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ASSOCIATED* < PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVII RECORDS OF ARREST PUBLIC DOCURENTS. JUDGEFfIILEY SAYS Issues Order to Sheriff Di recting Him to Make Public Names of Men Arrested by Him. CHARLOTTE NEWS i SECURED ORDER; Sheriff of Alexander Coun- j ty Refused to Names to Reporter of the! Charlotte Paper. Charlotte, April 6 (/»>)—Records ol arresting officers in North Carolina are public documents, and n» such, newspaper men have a right to de mand access to them, Superior Court •Judge T. 11. Finle.v held here today. The ruling was made in issuing an order on the sheriff of Alexander coun ty to turn over to a reporter for the Charlotte News the names of six per sons jailed at Taylorsville last Mon day on liquor charges. The notion of the judge sets a precedent in North Cnrolinn it wns said, and is one of the few such cases ever reported in the country. In a story published here today quoting the judge's order, the News says it wns informed six Charlotte men find been arrested at Taylorsville ' and tneir automobile seized when a quantity of liquor wns found in the car. The sheriff and chief of police doth refused to divulge the names of the men held to the News correspon dent at Taylorsville. The court order then was secured, and n reporter left (his morning for Taylorsville armed with it. Get Names. Charlotte, April (5.— (A 3 )—A youth giving his name ns Joe K. Orr, of Charlotte, son of a former chief of police here, was arrested nt States ville and three others boys were ar rested at Taylorsville on Monday charged with violating the prohibition law, if developed today after the Char lotte News had obtained a court order directing the sheriff of Alexander county to divulge the names of men arrested. Orr. according to information gath ered by a reporter at Statesville as he went jo Taylorsville with the court * rfFder.' captured at "StafWVfH* when he arrived on a bakery truck. He was returned to Taylorsville. AGAIN SAY FERDINAND’S DEATH EXPECTED HOURLY \ : | Reported That I<ast Rites of Church Have Been Reeeived By Rumanian King. Vienna, April C.—( A »)—Bucharest dispatch to the Nene Freie l’resse this morning saiil King Ferdinand bad received the last rites of the church, and that his death was expected hourly. The same corespondent sa.v the na tional peasant party is trying to en force a demand that the King sum mon council nt his bedside and revoke the exclusion of former crown prince Carol for succession to the throne. Piuedo Off for Arizona. Hot Springs, N. Mex., April 6. — (A 3 ) —Commander Francesco de Pincdo hopped off from the Elephant Butte Reservoir near here for Roosevelt Dam, Arizona, at IS :58 o'clock this morning. Mountain time, on the first \ leg of his flight to San Diego, Cal. i Four million Chinese live in Japan and her dependencies. THE STOCK MARKET Reported by Fenner and Beane. (Quotations at 1:30 P. M.) Atchison 178 American Tobacco B 124 American Smelting 145(4 American Locomotive 110 Atlantic Const Line 175(4 Allied Chemical , 142(4 American Tel. & Tel. 108% American Can 45% Allis Chalmers 100 Baldwin Locomotive 181) Baltimore & Ohio 114 Banker 72% Bethlehem Steel : 53% Chesapeake A Ohio 167% Coca-Cola 1!H DuPont .. 230 Dodge Bros. js 20% Erie 54 Frisco _j) : 113% . General Motors 182% General Electric —; 80% Great Northern 87% Gulf State Steel 58% Gold Dust 40% Hudson 73 Int. Tel. 134 Kennqrott Copper ,62% Liggett A Myers B 00 Mack Truck 107% : Missouri-Pacific 58 Norfolk A Western 183% New York Central 1 145% Pan American Pet. B. 58% Rock Island 1)4% R. J. Reynolds 111% Rep. Iron A Steel 68% Remington 77 Stand. Oil of N. J. 36% Southern Railway 128% Htudebaker 55% Texas Co. 47% Tobacco Products 90% IT. S. Steel 172 U. 8. Steel, New 124% Vick Chemical 54% Westinghonse 75% Western Md. i._ 37% The Concord Daily Tribune , North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily IN SOUTHERN PART OF Him I IS UNPOPULAR TOO In Changsha, Capital of Province of Hunan, Boy cott of American Goods i Has Developed. STRIKE STARTED ( I THERE ON MONDAY j People Show Sentiment Against Americans and j Consul Has Left City for Safety on Gunboat. Shanghai, April 6';—C4>) erican agitation taking the form of a strike ami a boycott of American goods has broken 7uit at Changsha, capital of province of Hunan in southern China. A wireless dispatch from that place today said the strike and boycott went into effect at noon Monday, and reported that the American consul has gone aboard the U. S. gunboat l’alos on the Siang river, preparatory to leaving (')iangsha. The whole pro vince of Hunan will be evacuated by foreigners shortly because of labor and! nnti-foreign manifestations. Kiukiang on the Yangtse river in Kiangsi province, reported that a gen eral strike against all foreigners has hpen called to begin at noon today, 'while at Hankow, headquarters of the Cantonese or Nationalist government, all business wns virtualyy at a stand still. Japanese civilians boarded steam ship on the Yangtse river making ready to evacuate Hankow. About 100 French. Belgians and Swiss remained in the city. British and Americans took quarters close to waterfront, so as to he ready to leave at short notice. The Americans in Hankow number about 105. Several heads of American, firms applied to the American consul gen iernl lor his approval of their remain ing nt their posts, but he informed them they would stay at their own risk. The state of affair's south of the Yangtse river caused by the antipathy of the Chinese to all things foreign appears to he growing steadily wotoe, the civil war situation north of the great river is becoming more precar ions ns the Cantonese armies progress fhether Towitnl the northern capital. Peking. For the moment the objects tis the Cantonese are Tsmanfu, capital of Shantung, and Tientsin, strategic center of the north. Marshall Chang Tso Lin, the north ern war chief, it is felt here, can hold Peking only so long as he is able to retain possession of Tientsin for that railway center provides the only means of communication with the northern forces. V foolidge Axe. Laid on. Charge, of Judge. . Charlotte, April 4.—Economy is the rule in federal courts now. Judge E. Yates Webb, of Shelby, opening, a term of western district court here today, said, and he cut his chnrge tp the grand jury short, talking only fifteen minutes. Due to Congress failing to provide enough money, the courts will have to get along on less, he said, and urged that cases be speeded up. 000000000000000000000000 I A Story for II Every One Ijj In the Home. \\%ff. ‘Buddritjh Oxford .! From grayest grandparents to youngest toddler—» story to ' be «hnhM for I to entertain- i ! amt qualify! Made from the 8 motion picture of the same name | 9 starring Fred Thompson and < A Silver King, hls.horse! Q Road it beginning tomorrow , 9 and running Daily in The Trib- COAL SHORTAGE OH YANGTSE RIVER R NEW DEVELOPMENT j Admiral Williams Tells the! Navy Department Patrol I Boats on River May Halt! Their Activities Soon. [ (LABOR TROUBLE IS THE CAUSE May Be Necessary to Ship! Coal From Shanghai and This Would Interfere With Work of Patrols. ! Washington, April 6.— (A 3 )—Fears of an interruption to shipping on the ' Yangtse River, which would hamper j activities of American and other gun boats engaged in evacuating foreigners to the China coast, were communicated today to the Navy Department. Hear Admiral Hough of the Ameri can Yangtse patrol force reported thnt virtually all ships in the Yangtse area were coal burners and a shortage of fuel caused by serious labor troubles may require that, the craft be sent to Shanghai. The only alternative, it-, was said, Would be the shipment of coal from Shanghai to the river patroll vessels, which in the opinion of the Navy De liartment officials would seriously em barrass those in charge of Y’angtze evacuation. "There is much difficulty in assemb ling a coal supply, due to serious labor troubles" admiral Hough’s report said. "It may be necessary to have sufficient coal shipped from Shanghai to get the coal burning ships down the river and for this reason it may become necessary to send nil cottl burning gun boats through to Shanghai as soon as they can be assembled at Hankow." Conditions nt Hankow were des cribed by admiral Hough ns “very bad." BUSINESS SESSIONS ARE HELD BY VET OF GRAY Several Business Sessions Scheduled for Day' at Tampa Reunion. Tampa, Fia., April 6.—C4>)—Though the “interestin' " part of this reun ion's got a whole lot to do with meet-- ip’ and talkin' to the old boys id gome quiet corner, as bne gray hniityl vetera’n ekpressed it, business sessions were the order for the Confederate Veterans today. Last night in short session of EJons of Confederate Veterans, General M. D. Vance, of Little Rock, Ark., com mander-in-chief of the gray haired fighters, ruled Lincoln r out of the list whom the Confederates recognize ns having held chief executive authority over the dissident states. A rebel yell put period to the declar ation. In the latter part of his address. General Vance said that Lincoln "had a lot of good qualities, even if the South had no part in electing him to ■ the place he is supposed to have hold." General T. J. Appleyard, command er of the Florida division U. C. V., was to hold the chair at the opening meeting today, later turning it over to General Vance. General Vance's address, and the ceremony of the pre sentation of flags by Miss Jessica Smith, standard bearer of the organi zation, formed the nucleus around which the morning session was built. Official welcomes and the presentation , of officers of the U. C. V., S. C. V. ' and Confederate Memorial Association | were also included, i The first official ball of the reun ; on i is slated for tonight. i China Grove Ticket For Municipal ( Race. i China Grove citizens recently uora -1 inated a ticket for mayor and alder [ men to be voted on nt the municipal i election Tuesday, May 3. 1 Twice the number of candidates for [ places to be tilled were nominated, i following the usual custom, and. the | ticket to be presented the voters is: i Mayor, W. L. Cooper and K. A. i Shinn; aldermen,. W. R. Yost, T. C. ' Beaver, C. H. Deal, E. O. Grahnm, i D. C. Swaringen, L. A. York, R. C. 1 Kimball, M. D. James, C. E. Sloop, | and A. F. Safrit. i The convention wns well attended, 1 and much interest shown in the coming election. • Man, Crazed by Illness, Shoots At Attendants. j Moortjsville, April s.—Jasper Mc- Kay, 40, became temporarily deranged this morning about daylight and (treated a mild sensation when lie poured a bucket of water on his broth er-in-law, Fred Sherrill, and fired a pistol five times at Mr. Sherrill and two other men. Mr. McKay is a bachelor and lives in Barringer township about four miles > north of town. He has.been confined ■ to his home on account of sickness of } a depressing nature and Mr, Sherrill, [ J. H. Bailey and B. L. Wilhelm had i been sitting up with him when she 1 sudden demetia caused them to break \ for safety. The man soon quited down i and -was put back to 'bed. ! At the opening of the National i League season in Boston 20 years 1 ago the first three, games had to be ! postponed bees use the baseball ground was covered with half a foot of snow. _ : Ten Pages Today Two Sections CONCORD, N. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1927 What Will Be Fate of Acts Affecting Cpunty Government? Tribune Bureau yi Sir Walter Hotel. |j By J. C. HASHKRVILL. J Raleigh. April 6.—Will the Sul premc Court uphold the municipal finance act. the county finance net: and the 'permanent improvements «pf jvpropriat-ion act ns they now stand,'' tor will if agree with Chester B. Mns-1 j slich, New York bond attorney, thal! I several material amendments wer<“l I adopted by irregular procedure, nnd .that as a result the acts are void? j If the nets ns they now stand are I upheld, it will mean that with the exception of the intervening delay, tho acts will go into effect as sohedtHedj But if the acts nre not upheld,' gp special session of the general assembly; j will be required in order to validate' 'them, and permit the expenditure of the $5,247,000 involved in the perns anent improvements act. However. Frank Nash. Assistant I Attorney General, is firmly of the (opinion that the objections raised Mnsslieh are not valid, and that th«j (Supreme Court will uphold the actgj (as they now standi and bases hist opinion on several precedents, where Cases of a similar nature were taken to the Supreme Court. W. N«j Everett. Secretary of State, is also nf the belief? thnt the laws involved will be ipermitted to stand as they are now, nnd that no special session of the general assembly will be found necessn ry. The injunction, which undoubtedly, will bo brought in Superior court here as soon ns posskbel, will be too late to stop the printing of the Public liUws, since they nre already printed, but probably will delay their distri bution. The centra! question involved cen ters nbout the materially or immat eriality of certain amendments at tached to both the municipal and. county finance nojs, nnd an amend ment to the permanent improvements appropriations act, which has been lost entirely. Certain amendments to the finance act, which Mnsslieh thinks arc material, and should have gone through three sepnrnte readings, were attached with hut one rending, it seems, on the assumption on the part of the members of the legislature, that they were immaterial' amendments. Since the amendment to the improve CAN SERVE STATE AND CHURCH TOO Bishop Gibbons Says Catholic Tenet! Teach It. Albany. N. Y., April 6.—A devout Roman Catholic can serve his govern ment in public office and still .be con sistent in his faith. BtefalT F. Gibbons, head of the Roman Catho lic diocese of Albany, declared hero in an address. The Bishop said his remarks were prompted by the recent letter of Char les C. Marshall, a New York attor ney. to Gov. Alfred E. Smith, asking him to state his stand on apparent conflicts between tenets of the church nnd the Constitution and laws of the United States. “There is nothing in the tenets of the Catholic Church which says that g man shall be anything but loyal to his government and its constitution.” tlie bishop said. “In fact, the church teaches just that lesson; be a loyal and law abid ing citizen to your country and serve it in every possible manner.” He said that the opinions which prompted Marshall's letter are miseon-1 strudd interpretations of letters of Pope Leo XIII, and are refuted by the statement of the Apostolic Dele gate in the United States during the papacy of Leo. He quoted the Dele gate as saying: “When you go home, men and wom en, do so with the Bible in one hand i and the Constitution of the United States in the other.” Monroe Officers Return Youthful : Hikers to Homes. Monroe, April 5.—E. G. Glenn, lti. I Albert Stewart. 15, nnd William Hitt, t 16. all of Hamlet, were arrested here and held in custody by officers until today. Earlier in the evening officers here received a message from Hamlet officers stating the boys had run away from home and to be on the lookout for them. Their fathers arrived this morning and took the ibo.vs bock to Hamlet. The only explanation that the youths would give of their run away act was they were tired of school I work. - 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, i Prepaid Shares cost $72.25 per share, matures SIOO.OO in 328 weeks. Tax Returning Time Is Here, Remember That All i Stock is Non-Taxable. Now is the accepted time to take shares and make a aafe invest • ment which will bring you the best return and . yon will be helping l some good family get a home of it! own. Tile 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 nr 1 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 I OFFICE IN THE CONCORD NATIONAL BANK f [l ments act has been lost, there is no I way. to find whether it wns material | nr immaterial. |i lu the Craint,v finance, net for in i'! stance, an amendment was added [jon third rending allowing Rockingham county alone, of all the 100 counties, to issue bonds under its old Ejhond laws, while the old bond lnws tj affecting the other Os) counties, were oannulled by the passage of the county ;! finance act. This amendment, in the : | opinion of Mnsslieh, is a material i amendment and should have required faction on three separate readings, in- Kslend of merely giving city comniis- Hsinners final authority in certain he fting a material amendment. And' in I the ease of the lost amendment to the ■ permanent appropriations net, there | is nothing to show whether it is or Vis not material. However. Attorney General Nash, holds that none of these laws were enacted until their third reading, and that an amendment attached on she [(third rending is as much u part of the ( law ns if it lias gone through two t other readings. He further contends that since the Journals of the house and senate do not show these amend ments to be material then they nre , not. and that it is impossible for Mnss iich. the courts or anyone else to go behind the Journals to determine the materiality of any amendments, nnd that thus the amendments involved ure regularly enacted, and the nets valid. In the case of the lost amendment, I lie holds thnt it was an immaterial amendment since the Journal doCs not show it to be material, and the amendment is not. in existence to show that it is material. All of the acts involved are already in effect, having taken effect upon ratification, although the .funds in , vi,lved in tlie permanent improvement set do not become available until July 1. If the validity of these acts is not decided by July 1, it will seriously delay building programs at all the \ various state institutions especially I the ediicntiunnl institutions. The de lay may also seriously hamper the various cities and counties in putting the county and city finance acts into operation. Even if they are eventually found to be valid, ns is hoped, the delay will prove costly. GERMANY INTENDS TO BUILD UP AN ARMY Her Budget Compares With Britain’s On Income Basis.| Berlin. April 6.—The speech deliv ered before the Reichstag biy Dr. Gess ler, the War Minister, in 'defense of ■tJfc 'Retchewebr's portion o? the Gei'- mart budget, is further proof that Ger many has not the slightest intention of remaining helplessly disarmed so long as other nations are armed to the teeth. "Armaments are thrown out by the door nnd come back through the win dow.” one of his auditors remarked. Tlie Germans are indignant and de fiant about permanent disarmament imposed by the Versailles Treaty and have sought to strengthen their mili tary power by all possible means— mostly open, but sometimes secret. Herr Gcssler's answer to his crit ics did not touch on the point wheth er the German army was costing more than its small size warrants, but he compared Germany’s comparative costs with those of other fully armed nations, showing to his own complete I satisfaction at least thnt Germany is not spending more for defense than Great Britain and France in compar ison with their respective national in comes. Interesting in this connection is the development of commercial avia tion, which by creating a variety of 1 lauding fields for 43 lines is certainly well prepared for transformation to a | war aviation basis. I It is possible that some of the mon ey voted for the Reichswehr which j has been found difficult to trace was ; used in acquiring government control i of all German civil aviation. The fact i is obvious that Germany intends to obtain an “armament equilibrium." Sheep Were Green. Newark, N. Y., April 6. —Passerby saw green sheep on a farm near here recently and thought they were a new breed. It was learned, however, thnt the sheep had sought shelter under a hay stack during a week of rain and that j timothy seed lodged in their warm I wet wool and had sprouted. WILL LET SUPREME ! COURT RULE ABOUT : ■ VALIDITY OF LAWS; It Is Probable That No! Special Session of Legis lature Will Be Called to . Consider New Measures. TEST CASE TO HIGHEST COURT If This Court Rules That Acts Are Not Valid Then | Steps to Correct Them Will Be Taken. i/p) Iw jM ■ llli' Ni• r t As in i in y mi in Florida after spending yesterdny "', , 1 exposing alleged flaws in the comity j flnnnee and permanent improvements i 1 i B bond issue measures. ( j ; > B Conferences between jlr. Masslieh.! Secretary of State W. N. Kverett. and 1 Frank Xash. assistant attorney gen-1 eral. resulted in announcement that i Mabel Dougherty (above), tht injunction proceedings against Secre- only school teacher in Sandyi I tan; Kverett to halt printing of the Pield N . Y., WES slapped by public laws containing: the allegedly I ir vr~u~i \r~. ~ I imperfect statutes would be brought 1 rs - Mabel Youmans, BQOtheiJ ns a means of testing their validity. ®£ a ten-year-old pupil, shej Preparations for bringing the suit eharged in causing her arrest.l jvere underway today, and the whole Mrs. Youmans was said to havt( matter took on more of an aspect of |> een angered because shrt testing the final authority of journals -» ■*>. , . , J of the House and Senate than of the thought MISS Dougherty hat? possibility of calling a special session * sported her SOH to the truaD* of the Legislature to make it possible Dfficer. for counties to borrow money and levy ■■■' l 1 1 ■■ ■ >- .■—■ ! , t ' IX n'i 1 ’ ,n ,r f ° r StatP tUti r%r MINISTERS VOTE assemblv P, ' O "" SMI * by AGAINST .MERGER j Assistant Attorney General Nash i v * o ~r „ p«sal Mill Com-! expressed the opinion that purely tech- Manit|eß Illto x £ iv|< . Bodies j mca matters would not serve to in- Spartanburg. S. April s.—Min- ! validate measures of such importance isters of the Im , llßtrin , r<>lDmissi(>n j to the extent of necessitating a spe-J () f the Upper South Carolina Methodist eml session. i Conference in session here today, un- | thf"tottii\' U4HKKT i animously voted disapproval of the THE COTTON MARKET. I merging of cotton mill communities j ' , . v- . ,„ , I into larger civic organizations as was Opened Steady at l nchanged Price* I recentlv , wwl bv Bish< j a . meK - To an, Advance of Two Points and ( - umlim j,... according to the Rev. J. Mas Quiet in Early Trading. w. Speake. secretary of the cominis- ■ f New York, April (5.—(/P)—The cot- ! si))M ! - ton market opened - steady toda y *t ; | Members of the laxly, which met - unchanged, prices to an ad wince of n t the call of Presiding Elder Pierce i two points, and was very 'lmet in , Kj]«r<,, ~f Anderson, expressed the I early trading. opinion that conditions prevailing in > The weekly report of the weather cotton mill communities are better bureau was considered about a stand- thftn {s g eHera n y thought bv those “ " ff - . b ''f «»ere was some New Orleans „ ot contact with them, and that - buying here and a little commission imitation for merging them is an in . house demand for new crop months, j ns , j w the m ill executives who have - while trade interests were small buy- < | olie nu ich to remedy tlie ills of tile t era of old crop positions. Demand plants . Mr. Speake said. 1 was sufficient to absorb small offer- . ings and hold prices within two or Wtth Our Advertisers. - three points either way of yesterdays ~ , , ... closing figures at end of first hour. 1 lp ( a >' ol "‘ a Eand Company will - Private cables reported hedge sell- ( ' on,l >'« nuction sale at Salisbury - ing with some local and continental 0,1 Thursday, April 7th, at - p. m. e liquidation in Liverpool, and that the See “d. f° r particu.ars. g Mancliester market was depressed, Firestone tires offer safety, eom g with only a small turnover in cloths fort and economy. Only gum dipped 1 and yarns. tires made, says new ad. today of g Cotton futures opened steady: May ! Ritchie Hardware Co. s 14.03; July 14.23; Oct. 14.40; Dec. The sensational Pre-Easter sale at i 14.05; Jail. 14.07. the Gray Shop will be continued; Thursday. Friday and Saturday. THE STOCK MARKET I Women's smart Spring frocks for $lO j and sls. Read carefully ad. on page * Prices Carried Higher at Opening, seven in this paper. New Highs Being Registered at the Milton Sills will be featured at the f Outset. Concord Theatre tomorrow and Fri f New York. April o.—l-4 3 ) —Active day in "The Silent Dover." Vaude -1 speculative buying coupled with re- ville again Friday afternoon and uewed accumulation of high grade in- night. * vestment shares carried prices higher "A Rregulnr Scout." by E. Huck -1 at the opening of today's stock mar- leigli Oxford, a new serial, will begin s ket. New highs were registered at jin The Daily Tribune on Thursday. * the outset by United States Steel (new I Young hoys especially, should read *■ stock) at 123 7-8. Dupont at 232, and this great serial with interest. Be 1 Freeport Texas at 01. | sure to road the first installment, l Smith Next President If He Shuns Rum Issue, Says Glass Asheville 5. —Al Smith is the 1 greatest governor that New York 1 has had since Samuel J. Tilden and he can be elected President of the „ United States despite the fact he i« a Catholic and a wet. Senator Car ter Glass, of Virginia, said last night in an interview with The Asheville Citizen, but Smith must let the prohibition issue alone. Sena tor Glcss added. "I ant sure Al Smith understands thnt the presidency means nothing at all in the fight to modify prohibi tion," Senator Glens declared. “The president cannot change the consti tution. He cannot oven veto a joint resolution passed by Congress sub mitting the matter to the states, and his influence with Congress on such an issue would be negligible. "Yet, for some reason, the people who talk about electing a president on a wet issue lose sight of that par ticular eonsideration. The president has nothing to do with it. When a Democratic president did veto the Volstead act. Congress thought so little of his leadership on the mattev that it passed the act over his veto.” Senator Glass said that those who seek changes in the prohibition law should concern themselves with obtaining a majority in Congress to pass the desired legislation. “Prohibition is not a i>arty issue. Prohibition was not passed by. the Democrats or by the Republicans but by men of both parties and with no regard for party lines. It was a moral issue. - "So why in heaven’s name should | [ Gets Slapped | i . • w y /Ifc £'A lßnbaAF JR ! . ■* ■ w t . j i Mabel Dougherty (above), tht, Dnly school teacher in Sandy] I Field, N. Y., was slapped by j Mrs. Mabel Youmans, mother! of a ten-year-old pupil, shej charged in causing her arrest] Mrs. Youmans was said to havq been angered because sb ej thought Miss Dougherty hadj reported her son to the truan< officer. Prediction of Smith Victory Stirs Capital Washington, April 5.—A <statc ment of Senator Glass, sent out from Asheville, to the effect that Governor Al Smith can be elected if he will leave the prohibition issue Slone attracted much attention here today. Metropolitan dailies call on their correspondents for a round up of the,situation. Southerners stopping over here hnve much to say about the Smith talk in the South. They bojieve that Democrats in their respective slates are mote friendly toward the New York governor for the reason that they believe he enn win on his record as a public servant. the Democrats make the 18 amend ment a party issue in the next na tional campaign an though electing a wet president would affect the pro hibition law I cannot believe that the sensible men in the party will try tuything so foo’.ish. If they do they might just as well take the presidency to the Republicans on a silver platter and make them a present of it. They might just ns well take their party out and dump it out on the scrap heap." TODAY'S NEWS TODAYU NO. 75 FIVE KILLED, TWO I DYING AS RESULfJ OF OIL EXPLOSION Explosion Wrecked Plant -1 of Producers and Refut* J res Oil Refining Plant at | Parco, Wyoming. | NINE MEN ARE STILL MISSIN#:J Most Windows in TiMHH Were Broken and Frames in Some of TMn| Were Torn Out. Parco. Wyo., April 0. —(/P)—Ftjib /, i men were killed, two are dying, Aigrd j nine arc unaccounted for following; | •in explosion in the Producers and Re- M filters oil refining plant here early ,| The explosion broke most of in this town, tearing .tMI T i frame out of some of them. 1 inniagc* j | arc estimated at $500,000. '/T# I ! The dead are: Albert Smith, 1 Nickerson. Clarence Posey, a AUKm| named Montoya, and another tinnfJa 1 F'our other men were badly burned, 1 two perhaps fatally. 1 The first two units of a high presfc 1 sure still exploded, due it was sain,’'■•Kg| either too high or too low pressurejWi 3 one of the iTiambcrs. Five of the and two large oil tanks caught ##&' J The force of the explosion was WW 8 in Rawlings, seven miles west of 1 Find 13 Bodies. - I Parco, Wyoming, April 2—’|| —Thirteen bodies had been tasen froeu the Producers and Refiners djl refill-'j I ing plant near here four hours nftW • J jand explosion occurred, early tixiayl j ROWAN FARMER FRAUD VlCtral'l I Strangers Give “Rubber” Check on ] j Charlotte Market For Meat. ,|||| I ! Mooresville, April 5.—-Mose > I* I jCorriher. farmer of western Kowa-n 1 (•ounty. near Iredell, was swindled oiit 1 I of near a limnlred dollars' worth ot ; J country-cured meat when two meu ia woman visited his home in quest »£ 3 the cMiiittry product. I The man who did the talking rep- I j resented himself to an attache of Charlotte city‘market an order for 2,000 |xiunds of country .1 meat and had to have it at mice. He had been to Jim Corriher'il; a I brother of Mosc. but .lint was not at’ I home and members of his family dir- .1 ected the strangers to the honW of j After ascertaining the name of the J farmer, the stranger made his known and offered a few cents abdM'J| the market price. 25 cents for and 30 cents for shoulders. 4HHH premium looked good to the fm (a and after plying the stranger al I *?#' I a number of questions and recft)Yi(o(|f *3 satisfactory answers, it wits (lecWhail T| The purchase amounted to $32.1®, ,1 The meat was placed in the hack of I an auto. The woman was younr was said to he the older man's danjrh- I ter whom lie ealled "Hun.” The girl I was instructed to write a check. MHBSI niblp to M. 1.. Corriher. drawn on th« 3 Charlotte National hank. The )>{|||jlß Tlte visitors calmly seated them- J selves in the car with the assurance I to Mrs. Corriher that they would re- J turn later and take all her chickens I and eggs at a price a little fretjUlH than the market paid, tlisui gat ion the next morning Mr. Co&JgfHH found that no such person ns Harris had an account with the fThtinMgj Mr. Corriher liad taken the pri'cnu- I tion to get the license number of'afala car and when Sheriff Krider <>l an telephoned to Raleigh to name of tlie owner, he was ndviri(#l3 that tlie number had been stolen a ffeMjl days prior to that from a car beltn|M ing to Mr. Rogers, of Williams j With Our Advertisers.' I Tlie Cabarrus Cash Grocery western baby beef. Also other ,'jjjßH cuts. I New English prints in 40-inch crepgil do chine specially priced at $1.95 th® I yard at Robinson's. I The .1. & H. Cash Store has (MhH vegetables of nil kinds. your order. I I)o you have trouble getting up’4W| the morning ? Get a Baby or Bigj Ben from Cline's Pharmacy. I Efiixl's Pre-Easter Sale is still ing big. .lust received ill mini itfwM larly priced at from $7.5(1 to $lO, ttM The l’arks-Belk Co. is offering - ilrt-3 usual bargains for tlie hist weeky'ttiM its big Pre-Easter Sale. DreaMM from $3.98 to $9.75, hats from up and Nlippers of parchment trip -MB The Kaiser's Castle will the publiv on Thursday, April 7; show will he one of the world’s est sights of the present and patjofl | laicated in store building on Xo<jj9] Union St., opposite Hotel. mH In the middle ages China known as the Empire of C%u(h4MH j 11/ -a A I LI Li |J9 J Fair tonight, colder on Thursday increasing (■’ondinetub|g ;