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" ' ' ASSOCIATED PRESS / DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVII Residents In Vast Area Os Atchaf alay a Leaving Homes as Water Spreads -— l ♦-—, Twenty-seven Towns, None With Mote Than 500 In habitants, Affected by Recent Levee Breaks. WARNING GIVEN TO THE PEOPLE Refugee Camps Are Being Crowded as Additional Hundreds Are Forced to Flee From Raging River New Orion ns. May IS.—UP)—-Ilesi dents of the vast area of the Atetni- | fnhiyn basin were leaving homes today in ever increasing numbers, spurred ou U.v ominous warnings of the weath er bureau here, and flood relief director John M. l'arker nt Ila ton Rouge. Di rector Parker last night had a score ' of telephone operators at work, urging 1 all • inhabitants of region in the line j of flood, an area ITS) miles west of -New Orleans, to fleed. Tweutly-seven small towns, none with more thkn .TOO inhabitants were nffected by the warn ing. The territory is in path of waters fflun the Bayou des (liaises breaks, and the water which is pouring through crevasses on the Atchafaiaya at Melville. These floods are reported to be converging about 40 miles below Bayou des (liaises to form a great hike, extending up the valley to the northern parishes, 250 miles long, and from'so to 100 miles wide. A sudden inundation of a new sec tion of St. Isi miry parish sending sev eral feet of water into Beggs, Gar land, Dubuisson, Whiteville and into the country surrounding Bunkie was reported last night. Over 5,000 per sons are estimated to be in the in undated territory, and rescue workers were busy last night notifying them to rush to Southern l’acitic Railroad line where cat's have been placed to take them out. Facilities of the refugee camp at t)l>elcusas became overtaxed yester day, aud a new camp was established At Eunice, 18 miles away. Four thous and refugees been registered at Opel ousas. Some brought in yesterday had been without food and water for {H < hours. -- 1 is under four feet of water in some 1 places. I Conditions were reported growing 1 steadily worse in section around Bun- I kie, and rescue workers reported that 1 stubbornness in sticking to their homes was causing much trouble. At Opelousas rescue workers were ! liesieged with (Allis for help from in- i undated Sections. Isist night 100 per- 1 sons were removed from precarious I isisitions in box cars and on house- < tops nt Palmetto, and an urgent call from Garland, where several score families were menaced, was answered. A naval aviator flying over Melville section late yesterday reported 200 persons living on the levees there. -He also rc]K>rted 12 persons marooned on u housetop at Kwayze Lake. A relief . bont was dispatched immediately and V these were taken to safety. Trucks to the Rescue. Lafayette, La., May 10. — (A 3 )—A fleet of fifty trucks moved out of herd at dawn today for Lake Catahoula, where throughout last night families in the path of the waters from the Henderson crevasse gathered their be longings preparatory to fleeing. All day yesterday, in spite of warnings and pleadings of rescue crews cruis ing the section, the descendants of the Arcadians worked their crops. But last night water began rolling; into some of tlie fields and request was made for trucks to evacuate the. sec tion. The green crops will by nightfnll be in an over-increasing muddy sea which is) sweeping from the Atchafaiaya 'swamp where back waters from the river have ben pent up for several weeks. Lake Catahoula on an air line ia approximately ten miles from the Hen derson crevasse, and now with drain age canals, small streams and inter vening lakes in the area overflowing, the crevasse water is sweeping down the east bank of the Teehe; driving before it many who for years have not let the borders of St. Martin parish. ' V ' Twenty Bibles a Minute. London, May 11).—The work of Ihe British and Foreign Bible So ciety, which has just held its meet ing in London, is of such astonish ing dimensions that the figures it presents are difficult to comprehend. Including Bibles and Testaments, the output of the society approxi mates one volume every three sec onds. Now in the 124th year of its existence, the Bible Society has dis tributed all over the world, in 503 languages, 375,000,000 Bibles and \ Testaments. CARD PARTY The Welfare Department of the Woman’s Club wijl have a card party .r at the Hotel Concord Friday after noon and evening, May 20th. Tills department has been serving hot choc olate to the underweight children dur ing the school year and proceeds from the party will be,used for thla fond. ’ Reservation for tables may be mads liy telephoning Miss Mary King or Mrs. R. U. HouseL The Concord Daily Tribune PREPARING FOR THE Al'TO LICENSE RUSH Braneh oflies of Carolina Motor Club , to Issue Licenses for the Satte. The Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, May 19. —First steps, to-; ward getting ready for the rush for' new automobile license tags started 1 today when C. W. Roberts and C. T. Matthews, of the Carolina Motor Club, left on a 3,000 mile trip, during which all the 35 braneh offices of the club will be visited and inspected, accord ing to the a,)ito license bureau here. ,Tbc purpose of the trip is to see if everything is in readiness at these i ' offices to handle the distribution of 1 the new license plates, which will begin- shortly after June Ist. This J trip wiil extend from Murphy, in the j western part of the state, to Eliza- i belli City in the east. Announce ' went was also made by the motor ve j hide license division here that the I first batch of registration cards, upon presentation <if which licenses will be issued, will be put into the mail*) within the ifext few days. Issuance of plates will begin at th» Carolina Motor Club offices about June Ist, and Commissioner Houghton urges ear owners to purchase plates at the near est braneh office promptly. Offices nt Greensboro, High Point, Lexington, Salisbury, Statesville,Le noir, Hickory, and Asheville were vis ited Wednesday. Thursday's itiner ary includes: Sylva. Murphjr, Shelby, Gastonia and Charlotte. On Friday the motor club officials will go to Con cord. Wadesboro. Rockingham and Southern Pines. The western swing Will end Saturday with visits to San ford nnd «Asheboro and return to Greensboro. The eastern journey will begin Tuesday when offices at Burlington, Durham, Raleigh, Fayetteville, l.nin berton and Wilmington will be in spected. The itinerary for the re mainder of the tour is: Wednesday— New Bern, Kinston, Goldsboro. Wil son ; Thursday, Rocky Mount, Tar boro, Greenville. / Wil!iam*ton, Eden ton. Elizabeth City; Friday, Weldon. Henderson, Greensboro. James H. Webb Critically 111 In A Durham Hospital. of North Carolina Masons, is very grave. He Is tmw a patient In Watts hospital. Where he was brought from his Hillsboro home in the hopes that he might be nursed back to health. His condition is such ns to cause his relatives and friends much uneasiness. Mr. Webb ia- known throughout the state through his work in Masonic circles, as well ns in business circl(| He is secretary-treasurer of the Eno cotton mills, in Hillsboro. Mexicans Seize Arms. Yuma, Ariz.. Slay 19.— UP) —A spe cial dispatch from the Yuma Morning Sun today said Mexican authorities had seized an automobile loaded with rifles and ammunition at San Imu is, 23 miles from here ou the bonder, as Mexican revolutionists were attempt ing to take it across the line. Numerous residents of San Luis were reported to have crossed the bor der into Arizona, fearing gunplay. Mrs. Bishop Freed. Oklahoma City. Okla , May lfl.— (A 3 ) —Mrs. Edith Bishop, charged with the slaying of her husband. Luther Bishop, a state detective, in their home here last December, was ad judged not guilty by a jury in dis trict court here today. TIIE STOCK MARKET Reported by Fennsr A Beane. (Quotations at 1:30 P. M.) Atiffiison 183 American Tobacco B- 136 American Smelting 157% American Locomotive 114% Atlantic Coast Line 183 Allied Chemical 141 American Tel. & Tel. 166% American Can . 48% Allis Chalmers 109% Baldwin Locomotive 212% Baltimore & Ohio 123% Bangor "93 Bethlehem teel 50% Chesapeake & Ohio 181% Coca-Cola „ 112% DuPont ‘j 245 Dotjge Bros. 22% Erie 53 Frisco 112% General Motors 108% General Electric 08% Great Northern 80% Gulf State Steel 51 Gold Duit 53 Hudson __ 86% Int. Tel. 136 Kennecott Copper 65 Liggett & Myers B 108% Mack Truck 117% Mo.-Padfic 55% Norfolk & Western 181 New York Central 149% Pan. American Petroleum B 58% Rock Island 2 100% R. J. Reynolds _ * 129% Repb. Iron A Steel i 65 Remington ; 43 Standard Oil of N. J. __ 36% Southern Railway - „ 125 Studebaket 1 53% Dwta* Co. *- 47 Tobacco Products l 98 V. B. Steel 170% U. B.‘Steel, New 122% Vick Chemical 57 Westlnghoilse -—j 77% Western Maryland 44 Chrysler 44% MUFICOra DROPS BEnTtUO IS MEMBER OF FLIGHT n a *** j Charles A. Levine States ■ Definitely That Lloyd Bertaud Will Not Fly in i Bellanca Monoplane. jAIRMEN STILL BEING DELAYED Bad Weather Makes It Im possible For Any of the Planes to Hop Off on the 1 Long Trip to Paris. New York, May 19.—OP)—-Lloyd 'Bertaud, definitely will not make the , Paris flight in the Hellancn monq i plane with Clarence Chamberlain, and his successor is already selected, Chas. A. Levins, head of the company back ing tlie flight, told tlie Associated Press today. Levine's announcement followed tardily on an almost night-long con ference. at the end of which Bertaud had said all difficulties had been iron ed out and he would go on the flight a* nnvigator as originally planned. Levine made no statement nt the time, but when reports gained circula tion that the situation was not quite as Bertaud believed it ,o be. he was asked to state definitely what the re sults of the conference were. "Bertaud is not going,” he replied. "That is definite. His successor has been selected, but his identity will not be revealed until the plane is ready to hop off.” FIVE BELIEVED LOST AS RESULT OF RAINS Peoria. Illinois. Flooded by Rains and Mayor’s Son Was One Vic tim of the Storm. Peoria, 111., May 10.—(A*b—Five persons were believed to have lost their lives, one of them, Walter Muel ler, son of the mayor of Peoria, in floods and rain storms in Peoria and vicinity late yest-rday. A score or more were reported unaccounted for. Three hundred and fifty are home less nnd the damage is estimated at a million and a half dollars. -test. today due to wasnonts. ■ ■•. ‘ ™ Young Mueller, a mine superintend ent, and I-ester Jones, were walking on the Toledo, Peoria & Western Rail way tracks when caught in the flood waters of LeMarsh creek. Jones, who escaped, and others, described it as a wall of water thirteen feet high when it swept them into the current. Four other persons were believed to have lost their lives in the low lands near here. The rainfall here was 5.52 inches. THE STOCK MARKET Easy Money Rates. Call Loans Being at. 4 P* Cent., Affected Market. New York, May 19. — (A 3 ) —A series of bullish demonstrations in, the high priced industrials, several of which including Baldwin, General Motoi's.' American Smelting, and 17. S. Cast Iron Pipe touched new record lrgh prices, contrasted with the weakness of the oils, textiles and New York tractions in the New York stock mar ket today. Trading was again in un usually heavy volume. 'Easy money rates, the renewal char ges oil call loans being* fixed at 4 per cent., was again a lending ‘bull” fac tor. The closing was irregular. Total sales approximately 2.200,000 shares. JERRY HESTER GUILTY Jury Saved Ilia Life With Recom mendation of Mercy at the Second Trial. Greenville, S. C.. May 19. —(4*) — Jerry Hester was found guilty by a jury today, of the murder of J. E. D. Tbackston while his two sons, Ohariey and Claude, tried along with him, were acquitted. The jury recommend ed mercy and t)Ee sentence automatic ally carries life imprisonment. Hester and both sons were found guilty at the previous trial without recommend ation, but the ease was reversed. $50,000 Blaze at Gibson. Gibson, N. C., May 19.—(4 s ) — Ashes remained today where seventeen negro homes had been yesterday, while police estimated the damage from last night’s fire at $50,000. The Seaboard Air Line was repairing crippled wire service, caused by burning of a dwell ing adjacent to the poles. Announcement One Quart of Motor Oil OR j One Gallon of Gasoline FREE 1 WITH EACH FIVE GALLONS OF : GASOLINE PURCHASED ON OUR ’ OPENING DAY i FRIDAY, MAY 20TH CAROLINA SER : VICE STATION GUS WIDENHOUSE, .Mgr. Charlotte Ro«d North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily CONCORD ,N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927 Domestic Power Rate for j City To Be Reduced Soon Twenty Per Cent. Redaction Will Be Made June First and City Officials Are Confident General Re duction in Power and Wafer Rates Will Come Within Six Months. A 20 per cent, reduction in the city’s domes tie power rate is announced by Mayor C. H. Barrier, the new rate to become effective June Ist. Witt this announcement the flinyor predict ed that a general reduction of electric nnd water rates would be possible within six months. * Meeting this week members of the 1\ ater and Light Department font* the department's finances in exeeiien condition and deemed it advisable t reduce the domestic |lower rate ifroii' 5 cents a kilowatt to 4 cents. Mem hers df the department also decide to reduce the cost on installation ■ O domestic lines and meters, the re duet ion to be from $25 to $l.O. This rate and installation service effects persons with electric ranges, electric refrigerators and similar ap pliances. The department spent s9o.opfl dur ing the year ou an impounding dam. Mayor Barrier explained, but has al ready paid all but $23,000 of this debt. He predicted that this wifi have been paid by Fall and nt that time tlie board hopes the general re duction in both power and water THE COTTON MARKET / Was Comparatively Quiet at the Op ening. With Price Movement Cor respondingly Narrow. New York, May 10.—<4>>—The cot ton market was comparatively quiet nt the opening today, with the price movement correspondingly narrow. Liverpool cables made a , fairly steady showing, but the market tfieri eased just before tlie local opening and first prices here were 3 point# higher to j lower, most active posit tions soon showing net losses of 2 to 3 points under realizing nnd locul sell ing. Trading became more active after j publication of the weather map, and < the forecast of thunderstorms in thg western belt except west Texas. These . prices represented net advances of 22 ; to 25 points from the lowest, nnd at tracted considerable realizing which was absorbed on reaction of 5 or I points from the best, the market hold -15.44: Julv 15.77: Oct. 16.16; Dec. , 16.36; Jan. 16.39. ( With Out Advertisers. The Welfare Dppnrtmtent of the ' Woman’s Club will have a card party at. Hotel Concord Friday afternoon and evening. Make reservations now. The Carolina Service Station will give oil or gas free with each live gal lon purchase of gas on its opening day.' Friday May 20th. See ad. 1 New straws, ties, collar attached shirts nnd golf togs nt Hoover's, the I'oting Man’s Store. Hot days are here aud you can find just the raiment needed at W. A. 1 Overcash's Coolspun suits sls to $35. Panama Hats $5 to $7. t Quality, service nnd satisfaction for patrons of the J. & H. (’ash Store. Moderately priced seasonable lints at Robinson's. All of the latest colors and shapes. White Mountain Refrigerators, "the chest with the chill in it," are sold ! here by H. B. Wilkinson. Big stock 1 ou hand. You must drive the new Ford to, realize its comfort and driving ease. Call the Reid Motor Co. for demonsrn- j tibn. , Tomorrow is the big day at the Stariies-Miller-l’arker Co. Big clock stops tomorrow and some one will get two watches. See ad. ; By popular demand the Gray Shop is continuing the sale of Coats. Smart, new Spring and Summer models as high ns $lB and as low ns $7. Read new nil. today for particulars. One dollar down puts a Sellers in [ yo'ir home. Dishes and groceries free. I Call at the Concord Furniture Co., and 1 get full particulars about this attrac tive offer. The commencement drama, "Noth- ’ ing But the Truth,” will be presented ' at Mt. Pleasant Monday evening. Tickets on sale at Foil Mercantile Co., Mt. Pleasant. Footwear 'value* are demonstrated by the J. C.' Penney Co, in a new ad, in this'paper today. The prices range from 69 cents for children’s shoes to $5.90 for smart T-*trap sandal. Shoes for every member of the family are included in the stock of this company and the prices on all are unusually low. Don’t fail to read new ad. to day. — ■ 1 ■ 7 Scenes From j Mississippi Flood . Not a short news reel but a special Flood Feature Picture, showing’various stages of the flood, DYNAMITING THE LEVEES and other features. THURSDAL and FRIDAY Pastime Theatre '7- t « rates will* be possible. j SThe department lias outstanding t bonds totalling $189,000, Mayor Bnr-j ricr stated, and to meet these has I ? created a sinking fund. The deport-i i“ meat is now carrying 750 share.-" of' ► building and loan stock, distributed f ; , equally among the -three associations ! in the city. This will munirV in 1931. paying the department $75,000. | i-j This cash will be invested in 1931 <J in paid up shares and in 1937 will pay the .department SIOO,OOO. In 1931 the department will take out 750 additional share* of stock in the I three associations, and this also will mature $75,000 in 1937. This will give the department $175,- ‘ 000 and as tlie bonds are not due un > til 1941 it is felt certain the $175,000 ( can be so invested ns to be increased s to $189,000 by 1941. ■ When the Barrier administration ; i took office two years ago the depart ■ ment had no sinking fund but had 1 1 *40.000 in'cash on hand. This cash 1 j lias been increased each year, the total t being enough to carry the building -jand loan and practically pay for the t Impounding dam. BOLL WEEVIL FACTOR MUST BE CONSIDERED Farm Experts Fear Insect Will Do Greater Damage in State- This Year. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, May 19. —On the basis of winter survival it now appears that tlie cotton boll weevil may prove n somewhat serious factor to the State’s cotton crop this year, said U. W. Leib.v of the Sate Department of Agriculture. "Our evidence is based upon 7000 weevils put jn 14 wire screen cages at 'Aberdeen and the Edgecombe Test Farm last fall and observing these rages daily from March 15 to May 15, this Hpriug. Thus far this season, 2-7 |ier eeut of the weevils have passed jtlie winter alive in the Aberdeen cages #s opposed to 0.75 percent (luring the is me period of 1926. At the Edge gombe Farm 1.03 per cent, have sur vived aud crawled out of waiter quar -4*4-to Aha. -wire screen of as opposed to 0.08 percent' (hiring the shine period of 1926. | "Os course, this evidence alone is j not sufficient to definitely forecast a ; serious damage year because the type of weather (luring late summer is the chief telling factor. A hot dry season will probably bring about a natural control with slight injury here and there. But a wet and warm sum mer would be favorable to multiplica tion of the weevils and cause heavy damage especially if we had many weevils to survive the winter and start the season with, as now appears to be the case. | "The observations thus far show about four times as many weevils pulled through the winter of 1927 nt ■ Aberdeen ns survived the winter in 1926, while at the Edgecombe Farm thirteen times ns many kept, alive during the winter of 1927. The in crease in survival in 1927 over 1926 we think is due to the mild winter.” i Think Wright Will Recover. Durham, May 10.—(4>) —Attendants at Watts Hospital today said that , Richard H. Wright, local capitalist, | will recover from his illness. Re | ported critically ill last night ns a result of a sudden attack of a nature still umlerterniined today, attendants said he was much better this morn . ing. Mr. Wright has holdings in 1 various parts of the United States and in foreign countries. Andrews in Death Row. Raleigh. May 19. — UP) —State pris on guards today placed Joe Andrews, i negro assailant of the 3 l-2-year-o’.d ’ dnughter of Mr. nnd Mrs. H. L. Stokes, of Franklin county, in death I row to await electrocution on Friday, ! April Ist. Andrews was hurried here •following conviction late yesterday in Franklin Superior Court after a ten minute consideration by the jury. 1 . . 1 CAN YOU SCORE TEN ON THESE? 1 (Copyright, 1027, Newspaper Feauture , , Bureau) 1— Name the former cabinet officer ' who is “Ciar" of the movies. 2 Who became opposing Democrat ic candidates for the presidency in 1860 when the party split occurred in national convention? 3 Name the Republican candidate who won the election. 4 Name the novelist and publicist i who was I’nited States minister to t Belgium during the World War. 3 —Name the Massachusetts family that has furnished two presidents, and many diplomat*, financiers and edu cators. 1 6—. What incident nearly brought • the United States and Great Britain I to war? j 7—Wheu did another Anglo-Ameri- I cau crisis occur? | ft—What induced the British to re j tract ? I o—When and where did President ] Harding die? ft 10—What wa’Wt'ghe cause of his i death? j (Answers on page twelve) Flood Fund Concord Contributions. Previously acknowledged ...$2,479.65 Colored people of Concord., 40.00 King's Daughters 10.00 Total Concord $2,529.65 Kannapolis Contributions. Previously acknowledged $512.00 Mt. Pleasant Contributions, Previously acknowledged $102.00 Jackson Training School, j Previously acknowledged $56.00 | Junior Red Cross of City Schools j Previously acknowledged SIOO.OO J Grand total $3,299.65 FIGHT POSTPONED Sharkey and Maloney Will Postpone Bout Because of Heavy Rain. j New York, May 19.—OP)—The 15-; round heavyweight elimination bout i scheduled tonight nt the Yankee Stnd- j ium between Jimmie Maloney nnd! Jack Sharkey has been postponed un til tomorrow night. Promoter Tex Rickard announced today. Rain that started this morning was still falling when announcement of the postpone ment was made at 11 o'clock. RUMORED GENERAL MOTORS WILL TAKE OVER CHRYSLER And That Walter P. Chrysler WIH Be .Made President of General Motors. According to a report from Toledo, General Motors will take over Chrys ler and AValter P. Chrysler will be made president of General Motors. Open Mt. Mitchell Tower June 17th.j The Tribune Bureau. Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh. May 19.—Friday. June 17,! has been set for the formal opening j of the new lookout tower atop Jit. Mitchell, according to an announce ment yesterday by State Forester ,T. S. Holmes, who has completed the pro gram for the occasion. Col. C. J. Harris, of Dillsboro donor of the tower, will, make a brief pre sentation, and will be followed by Major Wade H. Phillips, director of the department of conservation and development, who will accept the structure on behalf of the state. A leading clergyman of the state will deliver a prayer of dedication, and will be followed by the singing of “America” or "The Old North State ” A tablet bearing the name of the honor of tlie tower and its purposes has been prepared and will be placed on an interior wall before the cere monies. The grave of Dr. Elisha Mitchell, who lost his life while en gaged in a survey of the mountain, has been'walled up, aud will be enclosed ’oy'Ain’ frriS TFn«r“ TSe ■ uated at the foot of the tower. Washington Whippet Races, Washington, D. (’.,, May 19. — j Whippet clubs in many parts of the ; country are sending their speediest I dogs to compete in the National • Whippet Derby, which is scheduled 1 to hi' run at the meet opening Here’ tomorrow anil continuing oyer Sat urday. The races will be run over a 160-yard course and will have many j valuable and attractive trophies of- j sered for the places. Spenker Niclio- | las Longworth will present a huge j silver cup to the winner, and ill ad- j dition there will be a number of j other cups. Prayers For Long Skirts. London, May 19. —A correspond- j cut wrote to the Rev. W. Russell i Maltby. D. D.. president of the Wesleyan Conference, suggesting : that lie should confer with the Arch- ; bishop of Canterbury with a view to j arranging a special meeting for the lengthening of women’s skirts. I)r. Maltby declares he Ims no intention of • complying with the request, for it is his opinion that women know their own minds best. 150 Guard Negro Accused of Attack- j ing White Girl. , j Little Rook, Ark., May 18.—With j 150 deputies surrounding the court house and a detachment of Arkansas national guard ready for duty nt an instant’s notice, Lonnie Dixon, negro youth, will go to trial tomorrow for the murder of Fololla McDonald, 12- yenr-old white girl. School House is Dynamited and 33 Children Die as Result Bath, Mich., May 18.—Touched off by an apparently demented farmer i who fell victim to his own devices, ] two dynamite explosions at the con- i solidated school here today brought i death to at least 38 persons—B3 of . them pupils in the school. Most of . them were children, few of whom were more than 12 years old, 40 others, in jured. were in Lansing hospitals. . The dead, in addition to the 33 pupils whose bodies had been recov ered tonight, were 1 the farmer, An drew Kehoe. who served as treasurer of the school district: E. E. Huyck, the principal; Miss Hazel Weather bee. third grade teacher; Glenn Smith, Bath postmaster, and Nelson McFar ren. a Bath resident. The latter two were passing the building at the time of the explosion. Search of. the ruins was continued until darkness overtook the workers, after state police had estimated that from a dozen to'fifteen bodies remained to be located. The explosions at the school fol lowed by only a short -time a blast at the nearby farm home of Kehoe. The blast and subsequent fire demol ished the Kehoe home and barn. The entire north wing of the school, a three-story brick structure, was lev eled by the Masts which caught all the pupils indoors, over their books or engaged in recitation periods in' their rooms. More Details 1 Traps Set By Maniac, Victim of Own Methods I ’ 1 §35*9 jS DR. POE PREDICTS F l> YEAR FOR - i -”"f Seasons So Par Has Agricultural Interests, -othc State. I The Tribune Bureau, ] Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh. May If).—The farm out-! : look in the state is so much better - ! now than it was last fall, that com-1 parativdy speaking, the farmers are I ! facing an excellent year, according to : , I)r. Clarence I’oe. editor and publish- > i er of The Progressive Fnrmer. and i . recognized authority on agricultural I i matters. Dr. Poe’s only fear is that J some of the farmers are going to over do in planting increased acreage in tobacco. The cotton situation would have been serious, but for the Mississippi flood which has wiped out hundreds of thousands of acres of cotton, With the result that North Garolina cotton growers should get a fairly good price for their crop next winter. There has been but a very slight reduction of cotton acreage in this state, despite all the agitation for it last winter, and the flood has been the only thing that has saved the situation, al though some others factors have help ed, including an increasing foreign de mand for export cotton. In discussing the Mississippi flood, i and the terrific havoc wrought by, it. ; Dr. Poe expressed the opinion that j the situation was one that demanded I federal attention and federal aid and | that the task of rehabilitation should not be saddled upon the few states which have been hardest hit. "I cannot help but feel that if the flood bad occured in Massachusetts or Vermont, instead of in Arkansas, Mis sissippi and Louisiana. President t’oolidge would not continue to hold that it was not a National problem, - ’ Dr. Poe said. It will require at least $300,000,000 to rehabilitate the flood area, according to Dr. Poe. quoting the estimate already made by- Herbert Hoover. Getting back to the agricultural situation in North Carolina, Dr. Poe said that one of the most, encourag ing factors was the increase in poul try' raising and dairying in the state .in the last year. One of the greatest helps to both of these lines of farm en deavor lias been the good highways, which are making it much more easy to market milk, cream and eggs. crops more lliau eveeltefore, especial-^ ly in the east, where heretofore cot ton amt tobacco have held full sway, and this spring more fields of hay and other feedstuffs are to be seen than formerly. ■‘Of course, there is still much to be done along the lines of diversification, I especially in the eastern part of the state," said Dr. Poe, “but the cotton slump last fall has taught <a great I many the lesson that at least every ( farmer should raise his own hay and j feedstuffs. and this year they are tak ! ing no chances. And in many loeali | ties, farmers are this year for the i first time undertaking to raise two | crops on the same land, which is an | excellent indication.” ■ But the tobacco situation is not so I favorable. The taste of the tobacco i using public lias shifted so rapidly | from cigars and pipes to cigarettes, j that .the growers of dark tobacco are suffering, due to low prices and lack , of demand, while the growers in the. 1 bright belt so far have not been able to keep up with the demand. But now It begins to look as if the bright belt growers are going to overdo it by expanding their acreage too rapidly this year.’” j ! J. F. Hurley Is Chairman of Rowan’s School Board. ! Salisbury, May 1$. —J. F. Hurley, editor of the Salisbury Evening Post. . was today elected chairman of the county board of education, succeed ing James M. McOorkle. who has held the place for ten years and who resigned on account of recently be ing elected a commissioner of the city of Salisbury. Survivors of the disaster described the explosion as an “awful crash” fol lowed an instant later by the crash ing of the falls and the falling of the ceilings. Many of the pupils were, crushed at their desks as the tons | of brick and beams crashed down. State police, probing in the tangled wreckage of the school, found that elaborate preparations had been made for wrecking the building. The basement was crisß-erossed with a network of wires which w r ere connected to more than 500 pounds of dynamite scattered in various places. Search of the ruins was in terrupted fbr a time while unexploded dynamite was removed. State police said Kehoe apparently had carried (he dynamite into the school building dur ing the night and arranged his wir ing. He was seen to drive up in his au tomobile in front of the buildiug soon after classes convened. Completing his plans he is believed to have run a wire from his automobile, in which other explosives were stored, to the charges in the basement. Five Children of One Family Die , in Blast. Batb, Mich., May 18.—A partial list of the dead in the explosion which wrecked the school here reveals that five children of one family, and two each in two others wepe killod. — TiMj THE TRIBUNiI TODAY’S NEWS TODATsf 1 NO. 11l 1 .~i*s Certain Ndw That! Andrew Kehoe JntendeqjjS to Destroy Entire Sckotifl and Kill All Pupils. KILLED WIFE I Mi AT HIS HOMgM Part of Body ,Found Ashes of Home WHhh Also Was Destroyed flK| Dynamite Explosion. ’I § Rath, Mich.. May P).—OP)—Wiwß thirty-s ! x of its children) .who y ester?® day romped through five adults lying still in death, 'OfHB little village of some (500 person* WjttSß just beginning today to cotnprgtismt the full horror of the maniacal iraflß* jfl miting yesterday of its consolidated school. Forty-four others were ousl.v injured, and no one number of minor injuries. ' M Included in the head is Andrew hoe. revenge maddened farmer, (Mfl|9 treasurer of the township school who mined the school with dyunmitl 9 ami gunpowder and blew himself into fl eternity after watching the the north wing of the school to pidfj|jH nnd hurl the bodies of its littw; pits)|!j|M through windows and walls. m Only a wliitn of fate or arelffttKiH prevented tile destruction of village. -.'l Mrs. Kehoe was the first tile maniac’s fury, it was establish!# M today. Portions of iter body m found in the ashes of an outbuildinjtJl on the Kehoe farm. Her skull W crushed, leading to tile belief that KtSt ; \3 8 hoe killed her before casting the bdilr 'jf into t lie building to be burned. jjj fl Investigation showed that angered because of a school tax levied jfl against him. and nursing his oppoai«Jl tion to the erection of the three years ago. had carefu.’v tlie basement, installing an elaborate ,9 system of wiring connected with afl time clock. His plans seemingly caDi-S ed for destruction of the entire struc- --Jfl ture. with its more than 26(1' pttgHH and instructors. W One of the wires -he had so ly installed became short cireuitgtfjH and the electric impulse failed to iiMe _ll m that prevented the killing m rmw ; )M than 150 more pupils in another jSfcrfclfl of the building. m In all. there were 3 explosions. TOmB! first occurred yesterday early at/vise* 9 hoe’s home about a mile west qf ifcMjH village, destroying tlie lfiouao, and wagon slied. All apparently B wired to the same timing device. 11 fl The second blast was that in (he 9 school building. It came at 0.43 a, m., 9 only a few minutes after the classes ;vfl had assembled. The time has hptg<9 definitely fixed because all the ckicka .fl in file wrecked wing stopped a$ Utu- fl minute. Tlie third blast came ip jfl hoe s automobile in front of the about 30 minutes later. fl Kehoe was sitting in the E. Huyck. superintendent of was talking with him. one foot og fbs fl running board. Glenn O. Smitli.-iB>B lage postmaster, and Nelson' l-eti. an aged man. were on the side- I walk a few fret away. Suddenly afl terrific blast came from the The bodies of Kehoe and Huycst Verhijß blown to bits. McFarr'en was outright and Smith so badly that he died in a hospital shortly i*«Si terward. Kehoe’s car was tomj I pieces. -4j£.fl Calls For Relief Funds. fl I-uiising. Mich., May If).—o4 3 )—G)riffi,jl Fred \V. Green today issued a state- fl wide appeal for funds so rthe sj)lf|fe’fl of Bath township, stricken by bfrtKfl death and grief yesterday, when feim|3jfl mite explosions touched off lev- Andzjylg Kehoe. revenge-ernzed treasurer district killed 4.3 persons, 537 of them fl pupils in the consolidated school, fl The ap|mill contained ill clamiitioii indicated that the wreept&lH schoolhouse will be reiilaced eitheffiS by popular subscriptions from %haH coffers of the state. 9 The township is heavily in debtyfl a bond issue imssed some years ftgofl proving a heavy burden to the citizens.® Destruction of the school promised' 4® heavier burden on the tnxpayettSv'jSiß fl ■> " Mmm Specials at Belk’s. 9 1 In a page ad. in this pdper [Department Store points out sometmfl ' the many bargains being offered!lierefl now. % Specials in the basement at 5 CQWn a yard, printed voile at If) yards for 50 cents, bloomers 80-SKuH a pair, bleaching at 5 cents a sheets and pillow cases 50 cents «Mfl| and 12 1-2 vents each. -Rayon beflU spreads $1.70, men’s dress shirts large black Milan hats $1.7!) children's hats !)8 cents and hosiery at (55 cents or 2 puifk 5.000 Shriller* at I Goldsboro. May If).— thousand Sliriuers were here today IBM the 11tli annual ceremonial of Temple of Shriners. -M flj i I r\ Sil I i ß^^fl: pm tion, cooler in the 1 niglit and in the east and north -J#
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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May 19, 1927, edition 1
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