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cheering the announcement that a strike had been called
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on the shoulders of the men* !"• *■ *, *.
SUPERINTENDENT GRAHAM
MAKES ANNUAL REPORT
Sums of Activities of State Depart
/ ment of Agriculture.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel |
Raleigh, July B.—Not only does j
the State department of agriculture
not cost the people of the state one
cent in taxes, but besides supporting
itself and its own activities, it had [
a balance of $1)5,787.60 on hand July j
1. 1026, according to the report of j
Commissioner William A. Graham j
submitted to the board of agriculture I
at its annual meeting Wednesday.
The receipts of the department from
July 1, 1025, to June 30, 1026. were
$135,138.38, during which period the
expenditures were $431,142.82. The
balance on hand a year ago was SOO,-
274.57 and on July 1.192 C, $95,787.-
60. .
-*■ of Che revenue by the depart- |
tuvni wav iunittherf 1 tnnmgn the sale
of fertiliser tags, the income from
this soufee being $242.635 60, while
the sale of Cotton seed meal tags
yielded $30,075.33 and feed tags
netted the department $58,499.11.
Receipts from the various test farms
netted $45,854.55 and the division of
markets yielded $11,036.08.
Fertilizer tonnage on which the tag
tax was paid during the past fiscal
year, ending June 30, 1926 was 1,-
213.178, while for the preceding year
it was 1.217>466 tons.
From the sale of serums the depart
ment collected $15,32810.
The board adopted a ,Yesolution
commending Commissioner Graham
for the splendid showing made by the
department financially and for the
work accomplished by the department
as outlined in liis annual report.
MISS JEAN BRASWELL
IS MYSTERIOUSLY SLAIN
Companion of Former Concord Girl
Wounded by Unknown Assassin
Near Saluda.
Miss Jean Braswell, daughter of
Mrs. Flora Braswell and grand-daugh
ter, of C. W. Johnston, prominent
business man of Charlotte, was shot
in the back of the head and instantly
killed last night about 9 o’clock at
Saluda. Q. C. Sonner, Jr., 21-year
old son of a prominent Saluda mer
chant, is in a Tryon hospital not ex
pected to live from two pistol wounds
from die hands of the same assassin.
Miss Braswell had been living in
Tryon with her mother and is said
to have been shot by one of her com
panions on an auto ride. The name
of the boy was not known' in Sa
luda last night, it is said. Mrs.
Braswell and daughter formerly lived
here, where each had many friends.
A report of the tragedy from Sa
luda gave the following facts:
The grtfesome tragedy took place
on the Green River Cove road, about
one miles from Saluda, while the
party of three, it is understood, were
riding in a stripped down Ford. Itj
seems from the position of the dead
girl in the car and a few words ut
tered by Sonner that tiie trio were
riding when the second boy, whose
name is not known at this time, asked
young Sonner to lend trim his pistol,
thereupon the boy riding in the rear
shot the girl in the back of the head
and Sonner tw.ice. One bullet en
tered Sonner above the heart and the
other just below. The young man
who did the Shooting, it is understood,
is from- Tryon and a former sweet
heart of Miss Rraswell, was very
popular socially in Tryon and Sa
luda. Apparently the only motive
was jealousy.
Fewer Cars of Peaches Will Be Pro
duced This Season.
Raleigh. July 7. —-Car lot ship
ments of peachee from North Caro
lina during the 1926 season will to
tal 1.778 as . compared with 2,024
; for the 1925 season, it was estimated*
by the state department of agricul
ture Wednesday, f ,
Estimates are. as follows, by varie
tise:
Carmen, 82 ; Hiley, . 117; Georgia
Belle, 561; Elberta, 795; Hale, 125;
others, 100. 1 ' ! Vl .
Califorpin' 'has the,most Valuable
fisheries of eny of the States.
NEWTON-STATESVILLE
HIGHWAY NOT LOCATED
No Definite Action Taken by the
Highway Commission at Last Meet
Tribune Bureau
f Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh. July 8, —No definite ac
tion with regard to the location of
the Newton-Stntesville highway was
taken by the highway commission at
its meeting here other than to go
on record in favor of building this
highway as soon as possible and in
complete conformity with the law as
interpreted by the State Supreme
Court. Several tentative plans were
suggested and considered, hut all were
bound to be in conflict with some
provision of the, law. So all are be
ing worked over in an effort to make I
them conform to tire most recent in
terpretation. : - t-_ .i -
Defm •riiif id ; engineers mt* « reivt.v
at work on plans looking the selection
of a route that will meet with the
approval of all concerned and one I
which will pass through the center
of the town of Newton, past the
court house, as the law prescribes.
No indication of the location of the
new route was given, pending Hue
working out of additional details.
Womenr Purpose War Prevention.
Dublin, July B.—Next steps to
ward peace will be discussed at the
fifth biennial congress of the Wom
en’s International League for Peace
and Freedom, which will have its
formal opening here tomorrow, fol
lowing a three-day meeting of the
executive committee which closed to
day and at which the final details of
the congress program were arranged-
Miss Jane Addams of Chicago is the
preside nt of the international league
and will preside over the general ses
sions of the congress, which are to
be held in the National University
Buildings.
The congress will continue for
seven days. An analysis of elements
believed to cause war is to be pre
sented by a representative of each of
the 24 countries having membership
in the league, and this will be fol
lowed with more detailed reports by
countries on means of ending war.
Among causes to be considered,
according to official announcement!,
are economic and colonial impenal
ism, exploitation and oppression in
relations of minorities and majori
ties, and militarism. Among forces
that tend to do away with war the
following wH be discussed: Concilia-
arbitration, democratic con
trol and N disarmament.
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Family* Quarrel Broadcast.
London, July 7- —An acrimonious
conversation on the telephone,between
two private subscribers was broad
cast from the Sheffield relay station
in the middle of a wireless church ser
vice. The minister was pronouncing
the benediction when suddenly the
voice of a telephone girl was heard
by every wireless listener to say,
“Four pennies, please.”
Four pennies went zip. zip. zip, zip,
and then a woman (unknown) begum
to berate a man in good round terms.
A heated argument followed, but. as
conversation was intercepted by frag
ments from the benediction, it was
.difficult to follow. The broadcasting
company deny any responsibility, and
say the v trouble was due to a faulty
land line. ■r~
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Brother and Sister Meet After 00
Years’ Search.
Lynn, Macs., July B.—Separated
for 60 years, George Bartlett Allard
of Bellingham, Wash., and his sis
ter, Mrs. Sarah E. (Allard) White
of this city, are to have a happy re
union ip a few weeks, when Allard
is to visit his sister’« home here.
’! Mrs. White’s search for her'broth
er, . who left home at the age of 11
years to join the army during the
Civil War, was ended when Jkynn
papers printed a request from Allard
to locate his relatives. He was noti
fied wire and promised to depart
* for tM ‘East at once.
I Mrs. T. j. Edwards will arrive in
Obneord this afternoon to visit Mrs.
D. G. Caldwell. * . ,
CONCORD, N. C.. THURSDAY, J TTUTB, 1926
GOVERNOR WLEAN
WILL HOI ANSWER
DODOING ATTACK
' ■'
I Indicates That Charges of
| Inhuman Treatment of
Prisoners at State Farm
Are Without Foundation
SAID PRISON WAS
“OUTPOST OF HELL”
The Tribune’s Raleigh Cor
spondent States Facts,
Which Are Given to Our
Readers.
Tribune Bureau.
Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 8. —Governor A. W.
McLean does not expect to veply to
the letter of E. E. Dudding presi
dent of the Prisoners’ Relief Society,
made public in Washington some
days ago, in which he characterized
the State Prison Farm at Caledonia
as an "Outpost of Hell”, fiarglng
that prisoners were subjected to
cruel and inhuman treatment and
that six had been shot to death by
guards- while attempting to escape.
The Governor indicated that the
charges were without foundation
and that hence they w**r» to be unre
garded. The letter of Dudding to the
Governor was given much prominence
on the first page of a Raleigh morn
ing newspaper, under the headline
“N. C. Prison Farm Described as ap
Outpost of Hell.” The same morning
newspaper a few days before had
carried a story supposed to have
come from a prisoner named Tug
FJnnnigan, who had just completed
a sentence at Caledonia, in which he
told of alleged cruel and inhuman
treatment, among other things as
serting Elijah Larrimore, who was
drowned in the Roanoke river at the
Farm on June 8, had in reality been
shot in the back by one of the guards
while trying to escape.
In order to get at the facts In the
case. The Tribune correspondent de
cided to launch an investigation of
his own. And the following facts
were learned:
First, that Larrimore was not
shot, but drowned while trying * £6
swim the river after making a break
foY liberty,' as reported by Th*
Tribune correspondent on the day
which he was drowned. A telegram
was sent to W. C. Williams, coronor
and undertaker who prepared Larri
more’s bhdy for burial, asking if
(here were any gun shot wounds in
his body. Williams replied that
there no signs of his being
shot,” stating that his body was
taken out of the river on the opposite
side from the point where he at
tempted to escape, and that he had
drowned. It also developed that the
only person who saw Larrimore
drown and who gave the alarm and
called for help in an attemp to res
cue him, was this same Tug Flan
nlgan, who at the time was serving
as water boy for the gang in which
Larrimore was working, and who,
when released, charged that Larri
more had been killed by a guard
shooting him in the back.
Another charge that was found
to be groundless was that prisoners
were compelled to work while shack
led and that guards had fired on
them, though trying to escape m
shackles, which is virtually impos
sible. Investigation showed that only
class C prisoners—the lowest grade
—are ever put in shackles, and that
these are rarely worked on the open
farm in gangs, because of the fact
that it is nearly imjiossible for them
to work while shackled. Prisoners
are put in shackles only for short
periods of time as punishment for
gross infraction of the rules, and are
generally" kept within the prison en
closure during this period.
In / his letter to the Governor, Dud
ding charges that six prisonerg, have
been killed by guards while at
tempting to escape, but he does not
specify the length of time over which
these six are distributed. A search
of t\ie prison records reveals, how
ever, that three men have been killed
while attempting escape in the period
from 1921 to 1926, covering the last
five years. And in this same period
213 have attempted to escape; thus
the percentage of those killed while
trying to escape is seven-tenths of
one per cent. In this same five year
period, two other men besides Larri
more were drowned, also while try
ing to escape. They were brotners*
Lawrence and Volley Weaver. They
escaped on May 26, 1924 and Law- j
rence’s body was found in the river
June 3. Volley’s on June 5. The
coroner’s inquest showed that neith
er had been shot, but that death had
been caused by drowning. The three
prisoners who were killed by guards
while attempting to escape were
John McNally, February 26, 1925 j
John Henry Goins, May 30, 1925
and George Martin, May 30, 1925.
The other charged contained in
Mr. Dudding’s letter was that a
prisoner named Charles Qrady had
been put in solitary confinement for
28 days on bread and water and that
at the end of this period he was so
weak that he was unable to . stand
alone. Then, because he could not
work, he was again put in solitary
on bread and water, when he at
tempted to commit suicide, and was
saved only by a miracle, Dudding a
- What this “miracle” was, he
does not indicate.
Here are the facts in Grady’s case
as obtained from the official prison
register: „
Charles Grady, sentenced to from
two to three years for larceny. A
second termer, with a very bad
record. C.ass C. prisoner sentenced.
GHOTE UED FOR
IST EXECUTION IN
CURA IN 2D HEARS
Salvatore Aguilera Put to
Death for Murder of
Aunt—Convict Operat
ed the Garrote.
NEGRO WAS AIDE
TO THE CONVICT
Garrote Used to Break the
Spinal Column at Base
of Brain and 11 Minutes
Was Required in Case.
Santiago, Cuba., July B.—(/P)—Sal
vatore Aguilera was put to death by
the garrote today for the muwler of
his aunt in March, 1924. It was the
first execution in Cuba in 20 years.
The garrote which breaks the spinal
column at the base of the neck by the
turning of a screw, was operated by
Francisco Paula Romero, a convict.
Frank Davis, a 59 year old negro of
Savannah. Ga.. and a veteran of the
battle of San Juan hill, who is serv
ing a two year sentence for robbery,
was the assistant executor.
Aguilera died 11 minutes after the
garrote was applied. He broke down
as the time for the execution ap
proached, and it was necessary to ad
minister restoratives before he- could
be placed In the chair and the brass
collar adjusted about his neck.
Aguilera’s execution is the twenty
firsi in the history of the Cuban re
public. The last precious was on
June 12. 1906, in Havana.
About seven years ago the Cuban
Senate passed a bill abolishing capi
tal punishment, but it never was ful
ly ratified. Last year the House of
Representatives resurrected the bill
from a mass of tabled legislation, but
no further action has been taken on
it.
The garrote is a relic of the Spanish
regime in Cuba.
RIDGECREST MAN SHOT
BY HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW
“I Could Stand It No Longer,” She
Said. Referring to His Abuse.
- v Asheville, July 7. —Clyde Me.ton,
‘of Ridgecrest, was shot seriously
wounded early today by his mother
in-law, Mrs. Sally Sinead, according
to the story he told Sheriff Mitchell
and the Black Mountain police. Mel
ton, who recently separated from
wife, appeared at the house occupied
by Mrs. Sinead and her daughter short
ly after midnight raving drunk. With
him was his small son, who was
awarded to the father’s custody in
the separation agreement.
..“He came in and started abusing
liis wife, Ethel and me and the two
children,” said Mrs. Smead. “I could
not stand it any longer so I shot
him.” Melton was taken to the hos
pital in Asheville, where today he
was reported much improved. The
shot gun slugs fired by .Mrs. Smead
entered his chest.
The mother-in-law was taken to
the Buncombe county jail. „
According to Black Mountain po
lice, Melton made a statement on the
way: to the hospital that he had
shot by his mother-in-law while lie
was in bed The officers dis
credited this story as their investiga
tion showed Melton must have been
standing up when he was wounded,
they said.
Highway Hard-Surfacing to Be
Completed in FaJl.
Shelby, July 7.—Engineer B. M.
Graham of the State Highway com
mission, says the hard-surfacing of
highway No. 20 between Shelby and
the Rutherford county line will be
completed some time in October if
the present rate of construction con
tinues. About 500 feet of base and
surface is being put down daily and
at present the force is working near
MYs. J. D. Putnam’s and going in
the direction of Mooresboro. August
1 the force will move equipment to
the Rover Mill to which point
material will be shipped for construc
tion of this end of the project. As is
already known the surface is cement
instead of asphalt and many motor
ists declare this to make a much
smoother surface.
to solitary confinement on May 19,
a. 3:30 p. in., for continued refusal
to work and for using abusive and
insulting language to guards and
supervisor. He was released from
solitary June 3, at 9:30 a. m. He
was examined before commitment by
Dr. V. W. Leggett, of Scotland Neck,
and pronounced in good physical
condition. All prisoners are examined
by a physician before commitment to
solitary and every day during their
confinement their pu’se and tempera
ture are taken by the physician.
Whenever their physical condition
becomes endangered they are remov
ed. Grady, after 14 days in solitary
showed no ill effects, othfcr than a
rise of two-fifths of one degree in
temperature and an increase of two
beats in his pulse.
On June 17 prady was again put
in solitary for five days, for break
ing into the boxes of other prisoners
and general incorrigability. Again he
showed on ill effwts according to
the physicians report. Neither was
there any report or indication of his
having attempted to commit suicide.
Health conditions at Caledonia are
exce’lent, only one death having oc
curred from sickness in the past
four yeara, despite an average popu
lation of approximately 400 during
this entire period.
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amEtk. / jmpfl
Governor A1 Smith, of New
k’ork, wU be a candidate soy
President: “I accept the nom>
(nation,” he told a speaker at
i meeting that launched his
boom. j 'j
International Nawweal. i u.niF;
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DEPOSITIONS TAKEN IN
CHARGES AGAINST CHAPPEL
No Information to Be Given Out
a Prior to Trial in Statesville July
20th. „
Memphis, Tenn.. July ;7. —Deposi-
tions were taken here today* by Dr.
C. M. Pickens, of Albemarle, N. C.,
as the representative of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church. South; and -
Dr. H. K. Boyer, of Shelby, N. C.,
representative of' Dr. Ashley Chap
pell, of AsOeville, for presentation to
a trial* committee of* the western
North Carolina conference of the
church before which Dr. Chappell has
been summoned to appear to answer
to a charge of immorality.
The charge against Dr. Chappell
is the outgrowth of an incident which
is alleged to have occurred during the
general conference of the church here
last May. Dr. Chappell has made
vigorous denial of the charge.
It was s(atej' that ho information
will be given out as to the contents
of the depositions obtained in the in
vestigation here prior to their sub
mission to the trial committee which
will meet in Statesville, N. C., July
20th under the chairmanship of Dr.
F. J. Prettyman, of Gastonia. Until
the depositions are submitted to the
committee, it was explained, they will
not be considered as evidence.
I
WELL KNOWN CITIZEN
OF SALISBURY DIES
Corpse of Charles M. Brown Is Found
by the Side of His Bed.
Salisbury, July 7. —Charles M.
Brown, well known citizen, died sud
denly this morning at the home of
his mother-in-law, Mrs. F. V. Bar
rier, where he had gone last night
when attacked by a spell of sickness.
Mrs. Brown is dead and their only
son, Carl Barrier Brown, aged fif
teen, has been attending summer
school at Chapel Hill. Mr. Bfown
had not beef Yin the best of health for
some time and when he became ill
last pight he went tt> Mrs. Barrier’s,
next door, for the remaindeV of the
night. This morning he did not get
up and about 11 o’clock Mrs. Barrier
heard a noise and when she went to
Mr. Brown’s room she found he had
fallen out of bed and was dead.
Plan to Increase Live Stock Raising.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotelv
Raleigh, July 7. —Now is the time
for farmers to begin making plans
to increase their livestock raising, es
pecially as indications are for a heavy
cotton crop, with its consequent de
crease in prices, the State - depart
ment of agriculture advises, as prices
for are strong and likely to go
higher any time. The farm earnings
may be greatly increased by adding
several good cows, a dozen or so more
hogs or a flock of sheep.
, Sheep are proving unusually profit
able in ttie state at this time, espe
cially in the mountain section in the
west, or in the coastal section. North
Carolina lambs have recently brought
as high as $lB a 100‘pounds on the
eastern markets. * It is pointed out
that now is the best breeding time
and the State department of agricul
ture is helping farmers and flock
owners to secure rams wherever they
'need them.
“Raise more livestock and be in
dependent of tiie cotton crop,” is the
advice which the department is giv
ing. And many farmers are finding
it to their advantage to follow it
out.
Franc Sagged Again Today.
Paris, July B.—C4*>—After a slight
recovery from Tuesday’s slump, the
French franc today sagged heavily to
a new low record of 39.01 to the dol
lar on news tiiat the Bank of France
statement would ehow* an increase,
in circulation of nearly a bnuon
francs.
Pepoer Charlotte
Washington, July- 7—Sen. George
Wharton Pepper, of Pennsy.vania,
was today invited by Senator im 'i
inons to address the Mens ( lub u ox.
St. Peter’s Church, of Charlotte, on)
any date during the month of Octo-j
her convenient to him-
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor rad Publisher
iMLmrr-
FATE TODAY Ai IER
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Gov. McLean Ejected to i
Decide Today Whether j
Will Pay With
Life for Alleged Crime. |
TOMORROW DAY
for EXECUTION
Many Persons Doubt the
Guilt of the Negro and
Have Urged Govemon
to Pardon Him;
Raleigh, .Inly B.—G4 l )—Before sun
down today Alvin Mangel, young ne
gro of' Buncombe county., probably
will know whether he Will die tomor
row in: the electric chair. He is un
der death sentence for an attack on a
white woman.
Mansfl, who was captured, indict
ed. convicted* and sentenced' following
an alleged attack on a white woman
several months ago in Asheville was
the object of a mob which hushed the
'Buncombe County jail. Several
members of the mob are now serving
sentences as a result of the jail rush
while Mansel was saved from them by
being conveyed to another county.
> Governor McLean reprieved Mansel
from June. 19 until tomorrow in order
that he and Pardon Commissioner
Sink might closely study the evidence
in the case. It is said that there are
several contradictory statements whjeh
have caused the Executive worry.
The Executive is planning to leave
Rale'gh tomorrow morning for Camp
Cflenn, and a conference between him
and Mr. Sink today was expected to
decide the matter.
It is stated that the Governor has
received a great number of letters
i and telegrams concerning the Mansel
case. A number of these have urged
pardon for the man. the writers be
lieving he is not guilty and deserves
no punishment.
James Jeffreys, negro, sentenced to
die tomorrow, will not die he ban
taken an appeal from the sentence
which was imposed for an alleged gt
taek upon an aged white woman < of
Wake connty.
BODY OF ALBEMAKHt—
MAN FOUND ON TRACK
Walter C. Hill. Owtier of Bottling
Company', Probably Accident Vic
tim.
Albemarle, July 7.—The mangled
body of Walter C. Hill, owner of a
bottling company hlere, was found on
the Winston-Salem southbound rail
way track near, the Efird Manufactur
ing Company at an early hour this
mornring, by E. M. Davis. .One leg
was cut off, the head crushed very
and indications were that he
had been dead for several hours.
County• Coroner T. Finch Morgan be
ing in Baltimore, Sheriff Furr or
dered the body removed to an under
taking establishment where an in
quest was conducted by P. J. Honey
cutt, named by the clerk for the emer
gency, ' .
The verdict of the jury was. 4hat
Hill came to his death by having been
struck by a passing train. At first
suspicion was that Tie had been mur
dered and , placed on the . railroad
track. But there is little founda
tion for such suspicion.
It is believed by some that he
had started home from his place of
j business at a late hour Tuesday night
• and either lay down or sat on
railway track where a freight; which
passes here about 1 o’clock, a. m..
struck him. Hill was a good
business man, was very popular and
was well known throughout this sec
tion. He was about forty years of
age and leaves a widow and two chil
dren. The funeral service will be
held tomorrow at the First Baptist
Church of which he was a member^
THE COTTON MARKET
; ' '
Opening Steady at Unchanged .Prices
to Advance of 14 Points. —July at
18.40. N
New York. July B.— UP)— The cot
ton market was decidedly more ac
tive and firmer in today's early trad
ing. Reiterated reports of insect
activity in the South seemed to be
taken more seriously as a menace to
the coming crop, and buying was
inroe or less general.
The opening was steady at un
changed prices to an advance of 14
points, and the market soon showed
net gains of 28 to 34 points, July
selling upto 18.40 and December to
116 82, or 80 to 90 points above the
low prices touched after publication
‘of last Friday’s government crop re
port.
• This advance attracted a good deal
lof realizing but prices held Within
8 or 10 points of the best at the end
of the first hour. Nervousness over
ithe situation as to insect appeared
to be increased by reports of further
showers in the belt and there, was
buying by trade interests as well as
covering and commission house buy
ing on the advance.
Cotton futures opened steady. July
18.05; Oct. 16.60; Dec. 16.62; Jan.
16.54; March 16.70.
The Wlneeoff Reunion.
All persons interested in the Wine
coff Reunion are requested to meet
Friday night, July 9tli, at 8 o’clock.
l at Mrs. Nellie Hill’s, and. also next
I Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock at Cen
ter Grove Church.,
1 HARRY WINECOFF,
-i mi REACHES '
DRY DOCK AND NO*
WILL BE SEARCHED
Craft Which Was Raised
From Atlantic Pouring
Water- and Sea Weed
From Its Side.
THINK BODIES OF
CREW ARE INSIDfc
It Is Estimated That Stitt
Can Be Reconditioned
For About $200,0#,
Much Less Than It Cost.
New York. July B.—OW—With
sea weed and water pouring fConf
the gaping holes in her forward coitf
pautments, the submarine S-51. Wafa
pulled into dry dock in the navy yaWf
at Brooklyn, today.
Navy officers after an examination
of the hulk of the submaVine that wan
raised from the ocean floor
two fathoms below the surface of t##
Atlantic Ocean off Rock Island, ti.
1., Monday, announced that it would"
require six ’jours to pump out Hit*
remove the debris accuintf
lated during her nine months stats
under the sea.
Announcement also was made jiy
Lieutenant Commander Edward Rme
berg, who directed the engineerfngf.
part of the salvage of the S-551, fflifl?
it would vhot be. necessary to use'
acetylene torches to get into the steel*
hulk. “We were inside the,
while she was at the bottom of
Atlantic,’’ he .said. “We wght , irt
through the hatches. l\ T e can.enttT
through the hatches in dry dock Bftrtte*.
easily.”
Search for the hodies of the 2f>
sailors who were not accounted fbf
after the craft was rammed and sufiß
last September by the Savannah
line stamer City of Rome, will be
started tomorrow. Lieutenant Cotit
mander Young, aide to the command
ant of the navy yard said. Officers
and divers of the salvae fleet said
they were certain a number of the
bodies were stiU inside.
Refitting the S-51 can be done at
air estimated cost of $200,000, Com
mander Ellsberg said. The submer
sile originally cost $2,500,000 and it.
would cost $3,060,000 to replace her.
“The navy was not guided primar
ily by sentimental reasons in the ris
ing of rffe S-51,” he said. “We would
have brought up whatever bodies are
inside her while she was on the bot
tom. But to do that we would have
been fqreed to cut open the sides of
the vessel. - That we did not wish
to do.” •
The brass bell of the S-51 was ex
hibited by Commanders Ellsberg. Rg
said it was brought to the surface
more than a month ago. -It wiU* be
presented to th«* helium division, of
the United States., bureau of mine&gh
Pittsburgh, in recognition of the work
done by from the bureau of
anines.
Find Some Bodies.
New York, # July 8. : — (/P) —Diver®,
who entered the battered hulk of the
U. S. Submarine S-51 today reported
that there were about 12 bodies inside
"the ship. One body was seen wedged
behind machinery in the engine room,
and others were reported in the tor
pedo rooms.
If the divers’ estimate is correct it
means that the bodies of thirteen sail,
ors w’ere washed from the hulk by the
waves while it lay on the obean bed
off Bloek Island after being sunk by
the steamer City of Rome last Sep
tember, and will probably never be
recovered. f , f«' <
When the collision occurred there
were 30 men op jhe S-51. Three were
saved, and eight bodies were later re
covered. It had been hoped tbat tl*e
remaining 25 bodies had stayed Uv the
submarine, and could be reclaimed by
the bereaved families.
Wants Death Sentence For Dorlds^
Chicago, July 8. —(4*)—Piling case
upon ease from the tombs of Illinois
law'. Prosecutor Cichael Romano re
iterated today his plea to a jury tbat
Martin J. Durkin be convicted of
murder and sentenced to die for the
killing nine months ago of Bdwin C.
Shanahan, federal agent who attempt
ed the youth’s arrest. <
“Upon this life already misspent,”
said the prosecutor, “you should im
pose the same death sentence imposed
on Shanahan by the bark and roar of
Durkin’s automatic.” ' .
No ‘Twelve Mile Limit” for Ameri
can Ships. «,
New York, July B.—-14*)—There is
no “twelve mile limit” for American
ships, according to a decision of the
United States circuit court of appeals,
made public today. The decision re
versed a finding in the United States
district court of the district of Con
necticut whkh has sustained exeejj
tions to a governbent libel filed against
the American rum runner onder wat
er. , /
T. H. Webb is spending the day in
Greensboro, going there to attend a
meeting of the finance committee of
the. North Carolina railroad.
Tourist excursion® are now run on
the Capc-tq-Cairp railway, between
Egypt and Soutn Africa.
THE WEATHER
Generally fair tonight and 'Friday,
except local thundershowers Friday in
west portion. Gentle yariable winds,
becoming southwest.
NO. 106