■me lh Lard Weeps On Stand I [ie Denies He Drove |r Which Killed Girl 1 3 ,Wd N '-cral Min ■“' h ; K , D.lendant ■ Tear- Fmm Eyes K VoffU-r Driver. ■ \VITN r '^ ■oR THE STATE fcectec! in Rebut- Kt Oni '* Rev. C. K. ■ -and'E. I. Chap ■estified So Far. ■ T Z; ■ ' t!iO stand in B 1 :, r in Ins own denied that o' oar when B:_; ' v , r driven by result ::ig in the than r.- Bli, tie- .i' be was un- B"." wreck and B lie r Aored any- Vo->er. also of Char- B the wheel oi the car. B v-. : witness of the tu* “ , B (iirP , t eve. l.l nation and Kation ke; t him on the hear- iiT.il a half. The B M; i;,;i;i:::i-:i was conduct- B t j Kirk; a trick and H. H led the cross examine- Hw t examination t several times, and his B was halted for several B he civen a dose of Bh, ( ';pfe: .Ian 1 '> mother Mrs. Bril. ai>e wej.t silently when B.',trea::.ii;h t't-uin the eyes B t jjK stay on the stand B« nm ,;is bur lie answered B s slowly and distinctly. several times, with Bpatriek and L. T. Hart- Bgnias for the defense and aC s, Frank Armfield and H r . : . making the exceptions the defendant Hrou know you were not Hsrat the time of the ac were unconscious? ’ and l don t see csrious could drive a ■> answer. ■ynu swear George Vogler Hr he was asked. Houldn't swear to it, but he* ■ the wheel I became ■ toM sf going to the hqme ■ Mrs. Claude I»avis, No] 9, ■ Charlotte, mi the morning ■of the accident to get sojme ■ Later, lie said. Davis came He and asked him to go Hc:e.more. lie did this, and ■ there at the time. Hikita' several bottles of the Hard said, someone suggest- Hearide. ‘I insisted I had Homy office." he said, “but ■ insisted I agreed to drive Hlotte. Vogler was at the ■. Davis was on the front ■ was on the rear seat with ■ then told about going on ■ mad to the home of a ne ■ Vosler got out and went ■aeiil. telling the others in Ho into the house. Later, he Hr came back with some ■ they all took a drink, the liquor burnt his He spit it out. Her started to get back into ■ said, ho demanded that he ■to drive, hut could not do had taken the key if you don’t get in the HjH heat hell out of you.” ■idUgkr declared when he ■>t he be given the keys so to Charlotte. ■ witness said, he demand- he be allowed to drive "l»amn you, I’ll give H'l wr. Leonard said he ■ m the ear and Vogler H several times, cutting his ■ ‘drying his nose. ■ recollection of being ■Jjy hack seat," he said.” ■®‘ w “"thing else distinctly m Tselt in a ear. I was ii man in the car with H'? s '"ins- r " mid we were ■arlotte." the >ai ( i ] IP later ■T ;■ h ' t>.'i>man. Kanna- H,', . n Was •’ringing him to Jail here. fc an ‘ ! ’' aT: " :: Leonard said H mtl " r b:iking with Mr. B, lng thfl accident. He ■ a 'e s* slight recollec- B “8 say, -Let's ■‘U® here." clash!. dl ° course of Hart That o/'V"." Counse1 ’ K) V( , ' "’’l, 'Use would ■L “ 1 M w the H car h 'T'> ~" r posses- H>w T m l,v “"'- v - Be asked ■Thom H : ’ be had HunisahiV V' ;■ H> awoke ■ft and : "“ 1 : ' hout *2B ■min' n" ' «»<* & BoviJ ' ' ho did not ■b> t. l Leonard s ■ '"mu 11 \t, .... H called ‘ - b-' ' of < har ■unan! t! " [“ 1 ahf mt H lhat Uam'i having ■ Physical ( !, , 111 a ■ alleged m' 0 ’ 1 at the anii by \ ogler. ■“forenec '! : 1 ,; 'vis have Bt» p Y r " >,;, te's at f fcC:!."; le ,h " 4 Hv n recess,.,! Brained ‘ ' *'»» m 5 til B"tl» jj.k , " ar ' 1 ' SW'e St»ra l d ‘ l " r tlie i 1 Kth th)— Hub Wagner, accused of the murder of Earl Moody in Watauga county last Christmas, probably will know by n ght whether or not he is 6lated for the electric chair or .prison, or ta ge free. Arguments of attorneys in the ; to make a keen interest in the ne. LADY ASTOR FAILS TO *4P«ACH NEW TRICKS TO PARLIAMENT MEMBERS (By International News Service) London, Aug. 18.—Although she j has been in the House of Com mohe for nine years Lady Nancy Astor, England’s American horn woman Member of Parliament coi.- fesses that she has not taught its members anything new. “You can’t .teach old dogs new tricks,” she declared at a dinner here. “I have been in the House of Commons for nine years, but I haVe not taught them anything, j The people who matter are the people who think, not the people who rule,” she. added cryptically. " 1 f OCEAN MYSTERY * TO REMAIN ONE Derelict U-Boat’s Identity Probably Lost Forever. Washington, Aug. 18.—The desert ed submarine which has been floating with Pacific tides half way between Hawaii and Japan will go down in naval history as one of the unsolved mysteries of the sea. After examining a full report on the' description and construction of the underseas craft, which has just been forwarded to the Navy Department from the naval base at Guam, sub- - marine experts confess they are as completely baffled as they w’ere when the derelict was first sighted, in April. No identifying marks were found which might reveal the derelict’s ori gin. The Guam npval base wirelessed its report to the department after receiv ing a first hand account of- the inspec tion made by the captain of the Liberator, an American freighter. Pictures also were taken by mem bers of the Liberator crew and were examined by submarine experts at Guam. The prints will be forw’arded to Washington. Since last April the Naval Hydro graphic Office has been receiving re ports. of a derelict in the Pacific which resembled a submarine. At first it was believed to be an overturned schooner. On August 6 the Liberator was pushing a peaceful passage through the Pacific, 1,200 miles w'est .of Honolulu, when the dark hulk ap peared like fungus formed from the morning sea mist. The master of the freighter halted his ship and lowered a boat to in vestigate. He and members of his crew boarded the deserted submarine. The conning tower was closed and hatches battened tight. A section of cable, ap parently a tow, was dangling from the submarine’s nose. After forcing open several hatches, the boarding party examined the in* terior of the craft. The brass work inside seemed new and bright. No batteries were in place. Other bits of machinery either had been removed or not installed. The torpedo tubes were . intact and in working condition. Not a single mark of identification could be found on the gauges or ma chinery. A complete search failed to reveal a single clew to the mystery craft’s origin or ownership. HUNDRED GATHER FOR FUNERAL OF E. H. GARY Great and Humble Who Knew Steel Magnate Gathered to Pay Honor at His Bier. Wheaton, 111., Aug. 18.— UP) —The great and the humble who knew Elbert H. Gary and called him their friend, gathered today at his bier to pay him final tribute. Funeral services in the beautiful church which the steel master built as a memorial to his parents, brought not only kings and princes of the w-orld of business, but also the neigh-, bors and townsmen of the farm boy who rose to captain of a ,great indus try. There w*as a brief ceremony ar ranged for the church, with music by a quartet chosen by old friends of Mr. Gary who knew and respected his wishes for simple rites. Tlie funeral sermon was prepared by the Rev. Frederick T. Leet, Methodist bishop of Indianapolis, with prayers by Rev. James R. Ladd, of Elgin, Rev. Ernest of Evanston, and Rev. A. M. Penne well, pastor of the Gary Memorial Church. A mausoleum built 17 years ago by Mr. Gary at a cost of $250,000, was the end of the journey. In it rests the bofly of Mr. Gary’s first wife. Nearby in another plot of the small aTe remains of his parents and grand parents, whose lives spanned back to the days of the colonies. Honorary pall bearers were some of the leaders in the business world who called the dead man their friend. They included Vice President Chas. G. Daw es, Chas. M. Schwab, Nathan I. Mil ler, Senator Charles' Deener of Illi noeis, James L. Farrel, John J. Mitchell and Frank O. Lowden. , SPORTSMEN IMPATIENT. For the Opening of the Hunting - Season Under the New Game Laws. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug 18. —Sportsmen are be coming impatient for the opening of the hunting under the new state-wide game law. Applications for licenses are beginning to come into game administration headquar ters with the opening of the first sea sons less than a month away. The first shipment of license but tons which will be worn by hunters were received this week by Director Wade H. Phillips of the Department of Conservation and Development. These buttons are in three colors, silver, orange and light blue, signify ing non-resident, county-resident, and state-resident licenses, respectively and are to be worn in a conspicuous place on the person of the license while hunting. Fifty thousand of the buttons have been ordered in the following num i bers: Non-resident, 2.000; county * resident, 28,000; and state-resident, 20.000. First of the season will open in September, the dates of some of the most important being; squirrel Sep tember 15 to January 16; rabbit, November 1 to March 1; deer, Octo ber 1 to January 15 ; bear, October 1 to January 15; wild turkey, December , 1 to March ,1. CONCORD, N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18,1927 SPEEDING UP THE MAILS! iH sj.$ j. * ' Five hundred miles at sea mail is to be dropped on the liner Leviathan on August 21. Lieutenant Clarence H. Schildhauer will attempt the feat as a test of the practicability of speeding up the mails, in thaj manoer. He's shown taking off in his PN type navy plane. “OLD GUARD” AND AL SMITH Still Undisturbed About IBs Inereas in Strength in North Carolina. The Tribune Bureau -*»■ Sir Walter Hotel By J. C. BASIvERVILL Raleigh, Aug. 18. —The members 6f the “Old Guard” of the Democratic party in Raleigh and who typify the sentiment of the conservative element all over the state, are still undisturbed by the reports of increasing strength among those who favor A1 Smith ne the nominee of the Democratic party in 1928, and staunchly contend that be will not get the nomination. Even the suggestion of uninstructed delega tions does not get them excited. Some see in the talk off sending un instructed delegations to the next Dem ocrtatic national convention a move to maneuver the nomination of A1 Smith, since it is generally conceded that Smith will go to the convention,, with i%t£at number of delegates, peijv haps eVen.a majorifj**- -Thus if there ea considerable nnmber of delegates at the convention that have not been definitely pledged, it is argued that it will ndt be hard to swung these dele gates into line to get on the band wagon—and it is confidently believed that this band wagon will be moti vated by the Smith adherents. But local anti-Smith Democrats are not alarmed at this possibility. They contend that Smith’s greatest strength will* American B 57% Ilo»k Island i 111 R. J. Reynolds 136% So» thern-Pncifie 121% Standard 0 : 1 of N. J. 39 Son them Railway 134 Stu lebaker 1 51% Tolacco Products 99 U. S. Steel 136% We, tinghouse 83% Maryland 55% $2.00 a Strictly in Advance Tax Rate * \ r Cabarrus Is Slashed U \ 'ents For Year Board Sets Rate at 95 Cents at Meeting Yesterday at Court House—Budget For Various Departments Agreed Upon. Fifteen cents was slashed from the tax rate of Cabarrus county by the commissioners at a meeting yesterday at the court house. This reduction gives to the tax pay ers a rate- of 95 cents against the sl.lO paid last year, and resulted not only from increased property valua tions but from reductions in various county departments. Before adopting the tax rate the commissioners discussed for several hours the tentative budget presented to them several weeks ago, made sev eral cuts in the figures and finally approved a budget calling for ap propriations totalling $426,652.43. This will be~divided as follows: General Fund and _ County Home Fund, $73,489.93. Interest Fund, $65,162.50. Road Fund, $67,500. School Fund, $220,500. The rate is divided as follows: * Sehoool Fund 49 cents; roads 15 cents, interest fund 15 cents, general fund 15 cents and county home fund 1 cent. John L. Miller, county tax super visor and accountant, advised the board that total valuations so far listed amounted to $44,919,968. He explained that delinquents had prop erty listed within the past several days but not carried in these figures would probably add from half a mil lion dollars to the total. The total taxable property last year was ap- TEST CASE ON COUNTY GOVERNMENT LAW Can a Sheriff Collect 1926 Taxes Un der the New Act of 1927? The Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Aug. 18. —Another act of the county government law passed -by the 1927 legislature is due to reach Supreme Court, according to in formation from Surry County, where :i test case is ou the calendar for the •h'i) term of the Superior Court in the county which begins August 29. The test case in question is that of Mrs. N. C. Marion et at, taxpayers, vs. C. H. Haynes, sheriff, and the board of county commissioners, Surry County. The act involved is entitled “An Act to Provide for the Collection of Taxes Within the Counties of the State and for Settlement of the Same.” The finance act, one of the meaeures of the new county government law, was teeied when a S!l wKI brought in Guilford County at the suggestion of Chester Nass’.ich, New York bond attorney, who had a part in the writ ing of the finance act. The particular questions at issue n the Surry case are whether a sher iff can collect taxes of 1926 under the new act of 1027, and whether, cilice the new law has been enacted, he sheriff can collect the 1926 taxee inder the former law. The test case in Surry will be of interest in many of the counties of the state where injunction proceedings have been sought against the sale of lands for the 1926 unpaid taxes. PLENTY OF BOLL WEEVILS IN NORTH CAROLINA But It Is Too Early to Determine Amount of the Damage. The Tribune Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, August 18. —Though there are plenty of boll weevils throughout the cotton growing cduntiee, it ie as yet a little too early to determine just how great the boll weevil damage is going to .amount to, though indications arc that it is going to be heavy, ac cording tp Frank Parker, statistician of the U. S. Crop Reporting Service. That the damage to cotton from boll weevils will not be as heavy as now appears likely is the* opinion of Dr. R. W. Leiby, state’entomologist, who is now making a field trip tp get first hand information as to just how prevalent the weevil is. and the ex tent of the damage already done. When he returns from this trip, he may have changed his opinion and agree that the outlook really is serious. At the present the heaviest infesta tion extends from Scotland county through to Duplin county, according to the survey just c\mpleted. with perhaps the greatest number of weevils in the vicinity of Moproe, in Union county. In some sections of the cotton belt, especially from Go’dsoboro on toward Wilmington, the farmers have .-been dusting their cotton with calcium ar senate as a precautionary measure, tions, however, the farmers appear to to check weevil spread. In other sec be entirely undisturbed, and are ap parently doing nothing. It will be several weeks yet before the exact status of the weevil situa tion can be definitely known, however, despite the present discouraging out look. \ Four Thousand Left For Baptist Causes. Statesville, Aug. 17. will of the late Mrs. Mary Church, which has been in the office of Clerk of Superior Court of Iredell County, pro vides that her estate, valued at $4,- 000, be placed in the hands of her husband, Rev. G. H. Church, and at his death to be given to the North Carolina Baptist Foundation Com mittee, who are to invest and pay half the net income annually to the Baptist Orphanage at Thomasville and the other half to the Foreign Mis sion Board -of the Southern Baptist Convention. It is • specified in the document that the part going to the mission board be devoted to the sup port of native missiosieries in China. The Wachovia Bank and Trust Com pany is named as executor of the will. University of North Carolina plans to dedicate its new athletic stadium with the Carolina-Virginia football game next Thanksgiving Day, - * proximately $38,000,000. In a'ddition to the taxes, Mr. Miller told the board that 5,352 polls would bring in $2 each, that approximately 1600 doge would add to the total and that fines and forfeitures from various courts in the county would add about $20,000 more to the cshool fund total. Last year, his report shows, 1.316 dogs were listed for taxes and he figured the total this year, after he has started a search ot unlisted property, would meach 1600. Last year finee and forfeitures paid into the school fund amounted to $16,369.' Mr. Miller now is preparing a coun ty financial statement which he ex pects to make public tomorrow. “We have put each department on a budget and they have to spend only what we have given them,” Mr. Mil ler explained. “We have asked each department to cut figures as low as possible and feel that thie has been done.” Mr. Miller explained that bonds are being retired each year and as these are retired the interest fund will decrease from year to year. He also explained that the budget provides for a fund which will care for any build ing and repair work necessary during the year, including $2,000 to be spent at the cotton platform. The fifteen cent cut, it is said, is one of the largest made by any coun ty in the State this year. JARDINE HAS NEW FARM RELIEF PLAN Would Include the Control of Sur plus Crops. Washington, Aug. 18.—Extensive organization of cooperative units among American farmers, creation of a Federal Farm Board and establish ment of a fund to assist in carrying surplus crope from season to season is viewed by Secretary" Jardine as the most effective means of improv ing the troubled agricultural situation. The plan was outlined by the sec retary in an article written for the current issue of the Farm Journal, a Philadelphia publication. Two avenues of approach were seen —control of surpluses aue principally to weather condition* and a better ad justment of production to the require ments of the market. In handling surpluses Mr. Jardine said, much could be accomplished through /‘commodity corporiiHafel'operated by the farmers.’ the essential function of which would be to take off the market temporarily such amounts of a commodity as would prevent the price from falling to a ruinously low level. These cor porations, he said, should be guided by the advice of a Federal board. Adjustment of production was ex plained to mean “adjustment in kind, quality and amount,” which, Mr. Jar dine asserted, called for complete and accurate information on supply and demand both at home and abroad, and for reliable data on regional tion problems. The Federal Farm Board, he said, should be appointed on a basis of sp cial fitness for the work involved. Its duties should include formu’.ation of plans tfhd policies for handling sur pluses, assistance to the farmer in establishing clearing house associa tions or the marketing of perishables, and administration of the projected fund. Secretary Jardine emphasized his belief thaF the plan would not put the government into the business of buying and selling farm products and that it was ‘‘in no sense a scheme of price fixing.” BUS DRIVER CHARGED WITH TWO DEATHS Everett Fish at Liberty Under Bond Following Accident Near Durham. Durham, Aug. 16. —04 s ) —Charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of two people and injury to two others, wljen the bus he was op erating collided with a light car on the highway near here, Everett Fish stood today indicted and at liberty under bond. Two negroes in the smaller car died of injuries received in the col lision. None of the 14 bus passen gers was seriously injured. With Our Advertisers. % The Gray Shop will give free hats again on Friday and Saturday with each dress or coat purchased. Your choice from over 100 hats absolutely free. Gopdyear lawn hose 25- foot section, only $2.35 at Yorke & Wadsworth Co. A 50-foot section, $4.50. There will be a special sale of Queen Charlotte pure silk hosiery at Belk’s at once — $1.50 hosiery for 95 cents. Twenty popular shades. See ad. on page 5. Men’s suits with character only $24.75 at the J. C. Penny Co’s, ploy’s shirts for school wear, 79 cents. Blankets 98cents to $9.90. Women’s and misses and jupior frocks, $9.90 and $14.75. Flight to Rome Halted Again. Roosevelt Field, N. Y., Aug. 18.— UP) —Rain that turned the runway in to a spongy swamp this morning pre cluded all possibility of a takeoff, this afternoon for the monoplane Old Glory on its projected non-stop flight to Rome. Lloyd Berta ud and Jas. D. Hill, the air mail pilots who will operate .the single-motored Fokker, announced after inspection of the runway that all hopes of a start today were gone. Deny Report of Burning of Plane. Shanghai, China, Aug. 18.—<^)— Both the Chinese and British officials today denied a report that the Chinese had burned the wing of the British military plane seized after the plane had made a forced landing outside a international settlement her. SEARCH IN PACIFIC FOR TWO AIRPLANES MISSING ON FLIGHT By Ship, Aircraft ardl Radio Broad Expanses of Pacifiic Being Combda To Locate Planes. MISS DORAN [N ONE OF PLANEfe Only Woman Entrant In Dole Flight Occupant of One of the Missing Planes.—Others Safe. San Francisco, Aug. 18.—(^)— By ship, aircraft and radio, search was being pressed today over the broad ex'- panses of the m : ghty Pacific for the two missing entrants in the trans oceanic race to Honolulu. The search was on almost before the successful flyers had won the James D. Dole prizes of $25,000 and SIO,OOO, by landing yesterday near Honolulu.' Interest centered largely in the fate of Miss Mildred Doran, pretty Flint, Mich., school teacher, the only womatt in the Dole race, who was a passenger in the biplane named in her honor, tbh Miss Doran, piloted by J. A. Pedlaj*, of Flint, and navigated by V. R, Knope, San Diego nfcvy lieutenant. - The other missing aircraft was the cigar-shaped monoplane Golden Eagle, owned by George Hearst, publisher of the San Franciso Examiner, of which Jack Frost, of New York, was pilot and Gordon Scott, of' Santa • Monica, Cal., was navigator. Two score vessels, more than half of them belonging to the United State* Nary, were cruising over or speeditfg toward the path believed to have been followed by the missing planes. To vessels on the steamship lane* to Hawaii, the wireless agencies were broadcasting directions for the search, while the aircraft h'opped off from both mninlaud and Hawaii to scan the high seaß. Captain E. P. Erwin and Navigator A. H. Eichwaldt of the monoplane Dal las Spirit, whose wing-torn fuselage defeated their efforts to get away as entrants on Tuesday, worked past mid night at the Oakland airport to be ready to take off at noon on a search ing fligHt, at the end of which th«fcr expected to land In Hawaii. Tw» army planes stood ready at CriMW Field, the San Francisco army ail port, awaiting order to sear to tub extent o t their cruising radius ever the mainland end of the Dole race course. At the Hawaiian end of the course, army and navy planes were zooming out to scan the broad expanses where it is believed the flyers may be afloat. The Miss Doran was prepared for buoyancy unless a too-sudden descent into the Pacific prevent it to drain the gasoline from its tanks. The Golden Eagle was equipped to fill the tank! on the wing-ends, and the rear of fha fuselage with air by turning of Z valve. From San Diego the navy aircraft carrier Langley, and the tender Arood* took were steaming itorth with sea planes and observation planes and skilled naval aviators aboard, prepared to go aloft in their search after th* vessels turned west on the course to Honolulu. v (apt. Erwin to Aid hi Search. San Francisco, Aug. 18.— UP) —Cap- tain P. Erwin, of Dallas Texas, who failed to get started ia the $35,000 Dole race from here ti Honolulu Tuesday, announced he would take off today for the Hawaiian Is lands, following a zig zag course in au effort to'*siyht one of the missing planes which attempted the Dole flight, Captain Erwin had a radio set in« stalled in his plane last night and ex* pected to start on the plane hunt latt in the day. His decision was taken following receipt of a telegram Cot W. E. Westerwood, of Dallas, offer*- ing him a $25,000 purse if he com tinued his flight to Hong Kong, China. The search for the missing DoU planes, the Miss Doran and the Goldea Eagle, will be incidental to that pro ject. If Erwin sights the planet floating on the sea he will broadcast the spot by radio and continue on hia course. 40 Ships Assist in Hunt. Washington, Aug. 18.—C^)—Mar sha'.ling the greatest fleet of vessel* at its command in the Pacifiic, tb« Navy department today had 40 ship# of various discription under order! to search for missing Hawaiian flight planes —Miss Boran and Golden Eaglp. Most of the ships were underway early today while others were awaits ing only the stocking up of provision* to speed out along the broad waste along the 2,400 mile course in hope* of finding the five flyers alive. The armada of naval craft whiek will be assisted in the wide search by airplanes and -commercial craft, in clude 7 destroyers out of'San Fran cisco, four destroyers en route from Honolulu to Seattle; 23 submarines I three submarine tenders from Pear Harbor station ; aircraft carrier Lang ley and the aircraft tender Aroostook. \ Dr. McDaniel in Semi-Conscious Condition. Richmond. Aug. 18.— UP) —In a semi-conscious condition and gradual ly growing weaker, Dr. » George W. McDaniel, paztor of the First Baptizt Church here may not live more than 24 hours, one of bis physicians said here today. Hiz family is at the bedside. Dr. McDaniel suffered a stroke of paralysis a week ago yesterday. ~_iiiiii7T ; Cloudy tonight and Friday with showers tonight and on the coast Fri day ; cooler in central portion tonight [and in east portion Friday. -• -i® d&L. V •v > JhU-SibWS NO. 17