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T" ■ -tit, 11 ASSOCIATED ■ • P&ESS dispatches - Tr fal - 1 VOLUME XXVI, The Defense Rests In Fall - Doheny Oil Conspiracy Charge Attorney for Pall Aban doned the Proposal to Have Him Take Stand in His Own Behalf. CASE IS SOON TO < GO TO THE JURY John McCormack is Char acter Witness for Do heny.—Sudden Ending Causes Surprise. Washington, Doe. 11. —C/P)—T’.ie de fense rested today in the Fali-Doheny oil conspiracy charge. , ' Attorneys for Edward 1.. Doheny! and Albert 8.. Fall announced their readiness to send the case to the jury , within a few minutes after the opeu-j ing of today'/ session of court. They abandoned the proposal to have Fail I himself take the stand ns Doheny had done, and explain the story of the! SIOO,OOO that passed between the oil! magnate and the then interior seerc-1 lory in 1921, before Doheny's oil in- 1 terests were awarded the lease to Elk Hills. The ease on behalf of Doheny him self was rested late, yesterday, and two character witnesses were called for Fall. One of them was Post : master General New. Today-the Fall attorneys said they were content to rest, without putting another word of evidence into the record, but t'utf Do heny counsel secured permission to re open their ease in order to hear John McCormack, the singer, ns a character witness for Doheny. , Then Owen J. Roberts, for the gov ernment, began the presentation of the prosecution's rebuttal. It w«R indicated that the case would go to the jury e*rty next week. T.io sudden termination Os the de fense case apparently surprised the prosecution. It had been decided on in overnight conferences among coun- 1 sc I who assessed the iMissible effect of several important developments dur ing yesterday's session. These in cluded the reafsfance of Doheny him se’.f to the penetrating cross examina tion by Roberts, and the refusal of Secretary Wilbur to produce confi dential .navy records in which othet > witnesses have testified to a war scare in the 4*f*ci|ic ip wht* Qiyieity took ■tlie first of his oil leases, a con tract to build a nnvnl fuel oil base at l’eprl Harbor. Roberts then begnn the rebuttal by reading a letter from Head Admiral .7. K..Robison, who represented the navy in the leasing negotiations. The letter was dated March 24. 1922, and was addressed to t'.te late Representa tive I*. H. Kelly, then chairmnn of the House naval, affairs committee. In i response to Kelly's request for infor mation as'to the navy's oil leasing I pfiiicy of leasing land only w'jere drainage of. naval oil through private . wells rnnde offset operations desirable, j Roberts said in his o|>ening. statement . three weeks ago that he would show; Robison refused information to mem- 1 hers of Congress concerning the leas ing policy. ('hurt Adjourns Till Monday. Washington. Dec. 11.—(>P)—Pre sentation of evidence was completed in the trial of Albert F. Fall and Ed ward L. Doheny on u charge of crim inal conspiracy. Court adjourned un til Monday when argument will begip. ■ ('lapliu I‘ary Was “Tame” Affair. Los Angylcs, l*ec. 11.—The after midnight party at the Charles Chap lin mansion which was described as the immediate cause of the separa tion of the film star and his wife, would be considered “somewhat dull" by the younger generation. At least that is Miss Helen De Laine’s opin ion of it. Miss De Lai no' is a young friend of Mrs. J/ita Grey Chaplin and was present. She lave hqr version of it to. newspapermen last night. "The party was very circumspect and quiet,” Miss De Laine declared. "It was not at all like published account!* of parties given in the homes of movie stars. "About ten of-.us left the Biltmore Hotel ah; ut 12:150 at in., and motored at the Chaplin-■ home .at Beverly Hi Us, arriving there shortly before 1 o'clock. After, w e ■'Utered some onp started tho phonograph arid some of iis were sitting uround and others dancing, wheu I, noticed' Lita sudden ly 1 lenyingpho room. "Then someone came in and call er her mother,. Mrs- Spicer, apd she also left the room. After a short time they both returned and Lita stopped the music and said: ’“The party is all off. I’m sorry, and-Cvery one left. "Tiiis thtew a damper fin the par ty. There- had been no liquor served either qt .he home or at the hotel.", ,* *i%. * \ Clear and Colder] Colder in the central and east por tions tonight; Sunday, fair, colder on cast coast. Fresh east winds. The Concord Daily Tribune - . ; •. North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily y v • v — * RESULTS IMMINENT IN ' I SOrril CAROLINA LYNCHING l Apprehension Expected of the Men Who Lynched Three Negroes In Oc tober. (By International News Service). , Columbia. S. C„ Dee. 11. — Uover ' nor Mcl.eod i.* up agninst the hardest I job Ids nriininistrntlrAi has yet known, . and whereas the public has about con cluded ■ I lint nothing would be done. ' it now appears tha; something as p about lo "break." The job before the chief executive now is I lie apprehension of (Vie men Who lynched the three I-ewmnn ne • groes in Aiken county in October. ’ While it has been generally assumed j>y the pithlic that the governor, was 'somewhat sow ill starting his investi ' gal ion, it now appears that results , are imminent. | Governor McLeod stated that lie feels good over f.ie results of the in- I vestigation tbuti far. and believes that , members of thfi lynching mob will be I 1 apprehended. "When I so out of office on Janu ary 18th an initial step will have 1 been taken —I don’t propose to pass the buck to my successor,” said the governor. Governor McLeod stated that he hxppcted to be able to make some defi nite announcement regarding the next development if the ease within the next week or ten days. He said his recent activities i* the investigation has developed new evi dence. pointing to other members of the mob besides those mentioned in af fidavits • by prisoners who were in j the Aiken jail and swore they saw amt recognized men who took the Lew mans from the jail. The hew evi , deuce iR not based on the word of prisoners alone, the governor said, al though it fully corroborates that giv en by I'jem. The prisoners in their affidavits named only those of the mob who came into the jail. The new* evi dence points to other members of the | ( lynching party. "This is certain,’* continued the | governor. “We are not up against a blunk wall now. Our case grows stronger ami resulfs nrc to be ex pected soon.” l'nder the law the governor could fhitinte action in two days, either by to the grand jury and let that 'Body bring-action or go before a magistrate and swear otit a , warrant, and* let the defendants, if I they choose, stand preliminary trial j in magistrate court. It is regarded as probable he will use the grand jury method, as to go into magistrate's court would limit the evidence tlmt could be produced nt the trial. The governor’s plans, following completion of his investiga j tion. nre not known, j He has not decided whether any possible case would he held for the next term C|f court in Aiken, whirii I would be after his term of office ex : pires. or whether he would ask for a ; special term of court prior to Janu ! ary 18th. It is generally regarded as the prob able sequel to indictments, if such nre brought, that a change, of venue would be asked, either to Bamberg or Barnwell county, the other two conn tie.* in Aiken's district. It Is believed tliat the governor will go into consultation at an early date -wit',i Solicitor E. D. Carter, of the second circuit, and probably also with Atlorney General Daniel, though no announcement to this effect hns been made. The governor said that if the investigation leads to court action it will be his purpose to operate through the regular prosecution channels. I Among the callers on the governor was Oliver H. P. Garrett, representa tive of the New York World, who ’lias been writing a series of articles for his paper on the Aiken lynching, and who lias repeatedly charged the gov ernor with being slow in his investi gation and not pressing for results. Tile governor chided Mr. Garret con siderably as to his charges. “It won’t be long before ,we will have something to tell you,” the gov ernor said. “Why, up in your country a ease usually goes to trial several years af ter the crime is committed. Take the Hall-Mills ease, for instance. And yet down here you expected us, in this ‘benighted land' to get a conviction in ten days. But maybe that’s- a com pliment. You either must' regard us as super men or as fools.” Other Names for Christmas. New York, Dec. 11.—Christmas Day’s full title is “The Nativity of Our Lord, or the Birthday of Christ,” to which the prayer book somewhat quaintly adds : “Commonly called Christmas Day.” The oldest name for Christmas is “The Feast of Light.” This has no reference to the multi tude of lights burnt in churches and homes as part of the Christinas re joicings. The name is in remem branch of the lighted heavens in which tfie angels appeared on thfc first Christ mas Day. Another Christmas name is "The Feast-r-or Festival;—of the Incarnation.’’ ' This holds the re minder that the coming of the Babe of Bethlehem- meant that God was incarnate—ln flesh—on the world. Still another name for Christmas was “Goode's Day,” a term found in very hold carols. Jake Schaefer, 8r„ popularly 1 known as the “Wizard,” was the ■ originator of the anchor shot and i was responsible for the innovation of balkline billiards. FOUR MUSIC HILL ACTRESSES BURNED TO DEATH IN ROME , ■ r 1 Trapped in Their Dressing I Rooms in Apollo Theatre by Flames Which Barred Their Escape. ONE BURNED WAS A GERMAN | * The Other Three Have Not Been Identified, But It i Is Believed They Also j Were Foreigners. i , Rome. Dee. 11.—(A?)—Trapped in I their dressing rooms by Homes which barred their escape and prevented the aid of firemen, four rnusiff hall act resses were burned to death late last night in the /Apollo Theatre. Moot of the actors in the burnpd theatre were recruited in Germany, J Austria and England. One of those burned to death was a German. The others (lave not been identified, hut it is believed they also were foreign ers. TIIE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady Today With Prices Frqm 2 lo 7 Points Higher. New York, Dec. 11. —Off*) —The cotton market opened steady today with prices 2 to 7 points higher in response to relatively steady Liverpool cables which evidently promoted fur | ther week-end covering. Trade buy ing also was reported in the spring and early summer monrhs, but on a little more Southern selling prices reacted after initial advance, to 1182 for Jan uary and 12.32 for May. or about 4 to (1 points above yesterday's closing quitatious. Trading was qu’et and fluctuations narrow. Liverpool cables said hedge selling had been absorbed by trade calling | and covering in Liverpool. | Tiie amount of cotton on ship board at the end of the week was es- I timated at 239,000 bales, agninst 109,000 last year. Cotton futures opened steady: Dee. 12.10 to 12.20; Jan. 11.80; March 12.07: May 12.30: July 12,52. Closed Steady. j New York, Dec. U. —Cutton. futures j closed steady 4 for 7 points Klgt#r i Jnn. 11.85: March 12.08; Mav 12.32; ,' I July 12.53; Oct. 12158. j FEW ATTEND MEETING OF BASEBALL FANS | Another Meeting Will Be Held Soon | to Decide Whether Concord Wants I a Team for 1»27. A mere hnmlftill of men turned out Friday night at the meeting of the baseball fans of Concord which was held at the court house with t’.ie pur- I*ose in mind of deciding whether Con cord wanted a baseball team for 1927. With such a small number present the meeting was not even cnlled to order and it was said today flint there woiiUf" be another meeting after the Christmas holidays. , The opinion was expressed today by several of the baseball fans Knit Con cord would want a team for 1927 and that a larger number would have been nt the meeting Friday night if it had been more widely- advertised. With Our Advertisers. Christmus trees at Crowell’s Plant Farm. They will deliver them to your home, call after Christmas .and plant them in your yard. The same tree can be used year after year. See ad. j The Red Cross mattress is a gift worth while. Get one at Bell, & Har ris. This store will be open every night until Christmas. The Dronoff Troupe of Russian art ists will be at rile Concord Then tie today, Monday and Tuesday in addi tion to a full picture program. Footwear for the whole family at the Markson Shoe Store. Swan Pens and Fyne Point Pencils for Christmas gifts at S. W. Preslar's. Cleaning and dyeing in the best style done by Wrenn at Auto accident insurance will make you feel mighty good jf you have an qecident. Get it from Fetzcr & Yorke. When you want *a tire repaired see the Concord Vulcn nisslng Co.- See the new ad. of .the Cpncord Plumbing Co.. 174 Kerr street. A lftie of chic silk frocks for only $6.00 at J. C. Penney Co.’s. Sizes for women and misses. Beginning Monday night the Parks- Belk Co. store will be open every night till Christmas. They will wrap and mail your Christmas packages free when purchased at their store. Store open Saturday nights t'U 10 ! o'clock. Dorman’s Blood Purifier, sold in Concord by Cline’s Pharmacy. Full treatment for $3.50. Phone 333. Joe Needleman Mutilator Not Given Clemency. Raleigh, Dec. 10.—The first actual application for clemency by a mem ! her of the Martin County mob con ' victed of mutilating Joseph Needle ! man in May. 1925, was declined to -1 day by Governor McLean. The ap plication was from Julian Bullock, i serving a minimum trrm of six ' years. , A feature of the Oirlstmas Eve supper in Sweden is a rice pudding, ■ filled with raisins and containing a I solitary plum, said to bring good ' fortune to whoever draws it in his portion. , , CONCORD, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1926 TWO GUNMEN SHOT emu in mi ATTEMPTED HOLDUP | Five Men Attempted to Hold Up Patrons in Lun* i 1! hy’s Broadway Restau | rant in New York. i ; POLICE RESERVES j j WERE CALLED OUT ; Restaurant Patrons Rim j Into Street and Shoutdd 1 Hysterically.—Tremend ous Excitement Caused. New York, Dec. 11. —04 s )—Two of five gunmen who attempted to hold up wealthy patrons of Lundy's Broadway restaurant near 50th street, wore shot by a policeman in a pistol battle early today. The wounded men escaped. The attempted robbery caused such excitement that police reserves were eglled out. The gunmen had stopped their au tomobile to enter the restaurant when Patrolman (itennon turned the cor ner. Without, warning one of the men opened fire. Hig shots went wild. Glennon returned the fire and the oth er gunmen also turned their guns on him. More than 20 shots were ex changed, the bullets striking the gran ite front of the Rivoli Theatre and smashing glass in nearby store win dows. Glellcn, who had emptied his revol ver, dodged in a doorway to reload. He heard two of t-he men cry “I’m hit," and saw them stagger into the car. One man who remained nt the wheel with the engine running, stepped on' the gas, and the hari bounded away. Meantime the restaurant patrons ran into the street shouting hysteri cally. Crowds from the 6-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden join ed the throngs and impeded the work of the police reserves. Glennon commandeered an automo bile and took up the chase, standing on the running board and firing at the fleeing machine. At 55th street the automobile disappeared. UNDERWORLD FEUD RESULTS IN MURDER I Bullet-Ridden Body of Man "‘-•m il T ’From it Car In New York. ’ I New York, Dee. 11.-r-t/P)—An un- I derworld fend that resulted in mur j der was revealed today when the bul | let-riddled body of a man which was thrown from an automobile in Park | Avenue, was identified by finger prints as that of Dominick Alvoro, who had ] been arrested fourteen times. Police ore working on the theory that he was -shot to death in a war amongst bootleggers. BILL PASSES ENGLISH HOUSE OF COMMONS Forbidding Newspapers to Publish De tails of Divorce Cases. London, Dec. 11.—f.4*)-—Newspa pers nre forbidden to publish tho de tails of divorce cases under a bill which passed its third rending in the House of Commons last night, and goes to the House of Lords next Mon day. Reputable papers have always ex cluded offense details in such cases, but as soon ns the bill becomes law it will be illegal to publish witnesses’ evidence or “details injurious to the public morals.” The proprietor, editor, master print er or publisher of any offending paper will be liable to four inont'iis imprison ment and a fine of $2,500. « —— High School Girls to Wear Cotton Hose. Fremont, Dec. 11—Beginning next Monday the girls of the Fremont high school will wear cotton stock ing to school. Ail agreement was signed to this effect by all the gir’s of the school—except one, last Wed nesday. 1 When questioned as to why they would do this, it was answered: "To help raise the price of cotton and help Dad over the ‘hard times.’ ” A number of the teachers have al ready "the cotton ho*e vogue.” Saved By Cotton. Dallas, ‘ Texas. .Dec. Ill—Attorneys tyero.i'iuat afiout, to, foreclose, on, the hajtw '<>f *a 'VWow l ‘'lM'fig hear Dallas recently. A cotton broker told the woman the calamity could be averted if she could sell her cotton crop at 25 cents a pound. R. B. Klifritz, hotel proprietor, purchased the cot ton at ,25 cents a pound, declaring he would place n bale of it in the lobby of his hotel and put a sign on it telling the world that he wis going to hold it until the market price of Texas middling cotton reach ed what he had paid for it. Concord Theatre SEE The Dronoff Troupe FAMOUS RUSSIAN ARTISTS Singing, Dancing nnd Musical Numbers of Old Russia Appearing 3:30—7:00—9:00 TtMay-Monday-Tneaday FULL PICTURE PROGRAM A1 Hoxie in “THE FIGHTING RANGER” 1 ON THE SCREEN Kneads Dough j | ho Bj 1 | m wh 9 H nP m ' ■ '"n- ft Mrs. Antoinette Robins, of New York, sued a baking com pany for $50,000, charging they used a picture of her in this pose for advertising pur poses. The. company insisted it was another girl. ’ tjutornallonaj Nawetmu i 1 LEGISLATURE CONVENED ONE MONTH HENCE A Full Program of Important Matters Will Be Presented. (By International News Service) Raleigh, Dee. 11. —With advanced statement,* by various interested or ganizations and loaders presaging a full program of important matters will be presented for its consideration, the general assembly of North Carolina will convene one month hence in bi ennial session. ” Among matters whidi it is indi-1 eated will come before the session are j taxation, school system reforms, elee-l tion. reforms, survey of „wp«pen hit iij, dibitr.v, road and other ppunfanent im provements. In addition other mat ters of interest have been mentioned in pre-session discussion in capital circles, and the government is expect ed to have a full program dealing with many matters to present to the legis lators. The various department heads will make their biennial reports this month and no doubt these will contain uug- 1 gesstions and recommendations touch-1 ing on a wide variety of matters. Tiie program of the allied women’s organ izations also is in process of forma tion nnd probably will incorporate many mattery of statewide import ance. Before any of the legislative mat ters are broached, an important mat ter must be settled in the house—the election of a speaker. N. A. Town send and 11. G. Connor and R. T. Fountain nrc avowed candidates for the (lost. The race will be hard fought. Named After Christmas. Washington, D. C. Dec, 11.—At least three places owe their names to Christmas. Two of them are islands. One is in the East Indies, not a great way from Java. It is the top of a 1 huge submerged mountain 15,000 feet in height, only 1,200 feet of which show nbove the sen. The island is valuable because of tiie deposits of phosphate of lime formed there by sea-birds (luring thousands of years. Before its discovery in 1868 it was un inhabited. and even now the popula tion numbers only a few hundred. The other Christmhs Island lies in the. Pacific Ocean, nearly on the Equa tor. it was discovered 150 year ago and was annexed in 1898 by Great Britain with a view to. laying the Pacific cable. Its riches lie in guano and mother-of-pearl. By far the most important of. Christmas' namesakes is Natal, n province of South Africa. The Portu gese discpvered it on Christmas Day. and named it! Natal, since it wa,* sighted on Christ’s natal day. Cliurdi Property Sold. Salisbury, Dec. 10. —The old St. John's Lutheran church property on Main street which was sold at pub lic auction this, week was bought b.v J. V. Wallace for $50,700. Friends if Mr.- Wallace said the property was to be converted into a Jewish syna gogue. St. John's congregation .* planning to move into its new church home to hold the first service the -19th of this month. The first golf club in Wisconsin was founded ut Jamesville in 1804. Indianapolis Police Force Must Pass Test Before “Breath Inspector” Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 11.—As the result of complaints that some patrol men have been indulging in “eye-open ers" the night police shift has ihad added to its routine a new test. It is a “breath” test. The men are lined up in the roll call room and thfc order to “wheeze out l” ia given. Amid blowing and ' 25 KILLED AND 40 INJURED IN A RAH,ROAD ACCIDENT i Harbin, Manchuria. Dec. 11.— 04*) —Twenty -five persons ,werc killed and 40 injured, mostly Chi nese, when freight and passenger trains collided near Tickling, in Shcng Kinng on the Southern Man churian Railway. LOCATE GIRL’S FATHER i IN NORTH CAROLINA | | Fi.und by American Red Cross in an ' Asheville Hospital. J Raleigh Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh. Dec. 11.—The State hoard of charities and pub'ic welfare has just played a minor role in a most interesting piece of case work, in which the father of a young girl who is being held nt an emigrants' hotel | in Warsaw, Poland, Ims been located in a veterans’ hospital in North Caro lina after a scar Poof many mouths. Several years ago Alexander Stan ley Cichoeks. u native of Poland and an American citizen, bought tickets for ids three children in Plockn. Pol and. in order that they might join him in his home in Buffalo. N. Y. There was some delay and two of the children died, leaving only a dnugther. Alexandra. Application was made at the office of the Red Star Line by a man w'iio insisted that they pay him the money depeoited to cover the girl's passage, saying that her father had died in America and that the girl needed the • money. The company refused to turn over the money, since no one knew with whom t’.ie girl wur living nnd asked the Polish bureau of the inter national migration service to find out whether the father was living. The father was located nnd stated that he wanted his daughter brought to Amer ica as soon as possible. But in the meantime ('lie girl became ill and mon ey for her expenses was advanced by the steamship company. Afterward jt. was found that a mistake had been made for there was nothing on deposit at the office except a half-fare pas sage. A cable to this country, through the International Migration Service, came to the Child Welfare League of Amer ica, asking the father to send t’iie money necessary for a full passage and the money advanced for her ex penses while she Was sick. The father was not to be found, al j though it was said he had left New | York to go to Asheville. N. C. The | Child Welfare League of America [ wrote to the North Carolina State I board of charities and public welfare, stating that there was need for im mediate action ami tha( tiie father mnst be found quickly since the girl was entirely without, friends and rela tives, had secured her passport and needed only the necessary money. The ease was referred immediately to the American Red Cross in Ashe ville, and after some difficulty the father was located at a hospital, where (ie was much worried over his daugh ’ ter and exceedingly anxious to get. her I over to this country, where his aunt in Buffalo had agreed to take care of her. He had moved to Asheville because he was suffering from asthma. Since he was recoeiving a govern ment pension lie had the money nec essary to (bring his daughter to Amer ic and end her years of waiting. UNION COUNTY MAN IS SHOT IN DUEL Lum Domav Wounded in a Pistol Bout With a Burglar. Monroe. Dec. 10.—Lum Lomax. 26, is in Ellon ’Fitzgerald hospital here painful wounded ns the result of a pistol duel with a burglar which took place before daylight this morning at-the store of his brotlyw. i Ray Lminx, one mile from here on j , tho Concord road. Dimax was seeping on a cot tn his brothers store when he was awakened by sounds coming from a side window. Raising up, he saw the burglin' prize off an iron bar and crawl into the building. Reaching for is gun, Lomax shot seven times, none of the bullets tak ing effect. Returning the fire, the intruder shot four times. One bul let passed through both of Ixunnx's legs and another through his right hand. The burglar fled immediately following the shooting, but officers state that clues they have are ex pected his arrest, in a few hours. The. store contained a nominal amount of merchandise, and about SI,OOO worth of fireyvorks on hand for the Christmas season. Boys Who Admit That They Wreeh t rain Go to School. Nashville. Tenn., Dec. 9.—Hard ing Lane, 11. and Harry James. 10. who were arrested in connecting with the wrecking of Nashville, Chat tanooga and St. Louis railway fias senger train number 30 Tuesday near McEwen and admitted to offi cers that they had placed a piece of iron on the track “to see what would happen” were given a hearing Wei nesday before Judge J. Frank Daniel at Waverly. He directed that they be sent to the Tennessee Industrial school here. No one was injured in the wreck., wheeling Lieutenant Fred Drinkut and -Rgts. Reilly. Eisenhut and Dever advance along the lines sniffing the various aromas in search of an alco holic breath. Thus far no member of the force has been questioned although it was said that several with red noses are under suspicion. PRINCESS ILEJUU TO MARRY PRINCE HUMBERT OF ITW V The Marriage I. j Place Within S» ./flthst { if King Ferdinand Lives,! It Is Stated. | INFORMATION IS GIVEN TO A. P. By Circles Close to the) RoyaK Palace in Buch arest. —Princess Is 17, While the Prince is 22. j Bucharest. Itoumnnia. Dec. 11.—(A 1 )! —Princess Ilenna will marry. Prince I Humbert. Crown Prince of Italy,) within six months, if King Ferdinand] lives, or as soon thereafter as the pe riod of mourning ceases should the monarch die. The Associated Press hns been given this information in eireles close to the royal palace. Ile aua, youngest daughter of King Ferd nand and Queen Marie, is 17 years old. Humbert is 22. ORMITON IN CHICAGO Whether or Not He Will Be Taken Back to Ix>k Angeles Is a Question. Chicago, Dee. 11.— i/P) —Kenneth G. Ormiston. Los Angeles radio oper ator. is in Chicago, but whether he will be taken back to Los Angeles to answer charges of, conspiracy to de feat Justice remains a question for the future. Los Angeles authorities want back the long missing figure in the Aimee Semple McPherson kidnapping case, and ahe preparing extradition papers, but Ormiston said he would fight any attempt to get him further west than Chicago. Ormiston arrived here last night from Harrisburg. Pa., accompanied by two detectives and a newspaper man, anad immediately went into confer ence with his attorney, Edward H. S. Martin, who has been bis mouthpiece since his disappearance several months ago. The district attorney's office at Los Angeles, however, has moved to take Ormiston out of the hands, of what they termed '“private oafrtors,” and place him in custody pending attempts, at removal to, Lo« Angeles. Ben Cohen, chief of detectives, wired the Chicago police to arrest the de fendant. LEAGUE REACHES AGREEMENT TODAY On Terms of Plan For Investigation Into German Armaments. Geneva, Dec. 11. —(A*)—The council of the league of nations meeting in private today, reached an agreement on the terms of a plan for a league investigation into German armaments. League officials stjid that the inves tigation will be submitted for inter allied control of Germany on Febru ary Ist, subject to the approval of the French cabinet. The question of German armaments on which disa greement is considered probable, will | be left for solution to the regular dip-1 lomatic channels, and failinfi that, to | arbitration. French Say No Accord Ilus Been i Reached. Geneva. Dec*. 11.—(A*) —A spokes man for the French delegation on the council of t'.ie league of nations late today declared that no accord had been reached ns yet concerning cessation of the inter allied control of German ar maments. To Invite Senator Frazer Back to the Table. Washington, Dee, 11.—(A I )—The Republican committe on committees today agreed to invite Senator Frazier. Republican insurgent of North Da kota, to resume bis place in the Re publican party’s council and on com mittees as a straightuot Republican. j Hubbard Will Seek a New Trial. Pittsburgh, Dee. 11. —(A > )—John W. Hubbard, wealthy Pittsburgh manu-. facturer, who was ordered by a federal Court jury to pay Anne Caldwell, New York show girl, for breach of promise to marry, will seek, a new trial, his counsel £ai(i today. Impeachment Charges Against Engl Itsll Abandoned. , Washington, Dec. 11.—(AW-rAbnn doumeiit of impeachment charges against Federal Judge George W. Eng lish, of Illinois, was npproved today by the House, on u standing vote. BEAUTIFUL Christmas Cards 10 IN A BOX With Envelopes to Match FOR ONLY 50c abox TIMES-TRIBUNE OFFICE Phones 78 and 988 ■ ■'■■■ .'"ii i, g§@ THE TRIBUNE PRINTS I TODAY’S NEWS TODAY] NO. 291 THIMITH ; PROSPECTS RE®t 1 OTHER SETBICI 1 ; Republican Floor Left&pr .‘ r j I Tilson Favors Applies- | ! tion of Treasury Surplus J ! to Public Debt. WANTS TO AVOID A CONTROVERSY | 1 .The Movement to Carry Out President CooUdge’s I Suggestion Would Ope®. | I the Way for That. j Washington. Dec. 11.—(A*)—Pros* M I poet* of tax legislation by the present ; ) Congress received still another setbaok •' I today when it developed that Tttepre- i tentative Tilson. of Connccticutt, the 3 Republican House leader, fa vara ajr ’ plication of the treasury surplus tp 3 reduction of the public debt. til Mr. Tilson's view is that any move to carrying out the President’s sug-\ gostion for a credit on next year's tax payment would pave file way tor a' protracted political controversy tnas* much as Democrats have announced. <3 they would press for aetiqti an *< $335,000,000 tax reduction bill already * introduced by Representativ*Miarner, J of Texas. Democratic financial spokes-, man in the House. "I have come to the conclusion,’*' Tilson said, “that the best thing to be done at this session of Congross is to immediately apply any surplus | above the actual needs of the govern-, ment to a reduction of the public debt* J which as the President so wqß says,', in his message, is itself a permanent* • tax reduction." HUGE SWINDLE rNCOVKkfc»| ] Nation-Wide Advertising CaMMigd I'sed By Alleged Rogues—Aisny Poultry. Atlanta. Ga„ Dec. 11.—An alleged | nation-wide swindle through newspa- ' per advertising, which already is said i to have netted its promoters approxi mately a million dollars, was nipped here Friday with the arest of D. HV’.;' Nichols, said to be one of the heads of headquarters offices maintained ii here by three companies offering; a poultry, oranges and honey for sal*> .JJ at unusually low prices. , , ’jjm Post office inspectors "and agenflr of the Solicitor General who raided 3 the offices, located in fhree down* town hotels, hold warrants for tkd 1 arrest of two others whortt 1 they J charge with being associated Xidf a Nichols in the enterprise; while four- S persons in the offices at the tU»(jr|J were held for questioning., Nichols has been charged wRb- 8 cheating and swindling ——~ The nutborities charged that the., fm various companies advertised ptwh* M uots with payment-in-ndvanee «tij>- 3 illations and failed to deliver them |h ,?J most cases after the money had been X received. Through a widespread newspaper <| advertising campaign, it was oranges were offered for sale-; postag#' ji prepaid, for $3 per box ; new honejf | {in the comb at $1.75 per 10 pounds, ..si I while bees for hiving and I chickens were offered at quotations 3 Considerably below market prices, i j The firms, as listed in the adver- | 11 'moments, according to officials, ‘XI j the Acme Orange Farm of La ,1 Grange. Texas. Gainesville. Fla., ami other cities; the Fulghum Hntchery, 3 Births boro. Pa., Heavener. Okla., 1 Lake lairgo, Fla.', Bloomsblirg, % Farmvitle, Va„ and other .cities and '.A tile Busy Bee Apiary. Itoslyu. N. Y., s and other cities. PREPARING TO START ' . TESTIMONY IN TRIAL J * L ‘“asl , Os Pat MeDermott at Canton. O.— Recess in Case Today. Canton. 0., Dee. 11.—(A^—;BoO» . J prosecution and defense in the trial , I of Patrick Eugene MeDermott, ehatjt, etl with the murder of Don U. Mel iett, Canton publisher, were prepar ing for the start of teattmony on MonSSj day. The jury was completed yes- , terday. There was a recess today. ,<i ' Most of Monday, suys Prosecutor C; B. McClintoek, is to be used in pre senting to the jury the story of how . 1 Mellett. crusader against Che tiidef* | : world, was slain at his gArafce door . shortly after midnight on July l«th. % 1 *snm - ‘1 1 The American- Federation of Teach - ers, which is made up of 32 loead 2 unions with a total membership qt 1 3,500, is planning an intensive organ- -* ■ zation campaign, f" GOLDIE MINER 1 there ain't NO SAKTA«§ SHE OOESNT GET diamond
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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Dec. 11, 1926, edition 1
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