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May 9, 1927 r : ~ ■ Kannapolis Social Items L -J’ (By U>b Wineeoff Earnhardt. Kannapolis. May o.—Mrs. James Brown, Mrs. H. B. Boyers and Mrs. Heflry Brown entertained the Fine Arts Department of the Woman's elub ■ t the home of the former on Friday of last week. - “American Painters” was the snb ject for study. Mrs. X. S. Stirewalt presented a liiyhl.v interesting paper on William Laird Taylcr and showed ’ reproductions of several of his paint ings. Mrs. L. A. Peeler followed with a discussion of Francis B. Millet-and his works. The last painter in the! aeries Eastman Johnston, was present-' ed by Mrs. Lois Earnhardt. I Following the program a business I meeting was held. Mrs. James Wal-I ton, who has served so faithfully as chairman of this division, asked to be relieved and in her place Mrs. L. A. feeler was unanimously fleeted. Mrs. Walton then agreed to ‘serve as sec retary, succeeding Mrs. M. L. Riden hour. who has filled this place for iferee years. A pleasing surplus was <1 in, tlie treasury and after re serving a sufficient amount of money with which to defray the expense of next year’s study course, a tidy sum was given to aid the flood sufferers of the Mississippi section. Finns were discussed at length relative to contin uation of the circulating library of current fiction maintained by this bra noli of the elub. Dainty refreshments, consisting of molded fruit-ice, angel-food cake, and iced tea was served by the hostesses. The picnic supper served in honor of the teachers of Kannn|tolis' schools on Thursday evening was a most pleas ing affair. Long tables were arrang ed on the lawn of central school and service was made cafeterin fashion. Frequently one hears a sigh, “Oh for a country picnic dinner” is compared with the feast prepared by the three Parent-Teacher associations of this city the usual rural picnic can’t make a showing. There was fried chicken, ham. roast fresh meats, a dozen kinds of salads, sandwiches, pies, cakes and pickles of every sort, plus iced tea. After supper the “Y”. Glee Club gave a splendid program. Sirs. SI. L, Ridenhour was chair man of the committee on arrange ments and she and the . association SMART DRESSY COATS FOR QUICK CLEARANCE YOUR CHOICE OF ANY COAT IN STOCK *Ww sl4 The entire .stock consisting of Smart Dressy Coats is included in this offering. Many worth twice the price, apd quite a few formerly priced up to $39.50. Your final opportunity to get that longed for Coat. SPORT COATS YOUR CHOICE NOW s7^ It will pay you to buy one of these coats just to knock around in. They are worth from $14.75 to $19.50. The last word in Good Values. THE GRA Y SHOPPE 22 South Union Street Concord, N. C. Fisher’s The Smartest Always New Hats Jfi ystfa Sumner Hats tL_ —jP $2.95" $14.95 , : members left nothing undone in their, efforts to make a pleasing oeeaaion for the teaehers. Mrs. 8. C. Simmons, of Opelika. Ala., arrived Friday for a. visit to Mrs. H. L. Lipe. She is a former resident of the city, Mr. Simmons hav ing been a former vice-president of the Cannon Mfg. Co. Mrs. Simmons delighted the congre gation of Trinity Church with the s’nging of “The Lilies.” Her’s is a rich dear soprano voice., During her st’ay she will be guest of honor at several social affairs. Mrs. W. S. Kelly, of Statesville, is the guest of Mrs. Snm Kelly at her i home on Concord road. On, Friday ■ afternoon Mrs. Kelly entertained for' cher guest and Mrs. 8. C. Siinmons. of | Alabama, who is visiting Mrs. H. L. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Graham spent Sunday at !Mocksille with Mrs. Gra ham’s parents. Mr. nnd Mrs. Wesley Gartner. < Miss I,elia Cannon, of the South School faculty, is confined to her bed by a severe attack of influenza. Miss Ruth Moser is kept in her room by an infected foot. It is fear ed she is suffering hlood poison. Mrs. J. Hugh" Parks is recovering from a recent indisposition. Miss 'Walter returned on Thursday from Charlotte, where she spent several days with Mrs. Eustace Griffin at heg home on Central ave nue. Miss Katy Lbu Steele, of States ville, is the guest of Mrs. M. L. Trout man. Mrs. Troutman and Miss Steele are sisters. Mrs. Bruce Abernethy nnd Mrs. Joe Glass left Monday for Durham to at tend the meeting of the Woman’s clubs. Mrs. Abernethy is vice-presi dent and Mrs. Glass is treasurer of the local club. A meeting of the Kannapolis elub will be theld on Tues day evening at the Y. M. C. A. Mrs. Charles Ewan and Miss Aman da Ewan returned Saturday from a stay ,o£ six weeks with relatives in New Jersey. Miss Carolyn Craven spent last week ia Charlotte with her aunt, Mrs. E. W. Bailey. Mrs. S. H. Orr left Saturday with friends of Concord on a motor trip through the Valley of Virginia. •Mr. Bob Day vault was a week-end guest of friend* at Greensboro. TODAY’S EVENTS. Monday May ft, 1927. On this date 42J years ago Colum bus sailed on bio last voyage to America.' One year ago today Lieut. Com. Byrd made his famous aeroplane flight.to the North Pole. * Former Empress Zita, consort of Gie last of the Austrian emperors, is 35 years old today. Thousands of pilgrims will visit Bruges, Belgium, today to witness the annual Procession of the Holy Blood. An outdoor Life Exposition will be opened in Chicago today and con tinued through, the remainder of the week. 1 The American Child Health Asso ciation, of \)iieh Herbert Hoover is president, will open a three-day con ference today in Washington. D. C. Governors of five mid-Westem States been invited to confer in Chicago today on uniform methods to conserve natural resources. Reduction in plate glass tariffs will be demanded by the Association of Imported Glass Consumers at a hearing before the Tariff Commission in Washington today. Canberra, the new federal- capital of the Commonwealth of Australia, is to be formally inaugurated today whep the Duke of York will presale at the opening of the Common wealth Parliament there. Mex’oo has recently imported from the I’nited States 45,000 fruit trees, 30,000 white-mulberry cuttings. 20,- 000 scions of other trees for grafting, a multitude of strawberry plants, and 10,000 packages c* garden and flower seeds. These are for .use in school gardens .throughout the Republic in carrying out the purpose of the feder al ministry of education that every school shall have fruit trees Bnd a garden, so far as possible.—School Life. Jumping to conclusions is dangerous exercise because one so aften alights on one that is not sound. THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE SNYDER MURDER CASE WILL BE ENDED TODAY Jury Win Get Caae of Mr*. Snyder About 3 O’clock in Afternoon. New York, May ll.—Mrs. Ruth Snyder and her corset salesman mour, Henry Judd Gray, ate their Monday morning prison breakfast with the knowledge— comforting or riot as the case may be—that their fate probably will be decided before another breakfast is brought to them. Testimony in the trial at which they are charged with tlie murder of Albert Snyder, the woman’s husband, was completed at the closing session of the third week and summations will begin at 10 o’clock tomorrow. On the length of the summations and the judge’s charge will depend what time the jury will receive the case. If the summations are one hour each, which seems probable, the ease will go to the jury about 3 o'clock. If two hours, supper will intervene before deliberations ate begun. It has been indicated, however, that court will stay in session until they are completed. Mrs. Snyder's summation will oome first, then Gray's, and then the state’s. The judge’s charge is expected to be brief, a mere outline of the various verdicts, which are numerous, that the jury may bring in. They may be fonnd guilty of first or second degree murder, first or sec ond degree manslaughter, or justifiable homicide. They may be acquitted. One may be found guilty on one count nnd the other on another, or one may be found guilty and the other inno cent. Or the jury may disagree on one, rendering a verdict on the other, or it may disagree on both. The possible penalties range from a fine not to exceed SI,OO to death in the electric chair. The indict ment charges first degree murder, for which the denth penalty is manda tory. Whatever the jury docs it will have effect on the payment of insurance. Gray carries $30,000 insurance, and $06,000 had been written on the life of Albert Snyder, the victim of the killing. Mrs. Snyder is the benefici ary of her husband’s insurance nnd should she be found innocent it would be paid her. Should it be found, however, that she was responsible for his death her right would lapse and tlie money would go to her nine-year old daughter, Lorraine. Gray's insurance is affected only if he is convicted of murder in the first degree and is executed. In that event his wife, tl)e beneficiary, would get the $30,000. If lie should be found not guilty, or guilty of any lesser de gree of murder or manslaughter, of course the policy would Remain in force and not be payable until his death. Mrs. Snyder Is Confident That She Won’t Die. New York, May 7. —Mrs. Ruth Snyder toilsy expressed herself as be ing confident of escaping the death penalty on a charge of murdering her husband, Albert Snyder, art editor. She smiled today when shown a letter from a Texas rancher who said he sympathized with her and was certain she would be ncquitted. He offered to meet her on the “front stoop” of the Queens county court house when she walked out a free woman. He said he would wear a yellow flower for identification. “That's an appointment I’ll keep,” she told a jail attache. The suburban housewife who said she attempted to restrain Henry Judd Gray from killing her husband asked for a beauty specialist this afternoon. When she goes into the court room Monday to hear the summations she will look her blond best. WOMAN KILLS HHUSBAND AS HE STARTS TO STRIKE HER P. H. Wade, Who Lived Near Dunn, Slain by Wife in Presence of Son. Dunn, May B.—Pearly H. Wide, 42, prominent farmer who lived one and a half miles east of Dun, is-dead and his wife, a few years younger, is in the custody of Sheriff Kye Matthews, of Harnett county, charged with firing the shot which brought almost in stant death to her husband at seven o’clock this morning. The fetal shooting took place in the Wade home, the only eye-witness except the husband and wife being their only child, a son eleven years old. Sheriff Matthews did not place Mrs. Wade in jail, but she Is being cared for in the home of a neighbor undef guard. ■ According to the evidence brought out by the coroner’s jury to day the victim of the shooting was drinking and was in the act of strik ing his wife when she fired nt close range, the bullet piercing his breast. The bullet was fired from a thirty-two caliber Smith and Wesson pistol which was found lying on the floor in the hall. Tlie postol contained a full round of cartridges, one of them hav ing been fired. The son stated that he was awakened by his father curs ing his mother, that he saw him back her into a corner of the room in which he slept and raise his hand as if to strike her. At that time the pistol fired and his father fell across his bed. The father had been abus ing and threatening the mother most of the night he said. Ford Motor Company Settle* Suit for $2,000,000. Detroit, May 9. —The $2,000,000 suit of Johp M. Blair, building con tractor, against the Ford Motor Company for alleged breach of seven contracts has been settled out of court, it was announced today. Five of the contracts were not in dispute, it was said, and were paid in full. The other two contracts will be arbitrated, each side selecting a I man, and the two agreeing upon a third. | It is understood that criminal charges against Blair, who was charged by Charie* E. Sorenson, gen eral mannger of the Fordson plant, with having bribed Ford purchase agents, will be dropped. ' The City of Boulder, Colorado, in order to assure it* .future water sup; ply, haa purchased the Araphse Glaci er. . GOOD ROADS AIDING 1 FARMERS OF STATE Making It, Possible for Them to Get Produce to Market Easier.. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, May 9. —A striking example of the benefits to •he derived 'by the fanner from good roads is afforded ill the strawberry belt of Eastern ' X’orth Carolina, from which thousands of crates have been moved by truck this season. The story was told iby George Ross, chief of the Division of Markets of the State Department of , Agriculture, upon his return from | Wallace, where he saw a large fleet of trucks from Delaware loading ber ries for Eastern points. “These trucks,” said Mr. Ross, 1 “Were standing in the marketyards ’ when I first observed them. I had heard they were on the way. They carried from 125 to 200 crates of ber ries each, as compared with 175 to 236 crates loaded in freight cars.” The outstanding fact pointed out by Mr. Ross was that North Carolina’s good roads, on which approximately $100,000,000 has been spent, promise the farmer a competitive basis on which to deal with the railroads in the future. As a matter fact, accord ing to this marketing expert, there is already a movement on foot to secure iced express cars to move berries next season, in the place of freight cars now used. "There have tbeen this season,” he continued, "as high as 2,000 to 3.000 crates of berries hauled from Wallace and Rose Hill in one day. Some of the trucks make three trips South each week, with a running time of 8 to 25 hours, going into Richmond, Washing ton, Baltimore and other cities; Some have gone as far as Philadelphia and New York. “Each truck has two drivers, nnd the actual running time is 21 hours to Philadelphia and 25 hours to New York. Shippers report that they sought in vain n better schedule from the railroads before the season began, claiming that, a few years ago, berries shipped on Monday, for example, were marketed in New York on Wednesday, while now it is Thursday. “So the truck movement began nnd it has succeeded. Railroads, however, have assured growers they would get together and endeavor to .work out a plan for faster service. What the iproducers and . shippers want is the use of iced express .bars. “Tlie practice of hauling strawber ries North in trucks 'began several seasons ago but the service was ex tended to North Carolina only this year. The movement probably began in the New Jersey strawberry belt and was later extended to the Eastern shore of Virginia. However, the seas ons are Inter in New Jersey and Vir ginia and so the.trucks are now being employed in transporting berries from Eastern North Carolina. Although it is highly probable that improved train service may be secured, yet it is en tirely likely , that the movement by truck will’ also continue, due to the excellent roads in North Carolina and the fact that Virginia, to the North, is improving its roads. Undoubtedly, however, an object lesson lias been given and tlie result will be far-reach ing. meaning the saving of thousands of dollars to our strawberry growers.” This season's strawberry shipments, made by train, are now fast approach ing a 2,000-carload mark, and there is a probability that when the season is over the 2,046-carload record, made in 1924, will have been broken. Last year's total for the season was 1,252 carloads. PENNEY CO. WIDENS SHARING OF PROFITS Store Managers to Participate in Gen eral Earnings as Well as in Units. New York Times. A readjustment of the corporate structure of the J. C. Penney Com panyl by which store managers will share in the -profits of the general business as well ns in the profits of the store units and by which provision is made for an expansion of the eom ipany’s activities in the United States and abroad was announced yesterday. The company employes 15,000. The classified common stock, which previously represented interest in in dividual stores, has been exchanged for comm'on stock and 6 per cent, preferred stock of the J, O. Penney Company. Os an authorized issue of $15,000,000 of Class A 0 per cent, preferred cumu lative stock, $8,468,000 has been is sued ; of an authorized issue of $lO,- 000.000 in classified common stock, sS..'>2oo;ooo has been issued, and of an unclassified common stock of no par value, 35,184 shares have been issued. The company heretofore has allowed the partners and managers in any single store or group of multiple stores to 'participate only in the earnings of the store or group in which they were interested. The new plan conforms to one put into effect some years ago, when all employe holders of common stock who were not identified directly with the management of individual stores converted their classified hold ings into stock of the entire system. The restriction by which any except employes were prevented from owning this stock have been removed. I’revious to the adoption of the pres ent plan the stockholder of each indi vidual store participated only in the profits of that particular unit. The J. C. Penney Company has pur chased F. S. Jones & Oo„ operating fifty-four general merchandise stores in the West, bringing the total stores owned by the Penney chain to 885, in cluding a number to be opened this year. The business done this year is expeeted to reach $150,000,000. PAPA SPANKS MAMA. Chicago Father Retaliates When Child is Punished. Chicago, May 9,—A spanking for Betty Jane, 3 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ' Leonard Schultz earn ed a spanking for the mother and al most got one for the child’s father today. The mother had the father in court. “When I spank the baby, he spanks me.” she bitterly complained. Schultz Insisted the baby was spanked too much but the judge decided against him and threatened to spank the father if he interfered xvith spank ing the baby. HUDSON MAXIM DEAD. Inventor of Smokeless Powder and the Mixlm Gun Passes Away. Lake Hopatoong, N. .1., Ma.v 9. Hudson Maxim, inventor, died at his home Friday afternoon. He was 74 years old and had ben suffering from anemia and stomneh trouble for the last two months. Mr. Maxim’s death ended his ex periments to make naval torpedoes more deadly. Believing that another great war was approaching, he was eager to develop primary experiments in the substitution of nitroglycerin for No More Bath - Night HOT WATER TROUBLES »’tj ‘ ' ' Announcing a Special On Ruud Tank Heaters MAY 10 - 25 We will install a No. 25 Ruud in your home for $20.0p. Terms $2.00 down and SI.OO monthly. COMPLETE OUTFIT If you have no boiler, we will install a 30 gal lon tank, No. 25 Ruud and necessary pipes for ] $55.00. Terms $2.00 down, $3.00 monthly. - Concord & Kannapolis Gas Company / '' I r : ; - ■ - I ’. 1 - 11 11 Goodyear’s Price Often Du plicated - But Its Quality - NEVER! Motorists are learning that there is a big difference in tires, although they look pretty much alike. Some are long on looks and short on quality ahd mileage. But you won’t need a microscope to be sure that the Goodyear tire you get from us is a real buy. Goodyear mileage tells the story. Today, more than ever, more peoplefi the world over, ride on Goodyear tires than any other Kind AND YOU GET THIS KIND OF SERVICE FREE! We don't just sell you a tire—we’ll apply it promptly, see that your rims are free from rust, and that the tire is correctly inflated. Then after it ie on and running we will inspect it at any time and apply conservative measures to help you get all the miles of service thnt the factory has built into it. This Jtind of service means tire dollars saved. We do it free for our customers. *? Y orkefs? Wadsworth Co. The Old Reliable Hardware Store More people ride on Goodyear Tiris than on any other kind. superheated steam as a motive power. He was confident that this would more than double the range and effective ness of the so-called automobile tor pedo. A foe of the pacifist to the end, he maintained that the country was poorly eipiipiied for the impending test of battles in which he believed it would be involved. He became ill from anemia in .Jan uary while on the vncatiun on the Pacific coast. With Mrs. Maxim, he returned to New Jersey early in Feb ruary, 'both of them questioning if his chief ailment might not be homesick PAGE THREE ness for the birds and trees, and labor- _ afories of his great estate near Laka,g] Hopatoong. Among the other more important*; -j, achievement with which Mr. Maxim | was credited were perfection of "Stabillite,” a smokeless powder pro- 5* during 'better ballistic results; inven- yr, tion of the United States service touating fuses for high explosives,* , armor-piercing projectiles; invention < of “motorize,” a new material for driving automobile tor- , ' pedoes. and of processes and appara- -3, tus for manufacturing relleiperforated, power gains.
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