Editor and Publisher.
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VOLUME XLVHf.
Three-Fourths of City of
Tokio Completely Burned
rri:-Estimate Made by Cou-
Has Just Made
"journey to the Stricken
City.
vnKOHJMA ( ENTER
50K OF EARTHQUAKE
w* in^Li Toki w
Filled M ith Indies— Army
i s Restoring the Means of
Communication.
_. v ,.,,, .if tin' Japanese
disclosed in • direct
" ' , , < 1 i-[*;tt«-!i«-s now coin
. fhc radio station con
\ _... turd other points
>" ‘ ~ , \ l-t.ljlal tCgioll.
, i| liti-nilly engulfed.
.• i,in ti"ii covering aot only
more than 100
i,jin<; Tokio and four
, :.,v. This i> one of the
!' i' .’*,q iioitiilafed sections of Ja
-7.1 Kmi.iMH t people in the
hvaka station, with
1 -T.l-v
--,.vtablished courier con
tin- .Japanese home office
l; , .1 . d at Tokio, 100.000
•_-iiiiiiii homeless., Osaka
• ''rent port of Yokohama
i. and thatTonly one
. ~ , ~a , ;-;ij i it\ <>f Tokio re
] . ]■ i*sl:::i;ife> iliaf 7*• per cent, of
,,|ij tuwtis in i radius of 100
Vi.k'di: ::;:i at:d Tokio are de
:l> i**stored in 'l\>kii>.
[An tiin’i-: | i'H’> nf, homeless people are
. iiarks,:.nd other ope* spae
. .v.rimioi.; i*. feeding them
p.. \v.;>*lf's Station. Japan. Sept.
j|,H A'sociati'd l’ressi. —A eou>
r today from Tokio de
yrr„; t | : , .y.astiT a> unspeakable. The
r jj T j„ w;is throe fourths burned.
j ... jt ; | lit* .:k> he found charred,
j L j bi'ili*floating “like lisli.".
W a nitain area all tilings had
j., rv' ~' d to a-in’s except iron frames
!.,:ret*fl wreck* of street ears and
a !.;;i- 1.. gged tjie streets. The
ai.f’Ti'rs ivri aath red in public squares
awi parks, lying under sheets on mats.
!iiii.n the M-anty food supplied by
Ts. , r.y ua restoring the means
• .tlOl,. V
The •■■mrii’r rejiorfed that pr ivisions
;u <|lanfiri*' .were expected from the
Dorrlsastorn and north western regions
* few days.
TTe* entire country, along which he
i.uiitiilMitiiig to lin* relief
fad.
Earthquake lAtemled More Than 100
Miles.
"s ! s:. Sept, (i i lly rhe Associated*
I l —A limiev in the Hank of Japan
! r s. -e s’veil fruin destruction imthe
.'■!) f"!i"\ved rhe earthquake and
t« xiua*. it_ iH-i aiue known today-.
A apitu ation of the earthquake and
ituo, show* d Yokohama as its'center.
north ami south about 1(K)
“A and about 140 miles east and
tha* city.
. ’C iucliidc! comities, five large'
[' ' •; !l ' T.00y.000 people who 1
y," i' disaster. It is es- !
d* per cent, of the cities j
“'" I,N "itlim the stricken area
•’ *'!’* Veil.
# ,! ' according to reports re
„ totally destroyed and;
" ■ ""■ fourth of Tokio remains.
% of,i "* S: ‘>'* Died in Tokio.
v,.,. H.-r-1 By the Radio Cor
i . . "tii' o today took the first
■' 1 ’ ll !'' mg H' clear up eon
i. ,j I; ition on the number
in Tokio when it
,liat 30.000 an* dead.
Ik, ’ 1 • ;,,| d •I.iO.IMKI were lionie-
Jaifriciiiu KcporJul Dead Are Alive.
of \ M \ "“cl Samuel Reber,
1 r,- p ' '“"■ -Major William (’.
! "ttaauge officer of the
■ aid Mrs.
Jr* , :; V ; , r ' mining at Tokio—
".u learned today.
p N |;" Island \ppears.
i’. *' I Cv the Associated
-ao ■;!’ I’liibndt. at the
3 !>•.«• ;| .,• ' *■ ! l."kio Day, report
■ - , . '' peninsula, while
1 of (ishiina which
i: b fi-ai,',] .' '' r>^ frano * i* invisible
‘ ’ "* 1.1 ,' j'.vc gone down with
Tie r *. Nt jj,‘ uihahitants.
I' i: V • ~,j t j' : " n "' vs from the Bonin
" ri ’ ;ir, ‘ft.i|..'i] ' •*'“"trophic changes
I , j J lstlma tf of Damage.
■>- . . .} 11 < orporation
" i. ' '1“ in age sonth
■ 'd up by reports
y.-. , ; aiiliiliilated
' 1 • neioss the sea
j, F : '"' l «**«*atly to - an
"pulatimi lQO.tl<H> or
j| Tokio. eol
jj'. :i bar}) : i „ " ' villas about
J 1 rau,;; ;a """rt. lost.
' ■’'Yaini "4u . ' seashore
T ■”■>. iii.^ ri . from Tokio re-
Ni. Spl(l| , °'" ! •
T, f“tsd iy ll \j o | P q S,,oolis Felt
. ‘ ", ' 1 1 II.V the Asso
!,.. ' - '"''ven new earth
•■.a- ' : -b'- 11iij ‘hiving the night,
k,j\ ’Trthi.j ''pressed the view
truetive ones were
'I I '1- dp,., !, *’ r, ‘“ks of fires
vi ' ,r ;lr ‘‘ not danger
-mi,,. iy ■
tab*;.| , ' hgli!i n „ M1 " maintained.
M ill the o. V >mS lia ' e heeH OS *
where thousands
I HE CONCORD TIMES.
***** * * * * *
* *
T COTTON SPINDLES £
* CANNOT OPERATE &
-h London. Sept. U* (By the Asso-
< iated Press). —Thirty per cent, of
*!■ the spindles of Japan are unable to
* operate, and the output is suffering %
& accordingly, says a dispatch from
d- Kobe re<eived today by the Japan-
d 2 esc Consignments Company.
* *
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RI'RGLAR WALKS INTO GI N
TRAP AND IS KILLED
Herman Falls is Dead and Raymond
Benfield is in Gaston Jail; Goods Re
covered.
Gastonia. Sept. —Herman Falls, of
Kings Mountain, died in a hospital to
day as the result of the robbery of S. L.
Kiser's general store in the Sunny-side
section of Cherryville township, ten
miles from here, last night, when the
mail, in removing goods from the store,
walked into a shot gun trap and received
a load of shot- in his side.
Three men with a Ford touring car.
one of them being Fal's, staged the rob
bery at the Kiser store this morning
about 3 o'clock. Falls was removing
jslioes from the shelves. After he had
taken fifteen pairs lie returned for
another armful via an open window. As
he reached for the other shoes on the
store shelves lie walked into a string
tied across the counter.. The string was
■jerked and the trigger of the shot gun
pulled discharging the load.
At the sound of the gun the Ford car
lefr. Falls, losing blood rapidly, crawled
from the store some distance up the
road. Signs along the highway this
morning showed where he had bled much
ami was apparently having a hard time
to get away. The Ford ear returned and
picked him up. The car was then found
along the side of the road this morn
ing.
The entire load entered Fall's left side,
just above tlie hip. Will McDonald, a
member of <ho party escaped from the
officers. A third man. giving his name
as Ramond Benfield. is in the Gaston
county jail. His home is in Bessemer
City. Sheriff Rhyne arrestee! him on bis
trip to Kings Mountain.
IMMIGRATION Ql OTA
LAW NOT BROKEN DOWN
Increase Over Amount Expected Entirely
Legal.
AVnsbir.fc.mi.
Service). —Three hundred and fifty-seven
thousand is the total number of immi
grants receivable under the three per
cent, quota law. The year which ended
on Jinie oil. saw 522.f11!) immigrants ('li
ter this country. If is explained by
the immigration authorities that the lt>o,-
01 !> extra were aM persons specifically
exempted from the provisions of the act.
as well as b yimmigration from Canada
and Mexico, which countries do not come
within the provisions of the quota law.
How well the Knifed States is appre
ciated as a land of opportunity by the
citizens of war-torn Europe is shown by
the fact that last year's immigrants ex
ceeded those of the year before by 213.-
3t>3, whereas the number of aliens who
departed fell from 198.712 in 1921-1922
tot 5i.47,0 in 1922-1923, the net increase
of the immigrant population of this couli
tre being 110.844 in 1921-1922. as
against 441.4(59 in 1922-1923. Os the
new comers this year 53.57>2 were classed
as laborers, while 100,213 were skilled
workers and 191.583. including women
and children, were listed as of no occu
pation.
Misses Elizabeth, Fay and Margaret
Xussnian. Master Harry Nussman and
Frank and Alary Foil, of Alt. Pleasant,
spent Tuesday here at the home of Airs.
E. S. Foil.
are encamped under crude shelters.
The weather remains warm and bright.
Missionary Party Safe.
Nashville. Tenn., Sept. o.—Dr. AY. A\\
Pinson, secretary in charge of the Ori
ental fields Southern Methodist Alission
Board, received a message this morning
from the mission station in Shanghai re
porting that the mission party aboard
the steamer President Madison which ar
rived in Yokohama August 31st had
reached Shanghai -in safety.
Southern Presbyterian Missionaries Safe
Nashville. Tenn.. Sept, ft.—-All South
ern Presbyterian missionaries in .Japan
are safe, according to a cablegram re
ceived today by the church's foreign
mission secretary from L. (\ Smytlie. a
missionary, dater Karuicawa, and read
ing: “All missions safe. Notify fami
lies.’’
Missionaries of the Southern Presby
terian church and their wives in Japan
number about 50 persons, representing
various Southern states. Among the
number .is the Rev. I. S. Mcllroy, Jr.,
whose wife, formerly Aliss Alice Wilson,
is a niece of ex-I’resident Woodrow Wil
son.
List of American Dead.
AA*ashington, Sept. 6.—Consul Dickov
er reported today to the State Depart
ment, the following list of dead, missing
and probably dead in the Yokohama dis
trict :
Dead —Pharmacist Paul R. Cannon. IT.
S. Navy; Pharmacist A. Igogolia, V. S.
i Navy. Airs. H. C. Burnell. San Fran
cisco; 11. A\\ Morse, of the International
Banking Corporation.
Captain Stinson of the S. S. Steel
Navigator.
' Robert Swain, of Yokohama.
Alissing and probably dead —Air. Shel
ly. cf the Standard Oil Co.
McHenry Holbrook of the International
Banking Corporation.
Mrs. M. Mendelson, of Princeton, N. J.
Consul Dickover further reported that
about 2.0(H) foreign refugees bad arrived
in Kobe from Yokohama and Tokio and
several hundred were Americans.
PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
ROTARY MEETING
Plea For Support of High School Ath
letics Made.—Committee to Help.
Reports from the various committees
and a plea for enthusiastic support of
the business men of the city for high
school athletics featured the regular
weekly meeting of the Rotary Club yes
terday.
L. I). Coltrame. chairman of the pub
lic affairs committee, was in charge of
the program. Following a song, Air.
Coltrane introduced Air. Aloore. teacher
of science and director of athletics for
the Concord High School. Air. Aloore
declared athletics aided in scholarship
and all round developed and made a-n
earnest plea for the support of the busi
ness men of the city. Following his
talk, the chairman, upon motion ap
pointed AY. A\\ Flowe, M. L. Cannon and
A. R. Hoover to assist the high school
students in their athletic work.
Following Air. Aloore, Rev. Dr. Plyler,
editor of the North Carolina Christian
Advocate, who was the guest of Mr. I).
B. Coltrane, was introduced and made a
brief response. ; Dr. Doyle, director of
music in the public schools, who was
the guest of Prof. A. 8. AYebb, was in
troduced and responded briefly but hum
orously.
Next week’s program will be in charge
of the fellowship committee.
WASHINGTON HAS NO
CHILD LABOR PROBLEM
Capital Fins Remedy For tiie Evil in
Solving Home Problems.
AA’ashington, Sept. (5 (Capital News
Srt'viec).—The nation is agitated about
an anti-child labor law, and some legisla
tion which will stand a Supreme Court
test is to bo looked for. Aleamvhile.
the capital has solved its own problem.
According to statistics just made pub
lic there were only twenty-oix permits
to work granted last year for children 1
under fourteen years of age. Such per-1
mits are given by the Juvenile Court in
AA’ashington only when an absolute need
for a child's earnings to keep a home
together, is clearly demonstrated. The j
majority of applications are refused and
some means taken through some board |
of relief to supply the needed small ’>11111!
to maintain the home.
Child welfare agencies, anxious to do 1
away with this type of work permit, de- 1
dare the passage of a mother’s allow- ■
a nee law would be a step in the right
direction. Judge Kathryn Sellers, of
the Juvenile Court, believes that some
form, of allowance which would enable
the mother or the father in some cases |
tot keep the children in school and the i
family together and insure nil the chil
dren in the district proper food, cloth
ing. and shelter, and opportunity for ed
ucation is the final solution of the prob
lem.
PRESIDENT APPROVES
HRA'M E EDU CATION
1
Coolidge Endorses Harding’s Belief in
Kindergarten. j
AYashington. Sept. (5 (Capital News
Service). —AYriting to Major Bradley
Martin, president of the National Kind-,
ergarten Association. President Conlidge |
quotes from his predecessor, in favor of ■
juvenile education. The letter reads, iu
part :
"In President Harding's last message j
he said. ‘AA’e need . . . more of the Christ j
spirit, more of the Christ practice, and
a new and abiding consecration to rev- ■
erence of God.’
“I heartily endorse this sentiment, and
favor extension of kindergarten educa
tion as one means of promoting brotherly
love and reverence; for in the kinder
garten such traits are cultivated at the
time when habits of thought and action
are formed for life.”
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Finn Totfay at Advance of From I
16 to 35 Points.
New York, Sept. 6.—The cotton mar
ket opened firm at an advance of 1(5 to
35 points on a continuation of the gen
eral buying movement which had develop
ed late yesterday.
Cotton futures opened firm. Oct.
25.75; Dec. 25.68; Jan. 25.45 j March
25.51 ; Afay 25.55.
Animals Electrocuted When Ground
Charged.
Laurinburg, N. C., Sept. 3. —At
Stewartville gin here, which is run by
electricity, this afternoon two IVrelieron
horses and two mules were electrocuted
near the cotton stalls. The ground in an
area was charged. AYill Arnter was
owner of the horses. AA’hen he drove on
the charged zone they began to pranee
and lie held them until they fe'l dead.
A negro boy went to help quiet the team
and could not get off the tongue. He
was shoved off with a shovel and drag
ged to safety. The mule team lmd no
driver. AA’hen the current hit them they
ran around, coming back to a charged
place, and were killed. There was
another team at the time which ran
off to safety.
People’s National Bank is to Be Re-
Organized.
Salisbury, Sept. s.—Stockholders of
the People's National Bauk, which has
been closed •since June 8, have decided
definitely to reorganize and open up for
business. Over .$70,000 of the 100,000
required as an initial step towards re
opening have been secured and a com
mittee was out today raising the re
mainder of the needed capital. The
comptroller of the currency has notified
the stockholders of the old bank to come
across with an amount equal to 100 pol
ecat. of their stock, and to do so in 30
days.
Mayor H.vlan Much Better.
Saratoga Spriugs, N. Y\. Sept. 6. —
Alayor Hylan. of New York, who suf
fered a relapse yesterday, was much bet
ter this morning, relatives said.
Symptoms of pleurisy developed yes
terday with some indications of bron
chial pneumonia, which, according to
the family, disappeared during the night.
With Our Advertisers. t
The Citizens Bank and Trust Company
is ready to handle all shipments of eot
| ton to the N. C. Cotton Growers’ Co-op
' erative Association, and to make the cash
advance on each bale shipped.
CONCORD, N. C., THURS DAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1923
| Interest in Proposed Creamery
For County is Showing Increase
A\ith the announcement yesterday that banns. AA’e are spending between SI,BOO
plans are being formulated here for the! and $2,000 a year now sending the
organization of a creamery, interest in' cream from this county, and if we had
the project is increasing. The first pub- 1 the creamery this would be saved."
lie meeting for the purpose of discuss-j AYhile definite plans for the creamery
ing the advisability of organizing the probably will nor be perfected until af
compauy will be held at the court house ; ter the meeting on the 15th. tentative
on Saturday of next week at 2 o'clock, plans call for the raising of about $lO.-
and the great amount of interest already 0000 to put the project over, it is under
shown in she proposition indicates that stood. If suitable quarters can be found
the meeting will be widely attended. j for the building, this amount probably
A majority of the business men of the will be sufficient to put the proposition
city who have been approached on the over but if a home lias to be erected it
subject think the creamery will be a big will take more money to finance the proj
asset to the county, one of the promoters ect, one* promoter stated,
stated this morning. "It is strictly a The meeting on the 15th will begin
business proposition. he stated, “and at 2 o'clock and will be held at the court
will save* money for the farmers of (’a- house.
! U. S. INTERVENTION
ADVOCATED BY UPHAI
| Treasurer of Republican Na
| tional Committee Thinks
Unitted States Should Help
in Reparations Tangle.
Chicago, Sept. 6 ( By rhe Associated
Press). —American intervention , in the
Franco-German reparations tangle was
advocated by Fred AA\ T’pham, treasurer
of the Republican national committee.
He> expressed the belief that Congress
' should give President Coolidge the au
! thority to appoint a commission of Amer
ican business men to determine quickly
what reparations the Germans should
pay. It’s largely a business proposi-
I tion. In* said, and should J>e settled by
business men.
Air. Fpliam before going to Europe
j where lie spent three months, was asked
| by the late President Harding to give
j liis impression of the European situa
tion. The President died before he re
turned. Ah-. Fpliam is going to AA’ash
ingto next week and expects to see Pres
ident Coolidge. who it is expected, will
receive Air Cpham’s impressions first
hand.
CHOKED WITH DEAD
First Direct News From Tokio Since
Saturday Tells Horrible Story.
Tokio. Sept. 5. —Tokio and Yokohama,
separated by only a few miles of water,
today . lie crushed by the overpowering j
forces of an earthquake-—a series of up-
Iteavals— -that came warning
and brought crashing (Town the homes
and business places of these great cities.
All around for many miles other cities,
towns and villages have been dashed
from their foundations, and what the vi
brations of the earth failed to accomplish
was completed by fire and tidal wave.
AYhile entire sections of the capital
have been obliterated —all but the ruins
—a very considerable extent of the. city
remains. Not so with Yokohama, refu
gees from which arc becoming to find
their way into Tokio. They tell of the
terrific desruetion wrought at that p'ace.
which has been for years of vast import
ance to the, commerce of the western
world.
Choked With Dead.
The streets and water courses, the
canals and seat front are filled with
dead, and among the dead arc doubtless
many injured, to which it has been im
possible. to take succor. In Yokohama,
far more than in Tokio, foreign resi
dents and visitors suffered loss of life
or injury. It is estimated that no fewer
than 206 foreigners perished in tin* treaty
port, but even yet no comprehensive ac
count can be extracted from the refu
gees. who reached here in an almost ex
hausted condition.
The overwhelming effects of the first
shook may be realized when it is told
that thousands of Japanese, caught by
the flames that swept through the city
almost immediately, driven by the high
winds, leaped into the canals and finding
no safety in any direction were dorwned.
or overcome by the debris which soon
choked the waterways.
The shopping district downtown was
overwhelmed, and here many thousands
of shoppers and business workers died.
To add to the dangers immense crev
ices opened in the streets ; in some places
isolating entire blocks and making it
absolutely impossible for those within the
sections to find safety from the fire.
Fire Raged Two Days.
For two (lays the fires of Tokio raged,
destroying possibly 200.000 houses and
property, the value of which cannot be
ascertained, cremating the bodies of
many of the dead and probably ending
the sufferings of scores of injured. The
casualty list will be very great ; estimates
at present vary from 50.000 upwards in
Tokio alone. How many were killed
in the outlying districts is not known
because for a long time Tokio was cut
off from communication with the. out
side world.
Immense difficulties are being en
countered in forwarding the news of Ja
pan's great disaster to the countries of
the world. Couriers have been sent out
with special press dispatches; the Japa
nese naval radio is being utilijed. and
details have been forwarded by airplane
to Nagoya ' and thence to Iwaki. about*
150 miles from Tokio, for transmis
sion abroad.
The foregoing is the first direct news
dispatch received from the Japanese cap
ital since Saturday when the earthquake
occurred. Tokio was for a consisder
able time shut off from all communica
tion with the outside world; then cour
iers bearing dispatches were sejit out.
for the nearest radio stations which had
escaped destruction and meager dispatch
es giving brief details began to filter
through from points, such as Osaka,
which lay outside the zone of destruc
tion.
The condition of Air. P. G. Cook who
is critically ill at his home on Simpson
Street, is reported today as improved.
AGAIN CONSIDERING
| FORDSSHOALOFFER
Detroit Manufacturer Is In
Washington to Confer
With President Coolidge
and Secretary Weeks.
AYashington. Sept. (5 (By the Associat
ed Press). —Negotiations were resumed
| today between the government and Hen
■ ry Ford on the latter’s offer to acquire
r the Aluscle Shoals. Ala., power plants
‘ and nitrates properties,
j Accompanied by his son Edsel and
j one of his engineers Air. Ford came to
: AA’ashington to confer with Secretary
, AA’eeks and later with President Cool
jidge regarding the project.
OLD SOL TO APPEAR
IN T?HE “MOVIES”
Complete Motion Picture Record to Be
Made of the Eclipse.
I Los Angeles, Calif.. Sept. 6. —A cotn
! plete motion picture record will be made
jof tin* solar eclipse next Monday. It
J will be the first time in astronomical his-
I tory such a photographic feat has been
! attempted . The work will be done, on
! Catalina Island, off the coast of South
! ern California, by an expeudition from
! the Yerke« Observatory. A site has
| been selected for the observing station
; on a plateau 1.300 feet above sea level.
; Here the necessary equipment has been
i erected, dark rooms installed, and other
| apparatus provided for. Owing to the
! importance of the eclipse elaborate prep
! a rations are being made.
! Tin* A’erkcs expedition Aviil be one of
the largest that it coming to this section
!to observe the phenomenon. The pro
gram includes a variety of angles from
i which the work will be approached—this
' because eclipses of the importance of the
| forthcoming one are very rare.
Os special interest to the natural sci
entific world, as well as the laity, will
j be the operation of two motion picture
| equipments. One of them will be used
J to record what is known as the "flash
spectrum." an entirely new use for the
i motion picture camera. The other tna-
J chine will be used to take an actual
I "movie” of the entire eclipse. The staff
j will also be filmed "in action" during the
! hiost intensive part of the observation, as
! it is believed there will be widespread
! news interest in this picture subsequent
: ly.
! The expedition will be in charge of Dr.
j Edwin B. Frost, director of the Yerkes
Observatory. William J. AA’rigley, Jr.,
financed it. with a gift of $5,000 to the
! University of Chicago, of which the
Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay is
tlie department of practical astronomy.
Air. AA’rigley is the owner of Catalina
Island.
I Dr. Oliver J. Lee will be in charge of
the direct photography of the corona.
Observations for the rotation of the
corona will be made by Dr. Frost in co
operation with Professor Philip Fox. di
rector of the Dearborn Observatory at
Northwestern University. Another not
able member of the Yerkes expedition
will be I)r. Clifford Crump, director of
the new Perkins Observatory of Ohio
AA’esleyan University.
Under the leadership of Dr. AA’alter S.
Adams, tiie staff of the Alt. AA’ilson Solar
Observatory is also making extensive
preparations to study the forthcoming
eclipse. Besides studying the ec.ipse
from Alt. AA’ilson, which will not be en
tirely in the shadow, this observatory
will have two stations iu tiie direct path
of totality. The chief one will be at
Poina Loma, near San Diego, and the
other will be at Ensenada, in Lower Cal
ifornia.
All important part of the Alt. AA’ilson
program will be a detailed investigation
of the cornoa. This r unexplained phe
j nomenon will he studied by means of two
1 new methods devised by members of the
observatory staff.
Astronomers regard the corona as one
of the most impressive characteristics at
tending a total eclipse of the sun. It
lias been described by watchers of the
skies as far back at 100 B. C., as an
object of wonder and mystery. As late
as the eclipse of 1842. when the corona
was unusually beautiful, its investiga
tion as an aid to the study of the sun
was not considered seriously by astron
omers.
Only in recent years lias it been de
cided definitely that the corona is a part
< of. or due to, the sun's atmosphere. Be
cause of its extremely delicate charac
ter. all attempts of observers to analyze
its content and to account for its pres
ence during an eclipse, or to determine
whether it exists at other times, have
failed.
To Reqyire Watchmen at Crossings.
Durham, N. C., Sept. 6.—The Durham
city council has passed au ordinance, ef
fective September 15. designed to <re-
I quire railroads passing through the city
to place watchmen at seven principal
crossings in the city limits, the watch
itneu to be on duty from 6 o’clock in the
imorning until 10 o’clock at night.
- LOSS BY BOLL WEEVIL
Injury Varies Considerably in Different
Fields. Says Expert.
Aberdeen, X. 0.. Sept. fi.—"The loss
in cotton due to the boll weevil will av
erage at least one-third of the crop in
the southern and southeastern tier of
counties of the State,” says a statement
issued today by I)r. R. W, Lei by. en
tomologist in charge of the boll weevil
Held station and laboratory supported
here by the North Carolina Stare College
and the Department of Agriculture. Dr.
Leiby recently made a trip through the
heavily infested counties of Hoke. Robe
son. Scotland, Moore and Richmond
counties, of North Carolina, and into
South Carolina, for the purpose of as
certaining the degree of injury and to
learn to what extent the weevil was be
ing controlled.
He reported he found that the injury
varies considerably in different fields,
some fields of early cotton where a good
stand was secured escaping with a loss
of about 20 per cent, of the crop, while
other fields, particularly those which had
to be replanted or were planted late,
will show a loss of .‘{o to 70 per cent,
of the crop.
“These estimates of losses,” said Dr.
Leiby in his statement, “are bast'd on
weevil injury or rot following weevil in
jury, and are aside from any losses* due
to abnormal shedding experienced in
some restricted regions. The estimates
also are considered conservative, as many
farmers placed the weevil injury higher
than entomologists did, while only a
few planters estimated their injuries at
lower percentages than those fixed by en
tomologists.”
1 ntil August 10, entomologists here
say. damage caused by the boll weevil
was 'considered almost negligible, but
about that time a very rapid multiplica
tion of the weevils took place, due large
ly t<> the wet climatic conditions of the
latter part of July and the early part
of August. At this time too. the third
generation of weevils put in its appear
ance, adding to the live weevils remain
ing from the first and second genera
tions to such an extent that they were
present in sufficient numbers to punc
ture the top squares in most fields with
in a week, it is reported.
“About August IS.” said Dr. Leiby.
"the weevils began to migrate from one
field to another and equalize their dis
tribution. This dispersal habit is char
acteristic of the weevil and has been
responsible for the gradual spread of the
weevil northward from the southern
states of the cotton belt.
"It was at the time when a few of
the bolls in a field first opened in the
southern counties when the weevils be
gan working on the middle crop in the
fields which had not been .protected by
dusting with calcium arsenate when the
worst damage was effected. At this time
I the planters who were fighting the wee-
I vil by dusting already had made two to
four applit (ttirins l of poistm and by this
; means had protected a goodly percentage
j of the top squares and %11 of the young
j and immature bolls. Two of three later
| applications continued to check the wee-
I vils. and those hereabouts who have
dusted thoroughly and timely are ex
pecting to pick well over three-fourths
of a bale to the acre in fields which oth
erwise would have produced 'only a half
crop.
“t'otton planters in this section are
convinced that the dusting method is
profitable. These planters now feel that
they can grow cotton in spite of the
weevil if they put up an intelligent fight,
i With them it has been either a success
ful fight against this pest or ceasing to
operate their cotton plantations.
“The weevil is now being rejtorted in
increasing numbers north of a line from
j Charlotte. Unrthage-Smithfield to Wa.sh-
I ington. Most of this territory was in
! vaded for the first time during the lat
ter part of 0!>22. In 1!)24 this section
will experience its. first heavy damage by
the weevil and if history repeats itself
; as it has each year in the case of the
: weevil in all the southern states, the
! cotton planters in that section will do
i well to prepare to fight the pest.”
j Dr. Leiby and his assistant, Mr. Har
ris, are now supervising the picking of
1 the cotton in their many experimental
j fields in this sect ion t As soon as the
I yields of the experimental fields are as
| eertained they expect to publish the re
-1 suits of their experiments and investi
gations concerning weevil control sos the
| benefit of the cotton farmers of the
. state.
Woodmen Plan Extension of Philan
thropic Activities.
Omaha, Sept. ti. —Expansion of the
philanthropic activities of the Woodmen
of the World through the establishment
• of an old people's home for members of
! the order near San Antonio, Texas, has
1 been announced by W. A. Fraser.
. sovereign commander of the society.
The new home will be located, n is
1 believed, close to the Woodmen of the
! World War memorial sanitarium re
! cently erected near San Antonio for
| members of the fraternal organization
afflicted with tuberculosis.
“The new home,” said Mr. Fraser,
“will be buillt as soon as'suitable plans
I can be drawn up. Old men of the so
■ ciety whose families have died, married,
moved away or lost interest in them
will be cared for in the home. Every
state in which the Woodmen have mem
bers will endow and maintain a cer
tain number of rooms in the home and
these suites will be named after the
states. The o’d meji will spend their
j last days in the mo t pleasant surround
ins in a homey atmosphere.”
i ;
Kiwanians Present Swimming Pool to
City.
'Winston-Salem, N. C\, Sept. (>.— A
large swimming pool, constructed in
Skyland Park, has been presented to the
city of Winston-Salem for the use of
the public by the city’s Kiwanis club.
M. L. Cannon Takes Over Mill.
Charlotte. Sept. 4. —Martin L. Can
non and associates will take over the
operation of the Delburg-Linden cotton
yarn mill at Davidson about October 1,
it is reported. The mills recently were
sold to Mr. Cannon-and his associates
at a price, said to be in the neighborhood
|of $250,000.
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
Iffliffn a*' "u
’"on UK I ION SEEMS
LESS SERIOUS NOW
Greeks Have Moved Part
of Their Fleet to Avoid
a Chance of Any Clashes
at Sea.
ASSASSINS ARE
BEING RUN DOWN
Unconfirmed Reports State
That the Italians Have
Taken Over Three More
Islands.
Athens, Sept. (> (By the Associated
Press). —The (Ireck fleet has received or
ders to retire to the (lulf of Yolo to avoid *
contact with the Italian licet, it is learn
ed on good authority.
(The tiillf of Volo, nn arm of the
Aegean Sea, is on the eastern side of the
Greek peninsula, and approximately 5)0
miles north of Athens).
Milan, Sept. (» (By thd Associated
Press).—The' Popolo Italtea, organ of
Premier Mussolini, has received a dis
patch from Trieste saying:
“Telegrams from various sources con
firm the news that the Greek government
is on tin' track of the assassins of the
Italian mission. Many suspects have
been arrested at Jauina, and also along
the Graeco-Albanian frontier, and among ,
them are two of the assassins. The au
thorities are hunting the others and hope
srtlyot oah(L ißrr etaoin nu nu nu
shortly to arrest them”.
After Assassins.
Italians Said to Have Seized More
Islands.
London. Sept, fl (By the Associated
Press).—A Central News dispnfeh from
Rome says that reports are current there
that Italian forces occupied the islands
of Merlera, Fano and Mathraki, north
west of Corfu.
HOTEL AT NAKAGANSKT
PIER DESTROYED BY FIRE
Imperial Hotel Destroyed and Hotel Mas
sassoit Damaged by Fire Early To
day.
Xarragansett Pier, R. 1.. Sept. ft.—-
The Imperial Hotel here was destroyed
by fire early today, the forty guests
escaping scantily clad.
The loss was sstM>.oho. The hotel
Massassoit also caught fire. The tire
in the Massassoit was confined td the
roof. Private bouses nearby were dam
aged.
The tire started in the attic of the five
story wooden Imperial Hotel.
RESUME CONFERENCE
WITH COAL MEDIATOR
Operators add Miners Conferring Again
Now With Governor Pinchot.
Harrisburg, I’a., Sept. 6. —Anthracite
mine operators and officials of the min
ers’ union who today resumed confer
ences with Governor Pinchot for dis
cussion of possible terms of settlement
of differences which caused suspension
of operations September Ist adjourned
at 12:50 till 2:30 this afternoon. Lead
ers of both sides reported little change
in the situation.
COTTON I P
October Delivery Today Sold at 26.79,
78 Points Above Yesterday’s Closing.
New York. Sept. (J.—Cotton for Octo
ber delivery today sold at 20.70, 7K
point® above .'Yesterday's ‘<*l()sing quo
tation. This is more than $lO per bale
above the price ruling shortly before
the government rejsirt published last
week.
Candidate For Carolina’s Freshman Team
Asheville, N. Sept. O. —Gage Kirk
patrick and Ralph Dalton, star backfield
ers last year on the Bingham Military
Academy’s eleven, will attend the Uni
versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
this year and have announced their in
tentions of being candidates for Caroli
na’s freshman team, according to infor
mation received! here. Kirkpatriric,
whose home is at Lowerville. S. made
the all-star western North Carolina con
ference team last year. Dalton is an all
round athlete, playing football, basket
ball and baseball.
Will Pay Fine Under Protest.
New York, Sept. <5 (By the Associat
ed Press). —Max Straus, President of
the Baltic American Line, Inc., oiip of
the steamship companies fined s2t)t) per
passenger for bringing immigrants into
quarantine-a few minutes before the Sep
tember quota was opened, today anounc
ed that his company would pay the fine
under protest, and then appeal to tin*
courts in an effort to have it refunded.
Next P. O. S. of A. Meeting at Salisbury.
Salisbury, N. (’., Sept. fl.—The next
biennial meeting of the National coun
cil of the Patriotic Order, Sons of.Am
erica, will be held here in 1!)25, accord
ing to J. C. Keesler, of this city, who
recently returned from a meeting of the
order at Philadelphia and reported that
he had secured for Salisbury the next
gathering of the organization.
Williams Is Let Off With Payinent of the
Costs-
Salisbury'. Sept. 5. —In county court
today thp case against C. B. Williams,
for scooting Frank Brown, Spencer
merchant, which was sent up to superior,
court yesterday, was re-opened, and the
indictment changed from assault with
intent to kill to one charging assault
with a deadly weapon. In this form the
county court bad jurisdiction and Mr.
Williams was let off with payment of
the costs. The shooting occurred when
Williams, a Southern railway engineer,
caught Brown in the Willliam’s home.
NO. 17.