PAGE TWO
Reynolds Found in St. Louis
Restaurant; Missing 11 Days
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St. Louis. Sept. 27.—Richard J.
Reynolds, 21-year-old president of the
Reynolds Airways, Ine., of New York,
who was missing for 11 days, was
found tonight in a chop *«ey rea
taurant on North Grand boulevard, by
Operatives of the Hargraves Detective
■agency which had been retained by
Reynolds’ stepfather and the trustee
' of the Reynolds tobacco fortune.
The young heir was with a girl
and another man. He at first denied
he was Reynolds but later admitted
it. He said he knew nothing about
the furore created by his disappear
ance until this morning when he read
an account of the search for him in
a St_ Louis morning newspaper.
He said he was merely on vacation
and used a name not his own bets use
be “did not wish to be bothered.” He
had been to Chicago, he said, and had
seen the Tunney-Dempsey fight, and
■then had come to St. Louis.
Hunt For Him Extended From New
York to St. Louis.
New York, Sept. 27.—Richard J.
Reynolds, youthful millionaire air
plane operator and ‘‘angel” of a Broad
way show, was sought tonight over
half the continent, his trail since his
disappearance on September 16 hav
ing been traced to St. Louis and there
lost.
A detective agency hired to conduct
the search reported receipt of word
from its St. Louis office that Reynolds
had checked out of the Majestic hotel
there last Thursday, saying he was
going to Cairo, 111., and would return
the following Saturday.
He did not return and it was not
determined that he had actually gone
to Cairo. As the day he was reported
to have left St. Louis was the day
s«f the Dempsey-Tunnev fight, detec
tives leaned:to the theory that he had
gone to Chicago and was either still
there or had returned to New York.
, Rut no one was able to offer any
reason why young Reynolds should
eonceal his * whereabouts. Associates
in Winston-Salem, N. C„ his home
town, said he often went away on
unannounced trips, but others felt that
there was no good reason for such a
trip at this time.
The day after, Reynolds disappeared
one of the passenger planes of the
company he headed crashed with a
loss of seven, lives, and about the
same time the musical comedy he was
sponsoring failed. It was the efforts
of officials of the Reynolds Airways,
Inc., and the "Half a Widow” com
pany to locate him in connection with
the misfortunes to his enterprises that
first revealed his disappearance.
There was a general feeling today
that if Reynolds had read of either
of these happenings in the papers he
would have hurried back to New York,
even though he had started on an an
nounced journey, and yet both were
widely reported in the press and ac
cording to the detective agency Reyn
olds was staying at a St. Louis hotel
several days after his plans had crash
ed and his play had failed.
Miss Marie Houston, night club hos
tess with whom Reynolds was known
to have been the morning of his dis
appearance, was questioned again to-
STRIKE OF STUDENTS
CONTINUES IN FORCE
Gary, Ind„ Pupils Refuse To Return
To School Until Negroes Are Expel
led.
Gary, Ind., Sept. 27.—Pupils of
Emmerson high school, more than
.800 of whom were on strike because
}of the enrollment of negroes in their
\ classes, put it up to city and school
officials today to remedy the situation,
f When less than 600 of the 1,400 at
tending the school reported today,
! Mayor Floyd E. Williams called a
• conference of the board of education
find teachers to discqps a possible way
out. I
The presence of more, than 20 negro
students and reports that more were
;to be entered, caused k revolt yeeter
iday among the white pupils. Dr.
:W. A. Wirt, superintendent, explained
at a protest meeting that because of
;the districting the negroes could not
be sent to Froebal high school, where
only 50 per cent of the pupils are
white.
Signs on bill boards, windows and
I— a^—e ——B«g.
Efird’s Department Store!
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New Autumn |
MILLINERY
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Our stock right now is most complete, with
everything that is new in Fall Millinery. AH the
new shades of brown. The new shades of red. 1
The new shades of blue. As well as black. The
I very latest ideas in trimmings. And this season
more tljan ever, you will find our prices most
reasonable. We extend you a very cordial invi
tation to inspect our New Hats, whether or not
you are ready to purchase. Prices start as low as
$1.95 $2.95
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A large assortment of children’s and mists’
dress and school hats in all leading colors
$1.95
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day but only reiterated her story that
she had gone to St. Louis after hav
ing breakfast with Reynolds, jand that
she had gone alone. She returned
September 23, the day after Reynolds
was reported to have checked out of
the St. Louis hotel.
When Reynolds’ disappearance first
became publicly known today, there
appeared to be grim implications of
disaster in the report that his auto
mobile had been found overturned off
Chicken Point in Manhasset bay. But
during the day it was determined that
the car hod been found either before
or while Reynolds was in the Charm
club where Miss. Houston -was em
ployed as hostess and detectives ex
pressed the opinion that the car had
either been stolen or borrowed by
prankish friends.
Although associates in Winston-
Salem minimized feeling of concern,
Carter Tiffany, vice president of the
Reynolds airways, acknowledged that
he felt grave concern for his young
chief. During the day he went to
Washington in a effort to determine
whether Reynolds had sailed abroad
and so might be unaware of the furore
aroused by his disappearance. State
department officials told Mr. Tiffany
that no passport had been issued to
anyone by the name of R. J. Reyn
olds.
In Winston-Salem, John Graham,
who had been living here with
Reynolds and who was the man
known to have beeu with him, refused
to discuss the case. He would only
say that all the information he had,
had been given to Tiffany.
Reynolds, who is a son of the late
tobacco magnate and one of five heirs
to the $50,000,000 Reynolds estate,
drew almost $6,000 from the banks
the day before his disappearance. He
spent the afternoon at the Mineola
county fair, had supper at an Oyster
Bay roadhouse with Graham and then
drove in the latter’s car to the Charm
club. They did not stop for Reynolds
car which he had instructed his chauf
feur to leave at the Mineola station.
At the night club Reynolds and
Graham parted and at six o’clock in
the morning Reynolds left wfith Miss
Houston for Grand Central station
where she was to take a train for
St. Louis where her mother was ill.
She had told detectives that she chang
ed her mind about taking the early
train and instead had breakfast at a
restaurant with Reynolds, tnen leav
ing him to go to her apartment where
she slept several hours and took an
early afternoon train. From the
moment she says she parted from him
no one has been found who saw him.
Leonard M. Holland, manager of
the Hotel White on Lexington avenue
at 37th street, said that a man named
Richard J. Reynolds had registered
at the hotel ten days ago but had not
been seen there within the last five
days.
Val O’Farrell, head of a New York
detective agency, announced that a
man had been arrested in St. Louis
on a charge of kidnaping and black
mail after he had made an offer to
O’Farrell’s agents in that city to
produce Reynolds for a reward of
$3,000.
sidewalks on the second day of the
strike informed the public that “we
won’t go back until Emmerson is
white.”
MRS. MISSOURI F. BROWN
Resolutions of Respect Passed by the
Board of Cemetery Commissioners:
Since God has taken from our midst
and unto Himself the soul of our be
loved, faithful and efficient co-worker,
Mrs. Missouri F. Brown, vfi bow hum
bly in submission to His will but
mourn the loss of our faithful friend
and desire to bear un-wavering testi
mony to her fine character and noble
soul and express our keenest regret
at her going away.
Indeed, we mourn the passing of a
gentle woman whose footsteps, kind
ly greeting, and fine deeds will be
greatly missed from our midst.
J. L. HARTSELL,
MRS. W. A. FOIL,
Committee.
IT PAYS TO USE PENNY ADS
DAVIDSON AND DUKE
STRUT STUFF; ELON
HOLDS THE DEACONS
Wildcats and Blue Devils
Win Big ‘Victories and
Gain Some Renown For
The Tar Heel State.
By W. M SHERRILL
Tar Heelia gained an even break
last week in Inter-State football games
through splendid performances by Dav
idson and Duke Saturday.
The Wildcats ana Blue Devils,
doped by moat experts to lose their
intersection®!’ battles, played magnifi
cent ball to defeat Florida and Bos
ton, respectively. These victories off
set the losses of State and Carolina.
Carolina lost to Tennessee 26 to 0
and in doing so showed again a lack
of anyeoffensive machinery. The Vol
unteers could make little headway
through the Carolina line, but they
were adept with the passes, using
tosses by Carolina for more advantage
than their own.
The Deacons from Wake Forest
were a big disappointment. With ’a
victory over Carolina to their credit
they entered the game with Elon Sat
urday as big favorites but the best
they could get ‘ was a scoreless tie.
We imagine the defeat Buffered by
Carolina was no greater disappoint
ment to The Hill than was this weak
showing against Elon to the Baptist
brethren at Wake Forest.
Davidson fought Florida with the
best she had and that was good
enough. This game must convince
the most pessimistic Davidson man
that Coaches Younger and Tilson. as
they are wont to do, have molded
another formidable machine at the
Presbyterian institution. How have
they done it? You’ll have to ask
them. It’s a credit not only to the
coaches; it’s a credit to the David
son spirit, a credit to the men on the
team who give the best they’ve got
instead of depending on a wealth of
material from the alumni.
Experts in the east opened their
eyes, we are told, at the expanse of
the Duke offensive. Not in years
has Boston seen a better team than
the one DeHart trotted on the field as
representing Duke of Dtirham. Twen
ty-five poipts the Southerners scored
while Boston had to be content with
nine. The defeat was the first suf
fered by Boston since 1925.
.Tan Jankoski ©cored the four Duke
touchdowns after Buie and Adams,
other backfield men, had put the ball
in scoring position. Passes, delayed
bucks and criss-crosses were emp’oyed
by DeHart’s men and they carried a
versatile attack that could not be
baited.
Carolina’© line was excellent again
Saturday, but there was no offense.
Passes were thrown with great aban
don, eight of them being caught by
Tennessee men, and there was no ver
satility. Tennessee could make no
headway on straight football, but un
fortunately (or the Tar Heels, they
had something else. They had an
open game and Coach Collins’ men
showed no knowledge of such a game.
They not only had none of their own ;
they didn’t know bow to cope with
such an offense from the camp of the
enemy.
Virginia appears to be about as
weak as Carolina. At any rate the
Old Dominion team was defeated 32
to 0 by Georgia.
V. M. I? lost 7 to 0 to Georgia
Tech in a battle that was not decided
until late in the game. In Barne©
the cadets showed one of the best
backfield men on the field.
In our forecast of ten games we
had six victories, three losses and
one tie game. In the three losses
we have that little satisfaction that
comes with so-called “upsets,” but
we have the greater satisfaction that
comes from worthwhile performances
by North Carolina teams. We lost
on Davidson and Duke, but we get
more kick from their victories than
disappointment in missing the score.
We picked Auburn to defeat Clem
son and again we are rather gad we
lost, for Clemson has long been in
the wilderness and the Tiger’s mag
nificent victory over the Plainsmen
indicates that he is about ready to
take hie rightful place again among
the grid leaders of the South Atlantic
States.
Washington and Lee* gave us a tie,
with West Virginia, and gave the
Southern Conference warning that the
1927 Generals are not to be thought
of lightly.
WILEY C. PROPST
DIES SUDDENLY AT
HOME OF SON HERE
Suffered Heart Attack Dur
ing’ Night and Failed to
Rally.—Funeral Services
Tomorrow Afternoon.
Wesley C. Propst, 81, died this
morning at 8:30 at the home here
of his son. F. W. Prop St. Death was
due to a heart attack following a two
weeks illness of asthma.
Mr. Propst was in his usual health
Sunday, enjoying a ride early last
night. About 2 o’clock he suffered
a severe heart attack and never re
gained consciousness.
Funeral services will be held tomor
row afternoon at 3 o’clock at McGill
Street Baptist Church and interment
, will be made in Oakwood cemetery.
’ Rev. T. W. Fogleman, pastor of the
Church, will conduct ’the services.
Wesley Columbus Propst was born
in Rowan county on November, 2,
1855. He lived in Rowan until 20
years ago and was a successful farmer
in that county. During his residence
J here he engaged in mill work.
! * He was married about 55 years ago
to Miss Ewan L. Beaver, who, with
the following children, survives: F.
W.. W. M. and C. W. Proust, of Con
cord ; W. A. Propst, of Sa isbury. and
M rs. Jenpie Miller, of Rowan county.
Mr. Propst was a member of the
McGill Street Church and was widely
known and high’y respected. An
nouncement of his death caused sin
cere sorrow among his wide circle of
friends and relativejs.
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Steals 20 Cents; Gfts Life Terra At
Sing Sing.
New York. Oct. It.—For the re
mainder of his life Thomas McCarthy,
47. must occupy a cell in Sing Sing
prison because he s]tole 20 cents.
He received that sentence under
the Rauraes law as a fourth offender
after a jury had found him guilty of
burglary m Queens which netted him
! two dimes from the hope chest of Miss
Lydia Hobard.
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THE CONCORD TIMES
EDGAR FOWLER IS
ACCIDENT VICTIM
NEAR KANNAPOLIS
Struck by Car Driven by
Florida Man Youth Died
Before Reaching the Hos
pital in Concord.,
Tragedy stalked *the Kannapolis
highway again Sunday morning,
bringing death to a youth and a se
vere shock to a woman.
The death youth. Edgar Fowler, son
of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Fowler, died
from injuries received when struck
by a car driven by M. E. Crooks, of
Eustis, Fla., arid Mrs. Crooks was
so shocked by the tragedy that she
was under the care of a physician for
several hours.
The accident occurred about fifty
yards from the spot where Evelyn
Gentry was killed several months ago
when, the car of her father, Rev. C.
K. Gentry, was struck by another
car. ’ ~ : . v - , A .
Young Fowler, a coroner’s jury was
told, ran across the highway directly
in front of the Crooks machine.
skull was fractured and he died be
fore reaching the Concord Hospital.
The jury summoned by Coroner Joe
A. Hart sell held that the accident was
unavoidable and released Mr. Crooks.
Mr. Crooks told the jury that he
saw the boy start across the road,
running diagonally toward his car.
He slowed down as quickly as he
fould and sought to cut around the
youngster. Just as he cut b:s wheels,
he said, the youth seemed to hesitate
and then changed his course.
Several witnesses called by the cor
oner said the Crooks car was stopped
about fifty feet from where the boy’s
body fei. The car was not speeding
before the accident they said, because
if it had been they would have no
ticed it.
The Crooks car was off the hartN
surface except for one rear wheel, one
witness said. This same witness said
the boy fell just on the edge of the
hardsurface.
Young Fowler was about ten years
of age and was known as a bright
youngster. His family w T as greatly
grieved by the accident.
Mrs. Crooks was in a state of col
lapse following the accident. She
was in the car with her husband and
was carried to the home of R. J.
Lee, of Kannapolis, for medical at
tention. In the afternoon it was
■said she had recovered.
It was reported here that Mr. and
Mrs. Crooks feel into the hands of
thieves while in Charlotte recently.
They were headed north then and had
■ stopped in Charlotte for a mea , leav
ing their car in front of a restaurant.
When they returned to it they saw
that several suitesases and their con
tents had been stolen.
Mr. and Mrs. Crooks had been on
a motor trip to Virginia and were
headed home at the time of the acci
dent. They left Greensboro yester
day morning.
HOME AGENT REPORT
* SHOWS BUSY MONTH;
MEETING OCTOBER 8
State College Man to Address
the Honje Demonstration
Clubs at Y. M. C. A. Au
ditorium.
There will be a meeting of the
Federation of Home Demonstration
Clubs on Saturday, October Bth, at
2 o’clock in the afternoon at the
auditorium of the Concord Y. M. C.
A.
C. H. Brannon, from the De
partment of Entomology, State Col
lege, Raleigh, has been secured
make a talk on “Insect Control ani
Riddance.of Household
talks will be made on subjects of
equal interest and it is hoped tnat a
large number of people will attend.
There has been oonsiderab e acti
vity and interest in home demonstra
tion work during the month of Sep
tember according to the report of
Ophelia Sue Barker, Home Demon
stration Agent of the county.
The various clubs have concen
trated their attention on house fur
nishings. some of them taking up rue
study of color as applied to the liv
ing rooms and others the study of re
finishing furniture. One woman's
club is making a study of foods and
nutrition.
During the month. a Leaders'
School, attend©'! by 20 local leaders,
was held by Helen N. Estabrook.
State House Furnishing Specialist.
The four hundred yards of ging
ham donated by Locke and Gibson
Mills have been distributed to tne
Indies of the county to be made into
school and house dresses and worn
in the Cotton Dress Contest to be
he’d at the fair.
Following is the report of Miss
Barker for the month of September:
No. days worked 26
No. Hoipe visits made * 14
No. conferences 72
No. ’etters written 03
I No. mi'es traveled 764
i N-o. meetings hold and attended . . 21
OSCAR BLACKWELDER
i HOLDS SERVICE JN
COLUMBIA CHURCH
, Former Concord Boy Con
sidered One of Outstand
ing Young Ministers in the
Lutheran Church.
Reverend Oscar Fisher Black welder,
\ formerLy of this city, and now pastor
, of Christ Lutheran Church, of Baltj
more. Md.. is conducting this »k
a series of special sere*—- at the
Ebenezer Lutheran Church in Colum
bia, S. C., Services will.be held ench
evening at 8 o’clock with two services
scheduled for next Sunday, at which
time the series of meeting will come
to a close.
Mr. Blackwelder is one of the out
standing young ministers of the
Lutheran Church in this country. He*
has been ordained just seven years but !
has risen rapidly in his church as a
pastor and preacher. Christ Lutheran
Church, Baltimore, to v hich he was
called about two ysars ago, has nearly
1 3.000 members, with about 1,600 in
its Sunday School. There are about
700, in his young people’s organiza
tion. Mr. Blackwelder is an out
standing speaker and is in. great’de
mand for pu'pit engagements.
The young minister graduated in
1920 from the Lutheran Seminary at
Columbia and served the first * five
years of his ministry at th« Virginia
Heights Lutheran Church at Roanoke, i
Va.
YANKEE-PIRATE .
SERIES WILL BE A
V BATTLE OF HURLERS
Superior Moundsmen Gives
Pittsburgh Even Chance
* With Slugging Hugmen of
New York.
By ROBERT P. BELL
Dramatically ending: the closest Na
tional League pennant race in many
years by defeating the Cincinnati lied»
Saturday in a struggle that taxed
their courage and ability to "take it”
to the limit, the Pittsburgh Pirates,
after a turbulent season of internal
dissension and outside criticism have
at last come into their own.
When they take the field against
the Yankees Wednesday in the first
gßme of the October Classic, Donie
Bush’s men will be the favorite of
more than one baseball expert to an
nex the third consecutive World’s
Championship for the senior organiza
tion over the champions of the younger
circuit.
One reason is that the Pirates hare,
in fighting off the St. Louis Cardinals,
the New York Giants and the Chicago
Cubs, to say nothing of the Cincinnati
Reds, faced far more formidable op
position through the season than was
furnished the Yanks *by Philadelphia,
Washington and Detroit;, this tight
competition has whipped them into
finer shape that will show up in the
close contests expected when offensive
and defensive forces of the two pen
nant winners grip for the margin of
victory.
The Yankees, with Babe Ruth and
Lou Gehrig at the peak of their slug
ging stride, should win. Let the Bam
bino and Larruping Lou fail to hit
the curves of Kremer, Hill, Meadows
aud Aldrige, however, and you will
see the entire New York attack col
lapse. They are lengthy hitters, those
Hugmen, but just as they are more
likely to break up a game with a long
smash than their rivals, they are also
more likely to fall into a drastic
slumps
The Buccaneers have the best de
fensive team and are faster on the
paths than the Yankees. The offensive
strengths ,of the outfields give the
American League champions an ad
vantage of five percentage points over
the season’s play and a greater margin
in extra base tyts. However, the
pitching staff of the Smoky Town out
fit should surpass that of their rivals.
With Kremer and Hoyt about on a
par, IJush’s next three hurlers ouD
rank, in the opinion of the writer,
Pennock, Shocker and Moore, or Pip
gras. T . '
Anything can 'happen over a short
series with two such evenly matched
outfits. If the pitching is uniformly
good on both sides, we look for the
speed of the Pirates and their better
condition to enable them to make the
breaks fall in their favor. If it is to
be a slugging series the Yanks will
he in their glory and should cop with
out trouble.
Our opinion is that the Yankees will
fail to hit the curve ball hurling of
the National Leaguers often or far
enough to gain the decision —and that
Ray Kremer and the Waner Boys
will share heroic worship of baseball
fans in another National League
triumph.
FAIR COTTON DRESS f
CONTEST TO BE »
LARGEST IN YEARS
Co-operation of Mills Gives
County Council Sponsors
Wider Range Than Ever
Before.
The women of the Cabarrus County
Council have about completed plexus
for the cotton dress contest which
they w ill sponsor at the Cabarrus Dis
trict Fair.
The committee in charge announce
that they ,received cooperation from
the mills l of the county that will en
able them to hold the largest and mpst
complete contest in years.
Donations of 200 yards of dress
materials each were made by the
Locke Cotton Mills and the Gibson
Manufacturing Company. The Hart
sell Mills presented a handsome silk
bed spread, while the Cannon Mill, of
Kannapolis, gave one dozen * lovely
bath towels. Fifty yards of outing
was the contribution of Brown Mill.
The various departments at the
Fair will be under the supervision of
the following:
Crafts and arts —Mrs. W. v A. Sif
ford; Clothing and Needlework—Mrs.
R. A. Sappenfield; Clothing atari
Needlework (Girls) —Mrs. D. B. Cas
tor ; breads, pies, cakes, etc. —Mrs. Ed.
S. Ervin ; capned fruits, etc. — Mrs.
Harris Moose.
TWO NEGROES ARE
BURNED TO DEATH,
SAY REPORTS HERE
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Steve Bangle and Bright
Ford Said to Have Perish
ed When Truck Was Over
turned on Highway.
'it.
According to a report brought here
yesterday, two negro men were burued
to death Saturday night on the old
Concord-Charlotte highway. They per
ished, the report snid, when a truck
in which they were riding turned over
and caught afire.
The negroes were Steve Bangle and
Bright Ford, according to Concord ne
groes who were advised of the acci
dent. They were working for a Char
lotte concern, it is said, and the truck
was the property of the company. .
The bodies were carried to Hampton
Church immediately after the acci
dent, it was said here, but death fol
owed soon afterward.
One of the negroes lived in Char
lotte and the other lived near the Ca
barrus line, the report said further.
Catawba Freshmen Elect Officers.
Salisbury Post.
At a joint meeting of the juniors
and freshmen of Catawba College held.
Friday evening, the freshman class
wB« organized-. Talks were made by
members of the junior class ns fol
lows : Your duty to your college,
Clifton Lanier; Your duty to the hon
or system. Elizabeth Warlick; Your
duty to the athletic team, Howell Ga
briel.
Dwight Linville. of Winston-Salem,
was elected pres dent of she freshman
class; Boyd Burdette, Spencer, vice
president ; Katherine Mummert.
Spring Grove. Pa., secretary; Baxter
Watts. Concord, treasurer. Dr. Ben
• jamin R. Lane, professor of English,
wns made faculty adviser.
SWIMMING CLASSES
THIS WEEK END
“Y” POOL SEASON
C. C. Nixon, New Physical
Director, Will Instruct the
Early October Groups at
Local Association.
The authorities at the Y. M. C.
A. announce that this will be the final
yyeek of swimming instruction at the
"Y” pool. Under the direction of
C. C.' Nixon, now physical director,
formerly swimming instructor at the
University of North Carolina, classes
have been organized for thie week,
beginning today. < It is hoped that
several hundred persons will take ad
vantage of this last opportunity of
the summer.
The junior groups will be taught
Monday, Wednesday and Friday at
8:30 o’clock in the afternoons, whi e
the older classes will be held one hour
later on the same days. Girls’ and
women’s classes will be held on Tues
day and Thursday afternoon, and on
Saturday morning. Older men and
women who would like special ap
pointments can arrange them by call
ing the office pf H. W. Blanks, secre
tary.
The employed boys’ classes will be
organized tonight, according to the
new physical director. No other classes
will be started until the opening of
the gymnasium season on October
17th. During‘the week of the 17th
Mr. Nixon also hopes to get the men’s
volleyball classes under way as well
as to start the physical instruction to
the pupi s of the city schools. In
thie branch of activity he expects
to spend about thirty minutes at each
school every day giving beneficial ex
ercises to the organized groups.
A full schedule of the prospective
activities of three "Y” department of
physical training will be announced
in these columns at a later date.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED
AT GRADE CROSSING
Charles Lucas, His Wife, Two Children
And L G. Johnson Dead.
Reidsville, Sept. 29.—The lives of
five. persons, four of them members
of one family, were snuffed out short
ly befpre 5 o’clock ttys afternoon
when the car in which they were
riding was struck by jjouthern pas
-senger train No. 135 aft Turner’s cross
ing, about one mile south of this
city. v The dead are:
Charles Lucas, 50, farmer of the
Benaja section of Rockingham county.
Mrs. Charles Lucas, 48.
Their two children, Alice, 15, and
Roger, 13.
L. G. Johnson, 35, driver of thf
car, also of the Benaja section. %
There were no other occupants o'
the car, a Chevrolent touring. Bodic;
of the dead were strewn for som.
distance along the railroad tracks, am'
all were terribly mangled, that of Mr;
Lucas, it was said, being crushed an<
broken the worst. ‘ The train, runnin
a few minutes late, completely d«
molished the automobile, carrying
about a quarter of a mile from th
■'cen* of the accident.
Other than members of the trai
crew no one witnessed the fatal crasl
as far as known. Engineer E. L. Prehl
was at the throttle and the train wc
in charge of Conductor C. M. Huge
Xs*soori as the train could be stoppei
members Os the crew rushed to th<
scene but all of the automobile part,
were dead. From the mangled cond
tion of the bodies it was assumed tha
all met instant death.
Conductor Hughes stopped a passim
motorist and had the latter bring hin
to Reidsville where he reported th
accident and made arrangements vuti
an undertaker to take charge of th
| bodies,- which were brought here s
short time later by ambulance.
The train was held at the scene o’
the accident for an hour or more be
fore proceeding to Greensboro.
According to the trainmen's version
of the tragedy, Jbhnson had driven hi;
car ‘.across the northbound track o
the Southern and was near the cente
of the southbound track when the
train, which had left the Reidsville
station about 4 :51, bore down on the
automobile.
Fighting Flames With Soap.
Berlin. Sept. 30.—Sooap-suds ar
used to extinguish fires by a new Ger
man device. Praetieular y useful in
smothering oil or gasoline fires
where streams of water would be u«a
leas, this machine carries two large
foam generators . filled with powered
soap* High-pressure jets of watei
race , through the soap chamber
operating water wheels that churn
the soap into suds, to issue in a foam
ing blast from the hose nozzle.
Bon.John Johnson was branded on
the hand for killing his opponent in
a' duel
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