;uME L1
ee s South Os New
ea ns Tomorrow To
p Opened To Floods
, rs Making tmal
for Crushing the
Jin an Effort to
Orleans.
•ER GROM'S
IV TWO STATES
, wn s in Mississippi
Arkansas Are Left
„ Breaks Occur in
s in These States.
ah -'SP>—!l;>*t m
„ dm! with nil 1,1 their
jsrfssituis wh'Mi Uie Ger-,
" rl) (;li
kingdom. h(‘t w<‘i‘li .r.OOO
in liei iiard and i
' isaristP’s in Louisiana!
t |jpir honi'-s onlay under |
of rho Mississippi Hi vers 1
M | king loused upon them |
v t |„. tleiiherate breaking
; jsjjve N>‘\v Orleans.
, « r p ;l iesr exodus got un
prilay when onh. a coinpar- j
i t ls,. meti. women and ellil- 1
nst.be moved, got out over |
dusty highways in every;
led euiiveyanee. 'l'he vast
is left for today,
crevasse doigned to save I
rliicf ,-ity will be created I
nion'uW itt a manner as ;
lated by the engineers who j
revelation of the plan j
to efforts to forestall it.
jPtitmeiit in some quarters J
(mulgiitioii of the official,
art. although for the most j
I accepted in good grace, i
p small farmers and trap
pd the levee, prepared to!
f right to inundate their '
ite offers of the govern- ,
and city of New Orleans]
reimbursement.
ler hand, state militia men (
flea us policemen patrolled !
love New (Means to pre- j
liting of the dyke which :
the two parishes but del- j
- [tectacular phase of
fiesissippi flood, the emit |
t burden of water racing j
iesi»ipj»i still was far up-j
iroximately at < ireenvillr, [
pirating an immediate and
ng disaster.
sf fresh inundations, in*
idrodr- of refugees to Ite
|nd victims to he rescued.
American Red Cross head-j
Memphis.
if last night all of south*
ws was threatened when ;
South Rend broke over a
lut in collapsing tilled the
igineers who witnessed the
they believe the dyke will i (
in of sections in southeast'
Mmthern Mississippi and (
ouisianu engulfed by the
. continued while renewed
Date, food and other aids.,
i headquarters here of the I,
; <
torts of outbreaks of dis-j
fourteen refugee camps in
implicated the already erit- 1
® us boats plied the coun- \;
'h of marooned persons, or ]
s tilled with refugees to
in ramps on high grounds. ,
prepared by Kbert Smith,
"k. of the Arkansas Power
"‘Puny, estimated the flood
southeast Arkansas alone!,
tm .Ni.lMiO.ilPO. It showed
eiv GNi.iMiu ac res of land j
f. and llki.OOO persons af-'
ifferfson. Lineoln. Cleveland, j
Ashley, Arkansas and
nties.
Isai) d families of that see- !
- impelled to start life |
report said. Eighty-five
the families are negroes. |
iii ihe concentration |
irfs t * ity. Ark., now num
tlmn 12.000, available re- !
Rl today.
tttm.tMM) Advertising In
-1,1 ,a »t> is Revealed.
Ir April 2-I.—National
adverusing j u the TTiited
! ’■T'.tNHj.OOO greater in
111 it is estimated in
1,1 'l l ** American 1
uhlishe rs association,
1,1 today.
tt’Oional advertising
x -- ( MlOtl.oOtl. 1„ l«)2o
"teased to $235,000,000,
wtimatHs. This was ,*n f
of >; T per cent
rEnjoys a Quiet Election.'
J ( Al,nl Salisbury to-1
on,, of its ((uietest aud
h was a pri
eWf liaii!, ‘s from which ,
i,, tlVl> ( ‘i mmissiouers to i
j rj\ 'uauagerial form of
uo men of- |
wnl" " ; '“' k !
«» ' vns
vwt.
■4 r has «-
C visit »®
ritish L M:Ki,0 »ald. the
fcpoS "V u ' Ul be the
dinner a s” h l ’°i.' < ; y Associn
hu
Charlotte,
* ls - S. Young.
THE CONCORD TIMES
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
:♦
l MUSIC WEEK PROGRAM
\ . V
May Ist to 7th, 1927.
' The following program has been ar
ranged for National Music Week,
which will be observed in Concord
May Ist through May 7th :
Sunday 11 A. M.—Sermons on Mu
, sic in town aud county churches. Spec
ial music.
Sunday 5:00 P. M.—Organ recital
at First Presbyterian Churc. Direc
tion Miv. .lohn F. Reed.
Monday 8:30 A. M. —Musical break
fast Hptel Concord. Auspices Music
j I'department Woman’s Club, Mrs. C. F.
I Ritchie chairman.
Monday 7 P. M. —Band concert on
Y. M. C. A. Lawn,
j Monday 8:00 P. M.—('oncert on
Pan a trope at Hotel Concord. Courte
sy Kidd-Frix Music Company.
Tuesday 8 I\ M,—Public School
j Musical Program Directed by Harvey
Busch, Music Supervisor, at the high
school auditorium. (Address of Wel
come by Prof. A. S. \Vebb).
Wednesday 8 P. M.—Organ Lec
ture-recital by Edwin Stecked. First
Presbyterian Church.
Thursday 4 P. M. —Young Peoples’
Piano and Violin Contest, Hotel Con
cord, Mrs. R. A. Brower, chairman.
Thursday 8 P. M.—Recital by Mar
garet North rup, soprano, ansi ted by ■
I>r. Hampton Stirewalt, organist-pian
i : st and S. K. Patterson, flutist, on the
Elizabeth Sergeant Odell Memorial or
gan. Forest Hill Methodist Church,
j Courtesy Mr. W. R. Odell.
Friday 8 P. M.—Graduating piano
Recital by Miss Margaret Hartsell, in
Ball Room, Hotel Concord.
Saturday 7 :30 P. M. —Hymn Mom
, ory Contest, at First t Presbyterian
Church, Miss Ruth Dry, chairman.
The letter below is the acceptance of
Precedent Coolidge to be chairman of
the Honorary Committee of National
Music Week:
The 'White, House
■Washington, Feb. 14, 1027
My dear Mr. Tremaine :
Your note extending to me your in
-1 vitation to become Chairman of the
Honorary Committee in connection
with the forthcoming observance of
National Music Week is received. I
have to thank you, and to assure yon
of the pleasure with which I accept
the invitation. I hope this year’s ob
servance of Music Week may mark
another milestone on the way to the
widest interest in. and appreciation of,
the best in music culture.
Most sincerely yours.
CALVIN COOLIDGE. !
Mr. C. M. Tremaine, Secretary.
National Music Week Committee,
105 West 40th Street,
New York City.
DANCER SUES FOR DAMAGES
Fawn Gray Wants SIOO,OOO For
Vaccination Scar on Thigh.
Baltimore, Md„ April 27.—Fawn
Gray, dancer, today led suit in the
federal court here against the Panama-
Pacific Steamship company for SIOO,-
000 damages alleging enforced vaccina
tion by physicians of one of the ships.
She was bound from Panama to fulfill
an engagement, she declared, when
ship’s doctors forced her to be vac
cinated —on the thigh after she pro
tested it being done on her arm.
Miss Gray alleges the operation
was performed in a “careless and reck
less manner,” obliging her to undergo
hospital treatment and that she is
“seriously and permanently injured
about her body and limbs.”
With Our Advertisers.
(’line & Moose has just bought a ibig
shipment of the best Virginia and
Pennsylvania flour and by buying in
big lots can offer the flour at lower
than usual prices. Head carefully ad.
in this paj»er for particulars.
At the Gray Shop you will find
friendliness and not formality, .vet
the service is prompt and courteous.
Styles for men are being featured
at the J. ('. Penny Co. Sennit straws,
weatherproof, $3,98; Swiss Yeddo
straws $2-98; two-pants suits $24.75;
twospants suits $19.75; hote weather
suits $9.90 and cool summer suits ;
$12.75. Read carefully ad. in this
i paper.
New merchandise is arriving in a
continuous stream at Efird’s. New
selk dresses for misses and ladies,
men’s dress shirts, men’s spring suits,
bays’ spring suits, specials in piece
| goods department, printed goods,
1 men’s and boys’ straw bats, ladies and
misses’ pumps and hundreds of other
things in the store are being offered
at special prices. Don’t fail to read
new ad. today.
Unusual values in living room suites
at the Bell-Harris Furniture Uo. Y’ou
can find there just what you have been
1 looking for. says new ad. today,
i The straw hat season is her and the
Parks-Belk Co., is in position to “hat’
every man in Concord. Hats with
Fancy and Plain bauds, panamas and
! straws at prices from 50 cents to
$3.95.
The Yorke & Wadsworth Hardware
; Co., is selling a 13-plate Willard stor
age battery for only $11,95.
Beautiful silverware is a modern
necessity. A full line of Community
Plate at the Starnes-Miiler-Parker
Co.
Fliers Off for Wilmington.
Savannah, Ga., April 28.—04*) —'The
Pan-American flyers hopped off from
Savannah at 9:45 this morning for
Wilmington, N. C., after a two-day
1 stop here.
H. B. Wilkinson lias received an
other large shipment of beautiful liv
, ing room suites. You trail get what
you want from this big assortment.
HADDON m m
HE AGREED TO AIO
: FRIEND WITH HAH
Testifies That He Sought to
Help Henry Judd Gray
; Establish Alibi But Did
Not Know of Murder.
IHE SUSPECTED
if MILD FLIRTATIONS
■l .
. I Remained in Defendant’s
■ j Room So Any One Who
! Called Would Think De
| fendant Was There.
Now York, April 28.—OP)—Had
don Gray, Syracuse real estate
man. took the stand today in the
trial of Henry Judd Gray and Mrs.
Ruth Snyder, charged with killing Al
bert Snyder, to tell of the alibi he es
tablished for his friend, Henry Judd
Gray.
The district attorney questioned the
witness, who sa ; d that on March 19
the defendant said he was going to Al
bany that night, and wanted to know
if Iladdon Gray would help him out.
“Help him out how?” asked the dis
trict attorney.
“He said lie was going to keep a
dinner engagement in Albany, with
‘Munude,’ and m : ght be out all night.
He asked me to stay in his room, an
swer telephone calls from his wife or
office, and generally give the impres
sion that he was in his room.”
The witness said that “Mumsie”
was MrR. Snyder. |
Hnddon Gray said he agreed to es-j
tablish an al : bi for his friend think- 1
ing he was helping in a mild flirta-1
tion.
He said. “I went to the defendant
Gray’s room, mailed some letters he
had left there, phoned the desk not to
disturb me, and hung the don’t disturb
sign on the knob of the room door.
Later I rumpled the bed and made it
look as though it had been slept in.
That was the next day, March 20.”
Haddon Gray said lie left a note for
Judd and late that afternoon Judd call
ed and invited him to supper. He
went with Chafles Platt to Gray's
room about 6 o’clock.
“What was the conversation?”
**He said that xvhen he got to Al
bany he found a telegram from Mnni
sie telling him to go to her home In 1
New York. He said lie went there, j
and when her husband returned unex- j
! peetedly he got in a closet. He told us]
i that, when he came Out of the closet J
i he found that the husband had been 1
killed.”
State Rest*.
New York. April 28.—OP)—'The}
state rested its case in the Snyder
murder trial at 12.25 p. m. today.
Court was then adjourned until 4
o’clock this afternoon when the de
fense may begin presentation of their
enses. The adjournment was taken
i to allow defense lawyers to prepare
motions, and it is generally under
stood that court will only stay in ses
sion long enough to hear the motions.
Edgar F. Hazelton. of the defense
counsel, announced that Mrs. Snyder
will take the stand in her own de
fense tomorrow morning.
Tar Heel Cindermen Ready to Meet
State-
Chapel Hill. April 28.—The Tar
Heel track squad will leave here
early Friday by bus for Raleigh to
meet the State College harriers in
the final dual meet of the season. A
four year record of unbroken dual
victories hinges on this meet and
coaches and trainers have been
working all this week to get the
Tar Heels in tip-top condition for
the final test.
THE STOCK MARKET
Reported by Fenner & Beane.
(Closing Quitations)
Atchison —*.— 180
American Tobacco B 125%
I American Smelting 145%
American Loeomotive 108%
Atlantic Coast Line : 180
Allied Chemical 137%
American Tel. & Tel. 163
American Can 46
Allis Chalmers 102
Baldwin Locomotive 182
Baltimore & Ohio 117%
Bangor 89%
Bethlehem Steel 49
Chesapeake & Ohio 166
Coca-Cola 97%
DuPont 236
Dodge Bros. 18
Erie 51%
Frisco lll%
General Motors 187%
General Electric 96%
Great Northern 85%
Gulf State Steel 52%
Gold Dust 49%,
Hudson 72%
Int. Tel. 132%
Kennecott Copper 63%
Liggett & Myers B 98
Mack Truck 109%
Missouri-Pacific 51%
Norfolk & Western 176
New York Central 145%
Pan American Pet. B. 57%
Rock Island 97
R. J. Reynolds 120
' Standard Oil of N. J, 35%
1 Southern Railway 121%
• Studebaker 52%
' Texas Co. 45%
Tobacco Products 9B
U. S. Steel 106%
• V. S. Steel. New 119%
• Vick Chemical 55%
t Westinghouse 71%
. Western Maryland 34%
CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 28, 1927
Flood Fund
The local chapter of the Ited Cross
is collecting a fund to he forwarded
to be used in the aid of the flood vic
tims in the Mississippi Valley anil any
lone Ucsir ng to contribute to the fund
may send it to L. 1). Coltranc, Sr., at
the Concord National Bank.
I The National Chapter of Red Cross
| has stated that the quota for Cabar*
j rus County is SI,OOO, and the Contri
l j tuitions received will be acknowledged
r through The Concord Daily Tribune
j and The Times:
Concord Contributions,
j Previously acknowledged .... $798.76
j Wm. G. Brown 5.00
* Dr. T. M. Rowlett 5.00
[Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Peck .... 5.00
I J. H. A, Holshouser ....... 5.00
i Mrs. J. M. Odeii 20.00
jW. A. Brown •' 5.00
I Jus. T. Yates { 5.00
j Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Odell ... 10.00
G. H. Hendrix 5.0f1|
! B. 1). Sherrill 1.00
J H. W. Caldwell 5.00
i Mrs. Barbara Linker 5.(X
j Lippurd A Barrier 5.0(
jA. F. Hartsell ...! 5.<K
| Mrs. A. F. Hartnell !. 5.(H
J G. C. Love 5.(K
i Dr. J. A. Patterson 5.0(1
■jC. W. Byrd 5.0(1
I Mm. C. W. Byrd 5.(4
j A. R. Howard 10.0a
Mrs. G. H. Richmond ...... 4.(Hl
YIW Lou White 1.00
Miss Addie White 5.00
G. L. Patterson 5.06
Miss Josie Hill 15.00
Miss Ollie Moore ' 5.00
Miss Dora Stewart 1.00
Miss Allie Lcgg 5.00
Ernest Robinson 5.00
Miss Helen Black 1.06
Miss Zana Stroupe 1.00
Miss Ophelia Barker 1.00
Cash 2.00
N. M. Black 1.00
Cabarrus County Chapter
f War Mothers lO.OQ
j Mrs. S. E. Barnhardt ....!. 25.00
[ Mis*s Mary E. Chapman .... 5.00
I Miss Ida 8. Cat heart 5.00
| D. B. Morrison 5.00
Total Concord $1,017.70
Kannapolis Contribution*.
Previously acknowledged ....$113.50
F. J. Powell 1.00
I John H. Suther 1.00
L. T. Lanier 1.00 |
C. B. Griffin 1.00
J. W. Honeycutt 1.00
L, M. Gillon 1.00
Winnie Freeze 1.001
G. G. Allen 500
Blanche Funderburke ,1.00
Ora Martin .. LOQj
[ BtUnf Sturgis Y.t".'! • fHP
jJ. A. Matthews . 1.00
J. E. Halstead 1.00
jJ. Walton •. . . 5.00
j W. Hudson 1.00
j J. A. Hutton 1.00
10. B. Walter 5.00 1
I Mrs. Roy Riggs ..; 2.00 I
jF. O. Will mot t 501
G. A. Bryant 2.00
Mr. Dodd 1.00
W. C. Sharp 1.00
Grey Bost 5.00:
Mae Cookson 2.00 j
j
Total Kannapolis $150.00 j
Mt. Pleasant Contributions.
Previously acknowledged .... $93.10
By cash 9.50
Total Mt. Pleasant $102.60
Grand total $1,276.36
LEXINGTON YOUNG MAN
FOUND SHOT TO DEATH
Otis Kepley Evidently Committed
Suicide or Was Killed By Accidental
Shot.
Lexington, April 27. —Otis Kepley. I
21, was found dying with a bullet j
wound in his left breast when his j
father went to search for him at din
ner time today, several hundred yawls
from the home, a short distance east
of. the city. Indications were that the
wound was self inflicted, as no evi
dence of foul play is said to have
developed late today.
The wound was inflicted with a 22
caliber rifle, a short weapon that
could have been held iu position to
shoot straight into the body, ns the
bullet was found by Coroner F. L.
Mock to have ranged. However, no
definite reason is known why the man
should have killed himself unless lie
was despondent over failure to secure
a job this morning when he is reported
to have canvassed several prospective
employers.
About 11 o’clock Kepley took a cow
to stake near a watering place some
distance from the home, remarking
he might see something to shoot, he
is said to have carried the rifle and a
box of short cartridges with him. An
empty shell was found near the 'body
and the rifle, of one shot capacity,
contained an empty shell. The weapon
was lying under the body when found
by the father. The shirt._ was ap
parently scorched and the skin show
ed powdor stains.
Davidson Mon Honored.
Davidson, N. C„ April 28.- —C. C-
Trabue, of -Nashville. Tenn., uuu M ■ !
B. Bradford, of Charlotte, students
of Davidson College, have been
rdgnally honored by the War De
partment, when announcement was
received here today that, they were
among 50 men selected in the entire
United States to attend a six weeks’
training camp in chemical warfare
at Edgewood Arsenal. Edgewood.
Md.
Over 350 institutions in this coun
try have military units. the men
being chosen by virtue of their pro
ficiency in the chemistry departments
of their respective schools. All of the
: Davidson men who attend camp in
the summer are required to spend the
; time at Camp McClellan. Anniston.
Ala., unless otherwise designated.
> Fred Cook, who has been ill at his
, home on Houston street, is improving.
H; Steel King -
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George F. Baker was revealed
i -as the largest shareholder in tht
1 United States Steel Corp., no.\i
| the largest industrial organize
tion i nthe world. Baker, litti«
heard of, is one of the richest
| nan in tin* vmid/L ...'
NEW YORK EDITOR TO
ADR ESS BAR MEMBERS j
Claude S. Bowers to Be Heard at
Meeting of Lawyers at Pinehurst.
-Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh April 28.—The address to
be made by Claude B. Bowers, chief
editorial writer of the New York
Evening World, is expected by amny
to be the outstanding event of interest
in connection with tli 29th. annual
meeting of the North Carolina Bar
Association at Pinehurst, May 5 to 7,
although there are a number of other
individuals of equal note, on the pro
gram, including former Governor C. S.
Whitman of New York, who is ■
president of the American Bar As- j
sociation, who will make the principal !
address at the Friday night session. j
However, it is with unusual and j
peculair interest that the members j
of the North Carolina Bar are looking j
j forward to the message from Bowers j
on Thursday night, whose topic will be j
"Thomas Jefferson and the Courts.” j
powers is another native of Indiana
who lias -achieved fame along w r ith j
George Ade, Ray Long and others j
shun the Hoosier state and w’ho have j
since migrated to New Yo v rk. Although j
Wuown primarily ax a newspaper man, ,
fheing head editorial writer for the j
New York World. Bowers has in the j
last few years achieved almost equal j
note as a writer of history, and is i
recognized as an authority on the j
j Jeffersonian period, having published j
a book dealing with this period. I‘ow- i
jers is now engaged in gathering data j
i for a forthcoming book dealing with
the reconstruction period in the South, j
and is especially interested at this j
time in making this visit to North !
j Carolina.
j Bowers expects to arrive in Raleigh ;
|on the <morning of Thursday, May 5,
! where he will he the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Josephus Daniels. He will
spend the day in Raleigh, and late
in the afternoon will drive down to
Pinehurst with his hosts, for his ad
dress there that evening. Friday he
expects to come back to Raleigh by
way of Chapel Hill, where he wishes
to stop to see a number of his friends.
It is possible that lie also may stop
to take a look at Duke University.
All of the sessions of the association
will be held in the Carolina hotel at
| Pinehurst. There will be no session
jin the afternoons, so that those who
j attend will have these hours free for
golf, horseback riding, motoring, or
any other of the many outdoor sports
provided at Pinehurst. Special enter- t
tninment features are also being pro
vided for the ladies who attend.
WHITENER COMES OUT
FOR COMMITTEE PLACE
Promises Active Campaign. Cataw
ba Organization Backs Him Un
animously.
Hickory, April 27. —Backed by the
unanimous indorsement of the Cataw
ba county Republican executive com
mittee, and with the full support of
the state executive committee from
the night congressional district prom
ised, A. A. (Mike) Whitener today
announced himself an active candidate
for the place of national eomnjitteeman
to succeed Judge Johnson J. Hayes.
Mr. Whitener is the first to definite
ly declare himself a candidate for the
place, although the names of former
State Chairman William G. Brahann.
J. J. Britt, John L. Morehead, H. F.
Seaiwell, David Blair and State Chair
man Brownlow Jackson have all been
mentioned.
“When the matter of the national
committeemanship first came up, Mr.
Whiteiver said today, “1 did not in
any way 7 seek the position, 'but since
j the organization in m.v own county
and district has indorsed me. I cannot
disregard that voice. I will make an
active fight for the place.
Washington Asks That Democrats
Hold Meet There.
Washington. April 27.—The nation
al capital has definitely entered the
list of cities which hope to land the
Democratic Convention next year.
The Chamber of Commerce and the*
Board of Trade have sent invitations
to Clem L. Shaver, Chairman of the
National Committee, and an effort is
under way to raise $250,000 to defray
expenses.
Flyers Reach Wilmington.
Wilmington, April 28.—UP)—The
United States Army Pan-American
5 good will flyers arrived here at 12.35
• this afternoon from Savannah, Ga.
Little Red and White School
Houses Disappearing in State
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Waiter Hotel
Raleigh, April 28.—The pasning of
I the little red and white school houses j
I and the coining of the great brick and |
stone consolidated schools in the state :
is told succient’y and statistically and j
without the romance which should ac
company such a story in the latest
issue of School Facts, published by
j the State department of -public in-
I struetion. released today,
j Today there are 6.795 school build-1
' ings—not school houses—in North j
j Carolina, with a total value qf $84.-1
.*41,-828. while in 1915 there were
8.949 school houses, with a total value j
of but $10,434,117. Thus in twelve!
years time t>ie number of school houses ,
has decreased by 1,254 while the value
|> of the school property has increased
' I almost eight times. Going back to
j 1905-06, when the total value of school
firojierty was but $3,182,918, the value
of the property in 1925-26, the last
year for which accurate figures are
j available, is more than twenty times
i j rts great. The most rapid increase
i in the value of school property lias
taken place in the last few years, with
the increase in the number of con
solidated schools. Between 1925 and
1926. the total value of school proper
ty increased $13,835,993, or from $70,-
j 705.836 to $83,541,828.
Along with the change in the value
jof school property it is also inter
esting to note the change in the num
ber of school houses from year to
year. At the close of the 1920 school
year there were 6.975 school houses. •
Two years previous, in 1923-24, there
were 7.360 school houses, and in 1904-
05 there were 7.376. or approximately
the same number. The peak in the
number of school houses was reached
in 1914-15, when there were 8,049.
Thus the total number of school hotis- '
es for both white and colored children
increased gradually from 1905 till i
1919, and since that time the mini- ’
ber has been steadily less at the end ’
of each succeeding school year.
! Thus while there has been a steady I
j increase in the value -of school prop- ;
i erty and an annual decrease in the i
i number of school houses, the average
i value of each school house has in- <
i ' ~~
THE COTTON MARKET
j Opened Steady at Advance of 6 to 10
Points. July Selling Up to 15.35.
New York, April 28. — 04*) —The cot
j ton market opened steady at an ad-
I vanee of 6 to 10 points in response to
j continued firmness of Liverpool and
i nervousness over the. central belt sit
j nation. July sold up to' 15.35 and
| December to 15.80 at the start, or
I about 10 to 11 points higher, but the
[advance met. renewal of realizing
while there also seemed to be some
I southern and-local selling on th? fav
orable xveather reports.
Prices eased off a few points in |
consequence, but the market was fair
ly steady at the end of the first hour, j
active months showing net gains of
sor 6 points. Private cables said the
advance in Liveri*ool was due to trade i
calling, covering and speculative buy-;
ing. They also reported freer buy- j
ing of cotton cloths by Calcutta. Part ;
of the early buying here was attribut- i
ed to the trade, and there was a fair |
volume of business during the first i
hour.
Cotton futures opened steady. May j
15.07; July 15.35; Oct. 15.63; Dec. !
15.78; Jan. 15.83.
Less Active Today.
New York. April 28.—UP)—The cot
ton market was less active today. An
early advance on relatively firm Liver
pool cables and continued nervousness
over the flood situation was followed
by reactions under realizing and sell
ing on a favorable weather map. Af
ter easing off from 15.35 to 15.18 for
July the mid-afternoon market steadied
on covering and held within a point
or two of yesterday’s final figures.
THE STOCK MARKET
Prices Underwent Another Sharp
Downward Readjustment Under
Heavy Selling.
New York, April 28.— UP)— Stock
prices underwent another sharp down
ward readjustment today under heavy
selling for both accounts. The . sell
ing centered largely in the steete aud
industrials which were liquidating on
further unfavorable trade news, but
support also was lacking for a num
ber of other recent industrial and rail
road leaders, declines of 1 to 5 points
being scattered throughout the list.
The closing was weak. Sale* approxi
mated 2,500,000 shares.
Wounded Sailor at Shanghai.
Shanghai, April. 28.— (A>) —A sailor,
the most seriously wounded among
forces on shrdeltao etaoin nu tdoin n
the casualties among the forces on the
American auxiliary Peguin which was
fired on by Chinese near Kiangyin
several days ago, was brought here to
day on board the United States de
stroyer Peary. The man whose name
was understood to be Neilson, was
placed in the ship’s hospital aboard the
U. S. transport Chaumont.
i
Boothe Refuses To Give Up
In His Fight With Death
Roanoke. Va., April 28. —04 s )—At-
tending physicians today regarded
Walter Boothe as a medical enigma,
as he entered the second week of liv
ing by air being pumped into his
lungs iby artificial means.
Death, attending physicians declar
ed, had a strangle bold on the 18
year old Botetourt. County farmer,
but he refuses to give up the battle
he has waged since last Thursday I
noon when bis lungs collapsed while j
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance
created rapidly. In T 925-26, the av-
I erase value of each school house in
the state was- $12,306. while in 1904-
jOS it was only $432. From 1025 to
11020, the value of the school houses
'■ doubled, and from 1020 to 1026 the
I value more than trebled. If the pres
ent rate of increase is maintained by
1020-30, the average value of ** .
school house will be between ■*'
and $35,000. Vp*
A comparison of tIK
i crease in the rural ann schools
j is then presented, taking\oFschools
; for white children only. It is point
' ed out that 75 per cent, of the white
i children of the state are in the rural
schools. The average value of the
, city school for white children is $102;-
1550. It is further shown that the
1 average value of the rural school in
1026 was not as great as in 1005,
which is due of course to the many
! small school houses in rural districts
which are still in use. In the cities,
tiie concentration of school popula
tion has made necessary the erection
of larger buildings at greater cost.
However, the advent of hard sur
faced roads is making possible the
rapid consolidation of schools in rural
districts which accounts for the rapid
decrease in the number of rural schools
since 1020. The largest number of
rural schools at present is in Wilkes
county, where there are 124. The
smallest number in any county is in
Camden, which has but eight rural
schools. The total value of the 124
schools in Wilkes county is $460,740.
or an average value of $3,716. The
eight school 'houses in Camden county
are valued at SOO,OOO. or an average
value of $11,250.
Washington county has the largest
per capita investment per rural white
child, with $252.38. while Cherokee
county has the lowest at $21.29.
Bunbeome county has more money
invested in rural school property for
white pupils than any other county,
with a total investment of $1,844,100.
Five counties have more than $1,000.-
00ft invested in white rural schools,
namely: Buncombe, Guilford, liobe
son, Rockingham and Johnston. In
1023-24 there were no counties in this
class.
! “LIVE” WIRE KILLS BOY
AND SHOCKS OTHERS
>! ’ i
Barbed Wire Fence Became Highly
Charged With Electricity in Bun
combe County.
Asheville, April 28.— UP) —A Jpgfred
j wire fence running across several
farms in the uew-foi»itL section of
Buncombe county created tragedy and
frantic excitement in that community
| yesterday afternoon when it became
i highly charged with electricity from
a transmission line of tremendous volt
age that had fallen across it. Weaver
Murphy, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Murphy, was instantly killed
when he attempted to climb through
i the fence on his way to a community
grocery store. A number of other
residents in the section were severely
ishocked.
BOY WHO STOLE
KEYS IS IN JAIL
Vergil Rusty, 14, Now Facing Charge
Os First Degree Burglary.
Newton, April 27. —Vergil Rusty,
1 the 14 year old hoy who early Monday
! morning entered Deputy Curlee's bed-
I room and stole his jail keys, after
1 tearing a hole in the ceiling of the
jail and swinging down from a fire
hole in the back of the hall -by means
of a blanket, was caught at Stony i
Point Monday night and haw been re
turned to the Newton jail. It will be
recalled that young Rusty went back
to the jail rooms after securing the
keys and unlocked two cell doors which
enabled two other prisoners to make
their escatpe.
The youirg prisoner was placed in
a cell when returned to jail and is fac
ing a far more serious charge than he
was serving for when he made his
sensational escape. He is now to face
the serious charge of first degree burg
lary Which carries with it the death
sentence. Nothing has as yet been
heard from the other escaping prison
ers.
Still Looking for Early.
Tryon, April 28. — UP) —While resi
dents of Burnsville and Yancey County
were breathing sighs of relief today
at the unheralded departure from their
midst of John Early, eseaiwd leper.
Tryon and Polk county citizens were
casting 'furtive and fearful glances
about the woods and hills expecting
at any moment to catch a glimpse of
the afflicted man, now belived to be
located not far from his old home here.
Mrs! W. K. Vanderbilt Seeking Di
vorce.
Paris, April 28. — UP) —Mrs. W. K.
, Vanderbilt, the former Virginia Fair
i filed suit for divorce, and Win. K.
■ Vanderbilt, a counter-suit for divorce.
• in the Paris courts today.
‘| A date three weeks hence was set
for the usual attempt of the French
■ court at reconciliation in the judge's
chambers.
he was undergoing an operation for
a fractured vertebra.
The doctors said this morning that
his condition remained unchanged from
yesterday. They thought he might
continue his ibrave fight for many
hours more, but gave him only the
millionth chance for recovery. Every
thing depends on some miracle of na
ture or science, they stated, whereby
I his lungs might be restored to normal
functions.
. CHINESE EXECUTED
; FOR HIS ON THE
j SOVIET COMPOUNDS
r-' \ JjS
j ,-Ohao, Well Known
Communist, Was One of
H Eighteen Put to Death as
Ij Result of Raids.
Ij WAS NOT GIVEN
?> Police Decided Evidence
J Showed Guilt of Afen,
So the Eighteen Were
'\ Strangled to Death.
’ Peking. April 28.— UP)— Li Ta-Chao.
well kuowu communist, and 17 other
) Chinese arrested recently during
, i Chinese jsdiee raid on premises
I m the soviet embassy compound here,
I were executed this afternoon. They
were strangled at police headquarters.
! It was expected that the prisoner*
would be tried in a special court he
[ *ng formed to hear the evidence agarwst
those arrested in the raid, which fie
northern authorities whose iieiubmfar
ters are at Peking have claimed re
sulted in the. discovery of documents
showing that soviet. Russia was ac
tively supporting the Cantonese again
st the northern authorities.
Apparently, however, the police de
cided that the evidence discovered
against the men completely proved
their guilt, and the court having some
what informally investigated the eases,
ordered the summary execution of the
18.
CLAUDE VESTAL PUT
UNDER BOND OF pm
Greensboro Man Charged With Twice
Driving Roadster Into Ford Car at
Statesville.
Statesville, April 27. —Claude Ves
tal. of Greensboro, representing an
auditing eomjtany, was released from
jail tonight under bond of S2OO for
his appearance in mayors court. He
was arrested late this afternoon after
j he -was alleged to have twice rammed
his Marinob roadster into a Ford car
occupied by Mayor L. A. Brown, of
Troutman.
Mayor Brown, it. was said, had
stopped his car on a red light signal
at a street intersection when Vestal's
car struck the Font.. The Troutman.,
man remonstrated with Vestal about
bumping into the rear of his flivver.-
whereupon, it is charged, the Greens
boro man backed up and struck the
lighter car again with force. A crowd
gathered and Chief «rs Police Tom fverr
appeared on the scene. Vestal »|>ed
forward, narrowly missing the States
ville chief, it is alleged. He drove
his car around a iblocfl, parking tra
another stree. and was arrested in u
few minutes and taken to jail.
Officers said they found an empty
bottle in Vestal’s car apd believe be
was under the influence of liquor When •
his machine hit Mayor Brown's Ford.
CAPIAS IS ISSUED FOR
CHARLOTTE MAGIBTHATR
S. A. Mangtim Failed to Appear for
Trial and Capias for Arrest Was
Issued.
Charlotte, April 28. — (A 3 ) —A capias
for the arrest of Magistrate ST A.
j Mangum was issued in recorder's
court here today when the magistrate
failed to appear for trial on charges
of failing to settle with the ( county
for fines and forfeitures and fees col
lected while he acted as judge of the
rural police court here.
Detective J. H. Owen, sent to4erv<*<
the capias, reported that ’Squire Man
gum was not at his home, and that
his wife stated she had.not sees her
husband for two days, and that he
had not been at home.
When the case was called today
Attorney H. Wilson Price, represent
ing the magistrate, asked a continu
ance, saying his client was ill. The
prosecution was asked for a doctor"*
certificate, and when this was not
forthcoming the capias was issued.
The offense charged against the mag
istrate is a misdemeanor.
CARTER GLASS WRITES
ABOUT GOVERNOR “AL,”
Says South Would Support Smith If
He Were Known as “Dry” Candi
date.
New York. April 28. — UP) —Senator
Carter Glass, of Virginia, in the cur
rent issue of Review of Reviews given
his views of Governor Smith as a
presidential possibility. He writes:
“Should Governor Smith in a square
stanriup contest get the Democratic
nomination for the presidency uDder
a sound and sane declaration of funda
mental democratic doctrines and poli
cies—one of which is not the avowed
right to sell or buy or transport in
toxicating liquors—he should not, and
I venture to think, he would not be
made a sacrifice to religious bigotry in
Virginia or the South, or the coun
try.”
An attempt to make “antagonism to
prohibition a test of party fealty” in
next year's presidential election, the
senator asserts, would result itt
"swamping” of the Democratic party.
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[ j Partly cloudy tonight and Friday!
j.rfsing temperature Friday.
NO. 87