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Cause Widespread Suffering;
By Severe Blizzard in Wyom
ing; Property Dnige aid
Death List Inrrrtfrif Dafly
Kansas City, Mo., May 11.?Scourg
ed by tornadoes , torrential stoma
and blizzards over a three-day period
the Middle West counted its dead at
21& late today, with probably a thous
and persons injured, hundreds home
less and property damage in the aaih
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In eight states, from the Rocky
Mountain region to the east and south
eastward, the fury of the weather
brought death and suffering.
First destruction was wrought in
Kansas, where a "twister roared in
from the southwest Saturday night
There followed on Monday tornadoes
that lashed Texas, Missouri, Arkan
sas, Louisiana, and Illinois, flattening
farm houses and buildings in rural
sections snd laying towns and villages
in waste. ' .?
Twice the elements struck at Mis
souri, early Monday in a dozen com
munities in the central part of the
State and late in the day at PopUu
Bluff, in the southeastern section. The
known dead at Popular Bluff stood
at 77, with 350 injured and the heart
of the city devastated. Ten persons
were killed in central Missouri, three
by high wind at Si. Looiaana two by
twisters near Springfield, making a
total of 92 deaths in the State.
Arkansas was swept from the south
ern section to the northeastern eoun
ties by a series of twisters late Mon
day. Latest reports placed the dealt
at 62 and the injured at more than
three hundred. % *
The death list in Texas, where-tor
nadoes struck at two points, reached
35 today when two died- of in juries."'
First reports of casualties in Louis
iana came today when word was re
ceived^ that three Negroes were killed
and sevral persons injured by a. heayy.
wind and rainstorm that struck dear'
Claranee, La., yesterday.
Blizzard conditions la Wyoming
resulted in three persons freezing' to
death. Two boys, Glenn Holder and
George Holmes, marooned a dem and
most of two nights in their motor ear
which was stalled in snow-drifts^-were
rescued today. They tyuad their lives
to their faithful1 dog, wMch kept, them
from dropping into thesiumber that
preceds death by freezing.
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I Smith's Experience
Limited and Local,
I Not FaariBar With Great PraMeaal
I Of Cmtry As Are Natieaal I
I Characters, Say* Editor
I Never before has amy public man!
I been presented as the leading can-fl
I didate of a great party for the presi-l
I (ieney whose taurine and eapapenael
I have been so piifBaily local as that!
I of Governor Smith, with the paariMel
I exception of Grow dPMdancL This
I assertion is made by Dr. Albert Shawl
? in his monthly comment in the Re
view of Reviews. As an offida! and!
I a public man Smiths activities hmfl
I been wholly confined to the affairs I
I of New York City sod New York
I Dr. Shaw proceeds ta MW|Wt J
I the dhflet psehkiaM:-tNdaipAbe eoon
? try, such as thosa of the consolida
I tion and control of our vast qtflroad
I system; tha wihabilltataon of A iUIIipM
? can agric^i^^ijg]; stand-|
probabie begininga" of a new inters
K- - mliiiotiiMiiil of the nostnenwi na*?tior
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rfo NEW Evidence
REVEALED IN QUIZ
<*. Person Wig Bring Fourth Salt
Par Diasetttioa Of Cotton
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Raleigh, May 11.?Several heated
i kiiarfiiHj occurred between at
insCoL Wiley Person's oral ex
Mtovitien' yesterday before Commiss
ioner Murray Allen, in an effort to
orttoct Evidence on which to W a
fourth suit against - the 'North Caro
lina Cotton Growers' Co-operative'
Association, alleging extravagance,
inefficiency, and 'mismanagement.
GpL Person intends to ask that the
assodatioo be placed in the hands of
receivers. -The three other suits
brought through CoL Person have
been thrown out of court The hear
ing yesterday was merely to obtain
evidence on which to base a suit. Com
missioner Allen had no decision to
rimke.
. W. E. W. Holdeer in whose name
the suit was brought was not present
nor was J. R. Baggett of Lffi>on,
who had forinerry been associated
with- Col. person in the suit Most of
the information brought out in the
' oral anamination was the same tha:
was compiled some time ago by the
association, and filed with the com
missioner in answef to a list of ques
tions-toy-G?L Person. CoL Person ven
tered his attack on the practice of
sellinf cotton on ftal, which he des
I cribed as gambling, and charged it
! had' resulted in loss to. the 900 mem-!
bers of the association.
RrB. Bbrioek, general manager of
tha-association, replied that a profit
of: $429,922142; lad'been made by this
t practice, which he" declared was an
"established custom in the cotton
' trade," and pimply meant that cotton
is sold With either the buyer Or the
seller "reserving the right 4o fix the
pri$e of-the cottoh before some fix
ed date. ^
['thetfterr.oon he
-ed Ao be a copy ?f? letter written by
: Aaron Sapiro* rormer coonsel of the
'association, to tha Guarantee Trust
I Una contract was the same as Ahe'Ok
lahoma contract' r
Ob CoL Personal admission that he
! ?..?jk'th* letter from a
I former disehajgedremploye of the As
I aodatisn, James H. Pou, counsel for
I the defendrat, de|nanded of Col. Per
son since imw&niiged he was the hoid
fterof stolen property, if he did not
Lthink he ehoold^be forced into the
[hands of a receiver by the legal pro
? fession. **
I Webster, counsel for the assoeia- I
? tion, who was on .the stand at the
? time the letter was introduced, stated!
I under eross-exami nation that the I
handwriting on the letter was in his
ft opinion that of A^ E. Bing, a f ormer
} empioye whose resignation had been I
ft ie^ttested. ft
la edition to Mr. Pou and Mr
Webster, the Association was alsoft
! represented by ^ Jqdg^J^Crawford
?j the spectators in the courthouse?
I where thp hearing was held, when he
lammd Dr. B. W. Kilgore, presid*it
l ed the adeoeiatior., of being a "paper
fanner." ? ^?ft
Manager streeeed the faetft
I thai tKe ditedftfe of the assoridtiPhft
were "diet fanniSs" and banker farm
| e*s, who produce an average of 269
I bales efefe and have several theus
I fund..
j .With the five year contracts ex-fl
fti jfmng. Mr. Blaloek said many of the
. oWwiiOrrs were signing up again
, and thdt m nev members have sign
J Sd, Dr. mt WhitheJ, of WoSffie I
f I tZafdiA Pfllitifv ' di><T ' fit 4>ma _ rtTTlCP-C at ?
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c Pcnnv Cbjiimuniry Horae^t'^:ik4aH8p?ife|
fast beta dedicated and thrown open to retired" m
bat, where rent, light and heat are free." Tweijty-iwo aparimenta'
whida bouse 80 families, a chapel and civic CMCtriC1** vp the-con* ?
tStryhav^^4o,TBarti t0 ^r* a^*
Wants American ;
Effort Deferred
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Herricn Cables State Depart
' mcnt That Pl^fht. WoaJd
Be Misinterpreted
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Washington, May 10.?Myron T.
Herrick, American ambassador to
rftraaee, today cabled the State De
partment than any attempt byAmen
aapiMgjitary tn rpaVa^aJr?aas-Atla^
tfc flight while the fate of Captaip
Nugesser and Colt still is in doubt
"blight be misunderstood and misih
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terpreteo.
"The Ameriian ambassador to
lack of news of
for their present State .of anxiety, he
feels that the. take-off of a tfmns-At
lantic flight from the United States
at thi* time, when the fate of the
Preach aviators is. stilly/in doubt,
alight be misunderstood Vwid misin
terpreted." _ /
Kew York, May 10?The Bellanca
nionoplane, which had planned ,tp take
off for Paris Thursday morning, will
defer its departue, until Saturday
morning, Charles #A. Ldvine, head of
the Columbia Aircraft Corporation,
owners of the plane, announced to
Tbe announcement followed a con
ference with G. M. Bellanca, designer
of the pane, ahd Clarence! D. Cham
berlain and Xloyid W.. Bertaud, co
pilots, ealled to consider the cable of
Myfbn T. Herrick; American ambass
ador to France, to the State Depart
SL'!K??!eSSer &**** woulft undoubK
pwiy be known by Saturday.
?KMnement:
n3t>li was known8n<^ I
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iteTwte we could pay the^ brave mki
I Mts to take up the attempt wheSlP
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Dunn, May 9.?Pearley H. Wade,
42, prominwjk farmer who lived ont
apd a half miles east of Dunn, is
dead and his wi^a few
at sevdip o'cloik yesterday unornhj^j
The fatal shooting took place in'
the Wade home, the only eye?*ttness -
exceptthe husband and wife being .
their only child,* a son eleven years ,
old. i
iMrs. Wade is in a highly nervous !
state and has been under the care of
i physician today. Owing to ' |
condition she was not questioned by
the coroner's jury which adjourned
after examining the son and C. H.
Pope, a brother-in-law who tired near
the scene of the shooting, the jury
wtfll meet at four o'clock to finish the
injuest.
| Sheriff Matthews did not place Mrs.
Wade in jail, but she is bein$ cared;
for in the home of a neighbor under
gpard. ; According to the evidence
brought out' by the coroner's jury to
dty, ^e .^fetim of the shooting was
drinking and was in tile act of strik
ing his wife when she fired at cjesd
^nge^he bullet piercing his breast
irttfehvwas found lying on the Pfloor
in ty?.hall T^,j)istol curtained A
fall rtund of cartridges, one of iheni
having been fired. The son seated
-t
that ,*be was awakened by Ids father
cursing his m&her, that lie
backiher into a corner oj^j^ irn^o
in which Ke slept and raised ]?is hand
pistqlfiwdandhis father feH across
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the led. The father had Been abus
ing and threatening the mother most
of the night he said.
flgMir HntnTf following the shooting
Mrs.-Wade and the sen ran from the
hou?| and to the home of Mr, Wade'a
mother near by. ",C.. H.r^ope;whom
she-first met after the shooting *?$?
ed before the coroner's jury that Mrs.
Wadk told him that she had killed her
Mjri Wade lived only a short time
and ifever spoke after he was reached
hy ^ighbtuarattraeted by the shoot
ing and the sereams of the woman
held. : Both Mr. Wade and his wife
are prominently connected, being
members of highly respected families.
They: were regular attendants at
chuwfo and Sunday school and news
bf^jSe "afifair eamfe as a distinct sur
hen^ l:: Thifc dead man waa a large ]
plmtter and one of the most suecess- I
ful farmers in the Dunn district. The
?u?"farmera in the Dtihn district. :
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it w*s sUn and the alarm turned in.
aortal loss, JWr. Cox said, as resul
of $e store was not damifcpdrmuch
by tfcte, although the entire upstair
was destroyed. The ftobdtos was-in
evitable in fijjfctfa^the fire^Mr. Cox
^^Jhtly havin"
' .^S^rting in the ba?k <rf the build
ing, othe blaze ate through the flour I
into the "candy kitchen^ and through I
the partition, doing most of. Its drork I
in in&tfW Before bursting out
by Mg I
airidto. have.it:,partly insured. The
loss to. the. Candr-Xitehen has not
beeo^estimated, por has the exact loss
VttuhUy no damage was done to
llp&s' women's ready-to-year, nerf.
ftb&to Courie's as it. was protected
w q*ifrihch fifevralt: . .t?
f alarm >vas^ritdas baring
firemen of the city and fcout^O vol
unteers fought Sjjfffre front ttestart
but |he; headway that it had gained I
made it impossible for them , to eon- I
trol fthe flames. Thousands of feet
of hbbe were attached to several fire I
plug* in efforts to fight the ffre bat
the jflase gutted the interior of .the I
upstairs oefore it was extinguished. I
Exedtent protection work was carried I
out m holding the flames within the
boundary of^pe one strudmfe.
A dog that was housed in the build- I
ing was found burned to death. I
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his' ifcte, hut his weak eyes/jiMiLl
queeriy through hi^ spectacles. and
ekjftjfcdi'"are f^tened by the verdict
T^^he, too,^pijj^ hims^f together
They were ted, one at a time, be
More the bench and their pedigrees
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Chief ol Police
Fatally Wounded
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Henry Troutman, of Albemarle,
Is Accidentally Shot By
Fellow Officer
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Albemarl, May 10.?Chief of Police
Henry Troutman died at a local hos
pital as- a result of having been ac
cidentally shot about 5 o'clock yester
day afternoon by Officer Daft Speight
when three Bad negroes were being
taken near the bridge on the Swift
Island highway.
. A hurry call reached the city that
three desperate Negroes had attempt
ed to hold up two orlthree cars near
the bridge and had shot at one man.
Chief Troutman with Officers Frank
Crisco and,'Dan Speight got in a car
and rushed to the vicinity where the
hold-ups had been made. They ran in
to the three negroes. Crisco got out
of one side of the car and Speight on
the other. They took revolvers from
the negroes and had placed one of
them in the car. When the third ore
resisted, Officer Speight snatched the
negroeY;pistbl and struck him on the
head. The revolver was' discharged
and the bullet struck the chief in the
jaw and neck, serving the jugular
vein.The officers rushed the negroes
to jaiT and Troutman to a local'hospi
tal-where he died within a short while
after arrival. J
Troutman was about 50 years of
age and leaves a widow and several
children. He had been chief of police
of Albemarie for a- number of years
and had made a model officer,
r- He was brave and fearless, but at
the same time, careful and conside
rate. His death has cast a gloom
over the entire city, and Officer
Speight, who accidentally shot him,
is in a pitiable condition from nerv
ousness and worry'.
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COMPROMISE Off
Bf REDRYING CASE
Coarse of The Receivers Upheld;
Kg'- Amount Farmers To Get
Kg Still Doubtful
Raleigh, May 11th.?Action of the
receivers of the Tobacco Growers' Co
operative Association in Settling for
$60,000 the $500,000 suit against T. C.
Watkins and R. R. Paterson, former
officials of the association, and P. R.
Edmondson on account of allegedly it
legal redrying profits wa;; yesterday
upheld by the Virginia Courts, when
E. L. Wade, attorney was refused
permission to reinstitute the suit
which "his client, J. E. Wagstaff'had
withdrawn.
?The Virginia Courts held that ac
tion could be taken only in the Unit
ed .States District Court for the East
ern District of North Carolina (-which
appointed the receivers. Only $20,000
wks paid in the compromise settle
ment, an offset claim pf $30,000 for
rent having been allowed.
M. L. Corey, of Richmond, and
James H. Pou, of Raleigh, two of the
receivers, were in conference yester
day and it was stated the amount to
be paid to grower members will be
about equivalent to the excess over
the ten cents a pound that is received
for the 40,000,000 pounds of tobacco
now on hand. When the receivers
Were appointed the indebtedness a
mounted to nearly $9,000,000 and this
amount has been reduced to $3,500,
ooo. . r
. A priee of much more than ten
cents was received for the tobacco
sold but the tobacco now on hand,
abort one-half of which is dark fired'
and oEfc-half bright tobacco, is that
for which no ready market has been
obtainable. ^ . ' ?'
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TWO TARHEEL FIRM^ . V. ^
-i-""' VlANERS OF CONTRACTS
Washington, May 9.?Two North
Carolina Anns jSpw today avoreri
by the government in awarding con
tracts of new barracks at Fort Bragg,
although the largest award went to a
firm ?' .'v'-: -Ar^
Wisconsin nrm.
While it is understood that the
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Los Ajigeles Leaved Lake Hurst
Thursday in Search of "White
Bird." United. States Coast
Guard Turned Over to Task of -
Finding Trans-Atlantic Fliers
Who Have Been Missing Since
Monday.
Washington, May 11.?The Los An
geles will leave Lake Hurst early to
morrow under navy department ord
ers to keep, a sharp lookout on a
flight up the Atlantic seaboard fjr
the missing French aviators.
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New York, May 11.?No trace har,
been seen nor messages received con- ' '
;erning the missing French fliers, a
shipboard line reported by wireless
received here tonight.
The eyes of the world stijl turned '
upon the North Atlantic tonight and
hopes refused to die that France's c
"White Bird" would be found some
where in those waters with its two
airmen still alive. -
Two days ago the cloud$ should r"
have parted to reveal the victorious
approach of Capt. Nungesser and Coli
to wrest for their country the honor ?
of the first non-stop flight from Paris
to New York. ?
But the clouds rolled solidly across .
the sky,.a curtain sheilding alL from
knowledge whatever grim adventure
had befallen them.
? Today the search for the aviators
was fully organized and the United
States Coast Guard was practically ,
turned oyer to the task of finding the
two men, besides that all ships in the
North Atlantic were requested to keep ?
.special lookout for the planes, and the?
liner received orders on the other side
to alter its usual course to New York .
so as. to parallel the route of the fly
ers.
Hope for the missing aviators was
based on the fact that the. "White "
Bird" was built to float' indefinitely.
Concentrated rations were carried by -
the aviators, and unless the - plane
came ddwn hi ice that ground it to -
hits airmen saw no reason today why
the Frenchme might dot still be alive.
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HIGH WIND AND HAIL .. ?
DAMAGES GREENVILLE >
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Greenville, May 12. ?? Considerable
damage was done by a windstorm ac
compar 'ed by hail which hit this sec-...
tipn late yesterday.
Reports from Tar River Indicates. , '
considerable damage to crops and
many farm houses and outbuildings
werd unroofed, trees and poles were
blown down.
No casualties have been reported.
Wlithin the city damage consisted of .
broken wires, broken treest,- broken
windows, and uprooted trees. The
storm lasted only a few minutes but .
consisted of a high wind accompanied
by much hail and rain.
TO INCREASE FIRE
FIGHTING FORCES
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State Would Add Forest Fire Pre
vention Forces To Additional
Chanties
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Raleigh, May 11.?Preparatory to
braodening thetacope of forest fire,
protection for the fiscal year begin
ning July 1, Assistant State Forester
W. C. McCorrhic, in charge of the
forest fire protective work of the De
partment of Conservation and Devel
opment, has addressed ail, of the
i bpards of county commissioners ask
ing that they consider a county bud
i get provision for this work.
The Assistant State Forester' has
also addressed rthe boards of counties,
which will comprise the fifth district
in the State, outlining the program to
be undertaken with, the. co-operation
of the State, Federal and county gov
ejmments. ,
?> xnose county BMiuoftd Willi- -
in the new district are the following
16, in which it is expected that work
will be started in at least four: Nash,
Halifax, Northampton, Edgecambe,
I Terrell, Dare, Currituck, Camden, Pas
quotank, Perquimans, Chowan and
Gates.,
on effective* operation, Forester Mc
Corraick estimates that ?500 frpm
is set up is the smallest practicable
amount- ^ ^ ^
teetiCc Nine o^the ties