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VOL. CXI!. NO. 82
TWELVE PAGES TODAY; - RALEIGH. N. C. MONDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 20. 190 .-. ' TWELVE PAGES TODAY.
PRICEr FIVE CENT3
YALE PROFESSOR
ADVOCATESCOXAS
LEAGUE EXPOilEliT
'This New England Independent
voter i ens wnyuemo
; crat Must Be Elected
NO ORDINARY CAMPAIGN
HE TELLS INDEPENDENTS
League of Nations Would Be
Grtatest. Monument to Those
Who Died in World War; Hot
Sine Declaration of Inde
pendenoe Has America Faced
8ncb Seriona Step "y r '
News and Observer Bdreaa,
603 District National Bank Building.
. v (By Special Lasted Wire.)
Washington, 8pt 19. On of tte
v ' it eamrwixu document that have
come to tha eyea of Democrats In
Wshington i tha "call to tha Inde
pendent to support Cox by Prof,
Irving Fisher, of Yale. Thia document
gives such plain convincing reasons
why "Governor Cox should be selected
. that excerpts from it-art given bra:
-, "I have always practiced and preach'
. ed independence in -voting.. Thera
- will probably ba; mora, indepandeat
voting thia fall than at may Una ainea
the Civil war, and for three chief
. reasons. First, the , neat war baa
loosened nnd 'opened' men'' minds;
Secondly, the Leo rue of Nationa 1
roloaaat aa issue that it will inevitably
, throw thousands, if ' not millions, of
, votes aeroeo party linea; - Thirdly,
there will be tome ten mUHba hew
- wemen votera who hare not yet formed
--any real party affiliations.
' 'Pro-League Bepnblieana and inde
pendenta are getting together to form
'an organization in October. I am gat'
ting letters every day favoring aueh
aa organisation. Among thoaa Bepnb
lieana and Independenta who favor the
election of Cox and Boosevelt on the
League issue are:'
Independent Support Cat.
'. Theodore ' Marburg, Bepublicnn
minister to Belgium under President
Taft; Hamilton Holt, editor of the
Independent; Professor 'Charles 6ey
moar, of Yale, author of 'Diplomatic
- ' Background efvthe War,' called by Mr
Taft the most illuminating book , on
the war; John IT Moors, Boston, Mass.;
Charles W. Eliot, el-president of Har
vard; Caroline Hazard, ex-president of
" Wollcslcy; Henry C. King, president
of Oberlla College; Mary E. Woolley,
president of Mount Uolyoket Katharine
Lea Bates, professor at Wellealey andj
' author of 'America, t the Beautiful.'
which might be called now one of
oar nations! , anthems $ James Tourney,
diwia of Yale forestr" aehool.
"Thia is no ordinary campaign. Not
since the Declaration of Independence
haa America been called upon to take
.- aa aeriona a stop aa that, of Joining tha
league of Nationa.- The voter should
vote not for party to be In power
four years but for a policy to be In
-. force four hundred yean.-.
"The election is a referendum. Mr.
, Lodge and Mr. Wilson have both. ap
pealed to the country.
' "No aueh solemn referendum should
be decided by mare thoughtless tradi
tional voting aa for tha party for which
oar grandfathere "voted because ones
there was a Civil wart much leas should
it be decided by the impnlses of per
sonal passion about President Wilson
. or anybody else.
; "As I see them, the chief reasons
for supporting Cox and Boosevelt-are
,ss follows: .
. To Iaeare Lcagne Entrance.
"To inaore our , entering the League.
A vote for Cox via a vote 'for tha
League. A vote for Harding is a rote
for aa one knows whar. Our entrance
in the League, I am firmly persuaded,
is aa absolute necessity.
. ' ' ?The League and our membership in
iV are needed to "finish the Job for
it is mot yet 'over over there. ...
, "It is necessary, in order to secure
- general disarmament and in order to
save ourselves, from the crushing taxa-
' tioa (billions of dollars year), and
aggravation of the high cost ef living,
v hieh tha dreadnaughta and other prep
arations for war will soon require. If
we do rot combine with the rest ef the
world, we must compete w(lth the rest
of the world.
"It la necessary in order to prevent
another great world war. The world is
new ao shrunken by rapid transport
.." tioa thst frequent contracts produce
frequent Irritations ard conflicts which
ii'nst be dealt with. These can be set-
tied peacefully only through the
League. , Otherwise war is aa certain aa
. the harvest follows seed time.
.'',' War's Greateat Monument:
; "We Ire in honor bound by the deeds
of oar soldiers. We are talking of
monuments. The greatest monnment to
those whb died ia tha war agaiaat War
should ba in the League of Nations to
perpetuate, aa well as commemorate
their work. To secure safeguards for
peace was the cause for which oar sol
diers fought and died.
' "If Governor Cox is elected President,
we ' shall doubtless enter the League
next Match. If Harding la elected,
we shall not only not enter it then,
but probably not during the entire ad-
. ministration ; Senator Johnson and h!
followers will Inevitably proclaim Hard
lag's election as a vindication of their
extreme opposition, and any attempt by
Harding to run counter to' their de
meads would only give Johnson his op
portunity to raise his hue and cry with
a a aye to the presidency La 1924.
What Ceald Harding De? '
"Under such circumstances will the
prudent Harding insist or desist f If he
insist, the usual senatorial debate 'Will
1 consume more precious time while the
world ia burning. If 'he desists, the
Lesgue is lort. '
"Cox is whole-heartedly for the
League, with united party behind him
and atrong platform under kirn.
"Harding is straddling or oscillating
Ceatlaaed en Pag Three-),
"Cotton-Day"
, Gatherings Of Farthers Today
Every Cotton Growing County In North Carolina Witt Begin
Work Toward Organization of Warehouse Association! As
a Remedy for Prevailing Low Priceg for Cotton; Sampson
County Farmers Meet t(J Celebrate Completion of Their
; Warehouse, First in State;
' House at It O'clock.
Today cotton growers ia every coun
ty ia the BUto . where there ia any
considerable amount of ' cotton grown
will gather a their soart hoases to
combine their energies toward stabilis
ing the price "of cotton.' The day has
bsea named "Cotton Day" by the. Gov
ernor ia a proclamation tit his people
and reportn from over the cotton belt
indicate that every meeting will bo well
attended. ; f s :-''
Cotton warehouses will be the ' chief
theme of discussion. The consensus of
opinion among the leaders of the cot
ton growing industry in the South is
that warehouse are the only eolation
of the problem of marketing the crop
in the Bonth, -and everywhere today,
the energies of . the growers will be
directed toward the formation of local
associations to finance the construction
of such, warehouses.
v .Meeting la Kalelgh. -
In Wake county the meeting will bo
held at the eourt house at 11 o'clock
ander the auspices af the Wake County
Cotton Growers Association, with Dr.
J.. M. Templeton presiding. In every
county, where) there is ' local nnlt of
the American Cotton Growers Associa
tion, the meetings will be similarly
sponsored, and where there Is no local
branch, a chairman has volunteered to
take charge of the organise tioa of the
meeting.. ''..' ; ,,
. Today ia the first time that the cot
ton growers of the State have over
come together with anything like the
determination vto achieve definite re
sult that exist today. The growers
are. thoroughly aroused to the neces
sity of united notion to forestall com
plete demoralisation of the cotton
growing industry h rough the manipm-
latioa or prieea, an recognize, appar
ently, the fact that the most available
weapon U placed witain their reacn
by the State Cotton Warehouse Act.
, Under the provisions of that law.
cotton, growers in . any ' county may
avail themselves of a part of the
200,000 fund that has, been collected
by the State lor the purpose of build
ing, warehouses to supplement funds
raised locally. The borrowed money
from the fund ia to be repaid la an
nual installment at the warehouse
reaches the basis of profitability.
' Plana Are Available.
, Plana for the erection of warehouses
have ' been worked out by the State
Department of , AgJcisulture, in -.cooperation
nkh the State Insurance de
partment, : and both are prepared to
give every - assistance and, advice , to
TENNESSEE ANTIS-.
TO CALL OM COLBY
To Request That Action Against
Ratification Be Recognized
' ' and Announced
Washington, Sept. 19 A ' delegation
of Teaaeasee antl-euffragiats, headed
by Speaker of the House 8eth Walker,
arrived la Washington tonight -and,
uncording to announcement by the
National Association opposed to Woman
Suffrage, will cul en Secretary Colby
tomorrow to request that final action
of the Tennessee house in voting not
to eon cur in ratifieauoa ox the federal
suffrage amendment be recognized and
announced by the Stat Department.
The anti-euffrngists declared tonight
that- precedent for the request to be
made tomorrow is fouad in the action
of Secretary of State Seward , la eon'
ditionally proclaiming the fourteenth
amendment and Secretary of 8tate
rub ia -. proclaiming the fifteenth
amendment. In both eases, although
there were enough ratifying states
otherwise, the State Department an
nonneed withdrawals. Such an an
nouncement in the case of Teaneesee's
ratification ef the suffrage amendment
la requested by tha Tsaaaasee delega
tion. Delegations , of anti-suffragiat
from ether states nre expected by the
Associates opposed to Woman Suf
frage to Join with the Tenneseee dele
gation ia calling en Secretary Colby.
A large delegation. It waa said, will
come from Marylaad where tha legis
lature meets ia special session tomor
row. ; ,
The Tennessee delegation in addition
to Speaker Walker inclndea Bepreaea
tative Frank Hall, leader ef the gronp
ef legialatora who "bolted" the recent
session nnd went into Alabama, Bepre
sentatives Sharp and Bratton, Mereel
lus Frost and Frank P. Stnhlmnn.
TROPICAL DISTURBANCE
OFF YUCATAN CHANNEL
Washington. Sept. 19. The Weather
Bureau in a warning issued today aaid
vessel in or bound for Yaeataa chan
nel or the Northwest Caribbean Sen
were threatened with "dangerous con
ditions' by n tropical storm."
The bulletin of the bareau said:
"Tropical disturbances central this
morning in latitude IS and longitude
S3 and moving slowly north nnd north
westward towards - Yucatan chnnneL
Apparently of considerable' intensity.
Vessels ia or bound for Yucatan chan
nel and the northwest Caribbean Sea
ran risk ef dangerous conditions."
' ,' ' t;f
Atlaata Banter Poisoned
New York, Sept. 1-Lewia H. Hals.
a banker aad broker of Atlanta, Gav
waa found in his room at a hotel here
today suffering from poisoning. Hs
waa removed to a hospital where it was
reported toalght hia condition was im
proved aad tha ho probably weald re-
sever, .-..,
Will See Great
wake Farmers Gather at Court
4.
local organization contemplating the
building of a warehouse. The Insur
ance department ha , specialised in
plaaa for buildings 6a which the low
est possible insurance rate may be
made available. '
" The meeting today ' In Clinton will
bo especially significant from the fact
that the occasion will be made the,
celebration, of ' the completion of a
program taat moat other eoantiea will
only be beginning. There the ware
house Will be complete, and the first
bale of cotton will be stored. Thona
anda of farmers from nil over that
proepcrooa and progressive county will
be there, with plenie baskets, and the
day will be made a memorable one.
. Chief credit ia ' Sampson ia given
John Peterson, who haa been more
than a year arguing with his people
about the necessity of building a cot
ton warehouse ander the State system.
The necessity for it waa never so ap
parent aa on the day of ita completion.
It ia bailt along modern linea, nnd has
the lowest insa ranee rate of any build'
lag in North America, It la declared.
' Senator Marlon Butler said the other
day is Balelgh that he hoped he could
pnt In the first bale of cotton, and that
he waa going to take the receipt right
ever to the bank and cask it, aa
demonstration of the fact that there
ia money enough to finanee the holding
of cotton, provided the farmers put the
cotton where bankers can have assur
ance that -It will stay there for their
protection.
Other Aro Being-Bui"trT"r
Other warehouses are under eoa
ttrnetion in the State, nnd a number
of them will be completed within a
few weeks, and , ready far bnalne
The progressive farmers ia Johnston
county have- followed closely on the
keels of Sampson, nnd within a few
weeks they ore going to stag a eele
bration like nnto the one in Clinton
today. -Other aro nader way, and
make a good beginning to what lead
er hope win be the general condition
before man m oaths. t.
Baleigh will likely be fun of farmers
today. Dr. Templeton said last night
that he expected tha, largest crowd of
them ever aeen here for n like oei
sion. ' The a)ogaa of all the meetings
will he f "Forty cents for cotton aad
100 a ton for the need." Leaders be
lieve that tha slogan will corns true,
if 4h farmers do not weaken-in thai
present determination to obtain eoa
crate results, and stick- together in tke
necessary spirit of ee-operatioav
MAYOR MACSVlfJEY
Newspaper Article Under Yszii
"Who Is Feeding Mr. Mac
Swiney7" Causes Talk -
London, ' Sept. 19. The ' condition of
Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of
Cork, was reported unchanged ia three
bulletins issued today by the Irish
Self-Determlnation. League, although he
appered somewhat refreshed by two
boars sleep daring the night. This
evening's bulletin, given oat after Mrs.
MaeSwiney's daily visit to her husband
saidt
"He is extremely weak, bat still eoa
scions.
Considerable talk waa occasioned to
day by' a paragraph appearing in the
Sunday Tlmee ander the head: "Who ia
feeding Mr. MacSwiney f"
It aayst "Everybody ia asking who is
feeding kins. There is no doubt nt nil
that the government ia not giving him
food or any of the" prison officials. It
ia suggested that hia visitors, priests
and relatives, are giving him sufficient
idoa to keep him alive."
Pointing out that Mr. MacSwiney and
the Cork hunger strikers have virtnallv
equalled Dr. Tanner's forty days fast.
the newspaper asks hew the first twelve
men to be found Mayor MacSwiney nnd
the eleven in Cork-whe they tried to
go without food could equal Dr. Tan
ner record, which excited the wonder
of the world. - ' ' ,. ' 1
In reply to This Art O'Brien of the
Irish Self-Determlnation League said
toalght i "No nourishment or food of
say kind is being given to the Lord
Mayor." . . r
The fast of Dr. Henry 8. Tanner,
a kick lasted forty days, was carried
out nnder suprvilou of A New Tork
medical college In the oammer of 1880.
Dr. Tanner had previously abstained
from food for periods of many days,
one ef hie efforts, anoffieieUy reported
covering a period of 43 days. It was
the doubt expressed regarding this
achievement that impelled him to un
dergo his world-famous 40-day fast.
He waa then 40 years of age aad he
lived to be S7. .
WOMAN BCBNED TO DBATH
IN HOUSti INVESTIGATION
Chadboarne, N. C, Sept Wv-Investigation
ia being mads hero of n fire of
undetermined origin which Thursday
night burned to death Mary Nichola,
65 years old, ia her home five miles
north of l)ere. The destroyed house
waa owned by the woman's husband,
Lewi Nichols, and Jier ehnrred corpse
was recovered from the ruins four hours
after the fire occurred. -.
, . ,,
Blaa Feiners Snrprlasd.
Belfast, Sept. 19. Soldiers who had
been in ambush sines sarly morning
surprised a body ef Sinn Felnera at
bombing practice in the hills today.
One republican waa killed, two were
wounded and thirty-five saptued ..
IS STILL CONSCIOUS
DECBZASB Cf EMPLOTM
IN TEN BIO INOUSTKIES
' Wsahlagtoa, Sept. ltv-Ten eat
of total of fonrtoen rspreaentn.
thro tednotriea showed 1 a decrease
la the a amber ef esanteyee on the
payroll In Angnet as compared with
Jaly, the Department of Leber
bareaa of take atatlettta reported
ha aa ladaetrial earvey. taado pan
tie today. Flgnree on which the
eeenpnrieen waa made were obtained
frees Identical establish mala.
: The amber of employes la the
nntssnahUo snnanfactarlag tadua.
tries ' detrseesd IS per cent In
Angnet as earns ared with Jaly.
Other large decreases were six per
cent In the woolen ladsstry aad
five per eeat la the leather, hosiery
aad naderwear ; Industries In
creases of U pet cent nnd U per
cent were ahowa In ear ' building
and repairing nnd In paper making.
As compared with Jaly, the pay
rolls In Angnet showed deereeees la
nine "lndnetriaa aad tntrsassa la
five. ' . ' ,
BLAME CONDITIONS
El
Hosiery and Underwear Manu
- facturers Send Warning to
' Dry Goods Association
Chattanooga,, Teak, Sept 19. Blam
ing the Federal Beeervo Board for the
present nnbalaaeed conditions of the
commodity markets, the south westers
division of the National Association of
Hosiery aad Underwear Manufacturers
which closed Its convention here yester
day, sent a communication to the South
ern Wholesale Dry Goods Association
warning it to take immediate action in
order to prevent the "very institution
that was established to prevent ruin
nnd disaster from taking the leadership
in n policy that can have ao other
end."
Questionnaires whieh . had been sub
mitted to the textile men of the south
west and which were answered showed
that a vast majority of the textile man
ufacturers are receiving no aew orders
at satisfactory prices; that practically
all old orders have beea filled; that less
than 12 per cent of the output" of the
knitting Industry is being sold, that
tha percentage of knitting aad looping
as compared with normal production, is
SO per cent, nnd that there ia an over-,
orod actios in -most lines of hosiery.
.The textile manufacturers charge that
these conditions have beea brought
about by the Federal Beeervo Board's
attitude in ftfeing liquidation aad de
flation by a systematic program of
propaganda... Aa n,resuit, it is deelased,
hundreds ex the suiter mm of the
country nre on the verge ef disaster
aad the larger aad most solvent mann
facturers face an embarrassing situa
tion. -
In 'order that the American manufac
ture! may go after foreign trade, the
association adopted tentative plans sub
mitted by a committee for the organi
sation of a co-operative export depart
ment, operative under the Webb Act,
by whieh the mnnufaeturers will be able
to handle the foreign trade collectively.
A bitter attack made npon the policy
of the Federal Beeervo Board in a let
ter written by A. McDowell, mill opera
tor of Scotland Neck, N. C- to Governor
W. P. G. Harding waa made a part of the
records of the association meeting here.
McDowell accuses the board of fail
ing in ita intended purposes ef protect
ing the business intereeta of the coun
try aad with siding "powerful financial
machine in their policy of . de
struction." ' ,'; i v
NOT TO REVERSE STAND
IN CASE OF MACSWINEY
Belfast, Sept. 19. Sir Hamar Green
wood, chief secretary for Ireland, hae
Informed the magistrates of County
Louth that he enn hold out no hope
that the British government will re
verse, it decision in the ease of Lord
Mayor MacSwiney, of Cork, on hunger
strike in Brixton Jail., The magistrate
recently eeat a communication to Sir
Hamar demanding full self government
for I re lead, with powers not lees com
prehensive than those enjoyed by any
dominion aad ealliag for the imme
diate release of MacSwiney. The chief
secretary's reply to - the magistrate
says:
"I can hold ont no hope ef reversal
of the decision of the government in
the ease of the Lord Mayor of Cork.
I can assure you the government ia
desirous of granting tha fallest pos
sible measure of self government to
the Irish people' and would welcome
an expression of moderate opinion
directed to the unfortunate state of
affaire. '
FIND BODIES OF LOST
NAVY SEAPLANE PILOTS
Penaacola. Fla- Sept. 19. Ths bodice
ef Chief Petty Officers Percy McDonald
Falter, of Orlando, FUn aad Charles B.
Arthur, of MeKeceport, Ps who lost
their lives in a 65 mils squall here last
Friday, were found today by searching
parties from the naval air station.
A board of inquiry waa convened to
determine whether the chief flying of
ficer eould have ordered the men in
ahead of the squall. It was understood
the board held that the storm earns
with such force nnd suddenness that
ths officer even with the aid of the
weather observer eonld net have antici
pated it
The wrecks of the two seaplane al
ready had been discovered and todav
Fuller's body was found near the light
house and that of Arthar floating near
the harbor mouth. . .
Charlotte Signs Up Came.
Charlotte. Fwiit- 10.niiMt v..
been signed nnder which Enrico Caruso,
ue zamoua isaor, win appear la Char
lotte October It, according to aaaonnee
meat mad vestanlav. Tkla ;n
tha famone tenor's first appearance Is
concert in. the South, it is said, -
E
ARD
: RECEIVED ' WARNING OF DISASTER )
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Lieutenant Leones Arnold, of the
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a letter at hia office at 65 Broadway, New
Street disaster. The writer of the missive stated he was rendering a service to
the commission bv advising them - that ' a', catastrophe was im pen dins. Newe
dispatches Stated that ths letter waa tern to bits nnd thrown into a wastebaaket,
but that following the explosion the pieces were hastily assembled and turned
over to the police for evidence. .
Joe Brcnnan, Farmer Near
Wendell, Dies By His Own
Hands Sunday , '
Despondent over the collapse ef the
tobacco market, and with personal dif
ficulties with a maa with whom he had
worked hi crop, over the matter of
placing it on the market, Joe Brannan,
P farmer living near Wendell, took) his
own- Kfo sometime between Friflay at
midday aad yesterday afterpoon, as-
cording to , information reaching 'the
eity last eight. '
The body was found la the tobacco
barn where be had cured the crop ef
tobacco over whieh he was worrying.
There was n bullet hoi in. the right
side of his bead. Just behind the ear,
la his hand was grasped a pistol, with
one chamber empty. The pistol is said
to have belonged to him, and it was
in his pocket Friday afternoon when
he was last seen.
-On Friday, according to the-story,
tfreanaa threatened to burn up the to
bacco, which was stored in n psck house.
and then take hi own life. Bo fixed
was hia determination to destroy both
himself and the tobacco that he mad
preparation to fire the pack house. Hs
aad placed kindling nnder it and was
preparing to light the fire when hi wife
threw herself in the door and declared
that if he burned the house, he would
burn her with it. --. - -
Threatened To Barn Croo.
He went nway and waa not seen any
more until his body was found yesttfc
day afternoon. Search was made for
him Friday night and again yesterday.
Tke searching party looked la, tha to-
Daeco barn on both occasions, but did
not find him there. Going back a third
time yesterday afternoon, he waa fouad
lying on the dirt floor dead. Apparently
he had been dead for som time. He
was wearing his shoe Friday whsn last
seen, but when the body was fouad, the
shoe were missing.
Surviving are Brennan's second wife
and four children. He was 42 years
old; and was well known .in ths com
vanity. He tended the crop of tobse
eo this year on shares with the owner
of the land, Ivan Narron. It is under
stood that Brennon wanted to . sell
the tobacco for any price and give up
the hope of any Improvement 4n . the
market. Narron wanted to Jiold ' the
tobacco, and the difference 6T opinion
led to some personal differences - be
tween the men, it is said.-.
NORTH CAROLINA MAN IS
KILLED BY FLORIDA MAN
Seville, Fla., Sept. ,19. Lester Fair
cloth, of Uvalda. Oa., and Charley Ed
monds of Chad bourn, N. C, were killed
here this afternoon by Section Foreman
J. B. Bainer, who claims be shot in
defense of his family while s shooting
affray was going on in-front ef his
residence. Two of the men engaged in
the ehooting have been . . arrested at
Crescent City while they were attempt
ing to esrspe in an automobile.
INSANE MAN K ILLS FOUR ?
f AND THEN COMMITS SUICIDE.
Halifax'N. 8., Sept 19. Three men,
one of them his father, end a woman,
were shot and killed at Hemford, Lun
enburg county, today by Havelock
Vsinott, of thst place. Veinott then
committed suicide.
Vsinott. attacked the four during a
fit of Insane rage resulting from an old
dispute over the location of a mill dam
oa hia father's property where the shoot
ing occurred. ' .
Fire In Gold Flelda.
Johaanesburg, South Africa, Sept.
19 firm deatrovsd' the engine-room
and a mill house containing four bun
AtA .tamninv machines in the Knlnhta
twit flnM Mine in ths sold fields to
day. The damage is estimated at 100,000 ,
pounds, .. , -rS ','. '..,
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French High Commission, who received
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York City, warning him of the Wall
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Twenty-Seven of Standard Ar
ticles of Food Show De
r creases In Price
Washington, Sept. 19. Twenty-erven
of the 43 standard articles going Into
the American' family market basket de
creased In price between July IK and
August 18. " . j..-...,.; '. 1-:
In making ihjn ahnonneemant today
the Department of Labor's burentL.f
labor statistics made publie figure
showing that do.lng the thirtyrday
period ending with the middle of Aug-
gust ths retail price of potatoes fell
44 per eeat and the price, of cabbage
went down 41 per eent The drop ia
soger price to placed at 14 per eent,
Mist kind of meet decreased in pries.
Eggs went up 11 per cent in price
during the period. With this sxeeptlon
and pork chops were increased five
per cent; the increases In other food
stuffs were two per eent or lea. -
- Indication that the decline in food
price" levels was , general ia seen in
statistic showing that each. of the 61
citiee covered by the bureau s survey
reported : decreases. Minneapolis . led
with a decrees of 11 per cent with
Its neighbor, St. Paul, second with a
ten per eent decline. - Detroit was third
with n nine per eent decrease.
Decrease in ether citiee follow t
. 8 par eent: Chicago Cleveland, India
napolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee,
Omaha, Peoria, and Springfield, Jll.j
ScvenVper cent: Denver nnd Memphis;
Six per centi Butte, Cincinnati, Co
lumbus, Newark, N. T.; Philadelphia,
Pittsburg, St. Louis, Salt Lake City
and Seattle; five per cent: Baltimore
Birmingham, Bridgeport, Buffalo, Dal
las, Fall River, Louisville, Manchester,
N. JL; Rochester and Washington;
four per cent: Atlanta, Boston, Hone-
ton, Los Angeles, Mobile, New Haven,
Portland, Maine; Portland, Oregon;
Providence, San Francisco, . Savannah,
and Bcrantoa; three per cent: Little
Bock, New Orleans aad Norfolk; two
per cent: Jacksonville aad BJehmond,
and one per eent,. Charleston, 8. C.
ALLEGED DESERTER HELD
ON CHARGE OF MURDER
Bristol, V.-Tenn, Sept. 19. Pat
Hyatt, who was aa alleged deserter from
the army and who has recently beea
pardoned from the penitentiary, where
he waa serving a sentence for shooting
a fellow deserter; was bound over to
the next term of the criminal court
here today charged with the murder of
Lee W ampler, aged 60, whieh occurred
la a body of woods adjacent to the eity
at 1 o'clock this morning. Two womsn
who witnessed the killing appeared
against Hyatt at ' his preliminary
bearing.
BALTIMORE VICTOR IN
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
New York, Sept. 19. Baltitwere won
the new International League pennant
race whieh ended today, leading Toron
to by n margin of on and one-hnlf
games. Ths champions won . their
twenty-fifth ' straight . gams today,
establiahing a league record. Toronto
was not out of the race until Friday,
The Orioles won 109 gamee and lost
44 for s percentage of 713 and the
Maple Leafs won 108 and lost 46 for
a percentage ef 701.
v . Mutator Of Finaace Quite.
London, Sept. 19. Dr.. Wirth, Gor
man minister of finance, haa resigned,
saye Berlin dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Company. It Is said hs left
office ae n protest-. sgainst claims of
post and railwaye official for higher
wagee without a simultaneous Increase
M taxes being authorized,,
? 00Vfpb SLID
0 DEFIiJIIE CLUE
TO SOLVE MYSTERY
OF BIG EXPlflSiOil
Department of Justice Agent.
Molding Russian Journal
1st As An Alien '
NO CHARGES AGAINST
RUSSIAN MADE SO FAR
Edward Fiscnsr's BrotltsrJa.
Law i Questioned Keg ard
tnr Keports Tischsr Seat
Warning;! of the Disaster to
Mends ; Bo JTew Derelo.
: ments . s .. :
;, ennejasnsnmnBnmmt' " ' "C '
New Tork, Sept. lSDepertmeaV ef
Justks agent and ths police were still -without
a definite clue toalght to the
identity of the person or persons re
sponsible for Thursday's explosion la'
Wall street. -. - . , ' .
Alexander Brailovsky. a , Baseian
JournnUst, who was arrested late yss-
terday afternoon, en information fat-
aished by an anonymous cones pondent .
-" aamnxea saving beea rn the
finnneinl district a Short time after the
explosion occurred, ie stUI hednaj held
U.UB. ueu on a eaargo or being an
oadeeirable elma. . 7 .
Qnesttowlng Breilwvnhy.V ;
William Ji Flvnn. chief at tha '
ef investigation of the DepartmoBt of
Justice, declared toaight that he placed
ae epeelnl signifleanee la BraUwvehy'a
arrest, but said ho was bain murilMJ
had held in conformance with the de
partment" plan "not to overlook aav
beta," nnd to follow np nQ "leads" that :
ay develop in the course of the.U. '
vestlgation. No other charge at sugges.. -tion
that Brailovnky i in any .way peex.
sonally responsible for the disaster haa
yst been made by the authorities. They'
announced, however, thst he wtrald be
ouestioned farther and an effort made
to locate the three men with whom he
waa seen talking at Pino and Nassau
streets leas than aa hour after the blast.
He vehemently denies being bzpliested
in the supposed plot
Only Other Devetopsaent. '
The only other Important develop
ment within toe past twenty four hoars
Is ths suggestion of Medical Examiaer
Morris that the sols remaining ant- ,
dentified body, thst ef a blonde-haired -boy
about 19, may be that ef too driver
of the death wagon," which was aban
doned near the assay office Jo.it before ''
the detonation took place aad whieh is
believed to have carried the time bomb'
that caused the disaster. Seven fidenti.
lections" of the body were made daring
the day, bat ail proved to be erroneous
upon eubeeqnent investigation. '
A revised liet of the deed tonight
showed that 84 persoas had lost their
lives as a result of the explosion. Some '
ef the previous lists msde the total 33.'
Quastloa Robert A. Pop. u .
Bobert A. Pope, ; brother-in-law of
Edwin Fischer, who lent post card wars,
lugs of ths disaster from Toronto to
friends in the financial district, was
questioned foe nearly two hours today
at the Department of Justice. . Pope
turned Fischer aver to ths authorities -ia
Hamilton, Out, where he Is being de-.
tained pending hia extreditioa to thi,
city, where ho would be questioned as
to his knowledge ef the blast. Chief -Flynn
would not disclose the nature ef
the investigation or say whether Pope
had some voluntarily or la answer to
a summons. Fischer, who already ha '
been adjudged mentally incompetent by ,
lunacy commission ia Hamilton, la
expected here tomorrow.
Police investigators Win question
Fischer npon his arrival, Department of
Justice agents aaid.
Working On Maay -Leeds." :
Chief Flynn declared there wore as, .
tew developments is the ease tonight,
although hia men were working oa sev
sral "leads" aad hoped for definite re
sults. Hs denied published reportn that
he waa seeking five members ef the
so-called Gallinnl bead of anarchist.'
"I haow where'these people are aad
we are watching them," he said. "Wa .
have them nnder surreillnnee along
With a number of other people, bat we
are not looking for them now.'
Police estimated that 100,000 persoas
visited the scene of the explosion to
day. So dense were the crowds in tha
narrow etreets of the financial district
that automobiles were barred within
a radlu ef two blocks of the J. P.
Morgan A Co.'e beak and sidewalks
were made one-way thoroughfare for
pedestrians. All prominent eharehea
an! pablis buildings, as well aa the
homes of high publie officials aad fi- -nanelers,
were placed nnder extra
guard during the week-end but no na-
toward incident occurred.' Impressive
funeral services were held here today '
for eight persons who were killed by ,
the explosion. Military honors were -
accorded to three of the victims wko
were , war veterans. The September
grand Jury which was instructed Friday T-
to conduct aa Investigation Into the ,- -disaster
will begin listening to the
testimony of witnesses tomorrow. - Sub- .
peenas have been issued for more than
a score of persons who claim to have t
beea within a block ex the exploeion
when it occurred.
UNANIMOUS APPROVAL BT
ITALIAN MINERS OF PROGRAM.
Borne, Sept. 18 Unanimous approval
wa given by the council of miners, to
day to the policy adopted by Premier
Oiolitti in the controversy between the
metal worker aad their employer. The
body also decided npon the nature of
the relief and reconstruction work In
ths district stricken by the recent earth
quake. Signor Oiolitti explained the re
sult of hs meetings with Premiers
Lloyd George nnd Millernnd. He told,
of the letter's assurance relative to
a supply Of phosphates for Italy from
Tunis, to be nsed a fertiliser aad a '
supply of Iroa. ' '
Amarleaa Boat To Da! metis.
Vtniee, Sept. 18. American torsade
boat Number 228 has left for Dak,. la.