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 k : i : 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 —— —-»—, ... THE TRIBUNE TO GET FIGHT NEWS BY RADIO Through the courtesy of the 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. - - -.-... i 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. See the new ad. today of the E. L. 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, ' installed only $125.00. 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 1 m 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. ( ■ i—'— <”■■■— THE TRIBUNE I 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