Editor and Publisher rtI.UME xux ill [LECH 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 >: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.