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TIED NETTS-nr.CC D, MASIIALL, N. C. y :o rn I lull I CONFERENCE ADJOURNED AFTER ENDORSING R. M. LA. , FOLLETTE. Cleveland, Ohio. After endorsing Robert M. LaFollette as a presidential candidate and providing (or the organ izatloa of a new political party next January, the conference tor progres ive political action wound up its con vention. - , , The conference empowered ita na tional committee to select a vice presl- m 11.1 , ji j.i. ...... mnH with the "LaFollette for President committee." . LaFollette wai endorsed as a can didate on his own platform. The con- ventlon then adopted for Itself a plat form embodying the Ideas contained In the Wlnconstn document and In the '; statement of principles Issued at the St Louis session of the conference last February. , The final day of the gathering work ed out strictly according to plans ot the leaders without appreciable op position. But just before adjournment some of the delegates, amazed by the rapidity of events, had to be assured by the chair that LaFollette actually had been "nominated" and that den nlte .provision had been made tor the new jparty. The confuslo narose from the fact that the report ot the committee on organisation recommended this action, and that no separate motion of en dorsement was offered. The report Itself was adopted without a dissent ing vote, but the significance of this action did not dawn on either dele ' gates or gallarles and there was a total absence of demonstration. Re peatedly the name "LaFollette" was the signal for an outburst of cheering and applause. Yet the culmination of the convention's work, romlng In the form of a committee recommendation, did not draw even a patterning of .-hand-claps. The farmer-labor party elements who backed Pearley Christiansen in the 1920 campaign, and who also had urged a third party idea then rafted to the support of LaFollette as an Independent Abraham ; Leffkowitz, New York, being their spokesman. Brazil Struck By Revolution. Buenos Aires. A revolution broke out in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the revolutionists took possession of the city. ,. . Thecoup d'etat is reported to have begun" about 10 o'clock Friday night, It reached its climax at 8 o'clock Sat urday morning and was completed by noon. The revolutionists gained con trol ot all the federal government at Rio de Janeiro is reported to have des patched war Vessels to Santos, which la the port for Sao Paulo, together with troops to suppress the move ment' . J. A Rio Janeiro dispatch to La No don says the Brazilian congress enact ed a government bill putting under a state of siege the states of Dlo de Janeiro and Sao Paulo for 60 days. This period the government will ex tend if necessary. Owing to censorship at Rio, and the seizure of the telegraph offices by the revolutionists in Sao Paulo, few details are coming through. A veiled private message from Rio Janeiro received by the Associated Press Indicated an effort to communi cate that there had been occurrences comparable in seriousness with the revolutionary outbreak In Rol Janeiro In 1922. Young Coolldo Operated Upon. Washington. An operation describ ed as successful was performed upon Calvin Coolldge, Jr., 18-year-old son of President and Mrs. Coolldge at Walter Reed hospital, in an attempt to ar rest the course of an attack of septic poisoning. ',,- . One of the physicians said "we ac complished all that we expected." The President and Mrs. Coolldge were at the hospital during the oper ation, Mr. Coolldge going there when the operation was decided upon and the latter accompanying her son when he was removed from the White Hons. : . W. W. Yen Nominated For Premier. Peking. President Tsao Kun Is re ported to have submitted to parlJa . ment the nomination of W. Yen for premier. : i '.!'.' ' VP Dr. Yen was minister of agriculture and commerce in the cabinet of Pre mier Sun Pao-Chi, which resigned a fsw days ago. It is assumed that if te appointment of Dr. Yen Is , ap I roved, there will ' be practically no Lange in the other cabinet' posts, v. hose incumbents have remained in "Ice temporarily. ,. ... . 1 r ' i r ; ees Kill Youth.. . - -.,::3. Josej h E. Eherrill, 19 r el l, son of Marvin Eherrill, of i c ', n 3 1 ii.ii'"y killed; , 1 , rii.l, was bad i ! a ; anion, Eaxter i ! ' ? :Tt t ; t te prrb- : . , V i I 8;",!'..'"-Oi..:e n r f l i i i i i,: i- TWO DEAD AND SIX MISSING IN SHIP FIRE. Baltimore, Md. Two are dead and six more are reported missing on the final checkup following the burning of the steamer Three River In Chesapeake Bay off, the Patuxent River. One man died ot exhaustion after he was pulled Into a lifeboat and a woman who board ed the boat at a Virginia point was drowned. The blase la believed to have be gun with a carelessly thrown cigar ette.. : -s Five ot the missing persons are members of The Evening Sun car rier boys band. The other is a deck hand. , Fire was discovered shortly be fore midnight when nearly everyone aboard the Three Rivers was asleep with the exception of the crew on duty. The boat was filled with holiday crowds returning from low er Chesapeake Bay and Virginia re sorts. A passenger who had not taken a berth, but who was asleep in the saloon, discovered the smoke. He ran to the pilot house and notified the captain, Spencer Hall, of Bal timore. TBJUJI KILLS THREE ASLEEP MUTILATED BODIES FOUND NEAR GROVER BY ENGINEER. Shelby. The mutilated bodies of three negro men were found on the tracks ot the Southern main line about one-half mile east . of Grover, this county, by the engineer of No. 35, fast southbound passenger train. Two of the negroes, Roderick Scruggs and Jim Degree, were natives ot the Grover section, and the other was "Kirt" Mitchell, ot Rutherford county. Supposition was that the trio fell asleep while, sitting on the railroad track and were killed by either No. 135 or No. 35. A similar finding and verdict was made by Coroner Esqridge and the coroner's jury Monday morning. Mitchell had a small hole knocked in his head, while a part of Degree's face was missing and about one-half of Scruggs head was knocked off. His brains were scattered down the track, while the portion ot the head remain ing on the body was entirely empty, Scruggs met death almost at his mother's door, her home being only a few yards from the scene ot the triple tragedy. ' Several suppositions were advanced during the night one being that the negroes were murdered and the bodies placed on the track to be hit by the train as a blind for the crime. An other was that they were either kill' ed or shocked by lightning running on the steel rails daring the storm and that they were later struck by the train. However, the evidence at tha in , quest did not uphold either supposi tion as other negroes bad seen tne trio late in the evening and one wit ness said that he talked with them about 11 o'clock and that they were going in the direction of the tragedy at that time. Rev. Geo. Byera Murdered In China. Washington. Rev. George Douglas Byers, an American citizen attached to rhe Presbyterian mission, was mur dered June 24, presumably by bandits, at Kuchek, Island ot Hainan, according to Information received by American Minister Schurman at Peking and for warded to the state department ' Minister Schurman received his re port from Douglas Jenkins, the Amer ican consul general at Canton, who was Informed of the murder by the British consul at Kiungchow, Hainan Island. . The TJ. S. S. Sacramento Would leave Hong Kong Tuesday, ; It was stated, with Vice Consul Chamberlain aboard and proceed ,to Holhow, the port nearest the scene to conduct an investigation. , Dogs Outlawed After Rabies. Klnston. Unmuzzled dogs running at large may be shot by any citizen at Ay den, according to an official edict The mayor ot the Pitt coanty town has ordered that all canines be confined to owners' premises as a re sult of recent outbreaks of rabies. Manv nersons and animals have been attacked by rabid dogs there re cently. The official proclamation fails to exempt canines vaccinated mraltidt favdronhobia. Hundreds have been given the preventative treatment in this section. Veterinary authori ties declare vaccination makes dogs immune in practically every case. A number of persons at Ayden are tak ing the Pasteur treatment as a result : being bitten ' by animals afflicted with hydrophobia. Mr. Springs for Vice President New York. The South Carolina del- agation at a concus decided dertnitely to placr Mrs. Leroy Springs, of Lan caster, dolejate-at-large, in nomina tion for V e Vice presidency. At r li?z comtniUee of siz wa9 f 1 to handle her canil.t.scy oa Ce t r. y.rt. Leroy ;' , a foi.. r s ' 1 t ' la r,a' 1 c - " 1 i..4k.L . A I LttiiLu o flight j TWO WESTWARD BOUND PLANES , REACH SAN FRANCISCO NEAR SCHEDULE TIME. San Francisco The first westbound night-flight air mall, which had left Mlneola, N. Y., 34 hours and 40 minu tes earlier, arrived at tha air mail field here at 5:45 o'clock. The two planes, which arrived five ' seconds apart, were piloted from Reno, Ne vada, by Curr H. Wlnslow and W. Huklng. Haselhurst Field, N. Y. The first eastbound transcontinental mall ser vice air plane, pilot Wesley L. Smith, arrived here at 6:11 p. m. day light saving time, six minutes behind schedule, with 12 pounches ot mall weighing 231 pounds. The plana left Cleveland 14 mln- ntes behind schedule, due to the de lay of a mall truck. . Although Pilot Smith encountered an unfavorable east wind of 20 miles an hour and a thundershower; over the 'coal regions of Pennsylvania, he "picked up" eight minutes. One of tha pouches contained an assortment of fresh cut California flowers for Mrs. Calvin Coolldge from Mrs. Jamea L. Powers, wife of the postmaster of San Francisco. Chicago. Pilot S. J. Short on ,the second westbound trip ot tha trans continental air mail, arrived here from Cleveland and at 6 o'clock, cen tral standard time, 15 minutes ahead ot schedule, with 14 pounches ot mail, three ot which were dropped here. Five pounches were taken aboard tor the continuation of tha westward flight Coolldge Appoints Board of Appeals. Washington. Twelve numbers of the board of appeals, authorized under tha new revenue law, were appointed by President Coolldge. . . ' Those chosen from the general pub lic were: Adolphus E. Graurner, San Francisco: J. S. Y. Ivans, New York City; A. E. James, New York City; John M. Sternhagen, Chicago; Sumner L. Trussell, Minneapolis; John J. Mar quette, Washington, D. C, and W. C. Lansdon, Salina, Kansas. Five were selected from the bureau of Internal revenue as follows: Char les D. Hamel, Grafton, N. D.; Jules Gilmer Korner, Jr., Winston-Salem, N. C; Benjamin H. Littleton, Nash ville, Tenn.; Charles P. Smith, Boston, Mass., and Charles M. Trammel, Lake- wood, Fla.' : Federal Banks to Aid Farmer. Washington The Federal inter mediate credit banks have made loans aggregating $78,837,515 to the farmers of the country In slightly less than ona year since the new credit system was organized, it was announced by tha Federal Farm Loan Board at the conclusion of the semi-annual confer ence of the board and officials of the farm loan and intermediate credit banks. Up to May 1, last, 127,693,757 of the loans had been repaid, showing that $48,943,758 of Government money is being used by the farmers to finance current crops or live stock production and marketing. ' A formal statement Issued by the board said it was "highly gratified" with the record made by the banks and regarded the1 system as having established itself as a nseful and necessary American institution. V Troopa Rule Wrecked City. Lorain, Ohio. While this city con tinued to dig itself out of the ruin wrought by Saturday's tornado. Gov ernor Vic Dohaney and a committee appointed by him to aid in bringing order out of choas were to survey the ruined district comprising about 125 blocks in an effort to devise means ot rebuilding the city. , ' '? . Order and systematic relief having been established, considerable prog ress Is being made in cleaning up the wreackage. The two principal thor oughfares, Broadway and Erie streets, Hundreds of demolished residences streets have been opened to traffic have been cleared and practically all have not yet been explored for dead. Work of clearing the ruins of fne State Theater, where authorities be lieve there may still be a tew bodies, continues. The list ot dead remained at 65. '. More strict military control was in effect on Broadway, where a number of wrecked banks are located. Even high ranking officers, not directly con nected with units doing guard duty there were not permitted to pass through the lines. . Means Given Two Years. New York. Sentenced to serve two years1 in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta and fined S10.C:3 sri f 5,C:0 re spectively for - conri'lraoy t j release whlbkey illegally f n' : Os- ton B. Means, f" : "" rf m' : t cf J-istice asnr.t, a- ! " - . J ." ' e his secretary, v - . 1 "c ti t'.;e to-r.ts, u - " i ! : a 5 " r 0. SIX KILLED IN TRAIN COLLISION IN ILLINOIS. Chicago. Six t persons were kill ed and 17 others were Injured, some ot them seriously, when a fast mall train ot tha Chicago, Bur lington and Qulncy railroad plung ed Into the rear ot the Burlington's Denver to Chicago passenger train number 1 near Bud a. Ills., about It miles west ot Chicago. .' Railroad officials here said the accident was due to failure ot the engineer ot the mall train to ob serve an automatlo signal which operated when the passenger train stopped at a coal chute. Tha passenger train was 40 min utes lata and the mall was speeding to make up eight minutes. - The coaches were knocked from the track and one of them landed part ly across another track over which another train was about to pass. This train was stopped .however, so soma 'Of the injured were brought to Chicago and others with the dead were taken to Princeton, Ills. Oil KILLED BY EDOES DEATH AND DESTRUCTION ARE WROUGHT BY TORNADOES IN MANY CITIES. Chicago. A terriffio hurricane struck along the south shore of Lake Erie, devastating several towns and cities and taking toll of 350 lives. Buildings, bridges, and trees wera leveled and probably 2,000 persons were Injured during the brief but de structive storm. . Tha wind swept a path nearly 60 miles wide from Sandusky Bay to a point between Lorain and Cleveland, The most extensive damage thus far reported was at Lorain where rows of buildings were blown over and a theater was partly caved In on a Sat urday afternoon audience. Cleveland. The northern part ot Ohio lay prostrate under the fury ot winds of cyclonic violence that swept from Cleveland to Sandusky along the shores of Lake Erie, isolated Sandus ky, Elyrla, and orain, killing possibly 400 persons, injured another 2,000 and caused property damage ot possibly millions. - 1 The probable death list is augment ed by the possibility that lake steam ers may have gone down. Three steam ers out - of Sandusky are known to have been caught in the storm, and reports have it that passenger were swept overboard from the recka ot ona of them the Reliance. Scenea of the wildest terror and confusion were enacted in the cities as the furious winds blew men and buildings into th lake, blew railroad cars off the tracks and pushed struc tures over. ; ; " The Elyrla ' firs department, which succeeded in reaching Laraln, sent out a frantic appeal tor help report ing that ' several hundreds were in jured when a theater collapsed. V Eighty dead have been taken from the State theater in Lorain, tha chief of police ot Elyrla reported. Esti mates of 300 dead and 1,600 injured are not exaggerated, the chief said. The entire Eyria fire and police de partment and - ambulance equipment have been sent to Lorain. The only way to reach Lorain from Cleveland is through Elyrla and the roads are Jammed with refugees head ed away from Lorain and relief par ties on the way there, the chief said. First reports received here from staff correspondents ot The Plain Dealer,, who motored back to the first available telephone east of Lorain, were to the effect that 200 were killed in the State theater collapse at Lorain and that not more than 40 others ar dead in other parts of the city. Rain continued to fall In Lorain for several hours. Confirmation ot the collapse ot the theater and washout of tha Black river bridge at Lorain was brought to Cleveland by A. Dow ner) conductor on the Lake Shore electric railway, the first eye-witness ot the disaster to reach this city. Many women and children were killed, motorists told him. , Practically every house on Broadway, the main street east and west, was blown down, Downer reported, and automobiles were picked up and overturned on the sidewalks. ' Nlckle Plate trainmen reported that all -the government houses in South Lorain, north of the railroad tracks, had been bdown down. Boy Breaks Neck. Fayettevllie Dan Butler, 21, suffer ed a broken neck when he dived into shallow water at White Lake, Eladen county, He was rushed by automo bile to the Pitmman hospital in It '3 city, where he was still livlpg at 7 o'clock at night Physicians at tie hospital, however, entertain no hope for his recovery. Cotton Mill Men Name Leaders. Elowlng flock E. C. Dwe:i i, cf Charlotte. as elected pre " t cf t- Cctt ".snurjclurers' s jt'.'J.-n of Norii i rj".:.ia. Ha t :cce-. la T -r- ro. d ' ) H t' "a f re f . . Ui-MW lit iaixtwla INCREASE IN ACREAGE NOTED BY COTTON ASSOCIATION REPORT. . St Matthews, S. C Although tha cotton crop condition for June Is slight ly under the average for the past 10 years, an Increase ot 1.6 per cent Is noted in the acreage and the produc tion for the year is forecast at 11, 065,000 bales In the June report of the American Cotton association released here by Harvle Jordan, secretary for the organisation. - A summary of the report follows: "Acreage planted. The estimated cptton acreage planted tor 1924, baa ed upon reports from correspondent in all of the cotton growing counties, amounts to 38,419,000 acres. Compar ing this estimate with the government acreage ot 37,130,000 acres, harvested In 1923, there is shown on estimated increase of the planted acreage for 1924, of 3.5 per cent "Condition of crop: Tha reported June condition of the crop is esti mated to be 68.1 per cent as compar ed with our May estimate of 64.9 per cent indicating an improvement In condition of June over May of 3.2 per cent The 10-year average for June by the government is 74.8 per cent Which Indicates that the present June con dition Is 66.7 per cent under tha last 10-year average. "Weevil infestation: Report! from Alabama and Louisiana show heaviest infestation of weevils, while tha ma jority of the reports from tha other states indicate generally light infes tations, a large pumber of the reports show increasing infestation of tha weevils. In addition to weevils, cor respondents from all the states report damage to the crop from llce, cut worms, root rot red spiders, blight army worms, wilt grasshoppers, black root and caterpillars. "Condition , of stands: - A critical situation confronting the cotton crop this season Is the generally reported poor and ragged stands in connection with the average two to three weeks lateness ot the crop. A majority ot the reports indicate an excess ot poor stands in the states ot North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Ark ansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Mis souri. Poor stands are reported over wide areas in all the states, Includ ing Texas. While it will be difficult to correctly, estimate the percentage of loss in the acreage of cotton this season by tha universally reported bad stands, it is, nevertheless, an import ant factor which must be considered in estimating tha final harvesting of tha crop." ' Toklo Serious Over American Flag. Toklo. The cutting down of tha American flag at the United States embassy here by an unidentified Jap anese was discussed in the lower house ot tha diet while It waa offi cially indicated that a special meet ing of the cabinet might be held to dlscnss the affair. The matter was reported to Pre mier Kato during A session of the house of representatives. With For eign Minister Shldehara and Home Minister Wakatsuki, the premier lm mediately left the chamber for a con ference as to what action should he taken. Following the conference a most thorough police search for the man who cut down the 'flag was order ed together with an investigation Into all phases of the affair. A tormal statement ot the incident was issued by the foreign office. "I realize what the American flag means to the American people," Minister Shldehara said in making public tha statement, "and we are most regretful that this has happened." Letters Appear on Child's 8kln. Gastonla, N. Cr-People In the vicin ity of the ; Wlnget mill are excited over a strange natural phenomenon which has appeared on the person of little Dorothy . Parrot, four year old daughter of R. S. Parrot who lives on the York road just south of the mill. Three mysterious letters of a blood red color appeared on the body ot the child and. no reason can be given by the father or mother as to why the letters have appeared. The plainly visible letters "R I C" appear on tie flesh and appear as though they were stamped by a rubber stamp except that they read from right to left In stead of le:t to right as in ordinary reading matter. : '.' Younj Swimmer Drowns. Wilmii ;ton. Fred D. Ellis, aged about 13, of 806 South Front street, was drowned in Silver Lake whila swiam.Iag with a number of his coni- -Jons. The unfortunate occurrence t.x.k place before the eyes cf 1 '.t ther without his belcg able to 1. 1. 1 Family of Five Killed. ' Chicago. 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Moth er I Ton must say "California'' or yon may get an imitation fig syrup, Crafted New Eyelid A remarkable feat In surgery was recently performed In Liverpool, Eng land, when eyelids were grafted on an . American chemist the skin betas taken from his arm. A chemical explosion In a laboratory during the war. cost tha patient the loss of his eyelids and sight Now, however, he can see and even eyelashes are growing across his new lids. Uncle Sam' Health Good The last year has been the health iest year on record in the United States, according to statistics t the United States . public health service anjd leading insurance companies. Tu berculosis) heart disease, apoplexy, Bright'8 disease,' Influenza, pneumonia and diabetes all showed a substantial decrease from the year before. Pop-' ular Science Monthly. For bloated fMttnc nfl dlatrmaad breath ing dn to indlCMtlon you nmd a medlolno wall aa a purfatlvo. Wright's India Vasatabl Pills arc both. Adv. Say Horte Talk ' . Joseph C. 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