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VOLUME XXVI
The Imperial Valley
Os California Rocked
By Fifty Earthquakes
Tremors Started Shortly
After Midnight and Con
tinued for the Next Sev
eral Hours.
$1,000,000 LOSS
NOW REPORTED
Calexico ajwl Mexicali Suf
fered Greatest Damage.
No One Known to Have
Perished.
Oalixieo, Cnlif., .Tnn. I.—OP) —i
Earthquakes numbering over half :i
J ll i[wired rocked 1 [it* Imperial Valley
at intervals of about two minutes be
ginning at 12:18 o'clock this t morn
ing. and still continued at 4:15 a.
in., badly damaging Calexico and Mex
icnla, adjacent border cities, causing
damage whi<4i it is estimated wilt
approximate over $1,000,000.
El Centro, eleven miles north of
city, and Heber. a town of,approxi
mately 400 population, lying between
El Centro and the Mexican border,
also suffered from the continuation bf
ipinkes. but the dnmnge reported in
those localities appeared to be little.
Calexico, .lying on tne American
side of the international boundary
line, and Mexicali, on' the Mexican
to bear the "brunt of
the tremors, which were accompanied
by a heavy rumbling.
Hardly a business house in Calexico
was left sound by the quakes the walls
of many falling while the walls of
others were badly cracked. Ainjost
every plate glass window in the busi
ness section was shattered, and in
many instances the window casings
were torn loose.
A survey of Calexico’s business sec
tion revealed that tlie* rear wall of
tie post office, two garages and a
store, were demolished. A portion of
the rear wall of the Overland -Hotel
was tottering. The upper |M>rtionof
the front of the Melborn Hotel, the
Glenwood Hotel, and jxirt ions of the
city and tire and police stations tum
bled into the streets.
No one was known to have been
killed, hut several persons were slight
ly injured when struck by fnlling
..^piaster.
X’ine of 1 the shocks were severe, the
first hetn% rl*s sbtiV}« { st. Vfn ( T*l’*KfftflF
the loligesl. fully ihrec minutes.
Damage in Mexicali so far as could
be ascertained, was principally the
lo s by lire of a brewery and the col
lapse of a number of adobe houses.
The cases ami resorts in Mexicali
were crowded with New Year merry
maters, and they stampeded into the
streets at the first shocks. The gates
at the international line which close
nightly at 0 o’clock were opened by
customs officers to permit the people
to cross to the American side.
At Heber. Which was first reported
to have been badly dnmaged, the post
office was found to be damaged, and
windows of other buildings broken.
Centro apparently ausfferod only
* minor dnmnge, broken windows and
rrokery only being reported.
Fearing to return to their shaking
homes, residents of Calexico and Heb
er gathered around huge bonfires in
vacant lots. A number of the resi
dents of Calexico reported that the
first three quakes were of such in
tensity that they were shaken out of
their beds.
•Several Tremors Were Heavy.
Itrawley, Cnlif., .Jan. I.— (A 3 )—
About thirteen earthquakes, four of
them particularly heavy, were felt
here beginning shortly after, midnight.
The quakes were described ns not of
the rocking variety, but as long drawn
out and sharp. They were said to
be of greater intensity than any felt
here in the past.
Residents (hither in Streets.
Eos Angeles, Jan. I.— UP) —A re
port to the Southern Pacific Company
here from Mexicali, Lower California,
stated that the Inst of a series of
rnrthqunke shocks beginning shortly
after midnight, occurred at 7:10 a.
m. The Overinnd and Calexico ho
tels were the buildings most seriously
damaged, the report said.
Considerable damage was done by
water when pipe lines were broken
by the shock. Basements in some
buildings were flooded.
The reports stated that residents of
Mexicali were gathered in the streets
and vacant lots, fearing to ent,cr dam
aged buildings.
Shocks Felt in Ariiona.
Yuma, Ariz., Jan. I.— (A 3 )—Eight
earthquake shocks, the first at 1:01
o'clock and the last at 0:10 o'clock,
mountain time, were felt here this
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ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY '
SEES PROSPEROI’S 1927
By (JERALD SWOPE
(Written fur International News i
Service)
New York. Dee. 51.—1 n the elec- j
I trical industry we are looking for- j
ward to the year 1927 with eon- !
fidence that tile high rate of bus- (
inesx that has been done this year !
will be continued in the next.. j
The electrical industry is fortu- j
nate in that new uses and new
appliances of electricity are eon- j
staidly being made in the homes {
, and in the workshipe.
I
GOVERNMENT JOBS FOR
| TAR HEELS GOING BEGGING 1
Stenographers and Typists From This
Slxrt Are Wanted.
Raleigh. N. C., Jan. I.— UP) —(Jov- I
eminent jobs Heels are going 1
begging.
_ Stenographers and typhus from
North Carolina are wanted in Wash
ington.-and they will have until Jan
uary 28. 1927. to get in their np
lieatioins.
The situation was brought about
by the Federal civil service law
which .requires insofar as possible
that positions in departmental ser
vice lie appointed* among state and
territories on a population basis.
North CarolimT is among the states
in arrears on this basis.
The next typist and stenographer
examinations will he held only in '
states in arrears, in an effort to ]
equalize the lists.
Examinations will be held nt een- '
trnll.v located cities ten days after '
the c'ose of receipt of applications. '
J- 15. Martin, secretary of the local .
hoard of civil service examiners, is
in charge of receiving applications j
from the Raleigh district.
Funeral of Albert S. Adams.
Atlanta, Jan. I.— (A*) —Funeral ser-1'
vices for Albert S. Adams, 47 years I j
old, Atlanta real estate man, and the j
only southerner to serve as president!]
of Hotary International, were iGO. (or j |
today. He died yesterday,
Adams was elected president nfefMawfc
tary .International in 1919, and served ,
JWC other- jwm
has been president since foundation*!
or the organization in 1005 is living.)]
Bishop O'Connell Dead. i i
Richmond, Vn , .lan. 1.- —C4*>—The |i
Rt. Rev. Dennis J. O’Connell, former j]
bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese
of Richmond, and titular head of the]
diocese of Mirinina, Syria, died at the I
episcopal residence of the Rt. Rev. |
Andrew J. Rrannnn, present bishop j
of Richmond, shortly after noon to
day.
Union county up to December 13th '
had ginned 31,304 bales of cotton. If 1
cotton in the fields in Union couuty
is picked there will be easily 85,000
ba'es of the 1926 crop. It is said
many farmers are now offering one
half the cotton to get it picked.
morning. No damage was reported.
Automobile loads of frightened res
idents of El Centro and vicinity be
gun arriving here early today after
a series of earth shocks were felt
through the Imperiul Valley. El Cen
tro is approximately sixty miles from
Yuma.
Accounts of considerable damage at
Calexico and Mexicali, towns on the
international border, were related by j
persons arriving in Yuma from valley j
points.
Slilp Reports Heavy Tremors.
I.c« Angeles. Cal., Jan. 1. —( A 3 )—j
Radio reports tq the Federal Tele- 1
graph Coroparty here from the S. S.
Emma Alexander at anchor off En
senada, Lower California, today stat
ed that there was a severe earth dis
turbance in the Mexican port town.
The radio operator aboard the ship
. said heavy swells were running and
passengers who spent the night
ashore were unable to return to the
vessel. No details of possible damage
in Ensenada were available to those
, on board the Emma Alexander, be
cause of inability of small boats to
i put out from or leave the steamer.
Building Wrecked By Water.
Nai*viHe, Term., Jan. I.——Un
determined by the current of the
monster rivxer beating against its
, walls, the four-story building occu-
L pied by the American Steam Feed
Company collapsed this morning. The
) rear of the Reeves Produce Company
nearby collapsed at the same time. The
1 crash of the feed company building
dumped thousands of bags of feed in
to the flood which had almost covered
the first floor of the structure. No one
was hurt.
WHERE ARE
THE DEAD?
Pastor’s Sunday Evening
Subject at the
! j FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
t* Cordial Welcome To All
A HAPPYNEW YEAR
! MEXICO WELCOMES
; 00TSI0E CAPITAL,
j PRESIDENT STATES
j
j New Year Message of Pres
ident Calles May Mean
! Oil* Seizure Law Will Be
Ineffective.
I _. .
i WILL PROPERTY
| THERE BE SEIZED?
I New Law Became Effective
{ at Midnight But Many
Think It Will Not Be En
forced Now.
Mexico City. Jan. 3.— (A 3)—With
out specifically mentioning tile petro
leum and land laws which went into
effect today, President Calles in a ;
New Year's message to the Mexican '
people asserts that he has no inten
tion of interpreting constitutional law
in away that will harm legitimate in
teress.
“Moral energy and capital from
other nations." the message said, “will I
always be welcomed in Mexico with
the only condition that of fulfilling
our laws and the only limiattion that
of not absorbing our national inter
ests.
ilUfieertalrUy prevails now that the
laws have gone into effect. They pro
vide that the oil lands of foreign own
| ed companies which did not apply for
| confirmatory concessions before niid
j night last night shall revert to the |
I Mexican- government. Whether the
government will actually go as far ns
j seizure, however, remains to be seen.
I If it does, the foreign interests will
have specific complaints on which to
base their future course of action; if
'does not, the situation may continue
rto lx* as at present, one of complete
uncertainty.
f -oft*, pritictpn! foreign . Maapitnit* *
I have refused to make required ap-
I plication for confirmation of proper
• ties acquired prior to 1917. the date
lof adoption of the present Mexican
| constitution, and the United States
j government Ims insisted that the Mcx-
I ieau government cannot by retroaet
| ive revoke titles lawfully acquired be-
I fore 1917.
I In addition to the oil situation,
j President Calles in his message touch
ed on the application of the Mexican
religious regulations which have been
denounced by the Vatican as “perse
out ion.’’ lie had the same sincere re
spect, he said, for all manifestations of
religious creed or feeling, and he de
nied that the government desired the
destruction of, or was attempting to
destroy any religious faith, ns assert
ed by “religious reactionaries.”
With Our Advertisers.
The Parks-Belk Co. will deliver
your packages nt your dooy without
extra charge.
When you buy a Goodyear tire from
the Yorko & Wadsworth Co. they put
it on your car, pump it up, inspect
your wheels and rims and see that
everything is all right. See prices ill
new ad. today.
Robinson's Usual January Clear
nwny has been magnified into a Birth
j day and Anniversary Sale. Great re-
I duct ions on dresses and coats. The
I new ad. today will tell you about tl.
The Rug Sale at the Bell & Harris
I Furniture Co. began this morning at
! 7 o'clock and will last till Saturday
I night, December 31st, 1927.
See the new ad. of the Concord
Plumbing Company, 174 Kerr street.
Phone 576.
The Kid-Frix Company has the
agency for the new Brunswick phon
ographs. Go and see the six new
mode's they have just received.
The actual cost of administration
on an estate by the Citizens Bank and
Trust Company is often less than un
der individual executorship. The cost
is the same ns the law fixes that.
Get your Atwater Kent radio. See
ad. of the Yorks & Wadsworth Com
pany. : i
Wrenn at’ Kannapolis ’can help you
save your clothes.
Judge R. I>ee Wright Wins Com
mendation.
Salisbury, Dee. 31.—Upon request
of the entire bar of Morgantown,
Judge It- Lee Wright has been nam
ed by Governor McLean to preside
over a two-week's term of court nt
that place beginning Monday. The
Charlotte bar has unanimously peti
tioned Governor McLean to appoint.
Judge Wright to hold n two-week'
term of court there beginning Jan
uary 17.
Judge Wright has held a number
of courts as emergency judge and in
each ease the bar passed evolutions
I commending bis work.
The regular movie program will be
given qt the V. M. C. A. tonight, with
the first show for the kiddies and the
second for adults.
WEATHER FORECAST.
r Fair tonight and Bunday; colder
tonight, alowly rising temperature in
west portions Sunday. Moderate to
fresh northwest and north winds.
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El Paso Is Only City Possessing
But 100 Frame Dwellings
,E1 Paso. Tex., Jan. 1. — No .other,
city in Texas and only a few in the !
United Slntes ns large as El Paco
can boast n population of 110,000 per
sons with only slightly more thnn 190
frame buildings within its limits.
And while El Paso, being a resort
city, is swarming with npnrtinent
houses and fnmily hotels, it contains
more than ,17,000 residences.
| The reason for the absence of frame
houses tu- El Paso is directly due to
the inability many years ago to get
lumber anil the availability of brick
in plenty. The predominance of briiflj
buildings further was augmented in
1917 when the city council passed sir
ordinance banning the erection of
frame structures within the fit.*
limits.
<». Perha¥“ (hi* rigid.legislation has 1
re-aeted unfavorably on Texas lumber- |
men but it certninly has been profit- j
lilile to the city in reduction of annual
tire losses.
SEVEN INMATES NOW IN
DEATH ROW AT STATE PRISON j
There Were Four KxeeuUom in 1920.!
Making Total Number of 87 Since
1909.
Raleigh. X. C„ Jan. I.—G4 5 ) —A i
last minute addition ran the minuter j
of death row inmates nt State's
prison to seven..
Six languished there when the last i
execution of 1926 took place but re i
cently they were joined by Georg ■ |
Frank Bnzemore, Greene county lie-1
gro, who came with a January 26 j
death sentenee hanging over him. |
Robert Lumpkin and Booker Wil- j
Hams. Robeson county negroes, are
file only other members of the grim
colony with’ thi* day of their death |
-et. They have-been twice reprieved I
and the filial date is now January
21.
The other four men hnve appeals
pending. They are: W. L. Ross, i
white, Warren eounty; Moses Green.
Wilson county negro; Ernest I
Walker, negro. Durham ; and Charlie
Governor’s Message Will Be
Delivered Thursday, It Is Said
i
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Totel
“ Raleigh, Jan. I.—The general mes
• sage of Governor A. W. McLean to
' the general assembly will probably be
delivered the ila.V after it completes its
i organization, which if no difficulties
I are encountered,, should he sometime
■ Thursday. However, if the house
fails to elect a speaker the first day.
as has been intimated in a number
' of quarters, the governor would not
■ be able to deliver his message until
Friday or even Saturday. However.
i Inasmuch as it usually does not re
quire more than one day to get or
ganized, it is thought likely 'that the
■ message will be delivered Thursday.
But while this message is very
t .inclusive, and consists of some 8,900
• words, the second message which he
, will deliver to the general assembly
t simultaneously with the submission of
, the report of the budget commission,
the revenue and appropriation billN
. toget’.ier with fifteen separate and dis
• tinet financial statements and n com
plete balance sheet of the state, and
which he considers the more import
r ant of the two, will be submitted u
, few days after the regular message,
i perhaps not until Monday or Tuesday.
The governor’s statement of trans
mittal takes up some 6,000 words, the
f report of the advisory budget commis
> sion not quite so much. Then there
r will bo the revenue bill, which will
make somettiing like 200 printed
; pages and n voluminous appropria
tions bill.
The opening message of the gover
r nor, which is expected to review the
i accomplishments of-tfie past two years,
a is already being printed, as is the
first section of his budget message and
.
| El l‘nso stands seventh in the
! I’nited States in low minimi fire loss.
During the Inst nine years annual toll
has averaged approximately $150,000.
In addition to what it saves pro
perty owners, the ordinance has saved
the city large sums of money in
maintenance of a large fire depart
' meat. Seven fire stations with a per
sonnel of 95 employes and 12 appar
atus serve El l’aso and the upper and
lower Rio Grande valley over an area
of probably 20 square miles. And
until recently the El Paso department
j has answered calls in Juarez, Mexico
- across the river.
The frame houses now in the city
were erected either before the ordin
ance was passed or wre (alien into
the city by annexation. The small
: oiimber of frame st ructures slowly
j is dwindling ns fires consume n num
; her of them each year and brick and
.stucco edifices replace them in emu-
I plinne with the ordinance provisions.
I Johnson, negro, Mecklenburg,
j There were four executions in
j 1926, running tin- total for the death
chair to 87. since its establishment in
! 1909. Last year there were also
| four commutations, giving life an
j even break with enth.
i Paralvzed, He Drives His Car Eight
Miles.
i Lumberton, Dee. 31.—W. H. Phi
i fer, prominent (’larkton man and
i traveling salesman for the Carolina
1 Mailing Company, of Charlotte, suf
| sered a stroke of paralysis at Alleu
| town yesterday and drove his ear
| eight miles to Lumberton to the
! linker Sanatorium, before letting it
!be known. When Mr. Phifer reached
I Lumberton he was unable to get out
lof hi* car and had to lie removed
| from his seat by hospital attendants.
] His condition now is as good as
could be expected.
Patrick Ferris, a 92-year-old civil
I war veteran of lowa, recently made
a holiday trip to England.
a portion of the revenue hill. All
the copy for all these measures is
expected to be in the hnuds of the
printers by Monday or Tuesday at
tlie latest, the governor announced.
Advance copies of all these docu
ments are expected to be delivered to
newspapermen in Raleig'li within a
few days, so they may begin the task
of shaping up all this vast amount
of material into news form for the
newspapers all over the state, to be
released when the various messages
are delivered.
!, No intimation "oAs been given by
Governor McLeuu or any members of
the budget commission in Raleigh as
to any of the definite recommenda
tions contained in any of these mes
sages or hills. However. Governor
McL-an stated that while there were
several matters that he thought would
prove “highly interesting", there was
nothing which be thought would prove
in the least “sensational.”
Naturally there has been considera
ble speculation as to the nature of
the new revenue bill, since it seems
almost certain that some additional
revenue will have to be derived from
one source or another. However, the
older and sager political heads do not
expect that this new act will differ
greatly from the present revenue act,
except that this new act will differ
greatly from the present revenue act.
except in the inheritance tax bracket
where it is expected that the new bill
will increase the rates considerably
since the federal government has re
duced its tax rate 8(1 per cent on
estates. It is hoped that the revenue
i of the state enu be increased friim
, $500,000 to $700900 from this one
> source alone. As to other changes
1 1 there la bat little speculation.
'BfiOMVHETED!
IWMW
AND USUAL DRINKS
Steady Rain Outside and
Dry Agents Had Orders
Not to Disturb Cabarets,]
Night Clubs and Hotels.!
PRICES PAID FOR
DRINKS WENT UP
Never Before Were Such I
Prices Demanded and]
Paid—All Places Filled!
During the Night.
Now York, .Tan. I.—Of) —Broadway j
gave the New Year a wet welcome. |
There was a steady rain ontside,
and prohibition agents had orders not
to disturb cabarets, night clubs and
hotels.
The celebration was of a fatuiliur
character, but the prices were without
precision t. The many deaths from
liquor since Christinas seemed to 'have
been forgotten.
It was a hilarious crowd that wend
ed its wny through the great white
way to receive the New Year with the
din of horns and rattlers.
The. rain seemed to have no effect
on the celebrators. and from early eve
ning until long after 1027 had ar
rived men and women continued t'.ieir
parade along Broadway.
Hawkers, who had been vending
noise making devices along the street
since early eveuing, were arrested by
police shortly before 10 o’clock. By
that time, however, they hail disposed
of most of their wares and took their
arrests in good nature. Fifteen were j
found guilty in night court of selling
without licenses, and were given sus-!
pended sentences.
Every available place of entertain- i
meat was tilled to capacity. Reser
vations in night Hubs bad been ex- j
hausted weeks before, and the then- j
tres early were sold out. Cover charg- 1
es ranging from sls to ss4o prevailed I
in night clubs. Ginger ale was as
high was $2 a bottle. Some of the
theatres made no. secret of the fact
that $6.50 tickets were sll for the
night, and at that the demand was
greater than the supply.
Two sisters were wounded by a
stray bullet fired by a celebrant as
they leaned from a window of their
home in Brooklyn. Scores of extra
police, many of them mounted, kept
the throngs moving in the roaring
40’s. Churches were crowded as well
as night clubs.
McDermott Says He’ll Kill When He
Heaves Jail.
Canton, 0., Dec. SO.—Patrick Mc-
Dermott, convicted of murdering l>on
Mellett, Canton newspaper publisher,
will be sentenced within a week or
ten days, according to Judge Diehl,
who overruled a motion for a new
trial today.
McDermott became belligerent, ex
pressed hatred for the newspaper of
which Mellett had been editor as
well as publisher, and repeated
threats to "kill somebody up there i
when I get nut of this."
I Pat also said that he would talk
t later, hut would first see what hap
! pens to bis cn defendants, Ben Rud
ncr, alleged bootlegger, and Louis
Maze i.
i Hull nor is believed to he the next
■man to he tried.
' Woman Found Dead in lied at Oak
boro.
Oakboro, Deo. 28.—Mrs. Lafayette
' Bury was fotiud dead in bed yester
day at 4 a. m„ at her home on route
’ 1 after a lingering illness of heart
1 trouble.
1 I She was feeling right badly the
night before atid the faintly Sat up
watching whet) she told them that if
they would *ll go to bed she believed
'• she could ,r*st. So they, did a* she
said and when they arose lat 4 found
’ her dead., , , ( , t
f She leaves her husband and several
r children, one brother, Mr. Monroe
- Mclntyre, of this place, and one sts
- ter, Mrs. Will Burris.
t The barn where John Wilkes Booth
1 stabled his horse, and from which he
s fled after the assassination of Presi
e dent Lincoln, lias recently been pur
chased bv the War Department for
. $4.1)50.
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j City Tax Notice
r
r A penalty of one per cent,
t will be added to your City
y Tax January Ist, 1927. Pay
- today, and save the cost.
n
e
" CHAS. N. FIELD,
City Tax Collector.
! Nation Is Faced With
Muddled Situation In |
International Affairs
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! “IN AGAIN.
AGAIN, ~ETS
f OF PRISON
i Franklin. Ind., Jan. 1. —(A 3 )—
; Ralph Lee. notorious jail breaker.
1 awaiting trial here for the murder
of Abner Peek, grocer, at Speed
way City, an Indianapolis suburb,
i several years ago, escaped from
i the Johnson County jail last night
! for the third time. The attempt
j was the tenth time that Lee has
j escaped from various institutions
! of confinement since he was 13 j
' years old. He escaped from the
Tennessee penitentiary some time
ago.
MORE THAN *100.000.000
TAXES IN SIX MONTHS j
Collected for Federal Government in I
North Carolina First Half of Fiscal]
Year.
Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
I Raleigh, Jan. I.—More than SIOO. |
j 000.000 in internal revenue was
j looted in North Carolina by the
! United States Government during
the last six months of 1026. or the
first half of the present fiscal year,
according to Gilliam Grissom, col
lector of internal revenue, who today
made public the figures for the six
months period ending December 31.
With collections to dilate amounting!
roughly to $100,475,000. allowing j
$500,000 for the sale of stamps on
the final day of December, which had
not yet been reported, this is a gain
of approximately $8,000,000 over the
collections for the first six month,- of
1025, according to Mr. Grissom, the
collections from July 1 to December j
31. 1025. amounting to $02,575,000.
Thus at the present rate ot |
revenue collections—and there is
nothing to indicate that they will
not keep up at the present rate — |
the collection for the present fiscal
year should run more than $200,000.-
000, according to Mr. Grissom.
During the first 30 days in Decem
ber just closed, ami without counting
Collections for December 31 which
| should total nearly $500,000. the
j revenue collected in this state
! amounted to $16,185,000 as com
i pared with collect inns of $16,0,38.-
jOOO for the entire month of Decem
] her, 1025. approximately $150,000
j more than in the same month last
t.rear, with the likelihood that it will
j actually amount to at least $500,000
more.
Thus the increase in collections
for the last six- months of the year
just dosed was nearly $8,000,00(1
more than for the corresponding six
months of 1025, showing a gain of
more than $1,000,000 a month.
And of this vast amount of federal
tax money collected in this state,
more than 75 per cent is from flic
tax on tobacco and chiefly cigarettes.
And from all indications, the de
mand for tobacco anil cigarettes in
growing instead of decreasing, ac
cording to Mr. Grissom. Thus North
Carolina’s c'aitn as the fourth state
in the amount of federal taxes paid
seems to rest secure for another year
at least.
Another Victim of the Tennessee
Floods.
(By International News Service.)
Nashville. Tentt., Jan. I—Down
the rushing waters of the flood-swol
len Cumberland River plunged the
victim, hanging frantically to th*!
upper side of a log. The waters,
swerved and eddied, threatening im- j
j mediate destruction at every few!
j feet. Still he held on for dear life. I
| Spectators gaged in awe, fearing ■
! every minute would be the last for ■
j the unfortunate river victim. Then !
the log struck a pilar under a]
bridge and hurled hint into the mud*
d.v waters. A few breathless moments
and the victim came up, starting a
brave attempt to gain an island near
• ] the wharf. But he had miscalculated,
j When he was within thirty feet of
' ■ land he swam into another wliirl
' j pool. Twice he eame tip, and each
' time brought exclamations and inur
’ muns of pity from the onlookers, who
were now standing breathless.' The
‘ third time he eanie up there was a
1 hush, ami then, after a brilliant
1 struggle, the little bundle of fur
I folded into n watery grave, another
‘ victim of the xvrath of the Tennessee
l floods. . .
' The victim wait a tiny cotton-tail
i mbbit; tho witnesses, passengers on
1 an out-going re'ief train.
\ Tar Heel Injured in Grand Rapids.
! Grand Rapids, Mieh., Jan. 1. —(A 5 )
.) —G. M. Mitchell, aged 45, president
. i of the G. M. Mitchell T.umber Com
. I pany, of Lansing, N. 0., was hit by
. an automobile ns he was on his way
to his hotel here last night, and is
in a critical condition in a hospital.
" He was here on a business trip.
HOLIDAY NOTICE I
| ‘SATURDAY, JANUARY Ist, 1927 9
P being a legal holiday the banks of Concord will not fee I
open for business. I ‘
CONCORD NATIONAL BANK I
CABARRUS SAVINGS BANK
CITIZENS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY Jl
THE TRIBUNE I
PRINTS
TODAY’S NEWS TODAY! '
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Not Since World War Has
United States Faced a
More Muddled Interna- |
tional Situation.
ASKS PRESS TO
STAND WITH Httt
There Are No Prospects j
Now That Mexican and .jj
Nicaraguan Questions 1
i Will Be Settled Soon.
! Washington, Jan. I.—(A 3 )—Tim .•
! dawning ot* 1027 finds the United, |j|
States facing an international
tion inoro muddled perhaps than any -2
since the World War.
| Prospects of an early settlement at 4
i tlie Nicaraguan and Mexican ques* *
It ions do not appear bright, and Presi- ,
dent Coolidge lias appealed to the
press of the country to show “au
I American attitude" and stand behind
I the administration's efforts to uphold u
I existing standards of international ft
i law.
\ The civil strife in Nicaragua, where
American naval forces have heeii
landed to protect American lives- ami
property, and the controversy over
the new Mexican oil and land laws
which took effect last, midnight, re-. 1
maiueil in status quo as far as this
country's policy is concerned, but
[both questions are developing news
] turns with regnrds to the individual J
parties concerned.
Adolfo Diaz, conservative prosidtqifc
of Nicaragua, who has been rebog* S
nized by the United Mtates, is mar*
shalling his forces to stay the advnncai A
of the liberal army headed by Jugit
' B. Sacasa. former vice president, wnro
! is recognized by Mexico, after having
denied charges that he was receiyjttj"
aid from American bankers, and res
fused a meditation offer by his neigh*
| bnr. Costa Rica.
VIOLENT DEATHS IN
NORTH CAROLINA |
Number Last Year Exceeded 1500. Vj
Autos Took Largest Toll. a
Raleigh. X. C\. Jan. I.—(A*)—Vio
lent deaths in X'nrrh Carolina last :<|
year exceeded 1.500.
State Hoard of Health reports »
show 1.313 violent deaths during the v f|
first 11 months of the year. This '
number does not include deaths from
the violent forms of disease.
Automobiles accidents again took
the largest toll. In 105 the total was
376, This year it was 352 in Xovcm- ■■■s
her with one of the heaviest months
to bo added.
Burns came next in .fatal results, (j
The first eleven months of 1026 saw ’!
245 Tar Heels burned to death.- Di*-
camber was expected to run the total J
to nearly 300. In 1025 250 died from §
this cause.
Homicides showed a slight dr-; ;
crease. The estimated number in
1026 was 225. based on 1024 for the |
first eleven months. In 1025 them
were 260.
Suicides ran slightly better than ■
even, an estimated 135 against 12)4
in 1025.
Geld Dust Twins in State Prison.
Raleigh. X. <\. Jan. I.— UP)—' The
State's Pri'-ou has its "Gold Dust . i
Twins.” They are "Sunshine” (Jake) a
Jones and “Evolution" (Junius) -|
Poo’.e. Both are negroes. Both wear *
'broad grins, anil neither measures
I five feet tnll.
i Jake, better known as “Sunshine,r! j|
1 ] is only 13. Welfare workers are now'
.attempting to get him out. lie ii
| doing five years for shooting a whitd
I playmate.
; ] "Evolution” is 23 and tins fotff
i years to go lor larceny.
Makes Guncotton of Garbage, m J
Say*- 3 i
Berlin. Jan. I.—Guncotton or art?*
1 ficial silk may be manufactured from
garbage of cities, it is claimed, mi-!
1 dor a method evolved by Kurt Oer*. *i
son. a Berlin engineer, of sifting anti
subjecting all cellulose matter to * ;
1 special treatment.
> By distilling such matters as pota*
to parings and pieces of wood lie
( claims to produce tar, charcoal an,!.
t acetic acid. A large plant is being,
constructed here under his specifica*
. tions.
Take Safe From Bank |
I Westforil, Ark., Jan. 1 .—(A*)—Robe
! bers early today backed a truck td
the front door of the Bank of West- f
ford, loaded the tiaDk’s safe into the
car. and drove away. C. C. Stock,
’• cashier, estimated the contents of the
’) safe at $2,500. The last seen of the
t truck it was being driven north to*
- ward Fayetteville.
y . fjiftßm
y Willie Hoppe is exhibiting superb
s balkline form in’ practice work of
I. hi* coming meeting with Erich Hag* fi
enlncher for the 18.2 crown.