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VOL CXIV. NO. 39.
EIGHT PAGFS TODAY
RALEIGH. N. C. MONDAY MORNING. AUGUST 8. 1921.
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
PRICE: FIVE CENTS
"rrv
and
Observer
PROTECTIONISTS
T(
LOOKING TO SOUTH
Ibatt
BATTERY OF PUMPS JUST BEFORE THEY WERE
MOVED. FURTHER DOWN INTO QUARRY YESTERDAY
TO GI SUPPORT
Purpose Of Greensboro Tariff
Meeting Js To Boost Cause
Of Protection
SIMMONS DISAPPROVES
OF OBJECT OF MEETING
Another Purpose Of Southern
Tariff Congress Will Be To
Attempt To Embarrass
Southern Members Of Con
gress; Affair Considered An
Annex To Republican Policy
The News and Observer Bureau,
Iistriet National Bank Bldg.,
By EDWARD E. BRITTON
(By Special leased Wire.)
Washington, Aug. 7. It is expected
.tr.at tliero will go to Greensboro from
Washington a number of advocates of
high protectee tariff for the mc?t
ing of the Routhern Tariff Congrcst
August l.i 16. That the purpose of the
meeting is to boost the cause of proA
lection is being freely said here,
and there is an intimation that n"
of its purposes is to attempt to em
Itarrnss Southern members of Congress
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-W - a
... .... -'msss- Ss.
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FORTY-EIGHT MISSING IN THE
WRECK OF COASTWISE VESSEL
OFF COAST OF CALIFORNIA
SAYS TRUST TRIES
"V .
The to pumni in the renter of the picture ran 18 hours without a stop, or from 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon
P- " .V P.9m,r,orar,f lullU' 6 .o'eloek jesterdajr afternoon when the rr was ahut off so they eotiM be tnoxnt down toward the water. V
If for revenue' bnTv; fat the left one of the Staie'i Commnnitv ferVfee men Is taiUnjr some moiirir pictures "ffi'a't wHl TaYer r shi"ii Vn Tii
Ihe organ of the Nouthern Congress dreds of school houses throughout the commonwealth. The very interested s'pertator looking at the camera U not Fatty
Arbuckle, but Captain Christian, superintendent of the Prison latin. Behind tho movie camera can be seen the- stream
of water thrown out by the two small pumps. . ,
4,800 Automobiles Pass
and From Enclosure In
Ten Hours
To
is the Southern tariff Advocate, a
publication issued nt Fort Wort
w - i v:u u
Hcation than even tho American Pro
tectionist, or the American Economist
both of which are organs of the Amer
ican Protective Tariff league, the
clearing house for the New England
high protectionists
It is felt here that tho Southern
Tariff Congress is an off shoot of
Northern high protective interests, and
that the movement in the South is '
a matter of propaganda for a hifb
protective tariff, and that the name
tor the Greensboro meeting should
the Southern Protective Tariff Con
gross. It is just as well to let North
Carolinians and the people of the South
know what they are t oexpect in at
"tending the meeting, in Greensboro
for it will be found tied to the chariot
wheelf of high protection, .considering
the interest of Hie classes and not" of
the masses, and applauding the no
aition of the Republican party on the
tarin question, in iaci n opinion Four thousand .eight hundred and
here is 'hat the affair at Ureensboro is fifty nutoraobijeg brought more than
Twenty Thousand Tar Heels
Visit Rock Quarry Sunday
LABORING PUMPS STILL
SOME FEET FROM BOTTOM
Little to See Yesterday That
Offered Sensation ; Finish
Work Tomorrow
KNOCKS DOWN MAN
AND TAKES MONEY
an annex of the Republican high pro
tective tariff policy. But it will have I tcr(av
a heap to chaw on when u ou
deavors to justify the abomination
of the Fordnev tariff bill' w
struck the country one of the illi
from Vhleh it would escape.
The attention of Senator Simmon
has been coll-d by North Carolina
hankers to the fact that his name
20,000 people to the Rock Quarry yes
Street cars, three of them
shuttling baok and forth between the
tiic-n kirl TBclai' Building Square and the east
rnu ox juarcin mrtci, carried ornrr
thousands, and some who had neither
flirer nor seven cents walked.
Not much was there to are, save a
great gaping hole in tho earth with
is being used in ecrtain circulars ser.t ""'J, By green n.ner nt ino nouom oi
out bv the North Carolina division d a battery of pumps working
r.t thn Sn,itl,ern Tariff Association the nwa.V at the south of the hoi. tVnsa
circular stilting that Senator Simmoin tion almost broke when the cushion of
:ml H-natnr Overman had joined n anotner automohiie, h(ievel to he out
extending certain invitations to public lof a Colo '8" floated idly up, and again
inpii to address the meeting of the wnen the dropping water left a tow
Southern Tariff Congress -in Greens- sack stranded on the mud.
boro. Senator fmmons fears that "
no explanation is made it might be
mistakenly thought that he approves
the Southern Tariff Congress.
Sparred Hero Dead
I'ndoubtedly the saek offereu the
scandalous. Charlie Farmer put. out
VI course, senator eimmona wouia . . ,,,; .;i... .
i j v..a ! ....... ...... . ..
n.roauce ,ny IK,.uu. v. ;- ceased hero of the cocking main who
........ ... .,, . - - " -" had died with his spurs on. Perhaps
Anokt in n ra a nr. an invitation avin I 1 '
.i.k h. .n nwl ..i..r.n,nve.l o11" ha1 "t heavily ni Ins death
with the iTincinles anrt 'n""4 him "nhonorcd into the
of the organization e.tendinff the ir-h"" " h returntd from the field of
rl.inn Kninr Rimmnn. nn.l Ken disaster. Anyway his rest was disturbed
tor Overman did introduce the North yesterday, and he in turn loot venge
Carolina chief official of the Southeri nce upon his disturbers. ThoiSh dead,
Tariff Congress to certain gentlemen in death he had an overwhelming power
here in Washington ns a matter tf upon the nasal nerves.
course but without approving the pu' But the crowd watched, faithful and
voses of the print les of the South-1 uncomplaining whilo tho sun searched
em Tariff Congress. It happenea, I their craned n;?ks until they werj red.
ho ever, that Senator Simmons did AH day they edilred about the place,
not wtrouuee lrn ooutnern larm i ,ornlnR m steady lood from early n.orn-
Conares. elueialt to any or las por-1 It-tt- ten t(rk i,. ki,i
. aoju aamsd in tha ircuia ?w 'f I there teen anytitftg t6 see. Nor til l
s.ni oui 10 ji,rr -v ... ........ t. complain tli-.t there we.? yet tn
Carolina u u. ... fept of wtcii l.ctvf cn them and '.h? bot
larm awociauon. ,, ... -tltnt;.,i ,...;. .,.
The fact is that Senator Simmons en , ...
.. . .. M J J' ...... ,,'iL HID OUU WCIIb UUnil. AUtlatV I up ft? mil
tirely d.s.pproves of and W""'M b. less water, possibly none at all. It
the principle. d purpose ot tto L fMn ow thaf .( u tQ
rHfu.uc.u - - i ni.' ai.
Moutnern larin aasociaiion. ins
tor believes that this association is en
gaged principally in the propagation
of protective tariff literature and senti
ment in the South. Protective tana
sentiment is fast dying out in some
sections of ..the United States as is
evidenced by Hhe widespread opposition
over the whole country to the pending
Fordney tariff bill. Undoubtedly the
Pantos Ran 28 Honrs
The pumps stopped at 6 o'clock in the
afternoon after an uninterrupted run
of 28 hours. They reached the limit of
their intake pipes, and had to be moved
further down, into the pit. No convicts
work on the Snbbnth, but Charlie Far
mer's faithful mechanics took them
anoveis and picks and dug out new
. to n,.k. .m for onon "" macmnery. mgm
IMVlVlvuia - -"I - r I L...i;i. J J U. ..l. T1 l i 1
this loss by propaganda for the pur- '., 'K B.,M.i-..l.i-. t..
jr:"j"r:r :: izzziv . c.m .Bd excellent
r..r-v: . " itwa chicken.
.TKrJuuaV;;. d O,. nn batter,
in7u .mislead the f.nn.r. and ba.ke'r. JV
of the South into believeing that it will if th Ion h tne"
j. T.- . a - t.,iK present reach of intake, and the oumtt
ctTpr. Z whic. Ht to be dry. M. Farmer believe.
wa import and a a;rt deal of which "'" " t '
" ..... I rnnrninff al tiavhraaalr iiHlaai 4 b a Maa..
wa export. Ai a mttMr or xactt io I a c ,
tariff o these product, with regard to iMW. JT f?!
J .v ..i. ..a I smoothly thns far that they are betin-
s. Importing basis would renr seriously ia to thinK f tim omething
hurt the price of these product, by crip- ?3m . Y.. L ITT,
vlir,, .ir evnort. and our foreign th,t ""thinj .hv happened. .Mr. Far
L ' c.. m.' ..:. nitr and Ked Mitchell sra too good aW
to make a base appeal to selfish. Instinct I S U 14 f ast
It is a fact, however, that the fanner
it always the wont .uffcrer from pro
tective tariff duties. It is impossible
for these duties to help the firmer, as
every tariff student kaows, and ha al
ways gets the worst cad of the stick
whea protective tariff duties are levied.
When the farmer suffers the banker,
and all other line of industries ia the
h 'South suffer with him.
Fight at Basball Caasa .
' Detroit, Aug. 7. A fight starting at
baseball game oa the outskirts of be
t troit this afternoon led" to tha shooting
of.twojWhlts Soys, oas 'erhsps .'atally,
ni ta attempt to lynch Sam Crygt,
negrc.who ii flleged to have dona th
Shooting., i -
SAYS SOCIETY ON
THE TOBOGGAN NOW
Immorality Grips World A
Never Before, Declares Dr.
John Roach Straton
Robber Fractures Skull Of
Pittsboro Merchant, Who Is
In Critical Condition .
Pittsboro, Aug. 7. J. C. Lanius. mi r
limit, who was knocked down and rob
bed last midnight as he was going home
from hii store with .about two hundred
dollars in his pocket, is fn an uncon
scious condition in a Sanford hospital.
Bloodhounds from Raeford picked up a
trail which led them to the home of
Peter Sogers, colored, in the negro set
tlement of the town and he was lodged
in jail on suspicion of being the man
wanted.
Mr. Lanius had closed up his store
and was Accompanied by Virgil Davis.
i negro hired man, who was also struck
by tho robber. As they passed the rear
of the store, Mr. Lanius was knocked
to the ground with a cedar stick. The
negro aroused the town with his cries
of "murder,'' and Dr. Harper found
that Mr. Lanius' skull had been frac
tured, lie was rushed to the Sanford
hospital for an operation and there is
little hope for his recovery.
The negro arrested runs a garage. No
money was found at his home but offi
cers claim to have strong evidence
against him. Parties have been search
ing nil day for the money but it has
not been found.
Tno years ago to the night, Mr.
Lnnius was knocked down with a stick
within ten steps of the same place and
robbed. He has been in the habit of
carrying money on his person.
WILL RELEASE MEMBERS
; OF IRISH PARLIAMENT!
Only One Exception Made In
General Order For Release
Of Sinn Feiners
T DRIVE CINE
T
MEMBERS IN LINE
It
Republican Congressman
Brings Grave Charge Against
The Dye Monopoly
FREAR WRITES LETTER
TO SENATOR PENROSE
Wisconsin Man Who Led Suc
cessful Fight In House
Against Dye Embargo 3ays
No Invisible Oovernment
Ever Showed More Brazen
Effrontery '
AMERICAN VESSEL Bl'RNS
OFF CAPr. rPATTka.Aa BI T
SHIP'S CREW IS REMT ED
New Yark, Aag. T. The American
schooner trellis Cohea was reported
today as en Ire and la a aiaklnf
condition shout M asilra aff Cap
Hattrras. A radio saraage ta the
rommanlratlons service here Bald the
crew had He en reward h) the
steamer West Keea her wa ta
New York.
The Cecilia Cohea waa a v easel of
1.100 gross tons, hnilt in 12 at
Hath. Maine. She was recently r
prrted as hcrlng gone ashore oa a
rcrf off th? Florida coast on a voy
ago from Tampa, Fla.
Twelve Bodies Out Of List Of
36 Passengers and 12 Mem
bers Of Crew Have Been
Recovered
TWO ARE DROWNED
WHILE IN BATHING
fast Yet
Soundings made In the afternoon bv
Mr. Farmer indicated eight feet of wa
ter along the west wall, with as much
as fourteen feet towsrd the center of
the quarry. It ia still problematical
how much mora remains, and tha lower
tha pomps sra taken into tha pit, the
higher they must throw the water. It
reduces the outflow avery time tha
pumps are lowered. Last night's lower
ing slowed up tha rata of outflow some
what. Things moved-unruffled tart for a
minor flurry about working- eon viol la
bor oa Sunday. . Littl was needed of
them save digging out n new fouadntloa
for the pumps lste ta tha afternoon.
(Continued on Pag Four) .
Dnblin, Aug. 7 (By the Associated
Press.) All the Sinn Fein members of
the Irish republican parliament now in
prison will have been released by to
morrow, except John J. McKeown, who
is under conviction for having murdered
District Inspector McGrath.
Though the opening of the parlia
ment is some time off, the immediate
release of the prison res has been de
dided as necessary to afford them oppor
runity to confer with their colleagues.
The general impression eipresse.1 by
tha newspapers is to the effect that the
government s action in freeing the pris
oners hss been marred by makinc an
exception In the ease of McKeown. The
murder for which he wns convicted was
the shooting of District Inspector Me
brath during a Sght in which the in
spector tried to shoot him. MKeown
also was the organiser of several am
buscsdrs in County Longford, in which
members of the crown foreeawere blown
up by mines. ' At his trial severs! Drit
ish officers testified in behalf of Me
Keown, saying that they had received
good treatment while held captive' by
him. The sentence of death has not
received the eonflrmstloa of tha com
msndar in ehief as yet.
McKeown was the rammandaat of the
Irish republican army in his district
and his acts were endorsed by his chiefs.
Hence his detention in prison while
others were permitted their freedom is
regarded by tha newspapers as lade
Tvnsihle. All tha men nra to be re
leased unconditionally. No paroles have
been .asked for or given.
Retalvlag Fee aetata Dally
Bevl, Eathonia, Aug. 7 (By the
Associated Press) The ship loads of
foodstuffs which, during the past month
have been arriving almost daily at the
port of Feuograd, ar to ba nand al
most exclusively for tha workmen af
Petrograd and Moscow, any. a despatch
from the Host - Agency, the efliclal
bolshevik! telegraph Bureau. t '
uariouc, Aug. . r.very great :u
; ' followed Vy- a gTeat -wnT : of im
morality,- and tlw great War is being
followed by the gn-ntest wave-of im
morality the world ever saw," according
to Dr. John Koach Straton, pastor of
Calvary Baptist Church, New York City,
nho preaehed iu the Pirst linptist
Church here today.
Dr Straton admits uing militant but
denies Dntn; sensational. He savs be
has merely raised the old fashioned
question of morality founded upon tli.
Bible and the Cdristian idea.i.
inis ancmoon no spone at a muss
meeting, his subject being "PiKliting
tha Devil in .Modern Babylon. Ho re
latcd conditions as he found them ii
New York. This sermon started a re.
iurm movrmeni in .ew lors. llo sav
the worbt is in the thro'S of a wav of
immorality such as it never saw before
nnd quotes a French novelist to the cf
feet that Kurope is dying of moral
decay because, of immoral pictures,
moral theatres for children as e
grown people.
HI . . .
ine eiirenie si vies ot w omens
Ircjs, lewd pictures, the public absorp
tion in matters of sex as revealed ir
wio ineaire, in novels, in stage pro
ductions ami the decaying of home life
indicate that society is on the tobog
gan, Dr. Mrs ton said. we are goin
precisely as did drcece and Rome and
other civilizations.
The South is the only seition of our
country today,' Ir. Htraton said
where the old standards of virtue nnd
Christian soundness are widely pre
valent and the Houth is t o only place
containing the leaven of virtue and
oundness that will savo this natior
Here only u the wholesome homo bf.
with its cleanliness its, natural soe;nl
graces, its domestic virtues and its
reverence Tor Christ! ir.ity, "widely 6'
keminated. There may be some crud
tics in the Houth, but there is virtu,
and cleanliness still left and sdheren
to Christian ideals."'
Dr. Straton was born . in Kvansvillc
Ind., or Southern parents. His mother
was Miss Julia Carter, of Richmond
Vs., and his father was Rev. H. D
Straton, .1 widely known Haptis
minister, nr. niraton s Povhooil was
pent in the South. He wns parti;
educated in the Atlanta public school
nnd graduated from Mircer TTniversity
Ga., and taught there a year.
Charlotte, Aug. 7. Tonight Dr. Strst
ton excoriated the Pempscy-Canicniier
tight as sgamst law and as one of the
most brutal exhibitions ever knovn ii
America. He also scored social vice
gambling, drunkenness, woman's no
pnrel.
Washington, Aug. 7. - The charge
that ''the dye monopoly headed by the
t . hemical ruiindatiun Company has
songtt 'frt1 inffiten'-e rtlree-TnembiTs -of
President Harding's cabinet in nn ef
fort to perpetuate it- "present excln
sire poTcr-r In -this cclTlntI" is made by
Represeiitiitie Fiear, Republican, of
Winronsin. in a letter to Chairman
Penrose, of the Semite committee eon
shlcriliR the tariff bill. The communi
cation was made public today with the
announcement that copies had been sent
to the Pres. dent and ''to others who
would seem to speak with authority on
matters" contained in it.
The Wisconsin member. ln led the
successful fight in the House ngamst
the dye embargo in the Fordney bill,
referred specifically to the letters writ
ten to Senator Penrose bv Sueretaries
Weeks and IVnbv. who urged eonhiiu
ance of the embargo so that the coun
try might "be provided with chemicals
in the event of war. Mr. Krcar also
declared that Attorney General Daugh-
prty had failed to ncknowledgn or act
upon his letter of July IK, asking that
legal proceedings be instituted to set
aside the Chemical Foundation ( oni
pany.
Shows Invisible Government
No invisible government," said Mr.
Krenr, "hns ever shown moro brnsen ef
frontary than this dye 'monopoly. We
may well b concerned over the, power
of these (lye inrests that, reach to
thren cabinet officers in their effort to
perpetuate their present exclusive
powe. in this country. Not one line
of evidence in all the hearings, I nra
informed, suggests that this government
depended upon or received uid from
any dve establishment in this country
luring the recent war and tho argu
ment that we should preserve this half
billion dollar domestic dye monopoly
with its excessive prices nnd enormous
lower because of approaching war and
through need of pnvnto protection n
luith preposterous and ridiculous.
'Secretaries Weeks and Denliy are re
ported by the press to have written
your committee simultaneously that the
embargo should bo continued for
that reason. If so, they certainly had
little information on nliich to base such
statements nnd million is thrown 1" the
winds when dye interests bring tliee
two letters to your coniiiiittce on the
same day tu iulluru' i; committee action..
No Answer to Letter
"I hae no fear of" their influence
either in your committee or on the body
you represent, but 1 do express con
cern over any power that can secure
such letters from such high sources,
and, more important, that apparently
has endeavored to smother efrnrts made
to havo the government firing legal
proceedings in order to sol aside die
Chemical Foundation Company. Fail
lire for practically three weeks to re
ceive any reply from the Attorney tlen
ernl is an unusual oversight by a de
partment that represents the Congress
ns well as the administration and it is
impossible to believe failure to acknowledge-
receipts of an officinl courteous
letter waji due to an oversight."
Statesville Young Woman and
Wilmington Young Man Meet
Death At Beach.
Wilmington, Aug. 7. Mik Loiiikc
Parks Sloan, if Htntesvillc, and her cs
cort, Jlarion Avnnt, of wilminglon
were drowned in the surf at Wrights
ville Tteacli at S o'clock this 'morning.
Ttrivo young people had gone for an
early" morning swim and got out i
denper water than they were accustonie
s.
RESCUE SHIP PICKS
96 .PASSENGERS AND
70 MEMBERS OF CREW
Captain Harry Hobey, Skipper
Of Wrecked Vessel, Believed
To Have Gone Down With
His Ship; Vessel Strike.
Treacherous Rocks Off
Blunt s Reef, Which ProjecU
Far Out Into Ocean, Durine
Dense Tog Saturday Night;
Passengers Placed In Lifo
Boats But One Of Then
Overturns
Kreka. CI. , Aug. 7. - Forty-eight
persons. :W passengers and II of tha
crew were lost last nik.
.., -urn me
"earner Alaska, of the S,.. Pr.nciato
mn Portland St ,....;., .
,,. . iMiiraBv.
tn, which made it impossible for them
to make their way back In land. The
beach life Hoards were not on duly, ns
thev do not begin their daily wat
until HI o'clock, and cries for help from
the drowning couple, therefore, went un
answered until after it was too late
The body of the young woman was
quicklv recovered, thnt of the young
man being brought iu three hours later.
KKgryi. effort Tvaj nisi" to ircne both,
but work of experts with piilmntors
wns unavailing.
Miss Sloan was 21 years old, and the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. K Sloan,
of Statesville, who, with u sister. Miss
Margaret Sloan survive.
She was very popular in her home
town, nnd was a graduate of (ireensboro
College, class of 1021. Her body was
sent to Btutesville for burial lntc thia
afternoon, and wns necomririnfed by her
uncle, R. Ii. Sloan.
Miss Sloan eamo to Wilmington July
.11, and aflcr spending some time here
with relatives went to the Heach. It
was in front, of the Heach Cottage, at
which she wns a gilet, that she was
drowned.
Marion Avant was 24 years old nnd
a well known nnd popular young Wil
iningtoiilnn. He served in the Navy
during the World War. Arrangements
for his funeral had not been made late
today.
DROWNING OF MISS 8I.OAN
SHOCKS STATE8V ILLE PEOPLE
Statesville, Aug. 7. Statesville people
were shocked by the telegram announc
ing thM Miss Louise Sloan, oldest
daughter of Mr. ami Mrs. .1. I Sloan,
was drowned this morning at Wrights
villo Heach. The renir ins of Miss Sloan
will arrive in States ille tomorrow
morning on mi onrly train and funeral
wiil lie conducted from l'.road Street
Methodist church Tuesday morning.
Miss Sloan graduated with high honors
from the (ireensboro college for Women
this Spring and was young woman
of extraordinary gifts and accomplish
ments. She is survived by her father,
mother and one sister, Miss Margaret
Sloan. .1
oUi iKiund from P,.rti.,i ,.
- -.."ii.i. urrmr.
Jv Francnco, -Mn thirty rnin utea
.irter cnishinir into i, u 1
..fx Reef, forty mile, sou? ; ,Z
nty. -
The survivors, numbering HW rr.
sons, were brought here today by tha
rescua akip Any,,,, the firt tvessel to
read, the scene of the wreck iu re
pone to the Alaska's radio aignals.
Ihe coast guard tug Hanger, dis-
i-u, ,,. cariy i0,iav frnn)
reuirneit to port with
1- min. hight were
crew ii ii.l f,Mlr w,.re
11 .
...... Hooey, master of tha
Alaska, Mill unarcounted for and
i believ.d to haie gone down with hi.
ship.
Of the survivors landed bv th
Auvoj. thirty were more r
injured ami ru.-..;.-.,.l
treatment -t lwal
Was la Deaae Fog.
The Alaska struck the reef bow-on
in nolens fog, according to the sur
vivors, and Immediately began to list.
The work of launching lif8 boats w-as
accomplished without delay or disorder,
lhree of the boats successfully rodo
in.-, waves, rut the fourth boat
Bizcu, throwing ita
sea. The, greatest
Eureka.,
the bodies o
members of tha
paseengers. Cap.
medical.
FLORIDA NATIONAL U'AKD
READY TO (IL'ARD NEGRO
Jacksonville, I'la., Aug. 7. A detach
ment of Florida National guardsmen,
now in annual encampment al Camp
Jiiliiiston, near here, was rushed to the
aiinory here early tonight to be hel l
in readiness to protect Henry Hamp
ton, negro, arrested today in eoiino.
tion with the murder here late lat
night of Mrs. J. R. Ijcc, wife of a rail
road meeha. ic.
INCREASED WHEAT YIELD
REPORTED IN KANSAS
Manhattan, Knn., Aug. 7 Tnifnrm
ly higlier yields f..r Kanred wheat over
other rarities are bring rvported frore
other states to the Kansas State Agr
cultural College lure as the grain i
being threshed, college ofllcials say.
Originally dtveloped by tho college's
experimental station, K'ltired is now ex
tensivelv used throughout Kansas,
while its popularity has extended to
the hard wheat belt, from Texns to
South llakota.
Republican Member of House
Attacks Tbe Administration
Washington, Aug. 7. An attack ou
tbs administration Generally I,m' 011
the Hojje ways and 1 ;ininiitteo
particularly for its handling of th
tariff Ad tas questions is mad. 1 a
statement Iss-iM today by Reprcscn.a
tive Keller, Independent Republican of
St. Paul, Mian., author of four tax re
vision bills which hate been endorsed
by organisations of farmers and others.
Ur. Keller charge that "f . ma
chinery of government has been com
tnandrered by a little clique, ignorant
of tha A. B. C. a of, economies whose
blind obedience to V.'aM Street is re
ipoasible for tha stupid, selfish, short
sighted policy that is retarding our
projperity and creataini profound dis
trnst aad discontent among tha people
Declaring that xnost members of tin
npuaa -wsnt to carry ant the people'
Wrhea with regard to taxation and other
rroaoxole Questions, Mr. Keller says a
'little ' dominant minority' has tied
down tW sat'.. My valve of free diwussicn
intil an explosion imjiends which wiil
scatter tue Republican party from
Maine to California.'''
"The President has sslTimed more
power than any of hi. pred .-. .its,"
Mr. Keller continues, "and tells Con
rress what: bills to pass and what not to
pass. Bills concocted at seeict con
ferenccs itre introduced without being
'efcrrcd to responsible committee.
PU President a advisers seem o think
it prssible for tkfi country to lift itself
by its economic bootstraps and vaguely
promise that half billion dollar gift
to the railroads which in some invs
terioua manner is amt to 'increase taxes
will 'rest. prosperity.' They would
do better lo.basjr themselves with low
ering rates, taking' off the transport
tioa tax, and seeing to it thnt the rail
roads are rua efficiently with a minimum
waste. But thatsia aot likely sn long
is railroad executives can depend apw
the administration tor lay Ish gifts.
Seven Hut In Auto Wreck
Savannah, ia., Aug. 7 II. Shnckel
ford, his wife and five children, of
Portsmouth, Va., ix.ere injured this
afternoon when a Seaboard Air Line
train struck their automobile nt Rice
boro, (ia. A local train folloking pick
ed up the seven injured persons nnd
backed with them to Savannah.
SECOND DEATH RESULTS
FROM FATAL AUTO SMASH
New Tiera, Aag. 7-Jeaae Graing
er, age 21, fatally Injured Satarday
night la aa automobile accident at
Bachelor's Craok, tea -sallaa weal af
' here, died at 7:30 this morning,
bringing the death Hat from the
smith to two dead. Jamea Parrolt
was killed Instantly, and Herbert
Temple, third passenger ia the car,
la at III unconscious, though It la
thoaght he will recover if ao roiw
pllcatiena arise. ,
The rcaislns or both Tarratt and
Grainger were takea ta Klnatoa this
afteraeoa where a doable funeral
will ha held tantarrow morning at
II o'clock. Parrot! la earrived 'ay
hla aartata tn4 twa brothers and
three sisters. Gralager la survived
by hla atea-mother aad throe
brothers.
Alt throe of tha yoaag men were
atadeata at tha I'alrerstly at Narth
Carolina last year, belag members
f the aophamoro elaas, S4 ware
mtmbers af tha Blgma" Chi fra.
teralty. They war working dariag
tha sammer with tha BUta highway
oemasiaslea.
can-
occupants into tha I
loss of life, tha
survivors said, resulted from this mis
hap. A few who wore life belts sue
eeeded in keeping afloat until pick,
ed up.
Captain Hobey. when the hut of tha
lifrt boats had been sent over the sida
of the rapidly filling Alaska, went -a
the stern of his vessel and he was there
whm it started ita plunge to the
bottom.
Ships Come to Reeeae
According to the stories of survivors,
three lifeboats were launched. The last
was but a few feet fr.vn the wreck when
thr Alaska, which had listed tj ',.
board, suddenly righted and then plung
ed bow tirst.
The steamer Anyox, towing a hargv
to Vancouver, was twelie miles distant
when the first '-S. (). s." signals of tho
Alaska flashed out.
Within an hour the Anovx arrived at
the wreck and with order. that won high
praise from the survivors, the crew ef
the Anyox speedily picked up thise
who were drifting in life preservers or
ill life boats.
Through the night other ships joined
in the rescue work.
Twelve bodies were found which with
the arrival of the Anym and a tug
bearing the bodies here left the unac
counted for at least a' passengers and
four memlifra-of the crew.
The Alaska of the San i'raiieuco sn1
Portland Stvaniship Company, left
Portland, Oregon., lust JYiday n itb. 121
lassengers of whom l?.l were in tha
f'abin and' eight in the "steerage." ' Th
majority of passengers were summer
tourists.
The Ala.-ka hailed from the home port
of Port Townsend, Washington, its net
tonnage w...i 3,709 and its length 317
feet. Her normal crew numbered 41.
She was built at Chester. Pa., in 18m
lllunt's reef is forty miles south of
Kurekn and 107 miles north of Fan
Pranciseo, Ship accidents were frj-
quent at that point, years ago, until
a lightship was built in l!Kil. The only
notable wreck since was the sinking.
about 11 years ago, of the Steamer
Columbia, u it Ii a heavy loss of life.
The owners of the Alaska, incidentally,
also owned the Columbia.
Kogs have prevailed along the Wash
ington, Oregon and Northern Call
tornia coasts for two weeks and set
iral shipping casualties have oeeurrej,
the most notable being tho wreck of tli
Canadian government steamer Canadian
Exporter, off Houth Bend, Wash., last
wc. k.
Praise For Crew
Praise was mutually extended be'
tneen members of the crew and passes
gcrs in their stories of the scenes fol
lowing the crash. Despite the isolation
of the ship, which was enveloped ia fog
with the swells dashing against it aad
throwing spray from the jagged rocks
of the reef, calmness prevailed asncing
the passengers and crew. It was a
short scant thirty minutes hetweea tha
striking on the rock and the sinking.
But without signs of disorder tho pas
sengers were helped into the lifeboats
under culm direction af officers aad
crew and lowered into the water. '
Captain Honeys hcroie direction ot
the life saving was ef such a thrilling
example that several men passengers
stayed by his aide aa tha women and
children were tnken Brat into tha Ufa
boats. " '
The vessel slowly lifted, tad thea
righting itself, suddenly pranged. Aa
overturned life boat shot man' J
sengers into tho water. ' Thera waa a
half hour of bleak darkness with tha
life. boats drifting tin, tha blanket of
fog before-the aires ef tha wacua
i.bmm Invn, waa beard. ..... '
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