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Thursday, May 26, lfl£7 u " ■ ■ Esther Mslide, Seprano, of "Chimes of Brittany" Company "The Chimes of Brittany,’' notable musical production, will be an outstanding attraction of the coming Redpsfth Chautauqoa. A remark able presentation of a dramatised cathedral choir service is featured. The impressiveness of the music is enhanced by special lighting and scenic effects of great beauty. "®he Chimes of Brittany" Is presented by the well-known Metro politan Singers—artists who bring to this ’ production a wealth of dramatic and vocal ability. to addition to “The Chimes of Brittany," the Metropolitan Singers win present a concert program including soma it tha greatest of goad and Sight opera selection* SOUTHERN HAS TRAIN STOP IN SERVICE ON LONG LINE Electric Signals and Control Device Protect 840 Miles Between Jack sonville and Cincinnati. Atlanta, Ga„ May 21.—Electric automatic block signals and train con trol apparatus have just been plaeed in service on the line of the Southern Railway system between Macon, <}a., and Jacksonville, Fla,, 262 miles, ex tending the use of these two modern protective systems over the entire line of the Southern between Cincinnati and Jacksonville, 840 miles. This is the longest constinuous installation of automatic train control in the United States. The electric signals automatically give advanced warning to an approach ing train of another train, an open switch, a broken rail, or other ob struction affecting the circuit. The train control apparatus is de signed to enforce obedience to the signal indications and to stop a train in case the engincman is incapacitated ! ■ FLOWeS™ 3 *! FOR THE = i GRADUATE f ARE MORE APPRECIATED I If Sent to Them in a Nice ' I Flower Basket WE HAVE THEM IN SEVERAL SHAPES AND (Designs ONLY SOc KIDD-FRIX j I Music and Stationery Co. | ■ • I t rytrp PIES CINNAMON BUNS COOKIES | Kanaapolis Bakery { | EAT THE FAMOUS | , 3 TOWEL CITY BREAD AND CAKE \ # 1* | NONE BETTER « PHONE 4 I * •,, YOUR GROCER HANDLES OUR GOODS » u 8 imbm :,ta. i \ Poor Work Is a credit to no one, so when you send your gar- * meats to us to be Cleaned or Dyed you can rest as sured that quality work is what you will get. ' J IT WILL BE DIFFERENT . L • - ' „V. ' V • ' M. R. POUNDS Ora Olwi.tag and Dyeing In Frtnt of New Hotel or overlooks a signal. The eignal installation between Ma con and Jacksonville required the con struction of a transmission line of three high voltage wires, carrying an alternating current of 4,400 volts, and an average of four low voltage wires for signal operation and 456 signals of the color light type. For the train control an equal number of inductors were installed on the track, one at each signal tower, and 53 locomo tives were equipped with the engine part of the device. Predict Increase in Corn Acreage. (By International News Service) Raleigh. May 25. —A slight increase in the corn acreage of North Carolina this year is probable, according to the North Carolina cooperative crop reporting service. The stands are mostly fair an ts the present prospects are favorable, It was said. Corn is North Carolina’s major production and 1b grown in all of the 100 counties of the etate. POEM TO LINDBERGH. Maariee Bestead, Noted Beet, Pens Ode at Paris Flying Field. Paris, May 28.—Maurice Rostand, the poet and son of Edmond Rostand, the dramatist, has written a poem to Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh. Composed at Le Bourget flying field, where the youthful American flyer landed Saturday, it is entitled “To 'Lindbergh’’ and bears under the title a quotation from Alan Seeger’s poem: “I have -a rendezvous with death.” ' The poem translated, follows: You had danced all that night, And you had left in uncertain light, Alike Alan Seeger, but less young than ’ t . w he, But poet also. U. - 1 You had danced all that night, 'And you had left alone at dawn, Ami, seeing you leave thus alone, : The air still quivers. 11L And Newfoundland, with heart so young, y , When solitary you passed above, Kneeling on, the hare sand, Sent up a prayer. IV. < You danced all that last day, l And you left alone when the day broke i Your mother wept as she taught, Rut less than her pupils. V. And it was with a heart lost in the wind Which braved aloft the salty breeze, And you lost not a single instant, Son of Evangeline. VI. And you flew a day and a half Above tl;e sen, above the earth; A day and a half you did not sleep, . Not even a second. VII. Young traveler with dream of steel, ' In the coming day and the dawn Dost know who ’twas that freed yott From the cell? VIII. Dost know who made you, bold young man, Strike straight for Paris, blindly per > haps, ( Which may hare let you, ne'er having ! seen it, Recognise the place? IX. -1 ’ Dost know who let you hold in check 1 Death, distance and the solitude? ' Dost know who caused you to arrive • With such exactitude? X. ' Twas not the pride of -this great sent Nor the trembling praise of old ’ Europe, Nor the white light at Le Bourget turning, ! Nor yet your periscope. . ‘ XI. > Nor was it yet two continents. * Which two days long breathed the same air, - Nor that you sailed at the moment t when You cinbarced your mother, r XU. ; Twas those young men, with hearts so/brave, , Who, full of fervor ami goodwill, ' Came from your home, too soon forgot, 1 To die for France. Xlll. That which had brought you, pre destined one, Through all these risks where others fell, It was the rendezvous which they gave you At their fresh graves. Whooping Cough in Second Attack on Veteran. 89. Lincolntop, May 24. —Jacob Sain, 80-year-old civil war veteran ot Lin coln county, can boast of one thing that none of his neighbors can emu late. For the second time in his life, he has whooping cough. His first attack came at the age of eight and ihe .thinks that a second at tack is heralding youth again. -At the age of 89 he cuts, shocks and hauls hay, works regularly every day and eats heartily. Mr. Sain is another Lincolntouian to have the privilege of a golden anni versary. He has been married 57 yeafs. He gives credit for hie long life to his virtues. He was never drunk and has never used tobacco in any form. Popular Excursion —TO-*- Washington, D. C. JUNE 3, 1927 VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM Round Trip Excursion Fares: Concord, N. C. $ll.OO Landis, N. C. $ll.OO Kannapolis, N. C.— #ll.OO Harrisburg, N. C. —ft 1.50 NewnJl, N. C #11.50 Excursion tickets on rale Friday, Jane Srd. Final limit good to reach original starting point prior to odd right Wednesday, June Bth. 1037. ! Tickets good on regular trains to I Junction point thence Special trains ae shown on targe flyera, Standard Pnltanii Stowtor Lara and hi*|i claw day Big Leagtia Baseball Games. Wash ington SbnMers vs. Bt, lgads Brawns CfoVetahd IndUn» g Jonr rih**Grl*Hli Stadium, Washington, D. C. HIM anteriority to Writ Nothin’s Gtoital. A Far totalled kdaraiat}«n,«raLtoiltainn Steeping ear rauerwwos call on any Southern Railway Ago*. ft ft WfIABY T*., USnconl, N. «. v ■»' -M'-'r ) raii'i l '>a»s»)n .rastn ~, • THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE - ...Ml ■■ »'■■■»■ nil m»ni —• m «t « « ivoTUllliß nLtflLiN PARIS DIVORCE Jack and Msrilyii Mtfler Incompatible Bat Good Friends, Still, Pitas Star . Say*- \ ; Los Angeles, May 21.—Marilyn Miller, musical comedy star, and her I husband, Jack Pickford, motion pic- ] ture actor, will seek a divorce in Paris next month, Pickford revealed that his wife, who now is in Chicago, would sail for France shortly. He said he would fol low her abroad a short time later and a Paris tribunal would be petitioned for a, divorce on the grounds of in compatibility. Both will appear at the proceedings, he said, so that Miss Miller will not be. forced to establish a residence in Franee. “We tried a year’s separation," Pickford admitted, “in order to Bvoid a divorce, but we finally decided that we were temperamentally unsnited for each other and agreed to quit.” He flatly denied that a third party was the cause of the divorce move and said: “We are as good friends as evet and the divorce is a matter of mutual consent. I have only the highest re gard for Miss Miller. She is a splen did actress and I wish her nothing but the greatest success.” From time to time reports de clared that the two, married In what was perhaps Hollywood’s most bril liant social function in 1922, bad sep arated, but both were emphatic in their denials. The ceremony, per formed ou Jdly 31st, took place at l’ickfair, the home of Mary Pickford, his sister, nnd DouglasTairbanks, and was attended by tbc luminaries of filmdom. The first reports of a separation cropped up two years after their mar riage and when Miss Miller was play ing in the East on the legitimate stage. Pickford was busy on the motion picture lots in Hollywood. Plans for the future, Pickford de clared, are definite. Miss Miller is to be starred in a musical show' for Florenz Ziegfeld next year, while he will pursue hig career before the Klieg lights. MANY CLUB MEMBERS WILL ATTEND CONFERENCE Short Course and Conference at State Callage Will Attract Many Young People. / Tribune Bureau Sir Walter 'Hotel. Raleigh, May 25.—Every four-H club member in North Carolina is looking forward to attending the an nual short course and conference on the campus of the North Carolina State College during the Week of July 11 to 16, according to L. R. Harrill, club leader of the extension service. Between 500 and 700 young folks are expected to assembly and Mr. Harrill and his associates have already begun to- make plans for their entertainment and instruction. Monday will be devoted to registra tion and assignment to dormitories and the program will actually start witli a big get-together party that evening. Tuesday morning, class work will be gin. Those a tending the short course will be organized into groups and each group throughout the week will receive the "Same program, consisting of in teresting lectures and demonstrations including poultry, livestock, crops, clothing, baking, and other subjects closely related to club work. “Our program this year will be on a fifty-fifty basis.” explains Mr. Har rill. “Fifty percent of the time will be taken with instructional work and fifty percent with recreational activi ties. We will import one of the leading specialists from the National Recreation Association to aid us with this lutter feature. North Carolina has had club work now for over 20 years. The real purpose of the or ganization is to enable farm boys and girls to realize the dignity and pleasur able opportunity of occupation on the farm.” Twenty-eight girls and 15 boys will have their expenses paid to the sliort course by a fund of S3OO donated by the State Farmers’ Alliance, through, its President, T. B. Parker. These young folks are selected leaders from the various counties. Oodher dele gates will have their expenses paid by civic organizations and the clubs which they represent. Still others "Will pay their own way to receive the instruction which the short course gives. Hertford County Organizes Against Fires. Tribune Bureau, Sir Waiter Hotel, Ruieigk, May 23-—Hertford coun ty Is the pioneer in taking official action toward the organization of a forest lire protective foiV'e in the new fifth district to be established by the Department of Conservation and. Development in the northeas tern part of the state. W. <O. McCormick, assistant -late forester, reported today that he has received an executed agreement with tho county commissioners of Hert ford in preparation for beginning activities in the new district. Definite plans for launching forest protective measures in the new dis trict will be made by the assistant forester during a personal survey this week. The new district includes the North Carolina part of the Treat Dismal Swamp, and the part, oft his area within the cooperating coun ties will be brought under the scope, of the protective measures. Recent destructive fires in that sec tion have magnified the importance of forest fires prevention work. Messages From Dead Scribbled on a Dinner ' PntL Fairmont. W. Va., May 24.—A mes sage from the dead eamc from the ex plosiou-rjiipod Everettville .mine to day. When restjwftyirefteljrd the last three bodies in tliegfari'rettesses of the mine. thiy fquud‘that %he "victims had scribbled f their farewell ; messages ou a dinner pail. Henry 'Russell wrote “at peace with Gdfi.” He asked bin wife to “tell father I was saved.” The I other victims, William Erskiue and his r>on, Cecil, addressed their surviv ing realthres, saying: “Try and stay in the U. 8. A. Love to the kida.” 1 i f I, RF'ffll a yifHUtr ■lght, IMS, by Collier's Weekly and Q. P. Putnam Bona •Bill Grimm's ffroflreae” Is s ploturlzatlos by Film Booking Offices cf America, Inc, (F. B. 0.) cf H. C. Wltw«r’s stories of ths same name. BTNOPBIB < Bin Grimm comes to New York 1 to make his fortune and becomes a 1 icavyweight boxer under the tute- Sge of Butch ford. Pansy PUking- ] Son, a friend, is in the Follies. Jack '■ Fairfax is BilVs bugaboo. Barbara ! Baxter, Bill’s “good influence," ' lam* from detective to manager of Bill’s new tea-parlor. BUI knocks out Oliver, the first of the two contend trs against him for honors against Ike heavyweight champion. Among the assault and battery 1 (andera which jammed my training quarters daily at four bits a look ansa a fellow about my own age an- , titled Oariton Heme. He was a ; edxty-edght-caiat fight fan and a full-fledged millionaire to boot. Heme bed a unbreakable habit of stalling around the gym after the mob left and we got to know eanb other that way. in no time at all, gentle'-reader, you’d think we’d been bounding around together for epochs. It seems we elsed up.most things the same way. In spite of the fact that I was self-made and unhindered by grammar, while Herne was a product of Harvard and millions. Snubbing Butch Fiord's squawks, I Insisted Heme be gave the run of the camp, and one day he busts in the workout, all excited. "I’ve Just made a wager so abso lutely certain that I shall be asham ed to take the other fellow’s money I" he chortles. “Yon must have bet Niagara Falls lea liquid,’' I says wittily, as be was a good audience. “I’ve just as much of a sure thing!” he declares. "My bet Is Right arpay it looked like Td started something l i. (hat you’ll defeat Carney In a round! ” “Well, Til be a glass of Ink!’’ I bust out in dismay. “Somebody’s made a umpchay out of you—how piuch did you gamble?” “Oh, only ten thousand,” he says carelessly, ten grand coming under the head of trifles with him. “I got odds of four to one!” I worried a lot about his ten thou sand dollars, which I figured was the same as tn the ash can, for ! seen no chance of knocking out in a round a boy which had coped with the champ for twenty rounds to a draw. Another constant visitor to my training camp was Pansy Pilkdng ton. One blustery, winter day at the gym I pegged Oariton Herne gazing at Pansy a far-away and long-ago look in his eyes, and I suddenly remembered Pd never in troduced ’em. I give Herne a knockdown to Pansy, and right away it looked like I’d started something! My boy friend had plainly took the count for this charmer, and Pansy didn’t seem to find him nauseating either. Herne tried hard to arrange par tiee of four, as misery ain’t the only thing which loves company, i but Barbara and Pansy Just didn’t (nix. I put in a grand Haitian marble aoda fountain end a high class con fectionery at "Ye Tiffin Shoppe,” Which by* this time was known oil over New York, thanks to Herne and bis classy friends making ft a regular hangout and Barbara’s nif ty ideas for making It attractive. Everything was hotsy-totsy and I was satisfied that ait last I’d bit my atrtdo. I figured a few years would ■ee my catsy tea parlors all over (he country, with me sitting back with nothing to do but count the lack which overflowed my caeh reg- It was Just like yon read In a story. Barbara's Job had rose hem fcanager to "hostess,” and I’d boosted her cut till Ae wouldn’t take any more. “Why can't we start looking over (eeatious for our home, Barbara?” I tells her. "I Hko being engaged, but I'm double cuckoo about being married! This engagement of ours Is getting too permanent, what I mean. Let's run down to the City ’'Sail cr some place, get wed and be Jtme wMh it!" “I want to watt—Just a little while longer," she says—“until yon have a firmer foothold, BILL I*ll marry you, 818, when you have def initely retired from the prise ring and are well started am your new career." I wps even more gloomed up by Barbara’s refusal to put on the handcuffs immediately when Left Hook O’Bridh.: my, stable mate, \tmribd off and wedded Rhea Cohen, ithe cute disturbance which acted as cashier of my* tea parlor. Noth ing would dh but I had to accept btertmaa. Penny Advertisements Get the Results k ‘ i *-3 case she fainted with Joy or some thing, Butch Ford declared him self in aa a eyewitness. One night I picked up the paper to read that the father of Jack Fair fax, my personal died abroad and left his dizzy son about everything but Niagara Falls and The Panama Canal. Oariton Herne used to play (he stock market now and again just to keep from yawning himself to death. One day Herne smacked the ticker right in (be pan for a quarter of a million, which he need ed like he needed a third leg. That night I dreamed of noth ing but stock ticker* and mints. Came the dawn, and I staked every dime I had in the world on Herne’s hot information. The fact that (he notes I still owed on “Ye Tiffin Shoppe" would be due tn a couple of days didn’t stop me. I figured I’d be sitting on the top of (he world by then. For about six hours I was Bitting on the top of the world—(hen (here there was a earthquake! The stock took a nose dive, and when the smoke died away and my brokers got done phoning me I was as bust ed as the Ten Commandments. I’d took one on (he button, and in a daze I rushed to my tea parlor te tell Barbara, Hke a kid with g scraped knee running to hiq moth, er. Before I could unload the bad news Jack Fairfax come swagger ing into the place. I hadn’t seen that ape since he aocked me with the cane, end he sure picked a swell time for (his meeting! I was red-headed anyways, and the sight of him made me gnash my teeth. Without a word to Barbara I made a lunge at Fairfax, but she grabbed my arm. “The wild man of Borneo, eh?” leers ’ Fairfax, and (hen h!s vA changed to a nasty bark. “You <*_ your lady love get off my proper ty!” “Your property?" saya me and Barbara in chorus, and. my amaze ment elbowed my rage aside. “My property!” repeats Fairfax, scanning our faces with a relish. “I have bought up the notes out standing on your business; those notes are due, and I want my money or (he shop!” “I’ll make you a proposition, yon big false alarm!” I says. “If you really hold the notes on this Joint well, you’re now in the tea parlor game, for I can’t take ’em up. But I’ll lay you twenty-five thousand bucks against the shop that I’ll knock One-Round Carney as dead as Mah Jongg!” “Put up* the twenty-five thousand and you've made a bat!” says Fair fax. “Grimm, you’re a glutton for punishment!” •TU have the dough on the line tomorrow morning,” I promised him. “And all I crave Is one laob at your face when I upset Carney. Now shove off before I break in a right hook on you!” “I shall leave after I’ve sampled a cup of your famous tea,” he grins coolly. “Or my famous tea; as I should say now!” “I’d like to eee those notes, if you please, Mr. Fairfax,” says Barbara, as cold as a polar bear’s nose. “Why, my dear girl, surely you do not think I would jest about this matter, do you?” he says, leering at her ,and he pulls a eheaf of pa pers from his inside pocket. “Here (hey ere, fair lady, read ’em and weep!” By noon the next day Td borrow, ed the twenty-five thousand from Herne and bet it with Fairfax. For no reason at all Oarlto' Hants threw a big party for Pam Pilklngton at bis sultan’s palace on Long Island Sound, and I to get Barbara to go with me. though she was still peeved at my bet. It was a eoup-and-flsh affair and considerable blowout. Both "Who’s Who” and “Who’s Through” was well represented, and besides that a hot orchestra A well known singer which was (here tore off a couple of grand open hits, and I kept out of sight for fear they’d ask me to punch some body tn the nose, as long os each guest was performing their own particular trick. Barbara and Fancy was coldly civil to each other, but the Whole three of ns got the shock e| erne lives when wo discovered Jack Fairfax among those present! Two more Jolts osoe when tt developed that my beat friend and my worst e*emy did time at college together and (t was Fairfax that Hern* hat I’d lay Carney like linoleum itn a roupd. Creeping mackerel! 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