BieT
Ist fair
p mm
Korses safe
to ol" the 85
I Big Stable De
|bv Fire Discov-
Jt Night.
Ibih.d THE
■ctuke SOON
| \ot Interfere
■an. Being Made
E Annua! Fair to
I in October.
■termhiEl oi'igin which
eert.'iin to burn
K.mt ih*‘ fffoiiiKls. last
■ 70 stalls iu tin* big
B’abamis Fomity Fair
L saved other struc-
B| s being driven toward
E.;ead "f toward the
■ grounds. T’ae loss is
■v.een .f'l.OttO and $lO,-
■f t he tire is believed
■e carelessly thrown in
■ tlie stalls. Persons
■the tire reported that
■ here near the middle
K-hieli had >5 stalls.
■ in the stalls caug’iit
■few minutes after the
■• ( .e|| the heavens were
■ames and sparks. The
■vo directions, burning
■ more rapidity than
Bill's were saved after
■ Cimeord lire depart
-8,. fair grounds. Hose
Bn i'. : e dam behind the
Bn tiny stable, a dis-
Bfeet. and . with about
Bressiire on the water.
Be soon out.
B were standing but
H'.y burned and other-
Hhcy will have to be
Hre sjiirir of the fair
Bnstrated by the fact
■ were at work at the
repairing doors
nifiee building,
standing’ only about
l> stable, was not
IB the direction of the
|H•: the structure was
Bn little paint will
work to do on
;>e spectators, cer
would be burned
to take from it
Several
from their hinges
|Buf window panes
trie tire department
that no call for
he sat at the tire
and waMied the
[Bffn-en tninutes with-
it was. There
hose on the truck
|B as s *e»n as the loca
became known, to
to the stable and
jßtn return to ( "uncord
Trio tire was
■ as h ;• water
feverishly to save
e but they could not
Several attempts
through the stalls
H die blazes progress
rs could not succeed
only t’nc water
of the fire.
quarter -I at t !i<* |
■ injury. Two or j
r,J quartered in the;
'bey were turned j
of the race track
jB' va " dis-overed. The |
U •Farters the horses
"as not burned.
■ Resident of the fair
H■ • ■ ( aldwcll, vice
JB among the first to'
after the fire was
F. X. Spencer, sec
|W ss<H 'iution. is out of
f) ‘l that officials plan
S rebuilt at once.
'' an he completed
|B r f " r, . v days, so the
|K r, " a(i . v ni ample time
[V « October.
"•*" h*"k after the
‘'f s’ounds are said
dm stab e early last
m; >y have started
MK " r .'“iib h thrown
H. , r ! ; s il!s ” Probable
in the grounds
H °- v <-are!es sh ,. ss
■*T»~ th «
WTT W " !v ;l '"tract-
KkHl ' fi, T an,i tboir
I; . al! ,jv«ilable
■ N ' f a m all
■v f » far fVMiy as
,il “ b’a/.e
Hi'" 111 K:iiii,ai,.ilis
Hri; 1 ;: suy ,h " wm
Bte iW tnr
U»wn
■bi! s f S "' orlh «'» has
B •«",» h *“ le lhp
B«at Ili ; h .' ,nit "'ey
HkITIiI't a? ' u bo,h
u , ' Il(i i'aa will
■ """ “»t, „ big
THE CONCORD TIMES
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
Holdup Men Slay Three
In Efforts To Steal Two
Autos For Their Work
i
i KUESTER BACKS MOVE TO
CONTINUE BOULEVARD
Will Ask Chamber of Commerce to
Meet to Discuss Plans for New
I . Highway.
! Clarence Kuester, busness manager
iof the Charlotte Chamber of Com
jlherce. thinks t’lie Wilkinson boule
i vard should be continued on to Con
cord. plans for which were outlined
in The Daily Tribune Saturday. Mr.
Kuester wants the chambers of com
merce of (Noncord and Charlotte to
meet for a discussion of the proposi
tion. The Charlotte Observer today
has the following to say of Mr. Kuefi
ter’s plans:
Thnt the peop-.e or Concord and
Cabarrus county who are backing
a movement for the extension of th.e
Wilkinson boulevard from Charlotte
to the Cabarrus capital will have the
virtually unanimous support of the
Charlotte Chamber of Commerce.
Clarence O. Kuester, business manag
er of the organization, said last night
he was confident The Wilkinson
boulevard, extending from Charlotte
to Gastonia, is now construc
tion. I
Having read the Concord story in
The Sunday Observer to the effect
that people of Cabarrus county arc
anxious that the boulevard be extend
ed from Charlotte on to Concord, Mr.
Kuester said he intended to call a
meeting some time this week of/the
local Chamber of Commerce and in
vite a delegation from the Concord
Chamber of Commerce to attend the
meeting, in order that the two bodies
jointly may. discuss the. -movement
and determine what course may be
proper to pursue to bring about the
extension of the highway to the Ca
barrus capital.
Mr. Kuester spoke enthusiastically
of the feasibility and desirability of
a wider road or two roads from Char
lotte to Concord. It is said that
traffic is heavier on the road between
Concord and Charlotte than on any
other road in the state except that
between Charlotte and Gastonia and
that between High Point and Greens
boro. Provision has been made for
building a boulevard between Char
lotte and Gastonia and between
Greensboro and High “Point. The
third road in rank in point of heavy
traffic is said to be the Concord-
Chartotte- road. The Concord pro
posal seems to be to make a hard
surface highway of the old Salisbury
road from Charlotte to Concord by
way of the Mecklenburg and the Ca
barrus county homes. This would
require, it is pointed out, the build
ing of only about fifteen miles of road,
as the old Salisbury road leave high
way No. 15 about five miles north of
Charlotte. It is argued that traffic
is increasing so rapidly on the Char
lotte-Concord road that something
will have to be done before very long
solve the problem.
W. W. Fitzpatrick With County
Agent Thursday and Friday.
W. W. Fitzpatrick, southern field
representative of the American Guern
sey Cattle Club, an acknowledged au
thority in his line, will be with Coun
ty Agent R. D. Goodman Thursday
and Friday of this week in the inter
est of the “better sires campaign” in
Cabarrus county. During his two
days visit a number of different breed
ers in various parts of the county will
be visited and inspected.
Mr. Fitzpatrick is spending Mon”
day and Tuesday with George Evans,
the Iredell county agent, at Moores
ville. On Wednesday he will be with
W. G. Yeager, Rowan county agent,
at Salisbury, and will come from
there here Thursday. The services
of Mr. Fitzpatrick are so much in
demand that he. is an exceeding ly
hard man to get and the Cabarrus
farmers are lucky to have secured
him for two days.
With Our Advertisers.
With its more than 700 stores the
J. C. Penney Co. is in posittofi to buy
goods of high quality *, at prices ex
tremely low.
Late seed potatoes of the best cer
tified stock at Cline & Moose’s—Red
Bliss, Irish Cobbler and Green Moun
tain.
Caillaux Confers in London.
London, Jply 12.— -(A*) —The French
finance minister, Joseph Caillaux, ar
rived by airplane from Paris early
this afternoon to confer with Winston
Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer,
regarding funding of the French war
debt to this country.
Solicitor Pies* Goes Over the
Braswell Tragedy at Tryon
Saluda, July 11. —Solicitor .T. W.
I’less, Jr., together with Sheriff Rob
ert W. McFarland, spent several
hours this afternoon going over the
scene of the shooting that cost the
life of Jean Braswell, Try<jn (firl,
Wednesday night, and sent Q. C.
Sonner, Jr„ son of a prominent Sa
luda merchant, to the hospital in a
dangerously wounded condition.
. At the contusion of the conference, ]
which included the careful question- j
ing of persons among the first to ar- 1
rive on the scene of the crime after'
the sound of shots were heard, the so-1
licitor stated • that within tire next
day or so Sheriff McFarland would
have an announcement to make as
to what course would be taken.
It is generally understood that as
soon as SonUer’g condition will per
; Driver of Taxi and Couple
Sitting in Private Car
! Slain by Gunmen, One of
I Whom Was Arrested
WRECK LED TO
MAN’S ARREST
He Smashed Cat Into Rail
road Gates and He Was
Pinned Under Car—Man
Calley “Curley” Sought
Chicago, .July 12.—Cicero, scene of
the 'recent spectacular McSwiggin
party sldylng, counted three more
killings today apparently prompted
by a desire of hold-up men to obtain
automobiles for marauding expedi
tions.
A taxicab chauffeur, who protested
surrendering his car to a pair of rob
bers, whs mortally wounded, stripped
of his uniform and thrown from his
machine, while less than a block away
a young man and a young woman sit
ting in a car in front of the latter’s
home, were slain when they remon
strated against giving up their auto
mobile.
j The pol’ce are hollding Thos. Mc
; Wain. 24. from whom they obtained
a statement implicating himself, and
a man known to them only as “Cur
ley.” Me Wain said he and “Curley”
had had the cab to go to Cicero, and
that they shot the chauffeur. Ludwig
Rose, to obtain his car. Shortly af
terward they spied an automobile oc
cupied by Fred Hein, 20. and Miss
Mary Blang. 23, and demanded sur
render of the machine. When Hein
protested, both he and Miss Blang
were shot to death.
Rose was found lying along the
road, and was taken to the county
hospital, whore he died of a bullet
wound in his back. His shouts had
attracted a passerby who notified the
police. While still conscious Rose
told them he had heard six or seven
.shots shortly after . his assailants
drove away. The police started a
search and found the bodies of Hein
and Miss Blang neaerby. Both had
been shot in the head.
McWain, described as a “floater”
from the Madison Street districts, was
captured after an exciting police chase
when the stolen taxicab which he was
driving crashed through railroad
gates after nearly wrecking a police
car, overturned and pinned him under
neath. The dther man escaped. The
slayings came before the echoes of Cic
ero’s last sensational shooting had
died away. Near the scene of today’s
slaying. Wm. McSwiggin, .an ass : stant
state attorney and two companions
ftjll before a withering hail of lead
poured into their automobile by ma
chine gun gangsters last April. This
triple slaying which led to a grand
jury investigation in Cook County,
and several indictments, have not been
solved.
Rose was said to be n brother of
“Smiling Jack” Rose, who two years
ago was shot and killed while in the
county buikling. by Patrick Sexton,
father of Frank Sexton, a checkered
taxicab chauffeur, for whose slaying
Rose has been indicted.
Death of C. V. Voils at Mooresville.
C. V. Voils, aged 75 years, died
Saturday night at 11 o’clock at his
home in Mooresville. He had been
an invalid for several years, and had
been confined to his home for three
weeks . He was mayor of Moores
ville for six or eight terms, and
was later city recorder. > He was a
son of the late Monroe Voils. Mr.
Voils was born and reared at Poplar
Tent in this county. •
He leaves three sons and one daugh
ter, namely: I>rs. C. M. and V. V.
Voils, of Mooresville; Thad W. Voils.
of Louisville, Ky., and Miss Mary
Ophelia Voils, of Mooresville. He
leaves also two brothers and two sis
ters, as follows: Recce Voils, Long
Beach, Cal., C. E. Voils, Clarkton;
Mrs. C. L. Walters, of Rowan coun
ty, and Mrs. E. H. f Johnston, of Rock
Hill. ,
/
The funeral tobk place this after
noon at 4 o’clock at Mooresville, the
services being conducted in the Pres
byterian Church, of which he had
been an elder for many years.
Gold is being mined in a marshy
field near Cairo* Wales, on a site
worked nearly 1,700 years ago by the
I Romans.
mit, a warrant charging him with
siaying his pretty companion and
with then turning the weapon upon
himself in an effort to take his own
life, will be served on him.
Communication with Tryon hos
pital tonight brought forth the infor
mation that Sonner has an Acellent
chance fiwu, recovery if some compli
cations in the nature of an infection
do not set hi within the next day ,or
two. His condition is becoming
stronger and is apparently rallying in
fine shape from the bullets which tore
I into his chest, one above and one just
below *uis heart.
! Physicians are inclined to the be
j lief that from now on his recovery
I will be rapid unless some unforeseen
' ( complications crop up to upset the
i present trend of his improvement.
CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 1271926
BEGIN SEARCH FOB
DEAD AMONG RUINS
| Marines, Soldiers and Sail?
ors Enter “No Man’s
Land” to Seek Those
Who Died in Explosion*
SHELLS ARENOT
EXPLODING TODAY
Secretary Wilbur and Rear
Admiral Plunkett Ex
pected to Supervise thi
Work Among Ruins.
Dover, N. J., July 12.— (A 3 )— Th|
bombardment of shells which bft|
rained on the countryside intermix
tently since the destruction -of th*
Navy ammunition depot at Lake Den
mark Saturday ceased this forenoon,
and dispatches of marines, soldiers and
sailors prepared to enter "no man’s
land” to make an immediate search
for the dead.
The bodies will be taken to the
hospital at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Rear Admiral Plunkett, commandant
of the third naval district at Brook
lyn, and Secretary of the Navy Wib
bur, are expected here during the
day.
Sixteen Known Dead.
Dover, N. J., July 12.—OP)—The
number of persons known to have
been killed in the explosion of the
naval ammunition depot at Lake Den
mark, was set at sixteen today in a
telegram to the chief of naval opera
tions •at Washington from Captain
William Sayles, senior officer at the
scene of the tragedy.
Worm Among Ruins.
Dover, N. ,T., July 12.— (A 3)—Rav
aged as by the merciless artillery at
tack of an invaded area in wartime,
the country surrounding the’ Lake
Denmark naval ammunition depot
smouldered under a summer sun to
day.
Marines and soldiers move cau
tiously through the shell wrecked
area, determined to wrest from the
smoking ruins the grim secrets of
death and destruction hidden among
the devastated ruins.
The shells which had ruined their
death deal ; ng steel fragments upoif
the countryside since a Dolt of light
ning first ignited stores of it Satur
day ceased their intermittent thunder
this*morning and it was hoped that
the worst had passed. The scene was
reminiscent as a battlefield after with
drawal of shock troops of an enemy. |
The number of known dead at noon ‘
today was 15, with several times that [
number missing. It was not believ- j
ed an accurate check of the human,j
loss could be completed today.
In the army’s Pickatinny arsenal t
adjoining the naval ammunition j
dump there still remained vast stores
of explosives which might be ignited
by a vagrant shell from Lake Den
mark. If this should occure officers
admitted that the whole grim disaster
might be re-enacted.
Hundreds of persons living in a
radius of a few miles of the depot
were injured when the blasts leveled
their homes.
Most of the dead were marines
stationed at the depot. A bolt of
lightning late in the afternoon struck
an arsenal which exploded. The en
tire force at the depot—7o men —
was called out to fight the fire which
followed and a second and greater
explosion caught them, leaving them
dying or injured.
The terror and confusion spread
through the surrounding country
made it almost impossible to de- ‘
termine for some time the number of,
casualties. Fifty persons were taken i
to the Dover general hospital, many {
seriously injured; 50 were taken to
an emergency hospital at the Amer
ican legion headquarters; 13 serious
ly injured were taken to Morris
town 'hospital, Morristown, N- J-,
and scores of others with minor in
juries were treated by physicians
The entire town of Mount Hope, a
few miles from the depot, was re
ported destroyed and many injured
were found there. It was reported
that the to\sn of Hilbernia also had
been leveled. ,
The explosions were felt for 30
miles around the depot, and pieces of
steel and concrete, flaming timbers
and ashes fell miles away, starting
many fires.
Towns and hamlets within a radius
of fifteen miles of what was until yes
terday the navy’s principal’ depot,
bore the marks of t’lie continued hail
of debris and shock of the detonating
stores of powder, T. N. T. and even
more powerful propellants. With the
less severely injured under treatment
in several hospitals and private hoihes
in the hilly region in and about Lake
Denmark, it was difficult to obtain
an accurate cheek of those hurt in
the successive blasts set off by a bolt
of lightning.
Naval men reported' that 18 naval
magazines still were intact and it
was hoped that with the dying down
of the first that they would be saved.
Major General C. C. Williams, chief
of the. ordinance department of the
army, this afternoon estimated the
damage to the army reservation at
about $5,000,000.
Lake Denmark Plant Was Navy’s
Largest Arsenal.
Washington, July 12. —The Lake
Denmark plant was the navy’s la r "
gest ammunition storage depot, com
prising more than >SO acres of land.
During the war it was extended by
i an addition of 183 new buildings and
other extensions of considerable
Sues Turfman |
Mrs. William Ziegler filecj
•ait in Paris, asking for a
divorce from her huband, a
prominent New York turfman
and polo enthusiast.
SONNER IS VIRTUALLY
OUT OF DANGER NOW
Youth Who Was Shot When Miss
Braswell Was Killed Much Itn
ptoved. \
Tryon, N. C., July 12,—</P)v-Q. C.
Conner, Jr., seriously wounded last
Wednesday night when Miss Jean
Braswell was fatally shot, virtually
is out of danger, Tryon hospital offi
cials said today.
Meanwhile Polk county authorities
continued to investigate the shooting
of the society g : rl.
Neither Sheriff MacFarland nor J.
Will Pleas. Jr., prosecuting attorney,
would make any announcement of
their plans following a conference
yesterday.
Lutheran Women Finish Conference.
Winston-Salem, July 10.—Mrs. H.
V- Murray, of Burlington. w«« elect
ed president of the Eastern Confer
ence. Woman’s Mission/try Society
of the Lutheran Church, at the
c’.ceing season of the conference here
Saturday afternoon.
An address by Dr. Victor McCau
ley. for 27 years a missionary to
India, featured the afternoon session.
Approximately 125 women were in
attendance at the meeting represent
ing 20 societies of the eastern con
ference.
Other officers elected at the clos
ing session were Miss Laura Efirtl.
of Raleigh, vice-president; Mrs. H.
F. Mitchell, of Burlington, secre
tary, and Mrs. S. W> Hahn, of this
city, treasurer.
The place for the next meeting was
not selected.
Sixteenth Anniversary Sale at Parks
. Belk Co.
The sixteenth anniversary sale at
the Parks-Belk Co. will begin Thurs
day morning. July 15tli, at 0 o’clock.
T’ae store will be closed all day Wed
nesday in order that the stock may
be re-arranged and marked down
Goods have been bought in car loads
for this big sale. For the past six
teen years this firm has been having
an anniversary sale in July, and ev
erything in the store will be reduced
for the sale. See the big four pages
of ads. in this paper today. Even in
this big space, there are hundreds of
bargains which cannot be enumerated.
Go and see. •
New Hickory Hotel to. Be Opened
July 15-
Hickory, July 11. —Ex-Gov. Cam
eron Morrison will make an address
at the stockholders banquet at the
new $400,000 hotel which opens in
Hickory on July 15. On the opening
date a banquet will be held for the
stockholders and their families and
on the following night a dinner-dance
will take place for the benefit of the
public.
The hotel will be open frpm 2 to
5 o’clock on Friday afternoon for an
inspection of the handsome new
building and its equipment which is
said to be among the finest in the
State.
Confederate Veterans to Hold Re
union in Florida.
(By International Ne\*s Service.)
Ocala, Fla., July 12 -—Accepting
the cordial invitation extended bye
Chamber of Commerce and Civic
bodies of this city, L. W. Jackson,
Commanding General of the Florida
Division of the United Confederate
Veterans has issued a general order
to all members to meet in Ocala in a
grand Reunion next November o, 4
and 5.
This will be the 36th Annual State
Reunion. Civic bodies of Ocala are
planning a hearty welcome for the
ex-soldiere and their wives, and an
1 elaborate program is anticipated.
magnitude were made.
The depot was purely a storage
plant at which no work of assemb
ling, breaking down, or issuing of
ammunition was done. •
In describing activities at the
depot, the navy department said to
night that ammunition supplies were
received there either from the manu
facturer or from other depots and
were forwarded to other points upon
orders by the department-
ACCIDENIS KEEP UP
HEAVF TOLL AMONG
FOLK IN SOUTHLAND
Thirty-Seven Persons
Were Killed and 249 In
jured in Traffic Acci
dents Last Week.
NORTH CAROLINA
WAS THE LEADER
Seven Persons Were Killed
in This State.—Georgia
Leader in the Number
Injured With 42.
MP)—Traffic in eleven Southern
States killed 84 persons and injured
246, a survey conducted yesterday by
the Associated Press revealed. That
total compares with 37 person** killed
and 24!) injured the week previous.
Not included in the fatality total
is the death of Lieut. J. W. McKen-
Tennessee national guard avia
tor, killed at Nashville last Wedenes
day, when his plane became ignited
while 5,000 feet in the air.
North Carolina led aM southern
states in the number of persons re
ported killed, with a total of 7 Ala
bama followed closely with six. while
Virginia and Florida reported four
•each. Every State reported one or
■lftore deaths frojn the traffic accidents.
Georgia led all Southern States in
.number of persons reported injured,
with 42 for the week. Alabama was
second with 2. Florida third with 31,
and Virginia and Arkansas with
30 each for fourth place.
A tabulation by states includes:
North Carolina killed 7, injured 0;
South Carolina, killed 2, injured 4.
COOL SUNDAY FOUND ALL
IN EXCELLENT HUMOR
Low Temperatures Great Relief Af
ter High Temperatures of Several
Days.
Everybody in Concord appeared in
good humor Sunday and most peo
ple attribute the mood to the low
temperatures which came Saturday
night and continued over Sunday.
.Following three of the Hottest days
of the year the mercury’s drop was
a great reliefx to the city and the i
sudden change did not make it J#ss
appealing. There is no official weath*
er bureau here but many persons in
sist that tire mercury Saturday af
ternoon passed the 100-degree mark
and stayed there for several hours.
In Charlotte it was reported that
the mercury touched the 101-degree
mark during the afternoon and many
persons insist that just that
hot there.
Almost without warning a stiff
breeze sprang up early Saturday night
and before midnight there had been
a drop of 20 degrees in the tempera
ture. All day yesterday this tem
perature continued, wraps being in
evidence here last night among mo
torists.
It |s generally presumed here that
,the cool weather resulted from the
storm which swept over some of the
eastern states Saturday. Heavy, dan
gerous-looking clouds hovered over
Concord early Saturday night, bring
ing a brilliant display. of lightning
and some rain, but the change in
temperature was too marked to have
resulted in a storm that provided no
more electricity than the one of Sat
urday night.
Deeds Recorded Here Saturday.
The following real estate tranters
in the county were recorded in deeds
filed at the court house here Saturday.
R. Ben White to,the Cabarrus De-.
velopment Company for $lO 'property
in No. 11 township on the Concopd-
Mt. Pleasant road.
The Dixie Realty and Insurance
Co., several lots in City View to
Laura E. Johnston, the purchase price
being given as $750 and $462.
J. G. Lowe and C. D. Alexander
for SSOO property in No. 4 township
to James C. Helms.
Mrs. Arey Ballard to S. R. Brown
for SSO property in No. 4 township.
C. A. Isenhour to Floyd Smith for!
SIOO property in Mt. Vernon Heights.
D. F. Sossamon to Ida I. Sossa
mon and heirs for $1450 property #n
Valley street, this city.
H. D. Foster to Floyd Smith for
SIOO property in No. 11 township.
Preacher Denounces Chain-Gang
System.
Greensboro, July. 11.—Rev. John
F. Kirk, pastor of West Market
Street Methodist Church, this city,
in the course of his sermon this
morning vigorously attacked the
“chain-gang situation in North Car
olina,” particularly alleged conditions
in Stanly County. Reference was
made by Mr. Kirk to the impending
trial of “the convict boss in Stanly
County who killed three convicts who
bad been placed i?hder his care and
control,” as the preacher expressed
it Mr Kirk said that “something
must be done about intolerable con
ditions in some prison camps in the
State” He declared that too much
force had been employed, brutality
has been practiced and that "such
evils must be terminated. j
Miss Alice Coltrane Dies By Her
Own Hand.
Raleigh, July 10.— Miss Alice Cob
trane, 30-year-old inmate of the state
hospital for insane, last night com
mitted suicide by hanging herseir
with a stocking from iron bars of be
wiqjjow. She was a Randolph county
woman.
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor snd Publisher
Who Died Early This Morning at!
His Home in Lapraster, N. H.
WALTER W. MEDIAN •
DIED THIS MORNING
Death Caused by Stroke o( Apoplexy.
—Funeral Services Here Tomorrow
. Afternoon.
AValter W. Medlin, for the pastsev
eral years a city mail carrier amram
of Hie most active members at tne
First Baptist Church, died at his
home id Concord this morning at 1
o’clock, death being caused by a stroke
of apoplexy. He had been ill for
about ten days.
Funeral services will be held to
morrow afternoon at the First Bap
tist Clnirch at 2 o’clock conducted by
the pastor. *Rev. *C. Herman True
blood. Interment will follow in the
cemetery at Howells Church, where
the deceased herd his membership for
a number, of years.
Mr. Medlin \qps born 4n Union
county on April 28, 1883, a son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. John Medlin.
He resided in No. 10 township for
several years, moving to this city
about ten ypars ago. He was mar
ried on December 24.' 1003, to Mite
Minnie L. Hatley at her home in
No. 10.
The deceased was a member of
Lodge No. 25 J. O. U. A. M., and was
actively associated with the activi
ties of the organization. He was
one of the most active and most prom
inent members of the First Baptist
Church, being a member of the board
of deacons, chairman of the church’s
hospitality committee and an official
in the men’s brotherhood.
Surviving are his wife and the fol
lowing other relatives: Two daugh
ters, Mrs. J. P. Joyner And Miss M*e
Medlin, of Concord, and four sisters,
Airs. Mae Smith, Mrs. Esther 1 Bober,
Mrs. Minnie Clark, of Concord, and
Airs. Maude Miller, of Chapel Hill.
STORM WRECKS CONOVER
MILL; LOSS COMPLETE
Damage May Run as High as Hun
dred Thousand Dollars.
Newton, July 11.—Not until this
morning did Newton people become
aware of the extent of the damage
done by the tornado that passed over
Newton and Conover late yesterday
afternoon. The damage to the Yount
cotton mill is variously estimated at
frdm $25,000 to SIOO,OOO.
J. P. Yount, the owner, says he
has made no estimate. AVbatever it
is, the lqss is complete, as there was
no storm'insurance. Almost the en
tire roof was taken off the south
end, and about one-half of the sec
ond story walls were blown in on the
machinery of th6 second floor. All
the cards and much of the spinning
equipment were entirely demolished,
and the large amount of stored up
yarn badly damaged by water.
Accompanying the wind was
hardest rain and hail storm this sec
tion has had in a number of years.
Everything On both floors w T as thor
oughly drenched. The damage to
machinery and yarn on the first floor
was from w r ater.
Mr. Yount has a force of hands at
work today clearing up the debris and
will repair the damages to the. build
ing as soon as possible and-replace
the destroyed and damaged maechin
ery.
NEW COMPANY AIMED
TO HELP TEXTILE MILLS
Will Conduct Tests to Determine De
tails of Quantity, Speed and Ex
pense. ,
Charlotte, July 12.— —An or
ganization for the purpose of conduct
ing textile tests to assist mills in the
solving of production problems, in
cluding details of quantity, speed and
expense,' was organized here today.
Articles of incorporation naming the
organization the Arkwrights, Inc,
: w'ere filed-'
Tests will be made in mills through
out the South, it was explained. On
ly one such method will be used in
any mill with special attention to be
paid /to comparison of results ob
tained, it was added.
Officers of the organization include :
F. Gordon Cobb, of Lancaster, S.
C., as president; Frank F. Dennis, of
Lafayette, Ga., as vice president, and
J. T. Hilton, of Charlotte and Ra
leigh, as secretary-treasurer.
Youth Is Charged With an Attack
on Child of • Years.
Gastonia. July 10. —Penrl Louder
milk, 17-year-old west Gastonia mill
emp’oye, is at liberty under bond fol
lowing the finding of probable epuse
.at a preliminary bearing here today
jon charges pf oriminal assault with
serious intent on a neighbor’s six
; year-old daughter.
[ The child told the Story of the al
leged attack to Solicitor John Car
-1 penter in whispers while sitting in
i the lap of Squire E. Lee Wiiion.
Miss Virginia Bailey is visiting
t friends in Lenoir.
"I t WEEKS IS
utAD: 10 FUNERAL
PLANS ANNOUNCED
Former Cabinet Member
Had Been 111 For Sev
eral Months and Death
Was Expected.
DEATH OCCURRED
AT SUMMER HOME
He Lapsed Into Coma Ear*
ly Sunday Morning and
Death Came Without
His Speaking Again.
Lancaster, N. H., July 12—OWy-
John W. Weeks, war secretary un
der Presidents Harding and* Coolidge>
died here at his summer home, Mount
Prospect, at Jk o’clock standard tintfe
this morning. Death came from an
gina pectoris and followed a long fight
for health.
Mr. AVeeks died without recovering
consciousness from the coma irtto
which he had lapsed early Sundtty
morning. Airs. Weeks, his Ron, Sin
clair, and Mrs. John Washington
Daviedge, his daughter, were at hkt
beside when the end came. Through
out weary hours of watching they
had never ceased to hope that he
would rally sufficiently to bid them *
farewell, but the pulse which had
grown feeble, continued to fail, and
soon death was but a matter of hourwt
AA’hen Air. Weeks lapsed iuto tito
coma, Dr. R. E. Miller, of White
field. personal physician to Air. Weeing
advised members of the family thit
death was near and the expectation
slight for the former secretary to
throw off its spell.
Announcement of the death wa*
made to the Associated Press by Mr.
AVeeks* son shortly before 6 o’clock.
From the lodge at the top of Moirfit
Prospect the news of the death •of
the statesman reached this small town
where Air. AA’eeks was born sixty : six
years ago. Ever since his return
here, the people had watched with
anxiety the battle with death being
waged on the hillside. '
No plans for the funeral had been
made at the lodge where the family
sought a little rest after their long
bedside vigil. Dr. AA T iller said jjlr;
body undoubtedly would be .taken,.feu
Washington for funeral service*.
Lancaster, nearly the northernmost
of the White Mountain towns, at this
season of the year is normally wear
ing an air of gaiety and bustle, as
the summer visitors and tourists pour
in. Today the flags are at half mast
and the little groups quietly discuae
ing the life of the man who lay dead
on Alount Prospect gave a changed
appearance to the village.
THE COTTON MARKET
Advances Last Week * Followed hp
Heavy Realizing and Selling T#*
day.
New York, July 12.—Sharp ad
vances last 'week in the cotton mar
ket were followed by heavy realizing
and probably selling for a reaction
early today. First prices - were steady,
but slight to 10 points lower. Active f
.months soon showed net losses of 25
to 26 points, October selling off Ao
16 33 and January to 16.84.
The South sbld heavily here, and
local selling was encouraged by rela
tively easy Liverpool cables, com
bined with rather more reassuring
crop advices from some parts of the
belt, and hope of clearing weather.
There was furtheri covering and «
little trade buying at the decline, but
prices were within a point or
the lowest at the end of the first
hour.
Cotton futures opened steady. Oct.
16.98; Dec. 16.98; Jan. 17.01; March
17.15; May 17.26.
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Excursion to Washington.
The Southern Railway will ran an
excursion to AVashington July 16tb.
Round trip fare $10.50. Three day*
and three nights in Washington. Spec
ial train leaves Concord at 9:20 p.
m., arriving at AA’ashington next
morning at 8:35. ■>
Tickets will be on sale July 10th.
good to return on all regular trains
(except 37 and 38) so as to reach or
iginal starting point prior to midnight,
July 20th, 1926.
Weant-Bost.
Robert E. Weant, well knows citi
zen of No. 6 township, and Mrs. Alice
Boat, of No. 5 township, were mar
ried here yesterday morning at 10
o’clock by Rev. A. G. Loftin.
The ceremony was performed at
the home of Mr. Loftin on North
Church street, the minister being pas
tor of the churches on the Concord
Methodist circuit.
War Mothers to Meet Tuesday.
Members of the Cabarrus Chapter
American War Mothers will hold a
meeting Tuesday night at 7:30 at the
home of'Mrs. John K. Patterson.
Hostesses will be Mrs. Patterson, Mrs.
J. B. Sherrill. Mni. A. M. Brown and
Mrs. Misenheimer.
Mothers who have their records are
asked to earry them to the meeting as
a notary public will be present to
witness them. _ . •f J
THE WEATHER
Fair tonight, slightly warmer in
west and central portions; Tuesday
partly cloudy, probably local thunder*
showers in west and central portions.
Moderate shifting winds, becoming
southwest.
NO. 107