ASSOCIATED DISPATCHES ' t HP.,.,,* .CM —— VOLUME XXVII Melville Inundated As Another Levee Cracks Under Flood’s Attack It Is Hoped That All Glti-' zens Reached Points ! Safety Before Rushing Waters Struck Town, j LEVEE CRACKED AT SIX O’CLOCK Many bf the Residents Had l to Flee in Night Clothes 1 1 and Levees Offered On-! ly Places of Safety. Raton Rouge, La., May 17.—C/P) — The main levee of the town of Mel ville on the west bank of the AtVha faln.va River broke south of the Texan and I‘aeilie Railroad bridge, Mins *\u na Fletcher, telephone operator here, learned in s h. telephone conversation with the Melville operator shortly af ter the break about (i o'clock thin morning. The home of Mins Fletcher. 100 • yards from the reported break, wax washed off its foundation, the Melville operntor told her. The rush bf water was terrific. Inhabitants'of Melville were forced to flee for their lives before the swift onrush of water. Most of then, took refuge on the portions of the levee which held intaet. and others found (safety on the Texas and Pa cifie Railroad bridge. Virtually' everything in the town was destroyed, the reimrt said. Tlie levee was In to 18 feet wide. Melville its about 130 miles north west of New Orleans. Two hours nfter the break the crev asse had widened to 800 feet, John M. I‘srker, state flood director, was advised ,by the ,\tchafnln.vn levee board. Confidence was expressed at head quarters here that no lives’had been lost, ns it was thought most of the inhabitants of the town bad readied the top of the levee. Two relief trains of the Texas and Pacific Railroad are standing by. Melvi'le bad a popu lation of 1,028 inhabitants. Scenes of horror nnfl terror were told the Associated Press by Mrs. Julia McNeill, wife of a Melville drug gist She was the first refugee to escape till town. _ 1' Rvasrydnc -wan ‘ drnused by shots fired by levee guards, and rushed from their homes in night clothing,” Mrs. McNeill- said. 'They immediately jScramb'.ed up on the levees where they waited for rescue boats. They have absolutely nothing; most of them did not have time to get any clothes. "The waters rushed through the break with a roar and -swept away nearby houses from their foundations, lifting them up and tossing away the boards and heavy timbers like feath ers. Intermingled with the roar of waters could be heard screams of the women and frightened children. “They sat on the levees crying afid shivering. It was dreadful.” Not Call Special Session. Washington, May 17.— (A*) —After receipt of a report from Secretary Hoover containing a definite program for relief and rehabilitation in the Mississippi valley it was reiterated at f the White House, today that President Coolidge sees no need for a special session of Congress to handle the sit uation. MAY BURY O. HENRY’S DAUGHTER in state I tody of Margaret Worth Porter May- Rest in AsliefHle Cemetery. I-os Angeles. Cal., May 17. — UP)— The body of Margaret Worth Porter, who wrote under the name of Miss (> Henry, and was the only daughter of Wm. Sidney Porter, re nowned fiction writer under the pen name of O. Henry, may rest in n cem etery in Asheville, N. C., where her father is buried. Two suggestions for burial places have been received, one,from her step mother at Asheville, and the other , from Mrs* A. J. Roach, of Austin, / ’rex., Miss Porter’s grand-mother. The body of Miss Porter has been placed in a mausoleum here by A. J. Martin, who eared for her for spur years during her fight against tuber culosis, and married her 3 days be 'fore her death at Banning, Cal I Snrtin, who is to decide the place of burial is now in a sanatorium due to Vi. illness attributed to grief. STUART EDWARDS IS ARRESTED AT NASHVILLE Assistant Director of Y. M. C. A. At Greensboro Facing Grand Larceny Charge. Nhxhville, Tenn., May 17. — (A") —A mother seriously ill in Jncksota Tenn., u bride at, home awaiting him, at Harlingen, Texas, insufficient funds, and the automobile of a friend tempt ingly at hand impelled a journey which put Stuart Edwards, of Greensboro, N. C„ (behind city bars here, he said today. He was assistant director of the Y. M. C. A. at Greensboro. Re latives in North Carolina are said to be prominent. Edwards was held as a fugitive from justice on information that • charge of grand larceny was pending. 1 11 , Get Bids on Rond Projects. Raleigh May 17.—W)—Bids oh thirteen road projects to cost about 81,260,000 were opened before about 200 contractors today. Low bidders will be determined following tabula tion of the bids today. The Concord Daily Tribune !♦ —-— J BETTER RACE RELATION’S I.North Carolina Has Made Greater Progress In This Than Any South ern State. (lty Special Correspondent) Philadelphia, May 17. —North Caro lina has made greater progress in -the j matter of bringing about better race j relations than any other state in the j south, largely because it has been . most fortunate in its lenders among both the white people'and the negroes, I the annual Meeting of Friends, in ! session here, was told by Lieutenant laiwrenee Oxley, director of the di vision. of negro work of the North Car olina State board pt eharitigs and public welfare, in addressing one of the sessions of tile national Quaker organization. Oxley’s theme was the nerd of leadership. in the solution of raee problems. "Oil the upward path the negror can advance only as far as he can walk.” Ox’ey said, “and he can do for his permanent gmsl only that for xvltieh he can develop self responsibility. “In all inter-racial endeavors, the method of approach to the subject is most important, and an intelligent understanding of the ideals and as pirations of each race is absolutely necexsnry for the successful promotion of any worth-while program bf race co-operation, which means operating l together, each mindful of the full in terests of the other. Thus it is that In times such as these, when all around us we see con ditions pointing to a world gone mad, the need is greater than ever before for trained, consecrated leadership arnoug all ruees—and especially in the negro rai-e, if the colored people are going to realixe the most of their op portunities and bring about a greater I degree of intcr-rucial co-operation.” ! JINX DAY FRIDAY AT THE STATE PRISON ' It Was Just One Thing. After An-1 other All Day Long. The Tribune’ Bureau ] Sir Walter Hotel, j Raleigh, May 17. —There was noj doubt about the Jinx being on the! State prison here on Friday, the 13th, | according to Dr. J. H.’ Norman, • wattle.it. If it Hasn't one thing it; was another, Slid he ami the guards, were kept busy all day bh “emergency I calls.” Flint, a hegro prisoner named Frank Johnson, got badly carved up in a fight with another prisoner at the Rollesville quary camp in Wake county. And before Johnson had | reached the hospital at Central prison,j a call from the same camp raid that 1 another negro prisoner, Israel Welch, I had had a leg broken in an accident, i and that he wag being sent in. *. j Things quieted down for a while I when a hospital orderly informed Dr. | Norman that I-evi parsons. 77-year j old prisoner who was in the hospital, j Was worse. He died a few hours,! Inter. Parsons had been sentenced three years ago from Wilkes county, and had been in poor health since. But that was not all. It was a perfect spring day, warm sunshine pn the grass, with a breeze rustling in the leaves. It was more tliHn J. L. Russell, of Davidson coun-l ty, could stand. He had “spring fever” j for several days, and he Could not re-j slat the call—so he took “French j leave.” despite the fact that he.would have had only five more days to serve. So altogether, Friday the 131 h, was a busy day at the State prison. THE STOCK MARKET Reported By Fenner ft Beane. (Quotations at 1:45 P. M.) Atchison I, ! 181 American Tobacco B 131 American Smelting ’ 150 American Locomotive 115 Atlantic Coast Line 183 Allied Chemical l4O American Tel. & Tel. 105% American Can 47% Allis Chalmers 108 Baldwin Locomotive 205% ‘ Baltimore & Ohio 122% Bangor , 03% Bethlehem Steel : 40% I Chesapeake & Ohio 182 'Coca-Cola - _ 113 DuPont 241 Dodge Bros. <—— 21% Eric 54 Frisco ’ 113 General Motors —„— _ 105 General Electric 07% Great Northern 88% Gulf State Steel.—; ——so Gold Dust - a-—-—„ 52% Hudson 85 lot. Tel. 130% Kennecott (topper , 64% Liggett A Myers ,B r —-10T> Mack Truck L. 113% Mo.-P»cific 55% Norfolk ft Western— 170% New York Central 140% Pan American Pet B — T 59% Rock Island 08% R. J. Reynolds 122% Rep. Iron and Steel wfc r 64% Remington Standard Oil pf N. 3 36% Southern Railway ’ 120% Texas Co. —.— 46 Tobacco Products —97% | Chrysler l-’-”------- 45% j RHEUMATIC HORSES MID BATH PATIENTS Dax, Frnuoe. May 17.—OF)—, Rheumatic racehorses are numer ous among the patients who come here for the celebrated mud baths. Horses, like men, get rheumatism ! , most frequently in their legs. The patient animals stand knee-deep in i mud and poultices of liquid mud ! are plastered on other parts of j their bodies which need treatment. ) s : j | LIFE WORK IS SOPER S THEME j I ■ l niversity Religion School Dealt ' Speaks on Vocational Guidance, j Chapel Hill. May 17. —Selection ! i of one’s life work is a decision which 1 : is made only a,< the result of long j 1 consideration and not on the spur of | the moment. Dr. E. D. Soper, Dean' |of the School of Religion of Duke University, told University students tin an address on vocational guidance, I Dr. Soper’.* address was the third I ,|of a series of live on vocational j : guidance. ’The process of finding • one’s life work may be one that finds its con-, summation while in college or it may be put off one or two years after graduation. The thing that mutter.* is not so milch how soon one makes his decisioif but whether lie ulti mately finds himself in tin- profes sion in which ho is satisfied and feels that he can make his greatest con tribu.on.” “It’s the way we think, it’s whnt we read, it’s what we’re willing ;o do, these are the things that are ex pressing the tendencies of your lives,” Dr. Soper declared j Many people never come to the point, where they finally know what they’re going to do until they ger out .and try it. the speaker said, while others make tip their minds before graduating. A year spent in the pur suit of some Wrong training is not wasted if the student changes his mind, provided it goes toward help ing him make his ultimate decision correctly. , > |FURTHER INFORMATION ■ \ ON P. AND N. EXTENSION ; More Than $11,000,000 Will Be Spent In New Construction, It Is Esti mated. ! Washington, May 16.—Mark W. I Potter, attorney for the J’iedmont and J Northern Railroad company, which recently tiled application with tiie ! Interstate Commerce commission to | continue construction of its lines from j Charlotte to Winston-Salem, and from I Gastonia to Spartanburg, S. C., today ! filed additional data with the enmmis ; sjon as the result of a demand .made |at the time of a recent hearing here on the part of steam roads Hint more information be forthcoming. In the mAtter just filed with the commission toy Mr. Potter he: outlines the two routes which the northern end of the line .would take frqm Charlotte (to Winston-Salem, and slso gives the ! number of stations op the southern j end of the line between Gastonia and j Spartanburg. | The main tiling that is now being .placed before the commission is that j the city of Charlotte, for a very reas onable price, has sold the company I 1.16 acres of land for passenger ter- I minalx, this adjoining 14 acres already ! purchased which will be used for xid ! ings, sheto be combed for some trace of the Nun gesses plane in response to several pe-j ports that sounds of an airplane ware, heard over parts of the .island, op that! foggy Monday morning, but so far no word lias come from any of the coast- , ai villages. The search will be con tinued mitil every, bay and cove /of the island has been visited. The principal remaining hopes today was that the White Bird was forced to descend off the Grand Banks fltjd Nungesser and Coli were picked up by some fishing vessel. In such an , event it would be days before any , word could be received. FREED BECAUSE OF HER SEX Maryland Judge Does Not’ Believe In , Punishing Women. A|inapoli,<, Md-, May 17. —Assert- ing that he came of ofock which -be- , lieved a woman should not be, pun- , ished “unless she lmd reached stihli a state of depravity that she »<»<> - longer a fit person to be at freedom,” Judge Robert Moss in Circuit Court i suspended sentence on Miss Ktiaa beth Mumford. , who had pleaded ; gui’t.v to stealing $202)550 from the Anne. Arundel County Board of Rdn eation. g Miss Mumford, wlm is 51 yegifs r old had been , clerk of the twmrd tbr-t) twenty years, upon arraignment. ’ sot trial yesterday admitted raising , cheeks of the School Board and forg- j ing others, her speculations covering , the last ton years. Judge Moss suspended sentence for one year. lie said his action at i the end of that period would be | based mi her conduct, during the next i venr. She was released in $2.00(1 hail j for her appearance one year hence. With Our Advertisers. i Intense interest has been aroused ■ by the lucky graduate contest at the > Starnes-Miller-Parker Co. Be sure to | see tlie prize watches and the leg | clock in the window at this store. One quart of motor oil and one gul- t lon of gasoline free with each five gal- ( lons of gnsoline purchased on til.' op- ■ ening day. Friday, May 20th. at the i Carolina Service Station on the Cluir- i lotte Road. Prices are slashed in the Spring I Piano Clearance Sale at the Kidd- ] Frix Music and Stationery Co. Just i one more week of this big sale. You I may have two years in whieh to pay. I See big ad. today. f Efird’s Seven-Day May Sale is now : going oil. Suita range in price from < $6.50 to $20.50. ( Join the bicycle club at the Ritchie < Hardware C(i„ beginning Saturday ' monting. May 21st. Go to the store 1 and see tlie models on display. The Bell-Hnrris Furniture Co. lias 1 55,000 feet of floor space filled with ‘ just the kind of furniture you need. ! See new ad. See “The Spirit of Cabarrus” at the High School auditorium tonight at 8 o'clock. Admission 15 cents and 25 cents. Today is the last chance to see Glo ria Swanson in “The Love of Sttnya” at the Concord Theatre. • Belk’s has just received over 4.000 ! yards of printed rayon silk remnants thnt nre valued from 65 cents to 8!) cents a yard, whieh they are going to sell at 48 cents. See ad. today. Try a package of Ferudell special ' oat meal at Dove-Bout Co. Takes on- : ly three minutes to prepare. At the cost bf a few cents a week ? you may get at tfic Citizens Bank and Trust Co., an individuad deposit box 1 for your jewelry, important papers * and Other valuables. Special close out of Normandie S : lk stockings i\t the Gray Shop nt $1..‘!5 , a pair, box’ of 3 for $4.00'. This store, ( is Hie exclusive agent for the McCal->‘ lum silk hosiery. This hosiery is roe- i ognized’ everywhere as the work of supreme quality. Read all about thin in new ad. today. SEE 4 ‘The Spirit of\ Cabarrus " TONIGHT At The High School Auditorium 6:40 P. M ADMISSION 15c AND 25c Plot Foflef * u ' ?v What is believed to have been a plot to blow up the Joliet, 111., prison was frustrated with the arrest of William Evans. In a priest’s garb he attempted to gain entrant. A bomb was found under his coat. PREPARING BI'DGETS UNDER NEW MEASURE County Officers Must Have Data Completed By First of July: Tribune Bureau. Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh. May 17—County officials ill the various counties of the mate are having their first experience in preparing under the new North Car olina comity fiscal control act budget/ estimates of what they expect to spend next year, which begins July 1. Unusual eare must be exercised in the preparation of these estimates, because onee acted op they cannot be altered, and in addition the law re quires that the report be published in a$ least one newspaper in each enmity and filed in the office of the ‘clerk for public inspection. I 1 Preliminary budget estimates are flow being prepared on forms al ready sent out from the office of the ■County Government Advisory Com mission, bv the department heads and officers in charge of functions in each county. These estimates mlist be completed and presented tie .each county accountant by June 1. -,These preliminary budgets will Yshhw what the enmity" spent hist year, an estimate of what it v.-iil spend this year, and what it expects to spend during the year la-ginning July 1. Based on the figures submitted to him by the department heads, the county accountant will prepare a budget estimate for the entire coun ty and submit it to the county coin .mJexi oners not inter than tfte first Monday in July, when the budgets will be finally fixed for the year on the basis of the county's income. Under the new law a’l counties Will use the uniform budgeting sys tem. After the budgets have been finally acted on. the departments will know exactly wlmt they may sVcml next year. Each line of activ ity will operate under its own ap portionment. as the funds are not trbnsformal from one department to another. The county officials must cause to be pub'ished in at least one news paper published in the county a sum mary of the budget estimate, show ing at least one total appropriation recommended for each separate fund or function. * The responsibi'ity for the carrying 2nt of the %ndget system of handling aunty funds falls to the lot" of the county accountant. No purchase is legal until countersigned by she ac countant. who is -personally re sponsible for the purchase orders he approves, and personally liable for orders approved without sufficient funds to take eare of them. Blind Person Witli Guide May Ride Free. Atlanta, Ga.. May 17. (INS.)—A person who is blind and a guide may ride trains in Georgia on a single ticket, if the railroads so desire, it was ruled here this week by the Geor gia Public Service Commission. This rnle would permit all carriers to take such course should they care, said Chairman James A. Perry. It was pointed out that in Home states railroads will not accept a totally blind person unless accompanied by a guide, and then two tickets are necessary. ( can you score TEN ON THESE?) Bureau) I—What disposition did the United States make of the Boxer indemnity paid by China? 2—Name the battle fought by the Americans and British after the two nations had signed a treaty of peace. 3—What is Jackson Day? / 4—What notable Anglo-American Celebration was abandoned when the World War began? I is George Weßtinghouse's title to fame? • tV—Who was Simon Bolivar? 7 —Who conducted “front porch” campaigns for the fA-esidency? B—-What is the .pictorial emblem of the Democratic party? 9—Who fought in the longest pug ilistic encounter? 10—Who wait the discoverer of the Pacific ocean? (An*wers''on page twelve) NEW EVIDENCE HAS • BEEN SECURED FOR THE COOPER CASE Asheville Police Says New > Evidence Indicates Two i Men and Woman Know [ More Than Have Told. ievidenceTnot YET EXPLAINED One Woman Is Under Ar rest Charged With Mur dering Aged Asheville Woman Last Week. Asheville. May 17.—OP)—New evi dence indicating that ‘possibly two men and one woman may know more about the death of Mrs. Mary It. f’noper, til year old widow, than they have made known, today was said by officers here to be in their hands. Just what this evidence is the of ficers did pot say, but they did say it was such ns to indicate that they were strengthening their ease against 1 Mrs. Minnie Montague. 45 year old practical nurse, who is held on charge of slaying Airs. Uooper. Police and county authorities said that evidence in their hand indicates 1 that two Asheville men and possibly a Hendersonville woman, all unnamed, might 'be able to aid materially in 1 solving the puzzle as to what occurred ! Monday night. May !>. when Mrs. ' Cooper was slain. Her body, tbe 1 throat cut. and two fractures of skull, ‘ was found in vacant lot next to home ' on May 10. 1 Police have been Investigating a 1 visit Os two men to Mrs. Montague al the Cooper home the day the body ' was discovered, and the activities of • these men on the previous night. Just 1 what they have learned they have de- 1 clined to say. A Hendersonville wo mnn is known to have been with the men on the night of the slaying. 1 While the investigators are bending ' every effort to find their way through '' the tangled clues. Mrs. Montague and 1 her attorneys are busily engaged in ' preparing their plans for defense. I Robert 11. Reynolds .was added to de fense force this morning. , V. S. Busk and Wayne Reachboard were retained ; by the accuser) woman Monday. Dr. Robert 8. Carroll of Highland Hospital, an authority on mental diseases', has offered liis services to the city free, and arrangements were completed this afternoon for him to visit Mrs. Montague in jail at once 1 to. examine her for possible mental ! disorders. Dr. Bam 8. Montague, i estranged husband of the nurse, is now 1 on his way to Asheville from Oxford, and upon arrival here will attempt to have his wife committed to an in stitution for mental diseases, accord- i ing to word received here. April Building Record For North ■ Carolina. The total volume of contracts ' awarded in North Carolina during April amounted to $5,030,50©, accord- i ing to E. W. Dodge Corporation. The above figure showed looses of 25 per cent, from March and (52 per cent, from April of last year. The more important classes of work included in last month’s construction record for North Carolina were as follows: $2.- 800,100, or 50 per cent, of all con- i Htrnetlon, for residential buildings; $583,000, oy 12 per cent., for public works and utilies; $552,400. or II per cent., for commercial buildings; and $384,000 or 8 per cent., for education al projects. New construction started in this state in the first four months of this year lias reached a total of $21,289,- 700. This figure was 55 per cent, un der the amount Reported in the first four months of 1020. THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady Today at an Advance of l to 5 Points.—July at 15.70. New York, May 17.—G4 3 )—The cot ton market opened steady today at an advance of 1 to 5 points, active months showing gains of 3 to 5 points ili the first few minutes on covering and n little trade buying which ap peared to be prompted by relatively steady Liverpool'cables. Realizing attracted by the initial advance Was absorbed on reactions of a few points, and the market firmed up again on trade buying and cover ing. At midday July was selling around 15.70 and December 10.28, or 11 to 12 points net higher. Cotton futures opened steady: May 15.41; July 15.57; Oct. 15.90; Dee. 16.20: Jan. 10.22. Flood. Fund Concord Contributions. Previously acknowledged $2,454.00 Cash .. 10.00 Dr. R. M. King jT. 5.00 Harold Goodman Post No. 172 Colored American Leg ion - ; 6.50 Mrs. J. E. Dorton * 2.500 Cash 2.00 Total Concord $2,479.05 Kannapolis Contributions. Previously acknowledged--,. $512.00 Mft. Pleasant Contributions. Previously acknowledged $102.00 Iflato U.l nv BiJutiil lIRwlMi WaWIRi Previously acknowledged 556.00 Junior Red Cross of City Schools Previously acknowledged SIOO.OO Grand Total $3,240.66 V. 8. INFANTRYMEN MOUNTED FOR CHINA I Washington. May 17.—C/**' Lacking a cavalry troop - ~ Ing that one might > eers of the 15t> "f guarding pa .« ...n-Te pink Railwa, if'” im provised an, -efl outfit with their foot soldiers. One officer and 34 men of the headquarters company were tohl off for this duty. Their mounts are Mongolian ponies, which range -■ from 13 to 14 hands in height and average about 700 pounds in weight. ! The 15th Infantry Headquar j ters Company Platoon has been trained by Captain H- M. Hender- 1 son in horsemanship, cavalry drill, patrolling and street fighting, with frequent practice marches of 18 I to 40 miles. i 1 I . I 1 ".. 11 188 DI KE 18 TO GRADUATE RECORD CLASS IN JUNE Its Members Have Lived 'lTirough University's Most Phenomenal Period. Durham. May 17.—There will be ' approximately 190 men and women in 1 the senior class of Duke university 1 to receive their bachelor of arts de- ' grees at the close of tile scholastic i year in June, which is to be marked I by an extensive commencement pro gram. j Xot only is tins class the largest in 1 tbe history of the institution, but its J members have attended Duke Uni- i versify during the four years that it < has seen its most phenomenal growth. I Entering the freshman class in the ; fall of 1923 when Trinity college did < not dream, of tile day when generous benefactors woud give millions to i make it great and serviceable, the graduates of ’27 are finishing their • course in a wealthy institution which is destined to take a foremost rank , among the educational institutions of , the world. As sophomores they heard of the , unprecedented endowment of the late , James B. Duke on December 9, 1924. ; and like most of the citizens of this , state little .realizing the full impyr- , tnnee and extent of this benefaction. , The following two years, however, have been fruitful, and the students have seen growth on all sides. They saw ground broken for the coordinate college for women, a unit of a dozen j buildings on the old campus now being completed at a cost of approxi mately $5,000,000. Old landmarks have been razed before their eyes, and they have mingled oil the campus with hundreds of busy workmen. And even before their grSditat.lon they are seeing the preUminary steps tor Ht gltftntle on the new campus, one mile from the old Trinity campus. There scores of three-mule teams, tractors anil steam shovels, manned by a great gang of workmen under tbe direction of n corps- of engineers, are being 1 used, laying railroad beds, concrete roads, clearing timber, and preparing ‘ foundations for 35 to 40 handsome stotie buildings which are to compose the prinicpal unit of greater Duke university at a cost approximating 1 $20,000,000. i These same students have seeu tiie enrollment nearly double, seen the faculty grow as noted educators are uddi-d. seeu a program of expansion 1 start which wil( continue for many year. They have felt, the continuing spirit of "Old Trinity’ is. it developed in its new body of Duke university, li and realize that Trinity has given j Duke university a soul which cannot j i be changed by new buildings, new grounds or augmented faculty. THE KELLEY TRIAL Huge Crowds on Hand Today to Hear Resumption of Testimony In Los Angeles Case. Los Angeles, Calif.. May 17.—C4>) —Their appetite for sensation whetted by a Japanese house boy’s recital of all night visitors of Dorothy Maekay, actress, to the apartment of l’nul Kel ly. film actor, crowds which daily storm the court room where the husky film man is on trial for the alleged slaying of Ray Raymond, actor hus band of Miss Maekay. avidly awaited more details of the love affair today. .Promise that they would not wait in vain was given at the close of yes terday's session when prosecuting at torneys announced that today's wit ness would include Miss Helen Wilk inson. a friend of Miss Maekay, who often accompanied her on visits to Kelly's apartment, and Max Wagoner, who shared the apartment with the film actor. The houaeboy “Jungle", a small, alert Japanese, told in broken but plain blunt English of the meetings of Kelly and the actress. He disclosed that among his duties were those of gin mixer for the apartment guests. HOLD ROYAL KILGER ' IN COUNTY PRISON He Is Charged With Shooting Eddie Criner, Who Is Now in Twin City Hospital. Winston-Salem, May 17.—OP)—Ed die Criner, 10 years old, alleged to have been shot by Royal Kilger, 27, 1 last night, is in a local hospital in a critical conditions, according to hos : pitnl authorities, where he was taken soon after the shooting. It is charged ! that both men were under the inftu t mice of whiskey at the time. Kilger is charged with assault with intept to kill, and is held in county jail. Bame charge has beeu preferred I against Criner, who is accused of throwing a atone -through a window I of Kilger’s home juat before the shoot ln<- Ipi ■ L - ■■■ . , Twelve Pages Today * i—. i i i.m THH TRIBUNE;* TODAY’S NIsWS TODAY H . ——— r __Js NO. 109 i i ASHEVILLE NOW HAS 3 »!»MYSTERY. IS.I CHY DYING TOOM Mrs. Clay Was Injured mß| Highway Sunday aajfl Police Have Been Umß able to Find the Causlffl THREE HELD" IN I ■ COUNTY PRISOjI Two of Them Were Ridh^ggvl Clay Was or Had Riding Before ffl ■ Asheville. May 17.— (A>) — K Clay died at 11 o'clock this ihqMmHb ing in Biltmore Hospital of injwMBHB received in a manner still unexpTilDveA-R'' oil tile Aslieviile-Hendersonviile way Sunday. The death of M«t,T®iy H| gives Asheville its second murderriMSS*- 4j|Sj| tery in less than a week. ’ -3r| Three persons are Held without biiMwjjpl in the county jail and will lie ehargtj j with tile murder of .Mis. Clay. ShCwßf Brown, of Buncombe county, snits HBWfji day. The three are: W. N. Muir.‘of Hg| Greensboro. X. driver of touiobile in which Mrs. Clay was passenger at or near the time death. XBfl Bryan English, of Asheville, tiie four passengers in the ear. iTzl Jw| Miss Mildred Mitchell, a iitirMp so of Asheville. ,iM| According to Sheriff and Miss Mitchell have different accounts of the being locked in jail. lytlier. Xeitlu-r of them lias connect ed English with the injuries which wScJWBI suited in Mrs. Clay's death. assfcougJ*,sjß|| the sheriff said English would W charged with murder along with tMqfHg others. Muir's version of tiie accident*Ms£flß that Mrs. Clay had sustained hel- Ita* gßjl juries after a desperate tight; withAEl Miss Mitchell, brought oil by jealousy ißff over Muir. zflH Miss Mitchell claimed that 'Mrtf.lß Clay came to her death as a result jumping out of tiie Muir because the driver failed to S 9 speed fast enough to please her. jffjß 1W DETECTIVE SHOT AND . M ff§ killed, one wot NDED-ip: IVere in Fight With Armed Men Ww3fl Attempted to Hold Up ReKtaaraMUjjS New York. May 17.— UP) —Ope leetive was shot and killed and an-, 1 1 other seriously wounded today hqj. pistol tight with three armed men attempted to hold up a rcsraurauraHHg lower East Side in which were dining. :fIX l’oliee later found a man shot the heart in an automobile and ed him ns ii holdup man. Tiie deteetives, Morris Burkin' ami fl Benjamin Cantor, hearing the «9|HH maud of "stick them up," Rdkkin S|| drew his gun and tired, striking one ofTm the holdup men. The three turned the tire and Borkin eollajised JBI with five bullets ill his body. also drew his pistol but before be lire received a bullet through and crumpled over tiie table. persons were in tiie restaurant the time, and Jacob Kinuielmaii. aatjl entertainer, was shot in the jll PRESIDENT’S PASTOR fl DEFENDANT IN SI IT» Dr. Jason N. Pierce Being Sued $50,000 by Howard T. Cole. fl Washington. May 17.--OP)—TK