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|H, : . - the situation
j|iHi i .arse supplies
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lev y which ;
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vo :i!.! 1 being foil- j
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vi. . ii-avy downfall I
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v it:i the belief
sH^Er ’..s eu’d cause in
. of the city.
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Meier water.
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fßm- ; e tia to 1(1(1 miles
t.it!. L’oo miles long.
ns early today.
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■■ '' reams were
■ ■ due to
";i- to crops and
fanners heeded 1
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mm "tit of the dan- :
HH' villages, how-,
- ire. ;i nil sought I
i; the roofs of
acre homeless in
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■^W r . ipia rtered I
private homes. |
rteii in 'the lat- j
j^BOuT.VlWHsers.
a (ioodyear tire at I
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today.
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Si ''' 'leseCption in a
W't* h ' r ' f "' nil the
K 'die,.; ('u \ Prices
I ''htMi Train Plows Into .
*" v,> of Cattle.
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j J' r | Se^ °ther per
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p,l| f | J' r !.'iin Hunt
fir*-man lost
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lir o f fHrmer
f Y”ught after
iParalvfci. M1 tln £ from a
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l a tf> taiProducing oil
Pffels a of about
I a month.
THE CONCORD TIMES
$2.00 a X ear, {Strictly m Advance.
♦ i :
v ——•—
r CHARGE MAN WITH
STEALING FROM
“ j OAKWOOD CEMETERY
A white man will be tried iip
Iret'order’e court this afternoon on
a unique charge, that of stealing
from Oakwood cemetery.
It is charged that the man stole
a single-P-rp from the grass mower
kept at the cemetery. Police nffi
l eers rejtort that the misr.’ng prop
erty was found under the nutti's
1 house.
FIRE PREVENTION WEEK
Began Sunday — Three-Fourth of Fire
Loss Caused by Carelessness,
lialeigh. Oct. 4. — UP)—Simultane
ously with other states in t’lie Union,
“Fire Prevention Week” started in
North Carolina Sunday.
Sponsored by the State insurance
department, the week of October 3-11
I has already been designated in a proc
) lamation from Governor McLean as a
week for the study of methods of tire
prevention and foe the enlightenment
of the citizenry of the state on how
tires occur and what loss they entail.
The campaign will be carried to ve
ery corner of t’ae state through local
clubs, literature sent out from the
insurance department at Raleigh, the
schools and the press.
Chief among the facts to he pre
sented in the one-week educational
campaign is that seventy-five per cent,
of North Carolina's fire loss in 1025
was caused by carelessness.
The total, property fire loss was
placed at $0,014,014.00 in the state
last year. This resulted from fires
in 2,418 structures, classified as fol
lows: 1430 residences. 30 school hous
es, 23 churches, 16 apartment houses.
131 stores. 72 factories, 72 garages,
0 hospitals.
This loss was deducted from the
total value of property listed on the
tax books of the state, which is placed
at approximately $2,751,000,000. Es
! timates have it that it would require
at least $104)00.000 to replace the
property actually destroyed.
Not so impressive «n figures, but
far more appalling in liymnn appeal,
are the fiures on deaths from acci
dental burns in the utate last year—
-205.-■ftlwb »»' injured list twk* that
great.
All this loss of life and property
was brought on by twelve causes, of
ficials of the state insurance depart
ment state. They are:
First—Exposures (fire jumping
from house to house and roof to roof),
j Second —Poor wiring and careless
’ ness with electric irons and other ap
-1 pliances.
I Third —Defective flues and ehim
| neys.
j Fourth —Carelessness with matches, i
I Fisth —Sparks on shingle and other
quick-burning rooms.
Sixth—Starting fires with kero
sene.
[ , Seven —Stoves and furnaces,
i Eight—Hot ashes and coals.
I Ninth —Spontaneous combustion and
! blazes storting from accumulations of
i trash.
| Tenth —Rats.
Eleventh —Cigar and cigarette buts.
! Twelfth —Incendiarism.
“The great waste of energy, for
wealth is but stored energy, .cannot,
in our generation, be entirely eliipi-,
nated, but if every citizen in the state I
will use fii’e prevention week in an j
honest effort to reduce unnecessary
fire hazards, a large part of it can be
J eliminated and a foundation laid to
I relieve the children of this generation
j and I’aeir children of an economical
burden which, if not materially light
ened. will within their lifetime prove
disastrous,” declares a statement is
sued by the insurance department con
cluding its plea for proper observance
of the week.
WHEN BOOTLEGGERS
FALL OUT
Rival Gangs of Moonshiners in Open
Warfare in Tennessee.
(By International News Service)
Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 4.—“ When
thieves fall out, just men get their
dues.”
When bootleggers fall out it 8 even
worse. Sheriff Will S. Knight, de
clares.
' Rival gangs of moonshiners ha\ e
been engaging in open warfare here
for several weeks. But the more
they fight, the more good they do for
officers.
Anonymous telephone calls “tip
the sheriff’s office off to the locations
of many stills in the surrounding ter
ritory of this city every day.
Acting on these tips, deputies have
destroyed more than 200 stills during
the past few months.
“It was just recently that I found
out where these calls come from,” said
the sheriff. “Rival gangs of moon
shiners are tipping us off as to the lo
cation of the other band’s stills.”
Memphis’ liquor market is flooded
and the price has been run down to
fifty cents a half pint.
While conducting raids through the
Wolf river bottoms north of this city,
deputies find where rival gangs of
liquor-makers have been dynamiting
stills themselves.
By eliminating thei rcompetitors,
each gang expects to get control of
the liquor market and run the price
up. So keen has the rivalry grown,
that officials are beginning to fear
bloodshed among bootleggers as was
an outbreak in 1922. * ~
AS DOUTHIT SCORES FIRST HIT OF SERIES
»——■—■——i—. . - - ‘
Douthit, the first man to bat for the St. Loir's Cardinals, was photographed the moment he swung on the ball for a two-bag'ger. He went to
third on a sacrifice and, on Bottonile y's single, scored the first run of the 11)26 World Series. (International Newsreel).
“COLOSSAL FOLLY”
■ “The south,” says J. E. Lath
am. .great cotton merchant of
Greensboro, “must readjust itself
to the conditions brought about by
the colossal folly of planting forty
nine million acres in cotton.”
CAROLINA MOTOR CLUB
During September 650 Members Were I
Added to the C.ub.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh. Oct. 4. —Commomorating
its fourth anniversary the Carolina
Motor Club has just experienced the i
greatest membership production of any
single month in its history, it was an
nounced here by Co email W. Roberts,
vice president, in talking of the growAi
of the club.
During the month .just passed 656
new members were added to the club
roster, which has moved up to four
teenth position among the 841 organi
zations t'aat eoiujiose the American
Automobile Association. Last Sep
tember the club ranked fifteenth. The
Carolina Motor Club was founded
September 22. 11)22:
Previous to the record breaking
month the largest number of new
mehfbers secured unv one inouth was
524. This was in June, 11)25.
average monthly ‘membership is 451.
No “high pressure” methods arc per
mitted in membership solicitation and
the -growl'll of the club has been steady
and consistent as its services have ex-1
pgpded-s an d the motoring public-dins j
secured an idea of the scope of its
activities.
In line with the expansion of club
activities and services, the personnel,
has been increased and early in the j
spring it was necessary to inove into j
larger quarters. Headquarters are
now maintained at the large colonial ■
residence at 211) East Market street,
Greensboro,
SAY CHAUN-FANK IS IN
CONTROL OF NANCHANG
I
Chines© War Lord Has Success in
latest Campaign For More Prov
inces. i
Hankow, Oct. C— (A 3 )—Telegrams
from authentic sources in Nanchang
dated September 2(itli says that Sun
Chuan-Fank, overiord of five eastern
I provinces, and ruler of Riangsi, who
J Is fighting the Cantonese, is eomplete
! ly in control of the city of Nanehadg,
and that his soldiers are murdering
and pillaging with casualties* running
into the thousand©. ,
Suuplementar.v messages carry an
appeal of the Methodist mission in
Nanchang for volunteers to assist in
caring for the wounded -
ncluding Americans. Among the
wounded foreigners are John S. Lit
tell, Edward M. Littell, the Rev. Lloyd
Creaighill. his wife and child, all of
the American church mission, the Rev.
W. R. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson and
Dr. W. E. Libby, of the Methodist
mission.
MRS. MARGARET PAGE
DIES WHILE AT CHURCH
Is Stricken While Receiving Reunion
At First Baptist—Her Desire is
Fulfilled.
Salisbury, Oct. 3- —Miss Margaret
Page, widow of John W. Page, died
this morning while<>atteiiding services
at the First Baptist church. Mrs.
Page was 67 years old and a native |
of Rowan county. Her husband died I
12 years ago.
Mrs. Page had expressed the hope j
that she might die while attending
services at her church, which she
loved so well. She had not been in
good health recently but felt able to
go to' service this morning. Her
death occurred while she was in the
act of receiving communion. No ar
rangements have been made about
the funeral-
Selecting Seed Corn in Stanly.
Albemarle, Oct. 4.— OP)— Twenty
farmers in Stanly county will select
their seed corn in the field this year,
according to County Agent O. H.
Phillips. Those men attended a meet
ing last week and heard James C.
Murray, one of their neighbors, tell
about the' difference in yield which
he obtained in favor of field selected
seeds as compared with that picked
from the crib. Mr. Murray was very
enthusiastic, Mr. Phillips said, and
was of the opinion that the field se
lected seed is worth at least $o a
bushel, if not more.
CONCORD* N.C., MONDAY, OCTOBcu 4, 1926
THIS RED CROSS ,
SHOULD ALWAYS K
SET FOR DISASTER
j Chairman John Barton \
Payne Says the Florida!
Disaster Shows Need for
Peace Time Strength.
IFIESER TALKS OF
WORK IN FLORIDA
Says People There Now
Realize That Red Cross
Must Aid With Funds
Donated by People.
"Washington, Oct. 4.— UP) —The
dreadful disaster to the people of
Florida shows the imperative need of
maintaining peace time strength of the
national Red Cross. Chairman John
Barton Payne declared today in a
•«;*eeeh prepared for the opening
siOn of the sixth annual con vent ip u-oT
the organization.
Deep concern over misunderstand
ing as to the extent of the need for
relief work in Florida was expressed
I by James L. Fieser. vice chairman of
I
of operations in the disaster area f<lr
j the past two weeks. Florida state
: officials, he added, believe no longer
that file hurricane sufferers can be
: taken care of without outside aid.
i To local pride cn part of State of
ficials lie attributed the dissemination
! of early reports that southern Florida
was not suffering as gravely as had
j been pictured, reports which drew
j from Chairman Payne the statement
j that Florida officials and real estate
operators practically nullified his
| statements. , .
The differences, Fieser said, had |
confused the people of the United
, States as to the aid that was re
quired. Without this misunderstand
ing “the first time in the history of
the Red Cross that confusion has
blocked prompt contribution of the
full amount asked,” he expressed con
fidence that $5,000,000 and more
would have been subscribed a week
ago.
With the $3,000,000 already col
lected the Red Cross can help a cer
tain number of the 18,000 families j
rendered homeless, he continued, while j
other officials of the organization ex- j
pressed hope that the remaining s'-,-1
000,(KM) desired would be raised be
fore the end of this week.
Fieser said that he did not “be
lieve that Gpvernor Martin believes
there is no need, but if he wants to
say that, that it is up to him”, adding
that he had observed no friction in
relief work on the ground, but that
“everyone had their sleeves rolled up
and were co-operating in a fine spir
it.” -
Seats of Army-Navy Game Sell Fqr
Over SI,OOO Each.
Chicago, Oct. 1. —Hundreds of
Chicagoans demonstrated their en
thusiasm over football a day early
today by bidding up box seat prices
for the Army-Nvy gme, November
27, to $2,500 in three hour auction 1
in a downtown hotel which added
more than $175,000 to the city’s
fund for financing the great service
classic . .
| G. Frank Croissant, real estate
| operator, got the first box, ina-
I mediately behind the resident’s sec
tion on the Army side for $2,500 and
I two hours later head news dispatches
from Washington advising that the
chief executive could not attend the
game because of the prospective pres
sure of official business.
The first box on the Navy
went to Roy Tenues, another real .
estatae operator for $1,300.
House Damaged by Fire.
The house on Academy street occu
pied by Luke Ritchie and family was
badly damaged by fire this morning ]
about 11 o’clock.
The fire was on the roof and l» a d
caused most of its damage before the
firemen arrived. With two streams
of water the .firemen quickly extin
guished the blaze.
Most of the roof on the rear of the
house was burned off.
MORE MINERS ARE !
REPORTED TRAPPED
FAR ORDER GROUND
165 Men Believed to Be En*
j tombed at Roane Iron
Company’s Coal Mine at
Rockwood, Tenn.
MINE OFFICIALS I
HURRY TO SCENE
i
Miners Were at Work Five
Miles Beneath Surface
at Time of the Reported
Explosion.
Rockwood, Tenn., Oct. 4.— UP) —A
mine explosion three miles under
ground at the Rogers entry of the
Roans Iron Company's eoal mine was
reported to have occurred thia morn- j
ing. . Sixty-five miners arif known to
(have been at that point, and
no word had been received from j
them by noon today. A rescue'
party has been organized. i
Eugene Teddler. a miner, first re
ported the explosion. He was about
two miles from the Rogers entry and
stated that he had felt the force of the
blast and smelled gases stem the ex
plosion. * •
Deputy state mine Inspector A. J.
Holden was in Rockwood at the time
and accompanied the mine rescue party
which will make an investigation.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Steady Today at an Advance
of Six Points To a Decline of One j
Point.
New York. Oct. 4.—( A 3 )—The cot
ton market opened steady today at an
I advance of 0 points to a decline of
one point.
Over-Sunday ©elling orders from the
South were in smaller volume than re
cently while there appeared to be
considerable trade buying as well as
covering and buying for a reaction.
This was reflected in a firmer tone as I
soon as early offerings had been ab- J
sorbed, the market selling up to 13.43 |
foi* December and 13.70 for March* by I
the end of the first hour, or about 12
to 10 points net higher.
Reports of rains at some points in
| the western belt and of a tropical
I storm formation in the Yucatan Chan
nel probably contributed to the ad
vance, while the smaller Southern
selling here led to talk of an increas
ed holding movement in the Belt.
Private crop reports estimated the
condition at 57.4 and the indicated
yield at 15.350,000 bales.
Cotton futures opened steady. Oct.
13.40 ; Dec. 13.23 ; Jan. 13.27 ; March
13.55; May 13.80.
TWO MORE TEACHERS
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Miss Ethel Honaker and Mrs. Laura
Ridenhour Gibson to Begin Duties
Monday Morning.
Two new teachers have been added
to the faculty of the Concord public
©chools, Prof. A. S. Webb, superin-
I tendent of schools announced Satur
day. The new teachers are Miss Ethe
Honaker, of Wytheville, Va., and
Mr©. Laura Ridenhour Gibson, of
Concord.
Miss Honaker arrived in Concord
Friday night and will begin her
duties a© English instructor in the
high school Monday morning. The
addition of Miss Honaker gives the
high school three English instructors.
The new teacher is a graduate of the
University of Virginia and has has
much experience. She formerly taught
in the schools at Reidsville.
To relieve the congestion in the
second grades of all primary schools
Mrs. Gibson was engaged to assist
the other teachers. Her grade, which
was organized Friday and will begin
work Monday, is composed of stu
dents from Central, Corbin Street
(and No. 2 schools. Mrs. Gibson’s
I class will meet at the Central pri
mary school-
Just a week until the big Cabarrus'
County Fair. Get ready to attend. |
More fun than ever before. Your
friends will be here, so plan to be here
too.
NO WORLD SERIES
GAME SCHEDULED
FOR FANS TODAY
The Yankees and Cardinals,
fighting for premier baseball ’aon
ors for the year, are idle this af
ternoon. Due to the long jump
' from New York to St. Louis the
teams were given a day of rest.
The third game will be played in
St. Louis tomorrow, starting at
1 :3ft, St. Louis time and 2 :30 Con
cord time.
The Yankees won Saturday 2 to
1 due to Pennock’s fine pitching
and the Cardinals won yesterday
6 to 2 behind Alexander's master
ful pitching.
I
RUTHERFORD MAN
IS CRUELLY BEATEN
Gives Pair Ride;They Attack Him
and Take Car—Captured.
Rutherfordton. Oet. 3. —Chase Dog
gott. well known farmer of Gilkey,
Rutherford county, was returning
from Murion late Saturday afternoon
in a touring care alone when he was
held up and beaten by a man and
, woman to whom he gave a ride and
| who then rode off iu his car, leaving
him in a badly battered condition.
The couple was later arrested.
When hailed by tTie man and woman
and asked for a ride, Mr. Doggett
1 readily took them In. After he had
traveled about four miles, they re
quested to be allowed to get out. As
he slowed the car the man hit Dog
gett on the back of the head with a
piece of steel buggy spring, used to
1 change tries. Doggett got out of
the car, somehow, he knows not how.
The man ordered him to “throw up his
hands.” In his dazed condition he
failed to respond and was shot at
three times, one bullet burning the
cloth of his shirt above his arm. The
woman struck Doggett with a rock.
The man and woman took the car
and made their eseppe, going towards
] Dysartsville and Morganton.
Brought to Hospital
Doggett rad a mile with his head
bleeding to a store at Vein Mountain
and gave the alarm. He was brought
to the Rutherford hospital and is im
proving. He suffered much Saturday
night. He will recover unless com
plications set in. It took several
stitches to sew up the wounds on the
back of his head.
In Secluded Spot
The assault toox place *n a seclud
! ed part of highway No. 19 in a narrow
gorge away from any house. The
woman occupied the front seat while
the man was in the rear. Mr. Dog
gett had taken a load of molasses and
other things to Marion and did not
have the eashion ii the rear.
The assault took place about 5
o'clock in the afternoon. By 6 o'clock
Doggett was at Rutherfordton and
related the facts to Sheriff W. C.
Hardin, who got busy and telephoned j
all nearby towns and officers to watch (
out for the man and woman. They !
were oauptred between Morganton
and Valdese. They jumpe<l from the
ear while it was going about thirty
miles per hour. Officers came near
running over the cloman. The man
first made his escape bu); was later
captured with the aid of bloodhounds.
Confess to Assault f
The man eonressed to the. assault.
His name is Eugene Davis, an es
caped convict from Henderson coun
ty. The woman's name is Buckner.'
They were lodged in jail at Morgan
ton.
The assault stirred citizens of the
upper portion of the county as noth
ing has since the World War. (
Dairy Farming in Union County.
Monroe, Oct. 4. — (A*) —Dairy farm
ers in Union county are going in for
more and better livestock, and are
feeding according to recommendations
of the dairy extension specialists,
states County Agent T. J. W. Broom.
M. I. Rollins has recently built a
urge si’o and will feed eighteen milk
cows this winter on the stored rough
age. According to Mr. Broom, all
the feed is home grown and not a
pound of grain has been bought for
either cattle or hogs.
The Sov : et Government in Russia
employs an official commissioner to
| tour the country lecturing on the
I evils of excessive tea drinking.
| Friendship is one of the worlds
greatest ideas, and certainly it
prompts men and women to the
greatest actions.
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
5-Buy WEEK GETS
APPROVE..
LABOR rtUERATION
Delegates to Convention
Having Adopted This
Plan Now Give Atten
tion to Other Things.
NO BITTER FIGHT
NOW IN PROSPECT
Relations With. Mexican
Federation Not Expect
ed to Cause Any Differ
ences at Convention.
Detroit. Oct. 4.— UP)— Committed to
the five-da.v week as the next major
forward step for “the highest pa : d
workers in the world,” executive of
ficers of the American Federation of
Labor turned today in the opening
session of the Federation's 40th an
nual convention to a multitude of prob
lems centered on the welfare of Am
erican labor.
Eleventh hour agreements be
tween groups widely separated on sev
eral vegatious questions opened a fair
prhapect foe the two weeks* assem
blance, bringing forth prediction of
prominent leaders that the entire time
probably would be devoted to delib
erationsu pon constructive policies
bearing directly upon the immediate
program of the organization.
Foreboding division of sentiment in
the preliminary gatherings last week
on the question of relations with the
Mexican Federation of Labor were
bridged by an informal agreement be
tween representatives of a majority of
the convention voting strength to ac
cept without debate the recommenda
tion of the executive counc : l.
The executive council’s report was
the first order of business at the af
ternoon session.
The five-day week of forty hours
was defined as a cardinal point in the
Federation’s “policy of constructive
progress.” by President Wm. Green
after the final pre-convention gather
ing of the executive council yester
day.
APPEALS FOR FINDS
FOR FLORIDA SUFFERERS
JA
Governor McLean Asks for More Lib
eral Contribution fo«* Their Relief.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Oct. 4.— An appeal for
more liberal contributions for the re
lief of the many thousands of people
in Florida Who ‘are homeless and pen
niless as the result of the recent hur
ricane there was issued today by Gov
ernor A. W. McLean, who calls at
tention to the fact that North Caro
lina as a whole has not “measured up
to the general reputation which it has
made in the past of contributing
promptly and liberally.”
The statement issued by file gover
! nor follows:
“To the people of North Carolina:
“Relying upon reports from the
Hon. Judge Barton "Payne, head of the
American Red Cross, I urge the peo
ple of the state to make more liberal
contributions for the relief of the
storm sufferers in the state of Florida.
While some communities have made
contributions. I do not feel that our
state has measured up*to the general
reputation Which it has made in the
past of contributing promptly and
liberally to the alleviation of those in
distress.
“Contributions should he made
through the American Red Cross,
which is a most reliable organization
and which is now in charge of the re
lief work in Florida. I urge partic
ularly the local chapters of the Red
Cross and all other civic bodies and
(•naritable organizations in the state
to make an earnest effort, within the
next week or ten days, to increase the
aggregate of contributions from North
Carolina.
“ANGUS W. McLEAN,
•‘Governor.*'
i -
RECEIVERS REPORT
First Report Made by Receivers for
Tobacco Growers Co-operative As
s(H*ia t ion*
Richmond, Oct. 4.—04*)—The first
general report of the receivership of
the Tobacco Growers Co-operative As
sociation was filed today in \ irginia,
North Carolina and South Carolina
United States district courts by James |
H. I'ou. Hallct S. Ward and Merton
L. Corey, receivers.
The report is supplemented by a
complete statement of the assets and
liabilities as at Juue 19, 1929, to
gether with a statement to date of the
receipts and disbursements of the re
ceivers in liquidating t’ue association.
The report shows that at the time
of the receivership the association
owned about' 70.000,090 pounds of to
bacco, practically all of which was
pledged to secure loans from the banks
in the sum of $8,703,200. This in
debtedness has been reduced to $5,-
335.572.13, the report shows.
The receivers point ou tiiafc liqui
dation of the association was inevita
ble, that during the period of May 19
to June 19 the last month preceding
the receivership the association had
been conij>el!ed to renew loans with
the Federal Intermediate Credit Raiik
of Baltimore in the sum of $3,399,-
400, and to call upon that bank to
furnish funds for operating expenses
amounting 4o $150,000.
Cocoa beans, from which chocolate
is made, were used as currency by the
early people of Central America.
IPOLITICAL BUSTS
FROM THREE MAJOR
, CENTERS OFFERED
|i v
| Leaders of Democratic, Re
i publican and Prohibition
Parties Make Statements
During the Day.
preside Wis
VAGUE, CHARGED
This Charge Made by Dem*
ocrats While Republi
cans Say Democrats Not
Able to Find An Issue.
Washington, Oct. 4.— UP) —Political
blasts from three major centers —re-
publican. democratic and prohibition
—were added today to these already
discharged by parry spokesmen who
have their gaze upon the November
elections which will decided control qf
the 70th Congress.
“President. Coolidge’s professed fears
of a contemplated raid on the fpderal
treasury in the December session,”
said Representative Oldfield, Arfcat)-
sas, chairman of the democratic ittn*
gressional committee, “are too vagus
and mysterious to be taken seriously
‘ by the country” ; while Representative
Wood, Indiana, chairman of the re
i publican congressional committee, sak}
* j the democratic party “in futile efforts
to find even one issue in which the
i ; public response to its contentious
j would amount to more than a hollow
■ J echo of its own faint murmurings,
■ j has shown bull-frog like agility in
jumping from any one subject an
other. but in no instance lias it found
a place in which even temporarily to
sun itself.”
Wayne B. Wheeler, genera? coun
sel of the Anti-Saloon League, entertyl
the controversy with a statement that
“Oregon will be the center of several
state-wide wet and dry- fights,” the
others being in Missouri, Montana,
(’olorado and California while he con
tended that prohibition referendum
elections in New York. Nevada, Wis
consin and Illinois would be without
“any legal effect.”
If the President and Secretary Mel
lon would join the democrats at the
December session of Congress, Repre
sentative Aldfield asserted, “the large
surplus now being piled up in the
treasury would be restored to the peo-'
pie by means of another cut iu their
taxes, and there will then be nothing
to fear from the mysterious raiders
now giving the President os much con
cern.” while Representative Wood de
clared that “there is not a vulnerable
spot in the republican record” on the
tariff, national prosperity, govern
mental economy, taxation and farm
relief. “The real issue of this cam
paign,” he added, “is found by com
bining all of these subjects.”
Prohibition. Mr. Wheeler contend
ed, has decreased deaths from alcohol
ism, arrests for drunkenness, alcohol
ic insanity, consumption of alcohol,
juvenile cases requiring court action,
crimes against chastity, and a tre
mendous decline iu the number of
first offenders for drunkenness and
many -other offenses connected with
the use of liquor.
These results, he continued ‘'added
to the economic gains, will withstand
like the Rock of Gibraltar against any
wet wave or beer attack oil the ltitin
'amendment.”
Report New' Treatment on Lunf
Tuberculosis.
Washington. Oct. 4.—14*) -—The
newer adaptation of lung collapse-,
therapy is the most significant' and
at present most helpful advices In the
j treatment of tuberculosis, asserted
Dr. Edouard Rist, co-director oi
Liennec Hospital and I>ispensary in
Paris, in an address today before the
National Tuberculosis Association
convention.
-“Artificial pneumothorax, bjr
means of which a diseased lung inay
be collapsed to superinduce artificial
ly a restful condition of the organ,”
said Dr. Rist, “is the most* helpful
advance made in the treatment of
lung tuberculosis.
“Even in those cases where both
lungs were effected, the collapse of
both lungs by surgical methods, with
only twenty percent of the normal
vital capciaty left in them, has prov
en beneficial. Thoracoplasty, a more
modern surgical adaptation of the
older method of puncturing the chest
i wall to collapse the lung, has resulted
■ in the improvement of an additional
number of eases where adbegious
formerly prevented the obtaining of
relief.”
Babylonians Bobbed Avers Arrbeoto
gfet.
Berkley, Cal., Oct. 4.—OP)—Toihh*
definitely assigned to the neolithic
period, marking the transition from
the stone to the early bronze age,
have been discovered in recent arch
aeological investigations in Palestine,
jby Prof. William Bade, of the Paei
-1 sic School of Religion.
Several crania and one skeleton
encased in paraffine are enroute
here for scientific study.
Dr. Bade also uncovered a well
modeled head of an Astarte or Baby
lonian venus whose coiffure striking
ly resembles the modern feminine
hair cut.
THE WEATHER
1— ■■■
Fair tonight, warmer in extreme
west; Tuesday partly cloudy possib’y
> showers in extreme west. Gentle,
‘ variable winds, becoming moderate
south.
NO. 38