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THE WEATHER. AS TO ADVERTISING. If tbe man -who says: "I can't afford to advertise" will look over the list of fol concerns that were LITTLE concerns be fore they started to advertise, be win be more likely -to say: "I can't afford MOT to advertise!" Fair and marked Saturday; Sunday increasing cloudiness and warmer. VOL. XCII NO. 6. WILMINGrTOK, K. C., SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, T913. WHOLE NUMBER 13,284 The ALL LINE UP FOR THE COMING FRAY Candidates for Western Car olina Collectorship Ar- -rive at Capital FIGHT IS NOW INTENSIFIED Lines Between Reactionaries and Pro gressives in This State Are Tight ly Drawn The Watts-Justice Controversy. . , . --- - Wilmington Star Bureau, 23 Wyatt Building. Washington, D. C, March 28. The fight between the so-called "reaction aries" and "progressives" within the ranks of the Democratic party in North Carolina, which was started Thursday when E. J. Justice, of Greensboro, gave President Wilson the "history" of certain politicians and others who aspire to good seats at the Federal pie counter, was intensified today with the arrival of A. D. Watts, of Statesville; CoL Garland Webb, of Winston-Salem, and the expected ap pearance here of Col. A. H. Boyden, of Salisbury, all three of whom are active candidates for the collectorship of Western North Carolina. Col. Watts said he had read the statement given out by Mr. Justice, but that he had no comment to make. Col. Webb, as well as Col. Watts, held heart to heart talks with Senator Overman, who ear lier in the morning called upon Secre tary of the Treasury McAdoo. Just what Senator Overman had to say to the Secretary of the Treasury is not known. It is believed, however, that the junior Senator talked about the collectorship. How far the sup porters of Col. Watts will go to secure his appointment as collector, no one here is willing to say. It is predicted, however, that his friends will go the limit. It has always been customary to al low the Senators to have the privilege Of appointing men to such places as district attorney, collector of internet revenue, United States marshal and should Secretary, MdAdoo and Presi dent WRson refuse to recognize to North Carolina Senators in this mat ter. It is assumed that the man who is named will have a rocky road to travel before his nomination is confirmed by the Senate. Neither Senator S.immons, who reached Washington today from his home at: Newbern, nor Senator Overman would discuss the Watts-Justice controversy. Because of Secretary Daniels' pro nounced progressive views his close affiliation with William J. Bryan, and the friendship that exists between Mr. Daniels and Mr. Justice, it is being rumored here that Daniels is behind Mr. Justice in his fight against the "reactionaries" getting a look-in on Federal appointments. If it is true that Daniels is backing Justice in this fight, to be consistent he will have to lend his support to Mr. Justice on his race against Senator Overman for the Senate. He cannot consistently sup port Justice in one fight for progres sive principles and then lay down when the progressive candidate for the Senate desires Senator Overman's seat. Justice's campaign will be on his progressive record and against what his friends term "machine poli tics." G. D. Ellsworth, a former North Carolina boy, has been recommended for appointment as clerk in the Post office Department. For a number of years Ellsworth has been in the law department of the supervising archi tect's office, and the transfer is in the nature of a promotion with an increase of salary. The Postmaster. General announced today that the postoffice at St. Paul's had been advanced to the Presidential class and the salary increased to $1, 000 per year. P. R. A. WILSON HAS BUSY DAY. Flood Situation Requires Attention Cabinet Approves Message. Washington, March 28. President Wilson had a busy day of it with the flood situation requiring constant at tention, a long cabinet meeting and a critical turiPof events in New Jersey polities. - The President read to the cabinet his message togfthe extraordinary s?s ion of Co'ngreSs, about 1,200 words long. It was approved and ordered printed. Those who have discussed the message with the President said it dealt entirely with the tariff, leav ing to the discretion of Congress, the method of handling the issue, and calling attention briefly to the need of currency legislation as soon as The tariff was disposed of. r" Mr. Wilson discussed certain phases of the China situation with the cabi net, but the rscognition of the repub lic, which practically has been decided upon, was deferred until a subsequent meeting. The President announced his future rolicy with respect to jury reform and 'he necessity for a constitutional con vention in New Jersey. He suggested to Acting Governor Fielder that if -the jury bill "failed in the present Legis lature, an extra session of that body should be called. The President also offered to speak in -New Jersey in be half of the reforms. Among the President's callers today were Cyrus Adler and Dr. Herbert Friedenwald, of th? American Jewish Convention. They discussed the Russ ian passport question with him, sub mitting a long memorandum urging that the attitude of this government be maintained in the negotiation of future treaties with Russia. WE CLAIM the color and finish on table and bed linen, laundered our new way. cannot be excelled anywhere. 'Phone 29. Wilmington Steam Lauta- ary. (Advertisement.) 3t. GEN VIEW OF DAYTON, O., AND THE MIAMI HILLSVILLE GUNMEN PAY DEATH PENALTY Floyd Allen and His Son, Claude, Lawless Products of the Virginia Mountains, Expiate Crime in Death Chair Gov. Mann Hastens Home and Thwarts' Eleventh-Hour Attempt to Prevent Their Execution. Richmond, Va,, March 28. Mumbling a prayer and crying half audibly that he was ready to go, Floyd Allen, a law less product of the Virginia mountains, whose refusal to accept a short prison term for a minor offense led tov the wholesale court murder in Hillsville one year ago, limped to the death chair in the State penitentiary today, 11 minutes ahead of Claude Swanson Allen, his" son. The sentence of the court, held Aip for six hours while desperate and dra matic efforts were being made to save the condemned men by eleventh-hour appeals to the Lieutenant Governor, was speedily oraerea to proceed when CLovernor Mann hastened back to Vir ginia soil to take charge of a situation which was sensational and exciting to, a degree. The prison superintendent, acting entirely within the law, agreed at 2 o'clock this morning to defer the execution, giving Attorney General Williams an opportunity, meanwhile, to pass upon the constitutional right of juieutenant Governor Ellyson to in terfere. 'But the' young son of Governor Mann reached his father in Philadelphia by telephone less than an hour atter the delay had been ordered and by 8 o'clock today the Governor was again on Virginia soil. Incensed, as it af terward developed, by the unexpected effort to take advantage of his tempo- rary aosence, wnen ne naa repeaieaiy refused clemency, the Governor board ed an early morning train, arriving in Richmond at 11:30 o'clock. On the way he telegraphed the Secretary of the flnmmnnwpalth that hfi wnnlrt hp. in Virginia by 8 o'clock, this informa tion suddenly checking tne plan ot Al len sympathizers, in further urging the Lieutenant Governor to intercede. While every proceeding had halted, pending the Governor's arrival, word reached police headquarters that a crowd had assembled at the station, patrolmen, detectives and plainclothes men being hurried there to prevent any demonstration. When the Gover nor stepped on the platform he was quickly surrounded by officers, who es corted him fo a taxicab which took him quickly to the capitol. In" his office at the State prison, Su perintendent' Wood was pacing the floor nervously as he awaited develop ments. The situation there had be come more intense. Precisely at noon the superintendent was called to the telephone. ' "The Governor of Virginia is at his roar " was the TTifissiaErft he received from the capitol and instantly prepara tions were made to obey the mandate of the court. The witnesses who had assembled at 7 o'clock, the hour an nounced for the execution, had left the prison with instructions to return at 1 o'clock. Just' after sunrise the Aliens prac tically collapsed when informed that a half-day respite had been granted by a combination of legal and technical circumstances as strange as any that had ever been presented to a court of justice. Claude Allen, who had retain ed his nerve throughout the trying ordeal in his behalf, gasped and treim bled, but he regained his composure as he noted the hopeless and dejected appearance of his aged father in the cell across the corridor. As the morn ing hours passed they sat with their spiritual advisers, but they nerved themselves again for the end when they heard that Governor Mann had re turned to Virginia. Men prominent in official eircles of the State who waited V, nonUol fnr a final lllftft to the 4 11 S3p3D C Jl"' ' - . . Coventor, were turned away, as ms secretary nanded out mis siaieuicut. from the executive: , 'Hearing at five minutes to 3 o clock this morning of the action taken in the Allen case after I left the city I considered it my duty to hurry back. I simply desire to repeat that after the most careful examination of the evi dence in this case, I have not the slightest doubt of the guilt of Floyd and Claude Allen, and I will not inter fere The law must take its course. What brought forth the greatest in dignation from the Governor was the 4.j that rhP Tilan to anneal i t ianfonant r.nvprnnr was aareert LU llcui.V"""'' " umon a week ago. While there was no fclii 4-; f-m t iaiitonant Governor Ellvson that he would interfere, his ioe- nie-ht to await a writ ten opinion from the attorney general who had aireaay ruiea vi-uaaijr mat he was without authority, was accept ed outside to mean that the life of srht he soared. Gover nor Mann however, cut thorugh 'the I maze of uncertainty and doubf by has tening home. The jury, which under the law is required to witness all executions, as sembled outside the penitentiary gates shortly before 1 o'clock, mingling there with the crowd. The programme as originally announced was carried out without change. While two ministers, who have been unfaltering in their loy alty to the condemned men, were tell ing them good-bye, the prison superin tendent stepped into the corridor which separated the cells of father and "son, and read the death warrant. Floyd Allen, still limping from the wounds he received in the Hillsville Court House battle, said the last tear ful farewell to his boy and went with the prison guards to the death cham ber. A groan escaped him as he sat in the chair while the straps and elec trodes were being fastened about him. The current was turned on at 1 : 22 o'clock and in four minutes the sur geon motioned to the superintendent that he was dead. The body was speedily removed. Again the chair was tested while Claude Swanson Allen, namesake of a United States Senator, was being led through the corridor to the cham ber door. Though a trifle pale, he marched with a measured stride, his head held high, his wonderful nerve with -him to the end. As he took his seat he moved his arms to assist the guards who were adjusting the straps onH Hire hist father wpnt silentlv anri" unafraid. When the autopsy had been On Board Secretary Garrison's spe performed tne bodies were given over j cial train, Kenova, W. Va., March 28. to Victor Allen, Floyd's son, by whom j Turning a deaf ear to the railroad they were taken to the mountains of , .i -4. Southwest Virginia for burial. j officials who counselled him against History of the Case. 1 attempting to penetrate the heart of The execution of Floyd Allen and j the flood district, Secretary Garrison, his son, Claude Swanson Allen, marks : undaunted by disheartening delays the first blow of justice upon the no- j tonus lauamcii, nuunc lanreoo- ness for years held the natives of the Virginia- mountains in terror and cul- minatea early last year in the shoot- abandcli his undertaking. At William ing up of the -Carroll county court, j son tbl seCretary was told the situa- when five persons lost their lives. The news of the crime sent a thrill of hor ror throughout the nation and the shocked Virginia authorities moved expeditiously to bring the criminals to justice. On the morning of March 144h, Floyd Allen stood before the bar of the Carroll cbunty court house at Hillsville, -to receive" sentence for his part in aiding the escape of another mountaineer from the custody of the sheriff. A crowd packed the little court room, for the character of the prisoner was well known. Members of the Allen family were known to be in court and trouble was thought im minent. The jury having announced a ver dict of guilty, Judge Thornton L. Mas sie senteiiced the prisoner to one year at hard labor. With the last word of the sentence, a crash of fire arms broke from the spectators' benches. Floyd Allen, the prisoner, with a smoking revolver in his hand, leaped from the prisoner's dock and joined the rush of the gang toward, the door. When the court room was cleared the body of Judge Massie, riddled with bullets, was found lying over his desk; Commonwealth Attorney William M. Foster, and Sheriff L. F. Webb lay dead on the floor; Augustus Fowler, a juror, and Elizabeth Ayres, a specta- ' tor, were bleeding from wounds which j proved fatal the next day, and Dex- I tfr OnnL clnr k of thP court, lav shot I through the neck. Goad was one of i the principal witnesses for the State at the conviction of the prisoners. When the court room was examined later it was found that more than 200 shots had beeh fired. Twenty-seven shots took effect upon those killed or wounded. An army of detectives and newspa per correspondents soon was scouring the muddy roads of the mountains in search 'of the prisoners. Floyd Al len, the cause of the shooting, who had been wounded by Sheriff Webb in the court room, was taken the day of the crime, together with his son, Victor Allen, and his nephew, Bird Marion. Sidna Edwards, a nephew of the Al len brothers, was captured in a hut in the mountains, March 22nd. Edwards, who Is lame, had eaten nothing for several days and was very weak when found. Claude Swanson Allen, anoth er son of Floyd Allen, walked up to a posse in the mountains and surren dered7 himself on March 2Sth. The next day Friel Allen, youngest mem- A . ? " ? 1 (Continued on Page 8.) RIVER, THE WATERS OF WHICH HAVE INUNDATED PRACTICALLY ENTIRE CITY. 3BP')iHPJj PvtW s GOV. COX, OF OHIO. Sv- Who Sends Out an Appeal for World Aid for Flood Sufferers. GARRISON WON'T TURN BACK Secretary of War, Undaunted by Dis heartening Delays of Special Train, Declares He Will Get to the Flood Zone. which have marked his journey, de .i.-.j tonifrht in emnhatie terms that clared tonignt in empnatic terms tnat he would under no circumstances tion was hopeless beyond Kenova, so far as his reaching Cincinnati or Co lumbus is concerned. "We shall go forward so long -as there is a length of track to carry us," said the war secretary, as his train crept snail-like through the narrow Blue Ridge passes. "Even if we do not reach Dayton in time to co-ope rate in the immediate rescue Work, our services, though delayed, will not (Continued on Page Eight.) O UTJLINES James McCrea, former president of the Pennsylvania rr.aiiroad Company, died at his home in Haverford last night. Secretary Garrison, whose special train to the flood sections of the Mid dle West is held up in Virginia, de clared he would not turn back. Hereafter, postmasters in the larg er offices of the country are to be held strictly accountable for the time and personal attention they give their offi cial duties. Red Cross relief corps with supplies and provisions, were dispatched from Washington yesterday to Columbus and Cincinnati, and points in Indiana, to ?ke P wor 111 he, flood zone, The Democrats of the Ways and Means Committee ftave completed " lc'"6 me lcihii., which includes an income tax provi sion. Revised estimates from the flooded cities and towns of the Middle West last night placed the number of drown ed at 500. although the undertakers in Dayton, O., declared 800 persons per ished in that city. With the arrival of the three aspir ants for the coiLectorship of the West ern district of North Carolina in Wash ington yesterday, the fight between so called reactionaries and progressives in this State took"bn added interest. Floyd Allen and his sdn, Claude Swanson Allen, were executed shortly after 1 P. M. yesterday in the Virginia penitentiary, for their 'participation in the Hillsville oourt murders, Gov. Mann hastening back to Richmond and preventing a dramatic attempt to pre vent the execution. New York markets: Money on call firm, 3 1-2 to 4 1-2 per cent.: ruling rate 4 1-2; closing, bid 3 3-4; offered at 4. Spot cotton closed s:eady; middling uplands 12.70. Flour quiet. Wheat, spot firm; No. 1 Northern Duluth 99 3-4 f.o.b. afloat. Corn, spot firm. Tur j pentine firm. Rosinr steajdy. NUMBER OF DROWNED MAY NOT EXCEED 500 More Cheerful News Is Received from Flooded Sections of Middle West-Undertakers at Dayton Think 800 May Have Perished in That City Hundreds Are Rescued from Perilous Perches Flood waters receded sufficiently last night to show that the number of persons drowned in all affected cities in Ohio and Indiana may not exceed 500. While many persons are still missing to friends and relatives, in vestigations made to date indicated that many were safe who had been thought lost. In Dayton careful estimates placed the number of deaths at 200 or fewer, although a meeting of the undertak ers asserted that the total might be 800. Relief work went on rapidly in Dayton and all parts of the city were reached. Columbus will have the next to the largest loss of life. GO bodies having already been found in the inundated portion of West Columbus. Unverified- figures for- Mfamlsbarg, f unio, give 50 head, but in all other licoded cities the figures fell off rap idly as relief expeditions eovered the ground. '."- Mamilton, Ohio, which had reported as many as 250 dead, did not put forth any figures today. Mount Vernon did not confirm its previous report of 50 dead, and no confirmation was had for 32 reported drowned at Venice, Ohio. Chillicothe and Tiffin, Ohio, where there had been reports of 50 or more dead, each found lScorpses up to midnight. The best figures from Piqua give a death toll of 50 persons. Fremont and Middletown, Ohio, each had 14 dead; Troy, nine; Massilon, 5, and Zanes ville four. The Indiana total drowned receded to fewer than 50, distributed as fol lows: Peru, 20; Brookville, 10; Fort Wayne, 6;, and Terre Haute. 4. No bodies have been found in West In dianapolis, where as many as 200 bodies were at one time reported. With the situation somewhat alle viated in the flood-swept districts of Ohio and Indiana, a new menace threatened tonight in the rise of riv ers in the southern valleys of both States. At Cincinnati the Ohio, swelled by its tributaries north and south, caus ed alarm and although the situation had not yet reaehed an acute state, reports from neighboring Kentucky towns indicated that warning had been issued to the inhabitants to seek points of safety from the rising waters.- In Indiana alarm was felt in the val leys of the Ohio, Wabash and White rivers, but warning served in a meas ure to reduce the panic. Large Death List at Dayton South Dayton, Ohio, March 28. Eight hundred dead is the average es timate of seven-eights of Dayton's un dertakers, called together for a con ference tonight. They reported 82 bodies had, been recovered and now are at various places in the city. In dividual estimates of the undertakers were from 500 to 1,000, but the con census of opinion was that 800 would be a conservative figure. Exploration of several recesses of the city today by newspaper men hardly would jus tify such an estimate. Orders had been issued forall bod ies to be brought to a general morgue established in a garage. TMs hacUnot been heeded as less than half the num ber of bodies found, according to the undertakers, had been brought there tonight. There has been keen competition between undertakers for possession of unidentified bodies and many of them have been taen to undertaking estab lishments not under water. A general call for all undertakers to meet was sent out by John H. Pat terson, in charge of relief work, in an effort to have the work of recovering bodies organized- Thirty undertakers were present and all said they based their estimates of the dead on a gen eral survey of the situation. Louisville life savers made a trip into Riverdale and North Dayton sec tions, where it was feared there had been great loss of life. They did not find a body and said they believed few would be found. An expedition of the Cleveland reserves brought practically aar identical report. As so large a part of tne city naa been explored and information ob tained failed to bear out earlier esti mates of great loss, the announcement of the undertakers came as a surprise to those most familiar with the situa tion. 43-foot Stage at Memphis Memphis. Tenn.. March 28. Late tonight the Mississippi river at' Mem phis was within one foot of flood stage, which, according to the fore- cast of S. C. Emerj-, local weather bureau forecaster, will be passed to morrow. At 7 o clock the height at Memphis was officially reported at 33.7 feet, a rise of .5 in 12 hours; at Cairo 48.1, a. rise of .7, and atVicks- burg 3S feet, a rise of .2- Mr. Emery, in a bulletin issued today, predicted that the stage here would exceed 43 feet, how much he could not estimate, and that a stage of 40 feet would be reaehed within five days. The first refugees were brought to Memphis tonight from the Arkansas lowlands opposite this city. A num ber have been assembled at Marianna, Ark., and the Governor of the State was urgd today to ship 50 tents to that town with a view of establishing a refugee camp. A dispatch, from Buelah, Miss., to night reported' the water up to this hasfe ef. the rocfe lessee being con-, structed to reiplace the dike swept away by the floods of last year. Food and Fuel Famine Brookville, Ind., March 28 (via Con- norsville). Sixteen known dead; half a dozen missing, heavy loss of prop erty and livestock and a food and fuel famine is the situation in Brookville tonight as the result of Monday night's flood. Many of those rescued will, it is feared, die from the effects of ex posure. There are. six persons missing and it is feared that they have been drown ed and their bodies washed away or buried in debris that has not yet been searched. Situation at Zanesville Zanesville, Ohio, March 28. With communication being slowly restored, rumors are rife of loss of life, but there are only four known deaths in this city as a result of the flood. How ever, practically all of the Seventh, EightlCand Ninth wards and a large portion of the Second and Tenth wards are still under 10 to 30 feet of water and few boats have dared brave the waters. About half the entire city is still submerged. Five men successfully crossed the Muskingum river to Putnam Thurs day afternoon and saved. 13 lives. They recrossed the river to the Zanes ville side this morning. The property loss in Zanesville is estimated at between $6,000,000 and $8,000,000. Water completely covers tne r bridge to a aepth ot 15 teet and it cflnnot now be told whether it is still standing. rne sixth and rnird streets and a portion of the Munroe street bridges and two railroad bridges in the city are washed out and it is said not an other bridge remains standing be tween this citv and Marietta. Rufus C. Burton, president of the Chamber of Commerce, has asked Gov ernor Cox for $50,000 to alleviate dis tress. National Guards from New Lexing ton and Lancaster on the south, to gether with provisions from these places and Cambridge on the east, have arrived and are now distributed, although a cold wave and lack of gas and coal add to the discomfort. At least 200 homes have floated down the rivers. Among industrial concerns swept away are the Zanes ville Woolen Mills, the Zanesville Pure Milk Company plant, the Abel Box plant and the Gary Furniture concern. The Herdman Lumber yards, too, i have been entirely swept away. With the receding of the waters sev eral buildings have collapsed, includ ing the Munson Music Company, in which 150 pianos from the more flood ed districts were stored; the Indian apolis Brewing plant and severaj smaller buildings. Comparatively little looting has been reported and the citv is under stricter martial law tonight than at any time. Damage at Chillicothe Chillicothe. Ohio, March 28. -First authentic information regarding the loss of life here shows 18 persons dead. Already 11 'bodies have been taken from the Wreckage of East End homes, where many railroad men lived. With field glasses, seven more bodies were discovered hanging on the "Kilgore bridge, three miles south of here, but it has been impossible to bring them into the city. Conditions are much improved. The light plant has been able to resume service and the" water supply ' also again is adequate. The . estimated damage to property is $1,000,000. Clearing away of the wreckage has begun. Flood Reaches Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio, March 28. As the (Continued on Page Eight.) RELIEF CORPS ON WW TO JE WEST Red Cross Officials With Supplies Leave for Flooded Sections CONTRIBUTIONS POURING IN Cities and Towns of the Country Res pond Heartily to Appeals from the Stricken Victims of the Middle West. Washington, March 28. While the United States government did not di minish its activity today In rushing relief to the destitute, the receipt of mOre cheerful news from the flood lands of Ohio and Indiana heartened President Wilson and official Washing ton generally. The President, who has been very much depressed by the disaster, read! reports showing that early estimates of the death list were exaggerated. H is still hopeful that final investigation will reveal that even fewer lost their lives than is now supposed. To the sympathy of France, was added today the condolences of Germany, Switzer land and the Argentine Republic, ex pressed through their diplomatic rep resentatives. Miss Mabel Boardman, chairman of the Red Cross Relief Committee, left tonight on a special Red Cross train, bearing the relief forces of the nursing corps, Major Charles Lynch, a Red Cross official, and 10 nurses. The three officials will go to Columbus to confer with Governor Cox. The nurs es and supplies will go to Cincinnati and Dayton, in charge' of Francis Mo Lean, of the Red Cross service. In all $300,000 has been placed la the hands of the Red Cross within 48 hours. Of this over $90,000 was re' ceived today. From New York there came $65,000; from Detroit, $10,000; from H. C. Frick $10,000 and from John D. Rockefeller $5,000. There were thousaif $ ot smaller contributions. A complete field hospital was ahipl ped to Columbus, via Pittsburg by the department. Medical supplies that had been shipped -out of Washtagioa twice before for -Ohio VfciHi- blocked, were again sent forward today. The train load pt tentage, bedding and clothing dispatched yesterday from Philadelphia were to arrive in Columbus during the flight. Relief committees In "Hamilton, O.,' telegraphed the War Deparment re questing the engineer battalions at Fort Thomas, Ky., to be sent to the Ohio city. Engineer officers in Cin cinnati were asked by the department to report upon the necessity of the ac casion. Secretary of the Navy Daniels di rected the shipment of such clothing as was available at the clothing depot at New lork to the flooded cities. Past Assistant Paymaster L. N. Wertenba- ker was ordered to leave New York with the clothing. The shipment will consist of 12,000 blankets, 7,000 watch capes, loo.ooo suits of underwear. 4.- 200 jerseys, 15,000 dungaree jumpers, 25,000 dungaree trousers, 8,000 over coats, Z4,uou low shoes and 15,000 pairs woolen socks. In addition 300,000 navy rations were directed by the secretary to be shipped- Craig Receive Message. Asheville, N. C, March 28. Govern or Craig, who is here to attend a good roads meeting, tonight received the following telegram from Governor Cox, of Ohio, in resporise to a tele gram of sympathy sent by the North, Carolina executive: "Columbus, O., Marcfc 28, 1913. "His Excellency, Locke Craig, Govern or of North Carolina. "Your telegram just received. The situation in Ohio is desperate. Our railroads are paralyzed. Property loss will reach hundreds of millions. Two hundred and fifty thousand peo ple are homeless tonight. Send any contributions to Col. M. L. Wilson, treasurer relief fund, Columbus, Ohio. (Signed.) "JAMES M. COX, "Governor of Ohio." Reports tonight Indicate that large sums have been already raised in var ious sections of the State to aid the flood sufferers. Charlotte Raises $1 ,000. Charlotte, N. C, March 28. Through the Instrumewf&Hty of thA women's clubs of this city, Charlotte tocay con tributed something over $1,000 to the flood sufferers of the Middle West. The campaign for subscriptions to the fund will be continued tomorrow and it is to double the amount alreadv given. In addition to this many arti cles of clothing and large quantities of tooostutts have also been sent to the flood region from here. Calls for Funds. Kissimee. Fla.. March 28. TMrs. Ger- aldine Frisbie. of San Francisco, pres ident of the Women's Relief Corns of the Grand Army of the Republic, today issued a can to do state departments of .the organization for flood relief funds. Mrs. FriBbie is visitine here. TAR HEELS AT ANNAPOLIS. Four in Graduating Class of Naval Academy Thia Year. (Special Star Correspondence.) Annapolis, Md.. March 28. In the class graduating from the United States Naval Academy ott the 6th of June are J. B. Timberlake, Raleigh: C. C. Julien, Thomasville; P. Hendron. Chadbourn, and M. Hudson, Monroe. The four years of study and practi cal work of these young men while at the greatest naval institution in the world, have been interesting and they have taken some prominent parts in the activities of their class. 1 Hear That Popular Rag. Master Harry Harris will sing Leaves for Alabam". at the Grand. When the Midnight Choo Choo ( Advert! sement. ) -
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