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7 " "'* "**" ' ASSOCIATED ISP PRESS ft! DISPATCHES Wt - . ... ; i VOLUME XXV CITY PUYGROUNDS. NOT POSSIBLE NOW SAY THE ALDERIUEN Members of Board Decide at September Meeting Not to Purchase Play ground Site at Present STREET CAR LINE WILL BE SEIZED Property Will Be Adver tised and Sold by City In Effort to Get the Money Owed by the Company. Temperatures in the eity hall Thurs day night refused to drop below the !)0-degree point, yet the aldermen found such a variety of matters fac ing them at their September meeting that they were forced to remain in session several hours. The board moved with precision nnd refused to 'hesitate on the multitude of ques- X tiops presented, yet despite their dis patch they could not avoid a lengthy " session. Several ordinances were enacted by * the boa'rd, but the most important questions dealt with disposition of the street car line here and action relative to a playground. In the matter of the debt owed by the operators of the street car line, tlie aldermen authorized the city at torney and tax collector to take She proper steps to foreclose on the prop erty here to satisfy the debt, Under the usual procedure the tax collector will advertise the property for sale unless it can be disposed of at a private hearing. Alderman Howard, chairman of the playground committee, reported that his committee had been able to find several desirable spots for a play ground but that owing to lack of funds at present, he would recommend that no site be purchased at this,time. His report was accepted by the alder men. Capt. Q. E. Smith, city engineer, submitted his report showing plumb ing permits issued by him during the month. He collected S9O from fees for permits to cut into streets. An ordinance by the board gives the public health committee power to adopt a schedule for the removal of garbage in the residential section of the eity. Only garbage will be moved free of cost by the city but home owners can make arrangements to get their trash moved also when the committee has perfected its plan for ■the service. Another ordinance passed by the - board gives the city sanitary, officer certain rights in inspecting restau rants and eating places in the city. The law complies with the State law in practically every respect. New fire regulations for the city will be drawn up by the water and light committee of the aldermen, and submitted to the board at its next meeting under provisions o t another ordinance adopted at the meeting. The street committee was instructed to take whatever action is found nec essary in regard to a sidewalk on parts of Cedar and Kerr streets. The city engineer was authorized to make a survey regarding a retaining wall for jiart of Allison street. The wall will probably be built by the city if property owners on the street are willing to pay their proportionate parts. / • A new safe will be placed in the office of the city clerk and treasurer for the safe keeping of money and records. It was reported at the meeting that traffic conditions have become acute at the intersection of Depot and church streets, and the aldermen au thorized Mayor Barrier to purchase . a traffic signal for the corner. The signal will be similar to the one now at work at the square and will wotk in conjunction with the one already installed. The hoard also authorized Mayor Barrier to have prepared a number of “Dangerous Crossing” signs to be placed at a number of street inter sections both in the business and resi residentinj sections. With Our Advertisers. Clever new silk frocks in the latest fashions at J. C. Penney Co’s, at $19.75. This is a regular J. O. Pen ney value. You will find at Efird’s the new Fall dresses for every occasion, school dress and street wear. Last showing today of “Captain Blood” at. the Concord Theatre. A big crowd greeted this great picture last night. The Markson Shoe Store will offer for sale on Saturday only 147 pairs of the finest quality women’s shoes for only SI.OO a pair. See big ad. to day. At The Charles Store you will find about everything your child needs for school work, dresses, clothing, caps, tties l belts, etc., as well as everything needed in the s<&oolrom. See half page ad. today for list. Mrs. J. A. Walker, the florist, has business into the Quint E. Smith building, next to the library on Main street. Phone 112. At a recent fashion show in Lon don a novelty in stockings was on view. By daylight they appear to be . ornamented with green clocks and yellow folwera, but at night the de signs appear luminous, as they are painted with phosphorescent material The mixture used is stated to be a The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily * Mammoth Offer On Subscriptions Creates Wonder In Concord —»— ♦ Four of the Best Makes of Automobiles to Be Given Absolutely Free to, Tri bune-Tunes Bustlers. CASH PRIZES TO BE GIVEN ALSO A Master-S i x Bui c k Brougham, Special-Sixi Studebaker Duplex Phae | ton, Hudson Coachrand Chevrolet Sedan. It was, naturally, with an effect of incredible wonder that the people of Concord gnd the surrounding terri tory received the announcement in yesterday’s Tribune anil Times of the mammoth SIO,OOO free gift distribu tion. But. really, we did not expect it to have the effect of stunned inaction on the part of our readers or the rest of the public. We believed that by press limp today there would be ninny already entered in the campaign de partment headquarters and ready to start on this greatest offer and op portunity ever presented in this ter ritory. Would you believe that at the tithe this is written, not one single person has as yet entered the campaign de partment offices and entered his or her name as a candidate in this cam paign? However, that is the truth. Why is it? Ask yourself. We think that the reason is that the announce ment of such stupendous offer has frightened you live wires and ambi tious people. Now stop and listen to this! The Tribune and Times has offered you four of the best popular makes of automobiles on the market today, all purclmsed from local dealers. You nre also offered a chance to partici pate in $4,400 in cash prizes iu addi tion to the motor ears. What for? For successful use of spare time. If you think it is a generous offer by whieh you eau profit for yourself you owe to yourself to get in and partici pate. If you can see nothing attract ive in the plan then leave it alone. We want no one to give us one minute of his or her time. We want .to pay, lor It. The Tribune and Times' are of fering to buy your spare time from you for the next few weeks and arc williug to pay as high as S2OO a week for it. This is a very simple proposition. The Tribune nnd Times want added circulation and they have conceived the plan of getting it by letting their readers and the public at large par ticipate in what the cost will be to procure extra readers. Now, get down to business. Don’t be one of the many people who will read of this offer and decide that it would indeed be wonderful to acquire a $2,110 Master Six Buick Brougham, a sl6lO Studebaker Special Six Du plex Phaeton, a $1335 Hudson Coach, a $938 Chevrolet Sedan or a generous share of the $4,400 in cash, through the application of a few hours of spare time from day to day during the next few weeks and then it go at that. Apply this personally. Ask yourself, “Why Hot for . me?” You CAN win if you wnnt to. Don’t take our word for it. Find out for yourself. 1 Inform yoursejf on all points of this wonderful opportunity and then see what you eau do. If you have not yet studied the opening announcement of the cam paign, it is being repeated for your benefit today. Turn to the big double page advertisement and study it over. Then see what it can mean for you. Get it NOW while it is early and do not put yourself in a position of re gret later. Campaign headquarters are now es tablished in Room 209, Cabarrus Savings Bank Building and is there for your service. I Ex-Carolina Athlete Weds Salisbury ; ' Girl. Salisbury, Sept. 3. —A wedding of . interest through North Carolina »was that of Spencer Murphy and Miss Katherine Deßerry Fisher which was solemnized at the home of the bride’s . mother Tuesday afternoon at 3:30. On account of the recent death of the ’ bride’s father the wedding was a very quiet affair. Rev. Warren W. Way, ,of Raleigh, officiated. The couple I have gone on a bridal trip to Atlantic City and upon their return will live ; in Salisbury. The bride is a daughter of the late | George A. Fisher and Mrs. Fisher, and ia a charming and popular young , lady. Last year she graduated from , St. Marys, at Raleigh, where she was , president of her class in both junior and senior year. Mr. Murphy is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Murphy, I his father being a well known states . man and legislator. He was a mem ber of the class of ’25 at the Uni ! versify, and while at that institution j took high rank in athletics and also the more serious work of the univer i s,tr | City of Salisbury May Change Gov ernment Form. Salisbury, Sept. B.—A, commitee . from the Chamber of Commerce is , sending questionnaires to all members s of the chamber to ascertain sentiment 1 as to changing the form of city gov . ernmept. The committee is com -6 posed of Stable Linn, attorney; Paul I H. Bernhardt, member of the present x board of aldermen, and Boss Sir mon, member of the last board. Jl_i. * .ifSsiiXzf. - v. te. u FORMAL CHARGE AGAINST LAYNE Marion County Man For mally Charged With Shooting to Death J. H. Hennessee Thursday. Chattanooga, Sept. 4.—(A>)—A fed- I eral warrant charging Elijah Layne, I Marion County Deputy with the mur der of J. H. Hennessee. who was shot I in the Cbattahnoga IT. S. court room yesterday, was sworn out and served today. Layne will be given a preliminary . hearing before U. S. Commissioner (’has. Lusk Tuesday in the same room in whieh he fired the bullet whieh re sulted in Hennessee’s death. Layne is noxv held without bond. WARREN AND WATTS STIR UP MICH GOSSIP Represented As Dining Together, And Raleigh Talks About It. The Cclonel Puzzles ’Em. Tom Host, in Green-boro News. Raleigh, Sept. 3.—Former State Chairman Tom Warren and former Revenue Commissioner -*.lston D. Watts represented as dining in. (lieroh’s, tonight made Raleigh gos sip as ! t has not done in days. No newspaperman has any of the suctorial ability which cam make these champiion oyster-mo urns talk. Nobody undertakes to get on the in side. Colonel Watts has been here several days. Unless there is a pri- j mary vote to count one marvels to observe Colonel Watts staying a week in one place. There is no voting nt hand or immediately past and the Colonel's presence puzzles. Colonel Wqjttx always was inter ested in cotton. It is one of the great Iredell crops and he loves to watch the capern of cotton. It is therefore not strange to find him with the cot ton buyers. But lie has not been with the boys in a, good while. Anyway, the two gentlemen must have enjoyed making Ruleigii tnlk about them tonight. It was about all that the capital had during the day nnd the jnewts fellows worked the story to n finish. And they knew nothing a,hoot the bimtoeAt of 1 he two men. MrLEOD CALLS UPON THE PEOPLE TO PRAY FOR RAIN Next Sunday Set Aside in a Procla mation Issued by the Governor. Atlanta, Sept. 3.—Prayer- for rain and road building were invoked to day in two southern slates ns a means of relief from the suffering caused by one of the most disastrous droughts known in this section of the country in half a century. At Columbia, 8. C., Governor McLeod issued a proclamation setting aside next Sunday as a day of fasting and prayer for rain by the people of his state. In Atlanta, representatives of the suffering people of North Georgia waited upon a joint meeting of the state highway board and their con gressmen, to ask that road-building in north Georgia be sped up and put into execution at once, so the far mers and their tenms may be afford ed employment. They described con ditions in the drought men as piti able. In many instances, they said, farmers are cutting down- , young trees to feed the foliage to livestock, , at other places farmers are keeping hogs alive by feeding rag weed. Will Unveil Statue to confederate Heroes. Albemarle, Sept. 3.—Saturday will , be a day long looked forward to by . Stanly people, and especially by the Daughters of the Confederacy of this county. It will mark toe day when a beautiful monument to the 1 Stanly Confederate veterans will be 1 unveiled. It comes, it is true, after many of the old soldiers of the coun ty have passed to their reward, • many of them without knowing the high esteem in which they were held , by the present generation. But those of the number who are still alive, ' will have cause to rejoice Saturday ’ when they behold the monument un -1 veiled to stand throughout the cen * turies to come as a witness to their ; deeds of valor. ; There will be addresses by Hon. ’ R. L. Brown, A. O. Huneycutt nnd ’ others. Acceptance will be by Hon. ! E. C. Cole, chairman of the board : of commissioners X dinner will be 5 given” at the Presbyterian church for the veterans, their wives, veteran's * widow, Children's chapter and Daugh-, > ters. t > Strike Is Settled. \ 3 Greensboro, Sept. 4.—(A*)—Opera f tions will be resumed at the White 1 Oak cotton mill here Monday follow . ing suspension August 24th, when - 1,500 workers were thrown out of - employment because of a strike of • forty card room employees. , An -1 nouncement to this effect was made » by mill officials after a compromise - was agreed upon concerning the pro posed wage rati. Change in Paper Measure. London, Seot. 4.—The “ream,” the e standard measure in the paper trade g ‘ since the e«rlie*t days, is to be aban g dqned in faror of a definite number t of 1,000 sheets. The ream in p*ac .. | ttice varies from 480 to 516 sheets. j! ’ i i*! Two thousand plains buffalo have t been liberated by the Canadian Goy -- eminent, in the Great Slave Lake country to room at will. CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1925 Conducts Campaign From Bed Rots F. Walker, Democratic eij idldate for mayor of Akron, will conduct hlz entire campaign from hio h d a vertebra in hi* back was fractured In an automobile Occident ill. Ctfnnda and he will have to lie In a plaster until aflM thp Nni'Mnhpr pl^rtion. - •+- REGINALD A. VANDERBILT | VICTIM OF HEMORRHAGES' Death of Wealthy Man Came Rather j Suddenly at His Sandy Point Farm. | Portsmouth, R. 1.. Sept. 4.—(A 1 ) — | Reginald G. Vanderbilt died hereear ly today at his country home, Sandy Point Farm, as a result of internal hemmorrhnges. Mr. Vanderbilt had been in fairly good health, members of the household state, up until last night. Shortly after midnight lie suffered a hem orrhage whioji left, him in a weakened condition. About 4 o’clock this morn ing a seotond attack occurred which caused his death. He was in his 45th year. Was Prominent Horseman. New York, Sept. 4.—Reginal G. Vanderbilt, who died today at his country’ home in Rhode Island, was one of the leading horsemen of the country. He was president of the American Hackney Horse Society. | He was the youngest son of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt. He inherited $10,000,000 from his father wheu he was 21 years old, a fid later in 1915 lie inherited $5,000,000 from his brother Alfred Vanderbilt, who was lost in the sinking of the Lusitania. DID NOT CRITICISE THE SECRETARY OF NAVY Mrs. Zachary Landsdowne Says Site Was Misunderstood in Statement. Lakehurxt, N. .1., Sept. 4.—(A")—; Mrs. Zoeharv Landsdowne, widow pf the-comma tiding officer of the vaO-k-. I ed Shenandoah, today assertedilhat she had not criticised the Secretary of j the Navy in her comments of last night on the advisability of a flight of the Shenandoah to the Middle West. “I was misunderstood last night," . said Mrs. Landsdowne. “Commander Landsdowne was very much opposed ' to making the flight at this time and "lie advised the Navy Department ac cordingly. Having been in Ohio he knew weather conditions out there and had some fear of them.” Jones and Gunn Leading. Oakmont. l’a.. Sept. 4.—(A 3)—Bob bie Jones, the champion, was 4 up on George von Elm, of Los Angeles, at the end of the morning round in their semi-final match of the national ama teur golf championship today. Watts Gunn, of Atlanta, was 1 up on Dick Jones, of White Plains, N. Y. Want Bonus Paid in 102#. Tulsa, Okla., Sept. 4.— UP) —A res olution calling on the government to arrange to pay the World War vet erans their adjusted compensation in 1928 was adopted today by the Nat ional convention of veterans of foreign wars here. Heads Bar Association. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 4.—UP)—Ches ter S. Long, Wichita, Kansas, today was elected President of the American Bar Association, to succeed Chas. Ev ans Hughes. Wm. P. McCracken, of Chicago, was chosen secretary: and Fred E. Wadhams of Albany, N. Y., was re-elected Treasurer. Realtors to Meet in Greensboro. Charlotte, Sept. 4.— UP) —Selection of Greensboro as the next convention city of the North Carolina Association of Real Estate Boards marked the closing today of the fourth annual gathering here. In 1924 the Methodist Episcopal church paid ih excess of $25,000,- 000 in ministerial salaries. At that, there were only 218 churches tnat paid $5,000 a year or over. J French is the language of tlie peo ple of Hayti. t ' QOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC GARBAGE REMOVAL , ![ To the Citizens of West Corbin Street: ! ij! A truck will collect garbage on West Corbin Street ev- ij t -]i| ery Wednesday afternoon. |i ; ;!| ’lf you desire this service free of cost, collect your gar- ]! | i bage in a can and place it on the curb each Wednesday at ! noon. The city will empty it and replace the can on the ![ \ ! curb. This-will be done in time to allow the can to be ji J' taken in before six o’clock. s ! All cans tot be of an approved design. . jij Do not place can on curb before nbon and be sure to i remove it that evening. ' ! For further information see or phone Quint E. Smith ' ; at the City Hall any morning between 9 and 11 o’clock. | | (Phone No. 866). Please co-operate with us by following instructions. C. H. BARRIER, Mayor. 8 j THE COTTON MARKET Prices Advanced 6 to 10 Points at the j Opening, With Active Months High er Laffer. | New York, Sept. 4.—(A s ) —Cotton prices advanced (! to 10 points at the opening today with active months in creasing their gains 10 to 13 points in | the first few minutes, on a continua tion of pre-holiday covering promoted by relatively steady Liveriiool cables and complaints of unseasonably high er temperatures in central and eastern belt sections. Considerable Southern selling presumably representing hedg ing developed, however, and after the initial buying orders had been supplied the market slipped off from 22.95 to 22.87 for December contracts. Four more private crop reports were issued this morning with condition figures; ranging from 55.4 per cent, to 59.9 j per cent, and crop indications from 13,579,000 up to 14,437,000 bales. I Cotton futures opened steady : Oc tober 22.64; Decemter 22.20; January 22.40 ; March 22.68; May 22.93. IMMERSION PROPOSAL IS QUICKLY DEFEATED Is Brought Up Before Winston- Salem Presbytery and Evokes Lively Discussion. Jefferson, Se.pt. 3.—The Winston- Salem presbytery adjourned here Wednesday night after nil interesting and largely attended session held with -the local Presbyterian church. 1 Delegates from tlie different sections [of the presbytery attended. I Perhai*t~fhe live!Jest discnssfon of the session was provoked by a motion 1 made by Rev. C. W. Ervin, of Al leghany. that the Winston-Salem presbytery make overtures to the general assembly to permit ministers ;to baptize members into the presby , terinn church by immersion when the candidate requests it Dr. John S. Foster, of Winston-Salem, made a speech in strong opposition, nnd the motion was overwhelmingly defeated, thougli three was some favorable sentiment apparent, particularly among pastors in the mountains. FIND BODIES OF DEAD COUPLE IN AUTOMOBILE Police Say J. L. Wallace Killed Mrs. Ethel Sherman a tit? Then Commit ted Suicide. Denver, Col., Sept. 4.— UP)— J. L. Wallace, of Knoxville, Tenn., and Mrs. Ethel E. Sherman, of Denver, were found dead in an automobile to day, victims, the police say, of suicide and murder. Wallace killed Mrs. Sher man by firing a bullet into her head and then took his own life, the police said. Wallace, a dairy chemist, was said to be a member of a wealthy Knox ville family. On .Time 20th, Wm. Sherman, the woman's husband, filed suit for di vorce, naming Wallace corespondent. Italian Views on Debtts. Rome, Sept. 4.— -UP) —Italy’s ca pacity to pay, based entirely on busi ness considerations, will be the sole determining criterion of the proposals to be made by the Italian war debt i commission lo Washington next i month, Count Volpi. the finance min : ister, said to the Associad Press to i day. Does Not Think the King Has Been Poisoned. Paris. Sept. 4.—The Bulgarian min ■ inster said today he was convinced , that a report that King Boris had : been poisoned was baseless. He add j ed that in several dispaches he had | just received from Sofia, no reference • was made to such an attempt to kill the king. Winds Breaking Up The Remains Os Dirigible PLANE’S LOCATION STILL NOT KNOWN Ship Followed the White Flares But Was Not Able to Find Trace of Miss ing Seaplane. San Francisco, Sept. 4.—C4>)—The ] navy radio station here received a re port at 3:45 a. m. from the United States ship Whipporwill in Hawaiian waters that what was taken to be a white flare had been seen in the dis tance and that the ship had steamed for more than an hour in tre direo- , tion of the supposed flare thinking], it might have been a signal from the t missing seaplane PN-9, No. 1. Noth- , ing was found. ' . The report was not officially an- . nounced. Unofficial Statement Says Plane Is Safe. , St. Augustine. Fla.. Sept. 4.—C4>)— The St. Augustine Record says a lo- i cal amateur was in radio communi- 1 cation with an Australian station ear- ( ly today, and had learntfti the missing 1 seaplane PN-9 No. 1, had been found with all on board safe. No con- i firmation of this has been received. i MOFFIT FINDS AMAZING i CONDITIONS IN FLORIDA i “I Never Saw Anything Like It,” He i Says, Speaking of Activity in the 1 State. i High Point, Sept. 4.—Returning to J his home here today after'spending a ' 1 week in Florida with a party of 110- t j call men, Mayor H. A. Moffit stated l to the Daily) News correspondent that he had found conditions not to be ex aggerated in the Hand of flowers. The High Point mayor deellared that he was surpriser, astotunded at the remarkablle growth of Florida, and the determination with which . peoplel are going about endeavoring to get rich quick. "I never saw anything lilke if,” 1 said the mayor. “September was sup posed to be a dull month in Florida, but there are so many peoplle there that they hardily know how to take care of them. Plans are being made now to handllc the crowds during the winter.” Mayor Moffit stated that in Flori da the i>eoplel tallk not in terms of hundreds of dollars, hut In terms of thousands and milllions. He mention ed the names of severall High Point people who have gone, down there and who have succeeded iu getting rich overnight. George Leak. High Point man. went down there with nothing, now he owns three or four apartment houses. SALISBURY LEARNS COL. HALL IS SAFE First Reported Killed in Shenandoah Wreck—Daughters Wires That He Is Among Survivors. , j Salisbury, Sept. 3. —Salisbury was 1 alternately shocked and rejoined to day ns news came in concerning the wreck of the Shenandoah, for the first report listed Colonel Chalmers G. Hail, of this city, among the dead, a later report showed his as a sur- I vivor. Then the city read with much ' interest Colonel Hall’s graphic ac ■ count of the disaster. ‘ Colonel Hall is a native of Hickory - but is a Sa’.isburian by marriage, his I wife being Miss Maggie McKeeley. ‘ They have two children, dimmers, Jr., with the Packard Motor company, 1 of Detroit, and Miss Henrietta, who - lives with her parents at Lake-wood, N. J. 1 A telegram from the daughter this • afternoon to W. B. Strachan stated that her father was uninjjured a/ld was returning home today. Colonel Hall is an army air service observer and has been stationed at Lakewood, near the hangar of the airship at ] I.akehurst, for some time. ! Greatest Year of Tourist Travel. j Greensboro, N. C\, Sept. 4. —OP)— North Carolina this season is enjoy ing its greatest year of tourist travel. The statement is borne out by ob servation of the increased number of foreign license plates on nil main 1 highways, and by the number of calls for information at headquarters ‘ and branch offices of the Carolina * Motor Club, with headquarters here. 1 During the months of July and ■ August there were 49,000 calls for in -1 formation and routings at the f Greensboro office of the club and at 1 its 00 branchs. Two clerks were eon stanly on duty at headquarters, sup , plying routing, tre night shift often remaining on duty until 10 p. m. and later. i Calls for license and title informa -1 tion at the Carolina Motor club and ] its branches totaled 265,000. i While many of the requests for ] other states, the great bulk of date was supplied native Tarheels, who vacationed by auto. The number of persons making extended trips, sspeeinlly to the East and Canada, 1 showed n tremndous increase this year, according to the information I bureau, but by far the majority of i routing supplied were “to Florida.” i James Paddon has challenged Major [ Goodsell to race for the world’s sucl j ling championship and $2,500 a side. I The challenge is the outcome of a I ] long standing dispute between the two i famous Australian scullers. i One of the big railway systems in ] the northwest is planning to equip a 5 number of baggage cars so that mo -5 torists may take their automobiles in ■ the same train with them when they j) travel. Much as Waves Break a Vessel Which Has Go Aground, (the >* r; ' Breaking DEAD MEMBERS OF CREW NUMBER 14 In This List Is Lieut. Com mander Lansdowne, Who Was In Charge of Craft, the Pride of the Navy. Caldwell, Ohio, Sept. 4.—(A*)—On a gently sloping hillside some twelve miles apart, winds today whipped through flapping yards of. torn silk and twisted and broken aluminum of the crack Shenandoah, until yesterday a proud mistress of the skies, and pride of the IT. S. Navy. What remains of the only Ameri can built dirigible which met disas ter in a thunder squnll near here yes terday morning, was being broken up by the wind, much the same as an ocean going ship aground is broken up by the waves. Fourteen dead members of the crew, including Lieutenant Commander Zach ary I.audsdowne, lay in an improvis ed morgue in Bellevalley their faces uncovered to the view of visiting hun dreds. Twenty-two of the survivors are en route to Lakelpirst, N. J., the airport from which the .Shenandoah embark ed Wednesday afternoon for a voy age into the heart of the continent. Three officers and two of the crew spent lust night in Caldwell. Two ’njured members of the crew are in a Marietta hospital. After last nightfall a guard was thrown around the approaches of the wreck in a belated effort to stem the tide of curious visitors who thronged the scene. . Nothing could have saved the dirig ible in its battle against the storm, according to the concensus of members of the crew. Neither was it any fault of the ship, in their opiniou. The disaster was the result of the most feared of storms to an aviator— a line squall—the result of a clash of hot and cold currents of air. Graphic Story Is Told by Col. Hall, a Tar Heel. Caldwell, 0., Sept. 3.—C01. C. G. Hall, United Stattes army observer aboard ihe Shenandoah, was among the survivors who were carried across the country in the nose of the ship. He was next to the last to leave the control cabin, being followed by Lieut. A. B. Anderson, who probably had the most thrilling experience. He grabbed a girder when the con trol cabin broke away and finally managed to straddle it. His back was to Chose who were up in the nose and he was unable to tjtjrn around and crawl tip the girder to a more safe position in the hull. A rope was thrown to him by Lieut. R. G. Mayer. By reaching over his shoulder Anderson managed to turn around on the girder and crawl to the nose with the others aboard this section. Trree Thousand Feet Up. “We were traveling at an altitude of about 3,000 feet when wp encoun tered a storm,” Colonel Hall said in describing the accident. “By chang ing our course a dozen or more times we dodged it only to encounter the line squn’l which sent us to an alti tude of 6,500 feet before we realized what had happened. “We opened the valves to let out gas and lowered the ship and were drawing away from the storm at a 50-mile per hour gate when the storm enveloped us and broke the ship in three pieces. I exclaimed to Com mander Lansdowne: ‘Every one beat it.’ When the crash came I was on the ladder leading from the control cabin to the rear portion of the ship. As I started to fall, I clutched a gird er to which I hung suspended, finally swinging my body over it and crawl ing forty or fifty feet back into the ship.” When he reached the ship proper, Colonel Hall said that he found other members of the crew preparing to open the valves in order to bring about a descent. Here he found Lieut. Roland G. Mayer, leading of ficer, and Lieut. J, P. Anderson, erol ogist. The latter, Colonel Hall said, had made his way to the rear on the cut walk. All three descended safe ly. Ship Not at Fault. Colonel Hall said that the catas trophe was in no way attributable to any defect in the ship. Meteorological advices, warning the navigators of the storm, would have saved the ship, he said. Since there were no meteor ological stations in thfe vicinity, how ever, these advices were not available. At the time of the crash, Hall said, four of the six engines which pro pelled the air monster were going full speed. The craft simply met air cur rents which she could not‘survive. Colonel Hall voiced high praise for the navy crew of the dirigible. Even immediately after the crash, he said, the crew’s behavior was remarkable. Each man took the situation quietly, deporting himself as if he were on a free balloon and attempting to bring the craft to the grotfiid in the best manner possible. 1 In all there were Beven men who 1 made the perilous ride on the portion of the ship on which Colonel Hall found himself. It drifted for the i better part of an hour and covered i a distance of ten miles or more be - fore eoming to earth. ,[ ■ | San Francleco leads the cities ol 1 the world in telephones per capita. ;.. rag THE TRIBUNE t’ PRINTS f! TODAY’S NEWS TOUhM No..2iiS Ft to m oil causes for mm HHEJRIGM j Naval Board of InqtiM Makes Report But Shapi vivors Do Not Aftpi With Findings of B<3M| HOLES IN CRAFT LED TO DlAStffl This Is the Finding of |jfi| Board While Some Sm| vivors Think Breaking oil Gas Bag Real Cause»|| Caldwell, 0.. Sept. 4.—bfMgS rushing into holes torn into the ShejJ*j andonh by the twisting off of the-jSB dio and control cabins caused .fIH buckling of the ship and its breaktiH onto two major parts, in the opinijgijß of the naval board of inquiry iSfM visited the wreckage of the sUmH prow today. Breaking of Gas Bag Given aa (MmS Philadelphia, Sept. 4. —The ing of a gas bag over power car N|gj9 3, the aft starboard car of the dirigf|| hie Shenandoah, was blamed by so#H of the survivors of the wreck for tlftj tragedy yesterday in Ohio. .Js j When the eighteen survivor* whoj came by special car from the scetteaH the wreck en route to the home idHI tion, arrived at Philadelphia at 7jBM a. in. today some of them agreed M this accident in conjunction with wH terrific storm was responsible for tijfM wreck and Its ensuing loss of life, -JBf The storm was described by the smH vivors as a “western fwister,” a mittt] iature cyclone. Some of the men MUM they had-been able to see the storal coining but that the ship was erless to get out of its way. .1 As the men trooped from the tramj at the North Philadelphia station mu the Pennsylvania Railroad to take’aifl other train to Lakehurst, all of them] were carrying heavy bags. ’Jajß I “Arc they your effects?" sotneodM asked of the men pointing to the IhH “No," he said. "They are the thingd that belonged to our comrades who iti dead." I Richard Wilson, of Louisville, Kill a seaman second class, listed yeafeffiH day as injured, was among thongM vivors unhurt. "“] Compression On Top Probably Ohm Norfolk. Va., Sept. 3.—A proba&M cause for the wreck of the naval glfl cruiser Shcnadonh early ttsiay Wgjfl an unusual air compression on tkM top of the giant ship, was the opinusgfl of Lieutenant E. H. Kincaid, assistant navigation officer.of the] Shenandoah. I Lieutenant Kincaid was on tIM Shenandoah when she br6T&” uwiM from her mooring mast at Lakeburtiffl N. J., on the night of January dfl 1924, and was able to return ter a valiant battle with the eleujWtffl and in which she was badly daihajjjjH The Shenandoah was built to wkMH stand tremendous strain, LienteaSM Kincaid said, but not so as to be able to stand any compression. In his opinion -giltdewl of the huge craft probably bucISH in the middle from a heavy wind bearing down from overheggß Fear that a severe compression migfefl strike the ship from the top had bemffi expressed by the officers, Lidjteagafl Kincaid said, and it was just suifjffi circumstances an a thunderstormthpfl it was believed would eausd the Shell andoah trouble. The construction 4H the ship was as nearly perfeet is ] could be. the officer said, and onlymjH cause of unusual conditions could jjH have buckled. He held the crew tirely blameless for the wreck dared that when tile full shoryjß the disaster is told it wiH be OH of heroic efforts on the part OlM'iM entire crew to save their damage at the disregard of their ,ov3 safety. Another Explanation. ■ Toms River. N. J„ Sept, 4.—(ASM Captain Anton Heinen, former Otjfl man dirigible pilot and cbnbtfeMjH adviser in the building of the ShetqH doah. said today that the reinovapß the eighteen safety valves in the] dal igible’s gas bags was the cause yesterday’s disaster, and that tlje vjfl ! tims of the crash “gave their save this precious helium.” m “In the storm the craft rose jjM fast for the remaning valves to sufficient gas," he said, “the upwH movement of the ship causing real ’ expansion of the gas bags which brqM the shell of the ship in the ! “I would not call it murder," Captain Henien, “but I it too strongly that if it had not aH tor the foolishness in cutting nfljH - the number of safety valves tb« fdH ■ would not have occurred.” -M 81 1 In 187? Capt. Matt Webb, JfH on a dating canvas mattness, wjfl sail and paddle, twice croßseifjHf r English Channel in 19 hours, ‘t fl SAT’S HEAR SAYSt | | : 1 e i o 'VW 1 | 9 " a *<3ol HI i 1 -jEnk 1 >f ji Fair tonight And Saturday, ' p j|