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ASSOCIATED t PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI LORD KITCHENER'S BODY ROT LOCATED It SHlfffllG CASE Box in Which Frank Pow ers Sent Body Said to Be 1 That of Kitchener Held Only Coffin. I POLICE MAKING AN INVESTIGATION! Box Was Opened at Wat-! erloo Station in London! in the Presence of Many Government Officials. London, Aug. 10;—(Ah—The Ilrit ish Home Office announced today of fiefall.v that a par-king cane recently delivered at the Waterloo Station and alleged to eontnin the body of Lord Kitchener ‘was found to contain an empty coffin.” After inveet'gation of the packing ease Chief Constable Wensley and Detective Superintendent Brown went to the Home Office, where they held a lengthy conference with officials and legal advisers. The case originally was shipped by I rank Powers, a British newspaper man, who announcer! recently that he found what he believed to be the body of Lord Kitchener on the const of Nor way. Powers notified Premier Baldwin and said the next step was up to the government which hitherto had dis credited Powers' story of finding the body and clearing up of the tragic mystery of the sinking of the Oruier Hampshire during the World War. The coffin was opened this morning under direction of Coroner Ingleby Oddie. Sir Bernard Spilsbury, a fam ous government pathologist, was pres ent. High Scotland Yard officials and official photographers also were present. • The greatest secrecy surrounded the proceeding as far as the public was concerned, only serving to whet the curiosity of a large crowd which sur rounded the mortuary from an early hour. A fresh sensation was connected with the case case, delivered at Wat erloo station unopened when ]x>lice were- summoned to .search the neigh borhood TOr'-iwopWIW tmrglars. The neighboring residents of the morttiat* reported that they bad seen two men scale the walls about the establish ment. A scare® failed to reveal any intruders. THE COTTON MARKET Active Months Sell at An Advance of From 15 to 21 Points, New Tork, Aug. 16.—M5)—Increas ed apprehensions of damage to coming crop prospects by insects of various kinds, appear to be the dominating factor in the cotton market at the opening today; Buying on reports of this kind was stimulated by relatively firm Liverpool cables and after open ing steady at an advance of 2 to 11, points active months sold 15 to 21' points new higher in the early trad ing. October advanced to 10.74 and Jan uary touched the same price, recov eries of about 58 to 64 points from the low level of last Friday. Some realis ing and southern selling at the higher prices but line market was within 4 to 5 points of the best at the end of the first hour. Private cables said the advance in Liverpool was due to covering and trade calling together wjth Manches ter buying. Cotton futures opened steady. Oct. 10.05; Dec. 10.63; Jan. 10.05 ; March IC.SS; May 10.08. FRATERNAL CONGRESS IS NOW IN SESSION Delegates Representing 7,000.000 Members Are Meeting Now in Buf falo. Buffalo. Aug. 10.—OP)—The Na tional Frternal Congress of America opened a four-day session here today with several hundred delegates pres ent from all parts of the country, rep resentatives of 04 leading fraternal organizations, with a total member ship of more than 7,000,000. Meeting by sections today the con gress began prenaratian of resolution which will be offered at the first gea cral session tomorrow.! Miss Binn M. West, of Port Hu ron. Mich., the first woman president, will preside. Sweet Potatoes Begin to Move. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Aug. 10.—Sweet potatoes began moving from Currituck and other neighboring counties the past week, the total shipments being from 40 Ip 50 carloads. Digging ip going ahead rapidly and indications are that more than 100 ears will be shipped this week. The first lot dug iaat week brokight as hig’ii as sl4 a bar rel, but Saturday the price was down to $8 a barrel. The prevailing prices this week are expected to be from $4 to so’a barrel, as the Virginia sweet potatoes will then be beginning to come In. Reported Capture of Hankow Pass. Pekin, Aug. 14. — W) —Leaden of the allied forces of Marshal Wu Pei- Fu and Chang Tso-Lin, claimed today that they had captured Hankow Pass, the key to the position of the Koumin ebu or national armies at Kalgan. Flags are being flown here in celebra tion. k>-- l-'C--, i's- , . - V*. .. The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily i| To Africa ~j ' \ William Hoover, director oi the Smithsonian Institution observatory, took Betty Joan Hoover with him when he left for a trip into wildest Africa. Hoover will observe the sun there, THE VIRGINIA DARE HOME-COMING WEEK , Sir Esme Howard Will Be Principal Speaker—A Great Occasion Ex pected. Boon'oke Island, Aug. 10.—OP)— •Centering around the commemoration of the birth of Virginia Dare, "home cominge week” will be celebrated in ! Dare county this week. Hundreds of former natives are expected to re- \ turn for at least a portion of the ! week of festivities and additional hun dreds are expected from all sections , of North Carolina for the events of Wednesday. On that day the 339 . birthday anniversary of Virginia Dare. | first English child born on American : soil, will be celebrated. Sir Esme Howard will be the prin cipal speaker for the Virginia Dare celebration and he will speak from a Rostrum under the oaks near to the "Rdf where 4 the baby, Virginia, was gwtetuaud- altot The presence of the British Ambas sador will mark the first time in the lonx spnn of years that the British | government has been represented at j the celebration. Sir Esme will ar- rive here by United States cutter from Washington and will be accompanied l By a number of government digni-1 taries including congressmen of this! state and Virginia, governors or their representatives of Virginia and North Carolina and the officials of the Ro aanoke Colony Memorial Association. The Right Reverend Joseph B. Che shire, of Raleigh, bishop of the Epis copal diocese of North Carolina, will accompany the distinguished gathering and will preside over the ceremonies. He is president of the association. 1 Virginia Dare was the granddaugh ter of Governor John White, who led Sir W T alter Raleigh’s ill-fated “Lost Colony.” The governor returned to England a few days after the child's birttt and never again was she seen by any member of his party. When, years later, after war had separated ®ini from the colon], Governor White returned the colony had disappeared. it that the settlers were merged with the Croat an Indians, were massacred in entirety or that aoine were maasacreed and their chil dren taken off by ttie Croatans. No definite trace of the settlement ever was fhund and history has given it the name of "The Lost Colony.” A grim jest of fate in the settling of Roanoke Island was that the colony had been destined to land at the mouth of the James River but plans went awry and the landing was made on the North Carolina Coast. • A few years later, the settlement at Jamestown was made, almost at file spot where Sir Waiter Raleigh had intended the Ro anoke Island colonists to settle. ' The general program of this week will include a varied ivumber of fea tiviiies on Roanoke laland at Manteo. the county seat, and on the mainland' portion of the county. Preparations have been under way for several weeks and a great week is looked forward to hy the natives. , Sir Esme Howard will be intro duced by Governor McLean if the ex ecutive is üble to be present and will be welcomed to North Carolina. A short Speech of welcome also Will be made by Congressman Lindsay C. Warren of this district and the man who was respousib'e for Congress at the iaat session officially recognizing Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Island as a federal fort of national interest and grgpting of an appropriation for its maintenance. The remainder of the program will consist of singing, music and after the set program the entire will lunch under the old oaks [which once sheltered the early settlers of the nation. The close will come late in the afternoon when tlie entire party will be transported back to the mainland on a government cotter. BulW,a » Contractor Drives Car In Asheville, Aug. John Craig, a building contractor, drowned today wh*n his automobfe went over an embankment into Lake Craig, five miles east of Asheville, Mr. Craig apparently drove hie automobile in to the lake while he was attempting to turn the ear around in a narrow apace. Mr. Craig came to Asheville two years ago from Philadelphia. ICODMTILLI RRRTIR KIDEHT; • ANOTHER iH HURT I ;,'r. I Accident Occurred About Midnight Near Newells ! When Auto Crashed In- 1 to Truck on Highway. ! REX WEST IS iIN HOSPITAL —.— . Rushed to Charlotte Where His Condition Remains Critical—Dunham Digh Not Seriously Hurt. Charlotte. Aug. 10.— (/ft— One man was killed instantly ami two othris injured, one perhaps fatally, today when an auto in which 1 hey-were tid ing. crashed into the rear of a huge truck. The tragedy occurred on the Concord highway east of Newell short ly after midnight. M aco Digh, 20, of near Bostic, was dead, and Rex West. IS, of the same place, was in a local hospital suffering from a fractured skull, a broken jaw born* and other injuries, Durham Digh, 20, brother of the dead youth, was .the third occupant of the auto and escaped w:th only minor bruises. The accident occurred while the three were on the way from Bostic to the scene of employment at the South ern Power Company project near Spen cer. The truck, a grocery vehicle, was going from Charlotte to High | Point. Dunham Digh expluined the cause of the wreck, and said that their j auto struck the truck when it was seen to be impossible to turn without colliding with another machine which was approaching. The third car, he said, sped on. and did not halt to as sist ill temoving the men from the wreckage. Digh said in the hospital that he was driving and that he did not see the truck until the three ears were in such a position that a crash was un avoidable. He said he noticed after the acci dent that the truck’s rear light was burning. CHARGES JURY THAT WILL CONSIDER MELLETT CASE ‘*W*3Nb<t»eiakiMi Kto'tHnmrvanrr at the Law by Every Private Cltl | Mm.” I Canton. Ohio. Aug. 16.—(4>)—Judge A. W. Agler, charging the Stark City j Grand Jury which will consider the I Mellett murder case, its contributing j causes and its subsequent events with | in the next two weeks, declared today “it is not enough for us to stand as crusaders for punishment of derelict officers and demand enforcement of the law but we must also be champions of justice a equality and we must de mand the observance of the law by every private citizen as well.” Officials of Canton and 1 Stark coun ty have been accused by various in vestigators of having been implicated in a multiplicity of misdemeanors and crimes including a liquor con spiracy and even in murder itself. In liis charge the judge did not di rectly monition the murder or its va rious ramifications but by inference it dealt entirely with those questions. Referring to the alleged deadlock said to exist in prosecution of law vio lation causes because of political pres sure and antagonistic cliques, the judge said "your oath requires that you shall present no person through malice, hatred or ill-will nor shall you leave any persons unrepresented through fear, favor or affection or re ward. “No grand jury has a right to start criminal prosecution because of pub lic clamor agitation nor to aid or defeat either side of political feeling, social or personal controversy. You must not take heersay, gossip, rumors or suspicions as evidence to show the guilt of crime. “We believe in the intelligence, the honesty and integrity of our cities as a whole,” the judge charged. “We recognize we have vice and crime in our 'midst. We must demand that law‘observance is just as essential as law enforcement.” BODY OF ROSS FOUND HANGING TO TREE LIMB Man Had Been Missing From Dur ham Epr a Week. Durham, Aug. 15.—Search for L. M. it, of this city, which has been underway for more than u week, was ended today with the finding of his body hanging from a tree near the town of Richmond county. Immediately upon receipt of word of the gruesome discovery a brother and friends, in company with an un dertaker, went to the scene to take the body in charge and bring it here for burial. Nothing had been seen of the man since he left the city Wednesday, August 4, although numerous reports of his presence in various sections between Durham andthe place where he sought relief from the burdens o( life by the nooop were received. He was despondent because of the lack of employment and because of his seeming inability to *overcome the liquor habit, according to friends here tonight. Golf recently became perilous at Belra near Johannesburg, owing to the presence of a Hon and lioness, who took up their home on the links- Golfers who objected to this new hazard organized gun partica and finally succeeded id bagging the beasts. CONCORD, N.C., MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1926 TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS j KILLED S 3 PERSONS! IN SOUTH IN WEEK lOf the Total Reported to j the Associated Press 11 Were Killed in North ! Carolina. TOTAL IS LARGER ! THAN LAST WEEK In Addition to Those Killed 103 Persons Were Hurfi in Accidents in Eleven; Southern States. j C*>—Traffic accidents in eleven 1 Southern States took a death toll of; o 3 lives and injured 103 persons dur-i mg the last seven days, it was reveal-j ed in a survey conducted yesterday h.v | the Assoseiated Press. The total rep-■ resents an increase of eleven deaths and 27 liersons injured over the total! of fatalities reported the week before. { Four of the fatalities were from j grade crossing accidents, two of which j were in North Carolina and one each | in Georgia and Tennessee. A train-! man also was injured in the Georgia' grade crossing crash. A train derail-! od at Midland, Ga., injured three per-1 sons. North Carolina reported a death | toll of eleven persons and twentj-sov-; en injured for the week. Georgia, j Florida and Tennessee each had seven i persons killed. Florida led the group in the mini-1 her injured with 54, while Louisiana j was second with 40, and Georgia! tlvrd with 37. A tabulation by states of number of persons killed and injured includes: North Carolina—ll killed, 26 in jured. South Carolina—2 killed, 7 injured. TESTIMONY OF MRS. GlfaSON PARTIALLY CORROBORATED Millerwrlgfat Says He Saw Mrs. Gib son on a Mule, But Saw No One Else. Summerville, N. i, Aug. 16. —(/ft —The testimony of Mrs. Jane Gib son, woman pig raiser, was partially i corroborated today at the hearing of I Henry Carpender and Willie Stevens j Ciidrged with the murders of Rev. Ed - ward W. .Hall ami Mrs. Eleanor Mills. Mrs. Gibson testified Friday that she was in Derussey’s Lane near the Phillips farm and saw two men and a woman ami heart shots fired. She identified Stevens and Carpender as the men. The woman she said was Mrs. Frances S. Hall, also charged with the murders. Mrs. Hall is at liberty on $15,000 bail. Henry F. Miilerwright, testified he wns ill Derussey's Lane the night of September 14. 1922. and saw Mr an •Gibson there on her mule. He saw no one except Mrs. Gibson and heard no shots. The witness had kept silent for four years to shield the girl who was with him. Charles Alpaugh, taxi driver, testi fied he saw a sedan parked in Easton Avenue near Derqssey’s Lane while he was driving by. He saw two or three persons slide down a bank to ward the car but did not know wheth er they were men or women. TYPHOID STILL IN LEAD Big Increase in the Number of Small pox Cases Last Week. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Aug. 16.—Typhoid was \ still in the lead among the more se rious communicable diseases over the state with fifteen additional cases re ported Saturday, bringing the total for the week ending August 14th to 89. These cases were scattered pretty much over the state, with a slight pre dominance in the west and middle sections. A big increase in the number of smallpox cases the last week was also noted 20 new eases being reported Saturday, all from Jackson county, making the total for the week 57. Jackaon county seems to be far the worst affected, with'2B cases last week and 25 this week, making a total of 53 smaillpox eases in that county in two weeks. Infantile paralysis seems to be on the wane, only two cases being report ed Saturday, bringing the total for the week to only seven. In number of cases, whooping cough still outstrips the other diseases, but the form is mild and but little trouble is being experienced. Prepare for American Legion. Philadelphia, Pa„ Aug. 16.—An ex tensive program for entertaining more than 150,000 members of the Ameri can Legion when they assemble here for their eighth national convention in O-tober has been prepared by the lo cal committees. The tentative sched ule includes receptions, parades, a junior world championship baseball series, a military circus, air carnivals, •’and and vocal concerts and events in the stadium. Valentino Out of Danger. New York. Aug. 16.— (Aft— Rudolph Valentino, “sheik” of the movies, who underwent a serious double operation at the Polyclinic Hospital last night, was reported on the road to recovery today. Hospital physicians, cautious In | their statement iaat night because of j the serious nature of the operation, oiid definitely today that he was out of danger. . STATE MIKES GREAT i EDOGRESS IN PUBLIC ; SCHOOL EDUCATION !* I j I Special Issue of “School | Facts” Sets Forth Public j Laws Concerning Educa- j tion in North Carolina. , “RED SCHOOLHOUSE”! HAS PASSED AWAYj Since 1917 the Number of ] i Four or More Teacher I Rural Schools Increased | From 409 to 1082. Raleigh, X. O , Aug. 10.— yft —The ; progress North Carolina has made in | public school education during the i fi'-’st 25 years of the present century lis set forth in State School Facts ! which will be issued tomorrow. Til’s : issue of the semi-monthly publica tion of the State Superintendent of I Public Instruction is devoted entirely |to summaries of what has been ac j eoniplislied in the 25 year period. It jis culled the sesqiii-eentennial num ! her and will be placed on exhibit in ! the North Carolina booth at the Ses qnicentennial at Philadelphia. Cop ies of it also will be distributed at the I Exposition. | The issue sets forth the public j laws eoneerning education in North Carolina. From that point the pub- I'ca'tion goes into the amount spent ! for education, the increase in teach i ers and their improvement in seholar- I ship, the increase in enrollment, es pecially that of the high school, the increase in high school graduates, the lengthening of the school term for botii whites and negroes, the progress made in vocational and visual educa tion, the tendency toward eonsoPila Inin of rural school for efficiency and l lie growth of the transportation of school children. At the close are given two tables which comprehensive ly convey the entire situation to the lay minds in terms of figures. The constitution provides for pub lic school education between the ages of 0 and 21 years. The public schools of North Carolina are sup ported by a county ad valorem tax sufficient, usually, to provide the six minimum term. The State aids in payment of tenchefis salaries by a fund known as the Equalizing Fund, Sometimes special school dis tricts levy an added property tax to increase the length of the term or to supplement the teachers salaries. The total cost of the public school system in North Carolina—state col leges not included—increased approx imately thirty-three hundred per cent, "from the school year 1899-1900 through the school year 1924-1925. In the first named year the total expendi ture was $1,062,303.71. In the last named year the total was $33,978,003.- 08. The greatest progress was made during the past five years—just as North Carolina's greatest progress in •other lines was made during the same period. In 1909-1910. after the first decade of the period had passed, the spirit of education had gripped but not with tlie grip which was to come and tlie total expenditures at the dose of the first ten year period were $3.- 178.9.i0.50. Ten years later, in the school year 1919-1920, there had been a great increase, from the figure for 1909-1910 for $12,214,250.00 was I spent as the second decade ended. This was but the forerunner of the five years to come for the expenditures leaped ahead and in 1924-1925 reach ed the figure of $33,978,063.68. The value of sehool property in the State during the 25 year period in creased from $1,097,564 to more than seventy million dollars. Indicative! of the growth is the fact that in the city of Winston-Salem there is a siu school building at the present time which has a valuation greater than that of all sehool property in the State in 1900. This condition is near ly matched by several other cities of the State. From a capital outlay In 1000 of $50,207.00 for new rural buildings and equipment in 1900, the amount spent in modernisation of the school system in 1925 was approximately eleven million dollars. In 1900 the State was speneding $2.87 per year for the education of its children. In 1925 an average amount of $41.90 was spent on eacli child,./ In 1900. 8.820 teachers were j employed in the schools while in 1925 I 22,248 yere employed. The scholar- \ ship of these teachers also showed j great improvement. Since 1919-1920 i when accurate records were kept on this subject to the present time there has been a decrease in the number of teachers from 7.382 to 8.116 who are not equipped according to stand ard requirements. On the other hand there has been an increase from 10,- 834 to 19.785 in the teachers who are equipped'according to the standard re quirements. Standard -requirements ind'eate that the teacher graduated from a high school or better. The total public ocliool enrollment in 1900 was 400.452 wtrle in 192$ it was 800,834. An indication of the increasing importance of schooling in the minds of the parents is shown by the fact that in 1900 only 59 per cent of the enrollment were in aver age daily attendance while in 1925, j 74 per cent, of the children attended schools. The history of the development of the high school' is also interesting. Educational officers everywhere believe that much is accomplished when boys and girls enter high school and do not drop out of educational ranks after In Strife That Makes News ■ ■ VA''- { Hr | ALEXANDER KERENSKY mml wio. Alexander Kerensky, leader of the Russian Whites, promised to aid any revolt against the Soviet Efforts were made to make Col. William Mitchell president of the National Aero nautical Association. Romeo Ortega, Attorney-General of Mexico, injured during religious rioting, is shown in his latest picture to arrive here. Osborne Wood, aon of General Leonard Wood, was working for $125 a month in an Indi ana factory. E- ■- the grammar grades, reat importance also is attached to completion of high school courses. In 1900 only 2.0(H) pupils were enrolled in tlie high schools. In 19.25. 07.080 were en rolled. In 1900 there are no figures available on graduates from high schools but in 1910 there were 510. In 1925 there were 8,248 graduates. These figures are for white children and approximately 2.2(H) negro chil dren also graduated from high schools ill the last named year. During the 25 year period, the sehool year has been lengthened for both races. The Constitution how provides a six months minimum and in many sehool districts this is aug meneted by county funds. In 1900 the white child had an av ernce school term of 80 days while in 1925 this liad been increased to 148 days. In 19(H) the negro child had an average term of 79 days which in the 25 year period was increased to 136.3 days. The State entered upon vocational education in 1917-1918 and in that year 21 schools handled 323 pupils in agricultural courses. In 1925. 110 schools taught this subject to 5.800 pupils. In UD7-1918, three schools | taught home economics to 100 girls. In 1925 147 schools instructed 6.201 girls in this subject. In 1918-1919, there were 240 clashes with 3,099 pu pils. Visual education has become a reg ular part of the school work. In 1922-23, the first year. 29 schools with enrollment of 79(722 had these courses. In 1025 there were 90 par ticipating schools with enrollment of 198,980. The old “red scliooiliouse" with Its one teacher for all is passing in the State. In 1900 there were 7,829 of these one teacher schools. In 1925 this number had been reduced to 2,- 720. From 1917, the number of four or more teacher schools in rural cen ters has increased from 409 to 1,082 in ' 1925 while there has been a tendency I toward consolidation. This is illus tratde by the fact that in 1922 there were 356 consolidated schools in 1025 there were 796. Increased highway facilities lias aid ed the development of consolidated schools and it has also brought about transportation of children to schools by the State. In 1915, six vehicles carried 150 children to school. In 1925, it is estimated, that 2,500 vo h-'cles were employed to transport 90,- 000 children. To Equip a Kitchen in the Rowan Courtroom. Salisbury, Aug. 16 —(<4>>—-The coun ty commissioners of Rowan county will remodel and equip a kitcfien in the court house to promote nutrition work among the womens' and girls’ clubs of the county, reports Miss Ger trude Trible, home agent. Modern equipment and labor saving devices will be installed, and the kitch en will be used in demonstrating the proper methods of preparing food and in patterning farm women in selec tion of equipment of their own kitch ens. Big Prices for Tobacco. (By International News Service) Macon, Ga., Aug. 10.—With prices ranging from i,58 cents down to 50 cents a pound, the highest in years, tobacco growers throughout this state are selling their biggest crop in years. X*ue market continues strong and ‘' • U ■Col. william Mitchell ROMEO ORTEGA M l-.i PRESS MEN INVITED TO CAROLINA BEACH The New Hotel There "is Comfortable and Commodious. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, August 16. —Invitation to the North Carolina Press Association to hold its annual summer convention at Carolina Beach, near Wilmington, has just been issued the community of Carolina Bench as the first step on the part of Wilmington and Caro lina Beach to secure this convention for eastern North Carolina next sum mer. it was announced today. In listing the reasons why the press as sociation should meet at the seashore for its next session, those advocating Carolina Beach point to the fact that it is possible to drive to the very door of the New Carolina Beach Hotel, just opened this spring, and generally conceded as being one of the best ap pointed beach resort hotels on -the At lantic coast. Carolina Beach is sixteen miles southeast of Wilmington, on a hard surfaced road, that leads on through the beach community to the historic site of old Fort Filler, at the mouth of the 'Cape Fear River. The new hotel, just built this spring, is one of the most commodious and comfortable on the entire coast, and has a reputa tion for delightful meals. Wilmington and Carolina Bench are most determined in their efforts to bring the press association convention ■ to the east next summer. With Our Advertisers. Tile Pnrks-Belk Co. is now having a final •Clean-Up Sale of all summer goods. All summer hats and dresses have been reduced even lower than the July Birthday Sale >rice. School suits for boys at Hoover’s. See new ad. today. See picture of a beautiful living j room suite in Bell & Harris' new ad. today. 1 Yorke & Wadsworth Co. has just received a solid ear load of Oliver chilled plow’s, points and repairs. Yorke & Wadsworth Co. not only sell you Goodyear tires but they np ply them and give you service on them afterwards. Read the big ad. today. See cut of a charming little home the Newell in F. C. N'block’s new ad. I today. The Concord Vulvanizing Co. is a new advertiser in our columns. Look up the ad. on page three. Gets 70 Bushels of Barley Per Acre. Gastonia, Aug. 14.—OP)—Three and one-half acres planted in barley last spring by L, A. Barbee, of Linooln ton, in Gaston-county, have produced an average of 70 bushels an acre, or a total, yield of 244 bushels, reports County Agent L. B. Altman. This is a better yield than for any small' grain grown on Mr. Barbee's farm, declares the agent, although he threshed 540 bushels of wheat from a field of 24 acres. Even this yield' is above t’he average, says Mr.' Alt man. Vesuvius Active Again. Naples, Italy, Aug. 10.— CP)— Mt. Vesuvius, which was in eruption dur ing the last pitrt of July, has resumed activities, several fresh streams of lava flowing down its sides. Flames were visible all last night and a steady rumbling is heard. Seismologists have assured the pop ulation there is no danger of a serious eruption. it ‘ ' ' 1 . op THE TRIBUNeI I PRINTS ' H TODAY’S NEWS TODAYM| NO. 1931 SPECIE! 1 If irk hopkim HANDWRITING FOflM Persons Fighting for ! of Estate of the Railroul Builder Said to Have® Found the Specimen. 'ijH WRITTEN UPON i 9 BACK OF LET'EM Notations Were Made Letters Sent to HopkbMH.' by Leland Stanford B|fl in Year of 1867. I San Francisco. Aug. 16. —C4 3 )— Examiner says ilia: several of tlie handwriting of the late Hopkins, t'lie multi-millionaire builder, have been found and hove an important bearing upon Cwl outcome of litigations now umlerttass. Hi to divide his estate to 137 tile majority of whom live in Carolina. gi/lfl The specimens are in the fori# tffiH notations written by Hopkins UtfiflHj the backs of some old letters set# .fflfl him by l.e'and Stanford in 1867 wKiliiM the "big four" were negotiating sos fl lltc purchase of t'.ie Western railroad. They were found bjr v- /So T. Clark, librarian at Stanford t?«|Rfl versify in the private collection in his care by Timothy HopkinS* kdfl adopted son of tile pioneer. fl Two weeks ago a will fl to be in Hopkins’ handwriting wfiit-flj filed for probation in superior here. I*. It. McCanless is the cipal figure in the contest to gsili i®fl share in what is estimated as a SBO6,- ® OOO.tHM) estate. He claims that he Ht fl a grandson of Martin Hopkins, brother of Mark, and 'bis filed of administration for the estate p£fl(ft)fll ing a re-distribution. fl 2.115 .CARLOADS OF PKU'HIM jfc Had Been Shipped From the BaftfL/jfl hills I'p to Saturday. fl Tribune Bureau OS fl Sir Walter Hotel I Raleigh. Aug. 16.—A total of proximatoly 2,Tf5 carloads of were shipped from the stamlhill tiou of tlie state np to Saturday, division of markets of't}{£ part memos agriculture there are still more than 400 on the trees tlint probably will, even be picked, as the present )o« fli prices do not make it worth whilq ttc|H harvest tlie remaining peaches prepare them for ’shipment. and Saturday if was possible the very best poaches at*the for 25 cents a bushel, and second* cul.s could be obtained for as littlelfl us ten cents a bushel. .Tsfl fl Not more titan 75 ears will wfl shipped this coining week, as still are very low and the cream 'fwjj the crop has already been moved. ly a sudden rise in prices would ill- fl crease shipments now. The shipments this week will be Mount Airy section, where the Bstig||fli is later. fl Tlie excessively low caused by the fact that the G«ttfl|iH| Tennessee. North Carolina ka ttsas crop ripened about the sariielfl time, with shipments from all’ these, fll esetions reaching the principal maMS'fll kets about the same time, result that the market was gluttfe4-*fl| and prices dropped to the bottom. many as <><K) carloads of reached a single market in day. fl Birmingham Sticks to Anti Knee Edict, Birmingham. England. Aug. ' 04»> —Birmingham's anti regulations relating to the must be observed regardless of waves. This was the answer of the fathers to the appeal of chorus- appearing here who endeavored have the law suspended so long as the hot weather continued, , "sS fl "Tights must be worn at nil flj times,' tlie council decided. fl Birmingham is the only town iS/fll England which iusists upon th® |fl| wearing of tights on the stage. aM'ifl| the chorus girls have been talking of ’’fll boycotting the theatre-’ here, (jiSflJ pecial’y in summer. Efl Crippled Watchman Saves Life Woman. fl (By International News HervlaaElgjj fl Knnxwillc. Tenn.. Aug. 16.—t1, Childress, crippled railroad watchman, saved the life of an ly woman from a train u few ago. The woman was walking up tracks. He shouted at her that (f|£)fl train was approaching behfnd her.'jflj Site did not ltcttr him. I ’ashing the tracks. Childress. paralysed in left side, shoved tlie woman from the fl tracks and lcaitcd to safety just as the train sped over the where lie reached her. The wotnnn'fl departed before leaving her name ijsk fl , ' Mayor and Chief of Police Suspendfldjfl From Office. fl Steubensville, Ohio, Aug. 16.—C4>) fll -i—Mayor John F, Patton, and Chiefflfli Police Blaine It. Carter of StevbgHßl ville, were suspended from oAm day by Common Pleas Judge Paisley, following the filing of application by 700 petitioners. : fl erei=t - ———,e- ■ *."‘ii|fl|| THU WEATHER Kj fl Fair tonight except local shownft IflH <!><■ extreme west portion y- e ate southwest WuiM^fl
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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Aug. 16, 1926, edition 1
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