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KINSTON, N. C, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1923
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Poincare and Belgian Representative
Confer at ParisCloser Cooperation
Armies Under One Leader Would Result
in Bringing Obdurate Teutons to Knees
Sooner, Press and Public of France Con
tendRussia Has Not Needed to Make
Decision as to Which Side She Will Sup
port in Event New European or Near
Eastern War, Declare Soviet Of ficials in
t Reply to Report
.......... (By the United Press)
Paris, Feb. 10. The French and Belgians have sent a note
to Germany stating that officials of that nation would be barred
from the Ruhr Valley hereafter. This was due, the note said,
to the fact that Chancellor Cuno's recent visit caused danger
ous excitement in the occupied territory. '
;Paris, Feb. '10. Appointment of
Marshal Foch as supreme command
er in the Ruhr was being urged by
influential newspapers and the pub
lic as Premier Poincare and Foreign
Minister Jasper of Belgium met to
day to discuss plftns for shattering
Oman resistance,
Closer cooperatfion between the
French and Belgians is sought. Wii!
two armies working together in per
fect harmony, it will 6e easier to
ibring the Germans of the Invaded area
to tueir knees and begin making the
adventure a "paying proposition."
War Dogs Bristle at Smyrna. v
London., fob. 9. The Allied forces
at Smyrna are believed to be able to
care for themselves in the event the
Turks start to carry out their threat
to eject them from he harbor. In
Smyrna harbor or the adjacent wat
ers ol the Aegean ana Mediterranean
seas are a number of French and
British craft of heavy tonnaire. in-
cudirvg British battleships believed to
be ahle to pound trie lurkish batteries
to piece. Smyrna is a part of Asia
Minor assigned to Greece following
the World War. Greece lost her man
date over the area yhen Constantine
declared war on the Ottoman govern
.. meitt and bi rms- were routed by
the Turks, who sacked and burned
Smyrna and took complete control of
the mandate territory last year.
The territory was under British
rule before the greBt war. Smyrna
is a seaport city ol nominal size and
important as a gateway to the coun
try between the Mediterranean and
Black seas. The region is one of the
most historic in the world. The town
has one of the most mixed popula
tions to be found anywhere. It is
about 225 or 250 miles in an airline
from Constantinople and farther by
sea. ine tsnusn torces in the Wear
East number less than '40,000 exclu
sive of the conmplement3 of her naval
ships, while Ketaial Pasha has a sea
soned army of 150,000 or more ready
lo assault the British in the' Mosul
xegion and elsewhere.
High School Boy Goes
Into Banditry to Make
Living For Family; Dead
(By the United Press.)
Kansas City, Feb. 9. Kay C.
Bishop, high school football star,
turned bandit to get funds to sup
port his parents, and keep himself
in school. After holding up two
gasoline stations and securing $22
last night. Bishop was shot and
killed in his first night of crime.
"We'll either have to get more
mcney or I'll quit school," Bishop
confided a few days ago to his in
valid father.
Officer Says Phillips
Woman Being Held at
V Prison in Chihuahua
(By the United Press.)
Houston, Feb. 9. Clara Phillips,
ascaped "hammer murderess," is
in the. State Penitentiary at Chi
huahua, Mexico, according to Lee
Manning, federal immigration of
ficer who returned Phil Alquin, Pa
cific Coast criminal, to America
' from Mexico. "As soon as the Al
quin rase is off my hands I'll return
to Chihuahua and arrange her de
portation (as well," Manning de
flared. LEAGUE HEADS MEET
DISARMAMENT
(By the United Press.)
' Geneva, Feb. 9. The League of
Nations' disarmament commission,
nder the presidency of former French
Premier Viviani, convened today to
definitely draw up the League of Na
fcens' final project for reduction of
armaments. The project will be per
fected in detail at subsequent meet
,nRs of the commission during the
ummer, and then submitted to the
tfneral assembly of the league
September for adoption.
off liSed Forces
BUSINESS LEADERS
OF SECTION GATHER
TO DISCUSS WEEVIL
Fifty Attend Chamber of
Commerce Session Golds
boro Farmers Warned
mat uiversilicalion is
Imperative Now
That the Iboll-fweevil is here was
generally admitted, by bankers, farm
ers and businessmen of Eastern North
Carolina at a meeting in Galrisfl)oro
Friday at noon, when the East Caro
lina Chamber of Commerce was call
ed together itl special; session to give
consideration to the matter and tis
cuss the best methods of procedure
in eliminating the pest that has been
destroying the cotton crep and the
basis of credit in the 'South. More
than 50 men were present when the
meeting was called to order. No sin
gle phase of cotton growing was left
untouched, in the serious and timely
discussion which resulted. A strik
ingly Salient feature of the meeting
was the serious advice given by those
familiar with conditions in weevil
infested territory that no matter
what method of poisoning or eradi
cating the cotton boll-weevil may be
used, the farmer in the South who
fails to reasonably diversify, breed
livestock, especially hogs, raise poul
try and other food crops, and at the
same time provide for filling the corn
cribs with feed for livestock, will be
waging a losing fight for existence.
This was the keynote of the gather
ing grow foodstufs for man and
beast.
Secretary ,N. G. Bartlett told of
his trip into Georgia for the purpose
of investigating conditions, as a re
sult of an article in the Manufactur
ers' Eecprd, saying that "A boll-weev-il
method that permits of the remun
erative production of cotton under or
dinary conditions has unquestionably
been feund."
"There is no money an the world,"
Mr. Bartlett declared, "that could buy
the space occupied by this article in
the reading columns of the Manufac
turers' Kecord. and this led mo to be
lieve that it was my duty to the East
Carolina Chamber of Commerce to
investigate the matter and make re
port. While in Georgia I made it a
point to avoid representatives of the
manufacturers of the 'Hill method,'
and; the inforimation obtaiited was
gathered from hankers, planters and
farmers. ..
Secretary Bartlett stated that re
ports he secured endorsed the Hill
mixture as effective and profitable.
Franklin Sherman, entomologist from
the Department of Agriculture, stat
ed that he new nothing of the new
mixture, but felt that all commercial
products should be condemned until
approved by the department. Two
planters of more than a thousand
acres each from Georgia present de
clared that with the Hill mixture
they had gotten specific .results at
a minimum cost, amt expecteu in
1923 to bsing back the cottonTiro
duction on their farms to normal.
HUMANS INCREASE
FASTER THAN ANIMALS.
Washington, Feb. 9. A study of the
figures from 1850 to 1922, says the
Department i of Agriculture, shows
that human population has increased
at a greater rate than livestock. ' The
number, of hogs in this country varies
more from year to year than the
mlnber of ; other, domestic animals.
Sheep have declined the moat. There
is increasing difficulty in supplying
our population with sufficient meat
for its needs.
Rabbits Slaughtered.
Washington, -Feb. 10. Jack-rabbit
campaigns, conducted in four states
by the Biological Survey, have been
particularly effective the past: year.
Inldaho, Washington, Oregon, and
Texas great numbers of rabbits were
destroyed by traps and poison. in
m'six counties in Washington, loo.ouv
were reported killed.
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WOULD MAKE BUYER
OF PISTOL SECURE
PERMIT THIS STATE
Warren Gets Bill Through
House Federal Coopera
tion Asked Hundreds
Purchase Through Mails
Postmasters Know 'Em
(Special Capital Correspondence)
Raleigh, Feb. 9. University of
North Carolina trustees receiving bids
for the proposed state medical col
lege so depleted the Legislature today
that only local bills were considered
on roll call.
The Senate debated the Giles farm
loan bill of $2,500,000, Moss of Nash
unmercifully twitting Giles on the
proposal to put the government into
land-loaning and developing schemes
the while GWea opposed going into
the state shipping business.
In the House Warren of Beaufort
led through a statute lorbidding sale
of weapons without permits, and made
it apply to postmasters, who will re
quire permits of mail purchasers of
pistols, tie Raul he hail consulted a
member of the Supreme Court and
Attorney-General. He thought tlu
bill met constitutional objections. The
postmaster, he declared, knows pis
tol packages, and the Washington N.
C postmaster says that from 300 to
400 pistols are sold every year to
negroes there through mail order
houses. The House also passed a
joint resolution asking Congress to
exempt from interstate commerce the
transportation of pistols, so as to
make state and federal statutes con
form. WAR LORD OF NORTH
WAS NOT DEFEATED
Reported That Chang Was
Down and Ou After
Clash With Wu Not at
All All Rigged Up for
War Yet Army Loafs
By CLARENCE DUBOSE
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
Mukden. Manchuria, Feb. 10. Gffn-
cral Ohang-tso-Lin is still the "war
lord of the north. Make no mistake
about that. ' ; '.
Chang bosses just about half of
that part of the world between Pe
king and the North Pole. His title
is no misnomer. He is the war lord
of all Manchuria for the simple rea
son that he is big enough and ugly
enough and has enough men ami am
munition to make what he says stickl
Chanir was--sunnosed to have been
"defeated" by Wu-Pei-Fu in the Chi
nese "oivfil war" last year. Chang
was defeated just aboutthe same way
Deiiipsey was licked by Carpentier.
A bigger mistake was never made
than the idea that Chang has taken
(tie count.
All Fully Armed.
I saw more artillery in Mukden,
Chang's home town, than I have seen
since the front lines on Armistice Day,
1018. I saw more gentlemen, in and
out of unform, with guns on their
hips than I have seen since Pancho
Villa's palmy days in Juarez Muk
den is a bad-man's town,, and Chang-tso-Lin
is the badoVst man in it!
Chang was up country somewhere
and I had to talk to one of his repre
sentatives. "What about the future of China?"
I asked you know! just to make
conversation, the same way you ask
a visiting celebrity in New York what
he thinks of the skyscrapers.
. "God knows," he said amiably, and
in excellent English. Also he smiled
iiuite agreeably. I noticed he wore
three revolvers.
He regarded me in a frwndly, but
nimused sort of fashion, "Oh! There
won't be another War for let's sec
eight months yet," he sait listlessly.
"But you're all dolled up for it
nowl' , r
Learned at Harvard.
"Tbirtt" he sand, "is atmosphere.
The psychological value of atmos
phere cannot be overestimated'. I
learned that principle at Harvard!"
On my word believe it or not---that's
what he said this dapper
young Chinese arsenal. And he grin
ned. iReally, he had a splendid sense
of humor.
"If you're a Harvard man," I saiid,
"whv don't you devote your know
ledge and talent to constructive ef
fort. Why don't you well, why don't
you oh! I don't know raise pigs or
buiid cotton factories or something?"
"For two reasons," said he. "First,
the country a in t worth it (that's
what he said "ain't") and, second,
its too soft fighting for Chang."
Mr. Roy ; Iach returned Friday
night from Greensboro,
DEBT LEGISLATION
IN MUDDLE SEN.;
CHANCES UNCERTAIN
Bill May Get Through by
March 3 and it May Not
Tangled Up With Admin
istration Ship Subsidy
Measure There
(Bv the United Press.)
Washington, Feb. 10. The British
debt settlement was thrown into th?
Senate's legislative whirlpool Unlay to
take its chances of getting through
safely by March 3. there was no ae
tual ccslainty . that it would get
through. - 1
While the opposition relatively is
no greater than in the House, where
it passed yesterday 201 to 44, the
measure has become entangled in the
fierce, vindictive light on the ship sub
sidy mil.
As administration forces lined up
to break through the' filibuster thai
barred the way to final vote on the
subsidy, ths Senate Finance Commit
tee took up the debt hill as it passed
me House.
OF TENDER AGE ARE
AMERICAN WORKERS
rederal Statistics Show
Twelfth of Those Between
10 and 15 Work High
Percentage in North Car
olina More Now
BY JAMES KOLBERT
(United Prena Staff Correspondent)
Washington. ieb. 1U Approxi
mately one-twelfth ot ail the ctiiidren
in the United States between the
ages of 10 and 15, are wage earners,
according to estimates by the Chil
dren's Bureau of he Department of
Labor, . ,."
Child workers--meanmg all those
engaged in "iramfuff, occupations"
total l,0u'O,85S, out of the estimated
12,502,682 children between the ages
of 10 and 15 in Mie country.
More Boys Than Girln. :
More boys are wage earners than
girls, the bureau stated. Boy work
ers total 714,428 compared with 34li,
010 girls. 'Agrieuflture claims the
largest number of child workers, the
number in that class being 647,300.
The total of 185,337. children were
tabulated in cotton, silk, and woolen
mill.-), cigar, clothing and furniture
factories and canneries and work
shops;" 80,000 children in clerical oc
cupations; (.'?,00 in trade; 54,000, the
majority girls, in "domestic and per
sonal service" and 7,191 in mines,
Percentages of juvenile workers it
sonw states, as compared with all
children, follow:
Maine. 7.7; Massachusetts,
New York. 4.7; Pennsylvania,
Ohio, 3; Indiana, 5.2 Illinois,
Soutn Dakota, 3.3; Nebraska.
8.G;
' B.ti;
5.3:
3.4;
District of Columbia, 5.3; Virginia,
8.2; North Carolina, 16.6; south Caro.
lina, 24.4; Georgia, 20.8; Alabama,
24.1; Oklahoma, 7.9; lexas, 12J; Mon
tana, 2.3; Idaho, 29; Wyoming, 3;
Colorado,. 4.3; Washington, 3.4; Ore
gon 3.
The employment ot children in
1920, as reported by the Census Bu
reau, was le3s widespread than in
1910, but this was due to the fact
that the federal law imposing a tax
on products of child labor was in
operation from April, 1919, to Ma,
1922. This law has been declared tfn
constitaional by the United States
supreme court, and a count now would
show .a still greater percentage of
children at work, the bureau stated.
Baptists Pass Half
Way Mark in Seventy-
Five Million Campaign
(By the United Press.)
Nashville, Fib. 10. From the be
"'nnini!' of the Baptist "75 Million
Campaign" up to the present time
cash an ihe sum. or .i,4tf,44i.vy nas
been collected on that movement, ac
cording to a report issued by the
campaign headquarters in Nashville.
This leaves nearly $37,000,000 addi
tional to be raised during the next
two years if the original campaign
goal is reached by December, 1024.
EIGHT HEROES DIE
AFTER OAS BLAST
(By tho United Press.)
Toronto, Feb. 9. A dramatic'
chapter in the history of heroism
was written today when eight men
plunged into the lower valve house
of the Consumers' Gas Company
here to rescue two companions fol
lowing an explosion.
The eight perished, suffocated by
carbon monoxide.
The of her" two' workmen died.
Immediately following the ex
plosion in the works workmen in
other parts of the building rushed
to the aid of the workers. About
40 were overcome and were rescued
by firemen with gas masks.
Believed Fed'ral Soldiers
Not Be Needed to Stop
Rum Running in South
4 (By the United Press.) '
Atlanta, Feb. 10. Intervention of
federal troops in Georgia's "rum
war," which looked to be a possi
bility yesterday, will not take place
unless the situation taken a severe
turn for the worse. Fred H. Dis
muke, federal prohibition director
og Georgia, told the I nited Press.
"We are hoping wj won't have to
resort to Kuch a drastic measure,".
Dismuke aid. "We have other
BLAKLOCK PUTS PEP
INTO PROBE STATE
PRINTING . RALEIGH
Foreman, of Bi& Concern
Live-Wire Witness for
Shipman Opposition at
Legislative Hearing Had
Been Dull Before
(Special Capital Correspondence)
Kaleigh, Feb. 10. When K. M.
Blaklock, foreman of the Kdwarda &
Broughton printing establishment, re
turned to the witness stand today in
the investigation precipitate n the
Legislature following a c -rsy
between the company and ' n
missioner of Lalbor and I'n... the
fur began to fly. .
No duller controversy ever was in
quired into for two days, and not un
til iMr. Hl-aklock went back on the
stand had anything dropped save the
dismissal -of the charges ,that the
company had not received its share of
state printing. Yesterday afternoon
W. T. Hatch "almost said something
as .touching the union 'bias of the
cci.nmissioner's office, but today's tes
timony went somewnere.
Businessmen Explain
Why They Like to Go
Church Sunday Nights
The pastors of Kinstnn are hnninir
for full churches Sunday evening, hav
ing started. a movement for regular
attendance at Sunday night services.
Felix Harvey, Jr., asked his pastor.
Rev. C. K. Proctor of Queen Street
Methodist Church, to cive his reasons
for attending services, Saturday said:
"In stating why 1 go to church on
Sunday night there is in my mind one
outstanding reason above a great
many smaller reasons. The informal
ity of the evening worship appeals
most strongly to roe. The formality
of the morning service is a very beau
tilul thing, but the evening service
upiieala more as a 'family' or 'get
together' service, and has an unusual
amount of warmth and good fellow
ship expressed, and forcibly impress
ed." ' .
IL H. Taylor, bank president, says
he attends church Sunday nights be
cause,. "In six days the Lord mado
heaven and earth, the sea and all that
in them is, and rested on the seventh
day; wherefore the Lord blessed the
Sabbath Day, and hallowed it. This
lo me is conclusive that we should
nttend services on the Sabbath. The
day is not complete without the
night s service. Prayermeetmgs and
Sunday night services are usually full
of inspiration, and have meant a
great deal to me. The business man
is busy with amterial things during
the six days; surel yh eshoukl be
equally as busy on tne seventh day
attending to the Master's business.
As members of the hurch, we must
bo faithful in attendance at the meet
ings and services of the church."
Grave Digger for 50
Years Has Philosophy;
Burial Doesn't Change
(By the United Press)
Chicago, Feb. 10. Birth and burial
have changed but little dn holf a cen
tury, Charles Stesstron. the man who
has buried 60,000 people, says. Stren-
ston, 75, is the chief of the grave-
diggers at Graceland ' Cemetery here
anu nas supervisee ine aigging oi
graves for nearly '60 years.
Ihe coming in and the going out
are just the same," Stenstron said.
"Doctors have more or less eased the
ordeal of birth, but have not changed
the manner in which the baby ar
rives. ,
"Undertakers have . changed the
style of coffin and the clothes of the
dead, but the grave is the same grave
it was 2,000 years ago. A little
'ier. . because modern coffins are
bigger,' or a little smaller, when the
body has been cremated." Stenstron
dug the graves of such nationally
known figures-as Potter Palmer, Mar-
hal Field I and II. Hiram McCormick,
"Fighting Hob" Fitzsimmons and
many others. . ,
. Prevented Epidemic.
Washington. Feb. 9. A communi
ty dipping vat built in Jerauld Coun
ty, S. Dak- through the efforts of
agricultural extension workers in the
county, successfully checked in its be
ginning what promised to be a aeri-
oiis ouibreak of scabies, according to
reports to the Department of Agri-
ulture. Over l!uo cattle were dip
ped during the two months following
the completion of the community dip
ping vat. .
plans we are working on. rind I be
lieve they will succeed without the
necessity of having tederal troops
railed in." The situation in the
"rum war" remained unchanged.
Statewide search is lieing curried
on for members of a liquor caravan
which kidnapped three members ef
a Forsythe County bailiff's party
Wednesday morning. Three men
are being held in custody. They de
ny all knowledge of the kidnapping.
EXPERT ORGANIZER
COMMUNITY SERVICE
COMES TO KINSTON
Graves Here to Promote Re
creational' Work -Experienced
as Member of
Olympic Committee and
Army Physical Director
E. V.' Graves, expert organizer and
athletic director of the National Com
munity Service, Inc., has arrived" In
Kinston to organize the recreational
work here.
In December Hon. Whitehead Klut
U of Salisbury came here as the ad
vance representative of the public
playground work organization.
Through his Efforts a committee of
citizens, fifteen in nunvber, agreed
to stamd fifty per cent of the cost
of sending an organizer here. Mr.
Graves comes In accordance with that
arrangement. He expects to devote
two months to the work here and to
organize it with a full time director
in charge.
Mr. Uiaves, who is accompanied
by Mrs. Graves and two children,
has recently spent two months in
Florence, S. C, where he inaugurat
ed a similar work. lie has had wide
experience, is a memher of the Amer
ican Olympic CoTrtmittee and was an
athletic arid physical director in the
United States Army prior to joining
tiie fojees of tho National Commun
ity Service.
'. A conference of the signers . or
guarantors! will be' held Tuesday
evening at 7:30 In the rooms of the
Chamber of Commerce, at which time
it is expected to lay plans for begin,
ning the work in earnest.
For many years the need of or
iranized play and recreational work
in Kinston has been appreciated by
many or its best citizens, ine pres
ent effort is the most promising yet
underaken to start such a work. Mr,
Graves and the local committee ex
pect to have the fullest cooperation
and support of the community at
large. ' :-
Many Members of Klan
in House But They Do Not
. Have Majority, Seems
(Special Capital Correspondence)
Raleigh Feb. 10. Absence todav
of a large numlier of members of
both houses will probably affect state
legislation somewhat, and while th
rest is on a big klan fight against
the Ku Klux bill is being waged.
The war centers on hvorett of Dur
ham, who led the attack on the klan
several days ago. The 'Milliken bill
going down one day by 53 to 50, came
back on the premise of substantial
amendments the next by 70 to as. II
was considered the worst of strategy
to have quit the fight for a week
when renunciation was in the air. The
advocates of unmasking are growing
anxious for an out-and-out fight with
the klan.
The proponents of exposure are
strong enough to carry the House .if
the next debate gets a fair percent
age of the membership here for the
vote. Tha unquestioned prevalence
of the klan. in the General Assembly
has been established, and the numbei
of (menibers Is astonishing; But they
haven't a majority.
CHIN Eg ft GET HAPTIST
LESSONS IN OWN TONGUE.
Nashville, Feb. 9.-Southern Bap
tists are the first denomination to
issue a complete line of Sunday school
literature for all grades in the Chinese
language, according to Dr. W. H. Tip
ton, secretary of the department of
Sunday school literature of the
(Thina Baptist Publication Society at
Canton. The plan of the . Sunday
School Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention, located in Nashville, is
followed m the treatment of the
lessons.
Lincoln Yotes Half a
Million Dollars for
Better Public Roads
-Lincolnton, Feb. 9, The county
commissioner? of Lincoln County, in
session here, voted for an issue of
$300,000 of bonds for road improve
ments, in the county.,
LAYMAN LEADS 24 MEN
- TO DECIDE FOR CHRIST.
Nashville, Feb. 9. Russ Hill. Bap
tist laymi'ji of 'Middlesboro, Ky., 27
years old, manager of a wholesale
produce house and teacher of a large
men's Bible class at the First Baptist
Church, induced 24 men to join the
church m an evangelistic appeal to
his class of 311 men.
OF FORTY-
ARE
TAKEN FROM SHAFT
Fate of 79 Remaining in
Dawson Pit is Unknown.
Two Survivors Certain.
Few Left Alive in British
Columbia Mine
(By the United Pre
; Dawson, N. M., Feb. 10, ilodies of
49 of tho 122 men entombed in I'helps
Dodge Mine No. 1 ty an explosion
have been recovered.
With only two survivors showing
up, the fate of thi other 70 today re
mained unknown. Little hone of res
cuing them alive was held out.
.Rescue workers penetrated far back
into the mine during the "ntgnt In
search of the missing victims, without
success. - ' .
Dan Cupid Comes Along:
And Takes Free Press
Most Capable Solicitor
Alas! Dan Cupid has stolen tho
most capable subscription solicitor
of The Free Presa. Announcement is
made in this issue of the marriage on
January 28th of Mrs. Beulah S. Wells
to Sheriff Joeph R. : Westbrook of
Jones County,-, 'Her t resignation ia
effective today. - : .
Mrs. Westbrook eaves the employ
of The Free .Press ' wit hthe - bent
wishes of the managemen ami every
person connected with it. During the
past year she has made many friends
for herself as well as the paper, ma
the has gone throughout the terri
tory. Tho subscription lists of Th
Free Press have been materially in
creased in all parts of the Kinston
trade territory through Her untiring
work. - -- - -
It is possible that Mrs. Westbrook
will find time to call on some of th
paper's patrons in Jones County. Sho
wiil not cover the territory otherwise
after this and her friends and readers
of the paper are requestd to send
.heir renewals direct hereafter.
Big Addition Cotton
Mill at Gastonia i is
Announced in North
(By the United Press) A
Pawtucket, K. I., Feb. 9. One hun
dred thousand feet of floor space
will be added to the Jenckett Spitting
Company's plant at Gastonia, N. C,
t was announced last evening. " The
olant will be one of the largest in
the South with this addition. ,
BULLETINS
(Rv th United Press.)
BLAST ON MOUNTAIN.
Tulsa, Feb. . A terrific explos
ion, believed to have occurred at
Jenks, 12 miles distant, broke win
dows in residences and office build
ings here shortly before noon. All
telephone line in the vicinity of ,
Jenks were put out of tmmisnion
by the blast. A nitroglycerin stor
age magazine is located on Turkey
Mountain, near Jenks. Thin is be
lieved to hove exploded.
HOW AT FREED AGAIN. ' .
Topeka, Kas Feb. 9 Alexander
Howat, former head of the Kansas
Coal Miners' Union, was freed from
jail again today. Governor Jena-'
than M. Davis issued a commuta
tion of sentenreTthat release How
at immediately from Jail at Co
lumbus, Kansas. After being pa
roled at Pittsburg, Kansas, by the
District Court judge, Howat was re
arrested to serve an unexpired term
at Columbus for violation of the
Industrial court law. ...
iVould Make Insanity
Ground for Divorce
in North Carolina
Raleigh. Ffh. 'ft .Ronrrwontnf itra
Nimoeks of Cumberland County has
ntroduced a bill in the assembly
A'hich would make incurable insanity
i ground for divorce, provided that no
hi Id has been born and that the fcp-
loiute party to the petitioneer has
eon actually confined in an asvlnm -
Only alienists named by the court '
would be allowed to testify.. :-
MAIN STREETS ARE
fiAY PLACES, SAYS
(Bv the United Press.) "
Harvard, III., Feb. 9. Moral condi
tions of "Main Streetsi'uere far worse
than those of boulevards ami drives,
Vinvet Rumley, state's attorney for
McHenry County, declared today fol
lowing a cleanup investigation. Sev
en youths were arrested and warrants
issued lor eight others. Ihe probe,
Rumley declared, disclosed the most .
"startling" vice conditions. Complain
ing witnesses were four girls, daught
ers ot .Harvard poorer families.
Nightly revels at distant roadhouses,
flowing bootleg liquor, and. riotous
joy riding in tha early morning hours,
were described in, the girla stories,