ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI ■isms muon ATTACK ON WOMAH Only 16 Minutes Required For the Trial of the Ne , gro, Who Confessed to the Charges. TROOPERS GUARD THE COURT HOUSE Some Business in Lexing ton Halted While the Trial of the Negro Was in Progress. Lexington, Ky., Feb. 2.— OP) —Ed Harris, negro, pleaded guilty here to day to an nttack oh « white woman. He was sentenced to be hanged Fri day. .March sth, in Fayetteville coun ty jail yard. The trial lasted exact ly sixteen minutes. It was one of the speediest trials in the history of the county. Court , was called promptly at 9 o'clock. Prosecuting Attorney Maury Kemper elected to try the defendant on' charge growing out of his attaeltron vUe woman here January 19th. Con viction in this case carried the penal ty of hanging. The charges against the negro for the murder of Clarence Bryant and his two children were not called. ' Secluded in an armored tank and surrounded by an armed convoy of six motor trucks and passenger auto- 1 mobiles, Harris ,was whisked into Lex ington today for trial. One thou sand national guardsmen were on the watch to prevent violence. He was brought ’here from the Frankfort reformatory, located at the State capital, thirty miles away. Ad jutant General J. A. Kehoe in tak ing precautions from a possible at tack on Harris’ life ordered one of his officers. Lieutenant Coborn Gayle, of Frankort, to walk beside the negro. Gayle, of the same physical stature as Harris, was blanketed as was Har ris, and led the negro the short dis tance from the walls of the reforma tory io the waiting tank only fifteen j feet away, and entered the armored haven. Ttie territory around the re formatory had been roped off for two blocks and there was but little .pos- I ho. negro Immediately upon arrival here, Harris was taken to the Fayette county court house where he was said by officers to be in-otafe keeping with the thousand troopers on duty re fusing admittance within a bounded area of curious persons. No tobacco markets or live stock sales were held here today, civil and military authorities prevailing on I these industries to close for the day. In keeping with this, interurbnn bus and street car officials agreed not to bring visitors into the city. Banks and business houses in the restricted arra plso were closed today. Private automobiles'were stopped at the out skirts of the city and turned away. State* troops arrived during the early hours of the -morning and when citizens woke today they found mili tary arm of the State thrown about their city to protect its court of jus tice. Fifteen minutes after court con vened he stood before Judge Stoll in the packed court room and mumbled “I brought it on myself.” He was then sentenced to be hnuged. He was taken away as surreptitiously as he had been brought in early this mohling from the Frankfort reforma tory. Outside, on every side, were Btate troops; whippet tahks , commanded street intersections; machine guns bristled from every corner, and a troop of rivalry was standing at at tention in Old Cheapside, the market ing place of Kentucky of other days, within the shadow of the court houses dome. ~ GASTONIA RUMOR SAYS BRYSON MAY QUIT BENCH Report ia Judge WHI Resign to Do vote Full Time to Great Smoky Park Campaign. Owptonia, Fdb- I.—Dame rumor, of the .political world, whispered ' here today that Judge Thad B. Bry son, of Bryson City, one of the most popl'ar and admired lawyers of the North Carolina superior court bench, may resign his position to de vote his entire time to the great Smoky Mountain park campaign now being conducted throughout the state. Judge Bryaon was here last week for a mass meeting. It ia reported that be told Gastonia friends that he was considering, leaving his court duties. 4 . i — 1— Explains Postponement. London, Feb. 2.—OP)- I —Great Brit ain was obliged to assent tq the de sire of the majority in the postpone l ment of. the preparatory disarmament conference at Geneva, ’five govern ments having asked that the meeting be put off. Premier Baldwin made this disclosure during debate on tbe speech from the throne with which Parlia ment was opened today. Charges Wasteful Expenditures. Washington, Feb. 2.—lP)-rWaste ful expenditures have been made by these -administering the army and navy service, Representative Madden, republican of Illinois, chairman of b the appropriations committee, declar ed today in the House. The Concord Daily Tribune * North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily Sons of the Black Panther ~ IM W n»a black panther gets temperamental at an early age. Then two kitten, ira Finn and Gentle, recently-born black panthers at the MUwTißcal CONSTITUTIONAL, QUERY TO BE RAISED AT TRIAL Can a Policeman Take Key From Man’s Pocket and Search Room. Greensboro, Feb. I.—An interest ing constitutional question will be raised when H. K. Smith, truveling man, giving his address as Raleigh, is tried in municipal court here on charge of possessing whiskey. The case was docketed for trial today i but when It was railed it was con tinued until February 12. - Smith was arrested Saturday night Hvhen he drove his Nash sedan into a iparked ear near a street corner here. He was charged with operating an automobile while in toxicated. When he was taken to the police station he was searched by the policemen and a key to a hotel room found in his pocket. The policeman, accompanied by another, went to the hotel room and searched it. and found, they said, a pint of liquor. Then n charge of possession of whis key was made against the man. The question that the municipal court judge will be called upon to decide is whether police can take a key out of a man’s pocket and search a room occupied by him, but owned by another person, without a warrant. Smith’s car was also token,to the police station and searched . hut it cManut be confiscated, for the chnr|e of transporting liquor iu it cannot be • «*U HOUSE DECLINES TO FOLLOW COMMITTEE Despite Committee Objection It Votes $200,000 For Pamphlets and Other Data. Washington, Feb. 2.— VP) —For the first time in the present Congress, the House today overrode its appro priations committee in passing the annual agricultural department ap propriation bill, which now goes to the Senate. By a vete of 188 to 117 an amend ment opposed by the committee was adopted to provide $200,000 for the distribution of pamphlets and other formation on the diseases of horses and cattle. ( The proposal for the pamphlets was sponsored by Representative Jones, democrat, of Texas, and was support ed by practically the entire Demo cratic membership, and a number of republicans. As approved, the measure carries $128,500,000 for the various activi ties of the agriculture department dur ing the next fiscal year. Os this amount, $80,000,000 ia for federal aid to the states in road construction. BOARD OF MISSIONS MEETS IN NASHVILLE Indications Are That 91,000,000 Need ed For Mission Work WUI Be Se cured Soon. NashvlNe, Venn., Feb. 2.—GO—The board of missions, Methodist Episoo ■ pal Church,'South, convened today at Methodist headquarters with indica tions that an additional million dol lars asked for missions was in sight. This is the first special session ever held by the board, the business being to fix the annual budget for mis sions. The necessity for the called ses sion arose last May during the regu lar annual meeting when it became apparent that mission funds would not permit the board to set a figure for the next year’s work with the slow [ collections during the two years pre vious made it apparent that the work could not be conducted on the same scale without involving the board in debt larger than they could assume. | Only Two-fifths Attend Sunday i Durham, Feb. 2.—Only two-fifths of people of North Carolna are m-mbers of Sunday schools and only three-fourth of the members attend regularly. D. W. Bims, secretary of the North Carolina Suudny School association, told the Durham asso ciation which held its convention here lhst week. ; Charge Against Revenue Bureau. Washington, Feb. 2. — —More than $100,000.00 of deductions for war mortiantions “not based on the solicitor's ruling” have been allowed by the Internal Revenue Bureau, the Senate was informed today in a ma ' jorlty report of the special senate J committee investigating the Bureau. ; It is said that Babe Ruth can drive a golf ball as far as any of the ■ professionals when once he gets a good dip at It. / v. .j: '..■■’looV .. .i-.v-■vj BOOTLEGGER ESCAPES WHEN CAR SHOT DOWN Officers Take Part in Wild Chase Near Moorcsville ami Bring in a Rich Haul. Moorcsville. Feb. I. Policemen Carl Da via and Doc Ilenver gave chase to a bootlegger car Saturday night nbchit 7 o'clock and captured a handsome Hudson brougham at Cornelius, eight miles below here. The liquor runner jumped from the car after a rear tire had been shot down and made his escape into the darkness. The car turned around the corner of the filling station and •topped of his own accord near the railroad- The officers brought in the biggest haul Iredell sleuths have ever cap tured, there being 105 gallons in 21 5-gallon containers, all of which was dumped into the sewer, he of ficers were in polife headquarters when the car passed and was easily recognized as • booze car by the way in which the* rear end wns dolled up, the cans being covered neatly with heavy cotton outing. The car bears a State license, but no city license. It is a modern style and probably none but experienced officers would have suspected it as a loggers car. The tires were pot. shot until the driver refused to hit when the of ficers were riding long by his side, TO OVERTHROW CALLED Department of Justice Agent Says Plot Is Being Perfected in San An tonion. San Antonio, Texas. Feb. 2.— VP) — Uncovering of evidence showing that a revolutionary junta of Mexicans is active here and in conspiracy to over throw the Cnlles government in t'.ie republic was announced to the Asso ciated Press today by Gus Jones, in charge of the San Atonion office of the department of justice. Mr. Jones declared his office had found and turned over to Federal At torney John D. Hartman evidence of this junta was planning the dynamit ing of a passenger train southbound from the border for the purpose of showing that a revolution against tfie Calles administration was in prog ress. This evidence yesterday was given 1 • Mr. Hartman, who will lay it before the federal grand jury when it con- - venes here February 15th. Indict ments charging violation of the neu trality laws will be sought against the , leaders of the alleged revolutionary ] movement. JOHN T. BENNETT IS DEAD AT WADES BORO _____. i Well Known Attorney Dies Follow, big an Illness of Several Months. Wadcsboro, Feb. I—John T. Ben nett, a well known lawyer of this 1 city, died at his home here at 3 o’clock this afternoon, following me illness of several months. He was a native of Stanly County and a mem ber of one of the most prominent families of this section of the State. He came to this city in 1801 and en tered into co-partnership with the late Judge Risden Tyler Bennett; a prominent member of the Wades boro bar. He marred Miss Kate Bennett, daughter of Judge and Mrs. R. T. Bennett, in 1803. He is sur vived by his wife and two' sons, J. T. Benhett, Jr., and R. T. Bennett. ' and by one daughter. Mrs. McArvor. of Gastonia. He is also stirvived by three brothers, B. B. Bennett, of this city; Crawford Bennett, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and D. | N. Bennett, of Norwood, and by two sisters, Mrs. George 'Stinson, of Norwood, and Mrs. Cyril Henderson, of Jacksonville. Florida. Ground Hog Goes Back to Sleep. Charlotte, Feb. 2.— VP) —"Johnny" Groundhog, alias “Chippy,” Chip munk, today came out of his legendary “hole in the ..ground," for n minute, tcok a fleeting glance at the Carolina sunshine, and burrowed his way back underneath for another sjx weeks of winter. That is according to legend an old 1 as the Christian religion and more, 1 the groundhog on February 2 has al ways observed this custom. Brain haul to Return February ft- Durham. Feb. 2.—W. G. Bram ' ham, chairman of the North Caro lina Republican executive committee, who has been on an extruded tour of the far west, will return about - February 5, in time for the im portant committee meeting to be held in' Durham February 10. CONCORD, N. C., TUESDAY, FEBR UARY 2, 1926 BOWiN TRIAL WILL BEGIN TOMORROW IN NEWTON COURT Sheriff of Catawba County Busy Today Summoning 100 Men of Special Ve nire Ordered For Trial. i BOWMAN APPEARS TO BE HEALTHY ! Friends Say He Shows Ef fects of Three Months Confinement—Judge Is-1 sues Warning. Newton. N. C., Feb. 2.—(/P)-—Tin sheriff anil his men of Catawba conn t.v are today engaged in the business of summoning 100 men of the special venire from 'which 12 men will be se-i lected to judge tile fate of Wade V. i Bowman, former major in the North: Carolina National Guard, on trial: here for his life in connection with an! alleged attack on a 12 year-old Hick ory girl last October. Bowman was brought into the court room yesterdny after ills three months’ confinement in the comity jail when his case was continued from the No vember term of court. His intimate friends saw a slight break in his phys ical condition, but he looked healthy enough to strangers. Judge James L. Webb, presiding over Ibis term, warned the attorneys for both the state and defense that he would expect the trial to begin promptly at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning. * TRAINMEN APPLY FOR HIGHER PAY Some Demands Being Made by Em ploys of All Roads in the Country, Says Dispatch. Chicago, Feb. 1. —Application for wage increases which spokesmen of the railway managements said would exceed, in some cases, the 1020 peak rates, was filed with the railroad to day by the train service brotherhoods. Officials of the Chicago and North western said their employes, in filing the apploeiation, had announced the same demands were being made today .upon all roads of the country. I Meanwhile, the United States rfdlg road labor -hoard had before it "ap proximately seventy applications for changes in rates or rules. Although the train service brotherhoods and the firemen were involved in a few of these, most came from smaller organ izations. The train and engine brotherhoods conducted the conferences with rail road executives which resulted in pro posals for supplanting the board, which are said to be supported by most of the roads and by twenty em ployes’ organizations. Among the standard organizations who have filed wage cases with the board are those of the clerk, tele graphers, dispatchers, and mainten ance of way employes. Numerous less known organizations, such as organi zations of ship’s cooks employed by railway companies also were repre sented. JUDGE ASKS REPEAL OF AUTO SPEED LAW “About IVTost Absurb Thing” on the Books, Declares W. F. Harding. Charlotte, Feb. I.—“lf the civic clubs want to do something useful, let them see about having this nefar ious speed law repealed,” Judge W. F. Harding, of Charlotte, honorary member of the Charlotte Lions Club declared before that body at its luncheon Monday. “That law is about the most ab surd tiling on our statute books,” Judge Harding said- “In fact it is so absurd that I do not know any boy who observes it. I have crossed the bridge over the Catawba be tween here and Gastonia 32 times this year and I don,’t think I have yet lived within the law in doing so. “Who observes the stop law at the railway crosaings? No one. If you want to be of service, help repeal or amend this law into something like common sense. It would be better to repeal the speed limit and let care fulness instend of observing the rate of speed be the criterion of safe driv ing.” BOND ISSUE OF $300,000 FOR HOSPITAL PROPOSED Petition Presented to Rowan "County Commissioners Asking for an Elec tion. Salisbury, Feb. I.—A petition was presented to the Rowan county com missioners today to call an election for the voting of a three hundred thousand dollar bond issue to build a general hospital in the county and also a tubercular hospital. No filial action was taken but the booard will meet next week with the hos pital committee of the chamber of commerce to go further iuto the mat ter. Postpones Definite Action. Washington,- Feb. 2.—(A s )—Al though reaffirming its approval of the principle of the Smith bill for region al appointments to the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Senate in terstate commerce eommiaion today de ferred action pending the working out and (grouping according to popun 1 lation and transportation problems. It is safe to count on the fact that no man is really as wise or as fool ish as he appears to be. Knocks Out Four | John Weller, marshal of Beaverdam, j 0„ is 60 but he's still tough. Hs proved it when four men tried to '; drive away from a Ailing, station | ■ without paying. Using only his fists, he knocked out all of them. endeavor will, give DR CLARK SIOO,OOO This Week to Be Devoted to Raising Recognition Fund. Boston, Mass., Feb. 2.—Christian Endeavor unions throughout the world will devoid the week beginning today to the raising of a recognition fund of SIOO,OOO to be presented to Dr. Francis E Clark, the founder of the organization, who has recently retired after more Ilian 40 years of service as active head of the move ment. The income from the fund will be used as a retirement fund for Dr. . Clark and his wife. Special committees have been ap pointed in each State for the purpose of raising their respective quotas of the fund. Among the members of the general committee are Secretary of ‘ the Navy Wilbur. Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, diaries Evans Hughes, Car rie Chapman Cntt, Senator Arthur Capper, Governor Gifford Pinchot, and a number of other men and women of national prominence. The choice of the present week as the time for raising the fund is especially appropriate, sins." tomor row will mark the forty-fifth anni versary of the organization of the H first Christian Endeavor union apd the birth of the movement Which has become world-wide in its scope. It is not given to every man to father such a work as that of the Christian Endeavor Society, but Rueh is the honor of Dr. Francis E. Clark, and tile story of his life so closely in terwoven with that of the society as to be essentially the same. Dr. Clark is of New England parentage, although born in Aylmer, Quebec. Next September he will celc biate his seventy-fifth birthday an niversary. His father was a civil engineer. In 1853, while engaged in m nistering to emigrants suffering from cholera. the latter contracted tile dread disease and speedily suc cumbed to it. When Dr. Clark was 7 years old his mother also pawed away. She was an earnest Christian worker and a pioneer in religious ef forts. It was from her that Dr. Clark largely inherited his Christian character and literary ability. Upon the death of his mother the 7-year-dld boy was adopted by an uncle. Rev. E. W. Clark of Auburn dale, Muss. In Aubumdale and ! n Claremont. N. H., Dr. Olark spent his boyhood. He prepared for col lege at Meriden, N. H-, and in 18(51) graduated from the Kimball Union Academy. From there he went to Dartmouth, graduating in 1873. Three years were spent in Andover Seminary, and the young clergyman shortly afterward took charge of his first church at Portland. Maine, the famous Williston Church, in which Christian Endeavor was born, and where the fimt little service was held and a constitution adopted on Feb ruary 2. 1881. Dr. Clark had been pastor in Port land for four years before he con ceived tile idea of the Christian En deavor. When the rapid spread of the movement made it necessary for him to give his entire time to the work he resigned from the pulpit and thereafter made his home in Boston, which city has been the in ternational headquarters of the or ganization almost since its inception. In the course of forty years Dr. O'ark has circled the globe many times and has addressed meetings of Endeavorsrs in almost every country of the world. Today the Christian Endeavor has nearly 75,000 branch societies scat tered over the world, with a total of 1 some 4,000,000 members on the rolls, a truly magnificent showing for the forty-fifth anniversary of its forma tion, which will be observed by its I membership tomorrow. j Governor to Speak at Conference. Raleigh, Feb. 2.—o4*)—Governor 1 McLean lias received an invitation to address the next annual governors’ conference to be held this year. He has been asked to discuss “The Best Methods of Financing Highway Con struction.” 1 The executive has accepted the in vitation, conditional upon his being able to be present at the conference, the time and place for which has not ' been fixed. The Boston A. A. was the first “ Athletic club in the country to use mined corners at an indoor track meet. When the new turns were 1 first introduced in the early ’9os - the runners found it rather hard to AUTOMOBILE DISPLAY r f To Begin February Bth.—New Models in Several Lines to Be Shown. | Charlotte, Feb. 2.—Confidence that . the first annual automobile display week, to be held the week of February * Bth. will bring to Charlotte from 12,- ■ 000 to 15,0000 persons was expressed : today by officials of the Charlotte Au -1 tomotive Merchants Association, which 1 is sponsoring,, the event. * A heavy demand is being made upon - the musical and theatrical talent of ’ the city. as. the sixteen automobile . dealers who are participating in the j I display week, prepare their programs j to attract prospective automobile buy ’ ers to their individual show rooms. 1 While this will be the sixth annual automobile show held in Charlotte, it is the first time that an automobile j ‘ display week has been undertaken.. ' Instead of placing the ears on exhi * bition at a central building, the deal ers participating in the week's activi | ties will have their lines on display at their own showrooms. Dealers 1 said that they are becoming more en -1 thusiastic over the new plan, as indi cations develop that it will prove far ' more successful than tile plan former- I ly carried out. One feature of automobile display ! week, to which the dealers and dis . tributors are giving much attention, [ has to do with the gathering of deal ! ers from the Carolina territory. Fore , casts are that approximately 1.5001 I dealers in North and South Carolina I . will visit Charlotte in the course of i automobile display week. The deal | ers in the various lines represented i by distributors here are expected to be here on specified days, when deal , er-distributor conferences will be held, i Some of the dealers will show new models of their lines for the first time, i it was pointed out. The Ford Motor i Company’s assembly plant here will ■ be operated at night, when visitors i will be permitted to observe the work : of the 1.100 men employed there, it ■ was announced. I 1 BODIES OF YOUTHFUL LOVERS FOUND IN CAR Note Found in Which Young Man 1 Said, “Love Was the Cause of It I All.” Columbus, Ga„ Feb. 1. —The bodies | of O. T. Chalkley, 18, and Miss Anna I I.ee Welch, 24, were found in the front seat of an automobile near Buena Vista, Gfi., today, according to information, received here. Both had been shot through the heart and in _ Chalkley’s hand was a revolver, j The following note was found in the . young man’s pocket: , “Mother, don't lay this on any t body but me. Do what you want i to with my body and the rest. Please put us side by side, for love was . the cause of it all. Goodbye, your son. Otie." Beneath Chalkley's initials were r “A. L. W.,” the initials of Miss [ Welch. r The young couple had been friends for some time and had planned to be i married, it is understood, but ciremn - stances prevented. They lived about E half a mile apart and the bodies were. , found midway between their homes, i ! Whiskey Automobiles Sell For 50 ! , Cents Each. Greensboro, Feb. I. —Sale of three whiskey automobile by the United States government, at 50 cents each, r net for the government, was re * orded in the office here rooay of the clerk of western North Carolina dis ' trict. Three others were sold for net t amounts of $20.50, sl6 and $16.10. - The on rs 'Were sold because they had been used in transporting whiskey. Storage charges relped to bring I the net total for automobiles down to , $54.10. but the total sale price of all t the cans was $134. Whiskey appears to have as damaging an effect on automobiles as one rum runners. t 8 Hofrso-pulling contests were com t mon in England more than a hun ? dred years ago. the teams being « hooked to trees and the horses that t tried longest and went to their knees oftentst won the stakes. ENGINE MAN CARROLL CAUSED PENNSY WRECK Safety Inspectors Report After Inves tigation of Wrech fn Which Ten Persons Perished. Washington, Feb. 2.—OP)—Failure of Engineman Carroll to observe and obey indications of automatic block signals was the main cause of the Pennsylvania Railroad wreck at Mon j mouth Junction, N. J., last November, in which ten persons were killed, safe ty inspectors reported today to the ; Interstate Commerce Commission. | The conclusions of the inspectors I were similar to those reached by the public utilities commission of New Jersey. Engineman Carroll of train No. 6, ran his engine into the rear of train | No. 166, and the contributing cause of the wreck was given as “failure of Flagman Cunningham of train to place torpedoes on tlie. track rail as required by the rules.” The report said the block signals were “partial ly obscured h\ fog.” BYRD ASSUMES OFFICE OF VIRGINIA GOVERNOR His First Official Act is to Lengthen Working Hours of State Employes. Richmond. Va., February I.—The youngest chief executive Virginia has had since colonial days, Harry Flood Byrd, of Winchester, 38-years-old I orehardist and publicist, became the 48t’j governor of the Old Dominion with his induction into office here today at 12 :25 o’clock. Four minutes later the successor to E. Lee Trinkle started his inau gural address in which he pledged himself to work for a “greater and more efficient Virginia.” The keynote of Ink address was economy in the government of Virginia, and his first official act on assuming the of fice was the issuance of a proclama tion proclaiming the employes of the state government upon an eight heur working dire effective March 1. PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH CHESTER GRAY Russell Bower Also Present For Con ference at Which Muscle Shoals Was Discussed. Washington. Feb. 2.—OP)—The Muscle Shoals problem was gone over today with President Coolidge by Rus sell Bower, a member of the Muscle Shoals Commission, and Chester Gray, new legislative aient of the American Farm Bureau Federation. They de clined later to reveal the exact nature of their conversation. Bower was one of the majority of the President’s commission which rec ommended leasing of the Muscle Shoals property with government operation as an alternative. He often has empha sized the necessity of providing for fertilizer production. He also is Iden tified with the Farm Bureau Federa : tion. Salisbury’s Oldest Merchant is Dead. Salisbury, N. C., Feb. 2.—Theodore Buerbaum. Salisbury's oldest mer , chant, died at an early hour today at j the Salisbury Hospital to which he had been taken Sunday when striek ! en with a serious illness. The funeral takes place Tuesday morning at eleven o'clock from St- Luke’s Epis copal Church, of which church Mr. Buerbaum had been an active mem ber for many years Mr. Buerbaum was born in Ger many nnd settled in Salisbury when a young man. Last week he cele brated his fiftieth anniversary as a citizen of Salisbury and his forty sixth year in business here. He was seventy-four years old and is sur vived by a widow and four children. Willi Our Advertisers. Shoe specials all this week at the Ruth-Kesler Shoe Store. Read “Town Topics” by Fetzer & Yorke insurance agents, in this paper today. Boys’ suits—live models, big val ues, low prices, at Penney’s. Priced i from $5.00 to $13.75. With knickers ajd long pants, $7.00 up. THE TRIBUNE PRINTS s|l TODAY’S NEWS TODAY! NO. 253 LOCARNO SECURITY 1 - ..JENTLMI ' IN KING'S SPEECH King George Tells Parlia- J ment He Expects Pact to Pave Way For Further | Agreements. MOSUL QUESTION I ALSO DISCUSSED 'H England Seeking Solution to the Perplexing Ques tion.—Sees Better Trade | Soon. London, Feb. 2.— (A 3 ) —Opening par- | liamcm with the speech from the throne today. King George expressed i the belief that the Locarno security agreement lmd paved the way for a >i further step in the direction of arms limitation. He announced that the British gov-* 1 eminent was attempting to arrive at a settlement with Turkey on the vex* * ing Mosul question and rejoiced that ’ his government had been able to ar- ’ rive at a debt funding agreement With ; Italy. Touching on domestic affairs, he ; appealed for co-operation from all parties to reduce the widespread un employment and bring about a re« • turn of good trade and prosperity. * The King pointed out that the im* *j provement in trade and industry at jj the end of 1024 which it was hoped a would decrease unemployment wasun- ' fortunately checked early last year by widespread depression in coat mining ’M industry. Since autumn of last year signs of a revival of industry, has be gun to appear, but the growth of eoh- ’ fidence upon which a revival depend- j ed was being arrested by fear of in- 3 dustrial strife. Announcing that th? result of the \ commission of inquiry into the coal industry shortage would be published; ! hj continued: ‘>l am well aware of the difficul ties inlieret in the whole situation but the interests of the nation are paramount, and I appeal to all par ties to face the future in a spirit of l conciliation and fellowship and avoid action which would again postpone the. return of good trade and pros- : sjj parity for which we have so long " - .IWBed.”.. THE COTTON MARKET Opened at Decline of 1 to 6 Points In * Response to Relatively Easy Liver pool Cables. New York, February 2.— (A 3 ) —The i cotton market opened today at a de cline of 1 to 0 points in response to relatively easy Liverpool cables, but 1 further covering by near months shorts and additional buying of new crop de liveries for foreign account gave it a I generally steady undertone. Active : montiis sold about 3 to 6 points net lower. w»Q> May declining to 19.5 T 9 and Octobel to 18.17, but the market ' was a few ppints up from the lowest at the end of the first hour. Private. ;j cables attributed the decline in Livery r ?l pool to hedge selling and liquidation, but said there was a fair spot demand < and a considerable inquiry for cotton I S cloths. Cotton futures opened steady: : March 20:20; May 19.57 ; July 19.89, ) October 18.17: December 17.87. Seely Has Failed to Carry Out Suit Against E. W. Grove. Asheville, Feb. I.—Fred L. Seely, 'j of Asheville, who was to have signed i*l a deposition to be used in his suit .1 against his father-in-law, E. W. 5 Grove, did not return to Asheville today for the purpose. He is now ou his yacht “North State” at Miami. The suit, filed in St. Louis, is said to involve between four and five mil- | lion dollnrs. In the complaint, Mr Seely claims that lie entered into a contract with Mr. Grove some time ago whereby :l Mr. Grove was to provide a clause la his will leaving to Mr. Seely and, his children either his interests in the H Paris Medicine company or the re inainder of his estate. Mr. Grove, it is claimed, later abrogated another will which omitted these feature? nnd Seely brought suit to enforce the > terms of the contract. Golf has never been developed in Germany as in most of the countrica > of western Europe, but it is helieved ' that the sport will be given a new impetus by the action of clubs in Berlin and other cities in opening courses for the training of juveniles, 8 Captain William Hogbin. Civil War 1 veteran and one of a family of twen- ? t.v-one children, was driven out of * Dubuque. lowa, in 1877 because ha talked against liquor. —; _L BAT’S BEAR SAYSI r— —-c Increasing cloudiness followed - rain Wednesday and .in west pnrtligrm 1 late tonight. Not much change aMm * temperature. Increasing nortlugircS and east winds.