lUJMjLii
ores of Deaths Reported As
eS ult Os Tornadoes In West;
•roperty Damageto Run High
(ill! HIT
Persons Reported
jin Garland, Texas,
i \ianv Deaths Re
■d'in Other Towns.
H'RI ALSO
|;|T TORNADOES
ported Killed at El-
One Is Known Dead
.Louis and Five Re-j
j Killed Elsewhere.
t hf Associated I’ress))
lij TV [icrs'i! - were killed.
t inn' injured. .•Did property I
ii( ] sjinitmm it i by torna-
b V t , winds tlnit la-hod thej
, u ,-r ~vi*r t !i«* week
j.,jj ;j„u were rxpeered to ’
ementarlly ;t> midit i«m:i 1 re
rorViwl. j
bit. with _•>'
urrreil ;:t Garlau 1 and Ne- 1
within •>•"* niid"- of 1 'alias.
v in Mirrouri the tornado I
d 14 dead. j !
~x ri:e tornado swept
jrs Sa:nrd;i\ nicht. ten were
tod. In lowa a woman '
to wliiii her motor car was
a dm-iii- a heavy rain (
.May '.l.- OP) Sev
were retnirteil killed and j
inure injured by a tornado ';
,i part of the residence eec- |
s town of about 2.000 per- j
today. Two hours after !
four 1 mdies .had been re- ; j
d fourteen injured had been ]
Manet* to Dallas. L
nrified dead were : Monroe i i
ami Mrs. ('. *L Smiley and )<
uu,,. ' (
11
orkers said several other i;
w missing Most of the ;
re trap!>ed in their beds as r
struck her ween .'! and 4; '
> iiicndng. Among the two ! ’
seriously injured, were I,
hiidren of the Smileys. ij
showers and hit'll winds fol-! ]
twister, i bily a small port;
ic residential district was :
few >inall lions** were lift
fur a block or more, and :
a dozen were demolished. !
led Dead at Eldon. Texas. (
i City. Mo.. May o.— (A 3 )— ] ,
kin. of Kidoti. which was j (
a tornado last night, ar- j !
today and said at least six >-
were killed by tlie storm, j ’
y the twister struck the ! 1
w of the town and demol- M
Fthing in its path. He said
most of the night" in first ' (
and helped carry at least
rsotts from demolished build-
iss Advised of Casualties.
nis May !).—(/?) —Eleven t
ere killed ;t t Garland, in <
mt.v. Texas, and sixteen at
11 olliiis contity. Texas, by I
to telegrams re- '
ued Cross mid-western bead- 1
ere ti-Hin chapter represe.n- [
chairman of the Col- ‘
eliapt*-r. telegraphed that !
'tnty persons were injured
'• three-fourths of the resi
isine-tejitlis of the busi-
IB " S destroyed, and
ainatte was estimated at be
wKHi and smio.Ooo.
Killed at Nevada. Texas.
May if.—Seven per- '
1 f, l at X« va<in. in Collins '
and fifteen injured by '
toiiav. say reports
al >'jUt twenty miles west
Dwitlis Reported.
« M "- Ma V H.—t/p)—Fi V o )
reported j ( , | I;IVP been !
®'"Huber seriously injured |
M 'dgbi :tt Auxvasse, j
‘‘"land Kerrington. towns
' Unfits Phillips j
J Ol : 1 his (laughter. Della.
**4 mjtired. Miss (May al-I
7' np d killed.
/ u “7'. 70. former I
Al.oway comity, was j
K “ r r«igtoii. i
i anah > '. ilrs ' ! 1 ' E P, 'SS S
\t r j,? son ’ Thomas, was
hand* ,IS! ; s l*ed injury.
,!, e U.iggs plttce iJ
L A ' luld named
»«* ,-m
* s<l i*iously m
muni,..,,- ' blown down'
disrupt,,i I
"i dat St - Louis.
obi' f/P, ~ ( ’ harle " ;
Edmunds VT 5 WaS
, ' a negro
dantag. ~n ( '°nsiderable
N a i i • f ' ause(l b >’ a
l % tod-,, U v Ud! struck St.
daw j ' l|!ll( ‘ m "s threes
i " i,l " t Awindow glass
THE CONCORD TIMES
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
Flood Waters, Affected By High
Winds, Cause More Damage
New Orleans, May o.— (
winds which sent waves knawing at
the earthen embankments proteeting
south central Louisiana from the Miss
issijrpi, today increased the hazard
against which an afmy of men was
fighting along a far ttnng levee front.
Hundreds of men guarded the em-
I bankments. and the slightest indica
tion of weakness brought reinforce
| incuts on the double quick to carry
j sandbags into position and rear pro
tecting abutments. A sand boil de
veloped on the levy on the east side
if Huron Rouge, but quick work avert
d danger of a break,
M him Die high winds increased the
per 1 along the main Mississippi front
SEEK TO BREAK WILL
OF JUDGE GEO. 11. BROWN
Suit Involving Estate of Half Million
Starts at Washington Today.
Washington, X. May 9.—State
wide interest is being manifested in
the effort of relatives of the late
Judge George H. lirown. for many
years one of the outstanding members
of the legal profession in North t’aro
lonia. to set aside the will which the
judge made about two months before
his death, on March 16, 1926, and in
which he left his entire estate, valued
at approximately half a million dollars,
to his wife, Mrs. 17aura E. Brown.
The case comes up at the May term
of-Superior court, which convenes here
on Monday, Judge Frank A. Daniels,
presiding.
Judge Brown for 14 years was a
judge on the Superior court bench and
-at the end of that time was elevated
to the North Carolina Supreme court.
He was an active mefnber of that
judiciary body for more than 15 years,
at which time he retired.
When Mrs. Brown, ai* exeutrix, of
fered the will for probate, a caveat was
tiled by relatives of the judge. Among
these were two sisters and several
nieces and nephews, Mrs. Minnie E.
Shepherd, of Raleigh ; Mrs. Martha B.
Crabtree, of Goldsboro; A. I>. Mac-
Lean, of .Maxton; Rev. Sylvester B.
Mac Lean, of Charlotte; J. Dixon Mae-
I/ean, of Red Springs; Rev. John
Allen Maclean, of Richmond. Ya.;
Arthur Mayo, of Washington; Thomas
and Sylvester Sparrow, of Gastonia ;
Evans and George Sparrow, of Char
lotte; Minnie S. Keyes, of New York;
Robert D. Groom, Jr., of Maxton. and
Mattie Brown Baldwin, of Maxton.
Davidson is After Eight Months
S shoo!.
Lexington, May 7.—Two confer
ences between the board of education
and citizens of Thomasville. Abbotts
(’reek and Midway township have,
failed to definitely solve the proposed
school consolidation that would pro
vide eight months' school for all the
pupils »ii»t?» now in consolidated areas
on the northern side of the Southern
Railway, which divides Davidson
county almost in half. However, de
finite proposals have been made and
Dr. J. H. HLghsmith. State high
school inspector, will come here May
11 and take a tour over the territory
with Superintendent Hasty and
members of the county board of edu
cation.
Three present consolidations and
four districts not now ill consolidat
ed area, one of them the largest six
months’ school remaining in the
county, are concerned in the matter.
Midway. Wallburg and Fair Grove
consolidated districts all desire por-
tions of the territory.
THE STOCK MARKET
Reported by Fenner & Beane
(Quotations-at 1:30 P. M.)
American Tobacco B 131% ;
American Smelting 150% '
American Locomotive 111 l
Atlantic Coast Line 182%
Allied Chemical 139 I,
American Tel. & Tel. RkD/k
American Can 49
Allis Chalmers 109
Baldwin Locomotive 189 »
Baltimore & Ohio 123%
Bangor -*3 j
Bethlehem Steel ->l%
Chesapeake & Ohio 176%
Coca-Cola I
DuPont 24:>%
Dodge Bros. 21%
Erie i,; J% ,
Frisco 115%
j General Motors 196%
j General Electric 98%,
i Great Northern 89%
Gulf State teel* 53
Gold Dust 53
Hudson 3-2
Int. Tel. 135%
Kennecott Copper 64% j
Liggett & Myers B 102%
Maek Truck H 5%
Missouri-Pacific 54%
j Norfolk & Western 181%
| New Y'ork Central 150% 1
! Pan American Pet B r - 58% !
1 Rock Island lOl%
[R. J. Reynolds 122%
Stand. Oil of N. J. 37 •
Southern Railway 126%
I Studebaker 54%
I Texas Co. 46%
Tobacco Products - 1 100%
U. S. Steel 169 I
■ i U. S. Steel, New 121%J
Vick Chemical 57%
; Westinghouee I— 73
Western Md. 37%
| Chrysler 44%
danger of a break was not believed
Imminent. Above Raton Rouge, along
the Bayou Glaisses, where the levees
are encountering the crest of the in
land lakes pushing down from the
breaks in the embankments along the
Mississippi.and ,ns:is. a hreai
was declared inevitable.
The crest of the flood had been lost
by observing experts. Apparently,
they s-a'.d, it was somewhere in the
surging sea which covers northeast
Louisiana. The river at Baton Rouge
remains stationary, although a rise of
.1 foot was shown at Donaldsonville
between Baton Rouge and New Or
leans.
SEES SMITH AS
BOON TO SOUTH
i Paul Green Says Election of New
York Governor Would Liberate
“Solid South.”
i j New Ycfrk. May o—.“ One of the
■ best things that could hap]>en to the
South would be the nomination of Al
i Smith. Paul Green , 52-year-old auth
or of the Pulitzer prize-winning play,
“In Abraham's Bosom,” said “I be- j
lieve Smith's nomination, with the end- j
less arguments and difference that i
would follow, would 'break up once for
all old loyalties of the ‘solid south'
—political, religious and social—and
set the vigorous new south free to
come into its own.”
Mr. Green spent part of liis Pulitzer
prize money last Friday to come from
the University of North Carolina,
where he is assistant professor of
philosophy, and see his play, “The
Field God, 4 ' which has been running
three weeks at the Provincetown play
house and moves up town to the Port
theater Monday. He will return to
his classes at Chapel Hill Monday.
The young playwright who started
life as a North Carolina farm boy
and taught school before he could
go to college has abiding faith in his
part of the United States.
•“The old windjammers and windbags
have had their day,” he said today,
“the south’is changing and changing
fast. The groups of independent think
ing and reading southerners, who don't
feel that their first duty is to he good
deinooracts and Episcopalians, are
growing bigger ever day. More books
tire (being sold and read than ever be
fore. In fact, the south is the great
book market of the near future I be
lieve. x
“And as a source of art, the jsouth
has got about everything, it seems to
me. Once it wakes up, with its varied
life and industries and its highly di
versified population, it may well be
come tin inexhaustible spring of
literature and art.”
Mr. Green has not the slightest wish
to live in New York, he says, and
intends to stick to the south for a
j long time to come. He also intends
jto stick to a job of some sort, no
j matter what financial success may
I come to him.
1 “If I ever give up teaching, I’ll
j probably go to farming,” he said,
i “People who do nothing but ‘practice
j their art' all the time are apt to get
I long-haired and queer.”
Mrs. Green accompanied the play
-1 wright on his flying visit. They have
| two children, a boy and a girl. Mr.
j Green was graduated from the UTii
jversity of North Carolina in 1921, his
' education having been interrupted two
j years by the war.
Darnell’s Sentence Reduced.
Raleigh, May 9. —The commutation
was for Zeb V. Darnell, of Mecklen
burg county, serving a term of four
to five years for manslaughter,''and
reducing it to a minimum of two years
and a maximum of five years on the
county roads. The commutation was
strongly urged by Judge James L.
Webb, the trial judge, nine of the
jurore who tried, the case, the solicitor
and many citizens in Mecklenburg
county. In commenting in this case,
the governor said:
"Investigation shows that Darnell
had not been a bad man prior to the
time of this trouble* and except for
the fact that he went on the witness
stand and by reason of his honesty
1 and integrity in making a statement
of the facts, it would have been dif
ficult to have convicted him.”
This commutation will leave only
a few more months for Darnell to
serve.
Life Term For Trying to Pick a
Pocket.
Buffalo, 6- —For attempting
to piek the pocket of a man on a
street" car Charles Stauer, 50, of
! this city, was sentenced to life im
prisonment by Supreme Court Jus
tice Thomas H. Noonan today. Stau
ber had a previous record of felony
convictions which made the life term
1 mandatory.
! “For twenty-eight out of the fifty
vears you have lived you have been
in trouble.” Justice Noonan told
- Stauber. “You’ve been in various
prisons. You’ve been in hospitals for
drug cures. You’re sentenced to
Auburn prison for the rest of your
natural life.”
| A village of 152 inhabitants hither
’ to unknown has been discovered in
the mountains of northern Japan by
1 census takers. The inhabitants do
not speak modern Japanese.
CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, MAY 9, 1927
Enormity of Health and Sanitation
Problem in Mississippi Flood Areas
. Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh. Mny9.—The enormity of tlie
health and sanitation problem in the
flood-torn areas in Arkansas, Missis
sippi and liouisiana. and the size of
the rehabilitation problem after \the
j waters have receded, is graphically
- i given in a letter to the State Board
jof Health from W. H. AYeir, Assist- (
I ant Sanitary Engineer of the Board, |
land one of the seven men loaned the
! ;Flood Relief Organization by the,State i
'(Board of Health. Weir is stationed i
; in, northeastern Arkansas, Dr. H. A.
( j | Taylor has been assigned to duty in
gtthe levee district in the southeastern
s | part of Arkansas, while Dr. J. S. Car
. Jlcy has been sent to the western part
( jof Arkansas.
* Word being received indicates that
the Arkansas State Health Depart
ment is sorely in need of additional
help of all kinds —physicians, sanitary
engineers and sanitary inspectors be
’ ing the most immediate need. Condi
p tions are daily growing more and more
t acute, the situation in Arkansas
Dinore serious from a health and sam
f i tary viewpoint, than in the other two
> states. !
Conferences are being held between
Arkansas State Irlealt officer and the
Governor looking toward the adoption I
of a plan to, divide the state up into J
districts, according to hetjlth problems j
and administrative officers and sani- |
tary engineers assigned to these areas, |i
Weir advises, and a better system than j 1
now. being used is expected to beji
evolved.
“The local state sanitary enginer-l'
ing organization is, as far as 1 can j
ascertain, only one man, and there are f
little or no county health organizations [
in the affected areas,” Weir continues -
jin his letter. “The problem is larg*
j from both an engineering and medical <
| standpoint. Immunization of thous-j >
ands of refugees both in concentration j<
camps and in villages or small groups, . i
together with the mass of rural popu- j 1
lation, offers the big medical problem, j t
“Sanitary engineering problems take jl
almost endless forms. Refugee camp ' (
sanitation, water supplies and sewer- J 1
CALL IN OUTSTANDING
SECOND LIBERTY LOAN 1
Treasury Will Use Every- Device to j
Notify Holders of $1,700,000,000 of i
Call. I
Washington, May I)—Using one of,
the greatest publicity machines ever:
adopted by a government agency, the
treasury will call the $1,700,000,000
outstanding of the second liberty loan. 1.
These bonds, representing the -bnlone*f]
of issue of $3,807,865,000, j
will.be paid on November 15th, the j
tenth anniversary of their issuance. j (
and will not hear interest after that '
date.
Notice of the call will be advertised s
in every American language daily, j'
weekly and semi-weekly newspaper, 1
and placards will be placed in every |
post office and all banks and trust i
companies.
Radio will be' used by the treasury :
department for the first time Tuesday j
when Assistant Secretary Dewey will j
broadcast announcement of the call
through a hook-up of station as far
west as Kansas City. A similar
broadcast will be made from San <
Francisco. !
Secretary Mellon explained that in 1
view of the intensive drive during the <
war to get the bonds into as many (
hands as possible, the treasury feels 1
under obligation to inform every bond
holder that his bond will cease to bear
interest after the November date. j
The call does not mean that the (
bonds will be paid at the present.
Roth the second liberty loan 4 per ,
cent and the second liberties convert- ,
ed 4 1-4 per cent are called and it
was regarded by Mr. Mellon as "quite
probable” that prior to November
15th, the treasury will offer an op
portunity to exhange the bonds for
other government securities. If cash
is desired the holder should present
the bonds after October 15th. Tlie im
portance of spreading word of the call
over the entire nation was emphasized
at the treasury, where it was pointed
out that there still are in the hands
of their holders approximately $30,-
000,000 in government securities on
which the interest has ceased.
Os the original issue of the second
liberty loan, bonds aggregating $750,-
361.000 have been redeemed and SL
-300,166,150 were refunded this year
into 3 1-2 per cent treasury notes. A
total of 34,739,175 bonds were deliv
ered to owners.
These bonds would weigh 222 tons,
a statistically-minded treasury official
calculated, and “if spread out would
cover almost exactly one square mile
of the earth's surface.” There are
now outstanding 3.624,416 bonds.
Since they were issued, interest ac
crued and payable to May 15th will he
$1,327,006,885 representing issue- and
payment of over 7,750,000 interest
ohecks and redemption of more than
130,000,000 interest coupons.
Peach Crop Cut Short.
(By International News Service)
Raleigh, May 9.—Chances of North
Carolina producing a bumper peach
’ crop this summer were blasted in the
( latest l'eport from the State-Federal
crop reporting service.
r • Estimates place the 1927 produc
, tion at approximately 2,500 carloads.
I These estimates were made from re
-4 ports by 100 peach growers of the
• sandhill region and also a personal
> survey of the field.
:* Unfavorable weather is the cause of
the decrease in this year’s yield, it
was stated.
1 Ultra-Violet light is now employed
r with marked benefit to keep monkeys,
c> reptiles and other zoo animals in good
health.
t
age systems for many inundated towns
and villages, and their rehabilitation ;
disposal of animal carcasses by the
thousands as the water recedes, pro
tection of the people from sewerage
vegetables now going to market; in
spection of milk supplies and an al
most indefinite list of other engineer
ing and health administration prob
(lems,
| “All of this work must be bgun
at once while the areas are covered
(With from three to 5(1 feet of writer,”
jWeir continued. “On our trip today
from Memphis to Little Rock, our
train often travelled over tracks that
were covered with flood waters. Areas
in the southern section of the state
tArkansas) are under much deeper
water and we must make our first
trips to sec these in hydroplanes.
Biologies (Typhoid and other serums)
are dropped from planes and distribut
ed by boats.
“The first efforts along public health
lines are necessarily emergency relief
measures to prevent outbreaks of
! disease with the receding waters.
Permanent measures will have to be
a part of the gneral rehabilitation
[program which will require a long
period of time, and many millions of
contributed dollars. Dr. McMullen,
director of Hood relief work for the
Red Cross at Memphis together with
the Arkansas Health Officers, have
both commended North Carolina for
being first state to offer the resources
of its Board of Health, both supplies
and personnel, as well as the work
which the seven men already sent are
doing. Dr. McMullen has notified the
Board here that if conditions keep on
getting more serious, he will probably
have to ask for still more men from i
North Carolina.
Dr. Laughinghouse, State Health j
Officer, has already announced that he j
will be glad to hear from any physi- j
cians or others who are in position to !
volunteer their services for flood relief
work, and that he will at once put
them in touch with relief headquarters
for assignment to duty. Tlie Red
Cross will pay all transportation and
living expenses. *-
URGE P. & N. EXTENSION.
)
Business Men Tell Commerce Com
mission Line Has Done Great Ser
vice.
Washington, May 9. Business
men along the Piedmont and North
ern railway are urging the interstate
commerce commission to grant the
company permission to continue its
lines north and south. Many letters
.have been received saying the roai
has done a great service to rue terri
tory through which it passes.
The Union Storage and Warehouse
company has sent in a very enthu
siastic endorsement of the interurban
line, saying that it is largely re
sponsible for the industrial develop
ment of the section about Charlotte.
Other concern tire equally as en
thusiastic for the new extension pro
gram.
THE STOCK MARKET.
Several Factors Contributed To
Demonstration of Strength in Mar
ket Today.
New York, May 9.—04*) —Continued
easy money, satisfactory trade news,
favorable dividend expectations and
heavy investment buying all contribut
ed to a pronounced demonstration of
strength in today’s stock market.
Gratification in banking circles over
action of Secretary Mellon in calling
for redemption of outstanding Liberty
4 and 4 1-4 bonds, and prospects of
further gold imports from France were
oustanding influences in a more cheer
ful seutiment. Closing was strong.
Total sales approximated 2,000,000
shares.
Assault With Pistol Over Trifling
Matter.
Charlotte. May 7.—Thomas. Tur
ner, cotton mill employee, of Bel
mont, is in a local hospital with bul
let wounds in the neck and chest and
George Hooker, filling station pro
prietor, Its being held without bond
pending the outcome of Turner s in
juries as the result of a shooting al
leged to have started over a gas bill.
Hooker was charged with assault.'
with a deadly weapon with intent to
kill.
Roy Hooker, brother of George
and. a brother of the wounded man
were arrested and released under
bond.
While arguing whether a gas bill
had been paid, it was said, George
Hooker shot Turner three times, the
bullets taking effect in the back of
his head and chest.
Turner is expected to recover un
less there are complications, hospital
authorities announced.
With Our Advertisers.
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free at the Yorke & Wadsworth Co.
This will often mean dollars to you.
Your choice of any coat in the Gray
Shop for only sl4. Many are worth
twice this price. Your choice of sport
coats now only $7. These are excel
lent values, and you had better buy
them quick. See ad.
Tennis rackets, balls, covers, nets,
etc., at the Ritchie Hardware Co.
They will restring your old racket.
See ad. in this paper.
Rogers brushing lacquer, paints and
varnishes at the Yorke & Wadsworth
Co.
Fibre furniture in the most, allur
ing colors now’ on display at the Bell
& Harris Furniture Co.
One big table of ladies’ patent strap
and blonde kid shoes at Efird'e. On
ly $1.95. Several other bargains just
as good from $2.45 to $5.95. See ad.
for description.
Today and tomorrow at the Con
cord Theatre. “The Unknown Sol
dier,” for the benefit of the War Moth
ers.
, COUNSEL FOR GRAY
: DENIES DEFENDANT
i 1 EVER JIT SNYDER
William Millard Tells Jury
t Gray Was Lucky to
Have Escaped Blows by
Mrs. Ruth Snyder.
• {
[WOMAN’S LAWYER
TO SPEAK LATER
Lawyer for Gray Tells Ju
rors They Should Find
Him Guilty of Nothing
But Manslaughter.
- New York, May 9. — (A 3 ) —Summa-
tion of the case of Henry Judd Gray
was completed today and that of the
case of Mrs. Ruth Snyder follows.
William Millard, addressing the jury
for Gray, asserted that Gray never
struck Albert Snyder at all, and that
only luck naved him from being felled
by Mrs. Snyder. He asked for a
manslaughter verdict.
Mrs. Snyder was likened to a “pois
onous serpent” who drew Gray into
her glistening coils so that he could
not escape, in the attorney's argu
ments.
Counsel for Gray also charged that
Mrs. Snyder had planned to poison
Gray on the same night her husband
j was killed. Only Gray’s steady drink
j ing of whiskey, the lawyer said, saved
j him.
Attorney Millard, for Gray, told the
j jury that “Gray struck at Snyder but
missed him.” *He added that “the
blows that stunned Snyder were all
delivered by a woman, Mrs. Ruth
Snyder.”
Mrs. Snyder’s attorneys pioved for
a mistrial during Gray’s lawyer’s ar
gument, but wae overruled.
When he started his summation, he
devoted most of his time to assailing
Gray’s claim that Mrs. Snyder domi
nated him.
The defense summations were closed
after approximately four hours. Court
then adjourned until this afternoon,
when the district attorney sched
uled to begin.
Governor McLean’s Summer Schedule.
Raleigh. May 9.—'Governor McLean
has arranged his summer .working
schedule. J
Shorter hours and more rest will
be the governor's daily program during
the hot summer months.
Governor McLean, although he says
his recent rest in the Wisconsin lake
country did him good and he’s feeling
fine, is now on this JTMiour day
trick.
Until recently the governor received
capital newspapermen twice daily—
in the mornings and the afternoons.
Now, however, by mutual agreement,
the conferences will be held at noon
on three days of the week —Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays.
Gov. McLean Planning Vacation in
Wisconsin.
(By International News Service.)
Raleigh, N. C., May 9.—Carolina's
summer executive mansion probably
will be in the Wisconsin lake coun
try.
While no announcement has been
made by Governor McLean yet. it is
expected that he will again spend his
vacation at hi« ctunp in Wisconsin.
The Governor spent a month at
Lake-o-Lakes last summer, passing
away the time by wood-cutting, it’s
told around the eapitol that the Gov
ernor is no mean ax-slinger.
Out to Kill the Joy of Sucking the
Thumb.
Des Moines, May 9.—Thumb suck
ing is a vice in children and should
be prevented Dr. Wesley C. Darby
told the lowa dental convention.
Sinus trouble, so prevalent nowadays
can be traced to this habit, he said.
“The gums and jaws are thrown
out of their natural position, causing
protruding teeth.” Dr. Darby said.
“The sinus is drawn down and nar
rows the nasal breathing aperture,
thus making the children mouth
breathers.”
The weak man is apt to be restless;
the great man always tranquil.
I CAN YOU SCORE
j TEN ON THESE? j
QUESTIONS
1— Who fired the first shot in the
American Civil War?
2 Who commanded the opposing
forces V .
3 What American warship made a
record-breaking voyage at the outbreak
of the Spanish-American war?
4 Why was a Republican governor
of New York refused a renominatiou
in 1898?
5 Who served as vice president
during both of the Wilson adminis
trations?
6 What «s the most effective way
of getting rid of things you don’t
want and oc acquiring the things yon
' would like to have?
1 7 Name four southern border
states which did not secede from the
Union.
8— When did the first ironclad war
ship go into action?
9 -What is the factor in retail
business without which success is im
. possible? .
16 —What American city is located
pear the meeting point of four states?
(Answered on Page Seven)
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
Definite Reports From
Daring Airme- hacking
, During ..iingHours
Flood' Fund
i i ___
Concord Contributions.
Previously acknowledged... .$2,032.62
Mrs. Jno. A. Scott..,.; 5.00
Popular Tent Church p. 26
Mr. and Mrs. Ridenhour.* Jr. .. 10.00
I>. C. Bonds 5.00
’ Bethel School 14.00
Nature Study Club .... 3.00
Mr. and Mrs. E. <’. Barbardt Sr. 25.00
I W. M. McEachern 2.00
j Mary Virginia Hagler 1.00
■! Jno. W. Uook 1.00
Geo. L. Brown 5.00
D. W. Moose 5.00
H. B, Emerson 5.00
Mill Grove M. P. Church 6.40
Midland Community 36.00
Concord Total $2,156.02
Kannapolis Contributions
Previously acknowledged .... $512.00 j
Mt. Pleasant Contributions
Previously acknowledged $102.00
Jackson Training School
Previously acknowledged $56.00
Junior Red Cross of City Schools
Previously acknowledged SIOO.OO
Grand Total $2,926.17
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Easy Today at Decline of 8
to 17 Points, But Rallied 8 to 10;
Points Later. •
New York. May 9. — (A 3 )—The cot-1
ton market opened easy today at a de- j
cline of 8 to 17 points in response to
easier Liverpool cables, rather a bet
ter weather map than expencted and
a tendency to reduce estimates of the
cotton area flooded in the Mississippi
River States. Active months sold 18)
to 20 Points net lower shortly after 1
the opening. July easing off to 15.661
and December to 16.11, but there were
reports of heavy rains in some parts
of the southwest, which caused ral
lies of 8 to 10 points before the end
of the first hour.
At midday, however, prices had l
worked off to 15.62 for July and 16.08 !
for December, the midday market
showing net declines of about 20 to 24
points.
Cotton futures opened easy; May I
13.61; July 15.78; Oct. 16.02; Dec.)
16.20; Jan. 16.22.
American Found Guilty. -
Shanghai, May 7.—OP)—Leonard
Husar, former U. S. district attorney [
for China, was found guilty today by i
Judge Purdy in the U. S. District
Court here of accepting a bribe of $34.- j
000 in gold while holding the office !
of district attorney for China. He
will be sentenced Monday.
Husar, who was arrested last Jan- i
nary, testified at his trial several days
ago that while district attorney he
was appointed representative of Chang
Tsuug-Chang, Shantung war lord, in
1924, for which post he received $6,000
a year which was paid in cash month
ly. Later he received $750 a month.
_ Cook-Stewart.
Miss Helen Cook and Marion M.
Stewart, of Atlanta, Georgia, were
quietly married at high noon on Sat
urday, May 7th, by Rev, M. L. Kester.
The marriage was very quiet and sim
ple because of Mrs. Stewart's recent
illness, and came as a surprise to her
relatives who wish them a long and
happy life. Mr. Stewart is a prom
ising young man of Atlanta. Georgia.
Mrs. Stewart is the youngest daughter
of,Mrs. Ed. M. Cook, of No. 4 town
ship.
Attend Miss Jarratt’s Piano Recital
This Evening.
Among the Concord friends and rel
atives of Miss Frances .Tarratt, who
went to Winston-Salem today to at
tend her graduating piano recital this
evening were her father, A. H. Jar
ratt, and brothers, Hal and Bruce
•Tarratt, Mrs. Thomas Ross. Thomas
Ross, Elizabeth Ross, Miss Lena Les
lie, Miss Betty Leslie, Mr. and Mrs.
W. L. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Irvin,
Jr., of Morganton, Mrs. Leslie Cor
rell, Mrs. W. H. Gorman, Mrs. Leon
ard Brown and Mrs. W. H. Gibson.
Brown Heads Bar Association.
Pinehurst, May 7.—(P) —Mark W.
Brown, of Asheville, today was un
animously elected President of the
North Carolina Bar Assembly at the
closing session of the annual conven
tion here. H. Sea well of Carthage,
Miss Carrie L. McLean of Charlotte,
and A. Weyland Cooke of Greensboro,
were chosen vice presidents. Henry
M. London of Raleigh continued as
secretary-treasurer. Judge W. S. O’B.
Robinson of Goldsboro and J. M.
Bailey of Raleigh were chosen mem
bers of the executive committee.
V ■■ -
War Mothers Convention *0 Open on
Wednesday.
The War Mothers State Convention
will open Wednesday in Washington,
N. C. Mrs. W. I). Pemberton, State
War Mother, Mrs. R. E. Ridenhour,
Sr,. State Corresponding Secretary and
president of tlie local chapter, Mrs. J.
F. Goodson, State Custodian of Rec
ords, and Mrs. E. F. White, Jr., are
among the Concord persons who leave
Tuesday for Washington. Several
other ladies are planning- to go but
have not definitely decided.
Josephine Carter Oglesby.
Judge and Mrs. John M. Oglesby
1 are receiving congratulations on the
’ birth of a daughter, born May 6th,
in Marion, N. C.
The litttle girl has been named
' Josephine Carter, for her maternal
grandmother.
,1 .
Wide Reaches of Eastern
Atlantic Still Hold With
in Their Grasp Success
or Failure of Flight.
VARIOUS REPORTS
GIVEN OF FLIGHT <
—
New York Times Corre
spondent at Sydney, N.
S., Says Airman Passed
There During Morning.
(By the Associated Press))
The Nungesser plane, White Bird. |
was sighted off Cape Race, New
Found land, at 10 o'clock this morn
ing. said n brief message received to
day by the New York Times from its %
j correspondent at Sydney, Nova Sco
j tia. Should this report prove accu
rate and the daring aviators, Cap
tains Nungesser and Coll, successfully j
pursue the remaining thousand niilnn
of their course over the misty Atlantic I
they should reach tlie goal of
Paris to New York flight about 8 / |
o’clock tonight, daylight time.
Earlier In the day a report received
by the French Cable Company stated
that the radio operator at St. Pierre, - J
1 Miquelon, had received word that the
| plane had been sighted over New
i Foundland. This report lacked coti
| finnation/
Havas Agency in New Y’ork ad
-1 vised the home office in Paris that
they had a definite report from St.
Pierre that thq plane had beep sighted
over the island at 8:15 o'clock. The
French capital promptly staged a cel
ebration. loiter a St. Pierre dis-
I patch received in New York stated the |
airplane had not been sighted over
the island up to 9 o’clock Atlantic
daylight time this morning.
The broad rcatdies of the eastern
Atlantic still hold within their grasp
the success or failure of the flight.
, Reported off Cape Race, the aviators
■ have yet about a thousand miles of
sea to traverse in adverse weather
conditions.
The weather off New Foundland
1 was clear this morning, hut off to the
j southeast the daring pioneers of the
' air wore winging their way with a
I lowering gasoline supply, and facing .Aj
1 mist and rain with low visibility that
j will try every bit of courage they |
1 can summon.
i Aviators at Mitchell Field said that
under the weather conditions now ob-
I tabling, if Captain Nungesser could
1 make a landing in New York he would
have performed a miracle even greater
than that of crossing the Atlantic, ij
| Search lights were turned on during . J
the day at Mitchell Field to aid the
flyers.
Evidence of the distressing flying $
weather in and about New York was
had when Commander Francesco de
Pinedo, the Italian flyer, was forced
down in the heavy fog in Long Is
land sound in his flight to Philadelpia
from Boston.
If the White Bird was off ('ape
Race, her course naturally would lie
across Cape Canso, Nova Scotia, and
then skirting tlie shore line of Nova
Scotia past Cape Sable. The avia
tors then would head the White Bird
for Boston and New York. K • - ' #3
Inquiries at noon at the Radio Cor- ,
porntion, and independent wireless
companies, and the steamship com
panies with vessels at scat brought
the response that *no word had come •
from the White Bird.
Another Report.
New York. May 9.—( A *)—Captain
Nungesser in the White Bird was ||
sighted passing Cape Race at 10
o'clock this morning, according to a if
telegram which the New York Times
says it has received from itft corre
spondent at Sydney, N. S. The Timea
says its Sydney correspondent report
ed that the Marconi station at Glace 1
Bay informed him a wireless mesaage
from a French liner off the coast of
New Foundland stated it had sighted
the French plane. “ .
Not Seen at Bt. Pierre.
St. Pierre, May 9. —(4P) —The Nun
gesser plane had not been sighted
from here up to 9 a. in. today.
Reported at New Founderland.
New York, May 9. UP) —The New
York 'bureau of the Havas Agency has
advised its headquarters in Paris,
France, that S. Pierre Miquelon has J§
a rej>ort that the airplane -White Bird
was seen over New Foundland at 8;15
o’clock Atlantic time, this morning. jg
Nothing Definite.
New York, May 9.— UP) —A report <1
received here this morning by the
French Cable Co., that the Nungesser
plane had ben sighted by the Western
Union over New Foundland failed of
confirmation from every source, and
was not credited. Inquires were made
at various radio stations, and Western
Union officials said they were unable
to verify the reports.
New York, May 9.—(A3)—Thirty
eight hours after Captains Nungesser
and Coli hopped off from the flying
field near Paris in their attempt to
fly to this city, no substantial advices
have come from any sou fee as to their *1
whereabouts. ,
Mather!
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday, |j
probably local showers Tuesday in the i
west portion; somewhat wanner to
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