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VOLUME XXVI Twelve Pages Today Two Sections CONCORD, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBERS, 1926 NO. 234
RECORD CROWD WILL
SEEMHULSMID
: YANKEES IN SERIES
Clear and Warm Was Fore
cast for Opening Game
Being Played in New
York Today.
TICKETS GOING
AT FAST RATE
Some Fans Stayed Up All
Night to Get Tickets.—!
Sherdel and Pennock I
Are Pitchers. j
At the end of the third inning !
the score was 1-1, in the first
fuse of the 1924 world series, 1
each team scoring in the first in- )
nlng.
Babe Ruth, up twice, walked
fovee and forced Koenig the other
time. In dHtfing to second Babe
tore his panto and time was call
ed while he mended them.
New York. Oct. 2.—OP) —Fnns
were out early for. the opening of the
World Series today. In fact, some
of them were up all night.
A line starting at 10 p. m. was
growing steadily this morning befqre
the entrances to the Yankee Stadium
where the first two games of the se
ries between New York and St. Louis
will be played. They sought a part
of the 38,000 grandstand nnd bleacher
tickets made available to customers
over the counter.
Twenty-five thousands tickets were
Snapped up in record time on the
mail order basis with an over sub
scription of 15,000 when club attaches
suspended the count. Some of these
tickets fell into the hands of specula
tors nnd high prices were asked.
The practice period with only light
work permitted the athletes brought
no ensualt : es. and the teams were able
to put the same best on the field. Fair
and warm weather was forecast. |
A battle of southpaws was Indicat
ed for the opening clash. Manager
Hornsby picked Wee Willie Sherdel
and Manager Huggins announced that
Herb Pennock would toss.
was caused among the.,
ojpfftsm! fojeto by the news, tbat
among the regulars of the two "teams.
Ruth. Gehring and Combs stand
nearer first base when they go to bat
for the Yankees; nnd Southworth and
Bottomley bat from the. off side for the
( Cardinals.
Tlie National League entry does
not lack support in spite of the fact
that the first two games arc played on
alien territory. Many St. Loirs en
thusiasts could not wait until the
teams reached the Mound City Tues
day. and so moved to New Yofk to be
among the 65,000 present.
The sentimental vote was being cast
almost solidly for the visitors. St.
Louis has bad no pennant for 38
years, while a few years ago the Yan
kees for a time threatened a monopo
ly on American League championships.
The line-up follows:
"St. Louis—Douthit. centerfie’.d ;
Southworth. rightfield; Hornsby, sec
ond base; Bottomley, first base; L.
Bell, third baseHnfey, leftfield;
O'Farrel, catcher; Thevenow, short
stop ; Sherdpl, pitcher.
New York—Combs, centerfiejd, Koe
nig, shortstop: Ruth, rightfield;-Meus
el, leftfield; Gehrig, first base; Laz
erri. second base; Dugan, third base;
Severeid, catcher; Pcnnock, pitcher.
Douthit had the honor of scoring
the first run of the 1626 series.
In the first inning he drove a dou
ble to right field, went _to third on
Pouthworth's out, held third as Horns
by grounded'to the pitcher and scored
•on Bottomley’s single just over Du
gan’s head.
The Yankees evened t'ue county in
the first due to Sberdel’a wildness.
Combs walked, Koenig flew out, Ruth
f walked and Jleusel walked. On
Gehrig's tap to Thevenow at short
Meusel was forced at Heeond and
Combs scored. Lazzerrfi was out at
short.
Neither team scored in the second
despite the fact that in that intiing the
Yankees got their first h'.t.
Koenig retired Hafey and O’Far
rell on spectacular plays and Theve
now was out second to first.
For the Yankees Dugan opened
with a single, the first Yankee hit.
Severeid flied out to Hafey. Pennock
sacrificed Dugan to second and'Combs
flied out to Douthit.
In the third Bberdel gtruck out,
Pennock threw out Douthit and
Southworth hit a high fl.v to Severeil.
In the Yankee half Koenig started
with a single but was forced by Ruth.
Meusel out. Sberdel to Bottomly and
Gehrig popped up.
Rain Daring Morning.
-New York, Oct. 2. —Wi—Cloudy
skies today after an early morning
drisxle aroused extreme speculation
among fans as to the possibility of
rain at the opening of the world se
ries this afternoon, but those in line
at the gates of the Yankee Stadium
refused to give up their hard earned
places.
Aid Disabled Veto.
Charlotte, N. C., October 2. —The
Charlotte Chapter of War Mothers
forwarded $232.27 to disabled World
A War veterans at the government hos
“ pital at oteen according to Mrs. W.
B. Pratt, chairman of the sale com
mittee of the chapter.
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A wreath from Klan Nathan Hale
No. 15, of Dover, N. J., the only one
to be placed on Hide's monument in
New York City for the 150th anniver
sary of his death, was removed by po
lice.
FIVE PASSENGERS.
MECHANIC, PILOT
KILLED IN CRASH
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Pcnskurst, Kent, England, Oct. 2.
—OC)—Five passengers, the pilot
and a mechanic were burned to
death today when a French pas
, senger airplane en route to the
'Croydon Airdumc. London, crashed
near here. 1
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THE COTTON MARKET
Another Decline Follows Hedge Sell
ing. Favorable Weather and Easy
Liverpool Cables.
New York, Dot. 2.—(A 3 )—A further
decline occurred in the cotton mar
ket early today owing to continued
southern hedge selling, reports of fav
orable weather and relatively easy
Liverpool cables.
There were a good many overnight
selling orders ut the'opening nnd first
prices were easy nt a decline of 5 to
27 points, new low ground for the 1
movement on all active positions. >
Slight bulges followed on covering and !
trade buying, but continue, December
easing off to 18.47 and March to 13.47 '
and May to 13 7!) by the end of the 1
first hour, or 27 to 31 points net
lower.
Private cables attributed the de- >
cline in Liverpool to increased hedge
selling and liquidation promoted by
the more favorable weather reports
from the south. Part of the early
selling here probably was in anticipa
tion of bearish private conditions anil
indicated yield figures early next
week.
Cotton futures opened easy. Oct. j
13.85; Dec. 18.67 ; Jan. 13.63 ; March '
13.80; May 14.05.
Closed Steady.
New York, Oct. 2.—Cotton futures
rlosed easy at a net decline of 42 to
51 points: Oct. 13.40; Dec. 13,27:
Jan. 13.33; March 13.58; May 13.75.
Bears Roaming the Woods.
Trenton, N. C., Oct. 2.—OP) —
Bears are roaming the woods of Jones
county in unprecedented numbers, ac
cording to reixirts emanating from the
Comfort section, southwest of here.
One party headed by Joseph Hill
went out this week and captured nine
of the bruins, it has been learned here.
The captured bears were all said to
be cubs and weighed less than one
hundred pounds each.
They were brought into town and
some of them are being trained as
pets.
Rev. E. S. Jones Dies of Injuries.
Spartanburg, S. 0., Oct. 2.—OP)—
Rev. E. S. Jones, Columbia, presiding
elder of the Columbia conference of
the upper South Carolina Methodist
“Confeyenee, died at the general hos
pital in this city this morning from
injuries sustained in an automobile
accident near Glenn Springs Tues
day morning.
Pastor of One Church For
Over Thirty Years—
I Dr. LR. Pruett |
1 Os Charlotte
Preaches Sunday 11 A. M.
and 7 P. M. at the
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FIVE PERISH WHEN
HOTEL IS BURIED:
wHEEi SNOT FOUND
Pratt Ward Minchew and
Four Relatives Perish in!
i Fire in Hotel at Sibley,'
j Louisiana.
ENTIRE BLOCK
IS DESTROYEDI
Man, Wife and Baby, Seen j
in Hotel Last Night,'
Have Not Been Seen]
Since the Fire.
Shreveport, La.. Oct. 2.— UP) —Five
persons were burned to death early
today when fire destroyed t'.ie Sibley
Hotby and an entire block at Sibley,
thirty miles east of here. Pratt Ward
Minchew, section foreman, his wife.
Mrs. Winchew, proprietor of the ho
tel, their two sons, Arthur, 15, and
Pratt Ward, Jr.. 12, and their nephew,
Ben O'Gray, of Cantor, are the
known dead. Three other persons
are believed to have been burned to
dent'd. A man and his wife and
baby were seen to get off the train
coming from Vicksburg. Miss., about
!) o'clock and go to the hotel nnd reg
ister. They have not been accounted
for so far and their bodies are be
lieved to be in the ruins.
SENATOR GOFF TAKES
WHOLE RESPONSIBILITY’
Declares He Is Man Who Allowed
the Claims—Exonerates Daugher
ty.
New York. Oct. I.—Although he ac
cepted on the stand today responsi
bility for uilowing the $7.(H)0,0(K)
American Metal Company claim in
1021, I'nited Stntes Senator Guy D.
Goff, of West Virginia, was pictured
by the government ns a marionette
moved about on the political stage by
subordinates at the direction of Harry
M. Daugherty.
Senator GoiT took the slam! as the
second defense witness in the trial
of Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller
for conspiring to defraud the govern
men of their best services in allowing
the metut company claim for assets
impounded during the war,. Daugher-i
Wo* attorney ' gvuuraii
and Miller was alien property custodi
an. Goff was assistant to the at
torney general in charge of alien prop-1
erty custodian matters in Daugherty's I
department.
Point for Defendants
He was called to the stand by Max j
D. Steuer, counsel for Daugherty, and I
denied that up to the time he signed
the papers releasing to Richard Mer
ton, German metal magnate, the im
pounded property, lie had never dis
cussed the claim with Daugherty,
Miller, Jesse W. Smith or John T.
King. The government charges that
by using as bribes part of the $441,
000 fee given 'aim by Merton to ob
tain approval of the claim. King had
persuaded Daugherty and Miller to
give their approval, ‘'reaching" them
through Smith, Daugherty's political
handyman.
"You signed these papers because
you bad come to the independent con
clusion that the claim was validV
Steuer asked.
"1 did.”
Second Hhand Knowledge
United States Attorney Buckner
then took the witness and elicited
from him that much of his knowledge
through Anda R. Johnson, a special
assistant attorney general appointed
by Daugherty who did the bulk of the
actual alien property custodian work
in the attorney general's office, but
who was subordinate to Goff, a Hard
ing appointee.
Goff ndmitted that because of the
great number of duties he had to
attend to, he necessarily had to de
pend to a large extent on the accu
racy and honesty of subordinates.
Unique Page in Today’s Tribune.
Attention of the readers of The
Tribune is called to an unique page
(page 10 of tlie second section of to
day’s paper) which appears in today's
issue. On this page appear stories
about certain of our merchants and
the lines of goods they sell. Certain
questions are asked about these firms
and for the best set of answers to
these questions S2O in Gold will be
given.
It is a well known fact that we
have some very excellent stores here
and that standard merchandise can
be bought in Concord at prices far
less than those asked in the larger
cities where the rent and other expen
ses of conducting a business are
much higher than here. It is the in
tention of this paper to inform the
public, not only the policies of our
firms but the many standard national
ly advertised lines that they sell and
Homebody is going to reap the benefit
of their acquaintanceship with our lo
cal merchants. All questions in re
gard to the advertisement will be
cheerfully answered by the advertiser
and you are cordially invited to enter
the contest nnd see how much you
know about our business interests.
Get busy and win the S2O in gold.
Some one will win it, why not you?
Ten Pages Today
Two Sections
THE “SULTANS OF SWAT” MEET
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Home run Kings of Major Leagues meet in World Series which Starts In New York today. Babe has record
of 51) Home Runs and Hornsby Record of 42 in single season.
A Masterly Statement About
Public Hospitals by Dr. Rankin
Editor Archibald Johnson in his
Charity and Children has the follow
ing;
Dr. W. S. Rankin, of the Duke
Foundation, on Wednesday of last
week addressed the Rotary Clilh of i
Thomnsville, together with n few in
vited friends, in a very clear and con
vincing way. There has been some
prejudice existing, especially" in Vie
minds of .certain; physicians, against
the movement in favor of more and
better hospitals. Those who are fi
nancially able have no trouble in re
( eeiving treatment nnd the best hos
pitals are at hand for them. But the
trouble has always been that the fa
cilities for skillful treatment of the
poor have usually been out of their
reach. The church hospitals have
been doing a large proportion of char
ity work of this state and of South
Carolina, but even in these institu
tions tlie means for doing this work
are limited as well as the room. The
Duke Foundation proposes to aid com
munities in building and maintaining
the Hospital work of the two States
which, when it is well understood, will
do a large and blessed work in pUttjng,
-skillful treatment within the re«V
of the poor and dependent. The hoi
; OPTIMISTIC REPORT FOR
AUGUST BL RESERVE BANK
i A Large Purchasing Power Was Sus
| tained for the Coming Months.
Richmond, Va., Oct. 2. —C4 5 ) —Sub-
stantial improvements in prospects for
business in the south during the re
mainder of the year appeared to have
developed during August, according to
tlie monthly report on business and
agricultural conditions issued by the
statistical department of t'.ie Federal
Reserve Bank here today.
The report disclosed that August
business was up to the seasonal av
erage, and that a moderate expansion
of loans to customers by member
banks and a seasonal rise in the cir
culation of federal reserve notes show
that fall trade is opening normally.
A large purchasing power is as
sured during the coming months, the
report predicts, on account of tlie
generally good conditions in the- em
ployment of labor. The failure rec
ord of August is declared to have
compared favorably wit’ll that of last
August and of recent months.
Textile mills are still reported as
operating from hand to mouth, but
with “stocks that are very low.”
A huge increase in building activi
ties was reflected during the mouth,
figures disclosing that total new con
struction authorized during August of
the present year were forty-one per
cent, larger than those of last August,
and that they were hig'ner than for
any other month this year except
March.
Crop conditions were reported gen
erally favorable, with especially good
yields of cotton in the Carolinas. Tin
cotton crop advantages, however, are
somewhat dimmed by the prevailing
low prices on the staple.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The 58th 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 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. 58.
START SAVING FOR A RAINY DAY—SAVE TO
OWN YOUR OWN HOME.
BEGIN NOW.
CABARRUS COUNTY BUILDING LOAN AND
•, oA j tNGS ASSOCIATION.
Officein the Concord National Bank
.... ~... A Jok- .At.! .
pitalization department of the Duke
Foundation, is just beginning nnd in
the hands of so able a man ns Dr.
Rankin, it promises to develop into
large proportions. The movement
- may be opposed for a time by selfish
men who would rattier monopolize
medical skill than distribute it. but
the truth is mighty and will prevail,
nnd if is hard to foretell what the out- 1
come of so helpful, a ministry to suf-:
faring humanity will be. Dr. Rankin
is performing a vast service in spread
ing the light. His knowledge of his [
business is comprehensive and his
forcible and earnest way of expressing
his ideas carry conviction to Mis hear
ers. His beautiful conclusion of the
message and meaning of sickness and
suffering and of their final elimination
when there will be a “new heaven
and a new earth," touched the hearts |
of his hearers and opened a new ave-1
• line of reflection to our minds. Duke i
in making this bequest did not have
in mind the making of a dollar but
the wiping away of t’.ie tears from
the wet faces of God’s children. The
movement is a great and benevolent
one, and Dr. Rankin is a ivojrthy and
’ dffifirnt representative of sui.great, a
ea use.
ANONYMOUS LETTERS
WARN GINS TO CEASE
However, Mississippi Sheriff Believes
Originators Are Not Desperadoes.
West Point, Miss.. Oct. 2;—Sheriff
Dave Cottrell, of Clay county, report
ed that as a result of anonymous mes
sages tacked on cotton gins in this
territory ordering that operators cease
until better prices may be obtained
for cotton an Ackerman plant has
closed for an indefinite period. Own
ers of other gins in Ackerman, Mc-
Cool and Weir are considering sus
pending operations tomorrow, the sher
iff was informed.
Sheriff Cottrell believes the warn
ings were distributed by despondent
farmers, who are discouraged because
of the Unusually low prices for their
principal crop. He does not expect
any serious trouble due to dissatisfac
tion among planters.
The messages which caused the ex
citement were written in legible style.
They did not. cause gin owners to be
apprehensive of incendiarism, but si-v
--eral said they would maintain night
watchmen.
Dispatches from eleetrie mills told
of efforts of farmers to remove cotton I
from their field before prices fall
lower. "Picking" parties have been
given by several land owners in order
to obtain assistance of their neigh
bors in emptying the bolls by moon
light. Amid these affairs, which
have been outwardly merry, there has
been an undercurrent of serious
ness.
One of tiic pioneyr American safety
razor companies which has paid $34.-
()(X),000 to its shareholders as divi
dends was started twenty-five years
ago with a capital of S3O.
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ANOTHER OIL
' LEASE CONTEST
NOW DECIDED
' Washington, Oet. 2.—(/P)—The
government won another point, in
t'.ie naval oil lease case today when
the court of appeals of the District
of Columbia dismissed a petition oi
E. L. Doheny, Albert B. Fall and
Harry F. Sinclair, attacking cer
tain of the indictments returned
here.
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STANLY AI'DIT FCSS
ARRIVES AT LEGAL STA£E
Complete Audit Can Be Demanded
and Enforced, Attorneys Claim.
Albemarle, Oct. 2.—'New develop
ments occurred here today in the dis
pute between the Stanly county
commissioners and the Stanly coun
ty road board over having the high
way books audited, when it became
known that Attorneys W. L. Mann,
of the local bar, and E. T. Cannier,
of Charlotte, representing the coun
ty commas si oners, having looked in
t the matter, have advised that a
complete audit can be demanded and
enforced.
The trouble between the two
boards has been goring on for the
past sixty days. It will be remem
bered that about sixty days ago the
county commissioners made an order
to the effect that the books and rec
ords of the county bonord of educa
tion ami the county highway board
be audited. The matter was mention
ed to the board of education and that
body willingly turned over all books
record and invoices to the auditor
and the audit was promptly anff
satisfactorily made, everything hav
ing been found in good condition.
But. when the road board was ap
proached about the audit, they at
first objected, stating that that board
was an independent body and not
subject to the orders of the county
commissioners, latter, the road board
agreed to the audit, turning over the
books and vouches of the treasurer.
These were audited and cheeked, and
found to balance, so far as the treas
urer, J. R. Price, is concerned. But,
not having all the invoices, the audi
tor, W W. Murphy, of Salisbury,
called for them. They refused to turn
them over to Mr. Murphy, so he was
unable to complete the audit and wns
forced to discontinue his work.
After some negotiations between
the county commissioners and the
road board it was announced that
the latter had agreed to turn over
| the invoices. It was then that legal
action was contemplated. The county
commissioners insisted upon forcing
the audit, if there was any legal way
of doing it. The regular attorneys
for the county commissioners. Brown
and Sikes, withdraw as counsel and
the commissioners retained Mann
and Cansler, requesting them to in
vestigate and advise whether or not
in their opinion, there wns any legal
action which the commissioners
could take in order to force, the
audit. They have advised that the
audit can be demanded action will
therefore, be tßken, provided the
present chairman of the commission
ers, Q. E. C. Coble, shall be re
flected in November, and in tact
action may even start before Coble’s
term of office shall expire.
The Stanly county highway board
s composed of Amos Biles, ohnir
innii; Henry Freeman, Julian Cog
gins, Press McSwaiu and W. I. Lit
tle. J. R. Price is attorney and Mrs.
Betty Palmer secretary. The county
commissioners are (J. E. C. Coble,
chairman; Hamilton Morton und
Henry Culp.
The Kinston, N. C.. jail had a red
letter day recently when it booked its
first prisoner wearing plus-fours. The
jailer said the prisoner was charged
with “Bottling else grave.”
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FLORID) REALTORSi
Says Red Cross Cannot |
Raise Money When His)
Statements Are Refuted!
by Others.
PEOPLE BELIEVE j
BEST REPORTS
They Will Not Give to Re
lief Fund Because They
Think Their Money Is
Not Needed.
Washington. Oct. 2.— UP) —A rift
in the campaign to assemble a $5,000,-
900 relief fund for the hurricane v’c
tims was apparent today with the
direct charge of John Barton Payne,
chairman of the American Red Cross
. that officials and real estate men of
the state had practically nullified
the effort by continued attempts to
deprecate reports of suffering and
damage.
The charge was characterized ns
“amazing" by Governor John W. Mar
tin at Sebring, while Mayor E. C.
Romfh, of Miami, and Frank B.
Shutts, chairman of the executive
committee of the citizens relief com
mittee. dleclaret that the ’need ’s acute
and genuine" and Senator Park Tram
mell of Lakeland, said that a special
session of the legislature would Be
necessary to relieve suffering and re
habilitate the state.
Chairman Payne said that despite
the efforts to minimize the damage
which he attributed to Governor Mar
tffi, Mayor Romfh and others, he felt
duty bound to continue the campaign
for funds. Os the $5,000,000 estimat
ed to be necessary, a trifle more than
$3,000,000 has been collected.
Red Cross officials in Florida, he
said, had reported the greatest relief
crisis in the United Startes since the
San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Psting 5.000 homes as destroyed and
18,000 families poverty-stricken de
spite the efforts to minimize the loss
es.
Persistent reports tiiat the- needs
set forth by the Red Cross do not ex
ist, Jas. 1,. Feiser, vice chairman of
the Red Cross reported to headquar
ters to have hampered relief work
greatly, while Chirirmaii Barton de
clared that the "poor people who suf
fered are regarded as of less conse
quence than the hotel and tourist bus
iness in Florida.”
“Statements made in Washington
by the Red Cross," he added, were
contradicted by messages from Flori
da officials, adding that “it is useless
for me to give out statements, be
cause I am not on the ground, and
the public believes that I am trying to
raise money for Florida and that my
statements are colored to induce them
to give.”
“Real estate people here and else
where." lie continued, “have given out
related statements to the effect that
the damage is slight, but Florida had
been practically unaffected."
As an example of the lethargy ov
erhanging the Florida relief campaign
flic Red Cross noted that only $3,-
000,000 lias been raised to date, as
compared to the $11,000,000 contrib
uted to tile Japanese earthquake v:o
--tims. the first $2,000,000 of which
had been subscribed in the inaugura
tion days of the collection.
Mr. Payne’s statement was con
tained in telegrams to C. ('. Pinckney,
chairman of the Richmond, Va„ Red
Cross chapter, and in correspondence
with Mayor Romfh. Pinckney wired
that Richmond officials were eonsid
erinug withdrawing a ehee kfor $lO,-
000 sent to Aiiami on strength of a
letter signed by Mayor Romfh giving
as his conviction that a “very exag
gerated idea of conditions had been
created.”
Mayor Bright, of Richmond, or
dered the check held up until he
learned “who is right, the booster or
the relief worker.”
“Badly in Need of Help” Says Mayor
of Fort Lauderdale.
Ft. Lhuderdale, Fla., Oct. 2.—OP)—
Fort laiuderdale has not minimized
the damage caused by the hurricane,
Mayor J. W. Tibball said today, com
menting mam the statement by John
Bartou Payne, American Red Cross
chairman, that Florida officials had
underestimated the losses in the hur
ricane, and thereby handicapped the
assistance of the Red Cross.
"We are badly ill need of help, and
not ashamed to make a plea for it."
“Tlrs city lias been linixl hit, and
we have tried to tell the country how
badly, without trying to Cover the
loss. Nor do I think we have exag
gerated, though we arc not eomplete
; ly wiped out , as the first reports
said. But in order to care for the
thousands in need, we can use all the
help we can possibly get in order to
recover. We are badly in need of
money to work with.”
Frank Tinney Seriously 111.
Detroit, Oet. 2.— (A*) —Frank Lin
ney. the comedian now starring here
in Earl Caroll’s Vanities, is seriously
ill at his hotel. He is to be transfer
red to a hospital this afternoon. Tin
ney’s pulse was reported at 120 and
his condition as “extremely critical.”
’ Mr. Binks (every mutti henpecked
I to servant —Mary, I overheard your
mistress say that she was going to
Sopton to visit her mother over
Sunday. Do you happen to know
whether I’m going with her?
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R MEETING WAS I
i BROKEN UPBYIOR
UNIDENTIFIED MED
Members of Klan Fired *f
i Upon by Men Who Con
cealed Themselves Be
' hind Trees They Felled. |
j POLICE CALLED
TO KEEP ORDER 1
Between 75 and 100 Shots
Were Fired Rrom Rifles
and Pistols During the
Battle.
Groton. Mass., Oct. 2.— UP) —A re
volver and rifile battle between Klan
and unti-klan forces numbering more :
than 500 persons in which more than
100 shots were fired shortly after
last midnight, was under investigation
today.
No casualties were reported. "■•’■tlS
The disturbance was the latest of
11 long series in various parts of the m
state in the past two years.
A field littered with the remains of
splintered windshields was all that re- X
maim'd when the town and state po- n
lice arrived in response to calls of i
alarmed res’dents of the vicinity. . IjyS
An attacking party of 100 persons
in automobiles surprised 400 Klans- J
men meeting in n field off a side road (
and after felling trees to barricade |
either eud of ttie highway by the 3
field, they opened fire, according to |
police.
K’ansmen scurried their machines, 1
meanwhile returning the fire, and sped S
through the fields seeking to gain the j
road without passing the trees behind s
which the attacking party ’had taken -j
ii stand.
Groton, Mass., Oct. 2.— UP) —A
pitched battle in which between 75
and 100 shots from rifles and pistols . y
were believed to '.lave been fired, broke
up a meeting of several hundred
members of the Ku K.ux Klan here
early today.
The Klansmen who were assembled J
ill a field, were driven to cover of
their automobiles when a party es
timated at nearly 100 drove up and
oiiened fire from behind trees which
they felled across a highway.
The felled trees compelled Klans
men to drive through fields to gain
’.Vie roadway. Local
the state police, but no casualties
were noted. The ground was lit- J
tered with glass from broken wind
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ANOTHER WARRANT ISSUED I
IN THE HALL-MILLS CASE J
Felix di Martini Arrested as Acre* .!
sory to the Murder of Rev. EL W.
Hall.
Some'rville, N. J„ Oct. 2.— UP) —A
warrant was issued today for the a#- V?
rest of Felix di Martini as accessory ; si
after the murder of the Rev. Edward «s|
Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, ’vl
I>i Martini was the chief of the pri- |S
vat* detectives employed by the Hall
family four years ago.
Robert H. McCarter, chief of dg&aj
sense counsel in the present investiga- ml
tion, had previously refused to produce M
de Martini. Special Prosecutor Simp
soil announced ttiut di Martini was
out of the gtnte, and did not say
whether the prosecution .knew lilts
’ whereabouts.
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