North Carolina Newspapers

f t> SHERRILL Editor and Publisher UME XUX fempaign Here Ended ■in Success Last Night I ♦ lltins At v Building l»Uers Reported That W Th . in slii.(HH) bought ■Been Scored Hi i c HAM’E 1 ■p-.u; -OMETHING Bhat Reason Convass ■ OiiV’i'.oed I or Sever today—Newsße- H With Rejoicing H M A drive to secure *16,- BH ' / \ ear’s budget went ip.'og' night at the meet* ■ ia the gymnasium sit;.:: hi ill I'b‘dges be-1 |„. trains and the exee f.,.■! that the amount re ■ raid'd, it was felt by the ■H'diarur <if tit*' drive that an op dioiiiu I” given to every man, in me city to give some- H [],, nan i/at t ion of teams was f,, r nuotlier day while ean- H,. as many of sneh \v;:s ■w,,-: !ere>t in last night's | . ll ,av>i in the report of a nuni tirn ' liiat gave 100 per cent. ■, . i„ aid it ion to the firms re- H. ,i :i> 1,, !', re. II Harrier Gro- S'ani's-MiHer Parker Co., Sn.re and Kuth-Kesler Shoe. .-lores made 10(1 per cent, p,,. of the second day’s titHee. Klird’s, J. (’. Penney, H l( j ah,| St. Cloud Barber Shop. lU cr-. for !he greatest amount raised, was given last night to hrade i by F. Xiblock, the lnii.g made by 1,. M. Rich- H|u wni. th' bouquet the day be ■ John A Patterson felt that he si■ 1111’ reci gait ion as the man obtained the largest number of and the personnel of the decided that lie receive Ivnii' of thanks and be given a flowers. H. Northeott. who conducted the a sliort talk in which he de- lie had never worked with a I men who were more uuseltish J ■ group of men in Concord con- rhe dr’ve. "I like Concoart,” l like your spirit here, the do things. 1 have enjoyed ev ■ ' of my si i<, in (’uncord and ■feme again.” president of the Hoard of of the V. M ('. A., thanked ■ eonthieting the canvass for thrir Hml efiieieney in the campaign. H. Hks said that he was at a loss for H expressing his feelings at the } Hi eauipaign which had been con-! ■ "1 know that it is hard to so-j ' -aid Mr. Blanks, "but you I Hi hold of the job and- carried it j ■ finish. Concord is the envy of t kn in the country on account of R the V is doing.”' (ibseriptions raised in the second [>ik were as follows: on A—C.ipt. .John A. Patterson 'upt. G. s. Kluttz. $125; Capt. n Ritchie SI. - ,. I l>> : Capt. It. H. Rankin, *75; W. It via I $214. Pti (—(apt. <’. F. Ritchie S9O; •F. Xihloek So Pi : (’apt. E. E. id. I'—Capt. A 11. .larraft. $5; II Harrier Slid; Capt. L. M. Hi Sg'lo. hb>- Committee SI,OOO. High 1-7. ami Harry Lee Johnston and 1 apepiriield. working imlependeut- N L CARRIES BIG LOAD TO WASHINGTON wo Baby Grand Pianos and Six " en Bn Board During Trip - Ma. New York. April 23.—A bi- R i h two baby grand pianos and £ *> men left Roosevelt Field today phmgtoii. t'f the jda nos was consigned to Mrs. "" dgi and was to be delivered at Bolling Field, where was scheduled to land. Second "a 'tor a Washington piano L. Ilartnev. president of the j ways. Ine., who was aboard a says the company plans to op a .i!' t ''right line between Bos- I, 1 Paul. Minn. " ay ,n Salisbury Is Inaugurated " >fh Rejoicing. . j 1 ' 1 , 11 '' ,r 'l 22.—Salisbury’s , 11 n -'‘ " a . v was inaugurated • h event xvas witnessed by _ ■ 1 .-ami residents. A band fur • * company, turned the U " v '. r to Mayor Heiulerlite "‘.i ut it'ul system which now mi-t ' business section of the ‘ !lf '* light. Beneath the lights H dance was held. Bepew’s Birthday v Mril 23.—Chauncey M. ■ 1 11 1'.nai. ,t t] ip board of di ai,,'i York Central Rai 1 - y‘ m '-r f tilted States Senator hivti "'*■ ‘'h’ltnetl to celebrate his ing ' v.\. • 110 announced “by woi l V l ' • '* ”'- v job." entertaii.ing ng .* Cl ; ,a ies at dinner'tonight,” and 1~. ' ni, h*nce to worry about the ti'h.v - 111 ' s t(> 'live “beyond i is‘ M v , * er^ i 1 ,,s Divorce a diJ’,' 1 judgment grant iii- f . ' ,0 rs - Kate Fletcher nd of i' brooks Perkins on. the today fSPI B° u * w ’t* R handed down r and 'Mrn r>„ , . Mi pi '■ 1 Prk ins were married in ■ in 1022. THE CONCORD TIMES ZAIR LEDFORI) ATTEMPTS ; TO Cl T HIS THROAT Is Prisoner in Prison at Raleigh Charged With Killing His Wife. j Rajeigh. April 22.—Zair Ledford, of j Clay County, sentenced to serve 30 years jin the State's prison at Raleigh for the j murder of his wife, is in tlx* prison hos , pif«l i»* a serious eondiPon, having cut | his throat from ear to ear in an attempt at suicide. The attempt occurred yester i day morning preceding the electrocution jof Len Walton and was witnessed by a Raleigh officer slid an officer from anoth ! cr state who was in Raleigh wilh requis ! ition papers. Ledford, who began his sentence Mon- J day. was assigned to work in the chair .factory. It was there that the attempt ( at suicide took place. Without warning j the prisoner seized a long knife and slash jed his throat. He was immediately re moved to the prison hospital ami was giv en medical assistance. He was reported this morning as “doing well.” It was stated at the prison that it was thought lie would live. MAY NOT WAIT FOR ~ MORE DEFENSE WITNESSES Government May Want to End Wheeler Case After Senator Has Finished His Testimony. Great Falls, M/>nt., April 23 (By the Associated Press). —Developments in the trial of Senator Burton K. Wheeler hing ed today on whether opposing counsel would agree to end the case when the testimony of the accused Senator is com pleted or suspend court sessions pending rhe arrival of additional defense witness es from the East. The Senator is accused of having illeg ally appeared before the Department of the Interior to- prosecute oil prospecting permits after bis election. Senator Wheeler On Stand Great Falls. Mont.. April 23. —Senator Burton K. Wheeler resumed the witness stand in his trial today to complete the story of his connectinwi with Gordon Campbell. Montana operator for whom he is accused of illegally appearing before the Departftrent of Interior in pros ecu- j .ii . .1 land permits. New Newspaper Council Formed. New York. April 23. —Organization of j the American Inter-regional Newspaper Council to serve as a clearing house of problems of 800 smaller newspapers of the United States and Canada was an nounced today. The organization work -has fune -forward this week in (injunc tion with the animal meeting of the Am erican Newspaper Publishers Association which began its second day’s sesion this morning. Another Revolutionist Killed in Sofia. i Sofia, April 23 (By the Associated I Press). —The revolutionist TehountoulofF, lone of the principal terrorists under Niu { koff. the alleged communist leader in the | recent cathedral bomb outrage, who was [shot and killed by the* police Monday, j met death today in much the same man ner as his chief. Discovered by the po lice, lie refused to surrender, they declar ed. and was shot down. Will Not Discuss Reported Loan. , April 23. —British treasury [officials decline to comment on reports that Great Britain is seeking a large loan from American bankers for the pur pose of keeping the Pound Sterling at par i when that value restored. Financial J papers published here recently have hint- ‘ ed that such a loan is being negotiated. Treasury officials declare the report ‘en tirely uijofficiaL” Women Killed For Murdering Child Gero, Germany, April 23.. —Frau Schellhardt, convicted of murdering her 10 year old daughter, was decapitated here today. It was first decapitation in 17 years. The State Salary and Wage Commission Is Meeting Today Raleigh, N. C., April 23. —The State Salary and Wage Commission, a bill pro viding for the creation of which was pass ed by the General Assembly of 1025, will hold its first meeting, in the office of the Governor, today. The call was issued by Governor McLean, on April. 15. He sai that this initial meeting would be "for the purpose of organizing and performing such other duties as ’provided in the act authorizing th eappoiutment of said tom- the enactment of the Salary and Wage Commission law, Governor Mc- Lean named the following to be mem bers: P. H. Hanes, Jr., Winston-Salem ; Julian Price, Greensboro; George A. Hol derness. Tarboro; Robert N. Page, Abei-, deen, and Samuel L. Rogers, 1 rank 1 in. 'Members of the Commisison. engaged in manufacturing and other business, are 81 ravage lif providing for the appointment of the Salary am IVage ’SS? . paid in State Departments and mati tutione. Dnrine these discussions, abn I . occurred while the General Assembly was ~ in session, some newpapers printed lists of State employers and the eaiaries r | were receiving. Shortly thereafter Gov -1 ernor McLean appeared before the Gen I eral Assembly to deliver a< brief special I message. In this message he called atten tio nt ocharges of inequalities exiting m the State’s payrolls and asked for the appointment of a commission to thorough -ly investigate the matter and wi ' r er to fix and equalize the pay of State e employers, commensurate with i performed by them. The General Aesem biv without discussion, passed the leg 3 isolation sought by the Governor and em powered him to proceed with naming Supports Widows .. —— ■ ■ . Paul Fountain, 11-year-old evangelist of Sulphur Springs, Ark., is believed to be the youngest evangelist in the world. On tho proceeds of his work as a traveling preacher he supports an institution Mr destitute widows with small children and sends youths to college. REPUBLICAN WOMAN NAMED BY McLEAN Mrs. Lindsay Patterson Chosen a Trustee Os Negro School. Other Appointments Raleigh, April 22. —Mrs. Lindsay Pat terson. of Winston-Salem, today was ap pointed for four years to membership on the board of trustees of State Teachers College for Negroes in Winston-Salem to succeed J. Gordon Haekett, of Wilkes county, who resigned. • The governor was generous to Republi cans today.r He named Mrs# Patterson and then placed Judge E. W. Timberlake, of Wake Forest, on the state hospital board for Goldsboro, succeeding W. H. Belli, of Charlotte, who had resigned. This appointment is for four years. He crowned Judge W. S. O'B. Robin sop. of Goldsboro, the third Republican, with authority to hold membership on the state hospital board for Raleigh, suc ceeding Stephen Mclntyre, of Eumberton, who has been made city alderman and dis qualified. Colonel Santford Martin, editor of the Winston-Salem Journal, to succeed May or E. X. Johnston, of Lumberton. on the board for the deaf and blind institute of Raleigh. Colonel Martin is not a Re publican. Favors Unification. Rich ford, Vt., April 23. —The Vermont conference of the Methodist Episcopal Chruch today by unanimous vote favored j fin* proposition submitted by the Gcn eral Conference for unification of the j north and south churches. Mrs. Howard Eliott Dead Baltimore, April 23.—Mrs. Howard Eliott, wife of the Chairman of the board of the Northern Pacific railroad died last night of pneumonia at the liel videre Hotel here. She and Mr. Eliott •had been at Jekyl Island, Ga., for a fdibrt stdy and were on their way to New York. commission. Already, in advance of official action by the Salary and Wage Commission, there has been a readjustment of wages in one Department, that is, in one branch of the State government. When the Com missioner 'of Revenue took over the force jn charge of automobile registration, he announced drastic cuts, and many of the employees, most'y young women, were taken from the State’s payroll. However, there was. no announcement made as to a revision of salaries in the Department of Revenue, in advance of the meeting of the Salary and Wage Commission. Sev eral members of the automobile registra tion force, including J. E. Sawyer, who had been with the Department of State since the registration of automobiles in North Carolina began and who was chief of the registration department, resigned. Mr. Sawyer’s salary was stated as $6,- 000 a year. Other employees resigned. The majority of them, however, went to Com missioner Doughton’s jurisdiction with the transfer. The law provides that the members of the Salary and Wage Commission shall receive their railroad fares and susten ance not to exceed $5 a day when called to meet. Their accounts shall be audit ed by the Budget Bureau and paid out of the emergency contingent fund. They shall also be allowed clerical assistance, the money for which will come out of this same fund. The Commission, under the law. is re quired to “carefully investigate the cost and values of the wages and services ren dered the State by all subordinates and > employees of these departments and agen cies, and they shall classify the same and ■ fix salaris and wages of each class or • division and shall reprrt the same to the i Governor.” CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1925 CENTRALITY OF TOE CHRIST IS SUBJECT OF STRONG SERMON Sermon Was Delivered Last Night In Central Church Here By Dr. J. Aw B. Fry, Now Os California BIG CONGREGATION HEARD THE SERMON Problems Os wf>rld Will Be Less When People Make Jesus Central Figures In Lives, Speaker Said “The centra’ ity of Christ" as the panacea for the ills of the world- was offered by Dr. .T. A. B.|Fry in an,, inspir ing sermon delivered l|st night in Cen tral Methodiet Church to a congrega tion that filled the auditorium of the ( hiirch. Dr- Fry left immediately after the service for his California home. Dr. Fry has been in North Carolina for the past week and it was at the urgent, request of his many friends in the city that lie agreed to speak at the prayer service at Central Church last night. The great love and esteem in which he is held by Concord people was o’early demonstrated by the fact that members of many other Churches than Methodist made up the large congrega tion that heard him. Before beginning his sermon Dr. Fry expressed great, pleasure at being in Concord, a city which ho said ‘‘is precious to me.” “In later years if it shall be my lot to be bent of shoulders and crippled of limb.” be said. “I shall ask nothing better than to be allowed to walk with my spent body on your ‘ streets and in your homes.” “The Master’s Triumphal Entry ■ In • to Jerusalem” was the text chosen by Dr. Fry for a sermon devoted almost . wholly to a discussion of the power of Jesus Christ to remedy, the evils of the human being and of the world. “There are no settled problems, today.” Dr. Fry began. “Problems of the Church, prob lems of State, problems of polities, eco nomic and sociological problems are un settled. The war 'eft u« all uncertain. I do not know what will happen to France, soviet or many. America is tbfrW*airpst of all nations but we are rmf rt*rtain where we are going. However, T believe America, will win for I have faith in the Ameri can consciousness to meet all crisis. “There is just one great certainty— Jesus Christ. There is no voice of great leadership in America. The great de mocracy will win but not know in what way. The problems of the Church are not solved. There were never so many Church problems, but neither was there ever before such an assurance of Jesus Christ. “In the great world problems men are turning to Christ. Never before were there so many men seeking to give a square deal;; never before were there such efforts by men to be honest with their money! We never knew before such philanthropies. In greater numbers than ever before men of great wealth are dividing their fortunes among the men and women who worked for them. This shows that men are finding the way out of their problems by using Christ as the central figure in their lives.” God’s greatest and final revelation lo man iis Jesus Christ. Mr- Fry said in stressing the point that personality is greater than all else. “The greatest reve lation is Jesus which the Bible reveals,” he continued. “Personality is greater than all else and all things are for per sons. Money, houses, Churches and power are not created for themselves. They are created for persons, and in the personality of Christ, God made his greatest revelation.” Theological, scientific and economic problems must be decided, Mr. Fry added, but he declared these questions hold no fear for him. “The problems are serious and grave ones,” be admitted, “but I have no fear for the final issue for I have faith that iny Master will win.” Mr. Fry warned his hearers against trying to define personality. “Here is where some of the trouble comes,” he said, “for we try to describe the in describable. You can’t shut God up in definitions; He is too big for that. You can’t define or describe yourself. Neith er can you define your love for a child- I find many people are worried over and afraid of such questions. But I am not for I believe God reigns and will not be dethroned.” Issuing a warning against the b rnc ‘; tice of ignoring what the world calls “common place” things, Mr Fry de clared that “Christ, comes first” but “He uses the other things.” In this con nection Mr. Fry told of the entry of Pompev into Rome years before the ' coming of Christ. “Pompey rode into the city in fine vehicles, with hundreds of 1 captives and with the people applauding him. Today he is a memory. Jesus rode • into Jerusalem on a donkey and today 1 he is Master of the world. “God needs you as really as you need 1 Him, and He needs the things you ' create with your hands. There is no dis -1 ferenee between secular and sacred if 7 you live right. To the Christian Monday ’ is just like Sunday. I am just as re • sponsible to God for the use of the money I have as I am for the use of ' the Bible. All things are divine to him t who thinks divinely “ You can’t build God’s kingdom and 1 leave out the material things. The work ’ of a man in an office is just the same as preaching if he does it with the r consciousness of cooperating with God. e (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS Field Glasses Give Hubby Away Bp* K > ■. '■ .• .Jyjr *■ JgH jMSaak iHHR One day when Mrs. Clara E. Starr, 52. of Liberty Center. 0.. looked ! through her field glasses she received a shock. For, she sa>s, her hus band was “wickedly loving embracing” another woman. So Mrs. Starr divorced her husband and has sued Miss Dorothy SehreiGer, 21. pretty heiress of Toledo, 0., for $35,000 for alienating Starr’s affections. The case has been continued until June. i ; PROGRAM FOR COUNTY COMMENCEMENT FINISHED Exercises Begin Here Saturday Morn ing At 10 o’clock in High School The following is the program fol* coun ty commencement which will be held here Saturday: 10:00 —Musical Concert 10:30 —Invocation Contest for the Chas. B. Wagoner Med al in Recitation 1. Diddy Dumps and Kris —Ethel Abemethy 2. Our Visitor —Callie Fink 3. Mice At Play—Virginia McAllister 4. l*a’s New Car —Ethel Fisher Peck 5. Firetown’s New School Hoxise —Fay Peninger 6.. It’s Bad —Laura Sims .•7. The Song of the Market Place— Narcissus. Sloop S. When Company Comes—Evelyn Spry 0. When Company Comes —Rose Ellen White Contest for the Chas. B. Wagoner Medal in Declamation 1. What’s the Trouble?—Lauriaton Ezzell 2. Jimmie Tends the Baby—Author Hicks 3. On Quitting—Edward Tlott 4. Mother, Gird My Sword On —Rich- ard WarHck 5. Education and the Voluntary Tax- Earl Whitley Awarding and Delivering Medals Dinner 2 :30 —Musical Concert 2 :30 —Literary Address, by Dr. George Howard, Department of Education Ra leigh. N. C. Presentation of Prizes and Certificates and Awarding of Scholarships. 1. Prizes in Composition 2. Certificates in Spelling 3. Certificates in Library Reading 4. Certificates for Perfect Attendance 5. Certificates of Graduation 0. Awarding of, Scholarships Music by the Melody Makers “We believe in the education of all the children of all the people. ’ DID HOMERIC DO ALL POSSIBLE IN DISASTER? Passengers on Board Vessel Do Not Seem to Agree on the (Question. NUew York. April 23.— Passengers who arrived on the White Star liner Homeric after seeing, the Japanese freighter Raifuku sifik with its 38 offi cers and men. expressed widely divergent views as to whether every possible effort had been made by the Homeric officers to save the Japanese seamen. The doqieric docked last night. It lost in a race with death Tuesday. The division among the passengers was about equal, some saying that everything humanly possible had been done, and it would have been suicide to launch the Homeric's lifeboats; others saying they believed some lives could, have been saved I had the boats been launched or rafts set , adrift towards the sinking vessel. Capt., John Roberts was given a testimonial i signed by 123 of the 238 first cabin pas sengers. Girl Identifies Negro as Assailant. Carthage, N. 'April 23.—Wi1l Ty son, negro was arrested as a suspect to day in connection with an attack made on a young white girl here Mondaj and is being carried to-Raleigh for safe keep ing. The young woman is said to have, identified him as the man who made the attack on her. No Telegram Sent by Association. Augusta, Ga., April 23 No cablegram to Berlin of any nature has been for t warded or authorized by the executive ; council of the American Bankers Asso -1 ciatioa in session here, Win. E. Knox, of , New York, president, declared today in : regard to reports from Berhn saying such t a rumor was current there. 11 Wants Provisional Credits. . ' Paris,. April 23.—Provisional credits ! 1 asked by finance minister Caillaux today > for May and June amounted to 6.969.- 377,287 francs. Os this sum, 101,507,574 francs is for the maintenance of French troops of occupation abroad. , ! YOUNG MARRIED WOMAN i FOUND DEAD IN HOME Coroner’s Jury Finds That Death Won ml Was Self-Inflicted—lll Health Given As Reason For Act. Mrs. Anna Belle Bost Talbirt, wife of T. Hayden Talbirt, was found dead early last night in her home near the Jackson Training School and a corner's jury which investigated the case here this morning found that death >yas caused by suicide. Mrs. Talbirt had been in ill health for some time and despondency is believed to have been responsible for her act. According to information given the corner's jury Mrs. Talbirt asked her hus band to go to the home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Talbirt and ask his mother to come to their home as she was not feel ig well. Mr. Talbirt did as requested, leavijajf hjs,wife ina rear rooin of thaw hftmc preparing to retire. Air. and Mrs, T V. Talbirt live only ; about fifty yards’ from the home of their son ami as the latter reached the door of bis father’s home, where his father met him, he heard a report of a gun. liooking back he saw that the light in his home had been extinguished since he left. With his father he rush ed back to his home and found the body of his wife lying near the front door. A t shot gun lay by her side. An examination of the body showed that the gun had been in Mrs. Talbirt's mouth < when discharged. Mrs. Talbirt is sur vived by her husband and one daughter, t Sarah Talbirt. Her parents, Mr. and ( Mrs. T. L. host died several years t ago. Airs. Talbirt wins well known through out the country and the news of her trag ic death has caused much sorrow in her wide circle of friends and relatives. t I THE COTTON .MARKET i i Opened Easy Today At .Decline of 16 \ to 28 Points—July Down to 24:60 New York. April 23. —The cotton mar- i ket opened easy today at a decline of 16 1 to 28 points under local. Southern and < Wall Street selling promoted by reports ] of rains in northwest Texas and Okla- f horna. Early cables from Liverpool were < relatively firm but the market theri> eased off later under Texas rain news, and prices t here sold 20 to 30 points Jower in the ] first few minutes, July declining to 24:60 i and October to 24:55. 1 Some stop orders were uncovered on t the break and after the execution of these i the market stiffened up 10 or 15 points j from the lowest on covering. Better 1 weather news encouraged selling andj-al- t lies, however, and the market was 15 to e 18 points net lower at end of first hour. DUKE ELECTS STUDENT r GOVERNMENT OFFICERS t Whitoford S. Blaekeney, Os Monroe. ' Wins Out as President After Close ( I r Durham, April 22.—After a warm J i week of campus politicking, the Duke i university student body has completed its election of officers for the men’s stu dent government association. Whiteford j S. Blaekeney, of Alonroe, was elected president, winning out over L. L. Mall, of Morganton, after a very close race, which required the holding of three I separate elections. He will succeed M- Speight Barnes, of Raleigh, present in- t cumbent. L. B. Hollowell, of Durham, was elected vice president, and W. A. Bifjgs, of Raleigh, secretary-treasury. • Claim Ernest Key Has Confessed. 1 AVinston-Salem, April 23.—Ernest Key, ; one of the two negroes held here on a charge of murdering J. H. A aughn, local merchant, Saturday August 2, 1924, has confessed to the part he played in the crime, according to the police. John Wesley Dawkins. Key’s co-partner accord ing to the confession, fired the shot which killed A'aughn which was with a shot gun. Dawkins denies the statement, de claring his innocence. Fist Fight in Chamber of Deputies. Paris, April 22 (By the Associated Press). —Fist fights occurred on the pres ident’s rostrum of the Chamber of Depu ties this afternoon during the second bal loting for the presidency of that body. i $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. COLLINS'BOOT IS l jP Ivrc IEED Os p-mrtI!THELDIT Miners Who Have Been At Work In Cave For Several Weeks Succeeded Yester day in Freeing The Body SMALL ROCIToNLY WAS ON THE BODY Morsels Os Food, A Rope, Chisels And Hanimars Were Found By His Side- Body Taken From Cave Cave City. Ky.. April 23 (By the As sociated Press). —Floyd Collins’ body to day was freed from the underground trap where he met slow death two months ago - while a nation vainly prayed and fever ishly waited for word that did not come— that he had been saved alive. As the sun rose over the cavernons hills of. Barren County this morning.*its rays revealed a long guard standing sentinel over the mouth of Sand Cave, at the bot tom of whose pit rested the body of the cave explorer,,free at last from the rock that fell on him January 30th and held him till death relieved him after 17 days of suffering. Late yesterday miners engaged in a second attempt to release his body suc ceeded in tunneling under a huge lime stone rock in the path of a new lateral at the 70 foot level, and came upou the body. Instead of encountering a mam moth rock supiKised to be pinning the body, they found a stone of but 75 to 100 pounds weight across hiw ankles. Morsels of food, rope, chisels and ham mers carried to him during the early days of his entrapment were found by his side. It was the work of but a short time to clear away debris, and soon af terward the miners had dragged the body to safety at the foot of the shaft. Their efforts beat disaster by only a few minutes, for shortly after the body had been withdrawn, the lateral where they had ben working collapsed, and slid 100 feet below into a dark pit. This sub stantiated Collins’ remarks to rescuers who crawled to him in the early days of his imprisonment that a deep pit was right behind him. STILL FTGHTTNG BSLE OF AMERICAN SHIPS Losing Out in Injunction Pacific Mall Co. Will Keep Up the Fight. Washington, April 23.—The final or der dismissing the plea of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. for an Injunction against the Shipping Board was signed today by Justice Hitz in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Counsel for the Pacific Mall said they would advise the court later as to their decision on a further effort to restrain the board from consummating the sale of the five President type ships now op erated by that company to the. Dollar in terests. , -C *jil National Swimming Events. San Francisco, Calif., April 23. What promises to be the most notable and successful 'championship swimming tournament ever held under the aus pices of the National A. -A. L T ., was inaugurated here today and will be con tinued Over tomorrow # and Saturday. The speediest swimmers on the Amer ican continent are entered, together with a number of star performers from other countries, and it is generally ex pected that more than one record will go by the board before the meet is con cluded. The championships are being held in the new Fleshhacker swimming pool at Ingleside, which is said to be the largest in the world. The pool measures 1000 feet in length. It is 100 feet wide, with a wider stretch in the middle, affording a course 50 by 50 yards, which will permit the laying out of fifteen 10-foot lanes. It is an outdoor pool, but the temperature of the water can be regulat ed. 64 Liquor Indictments at Asheville. Asheville, N. C., April 23.—With 30 new indictments for alleged liquor viola tions returned by the grand jury here this morning a total of 64 such indict ments have been made since last Monday. Sheriff E. M. Mitchell has been waging a concentrated drive against blockaders and bootleggers and has nearly a score of deputies securing evidence and making ar rests. The sheriff recently announced a policy to conduct continuous war against liquor violators in Buncombe county. Los Angelos on Way Home. Los Angeles left Bermuda at 8:57 a. m. Washington, April 23.—The dirigible today for Lakehurst, N. J. The track and feild championships of New York State Public High School Athletic Association wilt be held at Ithaca on June 6. WHAT SAT’S BEAR SAYS Fair tonight and Frid y, little change in temperature. NO.. 81