ASSOC! —
VOLUME XXVII
200 Killed, 800 Hurt
By Siege Os Tornadoes
In The Western States
It Is Probable That Death
List Will Grow as Many
of the Injured Are Not
Expected to live.
SEVEN STATES
* HIT BY STORM
i*. $ I
t In Addition to the Known ;
Dead >Seven Persons in
Arkansas Have Not Yet i
Been Accounted For. I
I
f (By tie Associated Press)
Casualty lists in a three-day siege of ]
tornadoes and 1 storms in the western j
states today-showed 200 known dead ■
and more than 800. injured, many se-j
verely. I
Reports by states follow: j
Missouri 73 dead. 300 injured: Ar
kansas 70 dead, 350 injured: Tera* 33j
dead. 100 injured: Kansas 10 dead.j
40 injured; Ilinois 10 dead, 88 injured ;
Wyoming 3 dead; lowa Idead.
Several persons were unaceountered
for in Arkansas. The three deaths in
Wyoming occurred in a btisazrd, while
a woman was drowned near Sioux
City, low 4.
200 Known Dead.
Kansas City. May 10. —OF)—Tor-
nnjjo and storm casualties in middle
western states today stood at more
than 200 dead and upwards of 000 in
jured.
Hundreds were homeless in five
states visited by series of freak storms
that started Saturday and reached the.
climax yesterday when large areas
were devastated in Arkansas, Mis
souri, Texas and Illinois. Torrential
rains over the week-end added to the
property losses estimated at millions
of dollars.
Arkansas reported 03 known dead
and more than 300 injured in the wake
of tornadoes that swept from the
southern section of the state to the
northeastern counties. Lawrence count-j
ty was hardest hit. At least 28 per-1
ishpd there and approximately 2001
were injured. Eighteen were dead i
ami tail unaccounted , for at Strong
and Xqrliplet in Union county, ■•bite,
eight \veif£ killed county. |
communities. Sixty died in aTor-[
nado that rased the business section!
of Poplar Bluff ill southeast Missouri.
Relief workers had placed 42 bodies
in morgues while eighteen were taken
to homes in the damaged residential
district.
Tin deaths resulted from tornadoes
in central Missouri. Seven were killed
in Calloway county. A seventy-mil*
gale that raked St. toujs caused three
deaths.
Texas reported 33 dead, more than
100 injured, and property damage ex
ceeding $1,000,000 from twisters that
dipped at scattered points in Dallas,
Collin, Hunt and Lamar counties
shortly before dawn yesterday. Six
teen were killed at Nevada, ten at
Garland, four at Wolfe City, and two
at Kellog. Most of the victims were
caught in their beds. >
Tornadoes and high winds in Illi
nois killed ten persons and left many
injured. ' Five persons perished at
New. Columbia last night. Chicago
reported two kil.ed, Hinckley and
Rushville one each, while one per
son was struck by lightning at Jack
sonville, 111. Wind caused heavy
damage at several points.
Almost 100 Killed in Arkansas.
Memphis, Tenn., May 10. — UP)-
The number killed in a series of tor
nadoes which swept Arkansas from
end to end late yesterday jumped al
most to the 100 mark as crippled com
munications brought in additional
lists of dead and injured.
.Eighteen additional deaths were
reported this morning from the vicin
ity of Maynard, a little hamlet inthe
northern part of the state, while die
pa tehes from tlie southern end oF the
state added live deaths to the llßt of
casualties at Northlet and Strong in
the oil belt. Eleven persons were re
lucted killed in the little village of
Maynard, which it is said, was raged
by the wind.
Sterttmtlon to Be Sought.
Birmingham, Ala., May 10.—Brav
ing the wrath of shocked clergymen,
State Senator Thomas W. Bradford
V announced here today that he would
introduce A bill at the 'next session
of the legislature to require the
" ition of the insane and de
fective in Alabama.
Senator Bradford’s measure will
be patterned after the Virginia law
recently up he'd in the Federal Su-
preme court. „■ i
Funeral of Mrs. Page.
Henderson, N. C„ May 10.—(A*)—
The body of Mrs. Jess* H. Page, 88,
who died in Ansonville yesterday, was
brought here today for funeral ser
vices tomorrow. She was the widow
of the late Rev. J, H. ’Page, a promi
nent Methodist minister. *,
Cobb and Sfamms CM Play.
Chicago, May 10.—(Ah—President
Ban Johnson of the American league
today lifted the suspension of Ty Cobb
and Al Rlramons, ranking star* of the
Philadelphia Athletics.
»■ " c ' '*— ■
Instead of the usual county Inati
" tute in West Chester, Pa, extension
classes wiil be held in psychology of
study. Undergraduate credit will be
allowed.
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The Concord Daily Tribune
North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily _____
ICREASE EFFORTS
TO CHECK FLOODS
600 Men Fighting Flood!
Along tbfe Bayow desj
Glaises, Where Water Is ■
■ Still Rising.
New Orleans, May 10.—CA»>—White
capped waves of the Mississipp' Riv-j
er cut deeply into levees along a 50
mile front north of Baton Rouge late
yesterday and last night, and today
hundreds of laborer were sandbagging!
'the spots left by *he wash-rig waves.
Along the Bayou des Glaises levte
where the point of danger has cen
tered for several days. fioo men were
fighting the flood as it rose steadily.
As the situation there grew more
critical, Sfficers it) charge of rescue
fleet announced -that all boats in this
area except those needed for transpor
tation r.f food and supplies would be
concentrated in that sectiod.
Throughout the .ower valley patrols
were concentrated. New Orleans was
considered ou* of ilang-r, .but thous
ands of persons in the valley between
New Orleans and the Old river are still
menaced. The crest of the Ite! river
flood passed Alexandria ami a slight
recession of waters was noted over
night.
THE COTTON MARKET.
Opened Steady at Advance of 4
Points to Decline of 3 Points.
New York, May 10.— UP) —The cot
ton market opened steady today at an
advance of 4 points to a decline of
3 points. The reactionary sentiment
reflected by yesterday’s decline was
in evidence ngnin in early trading, but
selling was held in check by unfavor
able weather reports. Prices held
steady, July selling around 15.63 and
December 16.08 at the end of the
first hour, or about 1 to 2 [mints' net
lower. Selling became more active
later on prospect of clearing weather
in-Southwest, prices easing off to 15.-
57 -for July and 16.03 for December
AHiing ‘ ' w*r tsmu
paratively quiet active months show
ing rallies of fffw points from lowest
around mldda'y.
Cotton futures opened steady: May
15.48; July 15.62 ; October 15.05; De
cember 16.10; January 16.14.
Counterfeiting in Prison.
While searching prisoners in the
Oklahnmn state penitentiary for
narcotics, authorities discovered 300
counterfeit money ordetis.
New Dae For Pine Needles.
\ new industry is being developed
in Quebec from pipe needles, which
by a chemical process are converted
into a product closely resembling
natural wool. It can be worked in
the same manner, and is curled,
woven and made into felt.
Women will be barred from 'a new
Colony a group of young sailors are
to be found on Santa Marla Is'nnd
in the South Seas. Tbe sailors have
all been divorced, separated from ill
natured wives, or disappointed in
love. i
Henry Morgan, the pirate, marooned
a mutinous crew, together with some
women captives, on the Island of Saba,
a vplcanic mountain in the Dutch
West Indies. Sturdy descendants of
this eoloniy still survive and are, great
seafarers.
THE STOCK MARKET
Reported by Fenner ft Beane
(Quotations at 1:30 P. M.)
Atchison 181%
American Tobacco B Ex. Div. 128%
American Sinelting 140%
American Locomotive llO%
Atlantic Coast Line 183%
Allied Chemical 188%
American Tel. ft Tei. .165%
American Can 49%
AlHs Chalmeys 1... 100%
Baldwin Locomotive __i 190
Baltimore & Ohio 123%
Bangor - 01
Bethlehem Steel 51
Chesapeake ft Ohio 175%
Coca-Cola lOB%
DuPont -x 244
Dodge Bros. j. 21
Erie 56%
Frisco
General Motors 100%
General Electric _— 08%
Great Northern 80
Gulf State Steel 62
OoldDust 52%
int. 130
Kennecott Copper 04%
Liggett ft Myers B 102%
Mack Truck 114%
Misdouri-Pacific 55
Norfolk ft Western 180%
American Pet. ~B IIIIIZIZ 58%
Remington 41%
Stand. Oil of N. J 37
Southern Bailway .... 126
Studebaker Ex. Dir. 53%
Texas Co.^—.--— —
jV^tS^hb n * < ** 73^
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KIS: RUTHS! WO':
IEIIN COLLIPSFS;
GHty IS COMPOSED
For Second Time Since Her
Conviction Mrs. Snyder
j Faints and Demands At*
I tention of Physicians.
!fainted~soon
AFTER VERDICT
.Gray Ate Breakfast in
Composure and Remain
ed Calm and Quiet Dur*
; mg the Entire Night.
—
| New York.
, Ruth Snyder, the steely blonde of the
j Snyder-Gray murder trial, suffered a
second collapse in her cCII today:
Physicians attended her for nearly
an hour after she fainted, after what
they termed an attack of hysterical
epilepsy.
The attack today was the second
since Mr*. Snyder last night beard
the verdict that means death in the
electric chair. An hour after the ver
dict was* read she collapsed in her cell,
although she showed little emotion at
the time tbe verdict was rendered.
Henry Judd Okay. Mrs. Snyder's
corset salesman paramour, who also
was found guilty of the murder of her
husband, Albert Snyder, magazine art
editor, ate his breakfast in composure
this morning. He, lih£ Mrs. Snyder
showed no great emotion When verdict,
was given.
The doctors describing Mrs. Snyder’s
attacks said such epileptic attacks
often precede insanity and they had
no doubt that a frequet recurrence
might produce insanity.
Mrs. Snyder and Gray are to be
sentenced next Monday, death sentence
being mandatory.
NEW THREAT MADE
BY THE FLOODS
High Winds Lash Waters of the Mis
slppi in Central Louisiana.
New Orleans, May 0. —TJ>e fifty
mile levee front along the Mississippi
between Baton Rouge and Bayou Des
Glaises was being battered-by choppy
waves tonight as a 25-mile wind laslied
memenllfriTy'' f pf *m
mediate concern from the Bayou Des
Glaises section to the embankments
along the main stream.
A prediction of continued wind and
stormy weather to accompany the
crest of the flood down the valley add
ed to threat of the waters os they
continued to -mass about the mouth
of the Old River before descending in
to the lower valley, either through a
•breach in Bapon Glaises levees or
down the main stream.
Ramparts along Bayou Des Glaises
and the 9onth -bank of *he Red River
were not affected by the sweeping
winds as they drove the water from
the levees along that front. Scores
of men worked ip that neighborhood,
however, topping the embankments in
the face of the steady rise toward the
predicted record-breaking crest
Roofs of houses, fences and trees
in the Mississippi indicated the waters
were beginning to return to the river
after their wild rampage over North
eastern Louisiana farmlands.
National Guardsmen and civilians
patrolled the main stream levees in
the teeth of the gale, battling to
strengthen the ramparts in the face
of the charging water which ate grart
unly into the banks and battered at
sand bags thrown into the breaches
thus created.
Fifteen hundred levee workers labor
ed along -Red -River, Bayou -Rapids
and Bayou Des Glaises in Alexandria
and that vicinity as the fight in Cen
tral Louisiana approached ita critical
points. Five hundred of these were
called into service at Alexandria when
a sand boil threatened the levee there.
Refugees continued to stream into
concentration camps as new towns
were invaded by the jvater, or as fear
was felt for the safety of their homes.
Most of the refugees were women and
children, the men remaining in their
homes to aid iu the high water tight,
or to-care for livestock.
Secretary Hoover and Secretary
Davis visited the scene of the Caernar
von Crevasse, below Poydras, where
the breach cut in the levee to save
New Orleans has been widened to
more than 2,000 feet. j-
Bahibridge Colby Seeking Divorce.
Paris, May 10.—<A>>—Baiubridge
Colby, former American Secretary of
State, is seeking a divorce in Paris.
He has authorized his attorneys to in
stitute proceedings and petition will
will be filed as soon as certain formal
ities are fulfilled.
The art of glass making was prac
ticed in 2.500 B. C. by the inhabitants
of the Euphrates Valley, who sold
glass heads to the Egyptians.
PROPERTY LISTED FOR
TAXES AS OF MAY 1
The tax listers are now ready
to list property for taxes, and
all jyersons are required to list
property as of May 1, accord
ing to May Ist, according to
Penalties will be exacted by the
collector from all who fail to
comply with the law in this re
garp* it is’Stated* * *
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concord, n. c„ Tuesday, may 10,1927
Classis of Reformed Church To
Meet in Himial Session May 11
The ninety-seventh annual Maiiljßs
ot the Classic of North Carolina, I|§-
forrted Church in the United State!
convenes in St. Matthew* Reformed
Church. Lincoln county May 11-13.1
The sessions begin Wednesday it
11 a, m. The sermon will be prezppH
by Dr. Geo. Longaker, of Hickory,
appointed to this service, by the retir
ing president, Missionary Sterling
Whitener. The Classis will be caildtl
to order by4he vice president, Eldji
Jacob O. YfiTnse, of Concord,
preside until -a president is'leltiilsij,
Business sessions will be conducted
Wednesday afternoon. Thursday, nd
Friday, both inorning and
uintil the mtslhes* claiming the attd|:
tion of the Ciashis is transacted.
The session Wednesday night will
be given over to Sfc-cln ims o&d|B
arerh Orphans'
College. H. X|
Nair.v will present fne claims of toy
home. It is maintained by the K*
formed Church in North Carolina ami
supported this year forty-eight cKß
dren at a cost of about $12,000 amlM
nations of clothing, fruit and eataWys
in season. This borne has property
valued at $75,00<b located at
in Rowan county. The home *hawf *»-
downment funds amounting to TMB
-500 invested in good securities., FaM
ident E. R. Hoke, of Catawba
Salisbury, will tell of the rapid growth
of the college and the staridardsfjpP
rating the college has achieved j
years.
Thursday night is missionary nighl. j
Rev. Cari D. Kriete, of Japan, will |
tell of the work in the sunrise, king-!
dom. Tbe other missions of the H 4-!
formed Church are in Hunan Prov- j
ince in China. The missionaries- have
withdrawn from the field, many of
them having returned or will return ip l
the United States, others have gone ft)!
Japan, while a few are located lit'
Shanghai to await developments, and
i iiiumS*)*-
*1,000,000 A DAY. {1
Is Collected in Internal Revenue M
North Carolina. ) ,
Tribune Bureau, •
Sir Walter HoteJ.
Raleigh, May 10.—Approximately
$1,000,000 a day has been collected in
internal revenue in North Carolina
for the [last week, and collections are
mounting steadily, according to rew
liam Grissom, U. S. Collector of .In
terim 1 Rerentte, and most of this ,1s
in tobacco taxes.
For, some weeks the internal reremu
collections for April were iu ekeess
of $16,000,000. But according to the
records made within the last few days,
indications are that North Carolina
is going to shatter all previous records
and eositly become the “Fourth State”
in the payment of internal revenue
taxes.
*We are greatly gratified at the
showing made," said Mr. Grissom,
“and we feel confident that collections
for this -fiscal .venr will easily be in
excess of $200,000,000 by June 30,
1927. It is the excellent condition in
the tobacco industry, of course, which
is responsible for much of this in
crease.” /
MISSING GIRL IS
FOUND NEAR HOME
Four Year Old Eunice Freeman. Not
Upset After Being Out AH Night.
Winston-Salem, May 10.—(A*) —Eu-
nice, 4 year old daughter of John
Freeman, a farmer living near ICer
nersville, wandered away from home
yesterday afternoon, and after an all
night search by the father and neigh
bor*, was found at 7 o’clock this morn
ing in tbe woods a mile and u half
from her home. The little girl when
awakened (fid not, seem to be in the
least excited. She explained to her
father that she had a good mght'i
sleep. Bhe showed no ill effects from
sleeping on the ground. When asked
why she did not return home Eunice
said she got lost and When darkness
came she became sleepy and lay down
'hnder the trees.
HOUGHTON SAYS EXTRA
SESSION IS PROBABLE
If Flood Disaster Taxes Public
Clarity Government May Have to
Take ActUon.
Washington, May 0. —Represents-*
tive Doughton, a member of the
ways and means committee of the
house, is here attending to some de
partmental business. He was asked if
he favored an extra lession of Con
gress in view of the fact that thtf
flood in the Mississippi region nuiy
yet unduly tax the public charity of
the country.’ He said that if more
money is needed than can be easily,
secured frqm. charitable sources he
thought an extra session of Cong re-s
should be called by President Cool*
idge. The magnitude of the calamity
appears to be dally increasing, he
observed, and when the flood falls no
time- should be lost by the govern
ment in furnishing money in a re
doubled effort to control the Missis
sippi river.
Plano Clearance Stale at KMd-Frix Co.
The big piano clearance aale at the
Kidd-Frix OtM will begin tomorrow.
Pianos from $95 up. One of the big
bargains is a used Steinway upright
for only sllO. You may take tw*
years to pay. If you will read their
big ad. in this paper you will find
many big values in used and new pi
anos. •*
A Frenchwoman, Maw... Belmont
Gobert. was recently received with
high honors by the Lord Mayor of
London in recognition of her sen-ices
in sheltering British soldiers dur
ing the war. One British trooper liv
ed for four years in a wardrobe in
her bouse.
carry on correspondence with tbe na
tive Christian, Church. Also it is
ministers' night. Rev. W. 8. Kersh
ner. of the board of ministerial re
lief, will present the claims of the
veteran ministers, who having served
the church, are entitled to o support
nu the days of infirmity.
The Classis is composed of the min
isters and lincentiates, numbering 35
and one elder from eaeh of the 20 pas
toral charges. There will be others
in attendance representing the col
lege. the Orphans' Home, the boards
of home and foreign missions, the pub
lication and Sunday School board and
the board of ministerial- relief.
St. Matthews Church in Lincoln
county, seven miles north of I.ineoln
ton on the Lincolnton-Xewton high
way. is a historic church. The old
arbor, made out of great hewn logs, is
located back of the church building.
Many years ago camps were located
all around the arbor. Great revival
meetings were conducted there. The
Classis passed this resolution in 1840:
"That a camp meeting shall be held
at St. Matthews Church, commencing
on Friday previous to the third Sab
bath in August next, and it shall be
‘.lie duty of all ministerial brethren to
Attend said camp meeting." The
church is a new brick building erected
about fifteen years ago.
St. Matthews [has entertained the
Classis in previous years: In 1840
with Rev. John Lantx, president; 1846
with Rev. Jeremiah Ingold, D. D,
president; 1012 Rev. IV. B. Dnt
tera, president; nnd now in 1027, the
president to be elected. The congre
gation was organized in 1837 and has
been served by eighteen pastors,
among whom were the late Dr. J. G.
Clapp, the late Dr. J. L. Murphy and
the late Dr. J. M. L. Lyerly. Rev.
J. A. Koons has served this congre
gation since 1010.
CHARGES AGAINST THE
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
Set for Thursday to Be Conducted by
Attorney General Bruinmitt.
Tribune Burbau
Sir Walter Hotel. r
By J. C. BASKERVILL.
Ra.eligli. May 10.—Lines are rapid
ly tightening here fhr the investiga
tion of the graft charges against the
State Board of Health, which is set'
for Thursday and Which will be con
ducted before Attorney General Den
nis C. Brummitt.
The only question that flow remains
aoihcwTiST Tnifefiriifc 7s wliether'tTre"ihr
vestigation will be confined entirely
to the allegations of graft against the
Board In connection with the enforce
ment. of., the Sanitary I’rivy luw, or
whether it will be broadened to in
clude charges of “undue arbitrariness
and oppression” in the enforcement of
the law, and other miscellaneous
charges and grievenees against the
Board.
; And upon the course to be steered
depends whether or nftt the Board of
Health will be represented by counsel,
it is understood. If the graft charges
are the only ones which aqp to be
gone into, the Board does not intend
to be represented -by counsel; but if
the scope of the investigation is to
be so enlarged as to admit of almost
anything, the Boqrd probably will
employ counsel, it was indicated to
day.
There is a distinction between the
charges of graft, and the charges that
the Board has arbitrarily and severely
enforced the sanitary privy law, ac
cording to Dr. C. H’H. Laughinghouse.
JfKe charge of graft should be investi
gated by the Attorney General, and
a- decision reached, he holds. But he
does not hold that it is within the
power of the Attorney General to sit
in judgment on the thoroughness with
which the law has been enforced, nnd
to say whether or not the law hns
been too arbitrarily—or too thorough
ly—enforced.
' A large number of witnesses have
been sn-bjoeued by the Attorney Gen
eral, although he will not as yet reveal
the names of those called. A list of
all the State Sanitary Inspectors hns
also been supplied the Attorney Gen
eral by the Board of Health.
Senator Rivers D. Johnson has an
nounced that he would appear vol
'untarily and testify, whle it is assumed
that Dr. John B. Wright, and others
will be subjoened. Senator Johnson
says that he will produce numerous
witnesses.
With Our Advertisers.
The new ‘'Ensemble” girdle at
Fisher's $2.95 to $9.95. Three new
inodes. The smartest always at this
•tore.
Let the Concord Furniture Co. show
you the Copeland electric refrigera
tor.
“The Cnknown Soldier” at the Con
cord Theatre today for the benefit of
the War Mothers.
In the new ad. today of the Con
cord Furniture Co. y!u will And a
description of the Poreela'in water
cooling system. Your old refrigerator
Will be taken as first payment.
Tomorrow at 4 o'clock the Starnes-
Miller-Parker Co. will begin their
contest for prizes for the graduates of
the Concord High School. See par
ticulars in new ad. today.
; Read the ad. today of the .1 C.
MJenney Co. The new leghorns are
extremely smart.
You can buy from the S. A 8. Motor
Co. a four door' Essex sedan driven
only 2500 miles, at a sacrificial price.
See>ad.
The Cabarrus Cash Grocery Co
I sells only the best poultry feeds.
i] Phone 3. &H. Cash Store your or
! ders for quality canned goods.
■ 1 Fortunate is he who, having few
• talents of his own, is willing to cheer
I I mankind by passing on the fine works
SEEKING SOLUTION
OF DEATH OP WflS.
COOPER IN NIGHT
Body of Mrs, A. S. Cooper,
With Throat Cut, Was
Found During Day in
Weeds at Asheville.
f SUICIDE THEORY
NOT ACCEPTED
Body Was Found on Va
cant Lot Adjoining the
Cooper Home on Mont
ford Avenue.
Asheville, May 10.— OP) —The body
of Mrs. A. S. Cooper, 61 years old. a
prominent Asheville woman, with her
throat cg 4 and the ease a mystery to
the police, was fodnd early today in
the weeds of a vacant lot adjoining
her Montford Avenue home.
Airs. Cooper's death occurred last
night, according to the police, but she
was not missed until this morning.
She had lived with two women com
panions since the death of her hus
band a month ago.
Since blood was found on both
sides of the barbed wire fence sepa
rating Mrs. Cooper's home from the
vacant lot, the police are not inclined
to accept the suicide theory that was
first advanced. The traces of blood,
.according to the police indicate, that
Mrs. Cooper's throat was cut on the
steps leading into the Cooper home
side yard some ten yards distance, and
across the fence from where the body
was found.
Mrs. Cooper was a native of Ire
land, but had resided in this country
since girlhood. Her only relatives in
the United States are cousins, living
in Savannah, Ga.
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) STOCK MARKET.
Sales More General and Prices Turned
Irregular After Period of Firm
ness.
New York, Aiay 10.—OP)—With
many issues at levels which showed
a good profit on recent prices realiz
ing, sales became more general in the
stock market today and prices turned
irregular after an earlier period oft
.firmness. ( A sprinkling of .aglU
ing also had its effect oh price move
ment when the rate on call uiohey
was raised from its renewal quota
tion of 4 per cent, to 4 1-2 per cent,
in the early afternoon following the
calling of about $20,000,000 in loans.
The closing was steady, total sales
approximating 2,000,000 shares.
Urge Steps to Guard lives of School
Children.
Raleigh. May 10. —(INS) —Gover-
nor Mcl.enn today made public a letter
from a North Carolina mother of 0
children who is caring for 10 step
children, urging the chief executive
to take some measure to safeguard
the lives of school children who "•> to
and from schools in trucks.
“Governor,” the mother write, “I\
am begging you to use* your execut
ive ability and do something to com
pel these cars, trucks, etc., to stop
when they see a school truck full of
children slow down for the children
to get out.
“We all know that it is a beayy
fine for a vehicle to pass a street car
when it has stopped for passengers
to get off, and why shouldn't these
trucks that contain our future men
nnd women be just as important?”
Energetic Eighty.
London, May 10. —Dr. F. B. Meyer,
the grand old man of the Free Church
ministry, who is to make an extensive
tour of Canada and the United States
this summer, has recently celebrated
his eightieth birthday anniversary. A
few dnys ago Dr. Aleyer travelled to
Glasgow on the night express, nnd
preached there once on Saturday,
twice on Sunday, and twice on Alon
dqy, all new sermons. He returned
to London on the night mail, and on
the next day put in nearly twelve
hours of work on correspondence re
lating to his coming American tour.
A Watertown, Massachusetts, black
smith's shop used by George Washing
ton is being equipped and opened as
a garage.
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TEN ON THESE?
QUESTIONS
I—What was Liberty Cabbage?
—Who was the man of many jobs
during the World War?
3 What incident during the term
of Governor Coolidge of Massachu
setts attracted the attention of the
country ?
4 Name a western governor re
sponsible for constructive legislation
of value.
5 Name the last southerner nomi
nated for the presidency by one of
the major parties.
6 What is the remarkable develop
ment in' the tobacco industry since the
World War? fi
7 What were the principal causey?
8— What happened to the immediate
predecessor of the present national in
come tax law?
9 was elected -vice president
as Roosevelt’s running mate in 1904?
10 — Name the vice president of the
first McKinley administration who
died in office.
(Answered on Page Seven)
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Bleak Stretches Along I
For lissing Aviators I
PARIS CROWDS ARE
IN AN UGLY HOOD
One Newspaper Described;
Welcome Given Avia- i
tors and Others Said the
Flight Was Success.
Paris, May' 10. —(A s )—Paris today
was in the grip of mixed feelings of
anxiety over the fa/e of the French
trans-Atlantje flyers. Nungesser and
Coli. and resentment against the news
papers for their over-optimislie re
ports last night which went so far
as to announce their arrival at New
York and described their welcome
there.
Police were stationed today at some
of the newspaper offices to prevent
trouble. Some of the offices had suf
fered broken windows and other marks
of the crowd’s dispproval.
Five of the papers which published
especially optimistic reports,/ one of
which described the welcome accord
ed the aviators by New York crowds,
today printed formal statements say
ing they had only reproduced “dis
patches which had been confirmed by
official statements from the ministries
of war, commerce and the interior.”
The reports, of the aviators’ re
ception were based, they declare, on
an official statement from the ministry
of interior posted in the chamber df
deputies announcing “the exact hour
of the arrival In New York" and de
scribing “the delirious enthusiasm of
the crowds.”
The crowd which hung around the
streets until early, morning hours
were thoroughly angry and there were
some evidences of anti-American feel
ing. Not only did they burn copies
of the newspapers which had deceiv
ed them in the belief that the aviators
had won, but a gathering in front of
the office of Le Matin hooted and
jeered and demanded thaj the Ameri
can flag hoisted alongside the French
tricolor be lowered. The authorities
at first refused to da this, but when
Someone passed the- word that de
ceptive American weather reports had
set Nungesser and Coli off, when in
fact conditions were not right for the
attempt. This increased feelings to
the extent that a number of Ameri
cans expressed hope that the Bellan
ca plane would not attempt to make
the New Y'ork to Paris hop at the
present time. There was another
manifestation in the early hours in
front of the office of (he Paris edition
of the New York Herald-Tribune
where shouters charged the pape.- with
deliberately withholding confirmation
of the aviators’ arrival merely to be
little French achievements. The scene
was an angry one until a French em
ployee of the paper explained, the sit
uation and the crowd was persuaded
to disperse.
SALISBURY BANK
RECEIVER SUED
Casualty Company Seeks to Halt
Further Expenditure of People’s
Bank Funds Until Court Acts.
Greensboro, May 9. —Peeking a
share in the dividends paid by the
receiver, of the Peoples Nationa'
bank at Salisbury, the Maryland
Casualty company today filed in fed
eral district court a petition for an
injunction restraining Receiver .T, E.
Fontz from paying out further
money.
This to be in effect until the court
can hear the cause and setting out
a plea for payment of at least 50
per cent of the , $50,000 bich tUe
casualty company lost through pay
ment of thjt amount to the state of
North Carolina through the bond
which it has provided the bank for
protection of the state funds de
posited there as elsewhere in the
State. l
The constitutions of the casualty
company, which have not yet been
acted on by the court, are briefly as
follows, that after the $50,000 bond
had been provided, the bank to pro
tect the state account, the bank on
January 11. 1922, agreed to protect
the Maryland 'Casualty company
from any losses in connection with
the ond, that the state exceeded $50.-
000 in deposits and’ had $89,759 in
the nnk when the receiver took it
over on June 8, 1923, that the
casualty company paid the state
treasurer $50,000. the amount of
the ond, and that the state has since
then secured in dividend payments
y the receivers the alanee due it to
gether with interest.
Tt also claims that having nakl
It also claims tuar naving para
the state $50,000 the casualty com
pany subrogated the claim of the
state and was due to have any fur
ther dividend payments that the
state would have secured on its total
claim, that the receiver has refused
to make such payments that other
' creditors have received, as much as
50 per cent of their claims and that
. the casualty company is due that
, the receiver has $25,000 on hand and
could make a 50 per cent payment on
, the claim of the casualty company
, if he wonld do so. that unless re
strained from paying out the money
to other creditors he may do so and
damage the Interest* of the casualty
' As an echo of the famous bank
! failure case and because of the light
' thrown on its affairs,at time of clos
inrand at present, the suit is of
I Wide interest,
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THE TRIBUNbH
PRINTS i§h
TODAY’S NEWS TODAM
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NO. 103^
Captains Nungesser and I
Coli Are Already n|
Hours Late in New York*
on Flight From Par»>l| |
NOTHINGHEARD \
OF THEIR PLAftM
Not One Authentic
of Plane’s Position jMHi
ceived, Although
Reports Were Sent
(By the Associated Press) % f:
Rleak stretches ihe stormy At- -1
lantic are being combed today tqr. thtfiH
missing aviators. Captain*
and Coli. nineteen hours overdue m I
New York oil their flight from JfgBKElHj
Fifty-eight hours had passed at .-jjj S
o’clock this morning since White
lifted her wings from flying held §f
I’aris. and not one authentic wqnfefl ■
the plane’s whereabouts has
from any source.
Steamships ate searching the
ns they cross between the contijtt&s£§B|
a number of liners reporting by.4BHH[
less today they are keeping watohout-ssß
for tlie Frenchmen. 1
The United States governme((|§BHHß
sent out two big naval tauga,
’Boston to scour the water bet weak
Boston and Cape Sable, one 8
legs of the trip. Heavy fogs |
the lookouts. ... 'M
French destroyers, submarine cha§-; I
ers and seaplanes cruised -abotß.-mv fj
English Channel in the
the flyers may have been fofcedjAqwU SB
in that waterway. Off the cuaHßf j
Ireland ships on their courses bapM ■
for the missing airmen. ‘jflßß M
Days may elapse before any defiuifeU
information comes of the aviatmilOH 8
forced down off the Grand Banks and 1
picked up by fishermen three tvewMH
or more may pass before new* of IhHßk
rescue is received. J|
Paris is in gloom over the darkenll#>Bffi
news that no word lias come from tvRfH
French war aces. 8
Watching For Missing Mjb Jf 1
Washington. May 10.— UP) —ThaHBj
French embassy asked the Washington J;
government ndiiy !•> lend its a,ld
flier-. Captains Charles NitngflH^H
and Francis Coli. §
Tlie State Department assured
embassy that every effort nouldf mSB
made to find the missing men and ffiHH[
French request for 00-opertftT6'tr'tfiHl
immediately communicated to the
and Treasury Departments in al(jse#
that navy and coast guard craft lfiigbfc<M
be advised to be on the lookout for *■
tlie missing aviators. *S 1
Investigate Reports. 8
Paris, May 10.—OP)—The FrwHH
foreign office was semi-offioially jjl
suited by a representative of American ;’®
embassy today regarding the HMffiMfcrjß
manifested toward Americans and r mfll
dilation of rumors that
American weather reports misled tike M
French trans-Atlantic flyers. ‘‘ 8
Collegiate Baseball.' I
Raleigh, May (IN80®TI«jo|
week will end up the North Caroffiita ®
collegiate baseball season,- with tha, JK
exception of a few scattered gameS»JH|
Next week Carolina will
season witli Duke, and Wake Forest jB
will conclude its program with
This week's schedule: . 'ffl
Tuesday—State vs. I.enoir. at Hick® !
ory; Davidson vs. Citadel, at j
soil; High Point vs. Oawtaba, (nffi-l
Salisbury.
Wednesday : Duke vs. Wake
at Durham; Lenoir vs. Mulligan.
Hickory. , .MB
Thursday: I/enoir vs. Mulligan ■ 1
Hickory. ;fg|
Friday: State vs. Wake |
Wake Forest: Carolina vs.
at Chapel Hill: Guilford v».,
deu-S.vdney at Hampden. J 'B|
Saturday: Carolina vs. V
Greensboro; Guilford vs. Uoanolie. at |]|
Sale, Va. 1 is
Red Cross is Now Hoping to
*15.000,000- I
Washington, May 9.-—With- contriwn
utions of $9,225,016 reported’ tkfinß
far. it was considered likely tortjffi'• (*
that the minimum goal of the ffijflß 1
Cross flood relief fund will ir/raH J
I creased to $15,000,000: y 1
Exercises at W inston-Salem. |
Winston-Salem, May.
With appropriate exercises at Halmjgl
Cemetery where the >r»w« at tiM
Confederate dead were decorated wiMB
flowers by the Dauglitem of the CojM |j
federaey, and a service at the Fin&W
Baptist Church. Norfleet
V., today observed Memorial Day. I '® r
The contention of a German’'ffiaH |
tist that earthworms sing is confirisH |
through observations by Dr. Hu<iol|K 1
Ruedemann of the New York
Museum. Whether, as Dr. Hu. & I
matin believes, the worms produce fiffil
sound by dragging the fine brig»n
under their bodies over a
1 ject at the edge of their bufrofriljß
whether they do the singing wltlkSjß |
mouths, is not yet Known. .aaOl
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