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A KIDD HAD NOTHING | ON LIQUOR PIRATES Tales Coming From Florida Rival Those of Fiction in Days of Ol | When hayloft or 1 in a paper-backed Kidd the Miami, Bobhy crawls under the Florida 11 iimself to th Aug hi house wide eyed wonder peruses of Morgan, Captain and other gentry who seas under the Jolly Roger, he usually expresses regret that he did not a century two ag he could have the adventurers chronicle roamed live | or 80 oined Modern Usages, The boy may sea rovers the escapades of the eastern Florida and in the amas, if recorded In a book, might cause Bobhy to regard Morgan, Kidd and Company \ less awk Morgan and Kidd were to depend upon salls for motive power | but modern gaso line motor and puts to sea in a boat that will move than a sail- ing vessel ever bhullt, Method of Pirac He overhauls a liquor r it up, steals all, or as m cargo as his v his hand to liquor pi soutl coast of | the pirate has a faster er, holds of its ' waves uckless owner and disappears to hand his loot at some unfrequented the Ilorida coast Others have landed on small ke, in the Bahamas where cargoes of liquor e been assembled, ware- houses. cove on for rum runners and raided the Losers Tightmouthed, Officiai reports of piracy have not been frequent. The liquor smugglers who have been held up at sea charge the occurrence to profit and loss and make no complaint because they are law breakers themselves. The pirates naturally do not tell ut their op- erations but numerous stories of hald- ups and robberies leak out through underground sources and there is ev- ery indication that prohibition offi- cers are not the only people the liquor runners are constantly on the lookout for. Pirate Bank Robber. Hanford Mobley, 15, held in jai at West Palm Beach as one of the four men charged with the robbery of the Bank of Stuart, at Stuart, Fla several months ago, also has a piracy charge hanging over him. Just what part he is believed to have taken in a cea holdup the federal authorities have not stated but they have an nounced that if Mobley was granted his liberty on bail, or was acquitted of the robbery charge, he would he arrested immediately on a federa warrant charging piracy. Murder. The most recent case piracy to be made publ gulted in the shooting to George Edgecomb, negro the British schooner Will bury, at Cat Key, in the B: short distance from here, ar theft of between $2,000 and from the vessel. The robbery red July 20. The Albury, accordi to British officials, has been engaged in the rum carrying trade the Bahamas and Jamaica Carey, cashier aboard the Albury, sent “to Miami by the missioner at Bimini, to tell t of the hold-up to the British consul and state and federal officials here master m. H. Al- amas, 2 1 the betweer Dody Carey's Story. The Albury was at anchor at Cat Key, Carey said, when an auxiliary schooner said to be the Talcon, ap- peared. Three men were ahoard the Falcon and , after anchoring they boarded the Albury and informed Captain Edgecomb they wished to purchase a cargo of liquor. They were entertained by Edgecomb dur- ing the forenoon while the crew piled $2,100 worth of liquor on deck to be transferred to the Falcon, according to the account Faces Pistol. At noon the Albury's Edgecomb and Carey went below Carey was working on his books in his stateroom when one of the visit- ors appeared, pointed a pistol at him and ordered him to hand over what cash he had. Carey gave him more than $2.000 The other visitors in the meantime had gone helow 1 covered the Albury's crew with pi tols. Edgecomb was pacing the deck within Yiew of the cabin when one of the men saw him. The master was ordered to enter but seeing the pistol —————————— LEONARD & HUGHES Steam, Hot Water and Vapor Heating crew except General Repairing Tel. 193-3 or 2057-2 CE————-eEm————— CROWLEY BROS. IN | PAINTERS AND DECORATORS 267 Chapman Street TEL. 755-i2 Estimates cheerfully given on all jobs | | LET US SERVE YOU ELECTRICALLY ~—THE— COWLES ELECTRIC CO. 392 STANLEY ST. 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Telephones 588—119—239-13 | momer t 1 his back was fired ind the captain fell dead The the Albury then was locked in the cabin and the visitors| leparted, The prisoners, Carey sald regained their liberty within a few ts The Falcon, which had been absent from Miami several days, having been by to a man sald recently been released from penitentiary, was found in the harbor here morning. having entered during the night | TEXT BOOKS MUST shot crew o loaned its owner, the at her the next port some time Florida mooring Such Is Mission for which Com-; mittee Is Named by Baptists |, Birmingham, Ala, Aug. 11, (By As- L‘ Press)—Cemplying with the | instruction the Southern Baptist |, ention, the education board has named a committee to mgke an effort to locate Christian schofars who are competent to write first-class text books in the varfous sclences that will not “seek to discredit the Chris- tlan conception of the Bible as the inerrant word of God" The committee consists of Drs, W, . James, corresponding eecretary; A R. Bond, editorial secretary; J. E. Dillard, former acting corresponding secretary and present pastor of the Southside Baptist church; J. C. Stiv- ender and Mrs. J. C. Sharps, all of this city The education board, carrying ous| soclated at |th another order of the convention, has| Wil be fehurch? L “2,—Is a statement of this one faith ‘the question of mixed marriages; named a commission on standardiza- | tion for southern Baptist schools. It organized with the election of M Adams, president of Georgetown Col- |desirable? lege, Georgetown, as chairman, and Dr. A secretary The commission will seek to bring all of the 120 Baptist schools in the south up to the best standards adopt- I Ky., ed by the educational world in the matter of curricula, faculties, equip- ment and endowment in the course of the next few years. It will also urge | the denomination a full financlal sup- port of the schools to make the at- tainment of these standards possible The standardization commission ~onsists of President J. C. Dawsor Howard college, Birmingham; Pres i J. M. Wood. Stephens college, Columbia, Mo.; President W. L. Po- teat, Walke Forest college, Wake For- est, N. C.; Dr. J. W. Jent, Oklahoma Baptist university, Shawnee; President J. W. McGlothlin, Furman university, Greenville, President & B Brocks, Baylor university, Waco, Texas; President F. W. Beatwright, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia; President John E. White, Anderson college, Anderson, 8. C.; President Charles E. Dicken, Ouachita college, Arkadelphia, Ark.; President Lincoln Hulley, Stetson university, Deland, Fla.; President M. B. Adam Georgetown college, Georgetown, Ky President R. W. Weaver, Mercer uni- Macon, Ga.; President C. Cot- tingham, Louisiana college, Pineville, l.a.; and President J. W. Provine, Mississippi college, Clinton, Miss versity, | May, |were manifested vinced made."” Anglican, e "|Orthodox Friends, | atst, churches. Before the conference meets a common interest; (g) impartion and funda- |historical examination | mental the UNITED CHURCH AIM OF CONVENTION ‘Episcopal Church to Make Big Attempt to Institute One Creed Chicago, Aug. 11, (By The Assoclat- the possibility of all Christendom recog- nizing one creed appear to be a step |nearer than they have for many cen- |turfes according to a report of the A REE W| H BlBLE commission on the World Conference on submitted to of the Episcopal church in Portland, Ore,, Press),—Church union and Faith and Order the which will general next month Denominations Present, The report announces there will he meeting in Washington, 1925, hundred dewominations, ore of countries, ities of Christian Union D, G from be a reconvention of the body which that met in Geneva in 1920 but all progress were that great can Geneva are Baptist, Disciples, Lutheran, and expected, ek, Armenian, Presbyterian Reform e committee suggest that questions shall report suggests are: necessary in a B.|in the form of a creed necessary or | (k) “3.—If so, what creed should R. Bond of this city as used? or what other formulary would |like. | be desirable? i‘ ——— | _ HATCH convention to discuss the pos- | promotion This will |friendship among the churches, and to Of this gath« |uniform calender; ering the report says "deep differences|of brotherly letters; con- |friendly intercourse between the rep- be discussed, |differences; .—What degree of unity in faith each church; reunited [for the use of places of praver and At are the proper uses of a creed and of a confession of faith? Necessary Views, “Until Christians are agreed as to what the church is and the place and function of a creed," the repart con- tinues, “it seems futile to take up oth- er, It has been well sald that there i8 no church which has not something of value to give to its sister churches or to receive from them, 1f we be- lieve that, let us test its truth YAt Geneva it was proposed that special commissions should be creat- ed for the study of dogmatic, histor- feal and liturgical questions, and those concerning ministerial orders and authorities, as affecting the dif- |ferences between Christian commun- fons; and that negotiations should be opened between related communions for closer fellowship as a step toward |the goal of complete union | “The Fastern Orthodox churches |are now very hopeful as to the world conference, be Letter of 1920, “An encyclical letter of the Holy in| of delegates from nearly|Orthodox Eastern church of Constan- a|tinople was {ssued in 1920, urging the of closer relations of the acceptance of a (b) the exchange (c) a more end, (a) be |resentatives of the various churches; At the Washington confer-|(d) an intercourse hetween theologi- ence all the denominations present|cal schools, and the exchange of theo- fncluding [logical and ecclesiastical periodicals; Congregational, | (¢) the exchange of students between Eastern [the seminaries of .different churches; Matho- | (1) the convening of pan-Christian ed conferences to examine questions of of doctrinal (h) mutual respect for the customs and usages prevailing in (1) mutual permission }OT cemeteries; (j) the settlement of and the mutual support of the |churches in the werk of strengthen- be |ing religious beltef, of charity and the A favorable reply was made to this communication.” INSURANCE CITY HALL A With COTTAGE HAMS Great Money Saving Specials for Saturday at wPUBLIC MARKET I 436Main St OppositeEMain St. You don’t have to be a student of political economy to recognize the business prudence of placing all of your insurance with the strongest and the best. 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