North Carolina Newspapers

ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI' Hold Little Hope For Miners Trapped By An Explosion On Thursday - * Thirty-Two Dead Bodies Had Been Taken From the Mine at Clymer, Pa., Early Today. CAUSE OF BLAST IS NOT KNOWN Mine Officers Estimate That at Least 12 Other f Workers Have Not Been Accounted For. Clymer, Pa., Aug. 27.—OP)—The explosion which occurred at the Cly mer mine of the Clearfield bituminous coal operation yesterday apparently had crushed out the lives of forty-four men. With thirty-two bodies recov ered from the blasted works at 6:30 this morning, mine officials expressed belief that twelve others unaccounted for were dead in the debris »swept ruins of ihe mine. Figures given out early .today by A. J. Musser, vice president and gen eral manager of the corporation, a subsidiary of the New York Central Kailroad, and Doctor Fred St. Clair, coroyer of Indiana county, revealed that fifty-eight miners were trapped by the explosion which occurred at 1:80 Thursday afternoon. Ten miners escaped with their lives and four others are in a Dixonville hospital suffering from gas and shock. None of the bodies have been definite ly identified at the improvised morgue in a machine shop one miles from the scene of thp blast. hate last night many of the wives and children of the entombed men left the mine mouth after a vigil of ten hours. At dawn they returned to. the hillsides flanking the ill-fated pit. They were ignorant of the fact that thirty-two bodies had been brought out and removed to the temporary morgue. A corps of Salvation Army lasses labored all night without sleep preparing the bodies so that later in the day the stricken kin’s villagers might be summoned to identify them. lllack damp, the deadly menace which follows a mine explosion, took the lives of the first four men brought up. Their bodies were unmarked, i The others, however, were burned bud** ly, some jkeyond recognition. H wg toils* »n tneir efforts to recover the bodies of the missing men. J. J. Forbes, .supervising engineer of the I'nited States bureau of mines, Pittsburgh, emerging from the mine after a long exploration, reported that the mine was being reventilated and cleared of poisonous gasses. Forbes said it was impossible at present to give a cause for the blast because of the general destruction in the mine chambers. Forbes was in charges of a federal investigation started today. A sec ond investigation also was started by State authorities. Mine officials believe that 150 chil dren were made fatherless by the ex plosion, the second in this territory ■ within three years. In January, 1023, fifty-six lives wele lost at the Starford mine at Hhanktown. Find More Bodies. Clymer, !*»., Aug. 27.—OP)—The bodies of !) miners, badly burned and mutilated, were recovered from the Clymer mine at noon today, bringing the known, death toll of yesterday's explosion to 41. Rescuers continued to senreh for three miners believed to have been buried under heavy falls of rock and earth. The condition of the nine bodies led the rescuers to believe that these men were trapped in the very midst of the explosion, for the remains were in such condition that identification was practically impossible. Os the 41 bod ies recovered, only four were without marks of violence. The four fell vic tims to the deadly damp which fol lowed the blast. l Today as the noon sun beat down *•' upon the mine mouth, a rescue team came from the shattered workings. They brought with them a number of mine cars upon which lay the bodies, of the nine victims. The great throng of men, women and children, many re lated to the victims, rushed to the temporary morgue in the hope of learning the fate of some loved one. Hut mine officials hesitated yet to ad mit them. Practically ■ all hope for the en tombed men was abadoned tonight after Dr. W. E. Dodd, company physician, explored the mine as far as possible. He said the blast caused widespread devastation and that the tunnels were so heavy with gas that no human could survive, tie said that within the slope, under.piles of rock, he saw the bodies of six miners. Some were badly mangled while others, he said, bore no marks, in dicating that they were victims of the gases. Volunteer rescuers, who entered the gas-fll'ed slope in heroic efforts to rescue the entombed men, were driven back time and again. But be fore the deadly gases became heavy in the dark recesses, the rescuers succeeded in bringing out four bodies. Two others were located un der falls of rock and dirt. Four men, near the mine mouth, were found to be alive. They were brought out and rushed to the Dixonville hospital where they were reported un conscious and inf a critical condition- While rescuers held’ little hope for the entombed men A. J.*Musser, vice president and general manager of the company, said he has hopes that j ' V' '- . The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily ♦ , ’ hearing postponed l Telegraph Companies Want to Put ’ Higher Rates in Effect. Tribune Rurean Sir'Walter Hotel Rn.eigh. Aug. 27.—Hearing of the . petitions by the Western Union and Postal telegraph companies for tier mission to put higher rates into es , feet in Norih Carolina has been post ’ poned from September Bth until Sep tember 20th, by agreement of coun sel. it has been announced by the State Corporation Commission The nerease is being vigorous'y op-j posed by a large number of commer cial organizations in the state, includ ing a large number of ehambers of eonnneree nnd merchants' and who'e salers’ associations, and it was at the request of these bodies that the post-1 ponement was granted. Attorneys for the organizations maintained that they would be unable to assemble the material they desired to present by the earlier date. • The telegraph companies both main tain that they lost money last year in their intra-stote business, owing to the flat rate charge in effect on all messages in the stnte. They are now asking permission to base their charg es on the distance of transmission, elnitning that this still would not make up the loss they sustain, and that the total increase would be only about 13 per cent. Those opposing the move, however, cite the tremendous profits both com panies made last /ear on their inter state and international business, and maintain that in order to give better : service between the nearer points, i they on it well afford the slight loss entailed. • TWO SERIOUSLY HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Young Man Loses Foot and Young Woman’s Leg Is Crushed. Salisbury. Aug. 2(l. —Yesterday af ternoon about six o'clock an automo bile that was being driven by Ervin Ridenhour, of Cooleemee, just after he had crossed the Elisha ereek bridge near Moeksville, suddenly skidded as the brakes were applied to negotiate a curve ahead, crashed into the guard i railing and turned over the embank ment into the ravine. A stringer was driven through the ampjtfatin*. Uid enoours foot and being driven against the knee of • Miss Ethel Poplin, of Moeksville, shattering the bone from foot to knee. Young Ridenhour was hurried to Salisbury, where his foot was amputated. The other occupants of the car. Miss Winona Poplin, a sister of the injured, and Dale Davis, of Salisbury, had only minor injur ies. With Our Advertisers. Now is the “time to stock up with blankets” for the winter. See Efird’s new ad. A ten-piece dining room suite at Concord Furniture Co. for $130.50. 1 See description in new ad. today’. The Standard Buiek Co. has six used cars for sale. See list in ad. today. New shoes from old at the Shepherd Shoe Hospital. Phone 431. Drop in at W. J. Hetheock's and look over the assortment of electrical appliances for the home. See the new ad. today of Rob’s Dry Cleaning Co. Phone 787. Popular new dress modes for fall and winter at J. C. Penney Co.’s. The prices range from $14.75 to $3!).75. The Parks-Belk Co. is having a final dear-up of all remaining summer dresses and hats. A special lot of voile dresses for SI.OO each. See ad. for other bargains. If you are going hunting the Ritchie Hardware Co. has the gun you want. Everything for the fisherman, too. Fear 94 Persons Perished. Nakhalt, Bengal, India, Aug. 27. {An —Nlnenty-four passengers on a Megna River ferry boat are believed to have been drowned when the craft sapsized in mid-stream and broke in two. One hundred passengers were i, on board, and only six are known to I have been saved. Many were carried ' away by the swiftly rushing water. • Imperial Russian Government war ' bonds have been declared a dead loss • to American holders, under a ruling of the Board of Tax Appeals. ' gome h*d succeeded in sealing tnem ' selves into rooms before the gas I penerated to them. : Great crowds of men, women and 1 children flocked to the mine from l nearby villages shortly after they I were startled by the heavy explosion • which was felt a half mile nway. ! The crowds hampered the volunteer • rescuers at the outset, but state f troopers from Greenburg finally con trolled 4he throng, forcing the on- lookers to take to the bills flanking the mine mouth. Here on the outer edge ofthe crowd, stood many wom en and children whose husbands and fathers were trapped in the mine. Veteran coal miners, familiar with explosions, expressed the belief that the blast was caused by the ignition of gas. General Manager Muser refused to hazard an opinion as to the cause. He said the deadly after damp was so heavy in the workiugs that the rescuers had not been able to get in very far and' thgt therefore they did not know the condition of the mine or the spot where the explosilon <*'- J cur red. Walked Out HI i ’’*■ m i A '■ - A JMw L..' Edward Payson Weston, old time walking champion, was found desti tute iu New York. He had walked from Philadelphia. He is shown as saying a few steps, without his for mer vigor. CROP PROSPECTS Recent Rains Will Prove a Great Blessing to Cotton. Tribune Bureaa Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Aug. 27. —The rains of the past few days, if they are over with now. will prove of considerable benefit to the cotton crop and still materially check the shedding of squares and un developed bolls but if more rain con tinues it may prove of distinct dam age to the crop, according to the ctop reporting bureau of the I'nited States and State department of agriculture. Up until a few daj'R ago. more rain was needed to make tire-cotton 'pumtsf develop as they should nnd to stop the shedding of squares, whit'll was be coming rather serious. Now that need of extro moisture has been supplied. But more rain will be too much and if it should continue would seriously re tard development of the crop. It would also tend to Increase the boll weevil, ns tre crop is still not far enough along to be immune from the weevil. The discovery of the cotton caterpillar in Granville county and other sections of the state has also added to the concern felt for the crop. However, these arc all future possi bilities and have no bearing on the condition of the crop now, which is considered excellent. In fact, every indication is for a good cotton crop in North Carolina and only the development of unusual circumstances can prevent the matur ing of an excellent crop, according to Frank Parker, crop statistician and chief of the Raleigh crop reporting office. Mr. Parker has just returned from Washington where he was a member of die* national crop report ing bonfd, and assisted in issuing the last government crop report. Iu this report the condition of the Texas crop declined from 73 per cent, to 01 per cent., and reports from Texas were that the situation was really acute. Earlier in the season, the cotton hop per did much damage, and now the cotton caterpillar or ormy worm is re ported as literally denuding the fields, stripping the stalks of the leaves, which they eat, thus killing the plants. The boll weevil is also doing tremend ous damage there, so the chances are for a further drop in the crop condi tions in Texas, instead of for an in crease. The fact that North Carolina was the only cotton producing state that showed an increase in the rating given crop conditions ns of August 16th, having advanced from 70 per cent, to 78 per cent, since August Ist, is a most encouraging 'fact for North Car olina cotton growers, who, if condi tions decline in other states, stand an excellent chance of getting even better prices than usual. It was also pointed out that the yield per ocre is greater in North Carolinn , than in the other cotton states. All estimates made by the govern ment are made on the estimated area originallp lanted, which iu North Car olina was 2,057,000 1 acres. Some of this, however, has been abandoned, ao that the ultimate acreage upon which . the eventual yield will be based wil . not be as great, although it will prob . übly exceed 2,000,000 acres. But growers are warned that al t though at present the outlook is very * favorable, many things may yet hap . pent to reduce the present expectan- I cy. / i Honors Wagner Requisition. t Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 27. —C/W— i Governor Terral honored a requisition today for the return to Mississippi of I Karl Keiipie Wagner, gun fighter and . slayer, held at Texarkana., He plana ■ to send the warrant there. i In transportatinc light mefcMOfr 1 dim and passengers from Arauia, m t dia and Persia to Mecca, the ttme - honored camel . can no longer com - pete with the automobile. CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1926 - - .iH.fr I : v - - MH CHEEK TO CAPTURE NEGRO ■ KILLED CHILD i Aided by Blood Hounds j Crowd at Black Moun -1 taih Continues Search for Negro Who Escaped.: CHILD FATALLY HURT AS STRUCK | George Mills Is Negro Said to Have Been Driving at j Time. —Search Made in the Mountains. Black Mounta'n. X. C.. Aug. 27. 14*)—A largo excited crowd, aided by blood hounds, was searching today for George Mills, negro, who is alleged to hays run down and killed one-year-old Clarence Melton on the highway be tween Black Mountain and Montreat early last night. People in Montreal were reported still angry and bent on capturing the negro who escaped short ly after the accident. According to the local ixilice, the negro may not have tied to the moun tains. the course held to by the great er number of local folks, but may be hidden now somewhere in Montrent. The officers reported this morning that two persons had given their names as eye witnesses to the killing and that they substantiated Mrs. Melton's story that the negro did not even alow down after hitting the baby. The baby's mother had been teach ing her son to walk. She was lead ing him down the left side of the rood when Mills, driving a coupe, struck the child squarely, knocking it twen ty feet. Death came instantly. Mills is then said to have proceed ed to the entrance to Montrent \v'.iere he was stopped by officers cautioning him not to drive without lights. They noticed, they said, a half filled bottle of whiskey on the seat beside him, but while' they were talking to him he slammed the door and dashed away. Later he pnrked his enr at his home and disappeared up the side of the mountain. Coroner John 1,. Carroll arrived from Asheville this morning to hold nil inquest. Funeral services for the child were held from the Melton 'dome thiß uf teyuoon at 1 o’clock. Burial was in the cemetery here. " ... Mrs. Melton was not injured. BLACK FLEES TO HILLS FOR LIFE AFTER AUTO DEATH Police Fear He Will Be Lynched if Caught by Infuriated Posse. Black Mountain, Aug. 20.—Pur sued by n posse of over a hundred frenzied men, George Mills, 40. Black Mountain negro, is fleeing for his litt in the mountains near here. The negro drove his ear along the highway near the entrance to Mon treat and struck Clarence Melton, 15-months-old baby, led by Mrs. John Melton, wife of a'minister. The bnby was carried along the highway for fifty feet and its brains were dashed out against the pavement. The negro kept oil, eluded police who caught him on suspicion without knowing the facts. Members of the crowd declare that they intend to shoot the black on sight, and trouble is feared. The tragedy occurred at-8 o'clock near the entrance gate to Montreat. Driving on the wrong side of the road, it is alleged, Mills struck the tiny tot with his Ford coupe, snatching the baby from the right hand of its moth er, and mangling it beneath the wheels of his car. Mills did not stop. The frantig mother picked the infant up over forty feet from the scene of the impact, its life crushed out, the little body man gled horribly and one eye crushed en tirely from its head. Mills sped on. Baby Melton had just learned to Walk and was being taken for a stroll by Mrs. Melton at die time of the accident. They were walking along the left side of the road toward traffic. Mills, the negro who approached them from the rear drove from the right side of the road, where he had been only a few seconds before, and hit the infant squarely with the left front wheel of his car. A local doc toc declared the child had been in sfhntly killed. After striking the infant Mills drove on recklessly. As he approached the Montreat entrance gate he was cautioned about driving without lights, and recognized by several boys and young men ut the gatA A few inmutes later the negro grove into Montreat where he was seized by a policeman for driving without lights. It was noted by Officer Whitaker at moment that the negro was stopped for driving without lights that a part ly empty bottle of liquor lay on the seat beside him. Mills, however, af ter a moment's pause, swept the of ficer aside, stepped on Pie gas nnd dashed off. Boon afterward Me drove to his home where he leaped from the car and made bis escape into the mountains on foot. Charges Against Balanesru Cleveland, Aug. 27.—(/P)—Erutil Balanesru, youthful college student, and former Parisian, was charged with manslaughter today in connec tion with the mysterious death of his girl friend, Dorothy Elizabeth Kirk, 21-year-old stenographer. A Boston society woman has a col lection of 530 dolls fathered from ev ery part of the world. 4 HORt EXECUTED f Ofl JUKE REVOEI IK TURKISH TOWN | Men, Prominent Unionists, Were Found Guilty and Were Executed Thurs | day Night. jSEVENTEENMEN PAY WITH LIVES In All That Number Has I Been Put to Death For Revolt Said to Have Been Against Kemal. Constantinople, Aug. 27.-—(4 s )— Four prominent unionists sentenced to denth yesterday by n special court on n charge of conspiring to slay Mustapha Kemal Pasha, president of Turkey, were executed nt midnight in the prison yard at Angora. Toe executed men were: Djavid Bey, former finance minister, and long a prominent unionist; Dr. Nazim Bey. former minister of education and one of the leaders of the ISKIO revolt against the late Sultan Abdul Mam id ; Hilmi Bey, a former deputy nnd Xa'.l Bey a former secretary of the unionist party. Today's executions brings the num ber of men hanged for nn alleged con spiracy against the life of President Mustapha Kemal. to 17, 13 well known men having been hanged re cently at Smyrna. Five other members of the commit tee of union and progress, including former Premier Reouf Bey who is nt pi+sent in England, and Kaemi Bey, another well known Turkish figure, have been sentenced to perpetual ban ishment. The alleged plot against President Kernel and the Kemal government was discovered last June by the Turkish secret police who reported that the President was to be assassinated on " a visit to Smyrna. Wholesale nr- j rests followed, and after a short trial 13 men. all prominent in Turkish poli tics and six of them members of i«tr liament. were hanged at street cor ners along the waterfront of Smyrna. BANDITS WOUND TWO OFFICERS; CAPTURE THIRD ' J. C. WaO Captured and Bert Cotton ; and Perry Chunkulate Wounded in Fight. Muskogee, Okla., Aug. 27.—04 s ) — Two deputy sheriffs of Sequoyah county were wounded and Chief of Po- , lice J. C. Wall, of Tahlequnh was tak- ( en captive by two bandits after a | gun fight on the Albert Pike highway west of Sallisaw today. The wounded men are Bert Cotton and Perry Chunkulate. With Wall they were pursuing the two bandits in an. automobile following a tip that the pair had participated in a bank robbery near here. They overtook the men about two miles out of Sallisaw aud a running fight ensued. After the two deputies were wound ed, the bandits stopped their own au tomobile and forced the police chief to accompany them, appropriating the car the officers had been driving. They continued west on the highway. Officers in surrounding towns were notified. A posse that took up the trail found a sack of money iu the machine the bandits had abandoned. Sectkm to Be Added to the Davidson Stands. Davidson, Aug. 20. —Contract for the construction of a concrete sta dium 100 feet long and 25 tiers high, and to cost approximately $25,000. 1 has been let to H. S. Richardson and L. Richardson, brothers, of Greens boro and New York. These two contractors last year do -1 nated a $30J)00 athletic field to the college as a memorial to their father, ' Lunsford Richardson, Sr„ who grad uated from Davidson in 1875. ' ■* Work on the stadium is to be rttsh -1 ed with a view to completing it by the • middle of the football season. When ! finished it will seat 8.000 people. The ■ building under construction nt this * time is to be the first unit of a series 1 which will be built as the need arises. 1 It will have a brick finish and is to | be modern in every respect. The total number of wireless li ' censes now in effect in Great Britain and Northern Ireland is about 2,050,- J 000. , . K'L 1 .—= IT r a "'Se ! A GREAT STORY You ? lI Know ■ - Tomorrow Hopes of the Democrats ff/11/l/IAM- .g.MSAdoo VLC LCII/W |,,d ■ / 'VEIL Friends of these four men are urging their nomination as the Democratic standard bearer ut the next Presidential election. William G. McAdoo and A1 Smith were chief con tenders four years ago. Vic Donahey is Governor of Ohio, and James Meed is the aggressive Missouri Senator. BAD MAN SURRENDERS ] TO WOMAN SHERIFF Desperate Gunman, Slayer of Seven, I Wanted the Thrill. Texarkana, Ark., Aug. 27.—“1 just wanted a new thrill. So I surrend ered to a woman sheriff.” Kennie Wagner, 23. slayer of seven 1 men, in his cell at the local jail told ■ why he gave himself up to Sheriff (Mrs.) Lillie Barber after killing a couple of men here a few days ago. Thrills are scarce to a killed kid who kills a man every two months for a year. It is much more a nov elty to surrender to a woman sheriff than to kill a couple of men. So Bennie will tell you. “I can say one thing truthfully.’* said Bennie, “I have never been cap tured. I have never done any low down things either, like stealing.” “I started from tny home over in Gates City, Va., about two years ago with a circus. I quit the show down in Mississippi.” “I was framed, and arrested for stealing a watch. I never stole any thing in my life and told the sheriff so. But he kept laughing at me and telling me how many years I was go ing to get.” Kennie, a tall, good looking youth, with maimers that would never lead one to believe he was a desperate gun man and murderer, then shrinked his broad shoulders and settled down to tell of his life of shooting aud kill ing. “I told the sheriff I would run over him and escape. He laughed again. So I did. A deputy grabbed a shot gun and pointed it at me. I .took the sheriff's pistol and killed the dep uty.” “I had learned trick shooting from the circus and can shoot objects in the air as fast as you can toss them up. I never miss.” "I went back home and waited for things to quiet down. One day I went over in Tennessee and two men deliberately started * shooting at me. j So I killed ’em both. I beat it and i later learned they were officers aud 1 knew Who I was.” “An old woman friend of my family persuaded me .to surrender and several days later I did.” “I was tried and sentenced to the electric chair. My lawyer asked for a new trial and got it.” “I got tired of being in jail so I just broke out., Two guards were shooting at nte. I turned around nnd killed one of them and started running. I shot the other one over my lift shoulder while running. He was killed, too. “I went to Texas aud rambled around a bit. Later I ciime here and started working on n farm. The other day the Carper boys started to beat me up with a single tree. I was their friend and told them not to hit me again. They laughed and kept beating me.” "So I took my pistol and killed ’em. I would have killed that other fel low I shot but it was too dark to J see and aim straight. I would never i have been caught. ,Two days later I heard there was a woman sheriff here trying to make good in her tius bnlid's place. Her husband was killed awhile back. I heard.'’ , “So I hailed a ride and came over here and surrendered. I could' set away if X wanted to but I never have done anything wrong So why should I run? I have just killed men who tried to kill me and that isn’t wrong.’’ / This. in brief, is what a desperate gunman, slayer of seven, has to say and he wasn’t disappointed with the thrill he expected in surrendering to a woman. AV SMITH INSPECTING CHICKEN BREEDING FLOCKS More Than 12,000 Birds Have Been Inspected and Blood Tested. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Aug. 27.—Inspectors of the State department of agriculture will begin inspecting and blood test ing breeding flocks of the state from which baby chicks are sold on Sep tember Ist. This work was started last year in the state for the first time, and more than 12,000 birds were inspected and blood tested. It is a very popular work and in great de mand. Applications covering nearly 20.000 birds for this season have been received and it is expected that around 30,000 inspections and tests will be made. The department of agriculture has revised its regulations covering the cost. The total cost to the flock owner is now ten cents per bird and in order to keep it at this reduced figure it is necessary for the depart ment to receive the full co-operation of the flock owner. The blood test which is applied to each bird is for the purpose of 'de termining whether or not it is infect ed with bacillary white diarrhea, an infectious disease that is transmitter! through the egg to the baby chick and which causes a heavy death rate. The disease is very prevalent and (guises enormous losses each year. The department believes that this dis ease can be eradicated by the meth ods that have been adopted. THE COTTON MARKET Opened Firm at Advance of 0 to 18 Points.—Trading Active on Ad vance. New York. Aug. 27— UP) —The eot ton market opened firm today at an advance of 0 to 18 points. Tradiug was active and prices soon showed net gains of 18 to 24 points October j selling up to 18.03 and January to I 18.01 in repsonse to very firm late ca , bles from Liverpool, reports of con tinental' trade buying here, and buy ing by recent local sellers. Early weather news evidently dis- • appointed sellers of yesterday, as there were reports of further showers in Texas and buying was promoted by continued complaints of insect ac tivity in various parts of the South. ■ The advance to the 18 cent level 1 again attracted realizing in considera-1 I b'.e volume, but the market held steady • at about 9 iwints net higher at the ■ end of the first hour. Private cables snid Liverpool had been influenced by American buying and reports of a reduction of about ' 25 per cent, in Egyptian crop esti mates compared with last year. ■ Cotton futures opened firm: Oeto : her 17.96; 1 December 17.92; January : 19.74; March 18.04; May 16.13. Negro Hanged For Murder. Greenwood, Miss., Aug. 27.— UP) — Sylvesteer Mackey, 22, negro, was hanged in the yard of the County Farm here today for the murder of Frank Smith, a deputy sheriff. Mackey mounted the scaffold at 5:50 o’clock this morning. He was pronounced dead 12 minutes after the trap was sprung. Tennis Finals Today. The state-wide "Y” tennis champion will be decided this afternoon on the courts of the Charlotte “Y, between Bill Yates, of Charlotte, Bob Bell, of Concord, and the champion of the Asheville “Y” whose name is not known. The matches will start at 4 o’clock. TODAY’S NEWS TODAy| NO. 202. j NEW REPORTS Sill J CAUSED 88 DAMAGE TO CITSS Iu Several Louisiana tjjjgl'J ishes, Towns and Sft»|§;j Damages Caused by Storm Is Mounting.'' 1 FIVE KNOWN TO % HAVE PERISHIm Some Estimates Place tbfr 1 Damage at slo,ooo,6W|| With Several ParisnfiH Suffering the Most. Schriever. La., Aug. 27.—C4*)—At least one life and inestimable proper* ? ty damage was the toll of the hurricane which swept through .. Kapil Fourehe and Terrebond parishes Estimates in some cases tba '. property damage to the two parisl*is|jj at $16,000,000. One child in Schriever was drownwgll when her home was blown away amp 1 she was blown into a nearby 1 Many persons were injured through* I out the territory. Several lives were reported lost at Houma. , vtiuls Schriever. Houma and were hard hit by the storm. ThiMpl deau last three churches, a wholrrtwpf establishment, 10 houses, and a store ' were completely demolished, and JH||l houses unroofed. No lives were last, - | Reports from Houma said that sev*;:| oral persons were believed ki lied in Ihe j lower fishing territtory. Stores there | were damaged and plqte glas wimitawife:" were blown out by the storm. Data* ■, age to the Southdown Sugar was estimated at SIOO,OOO. t ttbeg; s l sugar factories in the territory were The Shaver pecan orchard sm9 Schriever was destroyed, and the KjfpU Palmer Ducros grove suffered hcatiSjy ! from the loss of trees. Estimates of Damage Varjr. 3s New Orleans, Aug. 27.—C4 3 )—Five ]>ersons are known to be dead, several i others are missing, and estimates yf damage wrought by the tropical hur- ■' ricane which swept through southern, i Louis’ana Wednesday night ranged between $5.000,000 and $10,000,000 as new reports of storm damage j reached here today. UPWARD REVISION OF YARN PRICES MADE That and Acceleration of Trade lows Government Cotton mHI Estimate. Yarn Spinners Say. Charlotte, Aug. 26.—An upward i revision of yarn prices and an tfSjM celeration of trade has followed tlye government crop estimate of Ais£w£''| 25, revealing conclusive evideney fjttM effective curtailment according bulletins issued from the office 0# Singleton Green, secretary of f ttrej Southern Yarn Spinners assQciaiwßf| The estimate is said to have met with considerable surprise to majority of yarn traders in this 6 tion. The report showed that eperiK: ~ tions of July, this year, averaged 180 hours per spindle as (ompatolt with 200 hours per spindle of tHo preceding month. It showed a curtailment ejggjjjg hours per house for the month* a>S compared 'to July 1925 Spindles during the month averaged 78.1 k capacity operation, a substantial curtailment. The spinners according to the re* ; port are as a result, holding" thciij prices firm and some instances made advances. Dealers prices any said to he on an increase. The figures, the bulletin sets | are conclusive evidence that curtail*, ment has been effective and that the policy will continue in effect« prices warrant increased operatWOl, It is expected that trade vrijl dlye velope at a remunerative shortly with the absence of • stoCljy and the likelihood of increased! mand this fall placing the (ipiniMwb in a strategic position. " fu ' Andy Johnson Gave Pepper a Coat. (By International News Service), 'jjy Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 27.—Teunca*; see claims the only tailored coat in the world made by the nation's ruler. 'jjl§ Andrew Johnson, seventeenth presi« dent of the United States, made na& presented a black broadcloth coat to Judge W. W. Pepper, Springfield*; Tenn. President Johnson'was once a taller in Greenville, Tenn. '(af' John Trotwood Moore, state his* torian. has received the coat and ItgJ history from Judge Pepper. A glass case is being made for the preservation of the coat which will have a place with other archives the state. Judge Pepper, after he had risen from the village blacksmith to a place ■ in the legislature, went Back to thfe; shop for a day and hammered out «Y' : shovel for Johnson, who was then governor of Tennessee. rir.ftftSßl Shortly afterwards he r eceived the coat from the governor who was later president who had returned to tfo, tailor shop and made the coat for friend Fepper. ’ Since 1914 Great Britain has dtn| tributed $3,625,000,000 in war sions, or more than the amount of th* national debt when thh war began, ks< THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday. '«[ tie northwest winds. ,• » rajM