;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. Fred Cook, who has been ill at his , home on Houston street, is improving. H; Steel King - 1 kSt K H .... L lIHHPVK 1 1 K * f I! Ila H ®iiF Ji ammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmk 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 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. wmm ' [ j Partly cloudy tonight and Friday! j.rfsing temperature Friday. NO. 87