they found buried under a woodshed, near Hildebran’B home. The negro, who has been preaching for about 30 years, took his Bible to jail with him, the officers said. Extreme Earth Tremor Recorded. Chicago, Dec. 10 —UP)— Extreme earth tremors at 8:33 this morning were discerned by the seismograph .at the University of Chicago. The most intense slock w*b recorded at" 8:40 with total disappearance a minute later. It ia eatimated that the tremor covered a distance of 2,100 miles. i Two Sections Ten Pages Today Interstate Commerce Commission Sends Annual Report to Congress Washington, -lice. 10.—UP)—Con gress was asked.’ today by the Inter stale Commerce Commission to repeal (lie law requiring it lei. work out a liian frr consolidation of all thccoun try s railroads into a score or l so hr systems. At the same time, it sug gested that the seetions of the trans portation aet which contemplate the gradual eonsoliilatisn of existing rail raids into fewer systems lie strength ened and extended, witfi the commis sion retaining power to approve or disapprove the mergers undertaken. The commission's views were set forth in its anrinnl"ret>ort, made pub lie today, along ulth the text of legis lation whieli it considered likely to accomplish the.end desired. The ma jority of its members now believe.’ ♦be report said, that "results as good' ami perhaps better nre likely to be accomplished with less loss of time if ■the process of etfnsoldatiori is per mitted to develop, under guidance of the commission" in a normal way. i In every" ease, the report stated/ federal power to allow or block any particular consolidation should be lodged in the commission,' in order to make sure that better servidh, addi tional economy, and no undue re straint of competition may result. |n its other annual recommenda tions to Congress, tho commission re peated suggestions that a penal stat ute be enacted to punish shippers win bribe railroad employes to obtain car service; and'that the sechons of the merchant marine law winch provide preference for Ameriean shipping in the maintenance of export and import rates be modified. Reviewing its routine work for the fiscal year, the commission said that railroad darnings were still below a fair return standard on the basis of the value of property but that better results were in prospect for the pres ent fiscal year. Railroads in 1924, it pointed i.sit, failed to obtain as Motorists Asked To Aid Police Officers SUPREME COURT PROVES DEAF TO TROTT’S PLEA Pica of Drunkenness No Excuse For Killing Newton Girl. Raleigh. Dec. 9.—The plea of Wil fong Trott, young Catawba county white man. that he was dead druhk when his companion drove an gutnmo Wlik-tottrw ommng the death of 15-yea r-tild Evelyn Rowe, of Xew toii, failed to impress the supreme oqtirt, which this afternoou affirmed a 'judgment of Catawbn superior court carrying a sentence of from ten to fifteen years in state prison for second degree murder. Trott mid his companion, Robert Michael, Were jointly. convinctcd in Catawba court last spring of murder in the second degree for the death of the young girl. Michael, who was driving the ear, accepted his sentence without appeal. Trott, however, sought a new appeal on the ground that the lower court was in error in convicting him of the second de gree offense. He. insisted that because he was intoxicated, and asleep oil the back seat of the car at the time of the killing, he was not responsible for the consequence of Michael’s reckless driv ing, and therefore guilty of only man slaughter at the most. The supreme court found, however, that Trott’s intoxication was volun tary and “voluntary drunkenness usu ally furnishes no ground for exemp tion of criminal responsibility.” J)t noted from lie record that the cir was in tie cl .urge of Trott, but that he, shortly be,'ln re the fatal acci dent, had directed Michael to take thq wheel. "He helped procure the wtskey and was responsible at least in, part for Michael’s condition,” the court held "After making Michael his chauffeur and aiding film ‘to get nway’ from a garage, he can not now declaim re sponsibility for the operation of the ear under circumstances from which may be implied, the malice that dis tinguishes murder in the second de gree frem the lesser crime of man slaughter.” Woman is a thing of beauty, and an expense forever. NOW IS THE TIME x ' Ti> Subscribe Stock in the 75th Series of the Concord Perpetual Building & Loan Association Books open at Cabarrus Savings Bank, Concord and Kannapolis, N. C. Thirty-seven and a half years successful business. Hun dreds of homes built and paid for, and many thousands of dollars saved through this old reliable association. Take stock with us now and be ready for your check when our 75th series matures. If you want to build or buy a home there is no better plan than the B. & L. plan. v 25 cents a week carries one share which amounts to SIOO.OO in 6 1-3 years. Prepaid shares at $7&.25 will grow to SIOO.OO in six and one-third years. ALL TAX EX EMPT. North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily CONCORD, N, C„ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1925 much net income as they did in 1916, in spite of tritffie and investment in eronocs. "A partial explanation of these dif ferent results nenrly a decade apnrt is that, in 1916. the priqiortion of revenues going into the payroll cf I'.iese roads was 4U.S per cent.” the report said, "whereas iu 1924 If. was 47.7 per cent. The increase iu costs of material ami supplies and ether expenses, and an inerense 'ln .t>xes, generally account for the,remainder.” : In tile endeavor to enforce new safety requirements upon railroads, during the last fiscal year. 609.4 miles of line were equipped at the commission's order with automatic train eontrol devices, the report Con tinued. A slight teiinet’iori in the lyimher of accidents a! grade cross ings also was noted, from 5.218 in 1923 to 5.217 in 1924. In its task of fixing the valuta* iori' of the railroads of. the country- under taken several years ago, the empihik-. sion reported considerable progress. With ' respect to. steam railroads'. 63 per cent, of fie accounting reports. 7 Chief Talbirt Urges Pub lic to Co-operate With Officers in Enforcing the Traffic Law. NEW SIGNS ARE CONFUSING NOW, But They Are Expected to Prove Benefit to Motor ists After They Have Been Used Longer. . Chief of Police L. A. Talbirt is anxious to have the people help him in the regulation of traffic in Co* eord. It is only through co-operation that traffic mhy be handled effective ly, declares the Chief, W*th the installation of the new signal lights, a new era in Concord's civic life has begun, it is pointed out. Heretofore, the city was on a small town basis. It was every man sos himself hi traffic. Now, there is to be an orderly, systematic arrangement, similar-to that in the larger cities. “What we mujrt have.” . said the Chief this morning in talking of the city’s problems, “Is the assistance of all drivers of motor vehicles and of ail pedestrians.” - “It is necessary forlthe, first class, the drivers, to he very careful in their observance of the signal lights. (>f course we have our officers to .'enforce the laws and a penalty for tfie iioii obeyanee of these .enactments.. How ever, there are many*]>eople who try to flip off a fraction of a second by at tempting to get across before the sig tfilj changes while the bell is ringing or Wart off just before the ‘stpp’ light changes ‘to igo’. These are the peo ple from whom we need eo-operation. "It should be remembered that one case of thoughtlessness, similar to the above, may cost the life of a child. Naturally, if an accident were to oc cur, the person who had violated the law would be liable to the full extent of punishment. * “Pedestrians, also,” added th» Chief, "should be careful to watcli tho changes in street signs and-cross mi the side where the ‘stop’ signal i« Signing $300,000 Contract 1 ' * Jm frWW N Wm B ••"• :•? wmi%M & - jpf .»;v •- *" - Tho pon stroke being made by the eurly-haired gentleman in the picture means just $300,000 in his young I so. The gentleman in Red Orange, and he's signing a contract to appear-in movies. About him \V. B. Shal lenberger; who holds the contract; Hnrr.v G. Kosch, his attorney, and (’. C. Pyle, Orange's manager. 1150,0(10 Burn SIVMHH GORPMIT The Southern Fetilizer and Chemical Co. Damaged by Blaze That Was Fought Long Time. Savannah, Ga„ Dec. 10.—C4>)—Th< plant of the Southefti Fertilizer & Chemical Company on Mutehinson Is land in tlie Savannah River here, was damaged by fire early today to the es t mated extent of $750,000. The fire fighters were handicapped in combatting tho flames due to the position of tlie plant on the idnrni. l.and apparatus was dispatched from ilie city to aid fire tugs whieli played stseafits’ of water bn the burning structure from tlie river. OFFICERS RAIDED ROOM OF VISITING BANKERS Report Finding of I.iquor in Room m Hotel at St. Petersburg. Fla. ■ St. Petersburg. Fla., Dec. 10.—(A>) —A room in tile Soreno Hotel, con vention headquarters of the Invest ment Bankers Association of Ameri ca was raided last night by three Pin oles county officials and a quantity of liquor seized, officers announced to day The liquor, they said, was in pos session of .las. E. Goad, executive Vice President of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce. Mr. {load. the officers added, was not arrested last night, bnt they were quoted as saying “\xq are leaving for Clearwater at noon to ob tain a warrant for Mr. Coad’s arrest.” Clear water is the seat of Pinblas County. TWO INSURGENTS ARE OUSTED BY REGULARS Representative Lampert ami Represen tative Nelson Removed as Chairmen of Committees. Washington, .Dec. 10.— UP) —House republicans today ejected two mem bers of tlie insurgent group from chair manships of committees in completing its organization. In completing its organization the majority party removed Representa tive Lampert from iiead of the pat ents committee and deprived Repre sentative Nelson from his place as chairman of the elections committee. Both arc Wisconsin republicans. 81,500 Attended the State Football Games. Raleigh, Dec. 10.— (A>) —Thirty-five games in North Carolina during the 1925 football season brought together 81,500 persons. The figures, com piled by unofficial estimates, show that .ull previous records for attendance were broken. Each individual out standing game this season attracted a larger crowd than in preceding years. The greatest attehdanee was at the Carclina-Virginia Thanksgiving classic, when 18,000 personsi watched the Cavaliers and Tarheels battle to a 3-3 ties. In 1923. 15.00 persons saw this encounter at Chape! Hill, the game being played on Virginia territory in 1924. The next largest attendance of the season was at the Carolina-N. C. State games in Ra leigh. when 8,000 saw the encounter. On the sidelines for this game last year were 7,000. Andre Beaiuiicr Dead. Paris, I>ee. 10.—C4>)—Andre Beau nier, critic and novelist, died today lighted. In this manner, they will lessen their ehnnees of being injured." White lines have been painted at nil the intersections where there has been an installation of the new eig nals and motorists are asked to be careful in the observance of these traffic lines. At each of the corners, with the exception of the one nt the “Square," a left turn may be made. RENEWS WORK AT STONE MOUNTAIN Work Which Was Halted Some Time Ago Is Re sumed With Augustus Lukemann as Sculptor. Stone Mountain, Ga„ Dec. 10. —OF) —Work was resumed here today on the gigantic Stone Mountain Confed erate Memorial, with Augustus Luke mann. Virginia sculptor, ie charge of tlie work. Resumption of car dug was accompanied by ceremonies partici pated ill by officials of the Stone Mountain Memorial Assrcintion, Mr. l.ukenmuil, and Justice Price Gilbert of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Jus tice Gilbert, acting as personal repre sentatim' for Gov. Clifford Walker, gave the signal for the ill-ills to start, by waving the Stars and Bars of tlie Confederacy. • CHURCHMEN ADD FUEL TO PROHIBITION BHYZE Dr. Clarence Wilson Says it Would Have Bern Better to Have Nomi nated Smith. Washington, Deo. 9.-—More fuel was placed beneath the capital's boiling prohibition pot today when the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist Episcopal church assembled in the Methodist building for its annual two-day gathering- Tlie meeting, attended by promi nent ministers and laymen franc all parts of the country, as told by the board’s secretary, the llev. Dr. Clar ence True Wilson, that lie personally wished "wished we had let the dem ocrats nominate Ai Smith on a wet platform" ia .the 1924 campaign be cause John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan, who made up rite ticket, were "too good to waste on the situation." It would hove been bet ter. lie said, to have had "Smith, the wet Tammany heeler,,’’ defeated by about 12,000,000 votes, as this would have "toned up moral senti ment” and been a pronounced de cision for enforcement. NUMBER OF MEN ARE REPORTED TO BE ENTOMBED Miners Are Believed to Have Been Trapped in Mine by an Explo sion. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 10—(A*)— A number of men are reported en tombed in Overton Mine No. 2, Ala bama Fuel & Iron Company property, twelve miles south of Birmingham. Tlie men were said to have been trapped by an explosion. At the offices of the company here it was said that "no details were yet available?” Later it was said seventy men were employed at this pit, with sixty ot' them "below." Sub-Standard Ice Cream Barrel From the Market. Raleigh, Dec. 9.- Sub-standard grades of ice cream will no longer be gliowed oil the market, it was decid ed this afternoon .by the state board of agriculture, which also agreed that it would not sell any land on any of the test farms before the next meeting, in July, 1926. The bonrd also approved Commissioner Gra ham's rejiort and discussed reforesta tion, in which the members possessed an interest. Commissioner Graham's recent rulings on fertilizers were approved and a rule adoptted looking toward tho standardization of packages in marketing. The board rescinded a ruling made 211 years' ago whi.nh for bade the gTving out of amounts re ceived for fertilizer tags at any time before the end of each fiscal year. Will Keep Embassy at Vatican. Paris, I)cc. 10.—C4 3 )—The French chamber of deputies today voted 280 to 108 to maintain the credits for the upkeep of the French embassy at the Vatican. WANTS LEAGUE AND AMERICA TO UNITE So That Naval Arms Con ference arid Land Arms Conference Both Can Be Held In Near Future. Geneva. Dee. 10.—(A 3 )—An intense, cordiale, between the-league of nations nnd tile United States for reduction of armament was advocated by Afrnnio Melio Franco. Brazilian member of the league council, in a statement to the Associated Press today. Under this proposed intentc, the league would collaborate in a second naval conference in Washington, nnd the United Stales, would co-operate iu the general land disinrmaucu ence now being planned by the league. INHERITANCE TAX IS ATTACKED IN SENATE Senator Underwood Objects to Feder al Government Collecting Such Taxes. Washington, Dee. —OP)—The Fed eral inheritance tax provision of the pending revenue bill was attacked in an address here today by Senator Un derwood. Democrat, of Alabama, as “communistic" in principle and in un warranted interference with state's rights of taxation. Addressing a committee of the Tex as legislature here to oppose the in heritance tax provisions, and repre sentatives of a dozen other state leg islatures, Senator Underwood oppos ed particularly tile feature of the pro posed tax by which the Federal gov ernment would allow a credit up to tin 1 maximum of 80 per cent, of its estate against that collected by a state. Negro Sent to Jail When he is In able to Become Buzzard. Richmond. Va., Dec. • o.—Sam Washington, negro, was sent to jail today because he could not turn him self into a buzzard. Sam was haled before Justice Henry Maurice in South Side Police court on a charge of obtaining sls from a negro women whom he told he could turn himself into a turkey buzzard and obtain the release of a friend from jail. “Open that window,” Justice Maurice instructed a court attache, and turning to the prisoner said: "Negro, if you can turn yourself into a buzzard fly out of that window.” "1 was jes’ foolin,” jedge, I can’t turn into no buzzard," Sam answer ed. whereupon lie was remanded to jail to await further investigation of his ease. Makes Charge Against Turks. Geneva. Dec. 10.— UP) —Atrocious acts of violence going as far as massa cre have been committed by Turkish soldiers along the provisional frontier of Mosul ill northern Mesopotamia. Gen. Laidoner of Estlionia, special league of nations agent, declared in a report submitted nt today's session of the league council. Senator Harrison Attacks Dawes. Washington. Dec. 10.—(A s )—Vice President Dakes was the target of a satirical attack made from the floor of the Senate today by Senator Har rison. Democrat, of Mississippi, who quoted speeches of the vice president in his tour over the country for a change of Senate rules. Earth Shock Recorded in St. Hauls. Bt. Louis, Dee. 10.—(A*)—Central America probably was the center of the severe earth tremors reported at St. Louis University between 8:25 and •>.-38 this morning, seismologist Jas. H. McElwan said. He estimated the dis tance at 1,700 miles. Headed by M. Paul Apipell, rector if the University of Paris, a num ber of French scientists have signed a protest against the verdict given in the Scopes trial at Dayton, Trim. ' ' » fft£ TRIBUNE ( ,i PRINTS TODAY’S NEWS TODAY! NO. 292 'PLANS SETTLEMENT i OF GERMAN CLAIMS. ' FUR WAR DAMAGES- Awards Decided Upon by Mixed Claims Commis sion Will Be Acted Upon Very Soon. GERMANY WILL 1 PROVIDE MONEY For Claims Will Be Paid by Reparations Money Paid to United States by the Germans. Washington, Dec. 10.—(A>)—In ov dcr to accomplish early payment of awards by the American-German mix ed claims commission. Secretary Mel lon has worked (jut a plan for restora tion to German nationals of property seized during the war. together with the issue of securities with which to provide cash for a settlement of all classes. Details are yet to be determined, hut the program has gone far enough to forecast its early submission to Congress. The plan would permit issue, of about >-150,000,000 in securities guar anteed by the U. S. government, but designed to be liquidated eventually through payment from the share of America in reparations payments and receipts from tiie German payments on American army occupation costs. The Secretary believes, therefore, that no new drain would be made, on the American treasury. The alien property custodian con trols about $150,000,000 in cash or bonds representing the original prop erty seized by the American author ities, exclusive of property seized, but not converted into cash. There is in addition about $30,000.- 000 in the Treasury representing earn ings on thejunds held by the proper ty custodian prior to March 1023. wlien an act of Congress provided for distribution to the German owners of subsequent earnings. It is now proposed that the $30.- 000,000 will ho used to pay on the American claims awarded under the mixed claims decision. The next step would be the transfer of about $50.- 000,000 in new securities to the alien proiierty custodian for an equal amount of cash \vh'«4» likewise could be applied 1o American claims. ■ 1 ’ ■ With Our Advertisers. Efird's stock of toys, dolls, ctel, is complete in every detail. You will also find at this store* hundreds of gifts for every members of the fam ily. Make up your list* and visit the Store, which will be open every night until C'.iristmas. : Gifts of Jewelry always please. The stock at the Starnos-Miller-Barker Co. is complete right now—better go at once . and make your selection, t Os course the prices and quality are right. * - • H. B. Wilkinson, the furniture man, will give away absolutely free a White Sewing Machine on Saturday, Decem ber 12, at 4 o’clock. See him for particulars. The Carolina Land Co., auctioneers, will sell at auction Saturday, Decem ber 12th at 2 o’clock p. m„ some val uable business and residence property, lying on the national highway in the neighborhood of .the Hartsell Mills. There will be four sales. Sec half page ad. In today’s paper for partic ulars. If you can’t spend Christmas with the home folks, send them your photo graph. See ad. of the Boyd XV. ("ox Studio. If you will read the ad. of S. W. Prcslar in this paper, you will see some surprisingly low prices on Christ mas things. Burr Xiekle (himself) at the Con cord Theatre Friday and Saturday in “Wonders of the Wilds.” Also Ae sop’s Fables and a good comedy. Prices, 15, 40 and 50 cents. The Cabarrus Cash Grocery Co. has just received another car of tliatt good Spartan Feed. Bankers Hear Committee Report St. Petersburg, Fla., Dec. 10.— UP) —The federal taxation eominitee of Vie Investment Bankers Association of America, in convention here today, submitted its report containing many features, and regarded as one of the most important issues placed before the delegation. Their report contained many of the principal features Introduced in the administration income tax amendment in the House Ways and Means com mittee, announced in 'Washington on Monday. , j Tiie scandal bird is usually a mem ber of the lyre family. SAT’S BEAR SAYS I - Fair tonight and Friday, colder tonight, slightly warmer Friday lo ex treme west portion. Moderate t» fresh northwest winds becoming vari able.