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associated k PRESS PISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI BOOK DISCUSSES ■IIS LOM HASH 111 LIFE • Says SIOO,OOO Loan Was Was Not Only One He Has Made to His Friend, Albert B. Fall. LOANED^BREGON BIG SUM ONCE Advanced $10,000,000 to Mexican Government.— Let Fall Have $5,000, * Just Before the Trial. I Washington, D<*o. 10.—(A s )—Under cross examination toda.v in his trial for criminal conspiracy. Edward L. Doheny said that his celebrated SIOO,- 000 loan to Albert B. Fall, was not: the only money he had advanced to k h : a friend and co-defendant since Fall f was a cabinet member. Asked what other loans he bod made, ho said lie loaned Fall $5,000 just before he came to Washington for the trial. He then said he had had no financial transactions with Fall other than the. SIOO,OOO while Fall was in the* cabinet. The prosecution asked if he had made any other loans since Fall re signed, but the defense objected, and the court took the question under ad wsement. Doheny nlso disclosed that 'he had loaned the Obregon government of Mexico $10,000,000 in the form of ad vanced taxes on Pan-American Petro leum Mexican properties. Fall acted as agent for Pan-American interests in Mexico in arranging this $10,000.- 000 loan after he left the cabinet, said the witness. He could* not fix the date, but he re called “it saved the situation in Mex ico much to the disgust of many Am ericans." Doheny said, however, that Fall ! was hot in his employment, but that ) his advice merely had been sought in connection with the Obregon loan. The money was used for rehabilitation of the Mexican army's entire revolution ay maneuvers. Owen D. Roberts of government special counsel, .conducted the crosff • cxMninatiUtl, which began as soon as <s&r; WMutt - mbs- ttteffimrr. -jom promised to continue for several hours. Soigne time during the afternoon, Sec retary Wilbur, of the Navy, was to bo questioned about Navy records of a “war sea re" in the Tactic at the time Doheny was given the lease to the Elk Hills oil reserve. It was in dicated that, Fall might also take the stand. Roberts directed Doheny’s testimony immediately to the Elk Hills lease of December It, 1922, in which more than .'ttL(KX) acres of naval oil land went Os Doheny’s Pan-American Pe troleum Company of California for royalty operation while Fall was in the cabinet. The prosecutor asked if a $15,000.- 000 investment by the Doheny com pany under the lease would not result in benefits quite apart from any profits which might accrue through "the pro duction of naval oil from Elk Hills. Doheny said it would, but it would be impossible to separate benefits un assigned proportions to the respective sources. The witness coneeded he had not told “everythimig I know” when he appeared in January, 1024, bebfote the Senate oil committee.. This was in response to a question whether.he did not in fact have some advance information about Fall's re tirement from the cabinet in 1021. Doheny said be did. “I wasn’t telling Senator Pittman (a member of the committee) every thing I knew. «He wasn't very polite to me and I wasn't very polite to him,” added the witness. He then corroborated his statement before the Senute committee that his SIOO,OOO loan to Fall before the Elk , Hill lease was awarded was kept ap*. P cret because he feared that unless all the facts surrounding his relations with the then Secretary-of the Inte rior were known, the traftsaction would ot he “understood” by the I pbblio. ' Roberts bore down then on the SIOO,OOO. , ' “Why, dii) you send your son with the motaey?" v* • f \ 1 “Because I had rather trust my son than anybody .else.” “Did you send money to Mexico by your son?” . / “No, by other trusted agents.” The prosecutor also hammered hard at Dobeny’s statement that he didn’t tell the Senate committee everything. “You know, Mr. Doheny, that you ■s illfiUb £ —SSTCT >■ M ■’ j >W& <1 I * Partly cloudy and colder tonight; Saturday fair, colder on the coast. Moderate west and northwest winds. The Concord I>ailt Tribune North Carolina's Leading Small City Daily j Votes Probe ! I mIOH mmv w *jm jp Senator Arthur E. Gould, of Maine, voted for a Senate resolution ordering an inves tigation into charges of brib« try made against him. f|l>f«SlSil/lDtl NmvmU THE COTTON MARKET Oepened Easy Today, First Prices Showing Declines of 5 to 11 Points. New York, Dec. 10. —OP)—The cot ton market opened easy today, first prices showing declines of 5 to 11 points under .further southern hedg ing and local selling promoted by rela tively easy Liverpool cables. The decline seemed to bring in some trade buying ns. well as covering and prices rallied a few points, but selling continued and active months were about 7 to 10 points net lower at the end of the first hour. Janunry wns around 11.77 and May 12.22. It was reported that houses with | Bombay and China connections were [receiving some buying orders this morning, but Liverpool wns a seller here during early trading. Private cnbles said calling and cov ering had been offset by hedge selling in the Liverpool mnrket, and reported a bearish sentiment in Manchester .with demand for cotton doth disap pointing. ~<4#en<td e* *}•_:,. JieC**. 12.17: .Tail, 11.811 March 11.98; May 12.25; July 12.43. REPORT SETTLEMENT OF THE SALM SLIT Count Said to Have Received From *500.000 to 1t. 000,000 From Wire. New York, Dec. 10.—(A 5 ) —Reports of a prospective cattii settlement rang ing from one half to one million dol lars were in circulation today after the sudden adjournment of the sepa ration suit of Count Ludwig Snlm Hoogstraeten against his wife, the .former Millicent Rogers, Standard Oil hejress. Official confirmation wns lacking, and Herman (ioodstein, counsel for the count, denied that any settlement had been made. Nevertheless New York newspapers said they had authoritative informa tion that when the case again is called on January 17th, announcement would be made that a settlement had been reached out of court. One report was that Colonel Wil liam H. Rogers in making the settle ment insisted that Count Snlm re Tinquish all claim to his two-year old son, Peter, and that lie leave the country never to return. Members of the Rogers family could not be reached, and Albert C. Con way, counsel for Ibe countess, de clared he had nothing to say. Drank Himself to Death on Extracts. Asheville, Dec. 10.—(A*)—As a re sult of drinking 00 of the 144 bottles of extracts he purchased two weeks ago, preparatory to the Christmas holiday trade, J. Frank Phillips, 47, a local grocer, was found dead sitting on the side of bis bed Friday morn ’ ing. Coroner John L. Carroll pro nounced "death dug to alcoholic pois oning.” j Phillips is survived by a widow and three children. Death of Judge E. B. Gary. Atlanta, Go., Dec. 10.-^tA>)—Justice Eugene B, Gary, ff, the South C'aro T lina Supreme Court, died at !ltlrso O’clock this morning. N i Justice Gary, who was 72 years old, had been a patient at a hospital here since November 21st suffering from a nervous breakdown. Pneumon ia and other complications developed and hope for his recovery was virtual ly abandoned several days ago. ITaeftrt Gifts At the Charles Store. In a half puage ad. today on pnge aeven the Charles Store tells you about some of the hundreds of bar gains you will find at this store. Hundreds of things for Christmas. Many ore enumerated in the ad. but I they have mnny more for you. Read the ad. and notice the very attractive prices. were under oath before the Senate committee.” “I do, very well.” “And you now say that- 1 -” "I answered Senator Pittman’s; questions thoroughly.” | “Then you had discussed Fail’s res ignation.” | “I had not. Fall had mentioned his thoughts to me. \We had not discuss ed It.” ’ \ * • i ; y V.T.’Jre Person Suit Against the Cotton Co-ops Has Not Materialized Raleigh Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleig’.i, Dee. 10.—While the threat ened suit of CO.onel Willie M. Person, of Louisburg, against the North Caro- j lina Cotton Growers’ Co-operative As sociation Ims so far failed to material-I ixe and the friends of the cotton as- J socintion are inclined to believe that ! it will not, following tile failure of bis previotm effort which last week wns noh-suited because of the with drawal of the plaintiffs, it is being generally rumored in Raleigh that Mr. Person is now turning his efforts to ward finding some grounds upon Watch suit can be brought against the cotton association in United States | district court here. Mr. Person has been seen hovering around nie federal bui.ding here while j federal court was in session, and it! Ih known that ho had several confer ences with Judge I. M. Meekins, who granted the receivership for the To, baooo Growers’ Co-operative Associn- JOHN GRAY SAVED ON EVE OF DEATH Governor Commutes Sentence When Judge and Solicitor Recommend. j Raleigh Tribune Bureau ■ j Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Dec. 10. —Instead of going to his death today in the electric chair at State prison John Gray will spend the remainder of his life behind its bars and walls. T'.iis became known when Governor A. W. McLean an nounced a few hours 'before the time i set for the execution that be bad com muted Gray's sentence to life im- r prisonment. In the statement, which aeeom-1 panied the announcement of the com-] mutation, tbe governor declared that | he bad taken this course only after careful atul thorough investigation which disclosed that there was some doubt as to the guilt of Gray, who was convisted almost solely upon the testimony of a confederate in the j crime, who w J a» given only a prison sentence, and upon a confession Gray ! made to a detective. The matter of Gray's sanity ulso entered into his final decision. As n result of findings made since the trial, the solicitor, trial judge and every member of the jury which con victed him, joined in the plea for clem- J eney along with dozens of other citi zens of Stanly county, all of whom contended that in view of the doubt as to his guilt and his mental oondi-, tion, that Gray’s sentence should be] commuted. In closing his statement j 1 biltt-JKSJT- Had all of the, fnets now nptwar ing been presented before the trial jury, the verdict would undoubtedly ; have been otherwise. This is dearly indicated by the strong recommenda tions made by those who heard the facts at the trial.” I Tom Bost has 'the following iu re gard to the Gray case in The Greens boro News: I Gray killed Dad Watkins in March of the present year, almost dismem bered him and partially cremated him. Nothing cruder in killing has ever been recorded in the state. Issues of san ity since the trial have been raised often, but, better still, the white man’s confederate is known to have fur nished the brain. That Contan, who is believed to have done tbe planning and Gray the crude slaying, must have helped Governor McLean to a deci sion. The governor lias expert knowl edge of the race from which the co killer comes. Yesterday when Lane Brown and Oscar J. Sikes, speaking for Gray without any fee or hope of one, presented these additional facts, they touched the governor from an ang'e not tried before. Pardon Commissioner Hoyle Sink, personally examining Gray, was not reatly to pronounce him quite so low in mentality us his neighbors. Mr. Sink declared today that Gray’ uses perfect English and talks with the tongue of the queen. But Mr. Sink did not put himself in the way of clem ency. lie sat with the governor and was agreeable to the commutation. Stanly came down finely for Gray. Governor McLean notes tbe oireum sancc that Gray is not of the class liable to get ljuich piib'.ic help. Con sequently fhc wishes'ot Judge Schenck, NEW SERIES ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4th We Open Our 77th Series of Building and Loan Running Shares, worth SIOO at maturity, will cost you only 25c a week. Building and Loan is the ideal wav 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 CABARRUS SAVINGS BANK H. 1. WOODHOUSE P. B. FETZER Secretary and Treasurer Asst. Secretary CONCORD, N. C„ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1926 lion and in (lie obtaining of which re ceivership M r . Person had a liberal part. Mr. Person is still being ret tained as an attorney for the receiv I ers of tbe tobacco association. Wheth jer he conferred with Judge Meekiiu with regard to any possible aCMot I against the cotton co-operatives hat ; not been learned, but it is thought , probable. It is known, however, that M,r. Per-d son is holding liis action against the' cotton association in tbe state courts] in abeyance for some reason, and tjMta be is doing coixiiderahle delving into] record and law books. Hence it iso believed by a number who are closely * I interested in determining what his’ | course of procedure will be that be j is striving to develop some point in | law upon which he ran hang an no-, lion against roe cotton association in federal court. lit the meantime the officers of tbe ••otton association arc saying nothing and smiling complacently. AUTOMOBILE THEFTS A Total of 170 Cars Were Stolen in State in Past Year, f Raleigh, Dec. 10.—(A s )—The great j est outburst of automobile thievery in • North Carolina since last December wns reported for November by I.eland Harris, bead of the automobile theft bureau of t’.ie State department of revenue. A total of 170 cars was I stolen during the month and only 77 were recovered. The thefts were more numerous in the western part of tbe state, Mr. Harris declared, and attributed it to | the easy sale for stolen oars across jtlie state line in Tennessee where j there is no title registration law. | The increase was characterized as ] seasonal, theft,< always showing an in crease when the tourist season is at | its height. Last December more than] one hundred cars were stolen in the city of Asheville alone. With Our Advertisers. S. W. Preslar in a big ad. today ’ has many Christmas gift suggestions for you. Among them are. diamonds, j watches, pearls, silverware and jew elry. An Elgin watch in gold engrav ed cases at $12.50. Read the ad. for j other suggestions. . Patent cherry pumps, spike and Cu ban heel, widths AA to C. n't Merit Shoe Store. Also all velvet shoes at $2.05 and $8.05. See new ads. in I today's Tribune. i. Slippers, slioes and oxfords for men | an(l, women, $1.05 to $4.05 at Marksop p»i4lkawSxo»e. For children. 75 cents th-] $2.05. See ad. for other values. j i A big one at tile Concord Theatre i Monday and Tuesday will Ist “The ] Last Frontier.” a tensely thrilling ] 'western play by a oast of all-star j players. i You can get a $4(10.00 dining room j I suite for $.’!4K at the Concord Fitrir-j tore Co. Other suites ns low ns 1 $80.50 for ten pieces. Read the thveo eolumn ad. today. Beginning Saturday, December 11, i Efird's will stay open until 0 o'clock | each night until Christmas. You will find many Christmas gifts nt tbe Ritchie Hardware Co.'s. Go and see the many things this store has for you. Fresh country, fresh vegetables and fruits nt the ,T. & H. Cash Store. Special Sunday dinners at Ritchie's Case. Also regular dinners served each day. Alias Caldwell Awarded $50,000. Pittsburgh. Pa.. Dec. 10.—(A s ) Miss Anne Caldwell. New York show girl, wns awarded $50,000 by a fed eral court jury today in her $500,000 breach of promise suit against John \Y. Hubtfrd, wealthy Pittsburgh shovel manufacturer. The award was made in a sealed verdict agreed upon dur ing the night, and returned to Judge AY. IT. R. Thompson nt the opening of court. who sentenced. Solicitor Phillips, who tried and convicted him. and officers who were with him before and after trial, came from the hearts Gray had no family intercessidnists. >Hc got all Cue help through, no putt of any kind. $ i * , , .rt.. I Zizf Lambrino in Court v-e J tWm - iHifl 1 i ■HSHfIn ' HjpPUn ■ ■ Bf fm mßHsm I r Hj j • at If, Hifrr Wt Bfi BR;~ -'jf m* 1 Zizi Lambrino, morganatic wife of Prince Carol, of Ktminnia, is shown in court in Paris, where she filed soil lo nunpei the recognition of her child by Carol. Her lawyers arc shown with her. latfirnatiQß*] VfewarAAL HAS THE ROLE OF | I HERO THRUST UPON HIM 1 Billy Hill Has Had Hand in Rescue Work of Four Explosions. I Cumnock, N. C„ Dec. 10. —OP)— I Billy Hill, innately modest behind his] mask of bituminous grime, simply can’t Jtept out of the limelight. . Four times has he had the rote of ( hero thrust upon him—four times in the thirty odd years that lie has watched the Deep River coal fields grow from an uncertain enterprise to one of the state's boasted industries. ] For generations Billy Hill’sC* fore-; bears bad foiled in the 'black* mines of > ' '‘W.rtcs before he came to Aajeriea to j become a naturalized citizen and a leader of the Deep River mining eom- [ I imniity. ] He Inis bad a hand in the rescue i work in each of the four explosions | that have marred tile progress of the j I milling industry in North Carolina, j 1 lie led the rescue party into the 1.000- Ifoot level of the Erskino-Ramsey mine Inst month after a blast bad taken the ! lives of two men and left two others J seriously injured. He directed the reifiovnl of the bodies and die injured 1 mefi through an air shaft and then , went back to repair the damage, j But the experience nt tbe hist ex- 1 plosion was the least of the veteran I miner's four close associations with tragedy. The most momentous of I these is but eighteen months removed : ! the Carolina blast in May of last year in whic'u 54 miners lost their lives, but there are two others back in the 'nineties. “Hill” is the first thought in the mine folks' mind when disaster im pends, and Hill lias never failed thepi. Three times he answered the rail on the outside of wrecked workings and once with the entombed men. In die Carolina blast lie brought j over his crew from the adjacent Ersk-1 ine-Ramsey mine and stuck with the I rescue work until the last man lmd j been taken from tbe pit. Federal < and state mining experts were warm | . in their prise of Hill and his tireles* ! crew. But Hill was old in rescue ways] tllfeii. He accepted contact with death j without outward emotion. lie handled i corpses of men he had known inti-] mately without a qualm. He bad j learned the exactions of the mine, j In earlier days it was different.., He ] was young, and coal mining in Caro-1 liua was an infant industry. True the j mines had been worked back in the j Civil War days but they had been' abandoned. The explosion in the Cumnock mine in 1805 was the first intimation to many people that there was a coat mine in the state. Forty-five miners . j died in that expjosiah anti Billy Hill | I was among the most tireless of the j rescuers. The memory of the first! disaster had barely faded before lie was trapped in a second blast in the j same workings in 1898. Hill’s res- j rue efforts in that emergency were j from the inside out. He worked with ] a band of entrapped men and reached I j safety but 21 miners deeper in the pit were killed. I Then came a long period of trnn quality. Production of coal increased. | More miners were attracted and pros perous villages arose at Cumnock aud Coal Glenn. For a quarter of a century there was not an accident of enough im portance to excite the immediate com munity. The miners lapsed into a feeling of immunity from tbe dangers attending other mines, whan out of a clear sky came the gventest disaster of all—at Coal Glenn in 1925. Billy Hill and the other valiant men who toiled through that catas trophe had barely recovered when an other explosion called for more res- 1 cue efforts at the Erskinc-Ramsey dig gings. —*«- Billy BUII just don’t seem to be able to stay out of danger—and the lime j light | THE UNPICKED COTTON ' -» | Difficult to Tell How Much May Be Left In the Fields. Raleigh Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Dec. 10.—While more cot ton than usual may he left in the ' fields unpicked in North Carolina, what the total amount will be in nil the cotton states is still a matter of conjecture and is very indefinite, ac cording to A. M. McOandliss, chief cotton statistician of the crop report i ing board. United States department i of agriculture, who is in Raleig'a as ’ mating Frank I'atker, state statisti cian. in’ asseniWtUg +ke -final figuaes for the results of all crops, as well as ! cotton, for the current year. While i there is slight probability that any more cotton will be picked in this state, especially if cold weather and i rain is prevalent, there is a possibil i ity that with a rise in prices and continued favorable weather, much more might still be picked. I "The reason it is difficult to fore tell ’how much col ton will he left in I'.ie fields unpicked,is because this de -1 pends almost entirely on two factors, ■ namely weather and price,” said Mr. j .McCnndless. "For instance, last wint j ! er, cotton was still being picked in j Mississippi as late as March. And j if the price would advance one or two ! cents a pound now, most of the cotton | now in the fields would be picked.” The full and final report on produc tion for the jurrcnt crop year ending December Ist will be released Decem ber 20th, and the North Carolina of fice of t’he crop reporting service, un der the direction of Mr. Parker, is be- I ing kept busy preparing all the figures 1 from the data collected. There is , very heavy production in nil crops in j North Carolina this year, and in vir ! tually all sections of the country as | well, reports indicate. NORWOOD CASES WAIT UNTIL THE JUNE TERM ' Former Salisbury Man. Convicted I Once. To Be Tried on Additional j <'mints. ■■. , i Greensboro, Dec. 9- —Cases in j which J. D. Norwood, formerly ot 1 Salisbury, is charged with violation 1 of the federal bunking laws, ns a re j suit of the failure June 8. 11)2:1. of : the People's National Bank of Salis bury, were ordered continued in j United States district court here to- I day, until the term next June. Nor-? - wood, who was ehnirman of the board of directors of the bank,-was convicted last December of the same dliarge and sentenced to serve three years in the United 'States prison at Atlanta, appealed and the appeal has i not yet been passed niton by circuit court of appeals. , , 1 I Norwood was indicted on four ■counts. He was tried on one and a ' mistrial resulted. Then he was tried [jointly with K. K. Doughton, who j was president of the bank. Norwood • was convicted, Doughton acquitted- There yet remains one indictment i against Norwood and another against Norwood and Doughton jointly, and I the last is also continued art to Doughton as well as Norwood. Suit For SIO,OOO. Charlotte, Dec. !>.—Edward Ivers. a plumber, today tiled suit for SIO,OOO damages against Conor and Walters, barber supply dealers as a result of the explosion on a eongressed air tank. Ivers, who was employed by the Standard Engineering Company ! in the same building, charges that the explosion wrecked a portion of the building in which he was working : causing molten lead to’ enter his ear and destroy his heating. i Ten Pages Today Two Sections OUR RI LE AS TO PAID ADVERTISEMENTS The Tribune's rule in regard to Ihe publication of reading notices of entertainments. lectures, box suppers, etc., to which an admission fee is charged, or at which. xto is sold will be as follows Five cents a line will b -*%- TT ed with a credit of 5 lines of read- ] era for every ineb of display adver- ! tising used. We will also give j credit on the account for all tick- | ets to such entertainments which we can urc. We assure our friends that it is ( , our desire to be as liberal as pos- I sible in these matters. We would j I be glad to publish all such notices, | free, but the constantly mounting j costs of publishing The Tribune I | prevents such a policy. duke university day Students and Alumni to (lather To- j morrow at Designated Places. Durham, Dec. 10.— UP) —Duke stu- ' dents and alumni throughout North) Carolina will gather at specially des ignated places on December 11th to celebrate "Duke University Day.” The date is of particular signifi cance. It was then, two years ago. that the late James B. Duke, multi millionaire tobacco and water power magnate, signed the indenture creat ing the institution bearing his name. By this gift the Durham institution now has funds for maintenance and expansion equalled only by one or two of the largest northern institutions. The observance Saturday is looked j upon as the inauguration of a cus tom which will have December 11th of each year set aside for honoring the University and the man who made it possible. Meetings this year have been plan ned for the campus at Durham and later an alumni session down town, Raleigh. Greensboro, Winston-Salem. Asheville, Charlotte, Laurinburg and Rocky Mount. Well known speak ers have been obtained for every place. THE CASE OF FAB PAGE Will Reach Jury’ Late Today.—Plead ed Guilty to Second Degree Mur der. Raleigh. Dec. 10.— UP)— With argu ment to the jury and Judge Daniels' charge taking the entire afternoon, the case of Fab Page, aged 37. charged with slaying his father neared reach ing the jury in Durham County super ior court late tociay. Page pleaded guilty to second de gree Witrder. but claimed welt iMetpiei His six sisters and only brother took the stand to testify to his good char acter. and his father’s violent temper. References were made to a woman said to be well known here, and alleged to have been at the root of the trouble, but she was not named. DAWES HONORED Vice President Receives Nobel Peace Prize for 1923—Other Awards An nounced. Oslo. Norway, Dee. 10. — UP) —The i Nobel peace prize for 1925 has been awarded to Charles G. Dawes, vice president of the United Stntes, and Sir Austen Chamberlain, British sec retary of foreign affairs. This an nouncement was made today at a meeting of the Nobel Institute. It also was announced that the 1926 peace prize had been awarded to Aris- j tide Briand, French minister of for eign affairs, and to Dr. Gustav Strese mann, Germany's foreign minister. Toy B|iHpond Beat VMape’s Train Across Rocky Mountains. Glacier Park. Mont., l?ec;. 10.—UP) —Toy balloons sent up at Spokane, j Washington, on the occasion of the rccetlt visit there of Queen Marie, crossed Che Continental Dviide. evi dently in a ( hiiiock current.-and col iapoed, falling upon (l\c eastern slope of Mount Henry where they were picked up by an Indian. They were brought in to the Glacier Park agency and put aboard , the Royal Special tra'n as souvenirs when the party passed through here over the Great- Northern Railway, on its return jour ney eastward. They beat the train across the Ggeaf Difide by several hours. . Canton Jury Completed. Canton, 0., ; Dec. 10.—OP)—Twelve persons were chosen td try t*a trick Eugene McDermott for the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton publisher, shortly after, court convened this af ternoon. C. N. Whitehead Dead. St. Minis, Mo., Dee. 10.—OP)—C. N. Whitehead. 48, years old, president of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail road. who suffered a nervous break down last October, died in a hospital here today. BEAUTIFUL Christmas Cards 10 IN A BOX With Envelopes to Match FOR ONLY 50c A BOX TIMES-TRIBUNE OFFICE Phones 78 and 922 TODAY’S NEWS TODAY I -—' 1 NO. 290 ANOTHER EXPLOSION in mm nine MmiS RESCUE WORK j : Rescue Workers Were Not in Mine at Time and No ! Deaths Were Caused by ft the Explosion. fj SOME BODIES ARE STILL IN SHAFT (They Have Been There Since Thursday When First Explosion Trapped ( 69 Men at Work. j Princeton, Ind., Dee. 10.— UP) —■ | Another expiortion occurred in the ) Francisco coal mine No. 2 this morn- r I ing, but as no rescue workers were in ' it at the time no further casualties resulted. The mine was ordered sealed immediately, leaving within Its ; workings the three men accounted for, and the bodies, of two others which were found early today. The pitchy odor of smouldering pine had driven the rescue workers front the shaft last night after they had accounted for sixty-«ix of the 71 men , men who were caught by the ogploa- |[ ion as they went down to work yes- ' ; [ lerday. Pausing only for a cup of . coffee the crew members gathered ; about a chart of the uuderground , chambers, and spent three hours check* ing and rechecking to determine which jof the entries had been explored. The . explosion today, however, prevented their return to the mine. Crepe marked the doors of nearly a score of the modest homes near the V [ mine today as the survivors of the . disaster rested from the shock of it, and their arduous rescue efforts made before the work was turned over to trained teams from adjacent communi ties. State mine inspectors from near- 'M . by cities were in charge of the work ■% , and were aided by Federal reseuerif teams from Vincennes, Evansville and * . Danville, 111. Thirty victims, five of them criti . rally Injured, remained in a local hoe- I pital today. All had been burned J , and some suffered broken bones when S . the impact of the explosion threw them against timbers and mine walls. I>r. Burnell P. Jones, ft Uty Leader. S j Retracts His Statement Made About , Two Ministers. *' " Danville, Va„ Dee. 9 DanviHe’s , religious storm disappeared today nearly as fast as it came up \fith i Rev. J. M. tjhelbume. Baptist, nud | Rev. T. A. Smoot, Methodist, electing , not to answer the attnckg made upon j them at a laymens' meeting yesterday, j Dr. Burnell P. Jones, who brought accusations ngninst these ministers al leging that they were responsible for [ negative action by the ministerial as- / sociation on an invitation to Evange- * list M. F. Ham. of Kentucky, reednt cd publicity. In a published statement Dr. Jones, prominent Danville dentist, said that ' , i "after prayerful consultation with | .Tesus” he had come to the conclusion , I that lie had misrepresented facts I through overzeal and that he bad | asked forgiveness by the two ipinis- I term, also their prayers. , Jj I I The ministers, while making no di- ?5j | l-ect statement, are understood to take '■ i ! the stand that to reply to the charges ' and seek justification for their vote ( on the Ham matter would only pro- ( long a public discussion harmful to ' Hie church mid they’ prefer to how silently to the'accusations mnde, anil . let them go at that. Vote io Retain Appropriation for Pro- Mbit ion Unit. Washington, Dei'. 10.— UP) —By voie of 141) to 12 tlie House today re- ■ jeered a move to eliminate the sl.) -fj 9i)0.(100 carried in the Treasury ]K>s{ office bill for the prohibition Unit, .if’ 'j|| Paehttch Dead. * Mg Belgrade, \ Jflgo-Slavia, Dec. 10.—t- Jg OS’)—Nikolai P.-N PacHifeh. forme? - prefnier dud minister 'of foreign af fairs. died today. The Lutheran; BrotWrhood qf St. James Lutheran Ch.urth will not' meejt ./■ tonight, but will meet next Friday night tin- 17th. It is dtsireil that al£ : ‘J, j members be. present ati,that time to - hear the Echoes from the State Brotlit Ai eriiood Convention which was held in ; ' Salisbury Thursday. There are more than 1,000 island* in tlie BritU’a Isles. (X-h| fHEINfcICH HOCH \ o Wm Jgr ' f j f ;I‘| I I v j I
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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Dec. 10, 1926, edition 1
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