PKtoS
DISPATCHES f
VOLUME XXVII
Twenty-Six Known to
Have Perished From
Storms in Two States
-a
Tornadoes Struck in Ar
kansas on Succeeding
Days.—Total May In
crease More Later.
FIFTEENKILLED
FRIDAY NIGHT
First Tornado Struck on
Thursday Night, Result
ing in Deaths of Eleven
Persons.
Little Rook, Ark., Mnr. 19.—OP)—
Tho toll of two tornadoes in Arkansas
in as many days was 20 dead, accord
ing to reports reoeiveil today, and there |
were indications that this total would I
increase.
The latest twister appearing last
night at Green Forest, a town of about
1.000 population near the western
Missouri border, Vas known to have
killed 15 persons, with probhbly 50
to 75 injured.
The first tornado struck Thursday
night in a half dozen small communi
ties in Saline County, just southwest
of here, and resulted in 11 deaths.
Find Twelve Dead Bodies.
Eureka Springs, Ark., March 19.
(A) —A hospital train from Green
Forest, bearing a score of the more
seriously injured victims of last night's
tornado, arrived here early today
bringing a list of 12 dead accounted
for, and unconfirmed reports of a
dozen other fatalities.
Green Forest, approximately 25
miles southeast cf here, stood near the
beginning of a path of devastation
which is known to have stretched at.
’cast twelve miles farther northeast,
, p wipe out the little settlement of
Denver and claim a toll estimated un
official; at from 5 to 9 lives.
Coin, another small community just
to the northwest of Green Forest, was
practically demolished, and one death
is reported there. Similar\stories trick
led in from various parts of the farm
ing districts to the south and west,
but'lio authentic check of the dead was
possible because of lack of communica
tion.
Tbe incomplete.dentil list as recoin
ed here follows:
Mrs. R. D. Galloway.
Mp.
Mrs. Fannie Norris.
Haby of Mrs. Woods.
Mrs. John Jones.
Infant of Charles Jennings.
A Mr. Stacey.
Ample hospital facilities here will
relieve the burden at Green Forest,
where the First Methodist Church was
converted into an improvised hospital.
They may also serve to save lives
which emergency treatment could not.
The storm left more than fifty injur
ed altogether, and property damage in
exce<« of $200,000 including destruc
tion of 150 residences, and a dozen
business establishments.
More Than Score Killed.
Joplin, Mo., March 19.—< A )—More
than a score of persons were killed
and at least fifty injured, many se
everly, by tornadoes and high winds
which swept southwestern Missouri
and northwestern Arkansas last night.
Sixteen were known dead, twelve
were reported missing, and thirty in
jured at Green Forest, Ark., by a tor
nado which wrecked business dis
trict, and devastated nearby farms.
Fire broke out following the tornado,
destroying a canning factory and sev
creal bouses.
Nine were reported killed in Den
ver, Ark.. 100 miles south of her.
Two persons were injured, and
buildings were damaged by a tornado
near Marshfield, Mo.
30 Reported Killed.
St. Louis, March 19. —C4P)—Approx-
imately 30 persons were killed and 70
injured by the tornado which struck
Green City, Ark., and vicinity last
night, says a telegram received here
today by the American Red Cross from
P. T. Sweat, chairman of the Carroll
County Chapter at Eureka Springk,'
Ark.
Kills Accuser and Himself.
St. Louis, March 10. — (A) —Waldo
Thikllng, 24, manager of a Piggly
Wiggly grocery store, was shot and
killed today by George Schultz, 00,
a customer, who then sent a bullet
through his own Drain. Thikling yes
terday accused Schultz of attempting
to steal a 21-cent can of sardineß.
Schultz protested he intended to pay
for them.
Committee Orders Ballot Seised.
Washington, March 19.—(4*)—For
mal direction to the senate sergeant at
nr me to proceed to Pennsylvania and
take possession of ballots used in the
senatorial elections last November in
four counties was given today by tbe
Senate campaign funds committee.
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DISCUSS PLANS FOB
MORE STATE PARK LANDS
Park Ccmmision Studies Question of
| Securing More Land For Nattomd
Park.
Tribune Bureau,
i Battery Park Hotel.
Asheville, N.. C„ March 19.—Plans
are being outlined for the future pro
cedure to be followed in the obtaining
of additional land for the Smoky
Mountains National Park, by the
State Park Commission, which was In ’
session here yesterday afternoon. The
members of the commission, most of
whom were present, were'guests of
the Asheville Chamber of Commerce*
at luncheon at the Battery Park hotel
at one ocloi-k, after which the com-1
| mission went into executive session.)
! It is generally admitted by the)
I members of the commision that tbei
I outlook for obtaining the National
Park in the immediate future has been
considerably dimmed and the method
of procedure on the part of North
Carolina materially hampered by the
injunction proceedings recently start
ed in Tennessee to restrain the state
of Tennessee from signing the deeds
to the 75.000 acre tract of the Little
River Lumber Co., which the state
was about to purchase, The restrain
ing order set forth that the land could
not be accepted by tbe government for
national park purposes because some
of the deeds contained n clause per
mitting the lumber company to cut
the timber off.
Since none of the $2,000,000 author
ized by the general assembly, can be
expended for land in North Carolina
until Tennessee has purchased its
share of land and- presented it to the
Government, further progress in North
Carolina seems to depend largely on
what Tennessee does in the matter.
This there seems to be some doubt
as to whether the North Carolina Park
Commission can do anything more
than mark time until the tangle in
Tenuessee is straightened out. How
ever, the commission is hopeful that
the matter will be adjusted soon, and
that they can then proceed with the
work of raising additional funds and
the seenring of options on territory
within tbe park area.
THE STOCK MARKET
Farther Irregularity Developed at the
New York, Maw* 19.—ttW—Fur
ther irregularity developed at the op
ening of today's stock market, with
the main price tendency still down
ward. Initial declines of a point or
so were recorded by Baldwin, Timkin
Roller Bearing and Manhattan Elec
tric Soppy. Westinghouse Electric
opened a point higher, and IT. S.
Steel Common and General motors
improved factoinnlly.
Sharp Break in Some Stocks.
New York, Mart* 19. — (A*) —A
sharp of approximately 10
points in Houston Oil combined with
the (Topping out of a number of new
weak spots in other sections of the
jlist -finally unsettled today's (stock
market aftar an earlierd period of
ups and downo, as control of tbe price
movement shifted from one speculative
group to another.
Haynes Fail* to Show Up In Court.
Smithfield, N. C.. March 19.—OP)—
Monk Haynes, on trial in the Johnston
County Superior Court on charge of
shooting Harry Baucotn on the night
of February 10th, today failed to show
up in court wbeb the arguments in
the case were due to be heard. A
capias was issued for his arrest and
the jury was withdrawn. Haynes
had been free on bond.
Girrard Paris Dead.
Birmingham, Ala., March 19.— (A)
—Girrard Paris, associate editor of
■ the Birmingham News, widely known
writer and newspaper man, and for
. mer United States district attorney of
! the seventh judicial district at Jaek
, son, Miss., was found dead in bed
i this morning. Acute indigestion was
■ assigned as the cause of bin death.
He was 52 years old.
Say* insult Backed Tbompaon.
> Chicago, March 18. —(4>)—Samuel
' Install, Chicago liublie Utilities execu-
I tive, recently citad to the senate for
, contempt of its campaign fuild inves
: tigating committee, today was named
- indirectly by the Peoples Dcver for
t Mayor committee as contributor of
. SIOO,OOO to William Hale Thompson’s
- 1915 campaign fund, and as the man
behind Thompson.
Bandits tn New Orleans.
New Orleans, March 19.—(A*)—Two
t bandits armed with sawed off shot
I guns held up and robbed tbe Metair
t> ew Ridge Branch of tbe Gretna Bank
i ’ft Trust Co. here today of $4,000 af
> ter locking tbe manager and a woman
employee in the vault.
CANTONESE TROOPS
MOVE FORWARD AND
OPPOSITION FALLS
War ‘Machine From South
Seems Headed to All Ob
jectives, With Opposition
■Crumbling Badly.
shanghaTseems
WITHOUT DEFENSE j
With Northerners in Full
Retreat There Seems to
Be No One to Defend
1 the City in Future.
1(A) —The Cantonese mar machine
is closing its pincers about both Rhang
] hai and Nanking, overnight d : spatehes
) indicate.
Nanking on the Yangtze River is
being approached both from the west
and south, while a similar encircling
movement is in. progress against
Shanghai, with Cantonese thrusting
from.the southwest at the same time
attempting to eut the railway between
the two cities northeast of Taihu
Lake.
One report through london is that
the drive from the southwest toward
Shanghai has reached Sunkiang, 20
miles away, while an exodus of panic
stricken Chinese from Nanking lends
weight to the Cantonese claim that
they are ten miles from that city.
Peking advices are that the general
strike set for noon today in Shanghai
to continue "urttil • the nationalists
occpy the city" failed to materialize
on scheduled time, the onions await
ing military developments.
Shanghai Seems Doomed.
Shanghai, March 19.— (A*) —The
left wing of the Shantungese army de
fending Shang-on-thc-Sunkiang front
to the southwest, has crumpled, and
the noi-thern treops arc hurriedly re
treating toward the city. The way is
apparently open for the Cantonese to
gain Shanghai.
A3LABSSADOR TELLEZ
BACK AT WASHINGTON
Mere Compete Understanding With
Mexico Expected to Follow His
Visit to Mexico CMy.
Washington, March 10.— (A) —A
more complete understanding owv-tW*
It ad !£
today as a result of the return of Mnn
uel C. Tellez, the Mexican Ambassa
dor -to the capital.
Arriving from a visit, to Mexico
City, where lie conferred with I’resi
dent Colics, the ambassador announc
ed one of his first acts would be a call
upon Secretary Kellogg.
Pending his visit to the State De
partment, he declined to talk about
matters slated for discussion at the
conference. The ambassador, howev
er, is regarded as being in a position
to fully present the personal views of
the Mexican President.
Gray Sentenced to Serve 30 Years.
Winston-Salem. March 19.— <A) —
Judge Walter K. Moore, in Wilkes
Superior Court today sentenced Glenn
Gray to 80 years Tn the state prison
for the murder of Monroe Curyy at
Call post office last November. George
Shew was given a term of 20 years
in the loeuitentiary for the same crime.
High School Student Takes life.
Galesburg, 111., March 18.— (A) —
Earl Main, 17 years old, higli school
junior, killed himself last night with
a rifle. Friends said that Main, who
was a brilliant student, had been wor
rying about a part he had in a school
play.
Mr. Smith Peacock, is spending the
week-end in Sumpter.
THE STOCK MARKET
Reported by Fanner ft Beane
(Closing Quotations)
Atchison 173% ]
American Tobacco B 126
American Smelting 148%
American Locomotive 111% ,
Atlantic Coast Line J. 185
Allied Chemical —— 139%
Baldwin Locomotive __a 189%
Baltimore ft Ohio *— 112%
Chesapeake ft Ohio 157%
DuPont 2lO
Frisco .. 111%
General Motors .. 179%
General Electric 85%
Hudson , I —. 71
Standard Oil of New Jersey 37%
Kenhecott Copper —J 62%
Coca-Cola . 192
Liggett ft Myers B !)C%
Maryland Oil l 50%
Mack Truck 104%
Pan American Petroleum B. O2
Rock laland ... 85%
R. J. Reynolds 109%
Southern Railway ... 124%
Studebaker 49%
Btewbrt-Warner 58%
Texas Co. 48%
Tobacco Products 107%
XT. S. Steel 162%
Westinghouse I 74%
Woolworth 125
American Tel. ft Tel. 162
American Can ~ 46%
Allis Chalmers 94%
Dodge Bros. 22
Great Northern 86
Gulf State Steel 59%
Lorillard- a—... 28
Montgomery-Ward ... 65%
Norfolk ft Western 171%
Overland. ............ 22
i Republic Iron A Steel ...... 71%
Vick Chemical ... 54%
Steel—W. 1. f 118
CONCORD, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1927
DR. COOK WILL BE
KEPT IN PRISON
FOR THE PRESENT
Washington, March 19.— (At—
Dr. Frederick A. Cook wi.l he k«pj
in the federal penitentiary at f-eav
enworth until a test has been made
of the right of a federal judge to
release a prisoner on probation af
ter a sentence hau begun, the de
partment of justice said today.
'a it.i.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Sternly at Advance of 2 to .<>
Points. —May Sells Up to 13. -
-i New York, March 19. — (A*)— The
j cotton market opened steady at *n
! advance of 2 to fi )siints on buytfcg
I influenced by relatively firm I.ivdi
j pool cables and less favorable weather
prosiieets. There was considerable, re
alizing or liquidation, which may have
been promoted by uncertainty of the
showing of Monday's ginning report.
This eased prices off a few points af
ter the call, but buying continued, and
the market steadied Op agaiu by the
end of the first hour.
' May sold up to 13.93 and October
from 14.20 to 14.26, the general Ji*u
showing net advances of about ft in
9 points. The amount of cotton on
ship board awaiting clearance at the
end of the week was estimated at 184,-
000 hales, against 100.10 ft last year.
Cotton futures opened steady. March
13.70: May 13.88; July 14.09; Oat.
14.23; Dec. 14.37.
Cotton futures closed : March 13.77 : {
May 18.85; July 14.04; Oct. 14.18:1
Dec. 14.34.
.—
COTTON YARN PRICE
WAR IS UNABATED
Competition Between Buyers and
Sellers Has Put Spinners In
a Dilemma.
Charlotte, March 18.—The price
war that has been going on between
buyers and sellers in the cotton yarn
industry continues and spinners arc
in a dilemma, according to a bulle
tin issued today at the office of the
Southern Yarn Spinners .association
here.
Trading according <o ;he Bulletin,
is confined to small lots of the hand
to mouth variety. Prices are said to
be below replacement, costs with
spinners having difficulty iu secur
ing good grade, clean, white cottoii.
eveu at premium over spot quota
tions-
BANDITS SHOOT BANKER
AND ESCAPE LN AUTO
Three Men Failed to Get Money, Ho*
ever From Bank fit Baltimore. !
■v AtalLmore—Marcb OW-Bujee
DfinWTS in uiihnViWSrei 'a‘tfWßjTfirs>
rob a branch of the Provident Savings-
Bank in East Monument street today
shot two bank employees and escaped
in a waiting automobile.
Robert McNally, Jr., the cashier,
was wounded in the face, and Damon
Gaskin, the manager, received a flesh
wound in the side. Both men were
hurried to Johns Hopkins Hospital.:
Only one of the three robbers entered
the bank. He is said to have followed
his demand for money with shots.
Walter Hampton Sullivan Dies at
Mooresvllle Friday Afternoon.
Walter Hampton Sullivan, aged 19.
died at Mooresville Friday afternoon
at 1:30 o’clock after being ill three
weeks with stomach trouble.
Funeral services will be held at the
home of his daughter Sunday after
noon at 2:30 o’clock and interment
will ,be made in Onkwood. The funer
al services will be conducted by Rev.
U. 11. Hendry, pastor of Methodist
Protestant Church, assisted by Rev.
T. F. Higgins, pastor of Forest Hill
Methodist Church.
Mr. Sullivan was a native of Anson
County but had lived in Concord for
many years moving to Mooresville
about two months ago. Mr. Sullivan
married Miss Lizzie Harington who
survies him.
Besides his wife, Mr. Sullivan is
survived by two children, Walther
Sullivan, and Mrs. S. J. Sherrill, both,
of Concord; five brothers, J. W. and
J. O. George, Blake and Charlie Sul
livan; three sisters, Mrs. R. M. Can--
non, of Spartanburg, S. C.: Miss
Lula Sullivan, of Charlotte; and Mrs.
A. F. Stufts, of Union County.
Mbs Ruth Talbert, Aged 15, Dies at
Albemarle Home.
Albemarle. March 18.—The death
of Ruth Talbert, 15-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Tahert,
of this eity, at an early hour this
morning was a shock to the entire
city- She attended high school yes
terday and in the afternoon became
ill and went home, becoming un
conscious about 0 o’clock. She did
not regain eonsciosuness any more
and expired at 4 o’clock this morn
ing. It >s thought that cause of her
death was acute diabetes.
Ruth was a sophmore in the high
school and was popular among not
only the students, but all the people,
who knew her. Her father is a
trnve’ing salesman and did not reach
home before the death of his daugh
ter. The funeral will be conducted
from the home on South First street
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock by
Dr. T. F. Marr, pastor of Central
Methodist church, and interment will
be made in Fairview cemetery.
T. L TaJbert Dies iu Charlotte
Charlotte, March 19.— (A) —T. L.
Talbert, 59 years old, died today after
six weeks’ illness. He waß injured
iu. 1007 and never was able to walk
again. He directed a successful bus
iness from a wheel chair.
Dr. Chose Improving.
Durham, N. C., March 19. —( A )—
Some better, with fever subsiding, but
i in need of recuperation at the hos
pital for several more days, was the
i word today concerning Dr, Harry W<
Chase, president of the University of
■North Carolina,, who is ill here.
School Attendance in State is
On the Increase at This Time
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel.
[ Raleigh, March 19. —School attend
l :mee. in North Carolina is getting
| bet let- each year, an indication of the
progress of the public school system
jin the stale, as well as of the in
|irensed confidence of the people in
I education, says the' latest Issue of
(School the average of nttend
l.inee for the 818. 739 enrollment for
j 1925-192 ft being 74 jier cent.
Since 1904-05, the school popula
tion has maintained about the same
Initio of increase each year, with the
I ‘exception of 1919-1920. when it show
led a decided jump, due largely to the
; | passage of a compulsory (attendance
I law. which required all children be
■ I tween the ages of eight and fourteen
Ito attend school daily, and to the
jeft'ect of the constitutional amendment
- j providing for a minimum term of six
i months.
An unusual record has been made
(during the last four years, the re
st port points out. During that time
| less than fifteen per cent of the child
ren of school age (ft to 21) were not
[enrolled in the public elementary
elementary schools. When it is cou-
I sidereal that many of those that make
! Ilf* this fifteen per cent have gone to
j college, that others have married and
j flint still others have finished high
■ school and entered business, the re-
Icord is still more outstanding.
i _
! MORE FROM INCOME TAX
EXPECTED THIS YEAR
[ Total May Be Greater Than for 1925-
20. Figures Now Indicate.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, March 19.—Indications arc
that collections of the state income
tax will be larger during the present
fiscal year than iu 1925-26 although
indications several months ago were
lhat collections might not be as large.
Collections to date approximate close
ly to $4,500,000. according to the de
partment of revenue, although not
| all of the thousands of checks that
poured in this week have been totaled.
And since several extensions have been
granted some of the largest taxpayers
—corporations—indications are that
the total by June 30th when the pres
ent fiscal years ends, will amount to
between .$6,000,000 and $7,000,000.
probably nearer the latter figure.
A large corps of clerks have been
kept busy almost night and day iu
the income tax department of the de
partment of revenue, checking over the
returns and totaling the thousands of
checks. Tuesday the receipts were
approximately $2,000,000. - Wednesday
Friday, though ail of the cheeks for
Friday have not yet been totaled.
State income tax collections for the
■ fiscal year 1925-20 were slightly more
than $6,000,000.
The federnr income tax oo.lectors
have been having an equally busy time
in making their collections though
the rush there has not been quite so
heavy, because the bulk of the federal
income taxes are paid in quarterly inf
stallments instead of all at one time,
as is the case of the majority of the
state income tax payers.
Approximately $3,500,000 iu federal
income taxes have been collected to
date, which represents approximately
one-fourth of what the total coHec
tioiii-- will be. according to Gilliam
Whites and Blacks Clash in
Kansas and Troops are Called
Coffoyville, Kansas, March IS.— i
A race war broke out here late to
night when a mob of white persons
who had besieged the city jail in ai>
effort to seize three negroes arrested
in connection with an assault on
-two white girls attempted to invade
the negro quarter.
The whites were repulsed itnd nt
least three persons were shot.
The armed clash came after a
group of white youths had kicked in
a door of hardware store and ob
tained arms and ammunition.
Tear gas guns fired info the
crowd apparently served only to in
crease the anger, and feeling against
the negroes which stood at fever
heat throughly: the day was fan
ned into a
Aft the white’"members 01 me
throng of 1.000 or more started to
enter the colored section two negroes
were encountered in a dark doorway
and a fist fight immediately began
which resulted in the negroes being
severely beaten-
Other negroes appeared on the
scene before the two had risen from
the street and immediately opened
fire.
Pandemonium reigned as scream
ing women and children pushed by
scrambling men sought safety.
Young Waddle with blood stream
ing down staggered through the
street and into the Ooffeyville Jonr
nal office where volunteer attend
ants gave him emergency treatment
and rush him to a hospital.
The sight of the youth’s blood
brought another outburst of threats
and more than 100 men and boys
left the downtown district with cries
for. more guns.
Urged in by older members, boys
between 19 and 21 years let loose a
barrage of rocks at the city ball and
the crashing of glass from the win
dows wlls interspersed with cheers
from onlookers.
The boys returned to the building
with a replenished supply of stones.
An American flag waving from a
front window of the hall was greeted
with jeers.
•i Five young men were arrested
charged with breaking into hardware
stores and looting the stocks of guns
' i
A comparison of the enrollment in
the rural and city schools during 1925-
20 shows that there were 427,745 white
enrollment mid 77.0 of the negro in
the rural schools. Out of every 100
white children enrolled in the city
system, 82 attended regularly.
In the colored city schools, attend
ance was best in the large city system,
where 79 out of 100 attended regul
arly. The city school systems are
divided into 39 divisions according
to size. Among the eight largest city
school systems. Asheville led with a
percentage of 87.2 per cent average
daily attendance. In the second group.
Kinston stood first with a iiercentage
of 94.7 for white children. Salisbury
stood second in this group ns to white
children und first for tbe negroes.
Hickory had the best per cent of at
tendance in the state.
Northhampton county led all the
rural systems in the percentage of
white enrollment in average daily
attendance with 89.1 per cent. There
were more white children enrolled in
the schools of Johnson than any other
county, a total of 11,684, while
three others, Guilford. Buncombe, and
Gaston, had more than 10,000.
An important fact pointed out is
the effect of the length of the school
term upon average attendance. With
one exception, in the city colored
schools, the longer the term, the better
the pupils attended the schools.
CHARLOTTE D. A. R.
BACKS MRS GREGORY
leaders of the Queen City Chapter
Thinks She Had Good Reasons
For Inviting Borah.
Charlotte. March 18.—Leaders of
the Daughters of the American Rev
olution in Charlotte are unanimous
in their supioort of the action of Mrs.
Edwin O. Gregory, of Salisbury,
state regent, in inviting Senator W.
E. Borah, of Idaho, to speak at the
animal state convention of the D. A.
R. in Wilmington this month. The
attitude of the Charlotte women was
revealed this afternoon following
complaint from some sections of the
state tliut Borah should not be in
vited to address the convention on
the ground that "he is an enemy of
the south anil was an arch enemy of
Woodrow Wilson."
Mrs. Alston Morrison, chairman nt
the central council of the D. A. 11.
ill Charlotte, which is representa
tive of the various chapters here,
said, "I have not heard Mrs. Greg
ory's reasons for inviting Senator
Borah, but ’ am sure that she is
animated by the spirit of patriotism
and a desire for natiou-wide unity in
loyalty to our country, which is
* " mail indTridmiT" *pdtTtK*T
views.”
Other leaders expressed sentiments
akin to those voiced by Mrs. Mor
rison.
Time saved at a crossing may be
lost in the emergency ward.
Grissom, collector. Thus the total
collections should be between $14,-
000.000 and $15,000,000 for tho year,
since several hundred extensions have
been granted large corporations, blit
tliesi will be up by the time the June
collections arc due.
Federal income tax collections last
year were slightly more than $17,000.-
000. but it is npt expected that that
figure will be reached this year.
nnd ammunition. Several others
were disarmed and their guns con
fiscated.
Apparently believing tbc crest of
the trouble had passed shortly be
fore midnight police guards and
deputized civilians were withdrawn
from around the hall and the crowd
was nllowed to enter the building to
search the jail. Police had announced
that two of the negroes had cleared
themselves and had been released
and deelnred the other suspect had
been smuggled out of the jail.
Earlier in tne night nn attempt
was made to lead the crowd to be
lieve the suspect had been removed
to another jail in a fire truck but,
this failed to discourage the leaders.
While more than 1.000 persons
were milling around the building a
group of about 100 men climbed to
the roof of an adjoining building nnd
placed n ladder aeros to a window
of the city hall, in which the jail is
located. When two of tbe lenders
started across the ladder officers fir
ed tear gas guns and the men re
treated. i
Prior to tbe sortie by the moo,
members of the crowd had been per
mitted to enter the jail and search
it. Officers assured them that tpe
negroes were not there and the
prisoners were not found-
The officials declared that Curtis
Smith, one of the negroes, had been
smuggled away hidden under hose in
a fire truck, which left the fire house
in the building. Vanges aud Garvin
Hardin, brothers, the other men ar
rested, had cleared themselves hud
were released the officers insistfd-
However, the mob was not satis
fied and the attempt to force nn en
trance through the second story win
<k>w followed.
ißome members of the mob ex
pressed the belief that all three ne
groee, or at least Smith were being
held in a room in the builidng near
tbe jail.
Troop “B” 140th cavalry, Kansas
national guard which bad assembled
for any emergency, was called out
shortly after 10 o'clock on orde-n
from tbe adjutant general at Topeko
to reinforce policemen, deputy sher
> if fa and deputised cixiKans in ntain
i taining order.
JIM ISON IS FINED
ON LIQUOR CHARGE;
APPEALS HIS CASE
Winston-Salem, March 19.— UP)
—Tom P. .Timisbn. one time min
ister. and now an attorney of Char
lotte. was fined s.">o and costs in
municipal court here today by
Judge T. W. Watson, when he was
convicted of violating the prohi
bition law. Gus Bell and % Ml.
McNulty of this city, both \t- I
ed nt the same time \
and charged with <
were fined ss*' -^-ffutsan
appealed ' , -.-Tmnrt. and I
bond w\ AW*'’ 'Jk jSnO.
FOUR GOLF TOURNEYS
AT PINEHURST SOON
North and South Open Championship
WiH Begin March Slst.
rinehurst, N. (’., March 19. (INS.;
—Four major golf tournaments, bring
ing together a galaxy of tbe nation’s 1
premier golfers in championship match
es, will round out the winter season
at Pinehurst.
The first of these, the 25th Annual
United North and South Amateur
Championship for Womeen will he
played March 24-29. Among the med
als to be awarded is the gold medal
for the best qualification score, the
championship trophy to the first di
vision winner. Governors’ Trophy toj
the winnere in the second division, and 1
other trophies for additional divis
ions.
The next tournament at Pinehurst
comes on March 31st when play starts
in the Twenty-Fifth Annual United
North and South Open championship.
The tournament is open to profes
sionals nnd to amateurs who are qual
ified by the Tournament Committee.
The tournament is one of the most
colorful of the Pinehurst seaeson and
is expected to be one of the season's
biggest drawing cards. Numerous
cash trophies will be offered to the
winners.
From April 4th to April 9th the
Twenty-seventh Annual United North
and South Amateur Championship
will hold forth, and on April 18th
play will start on the last of the big
tournaments, the 17th Mid-April Tour
nament.
SCHOOL PATRONS ASK
RESTRAINING ORDER
Request That Recent Election In
Elizabeth District in Cleveland Be
Set Aside.
Shelby, March 18.—Complaint sign
ed by 24 citizens and taxpayers of
Elizabeth school district, Cleveland
county, was filed in Superior court
this week nskiug that a recent election
ereatiug a special solum! tax district
be set aside, and that .a restraining
order he issued against the board of
education and board of commissioners
prohibiting them from levying any tax
in the district, and also from purchas
ing any land or building a new school
building in the district as u result
of the election.
Temporary l-osertaining order signed
by Judge Schenck and returnable be
fore Judge Peyton MeElroy Monday,
March 28, was served today upon the
county officials.
The complaint filed with the court
by Attorney Peyton McSwain, repre
senting the complainants, alleges that
election creating the loenl tax district
was irregularly and unlawfully held,
nnd that the board of education has
no right to use the funds of a local
tax district for the purchase of land,
or the erection of school building un
til certain statutory requirements
huve been complied with, and that
these requirements have not been met.
The complaint also charges that the
board is about to make an unlawful
and unwarranted expedit-ure of public
funds by purchasing u school site
for "an enormous sum" located on
one edge of the district, when the
school dlready owns a suitable site
at the center of the district.
STROKE OF LIGHTNING
KILLS ELKIN GIRL. 15.
Aliene Dorsett Was Standing At
Kitchen Sink During Severe Elec
trical Storm.
Winston-Salem. Mar. IS.—Aliene
Dorsett, 15, was killed instantly
when struck by lightning in the
home of her father, Hobie Dorsett, at
Elkin tonight at 6:10 -o'clock, ac
cording to advices received here.
The girl was standing at a kitchen
sink in her home when killed. Arti
ficial respiration was used unsuc
cessfully in- an effort to save her
life.
Messages received here stated that
one of the worst electrical storms in
years visited Elkin tonight and
raged for more than two hours. The
storm was accompanied by rain.
Tax Collections in State,
ltaleigh, March 19. —G4 s )—Federal
income tax collections in North Caro
lina on March 15 totalled $4,230,-
000, state income tax collections $5,-
452.554.98, it was announced today.
Eight Robbers Get $12,000.
Chicago, March 19. —(A*) —Eight.
1 men armed with shot guns held up
1 the officers of the Continental Can
‘ Company 'today and got $12,000. They
1 escaped in an automobile. No shots
| were fired.
Take Notice
Anyone holding accounts
' against the Concord Y. M.
C. A. will please present the
l same —itemized—to the un*
1 dersigned not later than
0 | April let.
Signed
I CONRAD HILL, Treas.
THE TRIBUNE " j
TODAY’S NEvltoDA||
NO. 60'..,
COFFEYVILLE QUIEtJI
WITH SOLDIERS M I
GUARDING THE tiff*
Soldiers, Three
Persons and Damiiif *J§
City Hall Evidence mIS
Riots Friday Night. "' |ii B
NO DISORDERS MM I
DURING TOiMuF i
Four Men Are Under At* -|B
rest Charged With MNjftrag
ing a Hardware ■ Sidft in
for Firearms. fl
Coffey vide, Kans.. March 19.—~M 5 ) £291
—Coffeyvilie awoke today .with
uncanny feeling that the stormitfif-jBSfS
ilh> city jail here last night in diyKj|fl|fl
fort to take a negro prisoner . Uhl jfl
officers was bill un unrealized (MBfltfljH
Patrolling national guardsmen.
injured men and a badly damage# J|Bj| H
| hall, however, testified to roalitjcnpll |fl
I the night's events.
Four men were under «9
charges of looting a hardware store. II
The negro sought by the mob mBmB
his a treat in connection with itgjM
tack on two high school girls wad
and county and military nuthdßfjMUjljjfl
were confident that there would bs' ; Mg 'H jfl
repetition of mob activity. , ..
The negro. Curtis Smith. wa4 fl*
leased when officials said they diti
have enough evidence to hold luK a99
Neither girl could identify him dl
of the attackers. gfl
Two other negroes arrested ttfjjjl-'JBfl
Smith were freed yesterday wlinf
satisfied officers they did not
pate in the attack.
W. lb MeCrabb. sheriff of
cry county, announced that thregJßßflfl
groes answering the description fni9fS| fl|
by the girls were under arredf if
Humboldt, Ivans., and would be jra]
tinned today.
City officials declared their >»te<tiflKH ffl
|of starting an investigation of QfK jj 9S
mob, and friends of one of the iojmHjaj jfl
men asserted that a damage suit WOaH
be started against the city jfl
ly under the Kansas tnob law whUtji | H
bolds the city responsible for inob vH»-’ Jtlß
iettce. Three men constitute a Inob jfl
under this law. and there were $999 99
tually 2.000 men. women and childrtttt'l3 fl
about the city hall when three 3
were muile t.o take .■
Every window in tile city half wtfPfM H
broken out when bricks, rocks and' mU
other missiles were hurled at tlz* "M fl
trenched officers. Smith was takejife|| H
front room to room in the hmlaMplß 'Hi
and finally was shoved into a cuißmSv«|9|J|
while the sheriff invited the njbjb t 0 B
search the building. fl
Troops A and (• from lola; lißq| | H
Yates Center, Kans., national guard ■
cavalry arrived at 4 o’clock this iiiMNgjifl fl
ing to reinforce the local troop.
tacliments patrolled the streets
the negro section to enforce
discipline. •••’"**flH H
With Our Advertisers. ..
Dry cleaning will save you rilwNSNflH
on your clothing bill. See Wrertß; df ;a| fl
Kannapolis, for expert work. H
Robinson’s is offering tbe latest flti .’S fl
spring hats—bats for every occJSppS fl
Tiny, medium and brimmed huts, fl
The Citizens Bank and Trust fl
pany offers special courtesies to Vtortw.-lIW
t it. Rend new ad. today. , , ' :> '’..,p99
Hood tires arc sold in Concord by B
tlie Ritchie Hardware Co. FjjJjS fl
One hundred town lots in KaBHBW»~,cJS I
lis will be sold at auction by’ J,fjfegl H
I,inker on Saturday. March- 3 3
Read ad. for particulars. fl
Persons with accounts agaidA Jfcß '■
Y. M. C. A. will be interested in
in this patter. H
A Spring sale of Spring eOHtfcflPfl fl
bo started Monday at the Gray siwK'jflfl
Tite coats misses .and fl
~Ttie Southern Railway is ojjfeHfl;.jj I
special rates to Charleston. Reail
for price particulars and fl| : fl
sale of tickets. fl
Etird’s is offering wonderful h&|- 'M fl
gains in men’s, women’s aud dw' 19
dren’s shoes. The prices range
45 cents to $1.60. Read ad.’ •"’ffijlfl I
Funeral of Gov. Whitfield Tothtf. * | 9
Jackson, Miss., March
Mississippi paid its final tribulfejp S ■
Governor Whitfield today whlM'AKrvflH
body was being carried to .its ‘fi’Sl# 'M ■
resting place nt Columbus, where M.jfl
1 fifteen years he served as presidential'fl 9
- the Mississippi State College for Whin*...'fljj
' en. I
After funeral services conduct«j’;'Jp-«|9
the rotunda of the state capital «fl
Rev. IV. A. Hewitt, pastor of MHpfl 9
Baptist Church of Jackson, the jjfifligß g
was escorted to a H|ieeist train jf :jj fl
the M ississippi national guard,
accompanied it on its journey
Ben Sohuh Fownd Guilty. 1
Pryor. Okla., March 19.— UP) —BWtijfflg
Schuh, of Vatina, lowa, was found
guilty by a jury here today of
ing Leonurd F. Greer, merchtthf
Hpavinnw, Okla., and sentenced:i
Mrs. Greer is to be tried next week. , j
Cloudy tonight and Sunday, sWws#»r JS|
Sunday and in west itortion tonigte, jfll
colder in the west and north portion* isl
Sunday, much colder Sunday j