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THE CONCORD TIMES
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
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Happiness still evades Ma<
Han Bleakley Brown of Kam
pas City (top). Since being art
incubator baby (lower), sh*
has had ill fortune, culminating
in her suit for divorce from he|
husband. Dewey Brown. „
COTTON CROP IS
NOT DOING WELL NOW
Crop in Poorer Condition on October
Ist Than on September Ist.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Oct. 12. —A much poorer
condition was shown by the North
Carolina cotton crop on October Ist
than on September Ist, according to
the government cotton report, the fore
cast of production declining from 911,-
000 bales to 845,000 bales within 30
days, a large part of this decline be
ing due to boll weevil and weather
damage, according to a review of the
cotton situation in North Carolina is
sued today by the state crop report
ing service.
Virtually all the bolls which will
open were open on October Ist, the
report says, and their size is about
average. The condition of the crop
October Ist averaged 57 per cent, nor
mal, as compared with 68 ner cent,
normal in October, 1920, and with
an average condition of 63 per cent,
for the past ten years. The yield
indicated on October Ist was only
220 pounds of lint per acre, as com
pared with a yield of 292 pounds per
acre in 1926. The average yield over
the last ten years has been 256 pounds
per acre.
“The stand is considerably better
than usual, but by no means perfect,”
the state report continues. “Due to
continued rains, the cotton plants de
veloped later into the fall season than
usual, resulting in a deneo growth
which favored the development of rot
and the boll weevil. The weather
was wet in the eastern counties and
dry in the Piedmont section. Red
spider, rust and the boll weevil have
been partly responsible for the fail
ure of cotton to put into bolls. Wet
weather conditions prevented proper
cultivation so as to keep down grass
in some sections, with the result that
conditions were favorable to weevil
development.
“The weevil infestation this season
ie undoubtedly the worst on record for,
this state,” the report continues.
“This pest is responsible for the lack
of a top crop and for the shortage of
the middle crop and for a damage
considerably exceeding earlier expec
tations. By actual investigation, the
lock damage was shown to be slightly
n excess of 24 per cent. Farmers re
port that about 50 per cent, of the
mils show weevil damage in one or
more locks. Due to the lateneps of
ho season now, few immature bolls
should be counted on to produce cot
ton after October Ist. About 50 per
cent, of the crop bad been picked by
October Ist.”
JORDAN’S ATTORNEYS
NOT GOING TO RALEIGH
Instead. Will See Commissioner
Bridges About Pardon While He Is
In Charlotte.
Charlotte, Oct. 15. —Attorneys for
Rev. WTllis T. Jordan, convicted of
bigamy and sentenced to serve 18
months in the state penitentiary, will
not go to Raleigh to make an appeal
for a pardon before Governor McLean
and Pardon Commissioner Edwin B.
Bridges. v
When It was learned today that
Commissioner Bridges was coming to
Charlotte and would be here for
several weeks Tom P. Jimison, of
minister’s counsel, declared that the
Raleigh trip would be unnecessary.
Commissioner Bridges will enter a
hospital here for treatment for his
throat. He declared tonight that he
could take the Jordan case under
consideration while in the city.
With Our Advertisers.
You are assured of courteous service
when you trade at the J. C. Penney
Company.
Tne Bell & Harris Furniture Co.
buv:, its furniture in .car lots and
sells it cheaper. Just the. goods you
nave been looking for.
Belk’s is ready to serve you with
style and value in new fall dresses.
Special lot at the low price of $16.50.
Style, quality and reasonable prices
at the Gray Shop in the finest coats
and at the unusually low prices o?
$12.95 upward. Just the thing •for
every occasion nt this exclusive shop.
Service in fact is offered by the
Wilkinson Funeral Home.
LEWIE BACK WITH
PLANS FOR SERVICE
ACROSS THE OCEAN
Says ISext Summer He
Will Try Flight From
Europe to America.—
Halted by Bad Weather.
MAIL SERVICE
TO START SOON
Levine Says Within Two
Years He Will Have Ser
vice Carrying Letters
Across For 50 Cents.
New York, Oct. 17. — UP) —Chares
A. Levine, the only trans-Atlantic air.
passenger, came home today.
He announced on his arrival that
he would fly the reverse journey from
Europe to America next summer, and
that within two years he would have
in operation an ocean air r|ail service
carrying letters to Europe for 50 cents
apiece.
Levine was taken from the Levia
than at Quarantine on the city tug
Macon which carried the mayor’s re
| . option committee headed by Grover
: Whalen and relatives and friends of
j the flyer.
Clarence Chamberlain, Levine’s pilot
|on his ocean hop, was not on the
Macom, and no reason for his absence
was given.
In his interview, Levine would bare
ly sketch his plans -for future air en
terprises.
r “I’ve got all kinds of plans,” he
said, “but let other people do the
• talking. I’ll do the flying.”
Among the crowd at the battery was
a process-server, waiting to give Le
vine papers In a suit brought against
. him as president of the Columbia Air
, craft Corporation by the Aeronautical
: Digest Publishing Corporation.
, The process-server announced for
all to hear that he was going to be
“first to greet Levine,” but ns he
) tried to push his way up the
plank, he was brushed aside by police
. and became lost in the crowd.
, As Levine climbed into an automo
bile the process-server caught up and
tapped him on the shoulder. Levine’s
attorney accepted the summons in his
[ behalf.
, Before he left the Macom, Levine
1 was asked by a reporter for a Jewish
” paper if it was true that he had
denied being a Jew in Warsaw.
“Why should I do that?” Levine
’ countered. “I was asked if I was
a Jew, and my reply naturally was
| that lam an American.. I was born
37 years ago in North Adams, Mass.,
on St. Patrick’si Day.”
GIRL SAYS LONG
SWIM WAS A HOAX
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London Doctor Confesses She Did Not
Swim English Channel.
London, Oct. 15. —The News of the
1 World will say tomorrow that Dorothy
Cochran Logan, London physician, in
a confession to the paper declared that
she did not swim the English Channel.
; The woman physician whose record
' breaking performance was announced
last Tuesday in the “confession” to
the paper declared that she had per
' petrated the hoax to show it was
easy to deceive the public and in order
to show the desirability of establish
‘ ing an international commission to
i supervise and certify all channel
swim.?.
To End Fakes.
“It was a fake to end fakes,” the
physician whose whose swim under
the name *of Miss Mona MpClellan
1 and was widely hailed as the woman
whose time of 13 hours and 10 Iminutes
> bettered the record of 14 hours and 31
, minutes held by Gertrude Ederle of
New York, is quoted as saying.
Her revelation is supported by her
trniner, Horace H. Corey, and her
’ good faith protected by a letter she
wrote explaining her purpose before
leaving Ilythe, England, for Cape Griz
• Nez, France, from which point she
! was said to have started her swim.
Dr. Logan in making the disclosure
returned to the World a check for
1,000 pounds, which the paper had
offered to the English woman who i
should improve upon Miss Ederle’s
time.
After entering the sea at Cape Griz
Nez Monday afternoon Miss Logan
relates, she swam until she was beyond
the sight of land or of any possible
observation. Then she was taken into
the boat which was convoying her.
This was manned by her trainer and
two other men acquainted with the
whole plan.
She says she remained on the boat
for several hours during which she
was seasick. She slipped into the
water again after daylight Tuesday
when three miles from Folkestone,
England. She swam ashore and re
ceived the greetings of the crowd.
When Miss Logan returned to
London she was nearly mobbed by
admiring throngs. She was congratu
lated by friends and the newspapers
and officials paid tribute to her.
No book has ever equalled the
Bible in sa'e records.
Street salesmen of an older day
greeted passersby with the ques
tion: “What do you lack?” The
classified advertising page of to
iay simplifies buying and selling
because it offers a convenient way
for buyers and sellers to meet. If
you lack anything, want anything
or have merchandise or service to
3ell, use the classified advertising
page for prompt results.
PHONE 78
CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1927
PAROLE FOR GASTON
B. MEANS GIVEN
BOARD’S APPROVAL
Washington, Oct. 17. — UP) —Gas-
ton B. Means, who Is serving a
sentence in the Atlanta penitenti
ary on charges of bribery, has been
recommended for parole by the pa
role board.
400 GREAT MEN DID BEST
WORK AT AGE OF 50
Leaders Os Modern World Reach
Height Os Ability Between 60 and
70.
By International News Service.
Chicago, Oct. 17. —Four hundred of
the greatest men in history performed
their best work at the average age of
fifty. Modern world leaders reach
the height of their ability between the
ages of sixty and seventy.
This was the analysis made here by
Dr. W. A. Newman Dorland, Chicago
surgeoq,'who has summarized the lives
of 400 historical men. Included in the
number are such men as Lincoln,
Washington, Darwin, Huxley, Shake
speare, Newton, Booth, Michael An
gelo, Morse, Balzac, Emerson v and Mil
ton.
The height in the careers of the
400 as found by Dr. Dorland, accord
ing to occupation was; physicists and
chemists, age 41; poets, inventors and
dramatists, age 44; novelists, age 46;
explorers and soldiers, age 47; musical
composers and actors, age 48; min
isters and artists, age 50; essayists
and reformers, age 51; physicians,
surgeons and statesmen, age 52; phil
osophers, age 54; astronomers,
humorists and mathematicians, age
56, historians, age 57; naturalists and
judges, age 58.
Average Span.
“All of the 400 are dead,” Dr. Dor
land stated. “Many of them, Poe,
Keats and Byron, for example, died
in their youth. The average span
of life has been lengthened from 35
£o 56 years in the last 30 years. I
cannot strike an exact average for the
best work of the world leaders now
living because the world does not yet
feel able to judge what is the best
work of each.
“But we do know, however, that
corporations and universities who re
tire their men at the age of 60 are
wasting their best brains.
“The man of 60 can succeed as well
as the man of 30 if he keeps his health,
his optimism and his interest.
“Roughly I would say that 85 per
cent of the great things accomplished
today have been the work of men
past the age of 50. J. Pierpont Mor
gan in 1907 at the age of 70 raised
$40,000,000 and averted a panic. The
four greatest Japanese generals in the
Russo-Japanese war, Kuroki, Oodyu,
Oku, and Oyama were all past 60.
Hindenburg, Von Bulow, Foch, Haig
and Pershing were near 60 during the
world war.
Best Work at 60.
“In letters and science men. of the
hge of 60 today do their best work.
John Bigelow at 94 was writing his
“retrospects, three volumes of which
appeared after he was 98. Chervreul,
eminent French scientist, was in his
laboratory busy and active until his
death at the age of 103.
“Retiremen of machine workers at
a too early age is another waste.
Certainly it is far beyond the tradi
tional age of 40, after which they
say a man has difficulty in finding in
dustrial work.
“Introduction of machinery into
industry lengthens the working life
of man. The pick and shovel man secs
his strength declining after forty years
but the engineer of the trench digger
and the big crane may be and probably
is better fitted for his job at the age
of 60 than 30.”
Three Auto Accidents Send Four \o
Hospital.
Salisbury, Oct. 16.—Three automo
bile accidents in this vicinity this
afternoon, put four people in tne
Salisbury hospital. Mrs. Nora Edison
and Mrs- J. E. Lowder, of Kannapo
lis, wero bruised and shocked in a
crossroad collision with another car
on the Lexington road. Mrs. L. R.
Wi’es, of Albemarle, suffered a se
vere cut across the face in a collision
at Spencer. Will Land, of Kannapo
lis, had a shoulder dislocated when a
radius rod broke.
THE STOCK MARKET
Reported by Fenner & Beane
(Quotations at 1:30 P. M.)
A tehison 188%
American Can 65%
Allied Chemical 154%
American Smelting 166^
American Tel. & Tel. 181
Allis Chalmers 116%
Balwin Locomotive 250
Baltimore & Ohio HO%
Beth. Steel 55%
Ches. & Ohio 211
Chrysler 55%
New York Central 164%
Dupont 336%
Erie 69%
Fleishman 63
St. Loui|i-Francis, R.R 110%
General Electric 132%
Gold Dust 66
General Motors 130%
Gen. Ry. Signal 137%
Houston Oil
Hudson Motors *°%
Mo. Kans. & Tex. 45 j
Kennecott Copper 74%
Liggett & Myers 122
Lorillard 4
Mack Truck
Mo.-Pacific Pfd. 56%
Montgomery-Wad 81%
Nash Motors 87%
Packard Motors 48
Penn. R. R. 66%
Phillips Pete. 38%
“B” Rev. Tob. Com 148%
Sears Roebuck 74%
Southern Ry. 134%
Std. Oil of N. J 39%
Sou. Pac. R. R. 122%
Sou. Dairies Pfd. 53%
Studebaker Corp. 55%
Tobacco Prodc. 95
Union Carbine 131%
Wabash R. R. 71%
Westinghouse Elec. Co. 84
West. Mryd R. R. : 61%
Yellow Cab and Truck 82%
xv-~o] worth 183%
v. S. Steel 145%
TWO GIRLS KILLED
AND THEIR BODIES
THROWN FROM AUTO
Auto Sped on For Block
and Then Came to Halt
With Dead Man at the
Wheel.—Police Busy.
JEALOUSY GIVEN
AS THE CAUSE
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Believed Young Man Killed
One of Women and Pal
Because She Would Not
Answer His Affections.
Chicago, Oct. 17.— UP) —Two 19-
year-old girls were shot to death
early today and then thrown from an
automobile which sped on for a block
before skidding to a stop against the
curb, with a dead man at the wheel.
The driver, a bullet through his
right temple, was Wilfred Winters,
22, one time taxicab driver, but re
cently unemployed. The girls wuo
were killed were Catherine Stradler
and her cuhm Margaret Martin, both
high school graduates of last year.
The triple shooting took place on
Rhodes Avenue on the South Side.
The neighborhood was aroused by the
roar of revolvers about 1 a. iu. At
least two householders busy on the
street went to their windows and
looked out to see the bodies of the two
girls pushed from the automobile.
Mrs. William J. Martin offered the
only suggestion as to a possible
motive for the shooting of her daugh
ter. She said she believed Winters had
killed Margaret because she would
not marry him, and that in a moment
of anger or unbalanced mind, also had
shot the Stradler girl and then him
self.
Police piecing together the history
of Winters, learned that his father
had disappeared when the boy was
only two years old, and that his moth
er had re-married and moved to
Brooks. Ind. Winters, his friends
told officers, was industrious and
quiet, though he was said to have
been morose of late because of his
health.
THE COTTON MARKET.
Opened Easy Today at Decline of 11
To 31 Points Under Liquidation Or
Reselling.
New York, Oct. 17.— UP) —The cot
ton market opened easy today at a
decline of 11 to 31 points under
liquidation or re-selling by buyers of
Saturday who appeared to be influenc
ed by relatively easy Liverpool cables,
| and a favorable view of over Sunday
weather conditions in the South.
Decembers contracts sold off to 20.62
and March to 20.87, or about 29 to
31 points below Saturday’s closing
quotations, but the selling tapered off
nt these figures, while trade buying
and covering caused rallies of 8 to
10 points from the lowest by the end
of the first hour.
The market latter became steadier
on covering and buying which ap
peared pramoted by uncertainty re
garding the tropical storm in the vi
cinity of Swan Island, moving north
east, and reports of a generally steady
or firm spot basis in the South. De
cember sold up to 20.84 and March to
21.04 late in the forenoon, or within
7 to 14 points of Saturday’s close.
Cotton futures opened easy: Dec.
20.75; Jan. 21.68; March 20 95; May
21.14; Oct. 20.59.
REV. McKENDREE R. LONG
Opens Revival Service Here Sunday
Morning.
Kannapolis, Oct. 15.—A capacity
crowd is expected to tax the First
Presbyterian Church here Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock to greet the Rev.
McKendree R. Long, evangelist of
Statesville, when he opens a three
weeks’ revival campaign, the second to
be held in this city in as many years.
Everything has been placed in read
iness and a great awakening is antici
pated as a result of tha.meeting. Ser
vices are to be held each day at 3 and
7 :80 o’clock and on Sunday at 11 and
7 o’clock.
Rev. W. W. Rowland, an efficient
singer, of Memphis, Tenn., and a grad
uate of the Moody Bible Institute of
Chicago, will direct the song services,
and conduct children and young peo
ple’s meetings.
Lassater Purchases Airport at Win
ston.
Winston-Salem, Oct. 15. —At a
dinner given here Friday night for
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, it was
announced that R. E. Lassater, of
Winston-Salem, had purchased the
new Miller municipal airport and wril
donate it to the Winston-Salem Foun
dation.
Income derived from operation of
the field will distributed among
funds, one-half to the Leo Caldwell
fund for the education of worthy boys
and girls, and the other half to a
fund for the promotion of aeronautics
in this city.
The airport, established on land
leased by the county, was recently
equipped by A. Clint Miller, who do
nated the funds for the purpose. Mr.
Lassater purchased the field from the
county, the purchase price, it ia said,
being SIOO,OOO,
Child Smothers to Death tnaw Pile
of Cotton.
Anderson, S. C., Oct. 12. —John
Thomas Burgess, 2-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. J- A. Burgess, residing
near here, was smothered to death to
day while playing in cotton with a
group of children.
The youngsters were finding sport
in covering themselves with tne eo:-
ton. Several combined ife covering the.
Burgess child and before he could be
s extricated, suffocation had killed him.
FALLANDICLI
GO ON TRIAL TODAY
BECAUSE OF LEASES
With Decision of Supreme
Court Against Them, Oil
Magnate and the Former
Cabinet Member on Trial
CONSPIRACY IS
THE CHARGE
l The Decision of Supreme
Court Was in Civil Suit
Growing Out of Teapot
Dome Oil Lease Case.
Washington, Oct. 17.— UP) —With
i the weight of a Supreme Court de
cision standing against them, Albert
B. Fall and Harry F. Sinclair went
> on trial today on charges of criminal
conspiracy growing out of the famous
i Teapot Dome naval oil leape.
, Although today’s proceedings in a
• District of Columbia court constituted
► only the criminal phase of the long
■ drawn out fight of the government to
i , cancel the oil leases, negotiated by
Fall as Secretary of the Interior, the
j Supreme Court a week ago in cancel
ling the Teapot Dome transaction e:c
. pressed the opinion that the two de
• fendants had conspired together. That
. opinion, however, was rendered in the
| civil suit and did not relate airecay
, to the indictment under which Fall
and Sinclair are being tried.
, A jury of 12 men, selection of
, which waa begun Immediately, wil
’ decide as to whether the two men
i shall go free or be imprisoned up to
I two years-
Both the former secretary and the
[ multimillionaire oil operator and
sportsman were in the little court
room early. They presented a sharp
contract. Fall, a tall southwest vet
. eran of the stirring pioneer days of
i the southwest frontier, bore the stamp
. of experience ae a prospector and law
i officer before he attained to national
i reputation as senator and cabinet of-
I fleer.
i Sinclair, short, stocky and dapper,
i was once small town store clerk,
who found his start in the virgin oil
fields of Oklahoma, and quicly rose
to place and prominence as one of the
leading oil operators of the country,
and later as owner of famous race
horsee.
Will Net Build Lock in Currituck
Sound.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Oct. 17. —Requests of Gov.
A. W\ McLean and the department of
conservation and development for the
construction of a lock in the inland
waterway near the head of Currituck
Sound for the protection of waterfowl
and fish have received an unfavorable
report from Lt. Col. Henry C. Jewett,
district engineer at Norfolk, accord
ing to word received by the depart
ment.
“The principal grounds upon which
my conclusions are based,” says Lt.
Colonel Jewett, “are that the lock is
not necessary for the benefit of navi
gation, or demanded by navigation
interest for the improvement of navi
gation, or to decrease its hazards; and
that the construction of a lock is not
a guarantee that it will correct the
conditions complained of.”
Notice of the report points out that
the interested parties have a right of
appeal to the board of engineers for
rivers and harbors at Washington to
which the report is referred.
According to the belief of the state
officials and conservationists, a lock
in the waterway would protect Curri
tuck Sound fresh water from salt
water descending from the north, there
by protecting the vegetation which
supplies food for the wildfowl and
the fresh water fishing of the sound.
INDICTED OFFICIALS
ARE ASKED TO RESIGN
Wilkes School Board Chairman, Road
Superintendent and Two Commis
sioners Face Charges.
North Wilkesboro, Oct. 14.—1 t is
learned officially that all indicted coun
ty officials have been aequested by
Solicitor John R. Jones to resign. This
request was made known to various
attorneys representing the county of
ficers who have been indicted by the
grand jury for alleged irregularities
in carrying on their duties, and then
transmitted to the officers themselves.
Solicitor Jones, seemingly, is back
ed by a great number of people in his
request that the indicted officials get
out, and it is stated that he points
out that such action would probably
save the county from having to pay
the money derived from the six alleged
forged notes, which, in some instances,
it is said, were signed by some of
the county officers.
The indicted officials are C. C. Faw,
chairman of the boaj*d of education;
W. H. Foster, superintendent of
roads; C. M. Wellborn and A. Brewer,
commissioners.
SHEPHERD SHOE CONCERN
Vacates Old Quarters For More Cen
tral Location.
Kannapolis, Oct. 15. —Main street
added one more establishment to its
colony of business houses with the re
moval of the Shepherd Shoe Hospital
from its old location near the Southern
depot yesterday. “The Hospital” now
ie occupying its new quarters in the
new building adjoining the City Bar
ber Shop, which are larger and better
equipped than the quarters vacated,
and according to H. M. Shepherd, the
proprietor, the new place is more cen
trally located for its business.
Mr. Shepherd has been engaged in
the shoe repairing business for sev
eral years, always producing first c’ass
work. He now has a larger staff of
workmen and promises better service.
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Mrs. Darby Day, Jr., will b«
reconciled with her millionaire
husband, now that she’s been
released from San Quentii
prison after being convicted ol
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1 -METHODIST PASTORATE
> BRINGS ON SPECULATION
' Who Will Be Named to Serve Church 1
1 At Charlotte With Million Dollar
t Home?
) Charlotte, Oct. 17. —Speculation as
- to the probable pastor of the First
f Methodist church for the next year
> is the principla topic of interest to
} Charlotte Methodism as the time for
1 the western North Carolina confer
. enee at Asheville nears.
The church building is nearing com
pletion and just before conference meets
Bishop Mouzon is expected to formally
] complete the official union of Tryon
, Street and Trinity Methodist churches
, into the First Methodist church. The
church building of the First church is
j located on North Tryon street and
will cost, including equipment, ap
proximately $1,000,000. It will be
by far the largest and finest qjiurch
* structure un Nqsth Carolina apd many
believe tnax itmll not be rivalled in
the entire south.
This pastorate, of course, will be
the choice assignment for Methodist
l ministers in North Carolina and
, naturally there has been considerable
I speculation as to whom Bishop Mou
. zon will "send here as first pastor.
| Two names stand out in the list
, of those mentioned, both not now in
either the Western North Carolina or
’ the North Carolina conference. They
are Dr. P. R. Knickerbocker, pastor
of the leading Methodist church in
Knoxville, Tenn., and liev. John Wil
-1 liam Smith, pastor of Green Memorial
’ church at Roanoke, Va. Mr. Smith
was transferred to the western North
Carolina conference at the recent
1 Baltimore conference and some profess
' to see in this an indication that he has
been chosen for the Charlotte charge.
However, others believe that he will
' be transferred again to the Holstein
conference to take Dr. Knickerbocker’s
church in Knoxville and that the pres
■ ent Knoxville minister will come here.
In the meantime Bishop Mouzon,
> the final authority on these questions,
remains silent.
s Rev. A. L. Stamford is pastor of
: Tryon Street church and Dr. A. D.
• Wilcox is pastor of Trinity church,
: the two churces involved in the
■ merger.
i There is talk here that Mr. Stanford
I will go to Broad Street Methodist
. church at Statesville and that Dr. E.
K. McLarty, now pastor there, will
be sent to Chapel Hill in the North
Carolina conference. The name of
Mr. Stanford also is connected directly
with the Chapel Hill appointment. Mr.
Wilcox, according to the talk here,
will go to Gastonia, to take the pas
torate left by Dr. Prettyman, wiio
recently- was transferred back to* the
Baltimore conference.
It is recalled here that Dr. Ashley
C. Chappell is completing his fifth
year at Central church, Asheville, and
there is some discussion as to whether
he will be returned. Next to the First
church here this is said to be the best
appointment in the western conference.
Half of Spencer Shopmen Laid Off.
Spencer, Oct. 15- —In keeping with
what seems to be an established
policy of the Southern railway for
economy and retrenchment, some
thing like half of the employes of the
Spencer shops have laid off for two
weeks. The order, according to a
bulletin posted in the shops, becomes
effective Monday at 7 a. m. An
emergency force of several hundred
men is, of course, kept in the service
and the lay-off does not apply to men
in the transportation department.
The payroll handed out to the em
ployes today i« said to have been a
large one, running to something like
a quarter of a million dollars for the
two weeks past.
Diphtheria Shows Drop hi New Cases
I Raleigh, Oct. 15.—Contagious dis
eases this week were quite dormant,
the state board of health reported to
doy in announcing the total of new
rf.ses developing in tbs state through
Friday.
Diphteria, a disease that has
been cutting a wide rwath through
the state during the past eix weeks,
showed a decided let down, only 149
cases developing this week as com
pared with 184 last week.
Total for other diseases this week
follow:
Whooping cough, 135; measles,
>■ 113; scar’et fever, 116; smallpox, 14;
' J typhoid fever, 22. j
NO. 30
FRENCH HEN ARE J
IN BRAZIL ON LONG
FLIGHT FROM PARIS
Reach Rio Janeiro and
France Rejoices at Their
Victory—Junkers Plane
Getting Ready to Go.
CAPT. GILESIs
IN ACCIDENT I
Plane Crashed in Nevada
But He Was Not Seri
ously Injured.—Miss El
der’s Daring Noted.
(By the Associated Press)
Ruth Eelder and George Hnldeman*
co-pilots of the lost “American Girl,**
were lauded at Horta iu the Azores
when it became known that Miss Elder
and he took turns crawling along the * j
slect-covercd fuselage of their plane
to jettison gasoline store in the tail,
in order to keep the plane balanced.
The Junkers hydro airplane D-1230
in which the Viennese aertess, Lijli
Dillenz and three German birdmen are J
, attempting a flight westward over the
Atlantic to America was being groom
ed for a continuation of the project
ed flight while Mile. Dina"* was feted
with Miss Elder at Horta. The avia
tors in charge said the D-1230 would
hop off when ready.
Diudonne Coetes in his plane, the
“Nungesser-Coli,” arrived at Rio Jan
eiro, Brazil, shortly before noon today
from Caravellas, where he stopped last
night while en route from Port Natal
on a Paris-Rio Janeiro flight.
,! The biplane Wanda, piloted by Cap
tain Frederick A. Giles, British air
man, crashed at Elko, Nevada, today
shortly after resuming its flight from
Detroit to New Zealand, Giles was
only slightly injured.
Four British air force flying boats
which started from Plymouth, Eng
land, today on a 25,000 miles empire
cruise, landed at the marine aviation
base at Hourtin, near Bordeaux,
France, at 2 p. m., today.
The planes which accomplished a
flight of about 425 miles, expect to
leave Hourtin tomorrow.
Mrs. Grayson Forced Down.
Old Orchard, Me., Oct. 17.— UP)—
Lees than a quarter hour after the
Dawn took off hopefully for Europe
today it was back on the stand as
the result of improper balance when
sbrf was in the air.
Wilmer Stultz said that it was im
possible to keep her up. His navi
gator, Bryce Goldsborough, pulled the
wire which dumped 260 gallons of
gasoline, almost a third of the load,
into the air where it sprayed back
in a great white cloud.
The first words of Mrs. Frances
W. Grayson as she stepped from the
plane were to Captain Harry M. Jones.
“We must have 260 gallons of gaso
line at once. We will shift fifty gal
lons aft to give her a better balance,
and try it again."
They still had almost two hours be- j
fore the tide would block the at
tempt.
Faced by the fact that all the need
ed gasoline was not available and that
much time was needed to load it, it
was decided after a conference that
the flight must be postponed from
this . tide. Since the next low tide
tonight will be after dark, tomorrow
morning will be the first opportunity
for another attempt. The plane was
returned to its position high on the
beach.
The Sikorsky amphibian had risen
easily from the beach after a run of
less than a mile. Scarcely had the
nose been pointed toward its Euro
pean goal, however, when it was seen
that she was rapidly losing the alti
tude gained.
The plane was barely twenty feet
above the water when the gaso ine
was dumped. It took less than a
minute to ease the plane of the con
tents of the two tanks which stream
line the motors just below the upper
wing.
TnE STOCK MARKET.
Prices Opened Irregularity Higher,
Some Stock Going to New High.
New York, Oct. 17. —Prices opened
irregularly , higher in today’s stock
market. Cushman’s Sons and Beech
nut Packing began the day at new
highs, and initial gains of a point or
more were registered by Atlantic Coast
Line, Chicago Great Western prefer
red, and Nash Motors. DuPont open
ed off nearly three points, and Norfolk
and Western and Phillips Petroleum
were lower at the outset.
Ban Johnson Out.
Chicago, Oct. 17.— UP) —The resig
nation of Bryon Bancroft Johnson,
founder and President of the Ameri
can League for 27 years, was accept
ed today by the League’s board of di
rectors.
Frank Navin, vice president of the
League, and head of the Detroit club,
said he would take charge of the lea
gue’s affairs until a meeting could be
called and Johnson’s guesessor elected.
Falling Barometer at Miami
Miami, Fla., Oct. 17. — UP) —After
rising slowly in the early morning, the
barometer here in the hour after
10:30 a. m. lost all of its early gains,
and three points more.
The reading at 11.30 a. m. was
29.69. At 10:30 it was 29.77. At
8 o’clock it stood at 29.72, seven points
under last night’s reading.
lEATO
Cloudy, preceded by rain this af
ternoon and tonight in east portion;
. Tuesday partly cloudy. Not much
1 chsn—> ia tamjarahira.