ror Aflllin
48 •
J88 141
Brasil A 47 0
Central Brm*il 88 0
Denver 14 2
Illinois 17 28
Morthwest 48 88
Missouri 1M 14
Wert Virginia M 87
Southwest Missouri 188 81
Louisville 188 72
Holston
St. Louis
Mew Mexico
Virginia ..._.
West North Carolina
Worth Texas .........
Arizona
...188' 1(0
124 29
.... 42 88
.147 117
...188 202
...221 14C
...181 127
_ 29 •
trifle *8 89
SwHi mi nw.i'niiitii Kininpn ii hi 78 4
Worth Alabama »4 288
Upper 8. C. 28 170
Wart Oklahoma 144 80
Wart Texas 177 87
Total ^ 2.578 1,801
YEGGMEN SUE FOR RE
TURN OF BOOTY
Claim of Pilot
Harrisonburg. Vs., Oct 28.- The on.
»or> procedure of yegg
tor the return of their al
loot now held by officers which
waa heard before Judge Henry C.
McDowell in U. 8. Court tor the Wert
WrtiH of Virginia, resulted in tha
ordering payment of counter
filed by three rictima of the
frem the fund after It la us
«d aa evidence against the bandit trio
vfcaa they are triad at Greensboro,
Tf. C., for the robbery of the poetof
flaa ot Pilot Mountain, N. C., last
The original action was instituted
W Jerry Far low, Thomas Doyle and
Thonai Roberta, sentenced in Dan
vflle to five-year prison term* for
having burglar took in their poasea
abn after a aeries of robberies in
Western North and South Carolina.
TMa trio'sued to have the $4,000 loot
—82,800 in currency and $1,200 in
rtampe—now held by U. S. Commis
sioner Barksdale at Danville, returned
to them. The loot and borglar tools
presented as evM»«w» in
Hugh M. William*, of Danville, at
toney he the robbers. then sought
to attack *700 of the loot aa hia fee.
' After hearing the evideace, Judge
McDowell ordered judgments eotered
to'favor of the Pilot Mountain Bank
for 9601; of W. W. Redman. Pilot
Mountain postmaster, for 9804. and
the MrKnlght-Belk Merchandise Coan
f, of Oreer, 8. C.. for »4»7. These
proved thajr were robbed
Iy Pariam. Doyle aad Roberta before
parts of the feat. After tha payment
of wmy other claims which mmj ariae,
to to receive hia
■WjRMto the
There to fettle likelihood
Williaaaa or the trio receiving
■H «f tha loat
three Hatea arc to ha paid and
Postofficr
I to
It 1* stated that tk
of thia tract m IHjM, and that
D. D. Smith of Onankon waa the
third party M(gtbth( the nh. hr
| eral months a*o Mr. Smith mad*
! definite plana to establish a summer
resort in the Hanging Hack tract,
| weefnr therein the great possibilities
i in the natural attraction of the
i place. However the plan waa later
I abandoned, and not until recently has
1 there been any eri*
I l-nr dreamed of plan will
I reality.
I It Is stated that the Intentkma of
< the Florida ayndicate will he
Knlldinr of a three hundred room ho
tel with pi-irate bath* and every con
venience, one or more IS hola (olf
"nk*. an artificial tab of lark* pro
portions and bath houses nearby. Pos
sibly fine roads will connect the alte
with the main arteries that run thru
this county making traveling conven
ient.
many i«rjn* mjwinnm mm m win
•ton-Mni ami OrH>nibMr« hm bom
^eard to make the statement that
uch a development would par; and
•xprturd their wishes that such
would be planned and developed.
These man who hare been annual
summer visitors to the rammer re
tort* In the Ssurstown Mountain*
have Ion* known of the posiribilities
"»f nuk ft reaort, due to the nearneaa
of Wlnston-flalem, Greensboro and
neighboring citiea.
EIGHT CHILDREN KILLED
AT CROSSING
School Bus Struck by Fast
Train—31 Injured—Misty
Rain Obscured Driver1. Vis
Waycross, jGa., Nov. 2.—Collision
! of the Everglades Limited of the At
• lantic Coast Line and a school bus at
I Nahunta, Qa., today resulted in the
deaths of eight children and Injuries
to 21 others.
Victims of the crash were rushed to
I the hospital here aboard a special
I train. Four of them died on the
way.
Reports from the hospital late this
afternoon indicated that no mora
deaths are expected, although some of
the remaining victims are In a serious
condition.
tiroy oincKinna, wno was anving
j the bui. suffered a fractured leg. He
stated to railroad official* here that
! he was drivinir in a misty rain and had
all aide curtains of the boa eland.
As he approached the railroad track,
he said, he asked one of the boys on
the bus to look toward the north and
see if there was a train approaching.
| Strickland said he looked tward the
| south. Just as the bus reached the
center of the crossing, the train
| rrashed into it.
The terrific impact of the heavy
locomotive threw the bus a distance
of 20 feat and strewed its occupants
ilong the right of way. Three eg the
children were killed instantly. The
screams of their companions could be
heard above the noise of the traiir as
it sped down the track toward the
station.
lux cars, parked near the crossing
th<i misty rain and the fact that the
| bus curtains were up were contribut
i ing causes of the collision, witnesses
declared. No official account of the
j crash has been iaeued by the railroad
iff>m p»ny and no comprehensive state
' ment has been made by Strickland,
■ha bus driver, or by the engineer of
the Everglades Limited, which waa
rushing on its way to FloriHa when
the accident occurred.
A relief train waa made up at
Nahunta immediately after the col
lision and the chad victims were tak
en to the hoepita! here, families of
the children, grief stricken at the
now* of the collision, hurried here to
be with the injured. IwHi Knox,
principal of the aehool to wkk-h the
children www bound, eieead the build-'
SUIT AGAINST COLE tS
, STARTED
Cate**
(Wgr woaU tan doo* what Col*
Two 4q« after Um wr<kt Col*
4 lowing m inaanity
Jadg* T E rlntejr,
tried Um eaa*. is North WUkaaboro.
Cale Oat it 8UU
Col* ha* lefl th* State to take aa
indefinite r*at in Arkanaaa, where r*
lattoa of hi* wff* lire.
Summon* in th* ease war* issued to
Richmond County and U itluin*h>*
November 12, hot if —i»k* on Cole
cannot be secured there, the plaintiff
I* expected to pcoc**d by publication
and attachment.
Young Ormond'* father aaka $78,
000 compensatory damage* and 97tr
000 punithr* damage* for the alleged
wrongful death.
•«v*> m • vi mwitu v)iMiitiru tui objt1
tember S, as idniniittilor to Ui
■on'* estate In Wain County, whsre
young Ormond lived. Tonne Ormond
loft an estate of around $1,000 mad*
up of insurance. The nh i* brought
in this county as the home county of
The suit ia brought by Douglass
and Douglass, of SaMgfc; Larry
Moors, of Now Bern; W. B. Joasa, of
Rockingham; and Harold Cootey of
Nashrills; all of whoa app—rod for
the proeecution in the n Imhiri ac
tion; and alao hy R. N. Simma, JPKal
xigh A bond of 1200 to Cole for
costs is signed by Re*. A. L. Ormond
as administrator, his soil.
The coayhttt seta forth the facts
regarding the killing on the main
itreot of Rockingham on August 16,
nlleging that Cole "stealthily crept up
behind him (Ormond) and wantonly,
wickedly, cruelly and with malice
aforethought, assassinated plaintiffs
intestate by firing three bullets -into
his body."
With regard to the alleged "slander
letter" which Ormond wrote saying
that he had lived as man and wife
with Miss Elisabeth Cole for more
than fc year, the complaint says as
follows:
Killed Without C(um
"That the defendant falsely pre
tended and claimed that ha killed the
plaintifTi kites tate haeaoaa, as ha
alleged, the plaintiffs intestate had,
in February, IMS, and more than six
months prior to said Ull«| written
t| the defendant an alleged letter and
(t was claimed by the defendant that
In the sllsgod letter, the plaintiffs
intestate had slandered the defend
ant's daughter, but the plaintiff
seen on information and belief tlmt
the defendant killed and murdered bis
Intestate to prevent hia marriage to
the defendant's daughter, or for aome
other reaaon growing out of the <te
fendant's anger, hatred, malice and
lllwill towards the deceased, and his
premeditated and deliberate purpose
and this plaintiff alleges that for
whatever reaaon, the defendant's said
action was without justification or
excuse."
Laakey Says Robhars Got His
Fiao Liquors
New York, Oct. V.—Robbers stole
the satire stock of rare liquors, 14
barrels In all. worth (hipped
here from Hollywood. Calif, by Jesse
L. Laakey, vice paraMsnt of this Fam
ous-Players-Laaky corporation. He
said last night, the robbers alao
took four barrels of allvqr. The li
quor was not insnrsd.
Mr. Laaky was preparing to ape*
his new Fifth avenue khst. He
sent three vans around to the height
yards to get his effects The door of
the bos ear had scarcely been opswsd
when several maqked snen appeared
and with pivteli hi hand forced the
truck drivers and a railroad 4startlv«
late an empty ear and locked them h.
The thieves than sen ied away every
GrJ^rJ* affldL"
ftJT!6,401JtS on thair deliveries.
Directors tad natitt ot the ae
•ociation art aiao imagi at alsling
IhwiilTii upon the fact that the
new M par cent ad»ame which haa
much Mora Money on their >ihm
thia aaaaon, haa sbrisaely eat the
pace for prices an the anctlon bmt
kftn. Thctc opcuid In 8tytnriMf
with prices which ran below It aenta
at Wilaon and other ssarkets of east
ern North Carolina during the first
two weeks of sales and the sharp
fluctuation by which prices have
nearly dooMsd following the continu
ation of the association's high cash
advance Is regarded this season aa
the direct result of co-operative Mar
keting by the tobacco association's
members stid director*.
•wted as having sold the Urfnl pro
portion of toi»No received during the
past three years, or any of the large
tobacco marketing associations hi the
United States. Deliveries (o the co
operative markets of the old tobacco
bdt are steadily increasing and there
appears to be a determination among
the farmer* of Western North Caro
■ _ — 1 tri- - i - : - 4. - — __
Iini inn v 11 (Itiii vo wppon invir or*
ganization at the time when it has
clearly been the cause of maintining
the price of tobacco above the cost of
production, followed the early threat
tf 14 and IS cent averages on the
auction floors.
Total receipts of the tobacco asas
■istion during the past three years
are reported by its management as
447,000.000 pounds and sales of tobac
co on the same green basis as that
upon which" tho tobacco is received
imount in sit to 388,000,000 pounds.
Figuring on the green basis upon
which members deliver and receive
pay for their tobacco, the association
has on hand from the crops of IMS
»nd 1924 approximately S8.000.000
oounds of bright tobacci and 24,000,
000 pounds of Virginia dark tobacco.
The association's directors announced
at their last meeting that another
payment on the 1M4 crop will be
made at the earliest possible date.
VIRGINIA MASS MEETING
IN INTEREST OF ROADS
Or* Hundred at ladspso
dMo* From the Various Cit
- Us and Towns hi North Cir
Elkin. Oct. Mors than one
hundred representative citizens of
North Carotins from Charlotte,
Mooresville, Elkin, Sparta sad oth
er points alony national highwsy 51
attended a mass meeting at Indepen
dence, Va., today, urging the early
completion of that part of the roots
br'.ween Blaefield sad the North Car
otin lino.
According to recsat reports the
North Carolina highway known as
No. 26 Ims been designated by the U.
8. department of agriculture as a
part of national highway SI, running
from Detroit to Jacksonrilis, Florida.
The meeting was prsslilsd ortr by
President Johnson of the Qrest
Lakes-to-Florids Highway assocte
tion and was attendsd by haadreds
of the most prominent citissas of
Grayson slid Wythe to—Uss. Gnat
enthosissm was nmifuM by way
oas prsasnt onr ths pnnMltj of
the two counties laglualsg at aa
erfrly dsts the boOding of s perma
nent good road ts the North Carotins
line to connect with highway Na. M.
A rssohition was passed nasnhnn—
ly endorsing this roots sad sskbig
the Vinriaia stats Mghasy coanais.
sion ts get behind this projset sad
posh It forward as rapidly as pnssihii.
-I wish now - said Mm lecturer. -to
1. T. Ctoaij. an AUim road
owmii, will bt slat li suited on D»
ember It for the murder at Ms wife
on October It. Mr*. Cherry waa
found shot to <wl> la Um hllihaa at
A
to the
hunhand as the (layer, and the ae
«rrested the day at the aim it—.
Within firm days Cherry had keen
indicted and eight days after the
ha waa on trial tor Ma Hfe,
in Ma caadeannapon at the
-nd of the tenth day. '
Monday night at A»hi »IBs. N. C„
while a ank wm preparing to (term
the county Jail to lynch Pi eaten Nee
ly, a nagro, for an alleged attack upon
a prominent white woman of the
city, John E»mi. another iiafio.
caught hold of the ana of a white
woman an one of the moat f inent
(tracts of the dty in an atto_^t to
attack Mr. She manage to eacape
and gave the alarm, and Beeres waa
arrested in a few Minutes.
The mob, foiled in its efforts to
t Nealy, tuipad Mi attention tn
Reeves, hot upon refusal of the wo
rm to identify hi*, as requested by
officers, he waa left to the courts.
MONEY COULD NOT SAVE
THIS MAN
Not
Balialf of
▼ictad of Liquor Clwri*
RaM) h. Oct. M.—J. Ambroea
Woody, wealthy Chatham county
land owner and chtfehun, must
»rw • 90-day road sentence for vio
lating the Ikjoor law*.
The seataaee, imposed by Ohatham
superior court, was upheld by Gover
sor McLean today In Mttaf upon an
appeal by Woody for the substitution
of a $600 fine. The appeal, which
was heard before Pardon Commission
er H. Hoy Is Sink, tw» weeks ago,
brought a trowd of sous* 100 promi
nent Chatham county people. About
half of then were supporting Woody
and the other half, led by solicitor J.
Clawson Williams, were Insistent up
on his taking his medicine.
Woody la reputed to he worth over
$100.00 and a generous contributor to
Hickory Mountain Methodist church,
of which he has been a-steward. He
also was superintendent of the Son
day school. Jtb fellow-churchmen
were reported to have bam about
"cually divided in their sympathies.
Woody has vowed that the church wfll
never get another penny Iran him U
be gees to the roads, acaunHwt to
woru mofni Mrf oy
la the heal
er Sink, attorneys for Woody
>ed that he aeed to dsal ia liquor, bat |
they laid ha quit aa far hack aa 191$.
Those opposing clemency testified he
waa a ~ht*h.z up~ ia i
yo«o do when W fond two ,
tariff, h darp of the mm eoo».
ty. AH tkt bwTm Hi Khwtnw and
■oat of thoee in Now Bora k*4 boa*
lined a» behind one or the other ad
the rmitaoden for the office. %
"Show me the ntmrtaa of the board
ed Judge Midyette when aaktd by the
rterik of the Superior Court M to
what ho «m phf to do. Thecal*
was rwntaw uw net that upon Tail
or* of Sheriff A. W. Taylor to Mb
proper wUlnmit at taxes Car A*
preceding year the board had lUftel
Heber Worthington to fill the Tiiaa
<T
"Show we Sheriff Worthingtoa
commai«M Judge Midyetto. "Mr.
Sheriff, open court"
-We object," ewe in a chonw
tram Taylor's lawyers.
"The court will hear jam objec
tion aa soon a* it is opened." said
Judge Mi^tyetto.
Prayer That Waa Needed
"God save the State and this hew
orable court," said Heber Worthing*
tew. Judge Midyetto felt like H «M
a prayer frow the heart aad that ha
needed it AO day the lawyers ar
VMd. bat Judge Midyetto stock to
his guns. For bin there was bat one
sheriff, and that waa the sheriff the
hoard of commissioners had elected.
Then came the ejuestion of who
should have the office of the sheriff
and who should run the Tayto*
held on to both aad it waa not uatR
a mandamus commanding him to
tiffn over everything to Worthingtoa
was Issued by Judge Midyetto thai
he did aa.
Attorneys appealed to the Suprtoaa
court and yesterday came the decis
ion that backed up the Judgment of
Judge Midyette. The law in the eaae
was simple. Justice Connor, writfeff (
the opinion, says the statute fixes the
responsibility upon the cowmissiea
era to respire settlements with the
•heriffs am to soHit the books with a
new of determii.<ng whether the set
tlement is in full. There is ao dis
cretion left in the matter and they
>i* subject to indictment if they fail
to comply with the law.
. Taylor Has Remedy
Not only are they required to re
quire settlement, but they must alee
see that the sheriff is properly bond
ed. In waking settlement with the
Lenoir commissioners, 8heriff Tay
lor appeared to be short M7.M1.2S la
his accounts. Re submitted doehw
tkms amounting to «42jM8.41. which
be said he was entitled to, and the
difference In cash, but the oommia
sioners did not rsagidir this a fair
settlement —
Su»,o*,4 Kf ml Ndb Hali
$3,000 is Silver Com