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DAI Weather Fair ; Local Cotton 22 CenU VOL. XLIU. NO. 245 GASTONlA, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 13, 1922 SINGLE COPY S CENTS 1 GAS DMA LY GAZETTE .T"! " a. . lnursaay vyas Day At Gaston County Fair . J , . Charlotte and Mecklenburg Folks Come Over About , 500 Strong. GASTON CATTLE AWARDS Awards In Poultry Depart ment Are Also An nounced Today. Avhile the delegation from Charlotte and Mecklenburg couuty did not quite measure up to txpeetations there wag a fair sized crowd from acrdss the river here 'Thursday." All were iiiiprcssedHt"Uuy lt'i'hJ made the trip to Cast on with the work of the Gastou fair and were loud in their praise of the highjtou Count v fair and thev unanimously quality of exhibits shown. ; The day crowds Thursday were not o larzo as those of Wednesday . How- ever, when evening comes aud the mid way attractions get under way, the erowda gather from all over tho county and make merry. So far there has ' beeu little disorder. There have becujtion was planning to leave it number of u few drunks, but no serious trouble Charlotte and Mecklenburg county peo- I 1. . I n I... ....i;..:.w nn..-.l. 1 l. . 1 m . nas ueen eiicoumcrcu . aiio inMicnn, "'iio nan aueauynrriveu in me iair; traffie regulations on the grounds huve j And when tho first persons who were been excellently handled. . (to have composed the official Cliarlotte Chief interest centers in the .'an-(delegation arrived at the four mile post nouucemciit of the awards of prizes and .ou the Dowd road, which was to have honors. Home of these are being pub-! been the concentration point at the cross lished today and others will follow asroa(( tl drink stand on ono side, a yofiiig . fust as they come from the judges' htdy being the sole guardian. Ho the books. delegation passed by, one and t- ears One of tho. best of tho commercial : aj n time. . exhibits in tho agricultural building is I we coining committee c,'j:iiioscd of the demonstration or. iiomeuie, vmo ' electric light and power plant of tho Himms Magneto Company. J. U - Boucher is the boutheru representative in ebarite. The plant is light und mov able. It is set xu springs. It fur nishes "power for all the ordinary opera tions around the farm homo. , The exhibits of the woman's building continue to attract. Tito Jofly Jester ,at L(mt.) t)lPy )M.g!, to meet persons draws big crowds every day. . -.His Iec-, fr((m clmriotte aml ti,e t.0mity. Keniain tures are entertaining and instructive.,- Jtt Lowtu for gomp itti0 bh the . the deiiartment iu charire of Mrs.' G V. Birmingham, assisted by Misses J-iegenscliun ana rous w airs. , iuc- . ..... i r , . . rails. Tho Red Cross exhibit is an attrac tive feature in the Agricultural Build ing. Home nursing and euro of , tho nick have been featured iu the booth, demonstrations in home nursing being o ti, iMc vouAwA t0 g.veu each day by Miss Laws, he J-ul - tip Xral uil Jlirk ,;ini,lltilI,, Huffer u;henlth nurse, assisted by the fol- natta(.k of illIM,aKo. . ' ,o.w..K ,c.s Ui-. ...,. .. -B r CiIir0MC,v o. Kuester, who had promo classes m tlierrynlto a nd Bremer th(,a(r(irw, ,.',.,, ta the fe(k.rj, ;. Z Z u m- V v J v. G.nnis, Kathern.e Del linger Nell fc.um- mitt. J ' . . v. - - r. n 'i ... - . m I1.. ....I... U. rri.u inblil I ' 1 1 till Margaret Coon and Llla Orinainl. A fully equipjied fiirst Rid station has The health education . booth has dis- tributed literature o health and on the care and prevention of tulierculosis and other diseases. The booth empl.a- sizes the work .that ; the publje health iinrse is doing 'in the county at this time, Besides four large classes at the hitch schools and Bessemer high schools, J...U... Ii.ii-fl I1...11. niii il XVik.l tit Ktiinii.iii. I niinaia uu i v. mi ii viiii'u i " n v ..'I.V..VV. , . . Mountain and High Hhoals, and are to i ton county welcoming delegation esti be conducted during the year iu the i matted that b.jtween. SO and 100 auto various high schools and communities ! mobiles from the county pa-"'! through in the couuty. jLoWWI which they were waiting for The awards in the Jersey classes f0r j someone upon whom they could bestow Gastou county only are as follows: ," ollicial welcome. Best calf, either sex, uuder 1 year The tot.iL number of people who at First, R. Hope Wilson; Be.ond, W. T, Mended theTt?;lir from the county was es McLean; third,' R. Hope Wilson. tim.ited to 'be in the neighborhood of Best bull, J. to 2 years First, Fair- 1,000. Oiie thousand jK'oide and 4b view- Dairy. baby dolls made the return trip and the Best bull,, i years and over First, dolls were the wannest babies in the Fred 8. Rhyne; second H. L. Car- party. . . penter; third, A. A. Rhyne. i The number aTtemling from Cliarlotte Best cow, 1 to 2 years First, W. T . i w:W something more than 4,lM)tl people . McLean; secoud, Roln-rt Kendrick. i less tluin should have gone. The other Best cow 2 years and over FirsJ, W. 4.0(10 piMijde , accompanied by their fam T, McLean; second, W. T. McLean. lilies are being urged to attend the fair Best heifer I year, and under 2 years (today and corner the doll market- First, W. T. McLean; second, Fred ! Tht fair has been unanimously voted 8. Rhyne; third, W. T, McLean. the greatest that Gastou county has Best bull and 4 or more females jever put across.- The exhibit of farm First, Torrence & McLeau; second, Car products from Cleveland and Gaston l'Htcr & McLean. bounties alone extended the full length Best registered bull any age First, of thee xhibit ion building, more than 200 Fred H. Rhyne; Becoud, H. L. Car-feet. More than 2,400 square feet of jK-ntcr; third,'. A. A. Rhyne. space, every Joot of which was jammed Best registered cow, any age First i with good things to eat. I . I ir Tl t .T .1 I , I ,.ii . . v A 1 nun MTiiuu, . x. ;ucxji-i!u, iiuru, ji. i ne variety was cimunii ' ..iuc a lloio Wilson. J man stand. off, close one eye, squint the Best registered aged herd First, Car-iother one over the various products dis penter & McLean. jplaved, and try to figure out just which JJest registered young herd First, iurrci.ee .utu'aii, Awards in Poultry Department. (Mr. Joseph Wardin, Ji)tlge) Regular Class. Cornish Indian tiiiinc: i fchadv Xuok Farm. Vork, S. C, R. F. ! J. No. B, won 1st and 2nd cock, ' 1st " cix-kiTel and 5th 'millet. . G. Duncan, Hock Hill, S. C, 1st hen. 4th cockerel, 4th pullet. S. E. Maiiaty, Bessemer City, K. F. D, No. 2, won :ird cock, 2nd and 3rd hen, 2nd and 3rd pullet, 1st and 2nd pullet and 1st jK-il, . Pet Games: Alex Bjggcrs. Gustonia. wwi 1st cock, 1st, 2nd, 3rd ami 4th hen. . . West Long. Gastonia, von 1st cockerel t and 3rd pullet. i ' J. C. Boyd, Gaktouia. w 3rd cockerel and 2nd pullet'. M. I). Ratcliford, Lowell, won 2nd n okerel. W. G. Hainner, Gustouia, won 1st and "ml eu. White Leghorns AH awards to W. N. Davis, Gastonia. Buff, Leghorns: .. All awards to G. G. Willis, Gastonia. . Barred Rocks: W. W. Huss. Giistoiiia. 1st cockerel, 2nl an.l 3rd pullet.. M. R. Helton. Gastonia. 2nd. 3rd, 4th. 3th cockerel and 1st pullet. Huff 'Rocks': --A. R. Martin, Di.lhis, all aw.'mU. rS. LVRhnde Mand. Reds: (Continued on paga o.y A 1.1 - I anoiner uooa CHARLOTTE FOLKS COME TO THE BIG GASTON FAIR Crowd Is Not as Large. as Was Expected-t-Still, They Had a Good Time and Went Back Home Happy Pleased at Mecklenburg Cattle Ex ' hibits. (W. B. ltugsdule in Charlotte Observer) ; CASTOXIA, Oct. 12. Between 800 and 1,000 . Cliarlotte and Mecklenburg iu thistifteruooii to attend the big Gas- u,d u h bi t alu, fair tllat ... fas ever been put over lu tuut county. As ii " delegation ' ' however it didn 't delegate. Some one threw a cog in tho machine and gummed the whole works. fckneral hours before the official deleca i Moyor K. C Cherry, of GustOnift, Thomas i .Craig, president of the Gastou County U - m iissociull u, Judge A. C. Jones, T. ; y, Wilson : n I others left Gastoniir o meet tho Charlote and Mecklenbury iej Iple at Lowell, planning to give -tin in the best that Gastonia and Gaston couu ty had in tho way of warm welcomes. Long before the Gastou people arrived welcoming delegation derided that the crowd was like a spring of water, spon taneously bubbling out of the common i ...., Mecklenbura- county, and stream iiiiir it mirrv v;iv into their city, the leader having been lost in th shuffle. : They were right. The lender had been lost in the shuffle. Mayor Walker, who had been nniioiineeij as the official i"""rt room, suffering from a serious ut- ; . .,.: 1 ' . ' wended its various ways to the fair grounds, minus its lender and the Meck lenburg county togs, but 'just as happy J'"'1 J r,;'ble of l'1'""'" f ! the varums me.nbers were from Charlotte , Mecklen burg. tags that were to have proclaimed fact that tlv wearers were from tin- county trailed the procession to Bel- ix anwuer roa.i .n ... ... .... ail( near T lie jiriN'essnun iu us K""1- Fair officials and members of the Gas things he would grab first is the lights were all t co out at onetime. On second thought he would decide that they were all too pretty to eat, and that possibly they might le better to lookat than to eat sinv way. . ' The womcu's exhibits with the excep- t ion of several booths that were., orcu- inio.l l.v i1iN.il:.v from industrial firms took up the whole f one building. Morel.&tate formal bcl.ool, and with the ap ith.in a" dozen' booths were -filled-- withlprovai of President Thomas W. Butcher exhibits of dainty handiwork. Beautiful I dolallies, flanked on one side by dainty ! thing um-bobs and gor;;emis what-you- 'ralfenis filled booth after booth. - At G' entrance to the building a man j Was sittingon what had once In-en a box I ,r )ik the man had seen ltetter days. I T nlnn w.is playing a harp with his ' hands ami blowing a month organ with ! hi ftnt my mistake, his mouth. Beside j l,lm PI1 the ground he had placed his hat . a.Hi4 receptacle ftfr any coins thrat the passer by might wish to give. - it one of the booths inside a man was iplayiu? a luano. rtiree negro gins 'named bc-side the bKth and listened at Ml. , Jthc music. After a few minptes one of i them spoke up: . I -'Tis man ain't got no hat out, has' h.e!" , . ' ' ' j 1 L-ws-e. chile, he doiia need to have M ),; hat out'; he gits his anyhow" as .hip nnpwor that come back. ! f One of the features of the fair, despite ; "i the flwrinir display of ribbons of th? j i Catawba Jersey Im-edcrs 'association. t llir rJkllli'll tt iimh- nin- i.iir., vvi. (Continued on page Z.) IIU II I. U 1 II I IIUIULIJV I lluL n.uunai.1 ijuimu..j.iml ?:y'H,Er!f Ji i null miTP nrTflnrn nn DUiLumu uuiuocn cu Dr. W. H. Fraser, of Queens College, to Be Speaker of Occasion. TRAINED CHOIR TO SING Grand Lodge Masons of North Carolina to Have. Charge. 1 Au event 'of interest to the Masonic fraternity iu Gaston county Is the lay ing of the cornerstone of the uew high school building on South York Btreet next Friday, October 20. The work will be in tharge of a delegation from the Grand Lodge , of North Carolina. I Dr. W. H. Fraser, president of Queens College, Charlotte, will bo the orator of the day, A Bpecial drill team from Gastonia, Commandery will also be feature of the fay's program. A choir of specially trained voices will furnish the music for the occasion. The program in full follows: The Grand Lodge, . Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of North Carolina, will eonveue in the Baptist Annex at 2 o'clock p. m., Friday, October 20, for the purpose of laying the corner stone of the high school building. Grand' Lodge called from, labor, the procession will move in funeral order to the site of the new' high school building. Song, "All Hail the 1'ower of Jesus' Name," by the audience. Prayer -Graud Chaplain. Raising of cornerstone. Cornerstone Ode Choir. ' Deposit. : Song, ''Blest Be the Tie That Binds, audience. . Lowering of cornerstone. -Testing the stone Respective of ficers. ; ' Consecration of stone Corn, wine, oil Choir. Iavoeation ('rand Master. Public. Grand Honors "Send Out Thy Light" (Gounod) Choir. The charge Grand Master. ' Receiving the work A . G . Myers. Introduction of orator O. F, Ma son. . . ' : Oration Dr. W. H. Fraser, presi dent Queens College. . "AiiMrk-a" Chorurf of tchool chil dren.. Proclamation -(Jrand Marshal. -Doxology Aiiilience .-' ' Benediction Grand Chaplain. Tho Grand Lodge will return to the Annex,, where labor will be resumed and the Grand Lodge closed in ample form.: ' Music under the direction of . Mr. II . Grey Steele. Picnic dinner - will be served at 6 o'clock. - . Lodge "meeting 7:.'!0 o'ebsk. Work in Third degree by Gastonia Lodge No.' ilOfl, A. F. and A. M. A district meeting will be held in the morning, the program of which fol lows: 10 o'clock a. m., Friday. Octo- hrr "0. I!)!?? .1 H AnnfniF f I Lincolnton, N. C, D. D. G, M., i.re siding. I'rrfgram': IiiviH-ation Rev. Roswell C. Long. Adilress of Weleoni! For City of Gastonia, Mayor R. G. Cherry; for Gastonia Lodge No. 3G!, A. C. Jones. Resporise-K,1 H. Nixon. Lincoln Lodge No. LS7, Lincolnton, N. C. Roll call of lodges. Reports of lodges. Address Senior Grand Warden J. LeGrand LVerctt. Benediction Rev. W. C. Barrett. CONTEST OVER WELLS' OUTLINES OF HISTORY TOPEKA. Kan., Oct. 13 A con troversy over the adoption of Wells' Outline of History as a textbook at tho Kansas State Normal School at Kmporia, has been referred by Governor II. J. Allen to the State Board -of Administration for final settlement. The board has supervision over all the state educational institutions.: "I have received a number of letters protesting the adoption of the book," said Governor Allen today, "ome op lKc Mr. Wells' treatise on world his tory, claiming it is irreligious, another that it is improer from the moral standpoint. None of the opposition has been based Iio the fact that Wells is British." The adoption of the textbook is said to have been- through-, the' recommenda tion of Prof. W. 11. Carothers, head of the department of history at the Mr. Daniels' Story to ' Appear Tomorrow In addition to the usual good fea tures carried every Saturday, tomor row's Gazette will be featured by an article' on Gaston county from the pen of Josephus Daniels, editor of the News and Observer, Raleigh, and formerly Secretary of the Navy in Wilson's cabinet. Mr. Daniels vis ited Gaston county Monday, went to the Big Gaston Fair Tuesday. He found out a lot about Gaston county that he did not know. He has writ ten an interesting .story of his im pressions and observations. It will appear in Saturday's Gazette. It appeared today in Mr. Daniels' pa per, the News and Observer. Put in your order now for an extra copy of The Gazette. 1 .1 Rivals Kobei J. Ludland (below), gub urban conductor, Is candidate f of assemblyman In Nassau County; ! N. Y, His opponent Is F. Tmbe Davison (above), son of the lata. Hecry P. Davison and heir to mil ; UontV' ludland daily punches Dav i Ison's commutation Jlcket. V WITH HAYES RELEASED AUTHORITIES ARE UP IN THE AIR FOR ANOTHER GLUE Schneider-Confesses That His Story Was a Frame-Up Against Hayes- People Cel ebrate When He Is Released. NEW BRUNSWICK, X' X, Oct. 13. While state and county olliciaJs sougiit anxiously, today for Something on .which to proceed iu the inquiry into tho 'murder on September 14 of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall rector of the Episcopal Church of St. John The Evangelist, aud his choir singer, Mrs. Eleanor Rheinhurdt Mills, friends of Clifford ' Hayes 'went ahead with preparation for a mass meet ing tonight to celebrate Hayes' release yesterday. His release and the collapse of tho case of 'nistakeii identity' made out by authorties followed the admissio'ii by Kaymond Schnifdcf tli;it his accusation of Hayes was false. tichneider still was held iu the Somer set county jail today, although no new charge had licon lodged against him. Ho was locked up us a material witness some days ago after he had -made, a statement charging Hayes with killing Mrs. Mills and Dr. Hall. Authoritje .were -'admittedly--"up in the air" again. They turned, anew to dayto clues pointing' to the families of the slain rector and .Mrs. Mills ami 'de tectives were engaged iu running down numerous details when officials accc'usa tion as a solution of the mystery. The fawn colored coat and sccarf which Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the rector had dyed , in Philadelphia a fe wdays after Dr. Hall was murdered. were in the bans of a ew F.runswu chemist today for analysis, the action b ing ordered by Prasecutof Joseph Stric er of Middlesex county. ' . Detectives thrown off the trail ten nrnrilv liv Schneider's false accusation turned again to their original theory thht tl.n .loiibleslavintr was prompted Hv jealousy anil that a woman was a p tieipnnt in the crime. HENRY C. HUFFMAN DIED OF INTERNAL INJURIES One of Three Men Injured In Auto Ac cident Monday Morning Succumbs- Massagee and Bridges Recover .Funeral and Burial This Afternoon. Heury' C. Hoffman, one of the' three men injured in an automobile accident Monday morning on the Bessemer City I road when a King 8 driven by j.'C. Massagee and ai) Essex driven, by John Poteet collided on a narrow bridge, died at the Gaston Sanatorium at 4 o'clock this morning; Death was due to intern al injuries. Massagee and Bridges, the other two injured men, have return- e'd to their homes, neither being muck ', mjurcu. , Hoffman was 20 years old, a soil of W. H. Hoffman, of 806 South Oak- land street, Clara Mill. and was aa employe of the Funeral services ii u l. l l i'. w,l. be held at 4 - o'cl'H-k this al'tcruomi at the late resi-! deuce by Rev. W. I McCarter, pastor of the South Marietta Street Baptist church, and interment will be in the jArmstroug Memorial Church Cemetery. f fa ?J I:: x IN ANSWER TO RADIO'S S. O. S. CALL 217 PERSONS ARE SA VED FROM THE BURNING SHIP, CITY OF HONOLULU POLITICAL CRISIS IN ENGLAND IS BIGGEST TOPIC OF DISCUSSION Feature Is Opposition of the . Conservatives to Austen Chamberlain. NEWSPAPERS ARE FULL Chamberlain Has Been In Close Agreement All Along With Lloyd George. LONDON, Oct. 13. (By the Associa ted. Press) Discussion of the political, crisis again fills the principal column: . . ..." . ui me newspapers tins .morning. i wo ouisianuiug teuture of the situation 1 an inccreased indication of the hardeiiitj of the conservative opposition to Austin Chamberlain's continuance as leader If the unionist party unless he cuts loo' from Prime Minister Lloyd George an tlie coalition. That he will do this is regarded in best informed circles as altogether unlikely. It is recalled that he has been iu close agreement with Lloyd George on all of 1 he great political questions since the,L- U Jenknis or usiiiiion t.eorw a. beginning of their association, and he has confessed to friends that he cannot . and does not wish to osesfpo his share, of the responsibility for the course which has been followed. , Mr. tliambcrlain is represented ns be ing convinced that continuance of the coalition is not only desirable but inevit - able as no party is likely to emerge from an election with an independent major ity. Morever it is stated that he would Jn any case refuse to lend the party against his colleagues lu tho cabinet wi'h whom he has no political ngrement ftnd for whom , he cherishes close personal frien.lship. This being o, conservatives say, he must . quit his leadership, for they ure against Lloyd George and all of his tiolicies. The , morning Post, mouthpiece' of tli more extreme torries, cites this view boldly in an editorial today. Mr. Cham berlain, it says, is putting loyalty to the premier before loynltyto his party and he cannot continue his adherence to the imrtv finds it more and more difficult.! to confide in his political integrity. Transfer of the leadership, to Lord Derby or Andrew llonar Law, is much discussed. Lord Derby is said to be de termined to discontinue his support of the coalition, but declines either to con- tlii rcnort. Mr. Honar Lawi :.. ..io.. ...,.i';i,..i .ui, ii.., iiifnntinn tn on - pose another coalition government. The kev to the whole summon, in-- cordinir tn many observers, i-l Mr. Cli.-imbcrlain's -attitude, and his siieech at Birmingham.' today is awaited with Lloyd George without resigning Jus Mont or the Hickory notary cm , in.-mo the position tho operator had given. A. leadership. j" very interesting jjnd amusing speech, pleasure yacht, Tho Cusnia, eruisiag t The newspiipiiper admits that the res- He is iii the creamery business at , Honolulu with her' owner, E. L. Do ignation of Mr. ChsmlKrliiiu would se- j Hickory, lie urged the business men of j heny, and party of friends aboard, rinimlv in inn. the conservatives, but savs ; Gastonia to stand behind the fair and , caught the appeal and turned hen. bo intense interest. There was considerable speculation " political circles today when. King George cave amiudienco to the prime minister Fair tonight and probably Saturflay, as to whether the-latter should raise the 'somewhat warmer Saturday and in ex question of calling a general election, i treme west tonight It was stated i nDowning street, however , : , . ' that Mr. Lloyd George was merely re- GASTONIA COTTON. porting on the Near iistern snua.jnm and would not touch uoon , domestic politics. . . J. H. Cutter Proposes to Buy all Mecklenburg Farmers' Cotton i . f . . rir tne rauio operator ne was nusy Will Advance 80 Per Cent, Carry It Without Cost to Grow,i,mlin) lm.Mlgl.8 that told the world i-Allw I .liar PriviUire SAIIU m - wmm v Time He Sees Fit Will Any ollars to Do It Thinks It ( Cliarlotte News; The firm of J. H. Cutter 4 Co., has of-j fer to buy every bale of cotton produce-! : in Mei-klcnliurir Count v this season oil I the basis of paying SO jicr cent of its value on-' date of delivery anil-carrying the commodity until such a reasonable time us the growers might desire to sell outright, paying them the .remainder then and without having charged them for insurance, weighing, warehousing and anv other incidentals usually accoin-1 inanvimr the nlan of borrowins; money : nv-iinst tnil cfitton. ' - . ' Mt. LHtter said tha his fir . had lu- nrp.l lli.-it. the urouosition wouhl cost it about SI.nw.iMMl i" eash payments seat- iered ihn.nghout the J..i,,8 . m-a The offer liolds goo.l until May .1.. The total value of the estimated pro- '.bictioii of -12.000 bales of local cotton this season figuring today's price of 22 cents would be $1,.T'0.UIM, which -Mr, . ...s.i .:. i.-ix- ; " dwwe n - !' , u liJ , K. Mr S,l..r mnnl.t imv the Slllll he fi rn M'...d th, ( J : T... W. , Mu .vtl ...... t i o-.i; IM.0 if verv lle i.ro.lu.e.l in'0!ll-v " ' " 111 vl u,arRl1 " ! lfl '!::! iHim 'Sl- ad? ami ouike charges u,:,h,st the V .I e . " , .,;..i. n, r,.,! I,, the '''7cft.rw,"t',w"I Vl- has draw, , up to tender t e Cutter retains the right to prote t . himself in T n, oviil ill.., iii,- Lfm i'. ai i'iii-i . 1 . ,1.... lif.,,1,1 ' drop so percipitately that the full value If Your Name Is Clarence, Fall In Newark, N. J., Oct. 12. "Clar ences" of all the nations are organ izing for war on the wags who call them . sissified. Recruiting has started in Newark, following the call to arms from Clar ence Massey, of Cleveland, who de clares he is a two fisted reg'lar guy 'and tired of .being called "Mama's boy." . "On the vaudeville circuits and everywhere they say Clarence in fal setto," says Massey, "and some of these smart Alecs think a fellow has to have a name like 'Bull Spivens' or he's a mollycoddle." As the organization work goes on it is reported that Percivals, Alger nons and Llewellyns have offered to organize a brigade or two. OTARY LUB HEARS SEVERAL GOOD SPEECHES Rev.'J.. W. C. Johnson, L. L. Jen ' kins and W. J. Shuford Entertain ! Club Dr. Miller. Puts On Good ! Program Price ; Lineberger Is i Teased By Rotanans. Thursday's Rotary luncheon, one X' best iimt most enjoyable in mutiy weeks, was featured by the presence of a . number of visitors, three of' vfhom, K";VL "l' -,m. "ul"l" I uf . Hu'Korv, made interesting and enter- taming , talks, i im principle speeeii or j " day was pia.li by Kev. J. W. .C. Joliu- t . .uarn a r.piscopai j church, who has just returned lrom nj ; Western trip. . ... f j T' program was nt charge or vr.in tho m-coitd class cabins of th O. L. Mill-r, and was introduced with j learner, one-tiuie pride of the North a ii.ri mis ,y ir. 1uw.11 -ura... enary surgeon. iJr. McLean gave inc club some interesting information nbout his profession. : An amusing feature of the program wu the advice given II. Price Linelter ; Ker, who was married last evening. Ho ; was eiuie.i to ine iciejmone nnu . us ' returned the notes of the 'wedding marcii were sounded ami the advice posted ont(iflt n..R.) that menns disaster. placards was handed him. "Lay down the lawto her", said Garland. "1 -ovo is Jilinil, but marriage is an eye opener'., said 8:m A. Robinson. There were. Sev ern I others of similiar nature. . V. ,1. Shuford, of Hickory, past pres- give it all 'of the encouragement support' it needed. Rev'. Mr. ,Johnson a soech was heard with deep interest and. "attention. He described in a vivid way tie .beuuties of the many scenes im the . western coast nn.l in Canada where he isited. The next meetinir will be held next ! Tbursdav eveninir. Oct. 19 when t tie- nurses and community workers will be , gin-sis vi i m- "' THE WEATHER . ; Today s receipts price " ..73 ...22 bales cents of Closinz Uut at Better rncetl J Take More Than, a' Millie Beats Co operative Flan. of the stupe is represented in the SO - per cent initially auvnncpi. im-icn j strings, however, to his offer to pay , sii ir cent inuiieiuaiciy ami im-n i"-- . - ..... .1. fl iri-e unv time between now ami Mjv K.-iio --matter to - what extent the price is advanced. Out Doing the Farmers "There has' been right" much nni-;e made up to present about doing some thing for the cotton growers", Mr. Cut-Vl . T I , , .... , ........... " ler sain J niinujij, "i am ni ' m,'.;Zt... .. nt4it ill lull t f 4t-('lll19ntik(l: ""'" '"-v , .. ...l i, ittvniii,.iir miT I ii.-ivi- n-'iirt- I uul n - . : . . . . . t JtlMKHH III, ... , , it,0ll .. - . . . .. 1 fa"1",rs r .' ""V, II ' 'jr lLZl lZ JZ ............. , co operative societies . .'! Mr. Cutter indicated ..that, his -offer i provides terms which out-eo-ojteratcs the j "co ois-rativi-s the organization wnvn , " iarmcrs ran- iromm iiiK I " .. . .. - ....I ami "lre itl "r,lor to so!l tU'ir n cotton j all(l a ,,ri(.f bet5l r two to reitcrat,, th'ui!h ll!oir own in,,!,,, It m,.!,,,, word that all were safe. Tbew Id'. - that the feirmers are autmii r,lu"" ' "Jl " ollIy 6l1 r llt cf e marKl.t value of . Huctug tun nf . growers in the way of warvhousing, in- si.rme and other incid-ntals. Fi(!llring tiat Mklcburg 's loUl ! . -.i,-Mm i,.iP!i flBii "I' " I - - - I AIDED BY THE STRANGE FELLOWSHIP OF THOSE WHO GO DOWN TO SEA Scores of Sea-Going Craft Turn to Reescue at Dis tress Call. RADIO OPERATOR HERO Stood By His Post Until All the Passengers Were Saved. SAN FRANXCIHCO, Oct. 13. (By the Associated Press,) The ..radio imln's bridle on space, and that hardly lest potent thing, the fellowship of thsse who go down to the sea in ships, ' stnd responsible today for the safety "172 tersous the ship's eompaay $1 the steamer City of Honolulu, which burned yesterday. Tljo readinesa. with. f which mariners of half a dozen era ft. f.,.,,1 from pleasure . yachts to dreadnoughts, of the Pacific, fleet, offered themselves for the rescue of their distressed fellow tritl.t.u uftiirit u oi hilt oik An lit tf tt t nrst toli, 8U ioug K0 that men huve forgotten tho time of the telling, but f10 tale of the radio's part belongs i. 'modem (feneration. Thev nil ,(J thln o)(1 thi and thi8 ncir 0J t() litv Kuriy y0l,trdayV while she was 670 miles off 'San Pedro. Gal., fire broke out Hlermaii Lloyd line and more i recently leader of the Los Augelea (Steamship Company's new Honolulu service. Un accountably, the flames .. gained such headway on tho fighting erew that, twu hours later, it was necessary to aban don ship. But before that time cume, the rnilio hud cried far and wide tha n. dot-dot -dot, dash-dashdash, dot-dot- distress ami human extremity on the high f goas. Two ships, tho Enterprise, of tha Mntsoii line, and the Thomas, an army transport, west bound from Hawaii, caught the signal and turned ' toward that wiiy. Los Angeles caught the sig nals, and navy vessels stood by to raco with death to the scene of tha fire.' iSan Francisco caught the signals, ami wailed a, vHiile, until the radio Gpcrator on a distant slii) hhd. 'turned that vessel too, toward the scene. '"-., It was that gliiiv the West Faralon, M. M. Walk, nuister, that swept dowu- the scalanes' to the City of Honolulu . and effected the rescue. : But sho did not get there until more I than four hours after the flumes had forced tho captain, his first officer, tho i-hief engineer and tho radio operator, who had stayed behind to servo to tho uttermost the passengers confi.ded to their en re, 'to leave tho Mazing hull. The offievrs stiiyed to advise, suggest ,, anil confer; the rn'ilid operator stayed to keep the West Faralon advised, lest she miss the boat loads of passengers floating nearby and the rescue bo de- : laved. . ' I The firo broke out between .1 aud r$ o'clo-k in the morning: the passengers re put overside at S; tho captain left j steamer after 10; the West Fara- Ink arrived about 2:30 in the after- u. By a minrter to four the last bo; it load of castaways had bHn hauled, , abiiird the West Faralon and that ship, i ! her? every comer crowded with earge ianf human salvage, lay to a uiilo from, fire swept vessel mid all hauda tched her burn. All hands, that is. i. i , . i - .. steamer s company was safe ana i other messages that kept , tho Thomas steaming southward to provide for tha rescued pustcngers some smoother conv j forts than the planking of the West Faralon decks. The Thomas officers . planned to transfer the City of Honolulu's passen- gers early toitay ratner tnau nsK aeci- dent in the darkness of the early morn mg. ihe lliomas wilt bring Turin to San Francisco, They had In-eu bound! for Los Angeles. There,' just In-fore the Thomas reaeta ed tin? West Faralon, the story was broken this morning, for shore radio Stations ceased communicating with the vessels so that the West Faralon 'a radio might le used to guide the transport tu Tll ,..,,:., i.ft ,,.,, t,.u I - , . 'the cause of the fire, tho reason it . .., . .. i-. .. "I" ' " apreti.i wini sue ii nerce raimnty, ino . f fiVf j a,,,! ThflsH ! more gripiiig details that mad'; tip ttiu 8UlI' tlw ftiht il tl,e .' .. . . . , .. . mu,i, iinif mere nan wen oeiore in hrrak th radio of the Wet Faralon was busy with reports tn government. agensfor Xhf Cifv'of Honolulu ail't tho Wl,st p.iral( lK,th were shippiii . . boaTit Tesw ls niessaffcs to the woer was no opjiort unity for much that wi . ,.i . . . . , . WaS OO OplHifl Ulllt' f h inU.rc of piilIl utorc.t to Ire Traii.mTe.. Alia tWo, too, rvaener, and , WrM j00 TO, n occupied with ess , ttHug 0,,,r ) t Fnraloa to s,,eud m-i.-h tin , t . . n... i.. - il'Tii lAI'VllMll'-l MV I