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THE WEATHER I rTlTTTr^ O \ T3T7^ OTVTT A AT I TEN PAGES ?gmARYALLTFA1RT0NlgHTAND |~| Pj g|;\ / 1 l\ I A TWO SECTIONS VOL. LVII._NO. 65. v LUMBERTON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1926. country, god and truth. established mu ram nvi cam -; Tobacco Market Here Closes September 24 Curtain Will Fall Tomorrow on Great- ’ eat S -ason in History of Local - Market—Sales Expected to Reach Four and Half Million for Remark able Average—Star Warehouse Closed Last Week Tomorrow the curtain falls on the greatest tobacco season in the history of the Lumberton tobacco market, it having been decided at a meeting of the Tobacco Board of Trade Tuesday to close the market here then. Sales for the season had reached 4,050,000 up until Friday night, of last week, and it is expected the four million and a half mark will be reached by Friday night. This will surpass last year’s record by a quarter of a mil lion pounds and that of 1924 by two million. The average this year has: been far above that of any of recent j years and perhaps the best on rec-! ord here. Sales during the past several days ! have been fairly large, but the quality J of weed offered has been poor, con-! sisting mostly of tips- and tobacco j high up on the stalk, and the average j has not been so high as it was the j first of the season. The price, howev-1 er, has remained firm throughout the j season, and there has been no com- j plaint of a drop, as is usually the case late in the season. Buyers from all the companies are j still here and will remain until the; closing of the market. The Star warehouse closed last Fri-! day, and Mr. William Young, one of i the proprietors and sales manager, left for Oxford and Henderson to op- [ en two other warehouses. While this j was Mr- Young’s first year here, his j experienced gained through 35 years as warehouseman in other parts of; the State and his genial disposition won for him great popularity on the j local market. Fairmont Still Having Good Tobacco Sales Sold 180,000 Pounds Yesterday— Sales for Season Amount to 8,610, 000*: Pounds for High Average— Market Will Remain Open Indefin itely. ‘ The Fairmont tobacco market con-, tir.ues to have heavy sales despite the i lateness of the season, and prices re main good. Yesterday the- market sold 180,000 pounds. The price yes terday, as semed • to' bo the case throughout the South. .Carolina belt, was not quite so-good; as-it'Was on j Tuesday, but there-has been ho break in the market. Double sales are still in force in order to take care of the weed, and it is expected that they will continue for at least another week. | The market has sold this season a total of 8,610,000 pounds of tobacco j for a high average. So long as the tobacco continues to | come as it has ttys week, the market will remain open indefinitely. First Football Game Of Season Sept. 24 S —I .11 II — Initial Game With Hamlet at Jen nings Field Friday 4 P. M.—Proba ble Line-Up. Reported for The Robesonian. Coach S. A. Bowden gave his highj school football candidates another | stiff workout Wedndsdiy in tn'Ppara tion for their initial game with Ham- j let at Jennings field here Friday at 4, o’clock. now1 • • ■ •••' I It was as hard a workout ps seen; this year and every nominee ,on the | squad getting his sharp,pf the work. j Coach Bowden refuses to name a| first team on account of so many new j men on the squad that have not had sufficient practice to tell what they' can do, but the probable line-up forj Friday’s game will be, with frequent | substitutions, as follows: I Ends—Bass and Boorte,—McNeill,j Emanuel; tackles—Ritter and A. Me-, Lean—F. Rogers, N. Thompson; I guards-—W. Rogers and Lee R. Mc-j Leod, F. McLeod, Groome; center—I Edwards—Ramsuer; quarter—Beck-, with—Parmele; half—Bryan, C. Mc-j Lean—Poole, Ward, V. Thompson; full—Seabolt—Clewis. j Price and Britt, boys of the Mc Donald section, are showing up well! and will make some one hustle before j the season is over. Lumberton Gun Club Tournament October 7 Tbe third annual fall tournament of, the Lumberton Gun club will be held j Thursday, October 7. This annual j tournament has groym into quite an important event, attracting many' amateur trapshooters from a distance.1 More extended mention will be made later. - i NEXT SUNDAY IS PROMOTION j DAY IN THE FIRST BAPTIST SUN DAY SCHOOL. THERE SHOULD BE A FULL ATTENDANCE IN ALL THE CLASSES. A Cotton Market Middling cotton is quoted on the j local market today at 14 1-2 cents I the pound. Yes, I will make your goods up for you. You furnish the c'oth, 1 will make Men’s Suits or Ladies’ Dresses to fit. All Hand Tailored to Measure. JOHN D. PURVIS, TAILOR. 5th St. Next Door to Postoffice. Head-On Auto Smash On Pembroke Road ._ 31r. and Mrs. Ira Martin and Mr. T. T. Johnson of Badin Painfully Hurt in Wreck Last Jiight—Ford Occu pied by Two Unknown Indians Rani Into Their Car. ! Mr. and Mrs. Ira Martin and Mr. T. T. Johnson of Badin suffered minor injuries last night about 8.30 when the Buick automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Foru touring car on the hard-surface road between Lumberton and Pembroke, 2 miles from the latter place. The Buick car was turned over and the oc cupants thrown out. Mr. Martin suf fered lacerations on his face and Mrs. Martin and Mr. Johnson suffered! bruises and scratches. Two small children of Mr. and Mrs. Martin were not hurt beyond being shaken up.; They were on their way to see Mr. j Martin’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martin, r airmont R. 3. The occupants of the wrecked Buick were brought to Lumberton by Mr. Johnnie McNeill of Lumbeiton, who passed soon alter the accident, and their wounds were dressed at the Thomp son Memorial hospital. Mrs. Martin is a daughter of ivir. Zeb Lamb, whoj lives between Lumberton and Fair mont. Tne Ford car was occupied by two) Indians, whose names were not lean ed. Both cars were considerably damaged. Mr. Johnson, who was driving the Buick, says he was as far on his side bf the road as he could | get. " Mr. Othai Parker Passes After Brief Illness St. Pauls Young Man Dies in Hamlet Hospital—Remains Interred at Great Marsh. - By Bessie G. Johnson St. Paul, Sept- 23—Our town was j saddened Tuesday when news was; wired here the death of one of its former sons, Mr. Otha Parker, which took place at 3 o’clock that afternoon in a hospital in Hamlet, where he has been very ill during the past few weeks, with a complication of diseas es resulting in several operations which had to be performed during the short time that he was a patient there. | His illness occurred while engaged in; work at the Maxton postoffice where • he had been employed as clerk for j some time. He made a valiant fight j for lifft-Hew^ only 25 years of age. . (;Thej rjeruaina,, wene1 Jbrb tight to St.: Pauls that' night; by motor and taken I to hOdjel-iBt. -Pauls Where his father, j Mr*s$.lL. Parkfcr, now resides. Fun- f <*r»Bservices’ took place at the homO at 3' o’tdAck Wednesday afternoon. The Sullivan, pastor of Mak toh'ichurchy was invited to coriduct the services in the absence of hiS former pastor, Rev. L. Sasser of St. Pauls, who was away on vacation^ Interment was made in the cemetery at Great Marsh Baptist church. A large crowd of friends and rela- j tives was in attendance and his grave j was prettily covered with floral tri butes, expressing in a small way the high esteem in which he was held Deceased's death is peculiarily sad as he leaves a young widow, who was 1 Miss Edith Howard of our town, and ; a little son several months old, be sides an elder brother, Mr. Cason Parker of Chesterfield, his father, Mr, S. L. Parker, step-mother, and the following half ers: Misses Nettie Ray‘J^yrtle, Kath leen and Grace, MMtifiL) S.^E.ltlr., Clarence and Robert, all of St- Pauls are among the surv!fobs,,vr** Deceased was a 'v*eAj fifftW^nenV member of the local BllJjtiSt: church and his death brings sorrow to a large number of friends. He was uni versally liked. Mr- Fred Brown in Critical Condition. Mr. Fred Brown is in critical con dition at the Thompson Memorial hos pital, where he was operated on Tues day night for strangulated hernia of about 24 hours duration. The attack came on in Fayetteville and Mr. Brown came to Lumberton for the operation to be performed by Dr. T. C. Johnson. —Mr. W. T. Sanderson and son. Mr. Leon, of Hopewell, Va., returned yes terday to their home, after spending a few days here with their mother and grandmother, Mrs. Mary Bodi ford, who is a patient in the Baker sanatorium and whose condition is improved. Splendid Meeting at Regan’s Closed Sunday Night. A week’s series of meetings at Reg an’s Methodist church, St. Pauls cir cuit, closed Sunday night with eleven additions to the church. The meeting was conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. A. Daily, who was a Lumberton visi tor Monday afternoon NEED A NEW SUIT? SEE JOHN D. PURVIS, The Tailor, HAND TAILORED CLOTHES 823.50 AND UP. ■ ST. PAUL NEWS Memory-McGill Marrage a Surprise —Personal and Other Items. By Bessie G. Johnson. St. Pauls, Sept. 23—Much surprise and interest was centered in the mar riage of Miss Eulalia McGill, of Lum berton, member of the graded school faculty herei who during the week-end was wedded to Mr. Harry Hall Mem ory of that town at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs- W. R. McGill. Following a brief trip to Myrtle Beach, S. C., the bride returned to St. Pauls to resume her work in the school. Mr. Memory is connected with a manufacturing firm in Lumberton, where both command a host of friends. Mrs. Effie J. Smith of Quitman, Ga-, arrived Saturday from Lumber Bridge, where she visited briefly among relatives while enroute to St. Pauls, where she has been a guest among us, being a sister of our mother, Mrs. Margaret (J. D.) -John son, Armfield street, as well as oth ers locally. Accompanying her were her daughter, Mrs. Hoge "Malloy of Quitman, and from Lumber Bridge, Mrs. Annie Belle (Malloy) Smith, with whom the latter was stopping, and Master Angus Shaw, who brought them over. Mrs. Smith will visit among other of her relatives while in N. C Friends of Miss Murphey Hall were glad to' have her in town for the week-end, which she spent in the home of her sister, Mrs. Ruffin Pow ers. She is a member of the school faculty at Sn^ithfield this season. Misses Lee McNair and Lena Sykes of Laurinburg spent the week-end among relatives in the home of the latter’s mother, Mrs. Lilly M. Sykes. Mrs. J. M. McNeill, with her sister^ in-law, Miss Bettie McNeill, and Miss ! Ailccn McDonald spent Monday af ternoon with the former’s daughter, Miss Ola McNeill, who is student at Flora Macdonald college, Red Springs Mr. and Mrs. J. M* O. Denrtiark re turned last Thursday from a very (Continued on page 3.) Coroners Jury Finds Chavis Was Killer Held Without Bail for Murder of Jenka McMillan Sunday Night and Julian Pope Oxendine Released1 Uii der $500 Bond as Material Witness ' —Evidence That All- tVere Drink ing. i A jury summoned' bf Coroner ' D. W^Biggs owittonday afternoon found that Denks McMillan,1 Indian, came to his dPOth as a .result of a-pistol shot in the head inflicted by Will Chavis, Indian, and recommended that Chav- 1 is be held without bond for Superior • court and that Julian Pope Oxendine, Indian, be held as a material witness in a bond in the sum of $500. Oxen dine gave bond yesterday morning and was released from jail Evidence at the inquest was to the. effect that Chavis, Ret Locklear and Lizzie Jones had been to the chain gang near Maxton and were return ing when overtaken by Julian Pope Oxendine and Denks McMillan. Oxen dine, chief witness for the State, tes tified that McMillan got out of the car and went to the car in which Chavis and the-Jwo women-had been hiding. Chaefs/feached up itn the top] ofj^heicipf as if to get a pistoT arrf said something that he did not un derptpw},tie drew McMillan’s pistol' ani'.Chavis and told him to put his1 hands down. Chavis then got out, and j he and McMillan hugged. All drank.. He and McMillan and Lizzie Jones then went off down the road, and the others got out and left him in the car. j McMillan told him that if Chavis j passed to tell him he wanted to see j him- In a few minutes Chavis and the : Jones woman came along and he told | him. About that time McMillan came j up, and he left, lay down and went | to sleep, having McMillan’s pistol on ' his right hip under his shirt. The \ next thing he knew he heard three j shots in quick succession, and he saw McMillan sitting in the car door, out | of which he fell to the ground. He saw Chavis standing there where the j pistol shots had come from, and there j was some one with him. He heard Chavis say he “got that boy”, and saw him jump in his car and drive off. The pistol was gone. There was blood on the door of the car, and there was a pistol ball hole through the hood of his automobile, he testi fied. Lizzie Jones stated at the in quest that Chavis’ two sons, Lawrence and John, were with him at the time of the killing. The coroner’s jury was composed of Messrs. L- E. Whaley, S. S. Small, N. L. Seabolt, R. L. Lamb, Carl Bullard _i d \\i “THE MAN WHO FOUGHT THE STARS” IS THE SUBJECT THE PASTOR WILL USE AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY NIGHT. YOU ARE INVITED TO HEAR IT. —----— | LETS GO TO THE BEST PRESS ING CLUB, FOLKS. Why! Because you smell no gasoline there. Hows That. They Don’t Use It FAULTLESS D«itY CLEANING John D. Purris. Mgr. ar-r,— Jno. T. Whitfield Killed By A Falling Tree Former Fairmont Citizen Meets Acci dental Death—Sunday School At tendance Campaign—Art Exhibit— Social and Personal. (By Mrs. H- G. Inman.) Fairmont, Sept. 22—The Fidelia j class met with Mrs. J. W. Alford at j her home on Center street Monday, night. The business meeting consist- j cd chiefly of reports given by the different officers and committees, and; as the program committee was absent the time was spent in discussing and | planning a 100 per cent membership J for the class the first Sunday in Oc-1 tober. Each member took several1 names of the absentees and promised to get them to attend that day. The entire Sunday school was asked Sun day morning by Dr. Plemmons to make a 100 per cent attendance on that day It is hoped that not only the Fidelis class but the entire school will show their loyalty and cooperation. After the meeting the hostess, as sisted by Mrs. Giles Floyd; served de-; lightful grape juice and wafers. The October meeting will be held with Mrs. Thomas H. Plemmons. Jno. T. Whitfield Killed. The death of Mr- John T. Whitfield of Dillon, who was accidently killed Friday by a falling limb near Long-j wood, N. C., where he was logging; foreman for the Jackson Brothers j Lumber Co., occasioned much sadness | in Fairmont and several attended the I funeral, which was conducted at the j late residence on Fifth street, inter-' ment being in the Riverside cemetery in Dillon. Rev. W. B. Sherwood, Bap tist minister of Little Rock, who is at home on furlough from Brazil, where he is a missionary, assisted by Rev. C. C- Derrick of the First Methodist church of Dillon, had charge of the funeral in the absence of the Baptist pastor, Rev. W. C. Allen, of whose :hurrh be was a member. He was buried with Masonic honors of the Mackey Lodge No. 77. He is survived by hist widow, who before; marriage was Mrs. Eva Maude Keeter, niece of our townsman, Mr. Keeter, and five childreh, several brothers and sisters. He had been in (Continued on page six) Charles W. Adams j Of Rowland Vittirh j Of Florida Storm Native of Rowland Died Early Yes terday Morning, of; Fractured Ribs Will , he Brought Back to Rowland Suffered During Disaster—Body for Burial. Mr. Charles W. Adams, 27 years old, son of Mr. S- L. Adams of Row land, died at 5 o’clock yesterday morn ing of injuries suffered in the Flor ida storm last Saturday, according to a telegram received at Rowland this morning from Mr. W. D. Adams of Columbia, S. C., who left Tuesday night for Florida. If it is at all possible to do so, the ! body will be brought back to Row- i land for interment Saturday or Sun day. No funeral arrangements are known at this time, but it is not ex pected that the body will reach North Carolina beffye Saturday ',^'lfflfp",A,d#njS >|iad been in Florida for Spme,SAX- years. • He was a druggist! and was t located at Hialeah at the time of his i death. He is survived by j his widow arid two children. He was i a nephew of Mrs. John S. McNeill of Lumberton. (___,_ AS BOY SHE WORKS AS PAPER CARRIER . ————. 1 Ku!:j-e Lie McCormick. ’ I >. • Above is shown the picture of the!■ young girl of Columbia, S. C., who j worked as a newsboy in Lumberton1 several days last week before it was i discovered that she was a girl in' boy’s clothing. Her voice betrayed her. | TIRES — TUBES — ACCESSORIES GAS — OILS— FULLER SERVICE STATION 2ND & CHESTNUT STS. Lumberton, N. C, Concert At Parkton By Orphans September 24 Larne Crowl Expected—H. D. Club Meets—Will McNatt Hurt in Flor ida Storm—Sacred Concert at; Glenndale Sept 26. (By C. D. Williamson) Parkton, Sept. 21—The Oxford or-1 phanage singing class will give its annual concert here at the school au ditorium Friday night, Sept. 24, at 7=30. The usual large attendance is | anticipated- No excuse, as every one,j young and old, large and small, can easily afford the admission fee. So let’s fill the building. No more worthy cause to aid than the fatherless and motherless children. For the past two weeks the Fay etteville-Ltimberton busses make their regular trips through our town, aril the present patronage, we believe, will justify a permanent route. Of course this places Parkton on the map. Miss Cari, county demonstrator, came up this afternoon,! accompanied by our daughter, Mrs. Justin McNeill of Lumberton. The H. D. club of Parkton met this afternoon with Mrs W. W. Gainey. j Mr. Roy McGurney of High Point I was a welcome visitor the week-end. j Wd sympathize when we read of the horrible Tecent storm that visited j Florida.' We also wonder when we; read ih the Good ‘ Book, “Remember the- Sabbath 'day an4 keep it holy;7' We believe the desecration of th Sab bath means trouble. Mrs. Mollie Mc Natt received a message from her son, Neill, who holds a position in Florida that he was wounded, but we trust it was slightly Mr. Z. V. Carlyle of Lumberton R. F. D. has accepted a position with the Hugh Parnell Co. store. We welcome him to our town. Kev- J. li. rowers, pastor oi tne Baptist church, preached- two very able sermons here Sunday morning and evening, the latter, especially, a real climax, and if his advice is ob served will mean a different town. The revival at Hope Mills M. E. church, ■which began more than a week ago, will continue through this week. Rev. J. J; Boone is doing the preaching and the interest grows daily. Mrs. L- M. Powell returned home Saturday from her visit to Chimney Rock and reports a very good time. Sacred Concert. Program North Carolina .QrcbgStrs, Glenndale school auditorium, Sunday, Sept. 26th, 3 p. m.; Onward Christain Soldiers—Orches tra. Fling wide the gates—Orchestra. All hail the power of Jesus name, i audience standing and singing. Devotional—Rev- A. R. McLeod. Baritone solo by—Mr. C. B. Skipper. Overture, “When Love Shines in” —Orchestra. Violin solo by Mr. Frank Gough Jr. Address “Value of music”, by Mr. Frank Gough Sr. Duet, “If He abidb with me”—Lum berton male quartette Overture, “Happy Day”—Orchestra. Duet, “Oh Praise the Lord"—Male quartette. Bless be the tide that binds—Or chestra. Benediction. * Dry Administrator Reinstated. Washington, Sept. 22.—(AP)—Dif ferences between Ben C. Sharpe, dry administrator for Georgia and the Carolinas and federal prohibition en forcement headquarters at Washing ton have been adjusted. This announcement was made here* today by Sharpe following a confer ence with General Lincoln C. Andrews, j assistant secretary of the treasury, in j charge of prohibition enforcement. Mr. W. W. Hester of Bladenboro I was a Lumberton visitor yesterday. Mr. J- A. McGirt of Rowland was a Lumberton visitor Tuesday. **********' “ MILLIONS NEEDED * IN STORM AREA. * , ^ _ * ! * Washington, Sept- 22.—(AP) * * —The Red Cross national head- * * quarters tonight set between $4,- * * 000,000 and $5,000,000 as the * * minimum required for immediate * * relief work in the Flordia storm * * area. An appeal was issued to the * * American people to provide the * * amount at once. * * - * I * Robesonian readers who wish to * j * contribute may send checks to * * W. H Humphrey, Jr., chairman * * of the Lumberton Red Cross chap- 4 * ter, or to The Robesonian, and * * the money will be sent immediate- * * ly to Red Cross headquarters in * Washington. * BAGGY KNEES MAY BE STYLISH; IN BAGDAD But in America they indicate lack of attention to one of the fundamentals of success—good appearance. Those immaculate friends you envy are no more fortunate than you—they, too, perspire, but they have discovered the secret of having their garments re freshed often by the LUMBERTON DRY CLEANING CO., Eddie L. McNeill, Mgr. ‘ Phone 94 Our modern methods positively re move stiffness front trouser knees. Prostrate Miami Appeals to American People For Vast Sum For Relief Work ********* * NEWS FROM BIG FIGHT * * The Rohesonian will reaeive * * radio reports, weather conditions * * permitting, at ita office on West * ” Fifth street tonight from the • * Dcmpsey-Tunney fight. * *»»•***** ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS —Little Misses Frances and Miriam Hartley were at home to a number of their friends Wednesday afternoon from 5 to 6 o'clock, in honor of their 7th and 4th birthdays. —Dr. and Mrs. Maurice A. Waddell have gone to housekeeping again at 119 East Fifth street, and Dr. Wad dell’s niece Miss Georgia Floyd, of Fair Bluff, is living with them, and is n student in the Lumberton hig) school. —The National warehouse company will open its doors for the storage of both association and non-association cotton Monday. Mr. D. B. McNeill is manager. —Mr. M- Schaeman has applied for naturalization .papers and was given the first at Fayetteville Monday. Mr. Hchacman has been in Lumberton for five years and is now manager of the Weinstein and Schaeman store here. —Dr. G. E. Moorehouse and Mr. H. B. Jennings left yesterday for Sampson county, where they will at tend the Fayetteville Presbytery, which is being held at Mt. Pisjah church beginning Tuesday and lasting through today. . —Mr. K. M. Barnes, who was oper ated on for mastoiditis at the Thomp son Memorial hospital by Dr. R. S. Beam, was able to return to his home on North Elm Tuesday of this week, just two weeks from the day of the operation, which was a serious one. His condition is rapidly improving. —(Building permits have been let to Mr. N. B. Nordan for the construction of an 8-room residence at the comer of 17th and Pine streets costing $1, 500. and to Dr. A- H. Hayes of Fair- I mont for the construction of a 7-room bungalow on the Carthage'road cost ing $4,000. --Mr. L- D. Wyly of Charlotte, trav eling, salesman for the SuppLae-Bid dle Hardware Co. of Philadelphia, was a visitor here Wednesday. Mr. Wyly and his family expect to move back here in the near future, they having been residents of Lumberton a few years ago; ■ /—Writing The Robesonian from Wakulla, Fla., under date of Sept- 20, Mr. J. T. Culbreath adds a postscript as follows “The storm is raging at a fearful rate. Many are losing their homes, many losing their lives and many left homeless on the coast. Conditions are indescribable.” —Dr. Maurice A. Waddell is having fitted up on the second floor of the McLellan stores building some ex ceptionally nice front offices for den tal work, having moved from the Lumberton cotton mills office build ing, where he was located formerly. Dr. Waddell expects to occupy his new offices, which will be fitted up with every modem dental apparatus, Monday of next week. Sam Lee Leave* For His Far-Off Native China * . i_m_v_ir... UOUIIUI Jinan n ries With Him On Journey to Land of "His Birth Bible Given Him by Men’s Christian League—Sam Is a Christian and Has Been a Good Citizen Here. Sam Lee, who has operated a laun dry in Lumberton for some 17 years, left yesterday for his far-away native China, where he hopes to dwell in peace and contentment among hia own people until he is gathered to his fathers. He is not an old man yet by any means, the days of the years of his life numbering only three score years and one, and he would pass for ten or twenty years younger than that, but all the same he has ceased] from his labors in this land of his adoption, is now journeying toward Hong-Kong, and leaves in charge of his prosperous laundry business here his two sons, Fong and Ling. Sam has been a good citizen and has many friends here, and he car ried with him as one of his cherished possessions a beautifully-rbound Bi ble, which was presented to him by the Lumberton Men’s Christian league at the morning prayer service at the court house Tuesday. Mr. J. P. Rus sell made the presentation speech and Sam responded with .feeling and pro found appreciation. Sam long ago embraced the Christian religion and he carries the Christian’s Bible with him as his friend and guide and will tell the good* news to his friends in far-off Cathay, where he first saw the light and from which he has been an exile for 40 years. Sam lived in San Francisco the first three years of his sojourn in this country, going thence to New York, where he lived a short while. He liv ed in Baltimore and Washington about 20 years’’before coming to Lu nborten. He is returning home via San Fran cisco and expects to be on the way about six weeks. Don't fail to see the free acts every night and the fireworks Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights at the Robeson county fair October 19-22. CONDITIONS WORSE THAN FIRST NEWS INDICATED Snffering Among Injured and Homeless Almost Indescribable —Total Dead Will Far Exceed 400—Red Crocs In Sole Charge of Gigantic Tatfk. Miami, Fla., Sept. ^-(An Prostrate under the ravages of the tropical hurricane, and with suffering among the injured and homeless al most indescribable, Miami today ap pealed to the American people, for a vast sum for relief and rehabilitation wrork. With the National Red Cross firm ly at the helm, the work of res-tte and relief in the storm-swept sections of Florida is moving apace. Hasty surveys reweal conditions as even worse than first news had indi cated and appeals to the nation for financial assistance and for nurses, medicines and supplies went out yes terday from Miami, the center of the district hardest hit hy the storm. As the flood waters receded and the rescue parties were augmented, addi- ’ tional bodies were found at . Miami, Moorehaven, Fort Lauderdale and other points, with the certainty that still others were buried in wrecked buildings and held captive by debris covered waters. Far Above 400. Accurate figures as to the total known dead had not been compiled last night, but rescuers said the total would far exceed 400. As isolated colonies were reached in the Ever glades and elsewhere the number of injury was gradually increased until the total had mounted to around 0,000. Likewise, the total of the homeless went beyond the 60,000 mark, with special trains, automobiles and trucks being pressed into service to move them to nearby cities for shelter and care. Almost incredible suffering was reported from several sections, with the possibilities of pestilence by no means passed. Mora eases of illness, some believ ed to have.been caused by polluted w*teur, were reported to health author ities and patients were promptly se gregated as part of the campaign to prevent the spread ef disease. A survey of sanitary conditions throughout the storm district has been started by Dr, J. H. IJnaon, of the United States Public Health Ser vice, and if necessary to prevent out breaks of epidemics, the entire re sources of that service will be put in to operation. i Crowded conditions in the stricken towns has been somewhat relieved by military orders barring new entrants into the devastated zone between West Palm $each and Miami and by the departure of hundreds of refugees for Jacksonville and other cities. Those remaining were required to submit to innoculation and vaccina tion and anti-toxins for this purpose still were being rushed into the :stoim area by airplanes. Maxton’s Football Prospects Bright First Game of Seadon Sept. 24.— Plans for Harvest Festival Uader Way Correspondence of The Robesonian. Maxton, Sept. 22.—The Tennis tournament was finally brought to a close with Lacy McLean, old-time Davidson star, as winner. In the drawing of lots to determine which of the three undefeated players would play each other, Gus Hasty and Henry McKinnon were drawn as opponents, the winner of their match to play Lacy McLean. Henry McKinnon de feated Gus Hasty 6-4, 6-8, 6-1. On Monday afternoon the finals were played between McKinnon and Mc Lean and Lacy McLean was victor 6-2, 6-4. McLean has not yet announc ed his selection for a playing partner, but it is understood that he will be selected promptly, and that this team • is open for challenge from other local teams and from teams from nearby towns. Football Prospects Bright The prospects are for a fast and snappy football team for Maxton high school this year. Coach Baldwin and his assistant, Alton C. Green, have had-the boys at work and they ex pect to be in fine shape for the first garnet against Red Springs on the 24th. jShower baths have been install ed at- the school since last spring, which makes it much more conven ient for the players, and they are t*h- . ing great interest. Also a new dummy and new«quipment have been secured. , I With the back field made up of J. D. Medlin, Leaky Smith, Roy Smith, J. B. Mclver and James Stewart Mc (Continued on page 6.) .->00 ARE EXPECTED IN THE FIRST BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL NEXT SUNDAY. THE NUMBER IS INCREASING EVERY SUNDAY. SEE US Mqff * Watch. Clack. Jewelry repairing and Engraving. MOORE’S GIFT SHOP " W 3rd Si. Nat. Bk. Bldg. / , . Phone 434 :
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