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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVII Three Monoplanes Are Ready For Long Jump; W eather Not F avorable Crews of Planes Await On ly Favorable Weather for Start on Non-Stop Flight From New York to Paris TOMORROW MAY BE THE TIME It Seems Probable Now, However, That Weather Again Tomorrow Will Not Be Favorable. Now York. May 16.— OP) —Throo monoplane* today nwaitod only fav orable weather to start on none-stop flights to l'aris. although last minute differences had threatened for a time to wreck the piano of one of the con tenders. The possibility that Clarence I>. Chamberlain and Lloyd Bertaud might not navigate the monoplane "Columbia" in its race with Com mander Richard E. Ilyrd's “America" and C'apt. Chas. Lindbergh's “Spirit of St. Louis" arose as a result, of a dispute between the two fliers and Chas. A. Levine, chief backer of their flight oyer the contract terms. Dissen tion was finally settling, however, by arranging a new contract, guarantee ing the flyers a total upwards of SIOO,- 000 if they negotiate the flight Heavy fogs and winds over the greater portion of the mid-Atlantic with no signs of clearing continued to! be rend by the flyers. A flight with in the next 24 hours was called inad-1 visnble by the Bureau. A rumor that Lindbergh had plan- j ned a surprise hopoff at 3 o'clock this i morning caused more than 500 per- i sons to crowd about the hangar at | that hour, but the boy aviator was' sound alsecp in his hotel at Garden j City, three miles away. May Make Test Flight. Mineola. X. Y.. May 1C. —OP)—i Possibility of a flight of the Bellnnca monoplane Columbia to Washington. I). late today was announced today by G. Bellanen. designer of the plane. He said the flight was planned to liermit Lloyd W. Bertaud. who will act as navigator on the trans-Atlantic flight, to make final test of the instru ments. May Get Off Tomorrow. Mineola, X. Y.. May 10.—OP)— Chances for any of the three New York to Paris airplanes getting away* from Uooseveit Field tomorrow seemed to remote today as unfavorable weath er showed an obstinanee disappointing to the flyers, anxious to be away on the long, long trail across the At lantic. Forecaster Starr, of the New York weather bureau, said shortly af ter 10 a. m. that conditions today were not a bit better than then have been the last few days. It was hoped that Wednesday morning would bring an opportunity to stnre. SURVEY OF SMOKY MOUNTAIN PARK BEGUN Survey Will Begin From the Tennes see Side, I.ater Moving Into Norlh Carolina. The Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, May 10. —Actual survey of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park area will be begun today, begin ning from the Tennessee side, by of ficial representatives of the National Park Service, Department of the In terior, it wns learned here from Mark Squires, of Lenoir, chairman of the State park commission. The surveying party will probably make its base for the present near Kuoxville, Tenij.. Inter moving on over into North Carolina. The purpose of this survey is to actually designate particular tracts in the park area which the Department of the Interior will agree to accept as a part of the park nucleus. Heretofore the depart ment has not actually designated any particular tracts within the area which it lias agreed to accept. Now, however, this is to be done, so that both North Carolina and Tennessee may go ahead and start purchasing the tracts which are officially set aside by the government representative as vriug acceptable. , In the official party are Arno B. • Carmerer, acting director of the Na tional Park Service; Colonel Glenn Sifiith, of the United States geological survey; Major W. A. Welsh, of the Southern Appalachian park commis sion and commissioner of state parks in New York state, besides a staff of technical men. It is the belief of the member of the State park commission that the park is much nearer realization now than at any time heretofore, especially since Tennessee has authorized a bond Issue of $1,500,000, iu addition to the 76,000 acres that state hag already purchased in the park area, thus matching the $2,000,000 which the North Carolina general assembly, has authorized. There was a much harder fight in (he Tennessee legislature to secure this appropriation than in North Caro lina, and it finally passed with a ma jority of only two votes. During the fight for this park appropriation the Tennessee park commission trans ported the net!re Tennessee legislature to Knoxville and then took the mem bers by auto into the Smokies to see the mountains for themselves, and then decide how they would vote. And the mountains won out. A German U-boat lias been sold at Cherbourg for ten dollars, The Concord Daily Tribune r North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily LEOKARD RELEASED | ONSIO.OOO BOND AFTER CONFERENCE Had Been Held in Local Jail Following Auto Ac-! cident at Kannapolis in Which Girl Was Killed. E. 11. Leonard, Charlotte cigar man-, j ufnrturer, who has been held in the, • Cub,irrus county jail since Friday I I morning on the charge of murder, was i at liberty eariy this afternoon follow- 1 | ing a hearing before Judge T. It. Finley, prteidiug at the Mecklenburg j Superior Court Bond in the sum of | SIO,OOO was signed by C. W. Russell, | professional bondsman of Charlotte, j | Bond wan set for Leonard following! an agreement reached between counsel' for the defendant and counsel for the! prosecution. He was represented by ; L. T. Hartsell, of thin city, and Col. | T. 1.. Kirkpatrick, of Charlotte, who | announced here Saturday that habeas j corpus proceedings would be instituted ! in Charlotte today on the ground that . the charge should be manslaughter and not murder, manslaughter being a mailable offense. Leonnrd was, charged with murder by a coroner's jury which investigated the accident in which Evelyn Gentry, daughter of Rev? and Mrs. C. K. Gen- j try. was killed Thursday night. Tlie j jury found that Leonard was the driv cr of the car. Frank Armfield and Solicitor Zeb | V. Long represented the Sat at the j Conference. THE STOCK MARKET Frequent Selling Squabble Gave Mar-; ket Rued Appearance Today. New York, May 16. — OP) —Fre- quent selling squalls swept through j today’s stock market, giving it a ruf fled appearance, but operators for the, rise continued to bid up stockn in va-| •spun ,aecUqp»;jpj. l .Uie ijf*, lifting sev-| erol of them to hew peak prices. Thei sidling presumably whs insp'red by | ti» marking up of the renewal rate on i aril money to 4 1-2 per cent., coinci dent with the calling of about $15,- 000.000 in loans, and expectations of another sharp increase in Federal Re serve brokers loans to be made pub lic after the close of the market. SHEET METAL WORKERS IN CHARLOTTE STRIKE About 100 Members of Union Quit Jobs When Employers Refused to Accede To Their Demands. Charlotte, May ltj.— (A I)—Approvi mntel.v 100 sheet metal workers em ployed by various shops here went on strike this afternoon after employ ers had refused to accede to a series of demands, according to information received from officials of construction firs and from union headquarters. Some of employers said thby under stood the strike probably would affect workers in other cities of state. The chief demands were that employees operate under closed shop conditions with minimum wage of $1 an hour for journeymen. The men also de manded a 48 hour week instend of the present 8 hour day, with a half day off on Saturday. The average life of a butterfly is about a week. THE STOCK MARKET Reported Ry Fenner & Beane. (Quotations at 1:30 P, M.) Atchison 180% American Tohaceo It 131% American Smelting 149% American Locomotive 112% Atlantic Coaßt Line * 183% Allied Chemical 130% American Tel. and Tel. 165 American Can 47% Allis Chalmers 108% Baldwin Locomotive 100% Baltimore & Ohio 121% Bangor O3 Bethlehem Steel 40% Chesapeake & Ohio 181% Coca-Cola 113% DuPont 240% Dodge Bros. 22% Erie __ „ 54% FriSseo 11.8% General Motors 103% General Electric 07% Great Northern 88% Gulf State Steel 52% Gold Dust 53% Hudson 83% Int. Tel. 137 Kennecott Copper 64% Mack Truck 112 Mo.-Pacific 54% Norfolk & Western 180% New York Central , 140% Pan American Petroleum B 50% Rock Island 98% R. J. Reynolds 122% Remington 41% Stand. Oil of N. J. 86% Southern Railway J 125 Studebaker : 52% Tobacco Products OO U. 8. Steel .. 160% IT. S. Steel, New 121% Vick Chemical 57% WMttiifhouae „ 74% Western Md. 39% Reading K.-c-- ll7 Ckgyiler —— 44% SOVIET HOUSE RAID IS EXPLAINED FOR HOUSE OF COIOIS British Home Secretary Says Raid Was Made for Purpose of Getting an Important Document. POLICE GRANTED FULL AUTHORITY Paper Was Not Found But Official Said He Was Sat isfied It Had Been in the Soviet House. London. May 16— OP) —Questioned regarding the police raid oil Soviet' House, Sir. William .1 oynson-I licks., the home secretary, told a crowded and i animated session of the House of Com- j mens today that information cent to him by the secretary of war liiNt Wed nesday had satisfied him that a cer tain official document v.ns or had been ill tin* possession of someone on the premises occupied by AIT us Limited, soviet commercial organization. The police had taken possession of certain papers which might bear upon the matter, and the examination of these was still proceeding. Acting on information sent by the secretary of war the home secretary said the police had been authorized to .search the premises under a war rant duty obtained. The search was carried out strictly in accordance with the warrant, and was terminated at 12 o'clock last night. The document in question was not found, but the home secretary reiter ated he is satisfied that it is or was in the Soviet House. The document is one of which unauthorized persons were known to' be attempting to ob tain copies. POLA NEGRI NOW WIFE OF PRINCE Noted Motion I*ieture Actress Has Quiet Wedding In Little French Town. Serainomirt, France. May 14. Polu Negri, whose first trip to the altar converted her into a countess, neqnired another title this afternoon when sbe was married to, tlie young. Russian prince. Serge Mdlvant. This nino she did not get' to the altar, for the ceremony was merely a civil one erformed in a li,tt!e room in the tumbledown town halos Seraicnurt. about 30 mile* from Paris. Near the village. Pola Negri last year bought a chateau with a park of some hundred acres. There this afternoon her mother gave a wed ding reception, comprising several score friends of the bride and bride groom. Under the shade of the fine old tree* scores of Russians. Polos and French and n few Americans and English celebrated the nutials. All around them cameras clicked yards and yards of movie film for Pola’s üblic. Among those not resent, was I’ola's new sister-in-law. Mae Murray, who also became a Princess recently when she married Prince David Mdivani, a brother of today's bridegroom. “They weren't invited,” Pola'* representatives said. "Let it go at that." She would not. tell why. THE COTTON MARKET Opened Fairly Steady At Decline of 7 to 6 Points But Turned Steadier Later. New York. May 16.—Of)—-The cot ton market opened fairly steady today at a decline of 7 to 9 points and showed net losses of 10 to 12 points in early trading under liquidation, locnl and Southern selling, apparently inspired by favorable weather reports from the South. July sold off to 15:43 and December to 15:96. The market was within 2 or 3 points of these prices at the end of the first hour, hut turned steadier after early offerings hnd been absorbed, and at midday July had sold up to 15:57 ami was holding around 15:55 soon afterward when the active positions were about net unchanged to 4 points higher. Cotton futures opened barely steady. May 15.30; July 15.47; Oct. 15.80; Dec. 10.00; Jail. 10.00-. Americans Killed in Nicaragua. Managua, Nicaragua, May 16. — (A 3 ) —Captain C. Bell Buchanan and Pri vate Marvin Jackson, of the United States marines, were killed last night in a clash with a band of liberals at La Paz Centro, near Leon, it was announced today. Six liberals were reported killed nnd several marines wounded. The population of Korea has more than doubled since the Japanese pro tectorate was established twenty five years ago. SEE—— “THE SPIRIT OF CABARRUS ” A PAGEANT Written and Produced by Central Grammar School May 16th and ljth 8 P. M HIGH SCHOOL AUDI -1 TORIUM CONCOR D, N. C., MONDAY, MAY 16, 1927 THE Y. M. C. A. CAMPAIGN The annual drive for funds for tlie operation of the Concord Voting Men's Christian Association begins to morrow, and the success of this campaign depends upon the support of Concord citizens. The locaj V. M. C. A. is unique in that no memberships are required. The rich boy and the poor hoy enjoy equal ly jhe benefits of the association under the plan in vogue here, a plan that has aroused the admiration of cities throughout the United States. The " Y" is otic of the city's greatest assets because it does not restrict its benefits to those who are financially able to hold membership cards. The generous heart of Concord makes possible the operation of the Association for the benefit of all, and whether this splendid service is to be continued for another year will be determined dur ing the-Uwo-day campaign which begins tomorrow. No other agency in Concord has been able to reach the youths who enjoy the Y. There is no class distinction there and such a policy has done much toward breaking down class barriers in Concord. Everybody is treated alike; the V here is operated on the Christian principle that a youth is a youth whether he resides in'a mansion or a hut and that one body is as important as another, one mind as important as another and one soul as important as another in dealings .wi-thAho.se young men and young women who are to make thfc future civic leaders of Con cord. Ask the young people what they want done about the campaign. Ask your childfur the child of a neighbor. Take their advice and the goal will be reached in a single day. MRS. SNYDER AND GRAY TAKEN TO SING SING Will Remain There Pending Outcome of Appeals From the Death Sen tenec. New York. May 16.—CP)—Mrs. ltutlf Brown Snyder'and Henry Judd Gray today began their journey to Sing Sing's death house where they are to die for tlie murder of Mrs. Snyder's husband, Albert Snyder. Sirs. Snyder, having said goodbye to her mother and her liine-year-old daughter, Lorraine, was hurried into an automobile where she sat between two deputy woman sheriffs. Gray, her paramour, wns taken in a second machine, manacled to two undersher iffs. Their automobiles were escorted from jail in Long Island City and through New York by a squad of mo torcycle police. Mrs. Snyder was dressed ill a b ack dress and hat she wore in the trial. Gray walked with brisk steps, his head erect, as the sheriffs led him from his cell. With Our Advertisers. - t The big Spring Piano Clearance Sale of the Kidd-Krix Co. is now go ing on. The prices on all instru ments have been drastically reduced. Look at the new ad. today and see some of these big values. You may take two years in which to pay. too| You will always get quality work at 'M. R. Pounds'. Don't fail to attend the Wonder : loid Lacquer demonstration at tlie Ritchie Hardware Go. on May 18th. 10th and 20th. A factory represen tative will be there to demonstrate. Dead the facts about DOraay per fumes in Gibson's qew ad. today. Three groups of spring coats at Fisher's. $6, $lO and sls. New summer silks in crisp, new patterns at Robinson's. Sweaters, knickers, underwear, golf shirts, garters, hose and golf belts at Hoover’s. Don't fail to take advantage of the mnn.v big bargnins Belks is offering in their Niue Dny Sale. New summer suits, sls, $16.50 and $lB at W, A. Overcash’s. Tropical worsteds $25 to $35. ’Phone the J. & H. Cash Store when you want fresh vegetables. Call the Boyd W. Cox Studio for home or studio, photographs. Satisfac tion assured. Next time you need new tires see the line carried at the Yorke & Wads worth Co. Goodyear and Pathfinder tires In all sizes. Next Friday the Concord Furni ture Co. will make an unusual offer on Sellers cabinets. Read new ad. for particulars and be ready for big trade event. ijibor Men Would Cancel War Debt a. (By, International News Service.) New York, May 16. —Declaring that the war debts constitute a men ace to the industrial machinery ot the .United States, and therefore a menace to American workmen, Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, in an editorial in the current edition of the American Photo Engraver, advocates reduction if not flat cancellation, of the war debts. "Will these debts ever be paid?, he asks. "Cali these debt ever be paid? How hall they be paid ami by wham? And what will follow failure to pay or their outright repudiation? "To meet these stagering obliga tions,” Woll suid, "America must im port more than it exports by over $2,000,000,000 n year. And this un favorable balance of trade must con tinue over a prolonged and indefinite period of time. “Our industrialists. in charge of an evergrowing productive machine that must obtain ever more and greater outlets for surplus produc tion, are fearful of un invasion of onr home markets and a consequent disruption, if not destruction, of our gigantic production machine. Labor Members Walk But. London, May 16. —(4*)—All labor members walked out of the House of Commons this afternoon in protest when Premier Baldwin moved a reso lution limiting debate on the govern ment's trade union bill to sixteen days. The bill would .outlaw strikes of a coercive nature. NEW PRESIDENT TO BE SELECTED Special Committee To Make Report To Board of Trustees on June t. ! Raleigh, May 14.—The election of a successor to retiring President Wil liam Tours Potent, of Wake Forest College, will come up for consideration lat the annual commencement meeting id the board of trustees June 1. when a special committee appointed l last December to recommend a new president will make a 'report. No information was available here today ns to tlie progress of the speeinl committee in its search for a mail so that it was not known whether it would have a recommendation to make. Action by the‘board of trustees will, members said, depend upon the committee report, l)r. Poteat’s resignation was offer ed and accepted by the board last December to .become effective at the close of the present college year. He was subsequently elected president iemeritus, which office lie will assume when his successor is chosen. . Two names most prominently men l*i«ie<) i%,.£pjisection with the presi dency have been ‘those of 'president" Mtirphree. of the University of Flor ida. and Dr. John E. White, of An derson College, South Carolina. There lias been no intimation, however, as to whether either was being considered by Ihe committee or whether either would accept if the position should be tendered. TEN MINERS INJURED WHEN CAGE DROPPED Were Being Lowered Into Mine When Their Cage Dropped Sixty Feet. Scranton. Pa.. May 16.— (A 3 ) —Ten men were injured, nine of them seri ously, at 7 o’clock this morning when a cage in which they were being low ered into the Johnson mine of the .Scranton Coal Company at Dickson City dropped sixty feet to the bottom of the 600-foot shaft. Four suffered broken legs and the others were in jured internally. Company officials said the accident occurred when George Brownell, 55, engineer, became ill at his post and fell unconscious allowing the cage to run away just as it neared the foot of the shaft. The cage struck the bottom with great force. The injured men managed to crawl to places of safety jpst as the cable oil the cage measuring 700 feet fell into the shufe and crushed the cage to pieces. BALLOONIST IS GIVEN THE ALTITUDE RECORD Capt. Gray’s Ascension to 42.470 Feet Feet Is Accepted as Authentic. Belleville, 111., May 16.—04*)—Capt. Hawthorne O. Gray’s balloon ascen sion at Scott Field here on May 4. to 42,470 feet, was authenticated by the Bureau of Standards ns the highest altitude ever reached by man, accord ing to notification received here today from Washington. Gray's record shat ters both the balloon altitude record set in 1901 by two Germans, Suring and Verson, and the world airplane top, 39.800 feet, reached hist year by the French flyer Callizo. Belgium is only one quarter the size of the State of New York. CAN YOU SCORE TEN ON THESE?} 1— What is the number of tele graph sent annually in the United States? 2 -What i* the annual revenue of the telegraph companies? 3 How many telephones arc in use in the United States? 4 How do the five leading states rank in the number of telephones? 5 What is the number of automo biles in use in the United States? 6 What is the annual death-toll in automobile accidents? 7 -Which are the three leading staten in mineral products, including oil? 8— Name the state that has the largest number of farmers. 9 Name the oldest English col ony. 10— What is the population of the Empire of India?. CAPITAL’S WILLOWS FROM EMPEROR'S TOMB Washington. May 16. — OP) —A whole colony of willow trees on the hank* of the Potomac River are the offspring of a sapling that grew beside the tomb of Napoleon on the Island of St. Helena. Commodore Porter, who repre sented thp I'nited States at the transfer of the emperor’s body to Paris, brought the sapling bnek with him. It wns planted in front of an old arsenal which stood on the site of the present War College. Roots began pushing into a well and the tree* had to be removed. Sections were planted along the river in the vicinity of the old pen itentiary, where they have devel oped into a narrow grove. NAVY QUITS SEARCH FOR THE FRENCHMEN Not Enough Helium to Send Los Angeles on Long Quest. St. John. Newfoundhin. May 16. — The Governor of Newfoundland today stated that the rumor flint Captains Ntingesser and Coli, French trans atlantic fliers, were found at Trinity, here, is unfounded. according to Un ited States Consul Warren. It had been reported that an ama teur radio fail had picked up a mes sage from Trinity, purporting to be fron tiie missing fliers, and indicating that they had landed at Trinity. Navy Search Now Abondoned. Washington. May 16.—The navy and const guard have ceased their search for Xungesser and Coli. missing Paris-to-Xew York flyers, according to word today to the navy department, from Rear Admiral Phillips Andrews, Boston naval base commandant. Fog and bad weather rendered fur ther hunting futile. Andrews held. While Boston reports subsequently quoted coast guard officials as having no orders to end the search and ns heing unaware of its cessation, officials .here accepted the Admiral’s word as representing the actual state of af fairs. Secretary of Navy Wilbur indicated doubt of tlie men’s surviving if their craft came to grief on the ocean, though he suggested he still hoped they may have landed in some corner of the Northland—Labrador, perhaps— and that later they would be found. The navy's proposed sending of the dirigible I-os Angleses to 1-aibrador, however, has been called off. due to lack of sufficient helium gas for the 2400 mile trip. HISTORIC SPOT IS TO BE SUBMERGED ■Water tA Big. New Dam Will Cover One of Creations of the Mound Builders. Albemarle. May 16.—1 n a few more months one of the most historic spots in Stanly county will be submerged in water impended by the Norwood dam now under construction by the Carolina Power and Light Company —a prehistoric mound evidently the work of the ancient Mound Builders, which is located about three miles from the city of Norwood in a blind of a small creek on the Norwood- Swift Island highway. The mound is in an almost cone shape, rising to the height of 35 or forty feet and is probably something more than 100 feet in length and about 50 feet wide. It is in the creek low-grounds and the country round about is for the most, part level, finally tailoring off into slight rises off a good distance from the mound. The land is perfectly flat and level ns n floor where the mound is situated. Trees were growing all over this mound until a few months ago, when they were cut down by the Carolina Power and Light Company. No one seems to have paid any attention to this unique relic of the Mound Build ers until just recently, when the road was made through that secion and the trees were cut. But now the mound stands out clear and distinct against the landscape, and anyone passing along the high way could hardly fail to notice this funny, cone-like shape rising aloft for 35 to 40 feet. These mounds are found in nil of the Gulf States, and throughout the South. A few are in West Virginia, and some are found in practically every Southern State, but this mound in Stanly County is the only one know nto exist in North Carolina, it is believed. Wanton destruction of wild flow era and plants is now a penal offense in New South Wales. Flood Fund Concord Contributions. Previously acknowledged ... $2,234.50 Hartsell Mill 102.00 Harrisburg Presbyterian Church and Harrisburg High School 35.14 The Study Club 8.16 Mrs. W. F. Gray 5.00 Mt. Olivet M. E. Sunday School 37.66 Mt. Carmel Sunday School .. 8.60 Mrs. J. J. Barnhardt ....... 25.00 Total Concord $2,454.06 Kannapolis Contributions. Previously acknowledged . . . .$512.00 Mt. Pleasant Contributions. Previously acknowledged .... $102.00 Jackson Training School. Previously acknowledged .... $56.00 Junior Rod Cross of City Schools. Previously acknowledged ..... SIOO.OO Grand Total $3,224.90 More Deaths And Still 1 Great Destruction Are I Caused B ,t The Floods ! i ~* ~ 'START “Y” " TUESDAY; \ | * TO FEAST TONIGHT Whirlwind Campaign to Get Y. M. C. A. Budget Starts j Tomorrow and Continues Through Wednesday. i As in tho i>nst citizens of Concord j will Tuesday and Wednesday oontrib i nte funds for the maintenance of its jA. M. C. A. during the ensping twelve I months. ! A whirlwind cani])aigu to secure the expeji.se budget of the institution will he launched tomorrow morning, and by \\ ednesday afternoon sufficient funds are expected to be in the hands of the campaign workers. Final plans preparatory to the city wide drive will be outlined to the workers following a luncheon at 6do o'clock tonight at the Y. M. A. I>r. T. X. Spencer is chairman of the campaign committees and will this eve ning give a talk on the campaign. The luncheon will be attended by approximately 100 persons, and will serve ns added impetus to the budget drive. Each worker will be given several cards, bearing the names of local citi zens. and it willdie liis or iier duty to enlist the contribution from these per sons. This procedure will eliminate tile possibility of more than one work er approaching a prospective contrib utor. The list of the eampaign workers is given below: I>r. R. It. Rankin, major; I‘. (1, Sherbondy, captain ; W. A. Overcash. S. K. Patterson, H. S. Williams. H. Ritchie, K. 1,. Hicks. 1). 0. Caldwell, captain; Farrell White. Stowe Cireen. Ren White. R. C. I.itaker, llob -Jones. A. O. Odell, captain ; A. F. Good man. Rob Courtney. Gus Hartsell. W. G. Caswell, William Ritchie. R. E. Ridenhour, Jr., major: C. W. Byrd, captain: G. R. Lewis, Cam eron Mneßae. A. S. Webb. Conrad Hill, J. G, Parks, W. F. Agee. R. Blaekwe’ider, captain ; Dr. J. A. Hartsell, Tom Coltranc. H. J. Hitt. Dr. Matt I’atte rson, <Q. H. Foil. • P. M. Lafferty. captain; W. L. Bums, H. -B. Wilkinson,' E; Porter.' Dr. J. A. Shatters, D. A. Me La urin. J. Y. Pharr, major: L. T. Hartsell. Jr., captain; J. G. MoEaehern. L. V. Eliott. G. S. Kluttz. R. L. Miller. Fred Kestler. A. O. Swaringen. captain; Boyd Biggers, Ed. -Melc'hor, J. M. Cul cieasure. W. S. Bogle. J. C. Boden heimer. F. R. Sheppard, captain : Bob Dick, W. B. Sherrill. Njek Sappentield. X'. K. Reid, Harold Dry. C. H. Barrier, major; B. E. Harris, captain ; C. X. Fields. Chas. Barrier. F. M. Youngblood, W. G. Brown, Dr. T. M. Rowlett. C. H. Trueblood. captain ; Sid Per ry. Gilbert Hendrix, Rev. M. L. Kest ler, C. F. Ritchie, F. Bollinger. !•*. M. Richmond, captain: Dr. .T. A. Patterson, W. B. Ward, G. L. Patterson, E. C. Barnhardt, Jr.. .T. O. Moose. Red Cross committee: Mrs. Rich mond Reed, Mrs. T. XL Spenrer. Mrs. J. A. Kennett, Mrs. A. C. Cline. Mrs. Lonard Brown. Mrs. Aubrey Hoover. Miss Maggie Barnhardt. Mrs. Marvin Long, Mrs. A. Jones Yorke. Mrs. Ben M hite, Mrs. F. White. Miss Helen Marsh. Mrs. E. C. Barnhardt, Miss Julia Harry. Mrs. W. G. Brown. Mrs. Charles Cannon and Miss Clara Gil lon. INQUIRY CONTINUES IN DULL METHOD Little Sustained Evidence Submitted So Far to Attorney General. Raleigh. May 10.—(<4»)—The storm center of Attorney General Brummitts sanitary probe today centered around the town of Mt. Airy, and State In spector Surratt ns the investigation of charges of graft in the administra tion of the sanitary outhouse laws en tered its third day. Questioning of witnesses will continue through Wed nesday, and if investigation is not completed by that time, be ad journed to May 31st. Several witnesses from Sit. Airy tes tified today that Inspector Surratt rec ommended carpenters to them to re-; pair or rebuild outhouses he had con-! demned. These carpenters, it was said, invariably were from points oth-l er than Mt. Airy. No witnesses for the ‘‘defense" testi fied this morning, but the trend of questions by Chief Inspectors Whit ley and McLeod was of a nnture to indicate that evidence showing that an epidemic of typhoid fever in Mt. Airy had created an emergency which would not warrant waiting on the local car pentery supply. Hearsay continued to be the star witness whenever actual evidence as to graft was sought, but B. H. Pace, of Hendersonville, testified to perhaps the strongest evidence of the entire investigation when he swore that one of three negroes told him they “guessed" that inspectors got four out of ten dollars paid to them for build ing outhouses. Plnedo Postpones Flight. Chicago, May 16.—CW—Command er Francisco de Pinedo, Italy's four continent flyer, today postponed his flight to. Canada after encountering inanition trouble with his seaplane. ,8a plans to hop off tomorrow. THE TRIBUNE f 1 PRINTS f -1 TODAY’S NEWS TODiM NO. 10$ | Dead Bodies of Mother awHl | 8 Children Are | All Victims of Greatest J Flood in U. S. History* l RUSHING WATERS STILL SPREADUIfn 10,000 Persons Maroar>w|| on House Hops in Orti|g City, While More Laiw | Was Inundated Todays! New Orleans. May 1(1. — ‘Vt AmM ing relentlessly down the west sidt* of J the Atclmlflaya basin, flood’ wajertpm from ten breaks in the Rayo den | (Raises levee brought closer to 1 Mary and St. Frances parishetC Wi§i||pH spreading devastation on. its wa(g Mg 1 tin' Gulf of Mexico. \ The Rayon dcs (Raises lever* .<mEB about 135 miles north of Xe\y Oh** J leans on the west bank the UK**- Avoyelles and St. Landry parflfljfliM with their fertile fields and ,n< n <«i#» 1 of corn and sugar cane have abN4fl|pH been submerged by the torrents M>gy*’ j ing through the Rayo des GlatMßW'l levee, and thousands of person* JWjHI been driven from tlieir homes: (Oitfier ij thousands are preparing to -eefc sftflty J Work on (be protection levaw wBiM tween Port ltarre and Butte in St. Martin parish was abai«H*um| J last night when it was tlie flood moving down tb’a through the crevasses wofihCJjjfl;Jn|K|| two to three feet, higher than “We "dyke. 1 Army engineers estimated water flowing through from W«y«M* s des Giaisses had covered (i(K> . Jj miles today but that the rapidity VUftS*';| which tile water spreads out wHjl.tMgS lessened somewhat from now ow.'JBB Engineers also said that the engfiMljl stretch of fifty miles of levees the Bayou de Giaisses probably uouW-a be carried away by the water. "IS Airmen returning from trips ovty; I the country said that the Big Bend levees were practically gone,.' fog' hfSJ stretch of twenty miles. . 1 The offiidal weather bureau fore-Raj east describing tlie flood now; moving-.J down the Atphnfalaya basin would gradually Increase to*verygroaT^ 10,000 .Marooned on Housetops ] Opelousas, La., May 16.—0W—Ap-Am proximately 10,000 persomt*""?»i*, | marooned on house tops in St, Ltindfty-i parish. Red Cross and city officbtfliiS were informed today. 1 A rail for help came from the hfloe-',. j row Big Cane section in St. jatudry 1 during tlie night, and trucks went dis- . 1 patched to tlie scene to aid in the tys if moral. Before they could reach tflMttyy- j however, the water had risep. to 3 feet in lowlands and truduri flfijlWi' 9 forced to turn back. 1 Mother and 8 Children Per&ft. I Alexandria. La.. May 16.-—j widow and her S children were found I drowned today in attic of their at Plauclieville, according to qi metf sage from Bunkie. The woman Was 1 a Mrs. Dupre. Efforts had been aiadfe 1 to get her to leave following the in the Bayous des (Raises levee but I she had said she preferred to' stay at m MILLS ON FULL TIME. President of Cctton ManufaeWrea® Association Sees no Ahead. ■ Greenville. S. (\. May present outlook in the textile try is better than in several yeMMj|H this season, according to J. P. sett, head of a number of mijftt tl this section, and president American Cotton M.'iliufaotum'» , sociation. S Mr. Gossett, in discussing the vention to be held next week in JfHH lantie City, said that curtailinefl* njjj~« operations appeared unlikely tMifl season as no evidence of stiflH 'plint*3® have come to the surface. All iiiliMß are running full time and many •M;|| sold well in advance, thus giving fl§j9 evidence of a cessation of operatiottdvJa This is a decided improvement ‘*\>eg.3 conditions in the textile field g 6 ffß9 season for the last few years, ft said. I ’ Mr. Gossett said that many ' mills-l men from this section are exeeted to l J attend the meeting of the American I ! Cotton Manufacturers’ association Urol | Atlantic City, much interest ajrettdy j [having been manifested. The , asst#-. J iciation, of which Mr, president, will hold separate five sessions, although joint will alo be held with the X'atlUtftlaW Cotton Manufacturers' assocUflidtt® and the New York Merchants l ' anrfftß ciation. ' J The convention wifi be held 13 and 14. although the board <»■ governors of the American Ooftoiia Manufacturers' association wiftcfludHH 'on the evening of May 12. ‘m V Walker D. Hines, bead of the , ton-Textile institute, will i honor guest and one of the • speakers at the joint convention, MaJl > Gossett said. •-•tSfcJH 'M SEATHEI Generally fair and continticdl®,*# • except probably showers on (<nst roast tonight; Tuesday X j what warmer in east
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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