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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES ""volume XXVI COTTON CROP NOW IS ESTIMATED AT 18,618,000 BALES ■ - * This Is Ah Increase of 219,- 000 Bales Over the Fore cast Made on November the 16th. QUANTITY pfCKED - * NOT YET KNOWN If the Season is Favorable Most of the Crop Will Be Picked—l,2so,ooo Bales in This State. Washington. Deo. 8. —OP)—A Unit oil States potion crop of 18,618,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, not including linters, is estimated for this year by the Department of Agri culture in its preliminary report: to- I day,' based on conditions as of De f comber first. A fortnight ago 18,- 85)0.000 bales were indicated. The quantity of cotton of this year's crop that will be ginned will depend upon whether the various in fluences affecting the harvesting of the portion of the crop still in the field will be more or less favorable than usual, the Department stated. The area of cotton for harvest this year, as revised on December 1 re turns. is estimated at 47.653,000 acres, compared with 46,053,000 acres in 1925, and 37.616,000 acres the five year average from 1921 to 1925. The abandonment of acreage is es timated at 2.0 per cent, of the esti mated acreage in cultivation on .Tunc 25. compared with abandonment of 4.2 per cent, in 1925 and 3.5 per cent, the ten year average 1916 to 1925. i The total yield of lint cotton per j acre on the area for harvest is cs-; limated at 187 pounds, compared with 167.2 pounds in 15)25, and 153.7 | pounds the 1916-25 ten-year, average. North Carolina estimate is 2,023.- 000 acres, and 1,250.000 bales. | 14.644,966 Bales Dinned. Washington, Dec. B.—(4 s )—Cotton of this year's growth, ginned prior to December 1 totalled 14,644.960 run ning bales, counting 513,840 round* bales as tfilf bales, and exclusive of ~ linters; compared with 13.870.507 in dwelt 27rWR ,i wtmm- bites to that j date last year. North Ciwolina gin nings were 1,000,361 bales. MEMPHIS RANK CLERK COMMITS SIICIDE It is Third Rank Sensation Within Five Weeks.—Other Two Clerks Fled. Memphis. Tenn., Dec. 7.—Temphis financial circles were stirred today by the third sensation within five weeks when business of the Ameri can Savings Bank and Trust com liany was placed in the hands .if state bank examiners after an em ploye admitted shortages of SBOO,OOO and ended his life. C'arence Henoehsberg. assistant cashier and teller, fired a bullet luto hi* brain following 'a telephone con versation with Abe Plough. Mem-1 phis capitalist, in which Hetiochs berg confessed shortage in his ac accounts and declared he would kill himself unless help could be obtained to save himself and the bank. Accountants at work on the books of the institution tonight sought To learn the extent of the bank's losses and to discover the relationship, if any. between Henochsberg's activi ties and shortnge found Inst Thursday on the disappearance of Hush H. Parke, clerk in the same bank. Park? was still missing tonight while his alleged defalcations were set at $165,000. Gifts for Everybody at Parlis-Belk Company’s. The Parks-Relk Go. has a storefull of C’.iristmns things for everybody. Their big Christmas drive will start tomorrow morning. They have the » goods to suit every age, taste and j®, purse. Gifts for father, mother, sis- P ter, brother, sou anil (laughter will be found on the second floor. The toy department is running over with toys for the kiddies. Take them to this big store and let them have a look. They will wrap and mail your pack ages for you. All sugar tickets must be_ cashed in on or before January, 1927, ns they will be void after that date. The modern Christmas tree can bbe traced back to the sixteenth century. It originated on the banks of the Rhine. Sixty years later the fir tree was used to carry gifts in celebration of Christmas all over the civilized world. " hhmm \ Rain tonight, not so cold in north- A east portion; Thursday colder in the northeast portion. Fresh southwest gbifti&C to northeast winds. The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily I • PRESIDENT OPPOSES ANY PERMANENT TAX REDUCTION MEASURE Will Agree to Rebates But Does Not Want a Per manent Relief Measure Enacted at Present. BUDGET FOR YEAR GOES TO CONGRESS Calls for an Increase of $16,000,000 Over Cur rent Year l —House Starts Work on Finances. Washington, Dec. B.— (4 s ) —The new session of Congress passed out of the “house warming" period today, and began to face the grim physical reali ties that are to oecnpy henceforth i;<? most serious attention. It received from President Coolidgc n new federal budget requiring ex penditures of $4,014,527,124 in the next fisHal year, and the House, where appropriations measures must orig inate. at once began consideration of the first money bill of the many that are to come. The budget represented an increase of more than $16,000,000 over the current year, largely the result of mounting requirements for veterans and for the ever-expanding postal ser vice. In an accompanying message, sent to tlie capitol by messenger, Mr. Cool* idge disapproved any permanent tax reduction, and left up to Congress to decide whether a $383,000,000 treas ury surplus should be returned to the pockets of taxpayers in rebates, or be applied to the national debt. Almost simultaneously the Demo | eratic lenders of the Senate and House j announced the party agreement on a | $335,000,000 permanent tax redue ! lion. i R. A. BARNHARDT ARRESTED AFTER A LONG CHASE Hickory Man Held Pending Outcome of Injuries to Mrs. A. L. Myers. Winston-Salem, Dec. 7.—After a chase which led them to every section •f the city and Mooresville and back, deputy sheriffs ended their searcjg'iu, a »Wjt>l bote! .with OUMtnwst tj6R 'ffi Barnhardt, of Hickory. Barnhardt is being hold pending the outcome of in juries received by Mrs. A. L. Myers, 55, Winston-Salem, Route 1. when she was hit by a car said to have been driven by Barnhardt, the accident oc curring near Hanes. Mrs. Myers is suffering with a fractured left thigh and left wrist and has cuts and bruises about flip face and body. At the time of his arrest Barnhardt. who is said to travel for a Charlotte concern, was uuder the influence of whiskey, it is said, and although de nying at first that he was the driver of the car which struck Mrs. Myers, finally admitted that he was. Barn liardt whs given a hearing in munici pal court today on a charge of operat ing an auto while intoxicated and was fined SSO and the costs and given a three-year suspended sentence of six months on the county roads, condi tioned upon his not operating an auto in the state for a period of twelve months. Charges held against him by county authorities include operat ing an automobile while intoxicated, reckless driving, doing serious damage and operating an auto without a state license. *' A report from the Baptist hospital where Mrs.' Myers was enrried fol lowing the accident is to the effect that she is resting as comfortably and getting along as well ns could be ex pected. McKINLEY FUNERAL SET FOR FRIDAY Body Carried Back to His Home in Champaign.—lD For Many Months. Martinsville, I no., Dec. B.— (A 1 ) His courageous battle against death over, friends and relatives today took the body of Senator Wm. B. McKin ley, of Illinois to his home in Cham paign, where funeral services will be conducted Friday. The Senator died yesterday after a four months’ battle against prostatic enneor, the end of which was averted several times only by the rigor of his constitution. Stockholders of P. and N. Discuss Extension Today. Charlotte, Dec. 7.—Stockholders of the Piedmont and Northern railway will meet tomorrow in Greenville, 8. C., to consider the proposal of the board of directors, for construction of extensions linking Charlotte ami Durham and Gastonia and Spartan burg, S. 0., according to informa tion obtained here today from repre-j sentatives of the company. The directors several weeks ago at Greenville adopted a construction program which is expected to requi.-e expenditures of about $20,000,000. W| 8. Lee, of Charlotte, vice pres ident of the Southern Power com pany, is president of the Piedmont and Northern and E. Thomason is vice president and general manager. There is en old superstition that nine holly leavee tied in a handker chief with nine knots and placed un der the pillow on Christmas night, will cause the sleeper to dream of his or her future wife er husband. Ten Pag£s Today Two Sections SENATOR McKINLEY VICTIM OF CANCER M : mw ■ B pfe * AmaAreo pAess <h.f Dumcaa} ic CCMATOO VR M?lflML£Y VETERAN SENATOR OF ILLINOIS DEAD Wrlllam B. McKinley Was Prominent j Figure in Republican Councils. Martinsville, Ind.. Doc. 7. —Sena- tor William 11. McKinley, of Illinois, died at the HomelaWn sanitorium here at 4:10 p. m. today. Death followed an illness of sev eral months. He was brought here , the latter part of August suffering from prostatic cancer. He was 76 years of age. Senator McK’nley, after recuperat ing to some degree from a major op eration performed last spring at Bal timore, became critically ill during the early part of September due to a pneumonia complication. The veteran senator, however, overcame this at-I tack and during the early days of Oc-1 tober was well enough to take an I interest in the world series baseball! contest. Since then his strength had j keen gradually weakening. , Senator McKinley, whose span of more than twenty years in Congress, the latter portion ns United States Senator from Illinois, covered the i:i- j surgeney among national legislators, the Roosevelt bolt of 1912, and the primary scandals of 1926. was a bus-1 iness man and philanthropist. By his own avowal, he “blundered into poli tics” because his business was run ning so smoothly lie had nothing else to,do. IBM. lya'b: bUt adored into poUtintC. the Senator once said. “I was get ting unnecessary in my business. Things went on without me. So when it was suggested to me that I run for congress, I accepted just for j something to da. I never regretted it." I He had traveled 1,500,000 miles in twenty-five years—more than a mil lion’ miles of the total in nine years— including thirty trips across the At lantic, three journeys around the world, several voyages across the 1 T*aeifie Ocean and to South America, a dozen trips to Cuba and Panama, and had visited every country in the world except Russia and Turkey. * With Our Advertisers. Give games to the children for Christmas. The Kidd-Frix Co. has anything you want in this litie. Read the new ad. today of the Wilkinson Funeral Home. Open day and night, with 24 hour ambulance service. Buy useful Christmas presents. See j new ad. of the Markson Shoe Store. Have Wrenn to clean your dress for you. He will make it look like new. Fascinating perfumes and every thing for the toilet at Gibson Drug Store. The Concord Vulcanizing Co. wants to vulcanize your tires for you and save you money. Christmas gifts for men and wom en at the Riehmond-Flowe Company. High grade merchandise, too. Go to Efird's and make selections for your Christmas presents. Don’t fail to hear Gabriel Zsig mondy at the High School auditorium tomorrow night. Admission, 75 nnd 50 cents. Choose one of the beautiful coats at J. O. Penney Company’s for only $19.75. For both women and misses. Tickets now on sale at the Pearl Drug Company. Reserved seats SI.OO, general admission, 50 nnd 75 cents. DUKE UNIVERSITY DAY DECEMBER It Alumni and Students Will Observe That Day With Big Celebration. Durham. Dee. 7.—Plans for cele brating “Duke University Day” have now been completed by Duke stu dents and alumni throughout North Carolina, the event to be staged on December 11, the date on which the late James B. Duke multi-millionaire tobacco and waiter power mugnnte. signed the indenture which created the institution which bears his fam ily name. Following the inaugura tion of the custom next Saturday, Duke University will continue to observe December 11 with special celebrations each year. Soya North Carolina Cities Are Un known. Washington. Dec. 7. —Mayor A- 11. Bangert, of New Bern, spent a day in Washington, after a stay of sev eral days in Philadelphia, where >je went to see the exposition. Mayor Bangert is of the opinion -that North Carolina cities should do much more in the way of advertising themselves. He says the people of the north know little about sneh cities ns Greensboro and Charlotte, but when you mention North Carolina to them they immediately think of Asheville, which* baa been so well advertised as a resort city. CONCORD, N. C„ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1926 —■ ■ ■ ■ —— irrif - -■ -■ - PRESIDENT SUBMITS BUDGET FOR NEXT . TEAR TO CONGRESS Calls for Appropriation of! $4,014,571,124 or Over Sixteen Millions More Than This Year. IMUST UPHOLD j j PROHIBITION LAW i No Other Course Defensi ble.—Wants Considera | tion of Permanent Mer chant Marine Policy. Washington, Dec. B. (4 s )—The Government's budget for llie next fis cal year, calling for appropriations or $4.014,571,124. or $16,543,728 more than is allotted for the current year was submitted to Congress to day by President Coolidgc. The Civil and Spanish War pension i increases voted last session, together with inereasees in the cost of oper ating the Postal Service nnd the Vet erans Bureau, 'account principally for the higher budget, more than off setting the heavy reductions in ex penses of other branches of the Gov ernment. The largest of these re ductions—s3o.ooo.ooo—was the in terest on the public debt. The 1928 fiscal year outlay pro vides for inauguration of five-year aviation programs in the Army and Navy, with a total of $574,000,000 for National Defense; and the mainten ance of prohibition enforcement at. a jtotnl coat of nearly $30,000,000. j Mr. Coolidgc asked Congress to j postpone construction of the remain ing throe of the 8 light cruisers which j were to have been started before next July in view of this country now en gaging in negotiations "to broaden our existing treaties with the great pow ers which deal with the elimination of competition in naval armaments." | He also omitted all provision for the construction of two rigid airships which Congress authorized to be built i at a cost of $8,000,000 prior to July 1, 1928. He asked that time be giv en to experiment with the all-metal airship now being constructed at a cost of SBOO,OOO. ..... Os proposed for av«i " latton fit the Army and Navy $20,600.-1 000 is for new planes and $2,400,000 for construction of barracks and quar ters. The total appropriations of j $650,642 for the War ahd Navy de- I partments makes provisions for mili tary and naval strength of OIOJIOO . men, including reserves. The Navy . budget including $4,000,000 carried over from last year, is $817,815,500. . or $9,240,475 less than this year, and . the War Department estimate is $366,722,142, or $11,251,840 more than for this year. “This is a very considerable amount to spend for protection in time of lienee,” said the President. "No threatening cloud at the present dark ens the sky. Our intent, and attitude is one of peace and friendly regard toward all nations and peoples. This, however, is not sufficient warrant to neglect our defense and default on necessary precautions.” Regarding prohibition enforce ment. he also gave nssurnnee that ‘(“whatever is necessary to put into ef fect tile expressed will of tile people t-,3 itten into the eighteenth amend-! ■ ment to the Constitution of the United States and the will of Con ■ gross as expressed in the Volstead Act will b<* done." “Whatever may be necessary to vindicate the law,” he added, “and secure compliance with its wise and righteous provisions should he pro vided. The constitutional duties of the President nnd the Congress make any other coarse indefensible." While proposing expenditure of the $75,000.00 authorized by Congress for road construction. Mr. Coolidgc renewed his recommendation that the Federal Government cut down this ap propriation hereafter, confining its activities to construction only of pri mary or interstate highways and leaving lo the States the development of secondary routes. The President also asked Congress to give early consideration to a per manent merchant marine policy and to the disposition of alien property and settlement of American and German war claims, a problem now holding the attention of the House Ways and Means Committee. The increase of $12,000,000 for the Veterans Bureau, making the total for the office $475,400,000 for the next year, involves principally an In crease for military and naval cotnpen sation. Counting pensions and com pensation to the veterans of all wars, the total enrried in the budget fofr vet eranw' relief is $705.000,000. COTTON PRICES AT NEW ORLEANS ON INCREASE TODAY New Orleans, Dee. B.—C4»>- — A moderately bullish government gov ernment report brought a spurt in the cotton market here today which swept prices of early months from 34 to 38 points up. Late months gained 22 points before the first flurry ended, and prices again eased off slightly. The undertone remained steady, however, nnd with buoyant reports from the seasqp out of the way it watt expected trading 'would be more active. HE’S THROUGH •*.. MB 08l mm LEONARD WOOD Retirement of Leonard Wood as Governor-General of the Philippines has been decided upon by Adminis tration leaders, it was learned in , Washington. JUGO SLAVIA SENDS FORCE TO FRONTIER FOR ANY EMERGENCY Troops on Albanian Front ier Are Being Reinforced at Present, Says Reports Sent From Bucharest. mussolinThas VOICE IN PLAN Suggests That Jugo-Slavia Duplicate Italian Treaty With Albania to Make “Triple Alliance.” Budapest, Hungary. Dee. B.—(4 s ) Jugo-Slavia is reported to be reinforc ing her troops on the Albanian fron tier. Dispatches say that movements ■for the re-grouping of her military units began yesterday. The newspa per Magyar Orszag says it learns that Jugo-Slavia will threaten to leave the , league of nations if that organization •kjees not bring about canceiyition of |tln' Itulio-Albnninn treaty. Suggests Treaty. Vienna, Austria. Dec. B.—(4*) Advices from Belgrade Ray. Premier Mussolini is reported to have suggeest td to the Jugo-Slavian minister in Rome that Jugo-Slavia dpulieate the Italian treaty with Albania. Jugo slavia is said to regard the sugges tion favorably. The treaties would form an organ ized whole under the name of the "Triple Alliance.” TWO GROUPS PLAN TO MANAGE RUMANIA One Group Would Restore Coral and the Other Is Opposed to llhn. Paris, Dee. B.—(4*)—First reports of a grave crisis in Rumania involv -1 ing conflict between two separate and far reaching designs for dynastic changes in that country reached re liable Rurfianian courses in Paris al most simultaneous with the announce ment that King Ferdinand would ttn ' dergo a serious operation tomorrow. One plan is to place former Crown ■ Prince Carol on the throne by a coup ■ d'etat in the event of his father’s death, this to be followed by estab lishment of a fascist type government i under the tarnist (national peasant) I party, the leaders of which are Julio I Maniu and Dr. Nicholas Lupu. The other is a reported scheme by E the former Premier lonel Bratiano ' and his brother, Vintila, who are termed "the real rulers of Rumania,” i to hand over the crown to an unnamed i British prince nfter a period of rule ' by the regency as at present eonsti ' tutod. KING WILL UNDERGO ANOTHER OPERATION King Ferdinand Will Go Under the Knife for Second Time W’ithin a Week. Bucharest. Rumnnia, Dec. 8. — (4*) — King Ferdinand tomorrow will un dergo an operation of a more radical nature than thnt performed on him Monday, provided there is-no change in the patient’s condition between now nnd then. It is conqideyed that this will offer better chances of affording permanent relief to him. Monday's operation was described as the common treatment for hem orrhoids. NYHATU HE GIVE PEACHES? I nr SHOPPING DAYS LEFT lu BEFORE CHWSTHAS) The Tribune Goes Into Homes The paper worth-while to the reader and to the ad vertiser is the paper which enters the home. Os all Tha. Tribune’s city circulation less than a dozen is Sale.” And none is duplication. j . Marshal Field, the great merchant, paper in the home is worth a thousand on the I Foreign Mission Board Treasurer of , Baptists Short in His Accounts; Richmond. Vn„ Dec. 7.—A shortage lias been found by auditors in the accounts of George E. Sanders, of Richmond, treasurer of the foreign mission board of the Southern Bap tist convention. Dr. George W. Mc- Daniel, president of the convention. , announced here tonight in a public statement which placed the amount at approximately $92,000. Mr. Sand | ers. an employe of a local bank, ad mitted the shortage when questioned , tonight, but. said ’he was not certain of the amount. The shortage in Mr. Sanders’ ac counts was discovered by certified pub- THE COTTON MARKET 1 Opened Steady at Advance of 3 Points to a Decline of 2 Points. New York, Dee. B.— (4 s )- — I The cot ton market opened steady today at an advance of 3 points to n decline of 2 points, the early irregularity being attributed to further evening up of commitments in preparation for the government report. Trading was quiet, prices fluctuat ing betweeti 11.95 and 12.02 for Jan uary contracts during the first hour, but the tone was generally steady, and prices hold within a point or two of yesterday’s closing figures. Private , cables attributed file steadiness in Liv- 1 erpool to covering, London and conti nental buying, which had absorbed hedge selling. Some southern hedging was reported here at the opening, but in comparatively small volume, and: was absorbed by the covering of recent Wall Street and local sellers. Cotton futures opened steady: Dec.. 12.85; Jan, 11.96: Man'll 12.20; May I 12.42: July 12.62. SEEK TO ACCOUNT FOR MYSTERIOUS ATTACKS j Rowan County Man Shot at Twice By Unidentified Assailant, Salisbury, Dec. 7.—Sheriff Kridcr is endeavoring to unravel two mys- ] ..teriouy shooting which took,....place! about five miles from this city. Sun- J day night Lonnie Moore, a young r white man. and a plumber by trade, j residing in this city, was at the home | of his mother-in-law, in the country j where his wife is spending some j time. He went into the yard and some one shot at him, the ball, be lieved to have been from a rifle, hit him in the left arm. He saw a figure in the dark but cou-d not recognize the party. ! Monday afternoon he was in the I yard again and a bullet from an I ! undetermined direction and said to j jbe from a pistol, hit him in the left j ha lid. A night or two ago the home of, Moore’s mother-in-law, where lie was at the time, was rocked. He says lie knows of no reason for the attacks. CLARA OLSON’S BODY AGAIN PUT IN GRAVE Those Attending Funeral of Murder ed Girl Pray For Slayer’s Salva tion. Prairie du Ohien, Wi’s., Dec. 7. The body of Clara Dorothy Olson. 22yenr-old sweetheart of Erdnmn Olson, charged with her merger, was buried today beneath a clump of trees close to the little Norwegian church which she attended, nnd in which, a few minutes before, the congregation prayed for the forgive ness and salvation of her slayer. The funeral today followed closely in the finding of a coroner’s jury yesterday, which named the 18-year old eollege boy as the slayer. No clue to his whereabouts has been | definitely learned, but another of the . numerous suspects rc(*ortcd was ’ll custody at Springfield, 111., awaiting 'cut ideation. NEW SERIES % ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4th We Open Our 77th Series of Building and Loan Running Slices, worth SIOO at maturity, will cost you only 25c a week. Building and Loan is the ideal way for wage earners to save money, or to get the funds to pay for their homes. There is no better investment than prepaid shares of our stock, which are tax exempt. If you are not familiar with the Building and Loan we will be pleased to explain it to you. Concord Perpetual Build ing and Loan Association OFFICES AT CABKKRtTS'SAVINGS BANK H. I. WOODHOUSE P. B. FETZER Secretary and Treasurer Asst. Secretary lie accountants in their regular qunr-i terly audit of the treasurer's hooks about a week ago. Soon afterward Mr. Sanders was called before mem bers of the convention's finance com mittee and upon being confronted with i the evidence gathered by the account ants. Mr. McDaniel stnted, admitted the shortage and offered to make res titution to the limit of his resources Other than to admit that reports of* a shortage in his accounts were cor-1 rect Mr. Sanders said lie had no state-) ment to make at this time. He ten- ' dered his resignation at the meeting of the finance committee. ftiissj.... —" 1 a BOY WAS COLD ANI) PICKED I P THE COAT It Happened to Be a Convict’s Coat. —Boy Returned to Eastern Train- j ing School. I Raleigh Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh. Dee. 8. —Because he was cold, he picked up a coat that was lying on the ground and put it on. And because it happened to be a con vict's coat, and lie was strange to] the guards out at the Polk prison i farm, he was detained for question-] ing. Thus Lewis Moon, who es caped from the Eastern Carolina Training School at Rocky Mount last Friday, was caught just Outside the Raleigh city limits along the Durham road yesterday, and today is being held at the State prison for the school ! authorities to. come for him. Moon, when first picked up by of ficers, stated that he had run away from his home, near Burlington, and I thnt a man had given him the coat. J But since the coat was of the type j worn by the A grade prisoners, the • guards knew he must have picked it i up. Finally lie admitted to George Ross Pou, superintendent of the pris on, to whom he was taken, that he had escaped from the Rocky Mount school Friday and was walking from i Raleigh toward Dui’.uvm, when he saw ,j the coal the jfield, close to the. Wja.4 J He did not know that it wftsrthe pfis-> 1 on farm he was passing, or that it i was a prison coat. All lie knew was j that the weather was eo'.d, and thnt j he was chilled through and wanted j t'.ie coat. So hd took it. The boy was very cold and hungry, and was given a good meal' and some warmer clothes at the prison, where he was kept by Mr. Pou for the Rocky Mount school officials. Moon’s home is at Snow Camp. Alamance county, and he was sent to the training school for breaking and entering a store with ' several others. The other boys, older | than 'lie, were sent to State prison, he I said. I Blind Cotton Picker Wins Office in Texas. Weatherford, Texas, Dec. 8. — Blind 12 years. Dan Carroll. 41, has left West Texas i-otton fields where he has picked a daily average of 200 pounds, and is preparing to take the office of Parker county tax collector here January 1. Early this year. Oarroll, announc- ed for collector. With assistance of his wife and his 14-year old son. he made a race without speeches be cause of hiis affliction- Going into tile Democratic run off, Tarroll was re turned winner over Clyde Holey, in cumbent. That was in August. When cotton harvest began Carroll took his family to the fields, where he groped bis way with sensitive fingers that left but few loose cotton strnnds for a child to pick behind him. | In Russia and-Poland a little hay is placed upon the table at Christmas lime to commemorate Christ’s lowly ; birth, and this is carried out to the ' animals. "■ ' ' - 1 T'V*P| THE TRIBUNE PRINTS I * TODAY’S NEWS TODAtij — ■■■■ NO. 288 OKI) EL ME ID TO DISCUSS HIS OIL CONDUCT I Mrs. Doheny and Edward, i Jr., Also May Testify, I Defense Counsel Dis closed During the Day. DEFENSE ABOUT THROUGH NOW (Case May Be Ended in Day or Two—Edwin S. Denby Subpoenaed as a Defense Witness. j Washington, Deo. 8. — (M —Hasten- ! ing toward conclusion of their ease. J ) defense counsel in the oil conspiracy f 1 trial today disclosed that Edward L. % Doheny, joint: defendant with former Interior Secretary Fall probably j would himself take the stand for qijes lioning about his oil leases and the SIOO,OOO he ndvnneed to Fall before the lease awards were made. It is possible that Mrs. Doheny and ; heir son, Edward, Jr., may also testi- | fy. The torn-off signature of Fall’s , note for SIOO,OOO was given to Mrs. ’ Doheny for safe keeping and the son acted as his father's messenger in de- I livery of tlie cash to the cabinet mem- ,5 her. Conclusion of the defense ease with l in a few days is expected, despite the I interruption yesterday resulting from ! the illness of the elderly oil man. This morning Mr. Doheny was back/ at '.iis place in the court room and his physicians said he appeared definitely on the way to recovery. Edwin S. Denby, who was secre tary of the navy when the Elk Hills lease was awarded to Doheny, was subpoenaed today as a defense wit ness. The former navy chief was called for examination a.« to the part the navy played in shaping the oil leas ing policies in conjunction with the , interior department during the Hard- - ing administration. First, however, the defense resumed presentation of character witnesses for > - Doheny including three Los Angeles ~ neighbors of the oil man. Denby Testifies. !M Washington, Dec. _8c —Off) —Much ■ j ’ of the responsibility Tor the oiT leas ing policy of 1922 was shouldered in , court here today by Edwin ?. Denby, t then Secretary of the Navy. 1 I Called by the attorneys defending former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall, and Edward L. Doheny, the oil i . magnate, on a conspiracy charge in . connection with Doheny’s acquisition • of the Elk Hills lease, the former . naval secretary said he himself had suggested to Fall that the naval oil 1 reserve be transferred from the Navy i to the Interior Department to permit • steps to prevent draining by private . wells adjoining. Fall said he would help ns much ; ns he could to thnt end. the witness i continued. Denby then broached the subject to President Harding. wty> is . sued tiie transfer order. Fall helped ; draft it, and Harding signed it in ■ June, 1921, While Denby was out. of ) the city. Some officers of the navy • approved the transfer and the Presi ■ dent was acquainted with this fact before he issued the order. - , Agl The former secretary said the first. suggestion of a storage project at Pearl Harbor. Hawaii, also originated in the navy department and that navy* officers first thought of the plan to convert naval crude oil into fuel oil for storage under a certificate plan Which would not require enabling leg islation by Congress, the Pearl HArbor contract subsquently went to Doheny. . Denby approved the conversion pro- \ posnl. he said, after the plan had I been held to be legal by the judge ad vocate general's office. He said that very shortly after he entered the Harding cabinet in March. 1921 lie was advised that the Naval oil lands in California were being drained by private wells near the rim of the public domain. “1 was very much disturbed by the situation," he said. He did not know fronj whom this advice came. His first move, he said, was to so licit the co-operation of Secretary Fall of the Interior Department. "I told him of the difficulties I saw, and asked him if Ills department could give us any help." said Denby. j “What did Fall say?” asked defense counsel. "He said his department had all the work it could handle, but would be \ g'ad to do what he could.” “And did you speak to anyone sle?" ’t "Yes, I presented the matter to the j President." "Tell what you said in substance tp President Harding," "I urged the President to issue an » executive order transferring the naval . reserves to tile interior department.” . "What did the President say?” f “He said he would do so,” "Did Secretary Fall assist in draft- j ing such an order?” "He did.” Resemblance to Otto Leads Man f Afoul of Police, 1 Lenoir, Dec. 7—Bill Crew*,’ a’ local furniture man who travels this territory, was stopped twice while i on route to Elkin, by Officers, wira- I thought he was Otto Wood, tMy criminal, who mcaped from the statel penitentiary several days ago. Abet cause Os mistaken identity brought, about on "I Mr. Crews bar ing one artificial hand. about the same dcscTiptiaat (fitful * o •
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Dec. 8, 1926, edition 1
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