associated , PRESS ! DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVII Another American Warship In China Lets Loose Its Guns Nationalist Troops Fire on the John D. Ford as It Was Proceeding Up the Yangtze Yesterday. CANTONESEFIRING AT RIVER CRAFT, The Removal of Americans ! Was Continued Today to j Accompaniment of Con-| stant Firing From Shore. Shanghai. March 30.—OP)—Anoth er American warship on the Yangtze river Ims found ir necessary to let loose its guns. As the destroyed .Toltn I). Ford was proceeding up the river toward Nan-' king yesterday nationalist troops fired ! on the vessel. The command was given, and the destroyer's four-inch j guns and machine guns were brought into action. Removal of Americans Continued I Washington, March 30.—(/P)—He- 1 movnl of Americans from the long i reaches of the Yangtze river valley j of China was continued today to the accompaniment of constant tiring from , the shore at destroyers and other ships j of refuge. ' Reporting the situation in the re-' gion where conditions have been made I most acute on the advance of the Can tonese nationalist armies. Hear Ad miral Williams, commanding the American forces in China, informed the navy department that the Can tonese were firing shots at the river craft from Xnnking and from other l>oints along the river. Meanwhile there was apparent un easiness over conditions at Wuhtt in j Anhwei province, where anti-foreign , outbreaks such as that which took , place at Xanking were reported to be , momentarily expected. Anti-foreign agitation was reported by Consul A. I (S. Sawney at Tsinanfu,, as having spread also to Shantung province, ! heretofore held by the northern Chi- * nese troops. Tsinafu was quiet, but | the anti-foreign feeling also was in evidence lljjtre. the consul said, and | precaution/ being taken for their j A mdirn' 'fiauts also reported the looting Catholic mis- 1 sinus at. PtßEv.. Kw.,,.iori* tm>ds .Unfit HM jit. v sold, it will be remembered, were ftu ' thorized more than a year ago, but | have just been put on the market. Thus one of the factors irr selling j them nt the present low interest rate has been the excellent judgment dis- I played in choosing the time at which |to offer the bonds. By withholding ! a portion of the bonds and selling them from time to time, as demand arises, it has been possible to con serve the,eagerness of the public to buy them, with n correspondingly low interest rate. 1 "I can’t understand how Governor McLean and Treasurer Lacy managed to put over the deal whereby they have been able to sell these $20,000,000 in bonds at $4.25,” says W. C. Wilkin son, president of the Merchants and Farmers Bank of Charlotte, "except that I do know it is good business.” The transaction has meant a saving to the state: of sufficient thousands of dollars, however, to pay the salaries of the governor arid treasurer for 1 years to come, Mr. Wilkinson states. It is also pointed out by bankers that the exercising of the option to take the remaining $10,000,000 was all the more remarkable, since it came . right after the legislature had voted | nearly $50,000,000 more in bonds, to i be marketed in the ensuing year or i two. > English history shows that when thievery was punished by death, pickpockets plied their trade npiung i the dense crowds watching the pub lict execution of pickpockets. ABOUT ONE HUNDRED MISSIONARIES WILL NOT DESERT POSTS Notwithstanding Fact That ! They Have Been Advised 1 by the American Author | ities to Do So. (SHANGHAI IS A HAVEN OF REFUGE The Rest of Missionaries Are Either En Route to or Will Shortly Leave for City of Shanghai. Shanghai. March 30.— UP)— Approx imately 100 American missionaries arc refusing to leave their posts in the Yangtze valley, notwithstanding advices of American authorities to do so. The rest of the missionaries arc either en route to. or will shortly leave for Shanghai, where the inter national settlement is affording a hav en of refuge from the fury of riotous mobs in the ports and inland towns along the Y'angtze river. The U. S. destroyer Hulbert called nt Anking today and took off 47 Am ericans and British missionaries who will go to Kiukiang to await the first merchant steamer. American Catholic Mission at Fuchow Reported Looted. Washington, March 30.— UP) —The American Catholic mission at Fuchow is reported looted in a dispatch reach ing Shanghai, Admiral Williams, the commander of the American Asiatic squadron today advised the Navy De partment. The fathers are said to have Hed to Kowchow, the admiral's message added. # Fuchow is in Kwangtung province, in which Canton, scat of the national- j Ist government, is located. The message gave no details of the! reported looting, but said the evacua-j tion of Americans from points along • the upper Yangtze river was "pro ceeding satisfactorily.” “Cantonese continually firing on de-. j stroyers and refuge ships from Nan- I king and other points along the river" I the message continued. “Xo com- I m unicat ion between ships am! shore j at Xanking.” Forty-seven American and British i left Xanking, stones were thrown at I f'V'Sfi »t 'hiw left. Jlßtauisk-Mfcsinn- I nries and one American family. Dr. 1 Taylor, wife and children, refused to ! leave, although fully informed as to conditions." The dispatch was filed nt 4:50 p. m. (Shanghai time) In view of incoming press dispatches telling of evacuation of 47 Americans at Anking more than 100 miles above Xnnking on the Yangtze River, it was believed here that both reports were of the same evacuation and that Ad miral Williams' message might have been garbled in transmission. France Has 1.204) Blind Musicians. Paris, March 29. UP) —Twelve hun dred blind persons earn their living as musicians in France and among them are players of note. These blind musicians were edu cated in the Xationnl Institution for the Young Blind. They were taught : to play for distraction but Valentin Ha.uy, then leader, showed them how I music might make them independent. Eight organists of large Paris , churches, including Notre-Dame, arc ! blind. There are among these sev ! eral composers and many conductors ’ of small orchestras. The old theory that the blind have | a peculiar aptitude for music, say [ directors of the school, has not been proved by their experience but they have found that the blind do well in music, probably because they are able to concentrate and because their mis ( fortune spurs them to unusual efforts. THE SI'SCK MARKET Reported by Fenner & Beane ( Quotations at 1:30 P. M.) Atchison 176% American Tobacco B 125 American Smelting 142% American Locomotive 109% Atlantic Coast Line 178 Allied Chemical 141% Baldwin Locomotive 185 Baltimore & Ohio 114% Chesapeake & Ohio 162% DuPont 218 Frisco HI General Motors 180% General Electric 85% Hudson 67% Standard Oil of New Jersey __ 37 Kennecott Copper 62% Coca-Cola 191% Liggett & Myers B 96 Mack Truck 100% Maryland Oil 48% Pan American Petroleum B 62% Rock Islnnd B6 R. J. Reynolds 100 Southern Railway 124 Studebaker 51% Stewart-Warner —_— 58% Texas Co. —— 48% Tobacco Products 102% U. S. Steel 104% YVestinghouse 74 Woplworth 125% American Tel. & Tel. 167 American Can 44% Allis Chalmers 94 Dodge Bros. lB% Great Northern 86 Lorillard 27% Montgomery Ward 64% Norfolk & Western 176% Overland 20% Republic Iron A Steel j. 70 Vick Chemical 54 New Steel 118% CONCORD, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1927 JUDGE RAYMOND j CUTS OFF ARGUMENT: ON TECHNICALITIES Each Counsel in the Ford Trial Will Be Allowed Only Ten Minutes in Such Arguments. SAPIRO STILL IN REED’S HANDS The “Nearly Interminable?’ Arguments Over Large Technicalities D o nie Away With Today. Detroit. March 30.— UP) —The "nearly interminable" arguments over legal teehniealities were done away away with in Aaron Sapiro’s sl.- 000,000 libel suit against Henry Ford when Federal Judge Fred M. Ray mond today enunciated a policy of lim iting each side. At the opening of court the jury was sent outside where it has been most of the trial, while Sapiro’s and Ford's counsel argued over the produc tion of Sapiro’s record books. "Gentlemen, there lias got to be an end somewhere.” said the judge. “I wish you would agree on a limit. How about 20 minutes for each of you?" "That would be twice too much." replied Stewart Hanley, of Ford counsel. William Henry Gallagher, counsel for Sapiro. nodded assent, and the new rule was applied immediately, The first application limited each side to ten minutes. It was not needed, however, as the attorneys agreed to take up the mat ter after noon recess. Sapiro was recalled to the witness stand, and .las. A. Reed, senator from Missouri, chief of the Ford counsel, | resumed cross examination. | DEATH OF PERRY' S. HEATH i | Was Known as “The Father of Rural Free Delivery, j Washington. March 30. —(A 5 ) —Per- Ir.v S. Heath, known ns the "father of the rural free delivery" and for years prominent ns an editor and publisher, j died at his home here early today j after ail illness of more than six I weeks. j A picturesque figure in the Inst WsgrMf- of the 19th century, an a F newspaper man and prolific puli tea I writer, Mr. Heath entered the post office department in 1897 under Presi dent McKinley and with less than $30,000 authorized by Congress for experimental purposes, he started the first work on one of the greatest ad vancements in postal distribution in history. THE STOCK MARKET Opened Today Without Any Definite Trend. Gains Balancing Recessions. New .York, March 30.— (A 3 )—The stock market opened without any def inite trend today, fractional gains fairly balancing the slight recessions. U. S. Steel, General Motors and Du- I pont were among the prominent stocks, the shade off in the initial trading while Bethlehem Steel. Gener al Railway Signal and several rail road shares opened slightly higher. Dodge Brothers Cars Lead All Other Makes in Johannesburg, S. A. More Dodge Brothers motor cars are registered in Johannesburg. South Africa, than any other make, according to the last, report of the Office of Census and Statistics of the Union of South Africa. In the whole of South Africa 51,694 gear shift cars are reglotod. Os these S,- 101 ar nearly one sixth are Dodge Brothers vehicles. Registrations of Dodge Brothers cars exceed by 22 per cent, thost of the nearest com petitor in the gear shift class. Congressman Lazaro Dead. Washington, March 30.—04*)—Rep resentative Ladislas Lazaro of the 7th Louisiana district, died hero early today. He was 55 years old, and un derwent an operation on March 9tli. IT’S THE GOOSE THAT LAYS GOLDEN EGGS I || —I j ‘ Seriously 111 i ____ J Mrs. Reed Smoot, wife of ths Utah Senator, was seriously ill her home in Washington. TIIE AMERICAN INTERESTS IN CHINA Some of the Questions That Have Arisen in the Public Mind. Washington. D. C., March 30. What are the American interests in China which United States warship ami marines have been sent to pro tect? How many Americans are resi dents in China and why are they there? These are some of the ques tions that have arisen in the public mind in view of the startling news that has been coming in from Shang hai the past few weeks. According to an estimate made be fore the beginning of the present troubles by an American college pro fessor resident in China, a man who has made a special study of foreigners in that country, there were at that time 240,000 aliens in China of all nationalities. Os these the Japanese made up a large majority. Next Came the Russians, of whom there were nearly 70,000. Then there were 9.000 British and about 8.000 Ameri cans. with the remainder divided among twenty nationalities. All these were scattered among 400,000,000 na tive born, or a population nearly four j times larger than that of the United | States. Most of the Americans in China, except the missionaries, have been cougregated in such international I places as, first of all, Shanghai, which \ enfolds most business headquarters ; | Pekin, Harbin, Hankow, Tientsin, ■ .Xakiii, Ichang and Hong Kong. It is Shanghai which most .visitors see and of course it is the center of American activities. Shanghai's growth in the past dec ade has been very rapid. During this period the Americans have been very conspicuous in the affairs of the city. An American, a State of Maine man. Stirling Fessenden, has served as head of what is termed the international government. For some months of the year, too, the Asiatic fleet has lay at anchor off the Blind, and at such seasons the traveler has naturally re ceived the impression that the pre dominant force in Chinese waters has been American. Many American enterprises have sprung up in this international city. The new American school is perhaps the best outside the United States. The American Club is housed in a palatial home that cost $1,000,000. The navy Y. M. C. A. ranks with the best at home. There are newspapers, women's clubs, banks, shops, hotel, cabarets and other features which have sprung up since the World War to greet tlie American visitors. American trade in China has grown very fast. There was a time when a Chinese banker said that American business men became interested in China about once in seven: years and then forgot about it. ' There was a time when the New England merchant and trader had a great interest in the China coast. At that time there : was a saying "as rich as a captain in the China trade.” Later came a peri od of the international development of America and the opening of the west. American business was ab . sorbed with interests at home and for • tlie time the China trade was neg lected. In 1908 the United States partici pated in the foreign trade in China AMERICAN IS HELD FOR A RANSOM BY MEXICAN BANDITS Eflgar W. Wilkins Held for $20,000. —His Ten- Year Old Son Released to Bear Ransom Demand EFFORTS TO CAPTURE THE BANDITS FAIL Ambassador Sheffield Di-j rected to Make Repre sentations to Mexican Foreign Affairs Office. Washington. March 30.—UP)—Am bassador Sheffield, at Mexico City, was directed today b.v the State De partment to make representations at the foreign office regarding the kid-; napping at Guadalajara Sunday of Edgar M. Wilkins an American citi zen. Mexican military authorities at Guadalajara Have been making of-1 forts to obtain Wilkin’s release and r capture the bandits, thus far without! success, so far as the Washington | government knows Wilkins is held for $20,000. His ten year old son. captured with him, j was released to take the ransom de-, maud to Guadalajara. FOUR MEN SHOT TO DEATH IN CHICAGO Eleven Children Made Fatherless.— ‘ Slayer Lost His Job. Chicago. March 30.— UP) —Four' men were shot to death here last night within an hour, making 11 eliil-l ! dren fatherless. John Palumbo, 39, a contractor, and! his assistant Jack Prete. were killed in their homes by Joseph Clemente.; 39. who lost liis job and thought his family would starve. j A fourth man, Frank Palumbo, was ; shot and killed in his automobile by' I unidentified assailants. He is not re-j lated to John Palumbo, police said. Clemente lost liis job and went gun-| I ning for liis employer. He found him j sitting at his evening meal, listening | to the prayers of his four children. He, j opened fire, and slew Palum'bo. Clem-I jente then raced to the home of Prete! j and leveling a pistol over Prete’s son,! shot Prete dead. Tlie jiolice found Clemente entrench-* ed behind a push cart in the yard of, a relative. Clemente fired a volley,' j missed, and raced for a shed. Two 1 volleys from police guns struck him. i He was dead when tlie police found j him inside the shed where he had' dragged himself. I 1 ATTORNEY GENERAL TO • CONDUCT INVESTIGATION Charges of Mistreatment of Inmates At State Hospital at Morganton. Raleigh. March 30.— UP) —Attorney ! General Dennis Bruminitt announces he will conduct an investigation here ‘ April 6 of charges of mistreatment . of inmates at the Hospital for the i Insane at Morganton. Charges that It. 11. Williams of i Beaufort County was mistreated while . at the institution were made b.v Reqi • resentative McLean, of Beaufort, dur . ing last Legislature. Hospital au , thorities have been notified to attend i hearings. A will, consisting of twenty-five , words, exclusive of signatures, dis posed of property valued "at more 1 than $1,000.’ It was written on the back of a bridge score card by a J Mineola, New York woman. 1 only 9.7 per cent, of the total foreign 1 trade of the country. Since then it p has mounted above 16 per cent. In 1 eight years China jumped from 28th to sth place among world buyers of ' American goods. > e Nearly all of the cigarettes import ‘ ed into China have come from the r I United States. Other items that have ' i figured largerly in American exports to China are wire nails, textile machin ' ery, electrical equipment, illuminating oil, sewing machines, automobiles. m structural steel, and machinery of many different kinds. ANNOUNCEMENT The 59th Series in this Old Reliable Building, Loan and Savings Association will open April 2nd. Running Shares cost 25 cents per share per week, matures SIOO.OO in 328 weeks. Prepaid Shares cost $72.25 per share, matures SIOO.OO in 328 weeks. Tax Returning Time Is Here, Remember That All Stock is Non-Taxable. Now is the accepted time to take shares and make a safe invest ment which will bring yon the best return and yon will be helping some good family get a home of its own. The Cabarrus County will be 29 years old on April 6th. Think of doing business that long without the loss of a cent on any loan or in any other way, and in the past ten years maturing its stock in 328 weeks. How many individuals have such a record? You can take shares any time now. A lot of people already have taken a running start by taking shares in * SERIES NO. 59—NOW OPEN Cabarrus County Building Loan and Savings Association OFFICE IN THE CONCORD NATIONAL BANK CARRIES SECRET BITTERNESS TO RESTING PLACE j Bryson City. N. C., March 20. j Fred Fischer. 76 years old. for j many years known as one of the most brilliant attorneys -in West- I ern North Carolina, who died a j week ago at his home near here, ordered a friend to dig his p>' beside that of his first days before his death, ed here today. Apparv ! terod by some early , ,-rtenoe. Mr. Fischer had been known as an j eccentric as well as a brilliant at* j torncy. The only friend he ever aecept i ed in this section died years ago. I and since that time he never had I spoken to persons outside his fam ily. except to go to the railway sta- j I tion occasionally to inquire for eor- ' I reef time. To speak to him on the j j street brought no response. Mr. j Fishoer was a member of a prom- j • incut Salisbury family and a ! brother of the late Christian Reid, j noted writer. THE COTTON MARKET I Prices Eased Off Sltortly After Open- j . Bridges of Charlotte, who will .suc ceed H. Hoyle Sink as Commission er of Pardons and Paroles, also as Secretary of the Salary and Wag“ Commission on April 1, has been spending several days in Raleigh in conference with Mr. Sink, and going over the details of the details of the office. Mr. Sink will take up his duties as permanent emergency judge . of the Superior Court of the West ern district on April 1. Earl Carrol Ordered to Prepare For Prison. New York. March 29.—‘Earl Car -1 roll, theatrical producer, today was ’ ordered to surrender Monday to bc- I gin the sentence of a year and a • day in the federal penitentiary at f j Atlanta. Ga., imposed as a result of | his famous “bath tub" party. THE TRIBUNiN PRINTS If TODAY’S NEWS TODAIi j NO. 69 (1 THIS NO IMIJ NUMBER CHlNlEjj’l ' .miiLEOBYEIBEI The Area Fired Upon by iff American and British J Ships Was Occupied by ||| Only a Few Chinamen.’S 9 SAYS A REPORT B]l 9 i ADMIRAL WILLIAMftjfI Such Chinese as Were fl ed Were Probably 41* ■ tacking Foreigners Looting Property. 9 ! Washington. March 30. Doubt that any large number of nose were killed when American British ships opened fire to foreigners at Nanking was exprggqjlK Jjfl§| lin a report to the Navy DepartfjjfH HE today from Admiral Williams, -ngp- JR. "landing the American force* Inasmuch as the area fired npoaJuH largely owned by foreigners Williams said, "few Chinese there, and it is not believed any MXiHH number was killed. Such as killed were probably attacking fer- eigtters or looting foreign propertjrj'fS |H No- shells were directed aggiugg the Chuiese section of Nanking, report continued, adding that the feet of the firing not only was tq MSS? -sH| cue the American consul and big IfHf. ty. but other foreigners in the 3 The bombardment brought mne I ous results, the admiral said, tbg fqg- H| signers being able to leave their tion immediately. Cantonese Commander Regrets king Affair. Shanghai. March 30.—C4 s ) BB ! al Chang Kai Shek. Cantonese ffMpwiSS mandc'r, sent Ills cliicff of staff and * fl secretary aboard the Japanese here this morning to convey 1 grets to the admiral for the Nanking affair. PIERCE ENTERS PLEAS OF NOT GUILTY TODAY 'HR Denies That He is Guilty of the Kill- 19 ing of Dr. G. H. Gerberding. «j H i Hickory. Mar. 30.—OP)—Joe Pbwilfll charged with killing Dr. G. H. Gers'#|ißl j herding last Sunday night, entered BjjMwf j plea of not guilty when brought, be* . j fore recorder M. H. Yount in iioliCCktN^H this morning. His defense Will";^^S [lie that he did not drive his rented "Iran jear past ir-lthyne College whereA^Sfl Dr. Gerberdipg was run down anq?wfi9H killed by an automobile. ' *■ “ ■ The state called six witnesses when - jfll! the preliminary hearing began at l®'?ggS| o'clock today. It is believed here tJjijtSlßl the trial will continue throughout Cba-j|H i day. TV defense is being represented fl i by W. C. l'ViUlster of Newton jT. I’. Pruitt and Witcher and Whiten- fl 1 er, of Hickory. City attorney Jidm K W. Aiken is representing the stasff.'’i#||§H RHINELANDER QUITS c ■ DIVORCE ATTEMPT ft, Latest Reverse in Courts I)i»c««r --ages Man Wed to Negress. , H White Plains, N. Y.. March' 29. faKg Leonard Kip Rhinelander member of an old New York family, is through with his fight to an annulment of his marriage to wife of negro blood, Alice JoHieh-SH Rhinelander. H This became known today the Court of Appeals refused '. toylyHH overturn tile decision of Supreme ; Court Joseph Mongolia twer. who VtuQBS denied his plea for annulment. Mrs. Rhinelander, on the otbgtjyH ' hand, will probably take up the njtv.'.-sM tie that lias been waged by hegiyjS|Hj| band for more than two years fttogl will attempt to obtain a set in her own behalf, her counsel saMrysJH ■ i Charlotte Office in Old Mint BuUdijlf- fl Tribune Buraiih ■ Sir Walter Hotel fl Raleigh. March 29.—The ChSJfigtfg fl offices of the U. S. States 'Jfl . : Service, of the State I >e)uinmetts f/t. ;Wj& . Labor, will be located in the oty ]JNfIHH| j building in Charlotte, and -ill i opened April 1, it is announced by 'Jfl i, Frank D. Grist. Commissioner of bor. John Boyd Pharr, of Charlotte, sill will be superintendent of the office. £$9H Space for the office is being provided Jj by the Government, but for £ t4ta*.'-IWj jit was feared that it might be possible I jto get the office located in one of tile ■ Federal buildings in Charlotte. - Th* ! old Mint building now bouse tlie offiees J of the Prohibition enforcement branch, 1 and some other Federal offices. Mr. fl Grist considers it fortunate that it fl ) has been possible to secure office* for JIS | the employment bureau in this build- fl jing. -fl ! Electricians Want One I)oll#r an fl Hour. ' -'lia I Charlotte, March 29.—Electrical Jpg workers here today started a mWSes.IH ment to secure a contract with’ iflflß ploy era call ing for a minimum seal* j|Hs of one dollar an hour. :l Bank Robbed. I j Gleason, Tenn.. March 30. The Bank of Gleason was entered ftnd JB robbed of $5,000 some time tayt night;|fl or early today. m 1 ''"99l Cloudy tonight and Thursday, pidfiflß ably showers Thursday in WASt | “ tion; somewhat warmer I