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DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVII
Scores of Deaths Reported As
Result Os Tornadoes In West;
Property Damage to Run High
TEXAS TOWNS ARE
THE HARDEST HIT
Seven Persons Reported
in Garland, Texas,
With Many Deaths Re
ported in Other Towns.
MISSOURI ALSO
FELT TORNADOES
Six Reported Killed at El
don, One Is Known Dead
at St. Louis and Five Re
ported Killed Elsewhere.
(By the Associated Press))'
At leaßt fifty persons were killed,
more than 100 injured, mid property
damaged beyond $2,000,000 by torna
does and high winds that lashed the
west and middle west over the week
end. Death lists were expected to
increase momentarily as additional re
ports are received.
Texas was hardest .hit, with 25
deaths reported at Garland and Ne
vada, both within 35 miles of Dallas.
Early today in Mirrouri the tornado
toll reached 14 dead.
In Kansas, where the tornado swept
four counties Saturday -night, ten were
reported dead. In lown a woman
was drowned when her motor car was
swept into a ditch daring a heavy rain
and wind storm.
Garland, Texas, May o.—(49—Sev
en persons were reported killed and
a score or more injured by a tornado
which razed part of the residence sec
tion of this town of about 2,000 per
sons early today. Two hours after
the storm four bodies had been re
covered. and fourteen injured had been
sent in ambulances to Dallas.
The identified dead were: Monroe
Todd, Mr and Mrs. C. O. Smiley rtnd
a Mrs. Nicholson.
Belief' workers said several other
newtons were mißsiug. Most of the
victims were trapped in their beds ns
the storm struck between 3 and 4
o’clock this morning. Among the two
score or more seriously injured, were
the four children of the Smileys.
Thundershowers and high winds fol
lowed the twister. Only a small por
tion of the residential district was
rased. A few small houses were lift
ed bodily for a block or more, and
more than a dozen were demolished.
Six Reported Dead at Eldon, Texas.
Jefferson City, Mo., May 9. —(4 s )—
John Hankln, of Eldon, which was
struck by a tornado last night, ar
rived here today and said at least six
persons were killed by the storm.
Rankin said the twister struck the
west section of tbe town and demol
ished everything in its path. He said
he spent most of the night in first
aid work, and helped carry at least
a dozen persons from demolished build
ings.
Red Cross Advised of Casualties.
St. Louis, May 9.—(49—Eleven
persons were killed at Garland, in
Dallas county, Texas, and sixteen at
Nevada, in Collins county, Texas, by
tornadoes, according to telegrams re
ceived by Red Cross mid-western head
quarters here from chapter represen
tatives.
J. E. Gibson, chairman of the Col
lins county chapter, telegraphed that
fifty to eighty persons were injured
at Nevada, three-fourths of the resi
dences, and nine-tenths of the busi
ness buildings were destroyed, and
property damage was estimated at be
tween $500,0(10 and SBOO,OOO.
Heven Killed at Nevada, Texas.
Dallas, Texas, May 9.—Seven per
sons were killed at Nevada, in Collins
county, .Texas, and fifteen injured by
a tornado early today, say reports
from Plauo, about twenty miles west
of there.
Five More Deaths Reported.
Fulton, Mo., May 9—(49—Five
persons are reported to have been
killed and a number seriously injtrred
in a tornado last night at Auxvasse,
New Bloomfield and Kerriugton, towns
near here.
At New Bloomfield, Rufus Phillips
was killed and his daughter, Della,
was seriously -injured. Miss Clay al
so was reported killed. 1
John W. Sameson, about 70, former
assessor of Calloway couuty., was
killed near Kerrington.
Near Auxvasse, Mrs. R. E. Biggs
was killed and her son, Thomas) was
injured. Mr. Biggs escaped injury.
A farm hand on the Biggs place is
reported missing. A child named
Culver also was reported killed. A
number of persons was seriously in
jured. i'
Telephone wires were blown down
and communication disrupted.
One Killed at St. Louis.
St. Louis. May 9.—£49—Charles
Williams, 40 years old, a negro, was
killed, Annie Edmunds, 29, a negro,
seriously injured, and considerable
property damage was caused by a
heavy wind storm which struck St.
Louis early today. Numerous threes
were blown down and window glass
shattered. ’
V's, 1 ■ •
The Concord Daily Tribune
- North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
Waters, Affected By High
Winds, Cause More Damage
New Orleans, May 9.—(4*)—High
winds which spot waves knawing at
the earthen embankments protecting
south central Isiuisiann from the Miss
issippi, today increased the hazard
against which an army of men was
lighting along a far flung levee front.
Hundreds of men guarded the em
bankments. and the slightest -indica
tion of weakness brought reinforce
ments on the double quick to carry
sandbags into position and rear pro
tecting abutments. A, sand boil de
veloped on the levy on the east side
of Baton Rouge, but quick work avert
<<l danger of a break.
While the high winds increased the
peril along the main Mississippi front
SEEK TO BREAK WILL
OF JUDGE GEO. H. BROWN
Suit Involving Estate of Half Million
Starts at Washington Today.
Washington, N. C., May 9.—State
wide interest is being .manifested in
the effort of relatives of the late
Judge George H. Brown, for many
years one of the outstanding members
of the legal profession in North Coro
lonin, to set aside the will which the
judge made about two months before
his death, on March 16, 1926, and in |
which, he left his entire estate, valued
at approximately half a million dollars,
to his wife, Mrs. Laura E. Brown.
The case comes up at the May term
of Superior court, which convenes here
oil Monday, Judge Frank A. Daniels,
presiding.
Judge Brown for 14 yenrs was a
judge on the Superior court bench and
at the end of that time was elevated
to the Nortli Carolina Supreme court.
He was an active meitfber of that
judiciary body for more than 15 years,
at which time he retired.
When Mrs. Brown, as excutrix, of
fered the will for probate, a caveat was
filed 'by relatives of the judge. Among
these were two sisters and severnl
nieces and nephewH, Mrs. Minnie E.
Shepherd, of Raleigh; Mrs. Murtha B.
Crabtree, of Goldsboro; A. D. Mnc
lyean, of- Maxton ; Rhv. Sylyester ; H.
Mac Lean, of Charlotte; J. Dixon Mnc
lieatr, of Red Springs; Rev. John
AHeli Mac Lean, of Richmond, Va.;
Arthur Mayo, of Washington ; Thomas
and Sylvester Sparrow, of Gastonia;
Evans and George Sparrow, of Char
lotte; Minnie S. Keyes, of New York;
Robert I). Groom, Jr., of Maxton, and
Mattie Browh Baldwin, of Maxton.
Davidson is After Eight Months
Sshool.
May 7. —Two confer
ences between the board of education
and citizens of Thomaeville, Abbott*
Crpck and Midway township have
failed to definitely solve the proposed
school consolidation that would pro
vide eight months’ school for all the
pupils m>t now ijj consolidated areas
on the northern side of the Southern
Railway. which divides Davidson
county almost in half. However, de
finite proposals lipve been made and
Dt\ J. H. Highsmith, State high
school inspector, will come here May
11 and take a tour over the territory
with Superintendent Hasty and
members of the county board of edu
cation
Three present consolidations and
four districts not now in consolidat
ed area, one of them the largest six
months’ school remaining in the
county, arc concerned in the matter.
Midway, Wallburg and Fair Grove
consolidated districts all desire por
tions of the territory.
THE STOCK MARKET
Reported by Fenner & Beane
(Quotations at 1:30 P. M.)
American Tobacco B : 131%
American Smelting : 350%
American Locomotive 111 I
Atlantic Coast Line 182% ■
Allied Chemical 139 I
American Tel. & Tel. 165%
American Can .' 49
Allis Chalmers . 109
Baldwin Locomotive 189
Baltimore & Ohio * 123%
Bangor 93
Bethlehem Steel : 51%
Chesapeake & Ohio 176%
Coca-Cola 107
DuPont 245%
Dodge Byos. 21%
Erie . 55%
Frisco 115%
General Motors —, 196%
General Eleptric 08%
Grent Northern 89%
Gulf State teel 53
Gold Dust 53
Hudson , 82
Int. Tel 135%
Kennecott Copper 64%
Liggett & Myers B 102%
Mack Truck 115%
Missouri-Pacific 54%
Norfolk A Western 181%
New York Central S 150%
Pan American Pet B _t 58%
Rock Island 101%
R. J. Reynolds 122%
Stand. Oil of N. J. 37
Southern Railway 126%
Studebaker ; 64%
Texas Co. 40%
Tobacco Products 100%
U. S. Steel ; 109
U. S. Steel. New 121%
Vick Chemical ‘ 57%
Wcstinghouse 73
Western Md. 37% I
Chrysler - 44%
danger of a break was not believed
imminent. Above Uatou Rouge, along
the Bayou Glaisses, where the levees
are encountering the crest of the in
land lakes pushing down from the
breaks in the embankments along the
Mississippi and .n.sas, a break
was declared inevitable.
The crest of the flood had been lost
by observing experts. Apparently,
they said, it was somewhere in the
surging sea which covers northeast
I-ouisiunn. The river at Baton Rouge
remains stationary, although a rise of
.1 foot was shown at Donnldsonville
between Baton Rouge and New Or
leans.
SEES SMITH AS
BOON TO SOUTH
Paul Green Says Election of New
York Governor Would Liberate
“Solid South.’’
1 New York. May 9—.“ One of the
best things that could happen to the
South would be the nomination of AI
Smith," Paul Green , 32-year-old auth
or of the Pulitzer prize-winning play,
“In Abraham's Bosom,’’ snid "I be
lieve Smith’s nomination, with the end
less arguments and difference that
would follow, would 'break up once for
all the old loyalties of the ‘solid south’
—political, religious and social—and
set the vigorous new south free to
come Into its own."
Mr. Green spent part of his Pulitzer
prize money last Friday to come from
the I'liiversity of North Carolina,
where he is assistant professor of
philosophy, and see his play. “The
Field God," which has been running
three weeks’at the Provincetown play
house and moves up, town to the Cort
theater Monday. He will return to
his classes at Chapel Hill Monday.
The young playwright who started j
life ns a Nurth Carolina farm boy
and taught school before he could
go to college has abiding faith in his
part of the United States.
"The old windjammers and windbags
have had tlieir day,” he said" today.''
“the south is changing and changing
fast. The groups of independent think
ing and reading southerners, who don't
feel that their first duty is to he good
democrncts and Episcopalians, are
growing bigger ever day. More books
are ibeing sold and read Minn ever be
fore. In fact, the south is the great
book mnrket of the near future l be
lieve.
“And ns-a source of art, the south
has got about everything, it seems to
me. Once it wakes up, with its varied
life and industries and its highly di
versified population, it may well be
come an inexhaustible spring of
literature and art.”
Mr. Green has not the slightest wish
to live in New York, he says, and
intends to stick to the south for a
long time to come. He also intends
to stick to a job of some sbrt, no
matter wliat financial success mny
come to him.
“If I ever give up teaching, I'll
probably go to farming,” he said.
“People who do nothing but ‘practice
their art’ all the time are apt to get
long-haired and queer.”
Mrs. Green accompanied the play
wright oil his flying visit. They have
two children, a boy and a girt Mr.
Green was graduated from the Uni
versity of North Caroliun in 1921, his
education having been interrupted two
I years by the war.
Darnell’s Sentence Reduced.
Raleigh, May 9.—The commutation
was for Zeb V. Darnell, of Mecklen
burg county, serving a term of four
to five years for manslaughter, and
reducing it to n minimum of two years
and a maximum of five yeurs on the
j county roads. The commutation was
! strongly urged by Judge James L.
| Webb, the trial judge, nine of the
' jurors who tried, the case, the solicitor
and many citizens in Mecklenburg
county. In commenting in this case,
the governor said:
“Investigation shows that Darnell
had not been a bad man prior to the
time of this trouble and except for
the fact that he went on the witness
stand and by reason of his honesty
and integrity in making a statement
of the facts, it would have been dif
ficult to have convicted him.”
This commutation will leave only
a few more months for Darnell to
serve.'
A village of 152 inhabitants hither
to unknown has been discovered in
the mountains of northern Japan by
census takers. The inhabitants do
not speak modern Japanese.
PROPERTY LISTED FOR
TAXES AS OF MAY 1
The tax listers are now ready
to list property for taxes, and
all persons are required to, list
property as of May ,1, accord-r
ing to May Ist, according to
the Courtty Tax Supervisor.
Penalties will be exacted by the
j collector from all who fail to
1 comply with the law in this re
gard, it is stated. &
CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, MAY 9, 1927
Enormity of Health and Sanitation
Problem in Mississippi Flood Areas
-' Tribune Bureau
,s' Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh? ylnyfi.—The enormity of the
henjgiil'niiri sanitation problem-in the
■flood-torn nreas ill Arkansas. Missis
sippi iind Louisiana, and the size of
the rehabilitation problem after the
waters have receded, is graphically
1 given in a letter to the State Board
!of Health from W. H. Weir, Assist-
Innt Sanitary Engineer of the Board,
land one of the seven men loaned the
'Flood Belief Organization by the State
I Board of Health. Weir is stationed
lin northeastern Arkansas, Dr. H. A.
'Taylor has been assigned to duty iii
■'the levee district in the southeastern
part of Arkansas, while Dr. .1. S. Uar
j ley has been sent to the western part
jof. Arkansas.
' Word being received indicates that
the Arkansns State Health Depart;
ment Is sorely in need of additional
help of all kinds—-physicians, sanitary
! engineers and snnitary inspectors be
!ing the most immediate need. Condi
tions are daily growing more and more
acute, the situation in Arkansas being
(more serious from n health and sani
i tary viewpoint, than in the other two
'states.
Conferences are being held between
Arkansas State Healt officer and the
Governor looking toward the adoption
of a plan to divide the state up into
districts, according to health problems
and administrative officers nnd sani
tary engineers assigned to these
Weir advises, nnd a better system than
now being used is expected to be
evolved.
“The local state sanitary euginer
ing organization is, as far as I can
ascertain, only one man, and fhere are
little or no comity health organizations
in the affected areas,” Weir continues
in his letter. “The problem is large
from both an engineering and medical
standpoint. Immunization of thous
ands of refugees 'both in concentration
enmps and in villages or small groups,
together with the mass of rural popu
lation, offers the big, medical problem.
“Sanitary engineering problems take
almost endless forms. Refugee cnuip
sanitation, water supplies and Hewer
CALL IN OUTSTANDING I
SECOND LIBERTY LOAN ;
Treasury Will Use Every Device to
Notify Holders of $1,700,000,000 of j
Call.
Washington, May 9—Using one of,,
tlie greatest publicity machines ever j
adopted by a government agency, the
treasury will call the $1,700,900,000 1
outstanding of the second liberty loam
These bonds, representing the balance
of the original issue of $3,807,865,000,
will be paid on November 15th. the
tenth anniversary of their issuance,
nnd will not bear interest after that
date.
Notice of the call will be advertised
in every American language daily,
weekly and semi-weekly newspaper,
and placards will be placed in every
post office and all banks nnd trust
companies.
Radio will be used by the treasury
department for the first time Tuesday
when Assistant Secretary Dewey will
broadcast announcement of the call
through a hook-up of station as far
west as Kansas City. A similar
broadcast will be made from San
Francisco.
Secretary Mellon explained that in
view of the intensive drive during the
war to get the bonijs into as many
hands as possible, the treasury feels
under obligation to inform every bond
holder that his bond will cease to bear
interest after the November date.
The call does not mean that the
bonds will be paid at the present.
Both the second liberty loan 4 per
cent and the second liberties convert
ed 4 1-4 per cent are called and it
was regarded by Mr. Mellon ns “quite
probable” that prior to November
15th. the trensury will offer an op
portunity to exhange the bonds for
other government securities. If cash
is desired the holder should present,
the bonds after October 15th. The im
portance of spreading word of the call
over the entire nation was emphasized
at the treasury, where it was pointed
out that there-still are in the hands
of their holders approximately $30,-
000,000 in government securities on
which the interest has ceased.
Os the original issue of the second
liberty loan, bonds aggregating $750,-
361.000 have been redeemed and sl,-
360,166,150 were refunded this year
into 3 1-2 per cent treasury notes. A
total of 34.739,175 bonds were deliv-
ered to owners.
These bonde would weigh 222 tons,
a statistically-minded treasury official
calculated, nnd “if spread out would
cover almost exactly one square mile
of the earth’s surface.” There are
now outstanding 3,624,416 bonds.
Since they were issued, interest ac
crued and payable to May 15th will he
$1,327,006,885 representing issue nnd
payment of over 7,750,000 interest
cheeks and redemption of more than
130.000.000 interest coupons.
< The weak man is apt to 'be restless;
the great man always tranquil.
HOLIDAY NOTICE
TUESDAY, MAY 10TH
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY,
! Being a Legal Holiday in the State of North Carolina, ■
\ the Banks of Concord will not be open for business. !
[ / CONCORD NATIONAL BANK
I \ CABARRUS SAVINGS BANK
CITIZENS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
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age systems for many inundated towns
land villages, nnd their rehabilitation;
jdis-jxwnl of animal carcasses by the
I thousands as the water recedes, pro-
I tection of the people from sewerage
J vegetables now going to mnrket; in
spection of milk supplies and an al
most indefinite list of other engineer
ing nnd health administration prob
lems. v
“All of this work must be bgun
•at once while the nreas are covered
with from three to 30 feet of water."
Weir continued. “On our trip today
from Memphis to Little Hock, our
.train often travelled over tracks that
were covered with flood waters. Arens
in the southern section of the state
l Arkansns) are tinder much deeper
water and we must make our first
trips to see these in hydroplanes.
Biologies (Typhoid nnd other serums)
are dropped from plnnes and distribut
er! iby boats.
“The first efforts nlong.pnblic health
lines are necessarily emergency relief
measures to prevent outbreaks of
'disease with the receding waters.
Permanent measures will have to be
, a port of the gneral rehabilitation
program which will require a long
: period of time, and many millions of
contributed dollars. Dr. McMullen,
director of flood relief work for the
j Bed Cross at Memphis together with
I the Arkansas Health Officers, have
1 both commended North Carolina for
j being first state to offer the resources
jof its Board of Henlth, both supplies
nnd personnel, ns well as the work
I which the seven men already sent are
doing. Dr. McMullen has notified the
Board here that if conditions keep on
■getting more serious, he will probably
have to ask for still more men from
.North Carolina.
Dr. Laughinghonse, State- Health
.Officer, has already announced that he
will be glad to hear from any physi
cians or others who are in position to
volunteer their services for flood relief
work, nnd that he will at once put
them in touch with relief headquarters
(for assignment to duty. The Red
j Cross will pay all transportation and
living expenses.
URGE P. & N. EXTENSION.
Business Men Tell Commerce Com
mission Line Has Done Great Ser
vice.
1 Washington, May 9. Business
man along the Piedmont and North
ern railway are urging the interstate
commerce commission to grant the
company permission to continue its
lines north and south. Many letters
have been received sayina the 'jJSftA
|ms Hone a"great service ’(« th<fc"ferrf
tory through which it passes.
The Union Storage and Warehouse
company hns sent in a very enthu
siastic endorsement of the interurban
line, saying that it is largely re
sponsible for the industrial develop
ment of the section about Charlotte.
Other concern are equally as en
thusiastic for the new extension pro
gram.
THE STOCK MARKET.
Several Factors Contributed To
Demonstration of Strength in Mar
ket Today.
New Y'ork, May 9. —(49—Continued
easy money, satisfactory trade news,
favorable dividend expectations and
heavy investment buying all contribut
ed to a pronounced demonstration of
strength in today's stock market.
Gratification in banking circles over
action of Secretary Mellon in calling
for redemption of outstanding Libert.v
4 and 4 1-4 bonds, and prospects of
further gold imports from France were
oustanding influences in a more cheer
ful sentiment. Closing was strong.
Total sales approximated 2,000,000
shares.
Gov. McLean Planning Vacation in
Wisconsin.
(By International News Service.)
Raleigh, N. (’.. May 9.—CarolinaV
summer executive mansion probably
will be in the Wisconsin lake coun
try.
While no announcement has been
made by Governor McLean yet. it is
expected that he will again spend his
vacation at his camp in Wisconsin,
The Governor spent a month at
I Lake-o-hakes last summer, passing
I away the time by wood-cutting, it’s
told around the capitol that the Gov
ernor is no mean ax-slinger.
Peach Crop Cut Short.
(By International News Service)
Raleigh, May 9.—Chances of North
Carolina producing a bumper peach
crop this summer were blasted in the
latest report from the State-Federal
crop reporting service.
Estimates place the 1927 produc
tion at approximately 2,500 carloads.
These estimates were made from re
ports by- 300 peach growers of the
sandhill region and also a personal
survey of the field.
Unfavorable weather is the cause of
the decrease in this year's yield, it
was stated.
The golden thread of love is never
broken by its use.
COUNSEL FOR GRAY
DENIES DEFENDANT
EVER HIT SNYDER
William Millard Tells Jury
Gray Was Lucky to
Have Escaped Blows by
Mrs. Ruth Snyder.
WOMAN’SLAWYER
TO SPEAK LATER
Lawyer for Gray Tells Ju
rors They Should Find
Him Guilty of Nothing
But Manslaughter.
New Y’ork. Mny 9. —(4 s)—Summa
tion of the case of Henry Judd Gray
was completed today and that of the
cn.re of Mrs. Ruth Snyder follows.
YVilliam Millard, addressing the jury
for Gray, asserted that Gray never
struck Albert Snyder at ail, and that
only luck nnved him from being felled
by Mrs. Snyder. He asked for a
manslaughter verdict.
' Mrs. Snyder was likened to a “pois
onous serpent” who drew Gray into
her glistening coils yo that he could
not escape, in the attorney’s argu
ments.
Counsel for Gray also charged that
Mrs. Snyder had planned to poison
Gray on the same night her husband
was killed. Only Gray's steady drink
ing of whiskey, the lawyer snid, saved
him.
Attorney Millard, for Gray, told the
jury that “Gray struck at Snyder but
missed him.” He added that “the
blows that stunned Snyder were all
delivered b.v a woman, Mrs. Ruth
Snyder.”
Mrs. Snyder’s attorneys moved for
a mistrial during Gray’s lawyer's ar
gument. but was overruled.
When he started his summation, he
devoted most of his time to assailing
Gray's elaim that Mrs. Snyder domi
nated him.
The defense summations were elosed
after approximately four hours. Court
then adjourned until this 'afternoon,
when the district attorney was sched
uled to begin.
With Our Advertisers.
You get the good Goodyear service
«free at the Yorke --A YVadswortU Co.
This will often mean dollars to you.
Your choice of any coat in the Gray
Shop for only sl4. Many are worth
twice this price. Your choice of sport
coats now only $7. These are excel
lent values, and ■ you had better buy
them quick. See ad.
Tennis rackets, balls, covers, nets,
etc., at the Ritchie Hardware Co.
They Will restring your old racket.
See ad. in this paper.
Rogers brushing lacquer, paints nnd
varnishes at she Yorke & YVadsworth
Co.
Fibre furniture in the most allur
ing colors now on display at the Bell
& Harris Furniture Co.
The Boyd W. Cox Studio has just
received a.new shipment of swing
frames, all sizes.
Vivette powder, perfume and cream
at Cline’s 'Pharmacy. One of each
for only $2.00; value $2.60.
The summer suits at W. A. Over
cash’s are selling fast. Several new
patterns on display today.
See the line of Dorothy Perkins
toilet goods at the Pearl Drug Co.
New line of shirts at Hoover's, from
$1.50 to $4.00. Straw hats, new
neckwear, silk and cool union suits
too.
One big table of ladies’ patent strap
nnd blonde kid shoes at Efird's. On
ly $1.05. Several other bargains just j
as good from $2.45 to $5.95. See ad.
for description.
From May 10 to 25 the Concord
nnd Kannapolis Gas Co. will install
a No. 25 Ruud in your home for S2O.
Terms $2 down and $1 monthly. If
you ltnve no boiler, they will install
a 30 gallon tank. No. 25 Ruud and
necessary pipes for $55. Terms $2.00
down and $3.00 monthly.
ntra-Violet light is now employed
with marked benefit to keep monkeys,
reptiles and other zoo animals in good
health.
CAN YOU SCORE {
TEN ON THESE? j
QUESTIONS
1 — Who fired the first shot in the
American Civil War?
2 Who commanded the opposing
forces ?
3 What American warship mnde a
record-breaking voyage at the outbrenk
of the Spanish-Ameriean war?
4 Why was a Republican governor
of New York refused a renomination
in 1898?
5 Who served as vice president
during both of the Wilson adminis
trations?
6 -What is the most effective way
of getting rid of things you don’t
want and oc acquiring the things you
would like to have?
7 Name four southern border
states which did not secede from the
Urtion. \
i B — When did the first ironclad war
| ship go into action?
i 9 — What ia the factor in retail
i business without which success is im
| possible? t
i 10 — What American city is located
[ near the meeting point of four states?
i (Answered 1 ou Page Seven)
Definite Reports Fronfl§l
Daring Airmen Lackingfl
During Mor**’ g Hours!
Flood i
Concord Contributions. .
Previously acknowledged.... $2,032.02
Mrs. Jno. A. Scott 5.00
Popular Tent t'liurch ...... 0.26
•Mr. and Mrs. ltidenliour. Jr. .. 10.00
I>. C. Bonds 5.00
Bethel School 14.00
-Nature Study Club 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Barhardt Sr. 25.00
W. M. McEachern 2.00
Mary Virginia Hagler 1.00
Jno. W. Cook 1.00
(let). 1., Brown 5.00
1). IV. Moose 5.00
H. B. Emerson 5.00
Mill drove M. P. Church 6.40
Midland Community 56.00
Concord Total $2,156.02
Kannapolis Contributions
Previously acknowledged .... $512.00
Mt. Plensant Contributions
Previously acknowledged .... f 102.00
Jackson Training School
Previously acknowledged .... $56.00
Junior Red Cross of City Schools
Previously acknowledged SIOO.OO
Grand Total $2,926.17
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Easy Today at Decline of 8
to 17 Points, But Rallied 8 to 10
Points Later.
New York, May 9. —C4 3 )—The cot
ton market opened easy today at a de
cline of 8 to 17 points in response to
easier Diverjiool cables, rather a bet
ter weather map than expended and
a tendency to reduce estimates of the
cotton area flooded in the Mississippi
River States. Active months sold 18
to 20 Points net lower shortly after
the opening. July easing off to 15.66
and December to 16.11, but there were
reports of heavy rains in some parts
of the southwest, which caused ral
lies of 8 to 10 points before the end
of the first hour.
At midday, however, prices had
worked off to 15.62 for July and 16.08
for December, file midday market
showing net declines of about 20 to 24
points.
Cotton futures opened easy: May
15.61; July 15.78; Oct. 16.02; Dec.
16.20; Jan. 16.22.
Assault With Ptetol Oner Trifling
Matter.
Charlotte, May 7.—Thomas. Tur
ner, cotton mill employee, of Bel
mont. is in a local hospital with bul
let wounds in the neck and chest and
George Hooker, tilling station pro
prietor, is being held without bond
pending the outcome of Turner's in
juries as the result of a shooting al
leged to have started over a gas bill.
Hooker was charged with assault
with a deadly weapon with intent to
kill.
Roy Hooker, brother of George
and a brother of the wounded man
were af rested and released under
bond.
While arguing whether a gas bill
had been paid, it tvas said, George
Hooker shot Turner three times, the
bullets taking effect in the back of
his head and chest.
Turner is expected to recover un
less there nre complications, hospital
authorities announced.
Life Term For Trying to Pick a
Pocket.
Buffalo. May 6.—For attempting
to pick tlje pocket of a man on a
street car Charles Sta.uer. 50, of
this city, was sentenced to life im
prisonment by Supreme Court Jus
tice Thomas H. Noonan today. Stau
! her had a previous record of felony
convictions which made the life term
mandatory.
“For twenty-eight out of the fifty
vears you have lived yon have been
in trouble." Justice Noonan told
Stnuber. “You’ve been in various
prisons. You’ve been in hospitals for
drug cures. You’re sentenced to
Auburn prison for .the rest of your
natural life.”
Out to Kill the Joy of Sucking the
Thumb.
Des Moines. May 9.—Thumb suck
ing is a vice in children and should
be prevented Dr. Wesley C, Darby
told the lowa dental convention.
Sinus trouble, so prevalent nowadays
can be traced to this habit, he said.
“The gmns and jaws are thrown
out of their natural position, causing
nrotruding teeth.” Dr. Darby said.
“The sinus is drawn down and nar
rows the nasal breathing aperture,
thus making the children mouth
breathers.”
Another Report.
Havre. France. May 0. — (/P) —The
French Steamship Line announced
this afternoon that it had received ad
vices that Captain T T ungesser,s’ trane-
Atlnntic plane passed Halifax. N. S„
between 2 and 3 p. m„ French time,
which would be between 8 and 0 a.
m„ eastern standard time.
NOTICE!
City Privilege Licenses are
due May Ist, 1927, to May Ist,
1928. Call and get your license
plates for private automobiles
and trucks, automobiles, trucks
and drays for hire.
CHAS. N. FIELD,
6-3 t-. City. Tax Collector.
THE TRIBUNB I f
PRINTS
TODAY’S NEWS TODATfJg
NO. 10j§ I
ride Reaches of
Atlantic Still Hold W&taJ
in Their Grasp
or Failure of Flight J| j
variousreports j I
GIVEN OF FLIGriH
New York Times CdnHij
spondent at Sydney* !*, §
S., Says Airman
There During Mornijjiifll
(By the Associated Press))l|f| ■
The Nungesser plane. White BhHH
was sighted off Cape Race, H
Foundlnml. at 10 o'clock this
ing. said a brief message X
(lav by tile New York Timex frwp
correspondent at Sydney, Novt .ttH|
tia. Should this report prove
rate and the daring aviators, uH 9
tains Nungesser and Ooli, sucoesxfyjfjgi I
pursue the remaining thousand
of their course over the misty .AtlaiitStti M
they should reach the goal of
Paris to -Yew York flight aboift. ■
o'clock tonight, daylight time, i
Earlier in the day a report reedhMjEK
by tlic French Cable <’ompany 9
that the radio operator at St. 9
Miquelon, had received word thst U§P S
plane had been sighted ovef
Foundland. This report lacked; m|Hl
Urination. £»
Havas Agency in New
vised the home office in 1
they had a definite report froagpjH 9
Pierre that the plane had bean 1
over the island at 8:15 o'eloCfcwf.Srhe 9
French capital promptly staged'#«(| 1
ebration. Later a St. I
patch received in New York stated (m|| 1
airplane had not been sighted
the island up to 9 o’clock
daylight time this morning. c ■
Tlie broad reaches of the
Atlantic still hold within theif
the success or failure of the ftigifgxH
Reported off Capo Race, the
have yet about a thousand miles o£?J9
sea to traverse in adverse
conditions. “19
The weather off New r FoinullawJH
was clear this morning, but off tt>
southeast the daring pioneers of
air were winging their way •■#&* ■(a.JB
lowering gasoline supply, and fariugyd
mist and rain with low visibility pkrtfflfi
will try every hit of courage
can summon. -,9
Aviators at Mitchell Field said. that »
under the weather conditions now’ oWS
tabling, if Captain Nungesser COUmPB
make a landing ill New York He would 9
have performed a miracle even
than that of crossing the
Search lights were turned on iftasM9H
the day at Mitchell Field to aid the X
flyers. a
Evidence of the distressing fiyinclß
weather in and about New Yorli wj|9
had when Commander Francesca |||£9
I’inedo, the Italian flyer, was
down in the heavy fog in lams M*s|B
land sound in his flight to Philadelpia 9
from Boston. 9
If the White Bird was off OaMfl
Race, her course naturally
across Cape Canso. Nova Scotia.
then skirting the shore linc'Ngf
Scotia past Cape Sable. Tl{e avijgtjjß
tors then would head the Whife. BjMg9
for Boston and New York. • *',jj M 9
I mini lies at noon at the Radio
poration. ami independent
companies, and the steamship cons|Bi
panics with vessels at
the response that no word
from the White Bird. "WM
Another Report.
Nungesser in the White
sighted passing Cape Race
o'clock this morning. ||
telegram which the New York
says it has received from it*.
spondent at Sydney, N. S. The J'iintjß's
says its Sydney correspondent wmowMj
ed that the Marconi station at
Bay informed him a wireless moWjBBl
from a French liner off the j
New Foundland stated it had
the French plane. 'a
Not Seen at St. Pierre. fl I
St. Pierre, May 9.—GP)—The NniSfl
gesser plane had not been
from here up to 9a. m. today, _sS| ;j
Reported at New I
New York, May 9.—(A>)—TbaSSHB
York bureau of the Havas Agency b&sjj
advised its bendquarterx in Pari»|9
France, that S. I’ierre Miquelon has jj
a reiHirt that the airplane White BihlCa
was seen over New Foundland at Ijiß
o'clock Atlantic time, this
.....
Nothing Definite. j
New York, May 9. — (A I )—A lepMjjß®
received here this morning by mm I
French Cable Co., that the
plane had ben sighted by the WeafUßJ,j
Union over New Foundland faildSgjl i
confirmation from every
was not credited. Inquires were
at various radio stations, and WesteNH
Union officials said they were
to verify tlie reports. S
New York, May 9.—CJP)—Thirflß
c'glit hours after Captains NutniMH'
and Coli hopped off from the ftrixM
field near Paris in their atteoaS
fly to this city, no substantial. advmKt
have come from any sotirei’ as
whereabouts. J
, i.
probably local showers Tuesday isß|
west portion; somewhat waMKI
night in extreme north portion* -J