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VOLUME xxiii,
FIVE AMERICANS DIE
WHEN AUTO CRASHES
THROUGH ft PARAPET
The Accident Occurred Near
Nice, France, as Auto Was
Taking Persons on Sight
Seeing Tour. >
DURHAM PEOPLE
AMONG INJURED
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In Addition to Five Killed,
Fifteen Other Passengers
Were Hurt, Some Very
Seriously.
Nice, France, An*. 21. (By the As
sociated Press).—Five Ayierienn .tour
ists, and one Frenchman were killed, and
tifteen persona injured, some perhaps fat
ally,. when a sight seeing motor bus crash
ed through a parapet on the mountain
road between Nice and Kvian yesterday,
plunging- over a 100-foot mountain prec
ipice into the river Var.
Eighteen of the twenty-two passengers
were Americans. The dead :
The Rev. Hiram Grant Person and
Mrs. Person, of Newton, Mass. : y Mrs.
Alexander Sondheimer : Mrs. IX S. White;
('has. H. Gray, of Gardiner, Me.,; and
the French chauffeur.
The only passenger unhurt was Mrs.
'Metta Mooney, also an American.
The accident occurred near the village
of Guillames, about 40 miles from Nice.
Durham Persons in Party.
Boston, Aug. 21.—Mr. and Mrs. Isaac
Strayhorn, who were injured yesterday
in the motor bus accident at Nice, are
residents of Durham, N. C., according to
announcement of a touring company,
which had charge of the party.
Mrs. W. A. Hooker, who also was in
jured, was said to be a resident of Roa
noke, Vn.
CTRFEW BELLS KING
IN MARTINSVILLE, VA.
All Children I’nder 17 Tears of Age Are
Warned to Scamper Home After the
Toll.
Danville, Aug. 20.—The curfew bell
rang at 10 o'clock fonight in Martins
ville for the first time in many years.
Ten slow smokes of the firebell called
attention to all children under Ifyjegrs
of age on the strets at that heir that
the time had yjWkfcv-***
else run the risk of being taken by
a police officer, held until their parents
arrived and required to appear in juve
nile court to answer for this infraction.
The crufew order was issued by Judge
John W. Carter, Jr., of the juvenile
court, who, under the authority vested
in him recently addressed to the chief
of police and other officers through the
public prints a sumptuary law. Under
its terms all children under 17 must be
iu by 10 o'clock “unless such child or
children be accompanied by an adult
nnd upon nn errand of a definite and
necessary purpose.” The court does
not undertake to enumerate the various
mergeneies which might result in a trip
outside after 10 o'clock, bnf serves no
tice that “each case or violation of this
order must stand upon its own merits."
DATE FOR HEARING FOR
TUTTLE NOT SETTLED
After Conference During the Afternoon
Date For Hearing Will Be Announced.
(Hr the Associated Press.l
Greensboro. Aug . -21.—Preliminary
hearing in the case charging F. Clyde
Tuttle, well known advertising man of
this city, with the murder of ex-Judge
Charles A. .Tones, his father-in-law. has'
not been arranged, but the date will be
announced following a conference late
today with City Solicitor Ed Kuyken
dall and important state witnesses.
Tuttle is at liberty under 3)10,000 for
hi« appearance and it is understood he
will plead self-dfense when arraigned.
The only eye-witness to the shooting
which docurred at the .Tones home Au
gust 2nd is Mrs. Tuttle, wife of the
defendant. Judge Jones made 4 spirited
fight for life, but sueemubed yesterday
at 11:25 o’clock after lingering nineteen
days.
The body will be taken to Mayfield
near Ruffin, in Randolph county, this
afternoon for funeral services and burial.
MEMBERS OF JUNIOR
ORDER ARE MEETING
State Organization Holding Its Annual
Convention in Durham.
(87 the Associated Press.)
Durham, Aug. 21.—Delegates to the
33rd annual convention of the State
Council- Junior Order United American
Mechanics, began to pour into the city
this morning in large numbers, and it is.
expected by the time the opening session
is held in Craven Memorial Hall at Trin
ity College tonight tjiere will be at least
500 delegates and visitors in attendance.
U. S. Senator Lee S. Overman, a mem
ber of the order, is on the program for
the principal address at tonight’s session
which will be open to the public.
The matter of the location of a Jun
ior Order orphanage authorized for North
Carolina recently at the national meeting
of the order is expected to be the princi
pal business of the convention.
McMahon Resigns.
(By tha Associated Press.)
New York, Aug. 21.—John D. McMa
hon today resigned as president of the.
Sinclair Oil and Gas Company to de
vote Ids time to personal affairs. He
will be succeeded September Ist by R.
A. Griffiith, vice president of the cpra
panj-
George Washington made a trip to
Barbadoes in 1751, his only trip into 4
foreign country.
The Concord Daily Tribune
TUNNELS A MENACE
TO CREWS OF TRAINS
Subject to Heat as High as 136 Degrees, ,
as Well as to Poisonous Gases. j
Washington. Aug. 21 (By the Asso-1
ciated lb-ess). —If you chafe and choke,
over the heat humes entering your rail
way ear the next time you go through a
tunnel, think of the men in the engine
cub and be happy. For, says the Bureau
of Alines, the heat to which trainmen are
subjected not only ranges as high as 130
degrees, blit thrt smoke and moisture-lad
en atmosphere is often filled with deadly
carbon monoxide gas.
The bureau recently conducted a se
ries of tests in railroad tunnels in con
nection with investigation into accident
causes. Out of 40 tunnel trips whose .
duration ranked from 4 1-2 to 25 min
utes. it was found that cannon monoxide
was present in the air in 34 eases. Hot
exhaust gases from the engines were an
other source of danger.
Exhaustion of train crews due to ex J
posure to atmospheres containing car
bon monoxide or to exceedingly high tem
peratures saturated with moisture, was
said undoubtedly to have been the cause
of many accidents.
Results of physiological tests over pe
riods of ten minutes in engine caps show
ed that the conditions there might be
severe enough to cause asphyxiation or
exhaustion in periods of 20 minutes, iu
ease an engine bSbime stalled iu a tun
nel.
While the bureau Ims experimented
with gas musks for the use of cab-crews,
and lias perfected a small i>ocket*respirn
tor for quick use when in a tunnel, it
lias been concluded that the most satis
factory method for overcoming the tun
nel atmospheres is by supplying fresh air
to the men from the train's air brake
system. A supply is led to each man
through a small rubber tube with an or
dinary funnel on the end, which when
held close to the face, furnishes an ade
quate fresh air supply. f
MAYOR OF SALISBURY
RESTRAINED BY JLDGE
For Time Being He Mustn’t Bother
With Lawyers in Putting Down Steps.
Salisbury. Aug. 20. —Papers were
served 011 Mayor C- Al. Henderlite ibis
afternoon in which Judge IX F. Long,
of Statesville, temporarily restrains hiri
or any of his agents from interfen mg
with Attorneys Rendleman, (’lenient.
Wright and Craig in the putting (own
of steps from the street leading into
their offices on West Council street and
sets tile first Wednesday of Superior
court at Asheboro as the date for a
hearing as to why the injunction should
not be made permanent.
Some days ago the city cut the side
walk in front of Lawyers Row down to
level with the street, leaving the
front, entrance of six lawyer offices
from two to four or five feet higher tnnn
of vestibule but the others aougnt to
place stejis on the street and the mayor
threatened to tear them up if they did.
Some argument was being engaged iK by
the mayor in front of the offices when
the papers were served on him. The
temporary order was obtained from
Judge Long at Statesville by one of the
interested parties who appeared before
him in belmlf of himself and the others.
CHARLOTTE ENDS YEAR
WITH SII,OOO SURPLUS
City Budget For New Year Based on
$103,000,000 Valuation.—Rate is $1.12.
Unchanged.
OliarlottCj Aug. 20. —The tax rate for
Charlotte will be the same for the fiscal
year whien began June 1, ns it was for
last year, namely $1.12 per SIOO.
Property valuation was estimated at
$105,000,000, an increase of $7,000,000
.over the valuation for last year, which
was $98,000,000. It was on the basis
of $105,000,000 of property valuation .
that the budget was made.
The revenue for the fiscal year is es
timated at $1,102,820.43. This includes
a surplus from last year of $11,085.19.
Disbursements last year totalled $895,-
178. while actual receipts ' totalled
$989,094. Tlie budget for this year an
ticipates spending of $207,647.85 more
than last year.
A feature of the financial report is
that last fiscal year beginning with a
deficit of $58,443.86, ended with surplus
of $11,085.19.
THE COTTON MARKET
Several Factors Caused Opening the Ad
vance of 32 to 38 Points.
(By the Associated Press. I
New York, Aug. 21. —Relatively firm
Liverpool cables, combined with the re
cent better reports from cotton goods
trade,’ and the continued unfavorable
average of crop advices were responsible
for the opening advance of 32 to 38
points in the cotton market here today.
AVall Street, Liverpool and commission
houses were good buyers on the advance
to 24.63 for October and 24.49 for De
cember .but these prices attracted a good
deal of realizing.
Cotton futures opened firm. Oct.
24.60; Dec. 24.45; Jan. 24.10; March
24.18; May 24.12.
Here, With a Fine Load of Watermelons.
Mr. M. T. Stallings, whose farm is in
Union county near the Mecklenburg
county line, was in the city today with
two truck loads of very fine watermel
ons, known as the Woodrow Wilson
black-seeded Bradford. Mr. Stallings
has already sold fifty truck loads of these
melons this year in various towns. He
tells us that he sells six truck loads iu
Charlotte each day. He has 20 acres
planted in melons this year. These mel
ons here are handled by AV. J. Glass and
Ruiford & Rlaek. Mr. Stallings is an
old Cabarrus man, and was reared in
No. 10 township. He is a brother of
Messrs. Paul and Willis Stallings, of No.
1 township.
1 French Note Given to British.
Paris, Aag. 21 (By the Associated
Press). —The French government’s reply
to the recent note of Marquis Curzon, the
1 British foreign secretary, on the repara-
I tions situation, was handed to the Brit
ish embassay at 9 o'clock today.
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CONCORD, N. G, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1923
STEINMETZ PREDICTS
FOUR-HOUR WORKDAY
Elect! icity in a Hundred Years Will Free
| Masses From Drudgery, He Declares.
| Schnectady. N. Y„ Aug. 21.—1)r.
Charles P. Steinmetz, the famous elec
trical expert, said today that«he believe
ed, at the present rnte of world progress,
that the time was coming when there
would be no long, back-breaking drudg
ery, and when people would work not
more than four hours a day.
"That will be the work of electricity."
he said. "The rest of the time we will
be able to follow our natural bent.”
The “wizard" visualized an amazing
transformation in life in 2023. When an-
Otherleentury had rolled into history, he
said, people would be amazed at the pres
ent helplessness in the struggle for ad
vancement, more so than they were now
looking back on the days when the steam
boat made its first appearance on the
Hudson.
Palls of smoke would no longer hang
over cities, he predicted. Streets would
be free of refuse. People would be
healthier in the centers of population
Every city would be a "spotless town."
All this, he said, would be the work of
electricity.
Dr. Steinmetz said that lie believed
that electric imwer would be at the ser
vices of even the most humble. He saw
no reason why it would not be as com
mon as water is at the present time.
“When I say necessary work," lie said.
“I mean the kind of work that the aver
age person considers unpleasant, such
as being posted at a lathe in a factory,
a linotype machine in a newspaper com
posing room, a bench in a shoe shop, a
seat on a delivery wagon, a typewriter
in an office or a counter in a department
store, or in other words, the dull duties
of this complex existence.
Foresees Productive Leisure.
“But when I say that the workers will
work but four hours a day nnd 200 days
a year, I do not mean that they will be
idle non-producers the balance of the
time. Leisure will be occupied iu pro
ductive diversions satisfying the particu
lar instincts of the individual. We will
be more collectivistic in the operation of
our essential productive life and individ
ualistic in the pursuit of personal happi
ness and contentment.
"With expansion of leisure time and
ever-infreading, transportation facilities
millions who now live in cities from ne
cessity will spend the major portion of
their lives beyond the city in suburban
areas or rural sections.
“The first natural effect of men's prox
imity to idle soil space is (he develop
ment of an agricultural pursuit. Mil
lions will be raising most, if*not all. ot
the food for their families as a pleasure -
giving occupation.
"Leisure will stimulate educational in
terests in every conceivable direction and
man will become a highly informed and
much more intelligent and self-expressive
♦t-ettltira-Jhau, >-j* iu the mass today.
»" *1 n W.UHti 1 J||sW YDlffttnr. - •
Dr. Steinmetz shirt that “if the United
States went into the project of linking
up a means of communication with Mars
with the same intensity and thorough
ness witli which we entered and prose
cuted the war, it is not at all impossible
that the plan would succeed.
"It would be a long process, no doubt,
of oountiug, measuring and carefully re
cording, the messages we received, includ
ing possibly in the discovery one day of
a key with which to decipher such mani
festations as Signor Marconi has record
ed anil which, as has been suggested,
might conceivably be indications of an
intelligence on Mars seeking communica
tion with the intelligent- eof this planet.’
“Co-operative human effort will be the
solution of most of the difficulties beset
ting mankind,” he went 011. "Mars will
continue until we have learned that les
son in its final aspect. • I look for more
wars because men and systems continue
to struggle against each other instead of
with each other. We have not yet suffi
-cieiitly grasped the philosophy of Chris
tianity, legardless of how many of us
profess to be Christians.
Predicts Slavic World Leadership.
‘ln the fellowship and brotherhood of
rational human beings, selfish aggrand
izement will give way to enthusiastic and
wholehearted collective eudenvor. The
collectivistic tendencies of the Slavic peo
ples, in my opinion, will make of them
the dominant race of the future.
"The Germanic and Anglo-Saxon lead
ership of Europe received in the last war
a blow from which it will not recover.
Collectivistic civilization will spread over
Europe from the East, where the leaders
of the future will be born.
“The individualism of the United
States, it seems to me, will persist, aud
we will have here a civilization distinct
from that of Europe largely because we
are, and we will continue to me, u new'
race of people composed of all the races
of the world.
“We are at the threshold of an age,
greater in' its significance to the mass of
humanity than even the hundred years
through which we have passed, miracu
lous as the fruits of those years may
seem to have been. No other period in
recorded or unrecorded history witnessed
such a flowering of man's ingenuity.
“Inventions and discoveries of practi
cal value to the race were few and far be
tween until the dawn of the Nineteenth
Century. Then, it seemed, the floodgates
opened in rapid succession. We ac
quired the east iron plow, the cotton gin,
the high pressure steam engine, the screw
propeller, the electro magnet, the tele
graph. vulcanized ribbed, the tfcwiug
machine, the electric locomotive, the air
’b|-ake. celluloid, the quadruplex telegraph,
the telephone, the talking machine, the
typewfiiter, the 'invadewent, lump, the
trolley car, the automatic knot tying
harvester machine, electric furnace re
duction, the transparent photograph film,
electric welding, calcium carbide, car
borundum, electrolytic alkili production,
the motion pieture machine, disc plows,
high speed steel, the airplane, wireless tel
egraphy—to say nothing of monstrous
devices for havoc and destruction iu
war.”
Mr. AVilliam Elkins, who has been vis
iting relatives in other sections of the
State for several weeks, is again in Con
cord. He expect! to return to his borne
in Texas about the last of October.
May Establish Air Mail
Service Across Country
First Test Being Made To
day, Machines Flying in
Both Directions From New
York and San Francisco.
PERFECT WRATHER
FORfHE TESTS;
Mail Will Be ijeft by Pilots j
of Each Station Where;
Fuel is Secured and thei
Crew is Changed.
San Francisco, Aug. 21 (By the Asso
ciated Press).—Twenty-eight hour mail
service between San Francisco and .New I
York was inaugurated here when Burr M. |
Wilson, air mail service pilot, hopped off
from Chrissy Field at 9:55 o’clock this !
morning in a DeHaviland plane carrying
84 pounds of first flat* mail.
The plane and pilot will be exchanged ]
at Reno, Nevada, tfe* ftriit stop.
There was one jhmCh of mail for Reno I
and one pouch for each of the other i
stops.
Good weather favored the start.
A. C. Nelson, superintendent of the
postal air service, wifs present at the
taffeoff. Mayor Rolph.inf San Francisco,
sent a letter to. Mayor H.vlan of New
York.
Start From East.
Hempstepd, N. Y., Aug. 21 (By the
Associated Press). —With oue mail plane
winging its way from Sun Francisco to
New York, another tpok off from Hazel
hurst Field on Long Island for the Pa
cific Coast today in the first of five
days’ test inaugurated by (lie government
to demonstrate the feasibility of perma
nent trans-continental air mail service.
The start was made at 11:01 Eastern
Standard time, unofficially clocked.
Perfect Weather.
Reno, Xev., Aug. 21.—Pilot Wilson,
carrying the first consignment of air mail
across the country from the coast, land
ed at Reno Air Field at 7 :45 this morn
ing and four minutes later Pilot Blaneh
lield hopped off on the second lap of the
course to Elko. Perfect Hying conditions
exist, and schedule time is being made at
this end- of the country.
$ JHHI.OOO FOR FORD ADS
Motor Company to Buy Newspaper Space
After Long Inactivity.
Detroit, Aug. 21.—-Tim Ford Motor
Company has decided to spend $7,000,000
in advertising ip newmiurpers throughout
Hfe e-ounTiV;
vertising department, after five years of
inactivity, with Newton T. Brotherton at
its head.
The new plan apparently contemplates
display advertising to be charged direct
ly to the Ford Company itself, presuma
bly in addition to the dealer system of
publicity.
The Long-Cost elm Advertising Com
pany of Chicago has been handling the
Ford display advertising and publicity. A
representative of that company said to
day, that so far as he knew, his company
would continue to handle that end.
Introduce Singing at North Carolina
. Sales.
Spencer, Aug. 20.—Prof. H. A. Dun
can, a well known professional singer or
Spencer, has agreed with Penny broth
ers, the twin auctioneers, to appear at
all their land sales as a popular ballad
singer. The thing was tried out at
Waynesville the past week with great
success. Professor Duncan posses an
exquisite tenor voice and sings a number
of popular airs both old and new, the
kind that tickles the crowd at a land
sale. Professor Duncan will not allow
tlie new arrangement to interfere with
his singing schools, which he conducts
in and around Spencer. So far as is
known this is the first experiment as in
troducing vocal music at land sales as
a drawing card. The next appearance
will be at a land sale at Rowan mills,
near Salisbury September 3rd.
Actor Dies With Blue Heart. Skin
ami Brain.
New York. Aug. 20.—Fred Walters,
whose bright blue skin had made him a
good living for many years in sideshows,
died in Bellevue hospital from heart dis
ease.
Physicians at the institutin made a
careful examination of Walters’ body
and discovered to their am’azemeut that
not only his skin, but all his organs and
tissues, including braig, heart aud mus
cles. were of the same brilliant color,
"The/ Coloring.” the doctors announc
ed. “was due to urgria and chronic
silver poisoning. Some 40 years ago Wal
ters is said to have worked in a mine
in Australia. If this report is correct,
it is probable that while in .the mine
Walters breathed into Iris body nitrate
of silver which turned him blue."
With Our Advertisers.
The Central Filling Station has a vac
uum cleaner for automobiles. l>et them
clean up the interior of your closed car.
Everybody receives the right banking
service at the Citizens Bank nnd Trust
Company.
The King Tut Service Station, ond of
the finest in this section, is now open
for business. On Friday and Saturday
eaeli purchaser of live gallons of gaso
line and a quart of oil. will be given a
Concord booster sign plate free. The
station is situated just around the bend
on the National Highway just beyond the
Southern passenger station.
See new ad. of the Gibson Drug Store
today.
The King Tut Service Station, one of
the finest ill this section, is now open
for business. On Friday and Saturday
each purchaser of five' gallons of gaso
line and a quart of oil, will be given a
Concord booster sign plate free. The
station is situated just around the bend"
on the National Highway just beyond the
Southern passenger station.
TWO FIREMEN KILLED
WHEN ROOF TOPPLED
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I Seven Other Men, Mostly
! Firemen, Injured When the
Wall of New Plaza Hall in
New York Topples Over.
New York. Aug. 21 (By the Associated
Press).—Two firemen were killed when
i the roof and one wall of the new Plaza
I Hall located at Grane at Havemeyer
j Streets in Brooklyn crashed during i
| spectacular fire last night, according to
| a casualty list compiled by the police to
day. Forty-seven men. mostly firemen,
were injured. The first reports had put
,tlie number of dead at-JO.
-Raymond Farrell and James Sullivan.
I both members of. the same engine com-
I pany. were killed. Many firemen were
J caught in the ruins and for hours rescue
j parties worked frantically in the debris,
hampered by intense heat.
The dead were buried beneath the de
bris, which crushed them in the collapse
that came just as the fire was believed to
have been brought under control.
DEATH OF JOHN LADY IN
HOSPITAL AT CHARLOTTE
Cabarrus Fanner Died Tliere About Noon
Today.—No Funeral Arrangements
-Made.
John Lady, a well known farmer of
this county, died about noon today in the
Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte. He
was carried to the hospital a week ago
for kidney treatment, and while his con-1
dition was regarded as unfavorable, it
was not generally known that he was
critically ill. and the announcement of
his death came unexpectedly.
No funeral arrangements had been an
nounced at 2 o'clock, but lie probably
will be buried some time tomorrow at
the Rocky River Church cemetery.
Mr. Lady Was 84 years of age and had
made his home in the Coddle Creek neigh
borhood since 1876. when he moved to
Cabarrus from East Tennessee. Short
ly after moving to this county he mar
ried Miss Laura Pharr, who died about
12 years ago. Mr. Lady served with the
Union Army during the War Between
the States.
Surviving are three sons,: Paul Lady,
oF Concordr*Edgnr Lair, jpUtOMMver-Mt
Kannapolis; and Eugene Lady, of this
county, His only daughter died about
ten years ago.
Mr. Lady was well known throughout
this county and the announcement of his
death will be received with sorrow in his
circle of friends.
Several years ago Mr. Lady was strick
en with apoplexy, but. he rallied and had
been in fairly good health since he ral
lied from the second stroke. He had
been suffering from kidney trouble, which
caused his death, for some time.
LACK OF RAIN DI E TO BIG
ICE FIELDS, SAYS BROOKS
Meteorolgist Explains That Cold Air
From North is Cause of Dry Atmos
phere.
Worcester, Mass., Aug. 21. —Drought,
which has jeopardized crops all over the
northwestern United States this sum
mer. is ascribed today to the presence
of ice fields in the North Atlantic by
Dr. Charles F. Rrooks, instructor of me
teorology at Clark University. He said:
"The air is drier this year than it has
been for many years, caused by the great
masses of ice and cold water off the At
lantic seaboard, near Labrador, Hudson
Bay and in the Great Lakes.
"North winds have been more preva
lent this year because of the large ice
formations to the North of us, this giv
ing us a colder climate.
"It is a well known fact that the air
nearer the equator contains more moist
ure than that nearer the poles. Thus,
when the cold currents of air from the
North sweep southward, they are drier
and replace air which originally contain
ed more moisture. This very naturally
results in drier atmosphere.
“For a thunderstorm to form
things are essential: abundant moisture,
large masses of heated air in convection
and great violence of convection. So we
see that the first factor is missing in the
average climate the country has been un
dergoing this summer,”
SIX ARRESTED CHARGED
WITH MAKING STAMPS
Arrests Made After Raid op Quarters of
Consolidated Importing and Exporting
Company.
New York, Aug. 21 (By the Associated
Press).—-Federal secret service agents
today raided the quarters of the Consol
idated Importing and Exporting Com
pany and arrested five men and a woman
on charges of counterfeiting revenue
stamps, whiskey labels and prescription
blanks.
Besides samples of the stamps, labels
and blanks, the agents reported that they
confiscated several bills, 100 gallons of
alcohol and several cases of whiskey.
Cruiser Seattle Goes Ashore.
(By the Associated Proas.)
Seattle, Wash., Aug. 21. —The cruiser
Seattle, flagship of the United States
battleship fleet, went ashore on Marrows
Stone Point. Puget Sound, in a dense
fog early today, according to a radio
message received here. The cruiser was
not believed to be in danger, aud it was
expected she would be floted at high
tide today.
t
A Hamburg capitalist lent 10,000
marks to a baker on a mortgage several
1 years ago. Recently the baker paid
off the loan with a seven-eent cake.
ROANOKE BOOSTERS TO
BE HERE THURSDAY
Special Train Will Arrive in Concord at
1:25 For a Stop of Twenty Minutes.
The boosters from Roanoke. Va., will
be in Concord on Thursday for a twen
ty minute stop, and city officials, togeth
er with officials of several civic organi
zations. are making plans now to enter
tain the visitors while they are in this
city.
Mayor \\ omble has asked the Rotary
.and Kiwanis clubs to send large delej, (
tions to the station to meet the boosi >
ers, and he will be present to officially
represent the city. The train carrying
the will arrive in Concord at
1 :2o aud leave at 1 :45, and for that
reason no elaborate program can be
staged. Mayor Womble, upon receipt of
a letter several weeks ago stating that
the boosters would be here for twenty
minutes, wrote the President asking that
a longer stop be made here, so that the
boosters could be carried over the city,
but he was later advised that the sched
ule had been already fixed, and the
change could not be made.
"The boosters should be given a real
welcome in Concord." Mayor Womble
stated. "I have asked several civic or
ganizations. including the Rotary and
Kiwanis Clubsfi to have large delegations
at the station to meet the boosters, and
I will be present to officially represent
the city. The Virginians will not be in
Concord long enough to put on an elab
orate program, but we can at least be on
hand to show* them they are welcome.”
The Governor of Virginia, the Con
gressman from the district including Roa
noke, and the Mayor of Roanoke will be
among the boosters.
Every citizen of Concord who can do
so, is asked to be at the station Thurs
day when the special train arrives at
1 :25. to lend a hand to the welcoming of
the visitors to Concord.
WATCH AND WAIT.
Meanwhile Leaders Will Try to Tie
Up Presidential Nomination.
David F. St. Clair in Charlotte News.
Washington. Aug. 20.—The two great
changes that have come over the face of
(Polities since the death of Pressident
Harding are no\y well defined. The Re
publican factions are making a frantic
effort to unite around President Uool
idge and the Democrats have assumed
an attitude of watchful waiting".
Senator Borah has chartered a course
that it appears many of the Progres
sives are inclined to pursue. He tells the
discontented farmers and stockmen of
•flhe Northwest to "give Coolidge a
chance,-” The people, he says, no longer
attach importance to the names of
parties. They want results and they do
not care who achieves the results. Cool
idge is a new man who has done noth
ing to divide the party and may be the
very man to unite it. if that be possible.
Borah's statement followed that of
Hwwator Moses of New Hampshire who
was threatening to eonie out for Hiram
Johnson before die death of Harding,
but lost no tim in switching over to
Coolidge.
The attitude of Borah and others has
had a marked effect on the course of
Hiram Johnson. On the death of Hard
ing Johnson is said to have felt that
his bonds of obligation not to be a
candidate had been sundered and lie was
free to ease his hat in the ring. But
Johnson if a candidate, would have only
one issue, liis oposition to the World
Court. Borah is of like mind so far as
concerns the court. Borah’s statement
was an offer to Coolidge to steer Alear
of the court so as to head off Johnson's
candidacy and save Coolidge's bacon in
the Northwest. The rally to Coolidge
lias effectively silenced Johnson so far.
Borah’s statement has also had the
effect of stilling the energies of Senator
Brooklmrt and Senators Shipstead and
Magnus Johnson. They have been made
to hope for the movement at least that
Coolidge will find some satisfactory
solution of the wheat problem.
STRIKE IN CHARLOTTE
MILL NOW IN EFFECT
Number of Employes at Highland Park
Mill No. 8 Failed lo Report For Work.
(By (he Associated Preaa. >
Charlotte. Aug. 21.—A strike called at
Highland Park Mill No. 1! in North
Charlotte over alleged ill treatment of an
employe, went into effect today. J. F.
Barrett, local labor leader, and former
President of the State Federation of La
bor, said 200 operatives failed to go to
work, but officials of the company said
only 40 employes failed to return. The
mill employs about 325 workers, it was
said.
The police were on hand to prevent
possible disorders. Several score of per
sons were present on what labor lead
ers described as "peaceful picketing" du
ty. The day started without disorder.
Plants of the Highland Park Company
at Huntersville, N. C„ Rock Hill, S. C„
and others in Charlotte, are not involved
in the strike, it was announced.
Davidson to Accommodate Five Hundred
Students.
Davidson, Aug. 20.—College opens on
September 13, but the students will be
gin to pour in three weeks from today,
and, work on the new Watts four-story
,re-proof concrete dormitory is being
rushed in an effort to have the build
ing ready for occupants by that date. I
Particular effort is directed toward
completing at once the first two stories.
Report from the administration offices
is to the effect that all dormintory space
will be taxed to the limit, with an over
flow into the village. It is not unlike
ly that registration will run well above
550, the supposted limit for registration,
and that pressure for admittance may
induce the acceptance of 25 or more ap
plicants.
Steamer on the Rocks.
Manila, Aug. 21. —(By the Associated
> Press.)—The eastern oriental liner
i Changsha, British, carrying passengers
* and freight from Australia to Manila, I
i has gone on a rock at Pigi Bank, near
the Tawi Tawi Islands of the Philip
pines, according to radio messages re
-1 ceived here. The ship’s condition is !
I not known, but it not believed danger-
I ous. A salvage vessel was sent to her!
' Ibis morning.
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NO. 198.
STATE'S ITTOMI
ni mm trial
MIMMIOi
State tfW**
—i r. Bonisant Tells the
Court That Efforts Have
Been Made Recently to In
timidate Him.
CALLS MAN WHO
APPROCHED HIM
Much Argument ! Followed,
and Special Messenger Was
Sent to Bring the Man
Into Court.
Cumberland Courthouse, Va., Aug. 21
(By the Associated Press).- —Efforts have
been made to intimidate him, Milton P.
Bonisant. acting commonwealth’s attor
ney told the court here as today’s session
was opened for the trial of Robert C.
Garrett. •
Mr. Bonisant asserted that after ad
journment of court yesterday he was ap
proached by J. E. D. Garrett, who. he
said, was no kin of the Garrets on trial,
and who called him to one side and be
gan "telling him some things about the
Garrett trial.” *H. M. Smith, of the
defense counsel, objected to Mr. Boni
sant's stating what Garrett had told him,
and argument ensued.
After considerable talk in which no
little feeling was shown it was decided
to have Garrett brought into court and
questioned as to what he told Mr. Boui
sant and “what he meant.”
Mr. Bonisant insisted that one of the
city police be sent for Garrett “so that
ho would have no opportunity to talk to
anyone before lie got to court.”
Mr. Smith then asked if he was to un
derstand that the Garrett trial had
reached a stage where the regular officers
of the court could not be trusted to even
summon a witness from another county.
It. E. Byrd, of the prosecution promptly
replied that “it had." Further argu
ment was ended by Judge White who
directed that arguments on change of
venue proceed while court awaited the
arrival of Mr. Garrett.
Judge White told the attorneys he
would decide on procedure in the Boni-
Kant-Garrett incident at a conference with
attorneys at the noon recess.
J. G. Talbot, of Portsmouth, chief of
tlic guard, was disjiatehcd for Mr. Gar-
Serious Charges Made.
Cumberland Courthouse, Va., Aug. 21
(By the Associated Press). —That Cum
berland County is "in revolt, and only
needs to take up arms to be in open re
bellion against the rest of the state;
that 'some members' of flic Larkin C.
Garret! jury 'perjured themselves,' to
get on that jury; that the local officers
of the court ‘cannot be trusted’ to even
summon a witness; and that an apparent
effort had been made to intimidate acting
commonwealth attorney in this trial were
some of the charges made today by attor
neys for the prosecution in continuing
argument on the motion for a change of
venue in the trial of(R. O. Garrett, ac
cused of ttie murder of Rev. E. S. Pierce,
a Raptist minister.
The allegation concerning the alleged
effort at intimidation created a furore
equalled only by that which followed the
challenging of the jury in the L. C.
Garrett trial three weeks ago. Just what
form the alleged intimidation took had
not been disclosed wheu court proceed
ings halted for the noon recess, as Act
ing Commonwealth Attorney Milton P.
Bonisant, who brought the matter to the
attention of Judge B. D. White, at the
opening of court, was prevented from
stating his charge, by objections of the
defense.
New Freight Traffk- Record Set By
Railroads This Year.
Washington, Aug. 21.—Railroads of
the United States carried during the
first six months of this year a greater
amount of freight than during Any cor
responding period in their history, ac
cording to tabulations made by the
Bureau of Railway Economics baseu on
reports filed by the carriers.
The traffic amounted to 225,435,608,-
000 net ton miles, an increase of 7 per
cent, over the corresponding period of
1020, which had marked the previous
record.
The average movement of freight cars
during June was 283 miles a day, the
highest average for any June since 1017.
Every increase of one mile in the aver
age car movement, it is explained, is
equivalent to the addition of 100,000
freight cars.
Steady Growth of the Christian Church.
Kinston, Aug. 20.—Steady growth
has been recorded by the Christian
church in this section, according to of
| fleers of the Hookerton union. The
union recently held its periodical con
vention here. It embraces the congre
gations in Greene. Pitt, lyonoir, and oth
er counties, and the Disciples of Christ
have their largest membership in North
Carolina in this territory. Several
thousand persons are affiliated with the
congregations at Greenville, Ayden,
Farmville, Hookerton and other places.
The church here ,is reputed to be the
largest in the state.
j Ilackett-Riker Case is Set For October.
I North Wilkesboro, Aug. 20.—8 yan
agreement the Hackett-Ricker hearing,
set for Saturday, August 25th, has been
I postponed, until the first week, October
I term, of Wilkes civil court.
Former ftghth District Congressman
Richard N. Hackett is suing in Wilkes
county for divorce from his former wif.e
I Mrs. Lois Long-Riker and for the ems-
I tody of his daughter, Miss Lois Long
i Hackett,