lima* VOLUME XXVI One Negro W oman,Two Negro Men Are Killed By Mob At Aiken, S. C. Were Taken From Aiken Jail and Killed in Woods About One-Fourth Mile From the City Limits. CHARGED WITH SHERIFFS DEATH Convieted Once But Was Given New Trial—Judge Orders a “Not Guilty’* Verdict for One. Aiken, 8. C\, Oof. B.—C4 3 )—Clarence, and Demon Lowman, negro men, and Bertha lawman, negress, all Wiree of Whom were being tried for murder In connection with the death of Sheriff 11. H. Howard, of Aiken county, were lynched early today on the outskirts of Aiken. A mob broke into the Aiken jail at 8 o’clock this morning, and after ov erpowering Jailer Rupert Taylor and Sheriff Nollier Robinson, seized the negroes and carried them in automo biles to a point on the Aiken-Columbia road about ene-fourth mile beyond the -V>«» limits, w’.iere in a little pine thicket the three were shot to death. The three tygfoes, having once been convicted bttf granted a new trial by the Supreme Court, were placed on trial a second time early this week. Yesterday Special Judge S. T. Lan ham, presiding, directed a verdict of “not guilty" for Demon Isiman oh the charge of conspiracy to murder. It is believed P.iat this precipitated the lynching. Taylor, the jailer, said all electric light wires to the jail were severed, and he was called to the door by the mob. A demand was made for the prisoners, but he refused, and had Sheriff Robinson called by telephone. The sherjff arrived while the mob surrounded the jail,, and was prompt ly overpowered, according to the of ferers’ version of the affair. Mean time some members of the mob,gained access to the jail through a window in a portifili of the building used as a residence for the jailer, and secured the three negroes. Sheriff Robinson said he followed the mob part of the way toward tfci tttwne pf the lynching, although he Was unarmed.; b«t was distanced because be W*f*friH»f-s »m*!K automobile wKflpthc lyncffers were in higfa pow ered cars. The three victims were shot several times each, but were not riddled with bullets. Their bodies remained |h the little pine thicket for several hmtrt after they were killed. Although Demon I .Oman was ac quitted of the conspiracy charge, he was arrested yesterday on a warrant charging assault and battery with in tent to kill, and was in jail on that warrant. The two men were sentenced to death at their first trial while the woman was given a life sentence. No reliable estimate of the number of men in the mob was available early today. One woman at the jail de clared there were a thousand in the crowd of lynchers, while others said there was not more than thirty. The Cutting of the electric light wires left jbe jail and town in darkness making it impossible, according' to officers, to identify those who composed the mob. Sheriff Robinson was one of tbe officers who as a deputy accompanied Sheriff Howard on the fatal raid 'to the Low man home in Aprit 1025. Due of the contentions of the de fendants at the first trial was that the negroes were not aware that tbe raiders were officers when they de scended upon their Ifome in search fyr liquor. Annie Lowman, the moth er of Demon, and Bertha, wifs shot and killed by one of the officers. Clar ence was alleged to have fired the shot that killed Sheriff Howard. Bertha was shot through the body in the melee that followed the raid. What Assistant Chief of Police J. H. Woodward described as I “well or ganised" mob, cut the telephone and electric light wiree leading into the jail, overpowered tbe Jailer and sher-j iff, seised Clarence • and Demmond J Lowman and the latter’s sister Ber* i tba, and hurried them to the outskirts’ of town and shot them to death. JHe declared that the bodies, while not ,rid-1 rled, were found “well shot” about 20 yards spart and the mob evidently had ordered tbe negroes to run and then opened fire. .The bodies indicated that each negro had beaded in a different direction. When Judge Latham called tbe court to order this morning, tbe coro-| ner informed him of the death of the three defendants and court- was ad journed by the judge who said that It was "a sad and deplorable end.” Judge Latham intimated to newspa per men later than an investigation of the lynehings would await the regular session of the Aiken court, which con venes week after next with Judge M. M. Mann the regular trial jftdge, on I the bench. Judge Latham is presid ios over a special term of court. | Judge Latham said that during the progress of the trial yesterday there was no evidence of undne egciteiMftt. “The crowd was the most grdffinr .l have ev«- seen in • court ma», w h$ said. “Quiet prevailed throughout the session, and there was no eridweel whatsoever of impending violence. Colombia, 8. C., Oct. &.—B to $6.90 at J. C. Penney Co.'s. The season's foremost millinery showing at Efird’s. $2.05. $3.65 and $4.05. A great line of groceries at the Parks-Belk Co., and the prices are al ways attractive. Phone 208. Bfeeopw Death From Train By Using Battery. Goldsboro, N. C., Oct. 6.—Dr. L. W. Corbett Wayne county health of. fleer attributes the fact that he is at present alive and healthy to the storage battery in his car. Not long ago the doctor's car stall ed on a crossing directly in the path of an onrushing train. The motor wouldn’t, respond so the doc tor frantically slid the machine in gear and stepped on the starter.. It pulled off to safety. So grateful was the doctor that he looked under the floor boards and noted the battery makers’ name. He wrote the company a note of appre ciation, and tried to forget the har rowing incident until last week he picked np a widely circulated weekly periodical to find his name em blazoned on a page advertisement, telling all about his narrow escape. Hotel Dfaitor Roam to Open Sunday. Following plans announced several weeks ago, the jnanagement of the Concord Hotel will open the main din ing room of the hoatelry Sunday. The dining room was closed for the sum mer season. White waitresses have been secured for service in the dining room and the same excellent service which was maintained before its closing will be offered its patrons in the future. Thieves Commandeer Truck to Haul Away Their Loot. Salisbury, Oct 7.—Bo’d robbers entering toe wholesale house of Swift and dompany last 'night used the company’s truck to haul away 3,000 pounds of fatback and bacon and then returned the truck. Nothing else was missed when the robbery was discovered this morning. The truck showed indications of having been driven about 80 miles dnring tbe night. _ Tbe real hero of many a modern novel is tbe publisher. CONCORD, N. C., FRIpAY, OCTOBER 8, 1926 BABE ON BATTING SPREE , fjgr Photo shows Babe Ruth. King 6f Swat, crosting the piatc in the first i lining, scoring the first Yankee run of tlie afternoon after swatting a home run out of Sportsman's Park. He later scored two more homers and was giv en two walks, therefore establishing a new world's record for a daily batting average. The Yanks took this, tile fourth game of she series, from thefardinals by a score of 10 to 5. aurwmp——n tt-~— - 1 .I, ■ - ...... . MARKET COTTON SLOWLY Governor Me Lean Calls on Cotton Farmers Nat to Be Stampeded.' Tribune Bureau, Sir Waltter Hotel- Raleigh. Oct. B.—The cotton far-, mera of the State have been called upon by Governor A. W. McLean not to become stampeded into dumping their cotton on the market, but to market their cotton as slowly os possible and in an orderly manner. If this is done, the Governor be li-ves that the present slump, in prices can be checked somewhat, and that those farmers who do hold back, .their cotton will be reworded with higher prices. Much f she present (lif eline in p-ioen i* due to the fact that .«a ny farmers have become I hjwterthai and'Have dumped tftyr Cotton on the market for whatever it would bring, with the result "that the market has been glutted. Ooineident with his statement to the farmers, made on his departure for New Y’ork and Philnde'phia, he announced that. North Carolina is going to co-operante with Governor Henry L. Whitfield of Mississippi in the cotton conference which Gov ernor Whitfield boa called to 'meet in MemphP on October 13, for a dis cussion of plans to stabilize the price of cotton.. Several additional delegates from this State have been appointed by Governor McLean, making the total t number thirteen. Five delegates were named several days ago. and seven more yesterday. These are W. A. Graham. Commis sioner of Agriculture. Dr. E. C. Brooks, president of State College, Frank Parker, State Crop Statis tician, all of Raleigh, and J. W. Gravely. Rocky Mount. E. M. Cole. Charlotte, L. D- Robinson, Wades boro and J. Harper Alexander. Scot land Neck. In his statement to the farmers with regard to the cotton situation. Governor McLean said he believed that the bankers, merchants and other business men in the various counties of the cotton belt should eo-opernate with the farmers in carrying over the cotton for a reason able length of time in order that the market may be prevented from being glutted. He said that if this plan is followed, and • determination -is shown by t'lie farmers to materially reduce the cotton acreage next ; car, the price of cotton will in all prob ability improve immediately. “I have personally reduced my cotton ncrenge 50 per cent in the last four years and I intend to cut it 25 per eent more in 1927.” the Governor said. “And if all the far mers in the cotton belt would fo'low this plan substantially, the price of cotton would immediately go up and the whole situation would be greatly improved.” As an evidence of his faith in this plan, she Governor stated that the National Bank of Lumberton. of which he is president, announced two weeks ago that, it would lend money on cotton properly stored and in sured in warehouses, and that the farmers of Robeson county are tak ing advantage of this plan to a con siderable extent. He stated furtber that ’t was most, important that the 'nrger farmers who are able to hold fhelr cotton should ao so, in order that the distressed cotton, principally owned by tenant farmers, would not depress the market. He stated that through the co-operative associations as well as through the ordinary plana of financing through banks, cotton stored in warehouses can be held for a reasonab'e length of time in ordet that orderly marketing may be brought about. Answers to “Wltoa Who?” Page to Be Published Tomorrow On account of tbe work involved in cheeking tt* the answers to the page published in last Saturday’s Tribune,: this page cannot be published today.' It will appear tomorrow, with the name of the winner of the $20.00 in *oW. - % FREDOM of air is big PROBLEM IN NEAR FUTURE The World’s Radio Conference Next Spring to Draft World Regula tions. By WILLIAM S. NEAL (International News Service Staff Correspondent) Washington, Oct. H.—Future free dom cf the air has taken its place as an important international prob .em. American delegates to the world radio conference to be held in Wash ington next spring have drafted a complete set of regulations designed to meet the many complex questions growing out of increasing use of the radio. t ” Crowding of the air.-eonyol'of'in terference and assigning of wstc lengths to be used both for radio telegraph and for voice broadcasting nre included in the program to b? laid down. vTlje American representatives will titlri>lH>*.t‘ that each nation assign wt(ve lengths for voice broadcasting, issue ieenses for internattonal radio sta tions and thus prevent the chaos Witich bus often threatened radio broadcast ing in the United States. To Meet in May The radio conference to be held here is regarded as of especial im portance. since it is the first to con sider radio telegraph conditions since the Isjitdon conference of 1912. It is called tinder a resolution of Con gress and probably will convene in Washington about May Ist. To prepare an ’American program for consideration an inter-department al committee was created composed of seven representatives of the state, war, navy, commerce, post office and agri culture departments and the United States coast guard and the United States shipping board, with Lelnnd Harrison, assistant secretary of state, ns chairman. . After months of work tne commit tee lias drafted its recommendations, which will go to the International Rndjo Union at Herne, Switzerland, for distribution to the 42 nations to be represented at the parley here. The American committee will pro pose that the old agreement which limited ships to wave lengths of 300.- 450 and 600 meters be abolished and instead certain fixed wave lengths as signed for special services such radio contpass work. For general radio service the American policy will hr that then l should be a complete free dom of the air so long as the general radio service is not impeded. Limiting Broadcasters. Broadcasting stations would be al ANNOUNCEMENT i The 58th Series in this old reliable Building and Loan Association will open on October 2nd, 1926. RUNNING SHARES COST 25 CENTS PER SHARE PER WEEK. 1 PREPAI DSHARES COST $72.25 PER SHARE. ALL STOCK IS NON-TAXABLE. STOCK HAS BEEN MATURING IN 328 WEEKS. THE BOOKS ARE NOW OPEN FOR SUBSCRIP TIONS FOR SHARES IN SERIES NO. 58. START SAVING FOR A RAINY DAY-SAVE TO OWN, YOUR OWN HOME. BEGIN NOW. CABARRUS COUNTY BUILDING LOAN AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION/ Office in the Concord National Bank ;, . •- Ur. . ' — - - - PROSPERITY IS FIRM SAYS JUDGE GARY Steel Man. Nearing noth Birthday. . Says Depr'ssion Unnecessary Hits 5-Day Plan New Yoik. Oct. B.—On the eve of his eightieth birthday anniversary, which he will ee ebrnte here today Blbert H. Gary, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation, today east his eye over Hie business horizon and found conditions “very satisfactory.” Taking an even broader view, he said he was becoming more and more convinced that serious business -dumps were no longer necessary, that tbe majority of iieople desired prosperity and would do their utmost to maintain it, that the growing com petition frjsa foreign trade would probabty be friendly and less injur ious than that originating in the United States and that the Ford plai» of -a five-day week for industrial workers was uneconomic. “I shall require further proof.” said Dr. Gary, “before I am satis fied that any man or any number of men can do, as much work in five days of eight hours each as con'd be secured in six days of eight hours each.” In outlining his views on the business situation. Mr. Gary ex plained he was willing to accept the prediction made to him by one of the most prominent bankers in the world that conditions in the United States would continue to be good during the rest of 1926 and probably through 1927. Some beverages can be judged by tasting, others by the feeling—the next morning. ‘owed to take any wave lengths not prohibited by their own government regulations but should interference re sult the matter would become a sub ject for international discussion. The possibility of future limitation of voice broadcasting stations in in ternational communication will be con sidered. United States experts con tend Pant the radio-telephone “uses” several times the amount of ether re quired for the radiotelegraph. The latter, they hold, must be the chief means of international radio if there s the vast development predicted by scientists. How to provide secrecy for messages »l«o will be taken up at the confer ence. Revision of the international code of signals will be considered up in the report of delegates from Great. Britain, who were assigned the task if reviewing tile International Signal Book. MRS. CHILD STURTS ImWSF , SECDht a DIVORCE Wants Freedom From Hus- J band, f Who Formerly) Was ;U. S. Ambassador j to Italy. SHE DECLINES TO J SAY ANYTHING Mrs. Child Started Divorce Proceedings in Spring j But Later the Suit Was ; Withdrawn. i Paris, Oct. 8. —G4>)—Mrs. Richard Washburn Child has instituted divorce I proceedings against tier husband who was former Paired States ambassador! to Italy. ({rounds for the action were not j disclosed, and Mrs. Child declined to-j day to make any comment. Tlie farmer ambassador and his wife j have been estranged for more than a i year, their friends ascribing their dis- i Acuities largely to differences in tern- i perament. Mrs. Child has been in Paris fori the greater part of the last, twelve j months. In May it was reported j she was seeking a separation here but' t'.iis proved incorrect. She then went j to America. Meanwhile the former ambassador i applied for a divorce in Pennsylvania ! i alleging "mental cruelty." His suit | was withdrawn later in September. I | and a partial reeoneoliation was ar-j j ranged, but without sufficient accord j for them to continue together. The | | wife was given custody of their two little daughters. Mr. Child is expected to arrive in Paris shortly but presumably ,is un aware of his Wife's application for divorce. Mrs. Child jvas formerly Miss Maude Parker. They were married in August, 1916. Mr. Child was as sistant to Frank A. Vanderlip in fie war financing work of the United States treasury in 1917-18; was editor of Collier's Weekly in 1919; and was appointed ambassador to Italy in May, 1921, serving until February, 1924. Both he and his wife are well known writers. - /. JOHNSON CONVICTED 1 OF KILLING MERCHANT Verdict of First Degree Murder Be* turned—Two Men Sent to Federal Prison. Charlotte. Oct’. 7.—Charlie John son, negro bad man, this afternoon was found guilty of, murder in the first degree without recommendation of mercy by n Mecklenburg Superior court jury for the slaying of J. W. Daniels, prominent Charlotte grocery man. Judge James BJ. Webb, of Shelby, presiding over this term of court, deferred imposing sentence, which is death. Johnson was arrested shortly after Mr. Dunie's was shot to death on the ' steps of his store building about midnight of Saturday, July 5. The negro had a police record prior to his arrest on a charge of ' killing Mr. Daniels, having served a sentence In prison. P. H. Best, white, and Joe Dye. negro, this afternoon were sentenced by Federal Judge E. Yates Webb, in federal court, to serve terms of a ( year and a day in federal prison fol lowing their admissions of guilt on chnrges of counterfeiting. The l two had been caught by federal secret service operatives while trying to raise $1 bills to $lO. RECENT* TESTS REVEAL MUCH COTTON DAMAGE 525.000.000 Lost Yearly By Im proper Care of Baled Goods. Washington, Oct. 6.—The agri culture department announced Tues day that recent tests showed weather damage to raw cotton after picking amounted to approximately $25,990.- 000 atinully. It defined “weather damage" as damage "that results from excessive moisture in bales of cotton.’’ The departmental bulletin said: "Mildew lowers the grade and consequently the value, but docs not seriously weaken the fiber. The fiber, however, is seriously weakened by the process of decay and if not stop ped the fiber eventually will be de stroyed. “Excessive moisture may have been ]>ermitted to get in the cotton in a number of ways before it was Tinned and packed. It may have heen picked before fully mature or while wet with rain. It may have i been rained upon after being picked —become damp while piled on ground—stored under leaky roofs— rain or snow falling directly on the hale.” Buckner Addresses Jury. New Y'ork, Oct. 8. — (JP) —The val idity of the $7,000,000 claims involved in the Daugberty-Miller trial has nothing at all to do with the case. United States Attorney Emory R. Buckner said today in his summation to the jury. Much of the evidence in the trial of Harry M. Daugherty, former at torney general, and Thomas W. Mil ler, former alien property custodian, who are charted with conspiracy to defraud the United States, centered on the. question of the validity of the two claims Richard Merton, German metal magnate, presented in 1921 tor the Societe Suisse Pmtr Valours de Metaux. THE TRIBUNE j TODAY’S NEWS TODAvf —— MySpa NO. 239 HUGE COTTON CROP ■IDICTED IN HEW CONDITION REPORT Cotton Crop of 16,627,08# Bales Indicated by um Condition of the Crop op October Ist. BIG INCREASE j OVER LAST GUESS It Is Estimated That Nprtif Carolina Will Product* 1,200,000 Bales During the Year. Washington. Oct. B.—C4 5 )—A cotton | crop of 16,827.000 bales of 500 pounds ; gross weight is indicated by the con ! ditiou of the crop on October. Ist, ! which was 61.3 per cent, of normal, j the department of agriculture an* j aonaced today. | The September 16th condition of | 59.5 per cent, indicated a crop of I 810,000. Last year s production was i 16.103.879 bales, and the October iif ! condition was 56.6 per cent. ' , The indicated yield per acre is jjgx, 1 placed at 168.4 pounds, compared tuSSI 160.0 pounds a fortnight ago, gupp j 167.2 pounds the final yield last yejue. The condition on October Ist, anil 1 1h" indicated production by states foj i lows: j Virginia, condition 65 per cent; production 44,000 bales. : North 'Carolina, condition 68 ptsjf, j cent; production 1,200,000 balegl . | South Carolina, condition 56 per, ] cent ; production 1.120.000 bales. i Georgia, /condition 59 per cent i production 1,340.000 bales. ~ Florida, condition 61 per dent: pint, Auction 2.5,000 bales. Missouri, condition 64 per cent;£ production 225,000 bales. Tennessee, condition 59 per centos'; production 390,000 bales. Alabama, condition 65 per cent? | production 1.310,000 bales. Mississippi, production 1,600,000 bales. Louisiana, condition 62 per cent; production 700,000. Texas, condition 59 per cent; pro- < duction 5.350,000 bales. Oklahoma, condition 60 i>er cental production 1,630,000 bales. 1 . Arkansas, condition 61 per centj,?j production 1,370,000 bale*.. 'VM ! New Mexico; prttdneflon cent; production 79,000 bales. ** Arizona, condition 80 per cent; pro-,', dnetion 106,000 bales. ! " -iGnd California, condition ’9l production 7.000 bales. All other states, condition ill per l cent: production 17.000 bales. •‘■'.Va Lower California (Old .Mexico), 1 condition 92 per cent; production, 1 82.000 hales. 5,639.284 Bales Ginned. jj|l Washington, Oct. B.— (A>) —Cpftnjai of this year’s cotton gi mied.prior to October 1 totalled 5.639.284 running bales, counting 162,041 round bales counting 162,041 round bale* 'as bn if ' bales and excluding hitters, compared with 7.126,248 bales including 98,059 | round bales to that date last year, tile Census Bureau announced todayl '„ Will Be Largest Crop. . Washington. Oct. K.-—(/»>>—This year's cotton crop will be the largest ever grown totalling 16,627,000 boles, ns compand with the previous reporji Y?rop of 16,135.930 bales produced in 1914. according to IK'lrartincnt of Ag riculture figures. The cTop gaineil 817.000 bales since the previous fore cast in mid-September, it was indicat ed in a crop report today. , , ' ',sß ® OBM REPORT WOMEN AMONG ’ VICTIMS OF STAMPEDE Were Trying to Get to Boats Carry!a* ; Refugees to Place of Safety. 1 Peking, Oct. B.— o4*) —Foreign diet- v pati'aes from Hankow say that ajt least fifty women were among; those trampleil to death in the rush of the crowds through the gate of tbe city . of Wuchang in an attempt to reach the boats taking refugees to Hankow across the Yangtze River. Chinese estimates unconfirmed say| that 10.000 persons have died in Wu* . I'anng since the siege of that city by the red Cantonese army began some weeks ago. Most of these are said to have died of starvation. Hankow dispatches stae that 500 . coffins have been shipped to Wuchang : to bury refugees trampled or drowned in the rush for boats. Think Ormiston Is Located. Ixis Angeles, Oct. B.—<4>)—A squad' of ’detectives 'leaded by Chas. ReihcM&i chief investigator for District Attiwfj ney Asa Keyes, rushed to an outly£s ing point here shortly after 9 o’clock-, this moring on information that Ken neth G. Ormiston. key witness in tjSgj Aimer Semple McPherson case, and a, fugitive from justice, was in hiding _ there. Reimer said he was con vinced he would return with the fur« mer Temple radio operator. ’ ‘ Ipl Persons who plan to enter pou!t*y| in. the Cabarrus Fair are asked to taktji the chickens there not later than ncgM Monday afternoon. J. Ivey CihiM who wjll have charge of the extittMfl will see that birds left at tbe artwHß Saturday night or Monday have *i the attention they need. THE WEATHER j Fair tonight, light to heavy fnj| in west if weather remains eMH Saturday fair. Gentle north §£l northeast winds. , ~y3gg|| •K" •-/. . '