North Carolina Newspapers

Editor and Publisher VOLUME XLIX lis RECEIVED HI OPENSIS AT flit Os JOURNEY n .| e of Seattle Paying r„ ma?e Every ' Citizen Sid Pay Were It Pos ib je for All to Be There. rqy PROGRAM i for the day , men Await Orders From Vashinji'ton Before Decid er What to Do—Tell of Experiences at Luncheon. _ < 2‘.i (Ity tlie Associated x I tated States army avia * !,, i■,,n;i'i*'ted a flight around the AS v ... ~,-day. were prepared to -1 _v,-.l the welcome which has ' i t \ an appreciative citizen- time of the flight was S'. "‘ t ,;ial mileage start to finish . actually in the air (Hi; I'j-ii'g time 351 hours, 11 minutes; , .’iceil per hour 76.36 miles. \, i,,,we1l II Smith, commander , "flight. officially reported comple i j,.arney to Major General ■ l ;; Washington by telephone last 11,. was informed by General t j iat future duties and move „{ the six aviators will be an t«l tomorrow. a wibiie luiK-heoii today the fliers Lj r mechanics were to make talks (bine their trip. In addition to im-heeti. tlie aviators were to speak t (Nieatioii of a monument at Sand t commemorating man's first cir jfljjti-- ii of the globe by air. \\ESE hold out FOR TI IE IK CONTENTION Sc? sign Protocol I'rtless Demands tt (.ranted by League Assembly, m: S'Ot. I*l* illy the Associated »_Tw.. members of the Jaimnese t"hi pre". representatives fo re,- if Japan did not obtain satis- ' iff her demand for an amendment i*nl protoeal of arbitration Ktr. y. -h' 1 probably, much to their [iH.il.: be obliged to-vote agaiust usi’.re win i! it was submitted to seab'y tlie league of natipus. ,7” 1 ki.pe.us. tlie protocol. initiated. Wir Minister Ileues. of Czeeho til jrc! elaborated .by the disarm-, t ennsmis-ion and .its sub-commit nll :a i of adoprmir.eand oonsequent f Btcrtiatioiial disarmament confer p ‘|ol tor in the protoeal and fti f.next summer, will not be r-Bb-mmmittee to which the Jap l pn>po>a! had been entrusted, held Iff ai--“tit!g. hut adjourned until this mb before taking up the Japanese rat because the leaders decided it , if male practical and lew dan ‘t» find a satisfactory formula in tiversations. TH RIDFS HOUSE INTO FREIGHT TRAIN *m Wall, of Near Wadesbooro, • Foot In An Fnusual Accident. li'sbam. Sept. I*7. —William Wall, . U Mm ..f t. Wall, who lives be this city and Ansonville, met ain '<t utiu>ual accident while h-Tsebiick near his home about ■"'a this afieriioon- Young Wall a eumpatiiiui were racing their aid the horse ridden by young tun into a freight train crossing oadway The lmrse was ki'letl and " ' f""t was cruished off. It is fa bow ho eseaped with his life. £ in the h ispital here and is ex i to recover. i s Eight Feet From Tip to Tip.. r iiv. Va.. Sept. 27 —a hawk ; wing-spread of eight feet was M'-ath a- Witt yesterday evening tuttie b-lmis. stable boy for O. J. ,( ‘ s who. hearing a commotion in t ''. ran to the" spot and found a >r va! atnlv striving to beat back inauder. The cock had been badly * n the - tto. 'Fho hawk wheeled * Im, .v approaelied and took refuge a■;• iini"I>i'<- whereupon the boy 1 uw Kuii and calling a bird dog ■ Krd of prey asthe (log bushed * r;i file garage. bold Medals for Bravery, ill ( ity ; N <■ Sept. 29.—G01d 1; i presented to six men at ‘‘ Distriet Fair to be held ••''My (i, ro|,.r t* a s a recognition lut'd Suites government of u,| y during the World War crew of the British ’"in tlie midst of flaming L r '' ban been torpedoed by a I n,l bn>ar:tie off the American Lj A". “>"ii. members of Feast ' u'"ii lii) at (’hicomicomico, 1 A 1 , 1,1 Midgett and surfmen *.'• • Ai"!.-ir and ('larence Mid- I. < * Xe;,!. ' " I . limon Penn Gives Up. So,u - —Rain-soaked ■“hrk. '^ ,l bis clothes bearing b,n n' ,". t hours out of doors, it;,, ritl - •' (l .''ars old. surrendered br.jjJA'' 1 tl,r 'he slaying of his Itars Frances D. Rawson, r " r the shooting of his I n AAA':, Xina Uawson htrijj r 1) 7 ,1 ‘ Flom Football. Gt this sc- J l! " '- > fh—The third on ri! ''r " '‘‘’tins from injuries f field, was report- menu 1,11 lX I-uiumisttw. 22 N te aill of an independent THE CONCORD TIMES Body of Concord Man Found In Lumber River Body Identified as That of Clyde Cook, Who Left His Home Here Last Week for Visit to Relatives. NEGRO SAWMAN JUMP INTO WATER Body Sent to Albemarle and Funeral Services Were Held This Afternoon at Friendship Church. The body of a white man, later identi fied as that of Clyde Cook, of Concord, was dragged from r the Ltimber river near Lumborton Saturday afternoon. The body bore no signs of foul play, although officers at first had some doubt that it was a case of suicide. When taken from the river SI.BO. all silver, was found on the body. The sui cide theory was first given by a negro woman, who told officers that she had seen a strange white man acting funny on the iron bridge Monday night and saw him jump into the river. For some rea son the officers did not think much of the story, thinking she had possibly dawn on her imagination too much. A lady who lives Water street, at I.umberton. which parallels the river, saw something resembling a corpse float ing down - the river. She immediately turned in the alarm and within 15 min utes a boat had overtaken it. and the body halted. The Robeson county court house is one blodi from where the body was first seen, it passed under the iron bridge. Jj. I). Guy, of Concord, identified the remains Saturday night as that of Clyde Cook and stated that he believed death was due to suicidal intent as the young , man lmd been in ill health for some time and very despondent. According to Gu.v the dead man passed through Lumberton with him last week end. and disappeared while they were at Bellamy, several miles east of here, where Guy was visiting relatives. A coroner's jury at Lumberton yester day found that he came to his death as a result of drowning by suicidal intent. There was no evidence of foul play. The body of Mr. Cook was sent by an-' tomobile yesterday to Albemarle and the funeral services will be held at Friend ship Church, tiear that city, this after noon. Interment will be made in tlie cemetery of the Church. AViley Cook, a brother of the deceased, ami J. M. Simpson, of this city, went to Lumberton for,' the coroner's inquest. They returned to Concord last night. POLICE RESCUED SAILOR FROM AN ANGRY MOB Charged Man Broke Into Stateroom on Vessel and Made Attack cn Young Wo man. Hoboken, X. J., Sept. 20.—A squad of police today rescued Christopher Dunee, 31 years old. a sailor, from passengers and members of the crew of the liner George Washington, who made threats of lynching, after he had broken into a state room and attacked Miss Otillie Ur ban, 22 years old. as she slept. He had almost succeeded in handling * the. girl with a rope when tietp came. The police said he was intoxicated. ARRANGING FUNERAL FOR ROBERT IMBRIE President Coolidge and Other Officials to Attend Services. XVashington. Sept. 29.—Aattemlance of President Coolidge, Secretary Hughes, and other high government officials marked arrangement for funeral services here today for Robert Imbrie, the Amer ican vice consul who was killed by a fanatical mob at Teheran, Persia, last July. Diplomatic representatives of the Persian government also were among those honoring in attendance tlie slain vice'consul. . , Borne to the navy yard earlier in the dav on the light criser Trenton, a sa ute of eleven guns signalled the removal of the bodv from the ship to the Neyv York Avenue'Presbyterian Church for the serv ices. - Highway to Charlotte Is Closed to Traffic. Spartanburg, S. ,C.. Sept. 20-Once .more the national highway between Charlotte and Spartanburg has been closed to tarffic east of the city and mo torists are compelled to J» ak £ <ietou s‘ leading through Drayton's short time ago a short stretch of pav - ment, easf of Spartanburg, was opened tn fra ffi e A bad place, however, in the road leading from the end of East Main Street to the new pavement across Lawson’s Fork Creek, developed and has become practically impassable because of the continuous Henry' Hmtz Dead. New York. Sept. 29—The death of Tx pnrv Hentz. last surviving charter S, of ,he NSW York Cotton Ex change, at his home in Madison. N. L, n his ninetieth year, was announced to -2r For more than half a century he had been an outstanding figure in the J cotton trade in America. Senator LaFoUette to Swing Across the Country. Washington. Sept. 20.— Senator Robert M LaFollette, independent Presidential candidate, has decided definitely to make Tswing across . the continent, carrying L fight for votes into at least a score oi stSes before the close of the cam. paign. ! Koji Yamada, the celebrated billiarc - nlaver abandoned what promised to be 1 a brilliant career as a surgeon in ordei t Jo devote himself to the green table sport. ♦ P, ! THE COTTON MARKET Opened at Decline of 2 to 11 Points— Later Turned Firm on Rebuying. j New Y'ork. Sept. 29.—Th? cotton mar ket opened today at a decline of 2 to 11 points under selling which was en couraged by ’ ratjier easier Liverpool i cables and the failure of the weather news to show any frost in the south west. Further rains were reported in [ the. eastern belt sections, however, ao i eompanied by reports that cotton was ' sprouting in the bolls, and the market ' soon turtied firmer on rebuying by sell ers of last week and covering. Decem ber sold up from 24.35 to 24;70 in the first half hour, the general list showing net advances of 14 to 25 points. , : Private cables attributed the decline ’ in Liverpool to reselling by bulla and ■ hedging, but that offering has been ab sorbed by spinners calling. The open ing prices were: Oct. 2550 to 25.30; j Dec. 24.40; Jan. 24.43; March 24.75; j May 25.00. ' SEARCHING FOR BODIES OF 28 MISSING MEN i ; Men Were Members of the Crew of the Freighter Clifton. Cleveland, 0., Sept. 29. —With the re | covery of wreckage from the whaleback j freighter Clifton, and sighting of more, j efforts today were confined to the recov ery of the bodies of 28 men. officers and crew of the ill-fated vessel. The search is centered on the Canadian shore, where it is believed the bodies will be carried. j Bailey Discusses Port Terminals. Raleigh. Sept. 29—That markets of ! the West are closed to Carolina oyster | shippers and those of the East closed to | Carolina truck shippers by reason of the | appalling freight rate discriminations, is i an interesting discovery made by Josiah ! William Bailey, recent candidate for gov- I ernor. who now is devoting his time to the interests of the Port Terminals and Water Transportation measure upon which the voters are to pass in the com ing election. - A Chesapeake Bay oyster shipper. \|, r - Bailey points out. can ship oysters to Kansas City for 17 cents a gallon less than his competitor in North Carolina can ship them to the same point—and this 17 cents is a handicap the Carolinian . cannot overcome. A California truck grower, for another example, he declares, can ship vegetables more than 3.000 miles to the great con suming markets of the Fast for SIIO.OO a car less than his competitor iu East ern Carolina can ship to the same mar kets. "Woodland & Co., Morehead City, ship ped a carload of oysters to Kansas City,” Mr. Bailey said: “they found that the rate from Baltimore was 17 cents a gal lon less than from Morehead City. This discrimination against North Carolina oysters accounts for the fact that, not withstanding we have abundant oyster beds on our coast and extensive waters iu which to develop the industry, ive cau make no progress as compared with Vir ginia and Maryland oyster shippers.” If N orth Carolina were on equal foot ing with its competitors, it could control the oyster market, Mr. Bailey contends, citing the fact that the Carolina canned oyster, put up at Morehead City, deter mines the price on the Pacific Coast. This is because water transportation, through the Panama Canal, permits Morehead City to compete on equal footing with its rivals. Adequate port facilities and wat er transportation, he is convinced, will solve the State's rate problem. Strength Shown by Southern’s Stocks. New York, Sept. 25.—Strength iu the Southern Railway was laid here to the I small and disappointing cotton crop re vealed in the government report. Low er Broadway wires carried a flash that cotton milks might be expected to lay in stocks of raw material in the face of a 12.500,000 bale yield. Much of the i traffic would be handled" over the Skmth ern system, it was suggested, ineaning an expanding gross in its earnings state ments. Situation at Mecca \ T ery Grave. London, Sept. 29 (By the Associated Press). —It has been learned that a tele gram was received in Ivondon Saturday night, dated at Mecca, from King Hus ’ Kieii of the Hedjaz, describing the situa tion there a* very grave. No news has been received, however, definitely jndi -1 eating that thfe city has fallen to the 1 Wahabis, a fianatical Mohammedan sect, | as reported. —— , Mrs. Shank Pleads Guilty, j Frederick. M<l„ Sept. 29.—Mrs. Mary Shank pleaded guilty in circuit court to l day to an indictment charging her with . tarring and feathering Dorothy Grandon, 1 a 1 young girl, at Myersville, near here, P last July. Evidence in the cases agaiust nineteen other persons will be heard by the court before the woman is sentenced. f Bank Is Robbed 1 . r Chicago. Sept. 29. —Two bandits held ' U p the West (’ity Trust & Savings Bank ’ in northwest side about noou today and ‘ escaped with about $2,000. according to e bank officials. Although' first police re- P ports indicated the loot was about $lO,- 000, bank officials said that sum was too high. e— Miss Clara Ludlow Dead. * Washington, Sept. Clare S. Ludlow, whose work as an entomologist e in the study of disease-bearing mosqui g toes, has distinguished her in the field of e science, died here yesterday at the age l * of seventy years. League to Admit Santo Domingo. d Geneva, Sept. 29. —The League of Na « tions assembly voted today to admit the >r republic of Santo Domingo to member le ship in the league. The vote was unan imous. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS N. C., MONDAY, SEPTEM CONCORD, LAST OFFENSIVE OF CAMPAIGN GETTING ATTENTION OF DAVIS Democratic Presidential Nom inee Plans for Campaign in East, Border States and the Middle West. OHIO, KENTUCKY AND OTHER STATES Will Be Visited by Mr. Davis Who Plans to End Drive in New York City on Night of November First. Locust Valley, N. Y., Sept. 29. —John XV. Davis began preparations- here today for the last big offensive in his campaign. The offensive will cover three general fields, the middle west, the east and sev eral of the border states. It will be in augurated next Wednesday in Maryland, with addresses at Frederick and Balti more. and will end with a rally in New York (’ity on the night of November Ist. Returning to New Y'ork on Thursday from Baltimore. Mr. Davis will speak that night at Madison Square Garden with Governor Smith. Then he will make a one-night stand in New Jersey, and another iu Rhode Island. before starting westward through upper New Y'ork State. In tlie lasi month of the campaign the Democratic Presidential candidate will deliver more than a score of set address es. and will give an even greater num ber of read platform speeches ns he trav-' els through New York. Ohio, Indiana, Il linois, Kentucky. Missouri and other states. JOHNSON HEARING IS STARTED UP AGAIN Try ing to Determine Who Is Responsible For Death of W, W. Johnson. Charlotte. Sept. 29.—Investigation in to the death on September 6th of W. W. Johnson, of Mt. Holly, was resumed here today by Coroner Frank Hovis. The inquest was postponed more than a week ago 'in order thaNthe police might have more time to investigate the slaying at the home of Robert L. Reed, here. Lee R. Fulp. of Statesville, still is held in the county jfUI on a charge of murder in connection with the slaying. He spent the night with Johnson, whose body with a bullet hole in his head, was found lying in the front roonr of the Reed home, ami was arrested at States ville the same day. Reed, who was held as a material wit ness. was released on a writ of habeas corpus a week ago. The Jury’s Verdict. Charlotte. Sept. 29. —W. XV. Johnson, Mt. Holly barber, came to his death “as the result of a pistol wound at the hands of an unknown person or persons,” the coroner’s jury which has been investi gating the case since the body was found oil September 6th, said in its verdict an nounced today. The jury recommended that Lee li. Fulp, of Statesville, who spent the night with Johnson at the home of R L. Reed, where the body was found ; Reed and his wife, and Mrs. N. M. Jones, a neighbor, be held as material witnesses for the grand jury. No additional evidence was offered at the inquest today. FRANK HAMPTON SEES DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS Thinks LaFollette Vote is Going to Give Davis in Most of tlie Doubtful States. Washington. Sept. 28.—After he had seen John XV. Davis. Democratic candi date for President, Frank A. Hampton, secretary to Senator Simmons, and a member of the Democratic national board of strategy, said that Mr. Davis is very confident of his election and that the members of his party who have traveled with him on his speaking tour are all ebook full of confidence in the result and assert that the Davis candidacy is rapidly winning not only in the east, but especially in the west and middle west. Mr. Hampton con tends that the LaFollette vote is go ing to give Davis mose of the doubtful states and quite a number of suites that pre normally safely Republican. . Thomas W. Miller Resigns. Washington, Sept. 29.—Thomas W. Miller, tendered his resignation to Pres ident Coolidge today as alien property custodian. The President in indicating that he would accept the resignation, asked Mr. Miller to continue in his office for the time being. Mr. Miller said he was forced to re sign because the duties of president of the Inter-Allied World War Veterans’ Association to which he was recently j ejected, would demand his presence I abroad during most of the next year. Man Electrocuted. Lenoir, N. C., Sept. 29—C’has. Hilde brand, aged 54. an employee of the Gran ite Falls Manufacturing Company, was electrocuted early today when attempt ing to start a pump. There were no witnesses. Dampness, due to incessant rains of the last two weeks is believed to have caused the pump to become . charged. Mrs. Ferguson V\ ins Injunction Case. Austin. Texas, Sept. 29 (By the As sociated Press).— Mrs. Myriam A. Fer guson today won the first step in the - court fight to have her disqualified as * a Democratic nominee for Governor of - Texas. An injunction to keep her name - off the ballot was refused by Judge Geo. |C Calhoun in the 53rd district court. ER 29, 1924 Means Talks About His Repudiation Statement ’ « PRIZES OFFERED FOR HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITS 11.398.50 in Prizes to Be Given at the State Fair This Year. Raleigh. N. C, Sept. 29.—More than SI,OOO will be given in prizes for horticultural exhibits alone at the I North Carolina State Fair, which will be held here during October 13 to 17, it was stated today by C. D. Mathews, chief of the horticultural department of the Extension Division of the State Col lege and Department of Agriculture. The exact amount to be given in prizes is $1,397.50 of which apple* will tnae the major part of the awards. The exhibits and contests wt’l be with all kinds of horticultural products. Mr. Mathews said, but empnasis this year is being placed upon apples, pecans, and sweet and irish potatoes. Many kinds of fruits and vegomoles will be shown and the best method of producing them as well as other pro ducts will be explained and demon strated. ‘Chief Matthews in explaining the exact purpose* of the exhibit by the horticultural department classed the main rensojis into four groups: To show North Carolinians North Carolina pro ducts of horticulture; to increase con sumption of the state's products by North Carolinians and others; to educate growers of high quality pro ducts : ams to interest the growers in raising better quality of products in order to get higher prices. It was allso stated by Mr. Matthews that the department hoped to increase the demand for North Carolina pro ducts. of horticulture by acquainting the public with these products tnrougn the i sale of them at tlie fair. Only a smalj charge for this service will be made to ( the exhibitor. Tlie exhibitors will also be on hand it was said to take orders , for future delivery. The officials of the department feel that the growers who exhibit there pro ducts 'this year will be greatly bene fited not only by the advertising derived from the displays but from sales that will be conducted by the department after the Close of the fair. Growers are urged by the dei>artment to make ex hibits even though their products may not appear to be prize winners, for the officials say that there is much to be learned in the selection of fruit, vege tables and nuts for prize display and they elaim that there is no better place to' learn than at the State Fair. There is little worry to the farmer in entering these horticultural cun tests, only the selection of the product from his own place as the extension workers of the hortieu'tural department will ar range all displays free of cost. The farmer is to merely mark his product when he shins it to the department and the rest is left up to the officials. Every thing for the display, such as booths, tables, plates, and well designed mark ers are furnished by the office. Entries in these contest close on October 4. it was stated, and all ex hibits must be recorded at the office of tlie department officials by that time. To facilitate matters for those farmers who find it to their advantage to pick their prifce products early, arrangments i have been made with the ice department | of the Durham Service Company to , store the exhibits until the time of the j fair. According to Mr. Matthews, ex- | hibitors should ship their displays ex- j press charges prepaid to the Durham i Public Service Company, Ice Depart- J ment. Tlie shipments should be plainly j marked “Exhibition Fruit for North Carolina State Fair.” it was said, in j order that the company may give it im mediate attention. Predictions are made by those who j have handled the horticultural exhibits in the past, that the displays and demonstrations, both. this year will excel all others of the past that have been handled by that department. Practicular attention, it was said, is to be laid upon the teaching of the farmer something new in horticulture no mat ter how experienced he may be. With Our Advertisers. Clothes to please everybody at Browus- Cannon Co. Big bottom trousers, or as small as you like 'em found there. Don’t fail to take some stock in the present series of the ( abarrus County B. L. & S. Association. The Citizens Bank and Trust Company is closely allied with the agricultural in terests of Cabarrus county. Read ad. and talk it over with the bank officials. Five hundred dollars was tlie sum originally paid by the Washington club for the great Walter Johnson. Salient Features of the Great Flight Summarized Sand Point Field, Seattle. Wash., Sept. 28. —Among the salient features of , the United States army globe encircling flight that ended today were : The flight was started officially by four planes from Seattle. WaA., 8:30 ■ a. m. Sunday, April 6. under command - if Major Frederick L. Martin in the ; fiagplane Seattle, and was completed to . fl a y—fi V e months and twenty-two days— i by two of the original machines and the t Boston 11, a spare air cruiser sent to I Pictou Harbor. Nova Scotia, for Licu ? tenant Leigh Wade, whose machine was wrecked near Faroe Islands, August 21. The aviators origignally left Santa Monica, Calif.. March 17. but on ac ■ count of delays iu substituting ponin.ms • for landing gear here, the official hop- J off was made from Seattle, cutting 19 s days off the journey. f The personnel of the (light included e Major Martin, commander, and his mech • anician. Staff Sargeant Alva L. Harvey, who were missing for tm after their Says the Statement Was Not Sworn to, Properly cuted or Witnessed and He\ f Signed It to Get Evidence. SAYS COMMITTEE SHOULD CONVENE Wants Daugherty Question ed About i Statement and How He Got It.—Talked Here to Newspaper Men. In a lengthy interview here Saturday afternoon with a number of newspaper men. Gaston B. Means recited in full what he termed the reasons he secured employment in the department of justice, asserted that he signed the repudiation statement solely for the purpose of se curing documentary evidence and issued a challenge to former Attorney General Daugherty to tell all he knows about the * repudiation statement. -“The repudiation statement that I signed was not properly executed - or sworn to or witnessed.” Means declared, “and in signing this document my sole purpose was following the instructions of Senators Wheeler and Ashurst to get in my possession documentary evidence to show that witnesses were being ap proached illegally for the purpose of get ting them to repudiate their testimony.” Means also declared that the signed re pudiation statement was not sent direct ly to Mr, Daugherty and in his "chal lenge” he said: “Now if Mr. H. M. j Daugherty has, in his possession any re pudiation signed by me, and I have been confidentially advised that he has such. 1 it was sent to him after it had been sent to E. B. McLean at Washington and it j is highly proper that a meeting of the Brookhart-Wheeler i committee be called to make Mr. Daugherty testify under oath as to where he got the signed doc ument. 1 call upon ML Daugherty to publish the accompanying letter received by him from Mr. McLean when the lat ter sent him the signed repudiation.” Means made public the following letter which he alleges was sent by Thomas Felder to Edward B. McLean along with the signed repudiation : “Dear sir: 1 beg to hand you liere witli enclosed a document which you will observe has been properly executed. This document was submitted to me by joy client, Mr. Gaston B. Means, after he had *4*bfmttes iU*o- Yfr.~Hi»eF**rtn Hnrfi*. to whom he stated that while he was ready and willing to execute the same that he would not do so until lie had sub mitted it to me as his counsel. "1 have handed a copy of this to the former A. G. and he was very much pleas ed with the contents, and after some dis cussion .as to the disposition to be made of the original he suggested and upon his suggestion 1 am mailing the same to you.” T Means declared that when he was tried . in Concord for tlie death of Mrs. Maude A. King. “Great interests* exerted their •influence against him and "I made up 1 my mind then that instead of working for big interests 1 would reverse myself I and see that the same thing did not ' happen to any other man.” It was then, j he said, that he determined to get a po- I sit ion with the department of justice, so I he could get access to all records and I fight big business. j "I went into the department of jus j tice cold bloodedly," Means said, "to ex ; jiose rottenness from the inside. I had I served as English and German agents and I I was familiar with the manner iu which I the wheels turned from the inside.” I Means stated he signed the" repudiation statement in the office of Thomas B. Felder and while in that office secured a letter which he says was “the documen tary evidence I sought.” The copy of the letter in his possession was signed H. M. Daugherty and was dated "Sweet briar Ridge.” Mt. Sterling and was dat ed August 28. Excerpts from letter fol low : “Means, your client, struck me an un justifiable blow when lie rold on the.wit ness stand an untruth about Jess Smith. I know the reason he did it. but there was no reason in the world for him striking me this blow. I appointed and reappointed him against the strongest l>ossible opposition and trusted him and lie deceived me. He owes it to me and to the public to tell the truth, iu that he never gave Jess Smith a dollar or talked to him about giving him any mon ey.” "Ton can have him make this state ment, this is due me; I have no disposi (Concluded on Page Two.) fiagplane Seattle was wrecked April 30 on a mountain near Port Moller, Alaska peninsula, on tlie Behring seacoast, and who were forced to quit the expedition . Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, commander after Major Martin’s accident, pilot of the fiagplane Chicago; Lieutenant Erik H. Nelson, pilot of the New Orleans; Lieutenant Leigh Wade, pilot of the Boston, and Mechanics Lieu tenants Leslie P. Arnold, John Harding. Jr., and Henry M. Ogden. The route of the aviators traversed or touched 21 foreign countries and 25 states and one territory of the United States. A total of 57 hops were made, an av erage of 483 miles each jump. With each air cruiser consuming 60 gallons of gasoline in an hour of flying, the three planes used in approximately 371 flying hours 21.060 gallons. Each plane used about 30 gallons of oil every 2.400 miles and in the 27,534 miles flight the machines had 1,026 gallons of oil. $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. HUNDREDS KILLED IN FIGHTING ALONG I 1 FRONT L * Battle Line Extended From Nansiang to Malu, and Heavy Casualties Have Been Reported. REIEF STATIONS ARE ALL FULL Chekiang Forces Have Been Able to Drive the Invad ing Forces Back About Six Miles. Shanghai, Sept. 29 (By the Associat ed Press).—Hundreds of Chinese sol diers were killed and matiy others wound ed this morning on a six mile front from Nansiang to Malu, wien armies of the rival military governors fight pos session of Shanghai continued hostilities with intensity. , According to a witness who returned this afternoon from the sector from Nan siaug to Malu. both sides were showering the lines with shrapnel, f Numerous relief stations were filled with wounded , while scores 6f others were arriving on stretchers. Tlie dead have been left where they fell, according to witnesses. The offensive which has resulted in con- - thiuous firing since Saturday morning lias enabled the Chekiang forces to drive the Kiangsu troops back six miles ac cording to the commander of the Che kiang forces in the center of activity. W. E. D. STOKES IN ASHEVILLE FOR REST Arrives in City Unannounced in Effort to Escape Cranks and Anonymous Let- Writers . Asheville, N. C., Sept. 25. —Hiding from cranks and anonymous letter wait ers while resting after his strenuous martial troubles in New York City were said today to bej:be reason for W. E. D. Stokes, prominent millionaire of the Me tropolis, coming to Asheville unannounc ed. He is accompanied by his nurse and secretary, Miss Bush, and a chauffeur. Mr. Stokes has aged considerably in recent y*ans but up to a few years ago # was aotively engaged in supervising_hLs biig Jjasin ess interests "He" has barred hiinseTf from interviewers while in Ashe ville and it is stated that he desires to have a complete rest. before returning to the east. - Because of his prominence it is de clared that in New Y'ork and the popu lous cities of the country he visits occa sionally he has been pestered by letters from cranks and people desiring to spend his millions for him. As a result in recent months he is understood to have selected a novel method of evading these epistles and individuals by traveling in cognito to. the smaller cities of the coun try and often stopping in mere villages to avoid notoriety. IMPORTS OF COTTON SHOW BIG DECREASE Value of Cotton and Cotton Good* Im ported Last Month $7,456,654. Washington. Sept. 26.—Imports of , cotton and cotton manufacturers into the United States last month are valued at $7,345,654. a decrease of $1,000,000 from the corresponding month*last year, the department of commerce announced to day. Imports of raw cotton last month totalled 2,067,923 pounds, against 1,709,- 946 pounds for August, 1923. Couzens Warmly Indorsed by Michigan Repubicans. Detroit. Mich.. Sept. 24.—Senator Couzens was given the official recogni tion and indorsement of the Republican party in Michigan today for the first time in his public career, (’barges that he is a “renegade” and an irregular were swept aside by the delegates to the Re publican .state convention, and a resolu tion warmly commending him was adopt ed. Ku Klux. plan forces, which had made some claims to strength, were Hopelessly Swamped in the convention. Governor Groesbeek, and his friends were in com plete control and the candidates f*r state offices bearing the stamp of administra tion approval unanimously were nominat ed. The convention went on record as fav oring rigid law enforcement, a protective tariff for copper and the proposed lakes to the sea waterway. McCrary Funeral Tomorrow. Lexington. N. C., Sept. 29.—John W. McCrary, aged 85. president of the Com mercial & Savings Bank, died at his home here last night after a brief illness. Funeral services will be held from the First Methodist Church here at three o’clock tomorrow afternoon. WHAT SMITTY’S WEATHER CAT SAYS Probably showers tonight and Tues day, followed by fair weather Tuesday in the west portion; cooler in central and west portions tonight; cooler Tues day- .. ‘ NO. 25.