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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES '* I. X ■- VOLUME XXV TRAIN WE 111 CHINA NOW HM.TED BE MCE ENTILE Tram, Which Peking «n Thursday Returning FWday, Una Me-to Pass Fighting Zone. passengers NOT HIT BY SHELLS But They Had to Seek Safety Under the Coach es of Train to Escape Being Hit. , Peking; Doc. 12.— UP) —The inter national train which loft Poking for Tientsin eafly Thilr«lny morning re turned hero at (I o'clock tonight after having be«i caught in a battle be twen the rorees of Kong Yu-Ksiang nn<l Li Ching-Ling at Ynngtsun, 20 miles north of Tientsin. Twenty Americans, nine Britisher*, several prominent Japanese, and four league of nations representatives sent to study the plnguO in Manchuria, who were on board, were forced to take refuge from bursting shells under the coaches of the stalled train. The passengers included a number of women and children. All escaiied unharmed and declared they were none the worse for their experience, except for discomfort of huddling under the train in chilly weather. Their experience, however, was not without its thrills. A bomb from an aeroplane fell in the midst of a camel train nearby, ami fragments penetrat ed the ears, which also were struck by several bullets. When the international train was stopped at Yaugtsun an armored train belonging to Feng Yo-fisiahg wiio had followed, landed 1.000 troops with ar tillery and began shelling the forces of I.in Ching-Ling. the Governor of Chihli. across the river. As the guns opened fire the jiasseugers on the in ternational train who had alighted with the intention of walking or se curing motor transportation to Tient sin, ran Lack to tin. (tain and tank refuge under the cars. News of their plight rea-hed Peking and Willys 11. Peck, of the American legation, hurried to the scene with a motor frock loaded with food nhd blankets, Subsequently the train jyaa WjfJjiJriilpn safely from the fighting f’fa lo Langfer.g. 2-1 miles to the northwest, and rent back to Peking. Feng and Li’s armies were still en gaged in furious fighting to the horth of Tientsin near Pehtsang at 7 o'clock this morning. . The foreign legators here have lodg ed'strong protests with Feng against the moving on Y'anktsun. pointing out that it is a breach of the Boxer pro tocols which reserve to the foreign powers the specific rights to hold Yanktsun as a vantage point in keep ing the railroad between Peking Und the coast open. With Our Advertisers. You can get a ten-piece dining room suite for' $149.50 at the Con cord Furniture Co- You have to see tliejie beautiful suites to appreciate them. ‘•Hawaiian Nights” will be at the Concord Theatre one. night only, Fri day, December 18th. It will be in Charlotte the night Ijpfore. This is a three-let comedy, with music, danc ing and singing, featuring the famous Mbtiihai and 'her real hula luijla dancers. For a list of Christmas gifts for “him” see ad. of Cline's Pharmacy. The Concord & Kannapolis Gus Co. is giving free with every Oriole gas range bought by December 23, a fine Aluminum cooking set. See nd. for full particulars. W. J. Hetbcox ean do your Christ mas electrical decorating for you. Man's gifts, woman's gifts and gifts for everybody at the Bell & Harris Furniture Co. Beginning Monday the store will be open till 9 o’clock every night until after Christinas. C. H. Barrier & Co. want 200 tur keys' at once. Sell early and avoid f the glut In the market. 'The store of the J. C. Penney Co, will be open efery night until Christ mas. Wants to Cover Field Fully. Paris. Dec. 12. —Senator Victory Henry Berenger, newly -appointed am bassador to Washington, said in * speech. today that he was “going to the United States to try to represent suitably all the interests of France” and not merely to hasten a' settlement of war .debts. / y The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily LOCARNO PACT SIGNING! ■I Here is a photograph of a scene that will'go down in History. It portrays the culmination of one of the great est moves for peace in the history of modern Europe. It shows the s’gning of the Locarno agreement in the golj room of the foreign office at London. This picture records the actual signing by Premier Baldwin on behalf of Great Britain. Grouped around him are. plenipotentiaries of Germany, Belgium, France, Italy. Poland anti Czecho-Slovakia, about the sign the piece of paper that pledges their nations to mutual trust and peace. NOTED MYSTERY RECALLED Fifteenth Anniversary cf Disappear ance of Dorothy Arnold. New York, Dec. 12.—Today is the fifteenth anniversary of the disappear ance nf £)orcth.v Arnold. On Decem ber 12, 11)10, Miss Arnold, the daugh ter of a family of ugmltli and social prominence, left her home on East Seventy-ninth Street at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. She paid she was go ing for a .walk. Three hours later she was seen in a book store in Fifth Avenue. So far ns known that was tlie last heard of her, and hundreds of private detectives and police de partments of almost the entire world were unable to find any trace of .her. Miss Arnold vanished as mysteri ously and as completely as if the earth had opened and awalßowed tier. Her family sjieut several hundred thous and dollars prosecuting the Search all ojer Europe and Asia nnd America; members of the family made numer ous\trips to foreign countfiesto. rnn down-due*, bat without success. Year after year they kept detectives at work investigating every conceivable bit of information that might lead to her recovery: nothing was too small or too insignificant for them to sift to the bottom. But always with the same result. It was not known until three years ago that the family of Miss Arnold had given up hripe. Her father died then, and in his will, which diposed of an estate valued at more than $900,000, ha said that he had made no testimentary provision for his daughter because he was satisfied that she was dead. Many time during the past fifteen years Miss Arnold has been reported as found, but in every instance the rumors proved to be; without foundation. Football in the Sky. London, Dec. 12.—A novel game has been suggested for 4rihy and nnvy aerial forces. It is known ns "aerial ball,” nnd except that it is played with aeroplanes instead of the feet, resembles football. The goal lines are marked by bnllloons held captive at the two ends of the field, perhaps Twenty miles apart. The object of the game is to push the hall, which is buoyant, into the opposing goal. A basket-like pusher is fixed to the front of each machine, and the opposing aeroplanes endeavor to knock the ball out and carry it to their own goal linn. Miss Drayton to Be Buried In Char lotto. Charlotte, Dec. 11.—Miss Emma Drayton,*age 75, daughter of the latae General Thomas F. Drayton, of the Confederate army,ami for years a resident of 'Charlotte, died today in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pope, the latter her sister, in Jack sonville, Florida. The remains will be , brought to Charlotte for burial. Gen eral Drayton beins buried here. Miss Drayton waa a native of Charleston, ’ South Carolina. General Drayton ■ and daughters came to Charlotte i after the war. i _ Shop Now—Today What's the use of X>OPP> n K at a time*when there are so many, people who are actually in their own Wuy as well as yours? One who shops early greases the wheels of bis own good luck as well as his timv. Better • couple of hours of early shopping than two days of shop ping in crowds. If one is disappointed in not getting what he wants he blames the crowds. No one blames bis own procrastination. Merchants do their best to keep full stocks but heavy buying re duces them. Jffeuy clerks strive bravely to be courteous, attentive and polite, but-Vthey are strained to the limit when everybody is demanding something at once. Delivery men run around town day and night, fagged to a fres ale and, like the clerks, haven’t enough left in them to get any happi ness oat of Christmas. ' Consider all these things us well as your own comfort and sat isfaction—SHOP EARLY—it will be a big help to everybody. Everything has Ita happy, sunny side, even shoppings—when it's done early. One’s temper always puts d price on the gift—so keep the value of v ’your gift high in your mind —it’s a Christmas spirit—it can be done | by shopping contentedly—THAT MJUANS EARLY. fca':. ..•-.v../: \ . 1 INHERITANCE REPEAL IS OPENLY DEMANDED Representatives of Tax Clubs Make Demand.—Want Hatchery Re-Es tablished at Weldon. Washington, Dee. 11. —Demand for the repeal in it's entirety of llie federal inheritance tax was made here today -by a delegation of repre sentatives of the various state tax clubs. Representing 15 states, they p aced their views before the various members of the house of representa tive. who, however, seemed inclined to take umbrage ht the methods which these tax clubs apparently have been pursuing in their efforts to have their requests acceded to. • The members of the North Caro lina section of the delegation were Speaker Edgar Pharr, of the house of representatives, from Charlotte; P. H. Williams, of Elizabeth City, chairman of the senate finance com-, mittee; N. A. Townsend, of Dunu, chairman of the house finance com-, mittee, ahd Representative W. B- Matthews, Charlotte.' BUILDING COLLAPSES BURYING EIGHT MEN Workmen Buried Beneath Fallen Timbers and Brick.—At Least pne Dead. New Y'ork, Dee. 11.—Eight work men were buried beneath fallen tim bers and brick today in the collapse of the roof bpams of an old residence being remodeled in 47th street, near sth nverfue. One man was taken out dead and five men injured were rescued and taken to hospitals. The others had not been found after hour* of rescue work and their lives vir tually were despaired of. A priest, the Rev. Father Ca’il well, was the first to reneli the scene after the collapse. He summoned police, then crawled in among the debris to administer the last rites to two of the men trapped there. He was joined in a few moments by the Rev. Father Joseph McKenna, of St. Malachi’s the actor’s chapel, two blocks away. Dry Enforcement Meeting. Providence, R. 1., Dec. 12.—Prohi bition workers throughout New Eng . land will gather here tomorrow, when it will be attempted to reproduce as near as possible the big gathering of prohibition and law enforcement bodies assembled n month ago at Chi cago. # Among the nationally known speakers to be Heard during the three day session willl be Frank B. Willis, United States senator from Ohio; ' Mrs. Cornelia Brice Pinehot, wife of the governor of Pennsylvania, and Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of 1 the Anti-Saloon League of America. ! Another Decline in the FYanc. Paris, Dec. 12.— UP') —A frenzied i rush to buy foreign stocks listed on , the bourse caused a further sharp de i cline today in the franc, which dur > ing the morning deaehed a record fig ure of 27.42 to the dollar. CONCORD, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1925 CRANFORD CASE WILL i BE TRIED IN COURT Stanly County Court Does Not Cai veue Until That Month. j Alebamrle. Dec. 12.—(A>)—The of N. C. Cranford, former Stanly county convict superintendent, at which the defendant will face charges of murder nnd assault, growing of charges of alleged mistreatment of criminals, will be called during, the next term of criminal superior co|jrt in this county, which iN set for March 29th, it lias been learned here. Cranford, charged with the slaying of two negro convicts and the mistreat ment of another to the point of death, is now at liberty under a bond of $2,000. He resigned his position as eouaty convict superintendent at the time of his preliminary hearing here in No vember, when witnesses told the court that he had whipped prisoners “un mercifully." Witnesses introducetLft.v the defense, however, deniejl tbse charges.' Since the preliminary hearing and Cranford’s resignation, the county commissioners have abolished the pris on camp.' The charges were lodged against she convict camp superintend ent as a result of reports of an in vestigation of the situation made by Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, state super intendent of public welfare, who made her report, in which the charges were incorporated, to the governor, and tiled copies with the presiding judge and the solicitor. Judge I’. S, McElroy, who presided at the November term of court, at which the grand jury returned a true bill against Cranford, is recorded as having told the grand jury at the time Hint "if these things are true, the law does not provide a penalty se vere enough to meet this case.” The superior court calendar for 1920 shows that Stanly’s superior court term in March will be held by Judge Michael Schenck, of Hemler wpnville. Modern Now Bridge to Connect Stan ly and Montgomery Counties. Albemarle, Dee. 12.—Blue prints for a new bridge across the Yadkin River, at a point some two or three hundred yards north of the location of the elegant concrete structure on state highway No. 74 between Stanly nnd Montgomery counties, are in hand. • The Carolina Power and Light Company is operating on a large scale and surveys show that the dam the company will erect below Nor wood will back water to a point that wculd probably inundate the bridge . now mi service, and the company has I secured rights, and plans for changing. ! the location, creating a new section of highway, and to erect a bridge ac cording to plans approved by the slate highway commission. The bridge will be 37 feet higher l than the one now in use; that the i middlie pier will be 110 feet high, and that it will have five spans. It will not only be shorter than the other, ■ but will avoid the large curve lead l ing to the river from the crest of the hill this side, and materially shorten the distance. The bridge being replaced is one of the finest the highway commission constructs, and the waste involved is oue of the unforeseen contingencies which happen when big companies like the Carolina Light and Power Company begin great development schemes. Mouse Stops Wireless. London, Dec. 12.—A baby mouse, weighing leas Ilian a quarter of an ouncei caused twelve minutes’ silence that was "heard” all over England. Creeping on to one of the main con densers at Daventry wireless station it prevented the oscilation necessary for the transmission of aignals. Insists Rorkne Has Signed Contract. NeW Y'Ork, Dec. 12.— UP) —James R.. Knapp chairman of the football committee of Columbia University, said today that Columbia ‘‘stands pat behind its original statement” of last night, Announcing that Knute Roekne, of Notre Dame, had signed a three years contract as head football coach at Columbia. WILL TRV AGAIN TO 1 StTTLtOUESTION , OF MUSCLE SMI '| i The President Is Told That j, I Congress Will Create a ' Committee Such as He 1 ! Suggested In Message. Ii CONGRESS WILL j- HAVE LAST WORD ' It Will Be Provided That i Committee Cannot Take j Final Action Without! Approval of Congress. ; ; ! ] : | Washington. Dec. 12. — UP)— Presi- 1 dent Coolidge was assured today by , : : Chairman Snell of the House Rules M committee that immediate steps be , tnken to create a Congressional corn 's mittee in line with the reeomineenda ' tion of his annual message to nogoti s ate for the disposal of Muscle Shoals. ' Mr. Snell said lie favored a commit ’ tee' of JT, four House members nnd 3 Senators. to determine a Muscle Shoals policy, with the limitation that it must report its findings back to Congress for approval. A resolution providing for a committee is pending before Mr. Snell's committee, and lie promised early favorable action on it. Washington, Dec. 12.—04*)—The resolution introduced in the House by Chairman Madden of the appropria tions committee proposing to carry out President Coolidge'.* recommendation 1 for disposition of Muscle Shoals, was endorsed today by Representative Al mon, democrat, of Alabama, iu whose district the property is situated. TO CHANGE SYSTEM OF COTTON GINNING REPORTS i Special Committee Appointed Today ' to Draft Bill. Washington. Deo. 12.— UP) —A spe cial committee to draft a bill provid- ] ing for changes- ill the present system of cotton production and ginning re ports was appointed today by the con- \ ference of senators and representa tives of the cotton producing states. Senator Smith, of South Carolina, was named chairman of the confer ence and probably will be chairman of the committee which will be com posed of one senator and tpie repre sentative from each state tin which eqtton is produced. The committtce expects to report a bill next month and it will be pressed in both ffbuses. After the cominitte has completed the bill it will be presented to the full conference for its consideration before it is introduced. Many suggestions for changes in the present system were made at the conference today. Senator Heflin, of Alabama, insisted that the present system of sending ginning reports by telegraph to the department of agri culture s'aould be eliminated, on the ground that errors in transmission are likely, with the result that incor rect reports are made public. Another suggestion by the Alabama senator was that there be created a crop estimating board composed of seven or nine members to be appoint ed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The present board con sists of three members appointed by the secretary of agriculture. NORTH CAROLINA STONE TO BE USED IN DUKE BUILDINGS Decision Pleases Govcrnlor McLean, Who . Foresees a Big Boom For Quarries of North Carolina. Hnleigli, Dec. 11.—Duke univer sity, deciding definitely on the use of native North Carolina stone in its great buildings, has pleased Gover nor McLean mig'atily, and his excel lency sees a big boom for Tar Heel quarries as tihe result The university authorities have been engaged for some .time in mak ing thorough tests of native stone to determine with certainty that it is for the new buildings to go up under the Duke foundation. The tests have turned out entirely satis factory, and great quarry supplies in Durhum and Orange counties will be used.. The governor, in relaying the news from Duke university, told news papers men that if any state build ings are erected during his ad ministration and he has power to direct their construction he proposes to insist upon the use of native atone. The way to up a state, he said, is to make use of the natural resources, and North Carolina atone is abundant and highly desirable. Three new state buildings surround ing Capitol Square have been built of Indiana granite. DENY THE CHARGES AGAINST BANKERS ISot Organized to Fight the Inheri tance Tax Measures. Washington, Dec. 12.— (AF) —The Sat charge that the American Bank er’sWLeague has been organised to destroy all inheritance tax laws, both state and federal, was made in the House during debate on the tax bill today, by Representative Connelly, . Democrat, of Texas, during an attack i on the activities of the Texas tax 1 Clubs which have opposed the tax. Asserting that the Bankers’ League ; la the parent of the Texas and lowa a. tax club, the Texas said these dubs , are attempting to “intimidate the heads * of the ways and means committee," i Chairman Green and Representative Gardner, Dempcrat, of Texas. Expert Says National Park Would Attract Visitors to North Carolina Asheville, Dee. 12. —(A 1 )—An influx cf automobile tourists to western North Carolina, which will be one of the results of the establishment of a national park in the Great Smoky Mountains and which will revolu tionize the agricultural life of that section, and change materially the farm life along highways leading to the resort section, was predicted here by Major William A. Welch, federal park commissioner. Major Welch, an acknowledged na tional park exiiert wiio is thief engi neer and manager of Ihe Interstate Pali*ade f Park of New Y’ork and New Jersey, visited Asheville recently in connection with the campaign in North'Carolina and Tennessee to raise one million dollars for purchase of the lands in the Smokies for a na tional park. Comparing the western part of this state to New England, which in the past few years has annually attracted millions upon millions' of tourists, Major Welch says that once this na tional park is established in the Great Smokies, this section, too, will draw its millions, and that many of those who in the pust have spent their summer in the White and Green mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire, and in the lake districts NAMING PERSONNEL" OF STATE’S BOARD Governor'McLean Expects to Name Board of De partment of Conserva tion and Development. Raleigh, Dec. 12.— (A 3 ) —The per- Honnel'of the controlling board of the deparFment of conservation and de velopment was excepted to be com pleted today by Governor McLean. MYSTERY MAN ABROAD IN ASHEVILLE SECTION Said to Jump From Hiding Place and Chase Negro Women. Asheville, Dec. 11.—Reports of a mystery figure that is terrorizing residents of the sections that border Victoria Road are being circulated throughout the city. Descriptions of the figure are vague and the police say they have had no official report of the occur rences. Three reports thut were tele phoned in. tallied as to the activi ties of the mystery man. These de scriptions were given by Ora Rob inson. Kat.v Collett and Fallie Leach, negro domestics of the Vic- toria Road district, and were made to their employers. Each of tlie three women report they were walking along the road when the figure appeared, apparent ly from the side of tlie road. When the my ter y man jumped from his hidiug place the women ran and he gave chase, it was reported, disap pearing when those he pursued came to the lighted districts. None of those who have come in contact with the man know whether he is a negro or a white man. Sev eral other reports came from iiedes trians of that section and credit ed as being reliable. ENDORSES THE TAX REDUCTION BILL Revenue BUI Will Face Clear Track Next Week. Washington. Dec. 12.—(A I)—En dorsement of a non-partisan tax re duction bill was given in the House in closing debate today by Ureprcsenta tive Garett, of Tennessee, the Demo cratic leader. He announced, however, he would fight the provision of the measure pro posing npppintment for life of the 10 members of tlie hoard of tax appeals. During the support of members of both parties, the revenue measure ap parently faces a clear track when it comes up for amendment next week. Passage of it by next Saturday is pre dicted. Offer Prizes to Farmers. Rutherfcrdton. Dec. 12. —(A 1 )—Cash prizes amounting to SSO have been of fered by tlie Kiwauis Club of liutlier fordton to farmers of Rutherford county producing the three largest yields of wheat per acre. An additional prize of $25, says Farm Agent F. E. Patton, has been offered by the Yelton Milling Com pany. for the highest average yield tier acre for the ail tire crop raised on a farm; and a further prize of $25 has been offered by the Commercial Bank at Rutherfordton to the farmer producing the most wheat on his farm. Any farmer in the county is eligible to contest for these prizes, states Mr, i Patton, and many are already plan ning what they will do with the prize . money next spring. 11 Engraved Christmas Greeting Cards t|| We can furnish on short notice Engraved Christmas 1 H Greeting Cards, with your own name thereon. Let us , H have your order now, so that you will have them in plenty i U of time to send out for Christmas. We have an especially » W beautiful line to select from. at " | TIMES-TRIBUNE OFFICE. e H • of Maine, will turn southward . stead. Thin influx of motorist> willl, avers, lead the farmers of North V lina to cater to this tourist trade, to raise more eggs and chic-kens, to plant | more vegetables, and to cultivate ■ fruits for the feeding of these visi i tors. This produce will not be car ■ rird or sent to the cities and towns! for sale, but will be vended along the roadsides to posing motorists, just as j in New England, where every high way is lined with stands and boths, piled with fruit, eggs, f res'll vegetables 1 and flowers. Vermont, in 1024, Major Welch learned from the governor of that ; | state, netted $170,000,000 from the! P entertainment of summer visistors. i This was derived in great measure j from the entertainment of visitors.! and Major Welch predicts that every ! i farm house in western North Caro* ‘ lina will, in the next few years, be I called upon to entertain those who j , come here* for their ’aealtli and recrea-! - tion, and that many of these farmers r will set aside a spare room or two • for this purpose. Private tourists’ 1 camps, such as are springing up all r over the country, will multiply until j i the business of housing motor-camp-i f. ers will approach the magnitude of a j < major industry, he believes. HERS KILLED 1 EXPLOSION BURIED Os the 53 Men Who Died In Mine All of the Bodis Except Two Have Been Recovered So Far. Birmingham, Ala.. Dee. 12.— (A 3 ) — Burial of the dend was today the task before the little mining com munity of Overton, which was plunged into grief Thursday when 53 men met death as the result of a gas explosion in No. .2 mine of the Alabama Fuel & Iron Company. The dentil list em braced nine whites and 44 negro work ers. ' Os the 53 men who were killed, two bodies are still to be recovered. T'.ie missing miners are white. Of ficials exiiect to reach the entombed men during the day after removing large quantities of fallen rock. Rehabilitation work'/or the families of the dead miners hail started under direction of the Birmingham ehapter of the American Red Cross acting on instructions from headquarters in Washington. THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady Today a).’ Decline of 1 3 to 14 Points. But Later Rallied 5 , to 10 Points. New York. Dec. 12.—( A 3 )—The cot ton market opened steady today at a decline of 3 to 14 points and sold 5 to 1C points net lower within the first few minutes under overnight selling orders attracted by easier ruling of yesterday's market and which included some Southern hedging. A good de mand developed around 18.90 for March and 18.35 for July, while for eign interests were buyers of October at .the decline to the 18 cent level and prices steadied up before the end of the first half hour: Week-end covering was considered one of the chief factors on the rally of 5 or 10 points from the lowest, but some trade and conmrs sion house buying was reported on > the opening decline. Cotton futures opened steady: Jan unrv 18.82; March 18.05: May 18.70; July 18.88; October 18.32. NO PERMINT GIVEN IN VIRGINIA I • . To Sell Florida Real Estate in That t State. Richmond, Va., Dec. 12.— (A 3 ) —The 1 Virginia Corporation Commission "Ims . granted no permit to any person or corporation to sell Florida real estate in Virginia," it was declared in a . statement issued at the commision's offices here this afternoon. The commision’s statement which mentions specifically that the Coral 1 Gables Company was not licensed to sell real estate in Virginia, did not mention whether any action was con- I templated by the state regulatory board f against concerns selling Florida real estate here and members of the com s mission when asked to amplify it, said , they “had nothing else to say.” Tile statement follows: 1 "The Coral Gables Company has , not filed with the State Corporation 5 Commission all tile palters required of 1 it by the commission and uo per r mit lias been granted to the company s or any of its agents to sell Florida real estafe in Virginia.” e There was little improvement in i- Western Europe's agriculture, from e the fall of the Roman empire to the beginning of the nineteenth century. THE TRIBUNE 1 prints mm TODAY’S NEWS TODAY IIJ NO. 2941 1 MITCHELLCISE IS I ' IST OF ITS« This Last Full Week That J* Hearing Will Be Gen*;* ducted As Only little Is JB to Be Done, fi f I mitcheliTcharge I IS BEING DENffiM !By Witnesses Who Have m Been Offered by Prose** cution.—Tells of Tests J Made Near New York. m I Washington, Dec. 12.— (A 3 )—The Mitchell court martial concluded todaffejM J wit lit it confidently expected to be its 'll last full week ort the air officers’. triawH All the remaining evidence is*to bgtJH | offered in the early part of next I under present plans, and other merits disposed of, so that the cetig||SH ‘ can dose its public sessions before the Jj ! week-end. I Ttie testimony of additional prqaeejM cation witnesses itoday touched on |X many points raised by Col. Mitchell in Till the attack on aviation policies whidfe* led to his court martial. I Capt. John T. Lewis, a searohligfit.|* battery commander at Fort TotteauSM j New York, told how the test conduct- 19 ed last summer increased the ability i of searchlight "gunners - ’ to “hit” air planes at night, and how new sound locating devices could “track” a plane J? at a range of 10,000 yards with mo tors running, and at 8,000 yards with engines throttled. Maj. Gen. Clarence C. William*, 1 chief of army ordnance, the next wit- "i ness, declared the air service had not i been given 1,100 or 2,000 pound bomba i for bombing training, because "only | a few were on hand,” and they were < “quite ex]teusive." A 1100-pound . bomb costs in excess of SOOO, it was ■; added, and a 2.000-pound bomb costs ,$l,lOO. Gen. Williams also testified that 1 approximately 20 per cent, of all ene- i my aircraft brought down during the ? war were winged and dropped by anti- q aircraft ground guns. Mtijor Lester J. McNair, author of the so-called McNair board report now on duty at Purdue University, Indi umi. said the Hawaiian department , “had her war planes for the ale de- s i fense”’ of Ouliii'on hand In DeCtuaWr, ’ 1923. At the direction of the prosecution .j counsel. Major McNair produced the plans for the court’s inspection. Ha ■ was told not to rend them aloud be-- | cause “of their extremely confidential , and secreet nature.” THE PEE DEE BRIDGE TO OPEN NEXT WEEK 9 ' " 1 Big Celebratioii Scheduled by Kkti- i mend and Anson Counties. Rockingham. Dec. 11. —The ‘,‘Mor rison" bridge across Pee Doe River, on route 20. six miles from Rocking- , ham, will be the scene of a big gather- j ing of people not only from the now | connected donnties of Anson and Richmond, but from the state at large. And not the least of the y drawing cards will be the big free § barbecue dinner that will be served to all w'tio come —the date is YVed- 1 ’ nesday, December 16th. y y The exercises will begin at 11 o’clock, the speaking nnd barbecue to be on the Richmond side of the bridge. The principal speaker will be Gov. Cameron Morrison, after J whom the bridge is namei}., j The celebration is staged jointly by Anson and Richmond counties. This SBOO,OOO concrete structure that is now about to open unimpeded traf fic between the two counties, is six miles west of Rockingham, and nearly i a mile south of Lie present electric ferry. The county commissioners of Anson nnd Richmond have named , commmittees to officially represent the ■ two counties, and the barbecue is fur- i, nislied by the counties. It is to be a gala occasion, with brass band, etc., ; and no doubt thousands will attend. Several Hundred French Toops Killed ]| Jerusalem, Dec. 12.—(A s ) —Loss of several hundred French troops in a battle with Druse tribesmen near Da mascus on Monday, is reported in ad- ; vices reaching here. According to tiiese reports the bat tle was waged all day Monday, the • Druses surrounding the French troops ; numbering several hundred, and al mos I the entire French force was killed. First Strawberries Bring 02.5© Per j Quart. „ Philadelphia. Dec. 11.—Ttie fed- , eral bureau of agriculture reported that the firt trawberries received , this season from Florida, arrived | , here today and sold at $2.5$ a , quart, wholesale ' SAT'S BEAR SAYBj ________ i M/NQjl j mnp/n Fair tonight and Sunday, not much j west*and tuThw^nds.