Muk Doxnoke Denron .
VOL. 34
PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY. AUGUST 3, 1923.
MARYLAND FLOOD
DOES 016 DAMAGE
THUNDERSTORMS SWEEP WES.
TERN COUNTIES CAUSING
RIVER TO OVERFLOW.
WHOLE TOWN UNDER WATER
Flood is Greatest Since 1868 When a
Toil of Thirty-Eight Lives Were
Taken.
Baltimore, Md.—Cloudbursts and a
series of terrific thunderstoms, sweep
caused the Patapsco river to overflow
its banks, sweeping bridges and build
ings before it, driving hundreds of
families from their homes and causing
damage that will run into millions of
dollars.
kAs far as is known no lives were
lost. The flood, the most disastrous
since the Patapsco overflowed its
banks in 1868 and took a toll of 38
lives in the. vicinity of Elliott City,
ran highest at Sykesville, Ellicott
City, and other points beftveen these
places and the river’s mouth.
In addition to the families that
were forced to abandon their homes,
others who sought refuge up upper
floors had to be rescued by neighbors.
Town after town was plunged into
darkness and cut off from all com
munication with the outside world as
bridges were carried away or inundat
ed by the rapidly rising torrent.
Barns nad live stock were swept
away in the swiftly flowing current.
Mills and power plants were flooded
and their machinery wrecked. Whole
sections of railroad tracks were torn
i^p and whirled away. The United
railway bridge into EVlicott City was
flooded and cars were unable to cross.
Following-a cloudburst near Wood
bine, the Patapsco began to rise rap
idly along both the north and south
branches. A sawmill at Sykesville
was washed' away, electric light and
power wires were torn down, and the
north branch briges at Sykesville and
the Westminster pike were flooded.
Within a short time the river had
ricen 25 feet at Woodstock, overflow
ing the bridge and covering the first
floors of dwellings. The railroad
station was torn from its foundations
and floated down the stream, at W ood
bine a string of box cars on a siding
were washed away.
One entire town, Morriottsville, is
reported under water. Property dam
age is very heavy but no loss of life
has been reported. Many towns have
been cut off from other parts of the
state.
counties of westren Maryland,
Exports of Grain Show Big Drop.
Washington. — Grain exports from
the United States last week amount
ed to 2.755,000 bushels compared with
3.715.000 bushels the week before.
Figures made public by the com
merce department gave the following
comparisons of grain exports last
week with those of the week before:
> Barley 223,000 bushels against 665,
000 bushels; corn, 219,000 against
337,000; oats, 26,000 against 51,000;
rye, 442,000 against 287,000; wheat
1.845.000 against 2,375,000; flour 109,
700 barrels against 205,000 barrels.
Exports of Canadian grain from
United States ports were 297,000 bush
els against 282,000 the week before.
Bandits Escape With $70,000.
Scranton, Pa.—One man was killed
and four other persons were wounded
in a holdup of a Laurel line car near
Moosic by seven bandits who escaped
with two satchels containing $70,126.
The money was to be used in paying
anthracite mine workers at two col
leries.
Edward Murphy, a passenger was
Shot and instantly killed, P. J. Girkin
and Archie Hensall, paymaster of the
West End Coal Company of Shick
shinny, Pa., was seriously wounded,
Phil Scribner and an unidentified wo
man also were shot, but less serious
ly wounded.
Hensail and another paymaster
were carrying the money to pay off
workers in the West End anthracite
mine. About five miles from here,
near Moosic, where the train stopped
for a fey^ minutes, two men came
aboard and joined five who had board
ed the train at Scranton.
After a whispered conversation, the
> seven bandits, all of whom were un
masked, ordered the paymasters to
surrender their two satchels. When
they were refused they opened fire
at Hensall, using their revolvers free
ly. Bullets had struck the four pas
sengers and embedded themselves in
the woodwork of the car before the
terrified passengers succeeded la
ducking behind their seats. „
TAKE 25 TO HOSPITAL
INJURED IN BIG FIRE.
Philadelphia.—More than 25 fire
men were injured or overcome
with smoke in a four-hour battle
with flames which wrecked a six
story mercantile building on lower
Market street in the heart of the
business district.
The fire damage was roughly
estimated at half million dollars.
Thousands of people blocked the
streets and stood in a driving rain
to watch the efforts of the fire
fighters, and the sinister clang of
the ambulances sounded always
above the htibub of the battle as
man after man was rushed away
to the hospital.
UNDERWOOD TALKS OF WHEAT
DELIVERED FIRST PUBLIC AD
DRESS SINCE HIS RETURN
FROM EUROPE.
Alabama Senator Says Need is For
Business of the Entire Country
to Act.
Birmingham, Ala.—Senator Oscar
W. Underwood, delivered his first
public address since his return from
Europe before the Birmingham Rotary
club, sounded a note of warning
against the “black clouds of the
West’’ caused by the failure of the
wheat market.
“We may feel in the South that the
failure of the wheat markets affects
only the North and Northwest,” Sena
tor Underwood said, “but that is not
the case. When our own cotton crop
failed in 1914 because we could not
get ships to carry our bales to Europe
the efTect of it was felt over the en
tire nation. It will be the same way
with the wheat failure and what we
need is for the business of the coun
try to do their part. The result may
not be felt directly down here but
every one will feel it Indirectly.
“We can never tell Where the clouds
will go to. Who among you can tell
if the same cloud now hanging over
the West will not be hanging over the
South next year? There is no golden
rule government this condition. The
only way to guard against this eco
nomic crisis is to operate along the
proper lines. The law of supply and
demand can not be overtaken by puny
efforts of man.”
If American business is to survive
in the future it is aboslutely impera
tive that our products have an Euro
pean market and an European market
can’t exist until a stabilized govern
ment has been established, the speak
er said.
"In order that we may market all
we produce in America one-half of our
cotton, one-third of our meat and
one-third of our wheat crops must be
sold in Europe,” said Senator Under
wood. "The law of supply and de
mand rules the commercial and finan
cial world and nothing can change
this economic principle. We must
have a market for what we produce
or else we will fail financially. And
America has to depend upon Europe
in a large way for a market as no
market can be secured In a country
where there is no stabilized form of
government.
Senator Underwood did not mention
any political issues, but he made it
clear that the assistance of America
was badly needed in Europe to
straighten out affairs and that unless
European governments became stabil
ized. the American citizens would be
great sufferers.
Harding Talks to Canadians.
Vancover, B. C.—President Harding
in an address made during his visit
here—the first visit by an American
President to Canada—pointed to the
century-old friendship between the
people of Canada and the people of
the United States as proof to. the
nations of Europe that public will
’•ather than public force is the key
to international peace.
“It is public will, not public force
that makes for enduring peace,” he
told his audience of Canadians,
gathered in Stanley Park. "And Is
it not a gratifying circumstance that
it has fallen to the lot of us North
Americans, living amicably for more
than a century undfer different flags
to present the most striking example
yet produced of that basic fact? It
only European countries would heed
the lesson conveyed by Canada and
the United States they wou'h. strike
at the root of disagreements, and, in
their own prosperity, forget t<^ in
veigh constantly at ours.”
With his emphasis upon the long
friendship between Canada and the
United States, Mr. Harding coupled
advice to the peoples of the Domin
ion to guard against giving encourage
ment “to any enterprise looking to
Canada’s annexation of the United
States.
13 ARE KILLED AT
FOUR PERSONS ARE DEAD IN
ILLINOIS AND NINE IN
INDIANA.
TRAIN WAS RUNNING LATE
Was Making Up Time From First A©
cldent When Second Occurrs and
Running Fast.
Terre Haute, Ind.—Nine persons
were killed when a Pennsylvania east
bound pessenger train crashed Into
the automobile in which they had
started across t.he tracks at Liggett,
eight miles west of here.
The train was traveling about 50
miles an hour and was two hours late
because of another accident near
Highland, Illinois, in which four per
sons were killed.
According to G„ G. Gillespie, in
charge of the Liggett telegraph tow
er, who witnessed the accident, the
tragedy was caused by the attempt
of the driver to cross the tracks
ahead of the train. The automobile
was struck directly in the middle, the
occupants being hurled in dismem
bered fragments for a distance of
about 200 feet.
The train sped on for a distance
of about three-quarters of a mile be'
fore it could be brought to a stop.
As soon as It was backed to the
scene of the tragedy, work was Start
ed at once to gather the mangled
bodies.
The dead are.
Mrs. Vella Boswick, 41 years, of
Danville, Ills.; Richard Bostwick, 18
and Clarence Bostwick, 13 months,
her sons; May Bostwick, 18; Trills
Bostwick, 13,; Etta, Rp&twick, 3; hett
daughters; Mrs. Ethel Slavens, 21, of
Terre Haute, Ind., and Anna Leona
Slavens, 3 months, her daughter, and
Raymond Thomason, 21, of Danville,
the driver.
At the time of the tragedy the
crew in charge of the train was at
tempting to make up about two hours
time lost due to the accident near
Highland, Ills.
The victims at Highland;
John Sezs, 40 years old; Sera Dan
ka, 30; Joe Lengle, 35; John Sezs, Jr.,
14, all of Highland.
Sezs, Danka and Lengyle were kill
ed instantly, the boy living about two
hours after the accident. He was
taken to a hospital in Highland, where
he died.
The train was drawn by two en
gines.
Every member of the crew was on
the point of nervous collapse when
the death dealing train was finally
brought to Terre Haute.
Coroner John O. Garrlgus arrived
at the scene shortly after the acci
dent occurred at Liggett, and after
an investigation reported the deaths.
were due to an "unavoidable acci
dent.’’
Officers Indicted For Fraud Plot.
Washington. — A Federal Grand
Jury, sitting at Elkins, W. Va., re
turned indictments charging conspir
acy to defraud the Government
against Ernest C. Morse, former Di
rector of sales of the War Depart
ment ,and the officers of the United
States Hajness Company, the Depart
ment of Justice was advised.
In addition to Morse, Captain Earl
R. Estes, formerly of the War De
partment claims board; and John C.
Skinner, formerly chief clerk of the
War Department, were also indicted,
along with Major Joseph C. Byron,
Col. George B. Goetz, Captain Azel of
the Cochran and Henry W. Benke,
officers of the company.
The indictments alleged a conspira
cy of defraud of the Government
through contracts between the Com
pany and the War Department for
the sale of surplus harness after the
armistice in 1918.
Labor Dearth on Farm Seen.
Atlanta, Ga.—A farm labor short
age on the eve of the cotton picking
season in several southern states was!
indicated in the monthly business re
view of the sixth Federal Reserve
district.
The exodus of the negro to north
ern industrial centers is being felt
on farms in Florida, Alabama, Ten
nessee and Georgia, the report said.
A labor shortage is felt in these states
in some other lines of industry.
The boll weevils have continued to
wreak destruction to the cotton crop
in most sections of the southeast, the
report said. The weevil activities
have been aided cpnslderably by rain.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED
AT GRADE CROSSING.
New York.—William I. Gottleib,
president of the Gottleib and Rab
inotz, Inc., garments manufactur
ers, and four young women were
killed when a Long Island passen
ger train crashed into the automo
bile in which they were returning
from Long Beach.
| The accident occurred at the
Alerrick road crossing in Rockville
Renter when, according to wit
ynesses, Gottleib’s car smashed
through the crossing gates direct
ply in the path of the speeding
Strain.
Vreckage and bodies were hurled
or carried for more than 100 feet
and the front of the automobile
still was wedged into the locoma
tive when the train came' to a
stop 1,000 feet down the track.
Death apparently came instant
ly to four of the five victims. One
of the young women was alive
when she was lifted from the
wreckage, but died as she was be
ing placed in an automobile to be
Tushed to a hospital.
WANT 150,000 ENLISTED MEN
RESERVE! OFFICERS CLAIM8
PEACE-TIME TRAINING BE
ING NEGLECTED.
Resolution* Received By Secretary
^ Meek* and Sent to the War De
partment Budget Committee.
Washington.—Increase of the peace
time regular army to 15,000 officers
and 150.000 enlisted men in order to
permit “all-year-round” instruction of
“civilian components of the army of
the United States is urged in a reso
lution adoptedi unanimously by the
national Council of the Reserve Offi
cers’ Association, which met in India
napolis.^ jgtily 14-15. TJhe_ resolutions
were 'deceived by Secretary Weeks
and sent to the war department bud
get committee which is laboring
with next year’s estimates.
Action of the reserve offlicers was
not disclosed at the time, although
the resolutions provide that all mem
bers of Congress receive copies.
The council speaks for the associa
tion of reserve officers which in
cludes a great majority of the 70,000
men of the reserve lists. It assert
ed that about 5.000 regular officers
and 60.000 men were wholly or par
tially employed in summer training
camps work and that this number is
deemed inadauate to give necessary
instruction” to the limited person
nel now authorized to attend the
camps.
The regular army officer corps is
now less than 12,000 total to which
it was cut last year and there is lit
tle prospect that forthcoming burget
figures will ask for any* increases,
whatever recommendations may be
made by Army officials otherwise to
Congress. The reserve officers’ or
ganizations. however, decleared that
further reductions in regular person
nel must be made at the expense of
the reserve and national guard train
ing work as it was “impractibale” to
cut further the foreign garrison or
“overhead” commissioned staffs.
The resolutions also ask for devel
opment and maintenance at high effi
ciency of a plan “which will provide
in the event of an emergency, of a
selective service system that will in
sure swift and sure supply of person
nel to the armed forces; declare the
support of the national guard to be
“essential to the perfection of the na
tional defense" and urge reserve of
ficers to work for "active operation
and support of the people in support
of the national guard.’’
Address Georgie Senate.
Atlanta, Ga.—Appointment of a
cotton commission of three members
to join with appointed commission
ers from all other cotton growing
states in what is to be known as the
Cotton States Commission was urged
before the Georgia senate and house
of representatives by a delegation
representing the movement.
The speakers were: Senator N. B.
Dial, of South Carolina: A. W. Mc
Lean. of North Carolina, formerly
director of the War Finance Corpor
ation and former assistant United
States treasurer, and R. O. Everett,
chairman of the cotton states com
mission and a member of the North
Carolina general assembly.
The purpose of the proposed com
mission. it was declared, would be
to organize the cotton producing
forces of the cotton growing states
so that thev might systematically
and effectively work out the cotton
production and marketing problems
common to all in co-operation with
the federal government
DESTDRYER IS HI!
BY HARDIN6 SHIP
HOLE TORN IN SIDE ZEILIN
WHEN HIT BY TRANSPORT
HENDERSON.
SERIOUS DISASTER AVERTED
Blinded By Fog, Escort of President’*
Ship Thrown Into Path of Hender
son and Struck.
Seattle, Wash.—President Hardin*
and his official party returned to the
continental United States from their
visit to Alaska and Vancouver, and
their ship narrowly escaped sinking
the destroyer Zeilln, one of the escort
ships which, blinded by fog and bat
tling with strong currents in the chan
nel off Port Townsend, was thrown
off its course and Into the path of the
navy transport Henderson bearing
the chief executive.
The destroyer was seriously damag
ed and when the Henderson continu
ed its way the destroyer was left list
ing heavily to port, a hole torn into
its side and three of its sister ships
holding fast with tow lines.
Officers on the bridge! when .the
ships collided give full credit to the
quick orders of Captain Allen Buch
anan, commanding the Henderson,
which they declared averted even
more serious damage. According to
witnesses ' destroyer was first
sighted crossTng the transport’s bow,
in a position to be rammed amidship
and too close to avoid a collision.
Captain Buchanan's ship also was
laboring against tide, smothered by
the fog, and running slowly ahead,
with fog horn3 open. One of the
Henderson’s pilots, familiar with the
waters, said Cantain Buchanan’s or
ders were given in advance of his and
caused'TiKe' ship's" engines to be re
versed to full speed astern, throwing
the bow off its course and, in the grip
of the tide, swinging it to a degree
sufficient to prevent it from crashing
squarely into the side of the de
stroyer.
The radio telephones of the Hen
derson were immediately put into
use, summoning the other destroyers.
The Corry was the first to respond
and reported that the crippled vessel
had listed badly to port, but no casu
alties had resulted. Later word said
the Zeilln had been beached near Port
Townsend.
The President had not left his cab
in when the collision occurred and
few of thp Henderson’s passengers
knew of the accident until some time
later. There was no alarm sounded
and no confusion.
Slight Advance iif Coet of Living.
Washington.—The cost of living ad
vanced 1-2 of 1 per cent In the United
States between March and June, and
in the latter month it was 69.7 per
cent higher than in 1913.
Figures compiled in 32 representa
tive cities by the department of labor,
made public today, reveal that in the
period from March to June living cost
changes range from a decline of 9-10
of 1 per cent at Savannah, Ga„ to an
increase of 2.8 per cent at Seattle.
Smaller declines were recorded at
Atlanta, while varying increases were
listed at Birmingham, Jacksonville,
Memphis, New Orleans, Mobile, Nor.
folk and Richmond.
Baptist Alliance Selects Toronto.
Stockholm.—Toronto, Canada, was
chosen by the Baptist World Alliance
as its meeting place five years hence.
The choice was made before final ad
journment of the present congress,
after representatives of Washington,
D. C., and Atlatna, Ga„ had withdrown
in favor of the Canadian city.
The congress adopted vigorous res
olutions urging the Rumanian gov
ernment to cease persecution of Bap
tists and to make certain that local
administrations in that country do
not in the future interfere with any
class or any sect in its religious wor
ship. The resolutions, adopted by a
rising vote, were ofT^red after word
had come to Congress of the severe
punishment of ministers for preach
ing in Rumania.
Son Kills Father After Row.
St. Louis, Mo.—Burton E. Barrett,
41 years old, a watchman, was killed
by his son, Harold, 21, as he sat in
the lobby of the Boatman's Bank
Building. The son was arrested, and
according to police said he shot his
father because the latter had threat
ened to kill him and other members
of the family with s hammer.
The lobby was crowded with per
sons when the shooting occurred.
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