at R'vERS 0F 1 FOR ten u roc;, Ml^s . Dismay Parms Afe as Their r?s Destroyed *Dt Etna laying wasU0 ? ? sav ?n | violent the sur fSelmiDS couDtr.vs:,l? He mainlantl. s ^ molten rock, pour steep sides of the numerous fissures, all before them >Ilam3 of the surround eDts 'are fWing in despair aDJ homes disappear JjjjsiQg crater of Etna, after the /last wtvk. suddenly open ^ i noise like the firing of ^ cannons. There were l3 rumblings, flames shot ^ and the populations of (oirns about the base of the 1 1 j the plains. a# cracks opened in the ? side of the mountain and ge mouths, several kilo the old crater, came i of lava udj of tons of rock and w hurled to a height of a i? SO fe^t from both the old -f craters' and the lava I advancing on a frontage estl 500 yards laid waste the forests in their paths ssed at a speed of a mile garter an hour. io;:ses left early by their Ion? acquainted with Itiiirs were speedily devastat . important railway station [lie:? was destroyed. which is seme ten jtcx the central crater, was tec by Lava. Several houses !d?t collapsed, and most of _,&??? in the neighborhood Jphi'.y deserted. The sky was |r:i strove, and cinders and fa twily over a large area, f s:gh: of the first fugutives ItS? ciES'-r zon.* coming into . coupled with the tearing ?acin no.S"s heard there, ::K:e(Is of citizens of that to & seashore for safety. J loss of life has been reported t dispatches received. itens to Discharge Officers. iicsvn ? Confident that the en will finish the twelve ipiod eniinsr .Tune 30 with a of President told zov.rr.ment officials at ac-jr" riveting that he ex p?at?r economies to be ef durir.e the next fiscal year. Ijdiey of "e.onomy with effi averted. must be pressed for the benefit of the tax 1 exocutiv-. taking official no* Irf reported attempts by some to influence Congress to t larger appropriations that had llKoamended by tho bndget bu I *a:n?d against repetition of I activities . Departing from his *r?l address and shaking his emphatically at his audience, Bounced he was re?*dy to give Iteration to recommendations "le dischars? of officials who congressional committees to Iteyond the budget figures in ap Triations. do not hesitate to ?ay." Mr. % declared, "that a repetition ie acts of any government offioei t?re congressional committees in 'Appropriations in excess of tha e's recorcmpndation wfll be re* ^ *3 sufficient reason to cause SivinR of con si deration to the 'eranc* of such officials from the Eminent service " E*d Crush ng Total lncro*??*> ? MMnR4on,?Cf)tton seed crushed "n? th ten-month period August t0 May 21. totaled 3.193,524 tons Beared with" 2.062.849 for the same ?flod a year ago and on hand al Is May ?,i. 2o,09S. compared with ^0 a ye.'r ago. the Census Bureau bounced. Cottonse* d products manufactured ten-month period and on hand 51 included: ' oil produced 982,756,658 compan-d with 916,025,098, * on hand 24,195.802 pounds, com bed with 23.70X.854. IjJl4h Capture Turkish Transport, Constantinople ?The British de Splendid has seized in the * 01 Marmora, a Turkish transport ^ & tar^c of guns from irace. 1The capture is the result of plan* ? British authorities wbo had inform atio nthat the Turk* endeavoring to remove from i Runs ;>rid troops clandestinely F there m violation of the Mu ll arTri'sti"o when the resumption ^re#^e wa8 threat-. T" ?. ;? DRUMM CONFESSES TO EMB&Z* ZLEMENT TO DEAL IN OIL SECURITIES. BftNK CLOSED BY BIG THEFT Criminal Action is Deferred While the State Conduct! An Inquiry. Witchia, Kans. ? The American Slate Bank, one of the strongest State banks . in ICansas, closed its doors, following the discovery of the defalcation of $1,500,000 by Phillip. A. Drumm, cashier, the Wichita Clear I ing House announced. The cashier used the banks funds to Invest heavily in oil properties, bank official stated. Drumm con fessed, according to clearing house I officials. The American State Bank is 21 years old and has a capital of $150,000. Drumm has been with the , institution 17 years, the last one as cashier. I The relatively large defalcation was explained in part by the fact that the bank held what was said to be In excess of one million dollars in Wichita school bonds. Drumm is al leged to have used these and other ? bonds as collateral to float personal lofcns for investment ventures. He I was in charge of the^ bond depart ment of the bank. Criminal action was deferred pend ! Lag an investigation by the State , Bank Commissioner. | The bank's surplus is listed at i $250,000. Its surplus, undivided prof its and an equity in the bank build ings are said to be $475,000. I W. N. Richards, president' of the ; institution, expressed belief that de* ! posltors would suffer no. loss. Wholesale broom corn interests of Wichita were said to be the heaviest i depositors. The bank held State deposits of nearly $25,000. The alleged defalcation was dis covered when ofTicers of the deposit ory checked Drumm's accounts. Drumm, who was said to have in vested considerable sums in the Sayer oil fields of northern Oklaho ! ma, could not be found after the de falcation was announced. His moth er said he wa3 spending the night with friends. , According to clearing house officials- Drumm eaid that all personal properties would be turned over to tfce bank. Sheriffs and Rum Runners Fight. New York.? Federal prohibition enforceemnt authorities, electrified by two of the wildest bootlegging stories that have yet reached their ears, ^began planning a campaign to mop up Long Island which it was disclosed has been adopted as the newest scene of operations of run ners plying to and from the 'off-shore fleet. The wildest of the stories, almost Incredible to the ears of the authori ties, although vouched for by Sheriff Amza Biggs, of Suffolk county, invol ved a - pitched battle between eight deputy sheriffs and some 50 or 60 rum runners and New York gunmen, in which the depirtfes finally were driven to cover, while armed patrons convoyed a fleet of trucks with near ly 600 cases of liquor to New York. The other sfrory, vouched for by the police, was the story of a battle at Baldwin between two contending factions of bootlegger's for possession of 1,000 sacks of whiskey from the rum fleet, in which the police, acting as armed mediators, captured the liquor and four men. The fight at Greenport, according to Sheriff Biggs, was the culmination of two days of skirmishing, which started when an unidentified vessel slipped into Oreenport and unloaded her^ liquor cargo on to waiting trucks. Insane Mother Ktf Is Children. Owensboro, Ky. ? Mrs., Cleveland JDaugherty who killed her two daugh tres, three and five years old, with a razor, is expected to recover from the effects of poison which she took after slaying the children, according to reports received here. Mrs. Daugherty, wife of tf "Breckinridge county farmer, suddenly became in sane and attacked her husband with out warning at their home near Glen dean. The husband, according to an account of the tragedy received here, disarmed his wife, receiving a deep gash in his neck in the scuffle. He went to the home of his father, a mile away, for aid and when he re turned with help found, the children dead and the mother suffering from poison. Qlves $160,000 To Hospitals. New York. ? A gift of $150,000 to be distributed among 15 hospitals in the United States and Canada to promote the ase of insulin in the rteatment of diabetes was anncutoced by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The hospitals are Id all sections of the country. The purpose of i.he gifts, Mr. Rock efeller said, would be to increase the number of free-vird patients who could be treated irith insulin and ta teach physicians in general practice the proper methods of employing in ?ulln In the treatment of diabetes WILL SEIZE ALL MPS UP < . TREASURY TO STAND PAT AND I BREAK SEALS ON BRITISH SHIP. WHEN THE 8EBEN6ABU DOCKS 1 Kftor Transferring Alcohol to Bond ed Warehouse Master of Vessel to Get Receipt. Washington. ? Beverage liquor brought into American territorial wat ers under foreign government seals .will be seized. > This policy was announced at the treasury, and when the liner Beren garia docks at New York customs agents will break the British seals that guard her beverage liquor stores and take charge of ?hem. Any other attempts tc/ bring intoxicating bev erages inside the three mile limit, it was declared, will be dealt with in the^same fashion. Announcement of the treasury's determination to stand pat on its reg ulations, Issued to carry out the re cent supreme court ship- liquor decis ion, was made after a day of confer ences between Secretary Mellon and his advisers and officials of the state department. It came after Mr. Mel lon had made It known that the de cision of the treasury would remain confidential until an occasion arose requiring action. It was nevertheless made clear that the decision was un qualified and positive. The procedure to be followed in the case of the Berengaria, and it is as sumed In respect to other ships mak ing .like efforts to retain beverage liquors sufficient for the seizure of sealed stores, their transfer to bond ed warehouses, and the issuance of receipts to masters of the vessels in volved. No trouble is anticipated, for, in the cases of the Berengaria and the liner Olympic which is now on the seas bound for New York, the American agents* of the lines operat ing the- vessels have been fully in formed of what the treasury .intends to do. Assistant Collector Stuart, of the port of New York, conferred with the lines' agents and advised Assistant Secretary Moss of the treasury de l partment by telephone that each | shipping representative will file a formal protest against the American government's action as soon as it is I taken. Such protests, in the natural course, will be forwarded to Washing ! ton for consideration. Neither Mr. i Mellon nor Mr. Moss would discuss I possible action by the treasury on the ! protests, the former explaining that such a course was the objvious one for | thp shipping companies to take under i the circumstances. I ? Prices Decline Figures Indicate. I Washington. ? Wholesale prices de clined appreciably in May from the April figures, according to informa tion gathered by the labor depart ment in representative markets. On 404 commodities a drop of near two I per cent from April was indicated. Foodstuffs and house furnishing goods, however, remained unchanged. Fuel and lighting materials, the department's statement said, were five per cent lower, due to continued declines in bituminous coal, coke, crude and refined petroleum and gasoline. Clothes and clothing de clined two per cent resulting fronk declines in cotton goods and raw silks. Farm products and chemicals and drugs averaged approximately , one and one-half per cent lower, while smaller declines were reported in groups of building materials, met al products and miscellaneous com modities. Comparing prices in May with those of a year ago, the general level had risen five and onethalf per cent. Metals and metal products showed the largest increase, 27 3-4 per cent, and building materials were next , with an increase of 26 1-4 per cent. Cloths and clothing had increased ! 14 3-4 per cent, Chamicals nad drugs 9 3-4 per cent. i Garvey is Given Five-Year Term. New York. ? Marcus Garvey self elected provisional President of Afri* ca was sentenced t:> the Atlanta pen itentiary for five years for fle'ecing the public through sale of Black Star Line stock. Garvey, who waf convicted of hav ing ilsed the mail3 to defraud, was led into court by a heavy guard plac ed around him to prevent attempts at rescue and protect him from duped investors. Ten Ar? Dead in Flames. Chicago. ? Ten negroes are known to have been killed and at least 2 were injured in a fire which swept a three story teneme nt house at Twen ty-second and Federal streets here. Approximately 10 negro tenants oi the building were out off from escape by the destruction of the main stair way' and a number jumped to ? the streets from windews. The fire started in a furniture store on the ground flon* and quickly de stroyed the wooden tenement. Fire men made many heroic rescues ' CANADIAN GOVERNMENT DE. CLINES TO INTERFERE IN LIQUOR TRAFFIC. NOTE FROM THE MM No Provision in Custom Law Under Which They Could Refuse Clear ance to Ships. Washington. ? Canadian government has informed the state department, through a note from the British am bassador here, of its inability to adopt the suggestion put forward by | the department last March that clears a nee papers be declined to vessels ' with cargoes of liquor destined to ports in the United States unless a permit authorizing its importation was presented. The department in announcing re ceipt of tlie not explained that it had addressed a note to the British am assador for transmission to the Can adian authorities drawing their atten tion to the difficulties experienced In enforcing the prohibition laws of the United States along the Canadian border. It was pointed out that the Canadian authorities permitted small motor boats to take on cargoes of liquor and to make regular customs clearances to ports In the United States, thus complying with the Can adian law, which prohibits the sale of liquors to persons in Canada, but allows the exportation to a foreign country. , It was suggested that since the im portation of liquor into the United States without a permit was illegal the Canadian officials might be dis posed to decline clearance papers to vessels with cargoes of liquor des tined to ports in the United States uftless permits authorizing importa tion were presented. The reply of the Canadian govern ment through the British ambassa dor, said it had carefully investigated the matter and had ascertained that the provisions of the law were being properly observed. It was further stated that the export of liquor from Canada was not prohibited and there existed no provisfons in the customs laws qt regulations warranting refus al of clearance papers to vessels carrying liquor destined for a foreign port simply because its entry, with out special permit, is prohibited. End of Etna's Rampage Seen. Catania, Italy. ? For the first time . since Mount Etna became violent, a ray of hope has dawned for the much j triei! inhabitants of the volcanic re- ! gion. The danger is not yet ended j for the crater of the mountain js still j belching molten streams of lava and 1 great rocks which threaten the com plete destruction of nearby communis ties, but undoubtedly the vilonce of , the eruption is decreasing. A relatively small number of fresh craters ? about twenty in number ? i opened during the night, indicating I that the pressure within ,the moun tain is ^ess. Volcanologists say it is impossible to prophesy how long Etna will con tinue active, but they expect a re turn to more normal conditions with in a short time. Meanwhile, although the loss in property has been enor mous, the present eruption of Sicily's great fountain of terror has claimed no human victims. Even physical Injuries have been extremely rare. Ship In Battle Becomes Problem. New York. ? Registry of the schoon er Mary Beatrice, on which a bloody battle between fifteen Chinese trying to smuggle themselves into America and four members of the ^rew was fought June 10,' has created an inter national problem for immigration of ficials. It has yet to, be decided whether Gfreat Britain or the United States Government will defray the cost of ultimate deportation. Another batch of 102 Chinese cap tured .recently in a raid in a Long Island City factory, where they were said lo have been sold for employ ment by smugglers, will be deported soon. Tennessee Aviator Killed. ? Pensacola, Fla. ? Lieutenant 1 Char" les B. Burke, Jr., of Knoxville, Tenn., a naval aviator, died as the result of injuries received several hours pre viously when a seaplanje he was pilot* ing went into a tailspin over Pensa cola bay and crashed fronT an alti tude of 1,000 feet into shallow water. He never regained consciousness. I German Ship Gets Big Sendoff.. Bremerhaven. ? Thousands of cheer ing persons witnessed the departure ?or New York of the North German Lloyd's new liner Muenchen on her maiden trip. The liner, of 18,325 tons gross, 'was built at Swinemuende and was brought here early this month after a successful trail voyage. Before the Muenchefl sailed a lar gely attended reception was held on board at which speakers referred to the vessel as a model type of Ger mariy's modem shipbuilding. CONDENSED NEWS FROM THE OLD NORTH STATE SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST TO CAROLINIAN?. \* . ''?** . -A. 1 K", 4; ' ?* - ?' - ' ? # d Thoinasville. ? Mrs. AlicV Adai?:a .Ward, wife of Nathan Ward, promin ent farmer of the Bowers section, two miles southwest of town, died at a High Point hospital at the age of, 63 years. Mrs. Ward wis highly es teemed and a useful woman. Henderson. ? A mooting of the board of directors of the Golden Belt Fair has been called for Thursday, /une 30, for the purpose of acting on the resignation of C. M. Hight as sec retary-treasurer and the election of ft successor to Mr. Hight. Goldsboro. ? A. A. Joseph, promin ent merchant of Goldsboro, was elect ed president of the local Merchants' Association at a meeting of that or ganization. Ben Lewis was elected vice-president; L. E. Pearson, treas urer, and Miss Grace Warrick, re elected secretary. Rocky. Mount. ? Fifteen hundred members have been secured for the local Y. M. C. A. as a . result of the recent campaign which, jus^ closed. The close of the drive was featured with a big rally and .addresses by leaders in the community. Hamlet. ? Work has begun on the new Sunday school annex of the First Methodist churcfc. The new building will be three stories in height, will contain a large number of class roms and a large auditorium, and will be the last word in Sunday school architecture. v , Chapel Hill,? The North Carolina Board of Pharmacy heldjts examina tions for license to practlce pharm acy at Chapel Hill June 15 and 16. Out of a class of twenty-two twenty one whites and one negro were sue-, cessful. Raleigh.? For the purpos^* 6f 'de veloping and advertising the educa tional, climatic, religious, natural and other advantages of western North Carolina, Secretary of State W. N. ?Everett granted a charter of incorp oration to a company to be known as Western North Carolina, Inc., with head offices at Asheville. Sylvia.? Miss Dorothy Gower, of Clayton, was drowned in the Tucka seegee river while in bathing. Miss Gower, who is a senior at Meredith College, was visiting her friends and school mate, Miss Nita Garratt, here, 'and she and a party of young people were In bathing. Dunn. ? A fine buggy horse belong ing to Gaston Barnes, of Dunn, was ?o badly injured when struck by an automobile driven by J. C. Barber, Johnston county farmer, that he was later killed. The horse was pulling a brand new rubber-tired buggy and I it was demolished, though the occu pants escapft with only minor injury. Raleigh.^? The decision to expend between $100,000 and $200,000 for the I erecting and equipping of five build | ings was, decided upon at a? meeting of the trustees of the Methodist Or I phanage here. A cottage for babies, i two for older boys, a modern* kitchen and dining rooi? building, and an In dustrial training building were auth I orized. Hamlet.? The school commission ers of Hamlet have elected Prof.. F. L. Ashley, of Washington, N. C., as superintendent of the Hamlet public schools for the coming year. The new superintendent has for the past five years been the superintendent of I the Washington' ,N. C., schools, and comes to Hamelt with an elcellent reputation. ? Greensboro. ? All of the 81 appli cants who stood the examination of the state Aboard of nurses' examiners, given Raleigh on May 24, 25 and 26, successfully passed the test, a report made by Mrs. Dorothy Hayden, of this city, secretary of the board, shows. In addition to the SI, seven certificates were given by reciprocity and two by recognition. Winston-Salem. ? The coroner's jury investigating the deatlfc of Wal ter McGee and Fred Enscore, whose bodies were recovered from a pond at the Winston-Salem water works, returned a verdict that the two men came to their deaths by accidental drowning, there being no evidence of foul play. j * j * '? Raleigh ?Secretary or State W. W. Everett granted an amendment in the charter of the Hanes Hosiery Mills of Winston-Salem, increasing the capital stock from $500,000 to $2,000,000. . Smithfleld. ? A report comes from Selma that two negro boys have died there during tyie past week and two more are deeperatly ill as a result of drinking white 'lightning whiskey which it is safd the men obtained in the vicinity of the brick yard which is located on the outskirts of West Selma. Waynesville.? Alderman Clem S. Smathers has sold to the Champion Fibre Co. the timber on 3,000 acres In White Oak township which mains that this company will remain at work in Haywood at least 10 or 15 years more. Oxford. ? Miss Maggie Burnett, of Providence, while driving on Main street, lost control of I her car and ran in the front window of J. Robt. Woods' store breaking the plate glass and going three feet into the store Where the car damaged three hundred dollars' worth of furniture heftre stopping. ? GASES ALMOST RED HER . 8p*> Mrs. Settlemyer Couldn't Even Eat Bread and Milk With out Suffering. When a medicine produces results Its praise is sure to be heard. That it why Mrs. J. L. Settlemyer, residing at Kings Mountain, so r&tdlly speaks out for Tanlac. "Tanlac is such a grand, good medi cine an^has done so much for me," said Mrs. Settlemyer, "that I am al ways glad to tell others about it. After an operation, which kept me In the hospital for some time, it seemed I could never get back to normal again. "My stomach was in such a bad fix that even milk and bread caused me misery and pain. Qas would form to badly I often felt like I was going to smother. This happened after nearly every meal, but at night I I could scarcely breathe and would U* awake for hours almost scared wt ! of my wits. # "In my case Tanlac has more than come up to every ^ood word I ever I heard about it. It has done away with my stomach trouble entirely and built me up until I feel like a new person." Tanlac is for sale by all good drug gists. Accept no substitute. Over 8T ! million bottles sold. Tanlac Vegetable Pills are nature's own remedy for constipation. For sale everywhere. ? Advertisement. ' Domestic Discords. ' , Kriss ? "I heard your wife picking on a banjo last night." Kross ? Ton should hear her when she is picking on *me !" Baby's Stomach Was Puffed Up Tight With Gas "I was fearful we were going to loie our little boy. He couldn't eat any I th^ng and his little stomach was all puffed up with gas and felt tight and hard. * A neighbor told mfe about Teethlna and I stopped everything else and gave him that and now he has 16 teeth and is the jolliest little fellow In the world," writes Mrs. O. B. Grimes, Colquitt, Oa. Here is another striking Instance where much suffering and anxiety could have been avoided had Mr^ Grimes known of Teethlna and had given it at the first sign of trouble. Teethlna Is sold by leading drug gists or send 30c t.o the Moffett Labo ratories, Columbus, Ga., and receive I a full size package and a free copy j of Moffett* s Illustrated Baby Book.? I (Advertisement.) 'bell many centuries old Connecticut Community Has One That Was Cast In Spain as Early as the Year A. D. 815. One of the most ancient and inter esting bells In the country is in Moodus, Conn. It stands on a stone platform near St. Stephen's church, where It Is examined curiously by many visitors. This bell was originally hung In some old Spanish church, f<$r which it had been cast. When Napoleon sacked Spain this was part of the spoil of the French army. After the defeat of "The Little Corporal" It fell into English hands, by some means not altogether clear ; and, according to tradition, It was brought, In 1834 or 1835, to this country for use In American churches. William Wyllls Pratt, a New York ship chandler, whose wife was the daughter of an East Haddam man, purchased the bell and presented it to the church In Moodus. When the pres ent church was built the old bell was preserved and placed where it now Is. The inscription cast in the bell, In Spanish, reads: "The Prior being the Most Rev. Father Miguel Joseph E'Stivan. Cor rales made me. Made In year A. D. 815." The year 815 Is a good way back, when you come ^to reckon up in the calendar. Most of the things that are to be had for the asking benefit the giver more than the receiver. About two-thirds of the average woman's sympathy is curiosity. If coffee 1 disagrees j J ? 1 drink. Postum _ . Vcasoii j