AS RRESS ED DISPATCHES i VOLUME XXVI ms mu IM ASPECTS OF ■ ICHELLS TRBL War Department Board of Review Completes Its Survey of Records in the Case. RECORD wELqO TO PRESIDENT Judge Advocate and Secre tary of War Must Pass on the Record Before President Does. Washington, Jan. lfl.—fA*)—Convic tion of Col. William Mitchell by an army court for violation of the 06th article of war was approved today by the War Department board of review .insofar as legal aspects of' the trial are concerned. The trial record, with the board's report, will be forwarded probably in the next day or so to the judge advo cate general of the Army and after further examination by him will be started on its way through Secretary Davis to President Coolidge. \ The action of the board of review which considered the record wholly from a legal aspect would seem to put at rest all speculation ns to the right of the court to sentence Col. Mitchell to suspension for five years from duty, command and rank in the army, as well ns to deprive him of all pay and allowances for five years. Specula tion on this point was rife when the trial ended in December and some le gal exi>erts questioned the legality of ending n study by experts to determine the full extent of the reduction it will pro vide. He had warned the finance committee to hold the total of reduc tions to the $330,000,000 limit ap proved by the house but Chairman Smoot of the Senate committee esti mated today the bill probably would provide for at least $360,000,000 in reduction. Senator Borah, Republican, of Ida ho, in a brief discussion of the bill in the Senate today expressed doubt that the fanners would be consoled by the agreement of the two great parties to slash surtax rates and re peal inheritance taxes. Chairman Smoot said he would pre sent the hill to the Senrfte as soon as it is printed but he expressed doubt that this would be .possible before Wednesday. He will then wait at least two days for senators to study its provisions and. indicated he would dot seek to call It up for considera tion before the end of the week. Sooth Carolina Missionary Held Cap tive by Bripande. Greenwood, S. C., Jan. 18.—Miss Clifford Barratt, of this county, still, is a captive of Chinese brigands, in formation received by relatives here . today said. Miss- Barratt was cap ’ tnred early In December. A,' message from Southern Baptist headquarters in Nshville. Tenn., said that although Miss Barratt stilll was in the hands of brigands, she was known to hare been unharmed two weeks ago. She was said to have been permitted to send a letter to a fellow missionary in China describing her condition. Slashes His ’Wrists In Snieido At- Salisbury, Jaa. lfk—F. A. White, of Baltimore, White being held in the city jail here, after his arrest for be in* intoxicated, attempted suicide by slashing both hi. wri»t. with a safety St and*palmra^leas’ county court with a small fine Tomorrow is th? last day of the thero appliances in perfect workinc • ' " ' "i ) ? ************** * “THE HOTEL CONCORD” * * } NAME CHOSEN FOR * * THE NEW HOSTELRY * s*l> " 1 $ IK “Tfie"Hotel Concord” was the -fc )K name riiosen this morning for )K )ff Concord's new hotel. The name * )K was adopted at the Annual meet- iff * rug of the stockholders of the )ff iff Concord Realty Company, held iff iff at the Court House at 10:30 Iff M o'clock. it it The board of directors was re- it it elected to serve another term it it and reports were 'heard by the it it stockholders assembled at the it iff Court House. Other routine bus- it it iness was taken up and disetiss- it * ed. '. . * (•************£ DIES AFTER BEING STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE Dan Little Hit By Auto Driven by Will Whitley.—lnquest Today. Dan Little, a resident of tli# Train ing School section of the county, was ■struck by an automobile shortly after 0 o’clock Monday night and died this morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Con cord Hospital as a result of injuries received. Will Whitley, of this city, who was driving the automobile when it struck Mr. Little, was held today pending a coroner’s inquest which was called for this afternoon at 2 o’clock. According to the local police, Whit ley was returning from his work at the Franklin Mill when tile accident ‘ occurred. He was proceeding nt a moderate rate of speed, it was said, in the vicinity of Silver Hill, when he noted Mr. Little in front of him. Mr. Little, who had his back to the approaching automobile, started across the road, apparently ignorant of the fnct that there was a car be hind him. As soon ns Mr. Little started across the road, Whitley cut to the left in an effort to keep from striking the pedestrian. He blew his horn and even yelled from his ear, according to witnesses to the acci dent. The front of Whitley's ear missed Mr. Little but the rear fender struck him, throwing him to the pavement ‘wttMto.his headvatrnek the hard >mr-> face. At first he did not seem great ly injured, getting up and speaking in a normal tone. In a few mom ents, however, he lapsed into uncon sciousness and was rushed to the hos pital where it was discovered that he , had a fracture at the base of his skull, Mr. Little was about forty years of' age and had been employed for several weeks placing the lanterns at the excavation along the highway „where water pipes were being placed to fumfsh water to the Jackson Train ing School. MISS ESTELLE WRIGHT GROWS STRONGER DAILY Miracle of Recovery la Still a Marvel to the People of Asheville and the Mountains. . i Asheville; Jan. 18. —Miss Estelle Wright, of Candler, who has been an invalid for the past two years, and who suddenly recovered last Sunday night at 0 o'clock, is reported to be growing stronger each day. It was report (si last Monday and caused quite a bit of interest and was hailed by some as a miraele of the olden days. Miss Wright, who is the daughter ■| of A. E. Wright, of Candler, and a sister of Mrs. Will Cathey, of West Asheville, had been practically help less for over two years until,last Sun day night at 0 o'clock, at which time she suddenly got up from the bed that had claimed her for two years, com menced dressing and awakened the family. The family had retired af ter attending to Miss Wright's wants, and their surprise bordered onto fright at seeing her walk about the house rejoicing in her recowered health. It was reported last night that her cure wag brought about by earnest and constant prayer, and that she finally brought her faith up to the point that her rejuvenation was af fedted. Miss Wright is a member of the Methodist Church at Candler and is well known in that community as well as in pahs of Asheville, and since the time of, her recovery.it has been the wonder qi the community and has aroused quite a’bit of interest in other parts of, the country, and none of her friends ssem to doubt her ex planation, it is said. 'lt was reported last night that i Miss Wright expected to move to , Asheville in the near future and com , mencc work here. She Is said to now be engaged in housework at home, | and to have teen engaged since the night of heir marvelous recovery from what wag thought to be permanent Invalidity. Black Bear Captured. , i Asheville, Jan. 15. —A half-grown ! black bear is attracting quite a bit , of attention in the window of the r Southern Dray Company. The bear . belongs to Seth Perkinson and Rob t Mbs Cowan Named as Chairman 1 Washington, Jan. 10.—OP)—Miss I* Duifcam N C hat* bwn elected chairman of the North r Zen of the National* * ty. SkM&v .j.- % **> ; v «% v ■ North Carolina’s Leading Small City Dailj CONCORD, N. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY, 19, 1926 —*■■■ - - • ■ "TTI‘ .-.id ■ j.V, - Nation-Wide Hunt for Pretty Girl MjUM |j||l gk: ' a Esfjw jp** '. w fl j'T. |, w' * $1 Miss Julia Deffrey, pretty 17-year-oX! school girl, has disappeared from her home at Kenosha, Wls. An Intense desire to study art is believed to have keen the cause of her disappearance. A motion-wide search is being con ducted. Organized Propaganda to Destroy Democratic Party, Simmons Says Jonathan Daniels in Raleigh News and Observer. Washington. Jan. 18.—An attack on metropolitan newspapers and the Associated Press as a part of the “great organized propaganda to de stroy the Democratic party" was made by Senator F. M. Simmons, senior Democratic member of tht Senate fi nance committee, in a statement, to day with -regard to newspaper stories ou the Democratic part in tax reduc tion. "There 4s ail organized propaganda ia this country to control the geept metropolitan dailies, owned by those | interested in the propaganda,” said i Senator Simmons, “and the powerful- i la backed movement has its reflex ac tion on the unified newspaper serv ice and thus colors the information that tile people get. Whole Country' Propagandized. “There are a great many indepen dent newspapers in this country but they generally instruct their corre spondents here not to 'cover' the stories that the Associated Press ALUMINUM CASE IS GIVEN MORE ATTENTION, More Facts Developed in Case in (he Senate Inquiry. Washington. Jau. 10.— UP) —About four months elapsed between the time tile Federal Trade Commission offered the Department of Justice evidence against the Aluminum Company of America, in which Secretary Mellon is interested, and the Department as signed an investigator to examine that eevidenee. This was disclosed today by Chair man Nugent of the commission before a senate committee which is investi gating whether the Justice Depart ment moved with diligence in'inquir ing whether the Aluminum Company violated‘the Federal Court consent decrees. Chairman Nugent said it wns after the department had assigned an in vestigator on February 12, 1925 that the Commission reversed itself by a 3 to 2 vote and refused to make avail able the evidence voluntarily furnisher! by the Aluminum Co. without the written consent of officials of that company. Mrs. Valentino Gets Divorce. Paris, January 19.—(A*)—Winifred Hudnut (Naticha Rambova). was granted a divorce from Rudolph Val entino, motion picture actor today on grounds of abandonment. The wife was held to have retained her American citizenship because she married Valentino on March 15, 1923, a year after the passage of the cable act, preserving the citizenship of American women uiarrying foreign-: ers. This decision enabled the court ; to render the decree. 1 Miss Rambova filed aetiop on De cember 17th apd at the hearing on 1 January 12th It was stated that the - court believed the suit well founded. 1 The only remaining question was that | of determining her citizenship. The : laws of Italy do not recognize di vorce. Miss Rambova, the daughter of a Salt Lake City man named Shaugh -1 neßßy, took the name Minlfred Hud -1 nut after her adoption by Richard ! Hudnut, of New York. Masons Gather In Ralelfh. 1 Raleigh, Jan. 19.—OP)—Mason* from all over North Carolina were] gathering in Raleigh today for the op ening meeting tonight of the North] » Co*oilaa Grand Lodge i n the Masonic « Temple here. Approximately 1,000 i Masons were expected. The meeting] 1 will close tomorrow night with the] - znnwei election of the Grand Lodge! k ■ J covers. In that I think they make a mistake. If they would use the double ' service, the news would represent the sentiment of the independent corre spondent.’! Senator Simmons declared that the “organized propaganda" was begun to elect Harding and to destroy the Dem ocratic party. “The whole country is being pro pagandized and doesn't know it.” said Simmons, “and it is all being done in the interest of the great financial interests.” , Senator Simmons stated that wide j publicity was given by tile Associated [ Press to a statement by Senator | Smoot, chairman of the finance com mittee, minimizing the Democratic victory in the compromise on tax re duction while his statement was prac tically disregarded. Senator Smoot issued a 1 statement in which ha said that the compromise would res nil in only- $12,000,000 more in tax reduction. Treasury actuaries told Senator Simmons today thnt the reduction would be at least $25,000,- 000. WOULD HALT ACTION '' ON WORLD COURT PLAN Senators Blease and Johnson Voice Opposition to World Court. Washington, Jan. 19.—OP)—Fight ing for time opponents of American membership in world court continued today their argument in the Senate against the resolution proposing ad herence to the court protocol. Senator Blease, Democrat, of South Carolina, who on three occasions has used his forensic capabilities as a stop gap to warjl off a vote, presented a resolution proposing that December Bth be fixed as a date for a final roll call. The American people, the resolution said, are not yet in posses sion of full information on which to base a decision. The proposal was laid aside under the rules. The battle against the court then was taken up by- Senator Johnson, Republican, of California, who de clared membership in the court in evitably would lead the United States into European political entangle ments. Arthur Montague Must Die for Crime. Raleigh, .Jan. 19, —CP)—-Governor McLean today declined to commute the death sentence imposed in Burke county on Arthur Montague for an attack on a deaf and dumb child of a state institution at Morganton. Mon tague is scheduled to die on Friday. •» f* -V /%7 JJHV IBv f fly ( / Mr#„ SMLES* TbU new Serial Story will be'gin in -The Tribune Next Thursday J H i ■ . JH Dixie Pays Reverent Tribute To Venerated Hero, Robert E. Lee ~ , ——-— ~r> Marathon King JBf- < A J[ - 1 Ite • EE3 ft. 3. Newman, of Dallas claims the championship In . two marathon event*—dancing and automobile driv ing. Recently h'e drove continuously, chained to a car. for M 8 hours and 18 minutes. He also flitted around a ballroom floor for 217 hours and 50 minutes. In March he's going to drive across the continent. THE COTTON MARKET Recent Advances Followed By Slight Reactions During Early Trading Today. New York. Jan. 19.— (A 3 ) —Recent advances were followed by slight re actions in the cotton market early to day. First prices were barely steady ata a decline of 2 to 8 points on act ive months, owing to rather disap pointing liiverpool -cables, reports of full private ginning returns to Jan uary 16th and rumors of increased spot offerings at a slightly easier bas is in the South. May sold off to 19.89 or 7 points net lower in the first few minutes but the dip brought in a renewal of near months covering while there appealed to be some trade buying of new crop positions and prices soon turned firm er. By the end of the first horn- the market was 3 to 8 points higher, May selling at tile 20 cent level. A private report made the ginnings to January 16th as 75,536,000 bales, which it interpreted as pointing to a crop of about 15,900,000 running bales. Cotton futures opened fairly steady : March 20:50; May 19.90; July 19.15, October 18.20; December 18.02. GOT TO “PEP UP” SERMONS. RECTOR TELLS PREACHER Dr. Stewart Says Congregations Don’s Want Oratorical Bunkum and Popular Pap. Chicago. Jau. 18.—“ Popular Pap” and “Oratorical Bunkum” were scored by the Rev. George Craig Stewart, rector of St. I.ukes Church. Evanston, speaking today “The Priest and His Sermon” before Epis copal clergy. Clergy today are looked upon too much as prophets of the dreamy plat itude and purveyors of silly common places; dull, monotonous, stupid, tire some and bores, lie said. “The successful preacher does not resort to piracy. He does not steal Ms sermons out of a book; he does not sell second-hand clothing for new; lie does not give his people liaml-me down suits or rag quilts, or poor, patched-up sermons.” He also seored the preacher who reads his sermons. Simplicity, hum or, illustrations, articulation, were among requirements named- for good sermons. With Our Advertisers. JThis is Thrift Week. Be thrifty by carrying a few shares in the Citizens Building and Loan Association, which can helii you own your own home. Fine material must be refreshed of ten. Take it to Bob's Dry Cleaning Co. Keep your lovely skin youthful and fresh. Telephone 890 for an oppoiut ment at Efird's Beauty Shop. You can get a Standard adding ma chine for $lO down and $lO a month at the Kidd-Frix Music & Stationery Company. ■ Tomorrow lg the last day of the January Clearance Sale re-conditioned gas equipment at the Concord & Knn napolis Gas Co. You can buy these appliances in perfect working order for much leas tbffn the cost of new eequipment. Looking For Whiskey, Officer Finds Snakes. Lancaster, S. C., Jan. 18.—State Deputy Montgomery, with headquar ters here, does nqt" fear “blind tigers" and bootleggers but he does not like snakes. He adtnits this. And with out an admittance from him it was proven here recently. The deputy was in search of whis key at a local fllling tation. In bla meandering,-, he fell into a hole near the . station. When' he drew I his flashlight to observe his surround ings, be discovered that his foot was resting in a “nest of moccasins." He ' , c South Stands W -* v *‘ Head in Honor xtiol on the Occasion of 119th Anniversary of Birth. ENTIRE SOUTH JOINS TRIBUTE From Potomac to Gulf and From Atlantic to Missis sippi River Observance of Day Was General. Richmond. Va.. January 19.—(A 3 ) — Dixie stood today with bared head in reverent tribute to the memory of her venerated hero and idol, GeneraL Robert Edward I.ee. on the occasion of the 119th anniversary of hiR birth at Stratford, Westmoreland county, Virginia. From the Potomac to the Gulf, and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Missis sippi River, comprising what is rough ly known as the “Old South," observ ance of the day was in general. In many states forma! ceremonies were held. In others the day wns ob served more quietly, sucil exercises as were held ,being, staged in the schools. In practically every Southern state today is a legal holiday, banks and state, county and municipal govern ment iiuoses being closed. From the flag poles of most of the state cnpitols the stars and bars of the Confederacy was flown. For the first time the joint observ ance of the birthday anniversaries of Lee and General Thomas J. “Stone wall" Jackson was general. Jackson’s anniversary is Thursday. The keynote exercises of the day were held at Lexington, Va., where under the designation of “Founders Day" Washington & Lee University hiyiored its one-time - president. The principal eulogy of the ceremonies was delivered by Dr. John Grier Hibben. president of Princeton University. In Richmond laying of the cornerstone of the World War memorial was made the occasion for tribute to General Lee. Banks in North Carolina were closed in honor of the day, while ex ercises were held in practically every, school of the state.,' STRANGER HOLDS CROWD AT BAY AND ESCAP|^ Pulls Gun on N'orlina Chief of Police and Tells Him Not to Bat His Eye. Xorlina, Jan. 18.—A daring rob bery and holdup was perpetrated at N’orlina about four o’clock this morn ing when the baggage and mail room at the station was broken into aud two pouches of mail labelled “to Nor llna” stolen. Jim German and Bashaw Sherin, two negroes who handle mail and bag gage at Norlina. went out to work train No. tjf which arrived at about four a. m. and when they returned they found the lock on the baggage room door broken. They notified the night clerk who called Chief W. N. Carter. The chief accompanied by several local citizens began to look arouud the lots back of the stores and saw a young white man about twenty-five years of age step off of the back steps of Loyd’s store. Following him the i group landed in Frank Weldon's case, there Carter stepped up to the young man saying “I guess I had better look you over.” 11l a second the chief was looking into tile muzzle of an ugly .44 and [ greeted with the words ‘stand back. ! don’t you bat yotir eye.” When others attempted to inter . cede they were told: "Rack up boys. I don't want to hurt you." They “backed up.” > it is said the desperado made quite . a speech saying, “I am not going to . be arrested, I know it means the pen -11 itentiary.” He also told the crowd that he had a car of liquor down the road they could have, but they could not have him. Frank Weldon had his gun handy but he did not think best to use it, but when asked to take a short walk down the street with the voting urn where the latter said he would sur render h ! s gun complied with the re quest. After Weldon had walked a short distance the young man said. “I guess I won’t give you my gun. you might shoot me—bent it." Weldon obeyed and his companion has not been seen or heard from since. Whether this young man was the one who robbed the mail and baggage room there is no way of telling. It is probable that he was. Special agents of the Seaboard have been here al! day and , the Postoffice notified. Annual January Sale at Robinson’s. The entire Stock of dry goods ami women’s wear at Robinson's will be on sale beginning tomorrow. In this will be included smart seasonable wearing apparel and fresh dependable dry goods nt astonishingly low prices. The sale will last until the first week in Febru ary, twelve days. On page five today you w?U find prices enumerated which will give you an idea of the many big bargains which aw’ait you all over the store. / . Shipping Line Sold. ~. Washington, Jan. ID.-xGP)—The Pacifie-ArgCntine-Rtazile line was sold THE TRIBUNE PRINTS | TODAY’S NEWS TODAY j NO. 13 ANNOUNCES NEW DM FOR THE y N]TS 4* i United Coast Guard, Cus i toms and the Prohibition Forces in Four States in the Southland. 1 DUNNING NAMED ( TO LEAD WORKERS ■ The Plan Will Be Tried First In North Caroling South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. , Washington. Jan. 19. —GW—In or- j der to develop closer liaison between ' coast guard, customs and the prohi bition forces in enforcing the Volstead Avt, iii the southeastern states. As -1 sistant Secretary Andrews has in cf- % , feet molded the three agencies into one unit, nnd has appointed M. O. Dunning customs collector at Savan nah. as co-ordinator for prohibition in % | the states of North Carolina. South Carolina. Georgia and Florida. ' ,j Tlte changes disclosed today place Mr. Dunning in a supervisory capac ' ity over nil of Mr. Andrews’ corps in the four States mentioned. The move, is regarded as representing the first > j step in a plan for tightening up en forcement in the southeast where the ’ Asistant Secretary saw evidence of cons'derable violation of the liquor ’ laws on his recent inspection trip throughout that section. ,;1j During the holidays Mr, Andrew* , visited all the four states mentioned, i conferring with all executive office* ’ under his jurisdiction. Mr. Dunning accompanied the Treasury official on the tour and ,1s held to be equipped at the outset with a full knowledge of ( conditions. CAMERON MORRISON HITS POLICIES OF MeLEAN < Governor Refuses to Respond to the [ Criticism by His Predeetssor. Special to Charlotte News. 5 j Raleigh. Jan. 18.—Publication of Governor Morrison’s statements on his recent visit to the capital in which he was quoted as objecting to the ’ super-government of the State got no rise from Governor McLean who is an official one-year-old without a quarrel to his credit. —; Sir. Morrison has rarely ever sup- F pressed any objection Chat he had of j political affairs in the state and on ! j the occasion of that last trip here ! lie was heard by numerous official j folks to observe that representative government has about played out. He ■ did not like to see popularly elected i officials turn over their departments I to men who have come here from afar. ■ The note of the Charlotte man was popular, but the- best Chat his obser . rations got was an editorial or two - half-way indorsing the criticism. J ; The observation of Mr. Morrison ' : was that Mr. Gillen, a Wisconsin Re- I publican, and Mr. Burke, a Louisiana ‘ tpnn, are running the state. As much ‘ had been many times halfway said in . the newspaper columns, but nobody who cuts the Morrison figure had ob- I served. Mr. Burke is the useful man I with the budget and Mr. Gillen is seen more in file Hause-Wilson rels ‘ tionship. But no man of the stature i i f Mr. Morrison has objected before. ■ The test of the McLean hold will . probably be made right here. The ; State lias been pretty self-conscious. I' While it never would pay many big salaries, it gladly pa.VH myriads of small ones. Political genius has fig ured that SIO,OOO salaries to judges nnd SIO,OOO to governonwwould never do but $2,000 salaries to half the State are al! right. Mr. McLean is run ning the State as he would operate a huge corporation. He is making every man count and he is getting good ones if he has to send out for them. The State has not had to stand for that policy before. The question now is will the State like it? Has it been done impressively enough to overcome the politics of 100 years? The governor has made State busi ness less attractive than it ever was. There was a grand rush to Raleigh for State positions, but under his driving the work nnd the wage are less attractive. This ( .may prevail over the" age-old policy. To date the McLean economics have been won derfully popular. McKcndrce Long to Hold Revival in Salisbury. ■ ? ; Salisbury, Jan. 18.—Rev. McKen dree R. Long, of Statesville, come* Wednesday of this week to begin a revival meeting at Second Presby terian church, of which church Rev. Eugene Alexander is pastor. The meeting is expected to continue fo* 10 days. SAT’S BEAR SAYS: - ■! -pgaS J • '■ L—J.,.'-, / ■ f-X .• t V