North Carolina Newspapers

ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI AHOTHIfTOI BEING FORKED FOR FLIGHT TO ARCTIC New Expedition Being Or ganized by Lieut. Com mander Byrd, of Ameri can Navy. CmZENS~ARE GIVING MONEY Edsel Ford and John D. Rockefeller Each Has Given $20,000 for Flight Expenses. Washington, Jan. 30.—OP)—An in dependent expedition to explore the Arctic from the air is being organized by Lieutenant Commander Richard K. Byrd, of Winchester. Va., who commanded the navy section of the MacMillan expedition last summer. The enterprise will be financed by American citizens, among those who already pledged support being. John I). Rockefeller, Jr., and Edsel Ford, each of whom has offered $20,000. Commander Byrd is negotiating now with several concerns for suitable craft for the expedition, either of the dirigible or neroplane type. Each in his belief has good (mints for such an undertaking. W’.iile it is now the plan to com pete with the expedition of the De troit Aviation Society which intends to hop off from Point Barrow, Alaska, for the North Pole this year, the aims of the two are in certain respects similar. Each will look for land in unknown region between Alaska and the North Pole, and By ml also may attempt to reach the Pole. Tlte navy officer’s primary object, however, is to explore the unknown regions nortli Os Greenland, Canada and Alaska, using either Spitsbergen or lotah, Greenland, as n base. In Epitzbergen is the point front which Amundsen hopped off Inst year in his attempt to reach the Pole by air plane and Etah was the main base of the MacMillan expedition. Present prospects favor Spitsberg en as a base, with Byrd flying from there to Cape Morris, Jessup in Peary Land at the northern tip of Green land and then striking off toward the Pole. ■ »—r- London, Jan, 30. —A scheme to ct-1 ploit the valuable mineral products that lie buried in the Dend Sea and in the soil 6f the Holy Land is in contemplation. A rich stratum of gypsum has been discovered in the Jordan Valley; phosphate ot lime in Judea; peat iu the marsh** of Huleh, and petroleum beds between Yarmuk pud the Dead Sea. TliiH ancient inland sea—under which, legend says, lie buried the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomor rah—fits a part of the deepest chasm, on earth, being approximately (180 feet below sea level. It receives from the river Jordan and other streams that flew into it about 6,- 000,000 gallons of water a day. The sea contains 24 per cent of salt and, in consequence, is so buoyant that a person can float on its surface without exertion of any kind. Fish, because of the amount of chloride and bromiide of magnesia, cannot live in its waters. Ships of any kind are rarely seen, and at one time there was a belief—partly ow ing to the ancient superstition con cerning Sodon and Gomorrah, and partly to the fact , that there is no bird life in the vicinity—that even the air around the great lake was poisonous Terraces on the Farms. Statesville, N. C., Jan. 30.—(A 3 )— After attending a teracing demon stration given on the farm of H. M. Morrison, of Statesville. Route No. 6. 18 farmers iu tijis county are now pin unifs to run terraces in their farms. Several of these farmers are also planning to purchase a farm level, according to County Agent A. R. Morrow- This level will be bought co operatively and will be used for lay ing oat and ruaing tetraces for all the farmers in the community.. Other demonstrations and instruc tions in the use of the level will be given so that each man will be able to instruct others in the proper method of terracing, states Mr. Mor row. Baseball men of the country over will await with considerable interest the outcome of the experiment to be made by the Pacific Coast League the comnig season in placing two clubs in each of the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles. It is said that students from Mer ccrsburg (Pa.) Academy have held more world’s inter-scholastic track records than athletes from any other school. City Tax Notice! Effective February Ist, an additional penalty on City Taxes. Your street assess ments are past due. CHAS. N. FIELD, - City Tax Collector. The Concord Daily Tribune ___i. ■' - i . North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily Pa Graduates A. G. Hilea, 41, restaurant proprietoi and father of four children, receive* a diploma from Lombard college, 1111 note, at the close of the first semes ter this winter. He completed th« course in three and a half years and won high achoastic honors. His home Is In Galesburg, IU. BAGGY TROUSERS ARE LOSING THEIR GRIP Suspenders Gain Hold ;n Men’s Dress.—General Styles Not to Be Changed. St. Louis, Jan. 30.—Return of the popularity of suspenders and a turning away from extreme baggy tilmisers, are to be the principal changes in men’s fashions iu lt*2o. The general style and character of clothes will not be changed to any great extent. Tjiis was the report of the com mittee on fashions to the National Asuociation of Merchant Tailor at the closing session of its annual convention here. Colored’ shirts with collars to match will continue to be in vogue for town and business wear, but colors should harmonize with clothes worn. Unfinished worsteds will be used to ns great an extent as ever. Flan nels in shades of greys, blues and the lighter tones of browns will be (>opu lnr. Capri blue will be much favored. Cheviots and tweeds will be much in demand for the Spring, Fall and Winter seasons. Coats will reflect the appearance of comfort with chests full and well roundod and shoulders' broad. Two or three button sack coats vtffl he proper, with two button if more geueggUy r | "The committee report says the derby is now very popular with well dreeßCd men for town wear. MAN AND WIFE IN DEADLY FRAY Former Belhaven Merchant and Mate Fight With Razor and Hatchet. Washington, N. C., January 21). George Raiff, of New York City, for merly of Belhaven, is probaly fatally wounded and his wife seriously so, according to reports which have been received here. Copies of New York newspapers mailed to Belhaven resi dents relate a terrible battle early this week between the two which took place in the loft of the wholesale ap parel company in New York of which Raiff is president. It is reported that Raiff and bis wife, Minnie had an altercation over business matters in which she was directly Interested. His wife, it is said, attacked him with a razor and he in turn struck her with a hatchet. When she fell, bleeding profusely, he thought he tiad killed her, so he took the razor and cut his own throat. It appeared shortly that she was not seriously injured, so Raiff himself called a policeman, . Patrolman Mc- Carthy, who called an ambulance. Both Mr. and Mrs. Raiff were tak en to Bellevue Hospital. It was re ported that Mrs. Raiff is recovering. Raiff, a former resident and promi nent merchant of Belhaven, was well known in eastern Carolina, where be operated a chain store system. He ’ went to New York with Mrs. Raiff several years ago. Driver of Death Gar Held For Grand Jury. Charlotte, Jan. 29—J. L. James, l formery grocery store and pool room proprietor, was held for investiga . tion by the county grand jury to . day after a coroner's jury had in . quired into the death of Miss Lizzie . Lawrence, who died ’Tuesday night, a . few hours after being struck by an automobile owned and occupied by Mr. James. Mr. James was allowed I r liberty under a $2,000 bond. t Only two witnesses wye examin , ed. These were J. A. Clanton, an oc- B cupant of the ear that struck Miss Lawrence, and H. L. Helms, who aided in carrying her to the hospital. A ne gro was driving the car. _ Aerial Railway, j London, Jan. 30.—Glasgow is to Ij be the scene of; an experimental in r stallation of the “Railplane,” design ed to relieve traffic congestion. Aerial cars driven by air propellers • are suspended from overhead guide rail structures, and carried over existing railways or roads. Automa tic signalling and breaking provide for safety. As a means of linking up two or more important centres, such 1 as Liverpool and Manchester, and, af fording safe, rapid, comfortable, and Y cheap transport, great possibilities are claimed for the system. Contestants in the world’s skating championships at St. John are loud in their praise of the hospitality of the New Burnswick city and the elaborate program of tatertainment for the visitors. THU HEELS Will 111 SUIT FOR PART OF HHIIS' ESTITE Court Rules That the Late Jesse P. Williams In tend For Relatives to Get His Money. WIFE CUT 7 THEM OUT OF ESTATE In Her Will She Created Fund That Was to Have Been Used to Erect Me morial Hospital. Atlanta, Ga.. Jan. 30.—(A 9 ) —Fifty- one North Carolina relatives of the late Jesse I*. Williams, pioneer -Geor gia turpentine operator, and major stockholder in the Georgia. Florida and Alabama Railroad today were par ticipants in SOOO,OOO of his estate through a decree banded down liege by Judge George L. Bell in Fulton Superior Court. The petitioners sued for one-half of the estate left the widow by Mr. Wil liams. The estate was valued at $6,- 000.000. The suit brought January 10, 1025, in behalf of Geo. W. Williams and others, was directed against John Lord Nisbet. executor of the estate of Mrs. Cora S. Williams, who died in March 1923. The suit revealed an alleged agree ment by which Mrs. Williams was to divide one-half of the estate to rela tives of her husband in her will pro vided they left her in undisputed pos session of the property during her lifetime. To the contrary it was alleged Mrs. Williams devised the entire estate in her wilt to her executor, John I su'd Nisbet, to be converted by him into a trust fund for the establishment some where in Georgia of a memorial hos pital to be known as the Jesse Park Williams Hospital. In their suit the relatives contend ed that Williams Intended to divide his property equally among his blood relations and those of his wife. In the decree handed down by Judge Bell, a local trust company was nam ed receiver. $300,000 of the amount the decree declares, shall be paid with in ten days and the remain(|rr in five imiUllsMUtu irtTt>-ii>4<ncxty..... > The trust company is to hold in re serve and to pay out SBOO,OOO if nec essary on just claims for protection of the petitioners. GORE FOUND GUILTY IN BIRMINGHAM COURT Verdict of Second Degree Murder Re turned Against Coal Operator. Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 30.—OP)— David Gore, coal operator, today was found guilty in circuit court of sec ond degree manslaughter In connec tion with the death of Mrs. Bessie Lawson, shop girl, on July 25, 1925. He was sentenced to six months in the State prison and to pay a tine of SSOO. It was said the case would | be appealed. The State alleged Gore tossed the; woman from his car and drove over ; her body following a party in a down- j town hotel. Gore claims the woman! was drinking heavily and that he put! her out of his car to “sober her up.” He returned to the spot within a few moments, he said, and found her in-! jured. He made no attempt to ex- j plain the manner in which she sus-1 tained the injuries. Not Sufficiently Punished. | Los Angeles, Jan. 29.—John W. i Weeks, former secretary of war, who I with Mrs. Weeks and party arrived j here today enroute to Honolulu, de clared that Colonel William Mitchell I who was permitted today to resign from the army had not been suf ficiently punished. Four More Miners Killed. Miami, Okla., Jan. — </P) —Four miners were killed today in a eave-in at Velie No. 4 lead and zinc mine at Cardin. First information was mea gre. The famous Aqueduct truck, home of the Queens County Jockey Club, which is soon to be closed perma nently, is notable for having the long est straight stretch of any race tracy in the world. | Willie Keeler, one of the greatest ! baseball players of his day, always claimed that a scientific batter could i outwit most of the so-called great i pitchers. What the World Court Is 1 The Permanent Court of Interna-1 tional Justice (the Work! Court) was ’ ] established in December. 1920, by a * | special treaty which has been signed by forty-eight nations. Its eleven regular and four Deputy Judges were p elected by the Council and Assembly , 'of the League of Nations, acting Bep j, arately and concurring. John Bas i. sett Moore of the United States, has !l been one of the Judges from the „ start, although the United States is -not a member. The Court sits regularly *t The g Hague. It acts upon issues submit d ted to it for decision by the nations f interested. It also • renders advisory e opinions on requesT of the Council of t the League of Nations. Among the cases recognised as suit CONCORD, N. C„ SATURDAY,. JANUARY 30, 1926 Boys' Friend. wy 9 Daniel W Norris. Milwaukee mil lionaire, spends SIOO,OOO a year to maintain a 731-acre farm at Big Rend. Wls.. where boys who have gotten Into trouble with the law are fitted to become good citizens. He •as had more than 600 boys in bis charge since founding the farm., THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady at Advance of 1 to 4 Points, But Later Prices Eased Off. New York, Jan. 30.—(A 5 )—The cot ton market opened steady today at an advance of 1 to 4 points in re sponse to relatively steady Liverpool cables and favorable trade advices from Manchester goods market. The effect of tile latter on sentiment, how ever, was somewhat modified by re ports of less active business in the domestic goods trade the past week, and after selling up to 19.02 for May and 18.22 for Oetober prices eased off a few points under realizing or liquidation. The market was dull and within two or three points of yes terday’s closing prices at the end of the first hour. A Manchester eale said the demand from China was improving and yarns were firmer with sale stocks reduced. Liverpool cables said covering and trade calling had absorbed hedge sell ing, although demand for spot cotton was less insistent. Cotton futures opened steady. March 20.22 ; May 19.60; July 18.93 ( Oct. 18.20; Dec. 17.91. t THOUSANDS OF PERSONS VfflW DRY NIAGARA FALLS Ice and Zero Weather Hold Back the Mighty Torrent of Water and Bod is Dry. Niagara- Falls, N- Y., .Tan. 29. Thousands of persons today viewed a dry Niagara—one of nature’s rar est spectacles. Only a few gallons of water trickled over the American fall because of the formation of an ice jam from Goat Island to the mainland at Port Day. Hie jam began to form n week ago off Port Day where the river is shallow and the ice moves slowly. High winds loosened the iee farther np the river and in Lake Erie aiding in forming the blockade. The gale .Thursday, together with the zero j temperature, completed the big dam. | The water, which usually slides over i the American falls and drops in a ] seething mass of foam and spray on the rocks below, was diverted to the | Canadian cataract. Under ordinary j conditions about 90 per cent of the | volume of water passing over the j falls goes over the Canadian fall. j Go Into Court to Force Their Pastor to Resign. I Gastonia, Jan. 20. —Seeking to force their pastor, E- W. Burke, to I resign ftom his charge, trustees of I the St. Patti’s Baptist Church, col ; ored, have taken the matter into | Superior Court here. Tile case of \V. ; N. Hardy. E. F. Robinson, J. W. * j Chord, Henry Allen, Robert Ford and Ma’.cbael Mutz, the church offi cers, vs. E. W- Burke is set for trial before Judge W. F. Harding here Saturday. The plaintiffs claim they are duly elected ‘rustees of St. Paul’s Church, and are members ’n 1 good standing. They claim E. IV. : Burke, (luring the year 1925 “at • tempted to and did act as pastor" of the church. The customary "Rev-” is not used iu referring to the colored ' minister. - Franco Off on Third Leg of Flight. Porta Praya, Cape Verde Islands, r Jan. 80. — (A*) — Commander Ramon Franco, the Spanish aviator, hopped off today in the seaplane Ne Plus t Ultra on the third leg of his attempt » ed flight from Spain to South Amer -1 ica. His destination is Pernambuco, t Braail, 1,712 miles across the Atlantic. The start was made at 6:10 a. m. i able fog submission to the Court are: the interpretation of a treaty: any question of International law; the ex istence of any fact which, if estab lished would constitute a breach of any international obligatiou; the ex tent and nature of the reparation to be made for such a breach. No “sanctions’’ or means for en forcing the Court’s decision, other than its moral authority and the good faith of nations voluntarily submit ting questions to*it, are provided. The court has been steadily busy. From June, 1922, when the Court met to consider its first ease, to December.’ 192 Q, it held ten sessions and handed down eighteen judgments and opin-' lona. BODIES OF MINERS TRAPPED IN MINE TAKEN TO SURFACE ! Last of 27 Miners Killed in Alabama Mine Explo sion, Broght to the Sur face Today. THREE DISASTERS IN SINGLE DAY Eight Persons Killed in Two Other Explosives Which Occurred During the Single Day. Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 30.—OP)— Hpwiip crews today were bringing out the last of the 27 miners, 11 white and 10 negroes, who were killed in an explosion at the Mossboro mine of the Premier Coal Company near here late yesterday. Seventeen of the 44 men in the mine at the time of 'ap blast escaped injury. The tragedy brought the total num ber of miners killed and three explo sions throughout the country during tnr day to 35. Five were killed in West Frankfort, Illinois, in an explo sion in the New Orient mine, the world's greatest coal producer, while three met death in a gas explosion in a lienr Canon Coal Company mine near Trinidad, Colorado. The Mossboro explosion was the second in the Briminghnm district within two months, a blast at Overton mine No. 2 having killed 53 men on December 11th. The explosions occurred at what miners call "shooting time." Each day when miners are ready to quit work, several "shots” are made to loosen coal for the next day’s work. One of these shots hit a pocket of gas and caused the explosion. Tile mine was of a single-slope and had twelve entries, six on each side. The explosion occurred halfway down the slope. The mine had been in op eration five years and was rated noil gaseous. Many stories of horror were told by those who were rescued. Some told of relatives and friends who were killed as they stood by their sides, while sheets of flames swept througti the slopes and entries. Others told of lying in the darkness ajid fearing rtliat they were entombed. A flood of wafer which 'rushed to every corner of the pit added greatly to the task of rescue. The blast wrecker a small lake in the center of the mine where water was secured for washing coal. The entire floor of entry No. 5 was knee deep in water, anil many of the bodies in that sec tion had to be removed from watery graves. Burial of the- dead will begin to morrow. Tile grief of the isolated community will be shared as common sorrow by the entire coal field of Ala bama. CHANGES IN RAILROAD SCHEDULE FOR CONCORD Four Trains on SotSJieru System Will Have New Schedules Beginning To morrow. Announcement is made by officials of the Southern Railway of the fol lowing changes in trains schedules as affecting Concord, all of the trains af fected being southbound ones: No. 11 changes from 8 :05 a. m. to 8:00 a. m. No. 33 changes from 8:25 a. m. to 8:15 a. in. No. 45 changes from 3 :50 p. m. to 3 :45 p. m. No. 135 changes from 8:35 p. m. to 8:37 p. m. The changes become effective at midnight tonight. Egg Yield of 05 a Day. Newton, X. C-. Jan. 30. — UP) —An egg yield of 05 eggs per day. on an average, from a flock of Barred IMynioutli Rook pullets is reported here by County Agent J. W. Hen dricks. The birds belong to Guy Rockett, of Conover, in Catawba county. As many as 109 eggs have been secured from the flock in a single day, Mr. Hendricks says. He esti mates that Mr. Rockett will clear aiound sllO from his flock during January. One hundred of these pullets were bought last September at a ebst of $125- This 100 was added to the 1 flock of 50 birds Mr. Rockett had raised. In December. Mr. Hendricks gave a culling demonstration with this flock, ill which 10 birds were culled as low producers. The Hook is being fed and cared for according to modern methods, the county agent says. Collecting His Spare Parts. ■ London, Jan. 30.—A man came so frequently under the surgeon's m.ml ■ pulntions in a London hospital that ’ he made a hobby of collecting liim ' self, in glass jars and bottles. Start ' ing with tonsils, he went on with f molars and such components, unill • now he has filled a shelf with “spare » parts,,” all carefully dated and de scribed. ’ Imprisoned Ships Are Drifting. • Muskegon, Mich.. Jan. 30.—(A*)— The fishing tugs. Helen M and Infliaq, along with the Grand Trunk cat fer ries, Milwaukee and Grnnghaven, • drifted with the moving iee field last t night and were 15 miles north of . Muskegon in Lake Michigan todays • The ships were being carried to the - north at the rate of three miles an hour. Her Hubby .Was Too Funny mOmA ~ I ■ ... Ihl * i ■fill I I . mmL * & ''l m 'V Bi an—■nAly ■■ Hate) Howell, film actreaa, won a divorce when she told a Los Angeles Judge bar husband' had torn her clothes off so she couldn't go to a matinee "He’s a comedian and sometimes he tried to get fanny with me,** aha complained. Her HELD ON CHARGE OF ROBBING l. S. MAILS Former Employee of Greensboro Of fice Falls Into Trap Laid For Him. Greensboro, Jan- 21).—Guy A. Gib bons, formerly employed as special delivery carrier at the Greensboro pcstoffiee, was arrested Thursday evening and placed in jail on charge of rifling registered letters and special delivery matter. He _ was given a hearing before W. S. 'Lyon, U. S. Commissioner, this morning and bound over to the June term of Federal court under bond of SI,OOO. He was placed in jail in default of bond. Gibbons, a youth of 10 years, was arrested by R. W. Hodgin, post of fice inspector, following an investi gation of several weeks. A trap was laid for him last night and following his apprehension he pleaded guilty to rifling the flails for cash. He was formerly engag'd as sub-carrier, but wan under a suspension of two weeks for negligence of his duty. R. O. Chaudios, postmaster, said that Gib bons had no business in the postof fice building at the time of his ar rest. Gibbons resides in Colfax and has! been in the employment of the local postoffice for a number of months. For the past few weeks postoffice of ficials have been alarmed over the missing of certain registered mails and special delivery letters. The con tinuous losing of mail brought oil investigations and Bibbons’ arrest followed. With Our Advertisers. Dresses from $9.75 to $16.95; coats $9.75 to $18.50, at Fisher's. They are all beauties. Smart styles and pretty colors. The Hollywood tours are leaving Concord every Monday. Tuesday. Thursday and Friday. The price of $47.50 covers every expense, in ef fect only until February oth. See Miss Elizabeth Embry, room 304 Ca barrus Saviugs Bank building. Phone, 921. Radio fans should tune in on W. 8., T., Charlotte Sunday and Monday; evening and hear the famous Radio- j Vac Twins. Don’t fail to attend the Clearance I Sale of the Markson Shoe Store to-1 day. Big savings for-all. The Concord Plumbing Co. will fix your leaks in a hurry. Call 570. Real distinction in lighting effects at W. J. Hethcox’s. C. H. Barrier & Co. are out of the chicken market for about ten days. Honda your hens for February deliv ery. Read new ad. today. Spring’s smartest dresses for the miss or small woman at J. C. Pen . ney Co's., only $14.75.. To Build Apartment House For Teachers. Greensboro. Jan. 29.—A co-opera tive apartment house for members of the faculty of North Carolina Col lege for Women here will be erected ' on the edge of the campus, it was learned here tonight, to cost in the neighborhood of vIOO.OOO. It in to be 1 erected by College Apartments, Inc. It is planned to have it ready for occupancy by the beginning of the next college year. It will be three stories with 10 • apartments and case in basement. Romulus A. Nunn is Appointed Judge. l Raleigh. Jan. 29-—The appoint s men t of Romulus A. Nunn, of New • Bern, to be judge in the fifth judicial • ristriet, succeeding Judge Albion i Dunn resigned, iyas announced by Governor McLean tonight. .Was Too HOUSE HALTS TO PAY TRIBUTE TO MAJ. STEDMAN North Carolinian Honored on 85th Birthday By Legislators. Washington, Jan. 29-—An unusual tribute was paid by the House today to Representative Charles M. Steel man, of North Carolina, ill honor of his eighty-fifth birthday. Upon motion by Representative Tilsoh, of Connecticut,, the Republi can leader', the Hoots#" recessed for ten minutes for members to con gratulate their colleague who has the distinction of being the only Con federate veteran in Congress. This honor was accorded after a number Os members had delivered speeches congratulating Mr. Stcd man upon his years of service, and also upon his bravery in action when as a major in the Army of Northern Virginia he fought under General Robert E. Lee. It came after Speaker Longworth lind accorded the unusual honor of refusing to put to the House a vote on a proposal that Mr. Stedman be permitted to speak fdr 35 minutes oil February 6. The Speaker said he knew the House members were more than will ing to grant this request and that it would be accorded without a vote. At the request of Mr. Tjlson, the North Carolina member came to the foot of the Speaker’s rostrum and re ceived the handclasp of House mem bers who filed past in a long line. Father and Four of His Children Die of Poisoning. Cleveland. o.,'Jan. 29 —Five mem bers of the family of Arthur Fulvi. 3. the father and four children, were found dead in their home here late today, victims of poison. Two other members of the family, the mother, and Qino four, were taken to hospitals in a serious condition. The dead children are: James, 14. Frank 11. Dorothy. 10. and Mary 8. A quantity of wine found on n table was taken to police headquar ters for analysis. The family had ] drunk of the wine at a party in the : home. ! Tuli, another son, who spent the | night with a friend and did not par t take of the wine, suffered no ill es .! foots. j Examination of Gino’s stomach also revealed traces of a liquid poison, hospital physicians declared, . but no trace of this poison was found in the mother’s organ. There , also were burns around the child's mouth. The bodies were found by police who were summoned by a neighbor , I attracted by light tails oiv, the win dow by the mother before she lapsed into unconsciousness. Ohariotto Man Freed in Union. Monroe, Jan. 29.—T. A. Norris, of Charlotte, whose automobi e , struck and killed George McDowell on highway Number 20. December I 12 was acquitted of a murder charge , i growing out of the accident by a , I Union county jury today. . | George McDowell died as the rc : suit of injuries received when he was . I struck by T- A. Norris’ macuine, , near Monroe. McDowell had just stepped from the running board of a j Ford touring car into the street when Norris’ machine passed by and struck him, according to reports. I McDowell died on the way to a mon roe ’ ospital. Justice Taft IU. 1 Washington, Jan. 29.—Chief .Tus i tiee Taft was prevented by a cold' r from attending the supreme court to day. / THE TRIBUNE PRINTS S TODAY’S NEWS TODA^J NO. 23 iOMMMTESi MTEHWHS SYSTEM . WHELP fMMj ***’ House Riy-jl ers and Harbors Commit-11 tee, Secretary Outlines 1 Suggestion. j SUGGGESTS LINES 2 OVER COUNTRY I Would Have Main Water- j way Line of 3,000 Miles, \ With 6,000 Miles of Lat*|l eral Lines. 1 Washmgton, Jan. 30— UP) —Sect%'.J tary Hoover, appearing before the House Rivers and Harbors Commit- , tee today, advocated a comprehensive | system of inland waterways develop meat as an aid to agriculture. He outlined a system which would include 3.000 miles of main waterway ' lines, and 6,000 miles of lateral lin<jf r with the Great Lakes as the most idi- f jHirtnnt link. The Mississippi, ; be said, needed deepening in places sft ah ■ to assure a connecting link throqjb it between tile lakes and the sea. The j present state of the proposed system is described as similar to a great rail* *■: rend system with occasional stretches : of narrow gauge track. CALLS FOR AID FROM t|| SHIPS TOSSED BY SEA . Storm on Atlantic Showed No Sign* 1 of Exhaustion After Week-long Blow. New York. Jan. 30. UP)—The cryptic J call of ships in distress was beoom- | ing commonplace in maritime new* ' today as the god of . storms continued. his rampage across the Atlantic. While the storm showed no signs j of exhaustion of its week-long blow, ') man was busy reckoning his causalv’i ties in ships and men. Five steamships and two schooners j were reported to be in distress or 5 hove to to ride out the storm. At , least a half dozen liners were from one to three days overdue at New - Ycrk. During the week, 27 men have lost their lives at sea, one freighter 1 mid a barge have gone down, and un» ■ told property damage has been caused.xj The Britisli steamer Errington Court, carrying coal from. Swansea j | Wales to New York was- rdportHMiHß distress Thursday, but since 'h#* wire- W lessed its offices here that temporary | repairs have been made on the steer- -II ing gyar and that the vessel has re- i sumed ils course. \ — J The Canadian government Steam- ship Canadian Settler, reported that s she was having boiler and engine trow- ! - ble and was drifting with a gale of ■ hurricane force. She was bound from ': Antwerp to Halifax. rag i An S. O. S. call from a German : ship giving the name Cnnlus, biit : ■ thought to be the German steel tug J Taurus, was picked up by both j : Lloyds. Lands End England station, | and the French wireless station at , Penmans. The ship’s position was j given as about 100 miles off the north- ,j west tip of the Spanish peninsula. The ’ American schooner Bright, from ‘3 ■ Georgetown. Me., was taken in tow by the coast guard cutter Seneca off Ambrose lightship in answer to a dig- ] tress call from the battered craft. i ■ mi Want Europe to Join in Protest. *Bl i Washington, Jan. 30.—C4*)-—Twen- J ty-six motoring organizations in Eu- I - rope were invited today by the Araw-i 3 . ican Automobile Association, to join J ? in an international protest to the ? British government against the cost 8 r of crude rubber. . The letter said the automobile as- ; i sociation of Great Britain already had . r promised co-operation. 5 - ■ w* Plane Flying in Normal Fashion. J i Porter Praya, Cape Verde Islands; - Jan. 30.—A wireless message fraqL 1 the Spanish cuiser Don Bias Lezo *e e ceived at 12:40 o’clock this after-;: noon says Commander Franco’s sea* ■ p plane was flying in normal fashion at | that time, headed for Periiambueo,:|l ‘ Brazil. -1 ■*» Would Cut Off Tax. . Washington, Jan. 30. —W)—-Sena*4 tor Smith, Democrat, of South Caro lina, notified the Senate today that lie would prepare a bill soon to taka '® off the 10-oent tax on cotton seed :i substitutes for butter and the require* A incut for its special labeling. Jack Dempsey made more money :! in one fight than did Jim Jeffries in .1 his whole career as the heavyweight iS champion. St. Louis claims to have more its residents in the major baseball leagues than any other city. SAT'S BEAR SAYS I Probably rain tonight and SuadMiß rising temperature. Fresh to atfaMfii east winds.