MIH l.li
n And Three Companions
■e On Through Fog Which
Ides All Views From Them
If no
I | PLANE
Mm liH.lu'd I pon
|B as Scientific
Hioilv. Trip Has
Honv tor Tests.
THE
■ aNK !\ CRIP
Wm L Yesterday the
■nad Not Been
|Kee I.and or Sea
■of Heavy Fog.
Press)
■Hp..- ' ':• •!i• • t ion that
|^K r 'jv I»«* scien-
HHtrm- "'lrii mn.'iziitg re
a.;u. slu'd ' ii»* world
r;idi < 1 i’iLt that 1)0 had I
H 1
;'t this morning !
|H hours as- ;
York, ho nevorthe
|H, - ■••'tt: '*■ about 6ft()
|H British Is'os.
-ir signal "WT-
the oars of i
|n ~:i trans-Athmtic ,
|H B.'f.i’i sd Hamburg
itr Valencia !
H idfinaraiider Byrd "is j
|H;.rn.\i!;i;o<dy 3<K> miles.
|Hco;tst at (»:3ft a. m.. I
time. The steamship '
jjjHhi rim Ataerioa to be ,
|H wi->; of Lands End. 1
n'rlock this morti
i
M B\ rd and his three
he bearing down
Htet Field. Paris, some-
eastern standard
fog—so thick
■Hlr river cuiild not see
jm piaae's wings—Coin-
IjHiirnve the America for
c hours last night,
at 7 :4d this morn
jJH everything was eov-
H and he had not seen
|H sitter o'clock yester
■ The doughty coin-
his wish —to gain
ledge under all pos-
H was making fast time.
■' IT 2.30 ft miles from
■il in '_'3 hours, if her
by the steamship
H er> t'
at 1 1 O'clock.
Fratiee. June .‘JO. — (A 3 )
('( nmiander Riclt-
by a British sta
■ that the American
to reaeli Paris by 11
rite message did not
this was Greenwich
Hjo.
Will Continue.
•’,( I. — (gp)— r pi lp bad
which Commander
in the trans
■ -Vtierua battle during
of their flight seemed
t<> he repeated at
coast of Ireland
* Imbue] and then down
H to he Boruget field, the
■tainy or uncertain. Big
the sun, which
W only at intervals.
storm clouds hung
tlie early afternoon and
prediction for tonight
partially stormy, with
Wind from south
r man is right, the di-
B'' wind at least will be
of the fivers.
■‘d'Hiiet courage of Lind- j
■ " ,IP Lv flight across the
flic French mind, so
B tltir aspm-t ~f Command
made its impression,
B tllis afternoon was wait
s' for the. outcome.
■ "* a ll. v prove whether
across the ocean
B '' as ll" 1 tenor of the
t . I
Hi Nale \t Robinson’s, j
H • nnuai July Clearance!
B s w >ll begin tomor : |
B' 1 ?. Liirgains have been |
IN M-ecial trade event.
B‘7. >|lks. new summer cot-
B l,im i ;| nd batiste. Mary
V' l"dnt silks, genuine j
summer dresses, I
Hi “"Übiery are to be :
H; a ! |( *>' than usual. I
HJ 1 ;,rs new ad. in this
"a hand when sttle
B{' u fiiorning.
H usains at Eflrd’s.
■tfiv a /.? r<Jay ure the fast
■ Sale and for
Httrai'P <>on u P:my is offerin £
■ f-tne bargains.
■ Price! 01 ' 0 ' lrf ' ss( ‘ s ' w ash
H, o . 'hhi h lower than
Ks aJ'" in h °siery. un-
HreJ. <! ot,ler goods.
Hturther I>age ad ' in this
H 1 Particulars.
THE CONCORD TIMES
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
: ~
SAYS BYRD PLANS
TO FLY ,BACK TO
THE UNITED STATES
New York. June :Jo.—(A*)—Com
mander Richard E. Byrd inteuds
to fly the America back to the
United States from Pariv. accord
j ing to T. Harold Kinkade. motor
i expert, who is on h's way to Cher
i hourg.
i T r
j LOCAL MENTION j|
Children’s Day will be observed at
Howell's Church Sunday. July 3rd.
Everybody Is invited to attend.
Three cases of measles were report
ed Wednesday at-the office of the Oa
j bnrrus county health department.
A marriage license was issued Wed-
I nesday by L. V. Elliott, register of
deeds, to A. Lee Moose and IMiss
; Dllie Belle Kilmer, both of Concord.
Police officers reported today that
i no arrests were made here either Wed
nesday* or Wednesday night. “Every
i thing is quiet," Chief of Police L. A.
Tnlbirt reported.
One real estate transfer as follows
was recorded for record here Wed
nesday at* the office of the register of
deeds: J. L. Potts to W. A. Lippard,
property on Elm Street, Ward 1, $3,-
30ft.
Truck loads of crated cantaloupes
have begun to arrive in Concord and
the men are enjoying a ready sale of
the fruit. The majority of those
doming to Concord are from South
Carolina counties.
All members of the Fred Y. McCon
nell Post the American Legion are
urgjed to attend the meeting to be
heljl tomorrow night at 7:45. Im
porjtant matters are to be discussed
amj acted upon at the meeting.
I r ou Gehrig is even with Babe Ruth
in ihome runs. The Yankee first
baseman drove out his 24th circuit
drife yesterday. Ruth got back in.
the game after betng out with injuries,
and although he got four hits none
was for the circuit.
The Chrysler sedan which was found
by City police officers late Tuesday
night and which was thought to have
been stolen and deserted by the thief,
belonged to a man in Charlotte, it was
said today. The Charlotte man came
for his car late Wednesday night.
Dr. S. E. Lee. of State Sanatorium,
will address the Kiwanis Club of this
city at the regular weekly luncheon
meeting of the club Friday. Dr. Lee
is a tuberculosis specialist and is now
conducting a clinic here under the
Cabarrus county health department.
Summer came back with a veng
eance here yesterday, the mercury go
ing above the 00-degree mark during
the day. It had been cool for sev
eral days but yvith clear skies through
out the day there was nothing to keep
the mercury from climbing during the
day. *
St. Louis defeated Pittsburgh again
yesterday and is but half a_game out
of first place in the National League
Washington went into second place
in the American by defeating Phila
delphia. In the South Atlantic Char
lotte defeated Macon. Greenville de
feated Knoxville and Asheville defeat
ed Spartanburg.
Radio fans will have an opportunity
to tune in on the radio station at the
JefFerson Standard Building, in Grens
boro. tonight when the Burlington
Chamber of Commerce will broadcast
the program. It has been said here
that a singer well-known to Concord
residents will be on the program to
sing several old Southern songs.
The grammar schools of the city
will have illustrated current news
pictures in the class rooms next year.
The pictures will he of aid to the
pupils in current events discussions
and each teacher will be furnished a
guide of the picture to use in explain
ing it to the pupils. The teacher’s
guide was prepared by Dr. David C.
Knowlton, assistant professor of Vis
ual Instruction, of Yale University.
Mrs. A. J. Dayvault and Misses
Mary and Virginia Dayvault were the
guests of Mrs. D. E. Turner in Moores
ville Tuesday.
Believe Slayer of Gladys Kincaid
Is Now in Ute Newton Jail
j Newton, N. C., June 30.— (A*)— If
i the picture, sent out by the sheriff of
I Burke county is a correct likeness of
the negro slayer of Gladys Kincaid,
he is now safely behind the bars .in
the Newton jail, according to half a
dozen officers here this morning. The
prisoner says his name is Eugene
Martin, and he was arrested in a coal
mine in Chatham county late yester
day afternoon and brought to New
ton today. Martin is said to have ad
mitted to officers that he escaped from
the chaingang in Asheville not long
ago, and he is quoted as also saying
that he left Hickory on the Monday
before the crime was com ra 'tted iu
i Morganton on Tuesday,
i A story was sent out by the Asso
S THOROUGH TEST OF
| AIB FLIGHT MADE
Noted Flier Was Anxious
to Test Plane Under All
Conditions and Seems to
Have Met With Success.
I MADE PROGRESS
1 JUST THE SAME
t ‘
. Sent Message Earty Today
and Several Ships at Sea
Picked Up the Messages
From His Radio.
• New York, June 30.—OP)—Com
’ mander Byrd and his crew of three !
men on the monoplane America have
neither seen land nor sea since 3 j
o’clock yesterday afternoon, he said |
in a radio message received at the j
America hangar at Roosevelt Field at !
7:4;"* a. m. daylight time today.
t The message sa'd : “We have seen |
. neither land nor sea since 3 o’clock;
; yesterday. Everything completely
covered with fog. Whatever happens.
. I take off my hat to these three great
fellows with me. (Signed) Byrd.”
The message was timed lft :sft
; Greenwich Mean Time.
; Less than half hour before Byrd’s
message was received, the liner Ham- I
1 burg, 275 miles southwest of the Irish |
coast reported hearing the America's j
•R'gnals. The ship's message, received j
at 7:20 o’clock said: "The S. S. Ham- j
burg at 08 3ft'G M T (4.3 ft a. m. !
, Eastern Daylight Time) Lat. 4ft 1(5,1
Long. 14 3ft, has seen nothing, but
heard by direction finder from 300 de
grees to 280 degrees “ WTW" fol
lowed by dash. Probably Commander
Byrd has clear night now. Wind
north by northeast, force 6. Cloudy
and squally night. (Signed) Mas
ter."
The letters W T W referred to in
the message are the call letters of the
America.
Nears England.
Paris. June 3ft.— (A 3 )—A Havas din- !
patch from Cherbourg late today stat-1
ed that Commander Byrd had sig- j
nailed his position to the Cherbourg |
aviation field as 35 miles north of I
Lands End, England.
The time of this message was not
given, but it was not expected that
the commander would arrive over
Cherbourg until about 7:30 p. m.,
French daylight time (2:30 Eastern
daylight time).
Making Progress.
Torqua, Devonshire, England, June
3ft.— (A 3 )—lntercepted radio messages
received here today appeared to indi
cate that Commander Byrd was about
sixty miles off the Cornish coast at
5:35 p. m.. London daylight time.
Radio Service in Touch With Byrd.
Brest, France, June 30.— (A 3 ) —The
radio service of the Maritime Pre
fecture was, in communion with Com
mander Richard E. Byrd at 5 o’clock
French . daylight time this afternoon
■ (noon Eastern daylight time).
In Freezing Fog.
London, June 30.— (A 3 ) —Command-
er Byrd in radio communication with
the French liner Paris at 11 o’clock
Greenwich time, 7 a. m. Eastern day
light, said:
“We are 10,000 feet up in a freez
ing dense fog. Position 11 Greenwich
Meridian Time, 49 33 North Latitude,
18 10 West Longitude. Fine. Thanks.
You have helped us a lot.”
The position given is about 600
, miles tvest of Lands End, England.
| The message was forwarded by the
J Paris to the wireless station at Val
encia island and was relayed thence
to th fi London bureau of the Associat
*£(l Pr^Bß
May Fly to South Pole.
New York, June 3ft.— (A 3 )—The
New York American in a copyright
story today says Commander Richard
E. Byrd, now over the Atlantic on a
scientific air journey to Paris, will sail
September 16th at the head of a flight
expedition to the South Pole.
* The Metropolitan Golf Associa
i tion, which embraces the area around
■ New York City, has a membership
of 157 clubs.
ciated Press from Hickory this
that negroes in that city believe the
Burke officers were searching for Eu
gene Martin instead of Broadus MiH
ler. They were of the opinion that the
pictures were of Martin and not of
Miller.
Miller’s wife said the picture was
of her husband, although it was “not
a very good likeness.” Other Mcr
ganton people were quoted as saying
that there was no mistake about the
matter, ’ and that the officers were
really searching for Broadus Miller.
But the pictures of the outlaw and
’ the countenance of the negro held
i here tally in every respect, say of
ficers who have investigated the mat
ter.
CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1927
I ■ ' -
BLANKS AND HIS
PARTY IN PORT;
HAD FINE TRIP
In a cablegram to the Daily
Tribune and the Concord Times to- ,
f day H. W. Blanks, secretary of the
Concord Y. M. C. A. and director
of a European party, stated that
he and Kis party had reached
Plymouth, England.
; The message, dated Plymouth, :
j June 3ftfh, reads:
"Arrived safely. All well.*
Blanks.” . i,
| In the party from Concord are '
j Mrs. Blanks, Miss Loraine Blanks,
j Mrs, Lilly Blanks and Mrs. W. H.
| Gorman.
, I I —-
j BUDGET ESTIMATES ARE
BEING TOUCHED HI
Will Be Submitted by County Ac»
1 countants to Boards of Commis*
' sioners.
~The Tribune Bureau
j Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, June 30.—The much dis-
I cussed budget estimates of the various
j counties are receiving their finishing
; touches this week preparatory to be
j ing submitted by the county account
j ants to the board of county cominis-
I sioners at their regular meeting next
Monday.
These budget estimates represent
: the proposed expenditures of the coun
ty officials for the fiscal year begin
i ning July Ist. The preparation and
use of these budgets mark a new
step in the history of county gov
l eminent in this state, although the
i State departments have been working
under a budget system since the 1925
| legislature created the budget bureau
j with Governor McLean as ex-officio
j director.
) 1 .
At the meering next Monday the
board of county commipsioneie v/rH
consider the budget' estimates,
any adjustments or changes in them
that they may deem necessary beforf
adoption which takes at thi|
meeting. \
j During tne period between next
! Monday and the fourth Monday in
| July, when the appropriation resolu
j tion must be adopted, the commission*
lens shall make public the expenditure
j requests of the county departments
j and activities by publishing in at least
one newspaper published in the coun
ty and by posting at the court house.
The hoard of commissioners at the |
meeting next Monday is also expected I
to make provision for the ordinary!
expenses of the county and its sub
divisions for the interval between the'
beginning of. the new fiscal year and ■
the time of the adoption of the annual
appropriation resolution, which is
fixed by law as the fourth Monday in
July. These expenses include the |
I fixed salaries, the principal and in
terest of indebtedness, and the stated
j compensation of officers and employees.
j Bumper Crop of “Spuds” Marketed.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, June 3ft. —Irish potato pre
i ducers of eastern North Carolina are
“sitting on top of the world,” having
just marketed a bumper crop for ex
cellent prices. Early estimates were
smashed during the. past week, and
then the total number of carlot ship
ments exceeded those of last year,
which made this the banner Irish po
tato year.
This success spells about s7.ooo.ftftft
to the Irish potato producers who
were not hacked by early pessipiisin
but got busy and marketed their crops
with lightning rapidity, it was point
ed out at the State department of j
agriculture.
Illustrative of the range of ship
ments, the department cited the fol
lowing cities to which cariots of
North Carolina potatoes have moved
this week: New York, Detroit, Cleve
land, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincin
nati, Indianapolis, Charleston. Chat
tanooga, Fort Wayne, Greenville, S.
C.. Miami, Norfolk, Richmond, Ind.,
Scranton and Trenton.
Birthplace of O. Henry to Be Proper
ly Mailied.
Greensboro, June 30.—Greensboro
bids fair at last to handsomely mark
the site where stood the house in which
O. Henry was born and reared.
The Masons of the city have an
nounced the purchase of the land and
their intention to proceed immediate
ly with erection of a $200,000 tem
ple to house the various groups of the
fraternal order.
Next Sunday has been designated
as Home Coming Day at Cold Springs
Methodist Church, No. 11 township,
when all members and former mem
bers of the church will gather for a
great Sunday school will
begin at 100 a. m. and at 11 a. m.
preaching services will be held. Fol
lowing dinner on the grounds Rev. J.
H. Barnhardt, of Winston-Salem, will
speak. Short talks will also be made
during the afternoon by members of
the church.
j CAN YOU SCORE
| TEN ON THESE?)
1— What and where is Mount Ver
i non?
2 What were the Middle Ages?
3 What is the Old South Church?
4 Who was the Quaker poet?
5 Name the New England news
paper he edited in 1830.
6 Who is Wilhelmina Helena
Paulina Maria?
7 Who was William Tell?
i B—Who was Poor Richard?
9 When and by whom was the eor-
I nerstone of the Capitol at Washing-
I tou laid? ,i
10 — Who partially destroyed the
■ Capitol in 1814?
- (Answers on page seven)
Gaston Delegation Makes Charges
At the Health Board Inquiry
The Tribune Bureau.
Sir Walter Hotel.
BY <l. €. BASKERVILLE
Rafegh, June 30.—The heaviest
barrage that has yet been turned
{against the State Board of Health
| tending to indicate that in some oas
* at least, undue arbitrariness has
j been exercised in tf*e enforcement of
j the sanitary privy laws, was unloosed
;by the delegation- of witnesses from
'Gaston county. No graft was charg
ed, but Incidents were related wh : eli
; indicated a strong suspicion of col
j lotion and of excessive arbitrariness
oq the part of the sanitary inspector
'■ involved, B. F. Rowland. However,
Rowland maintained he d : d nothing
more than his duty, when the probe
' graft charges was renewed Wednes
j \
‘ Five witnesses in nil testified from
1 Gaston county. These were E. Froh
man, groeeryman and real estate man,
in Gastonia; W. A. Wiggins and C.
E. Wright, carpenters; J. F. Wal*
■ lace, merchant and property owner of
> Stanley, and J. M. Holland, property
! owner in Gastonia, and who acted as
ciiief interrogator.
While none of these witnesses had
’ bad any run-ins or disagreement with
Rowland, most of them indicated that
in their opinions he showed undue dis
crimination, It was also indicated by
their testimony that Rowland had
■ seemed to show a preference for the
toilets built by a carpenter named
Key, who often applied for the job
of rebuilding a toilet within a few
hours or a day after it had been con
demned by Rowland.
In the case of Mr. Holland, for in
stance, Mr. Holland stated that about
1923. he had built some 2ft or more
privies, in accordance with the then
existing specifications of the Board of
Health. Later, in 1925. Rowland
came along and because these toilets
1 were different from the specifications
j 1 then in effect. l)e was required to tear
! down every 7 one of these that had been
built two years before, and build ab
solutely new ones, before they were
i passed by Rowland. Yet in another
section of Gastonia privies of the
other type were allowed to stand, and
are still standing. Mr Holland exhib
ited actual photographs as evidence,
THE COTON MARKET
J Opened Steady at an Advance of 4 to
7 Points, October Selling up to
17.05.
New York, June 30.— (A 3 ) —The cot
tou market opener! steady ,today at an
advance of 4 to 7 points a« if influen
ced by steady late cables from Liver
pool, reports of showers in south
1 Texas, and a private crop report mak
! ing the condition 71.3, the acreage
42,979,000 and pointing to a yield per
acre of only 149.1 pounds.
October sold up to 17.05, or 8
points net higher, but the advance
met realizing and there appeared to
he some selling of new crop months
for foreign account. Th : s eased the
market, and prices were back to yes
terday’s closing figures.
Cotton futures opened steady: Ju
ly 16.75; October 17.02; December
17.25; January 17.29.
Market Close.
Jan. 17.34, March 17.54. May 17.63,
July 16.84, Oct. 17.09, Dec. 17.28.
P.Jfc N. TO CONNECT
WITH HIGH POINT
High Point. Thomasville and Denton
Road May Construct Link.
High Point. June 29.—High Point,
one of the biggest freight producing,
cities in the Piedmont section, will be
given access to the P. & N railroad,
according to a local committee which
attended the final hearing before the
Interstate Commerce Commission yes
terday at Charlotte.
J. Allen Austou, chairman of the
committee, reports that the city can
not expect the P. & N. to build here
under the present petition, but can
look forward to access to the railroad j
in the near future. High Point, j
Thomasville & Denton railroad com- ;
pany will in all probability consider •
extending its rails to connect with the J
I*. & N. This is a locally owned rail- 1
road.
MARBLE PLAQUE TO
CHARLES LINDBERGH
Plaque Was Dedicated on Spot Where
Young American Landed Plane on
May 21st.
Le Bourget, France, June 30. — (A 3 )
—While Commander Richard E. Byrd
was winging his way to Paris through
a deense Atlantic fog and with Clar
ence D. Chamberlin aud Chas. A. Lev
ine standing by in homage, a marble
plaque commemorating Chas. A. Lind
bergh's feat of first reaching the Eu
ropean continent by air from the Un:t
edg States was dedicated here today on
the spot the young American landed
on May 21st.
With Our Advertisers.
Baby shoes for 69 cents, smart
shoes for ladiee at $3.98 and $4.98,
all-patent shoes for women at $2.98,
patent leather sandals at $2.98, dainty
patent leathers for $4.98 and solid
' leather Betan shoes for $1.69 at the
J. C. Penney Co.
Prices on Firestone tires and tubes
are very low now at the Ritchie Hard
ware Co. Also Oldfield 30x3 1-2 tire
for $7.35. See ad. for particulars.
Monday, July 4th, being Independ
-1 eenee Day. the banks of the city will
be closed.
The Gray Shop is offering a luggage
bag free of charge Saturday. Read ad.
• in this paper for particulars.
Shoes that ordinarily sell for $7.(K>
are going at the G. A. Moser Shoe
1 Store fop from $1 to $4.99 in big
Clean Sweep Sale. Red ad. for par-
I ticulars.
and his testimony was corroborated.
Some of the charges made against
, Rowland were: jThat he condemned
one toilet because the lids to the seat
did not extend two inches over the
ledge, as the specifications called for;
that he recommended this one carpen
ter named Key to almost evervoDe;
that he passed privies built by Key
that contained defects, which if found
in one not built by him. he would
condemn; that he Had condemned the
toilets owned by the Ozard mills in
Gastonia, and ordered that the privies
be rebu : lt out of new lumber, but that
when Key was given the contract, he
permitted Key to use much of the
old lumber; that he had approved
some toilets built before those of Hol
land, and of an older design, but com
pelled Holland to tear his down and
build new ones, and many other sim-,
ilar charges.
Rowland denied some of these
charges outright, and in many other
instances “didn’t remember” the ex
act circumstances. He admitted that
Key followed him to Gastonia and
Gaston county, and said that Key
was the only carpenter he had found
who could build a privy exactly ac
cording to specifications. He denied,
however, that he allowed Key to work
with him, pr that he had ever receiv
ed any money from Key. He also
said* that the only circumstances un
der wh’ch he ever condemned a privy
w&h when there was some radical de
fect. making it insanitary, and that
in all cases where he had condemned
them, this was the case.
Rowland was still on the stand when
the hearing recessed late in the after
noon. He was unshaken and unruf
fled by the many questions shot at
him.
Earlier in the day a large number
of witnesses from Hendersonville and
Henderson county testified concerning
the work of John E. Floyd, the sani
tary inspector in that section, and
without exception, they gave Floyd a
dean slate. One of them stated that
Floyd had accomplished so much good
in Henderson county in cleaning it up
and ridding it of disease, that he de
served the gratitude of every resident
of the county.
No indication was given of just
when the probe would end.
I
in M .I——. i
FEW STORES WILL
BE OPEN LOCALLY
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Secretary of Merchants As
sociation States Almost
Every Business Establish
ment Is to Close.
Practically all business establish
ments in the city of Concord will
close their stores in observance of In
dependence Day, it was announced
this morning by L. R. Sapp, secre
tary of the Concord Merchants Asso
ciation.
Meat markets w r ill remain open un
til noon on July Fourth while ga
rages and barber shops wil lbe clos
eed during the entire day. She banks j
and the postoffice will suspend activ- j
ity for the day also. I
Concord populace is planning to
celebrate the holiday at Kannapolis
where a great jn-ograin of thrilling ex
citement and fun galore has been ar
ranged. At least lft,ooft visitors are
expected in the Towel City on this
occasion.
DRUG STORE WILL
INSTALL FIXTURES
Pearl Drug Store Will Have Grand
Opening Reception Next Month.
The work of installing the complete
set of new fixtures of the Pearl Drug
Company was commence Tuesday and
i will be rushed rapidly to completion.
The new fixtures will make the
store one of the most beautiful
drug stores in this section of the
■ country. The fixtures, which are of
j American black walnut, were made by
j the Morrison Manufacturing Com
! pany, of Statesville, and a representa
' tive of the Company said today that
I they would be the finest set of fixtures
in this section.
The new fixtures, combined with
the other improvements that have re
cently been made at the store, will add
greatly to the attractiveness of the
store. A few months ago the entire
front of the store building was torn
away and a new “Palm Beach” front,
with almost the entire front of the
store opened, was put in. The pre
scription department of the store was
moved several feet further to the
rear of the store which enabled the
door on West Depot .Street to open
into the main room of the store.
An opening reception will be held
in the new store within the next few
weeks, it was announced today. There
will be an orchestra and other en
tertainment furnished those visiting
the store at that time. Full details
of the reception will be given within
a few days when the plans for the
opening are completed.
•- - t
Ritchie Reunion. •
There will be a Ritchie! family
gathering in the afternoon df Sun
day, July 3rd, at the homo%>f the
late G. E. Ritchie, in No. 6 township.
Neighbors and friends are invited to
participate in the basket dinner which
will be served at 1 o’clock p. m.
The occasion is given especially for
G. T. Ritchie and Mrs. S. W. Over
cash and their families, of Porters
ville, California.
Portrait of Bride.
This morning’s Charlotte Observer
carried a lovely photograph of Mrs.
James Heilig Wilkinson, of Concord,
who prior to her marriage recently,
was Miss Anne Whisnant, of Char
lotte.
$2 00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
REACH AGREEMENT
AS TO SIZE m
NEW
It Is Understood That Max
imum Tonnage of New
Destroyers Has Been
Fixed at 1,500 Tons.
RATIO HASISTOT
BEEN SELECTED
It Is Said That Virtually an
Agreement Has Been
Reached on the Ratio as
Well as Size of Craft.
Geneva, June 30.— (A) —An agree
ment to limit the maximum size of
destroyers was reached today at a
meeting of the naval experts of the
tripartite conference. The experts
also discussed the question of ratio in
the number of destroyers as between
the United States. Great Britain and
Japan.
It is understood that an accord was
virtually reached on the ratio for de
stroyers, but the experts today de
clined to announce the ratio figures.
The maximum tonnage of destroyers
is understood to have been fixed at 1,-
500 tons, a line of demarcation being
drawn between destroyers and destroy
er leaders.
HIGH SCHOOLS OF
COUNTY WILL HAVE
STANDARDS RAISED
Board of County Education
and Committeemen Met
Here Saturday to Discuss
School Plans.
There is a probability that the Mt.
Pleasant, Bethel, Harrisburg and
i Winecoff high schools of this county
will be on the list of accredited high
schools of the State by the end of
the next school year, it was learned
here today.
The county board of education and
the committeemen of the high schools
of the county met Saturday to
discuss plans the standards of
the high schools could be raised so as
to be able to command a position on
the list of accredited high schools.
All members of the board of educa
tion were present and the following
named committeemen: Harrisburg.
James"E. Query, D. S., McEachern and
J. C. Higgins; Bethel, A. C. Carriker
and U.. H. Hnrtsell: Mt. Pleasant.
A. N. James, S. T. Seaford, Mrs. C.
W. Warlick and Mrs. C. H. Thayer;
Winecoff, W. H. Barnhardt.
. S. G. Hawfield, county superintend
ent-elect, gave some facts relating to
: the high school situation in this coun
ty, and outlined some plans by which
j the schools might become accredited
during the coming year.
Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, of Raleigh,
State inspector of high schools, who
was present at the meeting, strongly '
urged that all possible effort be put
forth to place the high school work
on an accredited basis at once. He
stated that in view of the large num
ber of high school pupils in the coun
ty being forced to attend non-standard
high schools the authorities should'
not delay a single day in making some I
plans by which the rural children
might have the benefite which come
from standardization.
Following the address of D*. Higli- 1
smith there was a brief discussion re
garding the problem relating to each
of the above schools and the follow- j
jug agreements were reached:
For Mt. Pleasant High School it |
was decided that the local board would
petition the county board of educa
tion for the privilege of holding a
special tax election, the tax rate to
be 90 cents and the area to be in
cluded in the district to be decided
upon by the local school board, the
county board of education and the
county superintendent.
Bethel High School also decided to |
hold a special election. Since the j
district already has a 30-cent rate it!
was decided to extend the boundaries:
of this district. The new boundaries
will be decided upon by Mr. Hawfield.
the county board of education and
the local school committee.
Harrisburg decided to hold a special
tax election upon the proposition of
raising the rate from 20 cents to 3ft
cents and of increasing the gize of
the district. The agreement as stat
ed above was made with the provision
that if the new project should be de
feated the county board of education
might consolidate the Rocky River
annex with the Harrisburg district
using the special tax of the two dis
tricts for the purpose of operating an
eight months school term for both
districts.
YVineeoff school took the same ac
tion as di(T“Harrisburg and decided 1
to hold a special tax election for the
purpose of increasing the rate from 20
cents to 30 cents. In regard to the
building of the school, it was decided
that the county board of education
would determine its quota from the
fourth special building fund and if
the amount is sufficient, proceed with
the plans for a new building, asking
the county commissioners to borrow
the amount necessary from some
source other than the State until the
appropriation from the State would
be available on or about January 1,
1928.
Dick Richards, of Liberty Hill, S.
C., is visiting in Concord.
ISATS POLITICS AND i
HOT EFFICIENCY IS
t THING THAT COUNTS
■ I Major Mills Says Political
r _ Patronage Decides Who
i Will Hold Job With the
Prohibition Units.
resignedliis
I POST LAST WBlfcK
[At the Same Time He SaJH
Service Is Diluted WM
II Patronage and He Cltfea
Conference as Evidence.
New York, June 30.—OP)—Political
patronage and not personal efficiency
; is the keynote in holdiug a job as
j prohibition administrator. Major Cbeiy 1
i| ter T. Mills, who resigned last
|as federal prohibition administrator
here, declared here today in a formal
statement after his resignation. ; ..(#i
At the time he characterized the
i service as diluted with political
; ronage. Mills was describing q con
' ference in Washington last February,
The conference, he said, was attended
by “high treasury officials and political
i leaders of New York.” told -
of being introduced as the ef*
ficient administrator in the United
States.” The reply was, he said ‘‘we
won’t question his efficiency, but let's
talk patronage.”
The namee of those attending the
conference were not divulged. 1.-
i _____________
THE STOCK MARKET.
j New High Record Since 1920 fljr
Southern Pacific Featured Market,
New York. June ”ft.~ f/4 3 ) —Estab-
lishment of a new high record since
1920 by the Southern Pacific common,
at 117 1-4. featured today’* dull awl
irregular stock market. The general
list alternately blew hot and (“old, with
selling pressure particularly severe
against many of the motors, oils and
i railroad equipments, concerning which
! recent trade news had been unfavor
| able.
There was some selling later on an
| other of the private end-June reports
I placing the condition at 76.7 and
the decrease in acreage at 9 per cent.
Offerings Vere comparatively light,
however, while there was probably a
little buying on the prospect for re
newed showers or somewhat unsettled
weather in parts of the South, and
the market was very quiet around mid
day. October sold off to 16 93 and
the general list showed net declines
of about 3 to 6 points.
The closing was firm. Total sales
approximntel 1.400,000 shares,
DUKE ENDOWMENT
MAILS OUT CHECKS
971,570.31 Additional Forwarded T-0
Hospitals and Orphanages In the
Two Carolines.
Charlotte. June 29.'hecks aggre*
gating $71,570.31 supplementing the
j dWhursement of $393,583 made about
! a month ago. have i>eeii sent by the
Duke endowment to a number of hos
pitals and orphanages in the two
Curolinas that did not participate in
the earlier distribution of funds, it
was announced here today. This
j brings the amount of the disburse*.
| ments for the year to $465,153.31 with
63 hospitals aud 4ft orphanages par
ticipating in the distribution.
There were 12 hospitals in North
Carolina and six in South Curolinn
j participating in the most recent, ,dis
; buaement, which totalled $61^1)88;
' This added to the $278,039 distributed
Ito 45 hospitals last month, brings
] the total given such institutions thia
; year to $339,1227.
Four orphanages in the two states
participated in the latest disburse
ment, receiving $10,842.10. This brings
the total gifts to orphanages this year
to $126,026.31. 36 such institutions re
ceiving $115,544 in May. . More than
5.00 ft orphans have been indirectly
beneficiaries of the Duke endowment
(this year.
-
No Extension of Time Limit for li
censes.
Raleigh, June 30. — (A 3 )—There will
be no extension of the time limit to
procure automobile licenses, State
Commissioner of Revenue Doughtoa
said today.
Beginning tomorrow all automo
biles must carry the new license
j plates. Mr. Dougbton estimated that
by midnight tonight between 250.000
and 275.000 licenses will have been
purchased.
' A
May Enter National Tournament.
Charlotte, June 30.—(INH)— Harry
Ehle, Asheville, and Jack Heath,
Charlotte, winner and runner-up in
the Southern Ainatuer Golf tourna
ment here last week, probably will
enter the national tournament, it waa
believed -here today. Col. Lowry Ar
nold, vice president of the Southern
>. Golf Association, said every effort
) would be made to enter the pair in
the national tournament.
Miftsea Addie, Lou and Mae White
! spout yesterday in Charlotte.
Mali
Partly cloudy tonight, possibly light
showers in extreme east portion ; cool
, er in east portion tonight. Friday
fair, slightly warmer in east portion.
NO. 3