*• - - * * TWO SECTIONS * * TODAY * * * VOLUME XXIII TEN BIG CONCORD TRADE DAYS MAYMJUNE2 Event Promises to Be Biggest of Kind in History of County With Many Bargains Available TWO MOBILES 10 BE GIVEN AWAY FREE Ticket For Autos Will Be Given With Each $1 Spent in Trade in Stores During the Big Event. STORES FULL OF SEASONABLE GOODS And These Will Be Offered at Lowest Possible Prices. —Wide Publicity Given Throughout Section. On Thursday of this week 1 logins Trade Week in Concord. and the event promises to he the biggest thing of its kind ever planned and offered by the merehants of Cabarrus county. The event will begin with the opening of the doors of the business houses on Thursday and will continue until 9 p. in. on Saturday, June 2nd. Every business house in Concord 1 is behind the proposition and with the co-operation of every merchant as sured, business men lire expecting the event to bring to Concord tlie greatest nnmlier of shoppers in the history of the city. Trade Week was first plan ned by meiuliers of tlieMerclmnts' As - BawssynaMf the plans the event will run through two Saturdays, giving every one an Opportunity to visit the stores on the days when the least work is done in the cotton mills and on the farms than oil any other days in the week. Two automobiles, a Ford touring car and n Chevrolet touring oar, will lie given away as prizes during the time tlie big trade, event is running. The Ford will lie the first prize and the Chevrolet will he given to the person wining the second prize. While the autos are to ho given away by the merchants they will not lie the finest prizes to be offered dur ing tlie week, by any means. The 1 special prizes will he found in the stores of the city, where hundreds of bargains in sea son!) hie goods, grocer ies and other commodities will he offer ed. Tlie business men of the city have planned to offer their goods at prices flint will he astonishingly low. and the goods to be offered will he just tlie things needed most at this season of the year. For the purpose of letting the gen eral public know just what will lie of fered in the stores during the big* event , the business men are conduct ing a big advertising campaign. A number of the business houses are carrying page ads. in this paper: others are carrying special ads, set ting forth some of the many bargains they will offer; and still others are using their regular advertising space to put their offerings before the pub- lie. In addition to the mlvertisments to lie carried in regular editions of local papers, two thousands extra copies of Tre Tribune's Trade Week Special have been printed, and these will be sent broadcast through the county by tiie Merchants' Association. The pa pers will be delivered direct to the houses in the county, so that every one in Cabarrus county and the sur rounding territory, whether or not a regular Subscriber to a newspaper, will know of the big event in the stores of this city. Today large banners telling of Trade Week have been erected in this city, .and six other banners were erect- 1 ed at strategic points in the countv. I Jitneys and busses will carry banners, until the close of the week, and a j caravan of autos, each carrying large banners and a quantity of advertising matter, will make n trip through this county, also in to certain parts of Row an. Iredell, Mecklenburg and Stanly counties. Tickets for the autos to t>e given away will be given in practically ev ery store in the city. The complete list of stores which are co-operating in the event will be found in the donble page ad. in this paper. For each 1$ paid in a, trade ticket will be given, a duplicate to lie deposited in the store in which the purchase is made. For each $1 paid on account two tickets will be given. At seven o'clock on the evening of June 2nd, one hour after the trade event ends, all of the tickets deposited in the boxes in the stores, will lie pinced In one large liox and the lucky numbers drawn. The drawing will tnke place at the lawn at Central School. ( . (Continued on Itage Five). The Concord Daily Tribune ft ' ' General Synod of the Reformed Church Meets at Hickory May 23 The twenty-first triennial sessions of, the General Synod of tlie • Reformed ( Church in the United States will con vene in Corinth Reformed Church, at Hickory, X. beginning Wednesday ! evening. May 23rd, at 8 o'clock. The opening sermon will lie preached Ivy j the retiring President, Rev. George W. Richards. I). IX, EL. D.. of Lancaster. I Pa. Dr. Richards is the President and professor of Church History in the Theological Seminary of the Ite-j formed Church at Lancaster. Pa. j The General Synod is the highest | judiciary of the Reformed .Church. There are eight district Synods aril fifty-eight Chissses in the Reformed Church. The Classes elect the dele gates to the General Synod, a minis ter and an elder for each ten ministers on the roll of the classis. There will I lie almost three hundred ministerial': and lay delegates attending the Gener al Synod, and in addition there will lie representatives of Boards of Home Missions, the Board of Foreign Mis sions, the Board of Publication and, Sunday School, the Board of Minis terial Relief and others making a del egation far beyond 409. FtickoTy is expecting that the attendance from North Caroliia to swell tlie attend ance to hear 500. A special train is being nut from i Washington, P. C.. leaving Washing ton Tuesday night. This train will stop in Greensboro. High Point. Lex ington. Salisbury and Newton, giving the delegation an opportunity to see the Reformed Churches and the towns and the plant of Catawba College at Newton. Three siiecial Pullnnius will cinl leaving that place Tuesday night. Cithers will gi* by automobiles. This will lie the first time for the General Synod to meet in tlie South. The fartherest south heretofore has been Baltimore and Cincinnati. For that reason a number of the minister ial and lay delegates will spend some extra time touring the mountains of North Carolina and other places. The citizens of Hickory are planning to give the entire Synod a trip to Blowing Rock and supper at that place Saturday evening. The Synod is scheduled to begin Wednesday night. May 23rd. ai d close Wednesday night, May 30th, This week the special commissions and hoards will present their reports, and i representatives will supplement these reports by addresses on tlie floor of Synod. All these reports will lie in the hands of tlie standing eonimittees whom the newly elected President will appoint by Saturday noon. The ac tions of the Synod will till*, place next 1 week. REPORT HOPS KM FIRING OH HDITS The Japanese Government May Be Able to Secure the Release of All the Foreign Captives. Peking, May 21 (By the Associated Press) .—Reports that troops were fir ing on the Shantung bandits were re ceived today by tiie diplomatic corps which immediately drafted a new note to the foreign office, asking the Japan esee government how it reconciled its promise to procure the release of the foreign captives and the events trans piring since that assurance. As parliament has not acted on rati fication of the Presidential appftint jmenf of Dr. Wellington Koo as for eign minister, the foreign office still is officially without a head. Tiie diplomatic corps heard the re cital ,of Marcel Berube, a Frenchman of Shanghai, whom the bandits re leased so that he could present their ultimatum to the government. Associate Justice Walker 111. illy tli* rrcM.i Raleigh, May 21.—Associate Justice! riatt r>, Walker, of (he North Caro-j linn Supreme Court, is seriously ill; at ldd home heVe, it. became known today. Justice Walker lias been ill for about a week, and ids condition is said to have become gradually worse. No improvement was not (Hi in Ms com dition today, it was stated at his home. Brooklyn’s only woman opticiah, Katherine Blanc, who has followed her calling for nearly a quarter of a century, now owns the building in which, she conducts her business and lias her own factory for grinding lenses. CONCORD. N. C, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1923. Some of the important items that ! will claim, much-attention of the Syn od are the demands of the field of home missions. The Reformed Church recently received the two Classes of tlie Reformed Church of Hungary in to this body. Some of these churches had been fostered by tlie Reformed Church in the T’nited States, but taler | united with the Hungarian Reformed] Church under the fostering care of the ] Reformed Church in Hungary. In tlie transfer all the congi-egr lions except three came into the Reformed Church making the total membership and con stituency more than half of the Prot estant Hungarians in this country. The Reformed Church is -doing work among the Bohemians. Italians, Jews. Japanese and Negroes. The Board of Foreign Missions will report that the hoard is ready to enter j into a field in the Moslem World, somewhere in Arabia. Heretofore the work has been centered in North Japan in the Hunan Province in. Chi nil. Dr. David B. Sohneder will tie at the Synod to speak for the work in Japan. The Forward Movement will re ceive much time and attention. Just three years ago tlie drive for -money ! i was made resulting in a subscription 'of $.9,490,090.00, funds that would sup plement the regular benevolent and educational funds of the church. There will lie a strong effort made to push (fie Forward Movement to a success ful completion within tlie next two years, the original goal being to com plete tlie fund by 1!I25. The Cnited Missionsry and Stew ««r4rUii»*.,wi,w ask for n higher appov- TinflmFEr tSST ' f fie legiitnr work of Home and Foreign Missions, so that more workers can lie sent out into needy and challenging fields. A great layman's mass meeting is planned for Sunday afternoon. Hon. A. R. B rod beck, of Hanover, Pa., ex- I Congressman, and IIoi:. E, L. Coblentz. lof Middletown, Mil.. Chairman of I prison supervision of his State, will speak. Dr. Paul S. Leinback. of Phil adelphia, will preach at the eleven o'clock service. The evening service will be on "Life Service" at which time Drs. H. J. Christman, of Dayton. Ohio, and John M. G. Dorms, of Al lentown. Pa., will he tlie speakers, A number of the Reformed Church people of Concord ai d other places in the North Carolina Classis will at tend one or jnore sessions. sjfln* minis terial delegates from North Carolina are' Levs. J. C. Leonard, 1). Ik. John C. Peeler, J. A. Palmer and il. A Fesperman. The lay delegates are Fleers .1. T. Plott. of Greensboro, Jim. W. Hedrick, of High Point, Byron S. Stafford,' of China Grove, and J. O. Moose, of Cor.^ohl. FEDERAL COUNCIL IS SUBJECT OF DEBATES] Council Both Defended and! Criticised,at Today’s Ses-' si6n of Presbyterian Gen-] eral Assembly. (By tbe A*«oeli»teil Press. Montreat, May 21.—" The only safe ty to protestantism in America is to have an organization in Washington to act as a buffer against the great unscrupulous power of Roman Cathol icism,” I)r. E. IV. McCorkie, of Rock bridge Baths. Va.. declared here today in urging tlie 03rd General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church not. to withdraw from the Federal Council of Church of Christ in Ameri ca. The tendency of separation lias al ways brought disaster to the Protest ant Churches, Dr. McCorkie declared in his defense of the Council, and he asserted that it holds in its hands the “salvation of European protestantism against the danger and menace of Rome." Tlie Council, Dr. McCorkie said, has accomplished much, and he announced that he is in favor of that body contin juing to present tlie cause of the Prot jestana churches through petitions to the government. Montreat, May 21 (By the Associat ed Press). —Tlie General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church here today rejected, 140 to 109. a mi nority committee report favoring with drawal from the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. Tlmt left liefore the Assembly the majority report of its committee which would provide for remaining in the Council, and appropriating funds to cover the Assembly's proportionate share of ex penses. SCHOOL DEATH PERISHED IN BUZE jU- Two Young Ladies, of Whom * No Trace Has Been Found, Relieved to Have Perished in Conflagration. — 3- SUSPECT OTHERS DIED IN BUILDING — Wr Efforts to Lot** ' Two Chil drenJHave Be ght N o Re sults, and They Too, Prob ably Were Burned. m— (By the AK.ocit»(«d Fr«u.) Camden. S. ('.. May 21.- The death j list in* the Cleveland school house fire ; of lust Thursday niglfl today had been increased to seventy-seven persons ! witli two more placed on the doubtful list. Tracing down h rumors yester- j day by Sheriff G, j Washington. May 21.—Win. R. Day. former associate justice ot the Su | premie Court, today presented to l’res j ident Ilarding liis resignation ns im pirc of the mixed claims commission. J Mr. Day ’explained that his desire to resign was due to reeognation ot j the enormous - amount of work facing tin* commission, - with claims amount | ing to Sl.47P.Ot;i.