- DISPATCHES /< VOLUME XXVI ~~ ■ Rescue Workers Think Three Trapped Men In Rockwood Mine Living These Men Are Known to Have Had Access to the Lumber at Point Where They Were at Woric. TWO BODIES ARE ADDED TO OTHERS In All Eight Bodies Have Been Brought From the Mine.—Rescue Workers i Meet Many Obstacles. Roekwood, TVnn., Oct. 6.— UP) — bringing reports of two additional known dead in the explosion that is believed to have snuffed out the lives of twenty-eight men, in the Roane Iron Company's coal mine here, Mon day, pile rescue crew which entered the initie at 0 o'clock last night emerged shortly after 2 o'clock this morning. > The newly reported deaths bring] the total known fatalities to eight, six bodies having been previously brought to the surface. On account of the mangled condition the bodies were identified solely through articles' of clot’.iing and a jack knife, as those of Charlie Davis and Jess Dale. Some hope is held by Will Knox, a miner, that Frank Bowles, P. C. Craven and an unidentified laborer have survived the deadly after damp resulting from the explosion by board ing themselves .in with lumber whteh ' had been lef tby Knox. The three men were woring in the Rodgers en try. Twenty men remained unaccounted for this morning’. TV location ot these seems to preclude any hope for the survival of others than Craven* Bowles* and their unidentified congS panion. Stevens, one of the dead, father of ten children and a veteran at 44 years service, fled 10,000 feet following the blast, only to be overcome by after damp when within 100 feet of a brat tised enclosure tbnt would have spelled safety. Officials maintain their non-com mitai attitude wtXi regard to per sistent .runiorH of fire in the Rodgf'ra; "tot*- V,The rescue party scheduled t«J eutt* Ufrsenbig' at fl o'clock this Mt^ayaHab^ m ini* yteolared this was done as a precautionary measure. IWhncfed rescue parties have pene trated within 1.000 to 2,000 feet of the end of the slope, according id various estimates. Rescue work is progressing slowly on account of safety measures pre scribed by officials of the United States bureau of mines. Funeral services were to be held at 2 o'clock today for W. C. Eliott under the auspices of liie Knights of Pythias. POWELL AND STEVENS CASE STARTED TODAY Many Prominent Lawyers of the State Taking Part in Trial. Kenansville, N. Oct. Aj-Wkb one of the largest assemblies of legal talent in the history of the state par ticipating in or observing the case, the trial of Henry L. Stevens, Sr. for mer president of the defunct Bank of Warsaw, and former city attorney, and .T. K. Powell, vice president of the bank, jointly indicted under charg es of fraud in connection with the is suance of $45,000 in alleged spurious notes on the town of Warsaw, opened today. Court officials predicted this morn ing that the eptire day would be con sumed by the state in presenting its initial evidence and the trial would probably last the entire week. Judge Devin said it was probable that he would hold another night session to n:ght in order to help clear the docket. REYNOLDS TO TAKE STUMP. Defeated Candidate For Senate En lists hi AMI of Overman. Asheville, Oct. 4.—Robert R. (Bob) Reynolds, defeated opponent of Senator 'Lee S. Overman for the democratic nomination for United States senate, has announced that he has set aside the week of October 25-30 for service to the party and will take up the ludgei in behalf of Senator Overman in a number of speeches to be delivered throughout the state- Home of C. M. Fesperman At Badln Destroyed By Ftrg. Bndin. Oct. B.—The home of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Fee per man on Falls Road was destroyed by fire Saturday morning at 2:30 o’clock, Mr- and Mrs. Fesperman were in Salisbury, leaving in the afternoon to sake their little daughter to an eye specialist. 'Hie home was ready to fall in when discovered by One of the neighbors across the street. All the household goods were burn ed with the exception of a rocker that was on the porch. Hie origin of the fire is unknown, as there had been no fire in the house since din ner. The household goods were par tially covered by insurance. Pay Your Subscription and Oft Your! Fair Ticket. Have you paid your subscription a year in advance to The Tribune and received your Fair ticket? Only a tew more left .and the time is getting short. Call at The Tribune office at once so as to be sure of getting yours. The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily DEMOCRATIC LANDSLIDE DUB TO THE WOMAN VOTE This h the Opinion of no Less and ObSerVrr Than Gov. McLean. Raleigh, Oct. 6. (4» -Ninety five nuinties will go Democratic in the November * election and the land slide will be caused by the woman vote. That Is the opinion of no less an astute political observer than Gov ernor AngUs Wilton Mi-liean. and in it be is bucket? up by the canny John 6. Dawson, State Democratic chair man, who bears the reputation of rarely going amiss in his prognosti cations. But Chairman Dawson goex the Governor one better in his prediction. He agrees that the woman vote will help largely to swell the Democratic totals, but he says that he has also received evidences of many conver sions to the faith since the 1024 ejection. * "The Democrats are running in North Carolina on their record,” he asserted, "and many members of op posing political faith have come to realise that that record is 'so good that they, are coming into the ranks." Cocky? ‘ Not so much as the ba’d statement would have it apiiear. The Demo crats are confident. Os that there is no doubt, but although they are at tempting to disseminate an atmos phere from' the State Headquarters here that they recognize no opposi tion ami have no idea of doing any thing else but sweeping through the state on November second as com pletely as a filial wave over an un protected beach, they are launching a real campaign. tpttle plans have been carefully (Uriti up for attacks on erstwhile strongholds. The mails Jjjf dally carrying printed messages y' Democratic achievement into nerny territory. Speakers, smooth of tongue and effulgent with . “Old Guard” logic hare already Wen as signed to ko into the disputed ter ritory. Although incomplete and un announced, the speaking list is known to include the best orators in the Democratic party and the itiner ary fairly bristles with towns in counties that long have constituted barriers to the seep of Democratic Mtyer. , Properly the campaign was launch *Ti» ’fcT'SS went to Wilkes county, ostensibly to deliver an agricultural speech at a county fair. At the last election WHkes voted two to one Republican. Then oh Saturday O. Max Gardner, generally regarded as the Democra tic gubernatorial candidate in 11)28, invaded Madison, which two years ago turned the Democrats back by more than two to one. This week there are more eigni fieent events. On Tuesday Senator Tom Heflin, of Alabama, a national Democratic big gun, boomed away at the Johnston county fair. Johnson, two years ago, slipped into the Re publican column. The campaign generally will be directed at the far west and the few Piedmont counties that went Repub lican its 11124. Os these there are seventfeen. Only three eastern eoun tiivs" fell away from the Democrats at I the last election. They were Tyrrell and Johnson, where resu’ts were close, and Sampson, where the G. O. P. garnered a three to two decision. In aU, eighty of the one hundred county’s went Democratic , which moke ft necessary'for the Old Guard to regain fifteen of these to bring true the prophecies of their leading politicians. Another part of the task wtl) be to keep the counties that voted with the democrats in 1024, an undertaking that may present diffi culty in view of the fact that the final count was so dose in many in stances that the total vote for Gov ernor In 11)24 gave the Democrats margin of only 108,814 votes over their Republican rivals. With Our Advertiser*. You can do your washing in one hour if you use a Dexter washing ma chine. Se display at the Cabarrus Fair next week by Brown Co., Gran ite Quarry. See illustrated ad. In this paper. One machine will be sold to the highest bidder. Bids will close at 4 p. m. on the last day of the fair. The tire department of the Concord Vulcanisiug CO. is here to serve you. Wrenn at Kannapolis, will clean your clothes in a manner tiiat will please you. Children’s school dresses, 88 cents at Ellrd's. Coats, dresses and sweat ers for all the school children. See the new ad. today of the Forest Hill Cleaning Co. Phone 175 J. “Hie Cave Man” at the Concord Theatre today only. A strap pump of style, value and comfort, only $3.49 at the J. C. Pen ney Co.’s. See ad. for further par tuculars. Avoid a summons in a damage suit by taking some auto insurance through Fetaer A Yorke. A special purchase enables the Parks-Belk Co. to sell a big lot of men’s, young men's and students’ one and two-pants suits for $0.95 to 119.06. Other suits up to $29.05. Ex ceptional values in overcoats too. See ad. today for other big values. The standard Buick Co. has five used can for sale. See liat in ad! to day Grandma—lt says here that young women are abandoning all restric tions. Now, mind, don’t let me catch you goin’ without youn, Ethel 1 WEATHER FINE FOR TODAY’S GAME IN ST. LOUIS St. I.onis. Mo., <>r. O.— UP) —A warm xu# anil a lig'it cool breeze tinlay gave .promise of a dry dia mond for the fourth wor d series game. Tile westhir bureau fore casts "fair today” and "fair Thurs day with rising temperature." rOMMISftIGNEtt WAHAM ~ ON THE COTTON SITUATION Renews Plea for the Cutting of the Costa of Producing Cotton. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh. Oct. C.—A renewed plea for cutting the costs of cotton pro duction and for diversification of cro|»s as the only safe insurance against the evil effects of slumps resulting from over-production '.las been sound 'll by Commissi oner of Agriculture W illiam A. Graham. While he would not oppose the storing of the pros pective cotton surplus, if it could be .-Xlicditious'y and itiexpenwiveiy'done, vet lie is of the opinion, he pointed out, the raising of more food anil .’cedstuffs along with cotton believing [hat this wou.d naturally help . the farmer and would certainly help him tide over any crisis I'liat might arise. Further, Cominissiimer Graham stated that lie did not consider it a wise policy for farmers to be kept continually in the position of being forced to tnke temporary measures, mch as hasty and expensive storing if’Cotton when by diversification and reduction of production costs they could put themselves in a position of permanent security. “The cycles of prices in the cotton market has again been completed and we are looking for a Sully or a Ford L o corner the crop and rescue Am producers from financial rgin. But Sully got hi* lesson and Mr. Ford is likely to "profit by his example.” “I am a cotton farmer and am vi tally interested in any and all means and movements that will get the farm er more money for his cotton. I have joined everything that came my way that gave any promise whatever of stabilizing the cotton market. I have long been impressed with the working theories of t'je cotton co operative exchanges and still feel that if .properly managed and they could get control of any. n third, or even a fourth of the crop, together with a concerted effort ou the part of both members and non-members to help adjust production to consumption, they could, by holding back any sur plus, so regulate the market as to es tablish a fairly uniform price f.iroughi out a period of. years. This turn berg ■ ifti conviction and f have done everj i- mr poweV ft. materialization of these views: but the present slump in prices shows the working of forces out of reach of the power of the co-operative forces that have prevented the co-ops from get ting hold of more thnn a small frac tion of the South's cotton production and thus preventing any appreciable influence on prices. "Again the present slump in prices does not seem to bear any close re lationship to production. It requires expert figuring to show why a 14,- 000,000-bale crop should sell for 24 cents a pound and a 16,000,000-bale crop of equally good grade and staple should sell for 12 or 13 cents a pound —2,000,000-bale increase in produc tion cutting the price fifty per cent. Os cqurse the bears are now getting iO'their work. "Some think that the holding of 3.000,000 or 4,000,000 bales off the market might boost prices and im prove the situation. But “might” and “if are words that loom large in the English language. Should this be done “the manufacturers might”, as pointed out by the editor of one of our leading dailies, "begin to play the waiting game” against our hold ing game, and in the end the price would be no better and we would have to pay our storage rfiarge to boot —representing that much more loss on the crop. ”Os course the man who is in a position to hold this cotton is not going to sell at a price far below the cost of production while the class of producers that are not in a position to hold must put their cotton on the market regardless of price. Here is an economic fact of whit'j we must all take account when discussing the holding of cotton. “It will be clear then that the holding movement as urged by some writers on the subject Can effect only the distressed portion of the cotton crop—which, by the way, is the ma jority of the crop. But, in view of all the faotors involved, is the holding of the surplus cotton crop by bankers and other business organizations for a better price a practicable undertak ing and one that would be ultimately beneficial to the cotton industry ? 1 doubt it and for the following rea sons : “First, we can have no control whatever over future production and the recurrence of a surplus from year to year. “Second, this year it is claimed that a surplus of 2,000,000 bales has pulled the price down to 13' cents and some feel it Is a vital matter to hold three or lour million bales off the market In order to stabilize the price. But what is to be done with this surplus? Shall i? be destroyed or shall it be added to the 1927 crop which may, and likely will, again be 16,000,000 bales. It Is clear then that holding a surplus In the 1026 cotton crop would utterly destroy the crop of 1927 and so on. “Our only hope lies in cheapened production. Hie cotton crop is coat ing the South too much, to produce it. The land is too poor and the labor is too high. Too much reliance is placied on fertiliser and too little effort is made' to increase fertility through natural mean*; hence the CONCORD, N, C„ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1926 First Picture of Vera Cruz Hurricane Disaster -k* FL , w •If t $J ~ sm-* v**’ & zi & jp Cl / ■' t This fifcst picture to arr ve from Vera i ruz, Mexico, since the hurricane caused death and destruction there, shows a section of the waterfront. Note the wreckage in the foreground and the ship battered against the (lock, (International Newsreel) FARMER HAS REMEDY IN HIS OWN HANDS Use Should Be Made of the Cotton Co-Operative Associations (By International News Service) Montgomery, Ala., October 6.—De spite the fact that the present cotton situation is bad and threatens a busi ness crisis, it is not hopeless, de clares Prof. L. r. Duncan, head Os the agricultural extension work of Alabama. A bumper crop in 11)25 followed- by afiofjer big crop in 11)26, which .left a big carryover from the '25 crop in tlie hands of the mills and made little buying of this year's crop cuused the present cotton situation, says Pr*f. Duncan. The result has been a steady I e eline in price until now it is bell w the cost of production, causing farm ers to be discouraged and bankers and business men to be distressed. In giving his suggestions to save the crisis. Prof. Duncan said: J ,“I think that maximum use should be made of the eo-operative marketing associations in each of the cotton growing states. These associations hare -been operating five years qnd ar<- fiimm-iaUy. able to 1 ilphif quate portion of the South's ooftoil crop in the proper way anil to the best advantage. “Along with the maximum use of these cotton pools. I think that the second step should be to creat long time pools for carrying the necessary amount of the present crop over to future years. Such a long-time pool should require n guarantee from farm ers that they will reduce their 11)27 acreage of cotton at least 25 per cent, and a pledge from bankers and busi ness men that they will support it whole heartedly to the end." Such a pool was first suggested by officials of the Alabama farm bureau federation, who agreed to put the farm bureau organization behind it if satis factory agreements can be made. Prof. Duncan endorsed this plan and is ready to give it the hearty support of the extension service. Innocent Bystander is Revolver Victim. Charlotte, Oct. 4.—Fred Hays, negro, is dead and Willett Hinson, alias Bessie Dunn, alias Bessie Ison, uegress. was lodged in jail as the re ult. She aimed her 32 caliber pistol at another negress but her aim was poor and the bullet struck Hays, an innocent bystander. Hays died soon after he was taken to the hospital. soils are gradually going down in fer tility and the acre production is fall ling off jxeept where very large ap plications of fertilizer are made. Un less something is done to reduce costs of production the price of cotton will not pay the fertilizer bills and this condition will automatically reduce the Aniericau surplus, but the world crop is juttt beginning to be felt on the world market, England alone pro ducing 8,000,000 bales in 1924.” 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 t . iivGS ASSOCIATION. Office in the Concord National Bank NEGRO WELFARE WORK Gastonia to Have a Full Program of Work Among Colored People. Tribune Bureau, Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh. Oct. 6.—According to the notion of the Gastonia City council and the Gaston County coinmiMfcion ers, that county is to have a full program of Negro Welfare work, which will embrace the local colored hospital, health work in the schools and other health and welfare meas ures. This action has followed the recommendations made by Lieuten ant I>awrence A. Oxley, head of the Bureau of work among Negroes of the Statea Board of Charity and Public Welfare, who has just return ed from Gastonia where he made a thorough study of the needs of the Negro people of the county, at the invitation of the city and county commissioners and the county super intendent of public welfare, Mrs. Gertruce Keller. A budger of S4OOO was approved b.v the commissioners, and it was de cided to throughly re-organize the colored hospital in order to give greater service to the people of the community, bnce it was ' found that during a recent six ,;-jgPSths period, only 38' patients wen* titrated‘krtd of these 11 died. A tan-bed annex for Negro tubercular patients will be erected immediately on land donated by the city of Gastonia. The hospital is to be put in first class condition and will, under the new program, serve as a radiating center, in the development of a county-wide health and welfare program, cooperating with the public health and public welfare departments. All Rchool children are to be given a medicnl examination, and t,nbei)culcsis, or thopedic and baby olinies are to be held at the hospital. Registered nurse will be secured ns superintendent of the hospital, and there will be four student nurses. The superintendent will also serve as assistant to the superintendent of public welfare. The surgeon-in-ehief of the hospital is Dr. Lucius Glenn, a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners. The City has appropriated SOOO. toward the budget of $4,000. and the county SIOOO. The remainder will be derived from various sources, such ns the sale of tuberculosis seals, fees from the patients, private subscrip tions from Negroes, and special gifts. About SSOO will be necessary for repairs to the building and it is expected that the annex for tuber cular patients will cost about -2500. During the last eighteen months fif teen Negroes have been sent from Gaston County to the State Sana torium. Rattlesnake Died Hard. Wilmington, N. C„ Oct. 5.—(A > ) When he failed to kill a five-foot rattle snake by running over it with his truck, H. T. Hodges, of Dunn, turned back and dispatched the reptile with a shot from a revolver. The snake had twelve rattles and is reported to have died hard, even after being crushed and dbot. I TALES OK HORRORS FROM 12,009 CHINESE REFUGEES Dead Bodies Litter Streets of Wu chang and People Are Eating Dogs, Cals and Rats. Hankow, Oct. 0. —04>)—Two rescue laum’.ies and several lighters have suc ceeded in bringing 12.000 women and children to this city from the neigh boring city of Wuchang, where the northern and southern Chinese troops are nt death grips. The rescue was effected Sunday and Monday, after a previous attempt had failed when the ships were tired on and forced to re turn, aH'nough the opposing forces had previously agreed to the rescue. The northern troops who are hold ing Wuchange against the besieging Cantonese have permitted the beggar and impoverished element of the civil ian population to depart, holding the better classes In the city. Charitable organizations are caring for the rescued w'.io relate appnlling stories of conditions in Wuchang. They say the people, desperate from starvation, nre eating dogs, cats and rats. Tree roots and leaves already have been eaten. The military as well as the civilian population ip starving after qousum ing SIT ’the ‘ftVestbCK, Bodies Utter the streets, unburied because coffins are unobtainable. All available cof fins have been filled with sand and used as barricades. Refugees report that 200 northern soldiers were killed during the recent sortie from the city gates. THE COTTON MARKET Yester lily’s Rallies Followed "by Re newed Weakness in Market Early Today. New York, Oct. 6.—OP)—Yester day's rellies were followed by renew ed weakness in the cotton market early today, owing to lover Liverpool cables, larger private crop figures, aud a favorable construction of the weekly report of the weather bureau. The opening was easy at a decline of 10 to 27 points, and after a slight bulge on continued covering or trade buying, sold about 20 to 36 points be low yesterday's closing figures under liquidation or reselling by recent buy ers and further Southern hedging, al though the latter was said to be less in evidence than recently. December contracts sold off from 13.28 to 13.11). The market was withfn a point or 2 of the lowest at the end of the first hour. Two more private reports were is sued, one estimating the condition of the crop 61.2 and the indicated yield 16.636,000. The other placed the crop indention at 16.030.000 bales. Cotton futures opened easy: Oct. 1 13.40; Dec. 13.28; .Tan. 13.30'; March 13.54; May 13.74. FIVE CONVICTS ARE STILL BEING SOUGHT Were WMi Eleven Others Who Made Break at Granville County Camp. Ovford, N. C. Oct. 6.—C4>)—Five convicts were still at large today as the result of a sensational break for freedom by sixteen prisoners at the Granville County road camp near here Monday. The men held up the guards while they were being assembled for the day's work, and left them helpless while they made their getaway. The alarm was spread shortly after the delivery, and a drag net spread over the county, resulting in the cap ture of one man und. the voluntary 1 surrender of 12 others. Favor McFadden Banking Bill. Los Angeles. Oct. 6. — OP) — The American Bankers Association today accepted a mandate to prosecute vig orously the enactment of the MacFad den branch banking bill now before Congress, minus, however, the two Hull amendments. In a special session of Gie 52nd con vention of the Bankers Association which started laat night, but ended early today, the MacFadden bill was endorsed after much argument. The vote wns 413 to 26a This reverses the action of the Association taken in Chicago in 1924, when the Hull amendments were endorsed. An error in the Argentine stamp of the 1899 issue resulted in one of the specimens being sold, at auction in London the other day tye SSOO. SOUTH OKLAHOMA PEOPLE PREPARE TO CiOUT^tir Crest of Floods Moving Today Toward Southern i Oklahoma, Leaving Ruin; in Its Path. j NEW RECORD IS NOW PREDICTED Feared Now Water Will Reach 25-Foot Stage in Several Localities Dur ing Thursday. Chicago, Oct. 6.—(A s ) —The river bottom country of central Oklahoma and western Illinois today shared the brunt of Hoods draining from adjacent areas. With the crest of the tide due there iate today sout’hern Oklahoma made systematic preparations for the ad vance of waters from the north and expected to survive with minimum damage. Townsfolk of Reardstown. 111., who’ have battled nearly a month with a racing Illinois river, battered down doors and windows of flooded houses und hastened relief measures in an ficipation cf higher water. The federal forecast warned that Thursday probably would see the ex tublih'jment of a new flood record with the influx of water to a stream which was rapidly approaching the 23-foot stage. In 1!)22 the Illinois climbed to 25.1 feet at Beardstown. There was suffering from exposure and a first death as a result of the long siege was reported. Mrs. 7. C. Soule, 60, whose home was sur rounded by water, deid from pneu monia. At Peoria levee patrols were on duty. The flood was receding in Missouri and along the Oklahoma-Kansas bird er, with six known dead and property loss of more than $2,000,000. QUEEN MARIE TO BE HERE ABOUT DECEMBER 10 Asheville Wants to Have the State’s Reception to Her ill That City. Tribune Buregu Sir- Waiter Hotel Raleigh, Qpt. 6, —Queen Marie of Romania wiH probably pay her visit to North Carolina between December 10th find 15th, it was announced by Governor A. W. McLean following the receipt from the Rumanian legation of further information regarding Her Majesty's itinerary. She will re turn to Washington from Mer tour of the West on December oth, the gov ernor was advised, beginning her trip to tile southern states she intends to visit almost immediately. Governor McLean is in, receipt of a telegram from the Asheville Cham ber of Commerce, in which it is states that "Asheville would be glad to have Queen Marie select Pais city for her visit to North Carolina, and to have North Carolina’s reception extended to her here.’’ Governor McLean has replied that at present he has no defi nite information as to her plans with regard to her visit to this state, but that as soon as lie learns anything definite he will notify the Asheville Chamber of Commerce. It was also announced that Mrs. B. Frank Mebane, of Spray, and Mrs. J. Elmer Long, wife of the lieutenant governor, have accepted the appoint ments as members of the nutional re ception committee which will welcome Queen Marie and her party on their arrival in New York. It is also ex pected that Mrs. Mebane and Mrs. Long will assist in whatever arrrange ments are made to tender a reception to Her Majesty on '.ier visit to this state to whatever point she may choose. Queen Marie is expected to sail from Cherbourg on October 12th, aboard the United States steamship Leviathan, on which a special suite lias been placed at her disposal by the United States lines. Her Majesty is expected to arrive in New York on October 17th or 18th. She will pro ceed at once to Washington, aboard a special train, accompanied by the ladies of the national reception com mittee. Literary Giants in England Grind j Away- London, Oot. 6 — OP 1 )—There seems I to be no limierio the industry of Eng- j land’s veteran literary giants. H. G. Wells is grinding out ii I three-volume novel. Arnold Bennett is about to launch a new romance. ! Hudyard Kipling, recovered from his serious illness, has another book .of short stories ready for his public. Bernard Shaw, having celebrated his seventieth birthday, is hard at work again, lecturing and writing. John Galsworthy's play is a success in London—and he insists it is not necessarily his last dramatic work. Resides his plays. Galsworthy has the fortunes of the Forsyth family to look after, and has turned out anoth er novel about them. Veteran Dies of Injuries. Raleigh, Oct. 6.—OP)—A. R. Eth eridge, 82. an inmate of the Boldiers’ Home, died early this morning as a result of injuries received when he was struck yesterday by a hit-and-run motorist. Etheridge Was a native of Dare county. Arthur Bawtree, who attended this year's Handed Festival at the Crystal Palace, has attended every tetmUince the first one Was held ■» ' THE TRIBUNE PRINTS TODAY’S NEWS TODAYI NO. 237 WEATHER DAMAGE ■ CAUSES BIG LOSS TO COTTON CHOP Federal Department of i riculture Estimates the Loss on Cotton Earn ' Year at $25,000,000; Tgj MILDEW ONE* OF J1 CHIEF CAUSES -* Decay Is Another Cause, and This Makes Fiber So It Can Not Be Utilized. || Washington, Oot. 6. —(/P>—Weatb- er damage to raw eotton after pick ing was charged with losses estimate I'll nt upwards of $25.000K)0P-annu ally iu a statement today by tfc* department of agriculture. • By weather damage the dePMMMKI said it meant damage that TegulteS ' from excessive moisture iu bales Os cotton. "Department studies have shown that there are two distinct stages Id the process of deterioration of tvattoa as a result cf thiß condition—inilde# or discoloration, and decay of tf»e fill er." the statement said. *•« V ’v3| "Mildew lowers the grade and cake.-"' sequently the value, but does not se riously weaken the fihpr. The fiSjgfoyJ, however, is seriously weakened by the process of decay, and if it is nob stopped the fiber eventually ~will <4- destroyed entirely.” ‘‘Six tests were made by the depute " meat in five representative lncahtihs'- in the cotton belt. In each of thrift experiments but one, seven bales of cotton were used, one bale being store#' in a warehouse and the remaining! six bales exposed to the weather under various conditions. 'IMe loss in Aril exposed bales varied from a few pounds to more than 50 per cent, at a bale. Thirty-five bales were e*c posed during the experiment and from an' original total weight of 17,622. IKiunds there was a loss of 3,530 pounds. The six stored bales last J an average of less than 1 per cent."’/ DEFENSE RESTS IN THE ''M DAUGHERTY-MILLER CASK Neither cf the Defendants Took the . New York, Oct. 6.— OP) —The de fense rested unexiieetedly today in tb« Daugtherty-Miller conspiracy The jury was exensed andraot.ipns .•) for striking out parts of evidence and i direction of verdicts acquitting' the 1 defendants were denied by Judge '' Mack. Court was adjourned ’aU noon. - until 2 o'clock for summations to be-, gin. Neither Miller nor Daugherty took the stand. William Rand, counsel fer Miller, ; prepared to make his summation this m afternoon. May Steuer, counsel fat Daugherty; is-to make his tomorrow i 3 morning, and TJ. S. Attorney JSmocy R. Ruckner is to make the govern- ~ ment summation tomorrow afternoon! .«Q Judge Mack is expected to chbrgie ‘ thf J jury Friday. Calt Tackles Wrong “Laaard” and Rues it. Lexington, Oct. s.—Chief of Pb-t lice A. P. White has a eat that hsts l learned that all lizards are "fitit as fi good ,ax they look. Until a few days ago this tabby lost no opportunity to pounce on a fat lizard and.make a meat Bne the cat went out of its , class one time. When tlie greaat storm had pairiad over Miami. Chief White nreceived ii word his brother. Robert, was among the missing, so he drove immediaMy to Charlotte and their joined anoth er brother on a trip to th» storfti zone. Upon his arrival lie found the brother had turned up. almost half j dead after two dnys and nights of struggle through the huribsuje to reach his wife and six children, ani i was convalescent. Before feturning, ! Mr. White secured a baby alligator f brought it home and placed it in ar' : box in the backyard, All went well for a few days. One morning, however. " the lm9 the cotton back from the market, -jMgXj the advice given by Frank B. lending cotton factor of New OrleangS to eotton producers, bankers and bu«-*l iness men of the South. „ . • By using the policy of slow selling, Hayne says, the price would be sub stantially stimu’ated. He declares 4a heavier world demand for A cotton will be made in. the near f«-U ture. Ha.vne lays the cotton clump to fegh :4 that the market will be flooded declares the only solution is to stMjM t’.ie cotton and sell it later when kM)'J present supply is smaller. J§| THE WEATHER ~l| Partly cloudy and cooler tonight, 1 Thursday fair. Fresh west and nMtSI west winds.