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VOLUME XXVI
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OF MUCH My
BUT OF PICK
Offered by Dry Lenders at
Hearing on Prohibition.
—Bishop McDowell Is
Heard During Day.
SAYS DRY LAW
PLEASES CHURCH
Dr. Clarence True Wilson
Says Methodist Temper
ance Board Thinks Dry
Law Is All Right.
Washington. April 20.— (0) High
dignitaries of the church carried the
brunt of buttle for the drys again t i
day as they pressed forward to the
close of their case for the Volstead
Act.
William Frazier McDowell, presi
dent Bishop at Washington of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, appear
ed as the first witness in the list of
eight railed before the Senate proba
tion committee when it resumed its
sessions this morning.
Bishop McDowell is president of
the board of temperance, proliibititon
and public morals of his church. He
rend a prepared statement declaring
against ahy weakening of the Volstead
Act.
Electing to stand before the com
mittee rather than take the witness
chair, he half faced the committee
members and half faced the crowd
which again packed the hearing room.
In the course of his brief state
ment the Bishop declared the propo
sition to amend the dry statute had
originated with bootleggers, booze
dealers and booze consumers who
have steadily broken the law. When
he concluded. Seneator Ileed, demo
crat, Missouri, the one wet on the
committee, asked the witness whether
he thought "any of those who have
been here advocating a change in the
law is a law breaker.” “I have not
said that,” Bishop McDowell replied.
“What you say here has indicated
that,” returned Reed. “I am not in
dicating anyone who has appeared
here,” said the bishop. "What T have
said about law breakers not being law
makers is perfectly sound doctrine.”
Dr. Clarence True Wilson, general
secretary of the Methodist Board of
-temperance trtsMfcitfcn atpD
morals, followed Bishop McDowell
but did not read all of a long paper
he had prepared.
Senator Reed objected to filing of
the statement without a chance for
cross examination, but Dr. Wilson
said he wanted to have time so the
committee let the statement go in.
“We are well satisfied with the re
sult of prohibition, all things consid
ered," Dr. Wilson said. “We have
broken the hold of the liquor traffic on
nominating conventions, and we think
we have today the cleanest politics in
our history.”
More Candidates File.
State Capital Bureau of
The Concord Daily Tribune
Sift Walter Hotel Lobby
Raleigh, April 20.—Four candida
cies for State senator and one for
solicitor were filed with the State
board of elections here Monday, the
lightest day since the rush of no
tices began.
The four senatorial aspirants are:
T. H. Williams. Elizabeth City,
candidate for re-nomination from the
first district.
Fred W. Bynum, new candidate
for the nomination from the 18th
district.
W. H. Childs, new candidate for
the nomination from the 25th.
Henry G. Robertson, Franklin, can
didate for re-nomination in the 33rd.
The solicitor candidate is B. Gib
son Hobbs, of the sixth judicial dis
trict.
County boards arc getting business
underway iu a number of counties,
but the organizations have not yet
been effected in others, Phillip Bus
bee, assistant secretary, reports.
There is no particular rush, as no
tices of candidacies for county of
fices and for the State House of Rep
resentatives may be filed with them
as late as two weeks before the pri
mary.
Arizona has a wider range of alti
tude than any other Western State.
Its highest (mint is San Francisco
lieak, 12,611 feet above the sea level,
and the lowest is on the Colorado
River, where the elevation is but 100
feet.
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So Now They’ll Run the Town a While
Ml——
One dny before DeKnlb. Mo., a town of 500, held its annual election, five women made up a campaigu ticket
and began going after votes. Next day they Were elected, and the town'll be run by women for the next year.
1-est to right, the new office holders are Mrs. S. A. Mallory, councilman; Mrs, S. .1. Hull, city clerk; Mrs. ,1.
W. McAdow, mayor; Mrs. John Pyles, councilman; and Mrs. Charles Clink-enbear, councilman.
SOME DEFINITE FACTS
REGARDING THE STATE
Governor McLean Produces Interest
ing Figures in Material For Ar
ticle.
State Capital Bureau of
The Concord Daily Tribune
Sir Walter Hotel I-obby
Raleigh. April 20.—North Caro
lina's wealth, and the use-which is
being made of it. is clearly set forth
jn a letter from Governor Mcl-eatl
to the Iron Trade Review, made pub
lic yesterday evening.
The trade publication asked for data
upon the state's resources, wealth, de
velopment, etc. The governor re
plied that:
“First, the total income of the
ctnlo during 1025 was:
“Value of production of manufac
tured products are valued as follows:
Textiles 8400 000,000
Tobacco products 300,000,000
Furniture manufacture 60.000,000
Forest products 110 000.000
Minerals 10,000.000
Miscellaneous 75.000.000
Total $955,000,000
Value crops, 1925 $3lB 061.000
Value livestock 73.668,000
$1,345,349,000
“Construction for state institutions
and buildings in 1925 totalled $4,-
910.224.
“For roads. North Carolina spent
for tire calendar year 1925, $27,827,-
000.
"For private building work, in
January the department of conserva
tion and advance estimated construc
tion in J 925 as $125,000,000. This
Wrfttrmte is based on reports from 247
cities and towns replying to 425
queries. Much cons:ruction in in
dustry, water power developments, re
sorts, etc. is outside of towns and vil
lages. Judging by increased con
struction for the first three months
of the year in several cities, and tak
ing into account numerous develop
ments notv underway or projected, it
is believed that an estimate of $160,-
000.000 for private construction for
1926 is extremely conservative. The
figure will more likely nppronch $200,-
000,000.
“In seaport development, the only
figures available are expenditures of
the United States engineering corps
at Wilmington and Beaufort. These
were, at Wilmington, $245,000 for
improvements, and $148,586 for main
tenance, for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1920; and for Beaufort,
$43,000 for maiutenance.
“Figures for road expenditures in
clude only those made on the state
highways of which over 4.000 miles
are now hard surfaced. They do not
include considerable sums spent ou
road-: by cities and counties, nor by
resort developments.
“Perhaps the best index of the mag
nitude of North Carolina industry is
the amount'of federal taxes paid by
this state, which was $166,962,875,
an amount exceeded by only three
states.
“The latest official figures of the
value of North Carolina manufac
tured products are those of the Unit
ed States department of commerce for
1923. That figure was $951,911,-
000.”
War Claims Measure Apparently
Doomed.
Washington, April 19.—With the
treasury plan for immediate settle
ment of German-Ameriean war
claims apparently at the end of its
road in Congress for this session,
Secretary Mellon today again advo
cated it as “the only practical solu
tion of these difficulties.”
Mr. Mellon added, ‘however, that
he was quite “open minded as to a
means of settlement nnd called upon
house opponents of the plan to pro
pose a more practical one rather
than advance “destructive criticism.”
The Wakefield, Mass., fire depart
ment has put in commission an up
to-date fire motor truck which, with
the exception of the chassis and
motor, was built by the (iremen dur
ing their spare time.
The 57th Series in this old Reliable Building and Loan
Association is still open. Running Shares cost 25 cents
per share per week. Prepaid shares cost $72.25 per share;
stock matures in 328 weeks.
Tax return day is coming. All stock is NON-TAXABLE.
BEGIN NOW
Cabarrus County B. L. & Savings Association
OFFICE IN THE CONCORD NATIONAL BANK
GET MORE LIGHT ON
TRAGEDY IN MT. AIRY
James Duncan, Who Shot Wife and
Killed Himself, Stemcil to Be Ment
ally Deranged.
Mount Airy, April 19.—-Bits of in
formation picked up here and there
wince the shocking tragedy here Sat
urday night in which Mrs. Janie Dun
can was seriously shot by her hus
band, Jimmie Duncan, who took his
own life, at the home of John I).
Kluttz. the father of Mrs. Duncan.)
seem to establish the fact that the j
young man was not only physically I
sick but was mentally deranged.
It was learned here today that a!
neighbor of the Duncans, a woman i
living in South Brownsville, Pa., had |
advised Mrs. Duncan to conic to her
father’s home in Mt. Airy' because 1
she feared for the safety of the young *
wife and the children. It is also re
ported that tlic same neighbor wrote:
a letter to the young wife since she 1
came here in which she warned her i
of danger in case Duncan should
come to Mount. Airy and cautioned
her to be on her guard.
A bottle of paregoric was found in
one of the dead mail's pockets which
may indicate that he Was taking
dope. He also stated to a friend here
that he had to take morphine tab
lets in order to be able to sleep.
Chief of Police R. E. Lawrence has
a letter which was taken from the
young man’s clothing after the trag
edy which is supposed to be addressed
to the people for whom lie worked
and which he evidently neglected to
mail. The letter is written on the j
stationery of the Guilford
Greensboro, and is as follows:
i ‘'Monday evening 9 p-. at. Degri
George nnd Mr. R :
‘ Just arrived here and missed train
to Mount Airy by about 10 minutes,
so that means at 12 tomorrow I will
appear on the battle front in Mount
Airy against the German army.
“The enemy having captured my
fountain pen compels me to use a
pencil or walk for a pen—so you can
see I am saving my energy for to
morrow. I feel fiHe and am sleepy
for the first time in several days. Let
me hear from yon and tell Dr. Reitter
to send me the message that he told
me to drop in for. Respectfully,
James Duncan.”
The letter was in pencil and was
not in an envelope.
Among his effects was another let
ter addressed to him from Joseph
Hega Company, Chicago, a house that
deals in watches and diamonds. The
letter was au acknowledgment for a
shipment of jewelry of some kind and
also answered an inquiry in regard
to a one-half carat diamond ring and
mounting which he was evidently in
tending to purchase. The price
quoted was $290 but. stated that dia
monds could be furnished at almost
any price desired. These incidents
seem to furnish an explanation for
the tragedy, and point unmistakably
to a serious mental derangement as
the cause of this shocking episode
which caust a shadow over this city
and brought deep sorrow to the homes
of the principals.
Mr. Duncan is still living and
some hope is entertained for her re
covery.
Duke Player Suffers Fracture of His
Leg.
Durham, Apr. 19. —Charlie Pearce,
of Timberlake, centetfielder for the
Duke university baseball team, is
suffering a fractured bone in the
right leg, according to physicians
who hnve examined the player s.nce
an accident in the Carolina game
here Saturday.
Pearce was hurt while running
bases, his leg being wrenched when a
slide was made. After a few mo
ments he resumed playing and was
in the game another inning before
being tuken out. X-ray photographs
revealed the broken bone, and it is
probable that lie will miss games
for the next couple of weeks.
In Sweeten there is a mine which
is so old that records are missing as
to its age. As far as can oe known
the mine has been in active opera
tion for more than 800 years.
CONCORD, N. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1926
ORMOND DAMAGE SUIT
TO BE STARTED 27T11
Famous Letters of Miss Elizabeth
Cole Will Re Offered During the
Hearing.
Special to Greensboro News.
Raleigh, April 19.—Trial of Rev.
A. 1.. Ormond's $150,000 suit against
IV. B. Cole, Rockingham slayer Os
W. W. Ormond, will begin Tuesday,
April 27th, in the Wake county courts
and unless the plaintiff calls off the
| ease with n continuance, the civil
j action will start that day.
I The defense asked for immediate
I hearing of the issues and the court
j will get them long ahead of the or
i dinary expectation. It had not been
j thought possible to get into this trill
before late fall. But the district kgs
! an unusually good judge and both
sides are anxious to hnve it heard
by n man of Judge Barnhill's type,
j The case will have hardly less in
terest than the criminal action tried
| last fall in Richmond county. At that
time Mr. Cole wns indicted for mur
der in the first degree and a Union
county jury acquitted ‘aim. The ac
quittal was son followed by an
nouncement in the Greensboro Daily
News that Mr. Ormond would insti
tute civil action against the wealthy
mill owner. Within a few days the
summons was issued from Wake
court. Mr. Cole was not in the
state at that time, but process on
him following his return put the case
squarely into the courts.
James A. LocMiardt, J. C. Sikes
and J. C. M. Vann, who appeared in
j the defense in Rockingham, will not
Ibe here for the defense in the civil
cause and Clyde U. Hoey, who led
the prosecution fti Richmond eotiufcy,'
will not participate ill the trial this
time. Attorneys have been added
locally. The defense 'has Jones and
Horten, of the Wnke bar. and the
plaintiff has attached R. N. Simms,
of the Rale ; gh bar. Douglass and
Douglass, who prosecuted criminally,
Larry I. Moore and perhaps others
will take part oil the side of the
Rev. Mr. Ormond.
Tile famous letters of Miss Eliza
beth Cole, excluded from the criminal
case, will be offered in evidence here.
Whether they will be admitted or
not, nobody can Say. But if there is
n chance to hear them read Hie court
house will not hold a tenth of the
people who will seek admission into
the court room trial place. It is
assumed of course that Miss Cole will
testify at this hearing, though it does
not appear that there is any reason
for placing her evidence before a
court since that might not have any
effect on a verdict for damages.
IS DROWED IN LAKE
NEAR HENDERSONVILLE
J. D. Pittman, of Greenville County.
S. C., —Body is Not Yet Brought
to Surface.
Hendersonville, April 19.—Work
ers late this afternoon abandoned for
the night efforts to recover the body
of J. D. Pittman, Greenville county,
S. C., youth, drowned late yesterday
in lake Summit, seven miles south
of here. The body sank in water 30
feet deep but diving, grappling hooks
and even dynamite failed to bring
the body to the surface.
Pittman. 18-yea r»-old, with Wil
liam Morgan and Grady Pittman, had
driven up from South Carolina and
were rowing in a boat across the
lake. The craft was overturned,
plunging the occupants into the
chilly water. Morgan and William
Pitman were good swimmers and
reached the bank but J. D. Pittman
was unable to swim, the water were
so odd and the survivors were so
nearly exhausted they did not dare
attempt rescue-
Asheville School For Boys Sold For
Million and Hair.
Aslieryille. April 19.—Purchase of
the Asheville School for Boys, long
famous as an educational institution
for millionaires’ sons from all over
the country, by Walter P. Fraser, of
Pittsburgh, and associates, who will
operate it with the view of develop
ing a university in western North
Carolina, was announced here to
night. The estate, which includes
770 acres, wns transferred for a con
| nideratlon of $1,500,000, according
to the announcement.
Arthur Sparry Pearse Will Join
Duke University Soon.
Madison, Wis., April 17.—Arthur
Sperry Pearse. professor of zoology
at the University of Wisconsin, now
on leave of nbsence has resigned to
accept an offer by Duke university,
Durham, N. C.
Professor Pearse, studying ar the
I London school of tropical medicine
| on n year’s leave of absence, will be
|come graduate professor of zoology
:at Duke when he completes his re-
Isearch work abroad February 1,
11927-
GOVERNOR ORDERS
SORVEV ASKED BV
WOMEN OF STATE
Will Have Survey to De
termine Just How Many,
Women in the State Are |
Employed.
MUCH INTEREST I
IN THE MATTER
Various Clubs and Other!
Organizations Asked the |
Governor to Have the
Suryey Made.
' Raleigh. April 20.— OP) —Governor j
MeaeLn today ordered that survey of)
working conditions of women in in
dustry in the state lie made. He j
assigned the work of milking the stir-j
vey to the child welfare commission.
In making known his decision on
the matter Governor MsLcan asserted !
lie expecteil to ask the manufacturers I
and other businesses employing worn-!
en to give co-operation to the com
mission making a survey and he felt
confident this would be given. He ex
pressed tlie opinion it was not neces
sary to call upon a Federal agency,
as had been suggested, to make the
survey. He felt the state agencies
were competent for the work, and the
commission promised to handle the
matter.
The survey is the outgrowth of an
agitation which started when the
University of North Carolina as a
part of its research work asked textile
manufacturers to allow them to make
a survey of working conditions of wo
men in their mills. This was refused j
by the textile manufacturers.
Following this various women's or- 1
ganizations of the state and the State
Federation of Labor urged the Gov
ernor to order a survey either by the
state or federal forces. These re
quests were followed by conferences
between the Governor nnd represen
tatives of women’s organizations after
which the Governor held his decis
ion in abeyance.
WANT BETTER BIDS FOR
MUSCLE SHOALS PLANT
President Suggests Bidders Be Asked
to Appead Before Joint Committe.
Washington, April 20.—<OP)—Presi
dent Coolidge suggested tdjiay- to the
Muscle Shoalß Commission that it
summon before it the bidders for the
property and bargain with them for
better bids.
In a conference with Senator De
ueen nnd Representative James, re
publican members of the commission,
the President made it clear he desir
ed that the bidders assure the produc
tion of fertilizer, the distribution of
surplus power, and the payment of
an adequate sum to the government
for the property.
He proposed that the commission
call the bidders "before it and tell
each of the other offers received by
the commission for the property, and
determine if any of the bidders desir
ed to make a new and better offer.
The President is desirous that if a
bid is accepted by the Commission : t
should not involve any additional ex
penditure on the part of the govern
ment in the Muscle Shoals project.
Chairman Deneen, of Illinois, and
Senator Sackett, of Kentucky, re
publican members of committee at the
White House were understood to
have informed the President that the
committee expected to be ready next
Monday to submit to Congress recom
mendations for a 59-year lease.
Shortly after the visit to the White
House the committee met ia execu
tive session and heard Thos W. Mar
tin, president of the Alabama Power
Co., and other officials representing
the Southern associated powers bid
ders. Mr. Martin requested the com
mittee to hear them, and although it
previously had been voted not to hear
any more bidders, the committee
agreed.
Securing Jobs For Unemployed.
State Capital Bureau of
The Concord Dai'y Tribune
Sir Walter Hotel Lobby
Ra’eigh, April 20.—Wilmington led
last week in the number of men and
women furnished jobs, through the
joint agency of the United States de
partment of labor and the State de
partment of labor and printing, ac
cording to the report made public t'.iis
morning.
A total of 155 men ami 10S women
were furnished jobs in the Wilming
ton district, or 263 in all, while Ashe
vi'le, the closest competitor, found
jobs for only 157. Asheville has held
the lead most of the spring. Winston-
Salem came third, with 122; Greens
boro fourth, with 114. Raleigh fifth
with 67 and Rocky Mount sixth, with
14.
In all there were 737 replacements,
out of 836 registrations for jobs and
780 requests for help. A total of
771) were referred to jobs.
Unskilled labor led by a wide mar
gin in the placements. 415 of the men
and women placed falling into that
class. Domestic help came second,
117 coming under that head. There
were 100 industrial jobs filled, 71
calling for skilled workmanship and
34 clerical jobs.
The punches used by conductors
on railway trains are made in near
ly 20,000 different designs, and from
ii.e punchmark in the ticket usually
may be to’d the railroad aud the
train on which 4t was made and the
conductor-
Children Picket White House
■ .. . .
A group of children from strikers* families in Passaic, N. J., tried to
picket the White House in Washington after they had been refused an
audience with President <'oolidge. They were dispersed by police who said
the picketing violated the District of Columbia child labor statute.
D. A- R. LISTEN TO
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENI
Longwortli and Revenger Also On
the Program.
Washington, April 19.—Daughters
of the American Revolution today
opened their 35th continental eon
gress and tonight were joined by
thousands by radio listeners to hear
an address by President Coolidge.
Several stations covering the eastern
half of the country were linked to
broadcast the speech.
Speaker lxingworth, of the house
of representatives, and Ambassador
Berenger of France also were on the
program, following the President.
! Tlie delegates direetisi attention to
-1 day between an address by their
| president general, Mrs. Anthony
Wayne Cook, and discussion of the •
forthcoming election of her succes
sor. The candidates already are in
the field, Mrs Charles White Nash,
the New York state regent, and Mrs.
Alfred Brosseau, of Connectieutt-
In her opening address, Mrs. Cook
coupled an appeal for observance of
the prohibition law with advocacy of
daily reading of the Bible, without
sectarian eoment, in public schools.
She urged also that care be exer
cised to prevent proponents of radi
cal dietrines from succeeding in
their "attempts to make our schools
and the text books of history read
by the school children of the country
vehicles for propoganda in support
of their pentilential theories."
Concerning law enforcement Mrs.
Cook declared “we are at the cross
roads" and there “can be no nega
tive conduct in relation to this great
issue, for all conduct is positive. We
are either for, or we are against law
observance, and law enforcement. ’
BOXER DIES FOLLOWING
BOUT MONDAY NIGHT
Clever Sencio, Philippine Boxer. Dies
En Route to Hospital.
Milwaukee, April 20. — OP) —Clever
Sencio, Philippine boxer, died 'aero
this morning.
The boxer who was defeated by
Bud Taylor, of Terre Haute, Inti., in
a ten-round bout here last night, was
taken to the emergency ltospital this
morning. Hospital authorities said
he was dead when examined for ad
mittance.
Both Sencio nnd Taylor passed the
physical examination before the bout
and appeared to be in fine condition.
During the fight Sencio seemed tire
less until the opening of the seventh
round when Taylor assumed file of
fensive with some telling blows. Iu
the ninth round during a rally, Tay
lor clipped him on tbe chin with a
right-band punch.
With Our Advertisers.
Daily arrivals of Gage Hats at
Robinson’s Millinery Department.
Today and Wednesday at the Con
cord Theatre is being shown Charlie
Chaplin in "The Gold Rush." This
is a picture that will be long remem
bered.
Wilkinson's Funeral Home fixes a
definite charge in advance and gives
service within the means of everyone,
says new ad. today.
I Tlie Kitchen Happiness Sale at the
I Concord & Kannapolis Gas. Co., ends
- April 30th. During this sale you can
save $lO on an Oriole gas range.
Use more Dennison’s Goods, is the
advice given in a new ad. today of. the
' Kidd-Frix Music and Stationery Co.
Will Present Two Farm Relief Bills.
Washington, April 20.— OP) —The
House Agriculture Committee decided
today to give the House an opportun
ity to vote on both the Haugen nnd
Tincher farm relief bills.
NEW SERIES WILL OPEN
SATURDAY MAY Ist, 1926
Now is the time to invest your funds in Prepaid Stock
at $72.25 per share. Non-Taxable and Safe.
BOOKS NOW OPEN
CITIZENS BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
OFFICE IN CITIZENS BANK
KNOTTS AND MARTIN TO
GO ON TRIAL TODAY
Arc Charged With Attaching and Rob
bing an Aged Newell Woman.
■Charlotte. April 20.— UP) —Jim
Knotts and ‘Oscar Martin, charged
with attacking and robbing an aged
Newell woman last February, will go
on trial today in Mecklenburg Super
ior court.
Solicitor John G. Carpenter said ■
the robbery charge would "probably be j
the most important phase" of the -
case,' s : nce the woman had weaken- i
ed in her story as to criminal at- j
tack.
Attorneys expressed the belief at
the opening of court that jury might
be bard to select, owing to the inter- 1
est the case has aroused in this sec
tion.
Numerous character!- witnesses had
been called by both state and defense.
Plead Guilty in One Count.
Charlotte. April 20.—UP)—Submis
sion to charges of highway robbery
was entered by Jim Knotts and Os
car Martin today in Mecklenburg Su
perior Court.
The other count against them, that
of criminal attack, was continued.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady at Advance of 1 to 4
Points i.n Response to Steady Liv
erpool Cables.
New York. April 20.— UP) —The
cotton market opened steady today at
an advance of 1 to 4 points in re
sponse to relatively steady Liverpool
cables. Despite some selling on the
better weather news there seemed to
be considerable buying as prices ap
proached the 18 1-2 cent level for
May, 18 cent for July, and 17 cents
for October.
This steadied the early market aud
May contracts were ruling around
18.55 and October was selling in the
neighborhood of 17.10 at the end of
the first hour or about 2 to 4 points
net higher.
The outlook was for fair and winn
er weather in the Eastern belt hut
for partly cloudy and rather unset
tled conditions in the western belt
sections.
Cotton futures opened stead. May
18 58; July 18.02: Oct. 17.10: Dec.
16.73; Jan. 10.65.
Rescue Workers Hear Taps in Mine.
Quincy. Calif.. April 20.— jJP) —
Three distinct taps were heard today
by the rescuers who are digging away
the cave-in that entombed six miners
last Saturday night in the Grizzly
Creeek Tunnel near here. The res
cue squad had twelve feet of rock and
dirt to remove before they reach file
place in the tunnel where miners
were working.
The rescue crews are proci-eding
carefully because of the possibility of
finding some of the slide victims in the
12 feet that remain to be pierced.
Due to these precautions and the
necessity of timbering against more
slides, it probably will be late today
before they reach the chamber in
which the meu were trapped. *
Koontz, Salisbury Watchman Re
covering From Head Blow
Salisbury, April 19 —John Koontz,
night watchman at a loenl mill who
sustained a bad injury to the bead
when struck with an iron rod late
Saturday night by two atrackers, is
reported ns doing nicely today, and
it is believed he is out of danger.
The two young men who are alleg
ed to have hit him, Buren Mowary
and Shuford Eudy, were caught
shortly after the attack and are said
to have confessed Both are being
held in jail without bond pending the
outcome of Koontz's injuries.
the tribune M
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TODAY’S NEWS TODAIi
NO. 9!
SUBMARINE CREW f
JBERSINJURIDI
By Ml EMM
Twelve Men on S-49 Hurt,!
One Seriously, Wfopnfj
Battery Exploded in thel
New London Harbor. |
CHARGED BATTERY | i
DURING THE NIHIJf |
The Explosion
Tremendous ConcusraiHgi
Which Hurled the Msjs|
Against Wall of Slug. | j
New London. Conn., Aprit'SO.rjffl
—Twelve men. members nf the Srjgl
which was moored at a dock at tint -
submarine base, were injured JbtlC
morning when the after battery in fffl|
submersible exploded. All the- JnenW
were taken to the base hospital, ptje J
man may die.
The submarine, which retqrjuw.
from the Portsmouth Navy
Portsmouth, N. H.. two weeks aflißj
had been moored at her berth .ami jGH
battery was under process of
charged during the night. Kse/Jwiß
gas fumes are believed to have
the cause of the explosion. ■
The explosion produced a t remap*
dous concussion, which hurled tile WZ* 1
en men in the steel walled comport*
ment against the side of the chambcf.
While many of them are suffjprj|jS:
from the effects of gas and fire, ft m ■
believed that fractures of limbs cqn
stitute the greater part of the injur- '
ies.
Immediately after the explosion ijf# '
submarine fire alarm wasfaoWHH
The rescuers dropped into the suuma* 4
l-ine and carried out their injured
comrades.
There were about 30 men in the for*•
ward battery and torpedo room, it &
reported, who escaped with but little
injury. Carbon monoxide fumesl
seeped into the forward chambers en
dangering the lives of the men there.
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PLAN EXPEDITION TO
THE SUB ARCTIC LAND
' 19
Expedition Planned as Benefit t* -
Science.—Will Visit Labrado*. j
Chicago, April 20.—UP)—The Field ■
museum of Natural History today
announced an expedition to the sub-
Arctic this summer, led by Cunfuifea
Donah! It. MoWTTan and (fetS-Wf
Frederic H. Rawson. a Chicago bank*
er.
The expedition will leave Wiscasjje,;
Maine, about June 19th in McMillan'i;
famous schooner Bowdoin, and will
carry ten men, nil explorers and
tists on a venture which will oeepy
the entire summer. sp
The expedition will collect zoolofi- ■
cal, geographical and anthoropoiglcal
and botanical specimens for t’he ipsti- |
tution from the sub-Arctic region,J
which is now substantially repriigpui-V
ed in the mesuem’s .collections, ae*
cording to D. G. Davies. SB
Rawson, chairman of -the board of
the Union Trust Company, of Otli
cago, agreed to finance the expedition
upon the assurance of Stanley triewgl
of the museum, that the “enterprise
will be of great benefit to science in
extending knowledge of products of
unknown lands."
The party will go from Wi'seiisset 1
to Sydney. N. 8., where the last j
the supp'.ies and equipment Will be !
taken aboard, and it will proceed to
Battle Harbor. Labrador, for cxplor*
ation of the Norse ruins there. An
effort will be made to substantiate-']
tales that Norsemen were I'here it j
thousand years ago and that they ]
had explored the coast of North Apiet*
ica three centuries before Cbiujnbuß
landed. The research in Labrador
will enable comparison of findings j
with those of the Norse ruins in
Greenland.
WILLIAMS MAY KNOW "J 9
FATE IN TWO WREKg |
Probably W r ill Be That Long lsCfanL'
Court Mart ial Verdict Is Anrwunfe. \
ed.
Marine Base, Sail Diego. Cal., i
20.— UP) —Col. Alexander S. WB*i
liams should know within two weeks i
whether he is to be dismissed from ’
the Marine Corps, reduced in rank ]
or dropped to lower file in the proniij* j
tion list for being drunk at a dinner
party he gave in honor of Brig. Gelt j
Sinedley D. Butler.
The Colonel's conviction Ort ’M 3
charge of intoxication preferred bfj
General Butler was indicated yester
day when the court martial trying his
case adjourned without saying! what If
any' verdict it lmd reached.
More than half the Bibles printed
each year are in English.
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SAT'S BEAR SAYS! ,1
Fair tonight and Wednesday, sajjH
what warmer tonight, probably light!
\ frost tonight, much warmer WednMg|
i day. Diminishing northwest wittoli
becoming south and southwest. 58