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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVII Levees South Os New Orleans Tomorrow To Be Opened To Floods Engineers Making Final Plans for Crushing the Levees in an Effort to Save New Orleans. DISASTER GROWS IN TWO STATES >/ More Towns in Mississippi and Arkansas Are Left as New Breaks Occur in! Dykes in These States. Memphis. April 28.—OP)—Just as tile Belgians fled with nil of their I portable possessions when the CJer- 1 man guns thundered at the gntes of I their little kingdom, between 3.000 and 0.000 persons in St. Bernard and 1 I‘laqnemine parishes in Louisiana 1 abandoned their homes today under I the menace of the Mississippi River's greatest flood being loosed niton them tomorrow by the deliberate breaking of levees to save Xew Orleans. America's greatest exodus got un derway yesterday when only a compar ative few of the men. women and chil dren who must be moved, got out over the clogged dusty highways ii» every sort of wheeled conveyance. The vast majority was left for today. The great crevasse designed to save the south's chief city will be (-rented at noon tomorrow in a manner as yet undesignated by the engineers who feared that revelation of the plan might lead to efforts to forestall it. Bitter resentment in some quarters marked promulgation of the official order to depart, although for the most part it was accepted in good grace. I Many of the small farmers and trap pers patrolled the levee, prepared to) question the right to inundate their lands, despite offers of the govern- 1 ment. state and city of New Orleans to complete reimbursement. On the other hand, state militia men j and New Orleans policemen patrolled : tile lovpo above New Orleans to ]ire vent dynamiting of the dyke which j would save the two parishes but del uge the city. Despite this spectacular phase of I the lower Mississippi flood, the crest j' of the great burden of water racing 1 . down the Mississippi still was fur up stream. approximately at Greenville,; Miss., precipitating an immediate and ever spreading disaster. Reports of fresh inundations, in creased hundreds of refugees to be cared for. and victims to be rescued. ! poured into American Red Cross head quarters in Memphis. For a time last night all of south east Arkansas was threatened when j a levee at South Rend broke over a sand boil, but in collapsing tilled the breach. Engineers who witnessed the, break said they believe the dyke will hold. Evacuation of sections in southeast; Arkansas, southern Mississippi and northern Louisiana engulfed by the racing crest, continued while renewed calls for boats, food and other aids j poured into headquarters here of the. Red Cross. Fresh reports of outbreaks of dis- j ease from fourteen refugee camps in | Arkansas complicated the already crit- j ieal situation as boats plied the coun try in search of marooned persons, or drew barges tilled with refugees to concentration camps on high grounds. 1 A report prepared by Ebert Smith, of Little Rock, of the Arkansas Power & Light Company, estimated the flood damage to southeast Arkansas alone at more than $2,000,000. It showed j approximately 653,01)0 acres of land; The Staircase to Happiness The man who blithely goes up the steps into his own home is a man to be envied. Each dollar you invest in a thrift account is a step toward home ownership. Build up a fund now.. When you are ready for a home, this association will help you fi nance the deal, MAY SERIES NOWf O^fcN CITIZENS BDlfcbWfe AND ' LOAN ASSOCIATION The Concord Daily Tribune !♦ j under water, und 125,000 persons nf i j footed in Jefferson. Lincoln, Cleveland, . ' Desha. Drew. Ashley. Arkansas and i Chicot eonnties. Ten thousand families of that sec tion will be, compelled to start life anew, the report snid. Eighty-five | per cent, of the families are negroes, i The refugees in the concentration i camp at Forest City. Ark., now num j her more than 12.000. available re ' ports showed today. ; | LEXINGTON YOUNG MAN FOUND SHOT TO DEATH ! Otis Kepley Evidently Committed j Suicide or Was Killed By Acridentai I Shot. I Lexington, April 27. —?>t.is Kepley, 21, was found dying with a bullet wound in his left breast when his j father went, to search for him at din ftter time today, several hundred yards I from the home, a short distance east of the city. Indications were that the wound was self inflicted, ns, no evi dence of fpul play is said to have developed late today. The wound was inflicted with a 22 caliber rifle, u short weapon that could have been held in position to shoot straight into the body, as the bullet was found by Coroner F. L. Mock to have ranged. However, no definite reason is known why the man should have killed himself unless he was despondent over failure to secure a job this morning when he Is reported to hnve canvassed several prospective employers. About. 11 o’clock Kepley took a cow to stake near a watering place some distance from the home, remarking he might see something to shoot, he is snid to have carried the rifle and a box of short cartridges with him. An empty shell was found near the body ■ and the rifle, of one shot capacity, contained an empty shell. The weapon was lying under the body when found ,by the father. The shirt was ap parently scorched and the skin show jed powder stains. With Our Advertisers. - The Eli ill’s Department Store car ries a complete line of Hanes I'nder | wear at all times. All sizes. ! The Indies' of {taucord are invited jiby Wie Pearl Drug ritore to make ap pointments now for a conference with Mlgs Fuller, Dorothy Perkins Beauty fSfifccialtst who will be he're from May' 2nd to May 7th. At the Gray Shop yon will find friendliness and not formality, yet the service is prompt, and courteous. The public is invited to hear the j concert to be given at Hotel Concord Monday evening on the Penatrope, under the auspices of the Kidd-Frix 'Co. Concert will begin at. S o'clock. H. B. Wilkinson has received an other large shipment of beautiful liv ing room suites. You can get what ' you want from this big assortment. A white enamel bake pan will he I given free with purchases of Kirk man's boras soap and washing pow der. Read carefully adT in this paper i for particulars and save the coupons. Styles for men are .being featured lat the J. C. Penny Co. Sennit straws, | weatherproof, $2,98; Swiss Yeddo j straws $2.98; two-pnuts suits $24.75; two-pants suits $19.75; hote weather suits $9.90 and cool summer suits I $12.75. Read carefully ad. in this |, pui>er. Jetta Goudal in “White Gold" at Coneord TheatFe today and tomorrow. Tomorrow there will .be vaudeville, also ( presented by Att (Skinny) Candler and troupe. Dainty foorwear calls for silk stock ings that bring out the natural line |of the slender ankle. Triumph stodk j ings. sold here only at Robinson's, do ' I this and they sell for only SI.OO a , ' pair. ■ Young men’s two-pants suits, latest modes. $45 to S4O at Hoover's. Felt j has $5 to $S and straw's from $2.50 to $7. Flour, good and cheap, at Cline & Moose’s. Melrose, Liberty Self Ris ing, Silver Lnke, Belle Rase and Standard. Priced now at less than usual cost. , Straw hats that fit the head, all equipped with sweat-bands, at W. A. Overcash’s. Priced from $3 to $5. Panamas from $5 to $7.50. Unusual values in living room suites at the Bell-Harris Furniture Co. You can find there just, what you have teen looking for, says new ad. today. The straw hat season is her and the Parks-Belk Co., is in position to "hat" every man in Concord. Hats with Fancy and Plain .bauds, panamnx and straws at prices from 50 cents to $2.95. The S. & S. Motor Co., has the latest Delux Delux Delivery Pontiac Six in stock. Call at 58 Church Street, or phone 596 for demonstra tion. • The Yorke & Wadsworth Hardware •Co., is selling a 12-plate Willard stor age battery for only $11.95. '< Beautiful silverware is a modern necessity. A full line of Community Plate at the Starnes-Miller-Parker 00. Ferris and Kingan hams and bacon at Dove-Bost Co. Also strawberries and vegetables. Boyd W. Cox has returned from the photographers meeting and is bet ter equipped than ever for his work. Bead new ad. of J. & H. Cash Store ■ about Salad King demonstration on Saturday. Fliers Off for Wilmington. Savannah, Ga„' April 28.— (A*)— The Pan-American flyers hopped off from | Savannah a£ 0:45 this morning for Wilmington, N. C„ after a two-day | stop here. | HADDON GRAY SAYS H[ AGREED TO AID j FRIEND WITH PLAN j (Testifies That He Sought to j Help Henry Judd Gray j Establish Alibi But Did Not Know of Murder. |HE SUSPECTED | MILD FLIRTATIONS! .Remained in Defendant’s t Room So Any One Who | Called Would Think De fendant Was There. New York. April 28.—(A>)—Had don Gray, Syracuse real estate! man, took the stand today in the trial of Henry Judd Gray and Mrs.; Ruth Snyder, charged with killing Al-! berf Snyder, to tell of the alibi he es- j tablished for his friend, Henry Judd I Gray. The district attorney questioned the witneijß, who said that on March 19 the defendant snid he was going to Al bany that night, and wanted to know if Haddon Gray would help him out. “Help him out how?" asked the dis trict attorney. “He said he was going to keep a dinner engagement in Albany with Muroeie,’ and. might be out all night. He asked me to stay in his room, an swer telephone calls from his wife or office, nnd generally give the impres sion that he wns in hisToom.” The witness said that “Mumsie” was Mrs. Snyder. Haddon Gray said he agreed to es tablish an al'bi for his friend think ing he was helping in a mild flirta tion. He said. “I went to the defendant Gray's room, mailed some letters he had left there, phoned the desk not to disturb me, and hung the don't disturb sign on the knob of the room door. Later I rumpled the bed and made it look as though it had been slept in. That was the next day. March 20.” Haddon Gray said he left a note for Judd and late that afternoon Judd call ed and invited him to supper. He went with Charles Platt to Gray's room about 0 o’clock. "What was the conversation?'’ “He said that when he got to Al bany. he. found a. telegram sie telling him to go to her home in New York. He said he went there, and when her husband returned unex pectedly he got in a closet. He told us 1 that when he eame out'of the closet] he found that the husband had been I killed.” State Rests. New York. April 28.—OP)—The I state rested its ease in the Snyder murder trial at 12.25 p. m. today. Court wns then adjourned until 4 o'clock this afternoon when the de fense may begin presentation of their eases. The adjournment. was taken to allow defense lawyers to prepare motions, and it is generally under- • stood that court will only stay in ses sion long enough to hear the motions. Edgar F. Hazelton, of the defense counsel, announced that Mrs. Snyder will take the stand in her own de fense tomorrow morning. Tar Heel Cindermen Ready to Meet State- Chapel Hill, April 28.—The Tar Heel track squad will leave here early Friday by bus for Raleigh to 1 meet the State College harriere in the final dual meet of the season. A four year record of unbroken dual 1 victories hinges on this meet and conches nnd trainers have been working all this week to get the Tar Heels In tip-top condition for : the final test. THE STOCK MARKET Reported by Fenner & Beane. (Closing Qnßations) Atchison 180 American Tobacco B __ 125% American Smelting 145% American Locomotive 108% Atlantic Coast Line lBO Allied Chemical 137% American Tel. & Tel. I 163 American Can 46 Allis Chalmers 102 Baldwin Locomotive 182 Baltimore & Ohio 117% Bangor 89% Bethlehem Steel 49 Chesapeake & Ohio 166 Coca-Cola 97% DuPont , 236 Dodge Bros. lB Erie 51% Frisco 111% General Motors 187% General Electric -i- 96% Great Northern 85% Gulf State Steel 52% Gold Dust 49% Hudsou 72% Int. Tel 132% Kennecott Copper 63% Liggett & Myers B 98 Mack Truck 109% Missouri-Pacific 51% Norfolk & Western __-176 (New York Central 145% Pan American Pet. B. 57% Rock Island 97 R. J. Reynolds 120 Standard Oil of N. J. 35% Southern Railway 121% Studebaker 52% Texas Co. 45% Tobacco Products 9B V. 8. Steel 166% U. S. Steel, New —llO% ' Vick Chemical 55% Weatingbouse -- 71% Western Maryland ' 34% North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1927 = Flood Fund The local chapter of the Red Crosi is collecting a fund to be forwurdec to be used in the aid of the flood vic tims in the Mississippi Valley and any' one desirng to contribute to'the flint may send it to L. 1). Coltrane, Sr., at the Concord National Bank, ", \ 1 The National Chapter of Red Cross has Stated that the quota for Cabar rus County is SI,OOO, and the contri i ] buttons received will be acknowledged through The Coneord Daily Tribune I and The Times : ( Concord Contributions. I Previously acknowledged .... $798.76 j Win. G. Brown . 5.00 I Dr. T. M. Rowlett 1.00 I Mr. anti .Mrs. F, L. Peck ',.00 is.-H. A. Holshouser * 5,06 ] Mrs. J. M. Odell 20.00; I W. A. Brown 3,00 Jus. T. Yates 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. A. U. Odell ... 10.00 G. H. Hendrix .1.00 E. I). Sherrill 1.00 H. W. Caldwell 5.00 j Mrs. Barbara Linker 1,00 j Lippard & Barrier 5.001 J A. F. Hartsell 5.00; Mrs. A. F. Hartsell 1.00 : G. C. Love 1.00 i Dr. .1. A. Patterson 1.00 IC. W. Byrd UK) j Mrs. (\ W. Byrd s.oth ! A. It. Howard ld.Ol) Mrs. (i. H. Richmond 4.00 Miss Lou White 1.00 Miss Addle White 5.00 G. 1,. Patterson 5.00 Miss Josie Hill 15.00 Miss Ollie Moore 5.00 Aliss Dora Stewart 1.00 l Miss Allie Legg 5.00; Eruest Robinson 5.00 Miss Helen Black 1.00 Miss Zana Stroupe I.oo' Miss Ophelia Barker - 1.00 Cash 2.00* N. M. Black I.oo' Cabarrus County Chapter War Mothers 10.00 Mrs. S. E. Barnhardt 25.00 Miss Alary E. Chapman .... 5.00 .Miss Ida S. Cathoart 5.00 D. B. Alorrison 5.00 Total Concord $1,017.70 Kannapolis Contributions. Previously acknowledged .... $113.50, F. J. Powell 1.00? John H. Slither. ............. 1.00 L. T. Lanier 1.00 C. B. Griffin 1.00 J. W. Honeycutt 1.06 L. AI. Gillon 1.00 Winnie Freeze 1.00 G. G. Allen 5.00 Blanche Fumlerburke ....... 1 .00 Ora Martin 1-00^,, Duval Sturgis ' tlSf J. A. Alatthews ISOO 1 J. E. Halstead 1.06 : J. Walton 5.00 1 |W. Hudson 1.00 1 jj. A. Hutton 1.00 1 O. B. Walter 5.00 1 [Airs. Roy Riggs 2.00 ! ]F. O. Willmott 50 ' (i. A. Bryant 2.00 Air. Dodd 1.00 W. ((. Sharii 1.00 1 Grey Host .-. .. 5.00 Total Kannapolis $156.00 * Mt. Pleasant Contributions. j Previously acknowledged .... $93.10 By cash 9.50 ! Total Alt. Pleasant $102.00 Grand total $1,276.36 * ■ 1 DANCER SUES FOR DAMAGES t , 1 Fawn Gray Wants SIOO,OOO For , Vaccination Scar on Thigh. Baltimore, Aid., April 27.—Fawn , Gray, dancer, today led suit in t lie ] federal court here against the Panama- ; Pacific Steamship company for SIOO,- , 000 damages alleging enforced vaccina- , tion by physicians of one of the ships. . She was bound from Panama to fulfill . an engagement, she declared, when ( ship’s doetors forced her to he vac- , ciniited—on the thigh after she pro tested it lieiug done 011 her arm. Aliss Gray .alleges the operation wits performed in a “careless and reck less manner,” obliging her to' undergo hospital treatment nnd that she is 1 "seriously and iiermnnently injured about her body and limbs." Davidson Men Honored. 1 Davidson, N. C., April 28.—C'. • I Tmbue, of Nashville. Tenn., unit W. 1 B. Bradford, of Charlotte, students t of Davidson College, have been 1 signally honored by the War l>c- i part ment, when announcement was 1 received here today that they were 4 among 50 men selected in the entire United States to attend a six weeks’ training camp in chemical warfare 1 at Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood. - Aid. ! Over 350 institutions in this conn- , try have military units, the men ; being chosen' by virtue of their pro- 1 ficiency in the chemistry departments of their respective schools. All of the Davidson men who attend camp in , the summer are required to spend the time at Camp McClellan. Anniston. Ala., unless otherwise designated. The Dixie Handicap to be run at Pimlico 011 Alay 2 will carry $25,000 in added money. City Tax Notice All property on which 1926 Taxes have not been paid will be advertised and sold after May Ist, 1927. Also all 1917 street aseasments that expired December lat, 1926, on the following streets: 'South Union, East Corbin, North Church, Franklin Avenue, North and South Spring, Buffalo. Ale- Gill and North Kerr. ClilAS. N. FIELD, City Tax Collector. It Steel King * |HMMH jBHBRHnk I . * >%*V' : # jpF jM f'^^^tmmKmmmmmmmrnamm George F. Baker was revealed i as the largest shareholder in th«! Lnited States Steel Corp., no\L the largest industrial organize I tion i nthe World. Baker, littlt j heard of, is one of the richest: •wan in 4V» ft waflW rf r - ! — - " - J? NKW YORK EDITOR TO ADRESS BAR MEMBERS , Claude S. Bowers to Be Heard at .Meeting of Lawyers at Pinehurst. Tribune Bureau ’ Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh April 28.—The address to j, 'la* made by Claude it. Bowers, chief i , editorial writer of the New York I Evening World, is expected by amity I ' to be the outstanding event of interest |! in connection with th 29th. annual | meeting of the North Carolina Bar j Association at Pinehurst, May 5 to 7, l although there are a number of other , individuals of equal note, on the pro gram. including former Governor C. S. [| Whitman of New York, who is i . .president of the American Bar As- 1 1 sociation. who will make the principal I* address at the Friday night session, j 1 However, it is with unusual and j v tieculnir interest that the members i of the North Carolina Bar are looking ! forward to the message from Bowers i •'ll Thursday night, whose topic will be | ‘'Thomas Jefferson and the Courts.” j ( Bowers is another native of Indiana I who has achieved fame along with j George Ade, Ray Long and others | t from the Hoosier state and who have I \ .since migrated to New York. Although 1 , Kflhfctf .primarily as tr newtflmper -man,- j-| being head editorial writer for the j l New York World, Bowers lias in the j i last few years achieved almost equal | „ note as a writer of history, and is 1,, recognized as an authority on the \ Jeffersonian period, having published s a 'book dealing with this period. Bow- \ ers is now engaged in gathering data for a forthcoming book dealing with the reconstruction |ieriod in the South, j and is especially interested at this time in making this visit to North Carolina. Bowers expects to arrive in Raleigh i on the morning of Thursday, liny 5, j where lie will be the guest of Hr. j and Mrs. Josephus Daniels. He will spend the day in Raleigli, and late 0 in the afternoon will drive down to e Pinehurst with his hosts, for his ad- ' dress there that evening. Friday he *' expects to come back to Raleigh by way of Chapel Hill, where lie wishes | 1 to stop to sec a number of his friends, i 1 It* is possible that he also may stop to take a look at Duke University. All of the sessions of the association t will be held in the Carolina hotel at e Pinehurst. There will be no session I in the afternoons, so that those who o attend will have these hours free for b golf, horseback riding, motoring, or i any other of the many outdoor sports t provided at Pinehurst. Special enter- J tainment features are also being pro- a vided for the ladies who attend. o WHITENER COMES OUT FOR COMMITTEE PLACE f Promises Active Campaign. Cataw ba Organization Backs Him Un animnusly. Hickory. April 27.—Backed by the I unanimous indorsement of the Cataw- ' ba county Republican executive com- « mittee, mid with the full support of i the state executive committee from i the night congressional district prom- f ised, A. A. (Mike) Whitener today s announced himself an active candidate 1 for the place of national committeeman i to succeed Judge Johnson J. Hayes. 1 Mr. Whitener is the first to definite- ' ly declare himself a candidate for the i place, although the names of former State Chairman William G. Bra ham. J. J. Britt. John L. Morehead, H. F. Seawell, David Blair and State Chair- t man Brownlow Jackson have all been | mentioned. t “When the matter of the national , committeemanship first came up," Mr. | Whitener said today, "I did not in i any way seek the position, 'but since < the organization in .my own county i and district lias indorsed me, I cannot disregard that voice. I will make an ] active fight for the place.” Washington Asks That Democrat:, ■ Hold Meet There. Washington. April 27.—The nation al capital has definitely entered the list of cities which hope to land the Democratic Convention next year. The Chamber of Commerce and tTi:> Board of Trade have sent invitations to Clem L. Shaver, Chairman of the National Committee, and an effort is under way to raise $250,00(1 to defray expenses. Flyers Reach Wilmington. Wilmington. April 28. — (A 3 ) — The United States Array Pan-American good will flyers arrived here at 12.35. this afternoon from Savannah, Ga. Little Red and White 1 Houses Disapjx .nng in. State * The Tribune P.ureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh. April 28.—The passing of | the little red hud white school houses and the coming of the great brick nnd stone consolidated schools in the state is told suceiently and statistically and without the romance which should ac company such a story in the latest ] issue of School Facts, published by the State department of public in-1 struction. released today. | Today there are 6.795 school huitd : ings—not school houses—in North I Carolina, with 11 total value of $84,- (541.-828, while in 1915 there were 8.049 school houses, with a total value; jof but $10,434,117. Thus in twelve! I years time the number of school houses] | has decreased by 1,254 while the value i I' of the school property has increased | almost eight times. Going hack to 1905-06, when the total value of school j property was but $3,182,918. the value! of the property in 1925-26. the last! (year for which accurate figures arej | available, is more than twenty times j jas great. The most rapid increase lin the value of school property has | taken place in the hist few years, with j the increase in the number of con- I solidated schools. Between 1925 and ] 1926,'the total value of school proper ! ty increased $13,835,993, or from $70.- ! 705.830 to $83,541,828. Along with the change in the value of school property it is also inter esting to note the change in the num ber of school houses from year to year. At the close of the 1926 school year there were 6.975 school houses. • Two years previous, in 1923-24, there * were 7.360 school houses, and in 1904- 05 there were 7,376, or approximately the same number. The peak in the number of school houses was reached ] in 1914-15, when there were 8,049. 1 Thus the total number of school lions- i es for both white and colored children increased gradually from 1905 till i 1919, and since that time the nuin- 1 her has been steadily less at the end 1 of each succeeding school year. 1 Thus while there has been a steady < increase in the value of school prop* 1 city and an annual decrease in the i number of school houses, the average 1 value of each school house has in- 1 THE COTTON MARKET Opened .Steady at Advance of 6 to 10 Points. July Selling Up to 15.35. New York, April 2S.- —(A 3 ) —The cot- 1 ton market opened steady at an ad- | vanee of 6 to 1(1 points in response to 1 continued firmness of Liverpool and j hervohsness over the central belt sit- 1 nation. July sold up to 15.35 and December to 15.86 at the start, or about It) to 11 points higher, but the advance met renewal of realizing while there also seemed to be some I southern and local selling on the fav- 1 orable weather reports. Prices eased off a few points in consequence, hut the market was fair- : ly steady at the end of the first hour, 1 active months showing net gains of! 5 or 6 points. Private cables said the j advance in Liverpool was due to trade I calling, covering and speculative buy ing. They also reported freer buy-! ing of cotton cloths by Calcutta. Part i of the early buying here was attribut ed to the trade, and there was a fair volume of business during the first hour. Cotton futures opened steady. Alay 15.07; July 15.35; Oct. 15.63; Dec. 15.78; Jan. 15.83. I .ess Active Today. New l'ork. April 28.—(A s )—The cot ton market was less active today. All early advance 011 relatively firm Liver pool cables anil continued nervousness over the flood situation was followed by reactions under realizing and sell ing on a favorable weather map. Af ter easing off from 15.35 to 15.18 for Inly the mid-afternoou market, steadied on covering and held within a point or two of yesterday's final figures. THE STOCK MARKET Prices Underwent Another Sharp Downward Readjustment Under Heavy Selling. New l'ork, April 28.—(A s )—Stock prices underwent another sharp down ward readjustment today under heavy selling for both accounts. The sell ing centered largely in the steels nnd industrials which were liquidating on further unfavorable trade news, but support also was lacking for a num ber of other recent industrial and rail road leaders, declines of 1 to 5 points being scattered throughout the list. The closing was weak. Sales approxi mated 2,500,000 shares. Wounded Sailor at Shanghai. Shanghai, April 28.— (A*) —A sailor, the most seriously wounded among forces on shrdeltao etaoin nu taoin 11 the casualties among the forces on the American auxiliary l’egnin which was fired on by Chinese near Kiang.vin several days ago, was brought here to day 011 board the United States <lc- Rtroyer Peary. The man whose name was understood to be Neilson, was placed in the ship's hospital aboard the U. S. transport Chaumont. Boothe Refuses To Give Up In His Fight With Death Ronnoke, Va., Aipril 28.— (A 3)—At tending physicians today regarded Walter Boothe as a medical enigma, as he entered the second week of liv ing by air being pumped into his lungs by artificial means. Death, attending physicians declar ed, had a strangle bold on the 18 year old Botetourt County farmer, but he refuses to give up the battle he has waged since lhst Thursday noon when his lungs collapsed while I , creased rapidly. 1025-26, the av erage value of each school'house in : | llie state was $12,306, while in 1904- iOS it was only $432. From 1925 to I j 1920. the value of the school houses ■ j doubled, and from 1920 to 1926 Ihe I value more than trebled. If the pres ■ j cut rate of inerease is maintained by 1929-30, the average value of each 1 school house will be between $30,000 j and $35,000. j A comparison of the rate of in-j ! crease in the rural and city schools j j is then presented, taking the schools J | for white children only. It is point-! “ ed out that 75 per cent, of the white] I j children of the state are in the rural j • schools. The average value of the] II city school for white children is $lO2.- ( | 550. It is further shown that the) | average value of the rural school in , 1926 was not as great as in 1905. which is due of course to the many ] .small school houses in rural districts! (which arc still in use. In the cities,! j tin* concentration of school popula-j | tion lias made necessary the erection of larger buildings at greater cost. ! However, the advent of hard sur faced roads is making possible the rapid consolidation of schools in rural districts which accounts for the rapid decrease in the number of rural schools since 1920. The largest number of rural schools at present is in Wilkes county, where there are 124. The smallest number in any county is in Camden, which lias but eight rural ] schools. The total value of the 124 , schools in Wilkes county is $460,740, , or an average value of $3,716. The , eight school houses ill Camden county , are valued at $90,000, or an average value of $11,250. , Washington county lias the largest , per capita investment per rural white | child, with $252.38, while Cherokee • county has the lowest at $21.29. ( Bunbcome county has more money invested in rural school property for white - pupils than any other county, with a total investment of $1,844,190. Five Counties have more than $1,000.- 000 invested in white rural schools, . namely: Buncombe, Guilford. Robe son. Rockingham and Johnston. In 1923-24 there were no counties in this class. t ■' ■ ■ 1 i i “LIVE” WIRE KILLS BOY ANI) SHOCKS OTHERS , 1 1 Barbed Wire Fence Became Highly | 1 Charged With Electricity in Bun- , combe County. Asheville, April 28.-i-(A>) —A barbed j wire fence running across several , ' farms in the new-found seetiAq Os i Buncombe county created tragedy and i frantic excitement in that community t i yesterday afternoon when it became '1 highly charged with electricity from \ a transmission line of tremendous volt- 1 age that had fallen across it. Weaver 1 i Murphy, 13, sou of Mr. and Mrs. ( Charles Murphy, was instantly killed f ' when he attempted to climb through f ( the fence on his way to a community ' grocery store. A number of other 1 I residents in the section were severely f (shocked. f BOY WHO /STOLE * KEYS IS IN -JAIL t Vergil Kufty, 14. Now Facing Charge Os First Degree Burglary. * Newton, April 27. —Vergil Kufty. the 14 year old boy who early Monday morning entered Deputy Curlee's bed- ! room and stide his jail keys, after tearing a hole in the ceiling of the jail and swinging down from a fire hole in the back of the hall by means I of a blanket, was caught at Stony i Point M itiday night and has 'been re- < turned ti the Newton jail. It will be 1 recalled that young Rusty went back i to the jail rooms after securing the I keys and unlocked two cell doors which ] enabled two other prisoners to make i their escaipe. The youifg prisoner was placed in t a cell when returned to jail and is sac- j ing a far more serious charge than lie ( was serving for when he made his i sensational escape. He is now to face j ; ] the serious charge of first degree burg- | lary which carries with it the death | sentence. Nothing has as yet been j heard from the other escaping prison- . ers ‘ I Still Looking for Early. Tr.von, April 28. —(db—While resi dents of Burnsville and Yancey County : were breathing sighs of relief today at the unheralded departure from their midst of John Early, escaped leper, ' Tryon and Polk county citizens were ■ casting 'furtive and fearful glances : ■ about, the woods and hills expecting i at any moment to catch a glimpse of the afflicted man, now 'licitved to be locate/ not far from his old home here. ’ Mrs. XV. K. Vanderbilt Seeking IM t vorce. Paris, April 28.—DP)—Mrs. W. K. * Vanderbilt, the former Virginia Fair i tiled suit 'for divorce, and Win. K. - Vanderbilt, a counter-suit for divorce, - in the Paris courts today. e j A date three weeks hence was set s for the usual attempt of the French e court at reconciliation in the judge’s chambers. lie was undergoing an operation for a fractured vertebra. The doctors said this morning that hia condition remained unchanged from yesterday. They thought he might continue hig (brave fight for many boure more, but gave him only the millionth chance for recovery. Every thing depends on some miracle of na ture or science, they stated, whereby his lungs might be restored to normal functions. THE TRIBUNE 4 j TODAY’S NEWS TOD£|l NO. ‘ .CHINESE EXECUTED J FOR RAIDS ON THE j SOVIET COMPOUNDS !Li La-Chao, Well Known t Communist, Was One amm ! Eighteen Put to DeatnfH j Result of Raids. || formalliearing J I WAS NOT GlVUfl Police Decided EvidttKlH i Showed Guilt of jjjjHi j So the Eighteen wm9 ! Strangled to Death. } Peking, April 28.—C4>)—Li Ta-Ch*& -M I well known communist, and 17 other . 1 Chinese arrested recently (luring Chinese police raid on premises with- a in tlie soviet embassy compound Imre, j were executed this afternoon. TIW.J' were strangled at police headqtinttggff, j It was expected that the prirtfllKS would he tried in a special court 9 ing formed to hoar the evidence agnlvist those arrested in the raid, whit® fWt'. J northern authorities whose tors are at Peking have claimed ,3 suited in the discovery of (looumei&tlt Is showing that soviet. Russia wait SC- : |j lively supporting the Cantonese ngaln- ■ I! st the northern authorities. Apparently, however, the poliefe ijjp- .y oided that the evidence discovetfwr’ against the men completely- prOVsiff their guilt, and tlie court having wnho/ what informally investigated tlie aPMF, '.j ordered the summary execution Os Qw .•£ CLAUDE VESTAL PUT vJSH UNDER BOND OF MW J Greensboro Man Charged With S Driving Roadster Into Ford Cfir at | till, "of Greensboro, representing an auditing company, was released frolSi l jail tonight under bond of s2oo' fjp't,-'4 his appearance in mayors court. He « was arrested late this afternoon after -j he <was alleged to'have twice mmined % his Marnion roadster into a Ford ear jl| occupied by Mayor L. A. Brown, of J Mayor Brown, it was said, had | stopped his car on a red light signal I at a street intersection whetr VestltTljs*li ear struck the Ford. The Trouttfiityoß mini remonstrated with Vestal about J| humping into the rear of his fliwer. j whereupon, it is charged, the Grceagsi..J| boro man backed up and striiclt 3 the 8 lighter car again with force. A gathered and Chief of Police Tom Kerr . appeared on the scene. Vestal forward, narrowly missing the States villa chief, it is alleged; He drove "Vi his car around a Iblocfl, pnrking uft ?ij another stree. and was arrested In a x few minutes and taken to jail. , At Officers said they found an cmflty «|| bottle in V.estal's car and believe fc<f J! was under the influence of liquor '|jj his machine hit Mayor Brown’s FortV. Jji CAPIAS IS ISSUED FOR CHARLOTTE MAGISTRATE I S. A. Manguin F'ailed to Appear far 'm Trial and Capias for Arrest AAfigjffl Charlotte, April 28.— (A 3 )— A eapUujifSS for the arrest of Magistrate 8. -JumMk Mangum was issued in court lien' today when tile failed to appear for trial on of failing to settle with the coimtS'*.® for fines and forfeitures and fees eajw|M lected while lie acted as judge of rural police court here. Detective .1. H. Owen, sent tlic capias, reported that ‘Squire ■Sutn“‘\!§ ! gum was not at his home, and that Sj ills wife stated site had not seeM husband for two days, and ihat bail not been at home. J j When the cusp was called t<xM|p6l Attorney H. Wilson Price, represent- ■■'i ing the magistrate, asked a contmfir"Sj a nee. saying his client was prosecution was asked for a doctor> 3 certificate, and when this was nbt •« forthcoming the capias was The offense charged against the magi M istrate is a misdemeanor. CARTER GLASS WRITES M ABOUT GOVERNOR “At.” Says South Would Support He Were Known as “Dry” Canßf -w New York. April 28.—(A I )—Senator J Carter Glass, of Virginia, ill the «»£• 'A lent issue of Review of Reviews gitrail 9 his views of Governor Smith M ■i.'M presidential possibility. He writoitl«M I “Should Governor Smith in r stamlup contest get the Democratic a nomination for the presidency uwb| a sound and, sane declaration of fui)Mg- -S mental democratic doctrines and cies—one of which is not the avowal'* right to sell or buy or transport'. toxicating liquors—he should not, I venture to think, he would not.Misß made a sacrifice to religious bigotry Virginia or the South, or the comUM An attempt to make '':mtngonisa»'«B pi-ohibitiou a test of party fealty”.' next year's presidential election,phH senator asserts, would result 'JSBt "swariiping" of the Democratic 'partfifl
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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