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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXV “ONEARWI’WOLFEIS iTimiuT THE HANCE MURDERS Alleged Member of Gang Which Sought Venge ance for Champan Ar rest, Is Silent. HANCES TOLD OF' GERALD CHAPMAN They Gave Hint to Police That Resulted in the Ar rest of the Notorious Bandit. Muneio, Ind., An*. IS—(As)—Ven geance trailing those who testified against Gerald C. Chapman, notorious bandit, condemned to die for the mur der of a Connecticut policeman, struck down Ben Hanee and his wife near here yesterday. Tlje Hances were shot to death on the Anderson-Mun cie highway. In a dying statement inent Hanee laid the crime at the door of (ieorge “Dutch” Anderson, pal of Chapman, and Chas. “One Arm" Wolfe, of Muncie. It wns at the Hanee home that An derson and Chapman lived after their escape from the Atlanta penitentiary, anil after Chapman attempted the rob bery of the New Britain jewelry store, which resulted in the slaying of a po lice officer. Hnnce was one of the chief witnesses against Chapman. Just what occurred on the highway before the fusillade of shots riddled Hanee and his wife Has pot develop ed. although Wolfe, arrested in Mun cie last night, is held under heavy guard. Wolfe refuses to talk. Mrs. Hanee died instantly, while Hanee lived long enough to gasp out on accu sation against Anderson and Wolfe. A terrified farmer's wife, Mrs. Chas Cromer, standing on her front I Kirch, witnessed the tragedy. She re lated : . "Three machines were coming down the road, one a small coupe carrying an Ohio license, a large red automo bile and the Hanee car. The red ma chine passed the others almost in front of my bouse. The coupe pulled „ in front of th»—tinnoe. ear,aod stopped. Mrs. Hanee wns the first to to alight from the machine. She was barefooted. Her husband stepped out a second later. A few wards were ex changed and the bandits fired. Mrs. Hnnce fell dead with a bullet through her head. Hanee and a man suppos ed to be Anderson began wrestling in the road. Several shots were fired at close rnnge. Other shots were fired after him and he fell mortally wound ed as he leaped over a fence into a corn field. “The gunmen then turned their wea pons on the red machine which had stopped 200 yards up the Toad. An other machine which passed also was fired at before the two slayers jump ed into the coupe and drove away.” GENERAL REDUCTIONS" IN GASOLINE PRICES Standard Oil Company of New Jer sey Lowers Price Cent a Gallon Throughout East. New York, Aug. 14.—A wide spread reductions in gasoline price throughout the eastern seaboard was initiated today by the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, which cut wholesale quotations throughout its territory 1 cent a gallon, the second reduction by this eo'mpany within a week. Similar action was taken by inde pendent companies operating in the territory—the Texas company, Sin clair Refining company and the Gulf Refining company. The Atlantic Re fining company also lopped off 2 c.-nts from its retail gasoline prices in eastern Maasachueetto, bringing . it to the level of other companies. Owing to excesaive gasoline stocks on hand, the oil trade expects fur ther reduction will follow today’s price changes. , Cholera EpUende te Shanghai. Shanghai, Aug. 15 —(A*)—Cholera is epidemic in this city with a thousand caseß estimated at present. Tb«y are increasing at the rate of 10 to 50 cases daily with approxi mately twelve per cent resulting In death . No cases are reported among foreigners. Good nature never folia to pay large dividends in good health. sai - ■■ I Concord I Theatre (THE COOL SPOT) 1 , TODAY ONLY | PETE MORRISON JN I “Cowboy Grit” 1 *** y* l *? Br * w,Ur 7 I MONDAY AND TUES®Y | DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS** B “HIS MAJESTY THE I AMERICAN’’ ■ It’s a Greater Movie Season I v ****' ■ H - _____ mumi The Concord Daily Tribune Sanatorium Patients Are Crowding The Institution It Will Be Necessary For Some Patients to Leave Sanatorium to Make Roonf For Others Who Have Been Admitted. Sanatorium, N. C., Aug. 15.—OP)— Sixteen pntients, all suffering from tuberculosis and some of them bed ridden, have been requested to lenve the State Sanatorium here for the treatment of the di sease by September first if possible and if not then, at the earliest possi ble date afterward. Within the next 5 or 6 months, 18 to 20 other patients in a similar condition will he served with the notices to lenve. This poli cy. adopted by the Board of Trustees because of the lack of necessary build ings, beds and maintenance funds, wns ordered pnt into effect within two months by a meeting of the Board held here on July 7. Specifically, the Board decided that all pntients ,iwho had been at the institution 18 months or longer must be required to lenve in order to make room for other patients. The 30 patients who will be affect ed by the policy during the next five months will go to various parts of the State. Those who have families and friends able to pay for their support will go to private sanatoriums, those with homes but without funds to af ford private'sanatoriums will return to their homes, those without funds or homes will be returned to their home counties where they will be placed in the county homes if the counties have no tubercular institutions in which to treat them. Some of these patients are bedridden, some of them are able to be about for a limited time each day; practically all of them have tu berculosis in a stage of development which presents little hope of a cure. Death, with good treatment, may not summon them for years; death, with out good treatment, may visit them within a short period. In practically every case the disease has made such progress that a total cure is regarded as close to impossible. All of them to live must have rest—by far the greatest factors if not the greatest in the treatment of the White Plague. DEMOCRATS IN NEW YORK HtTY BATTLE Understood That Mayor Hylan May Withdraw From Primary and Enter Race as Independent. New York. Aug. 15— OP) —The at tempt of Democratic leaders to con fine the mayoralty split to the city ticket by a so-called gentleman's agree ment has apparently failed. The anti- Hylan revolt has spread to all of the five boroughs except Brooklyn, so far as the county tickets are concerned. Reports that Mayor Hylan would withdraw from the race and enter the November elections on an independent ticket, or that be would remain in the fight and run as an independent if de feated in the primaries again gained circulation. John P. Coahalnn, the mayor’s cam paign manager, declined to pledge that Mr. Hylan would not run inde pendently if defeated in the primaries. Suspended on Charge of False Swear ing. Salisbury, Aug. 14.—Mayor C. M. Henderlite has made another cut into the ranks of the local police force by suspending J. G. (Pat) Reeves, an officer which the mayor says, tes tified in a case that he had a search warrant when, according to the may oi' he did not have one. The officer says lie was acting in good faith and that the thought a warrant bearing a previous date was all right for the purposes for which he was using it. At the time Reeves was accompany -1 inf Reid Monroe, an officer who had been suspended by the mayor and put back by the -aldermen, and the mayor had instructed that other officers 1 should not work with Monroe and I that be would not sign vouchers for Monroe’s giay. In this case Mon s roe’s testimony differed froom Reeves’. J Dr. R. Matt Patterson has returu ’ ed .from Asheville, where he attended a clinic for several days. • Wreak Vengeance on Those Who Caused Chapman Arrest Muncie, Ind., Aug. 14.—Charles “One Arm” Wolf, one of the com panions of George “Dutch” Anderson, who late today shot and killed Ben Hanee and, his wife because they' in formed poliee Inst January of the whereabouts of Gerald Chapman, no torious mall robber, was capture! by police late tonight. Wolf was arrested at the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Myrtle Htra ban, in the downtown section of 'he city. \ When arrested a car was found in | Kof the Strahan home. ’This • car which Anderson and Wolfe arc suppose! to have been driving at the time of the murder. Muncie. Ind., Aug. 14. —Gerald Chapman’s pal tonight wreaked veng eance oh the informer who caused the arrest last January of the notorious mail robber. 1 * Ben Htoee, the informer, and hie “The feeling of the Board," assert ed I)r. P. P. McCain, superintendent of the institution speaking for the Board of Trustees, "is one of ex treme regret that any such ruling be came necessary but, in the face of conditions, it was felt to be the best course when the good of all was con sidered.” The institution is crowded to its fullest capacity, stated Dr. McCain. The institution has room for 300 tu bercular patients and a waiting list at the present time of 133, all of whom have the disease in its earliest stages and who might be restored to usefulness if taken into the institu tion at once. Under present condi tions it is three months after a person with the disease applies for admis sion before he or she can be admitted and three months within the institu tion may be flie necessary time to save a life while out of it the disease may have developed to such a state that the case becomes n most serious one; sometimes impossible to cure. When the 1!)25 legislature met, stat ed Dr. McCain, the Sanatorium ask ed for an appropriation for permanent improvements of something over a million dollars to care for about one thousand cases. Told to trim this request by the legislators in elinrge. the amount was cut to $480,000 which would have cared for the waiting list as well as all patients now at the hos pital. The legislature finally allowed $137,000 which is only sufficient to build a' children's building and a nurse's home, two additions to the in stitution which the Board considers to be vitally necessary. The Sanatorium, continued Dr. Mc- Cain, has dining room, kitchen, and all basis units except buildings for beds to care for double its present capacity. Had the appropriation re quest of $480,000 been allowed the capacity could have been doubled and (Concluded on Page Six.) DEBT COMMISSIONS MIRXIIG TIME DOW Commissions at Work on Belgian Debt Will Have Little to Do Under Agree ment Until Tuesday. Washington, Aug. 15.—OP)—The American and Belgian debt commis sions were marking time today in their negotiations over the funding of the little kingdom's $480,000,000 war debt to the eUnited States. Work of the two commisions was suspended yesterday until Tuesday to permit both parties to take up the progress to date with higher officials of their respective governments, and to receive additional instructions how to proceed in the matter. Secretary Mellon and Scnntor Smoot of the American commission, were en route to Plymouth, Vt., to lay all the facts before President Coolidge while the visiting delegation was in touch by cable with its own govern ment. Cooleemee Beats Gibson Mill Outfit. Cooleemeei, Aug- 14. —With a wonderful brand of pitching seldom seen anywhere. Miley of the Coolee mee team tamed the Gibson Mill team from Concord on the home grounds yesterday by the score of 9 to 3. Except for errors of Gilbert. Click and Smith the visitors would not have scored. For 40 innings Pitcher Miley has not allowed an earned run. He Has allowed ! eight hits per game. Four runs have been scored on him due to errors of his team mates. The Gibson Mill team is composed of stars from i Carolina, State, Lenoir, and other I colleges, while the Cooleemee team is - made up of all home boys, but are . stars on .some of the colleges. Not a hired man is on our club. Turn on the “Go" Sign. I’m on 1 my way to buy some of that beauti ful uottcry at Kidd-Frix's. 15-2 t-c. wife were idiot to death by George “Dutch” Anderson, who was convict ed with Chapman of a million dollar New York mail robbery and shared his prison sentence and subsequent escape from Atlanta penitentiary. While Chapman and Anderson were in hiding at Ranee’s home last win ter, Hanee informed police authori ties and Chapman was surrounded cn the streets of Muncie, January 18th, and captured. Anderson was not trapped when the detectives closed in on Chapman last January and had kept himself safely hidden until tonight. The bodies of Hanee and his wife, the former still alive but dying, were discovered a few minutes after the | shooting by a passing motorist bnt no trace of Anderson was found. Champan’s arrest was brought aboqt by local officials working with (Continued on Pag* Two) North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily CONCORD, N. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1925 STATE CROPS LAST MONTH DECLINED ON ACCOUNTOF DROUTH Crop Reporting Service Finds That July Was Too Dry for Most Crops In All Parts of the State. AVERAGESTILL IS VERY GOOD Despite Decline in Condi tion Some Crops in Bet ter Shape Now Than They Were Last Year. Raleigh. Aug. 15. —OP)—Farmers of North Carolina were heavy sufferers from drought conditions in North Car olina during the month of July, a re port issued last night by the crop re porting service of the federal and state departments of agriculture show ed. Tobacco, com, peanuts, sweet potatoes, hay, apples, pears, peaches and grape crops declined during the thirty-day period, the loss to farmers running well over $10,000,000, The drought condition brought a number of crops to a condition less favorable than that on July Ist, but in some instances the average was still higher than that of 1924. The loss of the tobacco farmers alone "was estimated at $9,288,000. It was es timated 30,000,000 pounds had been ruined by the drought but the crop, based on the August Ist estimate of the crop reporting service, will be 18.0000,000 pounds more than last year, though 9.5 per cent less than the five-year average. THE COTTON MARKET Opened Fairly Steady at Decline of 1 to 15 Points.,—Liverpool Cables Easy. New York, Aug. 15.— OP) —The cot ton market opened fairly steady to day at a decline of 7 to 15 points in response to relatively easy Liverpool cables and reports of lower tempera tures' in the eastern belt. Early offer ings soon absorbed by trade buying and covering, however, and the mar ket sold 5 to 8 points net higher! De cember advancing to 23,83.*' Gffrnags increased nt the higher figure and lat-' cr fluctuations were rather irregular, but the market showed a fairly steady I tone at the end of the first hour. . Cotton futures opened barely steady : October 23.47; December 23.65; January 23.17; March 23.46; May 23.78. Closed Steady. New York, Aug. 15.- —Cotton fu tures closed steady at net decline of 6to 19 points. Oct. 23.35 to 23.36; Dec. 23.63 to 23.67; Jan. 23.0!) to 23.19; March 23.50 to 23.51; May 23.73 to 23.78. Plan New Loop in the South. Savannah, Ga.. Aug- 14.—Organi zation of a new baseball league to include Charleston, Savannah. Jack sonville, Albany. Columbus, Mont gomery, Macon and Augusta, is the undertaking started in Savannah with the raising of a $20,000 fund for the local club, SB,OOO of which already has been subscribed. The plans of ’those backing the movement provide for Class li base ball. M. P. Comb, member of the na tional board of arbitrator**. is pro posed for the .presidency of the lea gue. The bringing in of Charleston. Sa vannah and Jacksonville would form one loop with Columbus, Albany and Montgomery as another circuit. Au gusta and Macon, now in the Sally league, would form the third loop. Blames Flappers. Dope. Rum and Guns For Crime. ; Chicago, Aug. 14.—C0-operation with released convicts in obtaining , employment was urged as the best method of “making crooked men straight” by Rollo M- Mcßride, superintendent of the Parting of the Ways Home, Pittsburgh, and pub | lie defender of the city of Pitts -1 burgh. Mr. Mcßride listed the four prin cipal causes of crime as women, especially ‘flappers;” non-e.nforce i ment of the Volstead act; narcotics - and revolvers. He asserted pistols . are the “most worthless, useless things manufactured today.” Shenandoah in Successful flight. Lakeharst, N. J., Aug. 15 —(A 1 !— Officials at the naval air station are - in receipt of a radio message from “ the dirigible Shenanhoad, stating that the airship will arrive at her station here between 4 p. m. and sunet to day. The ship left here last night on a flight to Newport, R. I. 5,000 Rebel Tribesmen Surrender Petuan, Spanish Morocco, Aug. 15. —OP)—Five thousand rebel tribes men surrendered unconditionally to the French and Spanish forces which captured the Sarsar heights position. The fastest single screw merchant ship in the world is the steamAip Royal Scot, which was built to give a speed of twenty-two knots, and plies between London and Edinburg. J I Ten Pages Today ; , Two Sections GERMAN REFUCiI-S FLEE POLAND i ■ ■ —— Because they refused to renounce their allegiance to their fatherland in a recent plebiscite held in Poland. 30.000 Germans were forced to (fee from Poland back to Germany. This shows the refugees huddled together in a primitive “Ellis Island” on the German border waiting to be exam’ned by customs officials. DISSE TRIAL GETS UNDERWAY RAPIDLY Jury Brought In From An other County But Trial Is Taking Place In Court House at Richmond, Ya. Richmond, Va., Aug. 15.— OP) —The actual trial of Rudolph Disse. 20 year old triple slayer, got underway in Hustings court today, with the open ing statement of the counsel. The jury was completed yesterday after three day's effort. Twelve citizens of Fredericksburg will hear the ease under a change of venire granted by Judge Frederick W. Coleman, who held that nil unpreju diced jury would be difficult to obtain here. Disse today faced a first degree mur der charge for the slaying of Henry Grady Carter, restaurant owner, and hi* rival -far the affections, of Mr*., Vivian Tomkin Peers, 18 year oki clothing model. Carter wns shot twice and almost instantly killed as he stood behind the counter of his res taurant about a mile from where the girl ami Burke were fatally wounded, nnd Willis Britt, automobile sales man. was shot, less tliau ten minutes later. Defense counsel have indicated they will plead that Disse was irresponsi ble for h 9 actions on the day of the shooting. t SILK MILL STRIKERS IN DURHAM STILL OUT Hundred Or More Operators Quit Work Tuesday Because of Dismissal of Foreman. Durham. Aug- 14.—One hundred or more operators of the fashion knit mn'-hines in the local plant of the Marvin-Oarr silk mill, who walk ed out of the place last Tuesday morning following the dismissal of Earl Wiggs. foreman of the plant and superintendent of the loeal union, have failed to return to work, though it is believed that they will be back nt their tasks in a few days. The management of the mail stated to a Daily News representative Friday that the striking workmen had made no demand upon them for higher wages. Unon officials in this district have been in Durham this week and have held conferences with the strikers but nothing relative to these meet ings has been given out to the pub lic. Orders for the men to walk out of the mill were sent from head quarters in New York following the dismissal of Wiggs. The fasbion knit machines, used in the manu facture of silk hosiery, are said to be very intricate and hard to mas ter. Experienced men are operating a few of those left vacant when the strikers walk'd out. There has been no disorder of any sort on the part of the striking workmen. With Our Advertisers. When a fire or thief comes it is too late to place your valuables in a place of safety. Get a deposit box at the Cabarrus Savings Bank. E.'B. Grady, the plumbing contract . or tells of some of the advantages of ! good fixtures in a new ad. today. 1 Electrical fixtures of character at W. J. Hethcox's on West Depot street, i At the Concord Theatre today Pete . Morrison is being shown in "Cowboy ; Grit.” Also Battling Brewster No. 7. Gold dollars for fifty cents at the Kkld-Frix Co. See new ad. today about the pottery they are selling at half price. [ Concord Furniture Compqny has a , new list of new process Columbia rec , ords. See list in new ad. Proponed Rato Increase Suspended. t Washington, Aug. 15—1^>—In > creases in rates on lumber moving to e Virginia cities and points in North I Carolina from general Southern terri tory which railroads proposed to make effective today, have been suspended * by an order of the Interstate Com merce Commission until December 13. • The present rates must be retained, at > least until the Commission concludes ' a finding as to the fairness of the in * creases proposed. Sleeping Sickness Is Unsolved Mystery Yet WILES WILL FIGHT * IN SUPERIOR CODRT i Waives Hearing and is Sent ; Back to Durhajn County Jail to Wait Next Term ' of Superior Court. Durham, Aug. 15.-— OP) —Robert H. Wiles, of Columbia, S. (’., wns in the : county jail here today awaiting the next term of Superior Court in which he will go on trial for murder ou n charge of killing his wife and Ralph Gordon, with whom she is alleged to have been, found in .a, ioowuig house. Through his attorneys the defend ant yesterday waived preliminary ex amination and was bound over to court. Through advice of his coun sel Wiles declined to discuss the ease. Friends of the Columbia man stated here his attorneys will make a deter mined fight to secure his acquittal, planning to enter a plea of self de fense, and to depend upon the ‘un written law" as secondary defense. Wife of Banker Dies of Sleeping Sickness. Glen Cove, N. V., Aug. 14.—Mrs. J. I‘. Morgan, wife of the inter national banker, dic'd at noon today in her Long Island home from a "cardiac collapse” after being ill of sleeping sickness for two months. No relatives were at the bedside. Mr. Morgan, informed at his Wall street office that his Wife was very ill, left before noon by train for Glen Cove. He was met at the station and rushed by automobile to the Morgan country home at Mutinecock Point, <n East island, which lies n short distance off the mainland of lying Island. He reached his home three hours after his wife's deaath. French Have Success in Moroco. Fez, August 15.—(A*)—Everywhere nlong the Franeo-Riffian fighting front the situation is excellent for the French, while the Riffian forces ap pear to be going to pieces. Without a struggle the column of Col. Freyden berg occupied the whole of the i >jcbe! Sarsar position which was so formi dable that the French staff lias been hesitating for a fortnight before at tacking it. No color has been found so suit able for a cricket ball as red, which naturally shows up to advantage against the green background of the grass. Green bails huve been tried, but they proved a failure. Other colons such as yellow nnd blue have also been experimented with- Thirteen million gold marks (about $3,000,000) flow into the coffers of the German post office, annually, in the form of radio license fees. ----- . ' 1 jj-jk President, Cashier and Six Bank Directors Are Indicted Elizabethtown, Aug. 14.—Indict ments against Hugh McAllister, who was its president nnd .T. A. Pickens, its cashier, and six directors have been returned by a grand jury in Bladen county following the crash of the Bank of Councils, an institution which was allied with the now de funct First National bank of Lum berton. McAllister was vice president and enshier of the larger institution, which went to the wall a few days ago. Thomas L. Johnston, state sen ator. who was active in the passage of the more stringent laws enacted during the last legislature, was presi dent of the Lumberton bank. The indictments against McAllis ter, Pickens and the six directors were found last Monday, but no In formation was available until today. The clerk of the court in Bladen said that Mr. McAllister would not Corps of Physicians With Unlimited Funds Behind Them Could Not Cure Mrs. J. P. Morgan. New York, Aug. 15.—(A s )—Mrs. J. P. Morgan, wife of the international banker, lay dead in her palatial home at Glen Cove today, a victim of the mysterious sleeping sickness. For two months a corps of physi cians backed by virtually unlimited funds had sought to save her life, but she never emerged entirely from a state of coma. The end came shortly after noon yesterday, and the immediate cause was a heart collapse induced by an at tack of indigestion. The primary cause, however, was lethargic en cephalitis, a form of sleeping sickness, distinct from that prevalent in Africa. Only a physician and two nurses w‘ere as the deathbed. Mr. Morgan wns summoned, but arrived after Mrs. Morgan’s death. Wants Facts About Radio Rights. Washington, Aug. 15.—(A5)—Sena tor Brookhart's office has asked the Department of Justice for informa tion as to the practice of the Ameri can Telephone & Telegraph Company in the radio broadcasting field. Norman Baker, proprietor of a broadcasting station at Muscatine, lowa, complained to. the senator that tile company refused him a license, although such a license would have been granted had he purchased his equipment from the company’s subsid iaries. He charged the company was violating the anti-trust law and was operating in restraint of trade. Japan to Send 300 Delegates to Sun day School Convention. Tokyo, Aug. 15. —(A s )—ln response to the invitation of the All-American Christian Union and the Sunday School Union, the Japan Sunday School Association will send 300 del egates to the tenth international Sun day School convention to be held in Los Angeles in 1928. This decision was reached at a recent meeting of the officers of the loeal association in Tokyo. H. E. Ooleman arf.l Sei shire Iwamura of the association have been appointed a committee to ar range the details of the excursion. State of King Tut’s Father-in-Law Found. Cairo. Egypt, Aug 14.—While dig ging among drains in Kardak. near Luxor, workerei found a ggrotesque statue of the heretic King Akhenn ten, father-in-law of Tut-Ankh-Anien, the discovery of whose tomb at Lux or three years ago created a sensa tion throughout the world. The satue is above lifesize and is evidently an exagerated caricature. It is the most notable example yet found of the unconventional art of the Akhenaten period. When you are up against stumb ling-blocks, turn them into stepping stones. be arrested but that he had been sent a bond in the sum of $6,000 with instructions to sign and return to the court for the records. Cashier Pickens and the six directors are to give bond, the clerk at Elizabethtown stated today, in the sum of $5,000 each. The directors are; D. J. Priest, E. B. Council, J. K. NiehoJson, J. M. Meshaw, J. C. West and J. L. Ham mer. H. H, Clark, of Elizabethtown, i is receiver for the Bapk of Councils - and is the chief witness against Mc ■ Allinter, the cashier and director*. I The Bank of Councils is a small, • state supervised institution which was a country correspondent of the - larger bank at Lumberton. The Lum i berton bank was closed by federal - bank examiners and tt la reported . that among its liabilities to stock > holders and depositors is $400,000 of t questionable paper. -*■ ; THE TRIBUNE j PRINTS -Ij TODAY’S NEWS TODAY j no. FIGHTING TO HOLD FLORIDA LOST LA(| Governor Martin Wifi B| Asked to Intervene in the Fight for 3,000 Acres De* scribed as Lost Land. COLLIER I CLAIMING THE LANB Petition to Governor Said to Be Signed by PraCf tically All Persons Living In Lost Land County. J Fort Myers, Fla.. Aug. 15. —(A s ) Governor Martin will be asked by Mar co Island homesteaders to intervene fas the fight for 3.000 acres of lost land: Armed with petitions signed by 153 persons, sai'( to be almost ail of voters of Collier County not in tM employment of Barron G. Collier,-!! delegation of homestead claimants will go to Tallahassee as soon as an ap pointment can be made, to see tag Governor. The petition demands that Sheriff IV. R. Maynard and his armed depu ties who are alleged to be suportiag Mr. Collier's claims to that portion at the island unaccounted for in go* ernment surveys, be t ordered leave the island. -■» ■ • jaj Appeal to the Governor detig mined upon last night by W?- G. WB, Hams, owner of the town sife of Mar« County Judge George Storter, of Caj| lier county told them he had no au thority to intervene. The situation early today was calm er on the surface than it has been foi some days. DAVID BLAIR MAY LAND IN CABINET Tar Heel Boosted for Appointmeak to Succeed Secretary Weeks. Washington, Aug. 14.—Here’s i brand new entry in the “free fojj all” contest. Reports as to this mas and that man among the Republican! as being in the race or being stfff gested and recommended by friena for the position of secretary of w« when-Secretary John W, Weeks stem down and out continue to be beard. Among the very latest name to bt mentioned in this connection is Davit H. Blair, of Winston-Salem, eommis sioner of internal revenue. This re port as it went the rounds was thal Mr. Blair had the backing of Seer* tary of the Treasury Mellon, and thai it looked as if he would become thi secretary of war in succession to S*e retar.v Weeks. But there was little credence five! it, for the reason that Commissionei Blair being a Nortli Carolinian wll , hardly be given a cabinet position, tt , the South is held as a certainty Jim to have a look in for a cabinet pl*H so long as the Republican party is ii power. Commissioner Blair is o Quaker stock and the Quakers do noi take kindly to the idea of war, oi ComininpKsioner Blair's early trainhl| would appear to have made a positioi as secretary of war of the class os "persona non grata” to him.,. ;*i] In Republican circles the idea ex pressed is that the man who has thi best look in for the position of seriff tary of war is Dwight F. Davis, actifo secretary in the absence of Secret*!*; 1 Weeks. i Al , Ambassadors In Tilt. J Washington. Aug. 15.— OP) —Whi) „ General Pershing is in South Amerifl trying to straighten ont the tangfo Taena-Arica situation, the Peruvlif and Chilian ambassadors here lav , engaged in some biting comment frM the side lines. Today the Chilian embassy , in a letter to the Washington Po* , that the Chilian foreign minister cot sidered tlie President of Peru had pul liely expressed sentiments offensive i ’ that eonntry which would not go * . answered under different drew! stances. In view of the fact thatfS s arbitrator was at work on the «gp however, the Chilians had t exercise "repression.” 'SB f | Discuss Italy’s War Debt.. M Rome, Aug. 15.—<AA—The Ml nant note in the Italian preas m cussioii of the Amerieso-ltaiian M question, is the urgent suggestionts| tiie foreign exchange value of the ■ be brought to a level more in <■ formity with the actual pnrcbafl power of the fire in Italy m a. M liminary condition to any settletM of Italy’s debt to the United MM The Mound Builders Country of Newark, Ohio, use the MM earthworks of the mound ] tees, traps, and bunker*.. .’II SAT’S BEAR SAY»J I OBII ' / !>>Prjffß <?Bit k / f If*? ~ ( j n l r Bowtay ’ 1 change in temperature. ”J|