North Carolina Newspapers

HE BALLOON IS ,' LOST TO WORLD LIEUTENANT ROTH AND HULL HAVE NOT BEEN HEARD . FROM. OLMSTEAD IS LISTED WINNER Landed 600 Mile From Indianapolis; Honeywell Had Harrowing Experience. , Indianapolis. All track of Lieut. L. J. Roth, navy airman and only starter in the national elimination balloon race who has not been heard from, has been lost, according to announce ment made by the Indianapolis cham ber of commerce, sponsor for the race. Lieut. T. B. Hull accompanied Lieu tenant Roth as" aide. The men came here from the naval training station at Lake Hurst, N. J., for the contest. The missing balloonist, as is usual, were well supplied with instruc tions to drop them overboard as the craft drifted over cities and towns. Not a word, however, has been receiv ed here rfom the shtp, known as the V. S. Navy No. A-2698. An unofficial check, compiled at the chamber of commerce, gave Lieut. Robert S. Olmstead, army balloonist, the lead In distance travelled over the eleven other pilots who have re ported bringing their craft to the ground. Lieutenant Olmstead de scended at Marilla, N. T. The dis tance between Indianapolis and Ma rilla on an air line Is approximately 500 miles. According to the check, H. E Honeywell, St Louis,, piloting the "St. Louis," traveled the next far thest distance about 450 miles. He brought his balloon to the ground at Brocton, N. Y. Honeywell was the last pilot to report. Three other bags, piloted by Lieut. J. B. Lawrence, Washington naval officer; C. E. Mc Cullough, Baltimore, and Lieut. L. T. Miller, army man, located at Scott Held, Belleville, Ills., came to ground about 400 miles from Indianapolis, It was said. Honeywell and his aide, P. J. Mc Cullough, had a harrowing experi ence while they were In the air, ac cording to a telegram received from them by the Associated Press. At the mercy of storms, the craft was driven Into Canada, then back Into the Unit ed States and again toward Lake Erie. . . ' ' Short of ballast, Honeywell deter mined to land and brought the ship down on a cliff, 150 feet high and close to the edge of the water. The landing was affected In darkness, the time beinr 9:15 o'clock. Navada Town Swept By Fire. Los Angeles. Seven blocks of the business district and the north part of the resident district of Goldfield, Nevada, were swept by fire, according to an Associated Press dispatch from The Goldfield Tribune. The loss was estimated at $300,000, with the amount of insurance unknown. . The Goldfield hotel. News building. Elks building, John S. Cook bank and Deep Mines company office were the only substantial buildings partly sav ed, the telegrams stated. The fire started at 6:45 a. m., and still was burning strongly at 11 o'clock. N. E. A. Closes Meet Oakland. Cal. The 1923 convention of the National Education association, the world conference on education and allied educational organizations here in San Francisco closed after electing Miss Olive M. Jones, New York school principal, as president of the N. E. A., to succeed William B. Owen, of Chicago. Cornelia S. Adair, of Virginia, was chosen treasurer. Vice '; presidents elected include R. O. Stoops, Pennsyl vania, and Florence M. Hale, Maine. One of the outstanding accomplish' tnents of the convention was the or ganization of the World Federation of Education associations whose chief object is to prevent wars through edu cational methods. Lightning Hurts Three.. t Asheville. Lightning stripped two persons to the waist, burning the un : derclothing from one of them, when three, standing in a door of the rang' ers cabin near the top of Mount three were among 13 sightseers who had sought shelter in the cabin when It began- to rain. :-s'..: .' The injured persons are Miss Ellen. Eason and E.' V, . Harris, of West Asheville, and J. D. Coates, of Denton. Three Dead as Result of Wreck. AlbuDueraue, N. M. Three persons vwere killed, two probably fatally in jured and a'scbre of others more or less seriously hurt Tuesday, when Santa Fe passenger tram number Z, known as the Navajo, plnnged over a thirty foot embankment on a sharp curve, a mile and a quarter West f Domingo. N. M. 1 ; Both engines and the baggage cai went, over, the embankment and the tiair car and a smoking car turned error, but six Pullmans remained ca TEN PERSONS KILLED AND FIFTY INJURED. Berlin. Ten perosns were kill ed and fifty Injured In the explo sion that wrecked a Belgian troop train near Dulsburg, according to reports received here. Belgian military authorities Im mediately arrested several hl;h officials at Dulsburg, including a representative of the Mayor. They are her as hostages pending an investigation to fix blame for the explosion. - Traffic over the railroad wa immediately prohibited by mili tary order. IS VERY LOW GOVERNMENT REPORT SHOWS 18,387,000 ACRES NOW CULTI VATI D. Crop of 11,412,000 Bales Is Forecast; North Carolina Acreage Breaks Record. Washington. More cotton was In cultivation on June 25 In the United States than ever before In the history of the country. The government's first official an nouncement of this year's acreage, made public, disclosed that there were 38,387,000 acres of cotton grow ing in the fields of the cotton belt This acreage is one-eighth or 4.27,1, 000 acres more than was being culti vated on June 25 last year, and al most 1,200,000 acres more than was harvested in the previous record acre age year of 1913. The condition of the crop, however, was lower than it has been on June 25 in the last 22 years, with the ex ception of 1921. The official forecast was 142.S pounds to the acre, which government experts calculate will re sult in a total production of 11,412,- 000 bales on the record acreage now growing. This total would be 1,650, 000 bales more than harvested last year. This year's final production, the crop reporting board pointed out, may be larger or smaller than to day's forecast, according as condi tions developing during the remain der of the season prove more or less favorable to the crop than the aver age. Texas, largest producing state, has more than 14,000,000 acres In cotton for the first time, the acreage this year being 15 per cent more than last year. Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas and Oklahoma also have larger avreages than ever before in their history. Missouri's acreage is almost double last year's. The forecast was based on the con dition of the crop on June 25 which was 69.9 per cent of a normal and on the preliminary estimate of the area under cultivation at that time which was 38,287,000 acres or 12.6 per cent more than last year's area on that date. The acreage estimate and condition on June 25 by states follow. Virginia, 83,000 acres, and con dition 90 per cent of a normal. North Carolina, 1,704,000 and 80. South Carolina, 2,049,000 and 64. Georgia, 3,927.000 and 56. Florida, 171,000 and 65. Alabama, 3,312.000 and 68. Mississippi, 3,353,000 and 67. Louisiana, 1,316,000 and 69. Texas. 14,077,000 and 77. Arkansas, 3,025,000 and 68. Tennessee, 1,193,000 and 67. Missouri, 394,000 and 62, Oklahoma, 3.357,000 and 64. California. 235,000 and 91. Arizona, 133,000 and 92. All other states 115,000 and 60. Higher Rates Are Effective." Washington. New commodity rates prepared by railroad to effect freight traiffc to and from points in the south east of the United States on and after July 1st have been allowed to be come effective by the Interstate Com merce Commslsion in spite of pro tests filed by the Southern Traffic League and other organizations. The protests asked the Commis sion to prevent the rates from be coming effective until after an in vestigation could be made and charg ed that the schedules would Involve increases1 in freights generally, but the commission denied this. Arrest Made In Rocky Mt Case. Rocky Mount. Officers here are certain that they have one of two negroes who killed W. S. Biggies, and seriously wounded W. W, Andrews, proprietor of a store. The two men were closing up for the night when the two negroes, said to have been loitering in the store, opened fire on them. After flMlng the, cash drawer, the negroes made their get-away, sup posedly on a passing freight train, Last of Lincoln Guard Is Dead, Washington. The passing of the last of the soldier guards who. were on duty at the Ford Theater when President Lincoln was" shot was re ported to the Pension Bureau' in a cablegram from the, American consu late at Hull, England. The message notified the Bureau to discontinue "because of death" thtl pension of William H, Hall, civil war veteran. Hail served in Company H, 12th Illinois cavalry. Ha returned to Eng land, his birth, place, after the war. HARDING SAILS OH L PRESIDENT AND W,FE WAVE FAREWELL TO THOUSANDS FROM SHIP. . TO BE IN ALASKA 20 DAYS Accompanied By Three Members fcf Cabinet Whose Departments Art Interested In Alaska. Tacoma. Wash. In the midst of Ihe blaring of bands, and the farewell cheers of thousands of Tacomi cit izens. President Harding sailed for Alaska, the first chief executive of the nation to visit that territory sinco it came under the American flag 56 years ago. A few minutes after 2 p. m., the scheduled hour of departure, the Unit ed States naval transport' Henderson, which for the next 20 days will be in reality the White House, got under way, circled the harbor, and steamed past the Tacoma stadium, where a few minutes before the President and Mrs. Hardin bad received the God speed of Governor Hart, of Washing ton, and where the President bad de clared for an American merchant marine second to none. As the big transport swung by the stadium, those assembled there to hear the President speak, stood and cheered. Mr. and Mrs. Harding ac knowledged the cheers and waved the farewell from the , bridge until dis tance made them only indistinct fig ures to those on shore. The President ,as he boarded the vessel, was in an unusually happy frame of mind; pleased by the re ception given him in Tacoma, glad to obtain a few days of rest arter tne 15 days transcontinental trip, and overjoyed by the prospect of realiz ing the ambition he has held almost ever since he entered the White House an ambition to visit the great northern territory and obtain first hand information with respect to its problems. Two days of steady sailing lay ahead of the party when it left here, up through the inside passage of British Columbia and Alaska. It will not be a monotonous voyage by any means for the boat will pass , np through narrow winding channels with mountains rising directly from the water's edge. The arrival at Juneau, the terri torial capial has been fixed for July 10 and three days later the party will reach Seward. Four days will then be decoted to the trip up the Alaskan railroad ' to Anchorage. Chlckaloon, Nenana, and Fairbanks, within 200 miles of the Arctic circle. At the Tanena river bridge at Ne nana the President will drive the golden spike symbolizing completion of the railroad construction by the government to provide an outlet Jor the rich interior district. Tho return trip southward will be made by mo tor over the Richardson trail. The President was accompanied by three members of his cabinet whose, departments are muuc uirecuy inter ested in Alaska. They are Secretary Hoover of the commerce department; Secretary Work of the interior depart ment and Secretarv Wallace of the agricultural department Also in the party are Speaker Gillette of the house, and Dr. Greeley of the forest service. , . England Raises Rate of Discount ' London. The Bank of England raised Its rate to four per cent from three per cent level which had pre vailed for a year. -i The increase caused little surprise inasmuch as events recently had been moving rapidly towards such a action. At. the same time there is consider able opinion against raising the offi cial minimum at a time when trade is so bad and when Great Britain's purchases of food and raw material in the United States and South Amer ica must be financed. If was there fore hoped that the authorities would not have recourse to such a step. Four. Burned In Pittsburgh Flames. Pittsburgh, Pa.Four persons were burned to death when fire swept through the Schmidt Hotel at Mc Keesport near here. Tho bodies of two men and a woman have not been Identified. Six guests were Injured, two seriously. A score of men, women and child ren, trapped on upper floors, were rescued by police. Others leaped into life nets. . . The loss was estimated at 140,000. - Five Men Killed in Wreck. Chicago. Five men riding a freight train of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad were killed and eight others were injured when the train was wrecked near Kirkland,. Ills., ac cording to word received by railroad officials here. -:. According to the reports none of the freight erew was ; Injured. All those killed and hurt were tramps, who were riding one of the cars that was wrecked. Several of the injured are being brought to Ford Rockford hospitals. 111 TRANSPORT GRAND STAND CRASH KILLS ONE; HURTS 43. Salt Lake City, Utah. One per son was killed and 43 were Injured several seriously, here when a tem porary grandstand loaded with hundreds of persons watching a Fourth of July celebration at Lib erty Park gave way and crashed, burying under the wreckage many of the Injured. Ruby Soderbury, nine years old, died of a broken neck at the emergency hospital. Almost all of the Injured suffered broken limbs, body abralsons or head Injuries. More than ,30,000 persons were in the park when the accident occurred. FOUR OTHERS ARE INJURED SCALDED TO DEATH WHEN THE FIRE ROOM IS FLOODED WITH HOT WATER. Feared Three of Them Cannot Re cover; Destroyer Williamson Heads For Newport, R. I. Newnort R. I. Five men lost their lives aboard the destroyer William son through the flooding of the fire room with steam and hot water. Three other members of the fire room crew were seriously Injured and It is feared three of them cannot recover. The dead: Doc Abernatfly Mlllicah, fireman, third class. Fairfield, Ala.; Harry C. Lincoln, fireman, third class. Lebanon, Ohio; Joseph A. Gia- quinto, water tender, second class, Locknort. N. Y.: Louis R. Blanchard, fireman, first class, Sprinfield, Mass. The injured: Harry Amundson, water tender, first class, BemidIJi, Minn,; Haskell B. Fields, fireman, first class, Durham, N. C: Tony Rock, fireman, first class, AshtabUja, Ohio. ' The Willlamston went out .from this nort to test torpedoes on the , ... ....(.). V.,...on,.t ha V d..h.. wra Koine- marl a to Are the first torendo when the accidental I l cjiai o nuua . v - e - t closing of a ventilator cover turned back the heated air escaping from the fire room, 'the pressure caused the ventilator blower to fly to pieces and the steam and hot water pipes were broken. The eight men in. the Are room had no chance to escape. Four were scalded to death almost instant ly and the others dropped to the floor overcome by the rush of steam and hot water. At great personal risk, Lieutenant Commander H. E. Knanss, in com mand of the Williamson, and other officers and members of the crew rushed into the fire room and took rushed into tne nre room mo out the injured men and die The injured were given first a d and lilt) Ucoliujri , WUIIU .TOO uu - ously damaged, speeded back to New' port. At the naval hospital it was said that only Amundson appeared to have a chance of recovery. May Take Out Wheat Surplus. Washington. A proposal that minimum of 200.000,000 bushels of wheat be withdrawn by American farmers from this year's visible sup ply, in view of this country's indicat ed large surplus, placed in ware houses under supervision of the de partment of agriculture financed through the intermediate creuit hanks and carried forward to aug ment next year's crop at harvest time was made public by the AmerJ can farm bureau federation. In a telegram to Secretary -of Ag riculture Wallace who is accompany ing President Harding on his Alaskan trip, the federation commended ' tho president's Statement in Kansas sup porting intermediate credits and warehousing and urged Mr. waiiacs to advise the President to recom mend that farmers avail themselves o fthe new warehousing' and inter mediate credits acts. Th country's present wheat crop and carry-over, the teelgram stated, is approximately J.000,000,000 busn els, domestic consumption about 650, 000,000 bushels; seed requirements, 50,000,000 bushels and a poslsble ex port outlook 150,000,000 to 200,000, 000 bushels. The federaton's propos al, Mr. Wallace was told, "will give the farmers an oppprtunlty to adjust thir acreage in the fall and spring seedlings so that no unduly targe sur plus need exist at that time." finrh a move. In the opinion of. the r Adoration, wonld allow co-operative and orderly marketing and lift wheat from 75 or 80 cents, the present in 11.40 or - $1.60 and would nntinne it on that basis throughout this consumptive year, thereby being helpful to both producer and consum er and eliminating speculation. ' Nine Seamen Burned in Explosion. . Philadelphia. Nine seamen ' were seriously burned In an explosion on the scout cruiser Richmond at the Philadelphia navy yard. . AH are In ihe Naval Hospital. V V Thomas B. Hipps, Corslcana, Tex., Wm. F. Hall, Mount Vernon, O.; Er nest Adams, Portsmouth; O.; Dell O. Russell, Plainfleld, N. J.J Edward J. Berktold, Cicero, I1L; Wm. O. Eden, Atlanta, Ga.j James C. Carey, New York City; Lawrence A. McCall. Des Moines. Ia.; Charles C. Lasana, New York City. . . - LEVIATHAH SAILS Oil 0. S .BIRTHDAY FOR THE FIRST TIME NEW BOAT GOES OUT LOADED TO . CAPACITY. LASKER IS PROUD OF SHIP On Her Sails Secretary of Labor, a Former Immigrant, In Ex-Kaiser's -V Suit, New York. The reconditioned Levi athan, oueen of the American mer chant marine, sailed on Uncle Sam's birthday on her first trans-Atlantic pleasure voyage under the stars and Btrlpes. , ' . Thousands massed on the water front to bid bon voyage to the super ship. With their cheers mingled the sirens of harbor craft and the whir from propellers of airplanes circling her pier. Although her bar was dry, the Le viathan was literally a "wet" ship. For as her great whistles boomed their warning to river traffic and the clouds cracked and a torrent rained on her decks. ' The crowds ashore ran to shelter. and passengers sought protection.' Bui ine waving oi nail ana nana kerchiefs continued, while cheer after cheer bridged the widening water.' The din Increased as the great ship ping board vessel swung her nose to ward thb.sea- Fore and aft she was dressed with international code flags. Upon her decks bands played. Around her sides circled rally-dressed river craft. Shoving her into the channel were tiny tugs with the power of ti tans. Off her starboard bow steamed a tov vessel a reproduction of Rob ert Fulton's Clermone, America's first steamboat. As the liner with her varied escort pushed seaward, through steamboat ana ierry irunic, uirnuoi i-ruwuo - - Up uie cneenng. mo rniuiau buuu abated, the aky changed for a moment from gray to blue, and passengers again swarmed the open decks to wit ness what the water front proclaimed the greatest ovation since the Levia than steamed back from war-torn Europe with her thousands of Ameri can fighting men. Aeroplanes which had Come from Hampton Roads to bid her farewell followed the liner down stream, out into the bay and toward the open sea. Past Ellis Island and the flotilla of inbound craft bearing new citizens to America's shores, the Leviathan car ried in a auite once reserved for the man wno 2 years ago had ag m ,mmlgrftnt ooy bfl ,ecreUry of ,abor. He was John J. Davis, member of the Harding cabinet ' Not the least excited man aboard the Leviathan before she sailed was Albert D. Lasker, retiring chairman of the shipping board, who for months had bean concentrating his attention on the great ship. Dempsey Holds Title. Shelby, Mont Jack Dempsey re mains the holder of the world's heavy weight boxing championship, although in full 15 rounds he was unable to knock out his challenger, Tom Gib bons. Dempsey won on referee's de cision In the championship ngnt at Shelby. Mont, which was a fiasco, so far as paid attendance waa concerned. Probably not 10,000 paid admission to the arena, which was bum to seat 40,000 people. . ' Five Killed In Wreck. Alhnrnueraue. N. M. At least five trainmen were killed and several pas- seng3rs were injured some; of them possibly seriously when an Atcbiaon, Topeka Sc. Santa Fe train bound from rhtnitrn to Los Angeles, was derailed near Domingo, SO miles north of here, shortly after midnight The train waa a double header, and both engi neers and both firemen were killed re ports said, v Wreckinc crews, doctors and nurs es were sent to the sceen of the acci dent early this morning from here. , The train comprised six pullmans, five baggage cars and three choaches. rann 'Mn and . both locomotives were reported in the ditch. The UMW-vu cause of the wreck has not been de termined. ' . AoDtove World Court Lima, Conn. The National League Wnrnan VAtnra will stand . hv the i, vuiva . t . winration of the Des Moines conven tion in favor of the entrance of the United States into a permanent court - i.Miiinnti inattpA. it was stated after a meeting of the executive com mittee at the home or Miss ivainenne Ludlngton. : , v -' v : - ' ' ' Wars' Yets March In Atlanta, Atlanta! " Ga. Veterans of . three wars marched in a big parade opening to Atlanta's celebration of the Na tion's birthday. ' "Exercises at peace monument ii the afternoon were pian- n4 a nttina climax to other events sceduled earlier. Civic and patriotic organltatlons united witn tne Aiiania woman's- club, sponsors, to make the service greater than everbefore. Tha irelslature ana au pumic nuiia ings and many business houros were closed tor the day. KEELER, AT 80, GOESTOUOKK After fourteen years of enforced. dleness because of ill health, J.,H. K-eeier. wldelv-known Maryland citl- icn, has gained forty pounds at the ige of eighty years and gone back U work every day. Mr. Keeler, who re tides at 8706 Thirty-Second 8t, Mt Ranier. Md elves entire credit lor Bis extraordinary rehabilitation to Tan lac. , "My stomach was in such terrible ondltlon I could hardly digest a thlnir", aava Mr. Keeler. "It would .well to nearly twice its normal size and I would have frightful, pains through my stomach and back. I felt o weak, dlrr.v and miserable work was c t of the question. In fact, my , friends gave me up on tnree or xour occasions. , "Five months ago 1 began taking Tanlac and Improved from the very first bottle. I now eat anything on the table, have gained forty pounds, and am back at work every day. Actually, I feel like a boy agnln. it wouia pj ungrateful of me not to praise Tan- iac." " Tanlac is for sale by all good drug gists. Accept no substitute. Over ST million bottles sold. Tanlac Vegetable Pills are Nature's own remedy for constipation. For sale everywhere. Advertisement " HJa Sixe. - "Sir, I am able to read between the lines, and" ' 'Ah. yes." impolitely Interrupted J. . Fuller Gloom. "You are one of those persons who understand nothing but the blank spaces V Kansas City Star. Could See. 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