LEAKSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JANUARY, S, 1924
1
Associate Prat)
v Jan. 8.—A cyclone
four miles south
midnight and
ms. Property
damage was heavy and numerous
I left homeless.
fcUM SOW TURNS TO OTHER
UttBB OP ILLEGAL TRAFFIC
{By Associated Press)
; Atlantic Highlands, N. J., Fan. 8.—
State suthorities claiming to have
red need to a thin trickle the flood ot
holiday liquor which has been pour
ing ashore from Rom Row, have set
about checking the smuggling of dia
monds, narcotics and alines, in which
the ram fleet and bottle fishermen
are reported by residents to be at
tively engaged.
Colonel H. Norman Schwartikopf,
heed of the New Jersey state police,
fil Major Kimberling of the Trent*,
headquarters, declared that these
complaints have become so numerous
that they have planned to station
state troopers here permanently.
Several Chinese are known to have
beam smuggled in at Perth Amboy
recently. The authorities asserted al
so that many shore rum-runners
were % transporting narcotics to New
York, Philadelphia, Jersey City,
Trenton, Newark and other centers.
uWe konw diamonds are being
smuggled into Highlands, Water
witch and Atlantic Highlands,” said
Sergeant Tighe, assigned to this
phase of the troopers’ activities.
"They are too cheap there. Persons
suspected of being in the rum busi
ness are -offering diamonds at ridi
culous prices, and one of the biggest
men.in the trade is reported to have
boasted—even to ihe police—that he
can get diamonds duty free.”
CORNERSTONE FOR
FAMOUS CATHEDRAL
LAID 31 TEARS AGO
(By Associated Press)
New York, Jen., 8.—The uncom
pleted cathedral of St. John the Di
vine, which occupies a commanding
position 0d Cathedral Heights, at
110th Street, will celebrate next
Thursday the fifteenth anniversary
«f its iaatwtlon, and the thirty-lint
nal constroe
__ _
ana will be 109,082 square feet; the
largest in the English-speaking world
Its sise wiU be exceeded only by St.
Peter’s in Rome and the Cathedral
Seville in Spain. Today, however,
only the great choir stands, with ra
diating chapels and a section of the
crossing.
A clause in the state chapter pro
vides that seats in the cathedral shall
always be free, and althoagh it is the
admniistrative center of Hie Diocese
of . jfor York, Protestant Episcopal
Church, persons of many creeds and
many races have gathered under its
roof to worship ip their own way.
Besides the Bishop, the Right Rev.
William T. Manning, the speakers at
the celebration will be the Rev. Dr. S.
Parkes Cadman, pastor of the Cen
tral Congregational Church, Brook
lyn, and George W. Wickersham, for
men attorney general of ths United
States and one of the Cilhedral trus
’•AW.V.
Si-r vices in the cathedral are held
at times in'foreign languages, as var
ied ethnic group* frocfl New York
dtr’j mixed peoples gather there.
ifeey services are conduct*.! in Ital
ian and Spanish; occasionally in Ar
menian, Japanese, Chinese, Swedish
and Welsh. On Kossovo Day a Ser
bian Archimandrite celebrated the
liturgy of the Holy Orthodox Church
at the hight altar o fthe cathedral,
anj a choir composed of the Hus
aJans and Jngo-Slavs made the re
sponses. On such occaasions as the
memorial service for President Hard,
tag throngs lined the cathedral end
stood about the doors.
The portion of the building now
standing might be the end of an en
ormous loaf. It is faced over tem
porarily on the end that will ho join
ad to the nave, and on the aides that
will b* continued as the transepts.
Around the circular end at the east,
opposite the Juncture with the nave,
are seven chapels of tongues.
This standing portion, the choir, ir
late Romanesque in style, with a By
w»Mm influence. A feature of its
construction is the ghost , granite pil
Ian, which weigh ISO tons aplsx
The dome is 129 feet above the floo
rank statement call
WEALTHY JAPANESE
WOKEN TO ABANDON
i SILKS FOB CHARITY
(By Associated Press.)
Tokio, Jan., 8.—The wealthier wo
men of Japan have decided not to
wear any elaborate and expensive Id
monos this winter, and to devote the
money thus saved to relieving the
needy. The idea was initiated by the
Thursday Club, an organisation of
English-speaking Japanese women
who for some years have met every
Thursday to aid in helping their less
fortunate sister.
A special object of the club’s at
tention has been a cheche establish
ed as a memorial to Madame Saionji
daughter of Prince Saionji.
The Thursday Club members have
gone a step farther than some of
those who have joined their move
ment, and are selling portions of their
own elaborate wardrobes to raise
funds for purchasing clothing for
those needing relief. As the kimonos
sold are elaborate ceremonial ones,
worn only once or twice, they are
much sought after by foreign women
residents here.
LOCALS
_____
Mrs. George Moore is quite sick at
her home on Patrick Streets
Miss Mary Suie Farrell returned to
Greensboro College today.
Miss Gwendolyn Hampton left yes
terday for Greensboro, where she will
resume her studies at N. C. C. W.
Miss Evelyn Bridger has returned
from Dunn, N. C., where she spent
the holidays with her parents.
Miss Henriette Reid leaves tonight
for Goucher College, Baltimore, to re
sume her studies.
Misses Bessie Clark, Lucile Reid
and Margaret Marshall have return
ed to Salem College today, after
spending the holidays at home.
Misses Berta Patterson, CopeUa
Hunt, Evelyn Bridger have returned
from their homes to resume their
Miss Ruth Robertson returned to
N. C. C. W., Greensboro, yesterday
after spending the holidays withjier
mother, Mrs. S. L. Robertson, Monroe
Street.
MUNITIONS FOR
MEXICO WILL BE
FURNISHED
(By Associated Press)
Washington Jan. 8.—Further con
ferences between Secretary Weeks
and Manuel Tellez, charge d’ affaires
of the Mexican embassy, will be nec
essary before details of the sale of
.urplus war munitions of the Ameri
-an army to the Mexican government
can be completed. Mr. Weeks con
ferred yesterday with the charge and
Matthew Hanna, chief of the Mexi
(By Associated Press)
Hamburg, Jan., 3.—Residents of
iamburg and the adjoining city of
dtona have found the skins of so
iany of their pet eats and dogs for
de in fur-shops that the police have
egun a general prosecution of fur
salers who buy skins from the gen
ral public. The charge made against
is receiving stolen goods.
0 COUNT A TRILLION
NO IDLE JOB
Heidelberg, Jan. 8.—Since the
;rms billions and trillions came into
lily usage in Germany in connection
itb the paper mark, some one has
gured out that if Old Adam had
farted counting in the aGrden of
Iden, and kept o ncountihg ever since
o this day, he would reach the total
>f a trillion some, tim^ within the
next year. ' ■
GTON
MR8. HARING IN W.
mn division of the State Department.
?ending completion of the negotia
tions, the War Secretary declined to
nake any statement whatever with
■egard to the pending transaction.
To Issue Statement
It was indicated that as soon as
letails of the sale had been com
pleted, a formal statement would be
ssued by Secretary Weeks disclosing
he nature of the munitions sold and
probably the conditions fixed as to
ime and method of payment by the
Mexican government. Military pre
autions of the Mexican government,
however, probably will prevent any
publication as to the place or time of
deliveries.
MYSTERY OF L08T PETS SOLVED
DeMOLAY DAY
OF COMFORT
Memben Will Observe Ob*
Hmtory D*y Today
Kansas Citj/, Jar^i 3.—Members pf
the Order of DeMolay throughout
the country will observe January 3rd
as DeMolay Day of Comfort.
^ On this day it should be the duty
of every member of DeMolay to visit
the hospitals of the city in which he
lives and carry flowers and words of
comfort to those who are confined
therein.
The Order has five obligatory ob
servances during the year: DeMolay
Day of Comfort, Devotional Day,
Patriots Day, Educational Day and
Parent’s Day. These are observed
by 1,017 chapters, with approximate
ly 125,000 members.
DANGER TO AMERICAN
AGRICULTURE SEEN IN
IMMIGRATION POLICY
(By Associated Press)
Chicago, Jan., 3.—Restricted im
migration is causing the development
of new agricultural regions, which in
a few years will compete sharply
with American agriculture, in the op
inion of James R. Howard, president
of the National Transportation Insti
tute.
Expressing this opinion at the re
cent convention of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, Mr. How
ard said:
“Develaopment of new agricultural
regions to feed the World' is result
ing from our policy of restricted im
migration. There is little likelihood
that this policy will be changed. So
far as the farmer is concerned the
policy shall be adhered to. But this
closing of our doors means that the
congested populations of Europe
must seek other asylums. Already
promotional settlement programs are
under way in various South American
nations as well as in Canada, Aus
tralia and Africa. These people
crowded out of Europe and into new
lands must enter agriculture because
agriculture always precedes industry
in the building of any new country.
There is no doubt that new fields of
competition for the American far
mer are developing.
“These settlements mean the estab
lishment of industrial trade routes
and these routes, unless the ships are
under our flag, cannot be expected
to be other than favorable to the new
influence upon the American agricul
ture of the next decade.
) “If America is to stay in the world
market and produce a surplus of ag
ricultureal products, ships are as
much a part of the farm equipment
as plows or wagons. Too few farmers
realize this. The government still
owns something like a thousand good
steel ships, operated at a heavy de
fieit of which the farmers are paying
their share. We cannot afford to al
low these ships to go out from under
our flag while we are facing a fight
to keep both trade routes and mar
kets.”
DIXMUDE GASOLINE
TANK PICKED UP
Paris, Jan. 8.—The gasoline tank
belong to the Dixmud? has been
found at sea, according to wireless
from Bizerta, Tunis naval station,
picked up at Toulon, says the corre
spondent of Echo De Paris. The
tank, according, to radio, was inscrib
ed, several sentences written with
pencil.
WILL MAKE SECOND
ATTEMPT TO FORM CABINET
(By Associated Press)
Tokio, Jan. 3.—After announcing
earlier his inability to complete o
ministry, Viscount Kiego Kiyoura
reconsidered at a further request of
Prince Regent. Hirohito and accepted
he task pf forming a cabinet.
AY OWN
TO PLAY
KEY ABROAD
Associated Press)
Jan. 3. — Fifteen
girls will sail from New
12 to seek field hockey
honors ii England. They are mem
bers of the AU-United States team
selected 'at the recent intercity
tournament in this city to represent
America at the international competi
tion in Lbndon in March. Prior to
the international tournament they
will tour England, Scotland, Ireland
and Wales, playing a series of
thatches with the leading elevens.
Tftjpe young women have booked
passage o nthe steamship Majestic.
MBdctfus* of the scarcity of funds in
the' treasury of the National Girls’
FieH~3toekey Association, each mem
ber ef-the "team will pay her own ex
penifs to and from England. While
abrUfett’theiy will be entertained by the
teams. They plan to return
shortly after the close of
itional tournament March
dule of matches follows:
J«t»ery 26, All-England Touring
teamttt tendon; 30th, West at Chel
tenham ; ■ 'February 2, Midlands at
Nottingham; 6th, North at South
ports ..9th, match at Glasgow; 10th,
matclt-at Dundee; 16th, Ulster at Bel
fast; 20th, atch at Cork; 23rd, South
Wales at Cardiff; 29th, Cambridge
University at Cambridge; March 3,
Oxford University at Oxford; 6th,
7th and 8th, International tourna
ment at London.
COURT HOLD UP
MRS. SANDERSON'S DIVORCE
(By The Associated Press.)
Providence, R. I., Jan. 3.—Judge
Chester W) Burows of the Superior
Court, entered an order vacating the
divorce granted yesterday to Nina
Wilcox Putnam Sanderson from
Robert J. Sanderson, until such time
as she wfh appear in person and
satisfy th? court she has been a
resident of the State for more than
two years prior to October 16th, last.
HARRY THAW WILL
TRY TO REGAIN LIBERTY
(By Associated Press)
New York, Jan. 3.—Bartholomew
B. Coyne, New York lawyer, who for
a number of years has represented
Harry H. Tlisw, definitely confirmed
reporfa^«Ufcl18s client, slayer of
iSUMWirlffll, now fa Philadelphia
asylum, will soon seek freedom.
New York, Jan. 3.—Counsel for
Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford
White and since 1917 confined in
Kirkbride’s Aslyum in Philadelphia,
are seeking to have him adjudged
legally competent, says a copyrighted
story from Philadelphia appearing
yesterday in the New York Sun.
If freed, Thaw’s counsel hope to
obtain for him restoration of his
personal fortune now estimated at
nearl ya million dollars, according to
the story. Then he would proceed to
New York to surrender and face
charges of having beaten a boy—
charges of which his counsel hope to
clear him.
Thaw stands accused here of hav
ing lured Frederick Gump, Jr., Eon
of a Kansas City manufacturer, to
> New York hotel and with having
leaten his naked body savagely with
» whip after having locked,the boy
n a room The specific charges are
kidnaping and second degree assault.
Conviction would carry a long term
in Sing Sing. Indicted with Thaw is
George C. O’Byrne, a companion.
The Sun states that after a three
day investigation of rumors current
for months that ThaW planned to
seek his liberty, it was able to con
firm the report “from unimpeachable
sources” and outlines the legal bat
tle by which his counsel hope to ob
tain his liberty.
THE GAZETTE IN EVERY HOME
• ————————■
Dines Shooting
Affair Is Mystery
Still Unsolved
(By Associi
Log Angeles, Jan.
'iormand, motion picture actress,
whose chauffeur Tuesday night si
and seriously wounded Courtland
Dines, oil operator of Denver, Iasi
light gave her version of the shoot
'ng, a cersion directly contradicting
•hat of Horace A. Greer, alias Joe
Kelly, under arest for the alleged at
tack on Dines.
Miss Normand told her story of the
New Year’s party in Dines’ apart
ment, Which ended in the shooting of
the Denver man, surrounded by news
paper 'men and police detectives, and
in the presence of hr companion, Mrs,
. whom the police
all day,
^^■lifeoot
operator, by Horace A. Greer, chauf
feur of Mabel Normand, film actress,
in Dines’ apartment New York’s eve,
still was unsolved last night, in spite
of various statements by Dines,
Gree, Miss Normand and Miss Edna
Purviance, another screen actress,
who was present at the time.
Officers handling the case declare
themselves satisfied with the theory
that Greer shot Dines in a fit of
jealousy, despite the fact that Greer,
who admits the shooting,
was not the reason.
Greer says he pulled •.■.<= u>u«
Miss Normand’s .25 calibre pistol,
which, for some reason, he was carry
ing, because Dines appeared about to
hit him with a bottle following the
-*’ ' the
SOUTHERN PART OF
ALASKA JVILL SEEK
TO BECOME STATE
(By Associated Press)
Juneau, Alaska, Jan. 3.—Statehood
for the southeastern part of Alaska,
the Panhandle, is expected soon to be
asked of congress. Meanwhile resi
dents of that district, expressing
themselves in a convention here last
month, have asked congress to form
the territory of South Alaska.
This part of Alaska embraced,
when the census of 1920 was taken,
21,433 of Alaska’s population of 57,
000, living in 115,000 of the 690,884
square miles of the northeastern cor
ner of the North American continent
that President Lincoln’s secretary of
state, William H. Seward, bought
from Russia for $7,000,000.
The proposed territory or state,
for whose formation the convention
prepared two memorials to congress
and framed a suggested organic act,
would include all the first judicial
division. The first division is the Pan
handle, a strip running about 20
miles wide between British Columbia
and the Pacific Ocean. The thrid di
vision is southwestern Alaska, includ
ing al the southern coast running
from the northern end of the Pan
handle far out to the end of the Aleu
tian Islands.
The promoters of separate state
hood for South Alaska were inspired,
according to numerous formal pub
lications, by the desire to be set off
from the second judicial division,
vast western and northern Alaska,
with Nome as its best known point,
and the fourth division, interior
Alaska, with Fairbanks, often called
“the Chicago of the north,” as its
metropolis.
The two memorials to congress
stated the request of the Panhandle
to be formed into theterritory of
South Alaska and that "intimation
that the people residing there desire
that the drainage area of Prince Wil
liam Sound and Copper River should
be incorporated with the first divi
sion” had been received. One of the
memorials set forth that “the people
if southeastern Alasaka would wel
come inclusion in the separate terri
tory for which they pray of said
Irainage area of Prince William
Sound and Copper River and the
territory east thereof or any part of
it if it be the desire of the peopli
thereof an dof congress.”
Lively agitation for a separate
state for South Alaska began last
summer whan, the .late. President
Harding, on his return to Seattle, said
in his last address, six days before his
death: “Alaska is destined for ulti
mate statehood. In a very few years
we can well set off the Panhandle and
a large block of the connecting soiffh
nastern part as a state.”
Scott C. Bone, governor of Alaska,
said recently that the desire for state
hood was “perfectly natural and logi
-al, based o nthc arguments of pro
ponents of division of the teritory
hat southeeastern Alaska’s resources
and interests are different from those
if other sections.”
Another argument brought forward
por division of the territory was stated
n one of the memorials as follows:
“This separation has become neces
ary for the development of the re
ources of the firs tdivision. There
’re no geographical, business or per
sonal ties between our division and
he second an dfourth livisions.
“Notwithstanding that they each
Save only a small an dscattered and
steadily decreasing population, and
•ombined contribute only 7.7 per cent
'f the revenues of the territory, they
'ach have the same number of sena
‘ors and representatives in the terri
' orial legislature as are permitted for
ho first division. Through their com
bined representatio nthey have con
tinuously an dunjustly taken for thei)
own use large portions of the reve
nues collected in the first_ division,
and at each succeeding session of the
legislature they endeavor to impose,
and through their combined effort1'
often succeed in imposing, new and
adidtional taxes upon our fishing
mining and other industries, while at
the same time they protect their prin
ciple industry of placer mining.”
The assessed valuation of the incor
porated towns in the Panhandle divi
lion is $10,971,000, and the estimated
value of improvements in the unin
corporated villages and towns and on
the farms is $6,000,000.
In the Prince William-Copper River
area proposed as part of the territory
and state of South Alaska, the as
sessed valuation of the incorporated
towns is $1,991,798, with improve
ments outside these places put at
$2,000,000, besides investments averr
ed as follows: mining, fishing and
other indsutrial plants and equip
ment, $6,000,000 in adition to the in
vestments in the Kennecott, Latouche
and other mines along the Copper
River and Northwestern Railway,
an dthis railway and the coal and
oil development in the Katalla district,
$40,000,000.
In the Panhandle, according to one
of the memorials, are the following
tangible blocks of wealth:
“Municipa lschools and other mu
nicipal investments, $528,000.
“Banks—invested capital, $726,000|
deposits, $6,624,000. Of the latter
sum, $1,962,000 is saving accounts.
"T5>• fisheries iA 1920 represent
PRESS ASSOCIATION
MEETING AT PINEHURS®
Itraynor ranks high
AS VERSATILE PLAYER
(By Associated Press.)
New York, Jan., 3.—Harold Joseph
(“Pie”) Traynor, third sacker of the
Pittsburgh Nationals, ranks among
the first five in all-round perform
ance in the National League during
1923, in the opinion of many keen
baseball students. He rivals in versa
tile prowess, they declare, Rogers
Hornsby, of the Cardinals, and Frank
Frisch of the Giants.
This latest big league sensation
wound up his second season in the
majors with a batting average of .338
ranking eighth among the senior cir
cuit’s batsmen. Proof that his stick
work was timely is that he drove in
100 runs. He fielded at the rate of
.951, making the unusual total of 310
assists and taking part in 32 double
plays.
Traynor has speed, too, for he
stole 28 bases, ranking fifth. In this
department he was exce'.'ed only by
Grantham, Carey, Frisch and Smith.
And he took part in "very game of
his club’s schedule but ore, thus prev
ng^iis durability.
Tiny nor is only 23 years old. He
sttiacted notice before completing
hig.'i school at Somerville, Mass., was
bctghl by the Pirates after out brief
minor league experience, and season
ed a year with Birmingham jn the
Southern Association He made good
in his first test with the Tirates in
1922.
Theatre
AT THE BOULEVARD TODAY
Pola Negri in “Mad Love”. This
Dicture is the sensation of the year.
A drama that startles the world. The
rreatest emotional actress of our
time in a powerful drama of love. A
fiery page from the book of life.
TOMORROW
Dougles Fairbanks in “The Scrap
>f His Life.” Remember the star and
you will be at the Boulevard to sec
him. One you cannot afford to. miss.
•He was great in Robin Hood. Its a
treat.
SATURDAY
Niles Welsh in “Six-Fifty. This is
a new kind of thriller with plenty of
action and a love story you will hot
want to miss.
COLONIAL THEATRE
She longed for riches and when she
obtained them she found happiness
had vanished.
Corinne Griffith in a stirring Tale
of the SOUTH SEAS. “Island Wives”
playing at the Colonial Theatre to
night.
MANY KILLED IN STARCH
FACTORY EXPLOSION
(J?y Associated Press)
Peoria. 111., Between twenty ana
twenty-five persons are believed to
have been killed and more than 100
others injured in a terrific dust ex
plosion in the starch plant of the
Corn Products Company, at Pekin,
111. Fire broke out after the explos
ion and rescuers could see bodies of
twent-five to thirty-five victims lying
in the ruins. Flames prevented at
tempts to reach the bodies. It is es
timated it will be several hours be
fore the bodies are removed. Eight
injured, many badly mangled, had
been removed at 8 o’clock. There were
250 working in the plant at the time
of the explosion.
At 10 o’clock estimates of the dead
run as high as thirty-five. Seven
‘lodies have been removed, six identi
fied. It is feared many bodies were
entitrely consumed by the flames: of
more than 100 of the injured, doctors
say a score will probably die before
night. The victims were horribly
burned.
Misses Annie and Gladys Osborne
and Esther Baughn.left yesterday for
Greensboro after spending the holi
iays at their homes.
an investment of $34,078,784 and em
ployed 12,605 persons. In that year
eighty-two canneries packed 2,225,011
cases of salmon valued at $13,384,967.
In 1923 sixty-four canneries operated
with an estimated pack of 2,950,000
cases valued at $14,530,000.
“There are twelve operating mines
,-alued at $9,775,000 and employing
1,250 men.
Fox farms number ninety-four,
valued at $1,675,000.”
It was set forth that there were
thirteen sawmills in the Panhandle,
one pulp mill worth $85,000 employ
ing forty men, and undeveloped water
power of 460,110 horsepower besides
35,000 developed. It was asserted
that the first division had 76,000,000,
000 feet of merchantable timber and
all other divisions 6,000,00,000.
“The principal indsutries of south
eastern Alaska,” said the memorial,
“are hard-rock mining, fishing, lum
i bering and the raising of fur-bearing
animals. An increase may reasonably
be expected in three of these i*»
dustries and perhaps in the ether.”
(By Associated Press.)
Pinehurt, Jan. 3.—The van_
editors and publishers for the
winter meeting of the North Ca1
Press Association, which e
here tonight to be in session
days, arrived last night with
pects of a good attendance
gathering. In common with the
of the country, this charming
resort is being visited by some u
pleasant weather, but here it
nothing worse than a drizzle,
editors found a goodly number
tourists here to enjoy the e*. _
advantages provided by the Caro
Hotel for its guests. Altogether,
is a pleasant place to be at this
of the year.
SAYS "INSTALLMENT PLAN”
FEVER NOW ON RAMPAGE
THROUGHOUT THE NATION
the.
(By Associated Press)
Chicago, Jan. 8.—Americans have j
gone payment mad, declares th
January issue of the National Retail
Clothier, official publication of
National Association of Ret
Clothiers and Furnishers, in com
menting on the tendency in the coun
try today to buy products on the in
stallment plan.
Statisticians have compiled a list
of sixty-eight important commodities
being sold on time payments, with
the automobile and musical instru
ments heading the list. The list runs
from radio sets through washing ma-. i
•hines, stocks and bonds to buildings.
A vast majority of the wage earn- -
ers, it is declared, have mortgaged J
their homes for years to come be-,'
cause of the trend of the country to
buy luxuries and necessities of life on
the installment plan.
GERMAN DRUGGIST
SENT TO JAIL WHEN HE
SCORNED PAPER MARKS
(By Associated Press)
Berlin, Jan. 3.—Six months in jail
an da fine of ten trillion marks was
the sentence imposed on a Frankfort
druggist for refusal to take paper,;
marks in exchange for petroleum. He
tol dthe court he had to pay for the
oil in some sort of stable money and;,.'
consequently did not know how he;
could replenish his "stock if he £«
for paper marks.
Under the laws of the republic ;
paper .marks are legal tender and the
judge had the druggist hustled off to
jail immediately, explaining that such
treatment of the dealer would have
good effect on other merchants and
afford the public protection.
RIVER SEINE
THREATENS THE CITY
OF PARIS
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, Jan. 3.—The flood at the
Seine js assuming proportions of
disaster in sections of Paris ana
Environs River is stiil rising fast;
it is raining intermittently and many
buildings, notably ministry of foreign
affairs, minstry of finance have flood
ed cellars, and Alteration into the sub
way began, Quaidor says, and In
valides to the railway stations are
flode dand closed. • .
The suburbs immediately east and
west of Paris are largely under water.
They bear the aspect of a muddy ’
Venice. Boats have been brought
into use at Auteuil to mdbe the in- _
habitants from houses which have
bee nsurrounded by water and to
carry food to people who have de-.
-lined to move out.
The great truck garden area lying
alon gthe river resembles a vast
Only here an dthere is there
'-egetation showing above the mu
waters. Army engineers are rus
footbridge material to numerous
urban towns to permit the people
circulate in the water-covered stirt '
The D'Orsay station, the chief j
minal of the Orleans railroad,
is reached by the underground
from the old station at Ac
urns closed yesterday, water
filtered .into the subway, covering
tracks.
rebel movement g
ADVANCING TODAV
(By The Associated Press,)
Vera Cruz., Jan. 3.—Genccw
vance of Rebels on Puebla. i
Mexican City is to begin toHay,.
cording'fo Insurgent headquarters
General Guadalupe Sanchez, mjlit
leader of the rebellion in cutiun^l
with General Maycottee, will dii
the forward movement. g igl
OPENED SHRINE
TO KING TUI
(By Associated?!
Luxor, Egypt, Jangd
doors of the second shrij
hamuns tomb were ?'
mornings the third brilli
gilded shrine was diseloa