T p SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher. 01 l ME XLVIH. i, re Than Score of Deaths Are Reported in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee as Result of Storm II! m DEATHS 1 : -ili' SScE VILLAGE Scven’y-Five Others in Same Vicinity Were Injured.— j V v Dwellings Wrecked by the Winds. vwm DEATHS IN KENTUCKY school Hoy in South Ports •r )uth, Ohio, Killed When Roof of School Building Hit the Ground. .] . i ini. Tcnii.. March 12.—Twenty i., : ivporP'd killed ;i)i\t i*• playing. H»** Hermitage Damaged by Wind. Na'iivifi' 'iVnn., March 12 —The lei: M*tliodist Jhthlishiitg House, i ' j .d word tills morning that] I I i. .lames, wife of the Mtliodist j ]» - - ! l’iosei). was killed in a storm j tl l 11 place last night, andj h 11 Mr. James was injured. l ii l 1; .•' "i n removed to a hospital 1 -lacks..a. the report said. A. ii,.- 11 e rin ifa go, tin* home (»f An di ■ •■■v .hiek>c c)i. r)ie wind blew down | da an. in cedar trees planted over I ‘ , ‘ l ‘ N “ r, °' FOSTER ON TRIAL I.irst (if A'i Communists to Be Placed iii.“ *’ h i iv :| l( . first of 22 iK*rsons ;ir !|,'h '■ fter a raid on the national 1 '' ! ’i’ i• 11 .of i.h»* <*oinnuiuist,. party | ' p, fac* trial. No Decision in Pot liter ('use. '! ington, March 12. —Rejecting a ! T’ ; i ' • review, the Supreme Court; ' ' • today it would not deter-j t this time whether the Feder-| 11 >'t< have jurisdiction to try liol- j ,v !’ "itii' i. indicted for the murder ■ Aie\ i'. Cronkliite at Caiup Mash., iii 1!I1S. The court 1 : 'he appeal should hint 1 been r; h» ihe civeiiit court of appeals, 1 *ase was referred to the first J ln i mni of appeals. iff.Mix MICHIGAN GIRL’S : MPKKATfRK REACHED. 11S *' Says High Murk in Case of th*- I ) oils Is 115 and Her Cwndi -1,1 a !s I nehanged. i. Mich., March !».—Dr. I I nfnet, in charge, of the Case Pvclyji Lyons E scan aba girl, ' . !i ni|iei-atinv of more than 114 ■ ' r a pc*riod of more than has attracted the atten l 1 medical profession. tonight 11 temperatme as 114.2. The ~ 1 ' "‘'tiiati's pulse was given as I pressure, l2_‘; respiration, ” • • t.fair: mentality, normal. 1 'C grams arid letters are be ' " 'd l*y Miss Lyons. She 'j, !l1 with much interest and ' . >hc* would try to answer V' , 1 awhile. , ■ h - hi. *r stated today that reports ' / ' hist, night to newspapers 1 i! hipcniVt lire had reached lIS -pecial thermometc.r was u • not authentic, and were 1 f '."'.O by him. ' 'deal thermometer used by 1 -token, but that is not un i:i,"gh rapid expansion, he highest absolute record that ~l 1:1 n as authentic was reach v, ' '-Id * when the tempemture ' ] i r > by a special thermome •);, ; ' 111 «* by the local Weather *’ 'he doctor saicl^ THE CONCORD TIMES, BEIORUMK American Quarters in Lon don Learn of One Fleet That Makes Regular Trips to American Coasts. London. March 12 (By the Associat 'd Press >. —Wholesale ru mrunning in t(» tin* I nited States by a fleet of four or live ships registered under the* j Panauian flag, is being tinanc-ed by a j irominont German magnate, according ro information it‘cc*;v(*d in res]ionsihle American cpmrtcrs, The fleet, it is de clares!. is being chiefly operated from ihi* l nited States end by a former Ger man captain of a Hamburg-American liner. The fleet itself is under the com mand of a character of questionable nationality who achieved notoriety in onnection -with marine operations of a dul ions* nature during tin* war. .While absolute proof of these vast op erations is lacking, the information re oeivod by American cbvl'es here points to a landing of liquor cargoes in tin* j I'nited States c*liieflv from Glasgow. ! MISTRIAL DECLARED IN MRS. El GENE INGRAM CASE \Yoman Was Charged With Sending: Objectionable Letters to Principals at Wedding. Florence, S. March th—At jti :2fl o'clock ibis evening. Judge H. A. M. I Smith, in federal court, ordered a mis-! trial in the case of Mrs. Eugene In- i gram, formerly of Benedict. Mil., and i Washington. _ 1). now of Columbia, | who was under trial on the charge of j sc.mling ohs<'cne letters through tlu* mails of the principals in the wed ding of Miss Margarie McGfegor ami Thomas Boyle, in Columbia, last Oc : tober. The jury had been out since j about noon this" morning. Mrs. Ingram lias been on trial Imre for tin* t>asf three days. The cos.* was given to the. jury at 1 1 ;4o this morning and it was not un i't itl oi> evec.lqg la’v red i:' ai lie' jm y room. At that hour tin* foreman reported that it was impossible for the jury to arrive* at a verdict, and that no ad ditional instructions would assist them in reaching an agreeme.ut. Judge Smith then ordered a mistrial. Throughout the trial the* prosecu tion hid stressed i~h * testimony of handwriting experts to prove that the defendant was the. author of the ob jectionable letters. The defense played up the apparent lack of mo tive*. All parties interested in the trial were prominently and well , known throughout South Carolina. HOTEL CASE BEGINS IN THE QCEEN CITY E. I). Letta Defendant, Says Terms Lnder Which He Subscribed Were Nat Carried Out. Charlotte, (March 9.—When amigo B. F. Long, of Statesville, overruled the motion of counsel for defense to order non-suit in the action or the Citizens Hotel company against E. i). Latta. for his failure-to pay a sub scription of $50,000 to the capital stock, of the, corporation' the defend ant was called to the stand Friday morning. The plaintiff company introduced ! two papers and an excerpt from the hi l of complaint and answer Thurs day. The first paper introduced was ; the article of incorporation of the ; hotel company to which the signature j of Mr. Latta was attached along with ! his agreement to subscribe stock I amounting to sso.f«oo'. The other of | ficial entry made by the* plaintiff was ! the deed for the transfer of the prop j erty on which the now hotel is being j built to the Citizens Hotel company. • Mr. Latta refused to make payment. Judge Long said before delivering his opinion as to the motion that he would be forced jto let the jury pass upon the evidence. Letters were read by both sides. Defense made a strong point in agree ment by two hotel companies op the West Trade street site before Mr. Lat ta knew of it. Mr. Latta’s refusal is based oil the ground that conditions upon which he subscribed ssi>;ooo were not complied with. Large crowds attended the hearing. Kept Girl Trisoner For Number of Days. Henderson, March 11.—John George was given six months on the. roads by Judge* Allen in Vance Superior Court Saturday. George, with Lo renzo Cox. was tried before Recorder Sutherland several months ago on a charge of having- taken a girl to a I lonely spot above the North Ilcjider- I son mill village and mistreating her. i keeping her prisoner there for several ; days. Both drew long terms in the recorder’s court. Judge Allen se.nt them both to the roads for six months, with'the stipulation that the time al ready served by Cox should be de ducted from his sentence. The majority of actresses are said to have a deep-rooted belief in the luck of oats. One of the most celebrated women of the American stage always brings her cat to the theatre upon first nights to bring her luck. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS ENURE MISSISSIPPI BADLY AFFECTED B1 DAMAGING STORMS Dozens of Cities in Valley Have Been Cut Off From Communication With the Outside World. BLIZZARD DOES SEVERE DAMAGE Transportation Both Steam and Electric Are Badly Crippled.—Rain Adds to Misery in Two States. i ("nii ago. 111.. March 12.—Dozens of j cities in the* Mississippi Vafley today] were deaf and speechless as far as] their relations with tin* outside world! were concerned. A storm coming up from the,* southwest, spread, fan-like ever the great plains, and caused death and property loss and demolished lines of communication. Telephone and telegraph lines were blown down, iso lating seftne cities completely, while other communities of many thousands of inhabitants conversed with the rest of the world by a single copper strand. As communication was restored to day stories of death and property de struction began to ported several persons, mostly n<>- groes. were killed hv the storm at Pinson. Tenn., and a half hundred homes were destroyed and a freight train blown from the tracks. Tin* ab sence of wire communication with the stricken district made details impossi ble, hut it was reported 7."» persons were injured. High winds which did much damage through central Illinois, seemed ,to have spent their energy before they i reayhet’. The wind and the rain were accompanied in Ghieago by an el(*e trie-al storm, which, as far as known, did little damage*. , A tornado took three lives in Ken tucky last night, according to meager reports rocohed early today. Central and southern Wisconsin an* i tied' up by a blizzard which started last night and still raged today. The snow is heavy and in some parts of tin* state high drifts have formed from tin* high wind. The storm has created j the* greatest .damage of its kind this] winter. And one man is dead of ex- j haustion from bawling tin* elements, according to the correspondent. Transportation, both steam and elec- 1 trie, in the storm area is badly crip- ; pled, and wires of till kinds are down in many sections. Thousands of Milwaukeeans were compelled to walk to work this morn-1 ing because (installed street: car set*-1 vice. Many automobiles were stiu4( in huge, drifts. Eighteen -inches of snow fell /in Madison. Itain. accompanied by a wind which tit times attained a velocity of 60 miles an hour, was general over the Eastern part of Missouri and southern Illinois last night and today. EASE AGAINST E. V, (DARKE CONTINUED Former Imperial Wizard of Klan To Re Tried in Texas in the the Near Future. Houston Texas, March 12.—When the case of E. Y. Clarke, of Atlanta, former Imperiaf Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, charged with violation of the Mann Act was called today in Federal court, district attorney Hold en announced he had received word through the Atlanta district attorney that Clarke would be ready for trial! the latter part of this month or eariy ] in April. Federal Judge Mutcheson will set the date of trial late today. Program for Howell’s Community Club The Howell's Community Club will meet on Friday, March 16th, at 7:20 p. in. Following is the program to he carried out : Business. . Ripening Exercise—President TE|irt- Recitation: “Lonesome’’ Rosalie Hart sell. Spring Song—By Children. Declamation: "Glutton"—C. W. Bost. Jr. Solo —Willie Ruth Bost. Reading: “A Breach of Hospitality" —Beatrice Morgan. Duet —Mrs. Will Black and Miss Lunda Garmon. Monologue: “Wait a Minute”—By Messrs. Ross and Felix White. Pantomime: “The Old Oaken Buck et”. Address. Closing Song. Oldest Episcopal Bishop Seriously 111. St. Louis, Mo„ March 12.—The Rt. Rev. Daniel Tuttle, 86 years old. pre siding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, who has been ill with grippe for a week, was reported to he in a critical condition Hoday. Ho is said to he the oldest Episcopal bishop in the world. CONCORD, N. C, MONO AY, MARCH 12, 1923. THE GREAT PROGRAM OF ROAD BLINDING Working Every Day to Complete the Stale’s $65,000,000 Program. Raleigh. N. March lt>. (By the Associated Press!. —Sons of hard toil j and steady brain-work, engineers ed" the North Carolina Highway Com ; mission, like cogs in a great, fast run- I uing machine, are Working every day, regardless of weather conditions, to I complete the state's s<;r>,ooo.O(K) road j building program, whiefy when com | plefed, will total approximately 2,060 ! miles of hard surface highways. 80 smoothly is this machine working that if it rains one day and stops over 4,500 miles of uupaved loads in the state, under maintenance by the high way department, will have been diag ged before the end of tht* next day. In some sections, the engineers have to ride miles on horseback to tlieir work, being unable to operate automobiles on account of liu* road conditions. Yet. in six months or ajyear these sections will be accessible through modern highways. When a decision is reached by coun ty and state authorities to build a new road, the chief engineer sends one of Ins engineers in the district to make :i u inspection. When the report is completed, it is submitted to the chief engineer, who fields a conference with' the highway commissioners involved and it decision reached as to the loca tion of the road. The plans and recommendations of the engineer then go to tin* drafting and planning (leimrtment in Raleigh, where they are studied and improved, if possible. The location of materials plays an important part in the decis ion reached its to tin* road to he con structed. The division which designs bridges work out plans for the type» of bridges to lit* placed over waterways intersecting the highway. After tin* contract has been granted for tin* con struction. all plans are placed in the hands of tin 1 contraetqrs. A state* highway inspector takes up his duties on tin* day die* 'contractors start work and remit ins \in the job un til the work is completed. He sees that all materials are mixed properly and tested and that till specifications are followed. In order that the best materials nitty he used in the highway, all shipments are inspected before they leave the factories or qua fries. After arriving on tin* scent* ed’ operations, they again are tested. Samples then are shipped to the commission's laboratory in Raleigh, where a .third test is made. After the highway is completed sam ples are taken from it and sent to Ral eigh. These are "riven a thorough test in order to ascertain that all speci fications have hesrtj.followed. In addi tion to this, flnily samples of eomplet- 1 ed sectiofls are sent in l’br examination in order to insure proper mixtures. "It is most diHicvU.’’ sajd Gharles M. Upliam. chief'oitgfneer fonighT,“To obtain efficient inspectors. W<* nn*| compelled to have=a school for them, i being one of the few states in tin* Un ion to have such institutions. Wo want ottr men thoroughly trained in order that wo may construct tin* best highways possible," The resident, engineer makes regu lar visits to the highways under con struction. When they are completed, lu* makes ah inspection and reports to the district etigim*er, who. ill turn, gives his findings to the chief engineer. Each district engineer has about thir ty jobs under his supervision. In discussing the ’ construction pro-! gram, Mr. Upham said the $15,000,000 j in bonds, recently voted by the general J assembly for highway work, would keep the present plan of operation go ing for three years. At the end of this time, he expeotes to -have com pleted more than 2.000 miles of hard surface highways in addition to im proved reads of other types. Dne thousand miles of haxd surface roads already have been completed or are under contract. Approximately 2,f Hu* car and Smith, they said, shot five or six times at Fred Widenhouse. Thev saw Smith reloading his gun, some of them testified. The four defendants knew nettling of the shooting' when called to tin* stand. Does said Shuping had his gun and that lie did not shoot at all. lie thought Smith or Gails must have done the shooting. Shuping did riot shoot, he’testified, and he also statoel that lu* was trying to throw his gun down when Mr. Means thought he was going- to shoot Mr. ITohlbrooks. Smith testified that his home is in Parkton and not Norwood, as he tul.i the 'officers last night. He is married, was driving bis own car and was hendtxl for Kannapolis. He did not shoot at Mr. Means and did not shoot at Mr. Widenhouse, he said. He said he thought if there was any shoot ing Dees or Shuping did it. Gails said he was from Wilmington .originally, but had been working in Raeford. He said the crowd had two pints of liquor, which they chipped in and bought. He did not shoot, and said his gun was nbt fired. He was (Continued on Page Three.) Crisis in Ruhr Nears As Clashes Increase i -I j * 2)00 PRISONERS St** * TAKEN IN RA, !* . ■ * I Dublin, March 12 IBy the As- rb I dt sociated Press). —Nearly 300 rfc id; prisoners taken in the week-end j & raids in England and Scotland ] are . understood to have been & I & landed here from British war- ships. 2(H) men from one. and tlie & remainder including about 30 & women, from another. All were H 'F conveyed under heavily armed rb d- guards to jail. __ dt * -* ♦ * m * & w. :* * * * * rb * * ♦ ROE PENSIONERS BY A SLIGHT OF HAND TRICK Changes Envelopes After JWoney Is Placed in Them by Unsuspecting Persons. Washington. March 11. —A "sharper" is going through the south cheating veterans or the widows of ex soldiers out of pension money. A slight of hand trick is used to swindle the old people. This fellow has work ed hfs way through Mississippi, Ala bama, and Georgia and is traveling to ward the Carolinas and Tennessee. The federal, government is after him. Gayly dressed and glib ol the fellow, makes headway vimore a less pretentious chap would not. “Posing as a special agent of the pensions bureau." the department of interior warned today, “this man has been calling at the homes of pensioned soldiers with an announcement that an increase in their pensions to 872 has been awarded them, providing they pass a simple test. “The surprised pensioner, according to the information obtained by the bu reau of pensions, promptly agrees to any sort of test and the swindler then presents an empty envelope and asks that the former soldier place all money itr his possession inside of it. Here's the proposition, the fake pen sion agent then explains. All the gov ernment wants to know is whether you're an honest man. Now. -m go ing to seal this envelope with thf* mon ey you’ve just given me in it. and leave it with you to keep until the commissioner of pensions conies around tomorrow, ““If he finds the money un touehed you've passed the test and proven you're an honest man. If fie . discovers you vc* Lorn open Hu* envelope and taken out the money, it shows Mbit you're dishonest and no increase in pension will he* given you. “Sums running all the way from $5 to SSO have been eagerly dug up by tlie pensioned widows or old soldiers, and the clever flini-flammer' in each in stance has deftly slipped the money in to the envelope and given it to the pensioner to hold awaiting the arrival of the commissioner 'of pensions the following day. But the commissioner : fails to put in his appearance either | the next day or any subsequent days. ! Growing (impatient the pensioners | finally give up hope and tear open ! their envelopes. Instead of finding j their money in it they sire startled to | discover ii few pieces of old nevvspa ] per.” ] The sleek’stranger claiming to he a ! pension agent lots worked a slight of | hand trick in transforming the money land instead of putting the currency in I the envelope has placed it in his i»x*k j et. Department of justice agents and i special examiners of the pension hu i reau are conducting a search for the swindler but have so far been unable to catch- him. 173,466 Bales of Cotton Exported in January. j Washington, March 10. —Raw cotton I exports during January amounted to j 473,466 bales, valued at $65.2560,1KM). ! the department of commerce announc ed today, compared with exports dur ing January 1922, of 475,910 bales, valued at $45,233,000. Cotton exports during the seven I months ending with January totalled 2.752.730 valued at $464,593,000 as ' compared with 4,183.232 hales worth $307,899,000 for the seven months end ing with January, 1922. ALLEGED RUM DEALER IN CHARLOTTE KILLED Dead Man and His Companion Chased By Polite Officers. —Companion i Wounded. , < ’lia riot to. March 10.—After a spec tacular chase that led from the sub urbs of Mint street almost to the heart of town, ti man identified as John Da vis. and charged by the police with be ing .*) rum runner, was shot and killed liore today and si companion, Oscar ! Brielges. was wounded sis they sibstn doned their automobile and fled. Eight officers arid 2 machines chased the car Faring the two men, and the police said that a supply of liquor was thrown away during the race. Shortly after the. shooting l/ouis Johnson, a comity policeman, who. it j was ssiid. probably fired the shot that ! killed Davis, appeared with counsel l lx'fon* Magistrate <’o6t). and after a ! hearing the magistrate decided the i killing was legally justified. It was declared during the hearing I that police found five quarts of whis key in the machine, and that Davis j or Bridges had tired on the pursuing : policemen during the chase. Magis trate Cobh had issued a warrant yes terday authorizing the search of the. machine. . Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Darnell left yes terday for Elkin, where they will j spend two weeks. 52.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. ' v: ’ I s Are Dead as 8 \x& ArS i oi clashes in Vari ous Parts of the Ruhr Dis trict Last Night. MORE TROOPS TO BE USED AT ONCE I Germans Make Attack on Several French Posts and Guards and in Each In stance Casualties Resulted Recklinghausen, March 12 (By the Associated Press). —Eight Germans are dead as the result of clashes with : French troops in various parts of I Recklinghausen district last night, i One French soldier and three Germans | were wounded in a riot at Dortmund. I A stage of seige. has been declared ; in the entire Recklinghausen district i in consequence of these disturbances. Additional troops have been sent to preserve order at liner, Where a ' French army officer and a French ci vilian official were killed Saturday night and where excitement liqs since j n».en running high, resulting in re | newed shootings. Os the Germans who met death two - were shot down while trying to es ! cape from the Gendarmes in the liner i disturbances. Five others were kil j c.d and several wounded an hour later I when a crowd attacked a French j guard post. The eighth German was 1 killed at Dortmund when a crowd at i tacked a French guard. Disturbances were caused at liuer last night when, French gendarmes went to the home, of a German sus pected of being implicated in the as sassination of the French official. Two Germans who were* found there were j arrested. They were being taken to a guard post when, according to re | ports, they tried to escape and were i shot. \ j .SOUTHERN TRAINS ARE DAMAGED IN WRECK ; Extent of Damage Not Known, as ; Telephone and Telegraph Wires i Are Down. Cincinnati, March 12. —Destructive winds which tore, down telephone and telegraph wires, interfered today with J official*?of the Southrn- railway h»ugj_ .when they endeavored to ascertain the l extent of damage caused when a train i from New Orleans ran into the rear I of a passenger train at Pulaski, Ky. _ | It wa,s reported that several per ! sons were injured, hut how severely I could not he ascertained. Both trains iW( vy hound for Cincinnati. | At the Union Central Station here it was reported that the QueCn City Special, coming from New Orleans and the Carolina Special from Asheville and other North Carolina* points, were I late. Two Hurt. i Cincinnati, <)., March 12.—Two men were Jiiut early today in a rear end ! collisttrm on the Southern railway at I Pulaski. Te.nn., which was caused in directly by a wind storm, according to a report received by officials of the road hCrc. PROHIBITION AGENTS MUST TAKE ACTION State, Army and Navy Department, Not to Take Action Against Mem bers Who Have Whiskey. Washington, March 12.—Prohibition officials themselves must take what ever ict ion-appears necessary in con nection with the discovery in a recent bootlegger raid, of a list of Washing ton residents which included the names of several officials of tin* State Department and of many officers of the army, navy and marine crops. After a preliminary inquiry today it was indicated that state, war and , navy departments would take no fur ther step in the matter, hut would re gard each case as a personal matter between the men named and the pro hibition enforcement authorities. Case is Closed By Death of Defendant. j Greenville, S. C., March 9.^—'‘Case closed by death of defendant." These cryptic words written across the record in the case of /Cliff Haw | kins, charged with murder and twice [placed in the ‘death house” or me I South Carolina penitentiary, tell the -end of one of tin* most spectacubir and bitterly contested case in the criminal annals of the State. 1 law kills passed quietly away in his cell in the Greenville county jail today. Meningitis was -pronounced as the im mediate cause of his death. •For more than two years Cliff Hawkins, young planter of me moun tain section, had waited in prison ?<>:’ the ftna judgement of the courts. He had been tried for murder, convicted and sentenced ro die in the electric chair. Almost on the eve of his electrocution the sentence was sus pended. and only last week he was told . that his case would be decided at j the present term of court of general sessions. Vanderbilt Bride of Four Days Jll. Portsmouth. R. 1.. March 10.—Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, a bride of four days, is ill with diphtheria at the San dy Point Farm estate of her husband ! here, it was learned today. Mrs. Vanderbilt, who was Miss Gloria Mor-, gan. daughter of Harry Hays Mor- < gan. American consul-general in Brus sels, has been sick virtually since her arrival here Wednesday night. She is 118 years of age. « NO. 71.