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· - Max Yaanoke Denk-m VOL. 34 PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1923. NO. 46 — : EIGHT KILLED TWO NEW VATED 38 INJURED YORK WOODEN ELE CARS PLUNGE TO STREET. ■ MASS OF SPLINTERED DEBRIS Driver of Delivery Truck Caught Un der Train, Rose White and Trembling. > r~> New York.—Eight persons were killed and 38 injured when two wood en cars plunged from a Brooklyn ele vated structure into the borough’s busiest traffic intersection. The tw&car train, well {filed with an early afternoon crowd of women, children and a few men Juhped the rails, ripped through rotted guard beams, tottered on the edge of the structure while hundreds of passers by stood spellbound in terror, and pancaked on its side to the pavement, a mass of splintered debris. Carrying with it a mesh of electric trolley wires, the train hurled to the pavement amid spurts of blue flame and crackling wires. As screams of the pinioned passengers, many of them transfixed by jagged sections of broken wood, rose abive the crash, flames shot from underneath the cars and drove back pedestrains who ran to the scene. The driver of a delivery truck, the radiator of which had been caught under the falling train, rose, white and trembling, from his seat burst into tears and staggered away. Two women, shaking as if with palsy, their faces bleeding from cuts, climbed out of the wreck and walked after him. Within a few minutes a dozen pieces of fire apparatus and police pa trols had broken their way through a cordon of several hundred by-stand ers. A score of ambulances arrived as the firemen fought to choke off the flames. Policemen, ambulance internes, and employes of the railway, wielding axes, feverishly extricated one after another of the victims. Two hours were required to clear the wreckage of the bodies of living and dead. Edward Pareell, motorman of the train, who escaped without a scratch, was arrested, charged with homicide. While hundreds of employes with 50 wreckage cars removed the debris which was stretched for 50 square yards on the pavement, Mayor Hylan, District Attorney Dodd, Gerahdt Dahl, chairman of the board of directors of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transient company, which operated the train, and the police started inquiries into the cause of the accident. The mayor and district attorney, after inspecting 25 yards of ties which had been ripped to splinters, announc ed their opinion that the loss of life had been caused by faulty construc tion. “I am convinced.” said the mayor, "that the accident was caused by a defective truck leaving the tracks and crashing through a rotten guard rail, which, if good, should have pre vented the fall to the pavement. Sees Dangers of Real Fight. Washington.—7When his attention was called to that section of the Vol stead act which declares that ships Illegally carrying liquor shall be seiz ed and those persons in charge of them arrested, Prohibition Commis sioner Haynes made this statement: “The prohibition department has not insisted upon the seizure of the foreign ships that have brought liquors into American territorial wat ers for two principal reasons, to-wit: “The question involved concerning the liquor is whether they may, as claimed by the foreign vesssl, be used for medicinal purposes, and they are brought into our waters with an avowed purpose to test that question legally, and for this purpose the pres ence of the subject matter of dispute only, to-wit, the liquors, is required. "For the reason of delicacy involv ed, it being the purpose of the depart ment to proceed in unobstruative manner as is consistent with a proper enforcement of the' law and thus avoid complications that might possib ly be of a serious nature.” Commissioner Haynes and prohibi tion headquarters law officers draw a distinction between vessels which are avow-ediy or ‘obViouhly rum runners and legitimate merchant men. The former class of ships, the officials said, have been and would be seized but in the present cases in New Yorh the ends of justice would be met merely by seizing the beverage liquor found aboard. TEN DEAD, MANY HURT IN TORNADO. Aberdeen, S, D.—Ten persons were said to have perished and scores of others were injured when a torndo laid waste a wide stretch of prosperous farming coun try for forty miles in the vicinity of Reeder and Hettinger, N. D., Adams county, Sunday evening, according to word received here. WILL SIEZE ALL SHIPS LIQUOR TREASURY TO STAND PAT AND BREAK SEALS ON BRITISH ' SHIP. * After Transferring 'Alcohol to Bond ed Warehouse Master pf Vessel to Get Receipt. } Washington. — Beverage liquor brought into American territorial wat ers under foreign government seals will be seized. This policy was announced at the treasury, and when the liner Beren garia docks at New York customs agents will break the British seals that guard her beverage liquor stores and take charge of them. Any other attempts tcf bring intoxicating bev erages inside the three mile limit, it was declared, will be dealt with in the same fashion. Announcement of the treasury’s determination to stand pat on its reg ulations, issued to carry out the re cent supreme court ship liquor decis ion, was made after a day of confer ences between Secretary Mellon and his advisers and officials of the state department. It came after Mr. Mel lon had made it known that the de cision of the treasury would remain confidential until an occasion arose requiring action. It was nevertheless made clear that the decision was un qualiGed and positive. The procedure to be followed in the case of the Berengaria, and it is as sumed in respect to other ships mak ing like efforts to retain beverage liquors sufficient for the seizure of sealed stores, their transfer to bond ed warehouses, and the issuance of receipts to masters of the vessels in volved. No trouble is anticipated, for, in the cases of the Berengaria and the liner Olympic which is now on the seas bound for New York, the American agents of the lines operat ing the vessels have been fully in formed of what the treasury intends' to do. Assistant Collector Stuart, of the port of New York, conferred with the lines’ agents and advised Assistant Secretary Moss of the treasury de partment by telephone that each shipping representative will file a formal protest against the American government’s action as soon as it is taken. Such protests, in the natural course, will be forwarded to Washing ton for consideration. Neither Mr. Mellon nor Mr. Moss would discuss possible action by the treasury on the protests, the former explaining that such a course was the obvious one for the shipping companies to take under the circumstances. Prices Decline Figures Indicate. Washington.—Wholesale prices de clined appreciably in May from the April figures, according to informa tion gathered by the labor depart ment in representative markets. On 404 commodities a drop of near two per cent from April was indicated. Foodstuffs and house furnishing goods, however, remained unchanged. Fuel and lighting materials, the department's statement said, were five per cent lower, due to continued declines in bituminous coal, coke, crude and refined petroleum and gasoline. Clothes and clothing de clined two per cent resulting from declines in cotton goods and raw silks. Farm products and chemicals and drugs averaged approximately one and one-half per cent lower, while smaller declines were reported in groups of building material's, met al products and miscellanepu! com modities. • „ Comparing prices in with those of a year ago, the genttfral level had risen five and one-half, per cent. Metals and metal product* showed the largest increase, 27 3^4.. par cent, and building materials were next with an increase of 26 1-4 per cent. Cloths and clothing had increased 14 3-4 per cent, Chemicals n^J. drugs 9 3-4 per cent. v«pt| Garvey is Given Five-Year Term. New York.—Marcus Garvey self elected provisional President of Afri ca was sentenced to the Atlanta pen itentiary for five years for fleecing the public through sale of Black Star Line stock. SUMNER CURTIS AND DRIVER KILLED IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH. THE PRESIDENT NOT ALONE Car Turns Over Mountain Preciphse Near Denver, Killing Two and In juring Several. Denver.—Sumner Curtis, Of Wash ington, representative of the republi can national committee accompanying President Harding’s, party on its west ern trip, was killed and three other men were injured seriously, one fa tally, when the automobile in which j they were making a mountain tiiur plunged off the road into Bear Cr4ek canyon, 25 miles from Denver. The injured were Donald Crsjig, manager of the Washington bureau of The New York Herald; Thon is Dawson, Colorado state historian veteran Washington newspaper m n, and Thomas French, of Denver, v lo was driving the car. Thomas French, driver of the <^r, died on the way to hospital, extent of the injuries sustained Mr. Craig and Mr. Dawson had Ot yet been learned definitely. An operation was performed mediately at the county hospitaljin an effort to save Mr. Craig’s life. Ilis scalp was severely lacerated and' it was feared he had sustained a fractur ed skull and internal injuries. Mr. Dawson suffered fractured ribs, injuries to his spine, a lacerated foot and possibly internal injuries, accord ing to physicians at the hospital. President Hardifcg telephoned t^ihe hospital to learn the condition oi the injured as soon as he received word of the accident. The President ex pressed deep regret over the tragedy. Th tragedy occurred near the moun tain home C. C. Yates, Denver rubber manufacturer, near the spot where the automobile, uncontrollable, because of a broken steering gear, dropping off a cliff at a treacherous curve and plunged into the rocky bed of Bear creek. French’s body was brought to Denver and tTie other two victims were taken to hospital here. The four men were returning from Lookout mountain, where they had at tended a luncheon extended by the Denver Press club. Curtis was dead when other' members of the party, composed of correspondents accom panying the Harding party and Den ver newspaper men who followed in other automobiles, reached the wreck ed machine. Failures Have Little Effect. New York.—The failure of the two Old stock exchange houses had an ad verse, though transient, effect on sen timent in the financial markets during the past wek. Speculators for the de cline took advantage of the news to circulate all kinds of extravagant ru mors regarding additional insolvencies and offered large amounts of sticks and commodities on the principal ex changes. As a matter of fact, it appears that the failures in question, which invol ved houses specializing in foreign ex changes and securities, and which had ' xt nsive German connections, had .ittle significance as far as the domes tic position is concerned. They meas ured, according to most observers, the difficulties of carrying on foreign busi ness under existing conditions. In the best informed quarters it was said that the domestic banking and brok erage position is quite sound and that nothing is known of any difficulties of a disturbing character. In confirmation of this view, it was pointed out that the bears executed a sharp about-face after having press ed their initial advantage and after good buying appeared at the lower prices. In general the view that good fall business is in prospect was main tained. The sluggishness of the mar kets was explained on the basis of the season of the year and the conserva tism of buyers in placing new orders for forward delivery. Streams of Lava Are Decreasing. Catania, Italy.—The crater of Mount Etna is still puffing and rumbling but the streams of lava are rapidly de creasing in volume and in speed The situation in the afflicted district is gradually becoming normal: the peo ple ha^e resumed their ordinary work and many are engaged in refitting their dismantled homes. FLORIDA OFFICER KILLED BY WOMA^ Jacksonville, Fla.—Robert Shack elford, 47, chief field officer under former Sheriff Robert E. Merritt, and one of Governor Hardee's chief investigators, was shot and killed here at his home in Lakeside park, Mrs. Disy Vaugh, 30, who was ar rested, is said by police to have admitted shooting Shackleford, claiming self-defense. PASSES ON 15 0 PARDONS IS ONE OF LAST ACTS OF PRES IDENT HARDING BEFORE LEAVING. Many Convicted Violating War Law*; Commutes 22 Federal I. W. W. Sentences. Washington. — Immediate release of more than a score of federal pris oners convicted of violating war laws but with continued detention of almost as many more was ordered by President Hardiijg before leaving on his western trip. The President acted on 158 par dons and commutation cases a rec ord breaking number in the opinion ! of department of justice officials. He granted 30 conditional and 14 uncon ditional commutations on full par don restored civil rights to 27 former prisoners and denied 84 applications •for pardons or commutations. He also ordered remission of fines in two cases. Interest centered in the cases of those convicted of violating the espionage, draft and other war laws, whoe applications had been press ed by various organizations and per sons of prominence. These number ed 48 and the President granted commutations to 27, but denied appli cations in 21 cases, including a group of 20 alleged members of the I. W. W., convicted at Sacramento, Califor nia. Two convicted there hoWeter," had their sentences commuted, con ditional on their deportation. Sentences of 32 alleged I. W. W. members convicted in the celebrated Chicago trials and sent to the Leav enworth penitentiary were commut ed to expire at once. Three of four alleged I. W. W. members convicted at Wichita, Kansas, received commu tation. Announcement of the President’s action was made by the department of justice after the executive’s de parture, the entire day having been required to prepare statements of the cases, many of which have been be fore the President for months. In addition to the cases growing out of the war law violations, the President’s orders included clemency for many other prisoners convicted of offenses ranging from bigamy to bootlegging and including violations of the mail fraud, Mann White slave, bribery and other statutes. Details regarding the 84 pardon and commutation applications denied were withheld but it was learned of ficially that among them were those of Israel and Harry Goldberg, of Sa vapnah, Ga„ and New York, sentenc ed to the Atlanta penitentiary and fined for violating the war-time pro hibition laws. Israel Goldberg car ried his case to the supreme court in an effort to avoid serving time. Weather Aids Cotfon Crops. Washington.—The weather for the week ending June 20, was more fav orable for agriculture in general than during the preceding week according to the Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin. . The temperatures averaged slight ly below normal in the central and eastern portions of the cotton belt and somewhat above normal in the western portion. Rainfall was gen erally of a local character and was mostly light to moderate, though rather heavy in a few localities, said the report. Influenced by rather; warm weather and local showers, cotton made fair to very'good prog-j ress in Texas, though the late plant-; ed was needing rain in a few sec-, tions. Ccla Magnate and Widow Marry. Atlanta, Ga.—Asa G. Candler, Sr.,! aged 72, capitalist of Atlanta and founder of the Coca Cola Company, was married here to Mrs. May Little Ragin, 35, a stenographer, with of fices in the Candler building. Imme diately after the ceremony the bridal couple left for Washington, D. C. The ceremony was performed in the chapel of the Theological Depart ment at Emory University by Rev. Ben R. Lacy, Jr., pastor of the Cen tral Presbyterian church, of which the bride is a member. Members of the families of both the bride and 1 groom were in attendance. CANNOT ACCEPT 0. S. SUGGESTION CANADIAN GOVERNMENT DE CLINES TO INTERFERE IN , LIQUOR TRAFFIC. NOTE FROM THE AMBASSADOR No Provision in Custom Law Under Which They Could Refuee Clear ance to Ships. Washington.—Canadian government has informed the state department, through a note from the British am bassador here, of its inability to adopt the suggestion put forward by the department last March that clear ance papers be declined to vessels with cargoes of liquor destined to ports in the United States unless a permit authorizing its importation was presented. The department in announcing re ceipt of the not explained that it had addressed a note to the British am assador for transmission to the Can adian authorities drawing their atten tion to the difficulties experienced in enforcing the prohibition laws of the United States along the Canadian border. It was pointed out that the Canadian authorities permitted small motor boats to take on cargoes of liquor and to make regular customs clearances to ports in the United States, thus complying with the Can adian law, which prohibits the sale of liquors to persons in Canada, but allows the exportation to a foreign country. It was suggested that since the im portation of liquor into the United States without a permit was illegal the Canadian officials might be dis posed to decline clearance papers to vessels with cargoes of liquor des tined to ports in the United States unless permits authorizing importa tion were presented. The reply of the Canadian govern ment through the British ambassa dor, said it had carefully investigated the matter and ha‘d ascertained that the provisions of the law were being properly observed. It was further stated that the export of liquor from Canada was not prohibited and thera existed no provisions in the customs laws or regulations warranting refus al of clearance papers to vessels carrying liquor destined for a foreign port simply because its entry, with out special permit, Is prohibited. End of Etna’s Rampage Seen. Catania, Italy.—For the first time since Mount Etna became violent, a ray of hope has dawned for the much tried inhabitants of the volcanic re gion. The danger is not yet ended for the crater of the mountain is still belching molten streams of lava and great rocks which threaten the com plete destruction of nearby communi ties, but undoubtedly the vilonce of the eruption is decreasing. A relatively small number of fresh craters—about twenty in number— opened during the night, indicating that the pressure within the moun tain is less. Volcanologists say it is impossible to prophesy how long Etna will con tinue active, but they expect a re turn to more normal conditions with in a short time. Meanwhile, although the loss in property has been enor mous, the present eruption of Sicily’s great mountain of terror has claimed no human victims. Even physical injuries have been extremely rare. Ship in Battle Become* Problem. New York.—Registry of the schoon er Mary Beatrice, 'on which a bloody battle between fifteen Chinese trying to smuggle themselves into America and four members of the crew was fought June 10, has created an inter national problem for immigration of ficials. It has yet to be decided whether Great Britain or the United States Government will defray the cost of ultimate deportation. Another batch of 102 Chinese cap tured recently in a raid in a Long Island City factory, where they were said to have been sold for employ ment by smugglers, will be deported soon. Tennessee Aviator Killed. Pensacola, Fla.—Lieutenant Char les B. Burke, Jr., of Knoxville, Tenn., a naval aviator, died as the result of injuries received several hours pre viously when a seaplane he was pilot ing went into a tallspin over Pensa cola bay and crashed from an alti tude of 1,000 feet into shallow water. He never regained consciousness. W. J. JACKSON & SON (Established 1895) . Plymouth, N. C. 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