T B SHERRILL. Editor and Publisher W)LI Vit' XI-IX pnibilitation is Task I Now In Stricken Areas W om -d hv Burial of Their ■Mid. Beesons in Tornado Nevertheless Go H\,,, Tasks With Hope. ■ll WORK FOR I! STRICKEN CITIES 11, M u> ( Be Built Again |K:i, Jn Others Building iff, is One Demanding Dne and Money. , v j.l, i I !v the Associated ,i lx the tin«l tragedy . .>rn:in to which it i ;,-1 Wednesday's _cat- HH turned to the same H _ ,MO«d l ef.ire the stornt. , ved medical at- j honieh - - have been pro- 1 -belter it was an _ a underway for re- H , \\ reeked -t nirt tires. A ied the agencies engag |H - work as arrange s, r eompiete surveys of - - uai'd that font- months or |M, , red to clear hundreds , re-tore thousands of j, rebuild factories and es of sanitation. \; linker, head of the disaster of the Red Cross, an ■ organization expected , u r\ family affected by the HV jj. .-|U, -tated Kfi einengency unit t'p.vv had peril established or -ion town, and that rempor |K:. the injured and homeless fully taj>wrTan - e of. the -torm -ufferers be in ad part- of the country. |H a-,;,. - ehurehe-. 10-w-papers. H. many other agencies. the |H .i.-a.i'i'iarier- of the Red Cross in a a i,'»u need an appropriation augment similar funds be by 10.-al chapters. III-.. March 22—A HI .-.mi . i.-k.-i up in Murphys boro ' twister was carried to 111-.. 210 ntilets distant. j/m,, H. \V. Abbott, pastor of the i-r ehu reli . which was ■A by the -torm. was the owner On a book case in his study ■■n.-irmnag" adpoining the church. railing card-. Tiie tornado suek gHr i-anls ahmg with houses, tele [ie’i-. trees and other loose Vmterday he received ti tele -1 frmn man at Palestine did not know, and who said H.' of the card- had been found LAMER DEAD OF Al TO ( HASH INJURIES uthtfr Charges Brought In High ’oinf Against Sam Tucker. Point. March 21. — Ivey Lanier, ’•old merchant of thin city, who iured when the automobile he was 'collided with a car driven by . K Tucker on the Thomasville j near here last night, died at ilford General Hospital this inorn ♦* :‘h» o'clock. Lanier never re (onsciousness. warrant issued last night for the es Tucker, charging him with aft aud battery, was amended today Irge manslatigther. Tucker was Nl under $.">,000 bond. R. R. Ra f this city, signed the bond. Date f preliminary hearing has not been tit Tucker probably will be ar >i in court here next week. C. C. Brdt. local attorney, has been re as counsel for the defendant. M- 'earned today from protons who to have seen the accident that t \vn- attempting to pass two au ii'' going in the same direction, iuvi- cars were being driven at a 'ate of speed. Lanier, driving a during car. was about to meet the machines. He steered his car to t'leine tight, but there wae insuf 'pttee for Tucker to drive his car en the other automobiles and the eri resulted. With Our Advertisers. P big shoes and hosiery sale at the MidT lowe t'o'.s. is still going some. > far beyond all expectation**, b”.v have found*it necessary to put ditioua; stock. See new ad. today, ‘■pens at !i o’clock Tuesday morn ?fl a few specials in the dry goods tmmo „f t i l( , I‘arks-Belk Co. in the a 'l today. Note especially the 11 baby department. '’‘ r d ike tooth harrows at Yorke fNwi.rth CoV All other farm im- Pnts. to,j. Art>tickle to Wed Doris Deane. wl >' Hills. Calif., March 23.—Doris "c uiotion picture actress, and Ros • uek;,. former comedian of the • o he married tomorrow night 'I. uiie „f th«* bride's mother,- at • at'ine, near Pasadena. An' er u‘port Inst night stated they married last week. Arbuckle’s ' 1 ' iMenta Arbuckle. some • obtained a divorce in Paris. fe' 1 * I(i mpanies Get Tkx Refund, t "J 1, ar, ‘h 23.—Tobacco man of O' ° * >aj :I( lditional “floor’ i : P' l ' thousand upon cigar by revenue act of 1918 a refund of that tax oi [ie rnc J 1 ' v, “ lp imported, the u *ht bv ,hp'r hpld to $10.231.1100.57. nearly iwt .months after the perfervid demon>-rrn tion of former Governor Morrison thai tilde i*s no sta ll thing ac a Mate short age. settles it in a state way of Join* business. After two months of administrative work, during which time the collection* naturally have been low. the deficit ha> climbed considerably more than half a million above the figures shown by the budget commission and accepted by th“ j finance committee of the two houses, | The March raid on incomes will help ,tb bring down tiie balan<‘e against the ‘Mate, but there is very little likelihood jof lessening the grand total by July 1. :102."». when Mr. McLean deals with the J situation in his own name. The argument of Former Governor Morrisjon was momentarily impressive. It was difficult to resist his appeal that revenues which were levied by him and accrued after his day should not go to the reduction of the delcit shown at the | end of his rule. But when anybody ask ed a member of the finance committee why the state did not apply these re ceipts to the deficits, always the reply was that the state had no receipts and would have none. The present shortage seems to show that there is nothing which can reduce the whole. It so happens that there was a state deficit four years ago. one eight. 12. 1(5 and so on- Each executive taking up government bean where it was left off by his predecessor and Mr. Morrison did the same thing. He picked up the Biekett administration where the retir ing executive had left it and there was million dollar deficit caused by the state’s taking something from the gen eral fund when bonds went bad. But there was a cash surplus ot .>600.000 and an accrual of $1.1)00.000 which Mr. Morrison inherited. The state went on and now Mr. takes over a $!).- fiIT.OOR deficit against which he can employ the accruals of the Morrison regime. There will hardly be any more fury about the deficit. It is now big enough for everybody to see and after July the state will begin to handle it in an in telligent way. SAYS INCOME TAXES SHOW STATE’S POVERTY North Carolina Must Find New Re sources Or It Will Remain Poor, Says Bailey. Raleigh. March 10.—Rubbing it into the folks yet again that they are not rich and that the income taxes show it. ,T. W. Bailey today told the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce that the state is one of the poorest on the western hemi sphere and that it must devise some way of increasing its income if it ever gets out. The Raleigh lawer had the recent fig ures of the University News Letter be fore him. There are more than ."00.000 families in the state, but only S.OOO of them have income taxpayers. He could not imagine how people estimate them selves rich with wealth so poorly dis tributed that only 8.000 families stare in it The total taxes of the state will be around $00,000,000. Mr. Bailey said, and the people will have 30 per cent, of their net incomes to devote to taxes. Speaking informally and unofficially before the mee-ting. Dr. W. S. Rankin stated that he saw no reason why WakF county should not share in the Duke memorial hospital fund to the extent o $1 per charity bed. allowed Under Mr. Duke’s, provision and possibly at the first an appropriation for construction. Thir ty-two per eent. of the $40,000.00 fund will be available for rural public hos pitals, interest from which next year will amount to about $500,000. - ° funds will be available until next year. TRI CK AND BERRIES TO BRING IN MILLIONS Strawberries and Lettuce Soon to Start Moving in Section. Wilmington. March 20.—Several mil lion dollars are expected to pour into this section within the next two months as a result of the lettuce, strawberry and truck crops that will be marketed within that period. The strawberry crop will likely start moving within two weeks, and the let tuce crop is expected to move a week later- The fact that the South Carolina lettuce crop has already started moving is taken as a good indieation that the North Carolina crop, the weather per mitting. will be a success, although it is understood that about 25 per cent of* the local lettuce that was planted was kill ed bv unfavorable temperature. ' \ few baskets of lettuce have already been shipped by local growers, according to .T. P. Herring, county farm aK e, ' f - However, it is expected that it will be fullv three weeks before the I f ttuc J\: movement assumes wat may be termed , regular proportions. Another^Job For Gen. Pershing. Washington. March 23.—Gen. * prs £ ng has been appointed Co supervise the Tao na Ariea plebiscite. The AVhite House today announce,! h s selection as head of the commission winch is to oversee the election under ie eut Chilean-Peruvian arbitration award. Another Diphtheria Epidemic for Alaska? Nome, March 21—Dr. Curtis Welch, sole physician of Nome, wh° worked ■ night and day during the height of tre i epidemic, has received word from Candle, • 250 miles northeast of here, that an epi > demic of sore throat** with symptoms of - diphtheria was spreading among residents cf Bucklaud River. Some Effects of the Storm’ at Murphysboro, Illinois P 7 Sra= , : ; .... The efforts of a lifetime were smashed to bits by the torn**. which crushed in houses like -o manv egg-hells and left a trail of death aud havoc in its wake. This picture, taken at Murphysboro. 111., one of the town’s hr,lest hit by the ttir^TSuOT on a«d f w;:ie. to, ' m,d °' s fury - Xote n*™ u f —■ - «*»*<& KILLS MAN AND GOES ON HOME TO SLUMBER Atlas Poole Asserts He Shot Dave Har ris in Self-Defense Near TrtfL Troy. March 20.—Atlas Poole/ shot an instantly killtai Dave Harris last night in the Onville section, about five miles south of here. The killing was done on a lonely path that leads from the Harris home to Onvi’e. about 1) o'clock but local authorities did not re ceive the report until early this morn ing. They immediately went to the scene, and after a corner’s inquest was held found Poole at his home asleep. He was taken into custody and brought here where he is confiued in the Montgomery county jail awaiting a pre liminary hearing. The cause of killing has not been definitely determined, the prisoner refusing to make any statement but that he shot in self-defense. Duncan Parsons, a neighbor of both Poole and Harris, was an eye witness aud he first gave the report. It seems that Poole gnd Pnyrfons went to the home of Harris’ before dark last *TrfgftP and that a'l three men engaged in a drinking frolic. This ended about 8 o’clock with a quarrel between Poole and Harris. Harris left the home, following Poole and Parsons, and when about one mile from it was killed. Harris was in his shirt sleeves when killed and his body only showed one wound, that being made by a shotgun fired at close range, the lead entering his body just a few inches below the heart- He was a brother-in-law of Poole and was engaged in the sawmill business. He leaves a wife and four children. Poole is tiie son of Hart Poole. a prominent citizen of Montgomery coun ty, and is about 32 years of age. He has been engaged in the mercantile Dusi ness at Onvil for sometime. 29 BODIES HAVE BEEN RECOVERED FROM MINE Rescue Workers Still Hoping They Will Find at Least Two Miners Alive in the Mine. Fairmont, March 23.—Rescue workers expected to learn definitely today whether there are any survivors among the 33 men imprisoned last Tuesday night by the explosion at the Barracksville mine of the Bethlehem Mine Corporation. The hope lias not been abandoned that two miners escaped death as they are believ ed to have been winking in remote sec tion of the. m ! ne when the blast went off. It was admitted at the same time, how ever. that there is no evidence any sur vivors will be found. The removal of fifteen additional bod ies yesterday brought the total of bodies from the mine up to 20. A development yesterday was arrest by policemen of ('has. Grove, former employe for investigation. Three others are be ing held also for questioning in connec tion with the explosion. No date has been set for the official investigation that \yill be made. remarkable claims FOR NEW ALTO FUEL 4 ________ Product Which Has as Basic a Solution of Sugar. Said lo Give Fine Results. Paris, March 21. —Remarkable claims are made for a new automobile fuel, nam ed Iroline. after its discovery fifteen years ago by Irene Laurant, daughter of a well known French chemist. The product, which is understood to have for a basic a solution of sugar, is said to cost less and go further than any other so-called [substitute for gasoline. I A party of prominent automotive eugi- I neers who tested the new fuel on a long'’ I run in an ordinary machine are quoted as expressing themselves as astounded by the results. Will Sentence Rickard Next Week. Trenton, N. J., March 23.—At the re quest of defense counsel, Federal Judge lAodine today deferred for one week im position of tentence on Tex Rickard and others convicted last week of conspiracy in the interstate transportation of films of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight. \ - Get Silk Valued at $40,000. Xew York. March 23.—Armed men held up watchmen today on the Lehigh Valley Railroad 2«tb pier on the Hudson River, and escaped with silk valued by the railroad officials at $40,000. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CONCORD, N. C„ MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1925 NEARLY .$80,000,000 FROM GASOLINE TAX Practically Entire Revenue Emin This Source Collected Last Year Went Into Road Building. Washington. March 21. —Motorists in 35 states and the District of Columbia last year paid $7ft.734.4!)0 in gasoliue taxes, of which sum $48.71 1.320 was usetf in state road Jnaintenance and construction. Much of* the remainder collected was turned oyer to county and local roads funds. X The department of agriculture, in an nouncing these figures tonight, estimat ed that only half of the motorists in the country contributed to the fund, al though all but 13 states levied a gaso line tax. The average amount paid an nually where the tax was imposed was $10.30 i>er vehicle. ' California, with a 2 eent tax. col •ected $11003.222. of which $5,000,611 was applied to *tate roads. Pennsyl vania collected $0,080,541. the second .largest sum, with ft "2k Xffß levy, but the department had no i*ecwd of what part' >f it was used for highways. Wyoming’s one eent ta*x brought only $200,310, all 'f it being used for roads. The state has increased the tax to 2 1-2 cenfis per gal lon. Arkansas’ 4 cent tax, the largest of ill states, brought the state $22708,535. of which $2,268,535 was applied to road work. Me LEAN IS BESEIGED TO APPOINT JURIST Friends of Wright and Armfleld Urge Them For Superior Court—Derision Delayed. Kalrigh. March 20. —Salisbury delega tions storming Governor McLean this 'veiling, and Concord and Union law vears at it this afternoon, left Gover nor McLean in doubt whether he can name a judge to succeed the late Benja min F. Long before Monday or not. More hearings will be given Saturday. The Salisburyans were Senator Walter H. Woodson, Stable Linn and Cham Coughenhour, who spoke for R. Lee Wright, of the Rowan bar. Former Sen itor Luther Hartsell and T. D. Maness, ts Cabarrus, came for Frank Armfield, >f the Cabarrus bar, and John C. M. \’ann, former member of the general as embly ajitl resident of Union, where Mr. Armfield lived most of his life, spoke for lie Cabarrus candidate. There is no loubt that the Armfield friends have nade a good impression on his excel ency. . Governor McLean did not indicate who would do the further work for the aspi rants, but be will hear them out. It is not likely that he will get to this ippointment before Monday. JURY OF MEN CHOSEN FOR ELLINGSON CASE Sixteen-Year-Old Girl Goes on Trial for the Killing of Her Mother. San Francisco, March 23. —Dorothy Ellfngson. sixteen-year-Old stenographer who shot her mother to death last Oc tober when, her parents objected to the hours she kept with men friends, came into the Superior Court here today with cue.hope—that the jury which will try her on a charge of murder, will be com posed entirely of mefi.' * ■ The young defendant has confessed the killing of her mother, Mrs: Anna Elling son. The girl attended a party on the same night. The girl’s attorneys have indicated they will make a plea of temporary insanity, but that she shot “on an impulse.” She has submitted to a series of examina tions designed to establish her mental and physical status. SPINNING INDUSTRY IN FEBRUARY VERY ACTIVE Industry Operated at Full Single Shift Basic Capacity During the Month. Washington, March 21.—The cotton spinning industry operated at full sing.e (shift basic capacity during February, the t ceensus bureau reeport today shows. Ac -1 tivity was greater than in January, al i though the number of active spindle 1 hours was smaller, due to a fewer num ber of working days. - Five Soviet Officials Reported Killed. Moscow, March 23. —A Reuter dispatc-1 says five soviet government officials wen killed when a military airplane flyiu* from Tiflis to Suchum caught fire ii mid air and crashed to the earth. THE COTTON MARKET Heavy General Selling Occurred at the Opening on Reports of Rain in South west Texas. New ork, March 23.—Heavy general selling occurred at the opening of the cotton market today owing to reports of rain in southwest Texas and re’a tively easy Liverpool cables. In addi tion to liquidation of old long accounts there appeared to be considerable pres sure from southern and local sources. After opening easy at a decline of 20 to 48 points, active months soon showed net losses of 3ft to 4ft points. May selling off to 25.21 and October to 24.88. The decline uncovered a good many orders to buy for trade account and this with eoyering of recent sellers checked the break, and prices rallied Ift or 15 points from the lowest by the end of the first hour. Cotton futures opened easy: March 25.25; May 25.40; July 25.55; October 25.00; December 24.ft5. STEPHEN fi. WILLIAMS DIES IN CHARLOTTE Prominent Citizen of Lexington Passes Away Suddenly In Hotel. Charlotte. March 22. —Stephen Edwin Williams, of Lexington, died suddenly in his room at a local hotel at an eai*ly hour this morning, heart trouble being* the cause of death. He was in his usual health yesterday. Mr. Williams was of Lexington, but he had spent the greater part of his time in Charlotte for the last year as his daughter, Mrs. E. C. Sweeney resides here. Mr. Williams was born February 28, 1857 in Yanceyville, Caswell county. Coming of a family of prominence and notable mentality He married Miss Lunna Williams, of Marchmont, and they have two children living. Mrs. Wil liams resides in Salisbury. ALBERT HOUSE, NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL, ESCAPES JAIL Officers Express Belief He Had Outside Aid in Successful Effort to Law Out of Prison, Tampa, Fla., March 23 Albert House, said to be a notorious criminal, early to day escaped from the Hillsborough Coun ty jail where he had been confined for one week. House in sawing his way out of the institution, officers said, had been aided from the outside. House : s wanted by the Indiana author ities for murder, and a series of bank robberies, officers said. He was being held here for having en gineered the Hava Tampa robbery here a year ago in which $24,000 was taken, and also several yeggraan “jobs.” Two Measures To Be Ratified by People. Raleigh, March 21. —When the general assembly adjourned, it wa6 found that it had referred only two measures to the people to be voted on in the next gen eral election. One of these is a proposed constitu tional* amendment designed to permit the governor to be inaugurated on the open ing day of each biennial session of the general assembly instead of later on in the session. The other measure is a proposed $2,- ftftft.ftftft soldiers’ loan fund, carrying the same provisions as the "Grist bill passed bv the 1023 general assembly and thought i to have been ratified in the general elec tion of 1024 but which was declared un constitutional by the supreme court (lur ing the regular biennial session of IJ-a. Verdict for Mrs. Waterhouse. London. March *23.-The jury which j had been hearing the case of Mrs. Muriel I Waterhouse against Lady M ilson Barker to recover 10.075 pound*, which the plain-] tiff claims the defendant had extorted j from Alfred Francis Waterhouse, hus band of the pla : ntiff. now deceased, brought in a verdict this afternoon in favor of Mrs. Waterhouse. It found that R. P. Sheldon, named as an alleged party to the extortion, had not conspired with Lady Wilson Barker. New Theatre To Be Ready Easteir Mon day. M. Meriwether, of Lexington, is in the eity today. Mr. Meriwether will be the ' manager of H. B. Varner's new theatre now approaching completion here. Mr. Meriwether tells us he expects to be ready to start up the new playhouse on Easter Monday. CHATTANOOGA COURT IS READY FOH THE BfNNETTCASE NOW W. H. Bennett”and Wife Go On Trial Charged With the Murder of Mrs. Augusta Hoffman Years Ago. MURDERED WOMAN WAS KINSWOMAN 500 Prospective Jurors Sum moned by Court as Case Has Attracted Such Inter est—Elements of Mystery. f'attnnooga, Tt'im., March 23. (By the - Assoc : ated Press). —Five hundred pros pective jurors. 3ftft more than the usual number summoned, were called to Hamil ton county court today for the trial of W. H. Bennett and his wife. Mrs. May Bennett, of. Rome. Ga.. indicted on a charge of murdering Mrs. Augustus Hoff man, aunt of the defendants. Elements of mystery as to the details of the alleged crime were to be explained as the trial began. Mr. and Mrs n Ben nett were indicted on the charge of mtir-! der in September, 11)24. following the dis covery of bones said to have been those of a woman under the house they bad oc cupied at their residence of more than four years in Chattanooga. The state claims the bones found by workmen while making repairs on tiie house were those of Miss Hoffman, whom the prosecution contends “disappeared” after coming to make her home with her nephew and family. Ju*y Chosen. Chattanooga, Tenn., March 23 (By tiie Associated Press). —Selection of a jury for the trial of W. H. Bennett and his wife, Mrs. May Bennett, Rome, Ga.. charged with the murder of Miss Augfts ta Hoffman, required only one and one half hours in Hamilton county criminal court here today. PALM BEACH LINKS TURNED INTO CAMP Millionaires Seize Costly Rugs and Sleep Outdoors After Fire Razes Hotels. Palm Beach. Fla., March ft. —Estimate of the loss here last night when the Breakers Hotel and the Palm Beach Hotel were destroyed with- damn®* ofher property. was“placed at $7,000,000 today by Fire Chief Schultz. Previ ously the loss had been estimated at $4,- 000,000. Authorities continued to investigate rumors that the Breakers was set afire in a plot to loot rooms of jewelry and money. Police have arrested a score of persons charged with looting. A checkup of hotel registers today failed to reveal that any lives were lost. Sleep on Golf Links. Smouldering ashes were all that re mained today of two of the most noted hotels of the playground of millionaires. The city presented an unusual scene in the early morning light, as groups paused to view the ruins. On the golf links groups of million aires slept upon expensive rugs and drap eries torn from the floors and walls of the burning buildings. Some persons had found shelter in other hotels and cottages, but many informal picnics were held on the links last night. The estimated damage to the Break ers, building alone, was $1,000,000, and the Palm Beach Hotel one-fourth of that amount. The Breakers would have been the last of the larger hotels to close, as it had been planned to continue it in operation a week later than the usual season. Many guests from the Poineiana. expect ed to close March 26th, had moved to the Breakers. Several delegations of Ro tarians, attending a convention in Palm Beach, were also quartered there. Many persons were understood to have made arrangements last night to leave to day for their homes in the East. Homes in Palm Beach and West Palm Beach were thrown open today to persons left without shelter. ■ HUNDRED WITNESSES ON HAND FOR EDWARDS TRIAL Both Sides Ready to Proceed With Case, and a Speedy Trial Is Exported. Bessemer. Ala,, March 23. More than Iftft witnesses were on hand today when Dr. Geo. T. Edwards was called for trial on a charge of wife murder. Both sides were ready to proceed with the case, and such speed was made :n the opening hour that it is expected the jury will be sworn in during, the after noon session of the court. ' Judge J. O. B. Gwin. who presided in the first hearing, which resulted in a mistrial, again occupied the bench. The defeendunt, who is charged with slaying his w : fe in their alley Road | home on December 2nd. appeared in ro ! bust health. | Representative From Fort Bragg in City Fort. Bragg. N. C., March 23. —A spe cial citizens’ military training camp rep resentative. Lt. W. 8. Bryant, is being sent to Concord, and should arrive there about March 23rd. His purpose is to assist Mr. J. T. (’line, the local C. M. T. C. represenative. in giving personal in formation relative to the C. M. T. (’.. which will be held at this post between 2nd and 31st of July. General Bowley is interested in increasing the enrollment from Cabarrus county, which was one young man at last year s camp. In New York a woman kicked in a shop window. May have seen a hat there just like hers. Arthur Goodman is confined to his I home ua East Depot street by illness. | $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. ARGUMENTS NWE SSIuifTHE TEAPOT LEASE SUIT Planned to Give the Case to Judge Kennedy Not Later Than Tomorrow Night.— Pomerene First Speaker. LIMIT SPEAKING TIME OF LAWYERS Court Is In Session But Four and a Half Hours Each Day and Only Few Speech es Are Scheduled. Cheyenne, Wyo.. March 23. —Attorneys in the Teapot Dome lease annulment suit started on the last leg of the trial today with a view of having the ease submit ted to Federal Judge T. Wake Kennedy by tomorrow , afternoon. A schedule agreed to by attorneys last night calls for the argument of Atlee Pomerene of government cotinsel, to occupy one and a half hours, beginning todaf. The rest of the day then will be occupied by J. W. Lacy, of the defense counsel, who will submit the technical argument. The court day of four and one-half hours will be divided among Martin W. Littleton and Geo. P. Hoover, of the de fense counsel, and Owen .1. Roberts, gov ernment attorney, tomorrow. It is Imped the ease will be completed before rhe enure by Tuesday night. THIRTEEN KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK Two Fast Southern Pacific Trains Col lidge During Fog; Five. Are Injured. New Orleans, March 22. —Thirteen persons lost tlreir lives in a wreck early today when two fast mail trains of th