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DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVII Plane Columbia Ready For Flight To Berlin If Weather Favorable Giant Plane Has Been Loaded With Fuel and May Take Off During the Day for German Capital. CHAMBERLAIN IS TO PILOT PLANE Owners and Backers Have ' Not Announced Which Route Will Be Followed if Flight Is Started. Curtis FpM, N. Y., June 3 UP) — The Reliance monoplane Columbia was filled to capacity with gasoline anil oil today in preparation for a take off probably this afternoon for an unnamed point, in Europe. Although strict secrecy was observ ed by the Columbia staff, it was learned that police protection for the taffe-off, and permission to use the long runway at Roosevelt Field, ad joining Curtis Field, had been re quested. At the offices of Chas. A. Levine, managing director of the Columbia Aircraft Corporation, owners of the plane it was acknowledged that a request had been sent to Carl F. Schory, secretary of the contest com mittee of the National Aeronautical Association at Washington, D. C., to appear at the field for the take-off. Neither Levine fior Chamberlain would say whether it was planned to take the great circle course byway of New Foundland and Ireland or the course originally planned for the Columbia which lay dqe east from New Vork slightly more than 1,000 miles and then in a gentle curve to ward Cherbourg. The latter course was abandoned after Lindberg's flight, and Oissention among the Columbia crew and supporters indefinitely post poned the attempt in the Bellanca plane. Shorey to New Vork. Washington, June 3.—CO—Carl F. Shorey, secretary of the National Aeronautical Association, left Wash ington for New Vork hurriedly today, bis offices explaining that he was to supervise certain aeronautical tfsts. Presumably he went at the request of backers of the proposed flight of the _ llellanca plane-to sea) its tiwrcutaenCL . lit Will not arrive at the field hnffl after 6 p. m. Plane Prepares for Flight. HENRY FORD SUED FOR LIBEL AGAIN Plaintiff Asks $200,000 for Slander by Detectives. Detroit, June 3.—Henry Ford and the Denrborn Independent have been made defendants in another libel suit, Joseph Miller, a real estate dealer, seeking $200,000 damages ns an after math of the recent mistrial in the million-dollar libel action brought by Aaron Sapiro. Miller charges Ford and others with having attempted “maliciously and willfully” to injure his good name and bring him “into the public scandal by causing him to be suspected of having attempted to corrupt a jury” in the Ford-Snpiro suit. Charges that Miller was seen talk ing to Mrs. Clara Hoffman, one of the jurors in the Sapiro suit, were made the basis of a motion for n mistrial in the case. > Statements concerning his conver sation with Mrs. Hoffman were made by Ford agents, Miller charges, and were published in Detroit, Chicago and New York newspapers. These state ments, Miller alleges, accused him of having had secret conferences with Sapiro and also of having invited Mrs. Hoffman to dinner “to talk things over.” Boston Man Killed. Boston. Mass., June 3. — IP) —Arth- •ur Brewer, an American coal mer chant, reported to have been shot to death in Mexico, is believed here to have been Arthur Harris Brewer, formerly of this city, who was captain of the Harvard football team in 1805. Relatives have received word of hia death, but nothing was said about hia having been shot. Reynolds Company To Pay $1.25 Dividends. Winston-Salem, June 1 2.—The di rectors of R J. Reynolds Tobacco company, at a meeting held at its offices today, declared a quarterly dividend of $1.25 per shhrd on its common stocks, payable in cash July 1, 1927, to stockholders of record at the close of business June 18, 1927. NOTICE! | | | Electric power will be off Sunday morning fi from 7to 10 O’clock on account ,of necessary 9 changes at Southern Power Company Sub-Sta- X tion in Concord. I WATER ad LICIT DEPARTHEHTI 8 o SoOQPOOOOOOOPOOCOQOOOOQOOOQOOOOftBQQftOOOOOOOOOOPQg The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City * Daily » . SI MMER SCHOOL FOR COTTON CLASSING. SOON School Will Be Conducted From June 1$ to July 22 at State College. The Tribune Bureau, Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, June 3.—A summer school in cotton classing is again offered to cotton dealers, brokers and manufac turers this summer by the State Cel lege of Agriculture. For the past seven years, this school has proven to be one of the features of the summer school activi ties on the State College campus with from 30 to 50 men taking the courses offered. This year, the school begins on Monday. June 13, and lasts through July 22. The work is m charge of Prof. W. H. Darst. assisted by J. B. Ootner of the division of agronomy. Actual practice grading and instruc tion In grading and classing, will be given by R. L. Kause. assistant chief of the division of. cotton marketing for the Fnited States Department of Agriculture. “The course is designed esiiecially to develop expert dassers. especially for buyers, brokers and wureitousi men,’’ says Prof. Darst. “We will have separate classes for the begin ners and the experienced classers. The course will take the entire time of the student entering it and at the close of the school we will give the students an opportunity to take the U. S. Civ il Service examination for cotton doss ers. Four of the men who took the course last year passed this exami nation.'’ Prof. Darst states that this summer school in cotton classing has been one of the most successful events of the State College summer time work. It has been in operation seven years and is designed for mature men, ex perienced in cotton grading and class ing as well as for the beginner who knows nothing of cotton. The college now gets letters from all over the country testifying to the excellent quality of work done in the course. There will 'be about 10,000 snmpies of North Carolina grown cotton used in tlie work in addition to a number that have been collected by the gov ernment. A wide range of grade and staple will be used. Women to' Meet in Burlington. Burlington. N. C„ June 3.- t IN& -i-FtaUl plans fire being whipped inlo •hope here for the annual convention of the NoPth Carolina Federation of Business add Professional Women’s Clubs on June 10-11. Approximately 200 business ami professional women, representing all parts of the State, are expected to be in attendance. An elaborate plan of entertainment has been arranged, and notable speakers have been secured to address the sessions. THE STOCK MARKET Reported by Fenner & Beane. (Quotations at 1:45 F. M.) Atchison 181% American Tobacco B"i.. 133% American Smelting 181 American Locomotice 113% Allied Chemical 142 Atlahtic Cofeat Line • 188% American Teh A-Tel. 188 American Can 50% Allis Chalmers ■ 108 Baldwin Locomotice 220 Baltimore and Ohio J 121% Bangor 97% Bethlehem Steel 51% Chesapeake & Ohio - 184 Coca-Cola „ 117% DuPont 240% Dodge Bros. __ 21% Erie J 55% Frißco 114% General Motors 198% General Electric 105 Great Northern 1)1% Gold Bust i r 57%, Hudson 80% Int. Tef. 141% Kennecott Copper X 83% Liggett A Myers B 120% Mack Truck - 111% Missouri-Pacific 59 Norfolk A Western L__ 183% New Yprk Central 151% Pan American Pet. B 57% Rock Island 103% R. J. Reynolds 138% Remington 42 Standard Oil of N. J. 37 Southern Railway 127% Studebaker 50% Texas Co. 43 Tobacco Products 101% IT. S. Steel 123% Vick Chemical „ 59 Westlnghouse 78 Western Md. 55% Lorillard 27% Chrysler __ 48% - . ■■■■:■ I SAYS BELLANCA WILL LEAVE FOR BERLIN TONIGHT New York, June 3.— UP) —The New York Pun says today that preparations are underway for the Bellanca monoplane “Columbia” to hop off tonight for Berlin, Ger many, _ - Weather conditions are being in vestigated, and if favorable it is considered likely that Clarence B. Chamberlain, who was to have pi loted the plane on a New Y’ork to Paris non-stop flight, will take off. * ' Lta'-Cl ' SJJ LOAN COMPANIES TO SUE R. A. DOUGHTON? Many Are Not Satisfied With Classifi cation Given To Them By the State. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, June 3.—No summons or notice thHt snit has been brought against him by a group of Charlotte loan companies to restrain him from taxing them as stock-brokers, has been received. R. A. Doughton, Commission er of Revenue said today, in dismissing the objections which these linns hnve raised to the classification given them by the commissioner. Be doubts that an injunction will actually, be sought, since the supreme court has ruled that the procedure is for a concern to pay the tax assessed under protest, ami then sue to recover. The six Charlotte loan companies are objecting to paying the tax of $250 on the basis that they are not brokers, and that they should hnve a different classification. But Commis sioner Doughton. on- the basis of an opinion givrii him on this question by the Attorney General, holds that this is the proper classification. 111 his opinion, the Attorney General rules that the men operating these loan companies are not niouey lenders, but merely loan agents, who loan out money belonging to other people, and who collect a few dollars for the serv ices they perform and that hence in the strict sense of the wool they are really brokers, rather than money lenders. “These men are brokers," the At torney General holds, “that is, they are middle-men between the borrower and the lender, and bring them together in the transaction, but in no sense arc they dealers in stocks, bonds, notes or contracts for the payment of- money or other Securities. They do not deal in tlie note secured by the mortgage itself. They derive 110 profit from deal-, ing in these papers. Tlie profit they do derive is wholly for personal serv ices rendered by them to the borrower. Certainly., then, under no condition could sectiou 50 of the Keriniue act 4)FiwvChe<F*S-ort-fc.ftN*Ly 'fffrMfcvymg* an occupation tax upon these frtFh Or corporations.” , The i opinion then goes on do cite certain legal aspects of the act in volved tending to show tint these loan comiianies should be (axed as brokers, rather than be classified under the occupation tax, as they contend they should be. FINAL FIGURES ON 1926 COTTON CROP Special Canvass in May Shows 17,- 977,374 Equivalent 500-Pound Bales. Washington, June 3.—(A*)—Cot ton of the 1928 crop picked and gin ned amounted to 17,977.374 equiva lent 509-pound bales, the Census Bu reau announced today in its final re port after a special canvass in May. Final gainings by states were: Ala bama 1,487,821 equivalent SQO-pound bales; Arizona 122,9(12; Arkansas 1,- 547,932; California 131,211; Florida 31.954 : Georgia 1,490,105; Louisiana 829,407; Mississippi 1,887,787; Mis souri 217,859; New Mexico 71,000; North Carolina 1,212,819; Oklahoma 1.772,784; South Carolina 1,008,068; Tennessee 451.533; Texns 5,030,831; Virginia 51,329; and all other states 16,032. With Our Advertisers. Electric power will be off in Con cord from. 7 to 10 o'clock Sunday morning due to changes at Southern Power Co. sub-station here. Latest styles ip fnsliiannble foot wear arriving almost daily at the G. A. Moser Shoe Store. Best of quality from $6.95 down to $2.95. The house-wife will find her troubles lessened by rending ad. of Great At lantic and Pacific Tea Co. in this. paper. Ask your friends why the number of custonvbers of the Forest Hill Clean ing Co. has increased from 30 two years ago to 2700 today. Nothing short of the best in service is offered by M. It. Pounds, cleaner and dyer. The Boyd -W. Cox Studio produce portraits that reflect personality aiul good taste. Call now for an appoint ment for home portrait. Do yon want fresh vegetables? Then rend new ad. today of J. A H. Cash Store. See that your will is more than a wish by appointing an experienced and responsible executor such ns yon can 1 find at the Citizens Bank and Trust 1 Company. 1 The Standard Buiok Co. has a num ber of used cars for sale or exchange. I See list in new ad. today. , I The Shepherd Shoe Hospital does ! work that gives lasting satisfaction. Ice cream weather is here. Com | plete liue. of freezers at the Ritchie | Hardware Co. Belk's Department Store Is having a final clean-up on Queen Quality and other good makes of ladies’ shoes. ► These shoes are being offered at about ' half of their usual prices. Read care ] fully new ad. in this paper. Aif Oftedal Promoted. t Washington. Jane 3. — <P) —Alf I Olftedal, chief prohibition investigator I and coordinator on the Pacific Coast, I today was appointed deputy prohibi r tion eomtnissiouer in charge of en r forcemeat. 1 CONCORD, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1927 iSmis DESTROYED BY FIRE _ - N Cottage in Tampa Where, Levins Rilled Five Per* sons With Hammer Wai j Burned During Day. 1 1 POLICE SEEK TO l' FIND THE CAUSE They Are Inclined t 6 the Theory That Fire Was of Incendiary Origin—Mob Sought Levins Monday. Tampln. Fla.. .Tune 3.—o4*)—Thi three-room cottage in which five men* bars of a family were beaten to deal* with a hammer last Saturday, pref cipitating three nights of rioting, was destroyed today by fjre which the po lice believe was of incendiary origin. A railroad wntehman reported that the flames seemed to burst from ail parts of tlie house at once, and that three men scurried away in the dark? ness. Another mail said he heard shots just before the fire started. Po. lice were of the opinion that the cottage was fired either by friends, of B. F. Levins, confessed slayer of thi family, or by rioters. •WOMAN KILLED. HER SISTER-IN-LAW SHOT Women Were Attacked at Dairy While Husband Was Away.-—Robbery Given as the Cause. Jackson, Miss., June 3-.—64*)—Miss Martha Reese, 19 years old. Was fa tally wouuded after being attacked by an unknown person, and Mrs'. O. S. Reese, her sister-in-lhw, Was shot and wounded at their dairy here today.- Mr. Reese, who was nw#.v from home at tlie time of the attack, did noFlearn of it until he returned from his dairy route. His automobile and a sinnll bank were missing. Mrs. Reese, who was shot as she slept in bed with two children, was hastened to a hospital where her con dition- is critical. A negro nurse find i rejiorted the tragedy, having discov ered it when she went to work this morning. Physicians said the trag edy occurred between 5 and 7 n'cleelz. Gore Is Put to Death. •Milledgeville, Ga., June 3.—(A*)— After cheating the electric chair, four times since first sentenced bo die ffbly lti, 1926, Mel Gore, young Buckhead ba'rber. . today paid the penalty de manded by” the law, for his part in - the -murder in 1925 of W.' H. Cheek. Atlanta grocer. Up to the last hour before he was strapped in the zdiair. Gore continued to express the belief that something would happen again to save him at the last moment. He was pronounced dead 1 1-2 minutes after the current was turned on the chair. More than $300,000,000 Cut in Tax es is Advocated. Washington. June 2—Tax reduc-1 tion of even more than $300,000.- 0(H) was advocated today by Senator Edge of New Jersey, a Republic.!., member of the senate financial com mittee, at a conference' with Presi dent Coolidge. *' Senator Edge would raise the $300,009,000 limit suggested by other Republican leaders, and would con sume all of the prospective surplus . in the reduction program, contrary ; to the policy of the treasury in sav ing a margin with which to work on. Nine Killed in French Wreck. Paris, June 3. —(A*)—Nine persons were killed and seven injured when the Paris-Nimes express which left, Paris last night, ran into the overturn- j ed cars of a wrecked freight train at ' Moulins, 160 miles southeast of here. It is believed that no Americans were among the casualties. Two third class' coaches on the express train were badly smashed. j NEW SERIES ON SATURDAY, JUNE 4th We Open Our 78th Series of Building and Loan Running Shares, worth SIOO at maturity, will cost you only 25c a week. ' i ' Building and Loan is th* ideal way for wage earners I to save money, or to get tlie funds to pay for their homes. There is no better investment than prepaid shares of our stock, which are tax exempt. If you are not farhiliar with the Building and Loan we will be pleased to explain iL to you. Concord Perpetual Buid ing and Loan Association. OFFICES AT CABARRUS SAVINGS BANK H. I. WOODHOUSE i / P. B. FETZER Secretary and Treasurer Asst. Secretary | IL I I, I, I ■"■■MM.h «»j.M Ml I II ROWAN OFFICER IS j CONDITION TODAY .Deputy Sheriff Yarbor ough, Who Was Shot by Unidentified Negro, Is Not Yet Out of Danger. ! NEGRO’S HUNT IS CONTINUED | Sheriff Krider and Posses Are Scouring County for Negro But Have Not Lo cated Him So Far. j Salisbury. June 3.— UP) —Deputy Sheriff L. T. Yarborough, seriously > wounded yesterday when shot in the nock by an unidentified negro, is showing no improvement at the local hospital, and his condition today is said to be more serious. He ,'s par alyzed from the shoulders down. The negro who did the shooting lias not been caught. Sheriff J. H Krider and his officers continuing a search for him since the shooting at Yadkin yesterday morning. One sus pect named Joe Ferguson, is held, but officials are inclined to believe he is the wrong man. The negro believ ed to be the one wanted was seen yes terday on the Yadkin river, but made a getaway when one shot was made at him’. He ran into the woods and was not seen again. The hunt was contin ued today. THE STOCK MARKET. The Stock Market Experienced An other S!nkii% -Spell As Bear Traders Renewed Efforts. New York, June 3. —(A*)—Stock market experienced another sinking spell today as bear traders renewed their efforts- to gain control of price movement. Enrl.v gains of 1 to 5 points were reduced or cancelled in tlie wave of selling orders which swept ovtr tjie market at midday, but simu lators for advance quickly supplied buying orders and the market beaded upward again by early afternoon. .Trading was'again in enormous vol ume, the ticker recording quotations running as much as 20 minutes behind die market, ('losing was wepk. Total jmJta approximated 2.500.01 H) shares. COOLIDGE WILL VIEW U. S. FLEET TOMORROW Will Be First Time He Has Viewed the Entire Fleet. Washington. .Tune s.—(A’L—Presi dent Coolidge will view the United States fleet in full array tomorrow for the first time. From his yacht, the Mayflower, anchored off the Vir ginia Capes the President will watch for one and one-half hour the naval Craft pass in review. It will be the first time he has reviewed the fleet, and also the first occasion on which he has seen any considerable number of naval vessels. The review will take place in the afternoon. The Presi dent was planning to depart down tlie ' Potomac River today after lundh and was hastening this " morning to dear bis desk. American Killed in Mexico. Mexico City, June 3.—(A*)—Dis patches from Guadalajara today said that Arthur Brewer, an American coal merchant of that place, died from pis tol shots fired Wednesday by Javier Diaz in a quarrel over business mat ters. Diaz escaped and a search was started by the police. Three Bodies Found hi Mine. Roanoke. Va., June 3. —(A*)—Three bodies have been recovered from a , main entry of the Warrior Pocahon i tas Coal Co. near Bluefield which was wtockcd today by a terrific ex plosion. The number of men in the mine at the time is not known., but it is said to have been small. Tele phone lines do not touch in 20 miles | of the explosion. MARRY YOUNG, RULE HOME, MEN ADVISED Elizabeth City, N. C„ June 3. '—<A>)—Young man, marry at 25 or earlier, and marry a girl from 19 to 22. years of age. . Let her know from the begin ' ning you are master of the house. Move away from mothers-in-law and don’t let them meddle. These are but bite of advice handed out by Rev. Edwin Fere , bee Sawyer, the "marrying parson” of Elizabeth City, whose ceremon ies run into the thousands, to those i who would be happy though mar ried. “Os ail the folks I have mar j ried,” the 73-year-old minister ob > serves, "those most anxious to get * through with the ceremony in a j hurry are the widows and widow- I ers.” , NOT ALARMED OVER I TYPHOID FEVER CASES Increase in Case To Be Expected An nually At This Season of the Year. Tribune Bureau , Sir Walter Hotel. , Raleigh, June 3.—There is nothing alarming in the increase in the number of typhoid fever cases in the state, according to Dr. F. M. Register, di rector of the bureau of vital statis tics of the State Board of Health, since the typhoid season is now at band and ail increase is always ex liected in the sunftner. But this condition has not caught the Board of Health napping, since this condition has been anticipated and for several weeks typhoid innocu lation clinics have been held—and still are being belli—not only in the 87 counties in the state with full-time county health units, but in eleven other counties as well. The eleven counties are Perquimans, Greene, Gates, Camden, Harnett, Warren, Alexander, Caldwell, Davis, Stanley nnd Washington. That tuere wiii oe a considerable in crease in the number of typhoid cases in the state this summer is regarded as virtually certain by Dr. Register, largely due to the Mississippi flood vdtuation, with people from the flood area bringing it into this state. In fact,there is likely to -be a large in crease in typhoid in all the southern states this summer. And because of this fact, people in every section of .the state should be innoeulated against typhoid at once, if they hnve not been innoeulated re cently, the Board advises. “A large amount of typhoid is bound to be carried into this state by refugees from the flooded areas, ami by regular, typhoid carrier?," said •Dr. Register, "with the result that greater precautions than usual should ' be taken by the poeple in this, state to guard against infection' from out side sources. "Esiiecially should milk ami Water supplies be watched very carefully and protected against contamination, and every means possible should be taken to exterminate flies, or at least prevent them from coming in contact with food or milk,' because flies are among the most general carriers of tlie typhoid and colitis bacilli “If tbe people of the state will assist the Board of Health in these matters, it would be possible’ to keep tlie number of typhoid cases down to ; a minimum.” THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady Today at Unchanged Prices to Decline of 2 Points But Later Rallied. New York, May 3.— UP) —The cot ton market opened steady today at unchanged prices to a decline of 2 points in response to easier Liverpool cables, but rallied almost immediately on reports of warm dry weather in west Texas. October sold up to 17.20 and January to 17.48, or 4 to 5 points net higher, but this bulge met renew ed liquidation and was some local selling later on rumors of showers in the Southwest. October reacted to 17.03, a net decline of about 11 to 12 points, but there seemed to be more ' or less doubt as to whether there had ' been any adequate rain in west Texas, and the market steadied up again by the end of the first hour, trading re ' maining quiet, and at midday October 1 was selling around 17.07 and January 17.37; or about 7 to 8 points net lower. After selling early at 17.20, Oc tober reacted to 17.03, the mid-after noon market showing net declines of about 9 to 11 points. Cotton futures opened steady: J il ly 16.72; October 17.15; December 17.39; Januaryq 17.44; March 17.64. Severe Earth Shocks Reported. Halifax, N. S., June 3. —(A 5 )—Se- vere earth shocks beginning at 4:31 a. m. and lasting two hours were re corded on the seismograph at Dal housie University this morning. Of ficials estimated that the disturbance was 5,600 miles distant. ICAN YOU SCORE TEN ON THESE? I I—What is the derivation of the word Mentor? 2—Who was the only negro world's heavyweight champion pugilist? 3—By whom was he defeated? 4—What is a middleman? s—What5 —What is the Milky Way? B—What inland city ranks third among English seaports? 7—What are the colors of the Irish tri-color flag? B—Give the area and height of the Rock of Gibraltar. 9—What la the population of the British empire, including India? ]10 —What is the daily total of pas sengers using tbe East River bridges of New York City? Lindbergh Hack With French / After His 7*4 To England! *- \ * + FILM COMEDIAN DENIES CHARGE OF INFIDELITY Says Wife Drank Heavily and Squan dered Fortune.—Unfit to Rear Chil dren. I-os Angeles, June 2.—Charlie Chap lin today leaped into the divorce battle ground which had been .dominated by hie wife, Lita Gray Chaplin, for near ly live months and took up the fight by tiring a broadside of denials and countercharges in a 100 page cross complaint and answer to his wife's suit. Mrs. Chaplin was charged by her husband with defiantly associating for a long period of time with two young men whom he name, with' in toxication, neglect of their two chil dren, extravagance and fortune seek ing. The comedian of the films pictured himself as a hard working, faithful, loving and indulgent husband and father. His complaint represented his 10- year-old wife as neglecting their home and children for parties and excessive liquor drinking with other young men and as definiat to his wishes as to her conduct. Chaplin declared his wife had de manded $1,125,000 of him and not merely the half of their community property to which she was entitled. He declared the community .property amounted to but $260,000 and this and separate property to $1,125,000. He declared his wife unfit to have the care and support of their children, and asked the court to deny her de- 1 cree for divorce and to grant to him instead the divorce and custody of their two children, Charles Spencer, Jr., and Eydney Earlen, aged about two and one respectively. ■ The movie actor and producer de nied that he had ever spent a great part of his time since he was mar ried with motion picture actresses or any other women, either publicly or privately. FINGER PRINT SYSTEM PRAISED BY BRIDGES Says System Aids Officers in Getting Correct Data On Prisoners. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, June 3.—How 1 js It possible to 1 tell when a prison** i* telling a string of lies? By his finger prints! At least Pardons Commissioner Ed win B. Bridges is firmly convinced that the, finger print system is the most effective method he has yet you nil to prove.that a prisoner is lying. “I was talking to a prisoner the other day who is sentenced to be elec-, trocuted," said Bridges, “and he told me. that he had never been in any trouble before, bad never been.arrest ed. and had never stolen anything or hurt anybody. I wah convinced he was lying, for he was making out entirely too good a case for himhelf. But I had no way to prove it. “Then I thought of the finger prints, ami asked H. H. Honeycutt, chief of the identification bureau, to look up this prisoner's finger-print record. And this is what we found out.”— The man's name here is given as Will Taylor, a negro, and was sen tenced from Gaston county to be elec trocuted for first degree burglary. He has a long criminal record under two aliases in at least two other states. In Virginia he was convicted of bur glary and robbery tinder the name of Robert Fay Shelby, and sentenced to ten years in the Virginia prison. He escaped from there, and later was con victed of housebreaking in Baltimore on eight different counts, and given five years there, under the name of William Gibsou. He escaped again and is still wanted in Maryland. “Yes. sir, that tlnger-priiit system is a great' system. -1 have heard of it indirectly for years, but this is the first time I ever realized how com , pletely it works,” said Bridges. Four-Legged Chicken Seen in Spar tanburg. Spartanburg, June 2.—A fully de veloped four-legged chick, preserved in alcohol, is in the possession of N. E. • Ray, a farmer near Spartanburg. ■ The inonsfrosity was brought to Spartanburg today and attracted con siderable attention wherever shown. The head, wings and other parts of the body of the fowl appeared normal.' One of the legs was placed forward • on the body, two were iu the normal • position and tne fourth appeared to - be an olfsbot of one of the last two, i though fully developed and equal to them in size. Mission Workers To Meet In Meores ville. Mooresville, June 2. —The Woman's Missionary conference of the States ville district of the western North Carolina will be held in Central Methodist church here next Tuesday. The program will be in of Mrs. George M. Foard, of Statesville, district secretary. Other officers who will 'be present are Mrs. Dale Stent*, superintendent of social service; Mias Amy Hackney, superintendent of young people’s work and Rev. Mis Clav, missionary from Brasil. J Capt. Thomas D. M cares Dead. Wilmington, N. C., June 3. —(A*)— Captain Thomas D. Meares, for thirty years city clerk and treasurer of Wil mington, and master of the Supreme Exchequer of the Knights of Pythias, died suddenly at Wrigbtsville Beach today. He was a Confederate vet eran and more titan eighty yean old. ' ■ THE TRIBUNE TODAY’S NEWS TODAY I NO. 123 3 Landed at Le Bourget Fid<| | During Morning After | Flight Had Been l for Time by Weather. || ANOTHER CROWD W AT THE FlffiJ|| Not as Large as One W||l \ I First Greeted the Ftftf|f But It Was Just as Ml thusiastic as the Firsts | \ I> Bourget, France. June 3. —Captain Lindbergh landed at o*ll Le Bourget air field at 10.02 o'cJqißm tin's morning from England. j Hr had landed at Lympne, 50 southeast of Kenley, England, flying about 3K minutes, when j countered a dense fog, and decided HB* await more favorable conditions, \ Shortly after 8 o'clock the fog lift- j ed, and at 8:13 lie again took the The weather became fine. I Lindy covered the distance.- fa, j hours 27 minutes actual flying flfljjgjjl When he arrived at Le Bourget fKjfl made a descent on the civil field and ran along on the grodjra 3 for a few minutes. He then tool fW’Jj air again and everybody thou gilt ICS| was going to fly over Paris. But rfi "4 ter gaining altitude he hopped over j®;3 ti»e military field adjoining, Thiel'S was only a small crowd to witneSß landing in France, compared to ffife s| .large crowd that saw him land, nSHiS the trans-Atlantic fljglit two j ago tomorrow. But, the ctjOsit® just as enthusiastic. Twenty Fiji®,: 21 planes look the air when he and Hew around iu his honor.!® I Capt. Richard D. White, navdi dwm taelie, represented the bassy at the arrival. He ln#*l embassy car with him to take file djMjS er to Paris just as soon as the borawyM ed plane in which the flight from Ens land was made, was taken cane j Among the first to greet CaptafjiSH Limlberg was Benjamin Mahoney ifei president of the Ryan firm wM|m9 built the “Spirit of St. Louis,” tfcfftls trans-Atlantic plane. He had beqjjsfl at the airdrome since dawn, and in j the interim was taken about the fiekM| and shown the types of French oonfc*|l| mercial planes in dujty use on Big Dinner For Lindbergh. T| j New Y'ork, June 3. — (A 3 ) — The larg- 1 est dinner ever given a private ittdtyf- J dual in this city Will be' the’ feature t|j of New York's three day wehsui* tp ;1 Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh. ThiWiW‘fl 'thousand five hunderd persons are ei pected to crowd The east and west jj ball rooms of Hotel Commodore fag-l* the dinner which will be given mr-thti J evening of June 15. j i_ RELIEF AGENCIES SEEK -i.JiH TO HELP REFUhfIHKi This Is the Greatest Task Now 111 till I Flood Region. >, I 3 I New Orleans, June 3.— (A s ) —-As flood waters of the Mississippi and j Atcliafalaya left the affected potyfoMtji of the state relief agencies, today | turned to the larger problem of refia- J bilitating the thousands of refugees. ji Red Cross announced that a specidfifs relief train would be run parishes affected as soon as possible, j This train will make stops at prilptjfln pal towns and conferences will be. I held between relief commission antfjfti committies in all towns. Agriculture 1 finance corporation loans and -RmH Cross grants will be made at these .-’j conferences. The train will IlaVp | here June ilth. I The situation on the lower Atibfi* a falaya was practically unchanged IPJji The Mississippi River guage Ifere .|1 showed n further drop today. j 14.640 Visit Tomb Os Uncoln in May. Jj Springfield, 111., June 3.— Nearly.<3 15,000 persons visited the tomb of Abralmm Lincoln here in May, settifi§[gi an all-time re<-or<l for that The figure was 14,040 persons, co«||B pared to 14,240 in May, 1926 and I A wreath sent by President CodMl idge as his annual token was placctEdl ,on the casket of the Emancipator . j terday. 'Hie wreqtli, intended Wj Memorial Day, was delayed in ttKliit. •& ,j Barara-Philathea In Session At MtCj I i Mount Airy, June 2.—The delegatml >to the Baraea-Pliilathea couvefitywijM , are arriving in large numbers bv evenM ) train as well us by bus and- t>riv*sigM j cars. I About a hundred had regtetei*K« an hour before the first service, resentatives being here from section of the state, the extreme eaqjH and west being well represented. No City Mail Delivery SrttttjH Afternoons. I&9 . j i There will not be n mail deHrijaH by city carriers on Saturday. affijM noons from now until the last taH • September, it was announced faajH The order to discontinue the SatuinjH afternoon delivery during the titflflH l 4 months was signed by the j of the United States. ■ —•—m
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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June 3, 1927, edition 1
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