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ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF FARM MEETING 6TATE FARMERS AND FARM WO MEN WIL GAJHER AT STATE COLLEG3. JULY 31 FOR 3-DAY MEETING Program Consists of Discussions By Able Speakers on' Farm Financing and Business Problems. Raleigh. Farmers and farm women of North ! Carolina will assemble at the State College of Agriculture and Engineer ing July 31 far a three day meeting of the twenty-first annual convention of the Farmers and Farm Women. Addresses by Dr. J. Y. Joyner, pres- j ldent of the Farmers, and Mrs. Mac Arthur, of Cumberland county, president of the Farm Women, will feature the opening session. Aaron Saplre. cooperative marketing expert, Is expected to be present for the meet ing and efforts are being made to have r large attendance of cooperative marketing association lyembers. On the general program will be dls cusions by able speakers on farm financing, business problems, commo dity marketing, home products maret-1 lng, building for citizenship, diversi fied farming. boll>.weevil control. The afternoon meeting 1 will be devoted to sectional meetings and demonstra tions, while the evenjig program will be interspersed with music, plays and social entertainments, "No effort is being spared," con tinued Dr. Joyner, "to make this con vention the most instructive, the most entertaining, the most largely attend ed. and the most represetnative con-1 ference on agriculture ever held In' North Carolina Every farmer his wife are cordially Invited to at- j tend. A special Invitation Is extend ed to all members of the Tobacco i and the Cotton Growers' Association's. The associations are earnestly re quested to advertise this convention ' through their local and field workers, and aid in securing a large attend ance.'' What farm women In North Caro- j Ina are accomplishing will be the ■eatnre of the farm women's section of the convention. Bidders on 28 Projects Submitted. Low bidders on 28 projects submit- j ted to contractors by the State Hlgh-j way Commission brought 128 bids, I with the aggregate total of what! Chairman Frank Page calls "lowest.! not low." bids to $3,879,143.21 for the second largest letting In the history! of road building in the state. Many of the bids are regarded as «XCMstve by the Chairman and sev- j eral will probably be rejected on that score. None have yet been let to con tract. Mr. Page will sort them out and determine which are to be let at the figures submitted and which are j to he rejected. Contracts will not be ■ signed for several days to come. Only three major hard surfacing ' projects were Included in the lot and one major bridge which will require many thousands of barrels of cement. The majority of the roads were for gravel or asphalted macadam. The cement piarket Is still too congested "to permit the addition of many major projects exoept where the demand Is acnte. On the Wilson-ByVium-Farm vllle road very nearly 20 miles long, the Comfnlsslon received the largest single bid that has ever been submit ted as a low figure the total for the roadway and bridges reaching $738,- 000. The hid on the Ellzabethtown bridge, aggregating $417,000 Is the largest cost for a bridge of that typo even submitted. Governor Grants Respites. Governor Morrison commuted to life Imprisonment, death sentence Im posed In Edecombe Superior court against Eugene and Sidney Gtipton, coftVlcted of murder In the first de gree, and granted respites to W. W. Campbell, of Ashevllle: Jerry Dalton, of Macon; and Bob Benson, of Iredell, each awaiting execution on the charge of murder. The commutation of the Guptons sentence to die on July 27 Is upon recommendation of Judge Frank Dan iels who tried them *nd the Jury who convicted. The respite of W. W. Campbell moved up his execution date from July 12 until October 12: Jerry Dalton from June 8 to Septem ber 20; And Bob Benson from June 6 to October 1. New Charters Issued Charters were filed with the Sec retary of State for the following cor porations to do business In North Carolina North Stato Realty and Auction Company, of High Point, with $50,000 authorized capital and SI,OOO sub scribed by B C. Albertson. W. H. Al bertson, and W. H. Davis, all of High Point. Riser Auto Exchange. Inc., of Char lotte, with SIOO,OOO authorised capital and SB6O subscribed by H. B. Riser »nd Charles Blackburn. Diphtheria Death Rate Double*. Puzsiled by ' the alarming Increase in the number of cases of diphtheria and the mounting death rate from that cause despite the constant activ ity of the department, State Health Offiver W. S. Rankin has addressed a letter to every physician In the State anklng their co-operation in de termining the cause and In making treatment effective. , From 1919 to 1922 the number of cases In the State has increased from 3,519 to 8,136 and the death rate has increased from 242 to 60S. Health authorities are unable to fathom the reason, although It has been consid ered from every angle. Dr. Rankin has determined to enlist the aid of the medical fraternity, and to ask the people of the State to observe special vigilance in treating the disease. For the past four years the num ber of cases has begun to swing sharply upward in August, Increas ingly steady until December when It begins to decline. While the dis ease is prevalent at all seasons, it is practically dormant during May, June and July. Health officials are unable to explain the reason since It is not primarily a seasonal malady. Dr. George M. Cooper, assistant secretary of the State Board of Health and editor.of the Bulletin, has assem bled all the data on the' subject avail able in the vital statistics for the past four years, but frankly confesses that he is unable to arrive at any con clusion that gets anywhere in tha treatment of the disease. He Is baf fled by its prevalence and Increasing fatality. Twenty-nine counties having whole time health departments were taken on one conjecture, and the death rate in those counties was worked out at 625 deaths per hundred cases while the rate In 71 counties not having whole t'me health officers was 9.39 deaths per hundred cases. The aver age for the entire State was 7.66 per hundred. Half the population In the State live In the 29 counties. Mortality percentages vary widely In the various counties. In a few of the counties, and with relatively small numbers of cases, the death rate has been as high as 72 per cent, while in other counties, with a large number of cases, the death rate has dropped as low as 1.5 per cent. But Dr. Cooper and Dr. Rankin frankly declare they are unable to- fathom it, and are calling upon the medical men of the State to come In and help solve the problem. One reason my lie In faulty diag nosis, some doctors believe, and the delay In administering toxin anti toxin In the earlier stages of the ; disease, when recovery could be as- | sured by treatment. The State dur- j ing the past year sent out thousands of treatments free of charge to doc-1 tors everywhere, and It Is supposed that the treatment was generally used. The "department) will Institute an! Intensive campaign against the dis ease during the coming month In an effort to' stay Its progress when j August and the upwnrd swing sets in. Widespread Igllance In detecting the disease, and In the use of the treat ment made available by the State I«i!>- | oratory of Hygiene will be maintain- j ed. Dr. Rankin hopes that the malady will be checked before It roaches Its i former high levels. Opening the schools In Angust and September has been advanced by some doctors as the cause of the spread of the disease, hut It has not besn definitely established that this Is the cause of the spread. Break Record at License Bureau. Seventy thousand North Carolina motorists are wearing the new "King Tut" license plates and moro than a million and a half dollars is credit ed to the account of the State High way Commission at the close of bus iness Saturday. June 23, nt the licenso department, and six days for the nld green-and-whlte plates to run. All records have been broken In the rush of the forehanded. Applications for new licenses are coming at the rate of ten thousand a day, and the department expects that by the end of the week that up wards of 150,000 licenses will have i been Issued and $2,500,000 placed In the treasury for the improvement of roads. The old numbers have passed Into history at the 188,000 mark and j no more of them will be sold. Last year and the year before the collection of the license fee encoun tered the greatest reluctance on the j part of the motoring public to part j with money. Secretary of State W. j N. Everett sees In the rusfi this year |an Indication of a greatly improved I financial situation, and more wide -1 spread prosperity. The alactrity with 'which people pay up Is taken as a' i good barometer. More thah 100 extra clerks are , working ten hours a day to keep up j with the rush .and the mail that | goes out every day reaches a total I of five tons. i Highway Commission Passes Order. The State Highway Commission meeting with' Governor Morrison passed a formal resolution asking the Council of State to borrow $15,000,000 to tide the road construction work over until next year when bonds will ! be sold. The action of the commission was by way of complying with legal terms necessary for the borrowing of the money on short term notes for the Highway Commission. State Treas urer B. R. Lacy Is In Washington ne gotiating for the moaey. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. C. 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- Duisburg, according to reports received here. Belgian military authorities Im mediately arrested several hi?h officials at Duisburg, including a representative of fhe Mayor. Tuey are her as hostages pending an investigation to fix blame for the explosion. Traffic over the railroad waj immediately prohibited by mili tary order. WILL SEIZE LIQUOR SHIPS « STEP IS DECIDED UPON IN EN FORCEMENT OF SUPREME COURT'S DECREE. v/lil Not Stoo at Confiscating Ships But Will Arrest Captains of Liners Bringing in Whiskey. Washington.—The government pre pared to take the extreme step, in en- j forcing the supreme court ban against j liquor imports, of seizing ships which j bring In Intoxicating beverages wheth-; er in cargo or under foreign govern- j inent's custom seals. Continued It not studied violation of ! tne court's decision by an increasing | number ot foreign vessels entering New York with large quantities of j boverage liquors under seals, it was | said, apparently made necessary the | drastic penalty of seizure, not only of the contraband beverage, but of the Bhips themselves. Officials declared privately that the present practice not be tolerated much longer and steps to invoke the extreme pen alties of the Volstead act were said to be imminent. High government officials at a series of conferences discussed the situation and the steps necessary to enforce observance of the nation's prohibition laws as applied to foreign vessels within American territorial waters. A new treasury regulation was reported to have been drafted providing for additional directions to customs officers to seize all vessels found bringing In beverage liquors, j even under foreign customs seals, [ after adequate notice to foreign gov ernments of the new and more drastic | policy. The Instructions also would provide for the arrest of the captains j of such ships. No official announcement of the government's plan was made, informa- j tion of the consideration of the ship seizure policy developing from Uie of ficial conferences. It was stated, however that an official statement on the question might be expected In a "very few days," Participation In the day's confer ence were Secretary Hughes and oth er state department officials, acting Secretary Gilbert and Assistant Sec retary Moss, In charge of customs, of the treasury department. Commls- j sloner Blair of the internal revenue ] bureau; Prohibition Commissioner Haynes, and Assistant Commissioner I Jones. Chief Counsel Brltt of prohibi tion headquarters, and others. A day j full of conferences on the situation was concluded with one between Sec- j retary Hughes and Mr. Gilbert on j which neither later would comment, Deficit Caused By Confederacy. Washington —For 62 years the post office department has carried on Its books a debit of 37.277.06 charged against four souther ncltles—New Or- ■ leans Savannah. Galveston and Little j Rock There seems to be no hope of, wiping out these debts and they prob ably will be carried on the books In definitely, -or until Congress sees fit the charge them to profit and loss. Every time a balance is struck and every time the postmaster general issues his annual report the entries mu*t be taken into consideration to make the accounts balance. So old has the account hecome and so accus 'omed have the postofflce clerks be come to taking it into consideration tl at it was difficult to find the proper explanation. At last however one was dlscotered familiar with Its history. In 1861, he said, Confederate for ■>«» took pn»-esslon of federal postal ftiiiifs at the New Orleans sub-treas ury In the amount of $31,164.44 In United States depositories, at Little Rock In the amount of $5,823.50, at Savannah of $205.73 and at Galveston of SB3 36. In 1921 legislation was offered '' In Congress to have the accounts wiped from the books. An amendment, how ever, was accepted providing that the books should he kept open so that the money could be received in the event It was offered. French Ships Lose Liquor. New York.—The French liner Paris •and the White Star liner Cedrlc. the third and fourth vessels to defy Ameri can dry laws by bringing liquor into New York under government seal*. 16st their excess beer, wine and liquor when customs officials went aboard and seized all but medicinal supplies. On the Paris 13 kegs of beer were dumped overboard Jtnd almost 4,000 bottles of wine were carted away to government warehouses. The beer was pouted out Instead of seised. SEINE BOARD ANNOUNCES RULING WON'T HANDLE CHECKS DRAWN ON BANKS CHARGING EX CHANGE. THE COLLECTION OF FEES Will Charge to Handle Checks Endors i er or Issued By Banks Refusing to Remit at Par. Washington.—Extending the scope of their par collection arrangement, the federal reserve board, in a ruling announced, prohibited the federal re serve banks in the future "from re ceiving on deposit or for collection'' checks drawn on banks which de mand a fe§ for collections. By the same ruling, the board re quired the banks to make a collection charge not exceeding one-tenth of one per cent on checks "which bear the endorsement of, or are drawn by or j emanate from any non-member bank" | which refuses to remit at par. With the announcement, the board | issued a formal statement of its pol icy respecting the par clearance of cheeks in which It declared that banks which did not participate in the j par collection arrangement should j not be allowed to benefit from it. The j arrangement, the statement asserted, jis entirely voluntary nd based upon a system of reciprocity and, in view of the recent decision of the supreme court on the question, the board said, it is certain the federal reserve banks cannot pay exchange. In explaining its position, the board said, it regarded the creation of the reserve system as in the interest of all commercial and banking establish ments of the adding that the membership of the system now num bers 92 per cent of all banking insti tutions and about 98 per cent of the total banking resources of the country. "The federal reserve board, there fore, in the exercise of its legal au thority has amended Regulation J Series of 1920, in such a way as to prohibit any federal reserve bank from receiving on deposit or for col lection any chock drawn on any non member bank which refuses to remit at par in acceptable funds and to re- I quire federal reserve banks to make | a collection charge for their services !in collecting checks which bear the I endorsement of, or are drawn by or emanate from any non-member bank which refuses to remit at pnr in ac ceptable funds, such collection charge to be at rate not to exceed one-tenth of one per cent," Exposition to Be Held in Charlotte. Charlotte, N. C.—The Directors of the Made-ln-Carolina Association have designated Sept. 24 to October 6th as j the dates for the third annual Made j In-Carolinas Exposition to be held at j Charlotte. | Last year over eighty thousand peo | pie attended the Exposition, and the entire program met with the approval lof those attending. Mr. John L. I Dabbs, President of the Association, j I states that plans have been made to; I surpass all previous efforts in regard to exhibits, attendance and entertain jment. From the amount of interest 'manifested by the manufacturers of I the two Carollnas in this year's expo j slUon, » display of exhibits is now j assured beyond axpectations. Doctors Kill Prohi Moves. j Snn Francisco. The American Medical Association in convention here declined to go on record regard ing prohibition. It killed four reso lutions directed as provisions of the Volstead Actt The house of delegates, represent ing body of the organization of 90,- 000 doctors, voted overwhelmingly to table the resolutions, which were of fered by Doctors T. C. Chalmers, For est Hills. N. Y., and V. G. Veckl, San Francisco. Anproval. however, was given to another resolution, also by Dr. Chalmers, recommending that pharmacists be permitted to sell upon prescription, bottles of bonded whis key in sires appropriate for medical purposes, to be dispensed In the orig inal bottles. Dr. William Allen Pusey eminent j dermatologist and professor of skin ril/cases in the University of Illinois ! medical college, was elected presl -1 dent and Chicago was chosen as the 11974 convention place. The delegates Indorsed the action of Governor Smith of New York In , calling a conference of representa tive members of organized medicine !0 draft health legislation. ~,, Disabled Vet* Hold Election*. Minneapolis, Minn. —Election of of ficer# and adoption of committee re | ports will conclude the annual conven tion of the Disabled American Veter ans of the World War. Veterans whose names have been mentioned In convention gossip as candidates for national commander Include the organization'! present head. Captain C. Hamilton Cook, of Buffalo, N. Y.. and Jamea A. Mc- Farilne. of Atlanta, O*., now a junior vice commander. TEN DEAD, MANY HURT IN TORNADO. Aberdeen, S. D. —Ten persons were said to have perished and scores of others were injured when a torndo laid waste a wide stretch of prosperous farming coun try for forty miles in the vicinity of Reeder and Hettinger, N. D., Adams county, 'Sunday evening, according to word received here. MANY WIRES BROKEN DOWN IOWA, MINNESOTA AND WISCON SIN SUSTAIN BIG LOSSES IN PROPERTY. Tremendous Damage is Caused In New York By Terriffic Storm; Farm Lands Hit Hard. St. Paul. —Repjorts of a severe storm in southeastern Minnesota, south western Wisconsin and northeastern lowa trickled in over shaky wires. Ad vices from other sections of the north west told of clear, cool weather. This was expected to aid in bringing relief to areas affected by atmospheric dis turbances which took a toll of nearly a score of lives and hundreds of thou sands of dollors in property damage. The latest storm apparently center ed in the vicinity of Dakota, Minne sota and Lacrosse, Wis., and also hit points in lowa, including Marquette. Scores of telephone and telegraph poles were swept down and communi cation with the district is difficult. No reports of injuries or loss of life have been received. The section hardest hit by storm — Bowman and Adams counties, in North Dakota —where six people were killed and nearly a score injured, sev eral severely, is clearing up wreckage of farm buildings and arranging for relief for the sufferers. Communication had not bene estab lished between Dwight and Abercrom bie, N. D., and Wolverton, Minn., an other storm area. Roofs of business houses were reported blown away at Dwight and eight horses were killed at Abercrombie. Numerous farm buildings were wrecked. An additional death was reported with restored wire communication to east central Minnesota. Twenty barns and other buildings were blown away near Hinckley, Minn. Rochester, N. Y.—Western New York is cleaning away the debris of one of the worst wind and rain storms in its history. Damage is expected to reach hundreds of thousands of dol lars. Farm lands were hit hard, the deluge in many places washing out crops and destroying farm buildings. Commission Cuts Coal Mine Shipping. Washington.—The interstate com merce commission issued an order forbidding railroads from giving any special supply of cars to bituminous coal mines whose product is Intended for railroad fuel, or to give mines which own coal cars themselves any preference in car supply. The order was issued to become ef fective September 1 and represented the commission's conclusions in a long controversy between railroads and mine owners over the rules now regu lating the distribution of railroad cars, especialy as they operate in times of shortage. Many public utility companies and manufacturing and industrial corpora tions who also own coal cars the com mission decision said will be depriv ed of the privilege of getting a spe cial supply of such equipment in times of coal or car shortage. Their equip ment also must be distributed pro rata among mines, and not furnished j to any mine from which they pur chase coal in addition to that mine's P'o-rata share of the railroads' own cars. Two Killed By Dynamite Blast. Salisbury.—Sim Fisher and George I Jackson, twp Winnsboro, S. C„ ne groes, employed at the American Granite quarry, near Granite Qiiarry, - four miles east of Salisbury, were fa tally injured by a blast of dynamite which they were preparing for a shot ;in the granite bed. Both of them died at a Salisbury hospital. They were badly torn by the blast. Another ne gro who was with them at the time jof the explosion was also injured but not so badly. ———— Read to Direct Alabama Prohls. ; Washington.—Edgar N. Read, now i divisional prohibition chief for Mary land. Delaware, West Virginia and the District of Columbia, was transferred jto become acting director for Ala bama. He will serve until a perman- I ent director is chosen. ' Hardwick Given Federal Law Job. Washington. Attorney General Daugherty announced the appoint ment of Governor Thomas W. -Hard | wick, of Georgia, to membership of itbe legal advisory conncil of the De i partment of Justice, war frauds dlvls ) lon. ~ Governor Hardwick. whose term In Georgia is now expiring, will succeed former Senator Thomas, of Colorado, who resigned from the advisory coun cil several months ago.. Other mem bers of the council are Judges Charles Kerr and Thomas M. Bigger. BUILDING COSTS TO DECLINE SOON SPEAKERS TELL REAL ESTATE MEN AT CONVENTION IN CLEVELAND. t ACTIVITY SOON TO FOLLOW Statistician Also Forecasts Some De pression For General Business; Study of Questionnaires. Cleveland.—Predictions of falling prices in the cost of building and a general real estate activity were made by speakers at the opening ses sion of the 16th annual convention of the National Association of Real Es tate Boards here. The convention, however, said to be the largest gath ering of business men this year, at tracted approximately 7,500 delegates from the United States and Canada. Basing his conclusions on question naires issued to all real estate boards by the national association in May, Melvin L. Morse, real estate statisti cian of Wellesley Hills, Mass., also forecast some depressions for general business. He predicted no general crash, however, but a gradual decline of business in a series of steps. "The demand for neyr buildings at the present level of costs is nearly filled," Mr. Morea«etated, "but the need for new buildings, taking all classes as a whole, is by no means filled. When costs are reduced another lot of contracts will be forthcoming." The extent of each drop "will de pend mainly on the readiness of build ing material men and of labor traders to adjust themselves to the situation," he said. "A marked depression would be» prevented by the suburban move ment of home building, which he said would rival the growth of the automo bile, good roads, the movies or radio. A general diminiution of prices In the near future also was predicted by Congressman Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, who added that this would not be a general disadvantage to many because of the greater purchasing power of money. During the after noon the realtors divided Into seven divisional meetings. Speaking before the property man agement division, Albert W. Swayne of Chicago urged cooperative apart ment building and ownership as a great step towards solution of the housing problem. Four Killed, Two Hurt in Smash-Up. Plainfleld, N. J. —Four persons were killed and two seriously injured when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio express train at a crossing near South Plainfleld station. Those killed were Nichols, of East Orange, driver of the car; Andrew Barnes, of Newark, Miss Grace Mounteney 1 , of Caldwell, a nurse, and E. J. Ellis, of Newark. Miss Helen Ford and Miss Cath leen Crooks, both nurses, were seri ously hurt. The party had be&n making a trip to seashore resorts tn honor of Miss Mounteney, who was to have been graduated as a nurse next week. The car was carried 600 feet up the tracks and thrown against a freight train on a siding. Three Killed When Boiler Explodes. Albany, N. 'Y. —Three men fcere killed and threef fatally injured at Sumner, Worth county, when a boiler in the J. D. Bridges saw mill exploded. The dead are Rhodes Ellis, master mechanic of the plant; West Rosier, negro; Julius Frances, negro. The injured: Lovell Ellis, age 18, son of Rhodes Ellis, believed to have been fatally scalded. Henry Banter, a farmer, who was an onlooker at the plant, believed to be fatally injured. He is unconscious. An unidentified negro is believed to have been -fatally scalded. The explosion is said to have been caused by putting cold water into the boiler when the water was low. The boiler was a double one, »and only one part blew up. Tiie plant was wrecked. Night Weevil Dusting is Best. Washington.—Dusting cotton plants with powdered calcium arsenate has proved to be the most economical and successful method of poisoning the boll weevil on a commercial scale, the department of agriculture announced. : While night dusting is the more com plicated and difficult, requiring spec ! ial lighting equipment, it is best to jdo It then because the air is calmest iat night, It was added. Jersey Hotel Man and Child Killed. Atlantic City, N. J.—Albert L. Com stock, manager of the Hotel Tray more here and his 14-year-old daught er, Mary, and his housekeeper, Mrs. Eleanor Moore, were killed when a motorcar which he was driving struck a one-man trolley car at h curve on the shore road. Miss Ida Clinger, Comstpck's secre tary, and Mrs. Margaret Moore, daugh ter of the housekeeper, were serious ly Injured. The car was lifted off Its tracks and swung against • telegraph ,PO»* FIVE MEN KILLED ON A DESTROYER (SCALDED TO DEATH WHEN THE FIRE ROOM IS FLOODED WITH HOT WATER FOUR OTHERS ARE INJURED Feared Three of Them Cannot Re. cover; Destroyer Williamson Heads For Newport, R. I. Newport, R. I.—Five men lost theii lives aboard the destroyer William' son through the flooding of the* fir« room with steam and hot water Three other members of the fire room crew were seriously injured and it ii feared three of them cannot recover The dead: Doc Abernathy Miilicaa fireman, third class, Fairfield, Ala.; Harry C. Lincoln, fireman, third class, Lebanon, Ohio; Joseph A. Gia. quinto, water tender, seQond class Lockport, N. Y.; Louis R. Blanchard fireman, first class, Sprinfleld, Mass The injured: Harry Amundson water tender, first class, Bemidiji Minn,; Haskell B. Fields, fireman first class, Durham, N. C.; Tonj Rock, fireman, first class, Ashtabula Ohio. * The Williamston went out froir this "port to test torpedoes on the long range outside Narragansett bay Preparations were being piade to fire the first torepdo when the accidental 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 ant the steam and hot water pipes were broken. The eight men in the fire room had no chance to escape. Foui were scalded to death almost instant ly and the others dropped to the flooi overcome by the rush of steam and hot water. At great personal risk, Lieutenant Commander H. E. Knauss, in com mand of the Williamson, and othei officers and members of the crew rushed into the fire room and took out the injured men and the bodies The injured were given first aid and the destroyer, which wa not seri ously damaged, speeded back to New port. At the naval hospital it was said that only Amundson appeared tc have a chance of recovery. May Take Out Wheat Surplus. Washington.—A proposal that t minimum of 200,000,000 bushels ol wheat be withdrawn by America! farmers from this year's visible sup ply, in view of this country's indicat ed large surplus, placed in ware houses under supervision T>f the de partment of agriculture financed through the intermediate credit banks and carried forward to aug ment' next year's crop at harvesi time was made publip by the Amer) can .farm bureau federation. a telegram to Secretary of Ap riculture Wallace who is accompany Ing President Harding on his Alaskar trip, the federation commended th> President's statement in Kansas, sun porting intermediate / credits end warehousing and urged Mr. Wallace to advise the President to y frn-n mend that farmers avail themselve;- o fthe new warehousing and inter mediate credits acts. The country's present wheat croj and carry-over, the teelpram st"t'-l is approximately 1.000.000.000 bush els, domestic consumption about 550 000.000 bushels; seed requirements 50.000,000 bushels and a posisble ex port outlook 150,000,000 to 200.000,- 000 bushels. The federaton's pronos al, Mr, Wallace was told, "will civ? the farmers an opportunity to adjust their acreage in the«all nnd serine seedlings so that no undul, stir plus need exist at that time;." Such a move, in, the opinion of the federation, would allow co-operative and orderly marketing and lift wheat from 75 or 80 cents, the present price, to $1.40 or $1.50 and won'd continue it on that basis throughout this consumptive year, thereby be'n - ; helpful to both producer and consum er and eliminating speculation. 15 Lynchings First Six Mon'hs. Mobile, Ala. —In the first six months of 1923, ending June 30. there were 15 lynchings in the Uiit"d States, according to the records com piled by the Tuskegee, Ala.. Normal and Industrial institute. This Is J5 less than the number, 30. for the first six months of 1922, ».rd less than the ntmber, 36, for the firit six months of 1921. Of those lynched, two were wh'tes and 13 were negroes. One of the lat ter was a woman. Nine Seamen Burned In Explos'on. Philadelphia.—Nine seamen were seriously burned in an explos'or. on rthe scout cruiser Richmond at the Philadelphia navy yard. AH are in the Naval Hospital. Thomas B. Hipps, Co'sicana. Tex.; Wm. F. Hall. Mount Vernon. O.: Er nest Adams. Portsmouth, O : Dell O Russell, Plainfleld, N. J.; Edward J. Berktold, Cicero, 111.; Wm. O. Edea Atlanta. Ga.; James C. Carey, New York City; Lawrence A. McCall, Des Moines. la.; Charles C- Lagaus, New Tsrk City.
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