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Btawav into the gray dawn.
B' ' to the west and after
Be city to pain height, turned
the pLa tie to the rising
attempted 3.742-mile flight
■/ M hiO (’afling prize
a and Brook in (.ermany,
■ Germany. Aug.
the second lap of their
Bound the world flight. Ed-
William b. Brock
their monoplane, Pride
M from t'roydon, England
■,ves for (rermany-
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a of Detroit, American
Be world plane, took the air
held here at 8 :32 a.
Munich. Germany,
a> miles distant, as the
The flight is the second
a?'obe eircdng air tour being
Edward F. Sehlee and
Bro k. They completed the
F„ to Croydon, Sunday
Kfrer being in the air 23
21 minutes.
a: the controls when the
started.
Lake Ontario.
Aug 21*. — (A 3 ) —The
H. Sir John Carling, was re
|Hhave passed out over Lake
direction of Belleville
at 8 a. in., Eastern
time.
Ha list all
■ hljiwav prospects
Filing of Sait Cost
New Roads.
Ann 21'.—Catawba county
of getting any high
done when it hied its suits
highway commission, ac
■ Char.es Boss, attorney for
statement, issued today,
"The State highway
B- at its meeting Friday,
of three projects in
Bounty, upon which it had
IB*,
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injunction which
jHnec before Judge Schenck on
B The other project
B 1 k r ‘^ ?e between Oatawba
counties over the Ca-
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was held up because
of Nflv’i n succeeds in its
its effect would be
ail money a LIo ted to Ca-
to be spent on the pav
would find itself
position of hav-
B' 2trflct w Gh no money to
work.”
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& o °py of Judge Sinclair's
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THE CONCORD TIMES
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
“EAGLE BEAK” ON FLYERS
AVIATION TRADE MARK
(By International News Service)
Oakland, Calif., Aug. 29.—Th«
treat assemblage of flyers at the
municipal ah*port«here for the Pa
cific flights resulted in the quaint
discovery that an “eagle-beak” ie
as distinctive a characteristic -of
birdmen as helmets and goggles.
Some physiognomists contend
that flying develops eagle-like fea
tures. Others maintain that the
hawk-like nose indicates daring and
that only daring men become crack
pilots.
Among the Dole entrants the fol
lowing had the sharp , rapacious
type of face: Livingeton Irving,
Norman Godard, Jack Frost, Aug
gie Pedlar, C. W. Parkhurst, Mar
tin Jensen, Art Goebel, pilots; and
A1 Henley, Paul Schluter, Kenneth
Hawkins, Ralph C. Lowes, A. V.
Knope, navigators, and Capt. Er
M. Lagron, relief navigator.
MANY WAYS.
In Which a Motorist May Prove
Himself to Be a Bad Driver.
Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 29—There are many
ways in which a motorist may prove
himself to be a bad driver just when
he is thinking how other drivers must
be admiring his facility in handling
a car, says C. W. Roberts, vice
president of the Carolina Motor club.
“The ten most common forms of bad
driving which too many motorists re
gard as good car operation, according
to Mr. Roberts, are:
“Driving slowly in the middle of
the road.
“Taking the right-of-way of the
other fellow by taking advantage of
his desire to avoid injury to himsell
or others or his car.
“Driving a car that has squeasy,
unequal and generally in efficient
brakes.
“Cutting corners or taking curves
at high speed.
“Passing another vehicle, going in
the same direction, at the brow of a
hill.
“Descending a steep hill in high
gear xvhen discretion dictates going
down in second or low gear.
“Trying to beat a train to the
grade crossing—even if the trick is
turned successfully.
“Parking so as to use- the space
■that might be taken by two cars.
“Trying to pass a long -Tine of
traffic that is traveling at the legal
speed limit.
“Making repairs without pulling
the car off the highway or at least,
having two wheels off the aide of the
road.
“Reckless drivers are faring hard
in North Carolina courts, following
adoption of the uniform motor ve
hicle code, and the appalling accident
toll will be reduced If motorists' do
not do the things enumerated.”
BURLESON GETS
PENNY DAMAGES
Slayer of Broadus Miller Settles Suit
For Slander Against O. L. Dula.
Blowing Rock, - Aug. 27.—The $30,-
000 damage suit of Commodore Burle
son, of Morganton, against C. L. Dula,
of Blowing Rock, has been settled out
of court for one cent, it was stated
here by Mr. Dula.
Mr. Dula said hie attorneys and
those of Burleson agreed to discon
tinue the suit if Dula would pay the
costs and a nominal amount of “dam
ages” to Mr. Burleson. Thereupon,
Mr. Dula gave Mr. Burleson one cent,
and the case was ended.
Burleson filed the suit seeking dam
ages. because Dula had been quoted
in newspapers as saying that Broadus
Miller, negro slayer of Gladys Kin
caid, of Morganton, had been slain
apparently while he offered ho resist
ance. Burleson maintained that Mil
ler fird on him first with a shotgun,
and that he killed Miller in self de
fense. On this ground, Burleson de
manded the $30,000 damages.
Negro Goes to Chair For Killing
Johnson.
Fayetteville, Aug. 27.—-Hector
Graham, negro was found guilty ✓ot
murder in the first degree by 12 Scot
land county jurprs in the Superior
court at Raeford this afternoon and
was sentenced by Judge N. A. Town
send to be electrocuted on Friday,
September 30, between the hours of
10 a. m. and 3 p. m., for the shoot
ing to death of Captain Paul W.
Johnson, prominent young pmnter of
Hoke county.
Bobby Back Home.
Atlanta, Aug. 29.—0 P) in
his arms the - gigantic golden cup that
signifies victory in the American
golf tourney, Bobby Jones ar
rived home today to hear once more
the unbridled cheers of Atlanta ad
mirers, who never grow tired of • °^ a ‘
tions to this young genius of the links.
THE STOCK MARKET
Rejorted by Fenner & Beane.
(Quotations at 1:30 P. M.)
Atchison Vaav
American Tobacco B | <4
American Smelting Tc'-v
Allied Chemical
American Tel. & Tel. 168%
American Can
Baldwin Locomotive %
Baltimore & Oh : j} H'
American Brown 6/i
Bethlehem Steel 64
Chesapeake & Ohio 'oi
Chrysler , ”
DuPont 1177/,
Frisco ——————— —
General Motors 2 250%
General Electric
Int. Tel
Kenneeott Copper
Lorillard
Liggett & Myers B !1”%
Mack Truck
Mo.-Pacific
Stand. Oil of N. Y 31%
X. Y. Central
Pan. American B
Producers Refiners %
R. J. Reynolds “l%
Southern-Pacific ——
Stand. Oil of N. J.
Studebaker * ’
T. S. Steel
.—
Western Md.
ANOTHER ARGONAUT
OF THE SKIES NOW
AMONG THE MISSING
m
Fate of Redfern Remains
- Shrouded in Mystery as
Hours Continue Without
News From Him.
PLANE IS DOWN
AT SOME POINT
Did Not Have Enough Gas
to Stay in Air This Long.
—Was He Victim of the
Storms Off Bahamas? %
Brunswick, Ga., Aug. 29.-—( A *) —An-
other argonaut of the skies has joined
the serried raqks of the missing.
The fate of Paul Redfern remains
shrouded in mystery today as the
hours continued to mount, with no
news from the intrepid flyer who wing
ed his way out over the Atlantic last
Thursday on his perilous venture to
Brazil.
The green and gold monoplane,
“Port of Brunswick,” hours agoi had
been forced down in its journey by ex
haustion of fuel, if Redfern even then
bad escaped tropical disturbances
along his route. The flyer had stock
ed the craft with fuel for 52 hours of
flying, estimating that if he kept
straight to his course charted he would
reach Rio de Janeiro, or possibly Per
nambuco. - Should Redfern have pro
ceeded along his route, this supply
should have been depleted about the
middle of Saturday afternoon, at the
latest.
Apprehension for his sarety was in
creased Saturday night when reports
were received from aviators returning
to Miami that severe gales had been
experienced off Hopetown, Great Aba
oo, on the eastern fringe of the Baha
mas. Redfern had mapped out a
course which would him
in the path of this storm had he fol
lowed his course. It’s intensity, ac
cording to the belief of the Miami pi
lots, led to the conclusion that Red
fera might have been forced to swerve
from his path and in so doing be may
have made an error in reckoning his
position.
GOV. MCLEAN’S PROBLEMS
The Two or Three Major Problems
Ripe For His Attention.
-m The Tribune Bureau,
, Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 29.—Governor Mc-
Lean’s management of the two or
three major problems that are ripe .
for his attention on his return tomor
row will not only be a fair test of hie
administrative capacity, but will have
a direct bearing on his political fu
ture, in the opinion of shrewd observ
ers in the state capital.
There is) first of all, the friction
that has developed from time to time
between State Auditor Baxter Dur
ham and the administrator of the Bud
get Bureau. This bureau is in a pe
culiar sense that child of the Govern
or and by by that token his political
fortune is more or less tied up with
it.
Practically all of the state officials,
including Auditor Durham, have paid
tribute to the good features of the bud
get system, and practically all of them
have condemned or at least chafed un- '
der other features of it. The unpop
ular rulings have been accepted with
a certain amount of grace by the de
partment heads because they believed
that they were coming direct from
Governor McLeaa, and they Were will
ing to give them a fair trial.
But during the Governor’s recent
prolonged absence from the state, two
or three letters of instruction came
from the Bureau which were evident
ly the product of the energetic Assist
ant Director Henry Burke. These re
cent instructions, it seems, tend to
increase considerably the cost of man
agement in the departments and have
otherwise antagonized the officials.
The question before the Governor is
just how much further can the Bureau
go in formulating unpopular rulings
without injuring the McLean political
future.
Then there is the matter of print
ing to be disposed of. The committee
of printers appointed by the Commis
sioner of Labor and Printing, Frank
Grist, has ready its recommendations,
and these will be submitted to the
Printing Commission when that body
gets together next week.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Barely Steady at Decline of
2 to 14 Points Under Selling.
New York, Aug. 29. — UP) —The cot
ton market opened barely steady
decline of 2 to 14 points under selling
promoted by relatively easy Liverpool
cables and rather a better view of the
weather map. Were rallies of several
points after the call, on covering or a
nenewal of the demand responsible
for last week's advances, but they met
considerable cotton, December selling
off to 22.54 and March to 22.60 in A
early trading, or about 15 to 18
points net lower.
Offerings seemed to taper off some- |
what at these figures, owing to con- J
tinued unfavorable crops reports and j
reiterated complaints of boll weevil j
damage, and the market showed rallies j
4 to 5 points from lowest at the end
of the first hour.
Prices for ail positions made new
high records, December selling up to
23.25 and March to 23.35, or about
60 to 63 points aboye Saturday’s clos
ing quotations. The advance of ap
proximately $3 a bale attracted realiz
ing and the market was a few points
off from the best at midday.
Cotton futures opened fairly steady.
Oct. 22:20; Dec. 22:55; Jan. 22:53;
March 22 :65 ; May 4J2 :80.
Closing Figures.
January 23.33, March 23.45, May
23 54; July 23.20, October 23.07, De
cember 23.34.
All the world loves to laugh with
or at a lover. i
CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1927
THIS MAY HAVE
( BEEN PLANE OF
PAUL REDFERN
Caracus, Venezuela, Aug. 29. —
UP) —lt was reported h today
that an airplane was sighted over
the delta of the Orinoco river at 3
o’clock Saturday afternoon, flying
in a southerly direction.
HENDERSCTN STRIKERS
OFFER PEACE TERMS
Send Petition to Mill Directors.—
Want Pay For Time They Have
Been Idle.
Henderson, Aug. 29.— UP) —Definite
steps looking toward a settlement of
differences between 800 striking em
ployees of the Harriet Cotton Mills
here and mill owners were taken to
day when the 'committee of strikers
presented a written proposition to the
directors outlining a compromise.
The petition, now before a commit
tee of directors for consideration and
upon which an answer was expected
late today, was signed by nine mem
bers of the striking force. It leaves
future adjustment of working scale to
the directors, and contains agreement
that the strikers will return to work
under certain conditions. ' It requests
reimbursement for time lost during
the nearly four weeks of idleness.
“We ask that you allow us time
lost during the strike, allowing each
and everyone of us to return to work,
which we will do, and leaving the wage
and Irving conditions to you gentle
men who we have known so long,”
the petition reads.
Adjustment within reasonable time
is urged. The strikers stress that
they do not wish to “jeopardize the
mill’s interests, * and they will co-op
erate with the owners in reaching an
agreement.
A request included that the conduct
of overseers in the mills be investigat
ed. The employees, the petition de
clares, feel that the conduct of the
overseers has been “unbearable.”
GIRL ATTACKED AND
COMPANION KILLED
Body of Man Found Near Un
conscious Form of His 7 Fiancee iq
Kentucky.
Madisonville, Ky., Aug. 28.—Fred
Russell, 20 years old, was found dead,
and his fiancee, 'Miss Pauline Dear
mond, 16, was found nearby, brutally
beaten and tied, near the old lair
grounds at Providesce today. Police
believe Russell was murdered and
robbed and Mias Dearmond attacked
by the robbers-
The young couple, who were plan
ning to be married soon, left the home
of Charles Cabsler, Miss Dearmouo s
uncle, with whom she lived, Wednes
day night in an automobile, knowing
that the young woman had obtained
her wedding clothes, the* unde did
become alarmed when she failed to re
turn Wednesday night. He thought
they had eloped.
When no word had been received
from them Friday, Mr. Cansler began
a search. The automobile was round
near the fair grounds Friday morn
ing. Three hundred yards away, in
some high wpeds, Russell’s body was
found today. He had been shot over
the right eye. The condition of the
body indicated he had been dead since
Wednesday night.
The girl, unconscious from the at
tack, was found seventy-five yards
away. She had been attacked, her jaw
broken and a knocked in her
head. The clothing was practically
torn from her body and the ground
around showed a struggle had taken
place. She was taken to the Deh
coness Hospital at Evansville, lna.
, \ T
EARLY DRAGGTD
FROM HIS RETREAT
Leper Now Speeding Southward on
His Way to Louisiana Leprosarium.
Tryon, Aug. 28. —John Early was
taken from his refuge in the moun :
tains of Polk county today by a
group of federal find county officers
and placed in an automobile for the
trip to Spartanburg, S- C., where fte
boarded a train for Carrville, i/a.,
where the United States Leprosarium
from which he escaped is located.
Early was found hiding in the
bushes in a ravine several hundred
yards from his brother’-# house, witti
a repeating rifle in his hands.
He had to be carried by the health
department agents to his shack, re
fusing to walk a step, but later re
considered, and accompanied by his
brother, Matt Early, left with the
health officers.-
All members of the Early family
were armed and it appeared for a
time that the officers might have
trouble. However, because of superior
number and the placating influence of
United ‘States Marshal Brownlow
Jackaon, trouble was avoided.
THE STOCK MARKET r
General Motors, U. S. Steel and Gen
eral Electric Reach New High
Ground.
New York, Aug. 29.— UP) —The
stock market gave another impressive
demonstration of its recuperative pow
er today, a bad sinking spell during
the forenoon being followed by a brisk
recovery which carried several of the
leading iiylustrials to record high lev
els. Heavy selling of General Motors
which crumbled five points to 244%
| precipitated the break, but this stock
recovered its loss and climbed to a
new peak price of 251%. U. S. Steel
| common and General Electric also
j reached a new high ground.
j Levine Insulted by American; Is
Handy With Fists.
Paris, Aug. 27.—Charles A. Levine,
who flew to Germany with Clarence
Chamberlin and who hopes to fly back
to the United States with Maurice
Drouhin, engaged in a fist fight with
another American on the Boulevard
near the opera today, and said he
won.
“I never saw the man before, but
he insulaed me and I took a crack at
h'im. I used to be a boxer,” Levine
said.
“I am itching to start the flight
'to the United States, but the weather
is too bad at present,” Levine added.
Late this afternoon he went, out to
Le Bourget field, where his monoplane,
the Columbia, is housed, and where
news ot the fight had preceded him.
AIDS SON
\« « - iSjKixt a»
Dr. H. C. HUI has offered to
come to the aid of his son,
Harnr Hill, accused of the
murder of his mother in their*
Streator, 111., home. Dr. Hill!
and the murdered woman were ;
Estranged/
DAMAGE SUIT STARTED
AGAINST JOHN DAWSON
It Is Alleged He Failed to Carry Qut
Duties as Receiver for Warehouse.
Wilmington, Aug. 27.-—Suit for ap
proximately SIO,OOO has been institut
ed in United States district-court by
C. L. Williams, receiver for the Com
mercial. National bank, against John
G. Dawson, of Kinston, receiver for
the Farmers Warehouse company, of
LaGrange, alleging misappropriation
and misapplication of funds in the
complaint that has been filed. The
action is brought against the former
chairman of the state Democratic
executive committee and his bonds
men, J. E. May and H. F. Hardy afid
the United States Fidelity and Guar
anty company.
The original face value of the note
on which the suit is based was $15,-
000 although payments that have been
made in curtailing the Raper has re
duced it to $6,894.79. However, the
plaintiff is asking for interest on this
amount over a period of six years
which would run the total to ap
proximately SIO,OOO. J
The complaint is a lengthy, affair
going into great detail. It contends
that Mr. Dawson, who stands high
in the Democratic party councils of
the state, has failed as receiver for
the warehouse company to perform
his duties in that he has' not accounted
for the monies that have come into
hisS&ffJvU s# receiver Je* the-eoaapany- <
or which by due diligence should have
come into his hands and that he has
not disbursed same foif the benefit of
creditors, that he has failed and re
fused to obey the orders and decrees
of the court in this cause in that
he has failed to disburse funds shown
in his report to be in hand and to
pay plaintiff’s claim as required and
has failed to perform other provisions
of the order referred to.
Going further the complaint alleges
that the plaintiff has used every
reasonable means and resorted to
every reasonable method to compel
the receiver to account for the funds
which have come into his hands as
receiver to account for the funds which
have come into his hands as receiver
and to disburse same as provided by
law and by the orders of court. In
stead, the complaint says, he has de
clined to comply with the order of the
order of the court and make disburse
ment in accordance therewith and has
violated the conditions and terms of
the bond under which funds belonging
to his truhts were paid into his hands
and that plaintiff is informed, believes
and alleges that the said John G. Daw
son has misapplied and misappro
priated the said funds to other pur
poses than to the trust he is admin
istering and for this reason seeks
judgment against the said John G.
Dawson and his sureties on his re
ceiver’s bond for the amount of plain
tig’s claim.
Says Funds Held at Court’s Order.
Kinston, Aug. 28—All funds which
have come into his hands as receiver
for the LaGrange Warehouse and
which have not been properly dis
bursed are now being held subject to
the direction of the court, declared
John G. Dawson, former chairman
of State Democratic Executive Com
mittee, in a statement made here to
day.
Mr. Dawson, when asked for an
expression concerning the suit of G.
L. Williams, receiver of the Com
mercial National Bank of Wilming
ton, in which Mr. Dawson is charged
with misapplication of funds comiug
into his hands as receiver-
The statement issued by Mr. Daw
son follows:
“I am sorry that such puuncity
was given but assume, of course it is
all fully understood. *
“The situation only involves mat
ters between "two receiverships, the
Nation*} Bank of Wilmingtoh being
administered under the Federal law
authorities and the receivership of the
warehouse company at LaGrange
being administered in tae state
courts. The records and the report of
the warehouse’s affairs, as made to
the Superior Court, of Lenoir county,
by me as receiver, are full and Com
plete, and this receivership will be
duly and properly settled under orders
of and by direction of the Superior
court of Lenoir county.
“Other creditors and the receiver
of the Commercial National Bank are
interested and conditions may call for
a pro rata payment. This will soon be
ascertained.
“Os course all funds collected sa
far and not properly disbursed are
being held subject to the court’s di
rections and for disbursement.”
Fear Airmen Are Held In Mexico.
San Antonio, Aug. —Belief
that two army aviators. Capt. C. H.
Reynolds, and Staff Sergeant Gus
Newland, of Fort Sam Houston, have
been captured by Mexican bandits
was expressed by friends of the men
here today.
Dr. W. C. Houston will he In hie
office on and after September Ist
2 TRAINMEN KILLED
fID 2 HURT WHEN
VIMS WRECKED
OiP A jpne of Broadway
Jj& >d, Crack Pennsy
Ti* , Fell 200 Feet Over
Embankment
NO PASSENGER
WAS KILLED
Train Was Being: Pulled by
Two Engines and One
Hung on Edge of Ravine
After Accident.
Pittsburgh, Aug. 29.—04*1 Two
engine men were killed and two other
members of the crew injured, one
seriously, when the Broadway Limit
ed, fast Chicago to New York passen
ger train on the Pennsylvania rail
way was wrecked this morning just
east of Gallitcin Tunnel, 12 miles
west of Altoona, Pa.
The train was being pulled by two
locomotives and the lead engine left
the'track, plunging over a 200 feet
embankment. The second engine hung
on the edge of the embankment, while
combination baggage and club car al
so went over into the ravine below,
where there is a roadway. Three Pull
mans were derailed, but officials said
they did not overturn. The passengers,
it was said, were shakqtl up.
The dead:
C. I* Garrett, engineer, Pitcairn,
Pa.
R. C. Spangler, fireman, Derry, Pa.
The injured
E. F. Hartman, Oonemaugh, Pa.,
fireman, serious with fractured arme,
cuts, bruises and. possible internal in
juries.
G. R. Hunter, Pittsburgh, engineer,
cuts and bruises.
They were in Altoona hospital.
J. W. Simpson, conductor, Manor,
Pa.; E. C. Sutton, baggageman, New
'fork, and the club car attendants
were in the club car at the time, but
were n<?t hurt. The attendant was i
first reported missing, but was later
found assisting passengers in three
derailed Pullmans to dress.
COTTON ADVANCES ABOUT
$5 PER BALE TODAY
All Options Sold Above the 23 Cents
a Pound Mark During the Day..
New York, Aug. 29.—C4 s )—Active
h »Ttoc cotton market baaed op.
repoWthat the Department of Agri
culture tomorrow will issue another
report on boll weevil situation and of
continued showers throughout the cot
ton belt, sent prices to new. high rec
ords today. All options sold above
the 23 cents a pound mark, with a
perpendicular advance of about $5 per
bale from the early decline.
Active purchasing by the cotton,
mills which previously had not been
in sympathy with the advance added to
the heavy buying movement.
December contracts sold at 23.45 a
pound as compared with 17.18 cents
on August 3rd.
Up at New Orleans.
New Orleans, Aug. 29.— UP) —The
cotton market today again soared to
new high for the season, 114 to 116
points above the previous close. The
main stimulating influence was an an
nouncement from Washington that
another boll weevil report wogid be
issued tomorrow, and which the trade
expects to be bullish. All months
crossed the 23-cent line, with October
at 23,35, December 23.65, or a little
more than $5 a bale above Saturday’s
closing figures.
TltE CHARLOTTE
SPEEDWAY RACES
Will Be Held on September ll>th—
Drivers to Be There.
CBgrlotte, Aug. 27.—The South on
September 19th here at the famous
Carolina mile-and-a-quarter board
speedway is destined to see the revival
of the most thrilling of passenger car
races. Stock cars from the greatest
American factories are to roar around
the mammoth oval in a thrilling 75-
mile classic, with world renowned
drivers at the wheels.
„ Abandoned years ago when the
steadily mounting speed of specially
built and costly racing cars forced
stock cars from competition, the
major factories this year reentered
racing, thrilling massed thousands
when the innovation was staged for
the first time early in the summer at
the Atlantic City speedway.
While Hartz, DePaolo, DeVore,
Duray, Lockhart and the other daring
speed kings will pilot their midget
race cars in the 25 mile, 50 mile and
100 mile championship events, reach
ing speeds around 130 miles an hour,
many of these noted drivers will also
hold steering wheels in the 75 mile
stock car event.
Lockhart on July 4th at the Salem.
N. H., track was chosen over all
European drivers to pilot the imported !
Mercedes stock car in the feature 75 i
mile race there 1 and drove one of the
most spectacular duels of his vivid
career.
Except that windshields, lights and
fenders are removed, the cars in this
special event on September 19 will be
stirctly the same as the models shown
by dealers throughout the South.
Technical experts of the American
Automobile, Association check every
bolt and cotter key, measure the
cylinders and weigh the cars to make
certain that they are identical with
those regularly rolled down the as
sembly lines for sale to the motoring
public. I
For the last 30 years the date of
opening for the Republican national
conventions has failed -between June
7 and 21. The Democratic conven
tions have usually followed from one
to three weeks later.
The price of cotton* on the local
market : s quoted today at 21% cant*
per pound. * t
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance
SAYS MOTHER IS 110.
Mrs. Martha Fink, who resides
on the place of H. B. Hey* in No.
1 township, will be 110 years old
Thursday, September according
to her youngest eon, M. F. Fink,
61, who visited The Tribune office
Saturday morning last.
Mr. Fink claims that his mother
Was born in Montgomery county
September 1, 1817. Hie mother’s
birth is recorded in the family
Bible, he asserted. Mr. Fink says
that a great celebration will mark
his mother’s 110th birth anniver
sary, relatives and friends to gath
er at the home for a reunion.
The son also stated that his aged
mother is able to walk, and that
her vision is excellent at times.
He also claimed that her memory
at times was very good. Mrs. Fink
has the following children living:
M. F. Fink, Ephraim Fink, Mrs.
James Beam, Mrs. C. B. Honey
cutt and Sam Fink.
—JZ _
RALEIGH HAS MUCH
INTEREST IN LIREL
SUIT IN CONCORD
W» T. Boat Writes in Greens
boro News of the Capital's
Viewpoint of Case Tried in
This City.
The Greensboro News’ Raleigh
bureau, conducted by Tom Boat, sent
out Saturday the following story of
the verdict in the Pentuff suite here:
Defeat last night in a Cabarrus
county litigation wherein a pious
plaintiff, Rev. Mr. Pentuff, loses
everything in an evolutionary con
flict with less pious Park and far less
sacrosanct Coffin, Raleigh Times de
fendants, moves Raleigh, all aad sun
dry to believe that the last licking is
the worst of them all
For thin week’s litigation in Con
cord is the first that has had a fair
chance before that supreme expres
sion of Deity’s will, the “socran
pe-e-pul.” All other evolutionary de
bates have been taken before the gen
eral assembly or in some school. There
wasn’t a thing in the world in that
Pentuff-Park controversy except
evolution. Brother Pentuff came
down to Wake county and lectured at
. Fuquay Springs. Brother W. H.
Blanchard thought highly of the per
formance and saw that it got a
glorious chronicling. Notice was serv
ed on the bad folks by the good folks,
that the schools which are supported,
almost in toto by the good folks, must
not be polluted by the salary-grab
bing bad folks. Editor Coffin, who
did not know one-tenth as much about
Brother Pentuff as. the Cdhcortr Wuil
twjce disctfpjed* raised, a Wunderbus
and. triming both barrets at his rever
ence, shut eyes and blazed away. The
shot took effect and Mr. Pentuff call
ed for help.
Zebulon Vance Turlington came
over from Iredell where everybody is
good folks, and took the Lord’s side.
Morrison H. Caldwell and his power
fully nice boy, made it 100 per cent
Colvin, and the bad folks had to put
up their hands. The bad folks chose
’ General Albert Cox, Christian soldier,
to aid the two Luther Hartsells, jun
ior and senior. The HartseUs had
been good folks, that is to sdy, they
are fellow members, with Messrs
Caldwell and Mr. Turlington, though
not all of the same Christiar camp.
Messrs Park and Coffin were accused
of slandering and libeling Dn Pen
tuff -$60,000 worth and Dr. (Pentuff
presented an astonishing bill of par
ticulars. The epigrammatic Morrison
Caldwell fashioned a description of
Dr. Pentuff as “a preacher without a
church and a teacher without a
school,” and these Hartsells, junior
and senior, dad and son, pere et tils,
these Hartsells, named for old Martin
Luther, went ahead and- tried this
holy case just as they would have
directed any other cause, absolutely
ignoring its sanctied investments and
treating it rs though the anti-evshi
tionist kingdom were of this world.
There never has been any such im
piety in this state. There were these
good folks frantically begging the
■ jury to give Mr. Pentuff some money,
for “the high priest of infidelity” had
called him an “immigrant igno
ramus,” unmannerly and uncharitable
in debate. The inconsequential tact
that the minister had gone every
where and stayed npwhere, had stud
ied everything and apparently been
able to use nothing, could be waived.
What if Dr. Pentuff did tell ten times j
as much on himself as Coffin ever
would have dared to write. Mr. Pen
tuff is good folks and Mr. Coffin is
bad folks; Mr- Pentuff is a preacher
without a church and a teacher with
out a school, while Mr. Coffin is only
a Methodist without a church and a
teacher without a University of North
Carolina job.
The capital with almost one ac
cord rates the finish salutary. This is
' the last and the grandiose effort to
agitate among the untutored. The
committee of 100, Simon pure godd
folks, tried it first and failed. The
Bible leaguers took it up and carried
their fight to the legislative floors,
only to find that there were not
'enough men on the Lord's side to get
His will before the lower bouse on a
minority report. The Wake people tn
viting Dr. Pentuff, made their drive
• against legislative candidates and the
j devil captured the whole delegation.
The papers, the .teachers, the liberal
preachers even, were blamed for mis
leading the folks at home. And now
& Cabarrus jury, with no evilutionists
to “gog and magog” it, with only the
good folks to testify, to direct ex
aminations and reasons before the
twelve, ignores everything save the
injunction to let the verdict speak the
truth, and romes into court with the
unblushing declaration that the
newspaper told that truth, and comes
intor court with the unblushing ae
’aration that the newspaper told
truth, and sent “the plaintiff without
flay.” The one chance to get the ex
iression of an average man on this
subject was furnished by Cabarrus.
The record is 100 per cent. Legis’a
tures, chnrch conventions, school con
claves. and now a petit jnry have said
that they do not care to have the sub
ject of biology made a political issue
in North Carolina,
Incidentally, the Cabarrus Dutch.
Methodist, Presbyterian, reformed and
heathen, stand very high here where
J hardly anybody hoped that a hand-
WITNESS DECLARES
WILLIS WAS "COOL”
'
Rev. J. A. Davis Testifies at
Willis Trial at Greenvflfc
That Sheriff Was Cad
Toward Townsend.
QUOTES TOWNSEND
ABOUT REVOLVER
Says Defendant in Murder
Trial Told Him Once
That He Owned Thirty-
Two Caliber Pistol. 4
Greenville, S C., Aug. 29.—(4?)
Sheriff Sam D. Willis, for whose May
ing his wife and Henry S. Townsenfl,
his former deputy, are on trial here,
appeared “cool’ toward 1 Townsend
shortly before his death. Rev. J. A.
Davis testified today.
The minister said he was a deputy
under Sheriff Willis during the last
two weeks of the officer’s life.
Townsend and the sheriff had been
friends for several years, witness**
had testified.
Mr. Davis testified that on one ac
cassion Townsend told him he owned
a .32 calibre automatic. The witness
was preceded on the witness stand by
J. H. Payne, a mill deputy of Pied
mont, who said he found three 32-
calibre shells *t the scene of the shoot
ing.
More Testimony for State. I
Greenville, S. C., Aug. 29.—Addi
tional testimony that Mr*. Ethel Wil
lis and Henry 8. Townsend were fre
quently in each other’* company in
the hours after the slaying of Sheriff
Sam D. Willis was given today in the
trial for his murder.
Miss Grace Williams, brown haired
department store employee who was
a lodger in the Willis home, called as
Btate’s witness, told of seeing the de
fendants in Mrs. Willis’ bedroom on
two occasions following the tragedy
“They were together all the time.”
The witness tyld of Rearing the four
shots that filled the sheriff about mid*
night. About five minutes later, she
said, Mrs. Willis came to ‘her bedroom
and said “You girls must go with me.
I believq Sam’s been shot”
They went into the yard, she con
tinued, and although it was dark, Mrs.
Willis*, according to the witness de
clared ton«h 'J& or 40 feet from the
garage said, “there is Sam’s ear.”
The witness said she could not 4fe
the car. A moment later Mrs. Willis
cried, the witness related:
“There’s Sam's body, and hi'*
dead.”
On cross examination she admitted
she heard no one run into the house
after the shooting. Sam Willis >and
Mrs. Willis, she said, seemed to har*
had a very happy affectionate bom*
life.
The state drew from witness testi
mony that after Townsend was ar
rested Mrs. Willis came to her and
asked. .j
“Are you against me?”
On cross examination, she admitted*
she knew at the time Mrs. Willis had
been named in rumors connecting her
with the murder.
|4 ■ f
DIVISION OF INCOME
OF ESTATE IS FIXED
Two Sons of Angler Duke Will Re
ceive Large Amounts From Father's
Estate.
New York, Aug. 27. —In addition to
receiving the income from 1 half of
their father’s residuary estate, th«
two sons of the late Angier B. Duke
will divide more than SIOO,OOO at once
and will receive about $20,000 a year
each from a trust fund created hy
tbeiu father.
This was disclosed today in an
opinion of the court of appeals in an
action by the Guarantee Trust Com
pany in which the trustees asked iiV
structitons as to distribution of the
accumulated income.
The payments result from the fath
er’s failure to designate in hi* will
persons to whom the surplus income
was to be paid after his death.
Duke, who was the son of Benjamin
N. Duke, wealthy capitalist, w«*
drowned at New London, Conn., in
1923. His net estate was appraised
at $10,058,672. The appraised value
of each quarter share of the residue
was $2,241,668. Each of the sons,
Angier, Jr., and Anthony Newton
Duke, were given thev income from a
quarter of the residue estate. Tb*
other two shares of the residue wen
left to his mother, Mrs. Sarah P
Duke, and her sister, Mrs. A. J. Dre»
el Biddle, Jr.
LEVINE AT LONDON
WITH HIS BI PLANE
Had Narrow Escape From Injury fa
Bringing Plane to Landing Field.
London, Aug. 29.—(^)—Charles A>
Levine landed at the Croydon air
drome in his airplane Columbia at
4:05 this morning. There was dif
ficulty in making the landing, the
Columbia circling over the airdrome
fonr times before coming down.
The Columbia landed with a great
bump and Levine appeared rather
nervous. He had nothing to say when
members of the flying field force, who
had watched his performance, con
gratulated him on his narrow escape
from injury.
picked dozen would unanimously ro
fuse to decide a case at law on pre
judice alone.
Dr. Pentuff will get some money
from Raleigh, through friends whe -
wished him all the bad luck in the
case that he has had
wmm
Partly cloudy tonight and Tttesda ,
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