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eauier Forecast: Fartly cloudy weather Vith local flowers and thunderstorms prob acy tonight and . Friday.' with lower temperature Friday, Watch The Label on Your Paper; Send Renewal Five Days Before Expiration and Avoid Miming a , . ..." Single Copy. N - ' Volume 25; Number 145, DELEGATION GOING nffA II M I a D'.MSHIIIGTON,D.C. TO ASK FOR BELIEF To Demand Immediate Relief From The Existing Shortage ' Of Coal DIG LUMBER MILL FORCED TO CEASE OPERATIONS Supply of Fuel For Local Electric Light and Water Plant Answering the appeal of thtf man PSement of the" local frlotHn . on h water plant for fuel, parties in this city End county who were able to furnish even a small quantity of fuel l ave supplied the plant with about forty-five cords of woocCbout a i' ree days supply, thus giving tem r rary relief In the existing dilemma in which the plant's . management f i themselves on account of the . '. oi coai. , , i ... , v Ti e mammoth plant of he John j.. Koper bumDer company, in this y cjosea Wednesday night for an indefinite period on account of the 1 ck of coal and other industries are threatened. This afternoon a com nittce composed of C. L. Ives A T f . rr-ns and H. E. ,Barlow leave "for Washington,- P. C," to join represen tatives of twenty-two . other-North Carolina cities ,7n' an appeal to the 1 -rstate commerce, commission -to relieve the existing situation caused ly the fuel shortage and to make .it : . .-:Lle for NEW BERN and the ct: ;r suffering cities to secure ship ' : of coal from the mines or from t thousands of tons which are now i v idle at Newport News, - Va., a ? 3ifipg shipment overseas. r.'ir.V BERN is a little better off, la a measure, than some of the other North Carolina cities.' . In some tl. es the electric plants are. oper ated but a few hours daily, ice-mak-ir? rlants have closed and other in d :1ries have been forced to shut thf lr doors. The situation locally is tai enough at the present time It Is pci-trl out, but unless coal can be r- quickly conditions are des t. 1 t3 grow worse, " .- 1: committee which leaves NEW T - t .is afternoon fwill put -the " i r to the interstate commerce n in its true light and will i that, cars be furnished in " to transport this fuel to this c tbef -Tar Heel towns' IIA'S WHEAT CROP LE UNDER NORMAL T T" (By Aaaoclated Pareaa) . I LINCOLN, Neb., June 17. Feder al and state ofBcials state that Ne tra 1 a's 1920 wheat crop will reach &S, 129, 000 bushels, or 4,546,000 un der the 1919 production.- A. report, prepared by ,A. E. Anderson, of the feicral bureau, and secretary ILeo Etuhr, of the state agricultural de partment, '.gives 88 percent as , the condition of the winter wheat crop, and estimates it will yield 50, 896,000 buFhels compared to 54,997,000 bu shels last spring. ' Spring wheat pro duction, according to preliminary es timates will reach 5,233,000 bushels compared to 5,678,000 bushels in 1919. These estimates are all based on June 1, conditions. r -; MENNONTTES TO EMIGRATE INTO SOUTH A3IERICA OON (By Anortated Trtmuy; . CALGARY, Alta., June 17.-Meh-noniteg.of southern Alberta will join those of Manitoba and the. Dakotas in an emigration movement to Brazil shortly, it is Btated here. It is stated the Mennonites have options on 20, 000,000 acres : of land v in South America. , '. ' . ' - ; ' ' - - I OKLAHOMA VOMAN SHERIFF BREAKS UP BOOTLEGGING She Says the Liquor Traffic in The . Territory of Duncan Is Going to Stop Right Pronto-: . ; (By Associated Press) DUNCAN, Okla., June' 17. The first woman sheriff of the southwest ' was installed recently when Mrs. Wil liam Gates took the oath of office a sheritr of Stephens county?here. "There will be no bootlegging or moonshinning in these . parts,'' Mrs. Gates announced as the chief plapk of her platform, and to prove shu mearit what she said she seized three stills., "within a week after she as sumed office. ' ' V Mrs. Gates succeeded her husband. .': who, while on his deathbed, sum moned ' the three commissioners . ot Stephens county and asked them to elect his wife to the , office. - They promised that they would do so, and - that Is why ' Mrs. Gates became the first woman sheriff of the southwest Mrs.. Gates, despite the fact that she has &pentri the responsibilities of the shfiriff-B nffw-a in a county near the oil fields, where there is an incli nation to disregard laws, isjemmiuB and domestic. She had never? be fore appeared in jublic me. ana er , time and enerev have been devoted, to her homo The inside work 'of the office has' Deen assumed by the womau ucim, who dictates its policies, while; the outside 'tnoto- t -filling, serving pa pers' and hanging prisoners is dele notoj t .iti- , . Comities.: '- iu . turee maie uk . . . ,-.-DUC)..0 , . .. , , ."My husband's policies were satis-j had; begun serving sentence3 which fauna and flora, and the national re- held, cannot draw retirement pen factory o Stephens county and I aggregate many years resulted ad-' search council has already appointed sions. The ruling was announced in will follow closely in each step Of his I versely to them. The prisoners num- a committee to study the issues in-' a letter to Secretary of the Interior career," jjira. Gates eaWt - Jw twelve, . . . . iplvedi ,i .1 , Payne. SIX PAGES TODAY Explorer, Who Rediscovered Giant White Cannibals of the Orinoco, and His Wife f yXXVff:.: -- .......... -t 15 i4 y' ul Dr. i and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice. Dr. .Alexander Hamilton Rice,- Amazon'and its tributaries, , who has . seventh expedition he has made in nos discovered tne legenoary wnite Orinoco. Dr. Rice. and his party .encountered the savages seven days lip the river from Esrreralda, the base of the expedition, where they had gone to map out a small island.iThey were forced' to fire on the tribesmen, who "were about seven feeCio height, and killed several of them belure they escaped-. This tribe was last reported . by a party of Spaniards in 1763 and an attack was made4on the Spanish explorers at about the same spot that Dr. Rice and his party were attacked with bows and arrows, spearg and blowguns. Mrs. Rice, who was Mrs. George D. Widener, of Philadelphia, in accompanying her husband on this expedition, achieved the distinction of penetrating, further into the Amazon wilderness than anjr other whitt woman, breaking the 'record made by Mrs. Louis Agassiz in 1869.' RELIEVE FREIGHT Coal- Shortage "Also Will. Soon Receive Attention Of i . - r v Authorities - 'y " ' .' (By Associated .'Press) WASHINGTON, June 16. Depart ment of justice and interstate com merce officials began-, working to gether today to relieve freight con gestions on i. the nation's railroads and -. to restore coast-wise shippings to normal; through . settlement 'cf strikes of marine workers. . Follow ing these efforts to allievate serious coal shortages in various partsof the country the question of an em bargo on coal exports will be consid ered., . The means of dealing with rail con gestion and marine labor troubles, adopted by the two government agen cies at a, conference yesterday be tween Attorney General Palmer and Interstate Commerce Commission members, have not been announced, but it has been learned that an ex port embargo on ; coal is being dis cussed as a. last resort .' to-.remedy conditions where coal shortages ex ist. ' v ." ," ' 7 : i- -' ' '. v Reports compiled by the railroad's cat servlcfi today" showed continued improvement in the car supply. On ly 126,606 "cars were being held on sidings during the week ending June 4, as compared with 159,606, idle cars reported , the previous week When the freight jam f was at its heigth 290,000 cars were tied up. , MELBOURNE MINT READY TO TURN OUT UNIQUE COINS Pennies, Half Pennies and Nickels Will Hereafter Be Square Instead of Round as at Present " V (By Associated Press) SYDNEY, Australia, June 17- Australia is about to , mint square pennies and half pennies of nickel. These will go into circulation con currently with the present copper coinage, of which, it is understood, no more will be minted. So far the only peoples to attempt to use square coins are those of Brl tish dominions. India has had a square 2-anna piece since 1918, Cey lon, a square 5-cent piece since 1910 and the Straits settlements a square cent since last year. The action of the Melbourne mint officials is, probably dictated by the fact that square coins leave less metal in the sheets from which they are cut' and they pack better when boxed. AUSTRALIA IS AFTER INDUSTRIAL WORKERS UY Associated Press) , SYDNEY, Australia,,, June 17. The labor party having lately come into power in Nfew South Wales, it is proposed by the government to appoint a commission to inquire fur- ther into the case of the industrial workers of the world, who are in the penitentiary for arson and at tempted arson committed here sev- eral years ago. An inquiry of the . CONGESTION UPON COUNTRY'S RAILS NEW BERN 1 famous for his explorations aliithe just returned to New York fi' v."-'-? nineteen years,, h confident tltw or near white, giant cannibals of the Much Interest Attaches to Very Close and Exciting Guber- v ,r natorial Race y- (By MAX D. ABERNETHY) RALEIGH, June 17. The work of the state board of elections about completed candidates who stood up on June 5 are now laying their plans for the second primary; which will be -held on Saturday. July 3. .This date is fixed- by law which specifies that.in 'the event of a second primary it. shall be held on the fourth Sat urday following the first primary. t. ' - . Gubernatorial Race '"Foremost in the second contest is the race for governor, in which Cam eron' Morrison and O. Max Gardner are the aspirants. Crawford 'Biggs, Mr. Gardner 8 state campaign man ager, vyesteraay ;, arternoon noiinea the state board, of elections ' or nis desire for a second primary. By reason of Mr. Morrison's lead over Mr. Gardner . the former will, of course, be somewhat of a favorite. Morrison supporters ' - arriving here from all sections of the state report to headquarters of the growing sen timent of the Mecklenburg candidate and declare that there is a grand rush of voters for what they de scribe as the Morrison band-wagon. Requests for a second primary have also1 been received by the board from Hannibal Godwin for congress in the sixth district, who was second in the contest with Homer L. Lyon, and James P. Cook, candidate for state auditor, who, will fight it out with Baxter Durham, leading with about nine thousand votes. Nominations Certified , , ' In the ninth district' A. Lee Bul winkle, of Gastonia, will be declared the nominee since his nearest com petitor, former Judge W. B. Coun cill, of Hickory, has already an nbunced that he will not ; make the second race. W. C. Hammer and W. E.i Brock will' be given the op- portunity of running it off in the seventh district, although Mr. Ham mer Is leading. Congressman Sam M. Brinson is the nominee in the third district over his opponent. Charles L. Abernethy, while Hallett Ward wins out without a second con test over Congressman John Small Other nominations certified are: Judge B. H. Cranmer in the fifth Inrllfial district: J. Bis Rav of tho eighteenth district ; J. Lloyd Horton.l in the eight district. For state sen- i ate the following were certified: E. J. Griffin and Stanley Winborne in the first; H. L. Swain and H. W. Stubbs in the second; J. S. Hargett and Luther Hamilton in the seventh; Vance MczGougan in the thirteenth, and 'G. P. Ferguson, republican, in the thirty-seventh district. EXPLORE RESOURCES OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN ... (By Associated Press) SEATTLE, Wash., June 17. The problem of exploring the' resources of the Pacific Ocean confronts dele gates to the fourth annual meeting t-f the Pacic division of the Ameri can Association for the advancement Of science, which opened a two days' session at the university of Wash ington here today. Dr. William E. Ritter; of the Scripps Institution of biological lesearch, is a leading ad- 'cite nf the proposal to make a tnorougn-going study ot tne ocean CANDIDATES FORM; PUg FOR SECOND SUN-JOURNAL THURSDAY, SOUTHERN LEAGUE No Game in Atlanta With Little Rock This Afternoon, as bcneauiea OTHER4:. CITIES TAKE STAND'wITH ATLANTA Little Rock jyanager Says in- justice is IBeing Done His New Recruits - By Asoctatecl 'Press) ATLANTA, Ga., June 17. Presi dent Frank, of the Atlanta baseball club,- announced today there would be no game here this afternoon be tween the Atlanta and Little Rock clubs as a result of the refusal of Manager Elberfeld. to agree not to CLUBS IN WRANGLE OVER NEW PLAYERS i4play Pitcher ".Casey'-', Smith, a for- mer can , r rautiavu f ratmc - joasi League player. ; - - r" -. Shortly - after the. arrival of the Travelers this' morning Frank sent I a committee of two to the Little Rock officials with , an ultimatum declar ing that unless Little Rock relin quished Smith and Seaton. two Dlav- fers released from 'the San Francisco team, the gates of Ponce De Leon park would remain closed today and Atlanta .wOuld .. refuse to play any other , games scheduled with the Little. Rock club as long as the play ers were retained. I ;"' ;, v , . Blberfeld 1 .refused to' meet; the terms of the ultimatum,' it was stat ed, whereupon. Frank .. announced there would be no game today. "The charges against the - players is all hearsay evidence," declared Elberfeld, "and in spite of our writ ten request to the San Francisco club officials for full information as to the details in the case, we have received no reply. In justice to these players the charges should be investigated thoroughly. If they are proven1 true both men should be barred' from baseball, . .. but , if innocent, as they seem to be, Smith and Seaton have f been done an injustice." Chattanooga Refuses Also V CHATTANOOGA. Tetfn. j June 17. The ; Chattanooga club will not participate ia any ball games with Little Rock until the Smith case has been settled, it : was decided by the board of directors here today. .... -t ,-., . n.ii. . .w, ei MOBILE, Ala ," June 17. The Mo bile club has backed up the stand taken by Atlanta in the Smith case and will refuse to play ball with the Little Rock " team until the matter has been adjusted. ' ASKS FOR -AD VANCE ON COAD FREIGHT KATES . (By Associated Press) - WASHINGTON, June 17. . "olea for a freight rate oh coal mors 'Uan the general advance asked for by the railroads was made to the. Interstate commerce commission today by C D. Boyd, of Louisville, Ky., representing the Harlan county coal operators' as sociation. : , ' - i ; SAVES HIM FROM A T Adjudged Guilty of Raising Ten Dollar Note to Fifty Dollars (By Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, June 17. An excellent record made by Anthony Telensky while serving overseas dur ing the war saved him yesterday from a long prison term for raising ten dollar notes to fifty dollars. The prisoner was wounded fourteen times, and in imposing sentence Judge Thompson deducted a year for each wound. He was given one year in federal prison at Atlanta. The judge told the defendant his offense called for the maximum sentence of fifteen years, but he could ot overlook his fine war record. Telensky is an un naturalized Russian ; and enlisted in a New England regiment shortly after war was declared by this country. DEMOCRATIC. OPERATION GOVERNMENT CONTROL (By Associated Press) MONTREAL, June 17. Govern men townership with democratic op eration of American railroads was endorsed today by the American Fed eration of labor convention here aft er a bitter fight. The roll call showed that government ownership was endorsed by the vote of 29,05y to 8,349. FEDERAL EMPLOYES MUST RETIRE AT 70 YEARS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 17 Federal employes who have reached the age of retirement 70 years although they have not given a minimum of fifteen years service required under the retirement law, must be dropped from the rolls, Attorney General Pal mer ruled today. Such employes, he SOLD ER S RECORD LONG PRISON JUNE 17, 1920. Baby Blakely Coughlin' s Father Swindled by Child's Abductors (By Associated - Press) . NORU1STOWN, ra., June 17. -The police again today took up the search for thirteen-months-old Blakely' Coughlin, stolen from his crib on June 2. At the same time they were looking for a person known only as "the crank," who swindled George H. Coughlin, the baby's father, out of $12,000 which was demanded for the return of the child safely. RECEIVED SEVERAL LETTERS After receiving several letters and telephone calls from "the crank," Coughlin became 1 con vinced he was the abductor and asked the police to withdraw from the case so he personally could negotiate with the writer. "The crank" at first only de manded six thousand dollars ransom,? hut later doubled it On Monday he called Mr. Cough lin on the telephone and cv Ylim In&frnrHnna urtiAt: is ? .?:" the money. He acquic" the request , of the fa , at another man not conr ' y'ith y . WORLD SCARCITY OF RAW COTTON With Short Crop in United States English Mills Likely to Suffer. (By Associated Press) MANCHESTER, Eng., June 17. Professor J. A. Todd, secretary of the empire cotto growing committee of the board of trade, has just delivered to the Textile. Institution a warning of the prospective world scarcity of cotton "in'. Che near future and em phasized the need for developing new sources of supply as well as experi menting with cotton substitutes. - Situation In America V -After dealing , exhaustively with the labor position in the United States cotton growing areas, bad weather and ravages by boll-weevil, asi well as .the acreage position,, the professor said, "it is obvious that we were not going to get 15,000,000 bales of cotton this year." At hame it seemed to him the consumers had not yet felt the full weight : of the hight cost of the raw material. Even i,1 dmejlca vhe did nft -ee roichv.Hin of the consumer s intentlon' or doing without cotton fabrics'. ' " v The statistics for America's domes tic consumption for , the .first three months of this year were on a basis uncomfortably near to 7,000,000 bales a year. British consumption before the war was nearly 4,000,000 bales and the total American crop last year was only 11,000,000. What wa3 going to happen when the rest of the world ahd particularly the continental countries woke up and began to demand more cotton? Activity of Mills By next year, he said, the conti nental mills probably would be more active than now and the demand in creased and the, Oriental .demand would also be,much higher. So long as' the workers and producers of the world were making so much more money than they ever did before, he did not see how the demand 'for cot. ton goods was even going to be sub stantially, reduced. The world was not producing sufficient cotton to meet this demand and was not likely to do so unless some way was de vised of making use of even . the low est grades. . It was only a question of time, he asserted, when the world would face a scarcity of cotton and it was high time, therefore, that something was done to develop new source of supply, for, even when they were found they would not be able to af ford substantial relief for five or ten years. He was not sure that the time had not come for them to look around for an efficient cotton, substi tute, for the world was full of tex tile fibres which had never been ex plotted. ... i FRENCH GALLANTRY THING OF THE PAST WORKING GIRLS SAY Are Demanding That Special Cars be - Reserved for Women Alone on The Paris Tubes (By ANNOclnted Piess) PARIS, June 17. So bad have the travelling conditions become on thu tubes .here that the women workers. Including the midinettes and modistes of the fashionable shops, have de manded that a special carriage on each train be reserved for women They protest indignantly against the pushing to which they are subject ed. "The traditional gallantry ' of France is a dead letter." said one tvDical business girl. " Travelling ov the metro at certain hours of the day has become nothing more or less than a battle in which the weak have no chance against the strong." GERMAN WAR PRISONERS ARE SEEKING EMPIX) YM ENT (By AMMoclHteil Press) TOKIO, June 17.- More than 70v of the German prisoners of war set free by Japanese troops in Siberia are desirous oj, finding employment in Japan. All are graduates of tech nical schools and experienced in electric, mechanical and railway work. The Japanese authorities to whom they have applied have referr ed the matter to the Tokio chamber of commerce, which is trying to find employment fo them. A, AX ONE SECTION TODAY the police' department accom pany him to the spot, but desig nated they should not go to the place before midnight and that they must deposit the cash and drive away without making the slightest attempt to discover his identity. The child would be returned in a taxicab, "the crank" Baid, within twenty-four hours. COMPLIED WITH DEMANDS - Mr. Coughlin said he had complied with every demand of the kidnapper and felt confident' the baby would be , returned Tuesday night. Both he and Mrs. Coughlin remained up all night.' At 3 o'clock the next af ternoon he drbvo to the spot where he left the money and t found it gone. He then gave up hope, he said, and realized he had been defrauded. He placed the case in the hands of the au- - y thorities last night and an- jiouncea tie baa abandoned all f desire of .dealine hdirectlv with the S abductors w who had- been promised immunity if 'the chUd was returned. . i' . v. THROUGH WAR '1K Are No Longer The Shy and i Veiled Creatures of Former. Years (Br Associated Press) CONSTANTINOPLE, June 17. Turkish women are no longer the shv veiled creatures who passed their time in the seclusion of the harem and were never seen by foreign mer. They still cling to the veil ; I'.pt tho streets in Constantinople aud other larger Turkish cities are filled with women who have their veils thrown back from- their faces. They are highly ornamental and ' becoming. Most Turkish women don't want to abandon them in favor of hats. But there are many sorts of veils aud the smart, black silk veils , which some of the women wear are very fetching when draped artistically over their hair. "' : ' ' . , Travel With Men Also. In the ' railway and streets car& there are special seats for women, but . the ' flimsy curtains which are soppoSfiZf to wcretrtrtnej. r frota " the ?aze of men are usually drawn back, ind it is not uncommon to see menj itanaing in tne compartments tor women. Only very old men, how ever, are rash enough to sit down in the same seat with a Turkish woman.' Turkish women seldom go to a thea ter where there are men. Special matinees and evening performances are arranged I for women only. The war has done much to break down the barrier between .Turkish men and women. The women were needed so badly as nurses and relief workers that the government had to avail itself of their services. And now it is regarded as quite proper for men and women to be associated in all sorts of charitable and educa-i tional works. , Consequently - many women who were formerly forced to content themselves with seclusion in a home where fancy work and French novels were the only diversions are devoting their time to ' hospitals, or phanages and other philanthropic in stitutions. - More Freedom for-Women.' Women who have been educated abroad or in the foreign schools in Turkey are the leaders in this move ment for greater freedom for their sex. Their broad experience in wai work has interested many women in politics and ,they have openly played a great part in the nationalist move ment. In the Constantinople Ameri can Woman's, College the Turkish girls take great interest in basket ball and other athletic games and the effect upon women who have come under foreign influence is making the old life of seclusion and inactivity unattractive to younger Turkish women. 1 INDECOROUS LOVE LEADS TO) SUICIDE PACT OF TWO JAPS Man and Woman, Bound Tightly To gether, Leap Headlong Into the Sea at Hawaii . ( By Associated Press) HILO, Island of Hawaii, June 17. Strapped together as they leapeo into the sea to fulfill a double suicide pact, Uye Tafaburo, a Japanese of North Kohala, and Makino Kuyama wife of another Japanese, partly f ailJ ed in .their endeavor. Tafaburo was drowned, but the woman was pull ed from the surf by W. Pinehaka, jailer of North Kohala. Pinehaka saw the pair with ankles and bodies bound together leap ao one into the sea from the rocks below Hawii on the North Kohala coast. He scrambled down to the water's edge just as the tide washed the wo man back to shore, the bonds that tied here to her companion having broken. Later Tafaburo's body was reciv ered by Hawaiian divers. The woman's infant child, wrap ped in her obi, or gordle, was found I i a . : .. t -. . r t V. . . ' spot where she had failed in her attempt at suicide. Preaching Friday Night (By Associated Press) Elder Isaac Jones and Elder Saw yer will preach at No. 191 George street, Friday night. WOMEN OF TURKEY WIN EMANCIPATION 1 Single Copy : 1 Five Cents SENATOR HffiDIX, . WILL INAUGURATE POLITICAL TALKS Republican Candidate Will Hold Informal Conferences With Party Leaders f " READY TO PREPARE HIS SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE Will Bear in Mind What The ' ..-. -. . . . . , .... Leaders Think and Say fin . Outlining Policies (By Associated Press)' . WASHINGTON, i June f 17r. Sen- , ator Harding, republican- candidate ' for president, soon will Inaugurate a series of Informal conferences with the leaders :of. the various " party , groups. , . . - r"." . I Decision, to hold the conferences Is, understood to have been reached yesterday at a meeting between Sen ator Harding and Walter -P. Brown, - r former ; Ohio progressive "leader" and the nominee's floor manager , at the . Chicago convention; v ; '. ' ' Friends of Senator Harding seiid . , to-day that it was the plan of the nominee to keep in mind the views, expressed by party leaders in the" conferences when he prepares hi3 speech formally accepting the tomj-. ; nation. ' , , ; - " Senator Harding had arrange! no "1Prtant conferences for to-day, but expected. MAN IS MALTREATED 4 V. BY A BIG BROWN BEAR (By Associated Press) v t PRINCE RUPERT, B.5 C. June 17V Clarence Thompson, a logger of Chl cogo Island, died , recently fro i wounds inflicted by a large brown ' bear. Terribly lacerated, Thompson was found by a searching , party, to whom he gave a connected-account of his experience before he died. Unexpectedly , he came ' upon thV bear while it was feeding on the car cass of a deer. It rushed at him and he shot once before the huge paw landed with smashing force on , hi? ' face.: The, animal knocked and buff- . eted him about for a time and then . walked away. When found Thomp-. son had not a stitch of clothing on his body and he had suffered terrU bly from cold and loss of blopd. SECOND DEATil FRoil PLAGUE AT PENSACOLA (By Associated Press) " . PENSACOLA. Fla., June 17. ThO second death from the : bubonic ; plague in this city . occurred when . Scott Green, negro ice wagon driver1-.' stricken by it ten days ago, succumb , ed.', No other cases had been report-? ed up to noon today. An energetic" campaign for the eradication of rats'" was started today in all sections o " the city. - '.. GEO. UNDERWOOD ROBBED, BOUND OI RAILROAD TRACK Managed to Free Body From Rails, But Lost an Arm and a Leg in, The Endeavor " ' - (By Associated Press) : ' V EXCELSIOR SPRINGS. Mo.,' June 17. George- Underwood, , of CarrolA ton. Mo., today ' was in a hospital, minus his 4eft hand? and foot, , and posses sought two men ." Underwood 1 said robbed him and bound him' to a railroad track. Underwood was tied V with wire, but managed to free hls'-v right arm and leg just before a train; , bore, down upon him. : Underwood sold two automobiles in Kansas City . yesterday, but dis posed , of all the money he received except seventy dollars, which, was taken from him. The officers said they believed the. robbers knew ot . the sale and, followed Underwood. EXTERMINATE RATS FROM DOCKS AT PENSACOLA (By - Associated Press) , PENSACOLA, Fla., June 17. The campaign on exterminating rats from the docks here as a part of the movement to combat the spread of bubonic plague was due to start to day with the arrival of a corps bf ex pert rat trappers and f umigators of the United States public health ser vice. The city has appropriated' five' thousand dollars to start the cain-i. paign. ' ' RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIKI FORCES ARE ADVANCING ( By Associated Press) LONDON. June 17. The Russian Bolshevik! forces have again advan ced on the northern end of the Pol ish front, according to a wireless dis patch from Moscow quoting an offi cial statement issued there yesterday. Soveit successes on other sections of the lines are also reported. , NEW YORK IS FACING SERIOUS HOUSE SHORTAGE (By Associated Press) - NEW YORK, June 17. At least one hundred and sixty thousand ad ditional apartments, involving an in vestment of. $560,000,000, must be erected here to overcome the present housing shortage, according to a re port made public today . by Edward P. Doyle, secretary of Mayor Hylan'a housing conference committee. ; - .
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