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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXV Take Steps Water F City Officials Ask Largest Users of Water to Cut Down So There Will Not Be Actual Shortage. DROUGHT GIVEN AS THE CAUSE Creek Which Supplies the City With Water Is Run ning Very Low.—Hope to Avert Crisis. Owing to the diminishede flow of water in Cold Water Creek as a re sult of rile persistent drought of the past three months, precautionary steps have been tnken by city water of ficials to conserve the Rtipply and if possible prevent the scarcity which is now being experienced in other cities in the state. y Initial action was taken today when [ several of the largest users in the ‘ city were requested to call a halt on operations. Among those thus noti fied were the Y. M. C. A. swimming jwiol. Kerr Bleachery and the Ilobar ton Mill. Tite situation in the city is serious, according to 1,. A. Kislier, superinten dent of the light and water depart ment. For some time the creek has been running low but the supply had been sufficient for all demands put on it by the consumers. Recently, however, it became neces sary to run the pumps at the creek both night and day whereas former ly it was necessary to run them only during the day* The amount of water has diminished to sut'li an extent that at the present only about half as much is being secured as was the rase in ordinary times. Should the drought continue, there will probably be be nn additional cut tor users, such as watering lawns and washing automobiles. Cold Water Creek is fed by a num ber of springs and a considerable amount is lost by evaporation before it reaches tiie city pumping station. 1 'siialiy, said Mr. Fisher, after the sun goes down, the amount increases and the reservoirs may be filled dur ing the night. Wednesday night, however, the water was so low up to 3 o'clock that all pumps had to be stopped. > ' -■■■>■ ' Tiie condition this morning, de clared Mr. Fisher, was somewhat im proved, the supply being more steady. Concurrent with the announcement from the city water works, the Y. M. C. A. asked ito patrons to take notice of the fact that it would clorc its swimming pool Friday abd re main closed until further notice. Of ficials of the association declared that they were planning to do everything possible to co-operate with the city in the water crisis. The Kerr Bleachery will be in. posi tion to continue operations, it was said. A connection is planned with Buffalo Creek which will eliminate the necessity of procuring water from the city. The bleachery is one of the heaviest users of water in Con cord, this being necessary in the bleaching processes. The Cannon Bleachery is already connected with Buffalo Creek and of course is not affected by city water shortage. “TRUTH SERUM” BANNED ON ONTARIO PRISOKfERS Plan to Give Test to Alleged Mur dered la Thwarted. Windsor, Out.. Aug. 27. —Attorney General William F. Niekle has ban ned Dr. E. H. House's “truth serum" from use among prisoners of the province. Crown Attorney James 8. Allan today was instructed to notify Jailer Williams Wanlees and Sheriff J. H. Anderson, that neither Arthur Janisse. held in connection with the murder of Clayton McMillan, nor any other prisoner is to be a subject for Dr. House's soopalamin. It had been planned to have Jnnbsse take the serum during the international convention of the fin ger print experts which will open here ext week- A person under the influence of soopaltunin is capable of falsifying it is claimed. Will Accept Report. Washington. Aug. 27.—(A s )—Mnj. General Taylor, chief of army engi neers, announced today be would ac cept the special army board's report on the steamship Norman disaster, which placed responsibility on “near ly all” officers and men connected with the boat and its operation. I.' I.'ifl j THEATRE (The Cool Spot) % Last Showing Today* j “The Wife Who ! Wasn't Wanted” > .With Irene Rich and . Huntley Gordon 1A New Warner Classic and Sure to Please Also Harry Langdon in “THE HANSOM CABMAN” Tomorrow and Saturday “ONE EXCITING The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily to Avoid famine Here: ♦ j STONE MOUNTAIN i DESIGN APPROVED j Central Group as Drawn by Lukeman Gets Com mittee Approval at At- j lanta Meeting. Atlanta, slug. 27.—(A») —Official np- proval of Augustus I.ukeman's design for the central group of Stone Moun- 1 tain Confederate memorial was given | today by the board of directors of the association at a special meeting here. The design was submitted in • the , form of a sketch model fn plaster I which will be enlarged immediately to J the dimensions of a master model j which will require five or six weeks. The design contains seven prinei-i pal figures representing high com mands of the Confederate army with two subsidiary . figures representing ! flag bearers. Jefferson Davis, president of the I Confederacy, and eommander-iu-ehief of the Confederate forces, is the first to be seen on the left group. He is in civilian garb wearing a flowing rid-. ing cape. Next iH General Robert E. j I-ee, commander of the armies in the, held, astride his famous mount. Trav eler. Stonewall Jackson is next to I.cc, I mounted on Old Sorrell. General Jackson wears a uniform of a lieu tenant general and a riding cape which flutters over his shoulder. Next in order from leght to right ! are the two flag bearers, and to the I right of them are four Confederate | generals who are to be selected by a historical commission composed of state historians of the thireen Con federate states. The figures of these generals are sketched in a group in the position they will occupy but are not modeled in likenesses as Davis, I.ee and Jackson. DO THE FARMERS LOSE ON ' A BUMPER CORN CROP? Big Crop Does Not Necessarily Mean Prosperity, Says Expert. Des Moines, lowa. Aug. 27. —(A > ) A bumper crop of corn docs not nec essarily mean prosperity for tfie lowa turner. More than likely it means Eout of his pocket, says C, D. director of J»e weaUter and crop reporting service. ■ In hia bulletins, Mr. Reed has hern repeating "More corn—less dollars.” Basis for the statement was found in i a fact pointed out by the late Secre tary of Agriculture Wallace, substan tiated by figures in Mr. Reed's own office. The reverse is equally true, he declared, "Less corn—more dol lars." “Take the crop of 1924,” said Mr. Reed. “lit was the poorest we have had since 1901. The average yield was only 28 bushels to the -acre. Despite the yield being 132,000,000 buritels shorter than the previous etop and that it was of inferior qual ity, it brought the lowa farmer $13,- 000,000 more than the year before. “The 1021 crop—lowa's greatest— is another example. The average I yield for that year was 43 bushels an acre, a bumper crop even for lowa, yet the total return to farmers was only $133,000,000. compared with the $2.10,000,000 which the average corn crop brings.” In that year Sir. Reed said the gross return for land that grew corn was $12.00 an acre, the lowest figure since 1902. Member of Commons Violates Rule Three Centuries Old. London, Aug. 27. —(A>>-—When Sir Harry Hope rose in the House of Commons to speak from one of the front benches he was greeted with loud cries of “Order.” He sat down, puzzled, but rose again, only to be greeted with more Rhouts of “Order.” A member pointed out that he had violated a 309-year-old rule by put ting his foot beyond a red line at the edge of the carpet in front of him. These lines, on either side of the chamber, were placed there in Stuart days, when the Roundheads in Parliament were bitterly attacking the Cavalier suporters of Charles I. Members in those days were armed and it was fdared that debates might end in violence, so the red line was placed beyond which they were not supposed to pass during debate. Wre than 1,000 yards of thread are required to make a hankerehief of average size. Clothiers Will Not Rescue Textile ' Industry By Widening Pants Legs Chicago, Aug. 27.—Although the textile industry is suffering, chiefly be cause the women are not wearing any thing, the National Association of Re tail Clothiers, in session here, refuses to help out with Oxford bag trousers. Fred Voliaod, of Toiieka, Kansas, former president of the association, is chairman of the style committee. “To be decidedly correct the trous ers should have a width of eighteen to nineteen inches,” says the commit tee’s report to be read before the con vention. “Os course, the younger ele . ment will demand extreme widths to a j certain extent, but the tendency is to a curtailment in this direction. “The chief demand will be for dou ble-breasted, blue, unfinished fabrics, the coat should be medium length and easy fitting, with long lapels. Second in color design will come forest shades with browns, ranging from light tana to dark browns following. DEBT FUNDING PLAN j NOT POPULAR WITH | ALL BRITISH FOLKS Many Express the Opinion ! That All the Concessions | Made Are Favorable to France. WANTEDENOUGH | TO PAY OUR DEBT Feared Now French-Will j Not Pay Amount Eng j land Must Pay to This j Country. | London. Aug. 27.—(4*)—Consider ' able surprise, not altogether picasur • able, has been aroused hero by the terms of the provisional settlement, of I the French debt to Great Britain as arranged yesterday by Spencer Churchill, chancellor of the exche quer. and Jos. (’aillaux. french mln | ister of finance. | “Each of us had to put n little wa | tor in our wine," said M. Caillnux in | discussing terms tinder which France | will pay debt of 032,000,000 pounds sterling in 02 annual payments of 12,500,000 pounds Sterling each, if France’s negotiation for wiping out I her debt to the I’nited States proves satisfactory, and if the French gov ernment gives its approval. | While some of the persons are of the opinion that the dilution referred to by M. ('aillaux will prove good to both countries, there are others who express the viewpoint that Great Brit ain is getting too much of water and | too little of the wine. The portion, however, has not been finally mixed, and the people are waiting to see whether the forthcoming Franeo-Am orican negotiations will bring forth a prohibitory influence on the suggest ed composition of the Anglo-French debt. Anxiety is expressed ill some quar ters lest the provisional settlement, if ratified, should put Great Britain in the position of receiving from the debtor less than enough to enable her to meet her payments to the Unit ed States. i ’ SPECIAL COURT TERM FOR RICHMOND COUNTY At Term W. B. Cole Will Be Tried For the Slaying of W. W. Ormond. Raleigh, Ang. 27. —(4*)—A special term of court for Richmond County has been called by Governor McLean at the request of Solicitor Don Phil lips. The term will convene Septem ber 28th. It is expected the solicitor will call the ease against W. B. Cole, wealthy cotton mill man of Rocking ham. charged with the killing of W. W. Ormond. Governor McLean stated he would not appoint any judge to preside at this term that is “suggested by either | side." • Grist Urges Cotton Shippers ;o Clean Up Cotton By November. Raleigh, Aug. 26.—“A1l cotton out by the last of November,” is the siogau of Frank Grist, commissioner of labor and printing. Mr. Grist added substantially to the wealth of North Carolina by liis method of saving the berry crops in various sections of the stnte. He helped in the fruit shipments of the saitid hills. “I am working on a plan that I believe will be more effective than either of the other efforts,” said he this afternoon. The details are not ready, hut Commissioner Grist finds it feasible to place cotton pickers from tiie home offices and branches. If the cotton crop should be picked before real winter weather probably several additional millions would be saved in this process. The grade would be bet ter and hundreds of thousand in pounds would be saved. That is what Mr. Grtet hopes to do with his office. Train Men Hurt. Pittsburgh. Aug. 27.—(49—The en gineer and fireman of the Pittsburgh- Buffalo Flyer of the Pennsylvania ; Railroad were injured, the former se riously, when the train was derailed at Braeburn, 20 miles north of here today. A number of passengers in : two day coaches’ were shaken up, but were able to continue their journey. “Decidedly wide belts will be the vogue with all trousers. The hose will be fancy in both silk and wool, and the hats will have wider brims and fancy hat bands. Ninety-five per cent, of the hats will be soft. Many colored creations in shirts with plain white and solid designs will remain in favor. “Young men's ideas in clothes will continue to dominate. The college man with his pep and craving for new things sets the pace today in men's clothes. The motorists forced us to I sport styles. There are no ojd men's j clothes now." Louis B. Bossard, of Cincinnati, who was selected today as the best dressed man, wore a blue and gray suit, blue tnd tan shirt with collar I to match, blue tie with polka dots, I straw hat, black ahoeß, blue socks with polka dots and leather garters. CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, AUG. 27, 1925 America’s Great on Mountain / U ~/(A " r " " **' 1 \t i ' 1 ;ms *• 4 Jpm: J| I , .<9 ■Hr wwv **■ Jlgantic Images of Washington, Jefferspn, Lincoln and Roosevelt will bt prved on the side of Rushmora Mountain, in the Black Hills, near Raph JRy, S. D., by Gutzon Borglum, noted sculptor. The undertaking is spon pred by the Mount Harney Memorial Association, ' authorized by th\ louth Dakota state legislature. The cost Is estimated at $1,000,000. Rush sane fad* w o v, with a Oat mraaJte'facA Zfw j n ftpin-v I” •; 1 | Security Pact Is Not Yet An Assured Fact A. British Officials Still Hope that the Pact Can Be Changed so as to Be Ac ceptable to All. FRENCH READY FOR CONFERENCE And Germans Say Allied Troops Should Be With drawn Before Talk of 1 Conciliation Continues. London, Aug. 27.—(4*1—Hope pre vails in official quarters in London that Germany will aceept the condi tions of the security pact note from France, and that at nn early date will send representatives to London to dis cuss with British ami French states men the formulation of an agreement that will make warfare again impos sible. Germany, according to unofficial ad vices reaching here from Berlin, lias agreed with the French representa tions in the note, that the time for an interchange of ideas regarding the sit uation by written communications lias ' come to an end, and that a round ta ; ble conference is a better method for disentangling the snarled skein of eon ■ troversy. It is possible that an early ' date ns next Monday may see the commencement of conversations te -1 tween British, French, Belgian aid 1 German representatives to deal with the technical and judicial questions and pave the way for a gathering to ' gether of the respective foreign min ‘ isters to work out the long discussed ' problems. The French View. Paris. August 27.—(4*)—France stands ready to send delegates to a t conference in London to draw up a . pact with Great Britain, Belgium and Germany, promising security to west ern frontiers, should the, Berlin gov ernment accept suggestions in the lat est French note that Rucli negotia tions be opened immediately. M. Fromageot, well known jurist, 1 already has been designated to repre ' sent France in the event such a meet * ing is held. The French government ’ favors prompt action and would be * ready to begin at London next Mon -1 day. The German View. . Berlin, Aug. 27. —(4>)—The Ger man government in an official com munique issued after receipt of (he French note on the security question, points to its repeated assertions that j realization of a security pact is im possible so long as the question of Germany sharing in the colonial man dates is unsettled. It also remarks that the security negotiations have thus far taken place under the banner of conciliation and that further occupation by the allies of the Cologne zone "which is unlaw fully occupied, is not in harmony with that spirit.” Germany has done everything to fulfill the allies’ disarmament condi tions, the communique says, and nev er in history has the disarmament of a nation been carried .out more thoroughly. I A flier was fined $25 for flying I under the 2.000-foot altitude when he flew in his airplane over the stands on Yale Field, New Haven, Connecticut. - I Miss Ethel Honeycutt is again at her work in The Timea-Trlbune office after a week’s vacation. ■W ♦&***********♦ * * * THERE IS BUT ONE— * * * JK Sure way to success and it is SK called work. Sfc 5 Best policy in any .eircußjr 3K'stance and that is to ’tell the jK truth. Path to happiness and it is * called duty. * SK Method of keeping friends and * }k that is called loyalty. JK jSK Safe investment and that is | ik called character. KS & Sure way to get people to see 4: * North Carolina—Tell ’em about * it. m * * ************** THE COTTON MARKET. Continuance of Recent Selling Move ment Sent Price of December Down to 22.99. New York. Aug. 27.—(A 5 )—A con tinuance of the recent selling move ment sent the price of December con tracts down to 22.99 in the cotton market here early today. The open ing was steady at an advance of 1 point to a decline of 4 points, and there was a little buying on relatively steady showing of Liverpool. The de mand was quickly supplied by over night selling orders, and prices de clined 3 to 4 points under liquida tion and local and Southern offerings. Buying believed to be for trade ac count was more active around the 23 cent level, however, and there was enough covering to cause rallies of 0 to 7 points from the lowest toward the end of the first hour. Cotton futures: October 22.76; December 23.04; Januarv 22.55; March 22.85; May 23.10. SAYS GREECE ASKED TO SETTLE HER WAR DEBT London Hears United States Sent ' 1 Ncte to Greece Asking Her to Make Settlement. London, Aug. 27.—(4*1—A dispatch 1 to the Daily Telegraph says the Unit ’ ed States recently presented to Greece ' a demand for settlement of that coun try’s debt to it. The Greek gov ernment, although recognizing the ' American claim, will declare its ina bility to pay the debt at the present tihe, the Breek budget being over ' burdened with urgent obligations in ’ connection with the settlement of the ! refugee situation. • The correspondent says it is under- stood the Greek government author ' ized its minister in London to sign an Anglo-Greek convention providing the payment of the war debt the terms of which were settled long ago by for mer Finance Minister Soudero. Drought Continues in Piedmont Section. Winston-Salem. Aug. 26-—Reports coming from Ashe and Alleghany, two of the mountain counties, say I that frost wns visible in some sec-1 tions a few mornings ago, though so . far as known no damage was done to crops. The drouth continues throughout the Piedmont section and in many sections crops will be cut at least fifty per cent, it is Baid. The streams are the lowest they have been known in years. An Elkin fish erman declares that he is unable to find water deep enough in the Yad kin river in that section to cover 'his, fish traps. When a man is in love he gives, when a woman is in love she forgives. DR.THOINNG COURTS SIIICIDf DURING HIS TRIil Body Found by Jail At tendants Early Today.C Wire Used as Means of Hanging. chargeiTwith WIFE’S DEATH Testimony Presented on Trial Had Been Consid ered Very Damaging for the Defendant. Ims Angeles, Aug. 27. —(A 1 )—Dr. Thos. W. Young, dentist, on trial here for the murder of his wife and burying her body in a cistern, killed himself here in the county jail early today. County jail employees discovered the dentist’s body hanging in his cell by a piece of wire. The suicide ends the trial of Dr. Young on the murder trial. The jurors in tiie case were ordered at the close of the coart yesterday to make a visit to the suburbs today to visit the cistern in which Mrs. Young’s body was found. Two acquaintances of the defendant, yesterday testified lie had offered them SSOO each if they would testify they had seen Mrs. Y'oung alive and well but in flight from her husband sev eral weeks after February 21st. They said the offer was made prior to his arrest and the finding of the body and that he told them that lie needed the perjured testimony in au alienation of affections suit he planned to file against his father-in-law, Frank W. Hunt. CHARGES AGAINST GRIST WILL BE INVESTIGATED Raleigh Concern Says It Has Been Discriminated Against by Mr. Grist. Raleigh, Aug. 27.—(4*) —A thor ough investigation of charges of dis crimination in distributing the stnte printing by Frank I). Grist, commis sioner of .Labor & Printing, will be made by the '‘“""HiqijTßi Tljf charge was made by a Raleigh print ing concern which alleged it was be ing discriminated against in favor of other printers of Raleigh. This an nouncement was made yesterday fol lowing a meeting of the commission with Governor McLean. The investi gation will be’ conducted by Clias. R. Ross and John Harwood, assistant at torneys general. With Our Advertisers. Schloss Bros.’ new fall -suits at Hoover's, $25 to $45. You will find a wonderful display there. D'Orsay’s perfumes at Gibson Drug Store. A new face in The Tribune's ad vertising columns is that of the J. IV. Cline grocery store. Phone 263. Know at all times that you have the right amount of oil in your Ford. You can get a ten days free trial of the Ever-Ready Automatic Oiler from Luther E. Bager, Room 6, Maness Building. The famous Hot Blast heaters are sold in this county by H. B. Wilkin son. Let Bob's Dry Cleaning Co. clean up your Coat or overcoat for you. You’ll soon need it. Last showing today of "The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted,” nt the Con cord theatre. Also Harry Langdon in “The Hansom Cabman.” Tomorrow and Saturday “One Exciting Night.” The Citizens Bank and Trust Co. will cash the cotton drafts for farm ers in the N. C. Cotton Growers' Co operative Association. See schedule in ad. in this paper. Lutherans Form Sunday Seiiool As social ion. Hickory, Aug. 26. —A Lutheran Sunday school organization for North Carolina has just been form ed at Lenoir-Rhyne college where the summer school for church work ers was under way from Friday till Wednesday. Officers are S. J. Mar ion, Hickory, president; Prof. J. B. Hinson, Gastonia vice-president; Miss Rosa Sox. Hickory, secretary; Miss Mabel Lippard, Concord, treas urer. The enrollment at the school was 400 with one half of the con gregations of the North Carolina synods represented. A pageant was given on the college campus Tues day night. Over 100 characters were in the play which lasted for one hour and a half. '"" " ' -Li-B-iia ' ' 1- Govemor Smith Is in Thick of Fight For New Y ork Mayor New York, 27.—(4*)—Gover nor Smith today was in the thick of | the fight for mayor of New York. | | Having given up his vacation in order to work for State Senator James J. Walker, Tammany designee against Mayor Hylan for the Democratic nom ination, the governor came from the capital at Albany to plunge into a contest which both Democratic and Republican spokesmen have said free ly is a fight between Smith and Hearst. I I Tonight the governor will invade Brooklyn, home borough of Mayor Hylan. At a Walker rally he is expected to ewreas various opinions CONTINUE EFFORTS I TOBRIMITi- CKETOM Police in East and Middle West Taking Every Step to Halt Spread of Chi nese Warfare. FIVE DEATHS IN WARFARE SO FAR Tong Leaders Taken to the Police Offices, and Prom ise to Try to Stop the Fighting. New York. Aug. 27.— UP) —Xew York police are attempting to end the war of Chinese tongs in the east and middle west, where five tong men have been assassinated. When tong leaders were closeted with police here yesterdya, a Hip Sing was murdered in Raltimore. He was the first Hip Sing to die. the others having belonged to the On Leong tong. Tong leaders promised at police headquarters here to try to end the war. They agreed to cease hostili ties in Xew York pending a final set tlement. and another meeting was ar ranged for tomorrow. Telegrams were sent summoning Eu Ho Soon, nation al On Leong president, and Lee Gee Ming, secretary, from Detroit. On Leong representatives claim the war has reached such a state where higher officials of the tong are needed to handle the situation. Ho Don Hing, national president of the Hip Sings, and local officers, came to po lice headeuarters under heavy guard. Rut neither leader consented to meet at the same table. Without, the chief of the On Lcong’s, they said, it was futile to promise that killings in other cities would stop. Police and prose cutors warned tong men that indict ! ments for conspiracy to murder pos sibly could be returned. UNFAVORABLE WEEK FOR SOUTHERN CROP High Temperatures in Cotton Belt Cause Damage—Western Carolina T—TSUHUrer ' Washington. Aug. 20.—The week ly weather and crop review of the department of agriculture today says that in the south the past week con ditions generally were unfavorable. The severe drought in southern Ap palachian region, including much of the adpoiniug states, was intensified' by record breaking temperatures and a continued absence of beneficial rains; all late crops are suffering badly in this area. The weather in the cotton bolt was less favorable than during recent weeks. Record breaking high tem peratures prevailed iu the droughty eastern sections of the belt, the drought in much of Texas was still unrelieved while high temperattires, excessive sunshine, and hot winds were trying on the plants In the northwestern portion of the belt. There was further serious deterior ation in central and northern Geor gia, with gnuch premature opening, while blooming has practically ceased in South Carolina, with the drought unrelieved in the central, western and northern portions. Cotton con tinued very good advance in central and eastern North Carolina and frommostly good growth was report ed from Virginia. The weather was generally favorable for picking and ginning, which made rapid progress. The report for North Carolina: Beneficial showers north-central and northeast, but drought practically without relief in west. Late corn, truck and minor crops improved where showers occurred. Condition of cotton mostly very good in east and central, but. some further deteriora tion during week due to shedding and weevil damage, mainly in south: a number of first bales reported. Fine crop tobacco about ready for mar ket in east; curing continues else where. Mexico to Pay Debt. San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 27.— UP) — Mexico will begin paying her $500,- 000,000 national debt, owed chiefly to the United States, about September Ist, A. M. Elias, consul general for Mexico at New York and financial agent for that government, said here. In 1081, though there were thous ■ ands of books in the library of the ■ wereßoyal Society, only 85 of them 1 | were on Agriculture, of which only I a few were in English. regarding Mayor Hylan, who the other day made the political pot bubble with j an attack on the governor as an ally of the traction interests, seeking high er fares. The mayor at the same time criticized Walker with references to the support of the underworld and wide open town. Supporters of Smith and Walker were jubilant today over the apparent regret with which the mayor’s attack on them were received by John H. i McCooey, democratic leader of Brook . l.vn. Back from his vacation yester day, McCooey took no pains to con ceal his surprise over the mayor's at tack and indicated he would abide by the results of the primaries. 1 ■' 11 '* a ■—ftHM THE TRIBUNE 1 PRINTS I TODAY’S NEWS TODAY] ■ - . —— NO. 206. [HOPES TO PREVENT j ' ouhl SHORTAGE Iff MINERS QUIT JOM Government Is Not to Tikfe Part in Controversy NttHF But Will Seek to Provide' Fuel for the Public. COMMITEE IS STILL AT WORK And Hopes to Be Able to Avert Strike But at Press' ent Everything Points to Walkout September Ist. Washington, Aug. 27.— UP) —Goes] eminent officials are adhering to -.ft’ liands-01l policy with respect to thd anthracite strike, the hope of averting | a shut down in the anthracite fields September Ist restede today in ef forts of citizens committee of that reg ion to bring the operators and mifatwl into conference again. ,:jSS Convinced that no efforts on their own part would avail to prevent a cessation of operations in the mine, the government is taking stock « the hard coal supply and avaiUtfe; substitutes, and officials intimate shat a plan already being considered to safeguard the public against an aetiUOt. coal shortagt. Tentative estimated’ show the above ground supply of a It- ■ thraeite to be sufficient to meet nor mal requirements until December. 1 After the operators had announced: agreement to its approval for resump tion of negotiations, John H. Uhj; chairman of the citizens “no strike” committee of northeast Pennsylvania,: went into conference early today with John L. Lewis, president of the Unit- I ed Mine Workers of Amerira, at the Philadelphia headquarters. The most serious aspect of the sit uation in the view of officials, is the responsibility of a strike in the or-, ganiged bituminous field from which half the supply of soft coal comes. They recall that in statements made in their dispute with operators in which-' the mine union officials alleged that a number of operators in the northern ; West Virginia coal district were vio lating provision* of the Jacksonville soft coal agreement, the union heads held up the possibility of a soft coal strike in retaliation. Citizens Plea Falla. Philadelphia, Aug. 27.—OW—The midnight appeal of Wilkesbarre citi zens made to the miners here that the latter resume scale negotiations with the operators, will have no influence on the plans the miners have uhdeh way for a suspension in the anthra- : cite coal fields September 1, accord ing to authoritative comment today. The actual call for a suspension is' expected to be issued by miners scale sub-committee as soon as all details for keeping “maintenance men in the mines have been arranged at meetings with the mine owners here. ; J 30.000 HOUSES IN TOKYO i'l SUBMERGED DURING RAIN Downpour Last 30 Honrs and Drove Thousand to Hills. Menace Now is Abating. Tokyo, Aug. 27. —The floods, cans-’ ed by a 36-hour rain, which yester day inundated the Honjo district of: the city, have subsided. It is estl* mated that 30,000 houses were sub merged. the resident spending, 'the night on the hillsides. The damasgftj is estimated at several million A number of casualties are reported.; The flood was the worst in tfflgi years. The Honjo district, the lowest lying part of Tokyo, is situated aloqg the Sumida river near its mouth ana is intersected by numerous canals. It; is a poor district and greatly over* crowded. It is here where the great est number of casualties occurred Ift. the earthquake of September 1023. : Italian Authorities Baffled by Mummi fication of Woman. Naples, Aug. 27.— UP) —A strlkHli example of the mummification of ‘M . human body by natural process has . been discovered at Vatolla, in Rut , province of Salerno, with the Sftt . humation of the body of a local refttij . dent, Rosa Searpar, who died in 1912,' I The body was found to be in a peftj feet state of preservation; even Wf clothes were in a sort of petrified coin dition, but retained their original col , orR. , Thinking the mummification pSajj . cess might have been due to peculiar chemical qualities of the soil, the atf« thorities ordered the opening of aft ■ adjacent grave, but the corpse in tfM latter grave had completely decoftgj posed. This, therefore, led to tM belief among devout natives that;!;! , mi-acle had been wrought. r SAT'S BEAR SAYS: y Fair tonight and Friday; J| north and northeast wind*. I .: .JiBI