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' PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVM Twenty Parishes Are Inundated And Water Continues Wild Rush ' t ' It Is Estimated That 7,000 , Square Miles of Louisi-j ana Land Is Now-Under Raging Flood Waters." j SEVERAL DEATHS I REPORTED TODAY -,U. x Flood Waters From Bayou * Des Glaisses Breaks Cov er 13 Parishes.—Negroes Reported Drowned. \ New Orleans. 1.a.. May IS.—OP) — With 7,000 square miles inundated al ready. and the waters from the breaks in the Atehalalya river and Rayon des (ilaises constantly Covering more territory, south central Louisiana to day helplessly watched the greatest Hood in history of the state, as it moved toward the Gttlf of Mexico, taking everything in its path. An unknown number of lives have been lost so far in the flood, and prospects are that many more will be lost before the. waters finally fall. At Melville, ISO miles northwest of New Orleans on the Atchafalaya river, where the most dr’rious break occur red yesterday, ten negroes were re ported to hove been drowned although the mayor of the town, Paul LeFleur sat'd in a statement that no lives had been lost. At Rosa plantation near Melville, the fate of -10 persons was still unknown, and they were thought to have been trapped in the lowlands where a 115 to 20 mijes per hour cur rent was flowing. W. T. Piark. a rescue worker, out of Alexandria, who is eredited with sav ing ltd people in the Rayou des Glnls rt es seetion reported the drowning of a man and his two sons yesterday. <'lark said he removed the mother from the roof of a floating house, and before he could reach the man and two boys, the house careened and they were .swept away. The bodies were not found. ‘ Army engineers said today that 20 ’parishes were covered in whole or in pari by the flood waters, and that approximately 5,200,000 acres had been inundated. • o - ! To-thei ndrtli of Rayou des Glasses Hood tvltVrs still covered thirteen par ■j’4 jshf* betyeeiy tbs Arkawsas line-hate., WTtlver. Approximately 4,000 square miles nre inundated in this area', it wns es timated. Below Rayou des Glaises an area of 2,050 square miles has been flooded. Rack waters on the eust bank of the Atchafalaya have flooded 250 square miles mostly marsfh land !n Iberville parish. Two thousand men working in two 12-hour shifts, were lighting today to save the levee at McCray on the east bank of the Atchafalaya opposite Woods ide, and 15 miles northwest of New Orleans, and State Engineer George Sehoenberger said he thought they would be successful. The levee at Morganza. 150 miles from New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi and at Plaquemine - 1 Point. IK miles below Baton liogue on the east bank were reported in better condition today than they have been fog some time, due to work of armies of men. Advise Others to Evacuate. New Orleans. .May 18.—(W—Oom /piete evacuation of an area fifteen to twenty miles wide between the west bank of the Atchafalaya river and the higher ground along the western boundary of St. Martin parish was • advised today by the weather bureau in n flood bulletin. Port Bnire Breaux bridge, Arnnud ville, fl.eonville and a dozen more smaller towns are in the threatened territory. S Rasing the warning on the vnstnesa of the* flood still above Old river and the volume of the flow through the erevassfct along Bayou dee Glaises, 170 Ailes above New Orleans and on the opposite side of the river, the bu reau urged the evacuation of the “re mainder of that area 15 to 20 miles wide along the west bank of the Atchafalaya rive/f south of Bayou des Glaises,- to and including Port Raire, and the strip 15 miles wide west of the Atchafalaya below Port Raire to the Baton Rouge-Lafayette branch of the Southern Pacific railroad.” The old Indian practice of canoe ing was slowly but surely dying out it wae brought back to life by g the organisation of the American Ca noe Association in 1880. Due to the work of tills association canoeing to day ia / onc of the most popular of sum mer sports, STAR THEATRE Thursday-Fridal, May 19-20 The Newest and Funniest Face in Motion Pictures EDDIE CANTOR In! Florence Ziedtfeltfs “KID BOOTS ” A Paramount Picture With CLARA BOW Billie Dove and Lawrence Gray I>ee the IT Girl —Clara Bow ADMISSION 10c—86c “KID Boots” played, rt Carolina in jpf' Charlotte for One Dollar Admission. '■"t" Come and Hear Our New Piano . The Very Latest Model jfri 1 * ' i* r- t- ‘ , V The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily ♦ .2 •ford GIVES $400,000 I ,| IN DETROIT CAMPAIGN Makes Another Exception to His Rule • i Against. Charity. “Drives”—Son Gives $400,000, Too. | Detroit, Mich., May 18. —Henry jFord contributed $400,000 to the “Huyd for the Womanhood of Detroit" ' campaign, last week, a drive that is trying to collect $4,000,000, with every' indication of success. v The announcement of Mr. Foyd's;] gift caused 4-onsiderabie enthusiasm in." charitable circles, not bei-atfse of' the 1 amount, but. because .My. Ford's dona- ] tiuns to charitable causes, especially | when “drives" were being made, have l been few. jfje has announced often that he believes in giving employment nt big wages a fid short hours rather thnu donating large sums of money. ) This rule he has faithfully followed for many years, and in the financial drives which have been made here his name has been conspicuous for its absence in most eases. One year ago he contributed $1,500,000 during a drive to build several Y. M. <\ A. branches in and about Detroit. Following Mr. Ford's Contribution of $400,000 Inst week, Edsel Ford, his son sent in his personal cheek for an equal sum. Edsel Ford's gifts to. charity have always been suitable to his wealth. North Carolina Headlight Law Will Be Enforced. ltnleigh, May 18. —Arrangements are going forward to set up stations throughout the Stnte for adjusting automobile headlights in accordance with the law passed by the 1027 legislature, which goes into effect .Tilly 1. H. K. Witherspoon, of the Highway Commission, is making n tour of the State with John P. Lawrence, head light expert, who is addressing mo torists on the advantage to be derived from headlights and of ways of keep ing then! adjusted. Since there is no Stnte constabulary it will have to be carried out largely through education ants cooperation. There is considerable interest 'being manifested by motorists on the matter of properly adjusted headlights, Mr. Witherspoon said, and meetings held throughout the State have been well attended. Mr. WitheTgpoon.jppl Mr. Lawrence will hold a ousting Thun*-. <W* night at Winßfon-SnteTtr-tmtPVfWtt" eastward, speaking in Salisbury Fri day night, Durham Saturday night and Gtdddbfirn, Washington •and other towns in the east. Stations will lie maintained at gar ages or other convenient places at which a charge of 75 cents will be made for adjusting the lights. Small stickers for the windshield will sigftiify that the automobile owners have complied with the law. j A similar law governing tjie adjust ments of lights on automobiles and trucks is enforced in more than half the States of the Union. Sam Bernard, Comedian, Dead. New York, May 18. —GW—The death of Sam Bernard, the famous comedian, was reported today in a telegram from the liner Columbus to the North German Lloyd offices here. The message contained no details be yond information that Bernard had died on board last night of apoplexy. He was 04 years old. George W. Truitt Dead. Suffolk, Va., May 18. —OP)—George William Truitt, aged 75, millionaire lumber man and pioneer in that in dustry in this seetion, died Inst night at his residence here. Ho was born in Maryland, coming to this section in 1873. I s THE STOCK MARKET Reported by Fenner £ Beane. (Quotations at 1:40 P. M.), Atchison _ 182 American Tobacco 130% American Smelting 151% American Locomotive A 115 Atlantic Coaat Line 183 Allied Chmeical 140% American Tel. & Tel. 105% American C?an • ■ 47% Allis Chalmera 10fi Baldwin Locomotive ; 213 Baltimore & Ohio 123 Bangor __ 93 Bethlehem Steel .- 50 Chesapeake & Ohio 183% Coca-Cola il<t DuPont --4 .244 Dodge Bros. 22% Erie 54 Frisco *... 112% General Motors 197% General Ejgctric 97% Great. Northern 88% Gulf State Steel 49 Gold Dust 5B Hudson t 85% Int. Tel. 136 Kennecott Copper .V. 65 Liggett ft Myers B 105% Mack Truck 116%, Mo.-Paclflc l T _ 56 ( Norfolk & Western !_ 179% New York Central 149% Pan. American Pet'. B. 60 Rock Island 99% R. J. Reynolds 124% Rep. Iron ft Steel 65 Remington ; ... 42% Stand. Oil of N./J 36% Southern Railway 124% Stndeboker ... 53% Texas Co. .. 46 Tobacco Products ..A 97% U. 8. Steel 1«U . U. 8. Steel. New 122% Viick Chemical 57% WestinghnuHO W% 'I Western Maryland 44% j Chrysler 45 Limits Divorce |k < ► I iwis' m f |wy2Uߣt iiiiHj 'mmk ' : W i The Presbyterian Church’s sp* J eial committee will act on a pro- | posal to limit recognition oi! divorces to esses, where infi delity is the grounds, at a meet ing in San Francisco, May 24. Dr. Clarence Edward MacCart nay, «f Pittsburgh, is author c£ the proposition. FARMERS IN STATE OFF TO GOOD START Despite Local Troubles Farmers as i Whole Starting Year With Good Prospects. The Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, May IS.—Despite local troubles such ns n hail storm here, a eold snap there and outbreaks of insects, farming in North Carolina ap pears to be off to a better start this year than in several years, aeeording to a survey by the school of agricul ture nt Stnte College. Various trips made over n part of the piedmont, central and eoastal sec tions of North Carolina indicate that the-land owners have their Work well under way. Cotton is coming up to a good stand and planting is being pushed. Tobacco plants are being set out rapidly and some hay is being cut in the oats, clover and vetch fields. Indications are that the. wheat, rye 'ceßeht «4p. -"-jit some eases, umch smut has been observed in oats due to a lack of seed treatment nt plant ing time. The Irish potatp growers of eastern Carolina have had their’erpp delayed by eold snaps aiid dry weather so that there hns been heavy damage done by potato' bugs or the Colorado pntnto beetle. Where the growers have sprayed, however, this damage has been negligible. . , Throughout eastern Carolina there hns been great interest in. hog feed ing this, spring. Craven county fin ished marketing all but about five carloads last week making a total of $49,252 worth' of hogs that have been fed, fattened ami shipped by the grow ers of that county under the direc tion .of County Agent C- B. Paris. Farmers of Beaufort.county have sold $43,697 worth of fat hogs cooperative ly under the direction of County Agent E. P. Welch. Other counties have done nearly as well. This new money coming to these farmers at the time they are needing ctish hns been most welcome and opportune. InsPitf countyi tohnc.co is looking fine. Some resetting hns been neces sary because of the hot dry winds of the past week. Then too the hail storm in thnt county recently is re ported to have killed out much of the crop in the affected area. On 7 the whole, however, there is every evi dence to believe that the acreage to tobacco will be materially increased this year. RUTHERFORD COLLEGE WILL'BE CONTINUED Prof. E. P. Billups Is Named Pres ident to Succeed W. F. Starnes, Who Retired. Hickory, May 17.—Plans for re building Weaver hall and further ex tending the building program at Rutherford college were discussed at a meeting of the board of trustees when they met today to decide the fate of the college. It was decided by the board to leave the institution nt its present location and to rebuild at once the boys' dormitory which was destroyed by fire early in the year provided cer tain conditions can be,'met. , llev. H. H. Jordon, chairman of the hoard of trustees, said tonight that tljere was very little doubt but that the plans can be carried through and the college will be left at its present site. *.. The board discussed n campaign to raise a building fund of $200,000 to further enlarge the college and carry on the work on a larger scale. Prof. I E. P. Billups was elected president of Rutherford college to take the place of President W. F. Starnes who will take up other work. All of the other members of the faculty were reelected for next year. CoolMge Has Slight Cold; Sent to Bed. Waahington, May 16.—President Coolidge was forced to bed early this afternoon suffering from a cold. The cold was described as “alight,” by Dr. James F. Coupal. the white house physician. Dr. Goupal said there was no temperature and that the President's pulse was normal. Hr prescribed a rest for the President for the remainder of the day. ' lu CONCORD, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1927 Y Campaign Workers Near Goal Os $15,000 Tuesday Workers Secure Either in Pledges or Cash $13,169 First Day Instead of $14,150 as Reported at Lunch eon of Workers Tuesday Night.—Executive Com mittee Continues Cattviss. 1 Typical of their generosity in. sup- J porting beneficial things, Concord, citi- I zens Tuesday provided $13,169 toward ! the budget sdugjit for the maintenance |of the Young jMen's Christian Asso-. /elation during the ensuing twelve Kmouths.^ ! Kniging a remarkably successful j campaign the workers reported $14.- 150 in cither pledges or cash with j other reports to be lundk nt the close of the drive for the first day Tuesday night at the "Y” building. A check of the funds by the auditors, however, t revealed thnt $13,169 wns the correct J figure ns a number of duplicates of do j nations were discovered. • “ '! ] The executive committee will com ; tinue the campaign in hopes of se ■l curing the deficit of a few hundred j dollars. Tlie committeemen will call t upon prospective contributors who ! were not seen by the workers Tues day. “Everybody will be given the op porttinit.v to do their part in rnain -TAining the association and its work," stated Secretary Blanks this morning. "The large, number of people Who have not been seen will be called upon; by members of the executive committee to contribute.” Dr. Tracy N. Spencer, chairman of ! the enmpnign committees, as well as j F. C. Xiblook, president of the Y. M. A., feel confident thnt belated re turns and additional contributions Wilt swell the grand total to $15,000. , 111 is probable that the few hundred dol lars needed will be raised during to dny. In speaking to the workers at the enthusiastic luncheon Tuesday eve ning. President Xiblock described the 1927 campaign ns the most successful, efficient and well-managed drive in the.history of the Concord Y. M. C. A. "It is not a surprise to me," addetf Mr. Niblook, "that this cam paign has been the most successful because of your enthusiasm and the willingness of our citizens to help in this noble work." President Nibloek gave high praise to Chairman Spencer, citing that Dr. Silencer laid the foundation for the whirlwind campaign and was olid off • the moving spirits in the canvass Usually it has required two days 4ft raise the "Y” budget but a precedent was set loetilly Tuesday when tlie drive praeticaily “went over- the top." | The team of which B. Blaekwelder Was captain was declared the losing TWENTY BODIES ARE FOUND AFTER BLAST School House at Bath. Michigan. De stroyed by Explosion. —Officers in Search for Fanner. Lansing, Mich., May 18. —< A *)— Twenty bodies had been removed at noon today from the wreckage of a district school at Bath, ten miles north of here, which was destroyed about 10 o'clock this morning by a blast, pre sumably caused by . dynamite. The bodies were mostly those of children. Stnte police were searching for An drew Keyhole, a farmer living in the ■ vicinity, who, witnesses said, was seen near the school house this morning. Early reports were that he was seen to leave the Vicinity, and officers were proceeding on the theory that lie. might have been n victim of the explosion. State police found four Sticks of dy namite at tlie former farm house of Keyhole. •Neighbors o(' the farmer revealed i that he -had recently lost his farm when a mortgage on the property was foreclosed. ' THE STOCK MARKET. Extreme Buoyancy of High Priced Industrial Shares Featured Market Today. New York, May 18.—GW—Extreme buoyancy of high priced industrial shares, several of which attained re cord highs featured resumption of up ward price/ movement in today's stock market. Easy money rates were again a factor, call loans dropping to 4 per cent after renewing at 4 1-2 per cent. Baldwin was run up more than 7 points to a new high record, above 214. Heavy short covering accelerated the rise. The closing was strong. Total sales approximated 2,200.000 * shares. Over in England they opine thnt in Johnny Milligan they have just as i good a welter-weight battler as Mickey Walker, the present world's champion. Scenes From Mississippi Flood - Not a short news reel but a special, Flood Feature Picture, ’ showing various stages of the ; flood, DYNAMITING THE > LEVEES and oth«r features. | THURSDAL and FRIDAY Pastime Theatre unit of the workers at the luncheon, | ■ niid it behooved Mr. Blnckwelder to ride n member of the winning team I about the hall in awheel barrow. Mr.! , Pdnckweider's team secured S2OO while j the Red Cross team reported $4,717.- .70. , Tlie funds reported by each of the thirteen teams Tuesday are given as i follows: Major R. B. Rankin’s Report. I’, (I. Sherbondy $1,079.00 Hr. D. C,. Caldwell 807.00 : A. G. Odell 027.00 Total $2,813.00 ! Report of Major R. E. Ridenhour, Jr. 0. W. Byrd $1,086.00 I!. Illaekwelder 200.00 I’. M. Lafferty 431.00 Total „ $2,617.00 Report of Major J. Y. Pharr. A. U. Howard $ 050.00 0. A. Swaringen 540.00 K. u; Sheppard 017.00 Total $1,807.00 Report of Major C. 11. Barrier. It. Harris $ 084.00 ('. H. Trueblood 027.00 I-. M. Richmond 885.00 Total $2.19000 Report of Red Cross. Major R. Reed's workers ..$4,717.50 Several workers who did not re port Tuesdny night are expected to do so this evening. A. S. Webb, superintendent of the city schoo's. added to the remarks made by President Niblook by stating: "This campaign has been the easiest in the history of our Y. 51. C. A., ami much credit is due to Dr. Spencer. Secretary Blanks and others who took a great part in this drive. 1 move that we give a rising vote of thanks to our able secretary, Air. Blanks.” Secretary .BlankiOesponded to the assemblage, declaring "I am grateful to my fellow townsmen for this fine campaign. I knew that it would not fail. I like Concord, its people, and my wife I know will never leave the city. We have learned to love i Coueord and its congenial and liberal jiaonte. * ‘ A- . “I hope that our program for the Y. M. C. A. during the'coming year \yill please each of you. It is our ffiutl to ever march forward,” he con cluded. FAITH IS VISITED BY DAMAGING FIRE Damage Estimated at $15,000 Results From Early Morning Fire in Rowan County Town. Salisbury. May 18. —(A*)—The little town of Faith, in eastern Rowan coun ty. ten miles from here, was visited by a disastrous tire at 3 :30 this morn ing, the worst blaze in the history of this granite center. The general store of Peeler & Fraley. Fink’s Garage, and the store and restaurant of Julius Caster pll were completely destroyed, together with their contents. The loss is estimated at between $12,000 and $15,000, partly covered by insur ance. The citizens of the town were awak ened by two big explosions and some of them hastening to make investiga tion found the interior of the Peeler A Fraley store almost completely en veloped in flames. There being no fire fighting apparatus the blaze spread rapildy. The origin of the tire is not known. Anotlier Convicted For Melleft’s Mur der. Canton. 0.. May 18. — (A>) —Floyd Streitenberger, gangster policeman of Canton’s jungle and detective force, stands convicted of first degree mur der and must join Patrick McDermott j and Ben Rudner in life imprisnoment I for the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton editor. He was found guilty of first degree murder with recom mendation for mercy by a jury last night. > The first college sprinter to run 100 yards in 10 seconds was the late Evart Jansen Wendell. ■■■ . I f CAN YOU SCORE j TEN ON THESE? { (Copyright. 1927, Newspaper Feauture Bureau) I—Who1 —Who was the inventor of the telephone? 2A-What was the “Clermont”? 3 —Who was the only bachelor Pres ident of the I'nited States? .4 —With which political party was Buchanan affiliated before bicoming a Democrat? s—-What European country taxes bachelors between the ages of 25 and 05? - —Who were secretaries of the treasury during the Wilson adminis tration? 7 -What is the annual loos in the United States from financial crime and its suppression ? , 8— How many pussengers are car ried annually by American railroads? o—lVhat is the annual tonnage of freight? J , 10—What are,the annual enaual i .4b>s on the railroads? (Answered on Page Five) BERTAUD MAY HOT MM FLIGHT FOR AIRCRAFT CONCERN] He and Charles A. Levine, Chairman of Company’s, I Board, Are Not Able to ! Agree on the Plans. i ' BERTAUD READY i TO GIVE CASH j Will Make Flight Without j Hope of Reward If Nec-j essary But Proposal Has Not Yet Been Accepted. New York. May 18. — (A>) —Squalls in trnns-Atlantie flight circle* hereto fore confined to the weather, today reached the point that indicated a change in the crew of the Bellanea plane Columbia. Charles A. Levine, chairman of the board of .the Columbia Aircraft Cor poration. which owns the plane, en deavored to obtain a navigator to sup plant Lloyd Bertaud, air mail pilot, with whom he has been in dispute several days. Bertaud, however, announced his de- , termination to make the flight if pos- j ‘ sible. In a (telegram to Irvine, who I was staying at the same hotel in Gar- 1 den City. Berteau offered to waive all financial reward, and donate his share 1 of the prize money to the families of Noel Davis and Stanton Wooster, killed in a crash of their plane, Amer- 1 icon Legion. Should this not be satisfactory, he said, he would be willing to give the prize money to Levine, rather than ■ to forego making the flight. Levine refused to comment on the I 1 telegram, but said no matter what j 1 occurred. Clarence Chamberlain, pilot |! of the plane, would remain a member ] of its crew. Lieut. Bert Balchen, a Norwegian r aviator who accompanied Commander j 1 Richard E. Byrd on his flight to the ! North Pole, was offered Bertaud’s 1 place, but declined to force Bertaud out of the Bight. SONS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION MEETING Election of Officers Most Important "V Business Before The Night Session of Convention. Richmond. May 18.—C4>) —Proposed constitutional amendments and com mittee reports were discussed today by the Sons of the American Revolu- | tion holding their 38th annual con vention here, with election of officers as the principal business of the after noon session. Lnte this afternoon the society will unveil a bronze me- | morial to Chief Justice John Marshall in the Shokoe cemetery. While nominations for office are un limited, only two announced candi- , dates are in the field for president gen- ] eral. They are E. E. Rogers, of New London, Conn., and Chauncey , P. Overfield, of Salt Lake City, Utah. ] i With Our Advertisers. See tlie Chuutaugun program in new , ad. in this paper. Programs begins , May 27th and continues for 5 days. , Season tickets only $2.50. Ruud Tank Heaters only S2O at l the Concord and Kannapolis Gas Co., J until May 25th. Heater and tank installed for $75. Easy terms. Only ifour more days of the Big . 9 Day Specials at Belk’s Department , Store. New specials for the closing four days. These goods hnve been received since the sale started but are being sold at sale prices. Read ad. for particulars, Ohinaware and groceries will be given free with Sellers Klearfront cabinets at the -Concord Furniture Qp. You pay only SI.OO down and the balance in easy payments. Read ad. and call at the store to see the new models and get price particulars. Slashing reductions have been made in the prices on GOA Willyjj-Knight cars. See new ad. of Corl Motor Co,, local dealers for particulars. Fresh vegetables, aud they are get ting cheaper, at the Cabarrus Cash Grocery Co. Cline’s Pharmacy haH many gifts appropriate for graduation days. Fountain pens, pencils, kodaks, per fume, candy, graduation merories, etc. The J. C. Penny Co. has a line of sheets and sheeting admirably suited to every-day household use. Durable on account of the firm weave ami exceptionally low' priced. Have y<*i listed your property? The law requires that this be done during the month of May. Read notice of County Tax Supervisor in this paper today. String beans 10 cents a pound, cab bage 7 cents n pound, pegs, home grown, 10 cents a quart, three quarts for 25 cents, and beets 15 cents a bunch nt the .1. & H. Cash Store. Waterman's pencils make ideal graduation gifts. Sold here by the Starnes-Miller-Parker Company. Actress Swallows Poison In Effort To End Her Life. Salisbury, May 17.—Miss Patsy Nichols, an actress playing • with a company' which disbanded after filling, an engagement hert several weeks ago aud since been stopping here, attempt ed suicide this afternoon by drinking iodine. She was taken to a local ; hospital for treatment, Unrequited \ love for a local man wqk given toy- the yonug woman as cause for her rash aet. Yachting is the most expensive of all sports. BOOT B ' ” sr GET .-May in autos -n, Okla., May IS—UP)—A ghng of nine bandits looted the Farmers National Bank and the First National Bank at Beggs, Okla., south of here early today and in an ensuing battle shot and killed Jlrrsha'J W. .1. McAnalay and wounded a woman, escaping with several thousand dollars in cash. News of the rail on the banks [ > was received ill Tulsa by long dis tance telephone from residents of . Beggs. i P SHERIFF SUES EDITOR ! Editorial in South Carolina Weekly! ( Brings Criminal Libel Charge. | , Charged with criminal libel in pub-j | fishing alleged false statement about i O. B. Ilimehouse. sheriff of Dorchester ! j county, and other persons connected | with the sheriff's offiee. W. B. Tark- Ington, editor of the St. George, S. ! <’.. Dorchester Eagle, a weekly, has been released on bail of $1,009. The warrant was sworn out by the sheriff, who states that he would bring a civil suit. asking damages of $50,000 against the persons responsible for the charges printed in the newspaper. The editorial upon which the war rant was based, charged that a still found in a remote section of the coun ty by two deputy sheriffs was put in the county jail, and that several weeks later the still was loaded* on u wagon and hauled to parts unknown. The j editorial called on the sheriff to tell | where the still had been taken" GASTON YOUTH GOES GUNNING FOR KING BEN Demented Youth Seeks Life of Israe lite Monarch—Motored From North Carolina. Benton Harbor, Mich., May 17. — Moody Humphrey, 25-year-old North Carolinian, said to be of imbalanced j mind, was seized iate last night at | the House of David, where lie had gone with a revolver to kill King I Benjamin Purnell, leader of the cult, j As attaches' of the strange Israelite I colony of long-haired, bearded men I seized tile youth, skulking ill the shadows of Shiloh House. King Bell’s residence, he fought them desperately. "Let me kill the dirty rat.” he shunted. “He desimiled my mother.” Cult, members, however, pillioned his arms and threw him to the ground before lie could get his pistol from his 'pocket. Then they called the ixjiee, and for the second fine during, the evening.. Humphrey wa* locked jiu .in the--Hen ton Harbor ‘poliOFfitat'hdtT Earlier in the evening the young man and his mother. Mrs. Kallie Humphrey, had created a great dis turbance on tlie mezzanine floor of the Hotel Vincent. Yonug Humphrey had shouted invectives against King- Ben. threatened to kill him. and fought police and pedestrians in the midst of a crowd that gathered (before the hotel. - Out on the sidewalk lie had finally been subdued and pinned to the pave ment by five men, who held him until a patrol wagon was called to take him to the station. It was said that '.both Humphrey and his mother appeared plainly to be insane—and it was later stated they had spent nine months in the state asylum at Kalamazoo—'but that the police allowed them to leave tlie station on promises they would be quiet. » l It was after this first release from jail that the youth got his revolver and went to the House of David seek ing to kill its monarch. The Humphrey family, Janies Hum phrey the father, his son and wife and three'small daughters, arrived in Ben ton Harbor yesterday, having driven here from Gastonia. X. C., where they bad returned after having spent some time as members of the Isaraelite House of David colony two years ago. They came to be witnesses for the state in the trial of King Ben and his colony which opened in the circuit court of Berrien county yesterday. Two years ago. it was stated, the Humphreys sold their farm near Gas tonia and eaine to join the House of David. As was the custom, they put all their finances in the community chest controlled by King Ben. But before they had been here long, ttallie Humphrey became infatuated with King Ben and sent him love letters. The letters were intercepted by Queen Mary, who quickly caused tickets to be purchased and all the Humphreys to be sent back to Gas tonia. Later Mrs. Humphrey and the boy returned and caused trouble and it was then they were sent to the state hospital for tlie inxance at Kalama zoo. Plan To Erect Shirt Factory Moore* ville. Lexington, May 17.—George Curry and Flavius Conrad, young business men of this city, have announced that they will erect a shirt factory at Mooresville within the next few weeks. Machines are to be purchased this week and it is expected to have the plant in operation in about eight weeks. The factory will engage in the manufacture of dress shirts and pajamas, made from North Carolina manufactured cloth. A. Fran'k Bru ton, Mooresville manufacturer and father-inl-law of the local men, will ’> assist them in the undertaking. Mere Details of Nicaraguan Battle. Managua, Nicaragua, May 18—M*) —When Captain Richard Bell Buch anan and Private Martin Jackson, of ! the United States marines, were killed in a clash with liberals, last Monday, their platoon was outnumbered 10 to 1. Fourteen liberals were killed, f Details of the clash were Received to day. - THE TRIBUNE® : TODAY’S NEWS TODAY! j NO. 110 4 1 GREAT BRITAIN NOT S READY TO ACCEPTII CHIANO-SHEK YEfJ Break With Hankow tionalists Does Not MrtWflß Shek Will Be Given Reef ognition Now. ■ BASIL NEWTON IS J§fl LEAVING HANKin^P | Was the British There Before Break.-*» Fighting Is Reported si ' j Several Points Today || Peking. May 18.—UP)—Wi.thdrtw|§M al of Basil Newton ns the British .-J|S| Miirster's representative at Hankow-: .'-ygj the scat of tlie nationalist govoriimaS'jjßgpp in the central Yangtze valley, companied by tlie delivery of 4t umW sJKi declaring that tlie Hankow regimeMßEm "failed to make good its claim to el-11 in accordance with standards ot 'la responsible government." H 9 The note was marie public by 'tha'cfflHß British legation today; H Not Accept Slick. '2^9 Loudon. May 18.—UP)—Great ain's diplomatic break with the kow nationalists does not mean relations will be established wii|t S Chiang-Khek. tlie Associated was officially informed today ill TMNMgfIH ing Street. . ;«5 Sh*ps Fire at H Shanghai. May 18.—U8>—«B» /Bj northern cruisers Haielii and part of flic squadron of Tsung- Chang, today Woosung forts north of held by tlie southerners. 1 The forts More Fighting. §J| fl Hankow, China. May 18.— (/P) —R®. IBS 1 torts were Crrulated today of an idjgSwffi mim-iil attack on the city by Hankowites now with Gen. Citiu ng -■ j Kai-Shek, moderate nationafist er. who broke with Hankow ists and set up his government'/' RETAIL DEALERS H HEAR DR. BROOKS State College Head Chief Speaker Opening of State Contention Dnrhifm. May 17.—The zntion of county government and cooperation of the great farming both on modern business methods aaggaHS two tilings most needed in North Can»jW.V film today. l>r. E. C. Brooks./ ident of North Carolina State < nlieMjgM declared tonight at the 25th annMEH Ls banquet of the inerchants State, wlio -began their <*onventMßflH here this morning. -B "If these tilings are organized modern business basis this old monwenltli will continue to go ward and we will take- a high i&flBHiV/.! among tlie sisterhoutl of states. ty govern needs assistance the State more than anything for among half of our counties tmMm|B§ffi is a lack of knowledge of management and tin- other for the successful operation'.” Itrooks dectareil. SB Regarding the cooperation of res along business lines. Dr. Broptoj/Jffi declared that this, too was one great needs of this time. "North Car<iftlfM§l| liniaiis do not realize to the J the great opportunities facing today, (farmers as well as county goy»|p|||| ernments are trying to pursue ImsinMSHH as they did 25 years ago when young and living not so S| "Prosperity follows modern metis of conducting business," he "There also must (be a«. spirit with the middle man. with aJcIHS classes. Government cannot time to protect one class against otlier without protecting all, or one without favoring all. When farmers cooperate along business there will be a new awakening opportunities that are before us.:l|p S THE COTTON MARKET * H Opened Firm Today at an Advance Hto 12 Points. j M New York, May IS.—OP)—Tlie cot* JBE tou market opened firm today advance of 8 to 12 {mints. Trading «Kgj was comparatively quiet at but buying on relative steadiness! of Liverpool brought about later', ably influenced by of weather conditions in the SouGqIH B July sold up to 15.80 and Deceinb«|S|| to 10.37, or about 15 to 10 pointa 1 netsHß higher. Prices cased off a few noint-a Wfm during the morning under t-nd later firmed up again on and commission house buying, '-PHH ; advancing to 15,83 and December jfefirJH 10.40, or 18 to 20 points above terday's closing quotations. was tpiietcr. but prices held wlthta.'Si fl ’ or 4 points of the best at midtlsjv?| 9 , Cotton futures opened firm:- May/i ff 15.47: July 15.72: Oct. Ki.lt'j 1)4«,1I J 10 33: Jan. 10.31). fWm ' This year's international I at the Olympic, London,, is I for June 15th to 25th. ,-S "J 9 - y jaBB Thursday somewhat
The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.)
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May 18, 1927, edition 1
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