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DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVI
Fears Os Pestilence,
Famine And Riot Over
In The Stricken Area
Optimistic Spirit Prevails
For Most Part as Relief
Measures Go Forward
for Storm Sufferers.
TANGLED MASSES
BEING REMOVED
Fine Progress Is Being
’ Made With Work in Mi
ami, Hollywood and Oth
er Hard Hit Cities.
M iami, Flu., Sept. 2.l.—UP)—Re
habilitation took renewed impetus
through Florida’s hurrienne strieken
area today, a week after the devastat
ing storm, with fears of famine, pes
tilenee and riot allayed.
An optimistic spirit .prevailed for
file most part, with belief widespread
that prosperity will return in the ea
sing few months. Store and busi
ness houses, many with shuttered win
dows and crashed fronts, have o|>eiied
to dispose of depleted stocks and par
tially rained merchandise.
Threat of typhoid has passed, with
improvement in sanitation and a bet
ter water supply in most of the strick
en cities. Throughout yesterday steady
streams of persons were inoculated
wit'j anti-typhoid serums, and public
health officials are making a thorough
inspection of all foods.
At Hollywood. Miami Beach and
other cities in the path of the gale the
same measures were carried out, and
crews of men have worked steadily
at clearing away the ta tgled mass of
wreckage, decaying vegetable matter
and decomposing bodies of animals
and swamp reptiles.
At Fort T.auuevdate city officials
have given over full control of the
sanitary work to the Red Cross, while
at Moorehaven remaining Hood wat
ers made absolute sanitation impossi
ble. The last refugees from Moore
haven left the devastated city yester
day.
A clash yesterday at Miami be
tween sailors and several negroes in
which several shots were fired resulted
in the wounding of one bluejacket
and three negroes. The incident
prompted authorities to accept vigi
- taace iti patrolling- every section.
Mayor E. C. Romfh, of Miami, in
nil official statement today called at
tion to the accomplishments of tile
city since the catastrophe.
“In the six days that have passed
since the storm the city has come back
.with a speed that is absolutely am ax
ing," he declared. “No one who has
not been on the ground (becking up
the progress can realize the tremend
ous recovery that united courage, in
defatigable citizenship has made,
“I want to give positive assurance
that our friends will find Miami this
winter the same enjoyable, hospitable,
comfortable city it lias been. I pre
dict that Miami will make a world
comeback.”
The known casualty list remained
today close to 400 with 1.100 severely
injured. " The property damage was
estimated in excess of $165,000,000.
In the greater Miami area the
death list went to 105 last night.
Varying estimates by officials placed
the number of unsound bodies at from
ten to 750. The Miami missing list
stood at 102.
Moorehaven deaths totalled more
than 100, with the opinion expressed
that the flood waters of Lake Okee
chobee still concealed more than 150
bodies.
A central insurance adjusting bu
reau has been set up in Miami by a
number of the leading insurance com
panies. and adjusters will co-operate
in settling claims. Policies covering
hurricane damage totalling approxi
mately $20,000,000 were hfld in Mi
ami, adjusters said, and virtually all
the larger structures damaged by the
gule were covered.
j Miami's relief fund totalled $107,-
722, and reports (Tom northern points
indicated that the general fund has
run well over one million.
Meanwhile a steady exodus of refu
gees continued. The Southern Rail
way has announced that in co-opera
tion with the Florida Coast railroad
it would give free tickets to refugees
ANNOUNCEMENT
The 58th Series in this old reliable Building and Loan
Association will open on October &nd, 1926.
RUNNING SHARES COST 25 CENTS PER SHARE
PER WEEK.
PREPAI D SHARES COST $72.25 PER SHARE.
ALL STOCK IS NON-TAXABLE. STOCK HAS
BEEN MATURING IN 328 WEEKS.
THE BOOKS ARE NOW OPEN FOR SUBSCRIP
TIONS FOR SHARES IN SERIES NO. 68.
START SAVING FOR A RAINY DAY—SAVE TO
OWN YOUR OWN HOME.
BEGIN NOW.
CABARRUS COUNTY BUILDING LOAN AND
SAVINGS ASSOCIATION.
Office in the Concord National Bank
i.
The Concord Daily Tribune
destined for points along its line.
Building inspectors in Miami yes
terday condemned the Mpyer Kiser
, Rank building, the Methodist Kpisco-,
| pal Church. I'.ie new Ku Klux Klan !
! structure, the Rainbow Cardens, j
| known ns a popular night cub, the
Mosaic Tile Works, n Inrge residence. I
eight store rooms and an ice house.:
! several small s; ruptures, as well as
| the ball park grandstand.
Will Rebuild Their Town.
I Sebriiig, Fin.. Sept. 25.— UP) —
Plans to resetablish their community
nnd return there as soon ns possible
to continue their struggle against the
elements, which have brought ruin to
them time nnd again since t’.ie.v began
agricultural pioneering in that Ev
erglades district are being made by j
most of the 200 residents of Moore
haven, evacuated from tlieir storm-;
battered homes ns a safeguard against !
disease. ..
As the refugees took up temporary
.residence here today, 150 of them met;
at the call of Carl Whitlock, Moore
haven farmer, to arrange restoration
of their homes ns soon ns the military
will permit. Offers bad been made
by local authorities to provide homes
for them either in the city or on
farms regardless of their present fi
nancial condition.
With complete evacuation accom
plished, save for the retention of half
a dozen men to cure for livestock,
Glades county records nud aid the
militia generally, Col. S. L. Lowry,
Jr., commanding the llttth field ar
tillery, Florida National Guard, re
ported today from Moorehaven that
his forces would concentrate upon
the search for dead and rehabilitation
of the town’s sanitary system.
Between 125 and 150 bodies it is
believed, still lie in the swamp waters
of Lake Okeechobee, and piles of de
bris yet uiisearehed. The military
has accepted the offer of George Se
bring to supply airplanes to expedite
the search.
Col. Lowry has set two weeks as the
time necesary to make Moorehaven
habitable again, and permit the evac
uated citizens to return.
Beaufort to Have Sea Wall; Con
tract Is Already Awarded.
Beaufort, Sept. 3.—A contract has
been let by the war department for
a riprap,..or. bulkhead, '.a. of tjie ;
town of Beaufort. Tfie Davis Con
struction company, of Beaufort, was
the successful bidder. The riprnp will
be about 3.000 feet long and will be
gin at the eastern end of an island in
front of town, known ns the “town
marsh,” and run in nnd easterly di
rection.
The objective in building this wall I
i.i to prevent sand, driven by winds
and tides, from coming in and filling
up the channels. It requires consid
erable dredging to keep the channels
open nnd the engineers think the rip
rap will save much labor.
Incidentally the wall of rock will
be a big protection to the town from
the sea in stormy weather. Also it
is thought a sand shoal will necum
mulate on the south side of the ob
struction which will make a fine
bathing beach a half mile long and
only a few hundred wards distant
from Front street.
Lower Death Rate in Southern States.
Washington, Sept. 25.—(A s)—Com
parative mortality statistics during
1925 for the states of Mississippi nnd
New Hampshire, just issued by the
United States department of com
merce, indicate a lower death rate in
southern states. Mississippi showed
a deal'll rate of 1.237 per 100.000 pop
ulation as compared with 1,181 in
1924. New Hampshire reported a
rate of 1,452 per 100,000 population
as against a rate of 1,416 in 1924.
Increases in both states were attrib
uted in part to a rising toll from in
fluence, cancer and automobile acci
dents.
Nicarnugua to Have Place.
Manugua._ Nicaragua, Sept. 23.
OP)—The armistice terms proposed by
the Chamorro government have been
accepted by the liberals and a peace
conference to settle the revolution
Will be convened next week.
Los Angeles is to have a new city
hall 28 stories high.
Held in Murder
Mabel Joyce, show girl, was
arrested in New York forth«
murder of James Caffery, her
lover.
flafnailonal Stmau
FIGHT ON BLUE LAWS WILL
NOT BE ABANDONED
Ait Least Mr. Gale Says So. and He is
Secretary of the Association.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Sept. 25.—“ The fight of the
Association Opposed to Blue Laws
will not be abandoned here or in any
other state," says Linn A. A. Gale,
secretary-treasurer of the association,
in a letter to The Tribune correspond
ent in which he takes exception to
The story written about J week ago in
which it was said that judging from
the lack of success which the associa
tion and Cole had met with in North
Carolina, the fight of the association
in this state was evidently failing,
and that the long-J'nrentenod test ease
would probably never he brought. The
story was based on an interview wi'h
Gale in the office of the Durham Coun
ty Progress, a small week’y newspa
per. on which Gale Ims been working
for some time.
"Your story is more entertaining
and romantic than accurate.” Gale
says iu his letteer, adding that “the as
sumption that 1 am getting u living
salary by writing for one weekly
mWHpaiier is grirCit rtnun ami mwMl: 1
As a matter of fact, I write for many
papers on u variety of subjects, also
several magazines anil sell articles to
certain syndicates at times. Nor
have 1 settled down in Durham. My
home is ill Wnshingtop, D. C., my
family are there where I am proprie
tor of the Cole Book Shop, and the
family are in charge during my ab
sence.”
This statement only serves out the
inference —and it was given only as
an inference—that the campaign for
one dollar—or more—memberships to
the Association Opposed to Blue Laws
in North Carolina 'had not proved and
was not proving a financial success,
and this is borue out by the statement
of Mr. Gale that he was, evidently of
necessity, other sources of income.
THREE FIGHTS BETWEEN
LAWYERS IN RALEIGH
Ante-dated the Dempsey-Tuimey Bout
By Ten Honrs.
Raleigh, Sept. 25.—(/P)—Ante-dat
ing the Dempsey-Tunney bout in Phil
adelphia by ten hour,s, six Raleigh
attorneys put on three rounds of fistic
exhibition in tile alley between Fay
etteville and Salisbury streets, popu
larly referred to as "Lawyers' Row."
The differences started at the trial
of a petty ease before Magistrate J.
E. Owens. The first round was be
tween Lawyers Swain and Eason.
Swain was reporting to be getting
the best of the argument when Deputy
Lowe tossed in both contenders' towels
and Justice Owens rendered a decision
against both by taxing them with
the costs.
The next round was between At
torneys Little nnd> Norris, but as it
failed to progress beyond the pinthing
stage it was settled as a draw.
The final round was put on by At
torneys Parrish and Sawyer. The
contestants went into a clinch, from
which Attorney Johnson attempted to
separate them, with the result that
the referee suffered the heaviest dam
age.
DENIES SHERIFF
WAS TO BLAME
Mecklenburg Deputy Accepts Re
sponsibility For Delay in Deliver
ing Prisoner.
Charlotte, Sept. 24—Sheriff IV. O.
Cochran, of Mecklenburg County,
who has been cited to appear in Bun
combe County to show cause why he
should not be held in contempt of
court for not serving a capias on a
Charlotte man, was absolved of
blame today by Deputy Sheriff
Avery B. Johnson.
"I am responsible for what ever
failure there was for not serving the
capias on Hugh Rogers and return
ing him to the authorities at Ashe
vi'le and Sheriff Cochran is not at
all to blame for any part of it,” the
deputy said. “I think the public
aught to know that the sheriff did
not know the details of the case and
left it to me to handle.”
Rogers, who was wanted in Ashe
ville for trial on a charge of embez
zlement, was returned there today by
Johnson.
A beautiful pageant will be given at
the First Baptist Church tomorrow
night by the Young Woman’s Auxil
iary.
CONCORD, N. C„ SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1926
EXPECT TO RESCUE !
32 MINERS CAUGHT i
; IN IRONIODMINE
j
Dead Bodies of Three Men
i Killed in Mine Accident
! Brought to the Surface
j During the Day.
I THINK MINERS
ARE ALL SAFE
‘Despite Fact That They
| Are Held on Bth Level It *
Is Believed They Hfeve
I Been Able to Live. i
Ilronwood, Midi., Sept. 25— UP) —j
The bodies of three men occcupants ;
)of a cage in the I’abst mine of the
1 Oliver Iron Mining Company when it;
hurtled to the bottom of the Shaft 1
Friday beneath tons of rooks werp re
covered today. Searchers then turned
to extricating 32 men imprisoned on •
the eighth level.
Miners working in shifts reached
tile bodies of the three men through
another shaft. Acetylene torches
were used to cut away the steel sup
ports of the. cage. While identifica
tion was not mnde, due to the condi
tion of the bodies, the victims were
believed by mine officials to be Thos.
Howell, underground electrician; Ever
Gustafsoon and Gus Sell, assistants.
Hope was belli out by searchers for
the safety of the thirty-two men on
the eighth level, who are believed to
•have been cut off from escape when
the large boulders plunged down the
shaft yesterday. Mine officials say
they were ill no danger at present.
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Firm at Advance of 15 to 27
Points on Covering and Weather
News.
New York, Sept. 25.— UP) —The
cotton market opened firm today at nil
advance of 15 to 27 points on renewed
covering promoted by unfavorable
weather in the southwest, relatively
steady Liverpool cables ami reports
that Texas bankers were planning to
raise fund of $100,000,000 to be loan
ed on cotton at SSO a bale in order to
retire a million bales from the market.
There was further southern hedge
-aril jig. and after selling tip to 14 90 at
the start, December eased off to 14.87.
but the covering movement continued,
and the market was steady at net ad
vances of about 15 to 18 points at the
end of the first hour.
Liver|x>ol cables attributed the ad
vance there to covering, trade calling,
with London, eont ; nental and Bombat
buying, but said Manchester was bear
ish and that cloth buyers were act
ing cautiously.
Cotton futures opened firm. Oct.
14.72; Dee. 14.92; Jan. 15.05; March
15.36; May 15.50.
Closed at Advance.
New York. Sept. 25.—Cotton fu
tures closed easy at net advances of
4 to 9 points: Oct. 14.63; Dec. 14.84:
Jan. 14.93; March 15.12: May 15.31.
With Our Advertisers.
The hard local water is made abso
lutely soft by the Crystal Damp Laun
dry and this means long life to your
linens. Phone 632 and let them call
for a trial bundle of your laundry.
Latest model Atwater-Kent radios,
with 90 days’ free service, only $125
installed. See ad. of Yorke & Wads
worth Co.
Keith vaudeville at the Broadway
Theatre in Charlotte every Monday.
Tuesday and Wednesday. See ail. in
this paper.
Sec the Majestic range exhibition
at H. B. Wilkinson's next week.
Read the new insurance ad. today
of Fetzer & Yorke.
Reasonable prices only are charged
by the Concord Plumbing Co.
The vulcanizing work of the Con
cord Vulcanizing Co. is expertly done
Wrenn. at Kannapolis, will be glad
to call for your dry-cleaning. Phone
128.
A beautiful pageant will be given
at the First Baptist Church tomorrow
night by the Young Woman’s Aux:l
iary.
Ladies’ Sport Oxfords at Ivey's $5
to $7.85 in all the new leathers.
The Concord Furniture Co. has to
offer you another close out 10-pieee
Suite for $179.00. The original price
on this suite was $250.00.
When you buy a Goodyear tire you
know you are getting something good,
and at the lowest price too. See ad.
of the Yorke & Wadsworth Co.
New Champ Goes Home.
New York. Sept. 25.— UP 1 ) —Gene
Tunney, the new heavyweight cham
pion of the world, arrived 'aere at
noon from Philadelphia to receive a
tumultuous home-town welcome.
Crimson was the color for bridal
robes in the Middle Ages.
A BEAUTIFUL PAGEANT
SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
BY THE YOUNG WOMAN’S AUXILIARY
“Something Different”—lt’s Dignified, and Appealing—
Don’t Miss It! Everybody welcome here! (Packed House
last Sunday night).
First Picture from West Coast of Florida
'he Methodist church of Fort Myers, Florida, was flattened by the force of the storm
that swept the State. This is one of the first pictures to arrive from the west coast.
Interesting Cotton Crop Facts
Gathered by Govertunent Experts
Tribune Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
Italeigh. Sept. 25.—North Caro
lina has a better cotton crop Mian
the average farmer believes and yet
much worse boll weevil damage than
he appreciates. That this is true is
evident from the 59.5 percent condi
tion estimated by the Crop Report
ing Board as based on thousands of
reports from North Carolina farmers
as of September 16 condition- This
indicates 1,810,000 bales from 2,-
036.000 acres left for harvest. The
condition reported for September Ist
was 69 per ceil, with an nverage in
dicated yield per acre of 267 pounds
lint cotton.
11l order that the estimates might
be as reasonably correct as possible,
special instructions went out to all
of the territory to use every pre
caution for a reliable report aecord
ig to Frank Parker Crop Statistician.
The members of the Board of Wash
ington themselves went out into the
territory to see that this was done.
The Chairman. Mr. W. F. Callander,
was in North Carolina and made a
tri|i through the cotton belt. Care
ful field investigations were made at
five mile intervals. During stops
search for the presence am) damage
of bool weevils. daterpillars. boll
worms, bools considered safe (in
size) boils opened, weight per boll of
seed cotton and everything tending
to effect the yield was studied and
carefully recorded.
It was during this travel that it
became increasingly evident that
farmers did not really appreciate
the damage done by insects and that
the weaather damage was over-iated-
Farmers were amazed when they
were shown the actual causes and
effects of so poor a top crop. Investi
gations were mnde in Wake, Lee,
Chatham, Moore, Richmond, Scot
land, Hoke, Cumberland, Harnett.
Johnston, Wayne. Wilson, Nash, Ed
gecombe, Halifax and Northhampton
counties. These counties comprise a
large part of the most important
KILLS OFFICER AND
TAKES OWN LIFE
Washington Police Chief Killed By
Phibnore Wright, White Boatman.
Washington, N. C_ Sept. 25.— UP) —
H. 1,. Dellinger, chief of police, was 1
shot and instantly killed here this
morning by Philmore Wright, a white
boatman, as he stepped from his au
tomobile to arrest Wright oil a charge
of druukenness. After the shooting |
Wright took the dead Chiefs pistol
from his pocket and ran into a pri
vate residence. As policemen were
surrounding the residence Wright
committed suicide by shooting him
self.
Invitation to Be Extended to Queen]
Marie.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel j
Raleigh. Sept. 24. —A formal invi
tation will probably be extended to
Queen Marie, of Rumania, and lier
official party to visit North Carolina
by Govfrnor A. W. McLean, although
lie Inis' already evtended an informal
invitation to her in behalf of the fieo
ple of the state. However, this for
mal invitation is being postponed tem
porarily pending more information as
to her plans from the Rumanian
Charge d’affuirs in Wasrington, with
whom Governor McLeun is in com
munication. It has a’ready been an
nounced that Queen Marie intends to
, ielude North Carolina in his itiner
i ary. ,
! Opening of the schools in Poland
| lias been deferred because of a scarlet
fever epidemic of extraordinary sever-
I to-
co t ton producing area in North ('uro
iina.
Tile boll counts indicated 7.9 bol’-s
per running foot of row. The nverage
weight jier hundred bolls picked was
over 29 oz. seed cotton. It was gen
erally considered that the boll counts
were from representative fields and
from representative placed in fields.
The conclusion was that there are
more bolls on plants than most
farmers appreciate or admit. The
surprising thing was Mint there are
practically no bol’.s less than half
grown and wherever small bolls and
squares are found, they are prac
tically riddled with boll weevil punc
tures. Very little cotton may be ex
pected from the main part of Mie
cotton belt ill this state from bolls
that are less than half-grown- This
means that the weather damage by
frost will be a probably negligible
factor. 801 l worm damage is worst
than for several years. The cotton
caterpillar is rapidly spreading over
the stante. This may prove to be a
blessing ill disguise by making the
cotton open speedily and eliminating
many of the trashy leaves, thus pro
viding cleaner lint.
Had the crop been earlier, the
yield would doubtless have been
more. Tims the lateness of the crop
is a serious factor.
The National crop of 15,810,000
bales is approximately what the Crop
Reporting Board has estimated since
its first production report this year.
This production warrants a price of
no less than is now being paid, for
the reason tiiat the world consump
tion of American cotton this year
will probably take up the crop esti
mated. The surjdns is not large. If
the farmers were given justice, such
as other industries demand, the price
would be above twenty cents. The
small amount of cotton utilized in
women brief clothing is undoubtedly
having its effect on the price of raw
and manufactured cotton goods. Cot
ton is out of style in today’s cost of
living.
YOUNG BRIDE LOOKING
FOR MISSING HUSBAND
“I Know He Didn’t Run Off,” She
Said, "Because He Kissed Me Good
bye,”
(By International News Service)
New Orleans, La., Sept. 25.—Some
where between New Orleans nnd Ben
ton, Texas, today a pretty little bride
of nineteen years, who looks like a
girl of fifteen and wears long, long
curls that little girls of fifteen used
to wear, is making her way afoot.
She isn't afraid, she says, because
folks just don’t do little girls like her
any harm.
She is Mrs. Lucille Miller, 19, of
Little Rock. Ark., who left ’here the
other night.
Mrs. Miller, married to Charles
Miller in Memphis last March, walked
i the 700 miles from Little Rock to
I New Orleans in search of her hus
band, because “I love him so,” she
said.
She appeared at the police station,
told the story of how ’her husband
kissed me goodbye if lie had. My
lie went to work in Little Rock and
disappeared.
“1 know lie didn’t run off,” she
said, “because lie would not have
kissed me goodbye if he had.” My
aunt in Benton. Texas, wrote me that,
he was seen there, wearing a bloody
shirt. 1 must get to Benton,” she
said as she burst into tears and her
golden curls fell down over her face.
Police took her to the Y. W. C.
A. and she was cared for. But next
morning she was gone before anyone
knew it. She had accepted such
auto rides as were offered her from
Little Rock to New Orleans, she told
officers.
Meiglien Government Resigns.
Ottawa, Out.. Sept. 25.—14 s)—,Pre
mier Arthur Meighen’s conservative
government defeated in the recent par
liamentary election, presented its res
ignation to Governor General Baron
Byng this morning. The resignation
was accepted.
He hag not learned the lesson of
life who does not every day sur
mount a fear.
i ■
i Ten Pages Today
Two Sections
A NIGHT OF 1.0(H)
TERRORS ONI) HORRORS I
Vivid Description of Florida Storm by
Atlanta Woman.
(By International News Service)
Atlanta, (Ja.. Sept. 25. —A night of
a thousand terrors, a night of a hun
dred horrors, a night of petition and
prayer and above all a night when
the inherited heroism of American
manhood came up to the highest stand
ards of the pioneer fathers.
This is vidivdly described by Miss
Mabel Buchanan, safe at home here
after an endless age in the heart of
the Florida storm.
“My sister and myself 'had just ar
rived in Miami on our vacation. We
had been in Tampa for a few days."
“Awakened at 2 a. ill. by the hotel
'remb’ing we made cur way down to
the front door of the hotel. We saw
a huge office building across the street
swaying like a drunken man. We
saw. by flashes of lightning, big ships
being blown up from the shores to
the downtown district.
“As we stood dazed, water rushed
in from tile streets. 5Ye were in
water up In our knees. Glass was
flying everywhere. We got in the
elevator shaft. We were almost
drowned when the roof was blown
from the hotel and torrents of water
came down the elevator shaft, -
“People were on their knees every
where praying. The clerk began dis
tributing whiskey. That kept us alive
through these hours. Dawn finally
broke. I saw a drowned sailor's
body swept down the street which was
now a small river.
“Our hotel was soon turned into a
hospital. Now that I’m safe back
in Atlanta it all seems like a fright
ful nightmare. Water was being sold
at 50 cents a glass when I left."
STATE SONG WILE BE
PLACED ON THE AIR
“The Old North State” to Be Heard i
on North Carolina Day at Sesqui. J
Philadelphia, Sept. 25.—-North Car-1
olina's State song. “The Old North
State Forever.” will be heard for the
first time from one of the leading
broadcasting stations of America on
tile evening' of North Carolina Day |
at the Sesqui-Oentennial. and if the.
State should send any singers along
they will be asked to sing it into the |
microphone, in honor of Governor I
Mel,call, who is expected to be here. I
and of the day in general.
The station through which the North I
Carolina song will be heard is WIP. |
operated by Gimbel Brothers. Phila
delphia. and it will come from the
main dining room of the Benjamin
Franklin Hotel. W. Irving Op pen
•iieim, director and broadcaster, to
night declared to the North Carolina
representative here at present in
•harge of the State's exhibit, “1 will
be glad to broadcast this song*and you
may, it you like, announce it through
the press of your State.”
This will be a distinctive honor ac
corded North Carolina and the visi
tors it sends for North Carolina Day
at the Sesqui. Only on rare occa
sions are the programs of the big
broadcasting stations altered for any
reason. Director Oppenheim declared
he would be delighted to do this in
tionor of “one of the finest states in
the American republic.”
Mrs- Tunney Thought lid - Sim
Would Lose.
New York. Sept. 24.—“ Gene, tell
me the truth, are you hurt?"
This was the question Mrs. ,1. Tun
tioy, mother of the heavyweight
champion of the world, asked her
son over the telephone when he call
ed up to tell her of his victory, ac
cording to Mrs. John Kennedy, a
neighbor, who was at the Tunney
home.
"Mother, I haven't even a scratch,
I’ll be home as soon as I get a lit
tle rest,” was Gene’s reply, Mrs.
Kennedy said.
Mrs. Tunney sent word to news
paper men seeking to interview her
that she was afraid of publ’City-
Mrs. Kennedy was ‘called in to the
Tunney home. She came out smilling,
while Mrs. Tunney shyly stood be
hind the door. Mrs. Kennedy said:
“She's bewildered at it all. You
know up- until last night she didn't
believe her boy would win. She
wouldn’t let her friends bet on him,
convinced he could never stand
Dempsey's blows.
“When Gene finally called up and
to'.d her he had won she was almost
in a state of collapse from running
back and forth 'upstairs away from
the radio.”
All poisonous snakes have a square
or rectangular bead.
THE TRIBUNE
PRINTS
TODAY’S NEWS TODAY I
NO. 227
MUM MIDDLE
"(ST SHIR: lE*
COLD WAVE CONIMG
To the South Cold Wave
Moved Down the Lowef
Ohio Valley Into Texas
Pan-Handle Today.
CROP DAMAGE IS
NOW $12,000,000
In Many Points in North
west Temperatures Were
Carried Well Below the
Freezing Point.
Chicago, Sept. 25.—(4 s ) —The north
anil middle west shivered today in the
swirl of wintry blasts sweeping on n
broad southeasterly band from snow
capped wheat fields on the western
Canadian prairies.
To the south the cold wave moved
down the lower Ohio valley into the
Texas panhandle. while the winds that
halted wheat harvesting in Alberta.
Manitoba and Saskatchewan with a
six-inch snow fall, coursed along the
St. Lawrence toward the scabonrd.
The unseasonable temperatures sent
tile mercury scurrying downward to
unprecedented September levels, and
brought well below freezing weather
at many’northwestern points. '3
In the American northwest the wave
assumed proportions unparalleled in
tiie meteorological records, and threat
ened extensive damage to apples and
other crops in Washington and Ore
gon.
From that area a blighting chill
crept over fields of corn and standing
small grain' into the central west,
adding to the millions of dollars dam
age from recent heavy rains. In the
western plains not readied by snow
flurries, killing frosts were spread.
Damage to unharvested crops was
estimated at $12,000,00(1.
ASHEVILLE STREET CAR
SERVICE INTERRI PTED
Sixty Employes Went on Strike To
day. Disrupting the Schedule.
Asheville,’ Sept. 25.— (A 3 ) —Asheville '
was in tiie throes of an unexpected
street car strike today. Cuion men
including all conductors and motor
men of the Carolina Power & Light
Company here failed (o report form
work this morning.
Sixty men walked out leaving twen
ty street cars and seven large busses
with no one to operate them. .. ■'Si
The walkout, according to C. F.
Walters, vice president and uiunager
of the power company, came as a
complete surprise to the company.
New crews are being organized to
man the cars, he said, and service
will be restored as early as possible.
For several days the street ear
j operatives who are members of the
j Amalgamated Association of Street
| Railway Workers, have been making
I demands on the company for higher
wages, company officials said. Ne
gotiations had been in progress be
tween employes and officials of the
company.
Bad for Safe-Crackers.
\ London. Sept. 25.—A bank which
j will take five years to complete, and
j ill the construction of which tons ot
! steel, concrete and iron will be used,
|is now being erected in London. Next
I to the Bank of England, it will lie
j the largest and strongest building of
I its kind in the world. The strong
. rooms, occupying two of tile nine
floors, are to have doors weighing
seven tons each, and will reqilire
. from four to six keys to open them.
A special steel armor is to be used
which, if attacked by an acetylene
blow-lamp, will send out a shower of
sparks of sueli magnitude that the
burglar will be driven off. A won
derful electrical apparatus is being in
stalled which will operate a burglar
alarm of quite a new kind. It sets
| ringing a great bell, which will re
. sound all over the city.
Artificial Fogs.
London. Sept. 2i1.-—A method of
causing sudden artificial fogs on a
large scale is reported to have been
discovered by German chemists. It is
said that the introduction of this
new "weapon” may have far-reach
ing effects on naval and land war
fare, causing Ihe enemy to be non
plussed and enabling ships or troops
to be withdrawn under cover of mist
when an attack is launched. It is re
ported further that experiments made
by the German army are equally
promising, the fog created being so
dense that it was imimssible to see
more than two yards ahead. ■ ,43
Bankruptcy Petitions for G. L. Miller
. & Company.
New York, Sept. 25.—(4*)—Invol
untary petitions in bankruptcy were
filed in federal court today against G.
L. Miller & Co., Inc., a realty mort
gage concern, and the Investment
Banking Corporation of Georgia, a
subsidiary.
The Miller concern recently was -
placed in equity receivership after
involuntary petition in bankruptcy
had been filed.
Tiie pressure of air at sea level
is 14.(15 pounds to the square inrib,
THE WEATHER
Increasing cloudiness fallowed bjr |
showers Sunday and in west and north
central portions tonight; cooler Sunns
■ day night. Moderate winds mostly
southwest.