OKLAHOMA MINE DEATH
TOLL INCREASED TO 93
Wi'burton, Okla., Jan. 15.-The
death list in the explosion Wednesday
at the Degnan-McCor.nell mine No.-
21, Friday night apparently had been
increased to 93. Rel es workers late
today said they had located five bod
ies when only three previously had
been thought unrecovered. All five
■were negroes.
Forty-five convicts from the state
penitentiary at McAlester, nearby
prepared most of the graves for the
■victims, and tonight a long row of
fifty ranged sde-by-side in a little
cemetery in a valley near the mine.
Eight more were dug at the Wil
burton Catholic Cemetery and three
more in private burying grounds.
Some of the bodies are being sen*
to other towns for burial.
A few funerals were held late Fri
day, but most of them will be Sat
urday. Because of the inability of
local ministers to meet the demands
•of separate services, plans for a joint
service for a number of the victims
were discussed, but no definite de
cision was announced.
Jim McConnell, owner of the ill
fated nnfne, said today that he would
•do everything possible to prevent suf
fering among the dependants of the
dead miners pending returns from re
lief movements already started.
Following an appeal Thursday
from the Wilburton Lions Club, Gov
wide proclamation calling for dona
ernor Trapp today issued a nation
tions to a fund of SIOO,OOO. He de
signated the Lions club as the official
agency to receive donations.
<3ROTH IDENTIFIED AS
PENNSYLVANIA CONVICT
* Durham, Jan. 17. —J. E. Groth, was
bound over to superior court here
L on charges of store-breaking and
larceny, and under $5,500 bond which
he c % lot give, has been positively
identified as Martin Tabor, escaped
convict from Lancaster, Pa. Tabor
L, rated as a dangerous man, is wanted
R*; in Hampton, Va., on charges of lar
i' ceny, storebreaking thighway robbery
and safe-blowing. He is believed to
i. be wanted in other places and to have
fIL operated under various aliases.
Wf Identification was made through
K finger-prints and photographs broad
■ cast upon the escape of Tabor and
through the the local bureau of iden
■ tification.
It is believed Groth, al as Tabor,
who claims to be half French and
4 balf German and a former American
sailor will be tried in North Caro
-1 lina and if sentenced, returned to
k, Lancaster after the service of his
F term.
Groth was captured in Durham on
# * Friday morning when an early ar
t rival at the Durham laundry trapped
’him in the building. He had entered
eight places of business in the
I* heart of the city between three and
ft six a. m., and had a trunk and suit-
W case packed with stolen goods with
him in the laundry. He will be tried
in February, if he is tried here.
A SHELBY FACTORY TO
I MAKE SPOOL THREAD
■ Shelby, Jan. 17.—The Lily Mill
■ V has engaged upon the manufacture
V A spool thread for domestic use.
I "'his means that the Lily Mill is
putting out a product to buck a
I trust —the spool thread trust, with
■ trading headquarters in New York,
I and manufacturing headquarters in
B Connecticut.
■f' The managers of the mill have
■ ' laid plans to cut the ground from
Hi mder competition through undersell
■ ng. They are putting out a stand-
H* -rd thread to sell for ten cents a
H$ pool of four hundred yards, whereas,
H, ae trust thread sells for ten cents
[Hi-ior two hundred yards—a difference
H .of a little matter of a hundred per
BMcent. J. W. Schenck, of the Lily
Hm ■ lill, reported the new enterprise on
■ ♦‘riday. He said th e new undertak-
Hit * g is a week old. They are making
j e basic past of the thread at the
Mill, and finishing it up at the
H| * .wndale plant. At this latter plant,,
H ’ r the way, fancy parcel cord has
H, ♦ en successfully manufactured for
■ -ars, although the public dosen’t
B > ow a great deal about it.
■ ' Shelby people who have examined
H: e thread are very enthusiastic of
e new enterprise. They say it
H ress of Cleveland county.
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W ' ET CONTRACTS FOR
■ WAKE COUNTY ROADS
Hi ! F Contract for the stretch of road
R *» ween Apex an dCary, 6.61 miles in
T (gth, was let yesterday by the
"hway Commission to the Foster
H • istruction Company, of North
H kesboro, for $196,049.69.
HI 5 3ids w.ll be received for the first
”, cetch of eight mile 1 -' r '”* , ’ ’l"' nr h
Ht * > Route 21 leading Couth, February
K i
HV, 3ids will also be received for 6.6
HTy lies of road on Route 90 leading
Bj ast at the February 8, meeting.
WAKE POLITICAL POT
NOW BREWING
With the position of judge, which
is vacant only once every eight years,
to be filled in addition to the solicitor- ;
ship and every county office, present i
ndications are that all incumbents,
except Miss Lottie E. Lewis County
Treasurer, will be candidates in the
Wake county primary and that all of j
them with possibily one or two ex- ■
ceptions, will have opposition.
While time for formal candidacies i
has not yet arived and while sev-1
eral of those spoken of are as yet j
“in the hands of friends” instead of
being active or actual candidates and j
it may transpire that several of those ,
now being mentioned will decline to ;
enter the race leaving some of the |
present county officers without op-!
position.
Miss Lottie E. Lewis, who was
elected County Treasurer in 1922 end
re-elected in 1924 after bitterly be
ing fought against, is not now ex
pected to stand for renomination al
though no definite announcement has
yet been made.
Stonewall J. deputy under
L. D. Stephenson, the former treas- j
urer, is expected to be in the race and
if Miss Lewis does not run, J. M.
Mangum, the present deputy, is ex
pected to enter the lists.
The other incumbents including
Judge T. H. Calvert, who was elected
in a hotly contested four cornered
race in 1918, following his appoint
ment by Governor T. W. Bickett, are
expected to make the race. Judge ;
Calvert will probably be opposed by
Judge W. C. Harris < who has pre
sided over the Raleigh City Court
for about 15 years and who was in [
the race in 1918.
Solicitor W. F. Evans who has
made a somewhat spectacular record
during the four years he has been
in office, is regarded as almost cer
tain to have opposition but it is not
altogether certain who will furnish
it. Thomas W. Ruffin, who came to
Raleigh about a year ago from Frarik
lin county, the one other county in
this judical district, is now regarded
as the most likely candidate. Leon
S. Brassfield, former State Senator
and chairman of the Wake County
Democratic Executive Committee and
William Bailey Jones, nephew of Jo
siah Wiliam Bailey, have been fre
quently mentioned but it is not now
thought that either will run.
Vitruvius Royster, Clerk of Wake
County Superior Courq seems the
most likely of any of the officers in
• the court house to go back without
opposition but there has been con
siderable talk of Millar Mial, for
merly clerk of the court and now
chairman of the County Board of
Commissioners, making the race.
Under the law adopted by the 1925
legislature it will be impossible for
both Mr. Mial, commissioner and W.
L. Wiggs to be re-elected as both re
side in the newly created eastern dis
trict of the county. It is expected
that Mr. Wiggs will run again and
that his collegue will leave him a
clear field as far as the commissioner
is concerned. S. T. Bennett, of Apex
also comes up for re-election to the
board and so far no opposition has
developed from the western district.
There is now no commissioner from
the southern district and Hal D. Rand
former chairman of the board, who
was defeated two years ago is regard
ed as certtain to be a candidate from
that district and is expected to have
opposition. E. D. Peebles, of the
Raleigh district, and Dr. O. L. Ray,
of the northern do not come
up-- for re-election until 1928.
Henry G. Holding, for many years
county auditor, is now expected to
be opposed by Major J. J. Bernard,
former county commissioner, while
Mrs. Josephine Sallinger, of Knight
dale, and Needham L. Broughton, of
Garner, present member of the legis
lature are mentioned as possible
candidates against Register of Deeds
William Henry Penny. So far no
opposition has developed to Coroner
L. M. Waring.
Legislative lines are always the j
last to form but the usual large
flock of candidates is expected.
The most interesting of the rumors j
has been that Josiah William Bailey, !
defeated candidate for Governor, is
apt to stand against Senator Charles
U. Harris, who has represented the
county in the upper branch of the
legislature at the last two sessions.
However, this report has had no con
firmation.
With Mr. Borughton expected to
run for Register of Deeds, Thomas 1
L. Creekmcre, of Raleigh, and C. H. j
Chamblee of Zebulon, are left as
possible candidates to succeed them- i
selves. Willis Smith, Raleigh attor- j
ney, whose defeat in 1924 was re-1
garded by many as due entirely to
the fact that he was last minute en
try, is also expected to run and Car- i
roll W. Weathers, another defeated
candidate in 1924 is also being men
ioned again.—News and Observer.
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THE ZEBULON RECORD FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1926
TWENTY MEN GET OUT OF
WRECKED COAL MINE ALIVE
Fairmont, W. Va., Jan. 15 —Twenty
miners, entombed for 18 hours in the
far underground workings of the No.
i 8 mine of the Jamieson Coal and
! Coke Company, were brought out
alive late Friday, having been spared
the fate of at least seventeen of their
| fellows whose bodies have been re
-1 covered.
; One man, known to be in the mine
J at the time of the explos.on Friday
| night, is still unaccounted for. Com-
I pany officials said there might be
two, although only 38 men are defi
: nite’y known to have been in the
| workings.
' V ’•dually no hope had been held
j for the rescue of any of the men.
Word that all of the miners had not
perished came when a rescue crew
that had ventured far back from the
elevator shaft discovered the men
bratticed in a niche which had pro
tected them from the deadly fumes
that rolled through the mine follow
ing the blast. Rescuers at the top
i of the shaft dropped tools and em
braced the saved ones as they step
| ped from the elevator.
The men were in fairly good phy
sical condition, but were rushed t:>
first aid stations at the mine’s mouth
and later to hospitals.
Rescue work is being pushed with
added vigor in the hope that the one
man unaccounted for may be alive.
The first bodies were brought in
! from the mine Friday morning. Mem
bers of the rescue crews told of de
vastation wrought by the blast. A
ic-w of the bod es found later in the
day were about 201) feet from the
point of the explosion, which was cen
.cred about two and a half miles from
the shaft. These victims had ap
parently been asphixiated as they
lied toward the elevator.
Because of the condition of the
rescued workmen, they have not been
allowed to talk any great length, but
it is known they virtually had given
up hope of rescue some time before
they were found. A roughly chalked
message on a board, found in the r
bratticed subterranean prison, carried
what the men undoubtedly thought
was to be their farewell message to
the world.
The message, signed by John Mc-
Neal, 60-year-old compression engin
eer, follows:
“Some at the stable and some at
20 R shanty. So long.”
IN MEMORY OP MRS
WILLIAM SMITH
On Sunday, January 17th the death
Angel entered the home of Mr. Wil
liam Smith and took there from, his
loving wife. She had been sick with
pneumonia for one week and death
came not unexpected. All was done
for her that loving hands could do,
but God called her to be with him in
Heaven. We cannot understand why
she was taken so young, just twenty
three years of age, and it seems to
us she was needed so much in her
home, but God knows best, he gave
and he hath taken away.
Mrs. Smith gave her heart to
Jesus when she was seven years of
age and has lived a consecrated
Christian life, she was a good wife
and a kind mother and greatly loved
by all who knew her. She was be
fore her marriage, Miss Pattie Moye.
She leaves a husband, two small chil
dren and a host of relatives and
friends.
The funeral service was held at ]
Pine Ridge Baptist church of which
she was a faithful member, and was
conducted by her pastor, Rev. S. L.
Lamm. She was laid to rest in the
cemetery at Bethlehem church to l
await the resurrection morn. May
God bless and comfort all those who I
feel so keenly the loss of her, and ;
may they be prepared when the sum-1
mons comes to them so they can meet
her in that wor’d that has no end 1
where there will be no more sickness, j
no dying, where no parting words I
are said, and no farewell tears are
shed, but all will be joy and life- ■
ever-lasting, in that home where
Jesus is. A Friend.
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE
The undersigned having qualified
l as administrator of Vernon Lee
Lewis, deceased, formerly of W..ke
; County, North Carol na, this is to
notify all persons having clams
1 against said estate to present them
j to the undersigned on or before Fri
day, February 12th, 1926. Or this
' notice will be pleaded in bar of the
. recovery.
All persons indebted to raid estate
, will please make immediate payment
to the undersigned.
Th s loth day of January, 1926.
L. M. GOULD,
Administrator,
Zebulon, N. C.
STILL TALKING OF CUT
IN COTTON ACERAGE
New Orleans, La., Jan. 13.—Al- 1
though the gathering at Atlanta to 1
consider the cotton acreage problem
assembled as scheduled, it did not 1
accomplish much as it was realized 1
that the call had been issued at too
short a notice and too near the holi
days. Hence the meeting was ad
journed until some time in February, i
when there will be a better organized j
gathering at Memphis after prelim-1
inary meetings of State associations
and interests in all the cotton States.!
Before adjourning however, the At- i
lanta meeting adopted resolutions ad- i
vocating a decrease in acreage for the j
coining crop of 25 per cent.
There is probably as little likeli
hood that acreage will be cut 25 ;
per cent as there waas that it would
be reduced one-third, but there is |
no doubt that constant agitation for 1
acieage decrease during the next few'
months will result in at least a size- j
able reduction, particularly if pro
ducers are faced with dificulties in
securing financial advances with
which to make the coming crop.
COURT DECISION IN
THIS STATE UPHELD
Washington, Jan. 18.—For want of j
jurisdiction, the Supreme Court Mon
day dismissed the appeal of the
Southern Cotton Oil Company from
the decision of the North Carolina
Supreme Court.
The State court's decision that the
suit of the oil company, seeking j
to recover damages from the At
lantic Coast Line Railroad for an
alleged failure to deliver a part of
a shipment of cotton seed oil, not
having been brought in time, was
barred by the statute of limitations, j
was upheld. The contention of the
railroad was that no question giv-1
ing the Supreme court jurisdiction to \
review the case had been presented.
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SAYS HE FIREF' FIRST
GUN IN WAR OF SIXTIES
Ashville, Jan. 19. —The cloak of j
years that bent ,the shoulders of a j
handful of Confederate veterans whg
had assembled to conmemorate the
birthday of General Robert E. Lee,
dropped for a mag c moment when
■
■
T. Y\ Lyda, Company E, Buncombe
County Riflemen, recounted the
story of how he fired the first gun
of the War Between the States on
June 8, 1861, in a preliminary skiri
mish before the battle of Bethel
Church.
A detail of ten men had been sent |
ahead, he said, to break up skirmish- ,
ing expeditions of Federal troops who |
were stationed at Newport News. He j i
was carrying his gun in hand when I <
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the detail was halted by a company
of Federal soldiers. He was the first
man to obey the order “fire!” it is
accredited. Lyda, together with an
other Confederate soldier, Gus Adams
took one prisoner, the first of the
war, during the skirmish, which pre
ceded the battle of Bethel Church by
two days.
The close of Lyda’s talk was greet
ed with the old rebel yell by hia
comrades in gray.