I - ‘ - [volume xxvi RobertTOutlines The Case Against Men Who Negotiated Oil Lease ' '■ Opens Trial of Albert Fall and Edward L. Dohney, Charged by Government With Conspiracy. TALKS ABOUT CASH •GIVEN BY DOItENY Points Outsat Fall Had New Ruling so He Could Handle Lease of Gov ernment Property. Washington, Xov. 23 OW—Before n jury that remains under guard until it renclicH a verdirt, the • Keder.il gov ernment today began to unfold the ev idence upon which it hopes to con vict Albert H. Kail and Edward L. J-h.lteny of criminal conspiracy in ex ploitation of the nation's oil re sources. j t)wen J. Roberts, of Philadelphia, opened for the government with a re view of the negotiators that led up to the leasing of the Elk Hill oil re; serve to the Dolteny interests, while Pall was Secretary of the Interior, lie contended that the SIOO,OOO seiit by Doheny to Pall in a little blaek satchel was a part of the conspiracy charged against the defendants. As during the examination of pros pective jurymen yesterday, the former Interior Secretary and the oi{ mag nate, friends for many years and once prospectors together in the wast. sat near together and listened tensely so evi ry word. 'Hie opening preliminaries today prnrecdiid peacefully enough after the dash of yesterday afternoon over whether the jury should be kept un der guard. Justice Hochling granted Hie government's motion for a lock ed op jury.. This morning the Justice called at tention to the rule p- uiif-dig only one ot counsel on either side to exam ine a wilne-s, and onh’ two on each side to argil- the easel Roberts reviewer! the legal steps which led to the original establish ment of the naval oil reper,••*. The act if 11)20, he said, spi'cjijflgJly took these icserver ont of the bauds of the Interior JV-purtment and placed tliem cwdrol of the Navy, but a ee- IransfcrVVvpr made by IRS*. slgiHsl “'Secretary Vail had been in charge of the reserves only a short lime,” Roberts mill, "when he suggested to Secretary Uenhy of the Navy that He could work out a plan whereby royal ty oil could be used for storage. Sec retary Denby approved the plan, but later he wrote a letter saying their should he no drilling except to offset wells on the edge of the California reserve.” , _ Roberts adder) that while negotia tions for the contract between Doheny and Pall were on for the I‘enrl Har bor storage contract, Kail asked Do heny for $100,000: “Doheny caused his son to draw SIOO,OOO front his bank account in bills of large denomination and to bring it’ here to Pall, who gave his demand note,” continued the govern ment attorney, a “The whole transac tion was shrouded in secrecy. Pall took the money in cash to El Paso, where he paid over most of it to pur chase a ranch ndjoitiing his own. at Three Rivers, New Mexico." The expenditure became known t» (lie senate committee, said Roberts and Pall "did not tell the truth nboitt It but tried in every way tn conceal it.” ”\Ve shall show thnt three other companies declined to bill o'n jhe stor age tanks tacause they held it to be illegal," he added. “Despite th's and the opinion of the Solicitor of bis own department, and of the legal officers of the Department of Justice, Pall went ahead with the execution- of the contract." * With Oar Advertisers. Grapefruit, large siae, 10 cents each at the J. & H. Cash Store'. Many oth-. er things at proportionate prices. Thiir store will be open till 10 o’clock Wed nesday night. See ad. today on page seven. ' Phone your orders today or tomor row to tfce Cabarrus Cash Grocery 00. The store will be all day Thursday. W. A..Overcash has a atore full of Christmas presents for men. Make your'selections early. See the new ads today of the E. 1,. Morrison Lumber Co. Phone OTO. Wlutt could be more appropriate as a Christmas present from dad to the family than a Prigidaire? Bee atf. of the Standard liuiek Co. Dine at Ritchie's Case Thanksgiv ing and give your wife a rest and a good dinner. New case at jjomer of Union nnd Depot streets. “THE GEORGIA CYCLONE” —IN— . Schools and Fools Tonight High School Au ditorium Admission 25c and 90c Auspices Athletic Asso- j ciation Music by High School Orchestra ' —■■■ - i spfp ••. . - The Concord Daily Tribune - North Carolina’s. Leading Small City Daily i ' ' . r _- r J 1 MAKING many inquiries , ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA 1 Many Schools in OtherT-tS-'M Make a | Pperia' Study of This State. i TKhiinc finnan. . , Sir Wn’ter Hotel. [ r Raleigh. Nov. 23—That North! . Carolina's progress ha* some strong j admiretM aming nowspupem in neigh- j ■ boring States Wm- pointed out in a ! J le ‘or received by the State Depart- I | merit of Agriep'ture. The writer.' now • resident of Atlanta, stated j lhat he was born mid reared in i Smith Carolina, lie said he had read j w inueli in newspapers about North | i Carolina's rapid strides that he has ’ I wanted to get more data on the sub -jrs-t and was writing for some bnllc tins issued by she Depart menl. The writer cone 'tilled bis letter l»y stating that the Gcoygia nenspapein • were continually referring to North OgroWna as a remarkable Stare and that the texts far their good roads sermons are invarinb'.v taken from ■ North Carolina’s action in providing ' an adequate State highway system. 1 It was stated at the Department of ’ Agioiilture that numerous schools in ' viwious sections of the country we-o making a special istndy of the geography and products' of North Cnrr.liha. ns shown by the many let ters that are received from pupils. Many of these pupils are requesting North Carolina maps, while others - have asked for actual samples of North Carolina products to use in project work. SHERIFF CONTROVERSY PENDING IN CHARLOTTE Trouhk Comes Over Tax CoHerthms —Pharr Considers Entering Race for Congress. Charlotte. Nov. 22. — Rumbling of a war to the finish between Sheriff elect John R. Irwin, who takes of fice December 6. and Sheriff W. O. Cochran, who gives up the office oil thnt date, over the question qf col lecting Charlotte, township taxes i were beard here today and indica tions were that the issue may lie taken into the courts for a spirited legal battle. The sheriff is tax collector tor Charlotte township, deriving a great er part of hip pay from commissions op tag eoUeetions. The tax books . -wm MtM*. Ml*. Irwin when he- taken office, con tending that ho has the right to com plete collection of this yeatlr taxes. Mr. Irwin. it was said, will do; inn ml surrender of the tax boos* to hltn and todftv it was expected thnt n real legal battle will be waged on this point. s , Tbe sheriff in Mecklenburg county i.r paid by fees and. as stated above n large portion of bis pay comes in the form of Commissions on tax eol- ; ’eettona in Charlotte township. The income from commissions on tax coi-! lections In the township-is said to ex ceed $15,000 per year. In this con- , nection it has been Mid that the , sheriff of Mecklenburg county is the highest, paid civil officer in, the state. This’ is the first time the tax book question has come up. It is said that the custom has been -for the out going sheriff to turn over the tax books to his successor in December. 1 Edgar Pharr, former speaker of 1 the North Carolina house of repro- 1 sentatives is considering running fqr J Congress from the ninth district in 1 1028. it bacame known here today. 1 Mr. Pharr made known J)is position ! following an announcement that Soli-, cltor John G. Carpenter, of Gastonia.' 1 is planning to enter the raeo in oppo sition to Major A. L. Bulwinkle in cumbent. —— Sentenced to Go to Church Every : Sunday For Two Yearn. 1 Charlotte, Nov. 22.—L. L. Her- i tin, North Carolina youth, must go ' to ehureh every Sunday for the next - two years. 1 Herrin received this sentence in Superior court here today in addi tion to paying a fine of SIOO nnd costs for driving an antotnuoile Mlc Intoxicated. “You caa’t help getting a little re- , iigion in that time,” Judge R. Lee Wright told Herrin “lf you don’t want to go to church nnd o bring this court a written at-1 tendance report from your minister, you may take the other alternative any time you see fit. It is a sen tence of six months on the roads." Ca«»e Intends Tighten Hold on Guil fard Mills. Greensboro, Nov. 23—The Cone iu tererts here have purchased the •tock owned in the Revolution Ont ; *®n mills, of this city, by Mr*. E. Sternberger. of this city. She is president of the mill. Julius W. Cone, of this city, stated that Mm. Stern berger's stock bad been purchased, but the considera tion was,, net divulged. The Cone* , own the White Oak mills, Proximity «UUs and Poximity print works, all of this city, and the seal gives them Complete control of ail the cotton rniHa here except Pomona mills. Cackle Os Hen Sweet Music. , Memphis. Tean., Nov. 23.—During thM» times of low cotton prices tbe sweetest music -a fanner can bear is the cackle of a hen who has just done her duty. Bcss were selling/jit 23 cents u down earty this fall but today the whole price is 40 cents per doaen. Eggs am selling for 46 to SO cents a docen retail. Fanners in this section have been marketing many cases of eggs during i the past few week*- mn. ' Tells Foreign Minister Bri and He Does Not Want to Return to This Coun j try as Ambassador. I WANTS TO" GET BACK TO WORK Came Merely to Solve the Debt Problem and Feels j That Te Has Done All ' He Can in That Mission. Paris. Nov. 23.—08-Hcury l!e --migrr today declined renewal of his | appointment as ambassador to tliei United States. When notifies! by Foreign Mini-!er Rriaml nt the council of ministry* ] hud derided to renew Ills commission j for another six months. Berenger im mediately submitted a long letter in which he rocaHrd that he went to Washington to negotiate the debt funding aetlement. find added : ”1 ful filled the mission you entrusted to me." Berenger said he had accepted the appo'ntinent to his second six months' term in order to assist in ratification of the debt funding agreement, but now felt that his duty was done, and that lie ought to return to his place in the Senate. Hrinud, thanking him, for his ser vices. said he knew whnt his wishes were, but hoped to influence him to return to Washington. CHARGE GOVERNOR AND FRIENDS HAD LIQUOR Chief Executive of Alabama lo Ap pear in Court to Answer to Chargee. Bay Minrtte. Ala.. Nov. 23.—04*) Governor W. W. Brandon, of Alabama and u party eight friends were or dered to appear in eourt here today as the result of u raid last night on a fishing camp near Magnolia Springs, across the bay from Mobile, where more than a dozen quarts of liquor • were found in a room occupied by the state's chief executive. Sheriff Ram sey Stewart, of Baldwin County. w»* ta swear out a warrant charging the entire party will violation ptfrty were to he orM rnlgned in a Bay Minette court today, according to Sheriff Stewart. Tlie raid was conducted by a squad of deputies headed by Deputy Barney Williams, who had a search warrant. Those in the party with the Gov ernor: Atticus Muilin, of Montgom ery: Jack Daniels. David Castlenian. William T. t'astlomun, Charles I*. Anderson, Addison R. Smith, Carr McCormick, Joe H. Sutt.le and Will Heed, negro porter. According to the arresting officers the men were seated around a card table when the raid was made. Some of the liquor was found in a suit case, and- other bottles partly emptied were found around the room. According to Frank Barehard, edi tor of the Foley (Ala.) Onlooker, who was present when the raid was con ducted, declared that the governor characterized the raid as “merely tn embarrass” him and members of hit party. He was quoted by Editor Barehard as saying that if “the boys arc convicted all I can do is parole them." Belled Buzzard Reported From Near Pfafftown. "• Winston-Salem. Nov. 20. A. 11. Pfnff of the Pfafftown community, today reported he saw a belled buz zard near his home on Friday-. The bell was attached to the bird's neck and could be heard foT quite a dis tance ami the bird was flying low enough for Mr. Pfafftown to see it. The bird had several followers with it. Snow in Charlotte. Charlotte, Nov. 22, —A light snow fell here today. It melted as rapidly as it fell however. Ownership Will Have No Bearing on Liquor Auto Seizures, Says Court Washington, Nov. 22.—Automobiles siaed while engaged in the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor may be forfeited by the government, whether they are being operated by their owners or someone else, tbe Su preme Court ruled- today in deciding a case from Alabama involving one Ford coupe. There was sharp division in the court over the question whether the old internal revenue laws iinprosing taxes on the manufacture anil sale of liquor were in effect. Justices Mc- Reynoids, Sutherland and Butler joined in a vigorous dissent, contend ing that the manufacture and sale of liquor for beverage purposes bad been prohibited by the 18th amendment and that the old revenue laws taxing,4he manufacture and sale of beverage liquor had been inferentially repealed, by the prohibition jaw. Haw It Hits Credit Concerns. The importance of the issue arose ont of the assertion of the right to ualawfuly transport liquor. Manu facturers and automobile sales agent* were interested in the case. The coupe was being sold on the install ment plan by the Garth Motor Cota pany which claimed the right to re CONCORD, N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23,1926 FKML OF NOTED : inis editor is i SETFODFOIiM ■ Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney, of Memphis, Commercial Appeal, Will Be Buried in Memphis. ! WORKED ALWAYS J , p TO HELP SOUTH ■ Jew, Catholic and Protes i’; tant Always Found Him 1 1 Sincere Friend.—Many . j Messages of Sympathy. I Memphis. Tenn.. Nov. 23.—(/Pi— i! Funeral services for Charles Patr'ek i • | Joseph Mooney, managing editor of I jibe Commercial-Appeal;and president ] ■ | of the Commercial Publishing Co., wiU ; i lie held tomorrow morning at 10 j | o'clock with solemn requiem high mass at the church of the Immaculate i Conception. Until that time the body j , frill lie in it'll home here. Mr. Motley died yesterday morning | while Rentyff at his desk. He was a , victim of apoplexy. Tlie grief of the nation is being ex-! . pressed in a flood qf messages, edi torial comment in newspapers, and by j word of mouth to tlie bereaved family J and personal associates of the late e4-! itor. Seldom has the news of a death rocked the city of Memphis ns that which was broadcast yesterday telling of the passing of Mr. Mooney. Catholic, Jew nnd Protestant always found Mr. Mooney a sincere friend, the same to all, though he-adhered to the faith of his fathers. Roman Cath olic. and was a devout supporter of faith. His religious or personal ideas never predominated his editor !al coimuns. Everything Mr. Mooney did public ly was designed for the benefit of the Mouth. Never during liis life as a public servant has the South faced an emergency thnt he was not called into it in an advisory capacity. The most j recent of his southwide activities was ! when he was made chuirman of the Sonthwide cotton conference, held la Memphis, when lenders gathered to formulate plans for warding off fhr threatened cotton price crisis. .. JThe ‘%!»tib Bandit” Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 22. —A new’ criminal has been added to Memphis' unique lot of tingpprtficiided law vio lators. • He's the “club bandit.” A series of robberies, whore the vic tim was clubbed from behind and his pockets looted, have been reported to police. The “club bandit” has taken his plaee in the underworld, along with the sheik bandit, the shadow gang, the nude burglar, and foe petting party party shotgun artists. Police are seeking these, criminals. Tttr "i Values Wife’s Affections at $11.00!),- 000 New York. Nov. 23.—(AO—A mil lion ilollars is the value set upon his former wife’s affections by Charles Burnhan Squier. financier, who was divorced last May in Paris. He has filed an alienation suit for tifat amount against Hpraco Ray mond Paige, real estate dealer, whom Mrs. Squier married after her-divorce. Thread Cut By Broken Windshield. Washington, Npv. 20.—Ilis throat cut by a piece of broken windshield, t,igo Wooinrd, of Runyan, was al most instantly killed shortly after six tonight when he drove his auto mobile into a car parked on the side of a road a few miles from Here. He died without having regained consciousness while being carried to a hospital. Swift R Company Wins Point, Washington, Nov. 23.—OP)—The Federal Trade Commisaion lost its main contention today in a fight to curtail the purchase of additional packing plants by Swift tc Company in Alabama and Georgia. i cover it upon a showing of ownership I iiiql unauthorised use in liquor trans r portatlon. 1 The government was supported by ' a Majority of the eourt in its posi ■ tion that the old internal revenue [ taxes oh liquor remained in force un ■ der prohibition and that it was im material ia forfeiture proceedings, un ‘ der those laws, whether the machine ‘ was being used by its owner or some ! one else. Tbe opinion was handed F down by Justice Brandies. OM Law Repealed. r Justice Butler, delivering the dis - senting opinion, declared that the f 18th amendment hod made the nianu i feature for beverage purposes unlaw- I fill and, in effect, had repealed the i old internal revenue taxes upon ber s erage liquor. The minority insisted I, that automobiles seized while being used unlawfully in Uquor transiwrta tion must be proceeded against under ? the prohibition law whieh gives inno > cent owners an opportunity to recover - the ears upon proving that illegal^use * had been hnsuthorized. The minority * also pointed out that the court's rui - In* deprived owners of all opportunity - to recover their property when the - evidence showed unlawful nse. | Seven Escapes From Prison of Otto Wood; Three From North Carolina ji * . I Raleigh Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Nov. at.—Otto Wood, onc |j handed killer and jail breaker extra* [ ordinary who simply refuses to stay I behind prison bars, is agaift a fugi ‘ lirel „ | The slkyer of A. W. Kap'an. )! Greensboro pawnbroker, who has ee ; taped more tbah seyen times from ■ j penitentiaries in five states—three j. times from the North Carolina State prison l —is at large onee more. Al though no reports have been received S j yet of eornmandered automobiles and 1 1 fast rides through the night, such j | stories mt\y ,ve: be beard before Otto I (Wood is again captured, depite the ;.|s2so reward. For while Wood dis . Idaias the word "kii>r" ns applied to 1 him. and boasts that ill all his breaks for liberty fie has never been armed '| and that be depends upon bis brain j rather than brute force to effect his j escape,- is n dangerous man and one I who takes long chances. There are j some who still remember when Wood j j escaped from the Slate prison here about a year ago. and bow be com ma ndeered an automobile in east 1 1 ihirl am. !| Wood stopped t’.ie cab and its driv -1 er n little past midnight, climbed in ‘ and poking a gun into the driver’s ribs, ordered him to,"drive like hell” towards Greensboro. And the driver : did. Ilut he also begged for mercy, asking to go home to bis wife and children. "If yon had been home with your wife and children instend of being out in this section of town this time of uight, you would not have been both ' | errd by me,” Wood replied and the j man drove onward. And that is characteristic of Wood. He is always equal to any emergency and has the faculty of making one be lieve be is perfectly honest, no mat* 1 ter wbnt his eventual intentions may be. Otto was kept in solitary confine ment in "Donth Row” in the prison for nearly nine months after his re caprttre following his second escape about a year ago. The first six THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady at Decline of 1 to 3 Points, With Price Rallies Later. New-York, Nov. 23.— UP) —The cot i ton market opened steady today at a deleine of 1 to 3 points, active months showing net losses of 5 to 7 points 1 under a little southern hedge selling and near month liquidation in prepa ration for possible December notices tomorrow. Spot boase hrfikers were . buyers of December agsipgt sales of later - deliveries, however. While tne southern offerings here were light. Af ter selling off to 12 53 for January, prices rallied a few points on cover ing. Private cables said trade call ing and continental buying hud been offset by liquidation and hedging in ; Liverpool, and that yesterday’s big crop figures were cheeking business in cotton goods at Manchester. Cotton futures opened steady: Dec. 12.50: Jan. 12.57: March 12.77; May 13.0(1; July 13.10. STRONG DISLIKE FOR CHURCH HYPOCRITES College Students in Atlanta Terri tory Gives Opinions on the Church. Atlnnta, (la.. Nov. 22.—A hearty dislike for hypocrites ill the churches has been found by Dr. Will H. Houghton, pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle here. to predominate among col’ege students in the Atlan ta territory to whom he addressed r, questionnaire. “What is wrong with the mo.leri church ” was a question to which Dr. Houghton invited answer and lie told his congregation last night tbit the percentage of reference to hypo crites was remarkable. He said he believed there were not so many as were popularly supposed. Most college students are agnos tically inclined, one student informed hftn. and do not believe in a heaven or hell. Another described the pas tors as “ceremonialists who fail to reach youth." while still another complained that he “is ever slam ming us.” One reply commented that the av erage preacher should be more mod ern in the presentation of his :er tnons, while another said the trouble with the average preacher is s hat he Is not “a regular fellow.” Girls were not more Oonffdimch tar.v than boys.” The average preach-, er” said one, "is n carping, unthink ing hypocrite." Dr. Houghton approved many sug gestions included in the replies. "I ant not a Modernist at all in theo logy." he said. “but. I am in method. To be true in the faith it is not necessary to have the type of serv ice our grandfathers had. ft is not the charm of a place of amusement that attracts youth, but the lure of the unknown.” The Reason Why. Madrid. Nov. 23.— King Alfonso has to be sure of the loyalty of his troops during these uncertain times in Mad rid. The other day he stopped a sol dier and said: “You know who I am. Now tell me. if I ordered you to fire 1 on me. what would you do?" “I would obey orders, your Majesty.” Three other soldiers, on being ques -1 tioned, gave tbe same answer. The fifth, however, declared that he would I refuse. “Bravo, my boy!” said the King. “Here at last is a soldier who place* ’ his sovereign’s life above any of his commands. But just why wouldn’t ’ you fire?” “How could I. your Maj esty? lam a drummer,” was the reply Life is a sucMsMon of lessons, ‘ Which must be lived to be under* stood. rar.nf.is be stood it pretty well. He ienrneil t« p’a.v poker with himself, and then wrote his book, which he later published, and of which nearly ■ a thousand ■copies have been sob). This hook was in the nature of aft antßb.qf rupliy in which he gave the . history of his life and bow ’’he got ■ started in a life of crime. In the i preface Otto stated that lie was writ • ing it that his life might be a lesson ■ of warning to others. Despite the protest of Mr. Fou and I the other prison officials, t'.ic board I ordered Otto put to work in the boiler i room of the prison, believing he would i be fairly safe .there under the con ■ stanf guxe of the guard. And Otto was a good worker. Though his left i hand is severed at the wrist—shot off while hunting—he says he is almost as adept as a man with two good hands, and swings a mean sholvrl of coal. He is also mechanically in-; dined and soon developed into a good all ’round mechanic. Prison officials were beginning to wonder if after all, 1 they had not done him an injustice when— " Otto Wood can’t be found. He I must have escaped again.” This was the word taken to Mr. \ I’ou and I)r. Norman early Monday I morning. Their original fears and premonitions had been borne out. Tlte temptation had been too nmch 1 for him. As he had walked down to the boiler room every day. he had noticed the steel bars of the big gate in the rear wall. He had thought how sim ple it would be to go through that gate early some morning, if the guard j would only forget some night tfc re place the big iron pin in the slot on fop of the wall that holds it shut-r --and he kept on thinking. And tlint is just what happened! When Otto Started for the boiler room Monday morning, he did not go to the boiler room, but to t’.ie gate through it—and no one knows where he is now. He may have "hopped” a freight—or he may have been met 1 by a ear at some as yet undetermined point. TEXAS WOMAN TO RUN FOR VICE PRESIDENT Mrs. W’ifauans May Be a Candidate of National Woman’s Party. (By International News Service) Dallas. Texas. Nov. 23.—Mrs. Edith Wiimans, of Dallas, may be a can didate for tJic vice presidency of the United States in 1928. i - Mrs. Wiimans has been approached ! by officials of the National Woman’* : party, jtte says, with a view to hav ■ ing her cast her lot with ttem. Defeated Sir the Texas Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Mrs.' Wil man’s is one of the pioneer women officeholders of the Lone Star state. : She has the distinction of being the i first woman legislator to sit in the : lower House, ns representative from Dallas county in the thirty-eighth leg islature. "From my experience and observa tion from many years in the Demo cratic party,” Mrs. IVilliams said, "I have about come to the conviction that so long as women are in either the Republican or Democratic party, those parties will continue to be doini- 1 nated, at least to a considerable ex- j tent, by the masculine element.” Mrs. Wiimans charged that the two big parties are more concerned with the election of office-holders who could be controlled than with the principles upon which the parties are founded. Regarding her attitude toward join ing forces with the National Woman's party, Mrs. Wiimans said she had not made up her mind yet. Direct po litical activity by n woman's pprty. however, appeals to her, she says, and if (file does decide to enst her lot: with such a group it would mean that: ‘ she probably would be a candidate 1 of that party for a national office in 1028. MARINES IN SALISBURY* - TO GUARD THE MAILS Sent to Protect Mails From Bandits. Case Against Frank Brown Con- 1 tinned. * ! Salisbury. Nov. 22—Four marines, ] under command of Sergeant Monsop. of Norfolk, arrived here this morn ing to do duty in connection with protection of the mails. The November term of Superior rmirt. is in session with Judge P. A. MoE’roy iwesiding. What would have been the most important ease of the term, that against. Frank R. Brown in connection with the inil ure of the Perpetual Building and I stall association, was continued to the February term of court. Bum Millionaire Dead. Havana. Cuba, Nov. 23.—(A*)—Va cundo Bacardi, rum millionaire, is dead. He was 84 years old. Senor . Bacardi with his brother, Emilio. . founded the famous rum distilling com ' pany which bears their name. The , brother died a few years ago. The i two brothers through their business . ability rose from poverty to multi . millionaires. . Condition of Former Emperor Im proved^ Doom, Holland, Nov. 23.— UP) — ■ Hie condition of former Emperor ■ William, who has been confined to bed with what has been described as rheumatism, or a bad attakc of luffi . bago. is now such tliat he will be able i to leave bis bed when good weathet i sets in. This announcement was made t by Court Physician Rummurt this - morning. > —. About 200 Bwedish engineers and technical experts will serve the Boviet , | government in its different lines of •! industrial activity In response to a | Moscow invitation. EKPfRTSOtIY ft HMGEBPI jfei : MW' 1 .!? ; J. H. Taylor, of United) ! States Navy Fingerprint I , Bureau, Witness for De-! i sense in Hall-Mills Case, f CARD PRESENTED y jBY THE STATE! Card Was Found Near the ) Dead Bodies of Rector! and the Choir Singer.— Taylor Questioned. j Court House. Somerville, X, J. Nov. 23.—C P) —That the linger prim | on a calling card found near the body) of the Rev. Edward W.’ Hall and the ; finger print of Willie Stevens arc not ! the same was the tesf’mon;.’- of de fense fingiT print experts eniled in (lie Hail-Mills case today ,T. 11. Taylor, in charge of the U. 8. Navy linger ! i print bureau, asserted that the ptuiis ( were not made by the same jierson. , I Willie Stevens, on trial with ins I brother Henry, and sister, Mrs. Frnn , | ecs Stevens Hall, is .charge.! with the j murder of Mrs. Eleanor I{. Mills. ! | slain with the Rev. Mr. Hall, hns- I band of Mrs. Hall, and brmlier-in-law j of the other defendants. | The Navy expert was railed after a photographer had testified that In made enlarged photographs of the print on the calling card and of the , left indek finger of the defendant. State finger print experts had testified that the print on the card was that of Willie Stevens, Taylor was examined by Special prosecutor Alexander Simiwon as to his qualifications as an expert, wifu an improvised easel bearing greatly enlarged photographs of the two fing er prints. • The witness was asked if he had i examined the two finger prints and replied in the affirmative. - "Are they the same?” asked the former Attorney General Robert H. McCarter, ’conducting the direct ex amination. “They are not." replied the wit , ness. Taylor then took a position before I the easel with the long pointer used , previously by . feijtte counsel, to point! out. the eharsc teristics of Do Rosary’* Lane, -tinge*. . prints as shown on a reap pinned lb . the wall, and indicated the discrep ancies in the prints as he observed them. He said he found a blank in one and not in the other, a dot in one . was missing -in the other, and where one showed an abrupt ending of a ridge, there was a vacant space in the other. Cross examination went over until tomorrow. NOTHING HEARD SO FAR FROM PRISONER Otto Weed Seems to Have Succeeded This Time In Making Getaway. , Raleigh, Nov. 23.— (A>) —Apparently vanishing without leaving a trace, Ot to Wood, notorious criminal was still at \arge early this morning. Despite a drag net thrown out by central prison authorities, and a $250 reward which enlisted the aid of hundreds of county and municipal officers in the man hunt. Superintendent George Ross Pou and his aides at Stute prison ad mitted that they were baffled, and that twenty-four hours after his escape the Guilford county murderer appear -1 ed to have made a dean getaway. ! Wood, generally recognised as the , most colorful criminal ever held nt State prison, boasts a checkered co ree. Yesterday marked his third es ; cape from the prison. It was, bow ! ever, the most prosaic of the three. In his recently published book, the only volume ever issued from a cell | on death row, Wood declared that be fore he came to-the central prison in I 1923. be had been the object of three I man hunts. I — : > —; — i Negro Woman Slashes Her Way to Freedom. Memphis. Tenn.. Nov. 23.—A near , panic resulted in the downtown busi ness district of Memphis when a negress, who had been apprehend! d . by citixens after snatching a whit woman’s purse, whipped out a knife and slashed her way to freedom. I Two men were taken to hospitals for treatment for “knife wounds in ; flirted by the negroes. Several persons pursued the negres and summoned police. The negroes was overpowered ami j ■ arreected. She gave her name as Ola *; Montgomery and was charged with ’, larceny and assault with a knife. Government Wins Case. ’. Washington. Nov. 23.—)—The tj United • States 1 won ,in. the supreme i court today in its prosecution -of • manufacturers, contractors and union j carpenters in Chicago, on charges of ' criminally violating the anti-trust law *iby restra'ning interstate commerce in i mill work. r Left Bulk of Fortune to Tulmne. > New Orleans, Nov, 23.— UP) —The i residue of the $3,000,060 estate of - William Ratcllffe Irby, chairman of > (6e Canal Bank k Trust Company, r .who killed himself here Saturday, will s be given to Tulane University, under i conditions of his will, filed for probate. Wants MilitanTcontrol Withdrawn. I Berlin. Nov. 23.—0 W-Germany un t demands withdrawal of . _ “ 1 ' "'"Till THE TRIBUNE TODAY’S NEWS TOD^O NO. 276 * t’~£*sß3Mno|M Gov. McLean Will Takf § i I Positive Stand for Tlts| J Reform Before the Next * FOR UNIFORM ■Each Plan Should Contain | That Would Be More^|j j Raleigh Tribune Bureau;^ j j By J. C. in favor of legislation looking towutil better county government will fjg on by Governor A. W. McLean fhltlipM the coming session of the legtsb|3jHH Usually unwilling to make gny ato|Hg.|| ment regarding possible future and always reticent to still in a formative state, McLean did not hesitate to himself in favor of comity govern* ment reform, particularly with to a uniform system of accouuthjjp9H| fiscal control. ,fl Now that the counties collect |jlß|9 expend more money than any otheSßll single agency, it is highly important ”1 thar some uniform measures be enact ed by t’lie legislature in order to 'MpM sist the counties in performing ikjg , highly important work, the governor feels. Consequently that ndrUflf apl the report of tin- commission,,enJgptMl- i| t.v government which reoommwjijHOHL i| creation of a better fiscal system ft$ v |g county governments, will receive hw A whole hearted support when it vs tab- | en tip in the general assembly Governor McLean is not I pie. should do all it can to help ye- _va habilitate the present system of coup* "fj ty government which has far out- Jj grown the conditions for which it Wfts originally set up. That is why I atfi greatly interested in any measures yjjj that may be proposed relating to the, building up of a better system of cortlt*,jJg| ty government," the governor conclujfr’J® Tlte horse chestnut :•* so calttil ’i front the fact that the Greeks iMHH ' Turks used the seed for curtfijf : ' : i : glanders and other ailments THE WEATHER warmer toniffij^ll