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D O C O O O " '. O ASSOCIATED . O PHESS -J O DISPATCHES a oooooooa r- : i: o o c i) o o Ni:s . o 1 o today. a oooooooo VOLUME XXII. CONCORD, N. Q, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1922. NO. IM. fIl!!lUSIOlli( New York Central Says More : Men Applied for Work in Three Hours Today Than in Any Other Day.. , WILL PROTECT ITS NEW WORKING MEN Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Road Tells New Em- ployes It Will Protect Them to the Limit . New York, A"R- 2 (By the Ajwocint- ;i lress). The New Tork Centrnl IJtie today announced that more np-ly-atlon or poult ions in their .shops hMtl lieen received within three hour ' "lit division points this morning thnn for ninny days past . According to the. announcement, many applicant were strikers who stated 1 hey had been awaiting to see what notion the rall - way executive of the country would ' ' take on President Harding' scttfe- luent plan. ' -, i ; A. T. 4 S. Fe WIU Protect New Shop- ' wen. ' " Topeka, Kans., Aug. 2. Assurances toll new employes hi the service of the Atchison Topeka k Santa Fe Rall- rond that their seniority rights will 'lie ' fully protected," was contained in a notice pouted at the Santa Fe shop v here todffy. Executives Standing Behind Labor Board. New York. Ang. . 2. In rejecting , the third Bectlon of President Hnnl ' IngV proposals for ending the shop ' men's strike, the railroads are stand-- lint behind the railroad labor Inwird, according to the mil executives who pointed out that the hoard Das torn .-. the wen who refused to strike they would, hare seniority .rights and per- nmnent employment. ' .'v " Spokesmen for the railroads stated i. Hint the urogram adopted - at the : meeting of the executives , was final : and that-the roads would act as -a Appoint ft Committee to Draft Text s of Acceptance. ; . Chicago, 'Aug. 2 (By the Associated ' Press). --The chiefs y of the striking shop employes voted to accept Presi dent:. Harding's proposal for ndlng " the railtond strike and appointed a "committee to dritft the text of the no -..ceptance and forward it to the Presl V. dent Immediately. ".""." :..:'"' The actual vote was taken by more than 100 chiefs of .the six federated shop crafts under, B. I. Jewell.. -! Timothy Henly, president of the sta- tionnry, firemen" and oilers' union, the f . only other organisation on, strike, nn ,' nomiced that, his organization would concur in the shopmen's action. ' :,- -. iii ' r- '; ' CARL SIIRADLEY KnXED ; r ANU BROTHER WOUNDED , Klioollnr Occurred When .Crowd ' of Non-Union Men Were Housed. . (Br tha AMOcmted rrM - nn Buren, Ark., Aug. 2. Carl Riirmilev. of Van Buren. was killcrt and' his. brother Will Shradley, the hitter a striking shopraan,v was proh- ably fatally wounded in1 an exchange of shots precipitated when ft crowd of inore than 100 men gathered In the vards of the Missouri,' -racinc .iuj imre enrlv today and approacnett Imllding gttard(4 by a deputy nlted Monihai nnl In which a num- lier ?if non-union shop workers, were housed. 1 ' Si"'"'"' More than 150 shots Wre fired dur iiiir the 20 minutes 'the battle was' in " urocress.'. Information as to whether , any of those within the shoiw were wonnded. has not neen ODiainwi. in guard alout the building was Increas- i ' ' TT'O BLOWS tT - Five of Crew Perish When the Ed- ward Is Destroyed by an Explosion. (Br AMOcistea rrw. Kew Tork. Ang. 2. The liarlwr tug ' Edward, tied up at hef slip at the foot of Oold Street, Brooklyn, ' was Mown to pieces today by an explosion " rf hrr huller. and her crew Of five " nrUiiii .-The boat sank.' V A nlm of iron was blown through n imnll hnildlng nearby 1 and four workilien injured. , . ' PKr.K ftlf TARIFF ' NOW SEEMS CERTAIN VITISINO ROT RUNS ADUhLS LOCAL me Fur ttarMi Club Mmibrrt Pre t iar WtUj Meeting Nrmu !'ra Chief i-prnkt. An lntereilnf account of tb Inter aatlimal I'oo'etiUon at Ixm AcgHn T Norman Peace, of tb Charlottf flub, and short talks by other mem tiers of the Charlotte Club aod Ir. J U. Orier, were features of Ibe weklj meeting of the Rotary Club held al tbi WTnemlay evenlug at T o'clmk. The meeting was the regular Angust so Mai meeting and for that reason waf held at night Instead of at dohb. There was little business before tbf dull, reports of committees constitut ing all the bmUnena transacted. Martin Cannou, xhalrtnan of the PnMic Affnirs Committee, ' told the rlnb niembers his committee wonkl ax (H'f.ire the County Commissioners or. next Monday ami ask that something l done to get a good rond to the low er part of the county. This road, Mar tin declared, is luidly needed, and the Rotary coiauiltte will act in con junction with a committee from tn Klwanls Club. .... John Allison, not a member of the committee, but -a Rotarlan intensely interested in the road, stated that the CommlsshHiers had set 2 o clock next Momlny as the honr for the hearing. and Chairman -Martin asked all mem bers of the. committee to he at the court house at that time. It Is prolt- ii hie that the Commissioners will he asked to construct -hte road , to the Union county line, on the route as out lined recently by a State Engineer. Kd. Sauvnln, chairman of the com mlttee appointed by the club to meet with a committee from the Klwanls Hub and ofllcinls of the Mnde-ln-Car- olinns Exposition for the purpose of selling space In the exposition to Ca barrus County business men, stated that the work of selling the space had a trendy started, and - good progress had been made." President Mnnry Richmond added further to this dis cussion by declaring that more than 000 of the alloted 1,000 feet had al ready been sold. ' : ; . : BUL Caswell, chairman of the Boys' fWork Committee, told the club that he did not go to Hallslmry for tne Moy Scout meeting, .when a Kcout Master for this ' district, .' was : Belected, ? be cause he knew It would cost between $800 and $1,000 to carry on the t work heri,' and he lielleved the Cinh was doing all H can dtyilong this line ifow. Bill told the cluli that-It could .begin the work at any time, however, if U wanted V. as the money Is always ac- cetitable. BUI also brought to the attention '.of the', club n .request from some young n'eir ' ofvtho city that the- -clnb heU) ttefflmVrgidfiin-marhVmety islsteil thtit he wanted to bring the matter to the ( club because he had been asked to do so. No action wap taken on the nuestlon. 5; Bill " Thompson. Rnfns Johnson, Dave Chirk and Norman Pease were members of the Charlotte Club 'who were heard. Norman with peculiar In terest because ;he gave to . the,, club some valuable and timely hints cre ated through his long membership in Rotary and his attendance at the re cent Intenwtlonal Convention in Los Angeles, .- '''""; "''."-. ' ..;.""."' --' 't Norman told of the trip to the west. the great reception accorded them" In Los Angeles, read , bits '-.? from ; the needies of several, noted offlcers and explained some of the many, .resolu tions introduced to the convention. Classification '; affd attendance were the keynotes at the convention, Nor man declnred, and be went on -to show what the organization has been doing in attendance. There ore more than 1,200 clubs how, be said, and the average of the entire membership heed's inmi ;0',l SEEDS CEBTA" Missouri Senator Is Running Far Ahead of Apponent Old Guard Republican Candidate Losing Out. SENATOR SWANSON HAS BIG MAJORITY Miss Alice - Robertson Will Head in Jler District . Several Contests in Kansas . Are Uncertaian. Atreements " Reached- Separtaely by Republican and Democratie Lead -'. erS" (By tfce AModste Pre.)' . Washington. D. C.-Aug. 2. Passage of the administration tariff bill by the Keiinto this month seemed aimosc cer tuln tmlay as a result of agreements reached separately by republican and deuKK'iatlc leaders. . In lillnilelnbia. the "speclnl days' lire nnnied in honor of some Thll or Mnikiiiiin. with 'presents and every thing for the piiHtlmer, Just like pei mint conteiiilcrs. No Na on tli 1 ; lire - ni vi otber l lit I i h leu true tenin bus anytbln Is vl.t n t!ie Moran bn-l i .ig t tni'ir iH-Mu ioi. ..el's, t' t y enn't always k i. of the'orgnniiiation last year was " per cent Norman said the speech of Joe Tnr ner. former uovernor or tne weventn District. -w5s one of the best and most heartfelt made at the convention. Joe before the Los Angeles convention was not so well known internationally, Norman said, but he Is now, and af ter 'his speech one heard his name on every hand. There were o.ooo delegates at ; me convention, , representing 27 different countries. Dave Clark suggested that tne ciuns of this part of the State get up an at tendance prize as an Incentive, to bet ter attendance. ' Bill Thompson said it was the third time he bad attended a Kotary meet' inir here, that other Charlotte mem. liers had been' here oftener than that, but that he had not seen many Con cord members nt the Charlotte meet ings;' He urged them all to attend the meettnm when in Charlotte. Knf us 'Johnson, who made tne mp to Los Angeles with Norman Pease, told of the splendid co-operation be tween the clubs of the west. The con vention,, Rnfns said, was a great suc cess, and this co-operation muue such. He thinks the clubs everywhere can learn Something of "this pulling together stuff" from the clubs or tne west . -' I)r. Grler. introduced as a muu 'very close and dear . to us all" ex expressed his delight at being present Hevernl selections by a negro quar tet, nnen rthed bv Bob Rldenhonr, add' ed pleasure to the meeting while the dinner was being scrveu. CANNOT INCREASE RATES ( tr tk A ttmft rt Cnlted Htatea Renator Reed was running Sproximately 24.000 ahead f Breienrldge Iong today on re urns from alnnit two-thirds of the ireclncts In the Missouri democratic senatorial race, while Wm. Sacks, the eer and light wine candidate, was ending R. U. Brewster, enilorsed by :he (Ud liuord, for the 'republican tenatotial race. . - - ' ' - . In Oklahoma, Mayor Walker. of Ok 'nhoma City, anti-Kn Klnx Klan can didate, was leading R. H. Wilson by 000 with less than a third of the nrpeclncts In. ' Miss Alice Robertson, the only wo- rnnn in Congress, was well ahead In her1 race for renominatlon by the hird district Oklahoma republicans. In Kansas R. II. Hudson, newspa per man, was leading W. R. Stubb, a former governor, hy a narrow margin for the. republican gubernatorial nom luntion. Congressmna Philip , Camp bell conceded the liws of his race for renominatlon. Elizabeth U Wooster, ho created state stir by opposing dancing, and use' of cosmetics in thei hools. was S.ooe behind her -leading mnie opixment in her race for renom inatlon as Kansas superintendent or public instrnctlon. ; . :' ; -- x v . - ; In 'West Virginia -senator mitnerr and, ' republican,' apparently had a afe- lead for renominatlon. - -. " SwmtoP Swanson, democrat, of vir- glnlanhad a lead of about three to one In his race for renominatlon on the returns from 75 out of the 100 conn-ties.- .A Later DIsnatrlL .Ktf-riwuwt'u "ftUifc-iiftor -flames Heed's lead . over BrecKenrmge Long In the race for .the democratic Hon for IT. S. Senator reced ed at noon today to 15,0118, ns addi tional county precincts favorable to the former assistant 'secretary of stae" reported from yesterday's pri mary election. Returns from Z.uwi out I a,si pre cincts in the state gave: . . nA v . .. .. j Mn : nil. I lieen jdii.i.wi: jjong iit,u.w.- j.m was a loss,, of nearly .D.OOO votes In Reed's lead' as shown at the highest point. - , ' , fiETS CONTROLLING INTEREST - IN bTUTZ motuk i;oiirANi Genorge L. Bur Buys 111,614 Shares at fZO a wiare. " (Br tha Awlt PrM.) New Xork, Aug.- 2. The controlling Interest in the Ktutz Motor Company was obtained today by George L. Burr, of the Guaranty Trust Company, when he bought 111,014 1-3 shores a.t ai a share at the auction of Allen A. Ryan & Company' collateral. The. total canltallzation embraces 200,000 shares, and the stock.wa selling af about $15 THE LAST WORD IN LINOTYPE ,M.CIILES. The Tribune and Times office has just installed a new Linotype machine, which is the last word in Linotype construction. J It is a new model 14, and has all the latest .improvements. This is the,best machine the. Mer eenthaler Linotype' Com pany makes for speed and flexibility. The operator can set seven different faces af'type, makint the changes without getting off hrs seat. coots scHooi-s. had SPLENDID ATTENDANCE During the Past Hrlioiastie Year rlgures Made llibtie By Professor J. B. Robertson. . - The statistical reports of -the rural public schools have Just been compiled for the scholastic year ending June .Mtth, and they reveal some interesting information.' " ' There were fit whh schools in the ,-ounty taught hist year and 25 color ed schools. Those schools having no local tax had an armge term of 118 days slid those 'schools with a local tax bad an average -term of 147 1-2 days. f'i The rural white fnsns totals (1547 children, and of this nnmlier 5385 were enrolled, this being 8o per cent, pf the totnU The average dally at tendance was .4045, rtr 75 per cent of the enrollment ' f Thes figures show several points increase over previous years. ,- 'J :- -There are 1080 colored school chil dren In the county. of this number 14(51 were enrolled. : with an. average dully attendance of 870. There were In the white . rural schools, by grades, the following num- Ftrst 1447; secohdWsS: thirci 84: fourth 080; fifth 5525 sixth 470; sev enth 408; eighth 100; ninth 72; tenth 42. and eleventh 21. J , The numlier or graduates irom tne grammar schools to itne uign scnoois was 118, while 20 students completed the fonr-year high scnooi course. . In the colored rural schools there were the following students by grades : IMrijt 580; seeon(r;21(l; third 184; fourth 17;.Ufta 14-t; sixth 03. sev enth 30. r i i -, v-V':V Thero,HBWtalldrtu venr two local lax districts, one, ' at Poplar Tent and the other at Gllwood. KlifDIilnllOTOR TRUCK ACCIDEHT CAB ARRIS Jl HOORn l. ATLANTA HU.ll bCHOOL Ilallct Sawyer Dead and a Number of Other Mem bers of Party Injured, One Probably Fatally. - TRUCK RAN TOO NEAR EMBANKMENT Occupants Were Thrown Down the Mountain and Pinned Beneath the Truck. Truck Turned Over Twice. Hickory. N. C, Aug.' 2. Itallet Sawyer, 14 years old. of ElistnlMth City, Is dead. Ralph Cox, 13, of Wln- ton-Salem, is In a hospital at Hhnlls Mills proltably fatally injured. Ralph a vines, of Wilkesboro, has a leg broken, ami (V or 8 other memltera ot part yof 24 persons are suffering from minor injuries ns a result 'of a motor truck accident 15 miles this side of Grandfather Mountain yester day, according to a telephone message received here, tmlay. The truck, returning from a trip to the mountain, ran too near the side of the road and turned over twice. throwing occupants down embankment, pinning some beneath it. Sawyer1 liv ed three ' hours after the accident. Cox, who Is suffering a crushed head. Is not expected to recover. The young people, who were gathered from various parts, of the state, were In charge of Rev'. T. A. -Dobbins of the Episcopal School at Patterson, Cald well county. - ' . THE COTTON MARKET " Cron Report Failed to Stimulate Demand, Deelin ol ii roints on August' '.H-. ;' Vi" :,'v'-"'"; (Br the AMOclnted Prew. New York. ; Aug. 2 Failure of yesterday's governmental crop nport to further stimulate, demand in- the Livernool market whs evidently a dls appointment to yesterday's . buyers here, and the Ideal opening was steady at a' decline of 32 olnt on August an dof 2 to 17 points on other montlis. Cottort futures opened steady. Oct. 22:18; Dec. 22:15; Jan. 22:04; March 22 :00; May 24 :!0. INDIANA TROOPS ARE . ORDERfSD TO HOME BASE Not Known Whether or Not They Whl Be Used for Guard Duty at Alines, Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 2 (By the Associated Press). Seven -'hundred land fifty troops of the 151st; Indiana on the curb market when Mr. Burr's fnfantry wereordered U Jh $20 bid was successftiUat the auction Indianapolis to.lny fromj Damp Kno. :r . " ii.i ki Ky.. by Adjutant (leneral Smith of to dispose of collateral held against lonns to the Ryan concern which re cently failed fog $14,000,000. ON APPLES IN CAROLINAS i I i i i r Southeastern Railroads Proposed to Increise Kate Emm 9 to 53 Cents I'rr Hundred Pounds. ' Ot Ik utO' TrrM-t Washington. D. C, Auk. 2 Propos als of the southeastern railroads to uller rules on npph'S coming from the Pacific fount to Vlnrlnla, (iftindii and tlio (jirollnns Were held nnJuHtiiled to- ilay by the Iiitt'l'Klato Commerce "' inl"Mtiii. The Commh-Nioii onlorctl set, n.i.li' ccrtiiiii propoNctl schetliiloH v ! i. !i would luivo l..'r."i "l the apple , ... i , i l IV i I. I v I It'll..'!! SENATOR REED HAS LEAD OVER BRECKENRIDGU LONG Senator Took Lead During Night Has Lead of 165 Votes Mow. St. Louis, Ang. 2 (By the Associat ed Press). Senator ' James A. Reed took the lead from Breckenruige ixng In -the democratic primary for Cnlted States Senator Ot 3 o clock this mnrn- lng.v -Additional precincts from Kan sas City and Xioms, tne eea strongholds, , put the Senator 7,505 Heturns from 2232 out of 3,848 pre cincts in the state gnve Reed 132,780, and Long 125,105. nWPRRSRXTATTVR I.KMITEL P. PADGETT DIED EAKLi, TODAK. Had Been 111 lor Two Montlis-Home . -Was (n Tennessee. -. , (Br tk AukIiM Prcaa.1 Washington. D. C Ang. 2. Repre sentative Lemuel P. Padgett, of Ten nessce, died early today at bis home here." . '" ':-'-',:; ' '...!.!' " ' Mr. Padgett, who wot the war time chairman of the House Naval Com mittee, had been 111 at his residence for two , months. The body will be taken to bis home at Columbia for burial, .,, '. " ' .' Death of Mrs. Robert CUne. Mm Robert CUne idled at her borne nn Knst Deoot street last Saturday night, following a stroke ot paralysis which she -suffered about the first of last .November.. Mrs. Cllhe had leen confined to ber bed since that time. She was aliout M years of age, and leaves a husliaml and four children, one son, Mr. John CUne, and three daughters, Mrs. Ernest Cruse, Mrs. Kaggart and Mrs. Paul Cruse, The funeral services were held from Mt. olivet Lutheran Church In No. 11 town ship last Sunday afternoon at three ..vi.vlr. oomlncted by Rev. H. K. ltmlle and Interment was Uiatle In the church cemetery. the Indiana National Guard.- The troops have been in summer trainiifg. General Smith refused to say If they would lie sent to the Indiana conl fields to Buppbrt Governor McCray's plan of mining coal under state super vision. START OF GREAT FORD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME First Shipment of Iron Ore Has Been . Sent to Kiver Kouge. Mlchlgnmrae, Mich., Ang. 2 (By the Associated Press.) Marking what is lielleved here to be the start of a great development program by Henry Kord, the first shipment of iron ore from Mr. lord s mine here has been sent to River Rouge, nefcr Detroit, for conversion Into iron and steel that next wllU I- seen lu automobiles ami About 500 tons of ore Is lielng sent dnilr to Escannlm by rail and there (lunilKil on nnore boat for the Detroit illstnct. . At .. . Kiver wonge; tne ore will lie put through the Ford blast f ur- unces. The only break In the proces sion from the Ford owned mine to . tbe-t Ford produced . automo biles, is In the - railroad and boat lines necessary to carry the ore. Mr. Ford has not yet attained control or these transportation facilities. The-mlne. known as the Imperial. will supply but. a small per centage of the Iron needed In the Ford indus tries but it is lielleved here other sim ilar developments will follow the man ufaettfrer owning 400,000 acres of land in the upper Michigan peninsula and leh deposits of ore are oeiievea ny experts to underlie nt least a part of the vast tract. . HI SBAND HITS WIFE WITH BROOM HANDLE Government to Chart Unknown Ocean , Depths. . (By the Awwelnte Pmss. Philadelphia. Aug. 2. Two former mine sweepers, turning from the pur suits of war to those or peace ann sc ence. are- being remodeled in Deln ware River shipyards, ana are nearly rendv to welsh anchor to start on an Indefinitely long ends In the Pacific ocean for the United states uoast ami Geodetic Survey. -- . .i' They are steamers Pioneer and Dis coverer, formerly the Auk and Os prey, which saw service in the North Sea. Now they are to do equippeti with the finest scientlllc instruments for sounding and surveying. .. , Home time during tne summer tuey are to pass through the Panama Ca nal and proceed up the Pacific Const to Alaska to Bound ana survey un chartered territory. " Contrary to general belief, ltt was said, there still, remains much un charted territory in that region, aod manv nlaeei show channels incorrect ly marked and sounded. Also some places correctly surveyed and sound ed, have been altered by the constant notion of the waves. ' . Eleven ofllcers and B3 men have been enlisted to man each vessel, and with the exception of the two com manding olttcerB the crews have been selected. " The Const and fieodetlc Survey hns token-over also a third mine sweep er, the Flamingo, from the Navy De- iwrtinent, now lying at Portsmouth, N. II., enlistlug a crew. Following al terations, she prolmbly will Join her sister ships In Alaskan waters., Farmer Thought She Was a Burglar After His Money and He Laid Her Out , .. Statesville. August 1. Mrs. E. R. McRuley Is recovering from injuries which she received at her home in Bethh ny township , Thursday night when she was mistaken '-for a' bur glar by her husband. v Mrs. McAulej had siotteu up about iinldnlglit anu went out on the porch for a drink of water. . . i---?' ' ' - Mr. McApley did not hoar her leave the bedroont and when lie saw ner come into the room he called to know who it was: as Mrs. McAule.v's hear ing Is rather defective, she failed to hear her husband's call- and there fore did not respond.. ' This confirmed the suspicion that on Intruder was entering the house and Mr. McAnley struck her across Ihe head with the broom handle, causing her to fall to the boor. -:' ' - v'- -.... '-- ' . Not until ' then "- did1 Mr. McAuKy discover his mistake. It was first thought that the injuries were seri ous, .but latest reports from Mrs. Mc Anley were to the effect that her condition is rapidly becoming normal. U W. Earnhardt, of the Trinity Col leg (bus of 1!1. Chow PrvfcMor in Terbjisfankal 111 ft) HcomL .ImrliaB. Aug. 2 L W. Earnhardt. of the Trinity CoUege class of iV2 has beea elected professor of hlstorj In the Tethnolof1cl llLgh School tot Boys at Atlanta. Mr. Barabardt made a outstanding record la history at Trinity and last year punroed bis work la this subject at the 1'nlveralty of WlM-oOHln. He Is from Calisrrun Oninty. Mr. Earnhardt follows a numlier or other Trinity men to the Atlanta schools. II. Held Hunter, class of ll. at preett assists ot sutiertntendent of the Atlanta schools. C. E. I'hllllia. . n 1. J- . I , . .U. . . ... ... A. Mi. Ul, A. M. in. t iniiowtir in history In the hoys blgh x-bool and president of the Atlanta Public teach ers association. Mr. Phillips Is now prlnclwl of the Durham high school. H. Warren, class or ill, was con nected with the Boys High School In the Georgia- city and I. P. Wilson. A. '07. A. M. '08 with the same school. Gilmer Slier, A. B. 0. A. M. W, taught science at the Technology High School. , These men have been successrul In heir work in the Georgia city as is hown by the fact that Atlanta school authorities are now making offers to nther Trinity graduates. There is a possibility that a member- of the class of "22 will be. added to the list to teach English. ' (Mr. Barnhardt Is a son of Mr. Nel- 4on W. Barnhardt. of No. 4 township. His (Vimwd snd Caharrns 'friends will rejoii at his weU-deserved recog nition. Editor.) TLsliop B'ob ef Jews. New Tork, Aug. 2. Commencing with sunset this evening and continu ing until the setting of the sun to morrow,' TWiop B'ob, or the. ninth day of Alt, the eleventh month in the Hebraie calendar, will be ushered In by observant Jews throughout the world. This holiday is the most solemn on the Jewish calendar, hut unlike the Day of Atonfment which b regnrded, as the. most sacred, is more of an anniversary event. The lay commemorates In particular the destruction of Jerusalem in the year W0 B. C. by the Babylonian and the second conquest of the Holy City by the Roman legions 650 years Inter. For .centuries the day, known as tne Jewish Black Fast, has lieen set apart a day of mourning for the race. During the 24 hours the rigidly ob servant Hebrew eats and drink noth ing.- The reform Jew, however, does not hold tenaciously to some, of the old traditions. " rr'' v -r-' v " Primaries In Tennessee. Nashville, , Tenn., Aug. 2. In the general primaries to be held In Ten nessee tomorrow the" voters will ex press their' preferences for United States senator, governor, stnte rail road commissioner, and .representa titves in Congress. In his contest for renominatlon' Senator McKeilar has several opponents on the Democratic ticket , Among them : are. exwvmg- ressman Thetus W, Sims. G. T. Flta hugh, , of Memphis, and Noah W. Cooper, of Nashville, a Sunday blue law advocate. - Ex-Senator- Newell Sanders is seeking the senatorial nomination on the Republican , ticket. Governor Alf Taylor, Republican, will be renominated without opposition. For the Demibcratlc Rulvematoria nomination four aspirants are in the Held. Nearly al lof the present dele gation In Congress will be renomi nated without opposition. - DULEXDEfl BELL -P,ti:i;;i;;g Inventor'ol the Telephone Passed Away at 2 O'clock on His Estate, Near Bad deck, Nova Scotia IN ILL HEALTH FOR SEVERAL MONTHS' Will Be Buried in Washing ton. Was Ridiculed When He First Spoke of Talking Over Wire. t !"!t!'!'i 22 PROHIBITION AGENTS V ,v HAVE BEEN KILLED Since the Dry Laws Became Effective, Commissioner Haynes Reports. (My tk Anraetatc PrM. Washington, Aug. 2. Since the dry laws became effective 22 Federal pro htbttton enforcement offlcers have been killed .according to a statement Issued today by Prohibition Commissioner Haynes.- ' ' Twelve 'states were ' represented in the list of officers killed In efforts to stop Illicit distilling and Illegal traf fic in liquorl ' Texas led the casualty list with four deaths; while Georgia, Alabama,' Tennessee . and Oklahoma were listed with .two. each. . , Ten Reported Killed In Explosion. (r 1S AaaaeUtc Fkm.1 . New York. Ang. 2. Ten men were reported killed today In an explosion on a ng host at tne root ot uom street, Brooklyn. The tug, which was owned by a local towing company sank almost lm- A Former Concord Man in Shelby. Mrs. J. P. Caldwell hasv the follow ing In her One Minute Interview Col umn In the hnrlotte Observer: - -, ; "Torrenee LeGrand, a Charlotte boy is now one of the lending citizens of Shelby.'-; His beautiful Packard car was at the disposal of Charlotte friends and members of the conven tion. He was running right alongside of Mr. William Lattlmer in the drive up the Rock. ; Mr. LeGrand is a grand son of Capt. Richard A. Torrenee. of Charlotte, and a chip off the old block in courtesy, kindness, and In the es teem in Vhich he Is held in his town." Mr. LeGrand was for some time a resident of Concord, and was super intendent of the Brander Mills. He is one of the most' prominent and suc cessful business men of Shelby, i With Our Advertisers'., The Musette. Inc., has just receiv ed another shipment of new , books. Read list in new ad. today ana call to get your favorite. - C. H. Barrier and company nas re ceived more v peaches ; from Moore county. This may be the last load. Call for yours now. ; ' .v Kvenine . dresses at hair price at Fishers. Other fine bargains during the remodeling sale. Now Is the time to buy, says a new ad. .v . - its are ! ! i I Mrs. R. A. White. Miss May Belle medlntolv after the exnloslon. White, Miss Llltle Wiley,' Miss Maryi -'.-.-'- I1IU and Mr. It. 8, Howlo will bave Japanese artists take Iwg wwd Thiirstiay niovnlng for Chimney Hock ahavings, weave them togother Into a Bn l i' her iIi!m of interei.t in West, mat and then paint pictures ' opon i t : l I " "mi. thrill. - Prlie Winners In Pastime Baby Con test. The Pastime baby contest bos clos ed, and infanta of the following were the prise winners: . ? : 'j. v : airs. J. MI. Laughinv woutn union street. wlnB first Prise with 500 votes. - Mrs. Martin Smith, Route 7, Con cord, wins second prise, with 450 votes. . . - ' -. . ,:, ' - - - Mrs. J. . A. Warren. Route 2, Con cord, wins third prlsse, with 130 votes. v At The Theatres. - "Elone If Y6n Must." a comedy drama starring .Eileen Percy, is the headllner at the Piedmont today. v- The Pastime today Is offering Louise Glnum In a Universal special feature, "Oreater Than Love." At the Star today William 8. Hart strain Is being shown In the western feature, "White Oak." ' ' Death of Senator C'row. Unlontown, I's..1 Aug. 2. TTnlteil Sltts Senator m. E. Crow died it I his home In the mountains in-ar her this uiorulng. (By thr Ammmrmtr PrvM.) $ Sydney, Nova - Scotia, Ang. 2. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, died af 2 o'clock this morning on his estate near Baddeck.- . Although be bad been In falling health for several months he hail not , not confined to lied and the end was unexpected. Ijite yesterday after.' noon, however, his conilltlon became serious and his physicians attended him. '.. . ' -, - i Dr. Bell will tie - burled on top of Mt Betnn Breach, a spot chosen by . himself. ' ; Alexander Graham Bell lived to see ; experiments which he began with a dead man's ear less than fifty years ago result In a means of communica tion for millions of long distance tele phone conversations daily in all parts of the world The possibility of talk ing over a wire, ridiculed then as a -dream by almost everybody excej . Bell, became during bis lifetime a re- . ality, commonplace and marvelous, The Bell basic patent, known In the records at Washington as No.174,405, hns lieen called the most valuable sin gle patent ever, issued in the whole history of Invention. There are to-, day over thirteen million telephone In- strmneuts through which billions of telephone conversations are carried on each year. - - . . ' - - . ': Means of cnmmnnlcation had been a hobby In the Bell family long be fore the inventor of -the telephone was born. : Two generations back, Alexan der Bell became noted for Inventing a system, for overcoming V stammering stim-hjSrhllev his son, Alexander Mel- - ' vllle BetlA fathwr pfcJJ&JnvfntoRt.oC the telephone, "perfected; , a system ot visible siieech. -.'Si -.' ' AVIth this heritage, the son, born in' Edinlmrg, Scotland, in 1847 under- took similar experiments. while still a .... lad. .l. He constructed , an artificial skull of gutta-percha and India rub- lier that would " pronounce several words in weird tones, when blown in- to by n hand bellows. At the age of -, sixteen he liecame, Uke his father, ,a teacher of elncntlon, and an instructor , of deaf mutes. BeU reached a crisis in his life at the age of 22, when he was threatened with tuberculosis. The white plague caused the death of his two brothers and ' the Bell family . migrated to Brahdford, Canada. - ' A meeting at that time with Sir t Charles Wheatstone, the English, in ventor of the t telegraph, fire the vonng elocutionist with ambition to . invent a musical,, or multiple, . tele- graph, which eventually turned out to be a telephone. , His first success came while test- V Ing his .Instruments In his new quar ters in Boston. - Thomas A. Watson, . Bell's assistant, had struck a clock spring at one end of the wire, and Bell wns electrified to hear the sound in another room. For forty weeks the instrument -struggled, as it were,, for human sjieech. . .. Then on March 10, 1870, Watson became utmost Insane with Joy when he heard over the wire' : Bells voice saying: " , "Mr, Watson; come here, . 1 want . you." - While Dr. Bell will lie remembered as the inventor of the telephone, a clnlm that has been sustained through many legal contests, be also became ' noted for other inventions. He was Joint inventor of ; the graphophone with Sumner Talhtor,' . He Invented an Ingenius method of lithographing, a photophone, and an Induction balance. ' He Invented a telephone prolie which . he used to locate the bullet that kill- ed President Garfield. - He siient.15 years and over Hi200,0000 In testing his famous tetrahedral kite, and estab lished a principle in architecture, the use of tetrahedral cells or nnlts. s Throughout his life, Dr.' Bell main-' . talned his , Interest and labors for , deaf-mutes. He founded, liecame president and contributed $250,000 to the American Association to I'romote Teaching of Speech to .the Deaf. ' He- was.a member or mnay or toe leading American learned societies.: ' - Russian Rubles Becoming More Stable (Correspondence of Associated rress.) iioscow, J my 8. xne Kussian- stare Bank has reduced Its interest rates on short term, lonns to two per cent monthly, as a result of ' the renent- trend toward stablliatlon of the ruble. Previously the, liank charged from ten per cent monthly upward, and In ad. ditlon insured Its loan against runner depreciation In actual purchasing pow er. '!'.- :-r '" ' '-.' For more thnn two months the So viet' ruble has remained practically stationary at aliout 4,000.000 to the dollar. At the present time the ruble Is rising slowly. M. Kchelneiuann, president of Dm State Itnuk. hns said that this Hi n I Izatlun process will continue, us pi Iiecls for a fulr harvest will im i contlnned drop In prices of t fOdtlKlllfl'S. The bank paj" ii- i jn-r ct'iit in'-'- y on t ttS f;. ; hi' I ' ' : I '
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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