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HI second week of hear-
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■Lent of reservoirs on
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must ho strength-
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channels or
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Kr-{ capacity of the river
Eased.
E-Snrveys of the tributary
Eucertain how’ navigation
Ljpaent and flood control
Etd In one effort;
Eji« construction of reser
■jfrm on tributary streams
Ebjthe surveys;
Reforestation."
It AIR ROUTE
■ OPENS MARCH FIRST
HAwnmces That lighting
K Will Be Awarded.
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Etqnipping the New York
■iinrsy with lights and land
■ rll be awarded on bids
End November 22. Aseist-
Kry of Commerce MeCrack-
Etd today, and the new air
He rill be In full operation
■ bight and passengers by
la contracts have been plac-
Hanttruction work started on
Bk of the route except for
Ba Greensboro and Rieh-
Bn will be covered by the
Btontrtct
B trank will be 778 miles
Bd by eighty revolving air-
Bu. and equipped with thir-
Bfitte landing fields for
B The Pitcairn Aviation,
■)w awarded the mail con-
Hwiednies starting March 1,
Bhons to start daily ma
terminal at 9 p. m., to
B&chmond. Contract will
■** >3 installations shall be
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■forking on Theory That 20-
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Binned.
•Wile, Xov. 12 —The body
E) -O-year-old Henderson
found in a barn on
■wither place, on old Ashe-
three miles from here.
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Hill and Coroner A.
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and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, placing wreath on the Tomb of ths
Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery, Washington, during Armistice
Hay observation. ~ -
Think Fair Estimates on Costs
Are Still Much Too High
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Nov. 14 —That estimates
of architects that SIOO,OOO would be
required to get the State Fair grounds
ready for a fair next year, and that
$25,000 would be required for main
tenance the first year are consider
ably too high, according to experi
enced fair- men, who believe that the
grounds can be gotten into shape for
much less than SIOO,OOO aqd that not
more than SIO,OOO or $15,000 will be
required to finance it the first year.
Although it would easily be pos
sible to spend SIOO,OOO or more on
the grounds in landscaping them,
planting trees and shrubbery, and in
further* beautifying them generally,
this should be done gradually ,as the;
fair itself grows, rather than all at
once and right at the beginning, is
the opinion of W. S. Moye, who has
Considerable, experience in building
and managing fairs and who is being
prominently mentioned for the post of
secretary and general manager of the
State Fair. So instead of spending
SIOO,OOO on the grounds and $25,000
for running expenses the first year,
leaving only $75,000 for buildings,
Mr. Moys thinks that not over $50,-
000 should toe spent on the grounds
and race track to begin with and
that what buildings are needed at
first should toe of permanent rather
than temporary construction.
To begin with, the fair could op
erate with but two main buildings
to house exhibits, and only one if
necessary, Mr. Moye believes, who
while favoring permanent buildings
for the poultry, swine and livestock
divisions, says that for the first year
these could be housed under tents,
which would afford almost as com
fortable and commodious quarters at
a great saving in cost.
Though eventually the State Fair
should have surfaced roadways, paved
sidewalks and beautifully landscaped
grounds, * many feel that this should
be brought about gradually, and that
for the first year only the most neces
sary improvements should be made.
Thus it is believed that all neces
sary roadways can be constructed and
graveled walkways put down and all
immediately necessary water and sew
NEW HARD-SURFACED
HIGHWAYS ARE OPEN
Three Different Routes From John
son City to Asheville Are Opened
Now.
Johnson City, Tenn., Nov. 14.
(INS) —For the first time in history,
three different hard-surfaced routes
are open this Fall from Johnson City
to Asheville, thus still further link
ing the two cities, which are recogniz
ed as the north and south gateways
to the mountains. One route, via
Elizabethton and Spruce Pine, is
about 125 miles. A second, via Erwin,
Tenn., and Marshall, N. C., is about
100 miles, while the third, via
Earnestville and Burnsville, is only
eighty-five. All three routes are re
ceiving a heavy amount of traffic.
Other road building activities in
clude the completion of the Erwin
road and the final survey on the new
road from Johnson City to the
Glanzstoff and Homberg plants, by a
new and much shorter route, is also
ready for construction.
\Vater Too Cold For Would-Be Sui
cide.
Baltimore, Nov. 12. Because the
water was too cold, Mrs. Minnie
Risik changed her mind at the last
minute after she had resolved to end’
her life in the harbor.
Her husband, Joseph, asserted that
he returned home to find a note telling
of her resolve and indicating the exact
spot where her body would be found.
After frantically notifying police,
he hurried toward the harbor, he said,
only to meet his wife returning.
Laughing for the first tij ll ® , in
months, Risk asserted Mrs. Risik in
formed him that “the water looked
too cold.”
County Judge Indicted-
Helena, Ark., Nov. 14 -
Charged with diverting a sooo check
belonging to the county to his own
use. County Judge John C. »hef
field has been indicted for embezzle
ment and felony.
The check was given Judge Shef
field in payment for cotton raised on
the county farm January 21, and it
was not deposited in the bank where
county funds are kept, it was charged.
Judge Sheffield, a practing attorney
in Helena, has refused to discuss the
indictment.
Baden has one of the largest out
door swimming pools in the world.
er lines laid and a race track and ade
quate grandstands constructed for not
much more than $50,000 instead of
SIOO,OOO as the architects suggest.
Then this system can be added to
and expanded from year to year as
the fair expands. It is also sug
gested that much could be saved in
the construction of the race track
through the employment of a prac
tical race track man as supervisor,
and the use of convict labor in the
actual construction This would be
easy, it is believed, since the fair
site is located on a part of the State
prison farm, only a few miles from
one of the prison farm barracks, and
much of the labor that is idle during
the winter months could thus be uti
lized.
That not more than SIO,OOO or at
most $15,000 would be needed for op
erating expenses, inasmuch as most
of the expense connected with, a fair
does not become payable until the fair
actually gets underway, those famil
iar with fairs point out. In the first
place, the fair management should re
ceive from SB,OOO to SIO,OOO from
carnival companies, eating stands,
etc., for concession privileges, about
10 per cent, of thisr paid at the time
the contracts are made, the balance
to be paid before expiration of the
fair, so that this sum would be avail
able in cash to apply toward fair ex
penses. Likewise, the premium lists
should not only pay for itself but
yield some income to the fair man
agemftit as a result of the advertis
ing carried in it, so there should toe
another source of revenue there. The
holding of stake horse races will also
prove another source of income, since
the entry fees must be paid long in
advance of the fair meeting. Conse
quently it is believed that the fair
can easily be financed on from $lO,-
000 to $15,000 instead of $25,000,
and the difference devoted to the con
struction of better and more perma
nent buildings.
Just what will be done, however,
still rests with the board of direc
tors and largely on who the board se
lects as secretary and general man
ager and the leeway that will be al
lowed him in going ahead with the
work of building a state fair
THE COTTON MARKET.
Opened Easy Today at Decline of 5
to 15 Points Under Selling.
New York, Nov. 14.— (A*) —The
cotton market opened easy today at a
decline of 5 to 15 points under selling
promoted by reports of warm weather
in the South and relatively easy
Liverpool cables. There were rallies
of 8 to 10 points after the call on
buying encouraged by the report of the
Census Bureau showing consumption
of 612,935 bales of cotton in this coun
try during October, compared with
568,361 for the same month of last
year.
The bulges met increased offerings,
however, and the market,was barely
steady at the end ofthe first hour,
January celling around 19 :85 and May
20 :16, or about 8 to 14 points lower.
ADD N Y —COTTON—
The market eased later under liqui
dation by recent buyers who seemed
to be influenced by the failure of
the consumption figures to bring in
more buying. There also was some
continued near month liquidation. De
cember sold off to 19.67 and March
to 19.92, making net declines of 20
to 21 points and prices were within
3 or 4 points of the lowest at mid
day.
Cotton futures opened easy: Dec.
19.70; Jan. 19.85; March 20.05; May
20.15; July 20.03
Offer Aid To Father of Quadruplets.
Johnson City, Tenn., Nov, 14 —
(INS) —Sam Chase, father of the
now famous Chase - Quadruplets, this
week disposed'of his meager holdings
in Greene County and began work
at his new job with a chair company
here.
Donations for the Chase home, now
being built here, continue to roll in
to the Kiwanis Club Building Fund.
At the same time the Optimist Club
fund for current expenses continues
to grow and the future of the Chase
Family looks much brighter.
Mrs. Chase is expected to be con
valenscent by the later part of this
week. The four babies, nmed for the
children of Teddy Roosevelt , the
great believer in large families, con
tiue to progress nicely.
Fall Returns.
Washington, Nov. 12 —Albert B.
Fall, aceompied by members of his
family, left here tonight for New
Mexico where he will attempt to re
gain his health at his ranch at Three
Rivers.
CONCORD, N. C., MON DA
COLD. WAVE SWEEPS
EASTWARD AS SNOW
FALLS IN THE WEST
Salt Lake City, Nov. 14. — UP) —
Storms in the northern Rocky
Mountain states which closed high
ways and sent a cold wave sweep
ing eastward today extended into
Utah and Nevada, to seal moun
tain passes.
A heavy snowfall in the Sierra
Nevada Mountains near Keno
blocked passes and forced tourists
back to points east of that range.
Air mail planes bound for west
coast cities were held at Reno yes
terday by snow and rain moving
southward from Idaho. , ,
LARGE SUMS DONATED
FOR NEGRO EDUCATION
More Than $2,000,000 Made By Othejr
Than State Agencies in Fast 25
Years.
The Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Nov. 14. —Contributions
that have been made by other than
state agencies to the betterment of
negro education in North Carolina
have amounted to almost $2,000,000
within the last 25 years, and have
played a big part in the development
of better schools for negroes, according
to an exhaustive discussion of these
various agencies in the latest issue of
School Facts, published by the State
Department of Public Instruction.
Most of this nearly $2,000,000, which
has been given to both private and
public negro educational institutions,
has come from four sources, namely
the General Education Board, the
Anna T. Jeanes fund, the John F.
Slater fund, and the Julius Rosen-'
wald fund. More than half of the total
has been contributed by the General
Education board, $931,831 having
been contributed to the public and
private negro educational institutions
in the state within a period of 25
years.
The next largest sum for negro edu
cation has been derived from the
Rosen wald fund, and expenditures from
this fund in the state between 1921
and June 30, 1927, totaled $529,436.
Expenditures from the Slater fund
total $99,474, and from the Jeanes
fund $156,863, which brings the total
from all the various philanthropic
angencies to $1,877,132. This does not
include more than $500,000 donated by
the colored people themselves to
further educational work.
One of the largest contributions
from any private agency has been from
the Rosenwald fund, which goes ex
clusively toward the building of
modern school houses and homes for
teachers in the state. Since this fund
was made available in North Caro
lina, it has assisted in the construc
tion of 636 school houses, which had
to be up to a certain approved
standards and 16 teachers’ homes.
These schools have a capacity for 82,-
305 pupils, and 1,829 teachers.
And while the Rosenwald founda
tion has distributed more than $3,-
000,000 in 14 southern states since it
began operations, North Carolina leads
all of theee other states in the number
of schools assisted, as well as in the
total number of teachers and pupils
accommodated, as well as in the total
amount received from the fund. Mis
sissippi ranks next to North Carolina,
with 473 buildings and a total of
$412,900 received from the fund, while
South Carolina ranks third with 377
buildings and $353,800 received from
the fund.
Inspired by the assistance offered
by the Rosenwald foundation, the peo
ple of the state, both white and colored
and the state itieelf have responded
nobly, school facts show. For to match
the $529,436 from the Rosenwald
fund, the negroes of the state have
voluntarily contributed $569,261 —
more than the Rosenwald gifts—indi
vidual white people have given SOB,-
615, while the public at large through
the state have contributed $2,226,737.
Thus these various philanthropic
agencies have stimulated the state and
the people of the state to greater in
terest and greater accomplishment
along the lines of negro education, ajl
of them seeking, with the funds
their disposal to be of the greatest
service to the public and private negro
school authorities in the state by
providing more adequate educational
facilities for every negro boy and girl
in the state.
Youth Collapses After Long Walk To
Join Navy.
Wilmington, N. C., Nov- 13 —After
walking the entire distance from
Edgemore, S. C., to Wilmington,
Frank Westerlund was so exhausted
when he crossed the Cape Fear Riv
er ferry that he fell in front of the
customhouse and was taken to a lo
cal hospital for treatment.
It was declared at the hospital
that he was suffering no injuries but
was completely exhausted and had
fainted after reaching the city. A
friend of the walker told authorities
that Westerlund had come to Wil
mington for the purpose of joining
the navy.
BAPTISTS OF STATE
GATHER IN DURHAM
State Meeting Starts There
on Tuesday.—The Pastors
Meet Today.
Durham, Nov. 14. — 04*) —Pre-
liminary to the 97th annual State
Baptist Convention, the annual
Baptist pastors’ conference be
gan here today.
The minister and a vacant pul
pit, the minister’s debts, and the
minister dealing with opposition
to his church, were themes ex
pounded by Revs. J. B. Willis,
Hamlet; J. B. Turner, of Ra
leigh, and J. W. Knicheloe, of
Rocky Mount. The conference
ends tomorrow morning with the
election Os officers.
The Baptist centennial cam
paign, manned by Dr. Charles F.
Maddry, general secretary of the
convention, is the paramount pro
gram before the general meeting
which will last through Thurs
day.
, NOVE MBER 14, 1927.
More Than Score Killed And
Several Hundred Injured As
Mammoth GasT ankExploded
Aerial Celebrities of Nation
Are Guests of the President
rN Washington, Nov. 14.— UP) —Aerial
Celebrities of the nation numbering
'nearly a score of men and 1 woman,
,who have won glory in trans-oceanic
Sights, assembled here today as
guests of President Coolidge and lat
er to honor their dean—Col. Charlee
A Lindbergh.
Lindbergh’s journey by plane from
New York with his mother and Mr.
tfind Mrs. Harry A. Guggenheim was
fcmed so that his landing at Bolling
■field would complete the group invit
ed to lunch with the President at the
White House, and tonight see Mr.
Coolidge give the flying colonel the
National Geographical Society’s Hub
bard medal.
While awaiting the Lindbergh cere
monies, his co-heroes in ocean flights
swapped reminiscences and then mov
ed in a body to the Commerce Depart
ment, w’here with Assistant Secretary
MacCracken they recounted their ex
periences with weather on their his
SHOOTING AFFAIR.
Ed Cox, of Suruce Pine, Seriously
Wounded When Shot By Ray Wise
man.
Newland, N. 0., Nov. 14.— UP)— Ed
Cox, Spruce Pine youth, was lying to
day at the home of his father, John
Cox, in a serious condition from, a pis
tol bullet wound inflicted by Ray
Wiseman, 21, Sunday night, it was
said after Wiseman had warned Cox
and Buster Ollis, a companion, to
cease beating on the door of his home
at Toe River, near Elk Park. The
young men were said to have gone to
the home after stopping at Wiseman’s
filling station nearby.
Wiseman said that they became
more and more boisterous, and that he
opened the front door and fired out
after he had warned them to leave.
Cox was struck in the leg, the wound
resulting in complete paralysis.
Salisbury Negro Runs Amuck, But
Is Finally Subdued.
Salisbury, Nov. 13.—John Agnew,
negro, enlivened the town today and
cgjjsed the police department to use
up a page of record book putting
down the charges against him, among
which are transporting liquor, speed
ing and reckless driving, passing red
signal lights and assualt with a
deadly weapon to-wit, an automobile.
When officers and citizens crowued
the negro to the sidewalk he rushed
them, striking Fletcher Cauble, who
was assisting the officers, and inflict
ed painful injuries. He is being held
under SI,OOO bond.
Reprieve For Negro.
Raleigh, Nov. 14. — UP) —Governor
McLean today granted a reprieve mov
ing the electrocution date of Hector
Graham, Hope county negro slayer of
Captain Paul Johnson, propinent
planter, to December 9th.
The solicitor requested the reprieve
in order that a full hearing may be
had on November 22. Graham was to
have died Friday.
Rural Police Officer Burrus Dies of
Hurts at Asheville.
Asheville, Nov. 12.—Messages of
condolence from cities along the Ap
palachian scenic highway from At
lanta to Binghamton, N. Y., were ar
riving here by the Score tonight as
news of the death of John Burrus,
26, rural policeman of Buncombe
county, who piloted the recent mo
torcade to Montreal and Quebec spread
over the country.
THE STOCK MARKET
Reported by Fenner & Beane.
(Quotations at 1:30 p. m.)
Atchison lO2
American Can 7l
Allied Chemical 151%
American Smelting 172%
American Tel. & Tel. 177%
Atlantic Coast Line 190%
Baltimore & Ohio 119%
Bethlehem Steel 54
Chesapeake & Ohio 213%
Chrysler 56%
Corn Products 64%
New York Central 165%
Dupont 3lB
Erie 04%
Fleishman 6B
St. Louis-Francis. RR. lll
General Electric 129%
Gold Dust __ 66%
General Motors —. 131%
Gen. Ry. Signal 121%
Houston Oil 163
Hudson Motors 67%
Kennecott Copper BO
Liggett & Myers 121%
Lorillard 42%
Mack Truck lOO%
Mo.-Pacific Pfd. „ 110%
Mo.-Pacific Com. 53%
Montgomery Ward B6
Nash Motors 87%
Packard Motors 49%
Penn. RR. 65%
Phillips Pete 42%
Producers and Refiners 27%
Reading RR.| 109%
“B” Rey Tob. Com. 153
Rock Island RR. 108
Sears Roebuck 79%
Southern Ry. l4l
Std. Oil of N. J. 40%
Sou. Pac. RR. 121
Studebaker Corp. 56
Tobacco Prodc. lO4
Union Carbine 140%
Tick Chemical 6l
Wabash RR. 64%
YVestinghouse Elec. Co. B4
West. Maryd. RR. 50
YVoolworth 194%
U. S. Steel 139
Coca-Cola 122%
toric hops.
The group of famous aviators whose
names have been headlined through
out the world—Byrd, Acosta, Bal
chen, Chamberlain, Levine, Maitland,
Hegenberger, Goebel, Schlee and Brock
and others—bowed in homage and ad
mitted to their fraternity the lone
woman who shares their place in the
aeronautical sun—Miss Ruth Elder.
Garbed in one of the French gowns
she purchased to replace her flying
knickers, she arrived early with Geo.
Haldeman, her co-pilot, on her flight
that landed her in the ocean near the
Azores. After the excitement of con
gratulations from her predecessors in
over-water flight, the girl who leaped
overnight to fame took occasion to de
ny that har new prominence had es
tranged her from her 24-year-old hus
band, Lyle Womack—he will leave
today for Panama, but she will not go
with him, returning instead to New
York tomorrow to examine numerous
contracts offered her.
BURNS AND HIS SON
BEFORE GRAND JURY
Want to Explain About Reports That
Burns Detectives Had Fabricated
Testimony.
Washington, Nov. 14.—UP)—Wil
liam J Burns and his son, W. Sher
man liurns, who have come under
concentrated fire in the Teapot Dome
oil jury tampering case, were given
permission today by the government
to explain to the federal grand jury
the circumstances surrounding charg
es that Burns men had fabricated tes
timony which would have led to a
mistrial in the Fall-Sinclair case.
In contrast to his attitude when he
first appeared in court here in con
nection with the case and made sen
sational counter charges against the
government, the elder Burns today
had little to-say. After leaving Dis
trict Attorney Gordon’s office, he told
some of his assistants that he wanted
to meet with all of his men who were
here shadowing the oil trial jury.
Burns asked particularly for Chas.
O. Ruddy, manager of his Philadel
phia office and directing head of the
eerps of operatives who kept the oil
jury under more or less surveillance
from the beginning of the trial on Oc
tober 18th, until the declaration of a
mistrial by Justice Siddous. Ruddy
was not in the corridor at the time,
but showed up a few moments later.
“Ruddy, the governor wants to see
you downstairs,” one of the Burns
Operatives informed him.
Ruddy descended the steps hurried
ly and the other detectives, all -of
whom are under government sub
poenas, followed him.
The grand jury inquiry then was
continued, Burkinshaw presenting
some odds and ends of testimony de
signed to fill some of the gaps still
remaining before the jury meets to
decide whether any presentmeht is to
be made, and if so, against whom in
dictments are to be drawn.
MUFFLE DRY ISSUE,
IS WALSH’S ADVICE
Senator Thinks Democrats Can Win
if Vexing Question Is Eliminated.
Washington, Nov. 10. —Senator
Walsh, of Montana, thinks the wet-or
tlry issue should not figure in the next
presidential campaign, and that if the
Democrats can* get by this stumbling
block the party will be in a position
to win in 1928.
Returning here recently the senator
declined to discuss candidates but de
ny he will be Montana’s favorite son,
supported by various ardent drys.
However, from all reports, including
those of former McAdoo adherents,
Gov. Smith, of New York, will be
Montana’s second choice. Senator
Walsh has avoided taking a position
hostile to Smith
Commeting on the prohibition ques
tion the senator emphasized that it
should be eliminated as an issue by
both parties and left the impression
that if the Democratic platform de
clared for enforcement the dry issue
would cease to be an obstacle to
Smith’s nomination.
Senator Walsh, like Gov. Smith, is
a Catholic. Montana supported Mc-
Adoo in 1924. Many of Sen. Walsh’s
friends believe he will seek the nomi
nation as vigorously as possible, but
if unable to command formidable
strength, he will not be antagonistic
to Gov. Smith. They believe Senator
Walsh seeks to consolidate the drys
who profess to have no objection to
Gov. Smith on religious grounds.
Senator Walsh said he thought
Montana Republicans would be for
Lowden. He predicted his Democratic
colleague, Senator Wheeler, would be
re-elected.
As to the coming session, Senator
Walsh said he would revive his reso
lution calling for a nation-wide inves
tigation of the “Power Trust.” This
resolution, caught in the filibuster last
spring, probably will pass easily this
winter, and the projected inquiry will
look into the influences behind the
Boulder Dam and Muscle Shoals proj
ects.
The senator predicted also that
Vare, of Pennsylvania, and Smith, of
Illinois, Republican senators-elect,
both be refused seats in the Senate.
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Shoes for school at Belk’s. In a
new ad. today you can learn all about
them. Prices 98c to $3.95.
The Ritchie Hardware Co. is hav
ing a big demonstration of silverware
this week. On Friday a 26-piece
service tray set will be given away
free. Each lady entering the store
gets a ticket free. Read ad. in this
paper for particulars.
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance
RESCUE WORK IS
MOST DIFFICULT
Tank Was in Lower North
Side District of Pitts
burgh and Spread Death
and Destruction There.
BUILDINGS ARE
TOTAL WRECKS
When Tank Burst Ball of
Fire Higher Than Top of
Mountain Shot Into Air,
Spreading Like Fan.
Pittsburgh, Nov. 14. —C4*)—More
than a score of persons were known
to have been killed, and several hun
dred injured here today when a mam
moth gas storage tank exploded,
spreading death and destruction
throughout the lower North Side dis
trict.
Hampered in the work of rescue by
wrecked buildings, streets flooded by
broken water mains and dangling elec
tric wires, police and firemen finally
penetrated a part of the devastated
area. They recovered seven bodies
within a few minutes, and newspaper
men at the scene said they had count
ed at least twenty dead in the streets
and the wrecked houses.
The tank, containing 5,000,000
cubic feet of natural gas, let loose
with one of the most terrific blasts in
Pittsburgh’s history. Practically ev
ery building in the immediate vicinity
was wrecked, and windows over a
wide area were shattered, including
some in clowntown department stores
and office structures.
When the tank burst, a ball of fire
higher than the adjacent top of Mt.
Washington shot into the air, spread
ing out in fan shape
The scene of the disaster was one
of wild confusion. Residents of the
thickly settled district rushed about
the streets as if mad. Women sought
their children, while men dug into
the debris of their homes in an effort
to bring out some loved one trapped
in the wreckage.
The blast ripped down all telephone
and light wires, knocked over poles
and caused houses to tumble down.
Streets in the ill-fated region bulged,
breaking water and sewer pipes.
Pieces of the tank supports, some
weighing more than 100 pounds, were
found a mile from the scene.
A street car three blocks from the
tank when it let go, was wrecked,
and every passenger aboard was hurt.
Many school children in a nearby
school yard were cut by flying glass
when windows in the structure were
shattered.
500 Were Injured.
Pittsburgh, Nov. 14. — 04*) —Four-
teen persons are known to have met
death and more than 500 were in
jured, some seriously, here today,
when a giant natural gas storage tank
at the Manchester works of the Equit
able Gas Company exploded, spread
ing death and destruction over an
area of one mile quare.
Firemen, police and volunteer res
cuers were digging into the ruins of
scores of buildings in the belief that
others had been killed and their
bodies in the debris
OVERTON ELECTED
MAYOR OF MEMPHIS
Former Private in A. EL F. Swent
Into Office by Overwhelming Vora
Over Incumbent.
Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 10. —Wat-
kins Overton, running on a lower
taxes platform and supported by the
county political organization, was
elected mayor of Memphis by an
overwhelming majority over the in
cumbent, Rowlet Paine, in today’s
municipal election.
Carrying virtually every precinct,
Overton swept into office with turn
his entire ticket of commissioners,
composed of Cliff Davis, Sam Jack
son, O. I. Kruger and A. P. Walsh.
THE STOCK MARKET.
Fractional Gains Were Scored by
Long List of Stock at Market’s
Opening.
New York, Nov. 14.—C4*)—Frac
tional gains were scored by a long
list of stocks at the opening of to
day’s market, Southern Railway op
ening with an initial advance of 1 1-3
to a new top at 141 3-4. Interna
tional Harvester was up 1 3-4 points
at the start.
Building Program at Tennessee Uni
versity.
Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 9. —(INS)
—Eight buildings, to cost $200,000
each, a library at $400,000 and the ex
penditure of $500,000 at its Memphis
departments, is on the program of the
University of Tennessee, according to
trustees of the university.
Financing of the projects was mode
possible through a $2,500,000 appro
priation by the last session of the
state legislature. The buildings in
clude a men’s dormatory. gym and
auditorium, a new administration
building to replace South College,
women’s dormatory, library buildings,
college of education, engineering and
biology building.
Infant Digests Open Safety Pin.
Baltimore, Md., Nov. B.—Frances
Sheffel, age three weeks, today suc
cessfully digested an open safety pin
and -was pronounced out of danger.
The infant swallowed the pin while
being dressed.
LESS COTTON USED
IN OCTOBER THAN
DURING SEPTEMBER
The Total For Past Month
Showed an Increase Oyer
October of Last Year,
New Figures Show,
COTTON STATES
LEAD COUNTRY
About Two Thirds of Total
Used in Cotton Growing
States Million Bales
Exported in the Month.
Washington, Nov. 14.—C4»)—Cob
ton consumed during October to
talled 612,935 bales of lint and 73.-
193 of linters, compared with 627,321
of lint and 78,260 of linters during
September this year, and 568,351 of
lint and 75,401 of linters during Oc
tober last year, the Census Bureau
announced today.
Cotton on hand October 31st was
held as follows:
In consuming establishments, 1,-
327,095 bales of lint and 142,174 of
linters.
In public storage and at Compress
es, 5,431,128 bales of lint and 46,514
of linters.
Imports for October totalled 19,235
bales.
Exports for October totalled 11,-
126,509 bales, including 13.491 bales
of linters.
Cotton spindles active during Oc
tober numbered 32.497,504. *
Statistics for cotton growing states
included:
Cotton consumed during October
449,040 bales.
On hand October 81st:
In consuming establishments, 971,-
909 bales
In public storage and at com
presses 5,146,462 bales,
t/otton spindles active, 17,770,442.
LUMBER YARDS SOON
TO BELL EVERYTHING
Will Deliver Completed House And
Mortgage, Is Prediction Made By-
Lumber Dealers.
Mobile, Ala., Nov. 14.—(INS) —
That the lumber, yard of the futuro
will sell to the public homes com
plete from cellars to garret, mortgage
included, was the forecast maae to
lumber dealers of Alabama in ses
sion here for their first annual con
vention by Harry J. Colman, pf Chi
cago, who is the merchandizing ex
pert of the National Lumber Dealers
Association.
W. M. Richardson, president of the
Alabama Lumber and Building Ma
terial Association, presided at tho
opening session and made his annual
address. Dr. Allen G. Loehr, of Bir
mingham, secretary of the association
reported on the growth of the asocia
tion and declared it had expanded
more rapidly than any other organi
zation in the state in the same length
of time. Other speakers were Dr.
Thomas R. Bridges, rector of All
Saints Episcopal Church, Mayor Har
ry T. Hartwell, A. Disham, of An
niston, W. B. Coats, of Montgomery,
John L. Kaul, of Birmingham, presi
dent of the National Manufacturers
Association, J. R. Oden, of Birming
ham, R. A. Stricklin, of Florence,-ana
Thornton Estes, of Birmingham.
FORMER SHERIFF IS
DEAD OF INJURIES
Jesse W. Thomas Dies From Injuries
Received When TYain Struck His
Auto.
Tarboro, N. C„ Nor. 11. —G4»)—
Succumbing to injuries received when
his automobile was struck by an At
lantic Coast Line passenger train at
a crossing near here November Ist,
Jesse W. Thomas, former sheriff of
Edgecombe county, died at a local
hospital today. Mr. Thomas, who
was 62, is survived by three daugh
ters and two sons.
Funeral services will be held at 3
o’clock tomorrow afternoon.
Win Protest and Then Decide Not
to Take it.
Winston-Salem, Nov. 10.—Follow
ing the ruling of E. R. Rankin, State
Athletic Director in charge of High
School Sports, reinstating Winston-
Salem in the High School football
championship series and disqualifying
the Lexington high school form further
participation in the series, as a re
sult of alleged breaking of rules by the
Lexington club during the game, G.
H. Latham Superintendent of Schools
of Winston-Salem sent a telegram to
Mr. Rankin today declining to further
participate in the series. In this Supt.
Latham says:
“We have decided that it will ba
best not to participate further in foot*
ball championship elimination series.’*
All Kinds Os Work For Firemen.
Atlanta Ga., Nov. 14—(INS) —“I
want my balloon,” a youngster cried.
In fact he cried so much his mother
thought there must be something
done about it. >
She telephoned the fire department,
“Fireman, save my child.”
And a fire company hooked up In
high and dashed out there expecting
to find the building in flames.
Firemen rescued the baloon by
means of a ladder.
Buenos A Ires boasts a dozen golf
courses, and the standard of play
among the Argentinians is creditably
high.
MM
Cloudy and warmer tonight and
Tuesday. Moderate northeast andeasi
winds shifting to south wind*)
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