Editor and Publisher
rtI.UME xux
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GREAT BRITAIN
JS M OFIONTH
ec f Commons Will Be
L 9 |ved Tonight Follow
defeat of Labor Party
/yesterday’s Voting.
honalo calls
at KING’S PALACE
j a res !a Newspaper Men
rCt He Is Sorry Labor
, ar! y y/as Not Allowed to
r ar ry Out Its Plans.
;i. i I'.y the Associated
f 1 i ,u-. <»f (’ominous will be
i:d a general election
’until, it was' announced
r King George held
Buckingham Palace at
. .. .. , liioclaniatiou prorogu-I
(B D’ ‘ 1 v I
\j 11 1 !•!. whose governmetir j
, , j i ;; »t night, called on the j
• ;.iv morning. He spent an
ivU ''i ; - , , . ,
. .j, : - • il mat the question of
~u of the cabinet was not
; ;t rim confidence between
r.„ : 1 Premier MacDonald.
representatives of the!
. |i;|.| 1.-t't the King that dis
i,a,| h. 'i. decided ifoon. Mr.;
pioM said:
!P1 ,-imat events have turned
inive. hut everyone knows
a; ; „n s imt one of the govern
s» seekit• g. hm has been forced up
j ]Vr- ii.-rM\ I should have been i
p t|.i‘ labor government had
. , <<> carry out its policy, a
jwh;>*fi 1 maintain has been one of
jt],;itic- and of the promotion of
iterests of rim commonwealth.’*
f iv.»miiT -.tid that the govern
iiniiiil have preferred to have sav
i,. n.a::tn tlte expense of another
n After leaving the palace he
ad inline Lately to No. 10. Downing
lf,.r a cabinet meeting. As he
di- way it.to rhe narrow street a
Ui.i.-I, i.-ni assembled in front of
Ministerial residence cheered
n Sl’KAlvS BEFORE
■ I \i • I \\ - ur iOAt OK it
ile Wants the State'to
■ Do in the Near Future.
It minutes hildress before
■wriat's at their weekly banquet.
Hs IV. Mi l.ean. Democratic candi
■ fcr scv.-rni’r. spoke of the # advant
■>l’i-h,..nr section of the state en-
I -s! briefly on the progress of
■ •‘it ii'.a and named several things
Blf was anxious to have the State
■ Mi'l.Ki!'. after a brief introduction
■»k Kmi. spoke of the advantages
I’i-.lmont tegion enjoyed. He
I tat this section of the state had
■toe between industry and agri-
B* which \\a- lacking in the rest
B* state. In' the East, the fann-
B p pp n>.T nearly so prosperous as in
yptitr."'j: and further stated that the
B' , ri' that there was lacking the
"'liifl, were -.applied in the Pied
■ V tiu* industrial cities.
I l '*' then stared that North Caro
■ ' made wonderful progress but
■fU «•»< far fn m her goal. Though
B l ' l far in education, it was
B®W»sr.,|, Emil North Carolina
■ i vV'.i! -y-teni as tine as any in
■ Ht'-y. tiiere should be no halt.
osie ;il stare highways. Mr.
B* s > a: , l that lie favored road oon
a< long as there was money
BP> i" iiroeeed safely. He rather
t! -'' es proceeding along
■ A\ hi)., there—was sufficient
IP t" insure the payment of inter
the b >:<!-. and to insure the pay-
H ,!l “ amount into the sinking
at the -alue time have enough
ms Stale ..ver in the ease of hard
1 Was !i *r continued construc-
Ihs need ~f Mifficient funds to
the upkeep was stressed.
de,dared that what North
t- fl ' il•.i to have a greater
In eider to get this greater
■J”"! 1 ’ E‘ ( ‘ tiiat he favored the
‘ l! bn- N'a’e government, somf
_ T "’)■ irh would co-ordinati
r ' r '"‘ 1 'irie organizations in
i-itifv and make it a central
aguney for the disseminatior
' tif'iHt;;, advertising. This
N,ll l might be called the lie
( . and Development
wi - was very necessary
tim State's populatioi
■ EhWl- |\ mkhtopoeis
<in -l>lete<| Th.mt Day Campaign ii
. y x dv Wk State.
■ for the Presidencj
■.1,. ' fI-,,i,i a three-day tri
w e-tern New Yori
Bit !'* v lie declared to b
■C,! ll: " ! Vi ' i; to his headquai
■ at Locust Va
pt'-oare for his secon
- the mnidle west.
! ‘' uli,,n Quarters.
V 'l’.y the Rssociate
*' Ein. Manchuria
do memorandum <
Regarding the bon
that in the evei
k., r ,r, 'P : al he would insti’U'
! endeavor to avo
"getion quarters.
t u , u to np perfect
cats and dogs.
THE CONCORD TIMES
WANT FIELD SECRETARIES *
FOR EPWORTH LEAGI’F
\\ csioru North Carolina Metnotfst i'on
fcrcnce Will Be Asked to Act on Mat
ter.
Nashville, Tenn., Oct. f).—At the ap
proaching session of the Western North
Carolina conference of the m. E.
Church, South, which meets at
boro, on October 15. with Rishop Col
lins Denny presiding. the conference
Epworth League Board will be asked tc
ratify a recent action of the Epworth
League board of the M. E. Church.
South, providing for the employment
and direction of regional field secretar
ies cf Epworth League throughout the
bounds cf the Southern Methodic
Church.
The conference Epworth League
board, of which the Rev. L. A. Fall of
Concord is chairman, will foster tin
regional field secretary for the area in
cluded in the Western North Carolina
conference, and it is expected that the
ti ed secretaries will work in co-opera
tion with and under the dire:-tiou of the
central office at Nashville. Tenn-. o r
which Dr. E. S. Parker is general secre
tary.
Thp thirty-eight annual conferences
of the M. E. Church. South have been
grouped into twelve regions, with refer
ence to the field secretaryships. The
Western N°Hh Carolina conference, to
gether with the North Carolina, ►south
Carolina, and Fpper South Carolina
conferences eomi>oses group No. 11.
This area will be in charge or a neld
■secretary to be named by the presidents
of the co-operating boards and the
presidents of Epworth Leagues within
rhe eleventh region, who will constitute
an advisory committee to direct the
work of the field secretary. The regiona’
secretary will be se’ected following the
round of annual conference meetings,
and will probably enter upon his duties
following the Epworth Leagjie presi
dents' meeting in Dallas. February
1025.
The office of regional secretary :s
recommended on account of the rapid
growth of the Epworth League organi
zation and increasing participation of
leaguers in the work of the Methodist
Church. It will be recalled that the
Epworth League recently pledged itself
to raise 8100.000 for missionary ex
tension in 1024-
JAKE DAUBERT. NOTED
BALL PIjAYER. DEAD
Death Canve After Complications Which
Set in After Operation Thursday.
Cincinnati. Oct. 0. —Jake Daubeit.
captain of the Cincinnati National Leagui
baseball team, died here today. Death
came after a valiant fight against com
plications which set in''following an op
oration for appendicitis last Thursday
Blood transfusion was resorted to yes
-w ta prolong bis Ufo,.
Daubert's condition first became ag
gravated on the last eastern trip of the
Reds when he was taken ill in New \ork
Manager Jack Hendricks sent him to his
home in Schuylkill Haven. Pa., and his
sudden departure led to rei>orts that Dau
bert would be engaged to manage a min
or league club.
He remained at home several days and
then came on to Cincinnati and played in
the last game of the season on Septem
ber 27th. His physician said that Dau
bert disregarded his advice in returning
to the lineup. Daubert remarked
to the doctor that it probably was his
last game in the major league anil he did
not want “people to think Jake Daubert
was a stalleri”
Jacob Ellsworth Daubert was born
April 17th, 1885. at Shamokin. Pa. He
started bis baseball career in 1J)06.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Toda* at Decline of 15 to 20
Points Under Continued Selling.
New York. Oct. 9.—The cottqn market
opened today at a decline of 15 to 20
points under continued sellilng with prob
ably further encouragement in a better
weather map than * expected, and rela
tively easy Liverpool cables. Slight ral
lies on covering and some trade buying
met considerable hedge selling, however,
and active months sold JO to 34 points
net lower before the end of the first half
hour, December declining to 28.63 and
January to 23.71. Openiug prices were:
October 24.60: December 23.80; January
23.88; March 24.17; May 24.38.
Efird’s Fall Opening Frukiy.
The Fall Opening of the New Lord
Stores at Concord and Kannapolis begins
Friday morning. October 10th, lunj con
tinues through Saturday, the 18th. Din
ing this time many new Fall garments
and other articles for fall will be shown
and offered at attractive prices. rhe
stocks at both these new stores are com
plete and you will indeed be bard to
please if you cannot find what you wish
there. The firm has a double page ad.
in today’s paper in which it enumerates
the many good things for its large army
of -patrons.
Owners of Stored Cotton to Pay Taxes
on It.
Charlotte, Oct. 8. —Owners of cotton
stored in Charlotte warehouses at tax
listing time thi syear, valued at ap
proximately $2,000,000, will pay taxes
upon it the same as any other property.
the county commissioners or
dered that this cotton be taxed and the
owners objected. They talked of going
to court but at the October meeting of
the board the commissioners were noti
fied that the tax would be paid without
a kick.
Soldier Bonus Applications.
Washington. Oct- 8.-Only L300.0M
applications out of a possible 4,000,000
have been received for the soldiers bonus
and veterans who intend to apply for
the adjusted compefisation were urged
to do so without delay by Major Gen
eral Robert C. Davis, adjutant general
of the army, in a statement.
Kiangsu Forces~Take Sunkiang.
Shanghai, 6ct'. 9 (By the Associated
Press).— Sunkiang, which has been the
defense outpost of- the Chekiang Shang
hai armies during the past week is in the
hands of the attacking Kiangsu forces,
‘ it was definitely determined tonight.
NEGRO IN FATALLY -
BEATEN IN CHICAGO
IN JEWISH QUARTER
Victim of Mob Was William
Bell, Who Is Said to Have
Accosted Two White Wom
en W’ho Called For Help.
ONE MAN HELD
BY THE POLICE
Number of Others Were Ar
rested But Were Released.
—Police Are Patrolling the
District at Present.
Chicago, Oct. J). —William Bell, &i
--,ear-old negro, was beaten to death in
he Jewish quarter here last night by
200 men and boys, attracted by the 1
creams of two young white women who
aid Bell had accosted them.
Police reserves seized twenty persons]
n dispersing the crowd, but realeased ail j
>xcept Otto Epstein, a sacramental wine i
lealer, whom they accused of having
■truck Bell with a baseball bat. Ep- |
■tein denied the accusation, asserting that j
it was he who summoned poliep. After
t perfunctory examination today Epstein
tvas held for further examination.
Several hundred policemen patrolled
the district today and it was stated no
•ecurrence of trouble was expected, al
chough it was said race feeling was ruli
ng high recently because of an influx
>f negroes into a section previously large
ly populated by white foreigners.
Epstean was accused by George Bell,
brother of the negro, and another negro
of an unprovoked assault, although Miss
Bettie Greenblatt, an 18-year-old stenog
rapher, told the police that Bell had
spoken to her and had been repulsed and
then had seized her by the arm and at
tempted to pull her across the street. Her
statement was corroborated by her com
panion. Miss Bertha Deutsch, 21 years
dd.
In July, 1919. clashes between negroes
mil white persons growing out of the
slaying of a negro lad at a Chicago bath
ng beach cost upward of a score of
lives.
Not Able to Identify Bell.
Chicago. Oct. 9. —The probability that
the wrong man was lynched when a
mob last night beat to death William
den. ar nejhw'after rwtr girts ban been
stopped by a negro, who seized one of
hem by the arm, was seen today when
the two young women were unable to
identify the body as that of their as
sailant.
Two other negroes said they had been
talking with Bell and had only started
to leave him when they heard the girls’
■creams and saw the mob forming. They
Jed.
FEAR NEW TONG WAR
FOR NEW YORK CITY
Shooting in Chinatown Last Night
Proved Fatal to One Man —Other.'*
Badly Wounded.
New York, Oct. 9. —Emergency mea
sures were adopted by the police today
to prevent a recurrence of the shootings
; n Chinatown last night in which one
Chinese was killed and two others
wounded, probably fatally. The .police
believe the shootings were the beginning
>f a new tong war.
The number'of police in the streets
around Chatham Square was more than
doubled. The first precautionary mea
sures were taken a week ago when the
first rumblings of trouble were heard as
an echo of rival membership campaign of
the Hip Sings and On Leongs.
To Elect Thirty-four Senators.
Washington. D. C.. Oct. 9.—Terms of
32 of the 96 senators expire next March.
Counting the extra senator to be chosen
in Colorado and the one to ‘be named
iu Rhode Island to fill out the unexpired
term of the late Senator Colt 'makes 34
senators in all who will be elexted next
month. In a number of the state, par
ticularly in the the senatorial
contests have been complicated by the
candidacies of third party men and in
dependents. In South Dakota, for ex
ample, there arc five independents in the
race, in addition to the nominees of the
Republican, Democratic, and Farmer-
Labor parties. In Minnesota Magnus
Johnson, the sole representative of the
Farmer-Labor party in the upper house
at present, is running for re-eleetioiul
and is opposed by Thomas D. Schall.
the blind ex-congressman, on the Repub
lican ticket, and John J. Farrell, the
Democratic nominee. In lowa. Smith
W Brooklifirt, Republican candidate for
re-election, has as his opponents Daniel
F. St(K*k, Democrat, and Luther A.
Brewer, independent. In other states
there are independent candidates, nut
they are not expected to figure promi
nently in the results.
In' most of the southern states the
Democratic nominees, as usual, are vir
tually without opposition and are as
sured of re-election. These include
Thomas J. Heflin, Alabama ; Joseph T.
Robinson. Arkansas; Joseph E. Rai
dell, Louisiana; William .T. Harris,
Georgia; Cole Blease, South Carolina,
and Pat Harrison, Mississippi.
Southern Railway Earnings.
New York. Oct. 8. —Estimated gross
earnings of the Southern railway sys
tem in September show’ a decrease of
$543,739 to $15,691,789 compared with
the same month last year. A drop of
$9,726,594 so $137,791,547 is reported
for the nine months this year m corn
. parison with the same period of 1923.
1 Gross of the Mobile and Ohio railroad
> declined to $585,793 in the nine months
; to $14,551,290.
, When you analyze worry, isn’t it
' cowardice?
PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, • 1924
Democratic Candidate for
Governor Discussed Some
Questions of the State
' Campaign.
MEEKINS’ CHARGE
IS FULLY DENIED
Bank Failures Are Not Due
to the Democrats But to
Republicans, the Speaker
Declared.
Speaking here lastinigin before one of
the largest political |audiences that lias
gathered in this city in a number sos
years, A. TV. MoT.ean, Democratic can
didate for governor, pledged his support
to sane doctrines of State government
and denied charges of his political op
ponent, Colonel I. M. Meekins. that the
corporation commission had been ineffi
cient anil negligent.
Mr. McLean was introduced oy John
M. Oglesby, member of the Concord bar.
Major W. A. Foil, chairman of the Dem
ocratic executive committee, presided. A
large number of women were in the au
dience that packed the court house and
overflowed in windows and aisles. Mr.
McLean spoke at noon before the local
Rotary Club.
Mr. McLean said that lie had enter
tained the very ardent hope that the
Republican candidate for governor would
see the error he Was making in repeating
his attack on the State banks anil de
sist, but that this hope had vanished as
lie read the report of the Gastonia speech
yesterday morning, in which the Re
publican candidate, following up his at
tack. said:
“There are 520 State banks in North
Carolina today, and 225 of these ought
to be shut up. They are being man
aged by men whom God Almighty never
intended to be bankers.”
“If that is the leadership that the Re
publican party offers the State,” Mr. Mc-
Lean said, “may the good Lord deliver
us. So we have at last the only definite
proposal of tdie Republican caudidae if
lie is elected governor is to close up 225
State banks, without regard to their con
dition or the need for such banks in
the communities in which they operate.”
Mr. McLean then described the inti
mate relationship which exists between
many of the small State banks in the
towns and the service to the people in
these towns. He-said a well man
aged bank of small eiffmAf is not unsafe,
and that many of the best and safest
banks irt the state have- small capital.
“Tn view of the record of bank failures
in other state and in the nation as a
whole. T believe that any fair-minded
man will say that there is no just cause
for the wholesale attack which the Re
publican candidate is making upon the
State banks of North Carolina, which is
civdently made not byway of construc
tive criticism, but for purely partisan
political purposes. I again repeat that
this may be productive of great
harm to the people of this State, and 1
appeal to the Republican candidate to
cease these attacks before further harm
McLean Heard By Large
Crowd In Address Here
is done.
"If he has any regard for the welfare
cf the State I ask him to give this mat
ter serious consideration and to consult
with some reputable and experienced Re
publicans who are in the banking busi
ness, any one of whom I confidently be
lieve would tell him that he is pur
suing a course that cannot bring any
good results, and which may be the
cause of infinite damage."
Mr. McLean described the constructive
record of the Democratic party for the
past twenty-five years in building a bet
ter commonwealth, mentioning some of
its most conspicuous achievements in re
spect to education, health work, the care
of the afflicted, highway construction and
the other progressive things that have
been done under the Democratic arinin
ixtration frjnn Aycock to Morrison, in
clusive, and pledged his best efforts to
utilize all the resources at hand in the
continued upbuilding of the common
wealth.
He then contrasted the lack of any
record of achievement of the Republican
party, and finally he appealed to his
hearers, many of whom were Republi
cans. to take a militant part in uphold
ing the hands of the Democratic party
and its leadership in reaching the goal
which, he said, he coveted for North
Carolina—that of making it the best
governed, the most prosperous anil the
most 'contented state in the republic.
He characterized the attacks which
the present Republican leaders in the
State are making upon the Democratic
party as “picayunish,” unpatriotic and
destructive in tendency. After desci i
ing some of the other points of criticism.
ho referred to “the attack of the Re
publican candidate upon the supervision
of State banks.
Mr. McLean said:
“The Republican candidate for gov
ernor has charged the corporation com
mission with negligence and inefficiency
in the'supervision of State banks. In
proof of this contention lie says there
have been thirty bank failures m live
vears, or an average of six per year.
He urged this as one reason why the
Democratic party has shown its ineom
petenev to run the State government,
and says that the only remedy “ to sub
stitute‘the Republican party for the Dem
ocratic party in the conduct of State
government.
“In answer to this suggestion let us
see what the Republican party has been
able to do to prevent bank failures in
places where it has control of g vern
ment. In the last throe years of the
Wilson administration there were only
189 bank failures. State and national,
with 72 million dollars total resources
in the United States as a whole, while
in the last three years of the Republi
can administration there have been 1,221
bank failures with resources of 44 1 mil
lion dollars, in the Upited States.
“During the eight years of the Wil
■cn administration there were only 20
bank failures in North Carolina, and
in three months of this Republican ad
ministration there have been more than
twice as many bank failures in one
Republican state as there were in North
Carolina in these entire eight years.
There were 41 bank failures in South
Dakota in the first three months of this
year, or at the rate of 164 per annum.
How is that for Republican supervi
sion?
“According to the report recently is
sued by Henry M. Dawes, comptroller
if the currency, who is, by the way, a
brother of Yic.e Presidential Candicate
Charles G. Dawes, there were more bank
-failures in the finst three years of this
Republican administration than in the
entire period of 20 years preceding.*
“A large majority of these failures
were in the agricultural states which
have felt the full weight of the agri
cultural depression, according to Mr.
Dawes.
"If bank failures are due (as the Re
publican candidate for governor eon
tends) to laxity in supervision, which 1
deny, what can he say for the unprece
dented record in bank failures in the
Republican State of South Dakota, or in
the Eniteil Staten as a whole during
the first three years of thin Republican
administration?
suggestions Offered.
“Having had experience .as the head
of a country bank since I was 26 years
old, I would like to make two sugges
tions to the Republican candidate:
“The real reason for the unusual num
ber of bank failures in the country un
der the Republican administration, un
paralleled in the history of the country,
is not due, as he suggests, to lack of
proper supervision' of either State or
federal authorities, but to the bankrupt
cy of about 600.000. farmers and live
stock producers in the United States,
particularly in the wheat and cattle pro
ducing sections of the northwest, when*
the unfavorable conditions are directly
attributable to the policies of the Re
publican party in defeating the peace
treaty and refusing to permit the enact
ment of remedial legislation for the pro
tection of agriculture proposed by the
Democrats in Congress immediately fol
lowing the World War, and the subse
quent failure of this party to adopt mea
sures to stabilize conditions in western
Europe so that these countries could
purchase our exportable surplus of ag
ricultural and livestock, thereby prevent
ing the glutting of our honfe inarms. .
“During the time that the Democrats
hail control of Congress, times were good
and the fanners a* well as other classes
of our citizenship were happy and pros
perous. But after the Republicans
gained control of Congress in 1918 and
secured full control of. all branches of
the government in 1920 conditions be
came gradually worse. There has been
no healthy prosperity since that tiipe.
At the present time not only agricul
ture, but the sawmilL the cotton mill
anil practically every other industry not
only in North Carolina but in the United
States are in a serious state of depres-
“As further proof that the bad econ- (
ornic conditions abroad and not lack of (
proper supervision are the underlying ►
causes of the bad conditions here. I call ,
attention to the fact that during the last .
three years of the Wilson administration }
there were only 25,000 business failures
in the United States with liabilities ag- {
gregating only 571 million dollars while j
during the first three years of the pres- ,
out Republican administration there were .
62.000 business failures with liabilities ,
of one billion seven hundred million dol- ,
lars. How is this for Ttepubilcan pros- ?
perity? I
“The wholesale attack made by the ,
Republican candidate for governor on
the State banlK i n North Carolina is not .
calculated to ik> good but harm. This
attack has undoubtedly done harm al
ready in causing some lack of confidence ,
on the part of those who are uninformed
anil who may not be in position to un- ,
ilerstand that the motive behind the at
tack is political.
"Several newspapers quoted the lve- ,
publican candidate as saying in his
speech at High Point; ’There are about
*>oo State banks in North Carolina that
are as good as Slate or national banks
anywhere, but on the other hand there
are about the same number .that are
not worth a snap of your finger. And
one of the chief reasons for this is be
cause there are so many little banks that
are not needed.’
Ail Unjustified Attack.
“That is a very unwise and serious at
tack upon the integrity of a large num
ber of State hanks in North Carolina
which is wholly unjustified ariul liable
to create widespread distrust resulting
in possible damage.
“Judge Francis D. Winston called at
tention to the seriousness of the charge
in an interview in The News and Ob
server a day w two after it was ut
tered, but the author of the charges has
not withdrawn ir The State banks
in this state are generally in good con
dition and it would Le a most serious :n
--hiry to the state to adopt any such de
structive methods as suggested by :hc
Republican candidate.
"The Republican candidate says iu*
owns stock in barks but he evidently
knows very little r.bout the importance
!of protecting their reputation. I 'tig*
that he ask ans reputable Repuo
* lican banker in Nci th Carolina if the
charge made in the i üblic print by a man
running for the high office of governor,
’ t * the effec that half the State banks in
‘ the State ‘are not worth the snap of
1 your finger’ is calculated to do good or
, harm to the banking system of the state.
“North Carolina needs constructive
leadership and not destructive criticism.
1 “It is regrettable that the Republican
l candidate has engaged in this unwise
and injurious criticism of State banks,
I but in view of the fact that he has
(Continued on Page Three.)
WASHINGTON AGAIN HAS
CONTENDING TEAMS
Sixth Game of World Series Being PL» 1 ’
ed Today.—President to Attend
Washington, Oca. sh *" •v,t***
iilge decided to jt - ta,,s
at the world's ser\ today and
watch the Senators uatrle the New York
Giants in the sixth game. Mrs. Cool
idge, who has followed the series closely
by radio while the teams were away, also
had a place in the presidential box. The
President and Mrs. Coolidge also at
tended the ojiening game here last Sat
urday.
Cloudless skio* with a temperature
just a little cool made it ideal for both
players and spectators. The weather
setting in prospect at 8 o’clock this morn
ing wan of the best.
Ready for Prosecution.
Washington, Oct. o.—ls President
Johnson of the American league, or any
one else, ha sevidence of a federal law
violation he should present it to the au
thorities, Attorney General Stone said
today in connection with the recent scan
dal involving members of the New York
Giants.
AI TOMOBILE EXHAUSTS
ARE PROVING MENACE
More People Die From Poisoning From
This Source in New York Than Any
where Else.
New York, Oct. *8. —Poisonous gases
now are a greater menace in peace
than in war and more poop'e die from
*arbon monoxide jxiison in New Turk
than anywhere else in the world Prof.
Yandell Henderson, of Yale university,
today tolrl the national association of
police and fire surgeons in a national
'•onvent ion.
Vertical exhaust pipes on all motor
vehicles would remedy this situation.
Professor Henderson said, as they
would direct the.gases upward and "out
of the level of the air we breathe."
Dr. Charles Morris, chief -aieuieal ad
visor of this city, announced , that
only deaths from vehicular accidents ex
ceeded those of monoxide poisonings in
cluding accidental and suicide. asphyxia
tion. He estimated that an automobile
contaminates a volume of air equivalent
to its width and height and 100 to 200
yards in length each minute. Ho told of
taking air samples on Tittn avenue
which showed a high percentage of
monoxide.
Safety Devices on Charlotte Speedway.
Charlotte. Oct. 9. —Prediction that the
Charlotte automobile speedway, now near
ing eonipeltion. will be equipped with
better safety devices than any other
board speedway in America, was made
here this week by Richard Kennerdell.
of Franklin. Pa., chairman of the con
test board of the American Automobile
Association. *
a, Air. Kennerdell said further tbift he
lotte safety measures be adopted onriither
board tracks. Perhaps the most not
able of these is the steel band that is
being fastened to the top guard rail,
tilted at an angle so it will and
deflect any racing car out of control
that may dash to the top of the vola and
try to smash through the rail.
Furthermore, a new kind of heavj
wire- fence is beinc. constructed on the
infield to protect spectators, should a car
dash to the speedway apron headed to
wards the infield.
The- Charlotte speedway grandstands
are being constructed farther from the
straightaways than any grandstands at
other board tracks. This is another pre
caution in the event of an accident near
M,e stands. The banks at the turns are
til fell to 40 degrees to prevent possible
skidding after the racing cars leave the
straightaways.
Air Kennerdell lias been chairman of
the contest board of the American Au
tomobile Association for twelve years,
anil he states that in all that time not
a single spectator has ever been killetl
at an automobile race held under the
rules and with the sanction of his or
ganization. The Charlotte races on Oc
tober 25th will be staged under A. A. A.
rules and sanction.
Barret Issues Warning.
Charlotte. Oct. B—The Follette-
Wheeler movement in this state is an
effort of the old-line Republicans to get
North Carolina away from the Demo
crats. according to a lengthy statement
issued here today by James F. Barrett,
editor of the Charlotte Herald, labor
organ, and former president of the North
Carolina Federation of Labor.
Mr. Barett points out that it "is utter
folly to wage a campaign for La Follette,
when the only possible result to be ob
tained is to give these electoral votes
to the most bitter enemy organized labor
has in public life today— Charles G.
Dawes.”
Child Run Over by Mrs. Candler !>*<■«.
Atlanta. Oct. 9.—Mary Elizabeth
Lundsford, five years old, who was rpn
over late vesterday by an automobile
driven by Mrs. Asa G. Candler. Sr., died
here early today at a local hospital. Ihe
little |girl suffered three fracture** of
the skull and a major concussion of the
brain as a result of the accident.
Switzerland is the first country to
establish government insurance for
school children. It was introduced in
1622 in the Canton of Basil which in
sured all the pupils in the public schools
against accident and sickness. While it
is not compulsory throughout the coun
try other cantons and municipalities
have taken steps in the same direction.
WHAT SMITTY’S WEATHER CAT
Generaly fair tonight and Friday, con
tinued cool.
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
SHENANDOAH STARTS
UN SECOND LAP OF
TRIP OVER COUNTRY
The Big Air Craft Left Fort
Worth Early This Morning
After Spending Night In
Field Near That City.
TRIP TO TEXAS
SUCCESSFUL ONE
Ship Behaved Fine and Un
usually Good Flying Time
Was Made —Good Weather
Is Promised For the Day.
Fort Worth, Tex., Oct. 0 (By the As
sociated Press). —Favorable weather was
promised today for the second leg of the
trans-continental flight of the big navy
dirigible Shenandoah which was moored
to a 160 foot mast here last night after
her hop from Lakehurst, N. J. It was
the first time a dirigible ever landed west
of the Mississippi River. She set sail
for San Diego, Cal., at 0:45 a. m.
Today's course was charted along the
Texas & Pacific railroad to San Diego,
the route traversed by the United States
world fliers. The next stage will be to
the termiuus of tlte history making flight.
Camp Lewis, at Lstkeview. The return
-will be made over the same route to take
advantage of the mooring mast recently
installed here anil at San Diego.
The first leg of the flight was unusual
ly successful, according to Rear Admiral
Moffet, chief of the Bureau of Naval
Aeronautics, and official observer of the
trip.
The ship sailed from Lakehurst to Ft.
Worth in approximately 34 hours, arriv
ing about 8 hours ahead of schedule.
Actual performance of the ship was iu
all respects better thau scheduled, the
Admiral said. Her speed was faster and
fuel consumption was less.
Herbert- Yeuell in City.
Herbert Yuell, noted traveler and lec
turer, will be in the city for five days
and during this time will deliver some
seven or eight travelouges on topics of
unusual interest.
Mr. Yeuell is a man of unusual per
sonality and Inakes a hit with his au
diences on every occasion. Concord is
quite fortunate in being able to secure
apafc a intm ai*d -is donbly fortanato in
having him for such an extended series
of lectures.
The first of these lectures w to be at
the High School on Friday night. The
Hi-Y clubs of the city and the girls from
Sunderland Hall are planning to attend
in a body. On Saturday night Mr.
Yeuell will make an address at the Y.
On Sunday there will be two lectures
at the First Presbyterian Church. The
location of the last two night*’ lectures is
to be announced at a later date.
Governor Smith Forced to Bed With
Rheumatic Attack.
Boston. Oct. 8. —The New England
campaign of Governor Alfred E. Smith,
of New York, which has taken him to
New Hampshire and Massachusetts in
supiiort of the national and state candi
dates of tlie Democratic party ended
here today when an attack of rheuma
tism forced him to take to his bed and
to cancel his engagements to speat in
Rhode Island and Uonnecticut.
The governor still was in bod at a
hotel here tonight under the cure or a
physician who said that, rest and quiet
would restore him to health in time to
permit him to keep spi*aking appoint
ments in New Jersey Friday.
Signal Tower for Officers.
A signal tower has been erected at
the intersection of Depot and l niou
streets from which the officers will be
able to direct traffic in the future.
The tower is one very similar to that
in Charlotte at the intersection of Trade
and Tryon streets. His of ample di
mension for the officer to sit and see
traffic as it approaches on both streets.
The top is glass enclosed for stormy
weather. .
The intersection of Depot and l Dion
streets in the busiest in the city. On
Saturdays there is considerable conges
tion and it was deemed wise to relieve
this by the installation of an automatic
signal. The stop-and-go sign has al
ready been electrified ami with the new
tower in place, the operation of the
system should begin soon.
Damage to Highways in Hast Carolina
May Total $250,000.
Kin*ton, Oct. B—Road damage from
Hood* in this section may exceed $250.-
000, John E. Cameron, state highway
commissioner, today said. Heaviest loss
es were in Wayne county. The highways
in Sampson Duplin and other
counties were damaged.
McNamara Again Indicted.
IndianajKilis. Ind.. tV*t. 9. John .T.
McNamara, who s<*rved more than nine
years of a fifteen year sentence for his
alleged connection with the dynamiting
of the Los Angeles Times in 1910, was
arrested here today and held under $20.-
000 bond on four indictments returned
by the Marion County grand jury charg
ing blackmail.
With Our Advertisers.
Farmers' accounts are numerous at the
Citizens Bank and Trust Company and
that bank welcomes them all and others,
also.
Virginia Dare Novelty Footwear at
Parker's Shoe Store for $4.9;* and $5.95.
“If you like America, discourage hot
talk.” See ad. of Cabarrus County B. L.
& S. Association.
A new light tan oxford by today's ex
press at the S. S. Brown Shoe store. See
* new ad. >
NO. 28.