North Carolina Newspapers

THE CONCORD TIMES mvEji [TWEEN 600 AND 1500 DIE IN MffiiiEA Lorts Today Direct From Itorm Area Indicate First I Reports Not Exaggerated pit pIITHOUT I 11 FOOD I Doctors, Troops | L Cross W orkers Eo Stricken Area Kief Work. IlSesin WiFEED MANY pparated From ■Wander About Hther lilies Are ■ksxiale*! Press) received <1 i - 'liitreird city of •*!' estimated the ■ liiiii ;:iid 1.51K1. These K; iiicimie casualties at Hfelr. where ion are re at Mom-haven, 75 Hf Miami. where huge ■ Le- Okechohee took a home'ess and Hp* oi lil.lte; 1 at' 23.000 of devastation BtncaiiC that struck the Rat Kriilay night crossed Hand r>cired out into tire H tmlay was striking Htrdiiii; to meager ad- H just before that city Hfrim roiiinmnicntion. m Pensacola at the ex- K (if Florida Peninsula ■i>SSib* was blowing this Hi'lie barometer reading' ■ftm-ipoinlents of the As-! V arriving in .Miami by I Hated the damage in that! B li.HMKM I.IHMI. i ndicat ing H?erty toil of the storm ( I J2iat.tkKi.ooo. Hed children separated ■ families were wandering ■ ruins of their homes inf laf"'s|iajier men reported,! ■ leading to West Palm I crowded with automobiles | ■ refugees. Fears of the put of the children were 1 ■of the lack of water, milk ( I sanitary conditions. , r Felice guarded the ex- I hurricane's tell in Fort : | >aid to have been one of ■ sufferers. i I °f persons were injured '■ debris during the . "f the storm, a Pullman The wind tore y ‘ roa sheets from the udings and carried them he said. j been' formed in I Severe penalties have, " r hoarding and profiteer-! ” ty is under martial law, j ■ ls allowed on the streets i ' fSs " n ur gent business. I * teports were received "s "f Mborheaven and i ,u ! s,ult b and west .*! s ( ‘ P( 'hobce. Refugees Jw&jaid that only the aa.l ta that throUKl ; th ~ gale wreckage was ‘ Hale area. They said Intel at Moorhaven ffiaiu'Tr I '' !lroun( I an( l bu i!<bngs were wreck k I-akeland from said the buihl- Esti v;'ti h p M r tion wore Sn ?? arrivi,, « iu the d .' M a *’** bringing [f ,u ‘d medicine. I'rg f,,r - l,read f 3>k) v I)r equipment . * vra - v rases at Fort tod'll i ’ 1 , , *ttaget„ a • : , ” i ‘ l of the • Seve ra j alon K the 1 distrev , T,on, ‘rs were fed ‘ lu< * :,, "<lreds of fe'iy * " ,1 tll e shore. *id IM, ‘ "bo swam to! rr fS'ked n'F st '““ n| ber of a I Mef tit " dr lottI ott Lauder- SrtUs and bam."'" board The 11 to give furth- sufferer] , storm evere damage area. The t 0 bb-ndle „ a . though in the Ur dny ‘ Sa.es f or several “ ag ' a,,d “'C;- 2o.~ (/ p,_ " la "* of the Nash- $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance: t * ——— Airplanes, Automobiles and Trains At Service of the Stricken Area Miami, Fin.. Sept. 2ft. — UP) —Esti-i mates ranging from 60ft to 15ftft dead ’ prevailed in the M : ami disaster area this morning, as first contact w tin the outside world was established by air plane. automobile and relayed trains. The damage was estimated at $150.- ; <)<M>.(»oo. I in the Miami storm disaster area are included Hollywood. Fort Lauder dale. Redlands. Moorhaven and C’.ewis ton. West Palm Reach received its first injured patients early today when George Stem and E. J. Sims, both of Hollywood, were rushed to a local hospital by a fast mach’ne. Roth were reported in a serious condition. LlfTle contact with throe places had been established, as the causeways were flooded and wreckage and high water barred traffic. Recause of. con tinued severe winds pilots of airplanes were reported as wary of attempting to enter the storm area. Airplanes could net find any land ing places, and seaplanes feared the ville Ranner. Captain Walter Wil liams. local aviator, and W. E. Rarr Banner staff photographer, leave hen at noon with several hundred pound* of first aid. hospital and medical sup plies for the Red Cross-station at Miami, Fla. Relief Train Halter by Water. 'Sanford, Fla., Sept. 2ft.— UP)— Tin Atlantic coast Line relief train whirl left Sanford at 10:3ft last night foi JfoOrliavCn was forced to stop withh live mile* of its destination this morn ing because of inundated tracks, ac cording to information re’.ayed t< Sanford, The medical, food and clothing sup plies are being transported to Moor haven by motor boat this morning Ample supplies are avaUable for re lief, it is said. One hundred*and fifty volunteer workers from Taifipa wer, turned back at Palmdale, 16 mile* north of Moorhaven. A total of 37' homeless people were transported ii box cars and motor boats from Moor haven to Sebring. a railroad messag* said. Money for Relief Work. Lakeland, Fla.. Sept. 20.—G4>)—The city of Lakeland today appropriate* o.ftftft for the relief of storm victims. 56 Bodies in Improvised Morgue. Avou Park. Fla . Sept. 2ft.— UP)— With fifty-six bodies in an improvised morgue here today, and the missing totalling nearly 200, rescue workers in Moorhaven were bending every ef fort to remove all persons from the flooded area. Nearly 500 refugees arrived last night. The water is receding, said officials who returned here this morn ing. and the collection of the dead will be resumed immediately. According to one eye witness. th« dyke along Lake Okeechobee broke ai 8 o’clock Saturday morning and th< water poured over the land until ii stood twelve to fourteen feet deep ir. the highest spot in Moorhaven. Ii the lowlands it was over the roof* of the houses. Few anticipated the break, he said as the dyke was thought invulnerable No one has been able to reach Clew iston, 20 miles southeast of Moorhav en today, and fear are expressed that many lives lost there. An aviatoi flew "over the village and reported th< only sign x>f life was a small group of people on the roof of the only build ing left, standing. An attempt wil made this afternoon by a relief party on horseback. Lake Point, a village of about 206 people is also isolated. President Appeals For Relief Fund. Washington, Sept. 2ft. — UP) Presi dent Coolidge to*lay appeared to the American people to come to the assist anee of sufferers in the Flor'da d s aster. In a Presidential proclamation lie asked that contributions to a relief fund be sent to the American Red Cross. Governor Off For Stricken Area. St. Augustine, Fla., Sept. 20. —W*) —Governor John W. Martin left here shortly before noon today for Palfti Reach by automobile to place himself and accompanying state officials in touch with relief measures in the storm I area. He will be there indefinitely. | In reply to reports that newspaper men are being denied entrance into, the area by civil authorities. Gover nor Martin told the Associated Press: “Associated Press correspondents and officials representatives of news papers are entitled to every courtesy authorities can offer, and I will see to it that their work is not impeded by local interference.’’ Will Fight Insanitary Conditions. Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 2ft. UP) Chas. Mann, president of the State (Board of Health, has ordered all em l ployee of the board into the storm l rough and debris-filled water. The American Red Cross has es tablished ' stations throughout the str cken area, and the aid of neat by towns and cities was offered. Relief trains from West Palm Beach have arrived, bringing additional phys icians. nurses, medical supplies and essential foods. Efforts are being made to find rel atives or friends of more than ‘2OO drldren who have been found wander ing about what remains of M.ami, sep arated front their families. Miami was under martial law, and none except government, state offi cials, newspaper men and persons per forming missions of relief were allow ed to enter. Profiteering has been banned under another proclamation of Mayor Whar ton. It provides that no prices may be charged iu excess of those pro- j va'ling September IS. the day follow ing the storm. Violators will suffer j confiscation of their supplies, a heavy | fine, and imprisonment. trea. Doctors, nurses, sanitary inspectors and engineers will be appointed among the various cities, with orders to {uard especially against typhoid fev ,*r. Quantities of serum for inocula tion has been sent south. Sanitary engineers have reported to the State Board that conditions are “bad.” Postal People l>o Relief Work. Washington, Sept. 2ft. —CA’)—Post- master General New, uow in f*fihca*6, en route to Kansas City, gave In •itrucCons by telephone today author ing all Florida postmasters to utilize the facilities of the postal service in relief and rescue work. Clewiston. Fla , Sept. 2ft. —G4>) — This place survived the storm safely, with no casualties. SOME DETAILS OF THE GREAT STORM ( Interesting Story of tl»e. Devastation j Wrought at West Palm Beach and j Elsewhere. Real estate activity of the last five years has seen millions of dollars poured into developments, modern ho tels. subdivisions, apartment houses, homes, public utilities, schoois and churches along the lower coastal sec tion of the peninsula which bore the brunt of thp hurricane. Miami Reach ten years ago n low lying sand bar and mangrove swamp, had of late years taken on the appear ance of a tropical vista, Spanish vil las, golf courses, polo fields, yacht basins and artificial lakes and canals have for several seasons enjoyed a popularity with winter resorts rival ing attractions of Palm Reach. Hotels Erected. The last three years has seen the erection of the Fleetwood, Flamingo. Nautilus*. Pancoast and Roney I'laza Hotels, all modern and imposing struc tures .at costs estimated in the mil liions of dollars. Miami Harbor, where according to ’ate dispatches, damage running into the millions was sustained, ha* for several years been the site of an ex- | tensive development program, and as sisted by the Federal Government, thousands of dollars have been ex pended in deepen’ng and widening the channel into the outer sea. Causeway Covered. In the shallow waters of Biscayne Bay, artificial islands have made their appearance and the “Venetian Is- I 'ands,” a late feature of this type of | development, built of bulkheaded sand sucked from the bottom of the bay. have been show places of the Miami area. latte dispatches told of water completely covering the sl.ftftft.ft(H) causeway, connecting Miami with M’- ami Beach, and running directly through the Venetian Islands. Royal Palm Park, in Miami, lying one block from the Biscayne Ray waterfront where reports say a large steamship has been stranded, is the scene of the famous weekly Sunday School class of the late William Jen rrngs Bryan, who for several years prior to his death made his home at Miami. The park lies directly in front of the famous old Royal Palm Hotel, erected in the 80's by Henry M Flagler, shortly after the comple tion of the Florida East Coast Rail i way line south of West Palm Beach. Newspaper Plant Destroyed. The Miami Tribune plant, report ed destroyed, was situated several blocks from the waterfront. Miami and vicinity and Fort Lauderdale appear to have borne the brunt of the storm. Wafer was flow ing in the streets of Miami, prac tically every place of business was said to have been damaged, no drink ing water was immediately available 1 (Please Turn to Page Seven) CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1926 i Quake Wrecks City on Mid-Atlantic Island 1 111 1 M -■ —. . 1 ■ft P ® a 'JHjBQ m Hus is a general view of damage done when a series of earthquakes socked Horta, in the Azores Islands. Many were killed. COOLIDGES AGAIN ARE IN THE WHITE HOURE President Returns From Vacation and Prepares to Resume Routine. Washington, Sept. 1!). — President Coolidge resumed life at the White House today as before his vacation and tomorrow plans to be at his desk early in the executive offices prepared to carry on the business of the government. With Mrs. Coolidge he attended services this morning at the First Congregatio.nal church. The services were held at the Met ropolitan motion picture theatre in the down-town district which has been placed at the disposal of the church peding construction of a new building- It was the first. Sunday service to be .ondacted by the Rev. Dr. Jttpwf* Noble. Pierce since his vacation and he greeted all his parishioners from the pulpit. Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge returned late last night from the Adirondneks to the White House, which was re novated during their more than two months’. absence. The first day home was spent quietly at the executive mansion. , Do Not Inherit “T. B.”—lt Is Communicable. Sanatorium, Sept. 20. —Previous jto Koch’s discovery of the tubercle j bacilli, and among ignorant people since, it has been held that tuber culosis is inherited. It is now known that it is not inherited, but infectious or communicable. It is also generally agreed that most infections occur in childhood. The germs of tuberculosis are j found in the sputum or spit that consumptives cough up- Intimate and close association of the well with the sick may lead to infection if proper precautions are not taken. Probably | most infections occur from inhaling air in wich are large numbers of the germs, or the germs are conveyed to the mouth on the fingers or in food contaminated from floors, sidewalks and gutters where consumptives spit. Physicians declare that large num bers of persons contain in their | systems the tubercle bacilli. With the • tubercle bacilli so general and wide- ■ spread right living is the best means! of preventing the disease. Rest, food and fresh air are today the recogniz ed essentials for the cure of the disease. Methods of living that will cure the disease will also prevent it., State Highway Detours. Greensboro. Sept. 2ft — (A 3 )— -De- j tours on five main highways in Nort’n i Carolina were shown on the regular semi-monthly report on touring oondi i tions of the Carolina Motor Club, | which has been issued here. They are: route Ift, Greensboro to | j High Point, Salisbury to Statesville, j Valdese to Morganton and Smith field to Goldsboro; route 20 from Shelby to Forest City about two miles; route j 00 from Raleigh to Wendell; route Bft from Salisbury to Albemarle, and route 21 from Raleigh to Fayette ville. Detours generally were reported in good Siiape, and in several cases al ternate routes are provided where it is necessary to detour around con struction activities. Old Duke Gymnasium Will See Ser vice as Cafeteria. Durham, Sept. 17-—-The old Duke gymnasium, built in 1880 through the generosity of Benjamin X. Duke, | was named the Angier Duke build ing. in honor of the late Angier B. Duke. The building was at that time considered one of the finest gymnas iums in the entire south. It is st Hl standing, and during the present year will be used as a cafeteria for students. Thirty-six boys from t’he Jackson . Training School enjoyed a fine swim , at the A. M. C. A. pool Saturday. Their w.sit was made possible by the . courtesy of \V. B. Ward Company, which furnished a truck and driver to take them to and from the A\ BOY, 12. DIES IN FIGHT l , FOR GENE TENNEY i “Dempsey .’’ AgeJ 10. Lands a “Knockout” on Young Enthusiast.— C!iot Caused Death. 1 Philadelphia. Pa., Sept. 2ft. —A 12-year-old boyls enthusiasm over the prospect of Gene Tunney winning the world heavyweight title trom Jack Dempsey when they r eet in the Sesquicentennial Stadium cost him his life. Offering to demonstrate how the exmarine would knock out the cham pion, Mauel Kin of 1.632 North Franklin Street today squarred off in the yard of the Clay Public School. Eighth and Thompson streets, with Carl Weinstein, Ift, of m West Oxford street, his.pal, tak- ing the part of Dempsey\ » i A few moments later was dead, his pal sobbing, “I didn’t mean to hit him.” I Physicians say the dead boy ap pears to have suffered from a thrombosis, a rare ailment caused by obstruction of the veins or arteries, which blocks the action of the heart, j Weinstein was arrested on a tech ’ nical charge of homicide. | With Our Advertisers. The big bankrupt sale of shoes at I the Rush-Kesler Shoe Store is now in full blast. See big four-column ad. in today’s Times. The Parksßelk Co.’s Beauty Shoppe ' will dress the hair in such away as to accentuate the beauty of the face. Phone 802. Atwater-Ivent radios talk for them selves. Get them at tlm Yorke & ! Wadsworth Co. ' Get a radio and enjoy the fight Thursday night from your home. From sls to $375 at the Ritchie Hardware Co. ! Just two more big Dollar Days at the Parks-Rclk Oo.’«. Special dis counts in their ready-to-wear and millinery departments during these two days. They buy your country produce. Exquisite new fall frocks at J. C. I Penney Company’s, only $14.75. See ! description in new ad. today, j Final reduction of prices of one | half to one-third at Markson Shoe j store. The prices on Goodyear tires are as low as any you can find. Yorke & j Wadsworth Co. sells these famous j tires. j Farmers Form Mutual Help Associa- j tion. Lineolnton. N. C., Sept. 2ft. — UP) j | —Farmers in the Triangle section of i | Lincoln County have formed a j mutual help association and at their first meeting built a concrete septic j tank at the home of the local minis ter, reports County Agent J. G. I Morrison. The Association will next (put. in a water system and electric j Slight p’ant in this home at their J j next meeting. This is the first rural i | home in the community to be equip- j j ped with these modern conveniences, i j states Mr. Morrison, and will be used | as a community center for the ex- 1 j change of agricultural ideas. j Workmen Find Chopped Up Bones. (By International News Service) 1 Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 17. —Police here are baffled. Talk of an axe murder is current. Workmen a few days back fur nished the clew. Excavating a place on State street for an underground i gas tank, the workmen found chopped up bones. About seven feet from the surface a woman’s shoe, hacked with some in strument and several bones, broken I and haeked, were uncovered. C. C. Patterson, of China Grov«« has been very sick at the Concord Hospital, suffering from lockjaw caused by getting a nail run into his foot. We are glad to note that his condition is now improving. Leslie Palmer, 17 years old and a cripple, has won the Welsh long-diß tance swimming championship from a field of 44 rivals. J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher FUNDAMENTALIST BODY PLANS NEW ACTIVITIES Committee of 100 Will Have Im portant Announcement Within Short Time. j Charlotte, sept. 3H. —The Funda mentalist Committee of One Hun dred. formed here last spring with the announced purpose of battling to rid state supported schoo’s of a taint of evolution theories is showing new signs of life and may take an active part in the fall campaign, it was indicated here today with announce ment by Dr. A. It. Shaw, of this city, that the committee will have an important announcement to make 1 within a few day*. Dr. Shaw, one of the organizers of the movement, i* vice president of the committee of which Judge Wal ter H. Neal, ot La ur in burg, is presi dent. • The committee plans a campaign this fall designed to foster public opinion favorable to enactment by , the state legislature at its meeting next January of a bill to prohibit the teaching of the evolution theory in j public schools and state supported I colleges and universities in North Carolina, Dr. Shaw intimated, j Judge Neal is expected to call the j committee to meet within * the next i two wees at which time definite plans for the committee’s future pro | gram will be outlined. Dr. Shaw j said the meeting in all probability will be held in Charlotte. While declining to go into details of the proposed campaign Dr. Shaw said that it wou’d be non-partisan, and of a purely education nature. Ht: jsnid that speaers representing the (committee probably would be sent i into every nook and corner of the | state. | The committee was organized here , I last spring when a group of promi- ! I nent churchmen and civic leadens I j met at the First Baptist church and j j formed a tentative organization. ; i Later 'a formal organization meeting 1 j was held at the Second Presbyterian ; (church. The organization was com j pleted but the meeting was adjourn- j ed in haste, when delegates became i embroiled in an exchange of bitter I words and a first fight was narrowly i avert ed. It was thought at the (ime that j the committee would cease to func-1 ( tion but a few days later this was I j denied by Judge Neal, and Dr.! j Shaw’s statement today indicated j that the organization is planning for a new lease on life. THE COTTON MARKET | Opened Fairly Steady at Advance of 3 Points to Decline of 7 Points. New York, Sept. 20.— (A 3 )—The cot ton market opened fairly steady today at an advance of 3 points to a decline, of 7 points, most months being lower ! in response to relatively easy Liver- J j pool cables. Selling was active after the call, I i owing to belief that the volume of, j hedge business by the South was' I steadily increasing, and further pri i vate reports pointing to an increase in the indicated crop. October broke • to 15.93, net decline of 12 points, and new low ground for the movement, j while January sold off to 16.21, the general list showing net losses of 12 to 15 points by t’iie end of the first hour. Cotton futures opened fairiy steady.; Oct. 16.09; Dec. 16.28; Jan. 16.32; March 16.57; May 16.78. Silk That Explodes. Paris, Sept. 2ft.—A French manu facturer of artificial silk has been sued for one hundred thousand francs by the parents of a boy w'ao was killed by the sudden flaring up of the scarf he was wearing. It is said that a certain mixture of cotton and artificial silk makes a compound al most as explosive as gun-cotton. The Fred Y. McConnell Post of the American Legion Auxiliary will meet this evening at 8 o’clock in the new Legion Club rooms. As this is the time for the election of officers, a full . attendance is urged. ■ ■■ | Hurricane Sweeps To ; ] Florida West Coast; 1 Pensacola Is Struck I MR. MORRISON PROVES PUZZLE TO POLITICIANS It May Be He Expects to Profit if Mr. Overman Should Retire in Mid-Term. M. T. Host in Grceiipiboro News. Raleigh, Sept. 11). —Politicians have been trying to understand the meaning of former Governor Cauier jen Morrison s recent announcement of his I nited States senatorial candi dacy. a statement which came at the opening of a ver? dull off-year in politics and, in advance of the ac tual commencement of the term to which Senator Overman recently he* (been nominated and soon will be j elected. Messrs. Morrison and Overman havP been very thick for a year or two. Though the high aspirations of 1 Mr. Morrison have been unconcealed iby him for four or five years, he never would hear to any proposal to run against Mr. Overman and the worst threat that he would make was a .candidacy designed to, bent anybody else who might beat Mr. Overman- That splendid loyalty of Mr. Morrison nerved the Overman men during the late fight with Bob Reynolds. There were all sorts of evidences that Mr. Reynolds was making much headway ; the boy was irrepressible. Bur Mr. Morrison never came out to help Mr Uver nian by announcing against Rey- Ss. When the Charlotte states would not take Reynolds ser ly the Overman boosters anew I everything was all right. This generous support of Mr. i Overman must melt that gentleman. (The interpretation of it is this: Mr. i Overman will probably serve half of i his term, will resign and take things | quietly for the next 20 or 3ft years. He will have served 3ft year# jf be completes his term and 24 plus if he does not. .That is a .long senatorial life and Mr. Overman has - gone through the senate duffng the most exciting years of the world. He 1 never has said anything publicly about retiring but he has dropped things to friends in his part of the world that they construed to mean a possible retirement before the date of maturity. Mr Morrison stands to profit meet Iby such a step-down. If it should come three years from now Max Gardner would be governor and it could hardly be asked of him that he name his brother-in-law, Clyde Hoey. And primary would be neces sary and Mr. Morrison would be in it. If Mr. Overman should resign two years from now Governor Mc- Lean would be asked to name sev eral senators and he could not do it. It is assumed that he would let a primary decide the issue and Mr. Morrison again would be in it. These considerations come to the men at tempting to analyze Mr. Morrison’s | statement. 1 Wanting to Hold Baby Hill Bill Was Paid. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter itotel Raleigh, Sept. 20. —“The incident ; arising when the sheriff at Waynes ; ville refused to deliver the prisoner ; to Masachusetts officers until the SSOO I reward v. as paid, though unusual and j irregular, is rather amusing, but not as unusual as a case that was brought to me when Lfirst started practicing I law years ago, in Robeson county,” i said Governor A. W. McLean today. “In this case a midwife had sworn out a laborers’ lien and threatened to keep the baby until her bill was settled. The young father came to me much agitated, lest his young son be taken away from him, for he was too poor to pay the eight or ten dol lars due the midwife, who had gone before a country magistrate and se cured the lien. “The young father was much re lieved when 1 told him that the worn- an could not take the child, that the lien was illegal, and that he and his i ! wife need no longer worry about •los- I ing the custody of the baby.” Von Elm’s Victory Lauded By Bob by Jones. Short Hills, Sept. 18.—Bobby Jones received his defeat at the bands of George von Elm today as the “finest thing that could have happened for amateur golf.” . “If ever a man deserved to win, j George did,” said Bobby. “He just put us all down and stepped on us.’’ Von Elm, blushing and stammer ing, received the championship trophy with his head bowed, eyes rivited on the ground. “I don’t know what to say and you wouldn’t either,” f was the , new champion's brief message to a cheer ing throng which looked on at the presentation. Oil Keeps Eggs Fresh. London, Sept. 20. —Bathing eggs in oil is the latest method for keeping them fresh and sterilized. Eggs at the rate of 360,000 per day are paaaed through a bath of hot oil having a temperature of 235 degrees Fahren heit. The oil is said to fill the pores in the egg shell, and prevent air from entering. ! Just Before All Communi cation Wlks Lost With City Wind Velocity Wad 100 Miles an Hour. j MOBILE ALSO IS FEELING STORM ! Barometer Reading at Mo bile was 29.31 and Still Falling This Morning.— High Winds There. "\ Mobile, F'.a.. Sept. 20.—OP)—The t j wind velocity at Pensacola, Fin., was r ! 100 miles an' hour, the weather b«- f reau reported just before all »im- I munication was lost with the west > j Florida <uty. The last barometer read* ) ! ing was 20.10. Efforts were marft . I to communicate with Pensacola by Fa 1, jdio'from Mobile after all other wires : ! failed, but the antennae at the local . station was damaged by the high ' .winds here, and put out of conitnia i sion temporarily. The last barometer »j reading at Mobile was 20.81, and ’•falling at 8:10 o'clock this morning, i j The wind here had reached a velocity II of 60 miles. i! Hurricane Strikes Pensacola. ! Jacksonville, Fla., Sept.'2o—o4B— | A ’hurricane riding a 100 miles an hour wind swept into IVnsacoal short ly after 11 o’clock today, the Southern Pe l Telephone Company here was ad visted by its Pensacola office. Mobile Feels Storm. Mobile, Sept. 20. — (A*) —The barom , eter had fallen to 29.21 at 10 o'clock ' and an 84-mile wind was sweeping this city. Storm Gaining in Intensity. , Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 20. —OP)—• [ A message from the Warrior, > river seryiee boat, twelve miles north s - [of Mobile, said that all lines of com* i munication with Mobile had been lost' there, and that the storm was rapidly | gaining in intensity. All boats on • the river had scurried to cover. A fast train bearing bridge and con ; struetion gangs left ’uere at noon over the Louisville & Nashville railroad for Mobile and Pensacola. Right of Way [ | will be given the train as far south as the tracks are safe. Superintend ; ent James Morrison, of that rallrOad, said he had word just before nooto ‘ that the wind at Mobile was gaining ■ momentum and was then about 100 miles. This report said the wind Was i from the northeast, a fortunate thing for Mobile, as no water was being I forced into the city at that tiritt*. The HVriningham Comm unity Cheftt today telegraphed $5,000 to the Red (Voss to aid storm suffereers. * - v Many residents of Mobile are seek ing places of safety in down-tawn lio ’ tels and office buildings, according to wireless messages received by tie Warrior River Rarge Servient B4*- • mingport. Since that message was ! received Mobile was silent?** ami all ("efforts to get into touch with the Ala bama port by wireless failed. -i Most business was suspended, street ' J car service tied up. and churi’j sef- ' 'l vices were being held in some setl -11 tions. : New Orleans-Mobile Wire# Dowd. [ New Orleans, Sept., 20 —( A *)—-All f telegraph and telephone coipnuiniea | tion bi-tween New Orleans and j bile was severed shortly before nooh !today. The Tropical Radio Company re tried a short time later thuC-H* sta ti9n at Mobile reported a lOfr-mile gale at 10 o'clock with the barometer doWn to 29.05. •» » MeckPnburg Woman Takes Her Own Life. Charlotte, Sept. 19.—Mrs. Rom Zani Toplin, 38, wife of I). J* Top* lin. Long (’reek farmer, died Satdr- I day afternoon shortly aftter firing a | pistol bullet through her head at her | home on the Stato*vir.e road. 11 • miles from Charlotte. 1 Her act was attributed* to ill health by the surviving husband, Coroner Frank Hovis said. No in vestigation into the death will be made, the Coroner announced. . I Toplin told Mr. Hovis that bin wife was unbalanced at tines and that she had been acting queerfy recently. He was in an adjoining bedroom when his wife, killed her jself in the dining room. i Sugar-Coated Booze is Latest Run Coup. Vancouver. B. C., Sept. 19. j Bootleg chocolates have emerged in British Columbia’s latent liquor prob lem- * • Police announced they would prosecute five leading confectioners jin Victoria next week for selling the ; chocolates, alleged to contain liquor , I which can be sold under tb» law only jby government liquor stores. 1 I . -r THE WEATHER Increasing cloudiness followed by showers Tuesday and in southwest to night; cooler Tuesday. Increasing northeast and east winds. , i NO. 24