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As a Result of the Primary!
Victory of Former Sena* 1
tor Pomerene as Demo- i
cratic Nominee Again, j
DEFEATS MISS ALLEN
BY GOOD MAJORITY
Pomerene’s Republican>
r Opponent, Willis, Had
the Anti-Saloon League
Backing in Primary.
Chicago, Aufi. 12.— UP) —Chicago
may become' the battleground of an
other wet and dry political fight this
fall as a result of the primary victory
of former Senator Atice l’omerene.
democratic nominee for 'the C, S
Senate.
I'oinerene, long regarded as liberal,
defeated hi« anti-saloon league eudora
, ed opponent, Miss Florence E. Allen,
Chicago Supreme Court Justice, by a
good healthy margin in Tuesday's
’.primary, and now stands ready to
campaign against his republican op
l>onent, Senator Frank B. Willis.
Ihat \A illis will force the wet and
dry issue to l’omerene was regarded as
l.kely by political leaders, inasmuch
as Willis had anti-saloon league back
ing in’ the primary.
I’omerene, after serving 12 yenrs ns
an Ohio Senator, was defeated in'lo22
by Senator S. D. Fess in the republi"
can landslide. Gov. A. V. Douahey,
nominated by Ohio democrats for a
third term will be opposed by Myers
V. i ooper, Cincinnati business man.
Votes were still being tabulated to
day in the Alabama, and Arkansas
democratic primaries.'
Hugo L. Black, of Birmingham.
Ala., Ku Klux Klan endorsed candi
date for the seat of U, 8. Senator
Underwood, who retires in 1927, led
his nearest opponent John H. Bank
head, by 15,000 votes. Bibb Graves
led a field of four in the race for the
gubernatorial, nomination.
Governor Tom Terral. of Arkansas,
was trailing John E. Mnrtiucau. judge
of I’ulaski Chancery Court, for the
gubernatorial nomination in Arkan
sas by more than 12.000 votes, viutfi
,he ~r<
flat Result fai Alabama.
Birmingham. Ala., Aug. 12.— UP)—
Returns from 1,350 precincts of the
I. in Alabama in Tuesday's pri
mary give: Senate, John H. Bankhead '
31.901; Hugo L. Black 46.211; James
J. Mayfield 23.445; Thos. H. Kilby
22,910; Tj. B. Musgrove 21.2140. For I
Governor; A. H. Carmichael 37.078; 1
Bibb Graves 43.505; Chas. F. Me- >
Howell, Jr. 41,962; A. G. Patterson 1
34.700.
W. B. Stegall was renominated for 1
Congress from the third Alabama dis
trict in Tuesday's primary. M. C. *
Algood had a long lead over three op- 1
ponents in the seventh, and was be- ]
lieyed to have been renominated. L. I
L. Patterson was leading W. B. Bowl- 11
ing in the fifth. An official count '
v will probably be necessary to deter- ’
mine whether Wm. B. Blankhead 1
'uolds his seat in the tenth. His op- 1
ponent is G. R. Benson. Tlie other 1
six districts the incumbents were re
nominated without opposition. 1
Dwight Blackwood kept a lead of 1
12.000 over Herbert B. '\Vilson, veter
an Irghway commissioner in an appar- *
ent march to victory that was a snr- 1
pr se of the primary. A close race de- *
veloped for Superintendent -of Public 1
Instruction with Jib G. Ferguson, for
mer commissioner of agriculture lead- 1
ing J. P. Womack, Jonesboro school 1
teacher, by 1,500. With 1,500 pre- 1
clncts tabulated, Ferguson had 74,277
and Womnck 72,673 today. 1
For Lieutenant Governor. 1,511 pre- '
einots today gave Harvey Parnell 55,- *
264 as against 46,580 for Jake R. Wil- <
son. his nearest opponent.
MARTINEAU 15,568
VOTES AHEAD OF TERRAL
For Democratic Nomination for Gov
ernor of Arkansas.
Little Rock. Aug. 12.—OP)—Chan
cellor John Martineau, whose candid
admisstion to an occasional “social
drink" in the past, threatened a few
weeks ago to arouse the prohibition
folk of Arkansas, stood today 15.568
votes ahead of Governor Tom J. Ter
ra! fop the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination.
With 175,000 votes accounted for
from 1,652 of 2,009 precincts and 33
counties complete in the governor’s
race. Martineau had 95,969 and Ter
ral 79.401. It would require fully
two-thirds of the remaining votes es
timated at from 25.000 to 50,000 to
wipe ou the Little Rook jurist's lead.
In congressional events, United
States Senator T, H. Carraway was
unopposed for renomination, and Con
gressman Hartsill Ragon of the fifth
district won a handy victory. Con
gressman J. N. Tillman of the third
district, however, found his early lead
eaten into by Earl Kreenhaw and to
day stood 5.422 to 5,193 with 158 out
of 281 precincts in.
New Veterans’ Hospital.
Waf«iington,_ Aug. 12—OP)—The
general construction for the mew Vet
erans’ Hospital near Nortport, Long
Island, wag awarded today to Alger
non Blair, of Montgomery, Ala., on
the basis of his bid of 92,719,056.
Nearly one-fourth of the import
trade of. Australia is carried on with
the United States.
The Concord Daily Tribune
North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
All Os Entombed Miners
Taken From Shaft Alive
The Five Men Imprisoned
by a Cave-in in Ken
tucky Mine Last Thurs
day Brought to Surface.
jONEMANWASIN
DELIRIOUS STATE
One of Them Was in Hi
larious Mood and Said,
“Where’s My Horse? I
Want to Ride Home.” j
Salem, Ky.. Aug. 12.— OP) —All five
miners who were imprisoned by a
enve-iu at the Hudson mine last
Thursday were brought to the surface !
alive this morning.
Randolph Cobb was the first man
to reach the top of the shaft.
He called to the crowd which wait
ed anxiously:
“Hello, there boys. -I’m not sick.”
Roy James, for whom little hojic
had been held as he had been separat
ed from the otiier miners when the
. cave-in occurred, was the next to ap
pear.
[ George Castilier was third. He was
, delirious and is in a critical condition
, as a result of pneumonia.
U. B. Wi’.son was the fourth man,
and Harry Watson the last man to
appear. Watson was in a hilarious
mood. He called "Where's-my horse?'
1 want to ride home.”.
The miners were greeted with 1
cheers when they appeared. The
dense throng on the mine property
presed forward, and it was necessary
to detail national guardsmen to re
strain the crowds.
The miners said that during the
long vigil underground they had nev
er given up hope of rescue, nor had
anyone of them become ilowncast.
They had four matches between
them. These they carefully conserv
ed. By burning the miners' lamps
which they had. one at a time, they
were enabled to have light for a
long time, they said, and waited
through the long black hours.
A daughter of Cobb was at the
mine entrance when her father ap
peared. At the sight .of his face she
became hysterical and fainted.
James, the miners said, was the he
ro of the disaster. Instead of attempt
ing to escape when the cave-in came,
he went back to warn the 'other four
men of the calamity.
The- then were apparently siifftrlng
only weakness from lack of food with
the exception of Castilier.
Two rescue workers assisted each
man from the mine shaft through the
crowd to a hospital tent nearby.
All night the mucking crews had
toiled at the shaft opening a passage
gradually through the tunnel as the
mud and rotted timbers were cleared
away. The dramatic rescue -came as
a surprising sequel to the days and
nights of effort, despite the hope that
the men might yet survive.
Men engnged in removing debris in
the tunnel arrived within shouting
distance of the trapped miners early
today. The first message from the
imprisoned men was yelled by one of
'them, who called out “We are every
one right back here.” While several
of the muckers redoubled their efforts
to clear away the mire, others rushed
to the bottom of the shaft and called
up to the top:
“Come down herb now,” they shout
ed to the men assembled to the mine
mouth.
Fifteen picked men assigned to en
ter the idiaft first in the event the
men were found, immediately went
down in the tnnnel and assisted the
men in reaching the buckets.
The joy of relatives was shared by
rescue workers and others who wit
nessed many touching scenes as the
miners embraced their loved ones.
Cobb, the first to see the sunlight,
was grinning boardly as he cliinbed
weakly from file tub and was enfold
ed in the arms of his wife and chil
dren.
Corn Does Better la South Than in
North.
(By International News Service)
Nashville, Teun., Aug. 12.—Corn
ia a crop that will do better in the
south than in the north, is a theory
that has proved itself by the record of
256 bushels per acre by Captain Z.
J. Drake, Bennettsville, S. C.
Pointing out his record and records
of many other farmers, agricultural
experts are urging the growing of
more corn in this section. The wid
er tlie space between frosts the better
corn crops can be raised by southern
farmers, experts hold.
WARRANT FOR MATERIAL
WITNESS IN HALL CASE
Judge Refuses to Reveal tin Name
t( the Person to Be Taken Into
Custody.
Somerville, N. J., Aug. 12. — (A*) —A
warrant was issued today for the ar
rest of a material witness in the Hall-
Mills murder case.
Juatice of the Peace Wm. R. Sut
l>hen in announcing that he had is
sued the paper, refused to reveal the
name of the person to be taken into
custody.
It waa believed, however, that the
pqraon waa not. a relative of Mrs.
Frances Stevens Hall, now at liberty
In 915,000 bail on a charge of slaying
her husband, the Rev. Edward Wheel
er Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, four
ytnra ago.
Several blue geese have been aue- 1
ceaafu.ly. raised in captivity by the
National Zoological
Park. This is the drat time this has
ever been done.
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* MANY KILLED WHEN
* A BRIDGE COLLAPSES
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IK on the Nojiromachi, one of the :
FK main thoroughfares of Aitka in i
IK l'go province, collapsed late yes- :
LK terday. Thirteen bodies have ■
LK been recovered and fifteen per- ■
IK sons still are missing.
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WHITTEMORE FACES GALLOWS
A Fateful Day for Richard Whitte
i more. Debonair Gang Lender.
J Baltimore, Aug. 12.—Friday the
thirteenth! A fateful day for Rich
ard W.iittemore. debonair gang lead
er, whose $300,000 "emergency fund”
laid aside from the proceeds of hold
ups and robberies has failed to save
him from paying the extreme penalty
for his crimes. Unless there is an
eleventh-hour reprieve from Governor
Ritchie, who airendy has signed the
death warrant, the. Baltimore bandit
and slayer whose career in crime has
been compared to that of Gerald Chap
man, will ascend the scaffold late to-
j night or early tomorrow morning to
meet the same fate that put a period
to Chapman's, career in the Connec
tleut penitentiary a few months ago.
j The son of respectable parents,
! Richard Reese Whittemore started
out while sti'.l in his teens to get some
of the “easy money” of which he had
hoard from the evil company with
which he had become -Associated. His
caHy essays'ln crime were : ’confined
to petty thievery. Occasionally when
luck was against him he was called
upon to serve a light prison sentence
for his misdeeds.
I After several years of experience
11 Whittemore went in for bigger things.
He was caught, convicted and put
* away in the Maryland penitentiary
f for a term. On February 20, 1925,
j he managed to escape from the peni
tentiary. but in doing so shot and
* killed Robert H. Holtman, one of the
■' prison guards.
, After his esenpe Whittemore be
came the head of a well-organized
. gang of young bandits, who selected
New York City as the most promising
field for their operations. The hold
-1 up of well-stocked jewelry stores was
the specialty of the gang, thongh oc
, casionally they took a flyer other
, forms of robbery. Front the view
point of the underworld the gang was
i highly successful. Within a short
. period it was estimated they had
clcjtned up something like a million
I dollars. A fixed proportion of their
, stealings was regularly laid aside as
, a sinking fund. This was to be used
I in case any members were unfortunate
, enqugh to get“caught and it became
I necessary to employ high-priced law
yers to get them off.
When at the height of his prosper
ity Whittemore married and with his
. wife and pals lived amid luxurious
surroundings in the metropolis. Some
, of their jewelry store hold-ups figured
■ among the biggest affairs of the kind
that had been pulled off in New York
and attracted wide attention. Occa
sionally, it was said, the gang had
foilnjl it necessary to do some shoot
ing. When things became too hot
for them in New York they would
seurry to some other cities to remain
until the atmosphere cleared.
Then the wheel of fate took a sud
den reverse and the entire gang were
landed in the dragnet of the New
York police. were on hand
to identify the members of the gnng
and to pick out Whittemore as their
leader. Although they had numerous
charges of (heir own, the New York
authorities agreed to surrender Whit
temore to the Buffalo police, who
wanted him for the murder of a bank
guard. Baltimore also put in a claim
for the bandit lender on account of
the slaying of the State prison guarrd.
Whittemore was tried first in Buf
falo, where the j«ry failed to convict.
He was then turned over to the Bal
timore authorities and was given a
speedy trial which resulted in his con
viction and sentence to death. All
appeals for a new trial were refused,
as were also the appeals to the gov
ernor for clemency.
In the meantime the other members
of the bandit gang were being tried
in New York on various robbery
charges. All without exception were
convicted and were given prison sen
tences ranging from fifteen to thirty
years.
“GoM Rush” at Lamlsburg.
(By International News Service.)
Louisbnrg, N. C.; Aug. 12.—Thin
county today was all a-flutter over
the prospect of a new “gold rush."
Reports that Pi E. Sturges, a
Franklin Oonnty man, has found<
gold in paying quantities near here,
has led to the be'ief that the , gold
mining industry will be revived in
this section.
Sturges exhibited samples of the
ore here. He said they had been
found near the site of the old Por
tis mine, which was in operation
here years ago.
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CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1926 NO. iaQ
| Men in the Day's News
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tIAMES R. SHEFFIELD CommanJerJoiM
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A. J. Cook, John H.MARSUALL
James R. Sheffield, Americap Ambassador to Mexico, was to
protest infringements on thej rights of Americans in the reU*
gious conflict. Commander John Rogers, hero of the unsuo
cessful San Francisco to Honolulu flight, obtained permission
to try aijpin. A. J. Cook, British labor leader, accused his
Government of misleading America about the British mine
jtfi ike. John H. Marshall, Mayor of Warren, 0., ordered the
Police Department abandoned when the city “went broke.**
| C. P. BARRINGER AGAIN
IS ELECTED PRESIDENT
, Other Officers of State Labor Body
Named at Concluding Session..
, Salisbury, Aug. 11.—r-With tltt» 4ft-
Juctiofi into office of 'iicwly elected
, officers, the uiinual convention : of
. the North Carolina State Federation
| of Labor adjourned here this after
noon.
Officers elected were: C. P. Bar
ringer, Salisbury, president; R. W.
Morton, Charlotte, first vice presi
dent ; E. D. Crouch, Winston-Salem,
second vice president; J. T. Robert
son, Mooresyille, third vice presi
dent ;. J. W. Whitetiides, Henderson
ville, fourth vice president; It.
Apple, Greengboro, fifth vice presi
dent ; D. J. Antler, Spencer, sixth
vice president; M. F. Johnson, seven
th vice president; C. G- Worley,
Asheville, secretary and treasurer;
W. G. Watson, Salisbury, sergeant
nt-arms, and L. J. Williams, Win
stou-Salem, chaplain.
A loving cup was presented Mr
Barringer by the convention to ex
press appreciation for the work he
has accomplished during the three
years lie has been president.
Hendersonville was chosen as the
place for the 1927 convention of tlie
federation, winning out over Hick
ory and Durham.
Anti-Evolution Resolution.
The evolution question was lack
led by the convention this morning
and in a measure offered by J. S.
Upton, machinist, of Salisbury
through the resolutions committee,
asks that the legislature pass an aft
forbidding the teaching of evolution
orany theory that man was the
descendant of any lower anima!, in
any tax-supported school or college
in North Carolina. Maj. W. F,
Moody, of Raleigh, expressed the be
lief that this would be wading in
deep water and offered a motion to
table, which was lost by a decisive
vote.
There followed considerable discus
sion in which President Barringer
read a letter from President Green,
of the American Federation of
laibor, opposing the bringing up of
this question in labor bodies, and in
which he hinted that it was against
freedom ofthought and fundamentals
of teaching. The convention by al
most unanimous vote passes! the.
measure.
Settle Compensation Issue-
The workmen's compensation ques
tion was settled, so far us this con
vention is concerned, by referring it
to a joint conference of reprcseuta->
fives of the state federation ami the
rni'way brotherhoods "Tliere is a di
vision • between these two bodies over
this question and efforts will be
made ot get tht-se together.
Two Aged Men Put on a Fatal Duel.
Sweetwater, Tex., Aug. 12. —Two
old men old enough to be grand- “
fathers settled their differences with
automatic rifles today at *Cauip
Spring, 35 miles north of hen-, and
both died within an hour.
J. D. Ware, 70, lived on a farm
owned by W. S. Reed. 65, and il
- is said to have arisen between
them some months ago. Both are sar
vived by large families. They lived
within 100 yards of each other.
A French court has just settled a
suit concerning ownership of 12.000
acres of land fi’ed In the year 1372.
It is estimated that lawyers fees dar
ing this period were sufficient to
have bought the property twenty-one i
times over.
URGES AN UP-TO-DATE
SYSTEM OF AUDITING
' For Every County in the State. Audi
tor Durham Tallis to the Conunis
: sioners. S
[ Morehend City, Aug. 11.—Wl—Aii
up-to-date system of auditing for ev
-1 ery' county in the state was urged
by State Auditor Baxter Durham ,
speaking here tonight before the eon
vention of county commissioners of
t'.ic state. Mr. Durham declared j
that such a system would aid in pro- i
tecting the credit of the various coun- 1
ties and would result in great savings I
to the taxpayers. Modern methods j
of handling county tax systems and !
its disbursing and receiving agencies f
are just as essential as are modern!
methods in everyday business.
Mr. Durham asserted that he had
come in close contuct with the va
rious methods or lack of methods of
accounting in t'.ie counties because
of his position as State auditor and
in checking over the various coun
ties. He remarked that in some
counties there appeared to be lack
of knowledge of the very essentials
of business. As an example of this
he mentioned that he had known of
cases where sinking funds were di
verted to general funds and vice
versa. He also mentioned that the
county financial status depended on
handling its affairs in a proper man
ner and cited instances where bond
interest payments were not made
promptly and apparently were given
little consideration.
Mr. Duriiam expressed his belief
in a state auditing system and said
that in that way the state officials
could bring to each county the ex
periences gathered in other counties,
to the ultimate benefit of all. He
declared that the books of a county
should be carefully audited at least
once a year and added that careful
systems of bookkeeping between the
auditing periods would result in mak
ing the task much easier and more
undesirable.
From a standpoint of benefit to
taxpayers, Mr. Durham declared t'.iat
careful auditing systems time and
again hnd demonstrated their worth
by adding to a county's resources al
most forgotten items of revenue and
that careful search of tax lists had
brought in large sums that should
have been collected in the regular
course of business, had the business
been properly conducted. He drew
a parallel between such methods in
the counties and the use of similar
methods in everyday business life and
naked the question, how long would
a business last that overlooked its
assets and neglected to collect its ac
counts?
He closed with a declaration that
the state came to the counties not
to take away from the authority
lodged In county officials but to aid
in the exercise of this authority so
so far as fiscal affairs were con
cerned. He said that an audit of
the county was not only to check up
the actual figures on the books but
to take into account every element
of interest in the county and that
in this connection the state stood
ready because of experience gained
to aid the county officials in checking
up on what they had in their counties
and rightly classifying each item, to
the ultimate benefit of the county and
thus the taxpayer.
During the past “Hire years Caua
da has spent $200,000,000 on road
construction.
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Something Must Be Done to
Make Prisoners Work, Says Sink
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh. Aug. 12.—" Something must
be done to make prisoners work, and
work hard, and stop malingering in
prison camps ns the result of banish
ing the lash is prison camps,” said H.
Hoyle Sink, commissioner of pardons
and paroles, in commenting on the
story carried by the Asheville Times
telling of Pile manner in which con
vict discipline had gone to smash at
the Craggy prison camp—a county
cam]i —on the French Broad River,
after whinping had been banned. The
story said that groups of convicts,
numbering from eight to twelve men,
were seen lounging or sleeping in the
shade, refusing to work because they
said “they didn’t feel good.” Officers
of the camp said that there was noth
ing they could do to make them work,
and that they were also getting “real
sassy to the guards."’
"I have a plan that I will announce
later that I think will solve this sit
uation,” said Sink, “but I am not pre
pared to make it public yet. How
ever. we are going to devise someway
to make these malingering convicts
work and work hard. lam not now
and never have been in favor of
coddling convicts, and if it is not pos
sible to make them work at '.lard la
bor. as was stipulated when they were
sentenced, then botli the purpose and
the spirit of the law is defeated.” j
Just what this plan it is not known, j
although it is no secret here that a
number are advocating a law to per
mit whipping of prisoners, under tlie
direction and supervision of a physi
cian, and after a given number of
lashes lias been ordered by the prison
superintendent.’ This would prohibit
the indiscriminate whipping of prison
ers by guards and would prevent any
whilltrfg while the)- are at work, but
would still keep the fear of the lash
in their minds, inasmuch as they
could expect a given number of lashes
for refusal to work and for other
breaches of discipline. Those who
favor this system point to the fact
Hint there is a certain class of “hard ,
boiled" criminal who has no fear of
u n\t hing except the lash.
Mr. Sink would not comment in
any way upon this proposal to insti
tute “supervised whipping under med
ical direction” and after a medical 1
examination of the prisoner, to see 1
that he was able to withstand it. 1
However, Mr. Sink is a most velie- 1
i meat advocate of a uniform state law 1
dealing with prison camps, time off 1
. for good behavior, treatment of pris- j!
oners gild prison discipline. He says
that there is great need for uniform
legislation dealing with prison samps
and the state prison alike, and is in
favor of co-ordinating hoth county and :
state prison camps under one direc- ■
Sudden Cloudburst Floods Atlanta
Causing Damage of Large Extent
t Atlanta, Aug. 11.—Sudden flood
! waters menaced a score of lives at
noon here today when storm sewers
were unable to carry off the heavy
precipitation cf a hard downpour.
Lightning, flashing through the rain
storm, occasioned the burning of one
residence and damaged other houses
in smnller degree.
Eiglit-.vcar-old Jimmie Cleveland
was paddling about in a street pool
with other boys when the rain at
tained almost cloudburst proportions.
Before the lads were aware of the se
riousness of the situation Jimmy was
swept into a storm sewer and was
gone from sight. His playmates,
crying for aid. ran down the street
more than a block where the four
THE COTTON MARKET
Further Declines in Today’s Early
Trading—Off 14 to 20 Points.
New York. Aug. 12.—(A*)—A re
newal of Wall Street liquidation, lo
cal and southern selling caused furth
er declines in the cotton market in
today’s early trading. The selling
was promoted by relatively easy Liv
erpool cables, with reports of con
tinued favorable weather in the belt,
and again accompanied by talk of a
possible increase in the mid-August
crop indication as compared with
August first figures.
The market opened easy at decline
of 13 to 17 points and showed net
losses of 14 to 20 points before the
end of the first half hour, with De
cember Helling down to 16.12, or the
lowest price touched since publica
tion of last Monday’s government
crop report. There was some trade
buying and covering on a scale down,
i but it was supplied on slight bulges
and some southern hedge selling was
reported here as well as further li
quidation of old long accounts.
Cotton futures opened easy. Oct.
10.29; Dec. 16.16; Jan. 16.17; March
10.38; Slay 16.64.
SHERIFFS’ CONVENTION
AT OXFORD CLOSES
Te Meet at Wrightaville Beach Next
Year.—D. E. Hunt Is President.
Oxford, N. C., Aug. 12.—0 P)— I The
sheriffs' convention closed here today
after selecting Wrightsville' Reach as
the next annual meeting place, and
naming D. E. Hunt, of Oxford, as
its president.
Other officers were: B. E. Scull, of
Hertford, vice president, and O. A.
Glover, of Wilson, secretary-treasur
er.
The convention went on record at
its final jassion as opposed to any
law governing regulation
of county governments and also voted
to hold an extra session in Raleigh
during the meeting of the General Aa
sembiy. T
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tional hand.
“111 the case of county camps, *
ticularly, is this reform neejlc-’ ,
Mr. Sink. "At present K aw
ery county is a law into i;sk ~ «ne
administration of its prison camps
and convict gangs. Some of them
are well administered, while in other
counties conditions are far from what
they ought to be. Certainly some
method should be worked out whereby
all prison camps, county and state
alike, can be administered in the same
manner, with the same regulation and
modes of punishment in all of them.
In this day and above all else, all
, the convicts who are physically able
should be made to work and work
hard. That is why they are where
they are—to work. And the state
should take whatever means neces
sary. within the hounds of humanity,
to see that this is done.”
At present, when a prisoner refuses
to work, and he is found to be phys
ically able to, the only recourse is to
put him in solitary confinement, Air.
Sink said, and this method o' pun
ishment is welcomed by many, who
much prefer a diet of bread and water
for ten or twelve days, to doing any
labor. Recently, in one camp, eigh
teen men were in solitary confinement
nt one time, remaining there for ap
proximately ten days each. This
] meant n loss of 180 days work, at
] a cost ot $2 a day. Thus solitary
J confinement Is expensive punishment,
i However, George Ross Pou. super
intendent of state prisons, and Dr. J.
H. Norman, warden of the state pris
on, while in favor of a centralized
prison administration for both county
and state convicts, both are opposed
to whipping convicts, under any con
sideration, maintaining that while it
may take longer to get the same.re
sults from solitary confinement, is
more humane and gets more lasting
results. In solitary confinement, the
prisoner is given an opportunity to
determine his own course of action,
and when he comes out and decides
to work, there generally is no more
| trouble with him. AA’hipping a man,
on the other hand, makes a man vin- i
dieative and ugly and harder to man
age.
“I have seen both systems, and I
would not for a minute ever ndvoeate
the return to whipping under any cir
cumstances,” says Dr. Norman. “Our
experience is that we have beeen get
ting much better results, with a high
er morale, both in the prison camps,
on the prison farms and in the cen
tral prison itself, siuee the lash has
been abolished. We .do not want its
return.”
A unified prison adininistratrohi is
the only thing that will solve the
prison camp discipline prbolem, Dr.
Norman believes.
foot drain emptied into an open cul
vert.
Wading shoulder deep in the swollen
stream, young Cleveland's friends and
two men caught the boy as lie was
swept out by the underground torrent
and brought him to safety.
Fifteen negroes, living in a low ly- i
. ing section, marooned in their qunr-1
ters were rescued by firemen who
swam about in water ten feet deep to
bring diem to “land.” Firemen and!
others furnished aid to the distressed I
in less serious flood emergencies else
where.
The weather bureau reported a pre
cipitation of 2.93 inches within an
hour. Tlie storm was local in char
acter, the bureau officials said.
TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY
COMMITTEE APPOINTED
Personnel Given" Out at Governor’s
Office.—D. M. Ausley, of States
ville a Member.
Raleigh, Aug. 12.— UP) —For the
purpose of investigating freight rates
in the State and to other states, the
feasibility of developing North Caro
lina ports and to act in an advisory
i capacity to the Corporation Commis
i sion in rate hearings. Governor Mc
|! Lean today announced the personnel
1 1 of the transportation advisory eom
, mission. Twelve citizens of the
' state were named to the commission,
' which will meet in September, at the
' call of the governor, to consider its
’ organization and devise plans for its
‘ methods of procedure,
t The commission will be composed
i of the following: -T- Allen Taylor, of
Wilmington: E. K. Bishop, of New I
Hern; James A. Gray, of Winston-
Salem ; William Preyer, of Greens
b«ro; John W. Hause, of Wilson;
George Marsh, of Raleigh; T. J. Pur
die, of Fayetteville; M. O. Blount,
of Bethel; D. M. Ausley. of States
ville; Fred Kent, of Asheville: J.
Leake Spencer, of Chnrlotte, and T.
Austin Finch, of Thomasville.
To popularize the potato fn
France, Louis XIV is said to have
worn the flower in his buttonhole.
Star Theatre
1 Friday, Aug. 18, One Day Only
“THE MIRACLE OF LIFE”
With Mae Busch, Percy Mar
mont and Nita Naldi
i —Today—
l “THE FIGHTING HEART”
With George O’Brien, Billie
Dove and Diana Miller
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TODAY’S NEWS TODAY I
. ROCKEFELLERSCIEI
J , J OF TRW
[TO SNUGGLE GOo®
i t y‘
[ I Into This Country Wh/df?
‘ | He Arrived in New Yrit*
|! on the Liner France oil
[ | Wednesday Night.
i | WORE TOP COAT L J
DESPITE HE4f
When He Was Searche4
Razors, an Expeng)s£
Pipe and Other Thift£s
‘ Were Found.
>' n
New V ork. Aug. 12.—G4>)—A cus
toms fine of $476.20 imposed upop J r 1
t Sterling Rockefeller, great-nephew 1 !>f
| John D. Rockefeller, was paid
to redeem goods which the young ipgfy i
was charged with attempting to sm3X||j
’ gle into the country. The fine wasi
paid by a representative of the egUafell
of William G. Rockefeller, the youoff I
* man's father.
New York. Aug. 12.—t/P)—GsjjM||l
belonging to J. Sterling RockefejSpa
son of Win. (!. Rockefeller, and
nephew of John I>. Rockefeller, wero J
held by tlie collector of the port tofiajf i
I on tlie ground that the young qign *
. had attempted to smuggle them infp
; the country when he arrived on tggr->]
j liner France last night,
j Customs guard L. I*. Cassidy, w(io
] was stationed at the customs bnjfi
i i said that his attention was attrnejw}
to young Rockefeller because he ghj
wearing a top coat despite the
tering heat. On closer ins[ieotioii hg
said lie noticed the pockets of the coal
bulging as though tightly paeimk~yj
Cassidy stopped the young mat} a nil
in searching his pockets found
ors. an expensive English pipe,
ulnrs and two decorative
radiator caps.
They grandson of the late Wp}.
Rockefeller, brother of the Btandanj
Oil magnate, sailed on June 24 last
with two other Yale students, in twfl
class accommodations. They toured J
Europe together but Rockefeller re
turned in first class cabin on the
France.
He gave his address as Greenwich.
Conn.
He was taken before Philip Elting. ~
• collector of the port, sko ordered tho.
, goods seized. After determining the
fore'.gn value and duty of the goods -1
the collector placed a personal penalty
of 100 per cent, in addition to the 3
domestic value.
Young Rockefeller will be forced to J
pay $470 to reclaim the goods.
WHITTEMORE MUST
DIE ON THE GALLOWS !
United Slates Supreme Court Dcptf*
Aplieation For Writ of ErrWy ■ i
Beverly Farms, Mass.. Aug. li—
R- Supreme Court Justice '33
iver Weldell Holmes today cleujed the
application for a writ of error made
jby Attorney G. L. Pendleton in be
j half of Richard Reese Whittemorc tut*
I dei- sentence of deatli in
I Pendleton and Deputy District J
torney Rowland K. Adams, who ap
peared for the prosecution, were eta*- j
I eted with Justice Holmes here for
| more than an hour. Both of them i
came from Baltimore last night, Ad
ams making his decision to make the
trip after he had learned the negro
attorney planned to make a fight for )
the life of his client to the highest J
court in the land.
Pendleton's petition was for p Writ |
of error on denial of a writ of haMHkll
corpus by the Baltimore court*
With Our Advertisers. .tfa
You can get any straw fiat in -timM
store of the Parks-Beik Co. for half j
price. See ad.
The Southern will run a nud-*sn&- if
mer excursion to Richmond. Norfolk I
and Virginia Beach on Thursday,. Atk* j
gust. 19th. Round trip fare fIMSw »j|
Concord. $6.50. $7.50 and SB.OO
spectivel.v. This will be the last |
excursion of the season to Virginia $
points. See M. E. Woody, agent, lj
for further particulars.
H. B. Wilkinson, the furniture j
man, '.las secured an additional 6,500 *
square feet of floor space to help ,
take care of his increasing business.
See ad.
See Bell & Harris and find ont whet %
charming bedrooms cun be arranged ne||!
j small expenditure.
Old PajTVll Show Value of Pte-Wor
Mobile, Ala., Aug. 12.—(/P)_-The 1
warehouse of the Mobile and OhJofj
Railroad lias given up several par- ||
rolls made out to slave owners, the i
oldest having been made out and J
signed by Oliver Beer, former slave I
owner connected with the M. A O. 3
in 1858, three years before the Hwlml
war.
On the list were such names ■dH
slave* as Tom. Washington, An
thony, Jefferson und John, EafiStfs
worked in section gangs of fhfe M. |
& O. before the Civil war. S
They were “worth” S2O or $25 a i
month, according to their pbystai '£
abilities.
In splendid handwriting, clwiaWij
legible despite its age, the name* Hula
the negroes in slavery, their mashoilia
and wages were written in
columns Oil the unbleached ngß3r.c»j
THE WEATHER
Fair in east, local
in west portion tonight und FrifUMSsS
Moderate south and southwwt WißflffiS