Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1923, Page 2

2 * THE _EVENING WASHINGTON, STAR, D. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, Chosen Secretary By the President SEARCH FOR BODIES| IN 30:F00T DEBRIS Utah Guardsmen Find Path of Flood Strewn With Wrecked Houses. By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. August 15.—~Ruin and desolation mark over rath of the floods which swept over thousands of acres of land in the fertlle valleys of northern Utah Monday night, when the floodgates the altitudinal Wasatch range loosed great torrents upon the numer- ous farm settlements and communi- ties nestling along the border of the mountains. Ten persons are known to have perished and the towns of Farming- ton and Willard were badly dam- aged. tho total property damage ex- ceeding $1,500,000, according to e timates. Search Is Continued. Search for near ore of per- mons reported mis since the flood was continued by Na- tional Guardsmen, ordered to duty in the stricken area. At Willard last night, the guardsmen started digging into great heans of debris. believing that more dead might bo found. The rescue workers encountered muck and mire nearly thirty feet deep, while along the wide expanse of farm lands north and south of the little town lay strewn for miles the wreckake of hundreds of farm bullding PRESOENTNAVES SLEMP SECRETARY iFormer Virginia Republican | EMP, Huge bow!jers, some the size of small houszts, are littered over northern Iifhways. An area two: miles wide north of' Farmington is covered to & depth of nearly twenty feot with trees and wreckage. In H one place " seventy-nve - teiepnone| Leader Will Succeed | Poles were counted in one heap. s ! Rail Serviee Near Normal. George Christian. i Railw transportation, seriously H Thamp washouts, was nearing Been complercd 1o Tont hointa which | _C- Bascom Slemp of Big Stone Gap, were isolated during the floods. Wire | Va., former representative in Congress ;‘V:mn'.ln n.;u]mn \,\'M:rms also were 1d for @ humber of years republican | peing rapidly repaired. ationalic A o e Highways ibativean Sit Take and national committeeman, has been ap. pointed secretary to President Cool- idge to succeed George B. Christian, Wwho served in that capacity dur- | Ogden and between W den were impassa of uprooted trees rolled along from llard and Og- ble today, hundreds nd huge boulders, the mountains in e e T o the o e on | InE the administration of the late| Forky canvons, obrtructing the roads | President Harding Go¥, Mabey last night fssued &| irormal announcement. of this was proclamation call ¢ on the people of | ST S ‘fn S mantofi s s the #tate to give their ald to the | made at the White House late ves- | nundeds of nomeless in The flopdsd | terday aftcrnoon. Mr. Slemp will not | arna. chief executive, with Adjt. | aes S at the White Hous: Gen: Williama, went to’ Wiliard ‘yen: | 275ume his duties at the White House | until September 4. In the meantime | he will have had opportunity to ad- | | sust his private affairs. Until ! terday to take charge of the crifical situation there that | NEW NEGOTIATIONS time Mr. u.n.suu will continue to | STARTED TO PREVENT | roiznation to Eisatdont Cositige iiat | Friday in Marion, Ohlo. He said to- day that he expects to remain in ANTHRACITE STRIKE | Wishington for some littie time rest- - ing up before going into private busi- ness, probably in Marion or Chicago. Is Republican Leader. inued rom_Fir: | { Appointm, of Mr. Slemp by farence with the Dremident that he | prosdent Coolldse caused. considers asin favor of any action. no matter | apie of a surprise. | Mr. Siemp is a | o pdrastic, to prevent a shutdown |nutive-born Virginian. Sinve earl emntomines or to bring about re-|manhood he has been active in state | sumption Ok aTthracite mining in{and national politics, and during the ehaary’ e elieved the' Drisiacay|isst Mecafieiinas the recognized e ire elieved: ‘fhe \Drestdent|] sebublicenleatier the Old Domin- ey SR 0PRSS ©lion. His wide acquaintance with i 3 |nenators and representatives and Would Net Call Congress | with the larze army of state and na- | e SBiré A ow- | tional political workers, it is pointed The New Hampshire nenator. how- |,y¢ cannét heip but be 6f great value ever said he was opposed to a call of {in his new position i Congress in special scssion at this| Mr. Slemp's name had not been| ity under the law to take o and | George Christlan probable succes- | woperate the coal mines, and such au- | sor. He said today he did not know thorlty can be given only by action of | until Yestorday that he was being | Congress, 1t seems that If Mr. Keyes' | Considered. It the general im- i suggestion for drastic action is to be | Presglon that =President Coolidge | faken Congress must have a finger | Would name Edward T. Clark, who was his sceretary during his term as | in_the arrangements v < | Vice President, and who served In that Senator Keyes said he believed that the United States Coal Commission |capacity until the return of George | would be able to accomplish much | Christian from Marion last Monday. | toward bringlng about a settlement |1t Wwas announced today that Mr Ciark will serve President as his personal secretary. Benjamin F. Felt of Boston also had |been mentioned for the position final- of the controversy betw: Coolidge erators and the mine Mr. Wadleigh, the federal fuel dis- en the op- tributor, is in New York today. It is |J 5 ¥ tendered to Mr. Slemp. It has not nderstood that he is there Riving Tt onalditation and .upf.n‘“u;!\u-fln learncd whether or not Judson | to the plans for supplying the people with substitutes for anthracite in case of a shutdown of the mines. Under the law the office of federal fuel distributor goes out of existence [C. Welllver, who had served President | Harding somewhat in the capacity of | a personal secretary and who did most ¢ his research work for him in the aration of papers and speeches, | September 22. Should there be u | Wil he affected be the appointment of e (o antheotite Taines tha | Mr. Clark. Mr. Welllver is on the White administration, in its contact with |House roll as chief clerk the National Coal Assoclation and | Sneer of icmy, its members, after September 2 would elther have to establish a vol- | Mr. Slemp was born at Turkey Cove, untary federal fuel distribution office, | Lee county, Va., in 1870. He was or some other government would have to be of contact Plans for Shipments. agency Dbl iy The \enCY | graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1891, studied law at the University of Virginia, taught wathe- 5 » |matics at the Virginia Military In- The plan of the National Coal Asso- | stitute and later practiced law at Blg oiation calls for the movement wcek-'!\‘lv\xlnf :‘.I P, v:;. m: present home. e | ""Mr. Slemp has been prominent Ly by water and rail of an additlonal |, piican politics for a number 1,000,000 to 7,500.000 tons of bituml- |yiars. He formerly was republican nous coal into the northeast, where |national committeeman from Virginia, | anthracite 15 mostly used. 1t i es. |#0d £Ince 1908 hae been chalrman o N nia republic ate co 4 timated that a shut-down of the an- it e et thracite mines Sebtember 1 will leave in ot tee. He was an intimate friend of the |late President Harding, who offered the consumers "m"f s deflolt of | him a place on the Civil Service Com- | about 30,000,000 tons for the fall and | mission, later the pi n of assist- winter, {ant secretary of commerce and more | The fields nearest. the Atlantic |Tcently the post of ambaseador to coast will be first druwn upon for the | Peri. All of the offers were declined bituminous coal to substitute for an- | MF. Slemp's father, Campbell Slemp, thracite. - The central Pennsylvania | Wa$ @ member of Congrees for sev- mines, the Georges Creek mines in|eral terms from the ninth Virginia district, and on his death in 1907 his| was_elected to fill the unexpired Thereafter he was re-elected Maryland, the mines in eastern West | Virginia down into the Pocahontas | *on and Tug River flelds, will be called term, 5 a upon first. 1f a sufficient amount 1s|t0 the ISixty-first and succeeding not fortheoming to meet the needs, | COongresses, including the Sixty-sev- then coal will be moved from further | enth, retiring voluntarily last March west, including the Pittsburgh dis- |4 to glve attention to his personal triot, Westmoreland, Fayette, Mor- |uffairs. For years he was the only gantown, the northern West Virginia, | republican in the Virginia congres- | Kanawha and Logan flelds sional delegation. In the last Con- The bituminoux fields are equipped | €ress he served as a member of the for production of 500,000,000 tons of | House appropriations committee. coal a year, and in emergency this | St e Rnrtat Sateutand | NATION RALLYING BEHIND COOLIDGE e AS HE LAYS PLANS consumption of anthracite is about i S sl A 90,000,000 tons, and it is sald that a | very large percentage of this total | for the present season has been mined | and much of it is already in the bins | of the consumers. John C. Brydon, president of National Coul Association, {3 to be In charge of the operators’ end of the | plan to meet the deficit in anthracite, it was explained today. All of the men.under him to assist in the pro- duction and distribution of the addi- tional bituminous coal needed have been selected. It 18 expected that there will be a voluntary price-fixing agreement reached by the bituminous operators, (Coutinued from First Page) stand behind any drastic steps that the President might take to prevent a strike in the anthracite regions. When asked if he thought the re- publican leaders of Pennsylvania would support President Coolidge for nomination for President next -year | they | tember 15, | States demands ‘finally D.C. BUDGET SLASH OF §5,000,000 SEEN $32,500,000 Estimates Or- dered Pared Is Word Re- ceived by Officials. Word has reached the District bulld- ing from the bureau of the budget that the Commissioners’ estimates of $32 500,000 for next year would have to be cut, it was learned today. While the Commissioners would not discuss the | message they received, it was reliably reported that the budget officers have directed that a reduction of approxi- mately $5,000,000 be made. This would bring the estimates down to $27,500,000, and means that the Commissioners will have to go through the voluminous book of figures once least’ felt. It is understood that the budget bu- reau's verdict on the prellminary esti- mates has heen communicated to Com- missioner Rudolph. chairman of the board of Commissioners, who is spend- ing a vacation at Deer Park The city heads have until Septem- ber 15 to revise their figures and sub- mit a final list of estimates to Gen Lord If the report of a $5.000.000 cut is true it means that the budget bureau has allowed the District somewhat more than it dild a year ago. Cut Lews Than At that time the Commissioners submitted a tentative budget of about $30,000,000, which was ordered cut to $24,500,000. District officials are in accord with the administration’s policy omy, and to that end they slashed heavily the original requests made to them by department hends. ven” after eliminating eve axt Year, of econ- the tive budget of § ¥ It is probable th as soon as the Commissioners meet again to make the revision cailed for by the budget bureau they will conslder asking Gen Lord for permission to submit a sup- plementary list of urgent ftems that will have to be stricken from the reg- ular estimates This was done last y and re- sulted in a slight increase in the total amount finally transmitted to Congress in December. That figure was $25,043.973, v, s stimates Cut. Preliminary estimates for running the go~ernment in the fiscal year end- ing Jane 30, 1925, were cut more than $300.000,000 in being returned to the vartous establishments yesterday by the bureau of the budget Director Lord announced that this cut was necessary to bring the total down to $1.700,000.000, approved b the late President Harding and Pres dent Coclidge as the amount sufficient to run the government, exclusive of the postal service and the interest on \d retirement of the publie debt The final es 1d, according to a letter sent by the budget bureau to all heads of government establishments. the final estimates should not exceed | a maximum specifically set forth for cach by the bureau. “It your estimates thus prepared,” en. Lord however explained, “do not your opinion meet the absolutely : ry requirements of your de- partment, they will be accompanied by a supplemental statement showing the additional amount which you be- lleve will be required, allocated to ppropriation titles, and setting forih the necessity therefor. In statir the necessity for such increase it Sted that you indicate the co nees which would result from failure to secure the additional amount that you recommend STAND BY OPERA TAX. ATLANTA, August lanta ancial supporters of the 1924 grand opera season will have to pay a state tax of $2,500 as a result of the de- cision of the Georgia senate finance committes Mot to consider the new fi tax act The present general tax law con- tained the $2.500 a:gessment on all grand opera compa appearing in cities of more than 100,000, and $1,000 in cities of lexs population The new act. as submitted to the house of representatives, contained no tax on grand ope but after a heated battle the old assessment was reinserted Atlanta opera supporters had plan- ned to fight the amendment in the senate, but after the house had sent tee of the upper body decided the remafhing time of the 1923 session o the assembly was too short in which to consider the numerous changes. BRITISH ARE HEARTENED BY BELIEF U. S. WILL AID IN REPARATIONS TANGLE (Continued from First Page) Relgium, the German debt reaches roughly only 45,000,000,000, to which will added, the continental allics de- clare, the sum which the Unfted Belgium and Italy. Under this arrangement, it is pointed out, Great Britaln Is sacrificing near- Iy 50,000,000.000 gold marks, France more than 20.000,000,000, and Belgium nearly 3,000,000.000. The United States alone, according to the viewpoint, offers to sacrifice nothing. Want War Loks Pald First. It the United Staes would be con- tent- to receive the amount British debt, namely, 14,200.000,000 is announced, could be fixed im- ,000,000,000 gold marks. the United in full it mediately at 1f, on the other hand, States insists on collecting than 23,000,000,000 will 68,000,000,000. Represenative Vare sald he could not coal flelds, and n this way profiteer- |#nswer that. He explained that the ing kept ut a minimum, It was sald. |delegates to the nominating conven- One of the callers at twe Whiteitlon would not be elected until next House toduy was L. L. Sheppard,|June and that he hopes to be a dele- president of the Brotherhood of Rall- (gate and that he will go to the next way_Conductors. After his call on |republican national convention unin- the President, Mr. Sheppard discuss- | structed. ed In a general way the probable Booms Get Underway. attitudde of the railroad workers in o Y y case of @ coal strike. He pointed out | Representative Vare would make that, as in the past, the miners |N0 comment on the réport that a Tnions. would seek o have the Taeil. |number of Tennsylvania republican rond workers support them in their |FePresentatives are already ‘making strike. While the rallroad men would & AEBE for control of the big delega- R hlae weith tha miaore he oo [ton from Penneylvania. According e ot “Drepured o say st “this | to definite word recelved here, friends e e e tude wonla beliS |of Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania al- this event ofiaistetice. ready are casting about for delegates for him in the event President Cool- in the event of a strike in the hard idge should not be the republicans’ SLAYER OF THREE HANGED [choice for president and that this ac- tivity has stirred the friends of Sena tor Pepper of Pennsylvania to_line « ” up delegates for him in the event Bon Jour,” Only Words of Man a8 | presiaent Coolldge is not & candidate. Several vital matters affecting the L naval establishment of the govern- REGINA, Sask., August 15—“Bon|ment were brought to the attention of ur” were the only words uttered by | President Coolidge yesterday after- Victor Masson, Dumas farmer, when | noon by Col. Theodore Roosevelt, act- he mounted the scaffold early today to | ing Secretary of the Navy. Plans for pay the supreme penalty for 'the |increasing the sea power of this coun- murder of Jean Chouvelon, Mrs. Chou- | try and the elevation of battleship velon, and their daughter, Marie, lagt | guns to match a two-mile advantage wFebruary. A few moments after the|in range enjoved by certain ships of bolt' was palled, life was pronounced |the British navy, were' among the [ty more important things brought to the glons. President's attention during the con- ference. President Coolidge teday instructed chairman of ‘the to investigations along the same general lines as had been suggested by the late President Thomas O. Marvin, United States Tariff Commission, proceed with tariff Harding. The work of the commission was outlined to the President by Mr. Mar- vin and the former declared that he was satisfled with the program and that he desired the commission to continue along the same lines. James G. McNary of El Paso, Tex. who was nominated last winter by President Harding to be controller of but who failed to be called at the White House today to pay his the currency, confirmed by the Senate, respects to the President and to as- sure hom that he had the support of the republicans of Texas for a suc- cessful administration. Mr. McNary, upon leaving the office, assured the newspaper men that hli ?I" had nothing to do with job hunt- ng. thing last winter,” he said. :rom Tow on confine myself to bank- ng."” more, trimming where the loss will be | mates will be due Sepe | over the new act the finance commit- | from France, | European of the gold marks, as settlement for all war debts due America, the German debt, from France, Belgium and Italy, more be "added, bring the total German dgbt to some The French, moreover, state positively that they will not begin the payment of their debts to Great Britain and the United States until Germany has paid them 26,000,000,000 for the devostated re- “I had my fill of that L ?: Opt o through with political jobs and will TALKS and TALES : With and About CAPITAL’S GUESTS Tired, dusty and weary from travel, but still serenely confident that the Lee highway will be the first com- pleted “Main street” across the American continent, Dr. S. M. John- son, general director of the Lee High- way Association, registered at the Hotel Washington-last night after a continuous trip east from San Diego, Calif., whither he had gone to partici- pate In the dedication ceremonies of the western zero milestone of the great thoroughfare, which wera forced to be deferred because of the death of President Harding. The exercises at the Pacific mile- stone, which the Lee Highway Asso-| fation is presenting to the govern- ment, were to have been held August| 6. with the late President as the; principal speaker. The milestone marks the point | whero the Lee highway reaches the | Pacific and Is a_companion of the initial milestone here which the as-| socfation presented to the govern- | ment and which was dedicated by | President Harding on June 4 last. { Arrangements had been completed for excursions from all points in the southwest and 10,000 people were pre- | paring to go to San Diego from the Imperial vailey alone. It was tol have been President Harding's last address before embarking on his re- | turn trip to Washington, to have delivered his greate 1 Sage on transportation, highways ln‘ general, and the Lee highway in par- ticular. | Dr. Johnson said last night that it} is hoped arrangements can be com- pleted whereby Prestdent Coolidge will dedicate the Pacific milestone by radio in the autumn. The Was most enthusiastic over work be- ing done on the “big pathway” and | sald that with 90 per cent of the road | constructed or under construction and the necessary funds avallable to go ! j right along nothing would deter the | lvwnm‘u\lhm in completing the under- | taking. He sald, further, that Christmas seventeen miles of pave- | ment extending from here to Fairfax Court House will have been finished. Dr. Johnson will be in the city sev- ral weeks, How time does fly! It like seems only yesterday when the papers were ot full of the herculean “Hustling John" Graham, efforts waiting for local connections of Jo- FIRST LADY JOINS F STREET SHOPPERS director | I8 Mrx. Coolidge photographed while on a tour along F street yesterdny She ix nccompnnied by Mrs. F. W. Stearns, MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHES] been one of the main causes, if no republican the only cause, of Mrs. Kepner's d« leader of the oid fifth assembly dis- | pression at that tim. trict, New York eity, to put the Tam- (Continued from First Page) “Certainly, M Weinberg,” inte many braves to rout in his bailiwick | ot = = posed Judge Urner, “you are not around Hudson and Leroy streets, and | niece of the defendant, who referred |ing into that. It is irrelevant. If you here today his son, Walter Graham, {to him tenderly on several ocasions | are trying to prove that Mrs. Kepne Erown to man's estate, i encountered | #8 “my Uncle Evard.” prc SUronk | . mmitted suicide because of Miss in the 10bby of the New Willard Hotel | Witness for Mr. Weinborg, when she told of a onversation she had iwith | Eleanor's treatment of her husba president of the R. D. Walker Lum ber Company of Mobile, Ala. good for the last three weeks, eales being ab 10 per cent less than production, which is normal for this xeason of the year, most buying being done In the ®pring and fall The southerners will be several days. | Asked lumber conditfons In tie | |south at present, these dealers said | ‘Hnu lumber market had been fairly in the city “Washington grows more beautiful time I happen this way,” said Courtney, chief engineer of the overy W. N. he alighted from his car with his wife {and guest, Mrs. A. M. Watson, wite of Maj Marine Corps, to register at the Hotel La Fayette, The railroad official, whose home is at Louisville, Ky., is touring the Vir- ginias, and stopped over for a few days In Washington to get a glimpae of what he terms “the most wonderfully beautiful city in the world.” The party wiil be here until tomorrow. With the same old merry twinkle in his eve, Former Representative Mar- tin Littleton of New York, who is in the city on some law buriness with in one of the upper rooms of the Hotel Washington. “Now, what on earth could an ex- congressman say of interest to the people of Washington?" he asked when requested to give his opinion on_conditions. behaving since Gov. Smith signed the non-enforcement measure?’ was let go by the inquisitor just t6 keep the ball rolling. , “There's absolutely no appreciable difterence that I can see, replied the New Yorker. “Of course, there was a lot of huilabaloo at the time Gov. Smith signed the bill, and I sup- pose some people were highly elated and others trembling in thedr boots for fear the country was goihg to the demnition bow-wows, but so far as making the slightest difference in prohibition with the vast ma- jority of New York people, I fail to see it." 3 Mr. Littleton paid a beautiful trib- ute to the character, ability and sterling qualities of President Cool- idge, to whom he referred as God- sent at such an unsettled time. “President Harding's death was a great blow to the country at pres- ent,” continued Mr. Littleton, “and the' American people should get down on their knees and ‘thank God that they have such a man as Calvin Coolidge to step into harness. One only has to study the history of the Coolidge family in New England to appreciate what a safe and sane, God- fearing American is in the White House today. He will prevent the wagon being scotched at a time when it wouldn't take much to -send it headiong into the ditch.” Mr: Litdeton will leate for his Long Island summer home today. = THE MIXER. i pertods. | i Loutsviile and Nashville rallroad, as | Watson of the United States! the government, sat cooling himself | “How has little old New York h-enl sephthal & Co. the big New York |Mrs. Kepner last winter when the lat- [ must say I think it is one of the brokerage firm he represents, the sen- |ter admitted she had twice attempted | ridiculous motives for suicide T for member of which, L. M. Joseph- |{o commit suiclde = The attempts.|heard advanced o I the Baval militia member o} AV BoTS Tiod, and Mra Jhyce| Mr. Weinberg dropped the matte M GTabann Radl many. Sitasestiis ttad Mrs, Kepnér was then in a] On another occasion this mornin steries to tell of the vast changes that | healthy ! frame of nind iMr Weinberz was rebuked by the have tuken place in the “greater city” || A Vg a al leral auarrel icourt. It hinged upon a question he during the past few years, but it was | Detwee Lindsay G | axked one of the Houck sisters re Eratifying to hear that the old Wash- | States Attorne Tittor: o5 | ing Ner testinaony Ethe. coroue kton Square and Greenwich Village | SPENCET 0N the latter ob- |ing her testi t the coron sections were still fighting bravels toJected to the testimony on the &0 oa |avest. When Mr. Spencer called atten maintain thefr identity | that @ occurred e DoEson lnianita nse wMany of the old landmarks around | "0 e oo ahant Ao | attomney e ton " as fuil ashington $ o " {subject to refutatior ™ case stirely dif- ini” Sl Me Grham, “few housig | Dated with Itself pearts b |Terent complexion would have been put the f. pous families of vesteryears, :";f“;:“ permitting the witnes on the Urner sh. but st there to remind old-timers | U% | 1ne addressing Ofithe Rapiy dase o vore “It was last February,” Mrs. Joyce | e “The l.i.‘ffifn‘f.’,‘...-,,,,' is. however, | S+1d. pner was my gu in | Do 3o think t a3t to the fust cncroaching on the Graenwicy | Baltimore, and she was saying that th ness Village nelghborhood. Varick and | Winter had been the best, most cheer- r the circumstances’ re- eenwich avenues have been j ful ;' h-ul‘ G Eh;!\t She .~‘u'l sned pointing out that | s to (MEReS th {she feared she would never have puldi havesbroug nuous and that thoroushtare | She ©aTed, S0, SOMT ed to I think it was infinitely un- Tth Cavenue: "Thecs Proad asiiave such awful spells of depression,” shapped the chief judge of the hoo! e Bactio) el €| tried twice to take mv life and failed ool tnith n;fk',:’,;";fl'j“}:;"‘”‘,:" 04| gyt now my strength has returned, Questioned on Hloodstains. in"the ection during the. lnss thees |and 1 pray to my neavenly FAREr| vy v, Anderson, who assisic: jears. and this naturally has brought | that it = s | thie undertaker prepare Mrs < v high type of citizens to the iRcaie i neighborhood. ~ Several of the old Attend Theater. | body for burial the day of her t forelgn settlements are still there,| Mre Jovce sald there were times|was called by the defense and asked but these are fast assimilating with |in Mrs. Kepner's life when she sermed | gyoctions that indicated an effort t he new: comers not to understand what was going on i e s o — [neound her. Under cross-examira- | €xplain the presence o Hardly had the tip reached the |tion however, she said she had on the dw]!nhhc(l \\\h‘ni. lumber regions of Geo ¢ ® [mentioned these matte d when [ Kepner's reach. Mr. Anderson saic ba gions of Georgia and Ale- [0 %or further 4 as to_thel, N that he had ama that the Southern rallroad was |buenic that had led Mesif Bo wasieuce ionever iat e Bt In the market for 5000,000 feet of |Kepner's admission of t-| The Toom and denied ever being on lumber than a flock of lumber mer. | rmBIY said the previous das both 8t1| the right side of bed, where most = el tended a play in ore e 4 of the stains appeared, whereas Mrs shants from Thomasville and Mobile | Mfiaacom Time. O e e nael whoreds M |had arrived in Washington and set-| ~Was not that a verv. vers sad|gepnef was found lving {tied at the Raleigh Hotel, where fnr‘l‘tl‘l(f“ l‘\“r l:;)—'n‘ > a blighted love The possibility of the state calling R 4 Msked Mr. Spenc Ottt der naaT characiE o e gore they Will enter|™Yeq [t was fost pathetic. both | 008 06 U AN 8 T mea touns { friendly competition for the very de- {auring the a and at the end, but| 00 opa es 1ahn, after saying he sirable plum there were funny parts running |00 e e K'p”"r\, reputation to Inciuded among the e gh 2 vz\\x\.‘lkl ’n;“‘n«-"-‘d”"fi}h‘"'j*. be of the best, was asked to T v presid of N Fad did not seem to notice them,”| [, ¢ sation that occurred b Driver. president of the Thomasville, Mrs. Joye R T s | Ga. Lumber Company; L. C. Houston! | (ot "] Tumed several times to | Rimself and the defendant in the ju S ar Company |parently oblivious to the joke of the |3, ") 00y jhtormed Mr. Kepner warned OF the‘same piace; MM Company | itiation.” She had periods of depres- | Bl ern, UG N KR UG president of the ' Lumber Saw lx‘ii"“" lke ‘that." character of Lulu Ricketts when the Company of Thomasville; Homer Wil- | Court Angered. | lattor referred to her in a derogatory umber Company of Thomasviler f1s | has accepted the testimony offered by | §iL o Gociared, | The state's attor- | | brother Alex. and T. S. <instry, [ the defense came this morning With | n. however, withdraw the question. but promised to call Mr. Hahn later as his own witnes Mr. Weinberg Joyce, along a rtiing suddenness wae questioning Mrs 65 years Busmess F oat 129 | fneue || Announces Special Sale of | FURS 1| Reasonable Deposit Will Reserve Your Selec- i tion Until Cold Weather. ‘ Hudson Seal Coats (Dyed Muskrat) | Latest . models, t_ri\n}lnlt\rfl<\:‘ii(rlz lagge cliat dnd cutls of Vit e $540.00 ! Same in All-Seal, $335.00—$373.00 | 1 i Caracul Coats atka trimmed, 48 e ... I ‘ Natural Muskrat _ | Extra Selected Skins, i o $132, $157, $196 Marmot Coats. ., . . . . Stone Marten Scarfs, $37 Beige, Platinum, Taupe, Brown and Black Fox Scarfs $32 --- $125 Hudson Bay Sable, Mink, Skunk and Seal Neckpieces Special Reduction on all Children’s Dresses Crepe de Chine, Voile, Linen, Gingham, Swiss. Two-twelve years of age. $3 to $19 87 BODIES RECOVERED ]3 DIE IN AUTO CRASH, IN MINE DISASTER IN | VIRGINIA MAN VICTIM WESTERN WYOMING TOWN |car Sicis, Hite Teee and Turng Over in North Carolina, Vic- tims Pinned Beneath. By the Associated Press. the mine at once, and as volinteers| "\ CppOrivi Ausust 15— Thres rushed to the mine from adjoining | men were led ear! today in properties of the company and from |, .. mohile aceddent on the Weeksv other mines within a radius of| i E FIEERE O i fifteen miles of the camp more men | tUrnpike. fou rom SlLEabeth were sent into the slope until more |City, N. (4 They w Joe Abbott of than 100 rescuers were at work. ' Portsmouth, Va Joe Barrett of At entry 15 the resciers were de- | oo ST S el ed until shortly after noon by the [ Easton. . €. ymour of Eliza k of clearing the passageway of |beth ¢ N. ¢ bris left by the cave-in. The body| The automobile in which they w a pumpman was found, and the de I i worke rushed forward desperately = idded, went into a ¢ in the hope of saving some of those k a tree and turned over Are who had escaped the deadly after-|ratt w killed instantly. Abbotty damp. ‘n-t'); was broken and he died on ths Pumps Start Again. |way to a Elizabeth City hospital, In the meantime, fresh air had been | geymour’s skull was fractured and ke restored in the main slope and the pumps had been started again. A | few hours after the rescuers entered died in a hospital at Elizabeth City the mine two men, who had been | When the task of bringing them working in entry 9, emerged from |the surface began, after hopes were the workings, the first survivors to|abandoned of finding & more men appear. alive, Far back in the mine; in a room| Indications we h0 had off entry 29, whers they had barri- | survived had taken shelter rooms caded themselves with brattices of |off the passageways ot i canvas, timbers and portions of their lain on the floor or bratticed off areay own clothing, 26 survivors were res- (which wern kept free from gas cued. Six others were found in entry | . ol 25 amnd still others in entry 30 | Sceores apparently had thrown down A first aid station was established | their tools ana rushed fr 5 |at the mouth of the mine. corpa | only 1o by a 5 of six doctors, twelve nurses and Red [ goo 0 o0 A v 1 Cross workers remained at the portal | 3¢ath as the wave of gas enveloped throughout the day. In the mine, | them the crew of car No. 2 of the United | The bodies of nearly all the victima | States bureau of mines assisted res-|were blackened as if by dense feuers, and directed in administering As rapidly as th vere br first ald to the victims overcome by | the surfa they were take gas and smoke. morgue, where they ws The rescuers passed throug! he ! and preparations made for workings as hurriedly as possible,| Co ny officials were Byt searching only for the living. 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