WE L f OF WORDS MEM pTOi] SEED, ■ Lr St'f!' l ' ,!lforc Inatc Campaign | I'ommiCtco in the ■ Ttoday. IcVD WAS i Kent to hear ■"public Charge; ■enditures by Li ■terests in Recent Ivania Primary. ■general of Uie fa ' Seii ■ sum! i-iiiuiui!tee over ■;;,. cllil I'itt'S of expencli ■ "iiquor interests’ in ■ jje (itML*H>O Republican i ■aite.l dash of wits he ft i e;u ler ami the fiery j ■ insistent foe of Cite j ■ etigue ami it" prohibi ■breuttht an overflowing | ■big eoininitte room anil 1 ■faithless climax to the j ■ierfiil inquiry into the ■ polities. ■ with him to the wit-1 ■bundle of papers as if! ■ed' for a long siege of 1 ■mine over many phas-: ■lie's activities. Kmmmittee \xp- engaged j ■ routine. AV'.ieeler | ■ j,, the eoinmittee table i ■ rhauunan Heed': "Mv ■ i; Wheeler." lie said, have the pleasure . of Buur. sir." said Reed. will be calledV" ■voi. "Oli, iu a little ■ 1 ask i< 1 have an en ■nee! it." t'ae chairman returned to his hi' riiriir hand high ns jBl isteivd by Re«d I jßrhidnaai). lie took a 'lie table from out that Wheeler dti years ago, Reed [■ salary do you get?” sixty-six dollars a [B'hnve you drawn it?” |B>. get before that?” dollars." [■yer.r first salary with WM "A i.uiii 1 !■»■< 1 dollars a l did not get HHp'ii start with the June. isf)4." speeches for i:i coilego and got iffltbw" |B'.r "!■ rive years of the ditficuir." Wheeler .low- in coming jB 111 ”' "he speakers re ■ «"•:: salaries to make ir in the early years •''■'id a month, plus |B on.-the road. were you getting in think u was slso or |M sr 'ft spoken thus far. that lie was trying ■heeler's "history" hi a ■ * ,|;t be jiresseii for a |ft h*' quest ion and Would !ni\e to look HH !<►<) some ■ a,V !;iIt T "The sub ■ lu, ‘T!eh (iII , of these ■, !1,,t r " fl '“Ti a:y recol ler said. Hf;'" 3,111 h'-n-y of time H 1 (,f iileftj 11 >i " Heed |V Uau:, T m general B tiir' 1 ' * a inferred to 1017 prsition K. 1 ■ H„ An- K mii : llter "’•! 1 be- H ■ to H M 1 " >t b “ in °- m Wayne H | / league, Senate IB' in wio y 'Ultimate ■iThid—y t c H >1.(11,, Mould ■ f 1 ‘"Hvod a wm for :de or. THE CONCORD TIMES $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. Many Killed When Limited Train Crashed Into Express ! HAVE YOU SENT FOR ! YOUR NEW LICENSE PLATE? ' If Not You Had Better Get It Right j . Away. Raleigh. June 17. —Have you your i new license plates yet? If not. you 1 bad better get them right away, or (that car of yours wiil be tag'ess when . the Inst day of grace expires. I “People must begin getting their ; license plates much faster than they j have the past two weeks." said R. A. • Doughton, commissioner of revenue, j today, “or many will be lost in the j mad rush for tags at the end of the J month. Now is the time to get the ’tags, for they can be handled with out any rush or congestion.” Motorists are also being urged to be more careful in the manner in which they attach’t’ueir license plates to their cars than they have been heretofore. i “In the past, many car owners \ have used straps or strings or wire, or a most anything that would hold the plate on the car. * Rut this year l we are going to. enforce the law to | tlie* limit and require every car own er to have his license plate “rigidly I attached’’- to his 'car,' directly under I the tail light, in such a manner that it can be easily illuminated at night j and read at a distance of not less , than 50 feet,” said officials of the j automotive division today, Two reasons are given for this ac ■ tion. First, that it is a safeguard I that will save the individual car owner needless trouble and expense, in that where license plates are enre i lessly attached, the plates are often ! lost, .thus causing trouble and ex pense in replacing them, and second, lin that it will materially aid the j theft bureau in tracing and locating ; stolen cars. Attention is also called to the fact that this rigid attach i ment of license plates will also tend to discourage the “switching" of li cense ilia res from one car to another, which is strictly forbidden. SURPLUS OF CEDAR Which Can Be Had at Attractive Prices for Fence Posts. Tribune Bureau * Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, June 17.—Attention of farmers is being directed to the fact that there is a surplus of cellar which can be had at attractive prices for fence posts by H. M. Curran, forester for the State department of agricul ture, Nviio has asked the county agents to make quotations to them. “If the farmers in your county contemplate fencing pastures or poul try yards or expect to use durable posts for other purposes this sum mer," wrote Forester Curran, “it will be well for them to pool their orders and buy a car of posts direct from the * producers. Prices range from 15 cents to 28 cents, depending on! diameteT of post. The length of the posts is seven feet. A car will hold from 1,000, to 1,400 posts, and the rates are three.and a half cents per hundred pounds to eight cents per ’hundred pounds for distances rang ing from five to seventy miles. The posts weigh from fifteen pounds to twenty pounds each.” Shipments of Fruits and Vegetables. Tribune Raleigh Bureau, Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, June 17.—Car lot ship ments of fruits apd vegetables up to the middle of June this year totaled 209,876. as compared with 189.003 the corresponding date last year, it was announced at the State Depart ment of Agriculture. These figures allude to the entire United States and were received at the Department over Its co-operative leased wire from Washington. There have been shipped, to date, nine car lots of new apples as compar ed with 43 the corresponding date last year. The late season also is re flected in tomota shipments. There have been only 6,179 car lots shipped this year, as compared with 11,572 last, while watermelon shipments- to date total 2,269, as compared with 3,563 last year. Other commodities are summarized as follows, the first named figure rep resenting this year’s shipments, and the second in each Instance repre senting last year's: Celery 5,869-8; cucumbers 3,327-3,342; strawberries, 12.460-11,959; sweet potatoes. 20.554- 16.053; cabbage, 14,630-14,430; as paragus 2,282-1-827; peaches; 507- 1.10; old apples’ 126,853-103.607; spinach, 8,721-1,129; onions, 6,210- 5,025. Sale of White SSar Line Approved. New York, June —Sale of the White Star Line to Furness Withy & Company, and other British interests was approved today by stock i holders of the International Mercan tile Marine Co., for between 7,000,000 t and 7,500,000 pounds. II —JI~M —l'- |I , » IW * ganization, and had no other source j of income. 1 Several times Reed accused the wit ness of failure to make definite re plies, and asked thdt exact facts and figures be produced later for the com mittee. Although the league leader was call ed as a result of his public statements about expenditures in the recent Penn sylvania primary, that subject was scarcely broached by Reed during the hour and a half Wheeler was on the stand before adjournment for luncheon. Just before , the session closed the Senator began to lead up to the Pennsylvania situation,, into which he said he would go more thor oughly after the committee had re convened at 2 d. m. | Accident Occurred Near i Blairsville, Pa., Shortly | . Before Midnight on the Pennsylvania Railroad. FOUR TRACKS WERE RIPPED UP ♦ i '■ ■ ■ One .Sleeper Driven Into Another, Appearing as if One Had Been Con structed Arpund Other. Pittsburgh, June 17. —(#)—At least eighteen persons were killed when the Cincinnati limited train No. 40 crash ed into t'ae Washington Express near Rlnirsville intersection shortfy before last midnight, Pennsylvania officials said this morning. Os the eighteen known victims, nine bodies were recovered from the Cleve land sleeper on No. 50. Three were trainmen. Five bodies were found in the club car of train No. 40 which was imme diately behind the double-header loco motives pulling the Limited. Ten injured passengers were re moved to I.atrobe hospitals. The smash occurred on a slight curve two miles west of Rlnirsville intersection, an important railway center. Here the ground is level and the entire countryside is farm ing land. As daylight dawned those at the scene were given tfie first real view of the wreck. Four main line tracks were ripped up for about 100 feet. The two locomotives on No. 40 were a mass of. wreckage, while one sleep er. in which most of the victims were oeated, was found to be telescoped full length. Inside this sleeper an other Pullman, car ’and been pushed by the terrific impact. The two sleepers appeared as if one had been constructed around the other. Another sleeper was standing on its end. the rear section high in the air. (I. M. Hixsmith, superintendent of passenger transportation, said today that the smashup occurred when t’ae express halted so that a broken air hose could be repaired. The flagman of No. 50, he said, went to the rear to set off flares and the block signals were set against eastbouml trains. I). S. McDonald, the flagman from the express, performed his duty for after No. 40 bore into the eatpress, Phi smith said. McDonald’s flares were found burning on the right of way. The superintendent added that W. 1 S. Gordon, of AltoonaJyPa., who was ' killed, was engineer on the first loco motive hauling the Limited. Special trains brought a number of 1 slightly injured into Pittsburgh. Great crowds gathered at the scene 1 ! of the wreck during the morning. Those in charge of rescue work ex pressed the belief that additional bodies would be found, especially in ( the Cleveland sleeper which was tele scoped, and which at dawn pave up : nine dead. A heavy derrick sas used ( to lift it from the other car. Brig’at , sunshine flooded the wreckage as it ( was placed on the right of way. Then, ddisclosed to view, pinned in the mass of twisted steel, could be seen the nine bodies, five men, one woman and ; three children. ( The club car of the second train i likewise was a mass of wreckage, i At first inspection it yielded three i bodies. Some rescuers reported four , others pinned in the debris. < It was the belief at the scene that the death list would mount to at least 23. Pittsburgh, June 17. — UP)- —Fifteen persons including four trainmen and 11 i»assengers were killed in the wreck of the Washington Express and the Cincinnati Lim.ted near Blairsville Intersection, the Pennsylvania rail road officially announced today after a careful checkup of all ’mortuary es tablishmenets in Latrobe. Derry and Blairsville, to which place the bodies were removed. Pittsburgh, June 17.— UP) —A. R. Dinsmore, of the Gulf Refining Co., of Columbia, S. C., was among those killed in the train wreck last midnight. Cardinal Bonzano Reaches Chicago. Chicago, June 17.— UP) —The* spec ial train of red pullmans bearing Car dinal Bonzano, the papal legate, eight j other princes of the church/ and six j ty prelates of the Catholic heirarchy I to the eucharistic ceremony, arrived |in Chicago shortly before 10 o’clock I this morning. Braving threatening skies, a throng of several thousand greeted the train at the city limits; whence it moved slowly to the Illinois Central station, where the official welcoming delega tion waited to escort the legate to the Cathedral of the Holy Name. Satisfied Soviets Helped Strikers. London, June 17. — UP) —The Brit ish government is satisfied that tha* soviet government waived its regula- I tions concerning export of money to [ England during the recent general i strike. Sir William Johnson Hicks, home secretary, said .today in the House of Commons. The government, however, has no intention at all avents at the pres ent time, of withdrawing recognition of the soviet government, he said. With Our Advertisers. The Bell & Harris Co. has just re ceived several car loads of furniture. The Yorke & Wadsworth Co. has 3,000 feet of floor space equipped with one of the best tire changers and air compressors! See ad. The tent, meeting at the graded J school will continue until’the fourth of July. CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, J UNE 17, 1926 • iiM In the News Spotlight ■pL.jp ' M ■flip *bH J ■ ■luff tm % jsl ■ Bow jw f asia HP mg'. v yflgßsß V HB^ jj|BJ W WSR. JUl.ro CAI'TFKR.Cr COUNT KAROWI ! K^XAKDES 1 Monsignor Julio Campero, Bishop of Salta, Argentine, an rived in America for the International Eucharistic Congress Count Karolyi, of Hungary, was challenged to a duel bj Count Teleki, who charged an insult. Mayor Bertha K. Landei launched a police cleanup of Seattle. The financial policy of Count Volpi, Italian finance minister, was approved b) the Italian Senate SYRACUSE U. HEAD CALLS LIQUOR “GREATEST CURSE” “Mocks at Law, Sneers at Decency,” Chancellor Flint Tells Graduates. Syracuse, N. Y., June 17- —Intoxl- was brands as “thr' greatest single curse of mankind, the ! most insidious corruption of civiliza tion.” by Dr. Charles Wesley Flint, | chancellor of Syracuse University, in his baccalaureate address to nearly , 900 members of the gi'aduating c’.ass. today. “It substitutes passion ~ for reason,” he said, “mocks at law and sneers at decency.” “For more than seventy years,” Chancellor continued, “the method of dealing with traffic in in toxicating liquor was the liveliest ds- , sue before the American people. It is surely fair to say that any indict- ] ment of this deliberate and clear-cut consummation of decades of progress and honest use of, the orderly pro- ; cess of American government is an 1 indictment of our citizenship and ( the validity of our institutions. “Those who se the pace socially ] for the age should forego this demoralizing fad and, by personal practice, by social example and by civic influence seek to establish an era of law observance and sobriety, giving to the most important social, j economic and moral experiment of the Christian era, a square deal, a , fair chance, an honest trial. If not —, w’iiat? At what price? “Applied idealism,” > was Chancel- | lor Flint’s subject, and he emphasiz- I ed the need of leadership in public j affairs from among those who are the product of America’s educational sys-1 tem. CARL MAGEE IS SET FREE AT TRIAL IN NEW MEXICO »_ I Albuquerque Editor, Charged YVith Manslaughter For Killing High way Employe During Fight With Former Judge Leahy. j East Las Vegas, N. M., June 16. — Carl Magee Albuquerque editor, was freed of a charge of mans'aughter by a directed verdict of the court to night. V District Judge Luis E. Armijo granted the motion for a directed verdict a short time after the open ing of the night session of court. Magee shot and killed John B. Lasseter. a state highway employe, last Augpst during a fight with for mer district Judge David J* Leahy, a political jpnemy. The granting of the # motion came at the end of a two-day trial during which the prosecution introduced the testimony of eight witnesses in cluding Leahy. “It was the only thing the court could do,” declared District Attor ney Chester H. Hunker, the prose ! cutor. Cotton Seed Statistics. Washington, June 17.— -OP)— Cotton seed crushed in the ten-month period, August Ist to May 31st, totalled 5,- 426,283 tons, compared with 4,501,- 191 tons for the same period a year ago, and cotton seed on hand at mills May 31st totalled 53,495 tons, com pared with 54.688 tons a year ago, the census bureau today announced. Doty Will Not Be Executed. Geneva,’ June 17.—OP)—Bennet J. i Doty, of Mempihs, Tenn., who is now , awaiting trial in Syria on a charge • of desertion from the French foreign legion, probably will be subjected to disciplinary measures and faces vir [ tually no danger of being rfiot, Henry t de Journal, French high commis sioner it Syria, indicated today. » BRYAN HURT CAUSE OF RELIGION. SAYS PREACHER Tells Trinity Graduates Famous Ora tor and Publicist Was Wrong- Headed and Harmful in His Views Hartford, Conn., June 17 —Bryan- ism was assailed •here in thfc Triaity College baccalaureate sermon at Christ Church preached by the Rev. Dr. Elmer T. Merrill, of Santa Bar bara, Cal., formerly president ol the American Phililigical Association. He said: “The most lamentable sight in the world is the college graduate who shows himself not a whit better than the rucks. The chief fault of the pres ent age which the society of scholars should combat, is cheerful indiffer entism, amiable and lazy disregard of relative values. To s e life steadily and see it whole does not , require mu«h genium, but it does call fqr much care and work. Thinking is hard work. Hence, most men do ns little of it as possible. You will be up-to-date if you don’t think. “Wrong-headedness is quite as fatal a thing as wrong-henrtedness. Bryan, being wrong-headed, did more harm to the cause of religion than any other man of his time. If the evidence of evolution is 4 misleading, then there is no creative God and the universe is the product of a power ful and malignant devil. But there a God, and there is no real conflict between science and religion.^ THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady at an Advance of From 3 to 7 Points. New York, June 17.—CP) —The cot ton market opened steady today at an advance of 3 to 7 points in response to steady Liverpool cables and further covering. October sold up to 16.43 with more active positions showing net advances of 6 to 10 points in the fijjpt few minutes. The initial demand seemed to be supplied at these figures, and prices later sagged under liquid ation with local and Southern selling based on favorable view of weather conditions. October eased off to 16.30 by the end of the first hour, ac tive positions generally showing net losses of 1 to 5 points. The prospect for showers over the belt semed to be considered more de ; sirable than otherwise, although some | traders were inclined to think warm I dry weather to be preferable, i Cotton futures opened steady: July 117 75; Oct. 16.38; t>ec. 16.40; Jan j 16.36; March 16.45. Biedleman Spent $119,622.93. Harrisburg, Pa., June 17. CP) The E. E. Biedelman statewide cam paign received $127,062,75 and spent $119,622.93 in the unsuccessful pri mary campaign of Edward E. Biedel man for the republican gubernatorial nomination, the committee reported. This was the final day for filing ex pense accounts of political commit tees. . Charges Liquor Was Used in Cam paign. Washington. June 17. —CP)—K. M. Updegraff, a former prohibition agent of Pittsburgh today told the House alcoholic liquor traffic committee that preceding the Pennsylvan : a primaries recently “you could get a drink in any saloon-” iq Pittsburgh, with “a Pepper- Fisher” campaign sign on the outside. As red as a ruby, a wonderful dia mond has been found in the Kimber ley mines. When cut, it will Weigh | about six carats, and sihould be worth i anything up to $5,000. Many Reservations For the Building and Loan Meeting Between 175 and 200 delegates from the more than 150 associations in the State are expected here for the annual convention of the North Uarolina Building and Ix>an league, to' be convened next. Tuesday. Reservations already made at the new Hotel Concord show unusual in<- terest in the 1920 meeting and in ad dition to these reservations scores of prospect-’ve delegates have signified their intention of attending. C. Ross Wenrick. manager of. the hotel, stated this morning that res ervations were coming in by the doz ens now, with each mail bringing re quests for rooms for building and loan men in all parts of the State. The reservations are being made as fast ns the requests come in. CAN YOU EDUCATE YOUR CHILD ON $4.32 A YEAR? Yet That is What the State of North Carolina is Doing Right Now. Tribune Bureau , Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, June 17. —Suppose you should decide to teach your own child, could you secure a building, heat it in the winter, maintain it and pay all operating costs, and not pay out more than $4.32 a year?. Yet that is what the state of North Carolina is doing right now, accord ing to the figures on expense distri bution contained in State School Facts, published by the department of education, just off the press today. Rut if yoil did not .want to do the teaching yourself, could' you employ a teacher who was an expert in all the various subjects, for $2105, to teach this child of yours for the en tire school year? Yet that is what the Stdte is doing. But although these figures may sound ridiculously small, when you come to think about all the splendid work done by the schools and school teachers, take a look at What the State spent for the education in 1914- 15. Ten years ago an average of $5.7S was spent on the education of each rural child, and spent on the educating of each city child. In 1924-25 this amount had increased so that 21.81 was spent in educating each rural child —but only for a six months term —while in the special charter and city school —most of them running on-a nine months basis —an average of $38.92 was being spent in the education of each child —not quite twice as much being spent on the city c-hild as on the rural child. Thus a temlence appears to maintain a big gap between the edu cational cost of the rural and the city child, partly because it costs consider ably more to maintain a school for mine months with better trained teachers, than it does to maintain a six months school in the country. It is to remedy this wide gap between the advantages of the rural and city children that the State department of public instruction is urging consider ation of a nine months school term for both city and rural schools over the entire state. But in analyzing the per capita cost of educating one child in North Carolina, the total cost has been di vided into three parts. These divisions are teachjng and su pervision! which comprises 83.4 per cent, of the total expense; second, administration 2.5 per cent. —this ex pense ; and third, operation and main tenance, amounting to 14.1 per cent., which includes the amount spent for fuel, janitors, school supplies, rent, insurance, etc. In other words, out of every dollar spent for schools in the State, 83.4 cents goes for teach ers and superintendents salaries, to supervisors and -principals, that is those who do the actual instruction; j 2.5 cents goes for clerical work ini for the upkeep of the property. The per capita cost for each child, but city and rural schools, was $25.97 iii 1924-25, taking the entire state as a whole. This represented an in crease of $1.91 over the previous year, of which $1.25 was for teaching and supervision and 66 cents far op eration nml maintenance. There was no increase in administrative cost. The largest per capita expenditure in rural schools is an expenditure of $35.85 in N?w HanoVer county. Dur ham and Currituck follow next with a per capita expenditure of $31.53 and $28.68, respectively. One rea son for the cost in New Hanover county is that all the schools have a nine months term. Currituck has a nine months term for all white chil dren, and Durham 'county has an ( eight months term in nearly all of the rural schools. . * The lowest per capita cost per child is in Scotland county, where- it amounts to $12.10. Greensboro has the highest per capita cost among the city schools, at $49.51 per child. Rocky Mount has the lowest per capita cost out of thirty-four ,cities listed, at $25.54 per child. The schools in the cities are all nine i months schools, which accounts in j part for the increased cost. Wheat Farmers Pooling Crop; To Delay Selling. Wichita, Has-, June 17— <**)— Thousands of farmers in Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Colorado will market their 1926 wheat crop cooperatively this fall and winter. State selling units in these states have combined their membership and resources into the Southwest Coo perative Wheat Growers association, which will act as the selling agency. The organization has taken over the sales equipment of the ] Kansas pool, which includes a 400,000 bushel terminal elevator in Leavenworth and another of 1,000,000 bushels at Kansas City. . . , . It is planned to obtain control of wheat, store it in'the terminal eleva tors and slowly f«*d it into the mar ket. J. B. SHERRILL. Editor and Publisher Wh : le the vast majority of the del egates will'be qiinrtered here d*"‘ the three dgys of the conventi %\J& known that many from ad towns will go home #»aeh night. is predicted that the attendance on Wed nesday night will pass the 200 mark. Final details incident to the con vention are iJeing mapped out and per fected. The banquet program will be announced today, : t is believed, indi cating that everything is in readiness for it. This promises to be one of the most interesting features of the pro gram. Concord citizens are planning to give the visitors such a royal wel come and wholesome good time that they will be anxious to return again in future years. FIVE PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH IN SLEEPER A Cross-Country Limited Pullman Catches Fire and Five Passengers Cremated. *Los Angeles. June 16.—Five per sons were burned to death and up wards of thirty others escaped unhurt early today when fire of undeter mined origin turned a cross-country j tourist .sleeper into an inferno of I llame at Crystal Siding, Nevadn. Mrs. J. G. King, of Drummond, Mont., a bride of nine days, who was on a honeymoon trip with her hus • band, a railroad clerk, was the only victim identified tonight. King es caped by leaping through a window. The unidentified bodies were those of two women, one man and a child. AH have been removed to Las Vegas, Nev., Where a coroner’s inquest will be held tomorrow. Passengers aboard the car said they were aroused by the flames which j spread so quickly they could not reach the doors and had to jump through windows to safety. King said both he and Turs. King tried to make for the door. Flames blocked this exit and King smashed his way .through a window. He said he believed his wife was following 'aim, but learned too -late that she had been trapped. The destroyed tourist sleeper was part of the Continental limited which left Los Angeles last night for Salt Lake City. At the outbreak of the fire, the train crew cut. out the car on the side track. Later pt was taken to Caliente, Nev. When the wreckage was searched, five bodies were «e --covered. RENEW EFFORTS 4 TO SAVE MANSEL Many Asheville People Convinced That Negro is Not Guilty. Aeheville, June 16. —Aroqsed to vigorous action because in the light of new evidence they are convinced that the state is about to snuff out the life of an innocent man scores of Asheville citizens today were re doubling their efforts to persuade Governor. McLean to spare the life of Alvin Mansel, • Asheville negro, who k» in death row at State Prison awaiting execution July 9. A. Hall Johnston, Asheville lawyer, who de fended the negro, when he was con victed on last November on a charge of attacking a Buncombe county white woman last September, has in his possession seven or more affi davits from persons which he stated would establish an absolute alibi for the negro. The • petitions in circulation today are asking that the death sentence be commuted. An interested group of citizens met this morning in Mr. Johnston’s office where the petitions were drawn up and placed in circu j lation. Tlie Governor, it was learn ed, in a recent letter to an Asheville resident indicated that his attitude toward Mansel’s sentence would not be changed save through the efforts of a large proposition of Asheville people. WEATHER EXTREMES i Tuesday Hottest Day of Year In New York; Yesterday Was Cold. Nek York, June 16. —Winds chilled by ice bergs were blamed today for a 30 degree drop in temperature since yesterday, whirfi caused the weather bureau here to chalk up the coldest June 10th in ten years. The temperature dropped from yes terday’s maximum of 84 degrees, the hottest day of the season, to 54 to day. Warmer weather for tomorrow was predicted. Meteoroligists said the sudden cold had been caused by an overnight shift in winds from southerly to northeast coming to New York from tfie Hud son Bay country. Icebergs recently have been reported in the northern trans-Atlantic lands. The cold caused postponement of scheduled baseball games both at the Polo grounds and Ebbets field. One Thousand Enrolled in Two Sum mer Schools at Duke. Durham, June 16.—Duko univer sity, with over 700 summer school students enrolled and with an addi tional 300 North Carolina Methodist ministers attending the annual pas tore’ school, presents about as active appearance as it does any time dur ing the regular scholastic year. First term of the summer school ends on July 24, while the pastors’ school will close on June 23. Both schools have the largest registration in their history, and everything points to a successful summer school season. Mrs. Means Undergoes Serious Oper ation. Mrs. Brandon W. Means under went a serious operat : 6n this morning at the Chariotte Sanatorium Reports from the hospital st#te that Mrs. Means stood the operation very well. BLAKENEYCHARGED ... JN; OUT ON SI 0,000 BOND Cashier of Bank of Mid i land When It Burned, Arrested in Charlotte Yesterday Afternoon. SCOTT HADTHE WARRANT ISSUEb Father and Uncle of De fendant Sign Bondi- Preliminary Hearing oft June 22nd Here. Carl T. Blakcney, cashier of the Bank of Midland when it was btlrh ed several week,s ago, was arrpfct&t yesterday on a warrant Issued by W. A. Scott, State deputy insurance com- missioner. The warrant charges ir son. Mr. Blakeney was arrested at hik home at 527 Hunnyside Avenue, lotte, by detectives who were- Sbht j there by Deputy Sheriff Honeycutt; i Cabarrus county, and Commissittitk* j Scott, wjio went to Charlotte durin# the afternoon and turned the wat rant over to the Charlotte officers for service. Later in the afternoon the officers ! returned to Concord with Mr. Blikb j ney, who was ta ;en before 'HdiifVfc | G. M. Lore, who set his bond at slfy | 060. The bond was immediately | raised by W. S. and P. P. Blakenej-, | uncle and father, resjiectively. of shh ; defendant. The bondsmen res'de in | Monroe, it is said, the former being president of the Bank of Union, j Mr. Blakeney, it was stated, tfili | not discuss the case at all, except to ■ say that he had worked hard for the bank and did not deserve to have a crime laid against him. Before leav ing Charlotte he communicated with relatives and his uncle and father arrived from, Monroe shortly after he arrived from Charlotte. Mr. Blakeney told the officers, they said, that he had not been working in Charlotte, where he has been liv ing since the latter part of May. He expected to get lined up shortly, he said, and start to work there. After the bond was signed ’Squire. Lore set June 22 as the date for the preliminary hearing, to be held in Con cord. Mr. Blakeney has retained Frank Armfield, of the local bar, and the State will be assisted by H. S. Williams and Hartsell & Hartsell, al so of the local bar. The Bank of Midland was burned early on the morning of April Bth while Mr. Blakeney was at work In it. The building was completely de stroyed along with some of the rec ords and books on which the defend ant has been quoted as saying he Was working. Bank examiners took the cash and books from .the safe several hours after the fire had been extin guished and later the American Trust Company of Charlotte, was named receiver for the bank at the request of bank examiners. • . ' Mr. Blakeney has been quoted as saying that jb was struck on the head by some unknown party or parties who set fire to the bank, after rob bing or trying to rob it; He was found near the front corner of the bank by persons who first reached the fire, and was under the care of a physician for several days. Mr. Blakeney went to the bank about 4:30 o’clock on the morning of the fire, it was said, following a etm tom he established soon after becom ing cashier of the bank. Often when business was heavy, he is said to have stated, he went to the bank at an early hour to get in a full day. He had been in the bank for half an hoar or more when the fife was discovered. Bank examiners, so far as is knoWft, have never made public a ’report of the check-up they made of the mehey taken from the safe. 'Whether rob beps tpok any on the morning pf the fire has qot been stated, since the examiners have not made a report. It is said that a number of prom inent men of the county have been summoned as witnesses by the State. Georgia Dewberry Farm Bring* SIOOO Per Acre. (By International News Service.) Mcßae, Ga., June 17.—The lowly dewberry and blackberry, which have flourished wild along Georgia’s high ways and byways since time im memorial, now have taken place be sides cu'tivated cash crops. The United States now baa ite largest dewberry farm in Telfair County, Georgia. Forty acres are under cultivation by Dr. W. H. Born, and shipments to Eastern I markets began a few days ago. Indi cations point to a minimum of 10 cars being shipped within the next week. The 40 acres will net, SI,OOO an acre. British Miners to Meet June 23. London. June 17. GP J. Cook, secretary of the British miners feder ation, announced today that the inter national miners federation will meet in London on June 23rd, possibly to discuss either an embargo on coal or an international strike. THE WEATHER Cloudy tonight and Friday, prob ably showers in west portion; slightly wanner in west portion tonight and in central portion Friday. Freak northeast shifting to southeast winds. NO. 100 .