ASSOCIATED
DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVI
DRV AOMINiSTRUDR
AND AID KIDNAPPED
minr
J. B. Matthews and Motor
Machinist’s Mate Report
ed Kidnapped by French
Rum “Runner.”
CUTTER GOES TO M
AID OF AGENT!
O. D. Jackson, Also Dry
Chieftain, Refuses to
Comment Until All the
Facts Are Known.
Mobile. Ala., Piv*. I.—OP)—Assist
ant probation administrator J. B.
Matthews, of New Orleans, and a chief
motor machinists mate from a patrol
boat of the Biloxi Miss., base been
kidnapped by a French auxiliary rum
runner, said a radio message received
lierc today. The coast guard cutter
Tallapoosa has gone in pursuit of the
rum runner, the message said. The
prohibition officer and guard had been
left on board the rum runner to
watch the vessel while the patrol boat
went after more fuel.
Refuses to Comment.
New Orleans. Deo. I.—OP)—O, D.
Jackson, administrator of the tenth
prohibition district, declined to com
ment on the reported kidnapping of
J. IV Matthews, assistant prohibition
administrator of New Orleans and 'a
chief motor machinist mate from a pa
trol boat of the Biloxi, Miss., base un
til official report is made to him.
Matthews was on n secret investiga
tion, according to Mr. Jackson.
Alleged “Runner” Captured
New Orleans. Dee. I.—OP)—The
French auxiliary schooner Aresene J.
was recaptured by government patrol
boats after a chase today, and is be
ing towed to New Orleans.
ROCK HILL TORNADO
PREDICTED BY “BISHOP"
Negroes There Were Surprised Only
That It Was a Little latte.
(By International News Service.!
t'harlotte, X. <\. The I.—Tornado
winds that, recently brought wreclt-
C., orea£e«Mit
so long in arriving.
For it was just recently that i
Bishop O. M. Grace. “Black Christ" j
of southern darkies, intimated there!
tat he won'd bring destruction upon
the little toyn that has refused his
ministrations.
Bishop Grace, lenving Charlotte
after a somewhat stormy career, at
tempted to gain a foothold in the
South Carolina town, but firm in
fluences there discouraged him. Rook
Hill citixens who said they were
members of the Ku Klux Klan, quot
ed Bishop Grace as asserting when
he left that town:
“I have brought disaster to places
where I was mistreated. I am un
afraid of any earthly bndy-y-Not even
a band of "
The Bishop did not finish his sen
tence. ’ but left his ]ie*rers wonder
ing what he meant-
Charlotte negroes now aver that
the answer lies in the devastating
storm that almost laid bare the tit
tle South Carolina town.
With Our Advertisers.
The big $230,000 Christmas drive
at the Parks-Belk Co.’s is now on. Go
and look at the better toys depart
ment on the second floor. You will
find in the bargain basempnt a final
clean up of all cotton goods, notions,
and men’s and boy’s clothing. All
sugar tickets now out must be cash
ed on or before January 1, 1027.
Only 10 rents for all at the Con
cord Theatre today. Family Day. Dor
othy Gish and Leon Erroll in “Clothes
Make the Pirate” i« the picture, and
it’s a good one. Thursday and Fri
day “The Four Horsement of the Ap
ocalypse,” with Rudolph Valentino and
Alice Terry. This picture has been
shown five times at Charlotte, but
only once in Coneord.
The Concord Vulcanising Co. are
expert tire repairers.
Read the new ad, today of Wrenn,
the Kannapolis dry cleaner.
Beautiful line of Christmas pres
ents at Cline's Pharmacy.
The J. C. Penney Co. buys for 74fi
stores and say they lead the world
in women’s-coats. Bee new ad. today.
Hookey has supplanted lacrosse ns
( thi national game of Canada.
r PAPPLEFOOT JONES
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3tffi>f>lNG,WOT SHOPPINC
} IS HIS GRIEF. |
iQI SHOPPING CAYS .
[CI SEPORE CHRISTMAS? ;
The Concord Daily Tribune
, v North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
[ ——- 1 -|
Rodgers at Bar |
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John J. (Bum) Rodsrerg, \
whoip a hundred thnllin
crimes were attributed, ap
pen red tneek and mild who
ffmtfs-ned in a New Yor)
court.
ROWAN RESIDENT HAS
MOST UNUSUAL WILL
His Estate Eventually to Be Sold and
Proceeds Used to Erect Clock Tow
er.
Salisbury, Nov. 30.—Clarence Wnin-j
wright Murphy, native rff Salisbury. I
who died a month ago ill Paris while
on n tour of rile world, left one of i
the most unusual wills ever offered I
for probate in Rowan county. He!
went into detail concerning the dispo- 1
hitlott of Us body-which was cremated
necordiag to his desires and the ashes I
’Wonglit ~..*i1; u> JlHta»CS6kao wto „-U- ,
even specified in ltis will who was to |
attend his burial and who was to'
] lake communion at bis funeral scr- j
I vice.
j Many beneficiaries were named so
jewelry and other personal property
but the income from his real estate
and other property he left to his broth
er, Captain Thomas Murphy, veteran
conductor on the Asheville division of
the Southern, and his sister, Mrs.
Susie M. Syle, of Gadsden, Ala.
Upon the death of one Cite entire
income is to go to the other and upon
the death of both all his property is
to be sold, and the proceeds used on
the construction of a stone clock tow
er to be erected in the center of the
city of Salisbury, if agreeable to the
city officials. Beneath this tower
Cfte ashes of Mr. Murphy and the re
mains of his immediate relatives are
to reitose. Description is given of '
certain details of the tower, and it
is further provided that if it is not
desired to build this tower that all
the moAey be expended in a mausole
um in the Salisbury cemetery, this to
boos marble and in the shape of
Mr. Mruphy’s Sigma Nu fraternity
pi if.
The estate is estimated to be worth
SIOO,OOO.
BERNHARDT CHAIR PLANT
AT LENOIR BURNS DOWN
Joe Kilts Believed to Have Perished
in Blase- Several Others Are Hurt.
Lenoir, Nov. 30.—One man proba
bly perished and six others were se
riously injured here late this after
noon at $323,000 fire which destroyed
the plant of the Bernhardt Chair com
pany. Os the 172 men at work in
the plant Joe King is the man who
has not been accounted for. Six
others, workers in the finishing de
partmerit, jumped from the fourth
story windows. Two of these, Floyd
Goble and Will Cressoii, are serious
ly injured. They are apparently suf
fering from injured spines which has
brought on ptfralysis. They are being
eared for in a local hospital.
The fire broke oat about 5 :15 this
afternoon. It is believed to have or
iginated from a short circuit in one
of the paint spray machines. This
caused an exploeion and within a few
moments the entire finishing depart
ment Was hi flames. Men working
in that department were forced to
jump from wipdows.
Within less than an hour and a half
the entire plant, one of the largest
furniture manufacturing plants in the
South, had burned to the ground. The
loss was conservatively estimated by
the owners at about $326,000 with
I about $260 ,00.in insurance.
Motor Busses In Egpt Replace
CmmAi on Bflrttff-
Within the shadow dt the Sphinx
1,008 motor busses are now traveling
back and forth serving the popula
tion which formerly depended on the
camel. Modern transportation W
making a bustling land ,of the coun
try once ruled by King Tut. Motor
vehicle equipment in* Egypt consists
of 8.891 private cam. 4,233 taxis,
1,583 trucks, in addition to busses,
as reported by the American Trade
Commissioner at Cairo to Walton
Schmidt, who in visiting the tana of
Cleopatra on behalf of the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce.
CONCORD, N. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1926
QUEEN H AND
ERRANT SON MEET
TO DISCUSS PLANS
Queen Lost No Time in j
Seeing Son Who Last
January Renounced His
j Right to Throne.
j RESTAURANT WAS
I WHERE THEY MET
j Queen Drove to Meeting
Place Which Is Located
| Near the Villa Occupied
j by Prince Carol.
! Baris, Dec. I.—Queen Marie, who'
I arrived nr ’midnight from her Ameri
can trip, lost no t : me today in get
ting in touch with her errant son, for
mer Crown I’rince Carol, who last
January renounced his right to suc
cession to the Roumanian throne.
She emerged from the Ritz hotel nt
10 o'clock this morning, entered u
taxi and was hoard Jo instruct the
driver to proceed to the Boulevard
Vinenu. in Neuilly.
This is the Ntreet on which Carol’s
villa is situated, but she did not call
there, meeting him instead in a private
room at a fashionable restaurant on
the edge of the Ilois de Bouiougne.
The chauffeur of the queen’s taxi
eluded the machines hastily comman
deered by ucwxiMiper men and made
a dean getawdy. The queen and
Caro! were not discovered by reporters
until 11:30 when their conference ter
minated.
Mhrie has decided tot leave for
Bucharest on the Simplon express at
8:33 o’clock .tonight, instead of wait
ing until Friday evening, as she had
first intended.
The servants attached to her suite J
were busy nt t'.ie hotel this morning -
caring for tlic luggage arriving from j
Cherbourg where the Queen debarked j
from the Berengnria yesterday.
| Marie planned to take luncheon else
where than the hotel, but no infor
| mation was forthcoming ns to who
i would be her host.
1 THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady at Decline of 2 to 5
I I’olßts With January Contracts osh
>'* nr ttferr. "!*-**H
I New York. Dec. I.—(A*)—The oot
-1 ton market opened steady today at
i a decline of 2 to 3 points under re
j newed Southern hedge selling appar
ently combined with further local and
Wall Street selling, promoted by rela
tively easy Liverpool cables and re
iterated reports of freer spot offer
ings in t'lie South.
January contracts sold off to 12.17
in the early trading, and March to
12.42, the general list showing de
clines o fabout (t to 9 points. Trade
interests were buyers on scale down j
orders, but demand from that source j
was less active than recently and the
prices were within a point or two of
the lowest at the end of the first
hour.
Private cables reported liquidation
of near months in Livertiool, with
some investment buying of distant po
sitions.
Cotton futures opened steady: Dee.
12.43: Jan. 12.22: March 12.46: May
12.70; July 12.8!).
THIEF AT DUKE GETS
AWAY DESPITE WATCH
Three Detectives, All Duke Officials
and 1,500 Students Can’t Halt the
Thievery.
Durham, Dec. I.—Despite the ef
forts of three detectives, nil the Duke
officials nnd 1,300 students to detect
the thieves, clothing continues to dis
appear from the men’s dormitories at
Duke University with alarming regu
larity. The announcement was made
a short time ago that more than sl.-
600 worth of clothing and personal
effects had been stolen within the last
two months, and that tbe continued
inroads of what is believed to be a
well-organized band of thieves is
causing considerable alarm.
The latest reisirt of the theft was
made Monday, when « student re
ported having lost his "Sunday bet”
just before he began to dress for a
date with his best girl. The result,
he said, was that tie was forced to
forego the pleasure of an evening in
the young lady's company,. “If some
thing isn’t done about it,” he asserts,
“the people of Durham willi rub their
eyes some morning when they see
whole groups of Duke students clothed
in sugar barrels.’’
Police in neighboring cities have
been requested to keep close watch
for stolen clottiing in pawn shops nnd
second hand stores.
The government receives nn aver
age of 52,000 letters a day asking and
volunteering information. The top
ics range from buried treasure to the
best diet for earthworms.
Dr.J. A. Shatters
ANNOUNCES
That he is now able to re
i sume his practice at his
offices
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FOUND IN DEBRIS
Os BURNED PLUT
[lt Is Known That Joe King,
21, Perished in the Fire]
Which Destroyed Bern
hardt Chair Factory. v !
SEVEN OTHERS IN
HOSPITALS TODAY!
They Were Burned or In-]
jured in Blaze Which i
Destroyed Plant.—Loses
Fixed at $325,000. 1 I
' Lenoir, Dec. I.—(A 3 )—The ctiarlcil.
skeleton of Joe King. 21 year old,? of j
Ilartland, was found among the wrack-,
age of the Bernhardt chair factory to-1
day. Seven other employees of the j
factory are in hospitals, as a rralilt
of a $325,000 fire which swept through
the building late yesterday, leveling
it to the ground.
Two of the seven men who juriffied
from die fourth story may die, physi
cians said today. They are': Floyd
Goble and Will Cresson. Gobel has
a broken back, and Cresson ha* a
fractured skull. The other five sus
tained minor injuries and burtufc.
The local Red Cross chnpter tojay
established headquarters in the Cham
ber of Commerce building, and bfljen
caring for the 172 workmen who were
thrown out of work, and their f«m
ilies. The fire started nbont 5130
o’clock yesterday afternoon, When a
sprayer in the finishing room turhed
his machine which was shooting a
benzine preparation, oil an electric
.light globe. The entire finishing room
flared up, and seven men were forced
• to jump from the fourth story of the
| factory to save their lives.
! Firemen and officials of the factory
i searched all through the night for
i young King, but his body was not
l found until nbout 8 o'clock this moTii
! ing.
TREATMENT STIRS BODY
FORCES TO FIGHT CANCER
Vienna Physician Injects a Seram,
and Reports Success in Supposedly
Incurable Cases With It. ,
Berlin, Nov. 30. —Another prqpii*-
4** -enneer treatment was ix>rtfc-ed
here today from Vienna. It has
tried h.v Dr. Joseph Kordon in the
Kraz surgical clinic. This method
consists of the injection of a serum
which stirs the defensive forces of the
body into nn attack on the enreimona.
So far the new process has been ap
plied only in incurable cases, but it
is reported to have been followed by
remarkable success.
Albuminous serum is injected daily
for a week into the calf of the leg and
this is followed in about eight days
; by au unsightly swelling. This swell
j ing represents the climax of the alleg
ed cancer cure and the patient is then
subjected to a series of Turkish baths
which eliminate Hie swelling.
Dr. Paul' Itozarus, Berlin cancer ex
pert. declared today that no judg
ment could yet be formed about its
merits. Experiments with albumen
oids, designed to stir the Intent defen
sive forces of the body into ad ion
against cancerous tissue have been
tried for years, he said. WTiether the
present treatment will be more suc
cessful than its predecessors will not
be known for a long time, it was point
ed out in medical circles, as five years
must elapse before a cancer patient
can be declared to be definitely eared.
Campaign to Promote Wider Use of
Cotton.
Anniston, Ala.. Dee. 1. —At a
luncheon held here recently by the
Anniston Civitan Club, the members
voted to launch an extensive cam
paign in the very near future to pro
mote n more extensive use of tin
South’s staple product and thereby
increase the demand for cotton, with
a corresponding increase in the price
received by fanners for their crops.
The slogan “Wear Cotton Cloth
ing” wns unanimously adopted.
Dr. F. C. Leyden, past president
of the local club, suggested the idea
inaugurated.
Younger Attends the Conference of
Coaches.
| Davidson. Dev. I.—Coach W. L.
1 (Monk) Younger, head instructor of
the Davidson Wildcats, left here yes
’ torday for Jacksonville, Fla., where
, he will attend a meeting of the South
; ern Coaches Conference Association
in that city Thursday of this week.
, An elaborate program has been planned
for the entertainment of the coaches
■ of all southern colleges. Coach Young
er will probably return before Satur
day night, when his championship
charges will be entertained by the
j Davidson College Alumni Association
of Gaston county.
! Five Negroes Being Hchd FVir the
Death of Barker.
; Charlotte, Nov. 30. —Five David
son negroes were being held in jail
hero today in connection with the
death ten days ago of Charles Mor
ton, negro barber, of Davidson. It
was learned that officers have been
working on the case for the past sev
eral days but no announcements
have been made. A hearing in the
case scheduled for todny was con
tinued until Friday morning.
Julius M. Springs Dead
Charlotte. Nov. 30.— Julius M.
Springs, 56, merchant for many
years at Mi. Holly and one of the
organizers of the first bank . ere
tilled today.
Is There Now a “Gang Warfare”
Going on in North Carolina?
Raleigh, Dec. I.— (A>) —North Caro
lininns have been reading news at- c
counts of gang warfare and machine
gun killing in Chicago and other large
cities with a spirit of thanksgiving i
that from a’.l such they are far re
moved, but of late there arises the i
question—are they?
The concensus of law enforcement
(officers of Wake and a dozen or more i
j eastern counties, strewn along high- i
j way route 10 as it winds down from
’the piedmont to the sea, would indi
! cate that they are not.
j Some of the good citizens them
selves are waking up to the fact that
(just off their doorsteps the swish and
(roar of high-powered motor cars are
droning an ouurious obligato to piracy
and death.
I First rum running, then hi-jacking,
and finally gang warfare.
That’s the sequence described by of- 1
! fibers long in the game of matching
wits with dcs|>crate men nnd youths
playing a loose game for high stnkes. i
I And that it has reached its last
stage they now sorrowfully admit.
Mysteriously slain men, men limping
into hospitals with too easily explain
ied gun and knife wounds, racing au
tomobiles wrecked by roadside;, police
officers and innocent motorists man
gled by collisions in dense smoke
screens laid by fleeing rum runners,
a flood of liquor that the law despairs
of damming. All these riiiugs bear
out the opinion.
Ever since prohibition Tar Heels
with a thirst antedating dry statutes ,
hlive known liquor was being made in
the eastern lowlands and western high- ,
lands and was being transported into ,
the central flatlnnds where oppor- ,
(unities for manufacturing it were
not so propitious.
Later they became uncustomed to
yearns of fabulous profits falling from
loose lips of nattily attired young men,
j with hands unstained from toil except
piloting careening motor enrs.
They saw a few of these young men
caught nnd their sport clothes changed
to stripes, but the rum supply Mowed
on unchecked.
Then came the smoke screen, n
crude oil device attached to the rum
runner’s exhaust pipe which wns capa
ble of delivering a dense smoke to
thwart pursuers. A host of acci
dents befell pursuing cars.
Finally came the killings and the
wounded trickling into hospitals and
the wild tales of liquor cars being
held up by (ii-jackers under the guise
of law enforcement officers.
The police realized that the free
and easy business of rum running hnd
come to the worst. ac
tivities of rival bands and the be
ginning of an era of piracy of the
highway, which, translated into mod
ern terms, Is nothing less than gang
warfare. The same internecine strife
of elements outside t’ne law that was
back of the slaying of Dion O’Bannion
in Chicago, the machine gunning of
Prosecutor McSwiggan, and the wild
rraids of the Birger gunmen that have
made them a terror in the lake dis
trict.
Solicitor Evans, of Wake county,
was open with his suspicion that Ed
Chappell, Raleigh politician who once
was adjudged guilty of liquor deal-1
EDITOR WILL BE
BURIED AT HOME
Body of Ogden F. Crowson Carried
to Burlington—Editor of Burting
tong Times and News.
Charlotte. Dee. I.—(A*)—The body
of Ogden F. Crowson, editor of the
Burlington, N. C\, Times and News,
who died here last night, today was
taken to his home in Burlington for
burial. He died at a local hospital
where he wns brought for treatment
for kidney trouble.
Mr. Crowson was born in Catawba
, county July 7. 1873. Thirt.v-onc
years ago lie purchased the Burling
ton News, and operated it at inter
vals as a daily and weekly paper. At
the time of his death he was operat
ing The News as weekly, and Times
ns a daily.
Surviving are his mother. Mrs. Em
ma Crowson, of Statesville; three
brothers. W. B. and L. S. Crowson, of
Statesville, and O. E. Crowson. of
Columbia. S. C., and four sisters, Mrs.
NEW SERIES
i ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4th
We Open Our 77th Series of
; Building and Loan
6 Running Shares, worth SIOO at maturity, will cost you
only 25c a week.
e Building and Loan is the ideal way for wage earners
to save money, or to get the funds to pay for their homes.
l There is no better investment than prepaid shares of
f our stock, which are tax exempt.
t If you are not familiar with the Building and Loan
1 we will be pleased to explain it to you.
' Concord Perpetual Build
ing and Loan Association
OFFICES AT CABARRUS SAVINGS BANK
t H. I. WOODHOUSE P. B. FETZER
* Secretary and Treasurer Asst. Secretary
ings, did not meet ills death from ac
cidental causes.
But the Chappell affair was hardly
forgotten before the sensational train
of events incident to the killing of
“Mighty’’ Forsyth blasted the peace
of eastert) Carolina.
Mystery shrouded the affair from
time time Forsyth’s hotly was dumped
out at a titling station near Raleigh
and brought ito a hospital by attend
ants nt the station. Occupants of the
dearit car were recognized and police
immediately spread a dragnet for
them.
Robert Separk. young Raleigh man.
was arrested the next day after he
hnd been injured in n crash on the
Rnleigh-Durham highway and spirited ]
away to a hospital nt Sanford, where!
he wnR entered under an assumed I
name. Friends who extricated him |
from the wreck before officers arrived 1
were not apprehended.
Separk. in Wake county jail with- i
out privilege of bond, has maintained I
that Forsyth fell to his death from
the running board'of the car. He
is supported in this contention by
Evelyn Britt, 19-year-old Durham girl
who was also an occupant of the death
car. The girl was freed under $5,-
000 bond. Robert Stephenson, rile
fourth alleged occupant of the ear,
had not been captured a week after
the killing.
Physicians scorn the falling to
death theory, and declare the mortal
Wound was inflicted with a sharp
edged instrument, probably a hatchet.
Investigations by Coroner Waring,
of Wake county, in both Wake mid
Johnston counties, ‘nave tended to bear
out n murder theory. Blood stains
were found in a tilling station at Clay
ton, in Johnston county, a cap was
found with a split .crown, and blood
was found on n suit of clothes al
leged to have belonged to Separk. Sc
park’s wrecked car was also towed in
for evidence.
Little of what has been discovered
has been made public, but*it is known
that the general investigation has lead
the sleuths through a trail of rivalry
and gang jealousy.
Litr e ms been done toward push
ing the case into court pending the
capture of Stephenson and the gather
ing other evidence.
Mitch is thought to lunge on what
Stephenson will have to say, the ten
dency so far having been to mini
mize the presence of Evelyn Britt in
the car, her own explanation being
that she was a passenger in the car.
simply because she thought she wns
getting n ride to her home in Dur-;
ham.
Officers say that-.to. .What extent (
the romance of rum running in North j
Carolina will be exposed at the trial i
depends upon one thing—how much j
the accused men tell.
They admit that the court hearing
may develop into an extremely drab
affair utterly uncharacteristic of the
youths who ride recklessly turough the j
night with cargoes of contraband, but j
on the other hand, they say, there
may be stratling disclosures to remove j
the slightest doubt of any North Car
olinian who still persist in believing |
that gangster warfare is confined to
1 a mid-western setting.
A. It. Lineberger, of Statesville; Mrs.
Lela McCoy, of Atlanta: Mrs. E..D.
Jp vner, of Burlington, and Mrs. Frank |
Gwynn, of Salisbury.
Funeral arrangements were not
known here.
Wildcats Feted by Alumni.
Davidson. Dec. I.—Davidson Col
lege’s championship team of 1926 in
North Carolina lias already received
invitations to two banquets in their
honor, the u’umni associations of Gas
ton county and Mooresville inviting
them us their guests.
Gastonia has been giving the foot
ball teams of Davidson banquets for
seventy years in succession, rile one
this year being the third, while the j
Mooresville alumni will be giving their j
first. The team will go to Gastonia
Satunlay, December 4th, and will be
present at Mooresville Tuesday night.
December 7tli. Extensive programs of
entertainment are planned by both i
places.
LETTER WRITTEN BY
LATE PRESIDENT
! MNTOfe^
Letter Introduced by De-IJ
sense in the Fall-Doheny!
Case to Show Attitude of i
Late President Harding. J
GAVE APPROVAL |'
TO OIL LEASES!
Fall Presented Letter to > 1
Show That He Was Not i
Alone in Giving Approv-1
al to Oil Contracts. j
Washington, Deo. 1.—04-*)—A let-!
ter by President Harding approving),
the oil leasing polieies of AJbert 15. ]
Fall while he was Secretary of the i
Interior was brought into court today f
by the defense in the Fall-Doheny oil
conspiracy trial. t
The letter was sent to the senate in (
April. 1022 in reply to the original (
resolution of inquiry into the Teapot ,
Dome and Elk Hill leases. It was ,
put into evidence while a prosecu- j
tion witness was on the stand, and. \
was a part of a defense effort to
show that Fall did not himself bear |
the responsibility for the award of ]
the Elk Hill lease to the Doheny inter- ,
ests after Doheny had advanced him a ]
“loan" of SIOO,OOO. (
In his reply to the Senate, Presi
dent Harding said he was acquainted ,
m detail with the polieies of the In- ,
terior Department, hod been apprised ,
of the exact terms of the various leas- j
es. and approved and supported the
entire program of the Department. (
E. O. Finney, assistant secretary of ,
the interior, a government witness, tes
tified he personally had submitted '
much of Hie Interior Department de- '
tail incorporated in the President’s .
message.
Finney was questioned again by de
fense about his statement that Fall :
was in New Mexico when the deal
was closed, and telegraphed that the
award to Doheny would be satisfac
tory to him if the navy thought best.
Frank ,T. Hogan for the defense,
| brought out by his questioning of Fin- ,
j ney that Fall was absent from Wash
ington from April 13 until some time
in May, 1322, and that Finney did j
j;not see Doheny or cvy know
I Finney said the Navy Department
j approved the royalty terms of the ar
rangement. and that these terms had
j been drawn originally by A. W. Am
j brose. petroleum technologist of the ,
Bureau of Mines, without consultation
| with Fall.
THREE HCRT AS THEIR ACTO
CRASHED INTO BRIDGE
' Miss Mary Lmise Hoffman. Dr. Hor- 1
ace Thompson and Dr. J. 0. Brough
ton Hurt in Accident. i
Wilmington, N. C., Dee. I.—(A*)
Miss Mary Louise Hoffman, popular
young woman of Wilmington, is in
a serious condition. Dr. Horace Thomp
son, a dentist, and Dr. .1. O. Brough
ton, another dentist, were injured,
the former severely, when an auto
mobile in which the party was riding
plunged into a concrete bridge on the
New Kern-Wilmington highway Sat
urday night, it became known here
this morning.
Claude L. Efird, head of a loenl
mercantile concern, said to have been
the driver of the car. was badly shak
en up, but his injuries were in no
wise serious. His big automobile was
i declared today by garage men who
j towed it in, to have been practically
demolished.
Dr. Thompson is the son of Dr.
j Cyrus Thompson, of Jacksonville, On
j slow county, one of the most prorai
; nent Republican leaders in the state.
The former was said to have been
returned to his father's home that
the latter might give treatment there,
i The other were brought to a hospital
here.
DRV AGENTS’ REPORT
48 Arrests and Capture of 135 Dis
tilleries Reported During Past
Month.
! Charlotte. Dec. I.—(A I)—Forty
eight arrests and the capture of 185
' distilleries were reported during the
j month of November by North Caro
lina dry agents, says the monthly re
i port of deputy administrators for the
: state made public here today.
With the issuance of this report
the reign of Charlotte as headqunr
: ters for the Bth prohibition district
I ended. Georgia and South Carolina
| today became part of a new district,
j along with Florida, and with head
| quarters at Savannah, and North
Carolina became part of the district
] along with Virginia and with head
quarters at Richmond.
The agents reported destruction of
1,100 gallons of whiskey and 150,000
gallons of beer. Fifteen automobiles
were seiaed.
; Thinks Hagan Will Be Arrested.
Asheville, Dec. I.— (A*)—Reports
that deputy sheriffs and bloodhounds
had followed Let Hagan, alleged slay
er of Marion W. Yatt, 17, into Yan
cey County, reached the sheriff’s office
here today. Sheriff Mitchell, of Bun
combe County, was confident that the
man would he apprehended shortly, an
Hagan handicapped by a traecheo
tomy tube through which he Is forced
to breathe. Yatt was shot at Rock
view near Rarnardsville yesterday af
ternoon uud died within a few min
-1 utee.
THE TRIBUNE
PRINTS
TODAY’S NEWS TODATi
"ii!*' jnHa
NO. 28a!j|
MISTRIAL ROTH ‘.]
iPfKcuTii
DENIED B! INK
Decision Means the Hdft ,1
Mills Case Will Go t#flßl
Jury.—Simpson Asftiw
for the Mistrial.
THREE REASONS
FOR MISTRtAHj
Were Outlined to Court I
Prosecutor—Says Jurors 1
Sleps and Talked With j
Defense Members.
Somerville. N. .1.. Dec. I.
Justice Charles W. Parker, pre
siding at the Hull-Mills trial todiiy dfe v
nied the state motion for a mistriaij v
and tile case will go to the jury..
Somerville. N. J., Dec. I.
Alexander Simpson, special prMIMHsjS
tor in the Hall-Mills murder case,
today closed the case for the stale, ’
and moved for a mistrial, alleging ths£ |
members of the jury had eommttwjjf
improprieties which made it §
ble for the state to obtain a fait trial! ..
The motion was made at the com- Is
pletion of the ease against
Frances Stevens Hall and her broth
ers, Willie and Henry Stevens. Judge :)
Parker announced that he would take 2
the matter under advisement. .vsj
The case lias been on trial four
weeks, the defendants being charged
with killing Mrs. Eleanor R, iOlls, ?
Who was slain at the same time KCV. 'i
Edward Wheeler Hall was killed 1 . ,
Immediately after court cotlyeeled
this morniyg. Simpson said he had a 3
motion to make, and asked that the
jury be taken from the court room.
Robert R. McCarter, of the I
counsel, said that since the mot top Hut
prosecutor would make would refer to
the jury, it should he present.
Judge Parker, presiding, directed a
however that the jury be taken ftthfe .j
the room while counsel argued the 1
motion.
Simpson grouped his allegation* J
under three heads:
Members of the jury had been I
asleep: that they had been improper- |
ly guarded, one member haring been |
observed in consultation with mem- ]S
bers of the defense: ami the manifem M
-hostility of some member* of thajan j
to him.
TOl HIST TRAFFIC NOW
AT HEIGHT OF HKAMKt 1
Check of Vehicle* Passing Hi ill gnat' j
fd Points on Various Highway* Is j
Stale.
Charlotte. Nov. 30.—The south- 1
bound tourist travel is at full heignt *
on the highways of North Carolina ■ |
and nearly 8.000 automobiles from |
other states passed through one high- I
way district in the Old North State 1
on one day recently, a traffic census j
report made public here today show*. *
The census was taken for the sixth
highway district only and dealth on- ‘
ly with “foreign traffic was made j
from 107 observations point* seat- J
tered in 12 counties in the district d!
including towns through which the |
north and south bound traffic ia ■!
heaviest in the early winter and
spring months.
The census showed a total of 3*- 3
1863 automobiles bearing foreign
licenses plates: 3.507 horse drawn
vehicles on the road. The counties :n
the district arc Alexander. Anson, >
Catawba, Cabarrus. 1 Gaston. Iredell,
Lincoln. Mecklenburg. I’nion. Rich- a
moiul, Rowan. Stanly and Scotland,
The greatest number of “ foreign"
automobiles counted at any one joint
was the observation post located on
highway number 15 between Salis
bury and Concord. Here 3! 12 auto- J
ihobiles bearing foreign licenses jmvs
ed within the 12 hour period of thU |
census. Tite greatest majority of tow*
were southbound. A total of .'{,467
prospects passed this point inelmliuff
111 horsedrawn vehicles. .
Horsedrawn vehicles were used to
the greatest extent in 'Richmotid,
thecensus showing a total of 145
passing llte observation point of
highway number 50 south of Rock- |
ingham. Only one horse drawn ve- v
hide passed the observation point
of the Wilkes-Alexander county line
but 1.200 passenger automobiles,
four busses, four trucks and five j
foreign ears were counted.
On highway number 20 between j
iCharlotte and Gastonia, one of the j
most traveled stretches of road in j
the stale. 4,304 vehicles of ail kinds f
were counted. There were 14 horse
drawn vehic'.es. 42 buses. 544 trucks
and 3.704 passenger automobiles. Os
these 146 were foreign ears .1
On route 26. Charlotte to Bt.ue.i- j
ville. 1.356 vehicles passed and on
route number 10. 3.400 passed our
mile east of Salisbury.
Three Sought Freedom.
Asheville. Dec. I.—(dP)—Three con- j
1 victs made an unsuccessful attempt to %
1 escape from Buncombe County prison
camp last night, one of the trio being
brought down by a shot gun. He
was only slightly injured. The pris- |
i oners were informed recently that 1
> they would have to sleep in “nighties” 3
- as soon as the sujqdy arrived thl* *
week, and convict guards facetiously
? remarked that this probably prompted
• the attempts to escape.
i ' "
> THE WEATHER
I
Partly cloudy tonight, colder in
- tral and west portions: Thurtday fair, I
- colder. Moderate west shitting to i
fresh northwest winds.
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