North Carolina Newspapers

j. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher. VOLUME XLVIII. Tornado Which Hit Section of Wake County Injured 25 and Damaged Much Property r'FTf BUILIGS IN WENDELL WRECKED After What Was Described as ‘\Night of Terror” in the Town the Situation Today “Was Well in Hand.” HEAVY RAIN ALSO CAUSED DAMAGE Hoads in the County Were Badh W ashed ancf Many Conflicting Reports Have Been Heard of Results. s \Vfinli-il, \. ('., AprH 5 ( By the As- Pressi. Struck curly last, i.iulit by :i iicr.cc tornado that iiijttr ,,| a *.[ >r< ini n t «•! y 1 2 persons, destroy , | p;r ( buildings. wrecked others. and l,;i:!l\ d;i crops. Wendell, a lit jj,. jowh in eastern Wake county, to ,l;i\ v.;:- the sec;u* of .emergency work ci s :i s I !i« »st * hurt were given attention jtnii ;in estimate made of the storm’s r, iii the surrounding territory. Wendell. X. April .1 (By the As-! - riiitt iUl'ro->. —Struck late yester day by- a fierce tornado that Injured j ;ippn>xiniafely twenty-five persons, de- j stpiyed fifty buildings, wrecked others, j ud badly damaged crops. Wendell, a j id tie town in eastern Wake county, kilay v.-ts the. seine of emergency porkers, as those hurt were given -atirtitien and attempts made to learn | t’he st .m's t««il in the surrounding toritury. After what was described by offi rial> as a "night of terror and inabil ii i . t<> nlftain sutlieient physicians to i|re fur the injured." the. situation was said to he ' well in hand’’ and no ids li.ee been made for outside its sist:: iii i". although several persons liavi* l.eifii carried to hospitals in Ra- Mgli. The torn ido. which is he.TTeved to have origiuiated in the edge of .Tohn o ii (■ouiiry. took a northeastern course ofsr of Wendell. A freakish path of winked buildings, trees torn out by rents, and other debris was left as the wind skipped here and there ile !!’**!i>!:ing instantly everything in its i 'jiirso. Within one mile from Wendell the /•'nil nf .1 I*. Richardson suffered 'h.iaagi estimated at $l.”jllOO. Sever negro tenants were hurt and Mrs. k 'l. < pzart also received slight in juries:. - The wife and small child of •him Rohnnm. negro, were carried to :: Ilaleigh hospital. I think it's going to l»e a cyclone," ’!•• negro woman si id as she peered the dark sky. She wi“ut hack to 'l'bi r table ami members of the fam kded this is the last thing they T■ 1 11 until they regained consciousness ■ ! "ir: tin* wreckage of their home. * !m ' ~[• ,| <• (’oilins. Charley •hihnsiitt. Nonnan Deans. \V. T. Roli- H!s> " U. >1 olinsoii are among those ,!:i 'ottg* il lo the tornado. Live stock J' 11 these farms is reported to have n killed. Tobacco barns were torn 1 mi txcir foundations and outhouses ! " ni to 'plinte.r.s.. i .M«ny .toads in the territory are' ' ! hloeked or washed out by the downpour of rain which ac-1 •| b nioo -the tornado, and accurate 1 '! . :r> tornado's toll are slow ' : ' j n - There arc many conflict of the. damage hut officials -:'k ' " have an accurate during the *"" Killed in Louisiana. ~ V u • Anril s.—The death s tilt of the. tornade which . > swept Alexandra and '• on across the Rod River - oity. was placed this fore «! > A i-li<w>v bv authorities | 'T '"h; ' 1 : t undertaking establish h|S « it.\ had bodies of 20 ' 1 vhi ' S and six negroes. , 1 o injured was placed at GO, i , ‘ of whom are *'n the s, Veterans Hospital near Tt tty ilamtigc was placed at •.lU'i.iinO * barged-With Abusing Feeble Minded ( Ciirl. I„' ! "T'"’ 1 "- April 4.—Asheley Bar-' v.j,’,, M :' m:UI of this city, charged i„ , " of a fcelde-mindcd girl, ,M '»d Os SI,OOO. He l v :ivrested on a charge, of vio :~T 5 ,1 Guilford county morals i,,,. ’ leased under bond of SSO, investigation disclosed a "‘•l iuTi-. offense, police say. f ~ |v "'■'•id to have lieen made s, V and the. girl, it is ~ Tiiiid in report it. He will •* hearing Friday morning. v : UK 1 ,ir Another Wage Increase. kl»ril 5 (By the Asso i: j■>, ' T 1 Dissatisfied with the ly grant,Vi"- 1 ; VVi, ? e increases recent iniip Vi the New England textile 1 bite,i -I: ive hoard of the Live Workers of America r ’ l ' in 'i i*i' • 011 J, .Dimpaign. not only o«in |,,|J . 1 increase of 14<4 ]>ev f''i. ril . " ! cut in working hours Moj ■ ‘ ts ' President Thomas F. a ‘Tided today. ■ THE CONCORD TIMES. Two More Candidates Enter Race For School Commissioners of City Two move candidates, each seeking i to lie a se(iool commissioner, made an i nouneenient of their candidacies to day. The newest candidates to enter the Democratic primary arc L. Y. Hartsell and V. L. Norman. Mr. Hnrtscll is at present selwol commissioner from Ward One For several days his friends had expected him to enter tin* lace this year. Mr. I lartsell was selected to till the unex iiireil term of. Mr. Paul Furr, who re signed from the board several months ago. i Mr. Norman seeks the office now held by •!. Ed. (’line. Mr. ('line 'stated this morninp that after serving on the hoard for 12 years he felt that busi ness obligations made it impossible for him to be a candidate this year. Mr. Norman is the only announced candi date seeking this office in Ward Four. METHODIST WOWEN OF SENSATIONAL ESCAPE SOUTH ARE lEETIfiG GETS CHAPMAN FREE 1 _ _ __ _ i Woman’s Missionary Council of the Southern Methodist Church Its Holds Opening* Session in Mobile. _________ i Mobile Ala. April —"The spirit of •Methodisin’." was the subject of Bish op Mouzon. speaking at the morning session today of the Women’s Mission ary Council of tin* Southern Methodist Church which will open at U o'clock; with devotiouals led hy Mrs. F. (}. 1 Stevens, of Columbia. Mo., acting Pres ident. who is presiding over the meet- ; ings of the Council. The result of the morniiigi program includes a business session, a song, presentation of Miss* Reaneti’s portrait t»* the Council, ami; brief addresses, organization, an ad-j dress by Mrs. Stevens, who also is vice- , president of the Conned, reports from! administrative secreTaries in charge 1 of home field. Mrs. .J. W. Downs, and Mrs. J. 11. McCoy, of Nashville. From upon to 1 p. m. will he Bible hour, led hy I)r. W. A. Smart. OFFERS OPERATIVES 121-2 PER CENT WARE INCREASE Cotton Manufacturers’ Association of Fall Riter Makes Proposal to Work ers. Fail 'River, Mass., April 2. —An of fer of a wage icrease of 12 1-2 per cent, effective April 20, was macm by the Cotton Manufacturers’ associa tion of Fall River today to the 36.000 cotton operatives of (his city The offer was embodied in a statement presented by the manufacturers aT the conference with the textile coun cil, which represents six of the large te'xtro unions—carders, weavers, loom-fixers, niulespinners. slashers, tenders and yarn finishers. The textile council had <1 nianded an increase of 15 per cent. The dof l’ers and other workers affiliated with a rival union, tin* United Textile Workers of America, have asked for an increase of 28 1-2 per cent and authorized their president. Thomas F. McMahon, to call a strike to en force their demands. KLAN OFFICIALS GIVE . THEMSELVES IP TOD AN J. T. McKinnon and N. W. Furney Are Charged With Larceny in Trust. Atlanta, April m—,T. T. McKinnon, chief of the investigating department, and N. W. Furney, cashier of the Ku Kiuk Klan, surrendered themselves early today in answer to warrants sworn out by E. .1. .Jones, an associate of Emperor’ Simmons, charging lar ceny in trust. McKinnon was charged with embezzlement of 527.00 P and Furney of ssOTMio of funds belonging to the Klan. They were released on bonds of SI,OOO each. Both are otti cials of Imperial Wizard Evans. RIXES ill RY FOREMAN WAS TAMPERED WITH For This Reason Jury in Conspiracy Case in Philadelphia Was Excused by the Court. * Philadelphia, April 3.— Because of alleged tampering with the foreman, Judge J. Whitaker Thompson in the United States District Court today, discharged the jury trying the case of twenty-nine men charged with con spiracy to illegally withdraw and sell liquor. Terrence O’Loughlin, tin* foreman, was held in so,<HMt hail on a charge of contempt of court. He will have a hearing Thursday. Judge Thompson, in dismissing the jury, directed that a new panel he asseblyed April 23. Fails to Reveal Illegal Price-Fixing in Sugar. New York. April 4.—The govern i meat's investigation into the rise in • sugar prices has thus far failed to re i veal an illegal price-fixing combina tion. Federal District Attorney Wil jliam Hayward said today on his re iturn from Washington. Acting At i torne.v General Seymour, with whom he conferred, will continue the inquiry, he said. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS The announcements of Mr. Ha rtsell stud Mr. Norman make out n full Tick et for tin* Democratic primary. Then* is a candidate for every office to bo 'filled, and in several instances there .] arc t wo candidates. Tin* primary will lie held on Satur day. April 7th, beginning at 2 o'clock .and continuing until (i o'clock. Voting will he done in the regular voting j places. I Interest in the primary is said to ,he on the increase now. Supporters of both Mayor Womble and J. <>. Moose, who seek tin* nomination of Mayor, arc confident, as is the case . with other contestants. That a woman may enter the race 'for school commissioner either from a ward or at large js a rumor that Ims j gained much publicity here today. I ... , Man Who Escaped From the Prison Hospital in Atlanta, Makes Break From Athens Hospital. i Athens. <la.. April —Following his sensational escape from the hospital where he was recuperating from lmllet wounds, under guard of a deputy sher iff. Gerald Chatman, gang leader in ; the million dollar mail robbery at New i York in 1J421, early today had not been apprehended. | Chatman escaped from the hospital hy means of sheets knotted together last night when the guard momentarily ; left his. room. The escape is the sec -1 o'hd staged hy Chatman within little 'marc than a week. The first >\;is | made from the Federal penitentiary at | Atlanta. That time In* won his way !to freedom from a hospital ward in company with Frank Gray, another prisoner. They wore apprehended near here shortly afterward, and en gaged in a gun battle with a constable. Gray was taken hack to Atlanta, but Chatman, with three bullet wounds; was brought here for treatment. ALLEGED RESCUE WORKER DECAMPS WITH DONATIONS Captain and Mrs. Van Ness Leave Unpaid Bills of All Descriptions at Shelby. Shelby, April 4.—Captain and Mrs. S. M. Van Ness and Lieutenant Ollie Tucker, who caiue Imre three nfonths ago to take charge of the American rescue, work, disappeared Sunday lif ter the Saturday’s collections for charity were made, leaving behind a young man named Miller, who. with his family, are stranded in the <1 well ing recently rented as headquarters of the American rescue work in North Carolina. Van Ness 1 anight it handsome closed car when he arrived in Shelby, furn ished his home in elegant fashion, and had little. Miss Ollie Tucker da the soliciting of funds, most of which was spent on themselves. Grocery men, hardware stores, furniture deal ers, an automobile salesman, a print ing establishment, a dry goods store and others are laughing at their folly in extending such liberal credit to Van Ness, who left unpaid hills at all of these places. Van Ness boasted that lie was a mem her of the Ku Klux Klan and representol that he was recently elect ed "opnunander-in-ehief” of the Amer ican Rescuers in North Carolina. His sudden departure has been the subject of comment on the streets to day. The furniture dealers having a lease on their merchandise recover ed belongings which were hoo heavy and bulky to he taken away, lmt the - l other creditors have no recourse. An effort, however, is being made to locate him in order to protect other communities against him. Palmer Manslaughter Trial at Albe marle. Albemarle, April 4. —Supreme Court did not convene here until today, it having been delayed in convening on account of Easter Monday and the further reason that Judge Harding missed his train in Raleigh and could not reach Albemarle until Tuesday ev ening. The case against Archie Pal mer for manslaughter in connection with the automobile accident near the Swift Island bridge east of Albemarle, in which three men lost their lives, is expected to come up for trial at this term. Examinations Next Week. Next Tuesday and Wednesday, April 10th and lltli. arc the. dates for the regular Spring examinations for county public school teachers. I Tests for !Hiy kind of certificates will be offered in the office of Superinten • dent Robertson. • | Jt was durig the second century B. C.. that women first wore an en : i gagement ring on the fourth finger of , the left hand as a symbol of be trothal. CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1923. ! TO CHANGE ALTERNATING INTO DIRECT CURRENT The Metal TarttaHim Can Be Used for j This Purpose. j New Haven, April s.—The discov ery that the metal tantalum can lie I used directly to change alternating i electric current into; direct current is claimed by Clarence w. Balke, of . North Chicago. Dr.’ Balke today de seribed the apparatus by which tan- { tnlmn is used as a rectifier in an ad | dress before the Division of indus j trial and Engineer lag Chemistry of I the American Chemical Society. This discovery is-expected greatly to j reduce ihe cost of charging electric ! batteries used in electrically operated : automobiles and for (darting and light ling purposes in gasoline motor cars. Apparently taut;,lmp; is the only metal whii lT i :tii l*e used tas an electrilite va 1 ve. Electric current supplied commer cially and used generally for light and power is alternating ■current. For the charging of electric batteries, and for some other purposes, a direct current is required, ami this has necessitated the installation in battery charging [stations of expensive rectifiers. Every automobile driver is familiar with the I greenish glow of the mercury lamps • used in these rectifiers. Dr. Balke has discovered that tanta lum. used in a charging cell, qlmost. entirely shuts off the How of jeleotrie current in one direction. "If a tantalum plate and a lead plate are placed in an electrolyte (a cell containing a salt solution) and a source of alternating current of tin* us ual commercial frequency is connect ed to the tallalum and lead plates, the Current flow in one direction will he almost entirely shut off and a pulsat ing. direct current will lie obtained." said. Dr. Balke. “Tin* direct current derived from this apparatus may Ik* utilized for charging storage batteries, for the electro-deposition (plating) of metals, and various other electro chemical ac tions requiring a direct current. "It is possible, hy using two tanta lum electrodes in a single cell, so to rectify the current that both half waves of alternating current pass in the same direction. .This current may lie smoothed out by! tt suitable series of inductances and Kipacifies to give what is practically li constant direct current." Dr. Balke reported that the tanta lum battery charging restifieli is noise less in operation, hal no moving parts and requires "only otic* attention which it has in common with the stor age battery itself, which is the addi tion of distilled water to replace the evaporated and decomposed water of the electrolyte." - 4." -iV Methodist Frotestant Young I Topic's Uonference. \ Greensboro. N. (’., April 5. —The Voting People's Summer Conference' of tin* Methodist Protestant church will convene at Weaverville, N. C., June 12-22. according to Rev. N. M. Harri son, Jr., president of the Board of Young People’s Work of the Methodist Protestant Church. G real ter interest is being manifested hy the young people from all over the state this year than ever before. Al ready over tt hundred and twenty-five have registered, indications are that tt record breaking attendance will be realized!. It is expected that five liuu- TTred will register. The program shows studies in the different phases of Sunday school and Christian Endeavor methods, story telling for children, home and foreign missions, Christian stewardship, per sonal evangelism, rural church work, Christian fundamentals, and Bible. A most thorough course in these studies is offered. Some of the leading men and wom eiTof the entire denomination are on tin* program, among the out of state leaders are: I)r. E. A. Sexsmith, Bal timore. MU., Dr. L. B. Smith. Wilming ton, Del., Dr. J. C. Broomfield, Fair mont. W. Va., Mrs. W. H. Maier. Co lumbus. Ohio, Miss Carrie Booker, of Atlanta, (hi. This list is agumented by several of the leading men and wo men of the church in North Carolina. Will Use Airplanes to Estimate Cotton Acreage. Washington, April 4.—Use. will be made of airplanes in estimating the cotton acreage, the department of ag riculture announcing today that pho tographs will he taken June 25 of se lected areas from three army .planes, which experts will use in dusting cot ton plants with calcium arsenate in the tight against Ihe boll weevil. Es timates of the cotton acreage will he made from the photographs and cheek ed up against the acreage reports made by the. department ol‘ agricul ture's reporters for use in the first official estimate of cotton acreage ol the season Yentli Butts a Wall am 1 , Breaks His Neck. Moultrie, Gn., April 3.—L.u>yd Wilkes, six-year-old son of Julian Wilkes, a well known Colquitt county farmer, broke his neck at his home today by butting th3 side of a House. With a number of his playmates with him he suggested the butting contest and led off. The impact threw him from his feet and in a few minuves h.s form became stiF. A physician de clared his neck was broken. Battles With Burglar. Awakening in the night Mrs. Bessie Katzen, of Indianapolis, saw a burglar hiding beside her lied. As she reach ed under her pillow for a revolver the man jumped to his feet, running to a window. She grabbed him but lie shook her off with a blow in the face and escaped with :» containing S2OO. The string used yearly by the postal service in the United States, if tied together, would reach from New York to London, back to New- York, and then there would be more than enough left over to cross the continent to ‘San Francisco. THE NEW SCHOOL CODE IS EFFECTIVE APRIL 1 Series of Statewide Conferences to Be HeUl to Explain It. Rahigli. April 5. —With tin* new North Carolina school code effective April 15, I)r. E. C| Brooks, superin tendent of public instruction, is com pleting arrangements for a series o state.-wide conferences with education al authorities to explain fully the changes and plans for operation of the system during the next two years. The meetings will be held in Ashe ville April 11, Charlotte April 13. Greensboro, April IS. Apfril 20. Green ville. April 25 and Wilmington, April 27. Time sessions will be held on the dates set for eaelt conference*. Superintendents, members of hoards of education and county commissioners have been asked to select tin* time and place mu-1 convenient to them to at tend. The topic to he discussed are pre paring the May budget; funding old inde.bledfness :. provisions for erecting new school houses; the new local tax and bond laws; the county-wide plan of school organizations; duties of county hoards of education, county commissioners and school committees. "Tlie laws pertaining to these six topics all have been rewritten and county hoards of education and* com missioners are -supposed to work to gether in preparing the. budget," said Dr. Brooks,’ and in raising the neces sary funds for maintaining the school term and for erecting needed build ings. - “The purpose' of these meetings is to acquaint as many eotfnty officials as possible with the. new laws before May 1. when each county must begin to plan for the new .school year. * it is earnestly hoped that, each superin tendent will urge as many members of each hoard to lie present as can con veniently-attend ’and to invite all in tefested citizens to he present." Dr. Brooks also is expected to out line his plans for the establishment of the divisions of finance and organ izations in tin* department . of public instruction during these meetings. TWO NEW DIVISIONS' ARE TO BE ADDED t To the State f Department of Public.. Instruction. Raleigh, April 5 (By the Associated Press). —A division of finance and an other of organization will he added to the state department of public in struction. it was learned .last, night. Dr. E. U. Brooks, superintendent of public instruction, stated he could not make public the details of the two new divisions at present as plans have not l»ee.n completed, but he said the purpose of Die work- will lie to co-ordinate and,systematize the finan cial affairs of all county and city edu cational institutions in the state and to promote the programs of all under approved and modern methods. The establishment of the divisions was authorized hy the 11423 Genera 1 Assembly and when they are inaugu rated North Carolina will have the reputation, it was stated by officials, of having one' of the strongest and most efficient school systems in the; country. The decision to create tin* .divisions is in line with the new school code adopted hy the yeneral Assembly and tin* centralization program of Dr. Brooks. A uniform system of auditing and handling of all financial details of the schools is expected to result from the establishment of the finance division. Recently, the North Carolina Educa tion Association decided to hold a se ries of conferences among focal organ izations of teachers for the purpose of studying educational finance. Miss Elizabeth Kelly, president of the or ganization and state supervisor of adult illiterates, stated that the pur pose of these meetings will Ik* study tin*, financial problems of all schools and to learn whether the returns are oommensitrate wjith the investments made hy tin* state, county and com munities in tin* institutions. Accused of Obtaining Money Under False Pretense. ' Salisbury. April 4. —C. I>. Blalock, a young white man. said to be wanted in a number of places in South Caro lina for obtaining money under fal>e pretense, and who lmd been arrested here for a similar offense, has been turned’ over to officers from Green wood, and the ease against him here will not lie pressed. Blalock repre sented himself as being agent for an aluminum house, and would make ad vance collections on orders. A 12- ycar-old girl lie had with him has been taken care of here since his ar rest. and sin* was also turned over to the Greenwood officers. Medicine Peddler Arested. I)r. S. E. Buchanan, cotin tv health officer^who recently issued a warning to Cabarrus people to lie on tin* look out for a medicine peddler, lias been informed that the peddler lias be.on ar rested in Rowan county. Dr. Buch anan lias not heard what disposition wiirbe made of the man’s case, he hav ing been arrested in Salisbury, accord ing to reports here, at tin* direction of Dr. Armstrong, health officer of Row an county. Bootleggers Cache is Robbed by Armed Men. New Orleans, April 2.—Eight men. armed with rifles and shotguns, held up tin* guard at a bootleggers’ cache in Bayou Barateria early Saturday morning and escaped with liquor valu ed at $70,000. according to a report received Dte today by prohibition of ficials here. Bv aeroplane the earth could be cir cled in fifteen days—that is. if there were a machine capable of making the journey without a stop. But this is not possible, and when stops and so on are taken into consideration the time works out at nearly three months. At least, this was the time allowed by Sir Ross Smith, who was preparing for a round-the-world flight when he met his death. Kidnappers Sc;" ~'* and Woman Companion ♦ &***&***£&&*♦ $ & * DISCOVERER OF KING * * TUT S TOMB IS DEAD * rK & Cairo. April 5 < Byi the Assoc*!- & & ated Press). —The Earl of Car- rfc & narvon. discoverer of the tomb of & Pharoah Tutenkhamon, died ear- + HS ly today at a hotel here, after a T stubborn battle against blood rr v poisoning and pneumonia follow-% T ing the bite of an insect. r!- * JI6 y}6 tK fr. 46 Hr W. S 6 r|6 ♦ SHOOTS WIFE AND HER ESCORT IN PLAY HOUSE i Gustave Lieson Caused Panic When He Began Shooting in Movie Thea tre. Pittsburgh. Pa., April 5. —An audi ence of several hundred men. women and children, absorbed in a western screen drama at a north side play house was converted into a panic stricken, stampeding mob late last night when Gustave Lieson. waving a revolver, stalked into an aisle in ihe balcony and opened fire. A stream of liarae flashed from tile revolver as seven shots were fired in rapid -suc cession. Almost before (lie fltshes from the gun were out panic reigned, and when the lights wore switched on, a man and a woman were found slumped in. their seats unconscious. The woman was Lieson's wife, and tin* man Edward P>. Weigner, her es cort. Physicians said Weigner would re cover, but held little hope for Mrs. Leison. Leison tied alter the shooting, hut was arrested an hour later. He told the polite he had been waiting for the chance for months.’ THE AOTTON MARKET Opened Firm at An Advance of 25 to 48 Points on Strong Liverpool Ca bles. New York. April 5. —The cotton market opened firm an an advance of 25 to 4s points owing to unexpected strong Liverpool cables and the un favorable early weather map. May sold up to 21M50 and October to 25.05 at the opening on buying hy houses with Liverpool and continental connec tions, local covering, and a scattered house demand. These prices attract ed a good deal of realising, however, and tile selling became a little more active following tlie publication of the official forecast for clearing weather in the. South. , Cotton futures o_pened firm. May 20.00: July 2N.00; Oct. 25.(55; Dec. 25.20; Jan. 24.52.- Tornado Kills Twelve Persons in J Louisiana. Alexandria,. La., April - 4.—Tin* known dead in the tornado which early tonight struck Pine.ville and vi cinity. across the Red river from Alex andria. reached 14, with the arrival here at 10 o’clock tonight of a train bringing the bodies of eight persons killed at Pineville and a sawmill set tlement a mile, east of that town. Fifty or more p< rsons were report ed injured. * Search as being made tonight of the wrecked homes in an area of approximately a mile square in the eastern section of Pineville for the dead, injured and missing. s>r. diaries MacLaughlin Here. Rev. (’lias. P. MaeLaughlin. D. D., of Pittsburgh. Pa., is in Concord to day shaking hands with many ,old friends. He was for several years pas tor of St. James Lutheran Church, and is now in the South speaking in behalf of tin* appeal for $850,000 for Lenoir College. Can Hake Search Without Warrant Covington. Ky April 5. —Right to search saloons or any other public places where Federal officers have rea son to believe the prohibition law is being violated without a search war rant was uphe d today by Judge Cochran in the United tSates court here. The loqgest verse in the Bible is the ninth in tin* Bth chapter of Esther; 1 lie shortest verse the thirty fifth in the. 11th chapter of St. John. ■ - - - - - - - * An Era of Real Prosperity Is Predicted by Labor Secretary Washington. April s.—ln a com parison of present industral condi tions with those which existed on April 1 a year ago Secretary of Labor Davis predicted that, With the exer cise of ordinary caution, the country should have “ a continued period of substantia! prosperity that will put behind) us the whole era of depres sion which followed the war.” Tin* Secretary aNo predicted that, with the accumulating of coal stocks during the coming (Summer, mere would not only be an abundant coal supply for all needs next FaF and Winter, but a “more normal” market price as complied with the past Win ter. “Outside of the coal ’ndustry pes simism rather than optimism pre vailed in the other basic industries one year ago todayA’ said the stifa xnent. “Prior to that time the un- i employed had numbered approximate- ! ly 5,00’0,*000. Today tirat number iJ re duced to normal. “One year ago the steel industry's unfilled order tonnage was less than 4,000,000 tons. Today it is nearly 8,- (2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. Mrs. Frederick Pace, of New York,' and Linwood L. Bright, of Macon, Seized While Auto Riding. MAN FLOGGED BY 8 UNMASKED MEN Mrs. Pace Was Not Whip ped, But Was Forced to Watch Flogging.—Officers Trailing Eight Men. • Macon. (ill., April 5. —llor hands tied Iby her assailant. Mrs. Fmleriek A. Pace, of New York, late last night witnessed the severe horsewhipping of Bin wood E. Bright, of this city, after both hail been kiilu.afrom an au tomobile .by eight unmasked men and taken to a secluded spot about four miles from here. J With the license number of the kid inn ppers' car in their possession officers i today were searching for the marau ders. The license number was obtain ed by Mi’s. Pace. The police declared a thorough investigation of the affair would be made. Bright, according to bis version of the affair last night, said he had been given 24 hours to leave the city, lie stated it would be impossible to com ply in that a week would lx* required to finish up his business affairs. Mrs. Pace told the officers the kid-, nappers said they resented the testi mony of a negress in "Bright’s divorce ! case against Mrs. Bright Just Monday. | Bright said they also whipped him after they charged him with an at ■ tempt to take his property from his children. He said he could identify ' some of the assailants, although lie ! did not know them personally. Mrs. | Pace was not molested further than I being forced to watch the heating. I Mrs. Bright when informed of the | escapade at her hotel last night, said j she was "very glad to know there were | some men in the world, anyway.” Mrs. I Pace declared before officers that "Mrs. | Brighi knows all about 11ns” kidnap ping. The kidnapping occurred near the Tabernacle Baptist Church. Res ; idents were aroused by whrrt at first I seemed a list fight. They reported the Li matter to the police. ■ Bright and Mrs. Pace were found by 'deputies walking toward Atlanta. They said the route taken to the ' scene of the- flogging was of such a character as to confuse their sense of ! direction. With Our Advertisers. I A new Rice in our advertising col umns is that of the Ritchie Hardware ! Co., the well known reliable hardware ! dealers of Concord. Although the prices of tires have gone up. they ha ve not increased their retail prices. Bet ter buy while you can - get them at the old price. Cline & Moose is always on tho job for good things for their customers. In new ad. today you will find something interesting. I See M. L. Widenhouse’s list of Dol lar specials hi this paper. C. l'att Covington "tells ’em about ; it" in an ad. in today's paper. Choice of anything for Swells Family ( ash. Asheville, N. April .T—When Mrs. Orb a Roberts was hurt in an automobile accid?nt she sued the driver of the car, -who happened to be her husband, charging hegligence. A (Madison County Court has award ed her $2500, but a liability company which undertook to* insure Roberts against such happenings must pay. If was explained that there had been no estrangement of Mr. and Mrs. Roberts. The will of Clarence B. Bryant, of Charlotte, probated Tuesday, leaves the entire,estate to his wife, with tlm exception of .$5,000 to a niece. Ophelia Bryant, named for his first wife, and SIO,OOO to another niece, Edith Bryant. Mrs. Bryant is named as executrix, hut is advised to confer with officers of the Merchants and Farmers Bank in handling the estate. She is ad-/ vised by terms of tin* will to hold the real estate, bOO.ObO tons. The former is the bar,is of dull business, while the latter means 'full steam ahead.’ “The copper industry on April 1, 1922, was almost down and out, as most of the mines, mills and sme t:rs were idle due to unsold stocks and poor markets. Today stocks have been depleted and production is fast ap proaching the best records of the war period. “The same is largely true of the tex tile and allied industries. April 1. 1922, found overloaded shelves with unso'd goods and strikes brewing wh ! ch finally involved over MMtOO workers l»efor~ the Fummer was over. Today empty shelves, plenty of worn, no strikes. ar*d both omnloyer and employes sharing in the general pros perity. “Despite the threat of industrial de pression, there has been but little re i ductlon of the general wage level throughout industry, and today the trend of wage scales is upward. Dur ing the oast four months wages in creases have been reported m (Concluded on page four.) NO. 78.