ASSOCIATED
DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVII
Mississippi Beat Mercilessly
On Man - Made Barriers Today
Widening Path Os Destruction
MORE THAN 50 DEAD ALONG THE
ROUTES OF THE SWOLLEN RIVERS
At Least 75,000 Are Without Homes and Nearly 100,-
000 Were Endangered as the Torrent Assailed the
Lower Mississippi Delta Region Without Losing Its
Power.
EfcRTA PRECAUTIONS TO HOLD
LEVEES IN VICKSBURG AREA
Water Which Flooded Vicksburg Area Will Eventu
ally Find Its Way Back to Mississippi, Making the
Danger Greater to That Section Lying Beyond the
Present Crest of Flood.
Memphis, Term., April 23 ,(AP.) —The swollen Mississippi
heat mercilessly today against man-made harriers of the lower
valley, as the impounder! waters pour on to the sea, ever wid
ening the path of death, destruction and desolation.
More than 50 persons were known to he dead; more than
75,000 were homeless, while nearly 100,000 others were endan
gered as the torrent assailed the lower Mississippi delta, de
denfeseless, or belched its deluge through gaps already torn
in bulwarks erected to restrain it.
Huge hut unestimated property damage through a wide
area from Illinois and Missouri to Arkansas and Mississippi
continually with the spread of waters over the fertile Missi.-dpi
Delta region, driven by the force of the Stops landing cre
vasses into at least 9 counties of the Yazoo basin. Water
spilled through great gaps in the Afkansis River defenses, and
the flood loosed by the break at New' Madrid, Mo., several days
ago. and the White River overflow brought high waters to new
towns and communities.
With the rush of the floods into
tlit' lower valley, extra precautions
were taken from Vicksburg south to
strengthen the levees. All the water
from the major breaks above Vicks
burg will course tributary
streams to find its way back into the
Mississippi below Vicksburg, and with
dykes in some places already 1 weak
ened by high waters no chances were
being taken as armies of men toiled
on the levees with sandbags and shov
els.
Thyir homes engulfed by t|ie raging
nt-Arr'inia—■ Btrwv
in beleaguered cities arul towns, or
clung perilously to housetops, trees,
small knnlts and levee tops. Keports
to the Mississippi River commission
indicated that the refugee situation
was most acute along u line from
Bolivar to several miles below Green
ville, Miss. All possible government
equipment am) many private boats
have been sent to Greenville and also
to the levees above the crevasses at
Stops Landing to remove refugees to
points of concentration.
From over the Hooded area came
the cry for boats. Suffering was
said to be intense among hundreds
maroloned without provisions or suf
ficient clothing.
At Greenville, Miss., where' 10,000
refugees from the lowlands in addi
tion to citizens and the situation was
described as desperate. Hundreds
comped on the river levee and water
and food were scarce.
i The river commission learned that,
\yater was at least two feet deep in
high spots near the levee, and about
leu feet deep in outlying portions.
: Despite the fact that the river was
falling al most points in Mississippi
rip waters Mowed out into the delta,
orders were given to levee guards to
redouble watchfulness. The number
df deaths from tin- break in the levee
at Stops Landing will not be known
until the waters subside. The Asso
ciated Press correspondent advised
from Greenville last night that the
bodies o{ negroes had beeen seen in
the waters which were coursing
through the city in n swift current.
Government engineers reported there
was more crevasse waters in Green
ville than ever in its history. The
current was said to be greater than
in the great floods of 1897 or 1003.
Engineers estimated that approximate
ly 1.000 square miles w.ere under back
water from the Yazoo river before
the Stops Landing break poured its
deluge into the basin. The waters
extended over 2,000 square miles last
night, they declared.
Governor Murpnree, of Mississippi,
said boats were needed to traverse the
Hooded areas in this state.
“It is the plan of state authori
ties to remove from Greenville all the
refugees and all other persons who Be-
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The Concord Daily Tribune
sire to leave the city," the governor
said.
Across the swirling tide on the Ar
kansas side 2,000 refugees were re
ported hugging a levee top above
Kuowlton Lauding, where the Mis
sissipps broke through the dyke Thurs
day. The steamer Wabash engaged
in relief went to investigate.
Throughout the Arkansas lowlands
where the refugee work has been long
er organized and was augmented yes
terday by scouting boats continued the
■work- of' rmovfWgreYttfcewpf RbhlWOry
nnd the first train in several days from
Little Hock to Memphis left teh Ar
kansas capital At 10 o'clock last night.
Government seaplanes from Pensn
coln, Fra., have been sent to Little
Hock nrea.
With the Hood menace to Louisiana
declared to be the. greatest ever, bor
dering territory in southeast Arkansas
faced new dangers today with breaks
on two major levees on the Arkansas
river declared imminent. Hundreds
of men battled to strengthen a bul
wark at Sarasa. six miles from Grady,
Ark., and a loop at South Bend.
The Red River nenr Texarkana
threatened to. burst the levees in
Homestead county, and armed guards
are patrolling the embankment nt
Bowie levee twelve miles from Tex
arkana. Several hundred persons
will be driven from their homes if the
bnrriers fail at these points.
Refugees Reach Helena.
Helena, Ark., April 23.—OP)—The
steamer tVabasli arrived here this
morning bearing 500 refugees from
Knowlton's Rending, Ark., where they
bail been marooned while laboring on
the levees.
The Wabash also brought two men
who survived tin- Pelican disaster.
They were picked up from trees
where they swam following the foun
dering of the government launch on
Wednesday. Their names were saitl
to be Osear Clemmons and Julius El
der.
The steamer Chichester was due to
day with additional ’ refugees from
Knowlton Landing where reports last
night said 2,000 persons were maroon
ed on levee tops.
Witnesses of the sinking of the
Pfelican in which 18 men lost their
lives, stated that the launch attempted
to go through a break in the main
levee, despite warnings from men on
the banks of the stream. The boat
was torn to pieces by the boil of
waters.
Approximately 2,000 refugees were
in Helena today and more were ex
pected hourly. Relief measure are
under direction of the tiled Cross and
American Legion.
Although engineers 'declared the
levee situation here more favorable
today and asserted their belief that
OFFICERS SEARCH
FOR NEGRO AFTER
DEATH OF ANOTHER
Henry'Howard Said to Have
Killed John Miller.—-Offi
cers Unable to Find the Al
leged Slayer.
What was described by county of
ficers as one of the most cold blooded
murders in the history of Cabarrus
county resulted in the death this morn
ing by John Miller, negro. Deputies
are searching for Henry Ho.ward, the
alleged slayer.
The shooting occurred in No. 10
township, near Widenhouse's filfing
station. Miller is said to have been
shot twice and his head beaten to a
pulp.
Deputy Sheriff Carl Honeycutt, who
investigated the killing of Miller, said
after he returned to Concord that it
was “the most cold blooded murder
that I have ever heard of.” The ac
count of the murder ns* given by
Deputy-Honeycutt is as follows: "Mil
ler and Howard had some trouble last
Sunday and Miller asked Howard to
leave his house. During the week
they met and argued severnl times and
this morning Howard enme by flip old
Furr place where Miller was working.
Howard was on a wagon and had a
shot gun in the wagon with him. He
drove on down the road and then left
the wagon and, with the gun in his
hand, came back to where Miller was
and started arguing again.
“There was a white man there, Fred
L. Smith, who told Howard not to
shoot Miller but he shot him twice
in the left chest, directly over the
heart. As Howard started to shoot
Miller jumped behind a tree and sev
eral of the shots entered the tree,"
Mr. Honeycutt said.
“Mr. Smith told me," the depbty
continued, "that after Miller fell to
the ground that Howard struck him
over the head with the butt of the
shot gun with such force that the
skull was mashed to a pulp and the
butt of the gun broken from the biti
retl. 1 saw the piece of broken bfitl
%N»l*-AHlier's body."
According to Mr. Honeycutt. How
ard got into bis wagon and went on
to a saw mill where he hitched his
horses to a tree. Mr. Honeycutt
found the horses tied but there was
no sight of Howard and early this
afternoon he had not been located.
Winston-Salem Boy Kle.c.’etr Presi
dent of Duke Students.
Durham, X. C.. April 23. —Char-
les (Bohlink") Weaver, of Winston-
Salem, has been elected president of
the Duke student government asso
ciation in recent elections which re
quired two days of elimination vot
ing.
Weaver is first baseman oil the
varsity baseball team, and has play
ed varsity football and basketball for
two years nr the quarterback and
forward positions. In addition to his
athletic achievements he is an ex
ceptional student and leader in var
ious other, student activities.
James Truexdale, of Rock Hill, S.
0., was named vice-president of the
student government association in
the same election. J. T. Oarruthers,
of Greensboro, was named secretary
and treasurer, and Tom Bans, of
Lexington, and Robert Hatcher, of
Winston-Salem, are to be represen
tatives on the publication council.
embankments to the south of Knowlton
Landing will withstand the strain, 900
men were laboring in a 7-mile stretch*
of dykes below the city.
THE STOCK MARKET
Reported by Fenner A Beane
(Closing Quotations)
Atchison 185
American Tobacco B 126%
American (Smelting 150
American Locomotive 112%
Atlantic Coast Line 183%‘
Allied Chemical 142%
American Can J.—± 46%
Allis Chalmers 104%
Baldwin Ixieomotive 189%
Baltimore & Ohio 119
Bethlehem teel 51%
Chesapeake & Ohio . 167%
Coca-Cola 1 s— 199
DuPont 246%
Dodge Bros. 17%
Erie 55%
Frisco 114%
General Motors 193%
General Electric 98%
Great Northern 87%
Gulf State Steel 53%
Gold Dust __ - 52%
Hudson 74%
Int. Tel. 137%
Kennecott Copper 65%,
Liggett & Myers B 101%
Mack Truck 108%
Mo.-Pacific 61%
Norfolk & Western 182%
N. Y. Central 150
Pan American Pet. B. 57%
Rock Island 99%
R. J. Reynolds 121%
Rep. Iron & Steel 06%
Stand. Oil of N. J. 36%
Southern Railway 125%
Studobaker 54%
Texas Co. 46%
Tobacco Products 100%.
U. S. Steel -•>. 172%
U. 8. teel. New 124%
Vlpk Chemical 56%
Wcetinghousc 73%
Western Maryland 38
Chrysler 42%
North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
CONCOR D, N. C„ SATURDAY, AP RIL 23, 1927
SCORE OF 11 IRE
BELIEVED TO HI
DIED lIffiUSIOR
Fire Swept Briggs, Manu
facturing Plant After an
Explosion and 100 Are
Believed to Be Injured.
BELIEVED DEAD
UNDER DEBRIS
More Than 2,000 Persoiis
Were at Work in Plaift
When It Was Fired by
Explosion in Uaint Shop.
. Detroit. April 23. —C4 3 )—At lei|t
a score of men were believed to have
been kjjled and 100 or more others
burned and injured, some probably
fatally, in a fire that swept the main
building of the Briggs Manufacturing
plant after an explosion in tbe paint
shop tljis morning.
Ambulances took a dozen or more
loads of injured to various hospitals.
At receiving hospital where 25 in
jured were brought, Dr. Thomas K.
Gruber, superintendent, said that prob
ably two thirds of them would die.
The dead were believed to be buried
under the wreckage of the building.
More than an hour after the explosion
search still was being made.
A strong wind and the fact that
the plant contained large quantities
of paint and varnish used in auto
mobile body finishing hampered res
cuers. More than 2,(K)0 persons were
at work in the building at the time
of the explosion.
Many, of the injured were treated
iu the plant’s first aid stationybut
this had to tie abandoned when tiamhs
spread to that part of the building.
Most of injured were victims of heavy
smoke and fumes. ,
As the fire continued more than
one and one half hours after tlie ex
plosion. occupants of uenil'ay houses
amt stores were directed to vacate
immediately, it being apparent the
whlls of the {plant _ would collapse.
Police lines were established 9<MI feet
around the plant.
At 10 o’clock tlie walls on the
Harper side of the building collapsed,
and the fire spread- to the opposite
side of the street. Residents of the
-ltodses»a«4 v sho|Mi there begun
cate the buildings.
WOULD HAVE SMITH AND
MC'ADOO WITHDRAW
Democratic leaders Are Said To Feel
Neither Bhould Be Candidate.
New York, April 23.— UP) —The
New York Times and The World, sup
porters of'Governor Smith, say today
that the leaders of the Democratic
pary have seriously discussed circuit!-,
tion of a igmiid robin among leaders
of the party, calling upon both Smith
and McAdoo to withdraw as candi
dates for tlie Presidential nomination.
The Times quotes these leaders as
saying that, the withdrawals would
be asked “to save their party form
defeat which would be inevitable
should they 'both remain in the race."
The movement, says the Times,
originated in the South.
The World says that Senator Cartel-
Glass who has been in the city recently
is expected by friends to voice such
a demand publicly.
Compromise in Flynt Case.
Winston-Salem, April 23.— UP) —
The suit of the Independent Planters
Tobacco Warehouse Co. against J. G.
Flynt, in which the plaintiff was ask
ing for recovery of close to $79,000
alleged to have been taken by the de
fenedant from the proceeds of the bus
iness of the plaintiff during the seven
years he was manager ami president
of the concern, has been settled by a
compromise, the consent judgment hav
ing been signed by Judge Oscar O.
Efird, of Forsyth County court.
“Our*OWN Home”
The family that can fondly refer to “our own home" lias some
thing to be proud of. And they wouldn't go back to “living in rent,’
—just ask them.
You can come into home ownership on the "installment plan"
and you have this advantage over most installment plans. The home
is usually worth more when it is all paid for tlian it was in the begin
ning. Few other investments have this big advantage, and no other
investment yields quite such dividends in family happiness.
New Scries will open Saturday MAY SEVENTH,
Nineteen Twenty-Seven
START NOW
We Sell Prepaid Stock at $'3'2.25 Per Share
Citizens Building and Loan Association
Large Crop of 801 l Weevils
Predicted For This Season
'Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel.
Rnleigh, April 23. —Indications-are
for a large crop of cotton boll weevils
this spring and summer, ns well ns
large numbers of 'potato bugs and
Mexican bean bettles, according to
Dr. R. W. Lei by, entomologist • for
i the State Department of Agriculture,
j Owing to the fact that the past winter
I was for,the most part unusually mild,
more insects Os all sorts, including
the boll weevil, have survived, and
are beginning to emerge much sooner
and in large numbers than last year.
According to the records kept at
(the entomology experiment, farm nt
Aberdeen, and the State Department
of Agriculture Tesl Farm in Edge
combe county, the percentage of em
: ergenee of boil weevils which have
•been kepi iu cages there during the
winter, show that four times us many
weevils have emerged between March
14 and April 15. 1927, than for the
same period in 1926, showing a per
centage of 2.3 between these dates
this year, as compared with an emer
gence of 0.65 per cent in 1926, ac-
I cording to Leihy.
But this inerase is just, for the first
month of the emergence period, and
expectations are that the increase will
be much mote rapid through May,
June and July, thus there is possibility
(that there may be from tea to fifteen
times as many weevils this season
as last However, if the spring and
i summer is hot and dry, as was the
! case last year, the number will un
doubtedly be greatly reduced. How
ever. if there is a moderate or heavy
rainfall, the number of weevils is
' likely to be large. And in view of
'the fact that there have been two
dry seasons in succession, indications
are that another dry summer is im-
j ■
I THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Firm at an. Advance of 5 to
10 Points, and Made Further Ad
. vances.
New York. April 23.— UP) —The
cotton market opened firm today at an
advance of 5 to 19 points in response
to relatively firm Liverpool cables,
prosiieets for favorable showers or
' rains in some of the western belt sec
-1 tions, and the Mississippi Valley flood
1 situation.
Buying became more active and gen
eral after the opening, the market sell
ing up to 15.25 for July and 15.76
1 for December, or 27 to 31 points higli
, er, and into new high ground for the
■ movement on the new crop mouths.
' Buying was attributed largely to in-
! ~ (reoifmg nervousness over the- tteod
news.
I Private cables reported trade call
ing, with covering and continental buy
! ittg in Liverpool.
j Cotton futures closed: January
115.71; May 14.96; July 15.20; Octo
’ her 15,50; December 15.69.
THE .STOCK MARKET
Price Movement Again Lacked t’ni
forinity at Opening of the Market.
New York. April 23.—(A 3 )—Price
movements again lacked uniformity
at the opening of-today’s stock mar
ket. St. Tx>uis-San Francisco common
crossed 110 to a new peak despite
reports of flood damage to its lines,
while St. Louis Southwestern opened
a point lower. Corn Products opened
with a block of 6.000 shares at 62,
duplicating the year's high, while
Marland Oil sank to a new low. By
Products (jpke opened 2 1-4 points
higher, and United Fruit lost 3 points
on the first sale.
Charlotte Bonds Bring Good Price.
Charlotte, April 22.—The best price
ever received by the city of Charlotte
for its bonds was offered today by
the People’s National hank, of ltock
Hill. S. C.. and that, institution Was
awarded $600,000 in municipal bonds
at a total premium of $23,880. The
bonds were offered at an interest, rate
of 4.50 'but tlie premium paid by the
bank materially reduces this figure,
city' officials said. Tlie funds derived
from sale of tlie securities will he
used in municipal improvements.
About 12 other banks submitted bids.
probable.
Last year, when cotton was about
six inches high, from 35 to 100 boll
weevils were found to the acre by .the
state entomologists. This year, judg
ing from the present rate of survival
and emergence, there should be from
200 to 500 weevils to the acre when
the cotton reaches a height of six
•inches.
“Os course, all this is merely con
jecture based upon present conditions,
so v that changing conditions may
change the results." I)r. Leiby ex
plained. “Thus these figures cannot
be taken as positive. But indications
certainly tend to indicate heavy wee
vil infestation.
“It also looks ns if the potato and
snap-bean growers will have a stiff
fight against potato beetle, or hugs
and benn beattles. These have sur
vived in a large a proportion as have
the boll weevils, and the farmers must
begin planning right now to combat
them.”
These insects hibernate during the
winter in woods near to the fields, and
bury themselves under idles of leaves
and trash, ami under dead weeds and
grass along tlie sides of ditches. When
spring comes the weather begins to
warm up,, the insects begin to cotne
to life and to emerge, and by the begin
ning of summer, all that have lived
during the winter have come out.
When a winter is excessively cold, the
insects freeze and burst, but a mild
winter does not. effect them.
In order to study the habits of the
weevils,’ the entomologists put 500
weevils iu each of 15 cages, filled with
leaves, grass, pine needles and woods
trash, and then in the spring they
count those that are left, to see how
many have lived. In this manner the
average rate of emergence is learned.
STRANDED REFUGEES
SCREAMING FOR HELP
Farmer Reports 2.000 Streched Three
.Miles Along Narrow Crumbling
Levee.
Helenn. Ai k.. April 22.—Two thous
ands refugees are on a crumbling levee,
2 1-2 feet wide, at Knowlton’s landing
on tlje Mississippi river, screaming for
help. It. I*. Beith, a farmer of that
reported tonight upon his ar
rival here.
Beith, who is the first man to coihe
out of the Knowlton Landing section,
declared that the stranded people with
their possessions and livestock were
streched along the levee for three
miles without shelter and very little
food.
The river Is rhdlt* and Reitic-said
the refugees were badly frightened,
men and women crying and screaming
for aid.
The steamer Wabash had gone to
the levee today and removed 700 vic
tims with their possessions and live
stock in two barges, being expected
to reach here early tomorrow. As
the steamer left tlie levee, the screams
of those left behind followed her.
With Our Advertisers.
i.allies' spring coats at 40 tier cent
to 60 per cent off at Parks-Belk Co.
Coats valued at $12.50 for $5.95 to
$6.95; those valued at $24.50 to $13.-
50 and those valued at $35 at $18.50.
New spring and summer merchan
dise being received daily at Efird’s.
After Easter Sale continues through
Monday with many special bargains
offered.
Moth proof bags for blankets, suits,
overcoats, etc., at the Gibson Drug
Store.
Arrival in Gay hats at Robinson's
daily. Follow the New York and
Paris styles by buying your hats here.
Three genuiene orange blossom wed
ding rings—engagement, ring, bride's
wedding ring and groom’s wedding ring
—at the Starnes-M'Uer-Parker Co.
Watch the space o' 11. B. Wilkin
son Monday for Wednesday’s extra
apeeciai.
Alto Williams, plumber, guarantees
his work. Prices cash and low. <
The After Easter Sale of coats, hats
and dresses at Fisher’s is going good.
Call before it is too late and get some
of the bargains offered.
You can own your home easily by
taking out some shares iu the new
series of the Citizens Building and
Loan Association, with offices iu the
Citizens Bank and Trust Oomtpauy.
“Upstage," starring Norma Shearer,
at. the Concord Theatre Monday and
Tuesday. Also good vaudeville Tues
day.
The L. A. Lentz property at Mt.
Pleasant was hot sold at unction to
day, the sale being postponed until
Mondy. due to inclement weather.
The sale starts Monday at 2 o'clock
and much valuable property will lie
offered. Read half page ad in this
pn|ier for 'particulars.
Kodak films and complete line of
kodak supplies at Cline's Pharmacy.
Women’s hosiery for every need can
be found at the J. C. Penney Co. The
prices run from 49 cents to $1.4!) in
special bargains being offered now.
Ten Pages Today
Two Sections
City Tax Notice
All property on which 1926 Taxes
have not been paid will be advertised
and Bold after May Ist, 1927. Also
all 1917 street asessmenta that expired
December let, 1926, on the following
streets: South Union, East Corbin,
North Church, Franklin Avenue,
North and South Spring, Buffalo, Me-
Oill and North Kerr.
CHAS. N. FIELD, ,
City Tax Collector,
IK KEEK FUR
FOR CONCORD IP
Program Will Begin Sun
day Morning, May Ist,
and Continue for Weeek.
—Many Fine Programs.
PLANNING HYMN
MEMORY CONTEST
Musical Programs Will Be
Offered Throughout the
Week When Several
Stars Will Be Here.
Beginning Sunday. May Ist. and
continuing througout the week, Con
cord will join the rest of the nation
ns well as many foreign countries in
the observance of Music Week, and,
during the festive season music lovers
will have unusual opportunities to
hear many attractive programs. Sev
eral interesting contests, which will
enlist the best efforts of the young
talent of the city, will be held at
intervals during the week. During
the last week in April, in preparation
for the gala occasion. The Tribune
will carry articles on musical sub
jects. written by some of the best
writers of the city. ,
Oil Sunday morning, several minis
ters of the city and county will de
liver 'sermons on the cultural and spir
itual value of music and the choirs of
those churches will render special mu
sic. At 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon
the choir of the First l’resbyterian
Church, under the able direction of
Mrs. John F. Ueed, will present an
appropriate and attractive program.
At the same church, at an hour to be
announced later, will be held the
HymiP Memory contest, for which
the young people of the various Sun
day schools have beetle busily prepar
ing themselves for the past few weeks.
The prizes in this eontest an’ well
worth working for. Mrs. .T. W. Can
non, Sr., will give ten dollars in gold
to tile winner, while a second prize
of live dolllai’K in gold will be given
by Mrs. ,7. AA’. Cannon, Jr. Any
young person between the age of ten
and nineteeein may coiu)iete, and any
one desiring further information re
garding the- ragiilafions should cow
municate 'with the committee 'having
the contest in charge of which Miss
Ruth Dry is chairman.
On Monday afternoon the Kan
napolis band will give a concert on
the lawn of the A'. M. C. A.
In the ball room of Hotel Concord
on Monday evening at 8 o'clock, the
Kidd-Frix Music & Stationery Com
pany will present Mr. Elliott, factory
representative of the Brunswick Com
pany. who will give a special concert
on their wonderful new instrument
known as the panatrope. This en
tertainment will be entirely free, and
as it is said to be well worth hear
ing, it is hoped that all lovers of
good music will avail themselves of
the opportunity to hear this fine in
strument which is something quite
new in the field of electrical record
ing.
For several weeks past the high
school students, under the direction of
Miss Murid Rulwinkle. of the de
partment of English, have been en
gaged in writing essays on musical
.subjects. These essays will be judged
prior to Music AA’eek, and a prize of
five dolllars in gold will be presented
by 11. AA r . Blanks to the young person
submitting the best essay, while a
second prize of $2.50 in gold is offered
by Bell-Harris Furniture Company.
These prizes will be awarded on Tues
day evening. May 3rd. at which time
Harvey Bush, director of music of
the public schools, will present his
pupils in a recital at the High School
auditorium.
The writer of this article is safe
in asserting that a rare treat is in
store for mus!e tovors on AA’ednesday
evening at the Presbyterian Church.
The program committee has been for
tunate in securing Edwin Steckol. di
rector of the Gastonia public schools,
who will give a lecture-organ recital.
Mr. Stcekel is not only a musician of
unquestioned ability. He is also a
humorist, and an entertaining speaker
who can be depended upon to enter
tain his audience as long ns he Will
speak to them. In 1925 when lie
hetured before the South Piedmont
district of the North Carolina Teach
ers’ Association, his part of the pro
gram was unfortunately placed at 10
o'clock, p. m.. when his audience was
quite weary of having sat so long in
one position. In a very few minutes
Air. Steckel had gained their attention
and interest to such an extent that
they declared themselves ready to lis
ten to him two hours longer, and ex
pressed disappointment when the
“DIVINE
HEALING”
By G. H. HENDRY
7:30 P. M.
SUNDAY
FIRST METHODIST
PROTESTANT CHURCH
THE TRIBUNE
TODAY’S N^ItODaI
NO. 89 ;
SHERIFF DIRECTED I
’IARREST FIRLfi
WSITOfI I* STIFF;
State Health Head TeQjfl
Sheriff of Yancey Com
ty to Arrest Escaped Ldfl
er in Camp at BurnswßH?
WILL TAKeThIM li
BACK TO CAIH
Early Will Be Taken
to Louisiana Where SH
Government Camp fori
Leper Victims Is Kept.
Raleigh. April 23.—CO—State i
Health Officer Charier* Lmighingliousle x
today wired the Yancey county
Hugh Banks. Burnsville, to . take
charge of John Early, escaped
and have him returned ro the Ca cvifle, 5
La., loprosorium at once.
I)r. Laughinghouse wired the sfceijfira
to "apprehend and detain John KaWpM
Secure attendant to convoy KjafaJH
Carville, La., with agreement to pSy>
atteiuiant the necessary expenses for
tlie transportation.”
The action of the State health au» |
thorities followed several dayth fjj®J
"hands off” policy on the part Os
| Federal and State governments ftt Tim 1
the case.
AA’hile private negotiations weredjjßH
feeding. Early was reported tolH|H|
been encamped in Yancey’
where he had gone to be wjtSv4||H
home folks. ,
—"
Many Babies Born In Refugee CfHnflav;^
Helena, Ark., April 22.—Ridinjghfio
over the flood w-aters, the storfcu paHt
many visits today to the refuwra
camps in and around this place.n jfKßn
mother in a box car on a sidififg n
le'xii was presented with twins, tjjthile
ten children were horn ih as 1
| other box cal’s.
A thirteenth flood-baby was born nil
a barge carrying refugees out of- Um|
flood district south of Helena. An- 1
other baby was born in a school house |
and relief workers said . at. least ten |
others were born in camps near tlie; {
city.
j speaker ended li^siec
j Through tlie efforts of one of the :
| public spirited citizens. A\’. R. Odell; ,1
(Miss Margaret Nortlirup. soprano, hflg
been secured to give a rccitnl at For- !
cat Hill Methodist Episcopal. ('horqft- 1
on Thursday evening. May sth. A* |
Miss Xorthrup has a wide reputanoa, ;
as a singer, her coming to Concord-’•
will be quite an event in musical cwfSsl
e'en. ■ -
Aliss Alargnret Hartsdl, one of•.CSsSkI
cord’s most talented young nuihiciW|iv.§
who recently gave her graduation i-fp
cunt in piano at Salem win |
appear in recital in the ball, robin of
Hotel Concord on Friday evening at
7:30.
Voung Concord violinists and TllidiSjß
ists are busily grooming lln
for the piano and violin contest which ,J
is to be held Saturday afternoon. AlayS
7th, in the hotel ball room. A num- j
her of entries have already beeen made;!
and others are expected. Young
pie desiring to compete for these prtieg j
are asked to communicate with Mj-s. ]
R. A. Brower, chairman of the cowls
mittee. having tlie contest in cbttiwS
The Kidd-Frix Alusic & StatioatSH
Company has offered five do/tars in
gold for the best piano number, wbflta”
a like amount is offered by .tlgr oBjH
harms Savings Bank for tlie AH
violin number. A sccoiid prhtCjMß
piano will he given by Julius FifM|
and in violin by Ritchie HnrdxMjH
Company, both these prizes being $2(96
in gold.
The last feature of the Alusic AA’eelC 1
program will doubtless lie one of
best. This will be an illustrated"!
lecture under the auspices of
sic Department of the AA’nmao’s tnflH
Should the celebration of Allmsl
AA’eek prove ns successful a veutire
as it is believed it will be. muelil
credit is due to Airs. C. F. Ritehie.l
chairman of the Alusic Department,
tlie AA’onian's Club, and to several psi
her co-workers who have been uidjlfw
ing in their efforts so arrange f#r JMR
occasion. These ladies have, for aefjiS
eral years been actively interested: 111 i
furthering the cause of musical de
velopment in Concord. Thanks Mi§
also due to the public spirited ,indi- •
vidunls and business companies for
the generous prizes they have donated
to stimulate the interest of voting peo*i
pie in music.
It is hoped that tlie celebrationilM
Alusic AA’eek will arouse, generally, ja
greater interest in music,
among young people in whose luMnb
hearts and souls lies the music of.liwj
turn. New A'ork's Alusic AA’eek
mittee has expressed the belief that,
a national week of music r cnir
should arouse a widespread demMlß
for national support of music nnd fnfe
a national conservatory, Its skmß
is "Give Alorc Thought to MagtsMl
Fair tonight, light frost in
cast and heavy to killing in mumC-]
and west portions. Sunday fairSW-t 1
inneli change in
crate to fresh north and northwijiM
winds. 21