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DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVI
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MMROIED
AT SIN FMICKCO
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Drove Large Closed Car,
Into San Francisco Bay
' While En Route Home
Early Today. j
ACCIDENT CAUSE
IS NOT KNOWN
Colonel Williams Was in
Charge of Recruiting for
Marine Corps in West-,
era District. J
f
San Francisco. Oct. I.—oP)_Col.
Alexander 8, Wtlliains. jn charge of I
recruiting for the Marihe Corps ini
the western district, and who figured
as the defendant in the famous "Cock
ta.l Court Mnrtial.” at San Diego last
® April, was drowned here early this
f morning when a large closed car he
was driving plunged into San Fran
cisco Bay.
Mrs. Williams said that on leaving
home about 5 p. m. yesterday her hus
band told her he was going to the
Bohemian Club with some friends for
dinner. She said he telephoned her at
ft o'clock last night that he was hav
ing a wonderful time and that he
would not be home until an early hour
in the morning. She said when her
husband was out late he usually drove
home byway of the Embarcadero as
it was well lighted and he was not
well acquainted with the city’s
streets. She believes he must have
lost control,of the car or that his vis
ion was obstructed by something caus
ing the car to plunge into the Bay.
Col. Williams was in charge of re
cruiting for the Marine corps In the
western recruiting district. He war
transferred to San Ftanc : sco from
San Diego last spring after he had
been convicted of “drunkenness and
unbecoming an officer" at a navy court
martial.
The charges wore brought agaiust
him by Brig. Gen. Smedley I). Butler,
as a result of allaged misconduct of
the Colonel at a party at his home giv
en in honor of Gen. Butler at a hotel
later. Gen. Butler had just come to
San Diego Philadelphia, wheat,
be fmd served as director of public
ijßjft'fpi" it i jj ;*Cs
W Cotton Condition HnU to Be Best in
Ten Venn.
Xew York, Sept. SO.—Tabulation
of the .full quota of returns from the
regular cotton crop correspondents of
The Journal of Commerce indicates
that the favorable weather of the past
few weeks has done even more than
generally supposed to increase total
production.
The average- (weighted fls usual
by counties) of individual estimates
of conditions of the crop "on or about
the 20th or the 25th of September
stands at 50.4 per cent, of normal,
as compared with 60.3 per cent, a
month ago. a decline of only .0 of a
point. The ten-year average of de
terioration during the month of Sep
tember, according to the reports of
Journal of Commerce correspondents,
is 62 points. The September condi
tion this year at 50.4 per cent, of
norma! is the highest to be seen in
these figures at this time of the year
since 1016.
As a result of the failure of normal
September retrogression to eventuate
this year, indicated production shows
a very marked increase during the
month. A condition figure of 50.4
per cent, at this time of the year
indicates a total production of 16.-
678.554 bales in the states of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia.
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Luois
iana. Texas, Arkansas. Tennessee,
Missouri and Oklahoma, the states
covered by this newspaper to which
and only to Which, all of its figures
relate.
What Europe’s Royalty Would Rath
er be Doing.
a London. Oct. I.— (A*) —One of the
K weaknesses of Royal personages is to
r confide to intimate friends what they
would most like to do if they were in
other person’s shoes.
King George, incognito, would pre
fer to attend a fcorse race, and min
gle with the crowd.
Queen Mary would rWe on top of
a I»ndon bus, all day long.
King Albert of Belgium, would
travel in foreign lands and do a great
deal of flying.
King Alfonso of Spain, would like
to don the garb of a peasant, slid
live the life of a peasant for a week
or -two-
The Queen of Spain would appear
on the stage.
' Queen Marie of Roumania, would
travel extensively abroad, write
novels, and listen to what the peo
ple said about her.
The Prince of Wales has never got
over his fondness for climbing trees,
which was denied him aa a boy.
Queen Victoria always wanted to
ride on a street car, but she never
even bad a railway ticket in 'her
hand.
King Edward often proposed to
ride in London’s underground, but
procrastination defeated his aims.
New Premier For Mul.
Warsaw, Poland, Oct. I.—o P—
l— Joseph Pilsudski today ac
cepted the premiership of Poland va-
I * the r “ i,, “ tlon of
The Chinese have a festival of some
j kind almost every mouth.
The Concord Daily Tribune
, North Carolina's Leading Small Ot# Daily
Twelve Pages Today Two Sections
MANY CHINESE;
ARE IN NEED OF
CLOTHES AND FOOD
Hankow. China, Oct. J.—.C4») —
The civilian population of Wn
Chang, across the Yangtae River
from here, is entirely without food
and hundreds are reported to be
dying.
Colder weather is increasing the
suffering. There is no coal and
no firewood, and the meager re
maining food supply is held entire
ly b.v the mi itary. The condition
is t’.(e result of the siege laid to
the city by the "Red" Cantonese
forces to forCe surrender of the |
northern troops holding it.
FEAR BURNING SHIP
WILL BE LOST AT SEA
■ [ Officers Fear Vessel New Britain Will
Have to Be Abandoned.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. I.—(A>> —
I Fire aboard the Ameriean steamship
j New Britain is increasing, and her
officers fear the vessel will not be able
|to make port at Savannah, the gov-
I eminent wireless station at Bt. Au
gustine reported at 11:10 o'clock this
morning.
The Wireless station picked up the
following message from the New Bri
tain:
"Steamship New Britain, !) a. m.
position: Latitude 30.25 X.; Longi
tude 70.4 ft W. Fire increasing.
Don’t I'nink we can make port. Ships
, in vicinity please stand by for the
steamship New Britain. We might
need assistance before the Seneca
reaches us about noon.”
200 Miles at Sea.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dot. I.—OP)
Tlie Ameriean Steamship Xew Brit
ain desk plates beginning to buckle
from the heat of fire which has been
burning in her hold since late yester
day. waN 200 miles off Charleston, S.
C.. at 11 o'clock today, proceeding un
der her own steam, hut her officers
doubt if she can make port, the gov
ernment wireless station at St. Augus
tine reported.
TORNADO IN IOWA
CAUSES BIG DAMAGE
Many Cottages Destroyed and Hand
some (hurrh Just Completed Also
Was Wrecked.
Silencer. lown, Oct. I.—CP) —A tor
nado swept a section of the Lake Oko
boji resort region north of here last
night. Indirect reports said many
cottages were demolished, and that
a Methodist Episcopal tabernacle re
oenetly bu ! lt at a cost of $30,000 was
dstrpyed.
- No. rgflpvu of caaqgtties yme re
ceived.. but communication was seri
ously hampered.
W’tttt Otar .Advertisers.
Only two more days of the big Ma
jestic range demonstration at H. B.
Wilkinson’s. You get a solid copper
ware set with your range.
You will always find high grade
tools dt the Ritchie Hardware Co. See
ad.
New fall goods just received at the
Chnrles Btore. You will find here
good values, lowest prices nnd de
pendable quality. See half page ad.
on page twelve of today's Tribune
for some attractive prices.
Let the Shepherd Shoe Hospital re
build your footwear.
Your home life can be more com
fortable if your house is electrically
equipped. See W. J. Hetheox.
For service and quick delivery
phone 268, the grocery department of
the Parks-Belk Co. See list in their
ad. today of some grocery bargains.
The Concord Furniture Co. has just
received a carload of Sellers Kitchen
Cabinets, prices $40.50 to $74.50.
They give you a 32-piece china set
free with each cab'net purchased.
Shoes for service and satisfaction.
$3.05 to $4.05, at Eflrd’s.
Tlie Boxwood Manor Dairy and J.
O. Misenheimer & Son give notice in
another column of an incrense in the
price of milk. See ad. for particulars
The Forest Hill denning Co. han
dles everything to be cleaned or dyed.
At 310 N. Church St., phone 175.1,
At the closing out sale of the
Mnrkson Shoe Store you will find
shoes at half and less than half of
cost. Shoes priced from 50 rents up.
A complete line of the very best
candy to select from at Cline’s Phar
macy.
Get your Overcoat now. The
Parksßelk Co. has your size. In
their ad. today they give yon a group
of bargains in men’s and boys’ cloth
ing.
Paris Bartenders Lay Evil Drink to
Youths-
Paris. Oct. I.—<A»)—Baggy-troux- 1
ered college boys from the United ,
States have brought the art of drink- 1
ing to evil days, say the white-coat- 1
ed men who push liquid mixtures
aciose the mahogany counters of
Paris’ “American” bam.
"The cocktails they ask ns for are 1
terrible,” said Angus, the Scotchman
who tends bar at a case on the
Boulevard des Itaiiens, beloved of i
Americans. “They want to compound
drinks of everything that stands on
the shelves and the result tastes
like the explosion of a Big Bertha
shell. The geatlemanly days of the
scientifically compounded Gibson,
Martini, Manhattan and Zaarac
cocktails are gone.
BamRU Bob Paynmater.
Baltimore, Oct. . I.—OP)—Three
bandits held np and robbed the pay
master of the Henry Sonneborn Com
pany clothing manufacturers at Pratt
ahd Page streets, of $47,600 this
morning end fled in sn automobile
bearing an Ohio license, No. 066-210.
Later the police found the car at
Fremont end George streets with the
dead body of a man inside. There
was do trace of his companions. |
DO ANCIENT RECORDS
CONTAIN HISTORY
OF “LOST COLONY?”
Thousands of Pages of Old
Spanish Records Are
Now in Historical Vaults
t at Raleigh.
BUT NO ONE TO
TRANSLATE THEM
Worse Still, No Money to
Hire a Translator—Must
Wait Another Year for
Legislature to Meet.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh. Oct. I.—Ten thousand
copies of ten thousand pages of old
records from Spanish, which are be
lieved to contain the record of the
mysterious “Lost Colony” founded on
Roanoke Island b.v Sir Walter Ral
eigh, all ready, right here in Raleigh,
in the vaults of I'.ie historical com
mission. nod no one to translate
them, and no money to get a trans-
Itor. Now isn’t that a pretty kettle
of fish? Or perhaps we should have
said a pleasant job for a loose-leaf
bindery. But anyway, those are the
facts. But because the last penny
of the appropriation for this work lias
been spent, and beenuse only the leg
islature can appropriate some more —
if it will—the people of (he state must
wait anol’.ier year-—,or perhaps an
other century—before learning the se
cret which these old records, dug out
of musty vnults in Spain, are believed
to hold.
The last batch of pages, most of
them photostatie copies of the orig
inal records, written in script by hand
on rough paper from two to three
centuries ago, were just received from
Madrid, Barcelona nnd Seville a few
weeks ago and clerks in the historical
commission are still busy sorting, the
pages to get them in the proper chron
ological and numerical order. They
are later to be bound in loose-leaf
binders, so that the translators may
use them as they would an ordinary
book, despite the fact that each leaf
is a separate photograph. Although
it is expected that tue task of ar
ranging the photostutic pages in their
proi>er order will he completed Within
It few (lays, it -wTR probably Be severiil
weeks or even months, before they
can all be bound. A few hundred
pages consist of typewritten copies of
the records—in Spanish, of course —
bHt the bulk of them are photostatie.
And bound up in these unite rec
ords is romance, adventure, tragedy,
and even comedy, perhaps. The story
wtiieh eventually may be unravelled
from them may, as is hoped, shed
much light on the fate of the Raleigh
"Lost Colony” which, as many be
lieve, may have been taken captive
by some passing Spanish gallion. But
none of these mysteries can be solved
until the legislature waves the golden
wand and turns the golden key w’aich
will unlock this storehouse of mys
tery and romance.
At least $3,000 a year for the next
two years will be required to com
plete the records and to get them
translated, according to A. R. New
some, secretary of tlie state historical
commission. Several years ago, it
will be remembered, that an appro
priation of $5,000 was made to re
produce these records, and the work
was undertaken by Dr. W. W. Pear
son, professor of history at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, who was
then in Spain on a leave of absence
from t’ae University. He succeeded in
locating many of the records which
it was thought might have to do with
North Carolina and the "la>st Col
ony,” but that was about all, it not
being possible to undertake any trans
itions until after photostatic copies
had been made. The making of these
coiiies was left in the Mauds of Miss
Iroue Wright, an American who has
had much experience in this kind of
work, and who for two years has had
charge of the work in Spain for the
North Carolina historical commission.
And Miss Wright Mas done her work
well, as is attested by the thousands
of photographs of the puges of an
cient records. It was necessary for
Miss Wright to search through thou
sands and thousands of other pages
in order to select those particular sec
tions of the records whicM might have
a bearing upon North Carolina his
tory. And there still remains about
10,00® more pages to be photographed
in order to have a complete record of
those sections of these old documents
which may have a bearing on the New
World, according to Mr. Newsome.
But even if funds were available to
employ a translator, this task would
be a difficult one, according to Mr.
Newsome, because the translator
should be a historian as well as u
linguist .and should be able to weigh
historical facts and values as well
as decipher the ancient writing on the
faded and discolored pages.
When asked if the work of trans
lating and editing the records cou.d
uot be undertaken by the reiwarch de
partment of the University, assisted
by Dr. Pearson, who already probably
knows more about the records, their
background and content than any oili
er one person, Mr. Newsome replied
that Dr. Pearson was too busy now
with bis teaching -work at the Uni
versity and that there were probably
no others able to handle the work
there unless they were well paid for
doing the work. The oply possibil
ity of getting the work done. wilMout
great expenae, would be to find some
I historian interested in research work
concord, n. c, Friday; October i, 1926
I Ho, Another!
i .i
!
\ Norman Leslie Derham swam
, the English Channel in thm
e teen hours and fifty-five min
‘ utes, winning the $5,000 prize
offered to the first Briton to
! lower Gertrude EdArle’s mark.
(IhtMnakiaoal Kaaranwl k
DR. LAUGHINGHOUSE
BEGINS NEW DUTIES
1 Formally Shorn in as Secretary of the
State Board of Health in Raleigh.
f Raleigh. Oct. I.—GP)—l)r. Charles
' O’Hagen Laughinghouse, of Green
| ville, was formally sworn in as sec
retary of the State board of health in
' the offices of the health department
, here this morning. The oat'.i of of- 1
‘ flee was administered by Associate l
Supreme Court Justice George W.
' Conner, a classmate with Dr. Luugh
, inhouse in the University of North
Carolina.
Dr. Laughinghouse was upaniinous
p Iy elected to the office at the meeting.
, of the health board here on June 31st. ]
He succeeds W, 8. Rankin, Who re- j
sighed oir Mhy 30,* 1025, to assume i
, jhnarge of the Duke hospitalization
• kamL Hi nee his resignation tW plarWj
, ,Ims been filled by Dr. G. M. Cooper,
I who will continue with the depart-
I incut as head of the bureau of health
' education and director of publications.
Bobs to Grow?
' Berlin, Oet. 1,—04*) —During the
winter season modern German 1
I Gre’ehens will let their bobbed hair
grow somewhat longer than during
the summer, in the opinion of Her.
maun Voeste, tonsotial adviser-in-'
i chief to many of Berlin’s film stars
: and primadonnas. -
"During the summer most of my
i clients preferred the Eton cut,” Herr
i Voeste says, “which gives a woman
■ a decidedly mannish appearance.
However becoming this may be in
connection with sporting and outing
suits, it does not go well with gala
evening toilette. I already find that
with the Approach of autumn my
[ e’ients are letting their hair grow
; several inches longed. The permanent
wave, too, will again be in vogue.”
- who had a sufficient knowledge of
Spanish and Spanish history to do it,
1 and to turn the entire matter over
: to him to be translated and edited,
i the final work to bear his name, and
i the publication to be undertaken by
i the historical commission. If such
• an arrangement cannot be made, tlie
: work is likely to prove very expen
■ sive. (
1 So another buck is passed to the
legislature and among the hundred
1 and one other knotty problems which
! it will have to deliberate upon will
■ "be the fate of the Spanish records.
‘ will they in turn be left to rot in
the vaults of the historical commis
• sion. their mysteries and tragedies
‘ forever kept secret and Hie age old
• lines, or will their story be unlocked
‘ from the mute pages so that the
r world may know .the story?
ANNOUNCEMENT
The 08th Series in this old reliable Building and Loan
Association will open on October 2nd, 1926.
RUNNING SHARES COST 25 CENTS PER SHARE
PER WEEK.
PREPAI DSHARES COST $72.25 PEJR 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. 58.
START SAVING FOR A RAINY DAY—SAVE TO
OWN YOUR OWN HOME.
BEGIN NOW.-
CABARRUS COUNTY BUILDING LOAN AND
. imuS ASSOCIATIbN.
Office in the Concord National Bank
I
TIMES-TRIBUNE
MATINEE OF THE
WORLD SERIES
_ '.Baseball fans are invited
, hear The Times-Tribune
Bijitinee of the world series
i beginning tomorrow after
j bd on .
j* The opening game tomor
| wjw will begin at 1:30 and a
by play report will be
i .given over a Bosch radio,
x .which has been secured
j thVough the courtesy of the
| Ritchie Hardware Co. A
1 Bosch machine was used by
{ thV Times and Tribune in
| securing the report of the
f 'Tunney-Dempsey fight and
j fans who heard the excel
-1 lent report that night over
, the Bosch are satisfied the
j reports of the games will he
s’, clear and distinct.
V The games will be gov
erned by Eastern Standard
t Time, which is the same
here as in New York.
Reports of the crowd and
other sidelights will he
broadcasted before the game,
■so reports will begin coming
in shortly after 1 o’clock.
The Bosch will be placed
in front of The Times-Trib
';i une office so that the reports
( ;l can he heard on the street..
THE COTTON MARKET
j Shown! Renewed Weakness at Open
lit?:, AH Months Making New Law
Ground For Movement.
New York. Oct. I.—(A>)—Tlie cot
( ton market showed renewed weakness
at the opening today on reports of bet
ter weather in the South, lower cables
from Liverpool, and private report!
‘ estimating crop conditions 56.4 and
the indicated yield 16.678,000. or
j nearly 800,000 bales above the govern
ment indication of last week.
A good deal of coyering and fur
j ther trade buying at the opening de
dine of 17 to 36 points, was readily
supplied by heavy Southern seilinr
combined with renewed liquidation nnd
: j reselling by recent buyers.
■ December and all later month.-
' I made new low ground for the more.
1 j meat. December sold off to 13.08 and
1 ; March., to 14.28: by the end of thr
thst hour or about 38 to 42 pplTifv
1 net lower.
Cotton futures opened easy: Oet.
1 14.20; Deo. 14 25: Jan. 14.15; March
14.30; May 14.55.
Signal Drill by the Davidson Wildcats
Davidson, Oct. I.—The Davidson
1 Wildcats will finish their training for
tlie South Carolina Presbyterians this
afternoon, when a signal drill will be
the main program. The Davidson
' team is not in prime condition, due
to minor injuries to various players.
Sappenfield will not start the game,
due to a hip injury received in the
Wofford fracas, but Ed Wilson will
call signals. A new man in the
initial lineup is Kell, halfback. T'.iis
will be the first game that he has
started, though when substituted he
has been making some pretty runs. t
The Davidson team has beenmso/k
--ing hard this w-Cek, but did noMfoem
to get anywhere. Each individual
seemed to be putting fortM his every
effort, but as a whole the showing has
. been miserable, and has caused the
Davidson coaches to wonder what
i manner of team they would have on
. the field against the Blue Stockings.
Boy Bandits Get SI.BO.
1 Atlanta, Ga., Oct. I.—Boy ban
' dits, using a ramshackle automobile
i and working with the nonchalant de
' mennor of experienced professionals.
■ didn’t even have to puli their guns
to rob A. C. Entrekln, taxi driver.
■ here the other night.
| Entrekin whs returning from a trip
i near the city limits wMen a dilapidat-
I ed auto blocked his route. When he
. stopped his cab, two boys leaped on
i the running board, reached for their
- hip pockets and commanded him to
< | elevate his hands.
I The boy bandits took SI.BO, all the
II money he possessed. “And I haven't
> seen a gun yet,” IMe taxi driver told
. police.
ATLANTA SCHOOLS |
MAY CLOSE UNTIL |
MONEY IS RAISED
Unless $200,000 to Pay the
Teachers Is Secured by
Loans Work Will Be
Halted Until New Year.
LAW MAKES NEW
RULE NECESSARY
Cannot Issue Script Leg
ally, City Attorney Has
Ruled, So Loan Seems
Only Way to Get Money.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. I.—OP)—All
city schools in Atlanta will be closed
Monday morning unless means are
devised today to meet a salary pay
roll of approximately $200,000 due to
1200 public wlhkil teachers, according
to A. J. Orme, chairman of the city
council finance committee.
If closed, the schools would not re
open until January 1. 1027. when ap
propriations to meet the cost of school
maintenance are available.
The only course left to meet tlie
financial crisis, the finance committee
believes, is for individuals to loan the
city sufficient money to pay the salar
ies due.
According to a ruling b.v the city
attorney, the issuance of ser'pt by tlie
city to meet tlie deficit would be ille
gal since one city council ennuot be
bound b.v the acts of another, and in
the event such a course were follow
‘■d. any citizen of the city could en
join payment of the script when it
came due January Ist.
Sixty thousand ncliool children will
be affected if the closing is carried
out.
THE C. P. BARRINGER CASE
Will Probably Come Down From the
Supreme Court in a Few Days.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh. Oct. I.—Decision in the
Barringer case involving the right of
Cager I’arx Barringer, president of
the State Federation of Labor, to
practice law in the courts of the state
will probably come down from the
•ourt within a few days.
_ The case which ’ was heard yester
day, threatened to fail the -public's
interest altogether when Attorney J.
-VI. Waggoner, representing O. K. Ev
erhardt. proteutaut, rested his testi
uiony and argument and awaited the
movement of the labor leader through
General Albert L. Cox and Colonel
T. Leroy Kirkpatrick. The attor
neys for the federation head charac
terized the efforts of the Rowan prot
•stant the boldest and baldest effort
to use the highest courts for the col
lection of debt, original objections of
Everhardt having grown out of a
monetary transaction between the
two. But on final presentation of
the protest, Mr. Waggoner left two
serious suggestions with the court,
ilomcstic issues that are embarrassing
in the extreme because they are not
definite in tlieir implications but lay
a burden on the respondent.
The effect of this may have been
mitigated by a letter of Mrs. Barring
er to Mr. Barringer to the effect that
for the sake of old times she desired
to congratulate him on passing the
high court and she wished him well
in meeting tlie accusation now before
the highest tribunal. General Cox de
clared this sufficient to settle the is
sue of character raised. Later a com
missioner's record sent down here re-1
vealed testimony of Mrs. Barringer
in which she declined to give the cause
of their separation because the testi
mony involved personal relations. The
same refuge was taken by Earl F.
Charles, brother of Mrs. Barringer,
who declined to say whether his sep
aration from his wife was the result
of disagreement with Mr. Barringer.
In that shape the case was ended.
Rev. B. A. Barringer, brother of
the respondent, was present and lie
, sat with Rev. Dr. Ernest R. McCaul
ey, pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran
. Church, Raleigh. The court will
probably hand down a decision next
I week.
*SOOO in Gold Teeth Keep Him From
Football.
Mooseheart, 111., Oct. I.—OP)
Teeth of gold and porcelain costing
$5,000 will prevent William Law
rence, 16-year-old Mooseheart stu
dent, from playing football this year.
Officials of the "City of Childhood”
fear the danger of having his teeth
broken by a bump on the mouth and
have forbidden him to play or even
practice.
Due to misshapen bones in his
mouth, his teeth did not meet, de
priving him of the ability to chew
food properly. Surgery reshaped his
jaws and each tooth was crowned
with porcelain and gold, enabling
him to bite and chew.
Mussolini la “Most Taciturn,” Bar
ber Says.
Rome, Oct. I.—(A s )—Mussolini is
the most taciturn man in Italy, ac
cording to his barber, Domenico Ros
si-
" Four years ago,” says Rossi, “I
wan working in my shop when my
friend. Policeman Ambrosetti rushed
in and, in an excited voice, told me to
take my razor and follow him; ’Mus
solini wants to be shaved,’ he said.
“I had a hard job keeping my
hand from trembling but I must
have given His Excellency a good
shave for I have been his barber ever
since. And during these four yean,
ha has never mid one word to me."
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! CHARGES FLORIDA
BOOSTERS HURTING
RELIEF EFFORT^
j ! Washington, Oct. 1
nta officials fron( ** •< 1
I down, and real tw'*' j
1 were accused todays*'John Bar
ton Payne. American Red Cross
i chairman, of handicapping Red
! Cross relief plans through the min
j imizing of losses in the Florida
hurricane.
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GRIST PRAISED FOR
• STRIKE SETTLEMENT j
Asheville Writer Ascribed Street Car [
Strike Ending There to Labor Com- j
mission er.
Raleigh, Sept. 30.—Not doting on
'.lis diplomacy, Frank Grist, comntis
■ sioner of labor and printing, was back
, today wearing decorations from Ashe
ville for the part that he played there
i recently in helping to settle the street
car strike.
Mr. Grist has been willing at all
times to admit that he knows how to
get helpers for the berry growers of
Duplin, Columbus and Pender and
for the peach growers of the sand
hills. He majors in that; but this is
' the first time that he has been called
; upon to bring the warring elements of
industry together. The labor union
folks never thought he was long on
t'.ieir side of the controversy and they
' did much to beat him. They failed.
But he turned in a good day's work
in Asheville, according to the news
‘ patters.
Mr. Grist hasn’t bragged about that,
but he did clip what they said about
him in Asheville.
Asheville newspaper men pay Mr.
Grist a liig'.i tribute in the settlement
of the strike.
A signed article by Rodney Crow
ther in the Asheville Times says in
1 pa rt:
"Settlement of Asheville's street
ear strike may be credited in large
part to the kindly offices of one man.
"That man is Frank D. Grist, com
missioner of labor for the stats of
North Carolina. ,
"He dealt with both bodies con
stantly through two full days and
nights in an effort to bring about
mutually agreeable basis for settle
! ment. He made tfte suggestion that
broke the apparent stalemate.”
. BAR ROOMS WERE
ONCE GREAT EVIL
| Laboring Class Is Saving Where
Once it Bought Intoxicants.
Chicago, Sept. 30.—Savings have
jbeen growing steadily aince the ad
vent of prohibition. -according to
John G. Shedd. chairman of the
' board of Marshall Field atul. com
pany.
He said today:
"Savings have been growing stead
ily from year to year and this
| growth in the accumulations of the
' laboring man has been notable since
the closing of the corner saloon.
“The benefits from prohibition
which have accrued/ to workingmen
and their families in the last seven
years cannot be stressed too strongly.
"Wages which in former years
found their way over the bars have
1 been conserved and placed in savings
deposits, invested in home surround
ings, or plnced in circulation through
the purchase of luxuries.
"This conservation has supplied a
sound basis for our business growth
in nearly every direction and its
benefits can be discerned in every
section of the country.”
GOFF SAYS HE ALONE
SETTLED MERTON CLAIM
Did Not Ask Attorney General Any
thing hi Connection With the Cose.
New York. Oct. I.—W)—Complete
responsibility as far as the Attorney
General's Office went for release of
| $7,000,000 of shares of the American
Metals Company was assumed by
Senator Guy B. Goff, testifying in
the Paugherty-Miller conspiracy trial
, today.
Called as the second defense wit
. ness, he replied to questions bv Max
P. Steuer, counsel for H. M. Daugh
erty. attorney general in President
. Harding’s cabinet, that he had never
taken the matter of the metal claims
f us with Daugherty, but had allowed
■ them on his own authority.
LOCUSTS POISON FISH.
Shores of Lake Covered With Dead
Bodies After Insects Darken Skies.
Leon, Managua. Sept. 30.—The
shores of Lake Managua were cov
ered today with the bodies of fish,
apparently poisoned by eating lo
custs which fell into the water from
an immense swarm that flew over
the lake yesterday. The sanitary de
partment has prohibited the sale of
fish from the lake for the tyne being.
The locust swarm was so great
when it passed over this city that
the sky was darkened for 18 min
ut. .
Officials of Cicero Indicted.
Chicago, Oct. 1. —< A ’)—Cicero offi
cialdom was called to account by the
federal grand jury today for the gang
ster murders and the bootlegging feuds
and their accompanying assassinations
when indictments were returned
against J. Z. Klenha, mayor of the
suburb, his chief of police, Theodoro
Svoboda, and seventy-seven other per
sons on charges of conspiracy to vio
late prohibition.
Completes Long Flight.
London. Oct. I. —CP)— Alan J. Cob
ham, Great Britain's leading long dis
tance aviator, arrived here today com
pleting his senatorial 28,000-mile
flight to Australia and return.
Twelve Pages Today
Two Sections
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NO. 232
P°'SONER BATTLES
; KITH OFFICERS OH
m TO SCAFFOLD j
Tony Vetters Attacked the
i Officers With Pipe and
Knife But Was Subdued
| With Tear Gas. |
j PURSUED SHERIFF 1
FROM HIS CELL
Started Attack When the
Sheriff Entered His Cell
and Tried to Read Death
Warrant to Him. '
Butte, Mont., Oct. I.— </n —After g M
desperate attack on officials .’frith a. ■■id
three-foot length of pipe and a eßufely |
made knife, Tony Vettere, condemned H
to be hanged here today, was driven ?j
into a corner by officers, and subdued
with tear gas. He was 'nanged at s
12:2S o'clock this morning.
When Sheriff P. O. Robinson en
tered Vettere’s cell to lead him opl.to
hear the death warrant read and mah
acle him for the execution, Vettere
produced a piece of pipe from the bed
clothing of his cot and leaiied upon
the officer. Robinson retreated from
the cell, narrowly escaping the pipe, t>
which the prisoner hurled at him.
Vettere pursued him down the corri
dor adding to his weapons a .knife
mnde from a jail spoon which he had
carried concealed in his clothing!
Other officers came to Robinson'a j
assistance with two tanks of tear gas,
driving Vettere back to his cell with *
gas for fifteen miuutes before he was
overcome. ..., . ;Cn|
Deputy sheriffs I’lien carried Sim to
the gallows. He was pronounced dead ■.
six minutes after the trap was sprung.
Vettere' was convicted of the mur
der of Antone Fabero here last No
, vember.
BAROMETER DROPPED , '
TO 27.61 IN MIAMI
This Is Said to Be Lowest Barometer 1
Reading Registered in the United
States.
Miami, Fla., Oct. I.—OP)—Obser- |
vations of meteorologist Richard W.
Gray of the local U. S. Weather Bu- J
- renu in connection with the recent ,;ij
hurricane today revealed that the ba-
rometer dropped to 2T.81 during The'
passage of the storm center. The or
iginal estimate had been 27.7 ft, snkf
to have been the lowest barometric
reading registered in the United ,j
States. Unofficial reading at tUe Koy- ,-J
al Palm yacht basin several hundred
yards from the weather bureau imU- Ja
eated a drop to 27.30 during the
lull before the passage of the "huri- :
caue’s latter half.
FEDERAL TAXES IN-
STATE SHOW INCREASE |
Collections for First Quarter $5,000,- ]
AOO More Than Last Year. 1
Raleigh, Oct. I.—OP) —Collections J
of federal taxes from North Carolina
during the first quarter of t'.ie present |
fiscal years were virtually $5,000,000
in excess of collections for the eorre- J
sponding period in the preceding fiscal j
year, according to Gilliam Grissom,
collector of internal revenue for this
district. Last year North Carolina
nvhh the fifth state in the Union in
:he payment of federnl taxes. VlSa
On the basis of this showing Mr. , j
Grissom expressed confidence that col- \i
actions from Noi£h Carolina for the 5g
present fiscal year would exceed $200,-
000,000 for the first time in history.
TWO MEN INJI RED
AT GRADE CROSSING :
R. L. Whaley and Bumfc Ezzell Hurt f
When Truck Was HR By Tnla.
Wilmington, Oct. T. — UP) —R. It
■ Whaley and Burniee Ezzell, of Fa 1 - j
: son. were seriously injured this mqrn- g
! ing when a state highway truck was
struck by a northbound freight ‘train
of the Atlantic Coast Line near Fai
son. general offices of the company
here were advised. The message to
I the local office came from the conduct
or of the freight train who stated that
> the two injured men had been carried
- to Goldsboro on the train and there
. entered in a hospital.
Highway Worker Injured by Train.
Goldsboro, N. C„ Oet. I.—UP) J
Two men were seriously injured, one
probably fatally when a state high
way truck was struck by a. north- ;/
bound Atlantic Coast Line freight §
trnin near Faison early this morning.
The injured men's names wer 4 given
as Bunyan Ellis and A. Whaley, both /
of Magnolia. Ellis was said to be
the more seriously injured.
Fall Shoe* For Men, Women and
Children.
You will find at the Richmond- V
Flowe Company 32 or more dUffegeMptl
styles of shoes for men, women and
children. They are agents for the ?
famous Star Brand shoes, which al-, j
ways give you good wear. The wltlcSt
give- $5.00 cash reward and reptaqfcffi
the shoes free of charge to the
er of any pair of Star Brand Shoet|9
containing leather-board, paper or fli-'yjf
ber-board, substitutes for leather in
outsides, insales, heels or counter. SMg|
full page ad. In th's paper today M
cuts of the various styles. $
f . ■lir.'-'.ULULJgaggja
THE WEATHER
,lav“" r '
Fresh northeast winds, . ,
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