ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI But Little Relief Felt Over Flood Situation Caused By Heavy Rains Situation Tense Along the Tennessee, Cumberland and Ohio Rivers—6,ooo Driven From Homes. DEATH UST REMAINS AT 13 No Immediate Relief foi Traffic is Promised-r-Mis sissippi Only Five Feet Below Flood Stage. Memphis.Tenu., Dm*. 20. —OP)— Little relief wax felt over the flood situation in the Soul’.i caused by the rerent torrential rains 1 hough gener ally clear skies forecast for today brought hope to the areas affected. '(■he situation is most tense along the Tennessee, Cumberland and Ohio rivers where more than C,060 stave been driven from their homes us a result of back water froni the streams. The death list remained at thirteen today, though meagre reports from isolated sections indicated that this toll might be increased when full communications were established again. Kailroad officials would not pre dict any immediate relief for traffic which has been greatly hampered by the water. Home sections are en tirely isolated from rail service, and many others were experiencing in convenience from delayed trains. Hirer engineers in Memphis an nounced that tl*c Mississippi was lit tle more than dive feet below flood stage here, and expressed fears that the floods anticipated later when the snows begin to melt in the headlands, will cause much destruction in the lower basin. The unusually heavy rains will add to tlie force of the big flood, they believe. Several cities have issued appeals for funds wll'.i whicli to carry on re lief. Nashville, the most severely hurt . . of nny city in the flooded area, had more than 4.000 homeless, with a crest on the Cumberland Itiver not reached yet. The flood there was said to be thb worst since 1882. Be cause of iuahpUty of observers to the vccwMr Mvcr gorge an improvised gorge ■hw been established Oil one of t'.ie flooded streets. No deaths had boon reported there, but relief work will be hampered unless $5,000 is giv en the sufferers. Highway traffic in the flooded areas is practically at a standstill. Warn ings are being issued in some cities, cautioning motorists who drive at night to be careful. Damage to high ways iu the South has been estimated into the millions. Arkansas, which reported the first serious damage from the flood, was hcgin.iiing to get back to normalcy last nig'.it, nml today work on reclam ation of highways was getting under way. Six of the kuowu dead per ished in Arkansas. Mississippi, where five deaths were attributed to the floods, was experi encing clear weather today but the situation remains tense in some sec tions. Lowlands along the Pear! i Itiver were unde* water, and the 1 Delta section was beginning to ex- I perience severe floods. Fears tlial I some of the larger towns in the uotth | Mississippi hill section would be on- I lively cut off from rail service was | cx proased. Tennessee, especially in the low lands surrounding the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, was preparing for the worst today as the flood wat ers continued to spread. Nashville. Chattanooga, and other large cities were providing for their citizens driv en from their homes by the waters. Kentucky,, in the lowlands adjoin ing the Ohio river, found itself worse off today as a result of the high water than the day before, reports said. One possible death was reported in Kentucky when a man last was seen walking along the railroad track had not been beard from in more than a day. Crop damage in this state was expected to be held to a minimum as l farmers gathered corn in the lowlands 1 keeping just abend of the advancing I water, to take their lirodiice to high ■ qr ground. ■ I Rivers In This State Rising. ■ ! i Raleigh, Dec. 2!).— OP) —Moderate ■ overflows at low places along the Ro- Bnnoke, 'far and Cape Feast rivers iu ■ eastern ; NortVi Cartflinh. were forq -9 cast in reports to the United States ®weather bureau observatory here to ll day but no flood warnings bad been IS issued. -g Observers said that an average pre ' cipitation In the eastern part of the state during the last 48 hours of about two inches had caused rivers to rise, but no serious-conditions were anticipated due to general low atages prior to the. rains. The highest water mark was reported at Weldon where the Roanoke 'aas risen ten feet, but was still ten feet below the danger line. Rivers in the western part' of the state were rising, but were far below flood stage. The majority of these rivers flow into South Carolina, where observers snUl the most serious dam age would occur in case of overflows. Forecasts of fair weather and cold er were ipsued from the local office today, which, it was explained, indi cated the passing of any danger of flood conditions approximating those sci. in the Mississippi valley. Situation Grave at Nashville. Nashville, Ten., Dec. 29. —M*)—The .most disastrous flood in the history The Concord Daily Tribune r, -1 ; j North Carolina's Leading Small City Daily CHRISTMAS TI'RNKD INTO HORROR AND SORROW Man Lost Wife and Three Children in the Georgia Wreck. (Hy International News ServteO Arlantn. (la., Dec. 2!).—While all Atlanta was n enjoying a happy Christmas season, a broken hearted mail sat and cried at the bedside of his wife, critically injured in the disastrous wreck of the Royal Palm and Ponce de Leon, crack passenger trains on the Southern, at Rockniart. Georgia, early Thursday night. His name is E. M. Hardy, of Miami. Florida. And on Christmas Day-—a day set aside for tidings of joy—Hardy had gone through the ordeal of identifying his. two little children— Hazel. 7. und Kenneth. s—at an ] undertaking establishment here. They \ met tlicir death in the wreck which took a toll of 18 other lives, and Were so horribly mangled, that' recognition was impois-ible to every one except the broken hearted fatli er. This man whose Christmas had been turned into a clay of tragedy, and sorrow indescribable —was torn between two emotion* that tugged at his hear! strings- He desired with his lifeless children on this Christ mas Day. He had planned this tunny months ahead. But he wanted to be with his wife also. And they were separated now. That had not been planned. Fate had stepi>ed into their plans—his wife’s and his—and left great sorrow. So the husband spent his Christ mas nml the day after, between the undertaking establishment where his only children lay in death, and the hospital where hi* wife is within the shadow of death. And as Hardy sit* beside his wife's bedside—dejected and broken of heart—he seems to be keeping vigil over bis companion who bore his now dead children. He cannot stand the thought of the Grim Ren ,- or taking his all in life. He stands guard, therefore, at her bedside, with a prayer on his lips. GOV. MARTIN SAYS' A - PIECE TO GOV. PEAY Reply to an Idiotic Remark Made By * ' cf Governor pf jo ' Tallahassee. F.n" Alec. UsS—"T wonder what the kind Governor Austin Peny, of Tennessee rninks about the wrath of the Almighty now that his own house has five feet of water in it,” Governor John AV. Mhrtin declared to the Universal Service here tonight. Governor Peny. ■according to Governor Martin, sniJ to the press just after the hurricane of September 18 that swept South ern Florida "The hurricane aim de vastation is a manifestation of the wrath of God visited in Miami for her wickedness.” “The State of Florida is willing aud glnd to help those in Tennessee who have been deprived of homes and food not only in remembrance for the help so recently given Flori da, but because all humanity should respond to any call for help from such u disaster." Governor Martin said. New Year's Eve Program at the Con. cord Theatre. A great program will be presented at the Concord Theatre on New Year’s Eve beginning at 11:30 p. m. "Summer Bachelors,” a most daring story, will be the feature. Also Ma bel Normand will return in a comedy “Anything Once.” Better get your tickets at the box office now. Buddhism is the religiou ot 500,- ''oo,ooo or a third of the human far.i ily. of the Cumberland River is en route to Nashvilie. A stage flood of 55.5 to 50 feet will be reached by the Cumberland, here, breaking the 55.3 record of 1882 nnd all records since this section was settled by white men. This forecast was made today by the local Vinted States weather bu reau. The gauge stood at f>4.4 at 10 o’clock this morning, a rise to 55.5 feet before noon tomorrow is probable—almost certain. A rise to 50 febt b.v tfiat time is considered pos able. * , The crest of the rise wilt be reached Friday or Saturday.' The river jis »tU rising at all points.. The I flood’ si teat kin is ureprwfedent “d in the local weather bureau’s an nals, presenting problems in forecast ing that have never been encountered before. The river will not fall apparently before next Tuesday, It is stater). The rainfall was general throughout the upper river territory Monday night and Tuesday, but stopped at all points Tuesday afternoon. Gloomy wintry weather has today succeeded rain. TODAY CONCORD THEATRE lOc to all lOc FAMILY DAY SPECIAL TODAY ONLY AILEEN PRINGLE LOWELL SHERMAN CHESTER CONKLIN —IN— “THE WILDERNESS WOM>4N” ITS A GREAT PICTURE | Goes to Work jp jj^. Kate Colby, daughter of Bain bridge Colby, Secretary of State in the Wilson Cabinet, accepted a position in a Phila delphia steamship office. (InteraaUonsl Newsreel) IS IT A STATE LIBRARY OR JUST A BOOK MUSEUM The Slate Does Not Permit Any of Its Volumes to Bq Taken From the library. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Dec. 29. — UP) —Just what is the State library, a library or a book museum? Os what benefits are its 00,000 volumes of history, biog raphy and everything but fiction, since the state does not permit any of its volumes to be taken outside the li brary itself? These questions have been asked by book lovers and library users for some years, and lately the movement has gained some headway to have a definite effort made during cue cur rent session of the general assembly to have the library’ rules liberalized so that the geueral public may tnakc better use of the large collection of books in the libray. At present. With the library closing at 5 o’clock in the afternoon nnd no one being per mitted to take u book out. of the li brary, its use is confined very largely to a handful of people who drop in for an hour or so during the day to read an article in a magazine or I glance over a newspaper, the books being rarely ever called for or used. Thus Cue library is becoming iu real ity nothing more than a hook mu seum. Yet the majority of the 00,000 vol umes could be put into circulation if the public could only be permit ted to make use of the library as others are used, and books could be withdrawn for a week or two weeks at a time. Miss Carrie Broughton, librarian of State Library, admits that the use of the books would un doubtedlV be greatly stimulated should patrons be permitted to withdraw books, and although siie says she knows of no state libraries that lend books a* do public libraries, still she is not adverse to such a plan, should the legislature deride to liberalize the present regulations which make of the library little more than a storage vault for books. At present mem bers of the legislature are the only persons who are permitted to take books out —a provision that smacks very much of class legislation, express ly forbidden by t’.ie constitution. CHARGE THAT WILBUR REFUSED NAVY REPORTS To House Naval Committee is Made by Representative McClintlc. Washington, Dec. 29.— UP) —The Pacific- “war scare” that figured in the Fall-Doheny oil trial has come under inquiry by the House naval committee, and Representative Me Clintic, of Oklahoma, a Democratic member, said today that Secretary Wilbur had refused to give file com mittee confidential navy reports bear ing on the subject. American Steamer Foundered. Paris, Dee. 29.— UP) —A, telei.'.ione message byway of Berlin to the Paris Midi says tjhe American steamer As toria has foundered in • the Black, Sea near Kavarna, Romania, with the'loss ’of twenty-one lives. ‘t J Fall’s Condition Improved. El Paso, Texas. Dec. 29. —C4»)— Albert B. Fall, who has been con fined to his home here since Sunday with pneumonia, was reported slight ly improved today. From the seventh to the thirteenth century the year in England was reckoned from Christmas. City Tax Notice A penalty of one per cent, will be added to your City Tax January Ist, 1927. Pay today, and save the cost. CHAS. N. FIELD, City Tax Collector. CONCORD, N. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1926 HIBI j OF M'PHERSON OISE | HAS BEEH ORDERED? jLos Angeles Times Saya New Grand Jruy Inves* tigation Will Be Started l There Tomorrow. i - |PLAN SUGGESTED „ TO SAVE TIME I j District Attorney Wants All Defendants Indicted ] Together So They Caii Be Tried at Same Time. I.os Angeles, Dec. 29. — 04*) —The Times says today it has learned from an authoritative source that a new' grand jury investigation of the Aimeq Semple McPherson disappearance ease will be opened here tomorrow morn ing- The newspaper declares that the Los Angeles county grand jurors wilt be asked to return a joint indictment! against the Angeltis Temple evange list, Kenneth G. Ormixton, her form er radio operator; Mrs. Minnie Ken nedy, her mof.ter, and other co-de fendants on criminal conspiracy charges. The step will be taken by tlie diatriet attorney’s office, in order that all of tiie defendants may be tried jointly when their cases are set for trial in Superior Court. LOUISVILLE FIREMEN DIE FIGHTING BLAZE William A. Fisher and Charles A. Webb Fatally Hurt While on Duty. Louisville, Ky., Dec. 29.— UP) — Two firemen were fatally injured early today in combatting a $75,000 blaze at the Kentucky Drug Company at sth and Main streets here. AVilliam A. Fisher, assistant chief of the fire department, went to his death when he slipped while standing on u small ledge of the third floor of the burning building directing hie men. He fell to the ground from his iee-oobered footing, and died while being taken to the city hospital. Chas. A. AA'qbb, a few minutes later, fell from the same spot aud he too was drttshed to death by the fall. ; .. . SEVERAL PERISH WIIpIN PASSENGER TRAINS CRASH From Ten to Fifteen Persons Believ ed to Have Perished hi Tunnel Wreck. Santiago, Chile,, Dec. 29.—OP)— From 10 to 15 persons are believed to have been killed in a train wreck in a tunnel near I.otu yesterday after noon. A train from (’oncepcion be came stalled in the tunnel when it Struck an animal. The other train from Lota crashed into the stalled train. Shattered oil lamps ignited the wreckage which burned so rapidly that the passengers had no chance to escape. Charred bodies were remov ed. but the exact number of dead was unknown today. Salisbury Stage Star Will Appear in Show at Raleigh. Raleigh. Dec. 28.—Sidney Black ner, Salisbury stage star, will play Rn'.eigh January 12 with Madge Kennedy in “Love In a Mist.” The young man, who has risen to Broadway fame in a few years, has been visiting his mother in Salis bury but has returned to is work nnd is at present in Washington. The visit to Raleigh is hi* first since the early days when he was the star of a college cast which did the state years ago. Proper Dress Needed on Rio Street Cars. Rio De Janeiro, Dec. 28.—Cor rect attire is required of street car passengers here and the rule is rigid ly enforced. Men must wear a collar and tie nnd, on the first class cars, a coat. A conductor recently stubbed a man who insisted on riding in viola tion of the collar-aud-tie order. Orders Broadway’s Theatres Cleansed Os All Immorality New York. Dec. 28.—Theatrical producers of the Great.. WhEte jAVay here! told todtjy that if their stages Iwei'e nbC immediately cleansed of immorality with a theatrical broom, they would be scoured spotless with a legal scrubbing brush. Summoned to City Hall by Mayor Walker, the producer* were told of numerous convplaintN concerning cur rent attractions and were informed that they themselves could take the corrective measures if they acted quickly. Otherwise, they were told, the if ficial censor would become an ac tuality to stalk the playhouse* with a critical eye nnd with the power of law behind it. Notables There. All the prominent producers called in by the Mayor attended the confer ence except Sain 11. Harris, who is in Connecticut. George M. Cohan came down from Monroe, N. Y., to listen to the Mayor's ultimatum. Other producers iiresent were Lee Shubert, Arthur Hopkins, AVilliam A. Brady. Daniel -Frohman, Edgin' Se'.wyn, David Belasco and John Golden. After they bad left, Mayor Walk er admitted, newspaper men and told them of hia plans- In Tragedy Dorothv Papcnhausen was ex pelled from Manchester Col lege, North Manchester, for smoking. Joseph Tillman, who was suspended for giving her cigarettes, died a suicide. (Iniernattaoa) ltow«*ell THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady at Decline of 3 to 4 Points AVith Business Quiet During Early Trading. New York, Dec. 29—’ that it is going to be very difficult ti) secure any appreciable reduction in cotton acreage, with f.he probability of ! another large cotton crop again next j year, with continued low prices, j And much the same condition seems probable with regard to tobac co, with increased acreage likely throughout all the tobacco producing sections. An increase in tobacco acreage in North Carolina of more than 10 tier cent lias already been indicated, as reported by confity agents recently, and this is likely to be increased rather than decreased. Thus the probability of lower cotton and tobacco prices, even if confined to North Carolina alone, will have a far-reaching economic effect on com merce tind industry in general, whether allied with the cotton ant tobacco trade or not. “The agricultural situation, and I especially the cotton outlook, in this state is extremely serious right now:' said an official of the State I Department of Agriculture here to day in discussing the economic status in the stnte at present, but who de e'ined to permit his name to be used. "Because crop* have been good and production plentiful, many of the farmers believe they are having pros perity. when in fact they have over production. Thus if they do not re trench next year, they will have so nine overproductioin that prices will tumble all along the line, as the re sult of the old economic law of sup ply and demand going into action- Still, hundreds of farmers are plan ning on planting more cotton and to bacco than over before, in the hope that some one else will reduce their acreages, and that they will gain thereby. Thus they are ignoring ab solutely the most fundamental coo ! nomic laws and are gambling on the future. endangering the whole economic foundations upon whi*Ji they will suffer the consequences.” In fact, one farmer in a eoun r y neighboring Wake, who owns aho it 30 farms, is reported to have order ed his tenonts to plant nothing hut cotton this spring, banking on the chance that, others will reduce acre age. And this is said to be but one of numerous similar instances. Hence whatever Babson may, have to say with regard to the situation will be listened to with great inter est by those who look at the situation from a serious point of view. it should be instituted, despite the fact that the state department of education and the state Teachers As sociation has carefully refrained from mentioning anything about its cost or how it could be financed, being content to ndvooate the longer term in the hope of its adoptiion. leaving the question of how to fi nance it until later. While the action of the commis sion with regard to the longer term cannot of course be foretold, still it is becoming increasingly evident that much valuable material and pertinent data has been assembled which will go far toward clarifying the whole situation, when it is made public. WEATHER FORECAST. Fair and slightly colder tonight; Thursday fair. Fresh nortweat winds. THfc TRIBUNE PRINTS TODAY’S NEWS TODAY NO. 306 The Liberals in Nicaragua Threaten Several Strate gic Points as Result of Success in 3-day Battle. DIAZ TROOPERS GIVING GROUND It Is Said That Several Hundred Mexican Sol diers of Fortune Are Fighting With Liberals. Managua. Nicaragua. Dec. 29.— UP) —Victorious in a three-day battle at Las Perlas on the cast coast of Nic aragua, the Pberal forces of Dr. Juan Sacasa arc now threatening scvecul strategic points leading to the inter ior. The troops of the conservative gov ernment of President Diaz who lmo been recognized by the United States, were forced to retreat before the lib erals. The latter's government un der Dr. Sacasa is recognized by Mex ico. Advices from the fighting zone wf that 1.000 conservative troops' were opposed by 1,500 liberals, of whom 300 were alleged to be Mexican sol diers or officers. The conservatives ran out of am munition. anil found their machine gun fire no match for the twelve pieced of light artillery in the possession of the liberals. A retreat was ordered, 400 men being told to cover the rear, while the main body retired to tfie neutral zone of El Bluff. Os the 400 rear guard many were killed while others were' surrounded and can tured. The main body reached El Bluff where they will be disarmed b? the American naval forces who are maintaining the neutrality of the zone. By their victory the liberals gain ed access to the Escondido River, captured Fruta de Pan, and began nil attack on Monkey Ridge. CHARLES H. REECE DIES OF INJURIES} Was Hurt Christmas Even When He Fell From Running Board of Au tomobile. Franklin. N. C„ Dec. 29.—(A I )—< Charles 11. Reeoc, 24 year old taxicab "20 driver, died here last night of n frac tured skull received Christmas Eve when lie fell off the running board of an automobile when it was unexpect edly started. His was the second death iu. ..the Reece family from automobile acci dents. his brother, Wiley, them eight years old. having been kilted when struck by an automobile in 1943.., Reece had made a trip to Sylva and was en route home with Ralph Penfield driving. The car developed motor trouble mid Reece had gotten out to investigate. As he was-get ting into the rear, Penfield started, thinking Reece was on board. Reece was paralyzed in one arm and it was due to the fact that lie had only one hand that his fall was at tributed. With Our Advertisers. Remember, there are no left Overs at Fisher's—everything must go. Today is family day at the Coneord * Theatre, TO cents to all. A penalty of one per cent, will he addl'd to, your city tax if not paid before January Ist. The clothing sale at one-fourth off at the Rit’jmond-F'.owe Co's, began Tuesday and is going good. It goes through January 10th. | You can get a pair of $1.25 shears for only (i!) cents at Etird's. Cut out the coupon ill their ad. today. If to be sent by mail add 5 cents for post age. Ixiok up tin* ad. anil don't miss this opportunity. The Citizens Bank and Trust. Co. endeavor* to adapt its service to the individual requirements of each ac count. Vulcanizing i* tire economy—see new ad. of the Concord Vulcanising Co. Wrcnn at Kaunapolis. can work wonders with your clothes. Let hint try it. Convicted Robbers Sentenced. Cheyenne, Wyo., Dec. 29.r-(/P)— * Sentences ranging from one to tvyen ty-seven years were today given eiz'it men and a woman involved in the robbery last August of n mail train of s3£p.ooo in bonds and currency near Eock Springs, JVyiij, by Judge T. B?ake Kennedy iii federal - court here. Star Theatre THURSDAY -FRIDAY “Marriage License” With ,'l Alma Reubens and Walter aj McGrail Big Special Picture. Every Woman Should see This Picture fi Shows as They Start: 5 $ 1 2:30 4 5:30 7 9 DON’T MISS THIS ONE 1