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' t VOLUME XXVII Not Discuss Cruisers And Capital Ships At The Geneva Gathering Great Britain Hoped to Bring Up Subject But Americans Will Not Give Thought to This Class. OTHER CRAFT TO GET ATTENTION | f It Is Hoped That U. S.Del egates Can Keep All. the Points Open for Discus- j sion at 1921 Conference. j. • Geneva, June 27.— OP) —With Brit ish hopes of reopening the Washing ton treaty decisions dashed by .ab sence of any fresh instructions per mitting American delegations to dis cuss the size of capital ships and crnisers. interest centers on what Hngh S. Gibson and his eonfeceers will do in the way of assuring Aome further examination of that question. Presumably the Americans are dis posed to put something into the terms of the projected treaty to be framed here that will more or lees bind them to a discussion of the sixes of warships at the second Washington conference in 1931 without, however committing themselves in any way as to what their attitude will be at that time. This matter will be the subject of negotiations, but meanwhile the Brit ish leaders have given no intimation that they have definitely abandoned their attempts to reopen Washington treaty problems at the present meet ing. According to some reports they would like to exact a promise from the Americans to refrain pending the 1031 conference, from building any 35,000 ton battleships, of which the British already possess two, the Nel son and Rodney. It is stated that the Americans un doubtedly will return a negative an swer to such a suggestion if it is of ficially advanced. Mr. Gibson has not been approach ed by Viscount Saito concerning the reported project for a perpetual peace twet betweeen Japan and the United States, but it is iinderstood that,, any atlon. It is recognized that if Viscount Saito were able to return to Tokio with a peace pact in his pocket he would perhaps be leas insistent upon demanding a high ratio for Japan in auxiliary, warcraft than was fixed for the larger warships iat Washington. The impression prevails that the Japanese are disposed to go more than half way in eradicating the feeling created in Japan by abolition of the gentlemen’s agreement and the subse quent refusal of the American con gress to permit any quota immigra tion of Japanese into the United States. In some quarters the conviction pre tween the two nations might later point away to solution of the immi gration problem which is known to have wounded the Japanese national dignity. THE COTTON MARKET. Opened Steady at Decline of 2 to 6 Points Under Liquidation and Sell ing New York, June 27. —Off)—The cot ton market opened steady today at a decline of 2 to 6 points under liquida tion and local selling which appeared to be inspired by favorable weather reports. Some trade buying and covering steadied the market at the opening but selling continued in comparatively small volume, October declining to 16.83 and January to 17.14. or 8 to 10 points below Saturday’s closing figures, by the end of the first hour. There was further liquidation of July contracts in preparation for probable notices tomorrow, and that delivery was relatively easy selling off to 16,‘ 46, or about 13 points net lower. The market was quiet later, and except for further switching from July to later months, showed very little trading features. Prospects for show ers in eastern belt sections, and private reports emphasising boll weevil in festation brought in Rome covering, however, and prices held fairly steady. At midday, October was selling around 16.84 and December, 17.00, or about 7 to 10 points net lower. Cotton futures opened steady: July 16.58; Oct. 16.87; Dec. 17.14; Jan. 17.10; March 17.35. Mt&ricict Clo«e January 17.11, March’ 17.30, Stoy 17.43, July 10.47. October 16.83, De cember 17.06. Near "Perfect Witness” la Found in Mrs. Anna Montague. Asheville, June 26. —Mrs. Anna K. Montague, oh trial for murder, is ‘ almost a "perfect witness,” lawyers and observers in the courtroom have declared. She has shown that 'her mind was clear, she has given forth her testimony in a well ordered manner, she rarely paused to study, nor did she often retrace her steps when telling her story unaided by questions from her counsel. Her clear voice was audible in the farthest corners of the court svssswssfc’ais story, she grew dramatic. When she described looking out v her window and seeing the body of Mrs. Cooper her voice trembled and was more The Concord Daily Tribune . North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily NEW DICTIONARY 18 NOW ALMOST READY Greatest Word Task in History Being Finished at Oxford. Oxford, Eng., June 27.—1 tis ex pected that this year wiil record the successful completion of the great est lexicographical undertaking the world has ever known, the New Eng lish Dictionary, after more than 48 years of constant work. Already the magnum opus of Sam uel Johnson is referred to as "an in complete pieoe of hack work" and his definition of the word “network" -—“anything reticulated or decussat ed at equal distances, with inter ■■itices between the intersections"—is cited ns an example of how not so write dictionaries. It was in 1870 that Sir James Murray started work on the Oxford Dictionary, ns it is familiarly known. It was first proposed in 1877 by Dean Trench in his noted "study of Words.” The main feature throughout the work has been to select and gather quotations to illustrate fully the his toric development of every English word and its minutes shades of meaning, and for this purpose Eng lish books written before 1600 have been rend bs scholars all over the world, as well as thousands of books wrlten since 1600. Th l nearest approach to the New ,English D'jtionnry is the great Ger man lexicon of the brothers Grimm, who also wrote fairy tales in idle moments. It was begun in 1853. but after 60 years it had reached only Its thirteenth volume, down to WEG. Even with its supplements. Lit tle’s French Dictionary is a small affair compared with the Oxford Dletiorary. Students find that Web ster’s Dictionary cannot be compared to the New English Dictionary for scope and thoroughness. Most of 'the niork on the Oxford Dictionary has been done in the Scriptorium, a little tin tabernacle erected in Dr. Murray’s own garden nt Mill Hi’l. and in 1891 taken over by Oxford University. When the editor started work he had more than 5.000,000 quotations at hand and since then has handled countless numbers. MRS. MONTAGUE AGAIN k - .' Shows Sign* of Weakening Under Strenuous Croon Examination. Asheville, June 27.—OP)—The trial of Mr*. Anna K. Montague, practical nurse, for murder of Mrs. Mary R. Cooper, 01 year old society woman, who had been under her care, today entered its fourth day. Mrs. Mon tague, still undergoing a strenuous cross examination by the state’s at torneys. showed signs of weakening. There is little chance the case will get to the jnry before Tuesday night or Wednesday. The defense has ten more witnesses to put on the stand and the arguments of counsel Will re quire a full day. Another huge throng pressed into every available space in the court room this morning as the trial opened at 0:30. Go To Jury Tomorrow. Asheville, June 27.— OP) —The fate of Mrs. Anna K. Montague, 45 year old practical nurse, facing trial in 1 superior court here on a charge of murdering her emeployer,- Mrs. Mary R. Cooper on the night of May 0, at the latter’s home here, will rest with the jury tomorrow afternoon, it was said by court attaches today. The defense after the accused wom an finished her testimony, and after several character witnesses had tes tified, announced at 11:30 o'clock this morning that it had no further i evidence to present. MRS. MONTAGUE TELLS OF HAUNTING DREAMS Mrs. Cooper Returned to Her In Those Dreams.—Hurls a Bitter Tirade. Asheville, N. C. June 25—Dreams, weird, fantastic apd haunting dreams, which caused a ghostly ar : ray of grotesque objects to parade before her mind as she lay on a nar row cot in a steel studded cell in the Buncombe county jail, were describ ed by Mrs. Anna K.- Montague from the witness stand in Superior court here today. Nerves, shredded by long hours of merciless grilling as the state's at torney’s took her step by step back over her story, Mrs. Montague, who la charged with the murder of Her aged patient and companion, Mrs. Mary R. Cooper, showed signs, of weakness and Judge Thomas J. Shaw continued the case at "3:25 o’clock until Monday morning at 0:$0 o'clock. It was the high spot of the trial when Mrs. Montague was asked to tell the jury about . the r.uts of Mto Cooper in the distorted dreams. "How was she dressed V’ the ques tion was fired at her. “In Mack aa I always had seen her,” was the quiet answer. 1 “You had your fortune told, didn't you?” i "Yes, the spies yon put In there told ft. It did not take me long to find It out either.” At this point Mra. Montague oroke into a bitter tirade against the "per secution” of the officers who were engaged in working up the case. Fre quently during the keen croae-exam ination by Solicitor R. M. Wells which she endured all day long, she broke out with the cry that she wna being '“persecuted and not “prose 11*. Oliver C. M is confined to her home on Marsh street by illness. MIWOIIES 11® TIM BEFORE IN HISTORY 207. Persons in the United States Paid Income Tax es on Million Dollars in That Year, Survey Shows 1916 WAS NEXT HIGHEST YEAR Seven Persons Showed They Made More Than $5,000,00 During Year— Millionaires in 17 States. Washington. June 27. — W) —More Americans paid taxes on incomes of $1,000,000 and over for the calendar year of 1925 than ever before in the government’s tax history, a treasury analysis shows. The millionaire in comes total 207, compared with 75 in 1924, and 206 in 1916, the previous high mark. Seven persons, including two in Michigan and New York, respectively, and one each in Illinois, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania filed returns show ing incomes of $5,000,000 or over. Seventeen states proved the resi dences of the taxed millionaires, to gether with one from the District of Columbia. New York led with 96 while Pennsylvania was second'with 28. Illinois and Massachusetts had 16 each, Michigan had 13, Ohio 18, California six, Missouri four, Florida three, Connecticut, Indiana, Maryland and Oklahoma had two apiece; while lowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin each were represented by one. The 1926 revenue act with its in creased exemptions lightening the bur den of the income tax payer, proved efficacious in producing more revenue, the report indicated. The average net income of those filing returns was $5,249 with an av erage tax of 3.35 per cent., recording an increase of $1,767.90 in the income compared with 1924. The rate for 1924 was 2.74 per cent. The total net income for 4,171,061 taxpayers for 1925 was $21,894,076,403. New York bore the heaviest burden of any state, with a payment of $252.- KW;«W «b atoxaWe income total of $4,109,183,8*1. Pennsylvania was the second largest with a tdx payment of $73,364,345, while Illinois, Massa chusetts and Michigan followed in that order. North Carolinians paying totaled 15,443, who had incomes totalling $102,923,590, and paid $3,178,767 in taxea. Six thousand nine hundred and thir ty-one South Carolinians paid $430.- 897 on total income of $33,160,743. THE STOCK MARKET Persistent Selling of Oil Sand coppers Turned Prices Reactionary Today. New York, June 27.—(4*)—Persist ent selling of the oils and coppers turned the general course of. stock prices reactionary today after oper ators for the rise had made an in effectual attempt* to attract an out side following by bidding up some of the railway equipment shares. Sell ing orders poured in fairly large vol ume, with numerous declines of 1 to 6 points scattered throughout the list. Gets Parole For Bravery. . Tribune Bureau, Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, June 27.—" Greater mvc hath no mas than this, that he should lay down his life for a friend.” Because L. E. Allen, convicted in Pitt epunty in 1924 of robbery, and sentenced to four years in State's prison, has.during that rime beeu ad vanced to a Grade A honor prisoher, and because he has shown himself to be a man of real character, he has been granted a parole by Gov ernor A. W. McLean. But perhaps the most outstanding factor in obtaining this parole was the fact that last Ju«y Allen risked his life in order to save a 16 year old girl from drowning in the Ten nessee rivver. Allen was one of the prisoners in an honor construction camp at Almond, $L C., in Frank lin county. While pawing along a mountain road near the camp, and on the upper waters of the Ten nessee river, he noticed a young girl who had been in bathing, but who had gotten out beyond her dept, and was rapidly being swirled into a suck hole. Without thinking of h'is own safe ty, Allen plunged into the river and managed to bring the girl to shore- She later wrote a personal leter to the Governor, stating that she wou’d have been drowned had it not been for Allen's heroic act. Hundred Billion Cigarettes In U. S. I Last Year. Waahington, June 27.—Almost a , hundred Mllian cigarettes were manu factured in registered factories and bonded manufacturing warehouses in the United States last year. The Census Bureau announces that more than 9,500,000,000 cigarettes were exported, leaving about ninety billion for consumption fit home. Cigars manufactured and removed for consumption totaled almoat seven billion, and almoat half of them, or 42 per cent, to be exact, were intended to retail for not more than a nickel “Stogies” comprised about 93 per cent, of this clam ! Only 2 per cent, of the total war intended to retail -for mure than 13 cento each. <,u CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1927 TkO PtAIES REMIT FOR LONG FLIGHTS OVER THE PICK One Army Plane and One Naval Plane Said to Be Ready to Take Off in Ef fort to Span Pacific. THIRD PLANE IS BEING PREPARED Gen. Patrick May Be {ft One of Planes—Hop Q| Is Not Expected Made During the Daj|f San Francisco, .Time 27. ed, groomed and ready for flight,-tjio airplanes in the three cornered race to bridge the Pacific by air between here and Hawaii, today awaited the zero hour, while the third remained to be tried out before the takeoff. The three-enginCd Fokker in which Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert Hagenberger will make the at tempt in behalf of the army, was bid ing held up until the arrival of Major General Mason M. Patrick, chief of the Army Air Service, who, the Ex aminer declares, will be a passenger. General Patrick was here today. In Honolulu the navy threw a cloak of secrecy about the preparations of Richard Grace, former naval reserve officer, whose trans-Pacific plane was locked in a guarded' hangar at Pearl Harbor, after having made an appar ently successful test flight yesterday. Hie time of the contemplated hopoff was not made- known. Ernest Smith, local civilian flyer, bad his plane ready for test flights today after working feverishly witli large force of mechanics. By setting a strenuous pace he expected to com plete all preliminaries and be ready for the takeoff before sundown. In spite ’of the fact that Maitland and Hagenberger announced they do not contemplate a hopoff before tomorrow', the impression that they would make an earlier start than that caused Smith's forces to work at top speed. Patrick Will Not Talk. „; S*n Franciseq, June 27. —(8?) — jJajor General’Mason Patrick, <■s*■(' of the Army. Air Corps, arrived lief today to give the filial word to I-ieuts. Lester J. Maitland and Albert Hagen berger on their non-stop flight to Honolulu. Rumors that Gen. Patrick might make the fight were heard in army circles, and askfd if he would go. the general replied: “I should pre fer not to answer that question at this time.” Checker Players To Gather in Burling ton. Burlington, N. C., June 25. —(INS) —The annual tournament of the North Carolina Checker Players' As sociation will be held nt the Alamance Hotel here on July 4. The outcome of the tournament is expected to center around five men regarded as the best checker players in the State. They are: H. S. Ander son, Wiustou-Salem. present title holder; Edward Scheldt, Chapel Hill, who has held both the state and South ern titles; Coit Robinson, Lowell, former state and Southern champion ; H. C. McNair, Maxton, former state champion, And C. G. Anderson, Salis bury, former holder of the Southern crown. ' THE STOCK MARKET Reported by Fenner & Beane. (Quotations at 1:30 P. M.) Atchison 177% American Tobacco B 13114 American Smelting 150% American Locomotive lO7 Atlantic Coast Line lB3 Allied Chemical 138% American Tel. & Tel. 162% American Can 53 Allis Chalmers 103% Baldwin Locomotive 224 Vi Baltimore A Ohio 115% Bangor ——' 79% American Brown 16 Bethlehem Steele —... 47% Chesapeake A Ohio l7B Qoru Product* 54% Certainteed —, 50% Crysler --A 45 Coca-Cola DuPont 232 Erie 52% Flekthman -* 54 Frisco . —,—.— 111% General Motors 194% General Electric 104% Gold Dust —, . •- -56 Hudson 79 Int. Tel , 164% Kennecott Copper 61% Lori Hard , 39% Liggett A Myers B 113 Mack Truck 99% Mo.-Pacific - 104% Mo.-Pacific —— 53% Norfolk A Western— 170% Standard Oil of N. Y. 29% New York Central 151 Pan. American B 55% Producers Refiners 24%' Rock Island - .111% R. J. Reynolds y. 183 Seaboard Air Line L 33% Southern-Pacific llO% Standard Oil of N. J. - 36% Southern Railway —.—- 125% Studebaker 49% Texas Co. „ 45% 'Tobacco Products 99% IT. S. Steel * 119% V'ck Chemical 58 Weatil£bouse 74% Western Md. 56%S 'F.tX >7 t-. ONCE TOAST OF VIENNA! II « .. v . { Jpg.- - , vrjp* | * ■ 'lk . /mm Many years ago Anne Novak was belle of the Viennese •tage and in the favor of Emperor Franz Josef. Today, at f seventy-seven, she lives by the generosity of friends. Their at. * tent ion was called to her dire straights when she was evicted from her New York home in the rain. WILL NAME LINDBERGH BRING FAME TO TOWN? For Third Time the Name of Alabama Town Has Been Changed. Lindbergh, Ala., June 27.—(INS) — Lindbergh—will this little town, its name changed for the third time. Swake and make a plnce for itself in jlistory—follow in the footsteps of the famous trans-Atlantic flyer for whom it has been named? Railroad literature and time tables of the Frisco system will hereafter conform with the new christening, officials have announced. The little town, formerly known as Coal Creek, and formerly a watering point for, the eastern division of the Frisco, is still served by the system. It began as l’arkville and contains the homestead of the Lindberg family. Augustus Lindbergh, uncle of the famous "Smiling Slim,,’’ came here from Pensacola, where he left his .vessel while it was held in iluai-aiitiue. and obtained a job with the Kansas <Tty, Memphis & Birmingham rail road at what was then Parkville. He had charge of the water pump. Augustus soon married Miss Martha Evans, daughter of n widely known family of that district. He continued working at the water pump until he died, when the pump was placed in charge of his son, Oscar, then 14 years old. Oscar is .now finishing a course in law and will begin practice in Birmingham, he says. Hubert IJndbergh was the next pumper. He held the job five years and was then given a section of the Frisco at Palos, to which the pump xEas moved. . Gradually the sons moved away until only their mother, Mrs. Martha Lindbergh, a sister, Doris Lindbergh, and a brother Paul R. Lindbergh, con tinue to make tliehir home on the old farm of Augustus Lindbergh, near the station which is now Lindbergh, Ala. COAL TRAFFIC GETS ATTENTION AT HEARING Much Attention Given to This at P. A N. Hearing in Charlotte. Charlotte, June 27. —C P) —Coal traf fic admittedly the prize at stake in the proposal of the Piedmont and Northern Railway to extend its elec tric lines to Winston-Salem, and to connect its North Carolina and South Carolina divisions, today continued to be the center about which the hearing before Examiner Davis of the Inter state Commerce Commission swung. Clashes between opposing counsel were frequent. E. R. Oliver, vice president i:| charge of traffic on the Southern, tes tified that the company annually re ceived $751,000 in revenus from coal 'shipments moved to the Southern Pow er Company’s plant at Spencer. He also estimated that the Piedmont and Northern would receive annually when proposed extensions may be completed, a total revenue of $5,635,472 from coal shipments moved over its lines to util ities and power plants of the South ern Power Company. These estimates were vigorously at tacked when Cameron Morrison, coun sel for the Piedmont and Northern, was cross examining Mr. Oliver. Mr. Morrison, Mr. Oliver and !».. E. Jef fries, of Southern counsel, sngaged frequently in sharp disputes, over the. exact words of Mrs. Oliver’s state ment made on direct examination. Mr. Simmons Favors Dennis G. Brum mitt. New Bern. June 27. —Senator F. M. Simmons Saturday recommended the election of Dennis G. Brummitt, of Oxford, to succeed John G. Dawson, of Kinston, as chairman of the state Democratic executive committee,' iii response to inquiries as to his views, before leaving for Gloucester for a rest on the coast. The senator stated that he regret ted very much that Mr. DawSons, private business makes it necessary for him to resign the office, ait' he had made “a most excellent tffigir man" and in that capacity had ren dered invaluable service to the party and the state, “for which the people are duly appreciative and grateful.” The national anthem of UrUfility consists of seventy verses. " y| liifT ll' tfM'in * fl »* tnlf 1 ' ■ LITTLE CHANCE FOR BYRD LEAVING TODAY Weather Experts Think It Hardly Possible That He Can Leave New York Even During the Night. New York, June 27.—(4 s ) —Wry little prospect of a take-off tonight by the monoplane "America” was seen this morning by the weather bureau. "There is a low pressure trough ex tending from New Foundiand south to sfeamer lanes,” Meteorologist Jas. 11 Kimball reported. “It isn't yet con-, elusive that tie's disturbance will bar a take off for Europe, but the outlook is not bright. “Tliis is the same storm that pass'd over Roosevelt Field and caused a postponement of the flight Sunday morning. The low pressure off New Foundiand is of considerable depth, and though we can’t say for certain until we can hear from some ships at sea. there is very little prospect for n flight tonight.” " tl * V --v j; ' mn+'p- With Our Advertisers. All kinds of fresh vegetables at the J. & H. Cash Store. Schloss Bros. & Co.’s cool suits at Hoover's. Try Orange Freeze at Cline's Phar macy. Cool, refreshoing and delicious. Tasty Fig Bran, 15 cents per pack age, at Dove-Bost Co. The Boyd AY. Cox Studio has added equipment which makes belter photo graphs possible. Try n Red Cross Mattress, sold by Bell-Harris Furniture Co. They give restful, dreamless sleep. A small payment down will secure an Iver Johnson bicycle for your son. See plan of Ritchie Hardware Co. as outlined ill new ad. today. Hot* weather specials at Belk's De partment Store. Dress goods in new est shades and patterns. All reason ably priced. Joint accounts can be opened by any two persons in same way as an individual account at the Citizens Bank ami Trust Company. Fancy georgette frocks charmingly tucked and pleated, at Robinson's. New models fashioned of crepe Eliza beth priced at sls. . Big man or little man it's all the same to IV. A. Overcash who carries in his big stock goods for men of all sizes. The J. C. Penny Co. operates a huge chain of stores, buys goods at unusually low prices. This saving is passed on to the public, says new ad. in this paper. Don't forget Moser's Clean-Sweep •Shoe Sale continues fifteen days. Many bargains offered. SOVIET OFFICIAL IS MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT M. Orlov, of Military Tribunal, Was Wounded by Revolver Shot Find by Unknown Person. Moscow, June 27.—04 s )—M. Orlov, chairman of the Moscow department of the military tribunal, was wound ed today by a revolver shot fired by an unidentified person. His assail ant was arrested. An official statement says the at tack occurred inside the premises of the tribunal. The assailant’s identic ty and the motive for his action are under investigation, it adds. STAR THEATRE PROGRAM FOR WEEK OF JUNE 27th TO JULY 2nd TODAY—TUESDAY “LOVE MAKES ’EM WILD” With JOHHNY HARROW. SALLY PHIPPS and FLORENCE GILBERT Also a Comedy “TAKE THE AIR” And a Fox News “The Landing of Lindbergh in Paris” WEDNESDAY—THURSDAY “THE TELEPHONE GIRL" With MADGE BELLAMY and LAWRENCE GRAY Ber Best Picture—lt’s a Paramount ADMISSION 10fc-25c FRIDAY—SATURDAY TOM MIX and TONL the Wonder 11 Horse, <n “THE CIHCIB ACE” ”• Also a Cowed? I ‘V’ ; u > h “CUPID THE CLOCK" ’! FEW SEARCHERS IN burke mmm SEEKING IKImII These Men Keep Up Hunt for Broadus Miller Al though There is Little Chance of Finding Him. BELIE VENEGRO IN MOUNTAINS Officers of Burke and Cald well Counties Will Not Give Up Search Until They Know Negro Gone. Morganton, N. C., June 27.— UP) — Hopeless determination kept a few searchers in the mountains above Col lettsville last night, but Broadus Mil ler, negro slayer of Gladys Kincaid, is believed to have escaped in the wild thickets of those hills. Officials of both Burke and Cald well counties are convinced that the outlawed negro is somewhere in the "mountains between Collettsville and Ripshin Mountain, and they declare a search will be maintained until he is captured. Relatives of Miller are said to live in the negro section four miles above Collettsville and officials are expecting him to come out of the woods to one of those houses. The last time he is. known to have eaten was last Friday. The belief is held that starvation will drive him from his mountain seclusion by tonight, and if is felt that a steady guard will be set up around the entrance to the ter ritory in which he is believed to be hiding. BIG CHANGE MADE In fire forces Discord Between Firemen and Chief Ends in Radical Changes By Board. Statesville, June 24.—Statesville fire department underwent a com plete change in management and personnel this afternoon. The act was the culmination of the demand on the i«irt of the firemen that the Mayor and Board of Aldermen sus pend Fire chief W. L- Nvely or''ac cept the resignation qf .every mem iet of tire department. Discord between the' firetfiett iirrd Chief 'Neely hud been brewing for some time and the matter came to a head in a special session of the city aloermen Monday night when the firemen appeared with their de mands. The city authorities not being irt position to allow the firemen to walk out enmasse took the only course for the safety of the town by relieving Neely temporarily and retaining the firemen. Mayor J. B. Roaeli and Alderman Alex Cooper were ap pointed by the board to make a full investigation and take final action in disposing of the perplexing prob lems. At 2 o’clock this afternoon Mayor Roach and Mr. Cooper advised the firemen that E. F. Nesbitt had been chosen as fire chief, Neely would come back as a fireman and that E. R. Uufty takes the place of a mem ber. of the department effective July 1. Under these conditions, nve mem bers of the fire department offered j their resignations effective at once and their resignations were prompt ly accepted. Mayor Roach im mediately installed the new order, having arranged with a fire engine company to give the new firemen in structions until a full force can be trained for efficient service. The new chief, E. F. Nesbitt has been a member of the voluntary firemen for some years. JULY 4TH WILL BE BIG TIME AT STATESVILLE Annual Horse Show Will Be Staged and Ku Klux Will Hold Celebra tion. Statesville. June 27.—This city :s making extensive preparations • to take care of a two-fold celebration to occur here on Monday, July 4, when the great annual horse show of the Iredell Horsemen’s "club will stage its affair ut the show grounds and when some five or six rnoitsand Knights of the Ku Klux klan will hold their grand state-wide rally in this city. A mammoth program to cover the entire day for iffie visitors to this city has been mapped out and plans are practically complete for the Independence day celebration. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Burns and Dr. J. E. Burns, spent Sunday In Gqldston with relatives. CAN YOU SCORE TEN ON THESE?] 1 — Give two early names for mov ing pictures. 2 Who succeeded President Taylor when he died in office? 3 What party nominated Fillmore for President in 1856? . 4 Who was the Knight of the Rue ful Countenance? 5 Who was the last Civil War soldier to reach the presidency? 6 What rank did he attain in the Union army? 7 Who said: “Don’t give up the ship”? , B—What is preeumptlve evidence? 1 ' o—Who was Pierre du Terrail Bay jard? I®—Who was the father of Eng lish poetry? <& ;.y&c'!. • • •t.-ifi&sLifi;-*'*.,«#<£ THE TRIBUNb T TODAY’S NEWS TODs| NO.IIH RETIRED IRdflfj i \JITSSUICID| I ILL HEALTH CM Arthur Jones Shot Himself With Gun at Home jig North Spring Street | day About 8 a. m. | HAD BEEnIIL gal SEVERAL WEEK 1 Sold Out Business 1 He Suffered a 1 Breakdown.—Wasj|s§M i Best Known Men in Cm-1 Despondency over his failing is believed to have actuated X Jones, prominent Concord mer<#tttfK'i' to commit suicide at his ■ i North Spring street, shortiyjjfter H 8 o’clock this morning. -o»J 111 . ■ 111 health, described as a if breakdown, forced Mr. Jones to I from his business actively jjjevJSß 8 weeks ago. and since that I almost constantly brooded:Mffier;,.-|MI) if condition. Mr. Jones was said H been unusually ''blue'' and when he was seen at his day afternoon. ,‘iiMffij Mr. Jones took his life by tlie barrel of a twenty gunge gun over his heart, tiring into his body by pulling the gtupi|4j|SH| ward him after fastening one eqmH I his suspenders to the trigger,» other end to the latch or knob Iggtß 9 closet door in the living room. DentßjT> j apparently, was instantaneous. I The fatal shot brought member#:® I tlie family to the living room.' OulttaslE ly a physician was summoned bufd9 9 late. Tite retired merchant was pMfj| 9 innincetl dead. Evidence pnintiugtJtyMi!]l Mr. Jones took his own life, Joe A, Hart sell concluded that aitigiSS quest was unnecessary. Arthur Jones was widely Concord where he bad been inltlßjl grocery business for several Until early this year Mr. Jones tgEH associated with Calloway and S grocers, at Gibson Mills.. taken ill in March and following 1 toMB sickness lie suffered a complete Jter votts breakdown. H After disisising of his Calloway and Jones, Mr. Janeg, UMK d.ase,) a buTMTug "Trmti on North Spring street, and opeifwl, I fe a small grocery business. He operated tliis store only about a moilijSf-. 1 ® when bis health forced him tff fpgvjl main at home, and since that store lias been closed. « Possessing a magnetic Mr. Jones wits held in high catMmfH by his Concord friends. He . member of tlie McGill Street Baptists i church and was intensely tateajwMpifl in church activities until the failure of his health. Mr. Jones was a native of I county, being born near Mooreajtgfflp® He was 44 years of age. Mr. 9 was married to Miss Zulu I’ropst MB era! years ago and to this unionsJcmrl born one daughter, Marie living besides the wife and daugbtqji J* are: Mrs. James F Jones, mother tlie deceased ; one brother, 'L>wKNt9j Jones; and five sisters, Mrs. Austin. Charlotte; Mrs. .1 ohn,Lortg:£;jjß Monroe; Mrs. .1. W. Bailey, \Y. A. Crooks, nil of this city. 'ttM-l Funeral arrangements were io<sm|H| plete early tliis afternoon, and will IMSII announced later. RAIL PUBLICATION IN PRAISE OF THIS “Tee Pee Flashes” Pi 1 iilifcjJjPffl Issue Entirely To North Caroling, Raleigh. June 25.—(INS)—- the "proverbial’' progress of,, |§o*thi : 1 Carolina, the Old North State,'fa|£'| echoed around the four corners of ; tn9 United States! , 9 The Texas and Pacific Railway, Jjffl its periodical "Tee I’ee Flashes",a votes its June 15th issue entivdKfjiw North Carolina. It deals heelia's progress in education,'vOnMl roads, and agricultural and development. ■ The June issue of the periofligal l fortaß been calletl to the attention ernor Angus W. McLean of Carolina by J. E. Shores,;’ getjwjMkif agent of tlie Texas & Pacific "It is a generally a(rephi||tF«Hß I Iteiieve.” said Shores, "that the (jjffSi 4 gressive spirit of North Caroling.! hgff f become proverbial. For a number ot - years 1 have traveled over the StajjKil and have noted on every hand of well-directed progressiveneeg, ever. 1 did not full realise,.UntilVtflM cently the tremendous: growth hits taken place. .'Jj "Recently, I had occasion pUMH pare an article on your state publication. Tlie writing of this 1 tide naturally cnlleil flw a ciMHI study of statistics dealing with etlttgaH tion. agriculture. I which brought to my attention,l most striking manner, the eyttgoWMßl ary expansion that North has enjoyed.” ‘■fM Desert beetles eatt J which not only blisters human snL I but also gives off fumes *w9h' 1 fei't the nose and throat unplet^^K-'e