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DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVI
Fear Men Trapped Far
Below Earth Perished
Soon After Accident
Several Bodies Have Been
Found and No Hope Is
Entertained for the Oth
er 24 Miners.
ONE MAN ALMOST
ffe GOT TO SAFETY
The DedllfcMiy Found 100
Yards From Safety Zone.
—“After Damp” Proves
Fatal to Many.
Itoekwood, Tenn., Oct. 5. — UP) —
The almost superhuman struggle of
one miner to escape mid hie failure
when fresh air and safety were but a
hundred feet away. wag revealed to
day an rescue crews penetrated deep
into the Roane Iron Company's coal
mine near here. An explosion yester
day in the mine is believed to 4g«ve
taken a toll of at least 28 lives.
Apparently crawl’ng more than I,*
000 feet in an effort to reach an air
bole, Clarence Stevens fell victim to
the deadly “after damp" a few min
utes before he would have reached a
safety zone, members of the rescue
crew which found his body declared.
The rescue crew which emerged ear
ly today after several hours of ex
ploration of the Rodgers entry where
the men were trapped, found two oth
er bodies in addition to Stevens'.
None was removed. Identification of
the two bodies was impossible.
The first four bodies to be found
have been removed to n morgue and
’dentified. Mine officials believed nt
least 24 bodies remain, including the
three found early today.
Indications of fire in the explosion
zone impeded rescue work today. Res
cue crows were forced to withdraw
while “deadlocking" of the dip where
the men were trapped was undertak
en, to assure the safety of the res
cuers.
(’apt. J. T. Thomston, local post
master. who has taken charge of res
cue operations, said "deadlocking” of
the entry tended to suupress fire and ,
make the area sufe for rescueis. |
Relatives o> the imprisoned men
began to gather early at the mouth of
the mine, but with expressions of
hopelegepess on tlieir faces.
All hope that anv_or pewn have
survived the gaseous fumes and 1 cate*
ins has been abandoned. Veteran
miners returning from within a few
hundred feet of the scene of the dis
aster, say no life possibly could ex
ist where the men were caught.
The little town of Itoekwood, hud
dled at the foot of the mountain,
shows few signs of being the scene of
a great mine disaster. Hardy and
grim faced miners, to whom the dan
gers lurking under the surface have
come to mean little, moved about with
headlights as though about their daily
tasks, nnd at the mouth of the mine
they sit around in groups waiting for
their turn to search for bodies of
their fellowtownsmen.
Yesterday’* explosion seemed almost
a re-enactment of the disaster in the
same entry in July. 11)25, which snuf
fed out the lives of 12 men. Some of
the bodies of these were not recovered
for three months. Fire which raged
in the entry then blocked rescue ef
forts.
Fear that such a fire would delay
recovery of the victims of the present
catastrophe has risen with signs of
smouldering flames in the entry where
the explosion occurred.
• A rescue crew from Birmingham,
and a trained crew of the 11. S. Bu
reau of Mines are on the scene. Gov.
Peay has communicated with mine of
ficials and inquired whether state as
sistance was needed, but directors of
operations say they can have more
volunteers now than can be used.
Workers in other mines in this vi
cinity have forgotten their own du
ties to aid in rescue efforts.
Although mine officials have been
unable to determine \definitely the
number trapped by the explosion they
have compiled a list of 24 names of
men still unaccounted for. With the
four bodies already removed, this would
make the death toll 28, providing all
in the mine are dead. Os this A. J.
Holden, deputy state mine inspector,
says there is no doubt.
Will and Arthur Teague, who brat
t'sed themselves when they heard the
sound of the blast, were unhurt. G.
E. Boles was seriously injured by the
explosion and gas and Ebbie Davis
was found a mile from tbe scene in an
unconscious but not serious condition.
“I was knocked unconscious by the
explosion and don’t remember any
thing after that," Boles said. Smith
could remember nothing after the
blast.
Two More Bodies Recovered.
Itoekwood, Tenn., Oct. 5.; — W) —
Two more bodies, making a total of
six, were removed at 11:10 o’clock to
day from the Roane Iron Mining Com
pany mine where 28 are believed to
have perished in an explosion in Rodg
ers entry yesterday. v
Negro Took to Sidewalk in His Car.
Salisbury, Oct. o.—C^*>—The old
town perked np its ears when g mo
tor vehicle of the flivver variety,
driven by’a negro from the Mooks
▼Me to Urn sidewalk, and
either, and finally came to rest.in
the street. The dated negro ad
mitted he got excited, but claimed that
The Concord Daily Tribune
> North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
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TEXAS NEEDS 121000
MEN FOR FARM WORK
Buxines Mm Are Also Needed In
• Almost Every Part of State.
! (By International News Service.)
Waco, Texas. Oct. s.—Over 12ft,-
000 farmers are needed in Texas,
and bi sines*' men are needed in 7ft
percent of tbe state, aeeording to a
survey of the needs of 100 county
townsites. just completed by the
Advertise Term* Committee, Inc.
Not only are farmers needed in
all of. the counties queried, but in
all of'tbem comments are made that
a large number\ ; of farm hands ure
an immediate- necessity.
A wide range is covered in esti
mates Os the number of farmers nnd
business men needed in the various
parts of the state, figures starting as
low as 100 and mount to 25,000 in
regions which are ns yet sparsely
impulated. in Southwest Texas.
Cotton Crop First.
In some of the reports mention is
mad? of the fact that many farmers
are attempting to raise nothing but
cotton, thereby leaving themse’ves
entirely at tbe mercy of the prevail
ing market nt the time they must
market their crops.
“Some farmers leave themselves 'n
n predicament by hiring negroes to
run tbeir farms, when It is general
ly known that negroes are primarily
cotton growers, and know nothing
else." one of the reports states.
New manufacturing concerns are
asked by many of the localities re
porting. the criticism being made.
Need Maau.'acturrng.
“We are forced to buy back in
finished form many of the raw ma
terials that we produce, nnd we lack
only the support of more manufac
turing enterpefcies to increase the
wealth of the state many times over.
We need capital, nnd men who know
how to handle it.”
Figures compiled by the committee
showed that the chief lack in the
line of manufacturing is for the
creation of new cotton mills. A very
small portion of ‘hat crop raised in
the state can now be made into mn
teria's, it is pointed out.
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THE COTTON MARKET
.Opened Firm at Advance of 20 to 22
• Points.—Frost Predicted For Texas
Tonight.
.New York, Oet-’dR OP) —The . cot
tog market opened firm today at an
advance of 20 to 22 points on cover
ing by recent sellers combined with
trade buying anil buying for a reac
tion based on relatively steady Liver
pool cables and prospects for lower
temperatures in the Southwest.
Frosts were eonaidered possible to
night in the Texas Panhandle and
parts of Oklahoma, but not necessar
ily’killing temperatures, and after in
it'al buying orders had been supplied
prices weakened again under reports
that thv South continued a free seller.
December broke from 13.21) to 13.07,
b/ the end of the first hour, or with
in 2 points of yesterday's closing quo
tations.
Cotton futures opened firm: Oct.
13.4 ft; Dec. 34.2 ft: Jan. 13.36; March
13.60; May 13 78.
With Onr Advertisers.
R. H. Owen Is the Concord agent
for the Delco light. Phone 661).
W. J. HethCox will hide your elec
tric light yires with moulding so as
not to mgr the appearance of any
room.
Cole’s bot blast heaters are real
fuel savers. See H. B. Wilkinson’s
ad.
See the attractive new ad. today of
the E. L. Morrison Lumber Co.
Smart velotyr hats in Robinson’s
millinery department.
A full line of Griffon clothes for
fall at W. A. Overcash’s. Prices
$10.75 to SSO.
O. H. Barrier and Co. want 3000
pounds of heavy hens at once and will
pay 20 cents a pound for them. Eggs
wanted at 42 cents a doxen.
Last time today at the Concord
Theatre. “Dougins Fairbanks in “The
Black Pirate.” Tomorrow “The Cave
Man.”
Acquitted of Slaying Enforcement Of
ficer.
Harmony, N. C., Oct. s.—CP) —The
lately common occurrence of police
officers killing innocent citizens has
been reversed and the court action
that followed resulted is a great shock
to this community.
The shock came with ttie acquittal
Os Michael (Jockey) Kerin, at Spring
field, 111., last week. Kerin was un
der indictment for the murder of
young Thomas B. Lankford, a prohi
bition enforcement officer working in
Illinois. Lankford was the son of
R. H. Lankford, professor in the
schools here, and was well known In
this vicinity.
The Illinois man admitted the kill
but claimed that he thought
Langfqrd and his companion, Ray
King, w ere hold-up men. King testi
fied that he and Lankford announced
-themselves as prohibition agents when
they raided a liquor party in which
Kerin was participating, and that
their announcement was greeted with
the shot that caused Lankford's death.
Professor Lankford waa present at
the trial of hix son’s slayer.
Amcrfamt Held by Bandits.
Hankow, China, Oct. 4.—OW
Bandits yesterday attacked a large
party of missionaries while proceed
ing to their station at Shenchowfu,
Honan proviafce, and robbed and car
Meusel Scores First Yankee Run in the Second Game
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Bob Meusel is shown scoring the first Yankee run of the seconeßgame of the world series in New York. H e crossed the home plate in the sec
ond inning on Lazzeri’s single qp Alexander, Cardinal pitcher.
CONFERENCE ON COTTON
Gov. McLean Hasn’t Much Faith in
It—The Fai mer Has the Remedy
in His Own Hands.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Oft. s.—Five delegates
from North Carolina will be appoint
ed by Governor A. W. McLean in
.he near future to attend the confer
ence on cotton to be called by Gov
ernor Henry Z. Whitfield, of Missis
sippi, no date for which has as yet
been set, lie has announced.
The most discouraging aspect of
the present situation, according to the
governor, was the fact that all efforts
made for the last twenty yeaTs or
more to educate the farmer through
departments of agriculture and farm
extension work and short courses in
agriculture and qlher expensive uii
dertakings any
way as far as cotton is concerned. '
’The State of North Carolina
spends approximately a million dollars
a year in order to help the farmers
through its various institutions, such
as the farm extension work, tile de
partment of agriculture and all its
branches but apparently; tlitf work
done lias had little effect. ’ Toe fawn
ers have been told for years that they
were producing too much cotton nnd
that they must reduce their acreage.
But each one apparently waited for
the other'one to cut his acreage, with
the result that the majority increased
instead of decreased their plantings.
And another cotton surplus results,"
the governor said.
No discussion of means for control
should be entered into by the governor
who said that too many confusing and
conflicting plans had already been pro
posed, that very few if any of these
plans could be put into effect, as the
crop has been raised and the surplus
exists now, after .it is too late to do
anything, as far as the present crop
is concerned.
Any discussion of the causes of the
present price of cotton and any pos
sible remedies suggested must be of it
purely academic nature, the governor
maintains, and hence of little or no
value except to keep the question
stirred up and the waters muddied.
"Why talk about it? It won’t- help
the sithation any,” was his parting
laconic comment.
Sweeping. Freight Rate Changes Sug
gested. *
Washington, Oct. 4.—(A 5 )—A
sweeping modification of .freight rates
originally prescribed by the Interstate
Commerce Commission for ocean-borne
traffic to and from the Southwest
through the Gulf, of Mexico ports was
recommended today by Examiner I. L.
Koch, in a tentative report to the
Commissioners.
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 ©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. 58.
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
CONCORD, N. C.. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1926
INTERNAL REVENUE TAjES
The Total Revenue In North Caro
lina This Year Expected to Reach
$200,000,060.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Oct. s.—:.:ore Uian $53.-
000,000 iii internal revenue taxes paid
into the treasury of the United States
from North Carolina in July. August
and September by the manufacturers
of the state. The prospect that the
total internal revenue collected in
North Carolina will amount to $200,-
000.000 in this fiscal year! And the
biggest part of it is derived from
the tobacco industry.
Collections up to September 30th
uinounted to $53,140,764. according to
Gilliam Grissom.‘internal revenue col
lector, which represents an increase
of $4,007,063 over the collections jor
4h*»-sirtne- period last year. ?*>■.
“And all of this increase is from
the increase in the tobacco industry,
chiefly cigarettes,” said Mr. Grissom.
"And still better, the greater part of
the tobacco in these same cigarettes
was raised in North Carolina.”
But the toiol of are not
jjaidftyfithe ‘ft-ople of‘vthev, state —in
filet/ proSably ijess fit hanVonet per cent,
of it is paid by people in i?pe state,
as these 'ciguretfew are shipped all
over the United States, and “the tax
in reality is paid by the smokers who
eventually purchase the tobacco. The
tnx is paid at first by the manufac
turer, merely to make it easier to col
lect. And since most of the cigar
ettes are made ill Winston-Salem and
Durham, the taxes are collected in
Nortli Carolina, but actually paid all
over the eountry. None of this amount,
however, is paid in foreign countries,
as no internal revenue stamps are re
quired on tobacco for export shipment,
or for use ill government hospitals or
charitable organizations, such as the
Red Cross, when the cigarettes or to
bacco are given away and not sold.
The State Detours.
Greensboro, Oct. 5. — UP) —Right de
tours on the five main highways in
North Carolina are shown by the bi
weekly road condition report of the
Carolina Motor Club which is now
being distributed.
Four detours are shown on the
"Mountains-to-the-Sea” highway, route
No. 10. They skirt the road-widen
ing activities between Greensboro and
High Point, and the hard-mirfaeing
operations between Smithfield and
Goldsboro, Salisbury and Statesville
and Valdese and Morganton.
The other detours on main high
ways were listed as from Shelby to
Forest City on route 20, Raleigh to
Wendell on route 00. Salisbury to
Albemarle on route 80, and Raleigh
j to Fayetteville op route 21.
USE NEGLECTED asset
SAYS SOUTHERN FIELD
Put Graduates of Agricultural Col
leges on the Farms.
Washington, I). C., Oct. s.—An is
sue of The Southern Field, just pub
lished by the Development Service of
Southern Railway System, is devoted
to the agricultural and horticultural
upbuilding of the South.
Its most important ieaturCH are an
editorial and an address by Mr.
Roland Turner, General Agricultural j
Agent, Southern Railway System, i
dirocting attention to the oppor
tunity to put graduates of southern
agricultural schoo's and colleges on
farms. At present a very small pro
portion of these trained young men
become dirt farmers for the simple
reason that the great migority of
them lack sufficient money* to enable
them to take over a farm and run It
in the way that they have been
taught farming ought to be done. It
is suggested in the Field that or
ganizations or individuals can do
real constructive work in their com
munities by preparing groups of nt
ti*ctS%e farms and offerng them to
young men I
ph tertns that will ptnnbie them ’to
pay opt and o\n| unencumbered
farms. ' ’
This issue also includes articles on
Southern Horticultural Development;
on Southern Apples, with special
reference to marketing advantages
and freight rates as compared with
Western apples; on Opportunities
for Growing Grapes' in the South ;
on Profits From Sheep, with special
reference to spring lambs; on Dairy
Cows and Poultry; on Hauliug tee
lU2ti Peach Crop to Market; on As
paragus as a Profitable Crop; and on
a remarkable transporttion record
made by the Southern Railway in
handling mules for the Spanish Gov
ernment. .
EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY
ASKED FOR A. W. GEORGE
Trial Judge Lyon Hag Written Letter
in His Behalf.
Raleigh, Oct. 4.—Governor McLean
will be asked soon to act on a peti
tion now pending for a parole for
Professor A. W. George, who is serv
ing a five-year prison sentence for ir- 1
regularities in connection with the
failure of file Farmers and Merchants
Bank at Elkin, it was indicateil this
afternoon when it was learned that
attorneys interested in George's ense
had secured from Judge C. C. Lyon,
who passed sentence, a letter recom
mending clemency.
The petition for the parole was
fi'ed with Pardon Commissioner
Hoyle Sink several months ago, but
the formal appeal is said not to have'
reached the stage to call for a de-|
eision from the governor. Now that
a recommendation has been obtained
from Judge Lyon, it is understood the
appeal for clemency will be pressed,
j George, who taught school for
( many years before taking his ill-fated
I venture in the banking business, has
served approximately half of his sen
tence. He was manager of the prison
' baseball team which this summer
played iu the Raleigh city league.
Since his confinement scores of let
ters urging clemency for liim have
been filed with the pardon commission
er by men whom he taught years ago.
Numbers of them are now prominent
in this and other states.
Texas Haa Famine of Cotton Pickers.
(By International News Service)
Fort Worth, Texas, Oet. s.— Texas
cotton faces a crisis unless 40,000 cot
i ton pickers can be released from other
branches of business to gather the
! crop before the rainy season sets in,
1 according to United States department
of agriculture officials.
An appeal has been issued to eon-
I tractors and others employing large
j numbers of men to postpone their op
erations,-in order to create a supply
of men to save the cotton crop,
j Francis I. Jones, of the United
j States employment service at Wash
j ington, has announced the establish
ment of five new bureabs at strategic
. points throughout “the state.
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SALISBURY BUSIEST
CITY IN THE STATE
In the A (Mount of Employment—Wil
mington Second.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Oct. s.—Salisbury was the
busiest city ill the state last week,
if the amount of employment it pro-
Ivided means anything as 226 jobs
were provided there in six days, ac
cording to the weekly report of the
United States employment service and
! the Stnte department of labor, just
made public today. Wilmington was
second in providing jobs, having sup
plied employment for 206. Greens
boro was third, having found jobs
for 120.
During the week just past there
| were 1,070 registrations by persons
seeking employment in the seven of
fices of flue United States employment
service in the state. Os this num
ber 808 were men and 262 women.
Unskilled labor predominated. Out
of the total number of applications,
830 were provided with employment,
of which 607 were men and 173 wom
en. There was a total of 1,728 re
quests for help received. ■
At present the greatest demand is
for unskilled labor, chiefly for cotton
picking. A man from the eastern
part of tlie state was in the office of
Frank Grist, commissioner of labor,
Ibis past week seeking, cotton pickers,
offering to pay $3 a day and their
transportation from Raleigh and back
ngain when the picking was over. But
he was not able to get a single picker.
There were a number of unemployed
negroes in Raleigh, but they refused
to leave the city.
“I jes likes dese streets,” said one.
“No sir, I doan like de country. If
dere is anything I likes better than |
streets it is mo’'streets.”
The situation among the cotton
farmes is realty serious, says Mr.
Grist, many of them being unable to
get pickers at any price, and with
the price of cotton falling daily. How
ever. the department of labor is do
ing all it can to help the farmers out
by marshalling out whatever labor is(
available.
GOV. MeLEAN CAN BE
HEARD OVER RADIO
On North Carolina Day at the Sesqul-
Centennial.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Oct. s.—Not only will the
people of Philadelphia and vicinity be
able to hear Governor A. W. Melanin
“tell the world” about North Caro
lina at the Sesqui-Uentenuial ou North
Carolina Day, October 11th, but the
i people of North Carolina can hear ’aim
I too, if they will “tune in” on station
j WIP, the powerful broadcasting sta
] tion of Gimbel Brothers in l’hiladel-
I phia, at 6:05 p. in. when he is to make
an address over the radio from tlie
I Benjamin Franklin hotel. Following
his address, which will be given be
fore the microphone in the main din
ing room, the “Old North State For
ever” will be broadcast by the con
cert orchestra of the Benjamin Frank
lin hotel, under the direction of W.
Irving Oppenheim, conductor, who
has orchestrated it especially for his
orchestra for the occasion. This or
chestra is already well known to all
radio fans who have ever tuned in on
WIP. The wave length is 508 me
ters.
But this is to be but one event in
a day crowded to the brim with spe
cial exercises and events in honor of
the governor of North Carolinu on
this the official North Carolina day
at the exposition. The officials of
the exposition, from Mayor Kendrick,
of Philadelphia, on down, have some
how sensed the greatness of this great
state, and have planned things in a
big way to adequately take care of
the occasion. And it is predicted
by those who know of the arrange
ments that North Carolina Day is to
be the biggest special day the exposi
tion has yet had.
ilrs C. W. Webb is the new city
attorney ol Taylor, Texas.
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FAIR WEATHER
FOR THE THIRD
GAME OF SERIES
St. I-oilis, Oct. s.—C4*>—Cooler
| weather and a partly cloudy sky
greeted the hordes of baseball' 1
| here early today. A -■ l '
was blowing, Aup lOfC***
was rapidly cleaE* -uytg -c
forecast was .igTftly I
I cooler" for j*--
I r •’ 1 ' " 7-*-
MRS. MEBANE READY
, FOR VISIT OF QUEEN MARIE
j Although the Queen Has Not Yet Ac-1
cepted Her Invitation.
) (By International News Service)
j Danvi.le, Va., Oct. s.—Mrs. B.
| Frank 'Mebane, of Spray, X, (.!., is
! already preparing her beautiful home
} for a reception for Queen Marie, of
Rumania, and her party, in anticipa
tion of a visit during the queen’s tour
of the United States.
Although definite word has not been
received by Mrs. Mebane that the
queen iqid accepted her invitation to
visit her home, the North Carolina
woman feeis confident that her friend,
Queen Marie, will visit her.
The friendship of Mrs. Mebane and
Queen Marie began when Mrs. Mebane
accompanied Mrs. Lindsay Patterson
to Serbia in a mission for Madame
Groiteh, wife of the Serbian minister
to the United States.
After the mission was completed
in Serbia, the two American women
decided to viwit Rumania, hoping rath
er than expecting to see the queen,
whose beauty and charm they had
Jieard so praised,
111 Bm'.Lqrest the Rumanian lega
tion arranged an audience with her
highness and she invited the two
American ladies to Sainaia, in the
Carpathian mountains.
Plans for the entertainment of
Queen Marie include a public recep
tion by Governor McLean, who has
already sent a formal invitation to the
queen and her party asking them to
visit North Carolina.
Du* -to the limited time t'he party
will be iu North Carolina, the recep
tion may be held in Charlotte, Ashe
ville or Spray.
In the Mebane mansion 'at Spray
are autographed copies of photographs
of all the members of the Rumanian
royal family and* also group pictures
containing other members of the fam
ily.
The queen will be accompanied by
a retinue of ftwenty-one people on (ier
trip to Puis country.
MOONSHINERS BRINGING u
DESTRUCTION ON-THEMBEX.VES
Different Gangs Giving the Officers
Tips About Each Other.
(By International News Service)
Memphis, Tertti., Oct. s.—Destruc
tion of stills by deputies acting on
rival moonshiners’ tips, seizure of car
goes on rum ruhners fast motorboats
by tbe new United States coast guard
cutter just put into service ’here and
dynamiting of stills in a bitter moon
shiners feud in progress in this sec
tion threaten to make Memphis'
Christinas liquor high if not even
source.
•‘These moonshiners are bringing
destruction upon themselves, different
gangs tipping us off by anonymous
telephone calls as to locations of other
stills, but we sbould worry,” said
Sheriff W. S. Knight. ""
"We are seizing stills and arrest
ing liquor markers in scores every
day,” continued the siieriff.
Memphis’ liquor market has been
flooded for months, the price has gone
down to 50 cents a half pint. Whole
sale prices are said to be $2 a gallon,
slelivered at the river bank.
Still-infested islands in the Mis
sissippi river and on the Arkansas
and Mississippi banks of the river
have been furnishing the majority of
the liquor Gere.
The United States boat, detailed
here recently, is scuoring the river
with powerful • spotlights every night
arresting liquor-laden motor boats’
pilots and seizing their cargoes.
The feud between gangs of moon
shiners has caused them much loss,
but they are still striving to raise tbe
price by eliminating their competi
tors.
I No More Hair Tonic for Jail Pris
oners.
Kinston, Oct. 5. — (A 3 ) —Prisoners in
the Lenoir county jail will have to
exhibit an honest-tp-goodness bald spot
afid tlien prove to Jailer Guy Sutton
that they use hair tonic in an effort
to revive their crowning glory and
not for ordinary drinking purposes be
fore any more ’liair tonic, toilet water
or kindred products arc admitted to
the jail.
Jailer Sutton has laid down the
law. From now its plain soap and
water for the prisoners’ toilet except
in extraordinary circumstances.
The jailer got hard about the mat
ter when one of his prisoners staged
a two-day spree*! in his cell last week.
The jailer couldn’t figure out what
was the trouble until he noticed a
large bottle of hair tonic steadily be
ing emptied.
Then he issued his edict that will
stop the heavy receipts of toilet prep
arations by prisoners.
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TODAY’S NEwl TODAII
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NO. 23fj
moodS.
-‘DOVER NEW
Crest of Waters Moving J
! Toward Gulf, Bringing i
New Threats of Danger
to People Along Route;*
LOWANDS ALONG
RIVERS COVERED?
Central Oklahoma, Eastern j
Missouri and Central and
Western Illinois * Al| l
Now Threatened.
Chicago, Oct, 5. — (A 3 ) —The retreat
of havoc-working waters from the mi4i
western areas worst hit by the cloud :
burst that arrived with October, ■/'.
()ay carried the flood menace down the
courses of the larger tributaries, jfji* :
ing on toward the Mississippi, *
Along the Kansas-Oklahoma state |j
line the floods were receding,
the lowlands in central Oklahoma,
eastern Missouri ami central
ern Illinois were threatened wijL si
further losses in life and Property (3
the crest moved toward the giuX
More homes were hastily abandoned
as the water threat increawpl gs '
Beardstown in west central Illinois,
where Illinois river levees gave, wHaj
yesterday, and let the stream into tfe '
town. Virtually all of the wall p
front of Beardstown had disappe^ral.
The Sangamon river raged albtyg
nearby under the impetus of the et
cess drainage and the situation at.
Springfield was called beyond •-apjf
thing in the history of the statg cap
ital. Further south the danger wag
from, the Kaskaskia.
Mississippi river lowlands to fljSgfi
north of St. Louis went under WmK|l
spreading backwards from tie coif- J
fluence of the Missouri with the
pr stream, trains moving in ami out
of St. Louis were hourt late and wewMil
re-ronted been Use of wushorts ip seV- <
eral instances.
Tue rivers and creexs climbed
flood stage in ceutrai Oklahoma -JBm
tlie crest was passed to tbe north. A
hundred deputies were sworn in at
Bartlesville to protect the homes of ;
those who fled before the flood. I>airy,||
men and other tradesmen used boa|S3
to feed isolated hundreds. Thejg wall’J|
-a damage-to crops and in-opertyoeetjjHji
mated at millions of dollars,' The»
was growing fear for the health b*» J]
cause of threatened water supplies and
exposure to which the homeless wßS>|i
subjected.
QUEEN MARIE REACHES H
PARIS ON WAY TO U. 8.
Making Striking Picture as She
tended Hand To Be Kissed By Dip
lomats. :
Paris, Oct. s.— (A 3 ) —Queen Marie, -
of Roumania. arrived in Pgjjs' tddajt'
on the Simplon-Orient express'“ ac
companied by her daughter . Prince** 1
Ileana and her son, Prince* Nicholas.'
and a considerable suite. The royal :
imrty immediately went to a hotel
where apartments had been* reserved*
The Queen seemingly wds "happy
that she was on her way tp ‘visit the
United States. As she stepped from |
her private car. she was surrounded
by a crowd of diplomats, ref)rHtent4n| ‘
the government of France gflif men*- ?
bers of her own country’s legation in
Paris.
The sunshine gleamed upon the gold
en bobbed hair of Europe's most beau
tiful queen ns she graciously aeeepsßrf
courtesies and bouquets from tlgSe
who lmd come to welcome her. She
appeared a pretty picture as she stood
extending her hand to be kissed ,W; S
the bowing diplomats.
LINER REACHES PORT -vO
WITH FIRE IN HOLD
However. Passengers Were Saved uji
No One Was Injured. H|(
New York. Oct. s—<A»)—the line*
Bryon of the National Greek line,
with 307 passengers aboard, reached i
por ttoday with a menacing fire in
her after Gold, which spread after fjraj
was believed under control.
Two city fire boats were ordered
her side at the quarantine station, and J
pumped tons of water into the burn
ing cargo.
Officials of the line assured linrf-*«
dreds of anxious cullers that tlieris
was no danger to the passengers. and §j
that no one had beeu injured.
Acute Need for Cotton Piekera. J
(By International News Service)
A.liana, Ala., Oct. 5.' —The acute s
need for cotton pickers in tlijs section c
is demonstrated by the closing of sev«
cral rural hclioo’s in this district
the children could pick cotton in thdig|M
parents’ fields.
Farmers are hurrying to get theft
cotton out of the fields before tho>*
grade is lowered by wet weather, -mw
was the case last year.
Richard Franklin Pettigrew Deod*|
Sioux Falls, S. D.. Oct. 5.—049*11
Richard Franklin Pettigrew, 78. fd|§|
mer U. S. Senator, and an outstagjMr*
ing figure in the history of the nortftsyj
West, died at his home todajb Jh9
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy with showers in dmfl
trtil and west tonight, cooler in iij(M
tonight; Wednesday partly clokffijjß
cooler in interior. Moderate omMQ
west winds.
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