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ASSOCIATE^ PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI Agreement Reached To End Strike In Anthracite Field; Peace Terms Announced S • f . Mnnmoi FIRST GIVE NEWS Later Other Parties inter ested in Peace Negotia tions Stated That Settle ment Had Been Made. FORMAL ACTION (COMING LATERj Miners Are Ready to Meet on Monday to Ratify Any Action Taken at Confer ence by the Committee. Harrißburg. Pr'., Feb. 12.— IFF)— Governor Pinchot announced today that the anthracite Btrikc has been settled. When*the announcement wax made the miners and operators settle committee were still in separate ses sion in Philadelphia with no indica tion that a settlement had yet been reached. The Governor's announcement was made in the following statement: “The anthracite strike is settled. I am able to make this statement be cause I have-been constantly in touch with the negot'JWons. I make it with thankfulness. The statement will restore prosperity to the anthracite region and bring relief and comfort to millions of American lmines." The announcement was made hy the executive at 11 o'clock and he defin ed nt. that time to add any details to his statement. Washington, Feb. 12.—OP)—Inter ested government officials here expect a settlement of the anthracite problem to be announced at Philadelphia nt 1 o'clock this afternoon. How negotiation between operators {ffd. miners were conducted and how Mr. ailfi M ripest ion of arbitration Itas iy Mrs, hwised between the twW > rests were- points left for rttpretatf PWS(*! delphla announcement'. Apparently the rough outline pro posed for a settlement is baaed on a live-year working/pontract for the min ers during the first, two years of which wages would remain as they were last August before the suspension began. lit the determination of the wage after two years, a conference of the industry itself through a special board would function. Supplementing the work of the body would be a tribunal •of ,three impartial public' men who would advise the. negotiators in case they themselves failed to agree. The personnel of the advisory board would likely include Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of Labor Davis, and W. 'J. Sproul, former governor of Pennsylvania. It was not until last night that a real likelihood of an agreement was seen by those participating in the efforts for a solution of thee prob lem. Government officials, who have been' Intimately associated with the prog ress of the long series of negotia tions declared the tremendous cost to ail concerned had been fully appre ciated by both sides. How great the figures will run is evidenced by a compilation at the la bor department today that operators alone have been obliged to Bpend more than $16,000,000 to keep the mines from being flooded and vaning, while the workers stood idle. Oonfevince During Morning. Philadelphia. Feb. 12.— OF)— In the hope of ending the long anthracite strike today the United Mine Workers scale committee Went into session at ,*■ 10:42 a. m. to consider the proposi tion that is expected to end the sus pension. .Optimism was prevailing among the miners as the tw'wity-niiie com mitteemen assembled In the pink room of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel under the leadership of John L. Lewis, in ternational president of the union. In view of fee that the room was engaged for an hour and the Joint wage conference of operators and min ers was called to meet immediately afterward,- support was given to the feeling that the 'end of the great In dustrial struggle probably was near. Strict silence was maintained by both operators and miners as to the terms of the proposed settlement. It is known, however, that the tentative agreement is based on the old wage scale, with no increase in pa£ Wheth er the checkoff figures In ’ the propo sition could not be lehrned, but it was aunroritatively stated that itwaa “covered.” -\» 1 M Various interpretations were placed on the word “covered” but it wa»i agreed that whatever they might be,! it was. satisfactory to the miners as the best they could receive without prolonging the strike struggle. A report' that President Coolidge would figure in the peace proposals as a mediator was positively denied from trustworthy source. The re port originated In the coal regions and Ml part of an oty plan that! was discussed at various times. It is uunderstood that the basis tor the proposition now under considsra t tion was Initiated by the operators V and modified at the suggestion, the mipers. Whether the federal gov The Concord Daily Tribune _ North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily 1 * 11 1 ■ ■ 11 1 ■ i . , „.., >. _ __ ernmdnt had a haud in the proposition has not been disclosed, but one of the miners is reported as saying that ‘The had his suspicions.” Miners Will Meet Monday. Scranton. Pa., Feb. 12.—C4>)—A tri district conventions of miners finions to ratify any agreement that may be approved by the scale committee in I Philadelphia will be called for this' city next Monday, it was understood in labor circles here, today. In the event that a call ix 'sxued for a tri-district convention, the dele gates will meet tonight and tomorrow to elect delegates to the gathering in which the rank and file of the union will voice its approyal or disapproval j of the new contract, i Agreement Reoched at 1:47. Philadelphia, Feb. 12.—OP)—Final agreement for ending the anthracite strike was reached here today at 1:47 p. m. The following official announcement was made: “A meeting of the anthracite con ference attentative agreement was adopted. This agreement will be submitted to the tri-district conven tion for approval after which a con tract Will be formally executed by both parties.” Tlie convention will be held in Scranton beginning Tuesday morning. The mine workers will rexumework within ten days and it is expected the peuk of production will be resumed by the end of the month. Briefly the terms are as follows: Work to be resumed at once under old contract, subject to certain mod ifications, and remain in effect until August 31st. 1020. Once a year each party may after January 1, 1027, propose modification in the wage scale. A board is provided for which shall be obligated within 90 days after ap pointment to arrive at a decision on nil issues in connection with wage ad justments. “To that end the bonrd shall for mulate its own rules and methods of proceedure, and may enlarge the board to an odd number in which event a majority vote shall be binding." On the checkoff the agreement says : "The demands of the operators ami mine workers on the quextiou of co- W'XSi Mara of conciliation, exclus ive ot the umpire which shall work out a reciprocal program of co-opera tion and efficiency." After the settlement was announc ed, John L. Lewis, president of tly United Mine Workers, issued a state ment In which he said. “The settlement Is satisfactory and eorietructlve. It assures stability and continuous operation for a five-year period which is the longest agreement ever mWe in the. coal industry. “It'does not contain,” Mr. Lewis safd, “the principle of arbitration for which the operators have been con tending, but it does provide machinery for the exercise of reason in the in dustry. “Under the agfeement the board of copeiliation ifc given broad powers as a stabilising agency and is instructed to work out. a reciprocal program of co-operation and efficiency which will result in a greater degree of harmony between the operators and miners.” MR. EDISON OBSERVES HIS 79TH ANNIVERSARY Electrical Wizard Says Ha is Really About 190 Years Old Based on Work Done. Fort Myers, Fla., Feb. 11.— Thomas. A. Edison celebrated his 70th birthday today but told news paper men who bombarded him with questiona tbnt he was really about 120 years old. ~‘l’ve been working two shifts uxfet of my life,” he explained. "Lots of other men work two shifts, too, but devote one to poker.” Mr. Ediaon admitted that he is getting seven hours sleep a day now and intimated that the tale of sleep ing only four hours out of every 24 was more or less myth. He didn’t come right out and deny it, but told a story about a reported who visited him one evening and asked for au interview. The newspaperman was told to come around the next day “as early as you please.” He came at eight and found Mr. Edison sleep- W- Awakened at 11, the inventor received the reported and was asked glse to do but sleep.” “But that was during a vacation” aaid Mr. Edison defensively. “So is this. There doesn't seem to be much else to do but sleep. The electrical wizard was in ro bust health and an amiable mood as he met reporters in the tropical gnr den of his estate. He readily an swered the rapid fire questions sub mitted to him, often with a twinkle fat his eye. , There never was a momont’s hesi tancy in expressing his opinion, no | matter on what subject. He was em phatic in his ideas' on religion, Wil liam Mitchell, the teachings of the late William Jennings Bryan, Henry Ford’s o’d, fashioned dancing fad, Luther Burbank's religious pro nouncement, prohbltion, jasz music, the poasibilitiea of Florida and the educational standards of the coun- r ~- The arrival of the jubilee year of ' the Brjtish Royal Sanitary Institute ■ is a reminder that wotden have been > admitted to its membership almost i from tad start, one of the first hav '! lng been Florence Nightingale. i CONCORD,N. C„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 1926 -* ; FIVE YEAR CONTRACT WILL BE NEGOTIATED ,i ■ : Men Will Return to Work at Same Wages That Prevailed When Strike Was Called. CAN ASK LATER FOR ADJUSTMENT Either Side Can Ask for Changes in Wage Sched ule at Any Time During Next Five Years. Washington, Feb. 12.—OP)—Gov. . Pinehot'S announcement in Harrisburg that the coal strike has been settled was declared by Secretary Davis of the Labor Department to be “entirely correct." “The announcenieut that the strike is settled is entirely correct,” said Sec retary Davis, “mid since it seems to have become a public matter we can say something about the terms. “The contract is for five years, wages to continue at their present lev el, with a provision for an opeuing of Negotiations within the industry when ever either side desires such reopen ing. “There is also some arrangement for the collection of dues for the un ion, the exact details of which is not clear in my memory. “As to the method by which an agreement of the terms of the wage scale is'to be brought about, should the industrial representatives fail among themselves to agree, I cannot say at this time. But so ns to speak, the Issue of arbitration seems to have been laid aside. “There has been considerable diffi culty in obtaining the necessary meet ing between the principles who speak for operators, and miners in the nee- , way .bn. fe “There has been considerable diffi culty in obtaining the necessary meet ing between the prinei|>als who Rpenk for operators, and miners in the nec , essarily quiet way. that lias been adopted. We thought for a time that John L. Lewis, president of the min ers union, and Hugh C. Kerwin di rector of the mediation division of the Labor Oepartcaeut i together with James Dewey and Hyxvel Davis, agents assisting him, should all have been lost in a snowstorm outside of Hazelton. But the event proved to be lets serious when we finally got the party at the necessary spot. “The nights get pretty dark during the snow storms up iu Pennsylvania.” With Our Advertisers. “The Girl From Childs” will be giv eu at. the .Y. M, C. A. Theatre aE Kan napolis Monday Night, Feb. 15th. The Shannon Plnyers are there for three days. See ad. elsewhere. Springtime nt Sanitary Grocery— a complete line of fresh vegetables. At the Concord Theatre one night only, February 17th —John R. Van Arnam’s Minstrels. This troupe con ! sists of thirty all-white stars. See ad. Read the ad. of Hoover’s about the . lesson taken from Lincoln many years i ago. Schloss suits $35 to SSO. New pumps nt $3.95 to $9.00 at i Ivey’s. See the ad. today for deserip : tion. New Stetson hats for spring—s4.so 1 to SB.O0 —at Richmond-Flowe Co.’s. 1 Watch their window. Everything is included in the big February Sale at Efird’s which be [ gan this morning. Go and get your share of the bargains. Introducing smartly styled footwear ; at $3.95, $4.95 and $5.95, the Mnrk j son shoe store has advance spring ■ patterns in variety. Bee ad. today. Abraham Lincoln said: “Teach , economy—”. See the remainder of the , quotation in the ad. of the Citizens , Bank and Trust Co. Efird’s February Sale is now going . on. Everything reduced. Don’t m-'ss I 1‘- ’ Governor McLean Acte to Aid i Families of Mob Members. > Raleigh, Feb- 11.—Governor Mc- Lean today wrote Mayor J. H. - Cathey, of ARhevilie, asking him to s ihake an investigation to learn if any -of the families of the fifteen men - on whom prison sentences were im - posed for storming the Buncombe e County jail and to whom the Gov ernor yesterday declined executive - clemency, are likely to suffer as a re o suit of the incarceration of the male - members of the families. In cases where there is likely to e be suffering the Governor asked f Mayor Cathey to call to his aid the I, local relief organizations. And if >- mayor' finds the needs of the tamilies -, cannot be taken care of locally, he e la asked to report the matter to - Governor McLean in order that he may undertake to aid in rendering assistance. f e The present year marks the silver n jubilee of the Boston Red Sox, the t Hub team haying entered the Ameri -- can League In 1901, the second year of the league’s existence. MayKur^^ mm WtmmA*™ w p* ' / J Copyright by Harris Sc Ewing. Mr*. John B. Raker, widow of the late Congressman Raker of Califor nia, may run to succeed him in the house of representatives, according to reports at Washington. MESSER GETS 18 YEARS IN PEN, MANSLAUGHTER 1 Haywcpd County Man Convicted -In j Connection With Slaying of His i Wife. Waynesville, Feb., 11.—Guilty of manslaughter was the verdict re turned here Wednesday by the jury in the case of Melvin Messer, charged with the murder of his wife on Janu ary 17th. Immediately after the foreman of the jury '.tad announced the verdict Judge John M. Oglesby, of Concord, sentenced Messer to serve IS years at hard labor at the State penitentiary. The jury had been out nearly 24 hours. Iu sentencing Messer Judge Ogles by stated thut he would not give the defendant the full penalty allowed by law for manslaughter, but on account tof the advanced age of the prisoner), woulu sentence dim to 18 years. Tlw law fixes 25 years as a maximum. Messer contended that his wife fell while in an intoxicated condition, re turning from their son’s home late at night striking her head against a sharp rock. The prosecution, how ever, arrested that Mrs. Messer came to her death at the hands of her husband. After the jury had been dismissed Messer was taken back to Haywood county jail preparatory to th jeruo.. ney to Raleigh, to begin his sentence. His attorneys filed notiee of appeal but later said they did not believe the appeal would be taken. 19,990,436 Motor Cars Operated in America. Washington, Feb. 12.—The world had 25,973,928 uutomotve vehicles in operation January 1. Commerce De partment figures, compiled us the re sult of a world-wide census, dis closed the total i» 3,27V,900 in ex cess of that for the year before- While the United States pre dominated overwhelmingly in auto motive vehicles in operation, with 19,999,430, other countries were be coming more important factors. Great Britain had 1,474,573 ma chines running, France 855.000, Canada 727.594, Germany 539,830, Italy 184,700, Argentina 181230, Brazil 64,950 and Russia 18,500. Apparently the country where the automobile is least desired is Tibet, for the search disclosed only one machine there, a motorcycle. The January 1 total for passenger oars was 20,799,151, against 18,578,- 750 the previorus" years. New Stamp for Air Mall. Washington, D. C., Feb. 12.— A new 10-cent air mail stamp will be placed on sale tomorrow. It is print ed in blue ink, the central design representing a map of the United States, showing some of the rivers and mountain ranges. On each side is au airplane in flight, one traveling east and the other west. Across the top of the stamp in w’liite Roman letters arc the words, “United States Postage,” with the word, "Air Mail” beneath. At the bottom of the stamp in shaded letters is the word “cents” and in both lower corners are the white numerals “10.”’ The stamp will first be placed on sale at t’lie post offices in Detroit. Dearborn, Chi cago, Cleveland and Washington. I>. C. It will also be on sale at the Philatelic Agency, division of stamps, post office department, for the benefit of stamp collectors, and dealers. Tonight 8:15 ‘The Gondoliers” i j —at— l High School s Auditorium 1 -L H,r MUCH INTEREST IS AROUSED IN SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION | Another Large Crowd Was 1 Present For Second Ses sion of Convenion Here Thursday Evening. THREE SPEECHES WERE DELIVERED Various Subjects of Liter est to Sunday School Workers Discussed Dur- I ing the Convention. j “Some Little Things that Make a Ilig Difference," was the subject of nu address delivered b.v 1). \V. Sims, of Jtnleigh, at Thursday night's ses sion of the Concord Sunday School Institute at Forest Hill Methodist Church. According to Mr. Sims, the Sunday Schools that are doing the most effective work are those that are giving due attention to the “little things" that are vital to the success of the work. The following are some of the suggestions mnde b.v the speak er concerning what he termed “the little things" that make a big differ ence. "First, have an attractive meeting place. If the Sunday School is to be made a place where people like to go. the room must be made as at tractive as possible. I.ittle touches, such as pictures on the wall, flowers, i uud so on. all help to make the Sun j day School attractive. Attention j should also be paid to the outside ap pearance of the building, well kept j grounds ami flower beds help to make the outside building attractive. The Church has a right to be the most attractive place in the community. "Second, have an attractive pro gram. No Sunday school can do the most effective work if the program each Sunday is carried out in exact ly the same way. The programs should be worshipful, but at the same time they should be varied, different themes being emphasized from Sun day to Sunday. “Third, have blackboards for use in each class. One of the greatest aids to tile Sunday school teacher is the blackboard. It is said that we learn K| Piore by seeing than we dd by hear ing. and that we remember longer the things we see than we do the things we hear. This fact makes the blackboards an .indispensable neces sity to the Sunday school teacher. Fourth, , begin the sessions on time. Wait for no one. Begin with those that are there when the open ing hour arrives." Frank D. Getty, of Philadelphia, gave a very interesting address on the importance of having an adequate program for the young people in the church, his subject was: “A Com plete Program for Young People in the Church.” Mr. Getty said: "The Church must carry joint re sponsibility with the home and the school for developing worthwhile character in young people. The cit izens of tomorrow are to be found in the young people of today and the church must help to train a Christian citizenship. Tob many homes are turning the responsibility for charac ter building over to the church and school and the schools are doing very little along this line, and the church es are Just awakening to their oppor tunity. “The Church must provide a cur riculum and program which will be both attractive and effective. It must be based on the needs existing ill the lives of young people rather than an archaic ideas existing in the minds of adults. The greatest need in the lives of young people today is the working knowledge of God. “The Church can help young people to know God through a program of worship. The church has never made adequate use of such materials as music, scripture, prayer, pictures, etc. The Church must also provide a more complete course of study than lias ev . er existed in the past. Among the . subjects which should be offered for , the training of young people in the i eliureh are: The Bible, Missions, The i Church, Stewardship, Evangelism, Vo . cations, Social Relatioiishiiw, Health - and Hygiene and Christian Citizen < ship. Following the worship and i study the young people should have a i natural desire and should find oppor -1 tunity for Christian service. This i service should start wherever young ’ people are and should go into the . whole world for Christianity should > have no horizons. Recreation ■ should qlso have a large place in the - curriculum of the church. This part of the program should include those ■ things which develops the cultural , side of the individual, and may include t activities curried on alone or i in groups such as reading, music, drama athletics, parties and entertainments.” Miss Flora Davis, of Raleigh, spoke 1 on the'subject, "The Child —the Great -1 est Responsibility of the Home and 4 the Sunday School.” In connection j with tho responsibility of the home, : Miss Davis emphasized the importance • of the child receiving religious in strnction from its parents, and the : great need of more careful supervision j of the reading matter placed in the ! hands of the boys and girls. Speak ing of the Bunday School Miss Davis urged the importance of giving the children the best places in the church for their . meeting places, giving them graded instruction, and trained teach ers. The closing session of the institute will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock. When Nashville Had a Blue Sunday P r s » f|| % 1 jlWgpr M Nashville. Tenn.. was hermetically sealed over Sunday wnen Sheriff Bob Briley (right) enforced nil the blue laws up to the hilt. Sixteen war rants were served on shoe shining parlors, taxi lines, news stands cigar stores and on the Sunday newspapers. Photo shows the sheriff serving a warrant ordering the closing of a shoe shining stand. BURTON WILL BE TAKEN | BACK TO NEW YORK Lawyer Employed in Florida Has Withdrawn From Case and Burton Will Not Fight Extradition. Miami, Fla., Fem. 12. —OP)—C. O. Burton, said by Miami police and New York state troopers to be Fred erick G. Beale, wanted in Hancock, N. Y., for grave robbing, will be returned to face charges, it was learned today. , Announcement was made that Bur ton's attorney here had withdrawn from the ease ami would not resist the extradition granted at tie state capital yesterdnp. Burton, whom authorities say is the man wanted for the attempted in surance fraud in which a body was placed under Beale’s overturned auto mobile and the wreck, fired, would make no comment when informed that he was to be returned to New York. Burton is held in jail under a $2,- 000 bond. ' -• TO WORRY LONDON Italian Premier’s Anti- German Speech is Play to Gallery, Di plomats Believes. London, Feb. 12. —Premier Musso lini's anti-German speech is not being taken seriously in diplomatic quarters here, but is considered merely ns a .play to the Italian gal ley. It is regretted that it is liable to embitter German opinion on the eve of that nation's application for admittance to the League of Nations, and the Evening Stnr even says: “It is a flat repudiation of the spirit of the League and defiance in advance of its right to take out of the hands of its members the danger ous power to dec’,an' war or act so aggressively us to provoke war. It is, in short, a definance of the League as gross as the Italian action at Corfu - ’ , The Morning Post hopes “this out spoken and energetic pronouncement will bring to their senses persons concerned in this campaign against Italy'.” ' Big Reductions in Ford Prices Effective February lltli a big re duction in prices on Fords was made The reductions are as follows on closed cards: Tudor, $520; old price SSBO. Coupe, $500; old price, $520. Fordor, $505; old price, SOOO. The new price on touring cars is $3lO and on the runabout S2OO. Sturter and demountable rims, SBS extra. The prices on tractors, car and truck chassis remain unchanged. All prices f. o. b. Detroit. Fish Dio of Hunger in Artificial Lake. Decatur, 111., Feb. 12.—Are fish in Luke Decatur starving to death? Oi ls it some strange malady that is playing havoc among them? At any rate, the finny fellows are dying by hundred* of thousands and the surface of the lake is literally covered with them. As the lake is an artificial one and has not been built long enough to de velop aquatic vegetation, municipal action may be taken to correct this and save the fish. Some believe the mortality was lack of oxygen. Piscatorial experts will be summoned to this city to investigate. and the following program will be carried out: Friday night, February 12th, J. E. ■ Davis presiding. 7:Bos—Song. 1 Scripture Reading and Prayer— Rev. R. M. Courtney, pastor Central Methodist Church. Song. 7:4o —The Adult Bible Class Or ‘ ganized for Service—Miss Flora Dav > it. B:lo—Evangelism For and By the Young People—Frank D. Getty, i B:4o—Song. ! B:so — Plans and Programs for Suc i cessful Workers’ Councils —D. W. i Sims. 0:20 —Offering for Support of the North Carolina Sunday School Asso ; elation./ B:3o—Adjourn. NO.-a§i| I HAIR MARKET HIT BY BOBBING WAVE Monopoly Long Held by Natives of China ami India Has Been Upset. Los Angeles. Feb. 12.—The bob lmired flapper has created a market upset and. as a result, the natives of China and India, who have held a virtual monopoly in materials for America’s wigs and toupes, may yet be forced to compete for a place in the mattress trade. For this city, a center of hair buy ing in the United States, announces the hair for wigs and make-up now sells for more than a third less than in the days before the bob. The bob works two ways on the market. First, many bobbed tresses find their way into wigs and more of them into toupes; secondly, the wide spread trimming of feminine locks has lessened the demand for switches, transformations, falst curls and many of tlie other more or less successful artifices employed by the fair sex! As the general market for hair shrinks, however.’ file demand oon tinues undiminished Zn motion pie turedom. Bales of it are used by actresses for their make-up. There are few who do not at times have re course to wigs. This is largely due to the fact that many of them have been shorn yet must take parts in pictures with settings of twenty years ago. Many, too, wear wigs to pro tect their own locks from the strong light used in picture making and which is said to “burn up" the nat ural tresses, unless protected. Tlie reduction in the cost of hair is true saving for one oetress whose roll calls for more wigs than prob ably any other cinema performer. Her wigs cost her as much as SSOO, even under reduced prices. Ernest Torrence, who uses numer ous beards, mustaches and similar fa cial adornments, gains but indirectly, because "hair” used in making false beards is not hair but a fibre grown in Australia. Applied to the face in minature strands it photographs better than real hair. Toupes. say Los Angeles dealers, reflect only in part the reduced hair cost, sinoe the workmanship in a toupe accounts for a great deal of he cost. MEXICO NATIONALIZES PROPERTY OF CHURCH Newspapers Speculating What Will Be Done With Priests Hell in Custody. Mexico, City, J*bb. 11—Newspaper here estimate that/ 10 or 15 priests have been taken into custody in con nection with the movement for the nationalization of all property of the Catholic church in Mexico. The authorities are silent, and the newspapers are speculating as to whether ihe priests will be deported. The Mexican constitution requires that priests and ministers of all de nominations shall be native born Mexican citizens, prohibits any poli tical activjty whether by clericals, forbids church ownership of real es tate or properties.and declares that all such, including land and church buildings are the property of the nation. Briand Demands Vo.’p of Confidence. ! Paris, Febf. 12—(A?) —Premier Bri nnd called on tlie Chamber of Depu ties to vote confidence in his govern ; ment this afternon. Demanding re jection of the inheritance taxes pro posed by the left cartel, the Premier announced that the vote would involve the question of confidence in the min istry. 1 Four Negroes Electrocuted. Little Rook, Ark., Feb. 12.—(AP)— Cephas Johnson, Isham Jones, John . Cannaday and Clinton Mason, ne - groes were executed at the State pris on here teday for the murder last > summer of J. M. Moore, aged Ouchita | county merchant. - Will Act on Germany’s Application. . j Geneva, Feb. 12.—(A*)—The league of nations council at Its special ses -6 sion today convoked an extraordinary - league assembly for March 8 to act I on Germany's application for member I ship. THE TRIBUNE PRINTS TODAY’S NEWS TODAY 11 * TRIBUTE TODIV T 5. LINUS Ml -..JIT MIN# Tribute Paid to the Fonti* er President as World Figures of History and Ideal of Millions. MANY ADDRESSES . I DURING THE DAY Part of Program Arranged For Celebration of 117th Birthday Anniversary of Noted Statesman. Chicago. Feb. 12.-*— (A 3 ) — Tribute to Abraliam Lincoln as a world figure of 'history and tho ideal of millions, was paid throughout the nation today on the Jl7th anniversary of his birth. Lincoln, the emancipator, the Pres ident and statesman, was honored in commemorative siieeches ajid services, nor were these confined to the section which gave him living its support. Texas for the first time :n history ’closed its state house at the request of Governor Miriam A. Ferguson to observe his birthday as a holiday. Charlotte. Feb. 12.— (A 3 )—The 117th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln was today being observed in tlie public schools of North Carolina with brief exercises. While the day was not a holiday many chapel speak ers were on the programs of the day, and mention was made in tribute to him. Lincoln's Gettersburg Speech. Four score and seven years ago cur fathers brought forth an this continent a new nation, ■conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the propo sition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that na tion, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have met to dedicate a por tion of it. as a final resting place for those who here gavo their lives that that nation might live. It is alto gether fittng and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate— we can not hallow— this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here havd consecrated ft""* fur above our [wor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here; but it can never forget phat they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far so nobly carried on. It to rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last fu'.l measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have'd new birth of freedom—and that the gov ernment of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. NATIONAL BANKS IN NEW YORK ARE MERGED Chase National Bank and Merchants and Metals National Bank Fora Merger. New York, Feb. 13, — (A 3 )—One of the largest banking mergers in Amer ican history, that of the CliMe Na* tional Bank and the Merchants & Metals National Bank, involving re sources of over $1,000,000,000 is an nounced. Approval of the stockhold ers who met March 18th will complete the merger. T’iie amalgamated bank to be"known as the Chase Bank will be second on ly to the National City Bank among the finaneiol institutions of the coun try. The new Chase National resources of $1,025,943.0000 will compare with the National City's $1,275,033,000, statement as of December 31st show. Wants Russia at Arms Conference. Geneva, Feb. 12.— (A 3 ) —France will insist that the disarmament prepara tory commission meet in a place which will insure the participation of Soviet Russia, the newspaper'men were told today by French Ambassador Jean Hennessy, prior to the opening of the special session of the league of na tions council. James A. Henderson Dead. Charlotte, Feb. 12.-— (A 3 ) —James A. Henderson, local druggist, and well known throughout tlie state, died at a hospital here early today following ah extended illness. SAT’S BEAR SAYSI ■ .. , Increasing cloudiness and warmer r tonight; Saturday cloudy and much t warmer, probably light rain in ex treme west portion. Increasing southerly winds.