North Carolina Newspapers

fcIUME LI Eng Waters Flood line And 23 Workmen May Have Lost Lives w ■ ,♦ ■— ■ Water' From Mc- Bit'lK reek Broke In- B at o Mine at Spelter ■ Oklahoma. ■r io 1 EFT ■ IN THE MINE ■ save-Ins Reported ■ e Mine and One of ■e May Have Klock- Kdcr and Saved Men I . A' ;! H.--OP)— H hGieved t«> H M«‘ ! ili' lIKM-il in" in ■ , ;| , s -it.T <'il> .:I stlb ;,.•:i |]<M>d waters jH,. t'n-rK ru>»k** into the ■ ~i' v.';:it*r is standing ■i,,,. diaft. ;!i'c,miing to re j | llT ,. S. vial cave-in.s ■ r , |M ; a i,.i ii i- thought that ■hinn that May have saved miiirrs ttie possibility jHy [j, H ravt'-ili.' blocked til*> the pti'-sage in which the at work. ■ n ,department lias ],!iin!,v a; work in an at- tin* >iiatt. ■in the -haft had risen to ■ n : :’u o'clock. The Hen ■ ilciiartiiicii! had then given t" i’.aap out the mine. |H tVrr , made to divert i,f the crei k from its Led ■ ,j,rnna:i mto the coal slmft were working a quarter Hf r „m die month of the mine co-operative one. Have Drowned. Hi 1 4.- P) Twenty-four iitiie’fs were entombed in emti mine at IL nryetta a< riling to a long dis- cjtl! received here. -aid tiiere was thirteen iu the ini tier. The men to have been drowned. May He Safe. <>kla.. April 14.— (A 3 )— He miner-, trapped in the nr Cato coal mine near flood waters of Mellon- i ■. evi-m,.. • dm,fVi when they (iii a level above the of the men had been noon, and it was be- ('o!ii]iaiii'His were not in , ■tieatiot: had been established Hill men -till under ground. H hi feet beneath the surface three-fourths mile north ■iw mine opening. Medical Society Meeting. News Service ) H Anri! 14— Plans are eom- H the annual convention oft H Carolina Medical Associa-! Moinin;.. Tuesday and ' H. if was announced today. •[ "'ill he devoted largely to | and group meetings. Tues- ( will be featured by two j! Hhy Dr. William Cornell H newly-ehoseii dean of the Medical School, and H l *' Tucker, eminent Phila- Hwialist. H' r ’h Carolina State boardj ■''•l held a meeting Monday r ‘" n tviih the convention. Hion- to Speak on Ktini Conte H in Mail. April It!.—One mail H Nicholas Murray Rutler H ' to -peak on the eigli- 1 and the Volstead j H ai """tiiee<l at Columbia ttn- The invitations came clubs and party or- H' ''liamliers of commerce! H bodies. ■ tro,n Aew York and ■cidci Xorth Dakota. Xe- Missouri ttml Geor- at J. ( . Penney Co. ad. in nds paper to-j ■ ■ Ci,. enumerates! ■ "“/many l.a-ter specials it i ■ ’'"' I"‘Wie. Shoes for Jad- H. anil s -- ils - Solid leather tiien at S.'l.bS, students' 1 ■ ,!; u ir pants sIdJA. Mar men's txvo-pants i ■ '"' ‘"“I Faster -ilk frocks' a,il !l| i—e- and junior iniss *(l 'ears i- Removed. ■ “''"".-al News Service) ■. I,; Hll i4.—-After twenty ■ofVi'' 1 ? , " i !, ‘« of A. ■ * n.isbu,• v. han been re- U " limvinsr Hie bullet | ■L ; f"*" n k's knee H.. An operation Ie was shot. ■ " ,r ’’ atiald,- to remove '* en **'irt in Accident. m-M , A ISII - —.Tames ■ ‘ -n«. 1I , 1 ,, 1 . v of Albe . ■an ai .- 1 “ JU ! 1 "" I ''' H *red early ■ 27. v - t'"'‘k on high ■ and n i n r . ‘“wei veil several ■W V? US " ! L,,k - while Hi> ra ; 1 "mils that re- ■ f ' , ' id ''"'v.vi'r. x ° ,ietaiis H re<’oived here. ■ Alarg.,. t '' ,r, ( k, ‘ r - , Vl rginia ■ totlav . , ( f,r7,lup are H ‘ vharlouc. THE CONCORD TIMES J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher _ i . LOCAL MENTION * The board of directors of the Y. M. (\ A. will hohl an important meeting tonight at 7 :.‘lO at the "V.” | I The Junior Order of Concord will j present a It Me and Flag to the new | 1 Itetliel High School tonight. ’ j Mrs. S. It. Heglar, Misses Helen j Suther and Frances Tarleton. are •jspending the day in Charlotte. “Everything quite" was the report of police officials today. Nv» arrests were made Wednesday or Wednesday night, it was said. Two cases of whooping cough and one of German measles were reported, in the city at rhe office of the county j health department this morning. J. E. Walker, arrived this morning from the Lutheran Seminary, at Col umbia. South Carolina, to s|tend the Easter holidays at his home here. M iss Margie Elliott, student at Queens College. Charlotte, will arrive today to spend the Easter holidays, at her on South Cnion street. Olivet to Calvary,” a sacred can tata. will be rendered by the choir of St. James Lutheran church in the church auditorium this evening at 8 o’clock. Miss Annie Gussy Day vault arrives tonight from Uandolph-Maeon college, to spend the Easter holidays with her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Day vault, oiK South Cnion street. The annual Easter Monday baseball game between Carolina and Davidson College will be played at Salisbury at 3 o’clock. Many basefall fans of Concord are expected to attend the game. Duke University defeated the Wake Forest 'baseball team at Wake Forest by the seore of ."> to 2 Wednesday, j Weaver’s home run in the first inning, : with two men on bases enabled Duke i to win the game. The Board of Trustees of the Jack son Training School held a meeting today at noon at the School. mem- I her of the board said that only mat ter* jst rontlw* inuiFa*ML aafiwt up at the meeting. “Olivet to Calvary” will be rendered tonight at. the St. James Lutheran Church. The choir of the Church will be assisted by several of the leading musicians of the City. The service will commence at 8 o'clock. H. W. Blanks, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., announced today that he had discontinued the work of the Hi- Y clubs for this year as the school examinations are near and the mem bers of the clubs have many school duties at this time. Mr. and Mrs. J. E,. Davis, Mrs. J. Lee Crowell Jr. Mrs. H. S. Wil liams and Mrs., J. W. Pike, delegates from the Central Methodist Church, went to Albemarle this afternoon, to attend the Sunday School conference being held there. The L’niversity of Xorth Carolina was defeated in the game with Penn State at Chapel Hill Wednesday by a score of 3 to 0. The game was I played on a •wet field. The pitching of Westmoreland, of Carolina, was the feature of the game. The Concord Kiwanis Club wil have its regular weekly luncheon meeting Friday at Hotel Concord. Rev. C. Herman Trueblood and Fred Young blood have charge of the program and Rev. W. C. Lyerly, pastor of Reform ed Church, will be the principal sj >eaker. P. G. Sherbondy, manager of the local J. C. Penney store, returned yesterday from Atlanta, where he at tended a convention of the managers of the Southern J. €. Penney stores. After the convention the buyers met and orders placed for goods for next fall. Griffith Writer of Noted Letter. Raleigh, April 13. — James S. Grif fin. Raleigh attorney, says he and not Judge Walter E. Brock, was rtaq “leading Democrat of Raleigh who wrote a letter predjetfinig that A3 ( Smith would have the delegation from the fourth congressional district in Xorth Carolina and would sweep Xorth Carolina in the next presiden tial election. The letter was addressed to Judge Olvany, Tammany Hall chieftain, and was made public in Xew York but the name of the writer was withheld, although he was described as “one of the most prominent Democrats in that section,”- and “a leading Demo crat of Raleigh.” Wants to Postpone Trial. Washington, Apjril 14. — UP) —A formal motion for postponement of the conspiracy trial of Harry F. Sinclair, oil operator, and Albert B. Fall, for mer Secretary of Interior, was filed by the government today in the Dis , trict of Columbia Supreme court. Methodist Women to Meet In Sanford. Sanford, April 14.—(INS) —Elab- orate plans are under way here for the holding of the annual session of the Women's Missionary Society of the Xorth Carolina Methodist Con ference April 19-21. — ». Maurice Wilson, of Bartow, Fla., | its visiting friends in Concord. COTTON USED LAST MONTH SET RECORD NEW REPORT SHOWS 1 ' ' ' Total for Month Greatest in History.—Total for March Last Year Had Been the Highest. 694,193 BALES USED IN MARCH For Seventh Consecutive Month Cotton Exports for Last Month Passed Million Bale Mark. Washington, April 14.—UP)—Cot ton consumed during March reached a record for all time totalling 694,193 bales of lint the Census Bureau re- IKirted today showed. The largest consumption in any one • month before was in March last year, | when it totalled 63r>,,X9(J bales. For the seventh consecutive month cotton exports for March exceeded 1,- OOO.IKK) bales, bringing the total quan , tit.v of cotton exported in the first 8 months of the cotton year which be gan August 1. to B,B2iM>f>6 hales, in cluding linters. For the same'period . I a year ago exports totalled 6,506,362 i rj bales. > j Germany has taken more than ' a ( quarter of the cotton exported in the | p ight month period, and more than any j other country, the total being 2,346,- ; 7)41 hales, including linters. Tie; United Kingdom took slightly less than one-fourth of the exports with a total of 2,183,398 bales. Japan was third with 1.268,719 bales. SANITARY ENGINEERS WILL VISIT THE STATE Water Purification Plants Will Be Inspected hy the Experts. The Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, April i4.—A number of ■ nationally known sanitary engineers j plan to spend several days in Xorth 1 Carolina, inspecting* a number of the [ state's water purification plants, fol lowing the meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers which will will be held in Asheville April 20th to 22nd, it was announced today by of the State board of health. Various • phases of sanitary engineering and its problems are also to be given a promi nent place on the program of the con- J vention. Within the last six years every water purification plant in the state has been remodelled and the very lat est system of water purifeation in stalled so that at present Xorth Caro lina is regarded by sanitary engineers all over the United States as having among one of the best protected water supplies in the entire country. The fact is even more notable because of tht* many different prob’ems encoun tered. For instance, in the eastern section of the state, one of the most stubborn problems encountered is the discolora tion of the water in the rivers and reservoirs from submarine growths and. from roots and plants. But this problem has been mastered and the water not only purified, but the color removed from it as well. Some of | these plants, will be visited by Robert Spur Weston, who will attend the convention and who is a national au thority on water purification and the treatment of industrial waste before -being turned into streams. Thus while they are already in the state, quite a group of sanitary and water supply engineers expect to avail themselves of the opportunity to study what the state has done first hand. Fashion Goods at Parks-Belk Com pany. *The fashions you have been waiting for are at the Parks-Belk Co., for Easter and early summer, says page ad. in this paper today. Dresses, coats, dress goods, clothes for infants, shoes for the entire fam ily, suits for men and boys and many other articles in the store marked down now. Suits suitable for Easter from $8.95 to $29.50, neckties from 10 cents to 98 cents and belts from 25 cents to 1 $1.98. Hats for ladies and children's frocks. • SI.OO to $7.95. in latest fashions and inodes. With Our Advertisers. Ladies who purchase a Rosemary pen at the Pearl Drug Company this week wil 'get a pearl necklace free. 1 See ad. Hundreds of new Easter dresses to choose from at the Parks-Belk Co., 1 ‘ from $5.95 to $27.50. Also smart 1 hats from $1.98 to $7.95. Beautiful new footwear for Easter is in the stock of the G. A. Moser Shoe Store. Prices range from $1.95 to $6.95. L i Trainman Probably Fatally Hurt. ’ Monroe, April 14. — (A*) —Raymond 1 Thomas, 37 years old, a brakeman for - the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, was probably fatally injured here today when caught between two freight cars . while engaged in', coupling them. He . was knocked under one of the cars r and so badly injured that his right f leg was amputated. Hie left leg is f also mangled. Little hope is held -for his recovery. Paris Kidd left today for Xew York ~ to purchase new stock for the Kiild- Frix Co. CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1927 Sherman Captured Raleigh For Federal Forces 62 Years Ago Tribune Bureau i Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, April 14. —Sixty-two years l ago today Raleigh, the last capital l of a Confederate State to be occupied 1 by the Federal hordes from the Xorth during the War between the Sections, was iu the hands of General William i t T. Sherman and his army. The sur- I render of the city on April 12 had • been peaceful, for it could not have l been otherwise. Although General i I/ee had surrendered at Aippomatox j •five days before, the Confederate flrtg | (still dropfied over the State House. 1 The day was ushered in''by a cold* . j drizzling rain. General Johnston had j - ’ retreated toward Durham and qo I j military defense was possible. 1 k i few Confederate stragglers that hi|<l j ' j remained now hastened away. M- i t(eigh was at the mercy of the nuin j Ijw’hose “march through Georgia," ! I coupled with his declaration that “War is hell," made it impossible to tell what he intended to do. News of Sherman's advance from the southeast reached the city early in the morning, and immediately steps were taken looking toward a satisfactory surrender. A committee was appointed to go out and meet the Federate, explain the situation aild ask that the city he not attacked. This committee was composed of a group among whom were Kenneth Rnyner. Dr. R. B. Haywood. P. F. Pescud, William R. Richardson, then one of the proprietors of a daily news pn,per. and Dr. E. C. Fisher, then superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane. ' The vious night had been one I of extreme anxiety, it is recorded. General Wade Hampton and his cavalry had occupied the city and did , not leave until it was learned the Federate were advancing. The cav alrymen were desjierate and it was fenied they would precipitate disord ers Colonel William 11. Harrison was the mayor. , The committee appointed to sur- i render the city proceeded a mile or so i along what is now Route 10, leading i out of Raleigh in a southeasterly I' THE COTTON MARKET Opened steady at An Advance of 4 to 7 Points on Buying Stimulated by Reports of Rain. Xew York. April 14.—(/P)—The cot ton market opened steady today at an advance of 4 to 7 points on, buying stimulated by reports of further rains in the South, aggravating the flood .the agtesiiwippi Vadb,*,. and the Census Report showing do mestic consumption of 694,193 bales for March, compared with 590.447 the previous mouth, and 635,896 in March last year. These consumption figures were well above expectations, but there seemed to be a good deal of realizing by recent buyers, and soue Southern selling which checked the advance at 14.47 for July and 14.90 for Decem ber, • Both Liverpool and the continent were credited with buying here, how ever, and the market held steady at the end of the first bour. Cotton futures opened steady : May 14.23; July 14.46; Oct. 14.74: Dec. 14.90; Jan. 14.94. THE STOCK MARKET Stock Prices Moved Irregularly High er at Opening of Today’s Market. Xew York, April 14. — (A 3 ) —Stock prices moved irregularly higher at the opening of today's market. Commer cial Solvents B. United States Cast Iron Pipe. Lambert, Pathe and Bald win opened one to two and one-half points higher. Air Reduction opened two points higher at a new high rec ord. Tobacco Products showed an initial loss of one point, and Mary land Oil sagged to the lowest levels since 1925. Big Pre-Easter Sate At Eflrd’s. Friday and Saturday will be the last days of the big Pre-Easter Sale at Efird’s and for the two days the. company is offering some of its biggest bargains of the year. Ladies and misses will be in correct garb for the Easter promenade if they secure their dresses, coats, hats and shoes from the stock now being offered at this popular store. Coats range in price from $7.95 to $-19.50, and dresses are from $4.95 to $12.75. Goods purchased from the Browns- Cannon Co., are also being offered at reduced prices during this sale. Shirts, Knox hats, hosiery, suits and shoes are being sold at unusually low prices. * Read two pages of ads carried in this paper today. Carrolls Arrive in Greenville. Greenville, S. C., April 14. — (A 3 ) — Mrs. Earl Carroll, Mrs. Alice Car -1 roll Snyder, sieter, and Norman Car roll, brother, arrived from New York at 12:10 o'clock today to go to the bedside of Earl Carroll, theatrical producer, ill in the City Hospital here. Nails From White House Sell at 3 For A Dollar. Washington, April 14.—Carpenters | at work on the White House are dis- | posing of old English nails made by hand in England now being removed from the upper part of the White House, and tourists are taking them as souvenirs. They were brought here when the building was reconstructed more than a hundred years ago. For the first time in a quarter of a century the recent Oxford-Cam bridge boat race was not refereed by ; F. I. Pitmnn, an old Cambridge man. ■ resigned recently alter 25 years of [service. jdirection, when they met the advancing I Federate and informed them of the local situation. Without going into details, it may he said that Raleigh, although over run by .Federate, was peacefully sur rendered and no battle or bombard ment wiis connected with the incident. One event transpired that struck awe to the hearts of the population. A confederate lieutenant, named Walsh, from Texas who had remained ;in Raleigh fired a pistol on Fa.vette | vilie street, shouting "Hurrah for the [Confederacy.” Under the charge that ; lie fired at some Federate, he was given a hasty "trial" before Kilpat- I rick, a federal officer, and hanged. ' 1 he so-called "trial" took place in the j Capita] Square, and the execution in j the northeastrn section of the city. | near the present Governor's mansion j site. Sherman threatened later to suspend the paper of which Col. Richardson, one of the men who had helped to surrender the city .was part owner. He sent for Richardson and informed him he was "not operating a paper in the Xorth but iu conquerded ter ritory," but finally agreed to let him continue publication on the condition he would be cautious iu his comments on the Federal occupation. Then on the night the news of President Lincoln's assassination was received, great fear again filled the hearts of the Raleigh people, especial ly in view of the report that the South was responsible for the murder of the chief executive. A fire broke out and it was thought the "Yankees" were burning the city. But it turned out to be a tannery. On this same night, Hiram Lodge No. 40. A. F. & A. M. was in session and members of the Federal Army who were Masons quietly made their way to the hall and advised their Southern brethren to dispense with labors auil go home. Each member was provided with a Yankee soldier to guard his house. The lodge was not closed in due form. This cere mony took place fifty years later, in the presence of the Grand Lodge with the same master presiding. STANDARD MILK LAW USED IN 46 CITIES Law is Similar to One Adopted Re cently by Concord Officials. The Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, April 13.—There are now 16 cities iu the state which have adopt* ril the standard milk ordinance, ap 'proved by the State boarij, with the announcement that the city of Reidsville is the latest recruit to make the ordinance mandatory, it was learned from the sanitary engineering division of the board of health. With the addition of this city, more than SO per cent, of the milk produced in the state now with the stand ard milk ordinance, according to H. E. Miller, director of the sanitary di vision. All of these 46 cities have adopted the ordinance since 1924. Under this ordinance, all the milk sold in the cities which have adopted it is graded according to its bacteria contents, which indicates its degree of purity and per cent of butter fat. The ordinance further provides that the bottle caps must carry the letter “A”, “B”, “U". to indicate the grade of milk contained iu the bottles. In the opinion of the sanitary, di vision of the board of health no one thing has done more to reduce dis eases, especially typhoid and intestin al diseases transmitted in milk that it improperly safeguarded, than the adoption of this ordinance. Attention was called to the recent epidemic in Canada, traceable to in fected milk, as what might happen if the milk supplies of the state are not properly safeguarded by strict milk ordinances such as the standard or dinance. This ordinance is a uni form ordinance, approved by the board of health, which when adopted, stan dardizes the milk sanitation regula tions in all sections of the state. Such an ordinance te of especial value at present, with spring and “fly time” coming on, according to Miller, since it safeguards a large part, of the family food supply, especially the food of the babies and children. Mail Sacks in York’s Ticket Office Rifled. York. April 13.—Prying up a win dow, thieves last night entered the ticket office of the Southern railway here, rifled three sacks of mail and stole the grip of Conductor Barxtell. Nothing else was taken. The mail sacks, slashed open, were found out side the building. Just what mail was stolen is not yet known but it is believed to be small as only part of the mail arriving on one of the n’.ght trains is left in the office. Editor Davidson Magazine. Davidson, April 14. —J. G. Wharton, of Smithfield, X'. 0., has been elected by Davidson College students as the 1927-1928 editor of The ChemeKon, a monthly magazine issued at David son with the students as contributors. He defeated W. L. Ungle, Jr., of Richmond, Va.. for the office. L. D. Wharton, Jr., brother of the newly editor, is in charge of Quips and j Cranks, the college annual this year. I while a previous brother, D. B. Wharton, was prominent on several publications here before he graduated in 1925. Fine Liquor Taken In Raid. Newark, X. J., April 13—A dis gruntled butler who turned informer a day after his dismissal brought pro hibition authorities in a secret raid on the palatial, home of J. Bayard jKirkpatrac, la.wyet and manufacturer, in West Caldwell, where liquor, wine ■ and champagne valued at $50,000 were j seized. , PILOTS KEEP PUNE t IN AIR 50 HOURS; ! IKE NEW RECORDS ' Bert Acosta and Clarence i D. Chamberlain Reach !; Goal and They Shatter a Number of Old Marks. r : FIFTY HOURS OR BUST, IS SLOGAN 1 1 ‘ They Passed This Mark > This Morning and Were! , J Going Strong So Far* as Observers Could Seee. > Mineola. X. Y., April 14.— (A 3 )— I With an air slogan of "fifty houra or bust". Bert Acosta and Clarence D. Chamberlain had not shown a sign 1 of the “bust" at 10 o'clock today. 1 They had smashed the world endur ’ ante record early in the morning after . pushing two other records on their way. and with more than 48 hours of ' steady flying behind theme were with in one anti one half hours of their objective. Xo word of their weariness came to watchers on the ground, but those below could guess that the intrepid airmen were very tired. They had been subsisting on short rations, occa-! sional bulletins telling of meals of “soup and water” being relished. There was an idea among the gal lery that the excitement on the ground was more pronounced than in the air. Veteran aviators who have remained aloft many hours, although not as many as 48 said that Acosta and Chamberlain probably were only car rying on by sheer nerve, and were driving forward just to “get the job done.” That they might not be lonesome, an airplane went, up shortly before 10 o’clock to look them over. The report was that they seemed O. K. . At 10:30 the airmen entered their fiftieth hour as the crowd on the ground wondered how much gas they had left. Watchers decided to attempt to find out approximately ltow much longer the fliers would stay up. and sent up a plane to ask a question. i "How much gas?” was painted on a big cardboard, and attached to a ' pHtfte wfcirii " soared <tp*4a attempt to establish communication with the rec- • ord breakers. Pass Fiftieth Hour in Air. Mineola. April 14. — UP) —Bert Acos ta and Clarence D. Chamberlain pass ed their fiftieth hour in the air at 1 11:30 a. m. today, but did not come down. The end was in sight, how ever, for their gas supply was known to be reduced to a few gallons, not enough to hold them up another { hour. Several minutes before 11:30 it was j apparent that the 50-hour mark! would be passed for the flyers were then more than 2.000 feet above the ground. Their custom for the last several ' hours had been to climb on the wind ; ] which was from the northwest, and j coast back, thus saving a considerable! quantity of gasoline. At 12 o’clock when the flyers had i < been in the air 50 1-2 hours they had ! dropped to an altitude of about 1,000 feet and were circling lazily over the field, apparently preparing to land : within a few minutea. End Flight. Mineola. April 14.— (A 3 ) —Bert Acos ta and Clarence D. Chamberlain, ci- j vilian aviators, landed at 12:42 o'clock;' after setting a new record for emlur- [ ance flying by remaining in the air 51 hours and 12 minutes. Davidson “Y” Central Board. ( Davidson, April 14. —Xew members * of the Y. M. C. A. board of control of Davidsop College are Prof. J. P. 1 Williams, of the faculty, and M. T. 1 Gilmour, of Wilmington ; R. E. Kell, ! of Pascagoula, Miss., and W. L. 1 Lingle, Jr., of Richmond, Va., of the]' students. Faculty members and stu dents who were previously elected for > a term of two years are Dr. H. B. Arbuckle and Mr. F. L. Jackson, of j the faculty, and Julian Lake, of Atlanta, Ga., and M. C. O’Neal, of Montgomery, Ala., representing the | students. Extend Life of Law Banishing Former Kaiser. Berlin, April 13. —In the face of opposition by the National Govern ment, the Reichsrat, or German Sen ate, today pa'ssetl a motion to extend the law under which the former Kaiser was banished from Germany. The law would have expired on July 1. The Reichsrat vote was 37 to 20, but the law must still be passed by the Reichstag. Davidson Frosh to Doff Caps April 15. ' • Davidson, April 14.—Announce ment has been made by the board of control of Davidson College that lumbers of the freshmen class would be allowed to doff their fresh caps on April 15, instead <rf waiting until a short time before the college school year ends. They will be required, however, to retain them until “Soph" day, when the annual cap burning and other exercises will occur with mem bers of the sophomore class in charge. I 1 * ' I Ten Pages Today Two Sections $2.00 a Year, Strictly in . Advance. ROBINSON HEARING POSTPONED; NO DATE HAS BEEN SET YET I Charlotte. April 14.— UP) —H? ing of charges of assaulter tent to kill against O' inson. prominent >i> attorney, who laV I I P. McGinn, 65 of Myers Park, was postpone, when the case was called in recorder’s court to day. ‘No date for the hearing was set, and Robinson's bond of SSOO was continued. McGinn was shot in the arm and not seriously in jured. i " L__ - TOBACCO PRODUCTS LED STATE INDUSTRIES IN 1925 Combined Value of Output in 1925 j Was $345,074,907, Late Report Shows. Tribune Bureau j Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, April 14.—'Tobacco pro- i ducts led all other industries in North * Carolina in value of output for 1025 j with a combined value of $343,074.- j 007, according to figures of the U. S. ! Department of Commerce released to day through the Department of Con- ' serration and Development. Cotton goods were a close rival to j tobacco for the year, showing a valua tion of $310,068,031. However the cotton goods industry was in the front , in the total number of establishments and in regard to the number of per sons employed. The census figures showed 21 to bacco manufacturing plants of all kinds, including the two classifications [of chewing, smoking and snuff, and cigars and cigarettes, and the com bined working force of these estab- ; lishments to be 15,715 of which 2,- j 582 worked in the manufacture of , chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff and 13,133 in the production of cigars and cigarettes. There were | nine factories producing the former 1 classification of tobacco goods and j twelve, the latter. The report showed that there were j 364 cotton goods factories in which 84.131) wage earners were employed, j Cotton mill workers earned $53,939,- 704 and tobacco factories had a payl roll of $12,000,215. Next in Importance in value of out- i put was the furniture industry which 1 totaled $51,208,238; had 127 factories and employed 13,567 workers in its factories. One hundred and eleven knit goods factories produced material worth $44,3(H),819. Tobacco also led all other materials : in the point of vahie addevl by inann- j facturas. using raw materials worth j adding $20*14*954--+. by the process of manufacturing in | the manufacture of cigarettes and j cigars; and using $8,808,664 in raw j materials and adding a value of 1 $21;530,830 by turning out chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff. CONDITION OF CARROLL CONSIDERED IMPROVED i However, Theatrical Man Has Not Been Able to Throw Off Coma. - j Greenville, S. C., April 14. —04*) — j With his physicians holding a consul- j tation at his bedside and a United j .States deputy marshal pacing the pavement before the hospital, Earl, Carroll, theatrical man and federal j prisoner, at 11 o’clock today entered the 29th known hour of coma. Dr. C. O. Bates, one of the three! physicians attending Carroll, came out of the room to give a brief bulletin \ to the Associated Press, stating that : his patient’s condition seemed greatly , improved, but that it was still con-j sidered serious because of the coma. “He is rapidly regaining use of muscles that yesterday were inert," 1 the physician said. AMERICANS IN HANKOY HAVE BEEN WARNED American Forces Will Guard Only The Conculate in Case of Trouble. Shanghai, April 14. —OP)—A tele gram from Hankow* says the Ameri can consul general there (Frank P. Lockhart), served written notice on the American residents that the naval men said they would under no con ditions attempt to defend any point in Hankow except the consulate in case of trouble. They stated, according to the tele gram, that the consulate' could only be defended during actual evacuation ns naval authorities did not have suf ficient forces available. American Chamber of Commerce there, it is added, has protested, asking ull pro tection of property. EQUALIZATION BOARD MEETS IN RALEIGH Miss Elizabeth Kelly’ Among Those Considered for Post of Secretary. Raleigh. April 14.—-04*)—The State equalization board appointed by the Legislature to equalize property value* in different counties for the purpose of finding a basis for distribution of the $3,250,000 school fund met here today. The board was expected to appoint a general secretary. Miss Elizabeth Kelly, former Senator P. H. .Johnson. and Willard Dowell were mentioned for the position. Long Prepares to Enter Congression al Race. Durham, April 14.—(INS)—Lieu tenant Governor Long's declaration at the close of the General Assembly’s j sessiou that he would be a candidate for Congress from the Fifth North Carolina District, when Major Charles M. Stedman, of Greensboro relin quishes the post, has brought forth new whispers. Os particular strength has been the report from Forsyth that A. Fuller Rams will 'be Johnny-on-the-spot when the time comes around. However, Sams, here for a day. declined to con firm or deny his candidacy. NUMBER Os PERSOHS ILEDIN TREMORS IN SANTIAGO TODAY One Report From Chile Says Ten Persons Were Killed and Many Others Injured During Quake. MUCH PROPERTY BADLY DAMAGED Most of Casualties Were in Residential Sections Where Several Houses ! Were Wrecked. Rantiago, Chile. April 14.—(/P) / several persons lost their lives and numerous persons wore injured when an earthquake shook the capital tMa morning. Most of the casualties were in the residential sections whefe several houses collapsed. In the bus iness district the streets were littered i with bricks and debris. Only a few persons were on the streets at the time of the shock; they scurried to open places for refuga. The population in general rushed from houses in night attire, or with what few clothes they were able to i snatch in hurried flight. Withia a few minutes all was chaos. Numer ous fire alarms were turned in from various parts of the city. TelephtNM i and telegraph service was interrupt ed. with all points except Los Andos and Conception, which reported* that while they felt the shock, no severe j damage was caused. Workers on morning newspapers ! and others on duty at the time joined the general exodus from the buildings. 1 Large pieces of plaster fell from the ceiling of the Elu Mercurio plant. Cor nices of buildings and large sign* |crashed to the ground. The quake was felt at Vnlparahm . about 60 miles northwest of Santiago but only meagre rejMirts of damage ! there have been receiveed. Ten Reported Killed. Buenos Aii'es. April 14. —G4 5 )-—Ten persons are reported to have been killed in this morning’s earthquake at Mendoza. Argentina, in the foothills j of the Andes, and more than 100 miles j northeast of Santiago. Chile. About ’ fifty were injured and considerable , •iiiwt*rss’n,r^n. The quake also was felt here faint ly, starting about 2:30 a. in., local ; time, and continuing three minute*. No damage is reported here. Seven Dead in Santiago. Santiago, -Chile, April 14.—(A*)— Police reports say there are seven known dead here in the earthquake which shook the Chilean capital this morning. Fifty-five were injured here. FOUR-YEAR-OLD TOT FATALLY SHOOTS MOTHER Tells Police He Killed Her BerftWM She Took Matches Ftxrni HUM. Harrisburg. I’a., April 13.—" Sure I shot her. I’d shoot her agaiu if she was here now. I’ll shoot you, too, If you don’t lay off me. I killed my ma ma because she took the box of match es away from me and told me not to play with them.” Thus replied little four-year-old Tommy Ruby to Coroner Shull, of Franklin County, who questioned him today, following the death of Mrs. Hull Ruby, of Chambersburg. from a bullet wound in the neck. Following this statement the child made a sudden leap, wrenched himself clear of his guards, seized a letter op ener at the coroner's desk and made a wild lunge with the weapon at hfs questioner. A Borough policeman grab bed him and twisted his arm,. yvranch ing the impromptu dagger from bi» grasp. Tommy then became sullen and an g~y. but his defiant attitude remained. H» could not be cajoled into sorrow or remorse for the brutal slaying of h* mother. This afternoon, while the mother was hanging clothes in the yard in the rear of the house, she noticedt Tommy playing with a box of matches. She took them from him. Balked in his play, Tommy left his mother’s side, went to the kitchen, climbed up the side of the kitchen cabinet and seized his father's .32 calibre revolver. Htrtd ing into the yard, he stepped over Paul, his baby brother, who was sleep- . ing in a basket, placed the muzzle of the pistol against his mother's neck and pulled the trigger. ■ ■ " ■" ■ ■' -'IjH Hoover’s Ready With Easter Goods. Every man, wants to look smart, . snappy, stylish on Easter, and they can do this by getting one of the at tractively styled suits at Hoover’s. Men’s suits range from $25.00 to SSO while boys can find just what they want for from $lO to $22,50. so the company has a large assort ment of shirts, socks, neckties and hats. Read carefully half-page ad. in this paper. - - - - - - Miss Dorothy Norman, of Lenoir- Rhyne College, is spending the Eas ter holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Norman on Tribune street. WFATHERI Cloudy with occasional rain in the west portion tonight and Friday; slightly colder in extreme west por tion tonight. NO. 83