ASSOCIATED Wf PRESS ‘f ig DISPATCHES VOLUME XXV PEOPLE ORDERED TO CONSERVE WATER SUPPLY OF CONCORD Water Shortage is Feared and Drastic Steps Are Be ing Started td Conserve The Pesent Supply. NEW REGULATIONS IN EFFECT NOW General Public Warned to Aid Officials in Efforts to Prevent a Water Crisis In the City Now. The water situation hi the pity is hourly bacoming. more serious. In a notiee to consumers this morn ing, thp order was made that the use of water be curtailed. The text of the water and light department's . ' message was as follows: f To the general public: Yon are ' hereby notified net to use any water for the watering of lawns and the washing of cars and any other un necessary use of water until further notice on account of the scarcity of water, as the situation is serious. Signed. Board of I.ig'tt and Water Commissioners. It hnd been hoped that the cut of last week when several of tl|e larger consumers were stopped would be suf ficient to tide the city over until rain should fall. During the past two or three days, however, there has been a gradual decrease in the flow of Cold Water Creek, making necessary this new curtailment. At the present time, the creek is a tiny stream in which a thread of water about three feet wide and about three fliclics deep is flowing. A rough es timated by Superintendent I* A. Fisher, of tlie water and light de partment, gave t lie flow as 300 gal lons per minute. Under ordinary circumstances two pumps are kept busy during the en tire day and are shut off • at night. Only one pump is now running and it is found necessary to keep it shut off twenty or thirty minutes while the dam fills sufficiently for ukout twenty minutes of pumping. Speculation has been made as tb how long it will be until further cur tailment ill the use will have to be made if rain does not soon fall. No rain has fallen since August sth, ex actly a month ago, and during the two months previous, there had been practically no rain at all. Water officials have been busy con necting the two artesian wells wliiek formerly supplied the city with water so that they may be pressed into serv ice should there be a continuation of tbe unprecedented drought. It is possible that these two would give sufficient water for the curtailed use. One of the wells is on the. Central Graded School grounds and the other is at llic city pumping station. One is over 700 feet in depth and the other is approximately 1,300 feet deep. Owing to the hardness of the water from this supply they will not be used until it is absolutely necessary. Efforts are being made to conserve every drop of water at the pumping station at Cold Water Creek. A dam of about four feet has been thrown so that none of the stream will escape. Dove-tailed planking has been driven in the sand to eliminate any seepage in the sand. Above the dam is tbe tiny creek winding down the ordinarily forty foot bed into tre dam which fills part ly during tbe time the pump is shut off and draining when it is working. Below the dam, there is no flow of water in the creek, pools of water standing in scattered places. The visit to the creek was made during the morning and it was stated by workmen there that the creek would be even lower during the late afternoon. There is generally a slight replenishing (hiring the night. Both the city sta tion are practically fall' at the pres ent time, but it wottld take only a short while tUs water should there be W-’WctUto ykmp in. An indication of wS ; -light pos sibly happen to Creek was given when It this morning about 5 oV«&-.vj5M {here was no flow in the a small stream neaft£| Officials arc **luiV'-3iiSgKffCiti zens co-operate aa muc&yjjjgljHpW in the conservation of |jt|ie.re is some relief from city. Unless there is ingc.-iy date, it is probable tailment will have to be New Dormitory at C'olle tute Completed. Tbe management of theHj Institute announces tbe coifl|s|iiS* {' the new dormitory. Tbe be thrown open to the pnbttHg| day, September Bth, from 6 HaS m. Patrons and friends are invited to be present. Statistics show that more thotf SSB tbe people in America wnonvc fe Vjjß one hundred wears of age are wi.W own. Mme. Nemtchlnova, one of a Roe-j aian troupe of daacera now appearilg in London, hat her lens insured SIOO,OOO. [l4 pages today Three sections The Concord Daily Tribune Now Good Time To Enter The Times - Tribune Big Subscription Campaign But Few Candidates En tered So Far.—Hard to Believe Such Stupen dous Prizes Are Offered. PLENTY WROOM; PLENTY OF PRIZES Campaign Office Room No. 209 in Cabarrus Savings Bank, Will Be Open Ev ery Evening till 9 O’clock With the Concord Tribune and The Times putting up over SIO,OOO in big handsome automobiles and gold and silver, the great campaign, announced last Thursday, has not seen candid dates entering ns they should. Perhaps it is because the prizes are so Stupendous that one can hardly be lieve it all. Anyway, no matter why, some one, maybe you, is losing a wonderful op portunity. Awards will absolutely be made. No matter whether there are 100 can didate or ten candidates. Now, with few candidates entered, is the time to cash in, to get a lead. It is easy now. A worker, one with real ambition and pep, can take a lead that will be hard to overcome on the home stretch. More votes are given on subscriptions now than later. That, too, helps. Opportunity For All. The pessimist sees only the hole in the doughnuts while the optimist well, ycu know the rest. Look for the beautiful if you would have it— cash in on the opportunities that are offered you if you would profit ac cordingly. Such an opportunity—the equal of which has never been offered you be fore—is now being presented to you. In a few short weeks from now the Tribune and Times will reward all the energetic hustlers of Cabarrus and surrounding counties, and the oppor tunity existing for more “live wire" campaigners to enter the election and make themselves important factors and winners of the grand prizes, is actually aloud. Why, it’s anybody's opportunity for the big automobiles. lie js an opportunity surely, for the man or woman who looks at a thing from a business standpoint, and who arrives at a conclusion as to its merits by the way it appears to them as a business proposition. Some‘per sons will earn upwards of S2OO a week for the next few weeks. How’s that for a business proposition? Election Just Opened. The competition, which is just open ing, is open to any reputable man. woman or child in this territory. All that is necessary to enter the race is to clip the nomination blank, appear ing in this issue. 11 in your name and address and mail or bring it to the election headquarters of The Tribune and Times, room 209 Cabarrus Sav ings Bank Building.. This coupon en titles you or the i>erson whom you nominate to 5.000 free votes and gives you a flying start on the road to suc cess. Upon receipt of the nomina tion coupon at tbe office, a complete working outfit, together with detailed information, will be sent or given you. Thus equipped, you have but to see your friends and neighbors, rela tives and acquaintances, and have them save'the free voting coupons from the papers and cast their votes for you when they pay up their sub scriptions to the Tribune or Tbe Times. Votes will be allowed on all subscriptions, whether new or renew al. Thus far very few persons have been nominated, considering the num ber and value of the prizes to be dis tributed. There is plenty of room and there are plenty of prizes for more active candidates. The campaign office is open each evening until 1) o'clock. It is one flight up, room 209. Take the ele vator. Boundary Delegation Withdraws. Arica, Chile, Sept. 5.— (A 3 ) —The Peruvian boundary delegation con nected with the Tacna-Ariea plebiscite board has temporarily withdrawn from its work with tbe ex-boundary com mission, pending the receipt of satis faction from the Chilean authorities over the seiszure of Peruvian soldiers who were leading mules to Tacna for use by the Peruvian delegation. Mrs. L. O. Cline is administratrix of the estate of the late John W. Cline. 1 WARNER BROS. I CONCORD ft: THEATRE I (The Cool Spot) Ift Today Only Bk | BILL FAIRBANKS in rThe Cowboy K and the Flapper” MMfaiah Class Western M fg&aHKthe News, Felix Comedy MutUng Brewster No. 10 !-! MftJLabor Day Program ■ tBWWhy and Tuesday I nMHKNY HINES in ■BfcACKER JACK- WOMEN NOW TAKE ACTIVE PART IN PUBLIC LIFE What flic State's Problems Are From a Woman's Standpoint. Raleigh, Sept. 5. —(A 3 )—For years North Carolina problems, their so lution. and the future possibilities of the state have been discussed by men. It is only within recent years that women have begun to take an active part ia public life. From the standpoint of a woman who lias been in public life for the last twenty years, wlmt are North Carolina's most important problems of today? What are the State’s problems from the woman's stand point? They are four in number, accord ing to one woman who has spent the lasi twenty years in North Cafolina public life; .1. A recasting of our present tax ing system. 2. Tie reorganization of our pub lic school system. 3. The promotion of agriculture through the perfecting of organiza tions in farm communities for efficient marketing, reasonable financing, etc. 4. Adequate protection of the ex isting forests and reforestation of cut over areas ami barren lands. Those are North Carolina's out standing problems of today, in the judgment of Miss Harriet M. Berry, organizer of savings and loan asso ciations, editor of the Market News, and- secretary of the North Carolina Good Roads Association. Some of these problems “can be remedied with legislation," Miss Berry says; “others must be worked out by already existing agencies working with the people themselves.” “The solution of our educational and other problems” depend upon the recasting of our tax system. Miss Berry believes. "There should be a uniform state tax levy on all property, real and personal, corporate and con sumers. for the support of a real pub lic school system. This will have to be done before the country boys and girls, constituting from 90 tb 70 per cent of our people, can have educa tional opportunities eommensurne with tile city boys and girls.” Miss Berry does not favor an ad ditional tax on farm lands, but n tax on certain luxuries such as tobacco products, cold drinks, cosmetics, and other luxuries. Tile reorganization of tho public school should be such as to make “uniform standards as regards teach ers. books, and equipment for tbe country as well as the city children.” This can come about Miss Berry be lieves. only as the tax system is im proved. “North Carolina's advantages in soil, climate, and geographical loca tion should enable her to become one of the largest factors in the great eastern consuming etnters,” Miss Ber ry believes. But to accomplish this there must be worked out “for each farm community an agricultural pro gram which will put farming on a business-like and efficient basis." Forest conservation and re-foresta tion will develop a tremendous source of revenue in tbe course of 25 or 30 years. Miss Berry says, "but “there must be a well-defined and continuous policy of protection and reconstruc tion." Albemarle Finishes Fine School Build ing. Albemarle, Sept. 4.—-Albemarle’s new high school building is finished, and when school opens next Monday morning, September 7tli, will be ready to receive the more than 300 high school students who are expected to be present at that time. The build-' ing is one of the most beautiful struc tures of this city and is modern in every particular It is three stories high and is built of the very best material. The board of school com missioners who conceived, planned and financed the porositton is com posed of R. L. Smith, A. P. Harris, A. L. Patterson, M. A. Boger, H. L. Horton and W. L. Mann. There are ten class rooms, an auditorium with a seating capacity of 750, a science laboratory spendidly equipped and science lecture room, a gymnasium wrich includes a basketball court, a library, a manual training room, do mestic arts and domestic science rooms, cafeteria, boys and girls show er bathrooms, first aid room, teachers' .rest room and pririeipal's office The completion of this building gives Albemarle six splendid build ings which include the Wiscasset- Efird Rchool buildings and the girls’ institute. All these schools are ex pected to have a total of more than 2,000 students this year with a com bined teaching force of about 75 teachers. M. S. Beam is superintendent and James I*. Sifford principal of the high school. * Disaster Time Table of Shenandoah. 4:02 p. m. Sept. 2. ariship left Lakehurst, N. J. 1:45 a. m. Sept. 3, seen over Wheel ing, W. Va. 3:30 a. m., passed over Byesvilie, Oh ! o. 4:30 a. m., ran into storm over Cambridge, Ohio. 4:45 a. m., broke into three pieces, keel falling near Cambridge. 5:45 a. m„ front half landed in Alva, Ohio, 7 :15 a. m., first reports received of disaster to ship. A folding bath tub, with water tank, that may be put out of sight when not in use, has been perfected. North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily CONCORD, N.C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBERS, 1925 RAIN PREDICTED FOR SOUTH WITHIN TWOORTHREEDAYS Zephyrs From Canadian Northw.est Vanguard of Early Coming of Jupiter Pluvius’ Forces. RAIN ALREADY IN SOME STATES High Temperatures Have Brought Death, Drouth Damage and Suffering to All Parts of Country. Chicago, Sept. 5.—(A 3 ) —Zephyrs sweeping out of Canadian northwest today were forecast as a vanguard of the stormy forces of Jupiter Plu vius bringing an easing within a day or so of the scorching grasp of Old Sol on die middle west, lower lake region, the South. A foretaste of the long awaited showers lias come to parts of North Dakota. lowa and Wisconsin, but elsewhere record high temperatures have brought death, drought damage and suffering. More than a month of aridity was broken when a quarter inch of rain fell in Fargo, X. Dak.; high winds and accompanied the downpour in Oi'imietl, lowa, causing property dam age of .$4(1.090: while damage of $lO.- 000 occurred at Chippewa Fallal, AVis., in an electrical storm after the heat wave. BOBBY JONES WELL ON WAY TO SECOND CHAMPIONSHIP Led Gunn by 4 up at End of Game of 18 Holes. Oakmont.'Pa.. Sept. 5.—(A 3 )—Bobby Jones, of Atlanta, was well on his way to his second successive national amateur championship today when re led Watts Gunn, his youthful fellow citizen by 4 up nt the end the morning ’ round of 18 holes. Jones shot a 70, two under par to gain his advantage. Gunn holding 'him square at the turn, aided ma terially by an eagle 3 at the fourth. Ilotli shot better than par for tre first nine, Bobby having a 39 and Gunn 35. Par is 37. After the turn. Gunn gained o hole advantage at the tenth when Bobby 'missed a putt of ten feet after chip ping from the rough. They halved the eleventh and twelfth, but on the srort thirteenth the champion squared tlie match with a par 3. as Gunn bad trouble in coming out of a deep trap. A birdie 3 won another for Bobby at the 14th, his second dropping 20 feet from the pin, to be followed by a sen sational putt. *He picked up the 15th when his opponent hooked across a road to the rough, and had to shoot over the trees. The shot landed in a trap. At the home green Jones took his lead of four because Gunn again wan dered into the deep trails with a hook, and finally reached the green in four. Jones played the hole in par. DIGGING TO FIND TRACE OF"BODIES OK WOMEN Man Says He Saw Two Women Mur dered and Their Bodies Buried in 1920. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 5,— (A 3 ) —A force* of convicts began digging on tho banks of the Chattahoochee River near Bol ton today in an effort to find traces of tile bodies of two unidentified wom en who AV. C. Parris, of New Holland, snys he saw murdered and their bod ies buried there in the summer of 1920. The investigation ordered by Solici tor General John A. Boykin follows the stoi»y Paris told Atlanta authori ties yesterday that he was an unwill ing witness to the alleged murder, and had been threatened with death him self if he did not “keep quiet". Parris declares the two women were murdered, their bodies dismembered and buried with aeid to remove trace of the crime. The belief was express ed here that if the murder was com mitted, fragments of bone would be found in the ground even though acid was used. LARGER RESCUE EFFORTS FQR MISSING SEAPLANE Faint Hope For Its Safety Aroused. —Has Been Missing 90 Hours. Honolulu, Sept. 5. — UP)— New and larger rescue efforts are being put forth by naval forces in this district in the search for the missing seaplane PN9 No. 1, which disappeared nearly 90 hours ago somewhere on the broad Pacific not many miles from the Ha waiian Islands. Faint hopes for the safety of Commander John Rodgers and his four companions was aroused when the tender AVhipporwills report ed that three widely separated flares had been seen on Tuesday night. A naval scout plane piloted by Lieut. Peterson was forced dowii yesterday off the coast of the island of Kaui. The identity of the plane was unknown for many hours and led to a report that it was probably the missing PN-9 No. 1. This was corrected last night b? naval officers when they identified the Peterson plane. As Lieut. Pet erson was able to make effective re pairs and take the air, leaving his tow ing sampan, navy officials considered the incident so light that it was not then reported to the press. This is the thirty-fourth season for Professor Alonzo A. Stagg as head football coach at the University of Chicago. , Gay Flapper Now Evangelist mm v r . Three years ago it was the gay, carefree life of the flapper that appealed to Bessie Mae Randell, then a stenographer In the oil promotion offices of r * Frederick a. Cook. One night she strolled into a revival meeting and * as converted. She began a course of study at.a school for evangelists in Los Angel- 3. She is now conducting services in Fort Worth after which she will start oo a world evangelistic tour. Mitchell Denounces War and Navy Departments! Sun Antonio, Tex., Sept. 5.—C4 5 ) Predicting that lie would be placed under military arrest- by Monday be cause of his assertion. Col. Win. Mitchell, air officer of the Bth area, and former assistant chief of the air service, today issued a statement de nouncing the War and Navy Depart ments in connection with the disaster to the Shenandoah and the loss of the PN-S) No.-1, in the Honolulu High*. The statement was issued “after ma ture deliberation and after a sufficient time has elapsed since the terrible ac cidents to our naval aircraft to find out what happened.” “These accidents are the direct re sults of incompetency, criminal negli gence and almost treasonable admin istration of the national defense by the War and Navy Departments, he wrote. Charging that both the army and navy departments have gone to the utmost length to keep down the devel opment of aviation and to maintain SHELBY’S POPULATION DOUBLES IN FIVE YEARS An Official Census Shows Population Now Totals 8,854 Compared With 8.609 in 1920. Shelby. Sept. 4.—From 8.609 peo ple in 1920 to a population of 8,854 in 1925—that is the official history of the remarkable progress Shelby lias made during recent years. An offi cial census, made by the department of commerce, completed here this af ternoon gives Shelby a population double that of 1920. Five yeaty ago with over 1,500 people extra. Only five years ago there were just 8.409 % people living in No. 6 township. Now more than that live in Shelby alone The rapid growth of Shelby in the past five years, more than doubling in population, is character istic of the wonderful advance being made in western North Carolina. The pace continues here and another doubling is expected by 1980. HARD SURFACE ROAD FROM LYNCIIBUfcG TO CHARLOTTE Probably Longest Stretch of Nqrth and South Improved Highway in the United States. Greensboro, Sept. 4.—Directors of the newly formed Piedmont Highway, Water Shortage To the General Public: You are hereby notified not to use any water for the watering of lawns and the washing of cars, or to make any unnecessary use of water until further notice, on ac count of the scarcity of water, as the situation is serious. BOARD OF WATER & LIGHT COMMISSIONERS. aeronautics as a part of the two de partments, Col. M : tell ell said that ail aviation policies are directed by non flying officers who "know nothing about flying and the lives of the air men are being used merely as pawns in their hands.” The stormy petrel of the air ser vice took a direct slap at the War De partment foi-treatment accorded him, when lie said "The airmen themselves are bluffed and bulldozed so that they daren’t tell the truth, knowing fuil Well they will be deprived of their fu ture careers; sent to the most out of the way places to prevent their tell ing the truth, unless they subscribe to tho dictates of the non-flying bureau cratic superiors." Col. Mitchell asserted that time “conduct of tile war and navy depart ments has been so disgusting in the past few years as to make any seif respecting officer ashamed of the clothes he wears." Inc., held their first meeting here to day and made plans to get before the public the advantages of the route from above Lynchburg. A'a., through J Danville. Greensboro and Charlotte | and down into South Carolina. The j directors of the highway claim that t this is the only entirely hard surface rote running entirely across North Carolina from north to south and! possibly the longest stretch of north and south highway in the United \ States. The directors considered another duty and task—that of protecting the rights and pleasures of travelers who choose this route. An educational program will probably be started in order to attract tourists along this route and to safeguard them in their travels. The freighter Saugus, from Spain to New York slid onto the submerged ledge of an iceberg. S. O. S.'s were answered but the vessel was finnail.? released by a movement of the ice mass and proceeded on her way to port. AA'hen Seggundo Tellechea. a butch er of Campo Florida, Cuba, won'the $20,000 government 'lottery prize, he reduced meat prices far below any other batcher in Cuba. IVENUE BILL. WILL I-J ATTENTION IN THE NEW CONGRESS Plans of the President to Have Reductions Apply to This Year’s Taxes Makes Action Necessary. TAX PAYMENTS DUE IN MARCH And If Reductions Are to Cover These Congress Must Act Without Delay at Next Session. Swampseott, Mass., Sept. r>.—f/P)—! President Ccoiidge plans to have the i next reduction in taxes applied on in- i comes this year, on which levies will j be paid during the next year is ex-1 peeled to result in early action by , Congress on a revenue bill. First tax payments of the new year I are due March Til. Administration ! leaders believe a tax reduction bill can ; be passed by that time, and Chairman 1 Green of the House ways and Means j committee has called that committee i to meet next month to start on a tax i bill. Determined also to have Congress' approve at the next sesion the propos- j e