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NEWS BRIEFLYTOLDl 0I8PATCHE8 OF IMPORTANT HAP. PENING8 GATHERED FROM . OVER THE WORLD. FOR ) THE luSY READER i -< i Tilt OceurrttieM Of 8*vm Oayt QlvM In An Epitomised Perm For Quick Reading t . Foreign? \y Six hundred dynamite bombs, 100, ) 000 rounds of ammunition and other war material have been seized at Jose de las Lages, Cuba, in connection with political disturbances growing out of the presidential campaign. Fire of undetermined origin destroy ed the country house of Count de Levlp Mirepoix at Cherre Perrin, Francfc, built by the Dauphin, son of Louis XIV. The building was one of the , finest examples of the French ^archi tecture of that period. The prince of Wales is making him self at home in Winnipeg for the first time since he crossed the Atlantic. He Is walking around in his shirt sleeves at the hotel in Winnipeg. Canada, the whole first floor of which had been reserved for the royal visitor, and the suite which the prince occupies can be closed off entirely from the rooms of the others in his party. B. F. Barker, El Paso, Texas, auditor of the Erupcion Mining company, and eight other men were lined up and shot to death by bandits, who wrecked a freight train of the Chihuahua and Oriente railway. 41 miles southwest of Juarez, in a fifteen thousand dollar payroll holdup. The qntire tralp crew was included in the nine men killed. The Chekiang forces defending Shanghai against the attacks of the invading Kiangsu armies surrendered and an armistice declared between the < opposing Chinese forces. A Central News dispatch from Am sterdam says that the Dutch police have arrested a German who was on his way to Doom with the intention of killing the ex-kaiser. The man had attempted several times before to cross the border with forged passports, and is believed to belong to a gang who are organized to kill the ex-emperor. , Anatole France, 80. the great French writer, died recently at his home in Tours. He had been ill since August, and little hope had been entertained for his recovery. Almost up to the end he retained his interest in those around him. q A commission from the ministry of finance has been sent to Tartar, Pa zardjik. Bulgaria, to investigate a pe culiar phenomenon in the local branch of the Bulgarian National bank?the crumbling of metallic currency, either t to a thin scum-like film or else to mere dust. Six persons, all Italians, were killed and 30 were injured in the wreck of the Paris Express, one of the finest trains in Europe, near ? Santa Margherita. Several of tfie injured probably will dle.v ' _ > SO Three persons were killed and a score injured in a clash between Hin dus and Moslemj at Allahabad. Brit ish Tndia. Troops were called to assist the police. The city now Is iqulet. ; Captain Samuel Ford charged with pirating the steamer Luten of her liquor cargo off rum row recently was. found not guiltv by a king's bcnch jury at Montreal. Washington ? A request that the proposed investi gation of agricultural conditions be withheld until after the presidential election was made to President Cool Idge the other day by Louis J. Taber of Columbus, Ohio, master of the Na tional Grange. because it is feared an investigation at this time might be come partisanly political. First official Information as to the output of the rapidly-growing infant radio industry, made public by the census bureau, shows the value of radio armnrttfs and tubes to have ag gregated S48 032 297 last year. Plans for national radio week from November ?4 to 30 durlnj* which time American' broadcasting stations will seek to transmit mesjaaee* to Europe and F"ronean stations will attempt to establish regular communication with Arnica were announced by Arthur Lynch of New York, attending the national radio conference at Washing ton. Washington.? Consideration of the growlntr problem of accommodations of motor tourists was asked by- Presi dent Cooling** of the American Civic association, tho American Institute of Park Executives an* the American Park society lb an address at the white house to delegates attending the joint conference of those organiza tions at Washington. Elimination of class C broadcaiting stations ? those of 750-watt power ? re leasing their wave lengths to relieve congestion In the class one grotip ? those of 1,000-watt. power? was recom mended to the third national radio conference bv a subcommittee which has studi^fho problem for two days. Revolutionary forces In flonduras under General Ferrero were complete ly routed reeentlv by the troops com vinanrlpd hv Provisional President Oos ta wl'h heavy losses on both sides. It was s*<d in a dispatch received at the **te department dated October 6. Hd.w I. "? \J.- . . ?* '? ^ , On motibn of counsel for the Sumter Gas and Power company tie appeal brought by that company against the city of Sumter, S. C.. In the controversy over the gas rate has been dismissed by the Supreme court with direction to thd federal district court for east ern South Carolina to dismiss the case without prejudice. ? ? f The department of Justice is ready to go thoroughly Into the charges made by the federal trade commission concerning alleged 1 monopolistic ten dencies of the Aluminum Company of America, but Attorney General Stone said the department would take no notion until the commission submit ted " 1 evidence. So far. he added he liad only unofficial knowledge of the: commission's findings. a Domestic-? / In the quiet calm of a Sabbath al ternoon, C. W. Stewart and his son Elmer, heard the solemn words o. Judge Henry A. Grady, at Soutbport. N. C.. that sentenced them to die on November 28 for the murder on July 29 of Detective Sergeant Leon George and Denuty United States Marshal Sam Lilly. Leaping from a plane piloted by her husband. Mrs. Ruth Garver. a flying circus acrobat, fell to her death at Wi chita. Kans.. when the parachute fail ed to open after she jumped. ? Her husband collapsed and was taken to a hotel in a dead faint. * >? v Mayor Kendrick, of Philadelphia, says, prior to the expiration of Gen. Smedley Butler's leave of absence from the marine corps, that he will make a personal appeal to the president to allow General Butler to remain In Philadelphia until he has "cleaned up" that city. , Extending its long arm far past the twisted, crooked confines of New York's Chinatown, the Chinese tong war left the bullet-riddled body of a young Chinese, a knotted rope about his neck and opium tablets in his pock et. sprawling face downward on a lonely North Arlington. N. J., thor oughfare. > The Norweg'ian steamer Sagatlnd, with 43,000 cases of liquor aboard, and the small British schooner Diaman tina, carrying ap undetermined quan tity of liquor were seized by the coast euard cutter Gresham recently off Sandy Hook. Need of immediate expansion of the work of Lutheran missionaries among the Jewish population of the United States is to be 'considered by the con vention of the United Lutheran church in America, to be held in Chicago. with one man dead from yellow fe ver and 88 persons held In strict seg regation In Houston's quarantine farm, federal, state and local officials, and citizens are fighting to prevent a pos slble epidemic of the disease. Citi zens still in fear of the hoof and mouth disease which broke out in Harris [county, Texas, two weeks, ago, and resulted In the whole country being quarantined, awoke the other morning to find Houston threatened by an even worse peril ? yellow fever. William Abner Garrett. 63. transpor tation manager of the Baldwin Loco motive works, and widely known engi neer, died at his home in Philadelphia recently, of pneumonia. He was one of the most noted engineers of the country, and had built many railroads. MaJ. Frederick S. Wallace, a noted engineer. 86 years old. died the othei day at ^Chattanooga, Tenn. He had been interested in the development of many: railroad properties, but In re- j cent years had been attached to the Chattanooga postoffice. Ten tqen and an oflcer from the -Na tional Guard unit at Hopkinsville. Ky., kept guard at the home in Prince ton, Ky.. of COunty Attorney A. B. Hodge following receipt by Mrs Hodge of a letter threatening her hus band with death unless he resigned. An attempt had already been made to blow up the Hodge home. An attempted robbery of the First National bank of Shidler, Okla., wa? frustrated recently after a gunfight in v(hich two of the three alleged ban dits *ere wounded. All were captured. Ralph Shadel, a youthful farm hand. Mlddelburg, Pa., has been convicted ol murder In the second degree' on his 18th birthday. He says that the wife of the man whom he killed urged him to kill her husband because she wanted to marry him (Shadel). The wife will be tried as an accessory before the fact. ! Henry Ford has withdrawn his bid for Muscle Shoals, and has assumed a waiting attitude by putting it up tc the government to make the next move if he is CO take any further action in the matter. Mr. Ford characterized the whole transaction a "simple affair of business which should have been de cided within one week by any one," but has "become a complicated pollti cal affair." The bid, he says, is with drawn .because productive business can not wait on politics. Donr Chafin. sheriff of Logan coun ty. was found guilty of conspiracy to violate the Volstead act in the United States district court at Huntington W. Va. Mrs Winona Green; aged 28. ol Pneblo. Colo., after more than 20 hourt of almost continuous grilling at Un hands of Major James A. Pltcock head of' the Little Rock detective de partraent. gave an alleged confession according to the police. In which sh* Mmitted killing both J. H. (Bob. Green, and wife. Mrs. Lena 8. Green of Little Rook, Ark. / : ; ' ? 4: <??? ?' TO OTEEN HOSPITAL AMERICAN LEGION P06T SENDS DELEGATION TO WASH ?,x ? INGTON. \ . Washington.? Asheville people have become aroused over reports about bad conditions at 0 teen. The Veterans' Bureau hera is going to try to get at the bottom of the complaints coming from there. In order to that Dr. R. W. Blask has been sent down to in vestigate the situation with regard to the food provided for the patients and the dismissal of Dr. Archie McCal lister. Charles Holland and Harold Kent, members of the American Legion post at Oteen, were here to confer with General Hines, head of the Veterans' Bureau. They were presented by Robert M. Smyth, chairman of the National rehabilitation (committee, disabled veterans of the World War, with headquarters here. Messrs. Holland and Kent came to present papers signed by officers of American Legion posts, nurses and others. They saw General Hines at 2:30 and as they left the room they were asked to give the results of the conference. They refuged, saying that General Hines had asked them to say nothing about their visit. It was stated at the Veterans' Bu reau that General Hines is desirous of ironing out the troubles at Oteen The charge that the food is 'bad has been investigated by inspectors, but their reports are held confidential The dispatches of Dr. Black may bring results. While Messrs. Holland and Kent were with General Hines, a telegram signed by Mrs. O. C, Hamilton, presi dent of the city Federation of Wo men's Clubs and Mjs. Buckner, general secretary of the North Carolina Baraca and Philathea Association, of Ashe ville, was received, saying in eifect, that there is nothing wrong at Oteen. Would Let German Build Zeppelin. Paris. ? A scheme which would post pone the dismantling of the Zeppelin works at Friedrichshafen, Germany, for at leaBt two years and by which, the construction of another giant diri gible, similar to the ZR-3 would be made possible, was described in Le Journal. A French company which has purchased patent rights from the Zeppelin company with the intention of using them for cwnmercial diri gible lines, according To the newspa per, has suggested that the Zeppelin company build another ZR-3 for France to be considered on the reparations account. The German government is under stood to favor the scheme which will be put before the reparation commis sion. 25' / ~\ Officer Robbed By Blacks. I Greensboro. ? Astonishing detals of a sensational holdup in which a deputy sheriff was fired upon, chased, robbed and left in an unconscious state by two bold negro bandits in a lonely wood near Randleman, 12 miles south of the city, were learned here. The deputy, Sam Frazier, of Ran dleman, fleeing through a wood with the bandits in hot pursuit tripped over a tangled grape vine, fell, strik ing his head and chest on the stony ground where he lay unconscious from 9 o'clock until 5 P. M. The bandits who had stolen over $100 in cash and a valuable watch from the officer, made good their escape. The deputy is being treated by physicians in his home at Randleman, while officers o* Randolph and surrounding counties were searching for the bandits. Wholeeqle Commodity Prices Decline. Washington. ? Wholesale commodity prices in September showed slight de creases from the August level. Infor mation gathered in representative, markets by the Bureau of Labor Statis tics of the Department of Labor brought the weighted index number, covering 404 commodities, from 149.77 for August to 148.8 for the last month. Decreases in farm products, cloth ing materials, fuel and metals were chiefly responsibly for the drop in the geenral price level, the figures showed. Among the farm products also there were substantial reduc tions in cattle, Bheep, cotton, cotton seed, flaxseed, hay and potatoes. These decreases, despite Increases in grains, hogp and wood, caused the farm products level to recede 1.5 per cent. Dies in Plane Crash. Glendale, Cal. ? A naval officer, iden tified as Lieut. Commander Grattan C. Dichman of the air service at San Diego, was burnetfifb death here, when flames destroyed his plans after it struck a small building. Penney Mileage May Bo 15,900 ? New York. ? Tentative groupings of the eastern railroads into four large trunk line systems, proposed In a re vlsal plan of consolidation, presented to the interstate commerce commis sion last Saturday, would give the Pennsylvania railroad a route mile age of 15,900, the largest of the group, according to Information obtained in railroad circles. Closely . toHwing would be the New York Central, with a Jtlleage of 15,400, the Baltimore ft Ohio' with 13,300 and the "Nickel Plate" with approximately 12,000. ? EXHAUST HMDS OK NEXT SATURDAY " ? - '? ' ' "V . ? 11 '? /? HIGHWAY COMM888ION TO LIT ? ? ' IS OR 14 MORE PROJECT8 ON NOVEMBER 12. * "? Raleigh. The 'last letting of contracts for the construction of gaps In the State Highway system out of the present bond Issue will probably be made on November 12 when fourteen or thir teen jobs will be awarded. The commissioners made three more awards of jobs for which the bids were opened last Tuesday. The awardi are: Project 111,117, Camden and Currituck counties, route 34, between Camden and Cligo, 11.81 miles top soil and grading, to Nelle L. Teer, of Durham, at $74,458.50; project 791-B, Yadkin, route 60 between Yadkinville and Forsyth county line, 13.39 miles paving to L. . Tindall, of Waterford, Wis., at $482,528.40; and project 106-B, Berite, route 23 through town of Wind sor, five miles paving, to Frank J. Mc Ouire, of Norfolk, at $151,968.50. Fourteen contracts are expected to be awarded on November 12 with ten contracts already definitely decided upon. In the Fourth Districl four jobs in the fourth district are: have to be reduced to three because of insufficient funds. The tentative list of jobs for which bids will be received, exclusive of the jobbs in the mourth district are: Project 149, Hertford, Bridge over the Meherren river and approaches, four miles. Project 284, Wayne, Goldeboro north to the Wilson county line, 14.3 mile# I of paving. Project 33, New Hanover, Wilming ton to Wrightsville Sound, eight miles grading and bridges only. Pro/ect 394, Robeson, Lumberton to Boardman, 12.7 miles grading' and bridges only. Project 646-B, Lincoln, Lincolnton to Catawba county line, 9.88 miles paving. Project 648-B, Lincoln, Lincolnton to Gaston county line, 5.03 miles pav ing. Project 753-A, Stokes, Forsyth coun ty line to Danbury on route 89 via Walnut Cove, 13 miles grading and brides cnly. Project 792, Yadkin, Brooks Cross roads to Yadkinville, 8.5 miles grading and bridges only. Project 9*1. Haywood. Springdale to Transylvania county line, 7.3 miles grading and bridges only. Project 982, Swain, intersection of routes 10 and 286 to Almond, seven miles grading and bridges only. Veteran Loss By Death 665. All Confederate pensioners will thk year receive increases of $10 a yeai in their pensions, the largest amount ever added except by action of the leg islature, according to announcement made by State Auditor Baxter Durham. The list of all pensioners who are to divide the million dollar annual ap propriation totals 8,668 names, with the widows outnumbering soldiers by 1.088. Losses by death last J^ear totall ed 665. The number of soldiers in each class with the amount of the annual pension follows: I FirBt class, 25, $165. ?? Second class, 49, $150. Third class, 86, $135. Fourth class, 3,630, $120. The amount of pensions for widows is the same as for soldiers of like class. There are 33 in the first class, composed entirely of the blihd, and 4,878 in the fourth class. With the soldiers far ahead of the widows in age and with the special session of the General Assembly hav ing advanced the eligible marriage date, from 1880 to 1899, it is expected that the disporportion between Wid ows and soldiers will be greater next year. \ , ' ' Women's Class Start Soon. The classes in dressmaking, home furnishing and millinery which are be ing offered by the Division of Voca tional Education in the State Depart ment of Public Instruction and spon sored by the Home Economics and art departments of the Raleigh Woman's Club will hold their first meeting Mon day, October 20th with Miss Katherine Mather as instructor. These classes will meet for a three weeks period and each course will consist of six lesson?, two lessons a week. All classes will meet in the Woman's Club Building. The dressmaking couse will include the study of the use. making and changing of patterns, and t?ie construction of cotton, silk or wool dresses for children and women. The millinery course will includc the study of line, style, trimming ami construction of winter hats. 8. A. L. Wants to Remove Trains. Another railroad petition for the curtailment of train service was heard by the State Corporation Commission when the Seaboard Air Line prayed to. be allowed to remove two Ip283enger trains running between Chajrlotte and Rutherfordton. The railroad claimed that It was running .the ^wo trains at an annual loss of $11,705. W. L. Stan ley of Atlanta, one of the vice presi dents of the Seaboard was chief coun sel for the petitioner. DOOfGS HIDE :i TAK HEEL STATE ! NEWS OP NORTH CAROLINA ! TOLD IN 8HORT PARA : GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE Wilson.. ? Twenty - three million pounds of tobacco bM been sold on the Wilson market to date. For the first time during the season the ware house floors were cleared and ready to receive a new supply on Monday morning. < Charlotte. ? A new peach record for 1924 was established by the Southern Railway, which up to September 17, bandied 7,433 cars of Southern grown peaches, according to reports from of ficers of the Southern system, here. Shelby. ? The cotton growers of Cleveland and Rutherford counties are taking increasing Interest in co-opera tive marketing of cotton, and many new members are being added to the Association in these counties. Burlington. ? A. H. King, attorney and former superintendent of schools here, was elected Alamance county superintendent of public instruction at a meeting of the school board held in Graham succeeding M. C. Terrell, re signed. ! ? Durham ? The first "open air" school room in Durham, located at the More head school, and sponosred by the Durham Kiwanis club, was formally presented and accepted. Warsaw. ? John Blanchor, an elder ly farmer, living near Warsaw, refti his car on the side walk at the corner of Main and College streets, near the Bank of Warsaw, and knocked a man named Goodrich down, and causing him to cut a deep gash on his head. Charlotte. ? Carroll Herman, 15 months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Herman, of Catawba county, died at a hospital as the result of swallowing an open safety pin. The pin punctur ed the will of the oesrophagus and the heart covering. >? Wadesboro.? :Work has begnn on the paving of the mile-long road lead ing from this city to the Seaboard de pot. This road is known to all travel lers by rail and is notoriously rough, the visitor to this city always being sure of a good shake before reaching the city. The traveling public will un doubtedly hail with delight the inno vation. ? Kinston. ? Road damage from floods In this section may exceed $250,000, John E. Cameron, state commissioner here, said. The heaviest losses were in Wayne county. The highways in Lenior, Sampson, Duplin and other counties were damaged to a lessor de gree. Statesville. ? J. H. McElwee, for many years a leading Statesville man ufacturer and business man, on his ninetieth birthday, went from here to King's Mountain to attend the cele bration of the 144th anniversary ol the Battle of Kings Mountain. Mr. McElwee made the trip by automobile, being accompanied by Miss Mamie McElwee, Mrs. T. N. McElwee and Dacid Thomas. Kinston. ? Rosanna Flannigan, 17, is dead, and her father, Alonza Flanni gan, colored, is seriously injured as a result of the collision of an auto mobile and horse and buggy on the Snow Hill road. Flannigan and hi? daughter were driving the horse and buggy. The driver of the automobile did not stop his machine after the collision. Tarboro.? With the subsidence oi water in the river here farmers are bringing tobacco to ' this market in large quantities and the prices now being paid are higher than at any time this fall. Goldsboro.? The first convention has already been planned for Golds boro's new hotel and early in nex' September North Carolina Commercial Secretaries will meet in the new structure which will be completed September 1, 1925. This meeting was to have been held in January but South Carolina Secretaries luive per suaded the North Carolinians to meet with them at Rock Hill the first of the year. Smithfield. ? Complaints concerning bridges washed away by the recent high water came in from several sec tions of the county at the meetingg of the Board of Commissioners. The worst damage seemed to be on Little River. R. D. Johnson, who looks after the bridge work in Johnston County, was instructed to make inspection of the bridges and make repairs as rap idly as possible. Smithfield. ? The coutaty Board of Education at a meeting heldd here de cided to postpone the opening of the six months schools will open on Octo ber 15th, a* previously stated. This change has been made because the boys and girls will be needed to help house the cotton crop, much of which is still In the fields, on account of the recent rains. k Charlotte. ? The business condition Of North Carolina is showing marked Improvement in the past few weeks, if Increased demands for labor fijed with the six U. S. labor bureaus of the State are a safe creterion, according to M. L. Shipman, State Commissioner of Labor and Printing, who spent Friday in Charlotte. Hamlet? Fred McKeithan, age 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. McKeithan, of Hamlet, who Is believed to have ?hot himself with suicidal intent, died ? at the. Hamlet Hospital. The shoot ing occurred in an alley adjoining the Hamlet Drug Company. ?V*. ? . Jt , ?' .,:t " f > ' *V f '' . ?' ? v V:f teaspoonfuli .equals) of many other hranAslhatwhy CAUIMEt TOE WORLD'S GREATEST BAKING POWDEI Goes farther lasts longer >tiun the ordinary Issven mg strength BUT IT TO! 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