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. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES ♦>- VOLUME XXVi lESME HOWARD REM IT HUM HEEIELEBEWOH Was the Representative of British. Government at Ceremonies Held at His- i toric Island. MANY OFFICIALS 7 IN LARGE CROWD On This Island Was Born Virginia Dare, the First White Child Borti on the American Continent. Roanoke Island, N. C„ Aug. 18.—■. W 3 ) —Meeting near the spot where the ensign was first planted on the western eontinent, Sis Esme Howard, English Ambassador to the I nited States, united with high gov enrment and military officials today in commemorating the birth 30 years ago today of Virginia Dare, the first English child born on American soil. Thousands are here for Dare Coun ty Home Coming Week, which culmin ated today in memorial sgrycett nnd unveiling at Manteo of a monument marking the child's birthplace. Sir Esme gave the principal Address. Congressmen of North Carolina and Virginia, representatives of the gov-, ernors of the two states, the Right Rev. Joseph B, .Cheshire, of RaMgh. Bishop of the , Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina and" members of the Roanoke Colony Memorial Associa tion all were present and took part in the ceremony. Reaching the island early today from Washington on a government const guard vessel the British ambas sador and other members of the me morial party- listened to an invication by Bishop Thomas G. Darst, of the East Carolina Episcopal Diocese. Sir Esme Howard then was intro duced. His address, delivered from a rostrum erected beneath old oaks which tradition says were the scene of tlie Christening" of baby Virginia Dare, marked the first active partici pation by the British government in the annual ceremonies. . - When Sir Esme hid finished the assembled thousands lifted their voices in unison to the strains of the “In ternational Anthem'' specially com posed for the occasion and parthular -ly -appropriate V*wfth ♦IrW ctmiWnwf ' airs’ of “America” and “Pod Save the King." Bishop Cheshire, president of the Roanoke Colony Memorial Associa tion,’ presided at the program Which, 1 also included music by a government 1 band. i The ceremony closed with the ben ediction by President Cheshire. Then followed a visit to various historic spots on the island, including the market at Fort Raleigh which shows the history, so far as is known, of the settlement. Luncheon was served under the trees. < Virginia Dare was born shortly nf ter the arrival of her parents at Roa noke Island with Sir Walter Ral eigh’s third expedition to the conti-" n#nt. her mother,- was a daughter of Governor John White, of the colony. Soon after the child was born White sailed- to England and on his return later found no trace of the settlers, who bad disappeared. Thereafter the settlement was known to tradition as the “Raleigh I-oat Col ony.” " j One story has it. that the settlers were merged w : th the Croatan In dians, another that they were killed. The latter theory is supported !by the official report of- the expedition to Virginia, which had instructions to search for the Roanoke Island colony. Another belief is that the majority of the hundred or more colonists were killed and that a few children were carried off by Oroatans. Traces of \l-hite ancestry sa’d to exist in pres- j ent day Oroatans are attributed to inter-marriage of these children with natives. / - Sir Esme Howard’s Address. Roanoke Island, Aug. 18.—MP)—-Be lief t’liat the United States is leading the world into a new era aqd a better way of life that ultimately will bring a“spiritual rebirth", and thereby uni versal pence, was expressed toda-y by Sir Esme Howard, British ambassa dor to this country. He was a speak er at the anniversary of the birthday of Virginia Dare, first white child bofru in the American colony. The material development df this country was set aside' by Sir Esme as “a secondary matter.” - “What I specially rejoice in here,” he said, “is rather the belief that fills country is leading the world into a new era, into a better way of life 'thnt, provided we'can keep the ideal before our eyes as well as the merely practical, will, and indeed ultimately must, make for a great spiritual -.re birth and Help us to that aniversal pence boJ.fi St home and abroad for which all men In all countries are truly longing today.” • , .vV America's great contribution lo world progress is its human, policy in industry, in the opinion of Sir Esme. “Numbers of your leaders in public life and in industry seem to hare re alised before those in other countries that the health and happiness of the men and women who work in your factories, in your mines, in your great stores are as necessary to the well being and to the successful prosecu tion of a business as any’other part of it. You have learned tlye gospel of high wages, as It has been called, and you have applied it and showed The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina's Leading Small City Daily “Bob" Destroying Feminine Beauty; Blamed For Moustaches on Women B HENfEY BLOOMBAHGH International News - S rvice Staff Correspondent. Philadelphia. Aug. 17.—Local der matologists and beauty specialists scoff nt the theory, made recently by Mia* Frances. Martel, secretary ot the American Cosmetic: Society that the “Bob” promotes moustaches, beards and.hafty patches on young I women'll faci-.i. Mia) Martel asserted jfhe “Bob" ijhould be done away with a* it is destroying feminine beauty.” i ''MV experience with women,” de j dared a prominent Philadelphia Physician, "is that if a woman’s heifrt i.- set on having her hair bob bed she'll bob it if it kills her. So what's the difference if in two or -'J -■-=» THE COTTON MARKET Opened Firm Today nt an Advance of From (1 to IS Points.—January l'p lo 18.04. I New York. Aug. IR—G4 3 )—The cot- 1 ton market opened firm today at an , j advance of 6 to 13 points on reports of further rains or showers In the South, continued complaint of dam ages by insects and firmer ruling of Liverpool combined with reports of better prospects of settlement of the British coal strike. Considerable re-' alizing developed with some southern , sailing'with Janunr at 16.94 or about. 12 17. points net higher. Private cables said the advance in Liverpool was due to local. and long buying and reported a fair demand for cotton clothe in South America | but that China advices were discour aging. . ' j . Cotton futures opened firm. Oct. 16.88;'Dec. 16.88; Jan. 10.8!); March' 17.10; j, VALENTINO’S CONDITION ■SOMEWHAT BETTER TODAY Rested Reasonably Comfortable Dur-' ing Night and Seemed Better To- : day. t ’ j i New York, Aug. 18.—OP)—A slight i improvement in the condition of Ru dolph Valentino, movie star, was re- , ported this morning from the Poly- ] clinic hospital where he has been se- , riously ill since the double operation l for gastric ulcer and appendicitis on 1 Sunday. A bulletin issued by three physi cians at 10 a. m. said: "Mr. Valen tino rested reasonably comfortably last night nnd shpwed slight improve ment in general condition this morn- 1 . ing. Temperature 101, pulse 90, respiration 22.” JSSHWSV™ Mud TwU Feet Deep. Left in Streets . and Considerable Damage Done. | WHnabon-Siilem. August 17.* —A sUtere wind and rain storm caused Considerable damage in the mountain section near Boone, according to messages received by the seventh din- Jrict highway department Monday. The rain, it is said, washed mud two feet deep upon some of the streets of Boone. Highway engineers were sent to Boone from Lenoir and nearby points and are .buoy reimir lhg the roads. Telephone lines to Boone were torn down. . • , The Kentucky Anto Tags. | (By International News Service) Middlesboro. Ky., Aug. 17.-i—Ken tukey’s auto tags in 1927 will have a bright blue background with white numerals. A, contract for the tags has been awarded and they will be delivered to the county court clerks by November Ist. The tags cost the state of Kentucky fifteen cents each— but cost about a hundred times that to the autoists. The tennis doubles champions of the city Will be determined this, aft ernoon at the Country Club when Easley and Morrison play J. L. and R. I*. Bell for the title. The winning team must win three out of ( five sets. the world that it works, x x j “The new message that 1 think America of today is giving the world is that the lives of men are more than mere goods and that peace and con tentment are more than mere wealth. Os this latter there is such abundance in this country in many quarters that it has become for many of its posses sors a cheap and secondary posses sion. xxx “Therefore, I look forward -to see ing America spread the gospel of this new learning in political economy over the world and so usher in an era ,of well-being, peace and content such as 1 neither the extreme doctrines of the Manchester school on the one side nor 1 thoge of Karl Mark on the other could 1 possibly brihg about.” , Earlier in bis address Sir Esme had 1 said that Walter Raleigh was, “the i first; of our great empire builders, as * Cecil Rhodes was probably the last.” * He took issue with the opinions set 1 forth by a bWhop. whom he did not ’ name, in an article published recently r in.the Church School Journal, where - In the bishop stated that “in some 1 ways the life of Cecil Rhodes is one f fif’the most sordid human biographies eOn record.” Explaining that he did not uphold everything that was done » iff the first empire builders of'any i race, Sir Esme nevertheless main tained that the establishment of civi c Used life as a substitute for uncivl “ IJaed life was justified. He said he s believed Cecil Rhodes' ideal of a dom e inant British race was “a wholly mis r taken one, for it could, if carried to t its extreme limits, but bring discord I- rather than peace, since it was based i- not on goodwill among men-but rather ■t on that, in my opinion, most falla >l class of all modern premises in poll 1, tics, the general superiority of the d UNotdic races.” VI,, ’ ♦ „ .W' . v three hence women will all be 'bearded ladies'? The lady with long tresses would clip her hair just the same. Scientifically no amount of bob bang will produce hair where Nature did not implant it. skin speoia iste assert. Cutting the hair strengthens the hair's growth on the head, they say. “There are even n few cases of | bearded ladies,” one Doctor remark- j ed. "But it is utterly improbable ami j fantastic that two or three genera-! tions to come will see the femifiine; half of the population utilizing the barber shops except to renew the popular 'bob’ ” . ~.. ' ■ : THE “BLACK PANTHER” TO • BE ELECTROCUTED FMDAY To Avenge the Midnight Mnrdetp j That Terrorized the Memphis Popu- I ‘ lace. ■ (By International News Service) Memphis, Tcnn., Aug. 18.—Dawn, Friday, August 20th, wlHrbfc the day of atonement- for the sins of\ Charles Barr, t’lie “Black Panther”, condemned murderer of three white persons on roadsides uear this city. 1 For on that day the State of Ten . nessee will take Hie life of the “black j panther" in the electric chair nt the-- I State prison in Nashville, Tenn., to nvenge the midnight murders thnt ter rorized the iKipuince of this, city for years. | The state has waited two years for this opportunity while Barr’s case has .< been battled t'.irough the Supreme Court of the United States by attor- ! neys who would client the electric chair. Executive clemency of Gov, Austin ' Pea.v is all that can save the "black panther" from execution. Behind the scheduled execution of the “black panther” lies one of the most mysterious stories of a midnight I murderer w’lio terrorized petting par- s ties oil roadsides for months ever i written, one of the cleverest pieces I of detective work ever recorded in po- t lice records nnd one of the bitterest i court battles ever waged ill this sec- I tion. t Back in 1921. one summer morn- I ing. Duncan Waller, grocer, and Miss I McElwaine Tucker, his sweetheart, ( were found shot to death on a lonely I roadside fifteen miles northeast of Memphis. Miss Tucker had been as- i saulted. f Waller's money and watch were not I missing. A score of persons were 1 arrested, grilled and freed. Some ' -said !h» mysterious ban&V.wH. jj white man, others said a negro. ' * - A-few weeks later Chief Deputy ' Charlie Gnrribnidi, of the sheriff's of- 1 fiee staff, was awakened about mid- ' night at his home in the country by screams of n woman. 1 When Garibaldi opened the door a 1 hysterical girl, blood gushing from 1 a bullet wound in her head, fell uu- 1 conscious at .Jhis feet. Garibaldi called : the police, an ambulance, and rushed down the road. He found her companion, Obie Spencer, 23, dead, shot through the head. Miss Josephine Johnson, at Garibaldi's home, in a semi-conscious 1 condition, told a graphic story in meader details of the negro who had shot her and killed Spencer, then kid napped tier in Spencer's auto and drove away, how she leaped from the car, bleeding nnd hysterical and made her way to the nearest house. Police were still powerless. Miss Johnson recovered, several suspects were arrested, grilled and she failed to identify them. The “black panther” had taken her ring. This was the only clew. A policeman was arrested by De tective Inspector Will T. .Griffin, coni fessed twelve petting party holdups, was tried, convietpd and sentenced to the penitentiary. ' This occurred dur ing the investigation of the murders. Three years later, Detective Ser gennt John Long was busily checking pawn shop records. Suddenly, he leaped to his feet and hurried to a shop where tic took charge of a wom ans’ ring. Other officers thought it was only a stolen ring but couldn't understand John’s haste. It hud been pawned by Suodo Barr, negress. Inspector Griffin, Long and several detectives went to Suodo's home, arresting her for questioning. She said Charlea Barr gave her the ring, she was broke and pawned it Charles was arrested and confessed the three roadside murders. He told where Miss Tucker's jewelry had been hidden. Police found the jewelry in the sink of the home of Memphis’ po litical boss, Ed Crurny, where Charles had been a trusted servant. Charles' father wus a negro minister. At the trial two years ago, Charlie repudiated hia confession. He was sentenced to die and for two years at torneys have fought through the high est courts in the land—in vain. Mina Giving lip 40 Dead After Half a Century. Sellarton, N. 8.. Aug. 18. —After al most half a century, the Foord pit, which had remained hermetically seal ed Binee an explosion in 1880 en-, tombing forty-nine miners, has begun to give up its dead. A shaft has been driven into the old workings and men, braving the gases, have entered the foul interior and recovered the bones of three of the miners. Little was left of the dead except the larger bones, but the boots and leather belts of the victims are said ' to be perfectly preserved. A few shreds 1 of tattered clothing clung to some of I the bones. In England the habit of glim - Shewing m confined almost wholljr to • miners and industrial workers who cannot smoke while *t work. N ; CONCORD, N. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1926 1 1 \\ Operated Upon Rudolph Valentino, film star, was toperated upon for appen dicitis in a New York hospital. v (International Kewasl 1 SCHOOL BOOKS TO COST CHILDREN LESS The Difference Between the North Carolina and Tennessee Contracts. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Aug. 18.—The State de partment of education is taking every step possible so that school children in North Carolina will not have to pay a cent more for their school boo.ks than children in Tennessee (IP, but no definite announcement as to what has been (lone or can be (lone to rem edy the inequality of school book price between North Carolina nnd Tennessee can be made until the board of education meets, which cannot take place until the return of Governor A. W. McLean from Wisconsin, accord ing to A. T. Allen, state superintend ent of public instruction, when asked today as to what progress was being made. It seems that the difference in the- cost of the books, which varies frqai, one.to seventeen cents more s in North Carolina-thun in Tennessee, re sults from a difference in the form of contract and’ the differing basis upon which the books arc sold. For instance, ill Tennessee, a deal er orders 100 primers at 35 cents each, or $35 for the lot. It is counted as an oiltrigfit sale, and he sells the books nt 35 cents each plus the profit allowed by the law. In North Carolina the same 100 primers, say,- are ordered on a con signment basis, and listed as such rather than as an outright sale, and the dealer instead of being billed $35 for the lot is billed say $42 for the lot, or 42 cents each, but is allowed to deduct a certain discount, generally about 20 per cent., which would bring the net price down to $33.60. But .’lie discount is flexible and not always the same. And there is the rub. Al so, under the North Carolina system, the books thnt are not sold may be returned, and credit received for them while in Tennessee books cannot be, returned, but must be re-sold to the firm from which they were purchased. ! The question in North Carolina then is whether its entire purchasing system can be changed to conform with the Tennessee system, and wlieth- i er the contract with the publishers 1 which provides that no other state I shnll be given lower prices than this < state, can and shall be enforced. It i must be decided by the State board of education as a whole and not by l any one person, Mr. Allen holds. i Attorney General Brummitt is mak ing a study of the contracts to de- I termini* the legal status of the situa tion. i —_ i CONFER IN REGARD TO GOLD MINING . North Carolina Men, Have Confer ence With Geological Survey Offi- . cials. Washington, Aug. 18. —04*)—Phil- lip G. Sturges. of Wood, N. C!., and L. F. Tillery, of Rocky Mount, con ferred with geological survey officials here today regarding the possibility of gold milling Oil-ii large scale in Frank lin county. After the conference at which as sayers’ report of samples of the de posits were examined, the two North Carolinians left for Philadelphia and New York to seek financial conditions to make possible the installation of hyrdaulic mining equipment. They said they were pleased with their talk with government experts. Twenty-Four Racers Enter. Charlotte, Aug. 18.—04*)—Twenty four leading racers, making up a great 1 portion of the top position pilots in the AAA championship standing * for 1926,- have made entry for the ! world's sprint race classic to be held • here August 23rd. f jHek Foley and John Duff, two en tries, the former killed at Salem and t Hie latter injured at Atlantic City, i made the largest entry list ever si'ied -1 uled for board tracks in America. i ' —— I ' Fonr new life-savers are well on | their way toward receiving the Red : Dross and “Y” life saving certifi- . > cates, following (a gruelling, two-hour 3 test, last night at the *‘Y” pool. Two » more two-hours periods and the boys will receive their degrees. , SMLLMMRS. ILLS MURDERED II j : CRIB IPPLt TREE Dr. John F. Anderson Says He Analyzed Soil Be neath Tree and Found Evidence of This Fact. WITNESSSAW THE TWO KEEP TRYST Witness Who Swore to the Crab Apple Tree Theory Was Not Severely Cross Examined. Suiiimervil!e. N. J., Aug. 18.— (A 3 ) — Testimony that Itev. E. W. Hall and Mrs. E'eanot* Mills were murdered at the crab apple tree where their bodies \vt*re found was given today at the i hearing of Henry Carpemler and Wil lie Stevens. Dr. John F. Anderson said he ana lyzed the soil beneath the tree and ascertained by blood evidence he found that the rector and singer were s.ain within a foot or two of where the bodies were found. The defense * did not severely eroHs examine Mr. Anderson. State Senator Simjison. special prosecutor, had expected that defense counsel would combat testimony that would establish the crab apple tree as the murder spot as witness who said he saw <*arpender. Stevens and Mrs. Frances Hall there on the night of September 14. 1022, had been called previously by tlie State. Belief that the murders occurred in the Phillips farm house and other places had previously been advanced by other investigators. Miss Elmethi Harkins, member of I)r. Hall’s choir, at the time of the murders, testified today that she saw I)r. Hajl and Mrs. Mills going to keep tryst. Mrs. Mills, Miss Harkins said, was walking rapidly toward De Bussey's Lane carrying a package. She was shown a package of letters *ound near the bodies and said this might have been the package. About 15 minutes after Mi’s. Hall passed Miss Markins saw the rector hurry toward the lane. INDIVIDUAL OWNED AUTOS HURT RAILROADS More Than a Scots of Trains Have Been Taken Off ip the Past Few Years. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, *Aug. 18. —It is not so much bus lines over the state as the individually owned automobiles that hurt the railroads so that they have taken off more than a score of trains in the last few years, according to Otis A. Self, secretary of the State Corporation Commission, and who is in charge of the motor vehicle traf fic regulation in North Carolina. This fact will be demonstrated at the forth coming hearing on motor vehicle traf fic to be held in Asheville September 15th before Commissioner John .1. Ashe, of tlie Interstate Commerce i Commission. Washington, which is making a study of motor transporta , tion all over the United States. The 1 Asheville healing is only one of four i teen or fifteen that arft to be held in ■, all sections of the country. ‘ It will be recalled that at present . there is a bill pending in the Senate i to give the Interstate Commerce Oom [ mission regulatory powers over inter i state motor vehicle travel, both bus and freight, and it is believed these hearings are being held in an effort to collect more information as to con dition affecting motor transportation in the several states. Motor bus transportation in North Carolina has had far less effect in reducing the passenger traffic of the railroads than lias private automo bile ownership, according to Mr. Self, who is perhaps more familiar with the situation in North Carolina than any other one person. The regularly established bus lines are indirectly aiding the railroads, in that they af ford connections with short lines and out of the way points that otherwise could not be reached. He called at tention to the fact that in two in stances in North Carolina, a railroad is using a bus line in connection with its rail service. It is possible to buy a ticket from New York City to Blowing Rock. N. C.. but the lust for ty miles, from Hickory to Rlowing Rock, will be by motor bus. although the ticket is good on Hie bus. Al though the Southern algo sells a tick et to Franklin, the distance from Sylva to Franklin is covered by mo tor bus. Thus the railroads are coming to see the value of motor bus transportation as an adjunct to rail travel, and are iftilizinfc. it wherever profitable. Hampden-Sydney Football Team. Hampden-Sydney, N. C., Aug. 18. — i/P) —Two North Carolina: trams are included on the 1920 schedule of the Hampden-Hidney footßall team. Klon College, for years a regular opponent of the Hampden Tigers, ia on the schedule for October 80th, at Klon. and Davidson appears for No vember 6th. at Charlotte. The Wild cat* pf Davidson and fie Hampden Tigers met last year for the first time and the game ended a tie, 6-#. The game this year is pointed to by Char- I lie Bernier. Hampden-Sydney coach, : as one of the high spots of the sea-. I son. The Tigers have a schedule this year which will take them into four 'states on trips totalling thousands of .mils*. ' Day Laborer Gets $9,000,000 Estate; Builds Marble Mansion in Virginia (By International News Service) Galesburg. 111.. Aug- 17.—From nn j iron worker to owner of a $9,000,000 estate, of coal lands in the Sfienan- j doali Valley is the good fortmi“ which j has befallen John Cooper. Kewamie. | who formerly worked here at day la- I bor for his sustenance Cooper ig, leaving for Virginia, but ! he ii not stingy with his good fortune, j Foi with him will go several Ke-' wnnee families, all in moderate cir-1 J cuDistances, to share fn.'jis wealth. 1 They are selling out their, property j and will join Cooper in hist au'o cara van to tlie valley of wealth and af fluence in 'Ole Virginny.’ Cooper has approved plans of ar- Icllitpcts for a mansion of thirty rooms, lo be built of the finest marble, about thirty miles from Itoauoke, Va. Less pretentious home wi)l be built for the families mnkiiig the trip with him. Mrs. I.orette Mcßendy Nelsmi. Coop er's mot’.ier-in-law. an aged woman, will have a home in the new palatial residence. Cooper will be 33 years old Sep tember 18th and on that day will come into possession of the vast fortune. Due to a break with his family over THE CHARLOTTE RACES Development of the Tiny Motors Been Rapid. • I Tribune Bureau I Sir Walter Hotel | Raleigh, Aug. 18.—Performance of' the 91.5 "watehfob” motors in imof- * ficinl trial spins nt the big pine bowl i in Charlotte preliminary to tfie world's 1 sprint race classics that will be run 1 August 23rd has created considerable i surprise and comment among racing | officials, newspapermen and tlie driv-j ers find mechanicians, it was an nounced here today. Development of | the tiny motor has been rapid since ' they were inaugurated at Indianapo lis May 31st and for the past month the powerful machines have been tin dergoing Changes in local garages that will give greater speed and stamina. Speed will replace stickability in the four events thnt will be run here j August 23rd. In the two 25-mile j dashes, a stop for a tire change or n few skips in the motor will mean that the driver will be out of the contest. Tlie 50-mile go is expected to see a new track record set as well as in the concluding event, a 150-mire fast grind. Competition nmqng the drivers is more noticeable now than at the pre vious five local races. Harry Hartz i is leading in the American Automo bile Association racing (Championship standing with imiee thou 2100 points. Pete DePaolo, who will pilot a Miller this race, and who holds the' 1925 crown, is runner up, about 700 points in the rear of Hartz. There are five other major contests this season and DePaolo nnd several of the other i drivers have an opportunity of over hauling Hartz. unless the smiling lead er finishes one, two, three in a couple more races. With terrific speed assured haz ards are greatly increased for the gritty demons who wind up the fly : ing autos around the gigantic saucer. A sprint race furnishes thrills for spectators and participants alike. THEEE CONVICTS ESCAPE . Overpower Guard and Escape After Beating Him. ■ Greensboro. N. C., Aug. 18.—t/P)— • Meagre reports reaching this city i state that three convicts, names un known, escaped from Ridge convict camp near Melvin, east of here, this ■ morning. The men are reported to have overpowered Guard Coble, saved pistol and escaped after severely beat ' ing him. Bloodhounds were put on ' the trail. THREATS AGAINST LIFE ' OF SENATOR BROKHART • Guard of Deputy Sheriffs and Detec i fives Placed Around Him at Cedar ‘ Rapids. Cedar Rapids, lowa, Aug. 18.—(A 3 ) • —Threats against the life of Smith 1 IV. Brookhurt. Republican senatorial [ nominee, were responsible for a guard of deputy sheriffs and detectives be ing placed around him upon his ar | rival here today to make an address at a fair, e Uses Rock to Break Flask in Man’s Pocket. Asheville, Aug. 17. —Mrs. Ben Towe, mother of seven small chil dren, who stepped into the limelight here recently when she hurled a rock with such deadly accuracy at a raiding officer that it struck his hip pocket and broke a Hask of ‘'evi dence" that he had just taken from her husband, was sentenced to 10 days in the county jail here today by Judge A. M- Stack. “The penalty falls more- heavily on the innocent than on the guilty." •Judge Stack commented in passing the sentence. Towe, the husband, got six months on a charge of handling whiskey, with an additional .eight months suspended. , Alleged White Slaver Goes Insane In Jail. Greensboro, August 17. James • Hackett, known as “silk shirt Jim i my," arrested here on June 19 on ; charges of violating the White Slave ! Act, and since then confined iu . Guilford county jail while awaiting , trial in United States Court, became , insane today and had to be confined , in the padded cell at the jail. J. C. Penney 00. Picnic. . The managers ami clerks of the pf the J. C. Penney Co. stores of Con i cord and, Albemarle are to hold a • joint picnic thia evening at Hitejhie’s [ Lake. The occasion promises to be a delightful one. religion, the legacy came uaeXP“' Ito him as he be’ft'ved *- - disinherited. £ . [ When younger, OookS'® ,octed the : j girl his parents wanted ‘lim to marry. ; lend then following this renounced the j i religious faith of his father.. That j 1 act. he believed. wiped away his, lchane.es of inheriting the fortune of j | his grandmother. Mrs. Mary Brad-j ! ford. He wynt to Kewanee in 11111 j and later mnrried Opal Mcßeady, j I joining another c'.iureh. in which he j became a pi),nr. j Frank Cooper, his father, married Francis Bradford, daughter of Mary. I Joliu was the seventh son. Cutting, the'father from the will (be rich old, lady made John the chief beneficiary when sie was seven, but as he left home when he was twenty-one over religions trouble lie believed that he had lost all chance of inheriting the estate. The old lady's will will be read September 18th in the offices of Cooper and Bradford, Wilmington at torneys, and will disclose the reasons j for her leaving tile fortune to John. Cooper has promised the Christian | Church at Kewanee a new building! to cost $250,000. 1 ,h s w-mm; - 111 - MRS, RICHARD WHITTEMORE IN SCENE AT THE GRAVE Baltimore Killer’s Mother-in-Law Denounces Prosecutors in Fiery Speech- Baltimore, Aug, 16. Dramatic scenes marked the funeral "of Rich ard Keese Wbittemore, who was hanged at the Penitentiary 6n Fri day morning. Mm. Theresa Messier, | tlie bandit killer’s mother-in-law, made a fiery speech, denouncing the | I prosecutors. Whittemore's young j | wife attempted to throw herself into ; | her husband's grave. She was restrain-1 ed and led away by his father, Raw lings V. Whittemore. Also, the officiating minister omit ted a sentence in the ritual, because he did not want to hold the Al mighty responsible for what "dam ned fools" did. , After tliV* Rev. Charles S- • Biggs, j j Methodist Episcopal Chaplin at the penitentiary, had concluded the serv ice at the grave. Mrs. Messier's voice broke the silence. “Can I speak?” she said. There was no answer except a gasp of surprise. She eontiiiued: "They took his life. Now I hope they are satisfied. They broke his neck', but they couldn’t break his spirit. When they would not let my daughter kiss him goodby they show ed what kind of dogs they were. To day the angels in heaven weep. “I tHqie the onos responsible will find—if they ever attempt to kiss their wives—that Reese's spirit will come between them and separate them." Refore Mm. Messier spoke, the Rev. Dr. Riggs had read the sendee for the dead leaving out that iiortion which reads: "God in His wise providence has takeu the soul of the departed.” Asked after the ceremony if he had left out that isn't intentionally, he answered: "1 could not bring my self to blame God Almighty for what we may be damned fools enough to do.” There was notable tension through out the service' at the cemetery, where about 500 persons had gather ed. Six young pallbearers, all ac quaintances of Whittemore, dropped nose petals into the grave and then handed Mrs. Whittemore roses that she threw in. There was a profusion of flowers- Among them was a blank et of rose- ordered by the widow. A wreath from the father of the dead bandit bore upon its ribbon the sim ple legend : “From a brokenhearted father.” A huge wreath containing 1,000 roses was sent by n group of Whitte more’s former neighborhood associ ates. •A crowd of some 3.000 people gathered about the Whittemore house before the funeral, but gave no trou ble to the detail of twenty policemen lent there. Couple Married in an Airplane 2,000 Feet High. New York. Aug. l'r.—ln an air plane 2,(KM) feet above Central park. Dr. Henry C. McKnown. university professor and former army aviator, 1 took Miss Ruth 1. Hord, a Mount Pleasant, Tenn. school teacher, as his bride today. The eerenionw was performed by Rev Leslie J. Barnett, of the Slorn ingside Presbyterian church and was witnessed by W. 11. McMullen, pilot of the plane, and Miss Elizabeth Wornock, of Pittsburgh, a friend of the bride. The plane took off from Curtis field at 4 o’clock and landed there again safely three-quarters of an hour later. After reaching the 5,000 foot altitude, the pilot .shut, off the motor and the words of the marriage ceremony were plainly heard by the plane’s five occupants. The couple left by boat for Bermuda. Mrs. Duke Appointed Daughter's Guardian. New York, Aug. 16—Mrs. Nana line H. Duke, widow es James B. Duke, tobacco magnate, was appoint ed ancillary guardian for her daugh ter, I>oris Duke, aged 13, in n order signed today, by Surrogate Foley Mrs. Duke and her daughter sailed for Burope Saturday. Mr. Duke died October 10, 1925- According to the petition, Doris is possessed of personal property with in the State valed at $15,285,000. By the will of her father she may be come entitled to a remainder interest lit real and personal property inelud -1 ing the Duke home at 1 East 78 Street. i H. L. Horton, of Albemarle, is the 1 executor of the estate of the late Rev. N. R. Richardson. THE TRIBUNE j PRINTS TODAY’S NEWS TODAXi NO. 19f KHIWM II ’ll Id OPPOSE | MIMII POLLS fl In Primary in Wyomjiyf flS|| Tuesday He Was Lead- fl ing Field For Republican fl| Nomination. H GOVERNOR ROSS &flI WITHOUT CONTES? fl Woman Governor Naped fflj by Democrats for Election —Little Fight j|| SB Mississippi Primary. H . Oheyemif*, Wyo., Aug. 18.— UP) — (Frank <\ Hmcrson. state engineer and .flag convention endorsed candidate, ■I rank E. Lucas, secretary of |H9 in the race for I lie Republican npurtr hiation for governor by 2.424 votfg early today on the face of from 1.087 of the state's 1.688 einetn in yesterday's primary fiftfeiSMM tion. These gave Emerson jafl Lucas 2.072 and Dr. H. R. Latbcd& the third entry, but 179. ■■' >*pf| The Republican gubernatorial -iflH test held the center of the stage with JjiM Governor Nellie Taylor Ross posed for t lie Democratic nomingtffi| : |flfS and wit’ll few contests on the ticket which included one sional seat, that now held by C nines ■§ j E. \\ inter, congressman at large, i also is unopposed for the RepubljCtt’ fljfl 'nomination. j Little Interest in Mississippi II Jackson. Miss., Aug. 18.—UP)—- Unofficial returns today showed three of Mississippi's four fives in the lower house of <'ongrdsK- AgS who sought rencmiimition were ions in yesterday’s llciuoeratie• RS ; mary. The outcome of the other cq£cJ3H j tests rema’ns dobbtful. Representative J. W. Collier. Vicksburg, won from Fran is HarutyijfcSflH of Jackson, by approximately 2566 votes in the eighth district. Bracticall.v complete figures ed that W. M. Whittington, of , wood, incumbent, had won over W. Y. -WM . Humphreys, of Greenville. in tltfiiaMfl , third district. Whittington received "I*S| 6.483 votes and Humphrey 5.557. ,: i H| The most one-sided race of the quar,-';ejH . fette was in the fourth district where JjEl (Representative Jeff Rushy, of Hous- fl| 1 | ton., had 4.183 votes against < his opponent, J. F. Smith, of I Less than half of the precincts > ed had reported. H Latest tabulation showed Represep*,#^M * tative i!. G. Ixiwrey. of Blue Moup ’ tain, trailing R : cliard Denman, i Charleston, by 77 votes in the district. Tiie count was Denman t 383. I c wer.v 6.306. Seven preciuctß?|H» are to be heal'd from. ■ 1 ‘ SAFETY DIRECTOR HAS H ESCAPE FROM RLM4P I \ * Home < f Directors in Niles, Gfeio. Was Partially Destroyed day by Bomb. H Niles. Ohio.. Aug. 18.—C4>)— residence of Safety Director Qrffc.flH j O. Tewitt was badly damaged Jbs a jfl i bomb exploded at the front portion of . the house early today. The t front portion of the house was away. None of t'.ie occupants hurt. H j Police believe the bomb was placed '<9 ns n result of Hewitt's activity in ptJtvSH l sonnlly leading raids against gers. gamblers and other law violat- fl ) ors. fl With Our Advertisers. *j I The Merit Shoe Co. will filial clean-up sale on Thin ilitp day and Saturday of this week. All 9 white, grey and blonde shoes wijU go fl at $1.95. All sizes, widths AA to jpic 9 See ad. on page. fl Now playing at the Concord The*- .fl tre —“Bright Light”, a wyn picture. Thursday, “O v 'Vhat a 9 Nurse", a Sid < ’.itipliii picture, Patsy Ruth Miller. Friday. Man Upstairs". with Monte Blue.H Call 890, Efird’s Beauty for au appointment. fl Exceptional values in living furniture at 11. B. Wilkinson’s. Prices on trunks reduced 20 per cent, at Concord Furniture Co. Yotp*; *9 boy or girl will soon need one to to go off to school. fl Just in solid car of 28 gauge gaV vanized resiling at $4.75 a square, a,t Yorks & Wadsworth Co. 1 The Parks Belli Co. has a complete 't||H Stock of hosiery for the school chil- dreu and everybody else. fl Trees Suffer From a Strange Malady S Danville, Vs.. Aug. 17.—Du9H trees have begun to suffer from JivS strange malady ami the States Department of Agriculturtt has decided to send its G. A. Gravatt. here to make KB quiry. Many fine shade trees turning brown or have already witbejMi ••red. At first it was suspected that the long spring drought was re. sponsible, hut the underlying is now considered more serious anil 'Mr a tree disease apiamm to have come epidemic here. fl Killed in Airplane Crash. MH H London, Aug. 18. —(K»)—The PnriS-'flH London passenger plane crashedylilt Romney marshes, Kent, late today, vH One passenger was killed were seriously injured. THE WEATHER ' I Partly cloudy with <M-caHianaji era tonight and Thursday; southwest winds, .SH
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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