ASSOCIATED
F*RESS
DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVI
Check Indicates Fewer Died
In Florida Hurricane Than
Reported In First Dispatches
375 DEAD BODIES
FOUND 111 CITIES
STRUCK BY STORM
Back Country of Ever
glades Expected to Yield
' Larger Toll of Deaths as
Check Continues. /
pensacolaTs
STILL CUT OFF
What Happened There Will
Not Be Known Until the
Wires Are Restored or
Someone Leaves Area.
M*)—With a known death toll ii)
the hurricane that swept over the
lower Florida coast standing at 375
today, and with the injured still es
timated at 4.00 ft or more nnd property
damage at $50,000,000 or more, inter
est centered in what has happened to
Pensacola on the west coast. Mob le
50 miles further west, and in relief
measures to bring the stricken area
back to normal.
The known death toll computed by
the Associated Press dispatch from
Sebr'ng, telling of word brought there
by Tampa Boy Scouts of the death of
six persons at liockport.
That the "back country" in the Ev
erglades will yield a still larger toll of
deaths seemed certain today when a
pilot of a Florida Airways plane
which flew to Miami with relief sup
plies returned to Tampa and told a
story of a settlement along the
streams among the Everglades being
leveled.
Mobile and Penaaioca. cut off from
the outside world yesterday, when the
hurricane, after wandering about
Florida for two days, hit both Plata;
, »Ue* aa hour,
lMi« r?|£,rbr *«».•-Gmt It had gone
inland over southern Alabama and
Mississippi, with waning force.
What may have happened in Pensa
cola early today still was unknown.
No inkling of the damage that may
have been done, and as to whether of
not there may have been loss of life
still is unknown. Mob : le escaped with
eoni|»aratively small damage, aeeord
ing to a dispatch filed to the Associa
ted Press by the Mobile Begister. The
dispatch was carried to Citronella,
Ala., on a train by an employe* dt the
Begister. and there transmitted to
Birmingha mover a railroad wire.
Prepn rat ions for the storm prevented
much damage in Mobile, the dispateh
said. The last wire, au Associated
Press printer, went out at noon yes
terday.
Newspaper men all night were en
deavoring .to reach Pensacola, but up
to midnight had gotten little beyond
Montgomery, Ala. Shortly after mid
night. however, a staff man of the As
sociated Press got out of Montgomery
on a special train carrying the pri
vate car of one of the officials of the
Louisville & Nashville Bailrond.
Belief traius were, speeding from all
directions to the aid of the lower Flor
ida east coast. A train from Smith
Carolina passed through Atlanta last
night pausing for only a few minutes.
A train from Chicago wns expected to
pass through Atlanta during tha morn
ing.
From sectious of Florida untouched
by the storm, trains were proceeding
as rapidly as possible to the Beene,
carrying physicians, nurses, medicines
and other needed supplies. The air
plane from Tampa that flew across
Kie Everglades took $50,000 in gold
to a Miami bank.
The death list in Miami and Holly
wood, the hardest hit, with the pos
sible exception of Moorehaven, today
stood at more than 900 with the prob
ability that it would grow. Sloore
haveu's list still was uncertain, esti
mates running as high as 200, with
50 known to '.iave perished. Outly
ing suburbs of Miami accounted for
45 dead.
Known Dead Now SBB.
Having left a trail or death and
destruction in southern Florida, the
tropical hurricane which swept in
from the Bahamas last Friday night
bad passed over Pensacola and Mobile
today and was coverging on New Or
leans after striking a number of south
ern Alabama towns.
As relief workers penetrated into
the debris on the east coast of Florida,
the death list there continued to mount
steadily. Conservative estimates placed
the dead at 400 and the lujured at
■5.000.
The known dead at noon stood at
388 and the known injured at 1,532,
but many of the rescue workers
thought tha Hat of dead might reach
700 when wrecked buildings had been
cleared and final word had come from
the isolated sections in the Ever
glades.
Feverish efforts are being made to 1
get in touch with Pensacola, which
had been isolated for'htore than 24
boors after the wind theta had reach
ed a velocity of 109 miles an hour.
The last word from Pensacola, a
fragmentary >radlo message, said the
property damage was heavy, bht^
The Concord Daily Tribune
North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
Florida’s Smiling Aspect Recalled
As Relief Work Goes Forward There
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i
Emert K. Lindley has the following
ttrrie.e in the New York World. Mr.
I Lindley was a staff correspondent ot
Tiic World in Florida last winter.
To winter visitors the inten.ie uiue
skjf aud the ge:itly-ro..ing, sun-warmed
waters along the lower east, const of
Florida seem incapable of doing dam
’ uge. And the huge hotels unit build
| .tigs, at .'.tough they have gone up with
, the rapidity of stage setting, ilever
* theless seem substantial enougn. They
were built by men who see lower
Florida net only as the winter play
ground of America but as it great ug
nm.turai and commercial Witter..
.Mmmi. the principal city of the
lower East Coast, is more tnau three
| hundred miles soufh of Jacksonville
and about seventy miles from the tip
!of tlie Florida mainland. West Palm
, Beach is sixty-five miles north of it.
The Magic C.ty.
Miami's growth has been phantag
tic. In 11)20 its population was 29,-
000. Now it must be 100,000. Dur
ing the height of its boom, in 1925,
probably twice that number were
jammed into its hotels, rooming houses
and tourist camps. In the last three
years it has been a bedlam of bui.d
ing. The deafening clang of nuto
mntie riveters and drills continued
through the nights.
Fifteen and twenty-story buildings
thrust up their beuds, until now the
skyline of "The Magic City," as It
terms itself, is fully as imposing as
that of any city in the country out
side of New York and Chicago.
North and south, along the coast,
and back into the Everglades the resi
dential section of Minrni has extended
The old, fashionable residential dis
trict extends several miles along the
bay front through Coeoanut Grove. I
The land of the Coral Gables Cor
poration reaches from the bay front
at Coeoanut Grove about seven wiles
inland in a north and westerly direc
tion. Its older portions and the Miami-
Biltmore Hotel are in the farthest in
land quarter, about three wiles south
west of Miami proper.
- . tteteie and Hate’s.
Three tnlles «-ast tn Miami, ams
nected with it by two causeways over
Biseayne Bay lies the long, slender
key dn the southern end of which is
built Miami Beach. A few years|
ago the key was a man grove swamp,
flanked by a few sand dunes. Fisher
bought it and dredged enough sand out
of the bay to raise it several feet
above sea level. The southern end is
now a residential and business center
having a population of some 2,000 per-. ■
sons.
Northward along both bay nnd
ocean fronts are strewn fashionable
hotels; in the center are golf-links
and winter homes.
Just north of the juncture of the
old causeway with Miami licacb lies
the new Floridan Hotel, which cost
mere than $1,000,000. Just north of
if is the Fleetwood Hotel, patronised
largely by theatrical and sporting
crowds. A half mile farther north
on the bay side is Carl Fisher’s fash
ionable, Flamingo Hotel, and a mile
farther another Fisher hotel, the Nau
tilus, ill conjunction with which is
operated the broadcasting Station
WIOD.
A mile across the key, on the ocean
side, stands the $3,000,000 Roney
Plata Hotel, opened last winter. Next
to it Is Casino, the fashionable bath
ing place.
From north of the Flamingo,'
straight to the mainland, only over a
there bad been no loss of life.
Mobile, cut off from communiea-1
tion for several hours, was heard from
early today, word coming that it had
suffered no serious damage. Other
nearby Alabama towns were not so.
fortunate, however, reports trickling
through tolling of the lors of I : fe at j
both Jackson arid Bay Miriette. ' |
Reports from the Florida west coast:
hitherto ’ thought to have escaped fa
talities, told of eight persons drowned I
in the gulf off Fort Myers. Two
were women and the others were sail
ors from a Ashing craft.
Damage to buildings and public util
ities wrought by the hurricane as it
swept along the west coast toward
Pensacola was estimated at more than’
$8,500,000, while that to citrus fru ts
at close to $10,000,000. I,
While Ihe storm howled its way
along the Gulf coast, Florida with the
aid of neighboring states and the na
tional Red Cross began to set its work
Os relief and rescue well underway in
Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables,
Hollywood-by-the-Sen, Hielah. Fort
Lauderdale, Moorehaven and other in
land towns.
An official statement issued at
Jacksonville on behalf of Mayor
Detainers of Coral Gables, said the'
damage there was not as great as first
reported. Warning was given, how
ever, that as the debris was cleared •
asra» throughout the Miami district. 1
there would be a mounting list of
dead. r |
[ Latest word from Moore haven was
that there were 81 known dead at
that place, with 125 missing. Out of
the tragedy at this place has come
the ptory of a community without a
butlal ground. ’ Built on muck land
the sixteen-year-old town has never
;
; series of artificial is'nnds sucked out
of the bay by Carl Fisher, runs the
hew Venetian Causeway. Before its
opening, late last winter, the old
■ .causeway, now reported six feet under
wntfr, was at limes n so.id muss of
automobiles, three lines in each direc
tion for three miles.
'F.ie entire lower east coast of Mi- I
aim to Pa.m I tench is a series of real j
estate developments, several of which j
have grown into thriving towns. Hol
:ywood-b.v-the Sea, which was brought !
into existence only five years ago by)
Joseph Young, has u population of
more than 10,(HH). Slightly detached
from the town proper, on the ocean
front, is f.ie ssooo,ooo Hollywood
Hotel.
The older part of the town has its
hotel a.so, but for the rest it is com
posed of attractive homes.
Go north from Hollywood and you
soon come to Fort Lauderdale, which
has n one hundred year history, but,
like other lower Enst Coast towns, has
grown astonishingly in the last few
years, thrusting out new residential
sections in every direction. Near Fort
Lauderdale lie the acres of the bank
rupt Flornnndn C,uh, which it was
designed should be become the "Amer
ican Biarritz."
Midway between Fort Lauderdale
i and West Palm Beach is Pompano, a
' tov.-ii with an estimated popu.atiou
: of 10,000. Beyond Pompano is Boca
i j Raton, where Addison Mizner plans
■j a fashionable resort. Only one of its
I projected buildings has actually been
,' put up—the Cloister, a $1,000,000 ho
| tel-clubhouse, perhaps a half-mile in
j laud.
| Palm Bench bears the same geo
graphical relationship to West vi’aliu
I Beach that Miami Beach dees to Mi
ami, except that Lake Worth has a
bare mile of width to Bißcayne Bay's
: three. For miles along the oeeun
front lie the expensive homes of mem
bers of New York and Philadelphia
society.
On the ground of the old Breakers
Hotel, burned two years ago, is risiug
000,000 White Hall toWef ai&ove the
sprawling old Royal Poinciana.
Canola- and Roads
West Palm Beach, once merely a
supply station for Palm Beach, has
grown rapidly into an independent
community with a population of some
25,000.' Although its skyline cannot
compote with Miami’s it boasts a num
ber of new offiOte and bank buildiugs
i reaching up to twelve and fifteen
stories.
Inland lie the Everglatles, and the
central fact of Lie Everglades is Lake
Okeechobee, which drains an area of
more than 5,000 square miles. Pe
riodically Lake Okeechobee overflows.
But Its tendencies in this direction
are being brought under control by
canals to the sea.
With canals have come roads. W.
J. Conners, of Buffalo, two years ago
built a highway from the old fishing
village of Okeechobee on the norl'a
side of the lake to the State road com
ing out of Palm Beach. A road ex
tends from Fort Myers on the west
coast along the south side of the lake
to Palm Beach.
Moore Haven and Clcwiston on the
south side of the lake have accord
ingly "boohied.” Although bot'li are
still small towns because of reelama
' tion of the Everglades for agricultural ,
! purposes, they seem destined to farth- i
cr development.
Hal.
I Refugees steadily pouring out of
* the stricken district, crossed points
at Jacksonville and elsewhere, with
hundreds bound for the storm area.
. These included, besides relief work
men, linemen and railroad men, scores
j scores seeking word of loved ones in
I the danger xone, who had not been
! heard from since I'ae hurricane struck
the east coast.
YVith the stricken district under
martial law, however, those seeking to
get on the scene of the damage to
look for relatives were confronted with
the difficulty of obtaining permits.
Few Homes Untouched.
In the entire stretch of the area
of devastation there wa« hardly a
dozen homes untouched by the crush
ing force of the wind and rain. Only
la few of the larger buildings, hotels
and business houses of modern strong
and expensive construction, survived
.without great damage. A common
sight was a two-story eight room
house lifted from its foundations and
turned completely upside down or
lying on its side. Many were the
buildings from which the upper story
l had been cleared as if by a huge
razor. Window-panes were as scarce
as dry spots in the storm «r™
. Everywhere there was water and the
highway were both difficult utiU
dangerous dne to fallen trees, gen
eral debris and overflow of water.
| With the death lists steadily
mounting ns the waters of the bay
.yielded up bodies on the average of
'about one every 20 minutes, Miami
today turned its attention to clearing
away debris and preparing for re
building. The injured were being
treated and fed in every available
space by local and outside rebel
agene'es. Relief trains, bearing food,
water, and clothing began tn arrive
(Please Turn te Page Seven)
CONCORD, N. C„ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1926
—— —-»—, ...
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FIGHT NEWS BY RADIO
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Charlotte News and the Ritchie
Hardware t'o. The Tribune will
give by radio the news of tjio I
Dempsey ♦Tunney fight in Philadel
phia Thursday night at 8:30
o clock. A loud speaker will be j
hooked up in front of The Tribune
office so that alt may hear,
j Come to The Tribune offiee
Thursday night and get the news.
~
j JOHN WILLIAMS WAS
rj ELECTROCUTED TODAY
;
, Last Minute Efforts tc Halt the Exe
Is ru lon Are Unavailing.
Tribune Bnrenu
Sir Wo .ter Hotel
I Raleigh. Sept. 21.—John William*
negro, of Halifax county, was electro
j euted at Stale's prison here this inorn-
I ing for the murder of Alex Bradley
j on whose farm Williams was a tenant.
Last minute efforts to halt the exei-u
{tion and to secure a reprieve while
j further investigation was made, weri
unavailing, and Williams went to his
dentil without any appeal '.inviugbeen
made to the supreme court, which if
most unusual in cases of first degre
murder.
At the trial, the State claimed that
Williams shot Bradley because Brad
ley had ordered him to stop making
liquor on his farm. Williams, ii.
his defense claimed that he arid Brad
ley and Bradley’s son alt made liquor
and that Bradley supplied file' ma
terials. He said that he was re
turning a gun to Bradley after hav
ing completed a run of liquor, and
that he stumbled when Bradley opened
the door, the gnu accidentally dis
charging. killing Bradley. This ver
sion was disproved by the fact that
Bradley was shot twice, once over the
hip nnd again over one eye.
“I investigated f.ie case thoroughly
even before any requests were re
ceived," said H. Hoyle Sink, commis
sioner of pnrdons and paroles, “and
I found .no ground whatever upon
which clemency could be extended.
These cases are always carefully iu
vcitigated, and wherever any grounds
for doubt of guilt exist, a reprieve Is
recommended.”
SHIP POTATOES TO
QUEEN OF ENGLAND
Barrel of Selected "Sweets" Sent to
Her Majesty From Northampton
County, Va.
Salisbury, Md., Sept. 21.—The first
consignment of sweet potatoes ever
shipped by request to a member*of
ffic Roynl Family of England, from
i’ae Del-Mar-Va Eastern Shore, went
on record the past week. The ship
ment was made from : Machipongo,
Northampton county, Virginia, and
consisted of a barrel of "Golden
Sweets," addressed to -“Her Majesty,
Queen Mary of England, Westminster I
Palace, London, England.
The request for the sweet potatoes 1
was relayed to the Eastern Shore by 1
Elisha Lee, vice president of the
Pennsylvania Railroad system, who is 1
abroad with Mrs. Lee. Cable infor
mation conveying the order was brief, 1
merely advising that a barrel of se- ;
leet "sweets” grown on the Eastern
c.iore of Virginia be shipped without 1
delay to Her Majesty.
The potatoes were grown on the 1
farm of Scott Brothers, near Maeh
ipongo. and were very carefully culled, '
brushed and each potato wrapped sep- :
arateiy to stand the over-seas journey. .
The packing was supervisted by F. |
B. Bell, exchange agent at Macbipon- ,
go. The barrel was routed to con- *
nect with a steamer at New York :
today, and should be delivered to ,
Westminster Palace in London with- ,
in a week. ,
T'liis incident has revived the old .
Eastern Shore legend to the effect ]
that during one of his voyages in sight
of filorth America's shore, Christopher
Columbus traded with Indians iu ea- i
lioes for “Fed Potatoes,” alleged to ,
have been grown on what is now the I
Del-Mar-Va Peninsula.
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THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Barely Steady at Decline of
1 to 5 Points.—Storm Has Little
Bullish Effect.
New York, Sept. 21.—(/P)—The ]
cotton market opened barely steady
today at a decline of 1 to 5 points un- i
der renewed liquidation, local and
Southern aclling. i
The tropical storm news seemed
to have little bullish effect either in i
Liverpool or here, but slightly more
trade buying was reported on the ini
tial decline to 16.00 for December,
and prices rallied 10 or 12 points from 1
the lowest by the end of the first
hour. There was considerable cover
ing and price fixing on the decline and
the market was fairly active. Tropi
cal storm was expected to be lollow
ed by rain and lower the grade, but I
traders did not seem to apprehend 1
that It would materially cut down the
size of the crop. i
Cable advices from Liverpool said
additional curtailment was being con
sidered by spinners using American
cotton in Lancashire, owing to coal
and trade situat'on.
Cotton futures opened fairly steady :
October 15.85; December 18.04; Jan
uary 16.11; March 16.30; May 16.60.
German Demanding Higher Grades
Washington, D. C., Sept. 20.
—Germane are demanding more
hrird, bread-making wheat and the
higher grades of American cotton,
but are not consuming a great deal
of foreign meats and dairy products,
according to William A.- fichoenfield.
of the U. 8. Department of Agri
culture. who has just returned from
two yeari' service as American agri
cultural representative at Berlin-
STORM SUFFERERS
GET SOME RELIEF
WITH STORM OVER
State of Florida One Vast
Relief Organization Now
Working for Benefit of
Storm Swept Places.
GOVERNOR LEADS
IN THE WORK
Goes to Point of Advant
age So He Can Better Di
rect Man Power and Re
sources Put to the Task.
M*>—The state of Florida ha- be
eome one vast relief organization,
mustering its man p >\ver and resoure
es for the relief of storm swept south
ern Florida.
Taking the lead was the state's,
•hies executive John W. Martin, who
rushed into the territory from the
upital and today was going into the
heart of the region. He spent the
most of yesterday at West Firm Beach
and was moving today toward the Mi
ami-Fort Lauderdale region.
Relief trains being rushed into the
stricken area, and the Jacksonv’lle
Bed Cross was ready to send a supply
train to Sebring where 1.000 refugees
from Moorehaven were reported to be
quartered.
Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale
sent messages to Jacksonville asking
for clothing, especially for ch'ldren.
is well as cots, oil stoves and food
supplies.
In Miami the work of caring for
'lie injured progressed rapidly with
"hurches, theatres and other large
buildinfis being converted into tem
porary hosp ; tals. despite their lack of
roofs and windows.
lee. milk and drinking water were
shipped from nearby cities, and with
a large amount of food stuffs already
taken care of.
Sanitary engineers and inspectors
were mobilized today to avert serious
epidemics in the path cut by the
hurricane.
Huge signs now warn the people
of the stricken area that drinking
water must be boiled twenty min
utes. Tiie signs are not advice but
irders from the health departments
if the cities affected, posted and en
forced by the authorities of the_
martial governments which temp©-”
rarily govern-
Sewer system and water systems
generally were crippled, but trniti
’oads of water arrived last night
and city officials announced today
thnt Miami and Hollywood water
plants were back in commission.
Throughout the storm area it was
estimated conservatively that 40.-
000 were homeless and virtually
without clothing or immediate meth
ods to recoup their loss.
Martial law. declared Saturday,
continued in effect throughout the
ijitorm area. Until lute this evening
when the restrictions in Miami were
modified, none was allowed during
the day to enter the stricken area
except upon some mission of relief,
official business of the government
or staate od for the press of the na
tion. Hundred were turned -back by
the soldiers despite their pleads that
relatives were in the storm area and
had been unheard from. It was con
sidered best until things had better
adjusted themselves that the water
and food supply be not further
strained by additional mouths to
feed. And too, the work of checking
the dead and injured and caring for
and housing the destitute would be
hampered by any addition.
Need Lockjaw Serum.
Surgeons who have been working
day and night attending the thou
sands, said today that they were
badly in need of lockjaw serum.
Many of those injured were cut and
scratched by tin, hurled from the
roofs of houses by the winds-
The relief committees in the
towns and cities visited by the hur
ricanes were almost unanimous to
day in asking that no further suit
plies be sent them -but that money
be sent instead.
The supplies of food, water, and
clothing available, en route or prom
ised, is sufficient to meet all re
quirements, it was stated. But the
need is for public donations from all
over the world for the thousands who
lost their all. Orphans must be
c’othed, given homes and educated
and windows and aged people must be
succored. Too, there ate many who
will be helpless from injuries receiv
ed.
Wildcats Prime For Wofford En.
gagement.
I Davidson. Sept. 20. — The David
son Wildcats will begin training this
afternoon for the second game of the
season with Wofford college, to be
played aat Spartanburg, S. C., next
Saturday afternoon, following their
victory over the Elon Christiana on
their home grounds las Saturday
with a four-touchdown win-
Royal Engagement Announced.
Brussels, Sept. 21. — (A’i — The eh
gagement of Crown Prince Leopold,
.24, years old, Belgian heir apparent,
to Princess Astr'd, of Sweden, 20. the
third daughter of the Duke of Vace
tergo Itland. and niece of King Gus
tav, was officially announced today.
M Hart In Accident.
Grafton. W. Va., Sept. 21.—CA*)—
Thirty-six passengers were injured,
several seriously, when the Charles
ton to Grafton passenger train on the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was
wrecked near Orlando, W. Va., today.
Wins Roxie
'
Philip E. Brast secretly mar
ried Roxie Stinson, important
figure in the affairs of De
partment of Justice during the
regime of Attorney-General
Hairy M. Daugherty. The
. wedding took place at Coving-
IhnnKit-
LAST MONTH WARMEST
AUGUST IN 20 TEARS
And the Warmest on Record Except
that of 1900.
Raleigh, N. q„ Sept. 21.—(A*)—
Last month was the warmest August
Xort’h Carolina has experienced in
twenty years, and the warmest on rec
ord except the torrid stretch of thirty
one days that made up the month in
1900, according to the monthly report
of weather conditions issued by the
state weather bureau here.
The temperature (luring the month
was above normal every day except
(Inring Lie fourth week, the report
states, adding that the maximum was
above ninety on an unusually large
Humber of days and above 100 at some
of the eastern cities.
The highest temperature during the
months was 100 degrees at Weldqn on
the 13th. This was only one degree
less thnn the record maximum for this
month.
The rainfall averaged about four
fiftfos of normal, being light in most
of the section cast of the mountains
and very light to Louisburg and Man
teo. Virtually the entire state was
inundated by showers on the 6th, 20th,
25th and 26th. The percentage of
sunshine wns very high, Wilmington
reporting 87 per cent., which is
thought to establish a new high rec
ord for the month.
Weather conditions generally were
regarded as highly favorable to crops,
with little damage from hail, wind, or
excessive rainfall. Rivers were re
ported low. with mean stages much
below normal.
The month was free from frosts, a
change from July when there were
four, but had three traces of lig’-it
hail; at Altapass on the 11th and at
Charlotte on the 20th and 24th.
There were no gules, no solar halos,
and but one lunar halo, whii'.i was
' reported from Sjoan on the 20th.
With Our Advertisers.
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Morrison Lumber Co.
Spartan Feeds will get the eggs.
Sold by the Cabarrus Cash Grocery
. Co., Phone 571.
i Give your wife a kitchen cab’net.
. See ad. of the Bell & Harris Furni
■ tine Company.
; Free range demonstration and free
• kitchen ware set at H. B. Wilkinson's
i all next week. .
• New fall pajamas in a range of new
patterns and stales at W. A. Over
. cash's, only $2.50. New arrivals in
clothing, lints, caps and shirts.
Atwater-Kcnt radios, latest model.
, single dial control six tubes at the
, Yorke & Wadsworth Co.'s complete,
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See the new ad. today of Wr J.
• Hethcox. Let him furnish you with
estimates.
, Automatic Wireless.
Tokio, (Sept. 20.—A Japanese in
. venter, Uahiehior Tokumi, has per
■ fected a novel clock that switches on
• the wireless at any predetermined
i time and Also turn it off in the same
. convenient way.
Fonck’s Plane Crashes j
On >d Two j
Are Killed j
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WILL DR. POTEAT GO TO
THE STATE UNIVERSITY?
1
Movement to Offer Him Chair o:
Mira! Philosophy There.
Brock Barkley in Charlotte Observei
Rah igli. Sept- 20.—Despite r.
movement reported to have beer
aunched by prominent alumni of thi
University of North Carolina to' of
:er Dr. William Louis , Potent a
chair in moral philosophy at the uni
varsity upon his retirement from thf
presidency of Wake Forest college
close friends here of I)r. Pofeal
doubt thnt he could be induced t-o ac
cept.
Local newspnper stories this after
noon said that the movement was
under way. hut it-evidently has not
become very extensive, as members
)f the university executive commit
tee had not before heard any sug
gestion rs it. The executive com
mittee wi.l meet here Friday, but
members said it was called to handle
routine matters only.
It was learned that some time age
President Chase, of the university
isked Dr. Potent if he would con
sider an offer to go to the university
upon' his retirement from Wnki
Forest. He replied that he could not
•onsider it, as he felt that his first
duty wns to Wake Forest.
Dr. Poteat announced severa
weeks ago his purpose to retire from
Wake Forest presidency, but trus
tee,4 of the institution made knowi.
then that he retain an official con
motion, possibly ns president emeri
tun- It has been anticipated, there
fore, that while he would relinquis!
the position of active hfad of the col
lege it would continue to have hie
services in some capacity.
Individual alumni of the univer
sity have frequently given expres
sion to the wish thnt Dr. Poteat
might, become connected with the in
stitution. But the nearest move in
hat direction to reach the public ear
was I>r. < 'hash's inquiry of him us to
whether he would accept a place
there.
THE PROHIBITION ROW
TO BE IRONED OUT SOON
Conference Between Gen. Andrewt
and Dry Administrators in Wash
ington.
(liy International News Serviee)
Charlotte. Sept. 2i. —The pftiliibi
tiou row. which has rocked dry cir
ctes of the Carolines and Georgia foi
severa! weeks, will be Ironed out and
everything will start working smooth
ly and harmoniously in the eight!
district thereafter, following a confer
encc between General Lincoln C. An
drews, head of the prohibition unit
and dry administrators in Washington
today.
Ben C. Sharp, administrator forth(
eighth district, has left Charlotte foi
Washington and is in attendance a:
the conference. All administrator!
of the east, have been ordered to the
conference by General Andrews.
Discussion of Sharp’s difference
with Washington officials was renewed
when it was learned that David H.
Blair, commissioner of internal rev
enue. had returned from Europe.
Blair is a close personal friend to
Sharp'and is expected to defend Sharp
at Washington.
Sharp declares that the eighth dis-1
triet is vfetter with booze at pres
ent that ever before in history and
that more men are needed to enforce
the prohibition law in the eighth dis
trict.
Court Battle Over 14-Year-Old Bride
(By International News Service!
Shelby. Sept. 20.—A court battle
looms here between a young bride
groom npd a mother-in-law over a
pretty fourteen-year-old bride of a
week.
Judge James L. Webb, on applica
tion from the mother-in-law. signed
a court order restraining Alfred Blan
ton, of Cleveland county, from seeing
or communicating with his bride for
a week.
Mrs. Blanton declared that the
marriage was against her will niulj
without iier permission which is re-1
quired under the state law when a
girl of that age marries.
But Blanton, who was wise enough
to elope to South Carolina where the
marriage was performed, says lie will
contest the order of the court to a
higher court us no such law exists in
South Carolina.
The pretty young bride says she
loves her mother but wants to live
with her husband hopes he wins the
court battle.
Long Nighties Bad; Short Skirts
Saving Many Women’s Lives.
(By International News Service)
Bridgeport, 0., Sept. 21.—Short
skirts are saving the lives of many
women, Coroner Clyde C. Hardesty,
of Belmont county, said today.
The' coroner bases his statement on
the fact that, for two years, he has
not had a fatality due to dresses ig
niting at bonfires or open grates. Dur
ing the first two years of his service
in Ohio's eighth largest county, six
such tragedies occurred.
Long night gowns are causing some
fatalities, Hadesty's records show.
Each winter sees a number of babies
and women dying of burns caused
when long nightgowns ignite front
opch fcrates or gas stoves.
With the completion of its new
City planning projects, Kenosha,
Wis., will have a wide boulevard
around the outer edge of the city,
white in the centre will be a com
munity centre consisting of a spac
ious plaza bordered by a group of
handsome pnblic buildings.
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PRINTS
TODAY’S NEWS TODAY
NO, 223 ~
Chas. Clavier, Radio Man# |
and Jacob Islamoff, 16I&3
chanic, Killed.— Foncjs:|j
Jumps to Safety. j
FLAMES BURNED M
, ILL-FATED CRAFTj
Clavier and Islamoff Were |
Trapped in Closed
and Had No Chantit toy]
Leap From Plane. .JS j
AVestbury, X. Y„ Sept. 21* —
Two men lost their lives this inoWa-jaapfl
when the trans-Atlantic pinne of
Kene Fonek crashed in flame's
irteinpt to take off on a 1
ion-stop flight to Paris. - W I
They were Charles Clavier,
■adio oiierator, and Jacob Isla mofffejSj
Russian mechanic. They were tMqjffll
■icd in the closed cabin of the
three-motored biplane. j
('apt. Fonek. the French ace in
mand of the flight, ami Lieut. Law- j
•cnee W. Curtin, U. S. X., *i mrrifri|jr*a
alternate pilot, leaped to safety beftetelffi
‘he plane burst into flames. j
Ignor Sikorsky, Russian deaigujKffl
and builder of the plane, could ndt tpp|j
’ocated immediately after the-. tragedSlaM
He was reported to have begged Rill
cars last night that the flight be
loned because of a cross wind that ens'offi
langered the takeoff.
Au attempt was made to take ft# JI
ast Thursday, but had to be poMjll
Mined because of a gasoline lafcphMQ®
discovered at the last minute., Aftdt* I
ward Parisian friends of Capt Funefc ”8
urged Irm to make the flight for
honor of France even at the risk y#
The crash was caused by the buejSjß
ling of a wheel an extra landing j
gear that was to have been droMjgßH
into the ocean as soon as the l>lkte||9
got underway. I
“I knew the wheel had orashedslW
said Fonch, “but could neither stQjfcJa
nor rise.” I
Lieut. Curtin said “the plane
driven full power accelerated
racing a ground speed of 65 raij£j||H
Three-quarters of the length of the M
runway it seems that the outboard ff
auxiliary wheel collapsed, carrTiMNM
away the left lower rudder. fi
“The plane veered to the left, bafcM
it was impossible to head it again olilM
a straight course, and the plane went X W
went over the brink at the end of the j
runway at a speed of about .lit!. ro ijpfr jl
Wheu passing over the brink CadEM
Fonch pulled back the controls fa’jffi
effect a normal landing, at the sartt#M
time throttling down his motors. 3
“It seemed to me that the rights®
wheel collapsed when the
wheeled on the right wing. The ggff W
tanks were apparently ruptured. 1
view of the fact that live gas poured 'm
down over the still heated ex ha ugh* ®
The plane burst into flames an in- JI
stant after the two pilots leaped frogg'-jlB
it. Heavy clouds of blatfi smolte--’jl
rolled upward, and the nearly l,oo<i ; Jjffi
spectators crowded forward. -An ai-gOM
plane circling overhead sounded a flrAyJ
siren and telephone calls brought the 'M
AVestbury fire department within t<j» M
minutes. They used small tire ‘extia-eja
guishcrx on the flames, but Wore 1
futile. There was no water avajigife J
at the middle of the field, and fireqtefre|i
said it would be useless fighting a gag- (M
oline fire. There were 2,300 gal lona ■
of gasoline In the tank. ' ~-i I
The plane weighed more than 2&-*
000 pounds, loaded at the takeog, Jj
There was a low hanging mist and
light north wind, but no raiq. The I
plane was taking off toward the wapyfl
An hour earlier Carl FI Hehqry.
Chairman of the contest
the National Aeronautic Association, ji
had sealed tile gasoline tanks and t|(g
barograph as a check at tile eufl of j
the flight on whether the. plana had I
taken on more fuel or landed
the voyage. J
I Approximately 1,000 persons had a
gathered to watch tile start of whkfc3l
was to have been an ep : c voyadffiM
When tin- plane crashed the croajd jl
rushed forward, but could not
within 50 yards of the plane. The j
grass was burning back for 50 f*»t J|
around it. Women screamed «wiia|
fainted, and one soldier, said to linye
been shell shocked, went into hyaterliwLl®
Rail Service Into Miami la KekorwL J
Savannah. Sept. o.—Railroad co*(-fjJ
nection -between Miami ami Jack*h|i!,|jj
ville over the East Coast railroad J
has apparently been restored since J
the severe tropical storm of Rater- 1
day, according to information reaefcc®
ing officials of the Atlantic Coast 1
Line railroad here this morning,,
A passenger train arrived -at J|
Jacksonville from Miami At 8 tAO;J|
1 this morning, less thnn an hour laJMfl
1 It made connections with AtlarttMM
Coast Line train number 812, wbhW*
arrived in Savannah only a Imn|
' minutes after scheduled time,
p. m. Train numbers 76 and 86, Aull
lantic Coast Line, arrived in
' nah on time this afternoon. The fir«t,|l
. of these is the Havana Special mafcifl
i ing up in Key West. j|
i An organized campaign has
gun to -bring the women work«te®|H
Italy into trades unionism. ■ I
i THE sVßATiai|kFj|l |
Cloudy, probably showers In
-I portion; Wednesday showera.;'' ’Em]
f I crate to fresh northeast and (fiJH|