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VOLUME 34—NUMBER 29
SHIP WHICH WENT
, hbe 111 Tier
No Indications That Fur
ness-Prince Line Freighter
Siberian Prince Will Break
Up, But Will be Floated.
Seattle, Wash., July 30.—With the
Salvage tug Algerine standing by and
preparations being made to lighter
her cargo, the Furness-Prince Line
freighter Siberian Prince which went
ashore near Race Rock and Bentin
iek Island near Victoria, B. C., yes
terday morning still was in tact to
day with no indications of breaking
up. It is believed she eventually
'will be floated without difficulty.
Salvage operations may require
several weeks, due to the fact that
the grain in the hold must be sack
ed in order to be lightered.
N’o trace has yet bfcn found of
the unidentified ship reported in
distress early yesterday at the
mouth of the straits of Juan de
Fuca, by the Tatoosh, government
weather bureau vessel. It is believ
ed in sonic marine quarters that the
boat which w-is said to be drifting
helplessly may be the unidentified
steamer which ran down the bark
entine Monterey in the straits ear
ly Saturday morning disappearing in
the darkness. Another theory is
that an old derelict may have drift
ed in from the Ocean,
mishaps during the last three days
as a result of the defense fog over
hanging the vicinity of Puget Sound
and the straits, include the trans
port Henderson, carrying President
Harding which ran into the destroy
er Zeilin Friday morning, the Bark
entine Monterey, victim of a collis
ion with an unidentified steamer
early Saturday morning, the ferry
boat motor princess grounded Sat
urday noon seventy miles inside the
straights of San Juan de Fuca and
the Mitsua, freighter Mandsan Maru
and the steamschooncr Ranier which
collided Saturday.
VISITING PRESBYTERIAN
MINISTER.
The pulpit of the A. R. Presby
terian Church in Louisville was ably
filled by Rev. Nelson of White Oak,
Ga., Rev. Nelson was the guest of
Mr. W. L. Phillips while in the city.
Services will be held Sunday Au
gust the fifth in the Presbyterian
Church by Rev. M. B Grier of Lona
y-ille, Ga.
I*
BEES STARVE TO DEATH
London.—A shortage of honey la
imminent owing to the lateness of
flowers, myriads and bees having
starved to death.
r enrolls
a .you
Why waste any more time longing for the
pleasures you can get out of a Ford Car?
Start now to make the Touring Car or any
other type you may select, your own.
Soon you will have it to drive anywhere
you want to go—camping —visiting —picnick-
ing—or to your work.
Under the terms of the Ford Weekly Pur
chase Plan you can enroll for as little as $5.
We will deposit your payments in a local
bank at interest. You can add a little every
week. Soon the payments plus the interest,
will make the car yours.
You will be surprised how little time it
really takes to get a Ford after you make the
start. Don’t put it off—Enroll today. Come
in and let us give you full particulars.
& LOUISVILLE MOTOR CO.
Authorized Ford Dealers
THE NEWS AND FARMER
LOUISVILLE MEN
COMMENDED
Recent tragic events have awaken
ed the public of Georgia to the
danger lurking in old, wooden,
rambling school structures—Miss
Elizabeth Holt, State Building Sup
ervisor, has recently issued this
statement:
“To entirely correct the condi
tions of such buildings that are de
trimental to the health of general
welfare of the pupils, it would be
necessary to replace them by mod
ern, well-planned school houses, lo
cated under a system of well-de
veloped consolidation of schools.
However, for many reasons it
would be unwise to undertake this
in a wholesale way at this time.
Without a doubt, though, no time
should be lost in making such fire
traps safe by means of suitable and
adequate exits.
On the reverse of this sheet there
is a working drawing that may be
used with slight modifications, per
haps, for fire escapes on such build
ings.
We shall be glad to advice School
Boards and Superintendents in re
gard to the proper types and lo
cations of fire escapes, if they will
sent us the floor plans of the build
ings. Pencil drawings made to an
eighth or a quarter inch scale wili
answer the purpose.”
The following personal letter
written by Miss Holt who is very
popular in this community, as re
ceived here:
Blyth, R. F. D. Ga.,
July 21, 1923.
Judge ,1. W. White,
Louisville, Ga.
My Dear Judge White
I have been intending for some
time to write to thank you for
sending me the copy of the
News and Farmer, but lately I
have been terribly rushed with
my work. Howe\-er, I believe
that you know that I really do
thank you for your thoughtful
ness and kindness to me in this
and at all limes.
We arc very proud of Mr.
John R. Phillips for getting our
fire hazard hill through the Sen
ate. I suppose that you know
about it. Tomorrow I will be
in Atlanta, and Monday, and I
will see him about it again, and
will write you jqst how it is
now.
Sincerely,
ELIZABETH G. HOLT.
HENDERSON RAMS SHIP
Seattle, Wash., July 31. —The Uni
ted States Navy transport Hender
son, which carried President Hard
ing and his party to Alaska, was the
“unidentified” steamer which early
last Saturday rammed the five mast
ed barkentine Monterey in a dense
fog in the strait of Guan Fuca, it
was learned at the Puget Sound Na
vy Yard at Bremerton, near here to
day.
DOES NOT AGREE ON
MANDATORY EFFECT
Of APPRQPITION
However, Governor Walker
Will Not Seek to Go Behind
An Executive Action of
Governor Hardwick.
Atlanta, July 31.—Governor Wal
ker will not seek to go behind an
executive action of Governor Hard
wick, but differs with his predeces
sor in regard to the mandatory ef
fect of an action of the legislature
in making an appropriation for com
mon schools. At the same time he
says, in a written answer to the sen
ate resolution by Senator Lankford,
asking for his construction of the
50 per cent clause in the appropria
tion bill, that he considers it legal
and binding insofar as its effect
comes within the term of his admin
istration. The governor, though
calls attention to the fact that there
is open to debate just what is meant
by the state's “revenue,” and asks
that tlie legislature enact something
that will clearly define that one
word. The question revolves around
the several specific funds raised by
statute and which arc set aside for
specific purposes. He names the au
tomobile tag fund as one of these,
and the point made is that this can
not class as “revenue' in the mean
ing of common school appropria
tion.
Governor Walker points out.
though, that it would be better for
the legislature to he specific rather
than general in matters of this kind,
and says: “I take the liberty to sug
gest for your consideration the wis
dom of fixing a definite sum to be
appropriated to the common schools,
and the making of proper provision
for the prompt payment of the ap
propriation.
Should Repeal Act.
“It follows, of course, that the
present legislature should repeal the
Act of August 10, 1010, or provide
the funds required to carry it into
effect.’* That is the Lankford Act
setting aside one-half of all the
state’s income over and above 98,-
500.000 for the common schools.
In his reply to the Lankford Sen
ate resolution, calling on him for
specific interpretation of the “fifty
per cent clause'' of the 1922 and
1923 appropriation bill, as well as
the same clause in the hill now un
der process of enactment, the Gov
ernor says:
“Categorically answering the ques
tions submitted in the resolution.
“(a> I construe the Act of Au
gust 19, 1919, and the Act based
thereon making appropriations for
the years 1922 and 1923, includiing
the proviso quoted, to-wit. ‘provid
ed that should the revenue of the
state exceed $8,500,000 per year, then
one-half of the excess of each of said
years is hereby appropriated in ad
dition to the above appropriation in
accordance with the act approved
August 19, 1919,’ as legal and bind
ing.
“(b) Considering the appropria
tions referred to, including the pro
viso. to be legal and binding and a
part of the appropriations made to
the common schools, unless other
wise instructed by the general as
sembly I shall direct that all the
revenues of the state for the year
1923, in excess of the sum of $8,500,-
000 be allocated one-half to the com
mon school and one-half to the gene
ral fund. The law presumes the act
ion of my predecessor for the year
1922 to be proper and legal, and
unless otherwise directed by the leg
islature. I shall not go back of that
action.
Legal and Binding.
“(c) I intend to treat the proviso
referred to as legal and binding if
incorporated in the General Appro
priations Act of 1924-1925.
“Having answered specifically the
questions submitted in the resolu
tion. I deem it my duty to call at
tention to the fact that there can be
a great difference of opinion as to
the meaning of the word ‘revenue’
as used in the Genera! Appropria
tion Act. It is but fair to say that
I am informed by the chairman of
the appropration committee of the
house that the word here used is in
terpreted by the committee as mean
ing all revenue of the state not ap
plied to specific purposes by law. all
such specific funds to be exempted;
as, for example, automobile tag li
cense fees, and 1-cent gasoline tax.
If the General Assembly should not
agree with this interpretation, I ask
that expression be made of that fact.
Indeed, because of the difficulty in
arriving at the true amount of the
revenue of the state, however inter
preted, and the almost certain dif
ferences of opinion to arise, with
consequent serious embarrassment.
I take the liberty to suggest for your
consideration the wisdom of fixing
a definite sum to be appropriated
to the common schools and making
the proper provision for the prompt
payment of the appropriation.
“It follows, of course, that the
present legislature should repeal the
Act of August 19. 1919, or provide
the funds required to carry it into
effect. This must not be done by
placing any further burdens on the
owners of real estate, or other tan
gible property. This class cannot
pay and additional taxes. There are
now pending measures which will
levy' upon other classes of property
taxes sufficient to meet every need
of the government. If there be add
ed a corps of enforcement officials
to enforce and report delinquent tax
es we will have no trouble in secur
ing ample funds. I urge the Gene
ral Assembly to complete the good
work alrJadv begun by enacting such
measures into law.’’
Orders taken for Fudge,
Divinity and Brown Sugar
Candv. Mildred Phillips.
LOUISVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 2. 1923
BUY LOUISVILLE
REAL ESTATE
Twelve blocks of town lots
—suitable for residence or
manufacturing purposes.
One hundred and sixty-six
acres farm land and pas
ture land at your door in
City of Louisville. Railroad
frontage, all the advan
tages of accessibility to
city waterworks, lights,
schools, with running arte
sian wells on the property,
all city conveniences at
Time: 10:00 o’clock a. m.,
Sale to highest bidder,
hand.
Wednesday, September 4.
1923.
Place: On the property to
be sold, beginning on block
-17, corner Wilson and
Third Streets, just below
T. B. Kelley Lumber Com
pany’s plant, near Louis
ville and Wadley Railroad
right of way.
Plat recorded for your in
formation in office, W. S.
Murphy, clerk, and on file
for your inspection in City
Office.
SHOULD EDUCATE THE
WOMEN OF THE WORLD
Is Message to all Baptist
Women.
Stockholm, July 26.—1f the Baptist
women of the world seize their
present opportunity for the service
of their generation they will adopt
as their slogan “Educate the women
of all lands,'* Mrs. Helen Barrett
Montgomery, of Rochester, X. Y..
and former president of the North
ern Baptist Convention, told the
Baptist World Alliance today dur
ing its special program given over
to the consideration of women's
work.
“When you educate a man you lib
erate an individual, hut when you
educate a woman you liberate a fam
ily,” Mrs. Montgomery declared, and
she said Baptist women of the world
were performing no more signifi
cant service for womankind today
than through their Home and For
eign Mission Societies in establish
ing schools for the education of wo
men to whom doors of opportunity
have been closed heretofore. Seven
schools of higher learning in the
Orient are supported by the Wo
men's Board of Foreign Missions,
the speaker pointed out, while the
women of various denominations
and countries are co-operating in
the support of 18 schools in the
Orient which have for their sole
purpose the provision of a trained
Christian leadcrsip for the women
of that section of the world. A fund
of for these schools was
recently completed in the United
States under the leadership of Mrs.
Henry W. Peabody, of Boston.
Christ was the great emancipator
of women, Mrs. Montgomery declar
ed, and in the proportion that the
women of the world are educated
and trained for service will the
Kingdom of Christ he ushered in.
With the larger education of wo-;
men there have come larger oppor
tunities in organizations and serv
ice, it was set forth, and recent re
forms in temperance and other wel
fare lines indicate the effectiveness I
of woman’s power, once she is liber
ated and trained, it was declared. >
ME TO SHIP
WHISKEY mm
Business Circular Says Plan
Offers Opportunity of Mak
ing 20 Per Cent. Profit
Every Sixty Days.
London, July 31.—A business cir
cular is being distributed here in
the name of Sir Broderick Hartwell,
a veteran of the South African and
World Wars, inviting investment in
a scheme for shipping whiskey
abroad. The plan, says the circular,
offers “an opportunity of makinig a
20 per cent profit on the capital
every sixty days.”
The paper asserts that 5.000 cases
of whiskey will be shipped within
the next four weeks and that ar
rangements have been made to trans
port thereafter 10 000 cases monthly,
payment for which is guaranteed on
arrival at a point 20 miles from
shore. The circular leaves the in
vestor to guess what shore is meant,
but the Daily News says it is the
American.
“My idea is to run a ship on the
Ocean” Sir Broderick told the Daily
Mail. “I am simply exporting whis
key, having already got people to buy
it at a fixed price. Every bottle is
guaranteed to be real stuff. The
cost to transport it will be about
3,000 pounds so we want to take as
much as possible. The cargo will
be fully insured and there will be
no risk or loss.'
Sir Broderick added that the liquor
would be unloaded into small craft
which will meet his ship.
KILLED IN COLLISION
(By the Associated Press)
Berlin, July 31.—Twenty-seven
persons are reported killed and
twenty-five injured in a collision
today- between the Hamburg-Munich
express and a stationary train at
Krienaen station, near Cassel.
NOVEL BASE BALL
GAME IN BARTOW
Fats Versus Leans, Spon
sored By Woman's Club.
A novel ball game will he played in
Bartow Thursday afternoon when
the Fats will meet the Leans on the
local baseball diamond, good sport,
and much fun is promised. The
game will be played under the aus
pices of the Bartow Woman’s (dub.
which organization bespeaks a large
attendance. Admisison ten and
twenty-five cents.
smpressTonofthe
UNIVERSITY OF GA.
SUMMER SCHOOL
As one enters the campus of the
University of Georgia he is impress
ed with the fine spirit of work and
determination on the part of the
entire student body. You cannot but
feel here are a group of determined
students, whose zeal for knowledge
makes them forget the hot summer
weather. Athens is undobutcdly the
finest city of its size in the state
of Georgia and nowhere do you find
the spirit of graft, hut all the busi
ness men seem to know that these
2,181 students are here to get the
maximum of education for the min
imum amount of cost-
Dr. Joseph Stewart, the efficient
director of the summer school, is a
real artist when it comes to enter
taining strangers. One cannot help
hut feel that he is at home, after
meeting Dr. Stewart with his broad
smile and hearty handshake.
You cannot measure the amount
of good along religious lines you
derive from hearing Dr. Morgan for
a week give his lectures on the
Christ of the Fourth Gospel. After
hearing Dr. Morgan you feel that
; surely here is a man that “walks
with god.”
The music is under the direction
; of Dr. George F. Granberrv, of New
York City, and it has never been
better in the history of the univer
| sity. It is indeed a treat to all music
i lovers to listen to the recitals given
under this artist’s direction.
The county school superintend
i cut's conference will he an annual
| occasion each year and where there
were sixty present this year there
1 will he more each year as the super
;intendents begin to realize the real
value these conferences are in help
ing you work out problems that
j come up each day in your work.
I shall be glad when it will be
come possible for every teacher in
I our county to attend summer school
i somewhere each summer.
A teacher attending summer
j school has the opportunity to ob
! serve the latest methods of teach
! ing and thus it enables them to get
a broader vision of their work and
make their school more attractive
for the children. The time has al
ready come in some counties in
Georgia where every teacher before
they can teach must be a graduate
of a standard college and attend
summer school each summer, with
the work they arc to take prescrib
ed by the Board of Education. The
time is almost at hand when this
ruling will be universal in the
United States.
MILTON R. LITTLE,
County School Superintendent,
Jefferson County.
Changes in Teacher’s Examination
Attention is again called to the
fact that the regular state examina
tion for teachers will be held at the
courthouse on Friday and Saturday,
August 3rd and 4th, at 8:30 o'clock.
Primary and elementary examina
tion and also the reading course for
the primary and elementary exam
ination will be given on Friday, Au
gust 3rd. Examination will close on
Saturday at 1 o’clock.
MILTON R. LITTLE,
County’ School Superintendent.
DRAFT TREATY II
THREE LANGUAGES
Turko-American Treaty to
Be Drawn up in French,
English and Turkish, With
French as Official Text.
Lausanne, July 30—The Turko-
American treaty will be drafted in
three different languages—French,
English and Turkish, with French
as the official text —if an agreement
is reached here as now appears in
creasingly probable. The American
and Turkish representatives, again
wrestled with the claims on the
question last night without coming
to an agreement, but arranging for
another meeting to be held today.
It is regarded as possible that a
solution may be formed by insert
ing a clause in the treaty stipulat
ing that American claims will be
examined by two appraisers, one a
Turk, the other an American. If
these should fail to reach an agree
ment they would be empowered to
decide a method of settlement.
Joseph C. Grew and Ismet Pasha,
who are conducting the treaty ne
gotiations, seem pre-disposed to
midnight conference after the day’s
labors of the experts are terminat
ed the two representatives usually
converse directly in French.
AMBASSADOR TO SAIL.
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris. July 31.—Ambassador Her
rick will sail Saturday on the liner
Paris for a month's holiday at home.
His son, Parmalee, and his son’s
wife will accompany him.
The ambassador’s visit is to be
without political significance and
he expects to return here before the
French parliament reassembles
after its summer recess.
ADVERSE BEPOBT
IS EXPECTED 01
MICII BILL
Resolution Calls For Defer
ence Until 1924 all Action
on Constitutional Tax Re
forr- Measures.
VOTE YESTERDAY WAS
CLOSER THAN EXPECTED
Motion Will he Made to Dis
agree to Report Immediate
ly After House Rules Com
mittee Makes It.
Atlanta. Ga.. July 31.—The house
rules committee will, tomorrow
morning, report adversely on the
McMichael-Flcming resolution to
defer to 1924 all action on constitu
tional tax reform measures, and im
mediately a motion will he made
to disagree, to the report It devel
oped this afternoon that the vote
in the committee was even closer
than reported earlier in the day;
nine members voting against the
bill and eight for it. In order that
the appropriations bill might be
completed this afternoon- -as it was
—one of the authors agreed that the
committee report be deferred until
tomorrow morning, and at that time
a fight will be made to put the
resolution over.
If it should he adopted, in the face
of Governor Walker’s speech today,
it will hold up all further action,
since the entire question is now in
possession of the house, the senate
having already passed on both the
income tax and the proposition to
classify property.
Do Not Want Convicts
According to statements made by
former Governor Nat E. Harris, the
inmates of the Confederate Soldiers'
Home have made vigorous protest
against the use at that place of con
victs. Some time ago a number of
convicts were assigned to the home
by the state prison commission,
upon request of the home authori
ties, to do work about the place and
in large measure to wait upon the
old veterans. When an effort was
made to remove them, the manage
ment of the home objected, on the
ground that such help is essential
and without the free labor of con
victs, the maintenance fund would
not permit the employment of such
service as would be needed.
Governor Harris says, however,
that the old veterans admit the con
victs are assigned them for that pur
pose, hut their objection is on the
ground that they do not desire to
be associated, in their declining
years, with a criminal class, and
while the management of the home
may have asked for the convicts,
the inmates do not want them.
Statements have been made by some
of the inmates that some of the
convicts have been given better
quarters than are assigned to the
inmates themselves, and stories are
told of other objections made by
the inmates.
Adopt Resolution
The state senate today called up
and adopted the McMichael resolu
tion for an investigation of the
highway department, in lieu of the
Pace substitute, after a moving
statement by President Carswell and
Senator Pace. The paper already
having passed the house, this means
final action on it and that Repre
sentative McMichael will be a mem
ber of the investigating committee.
Senator Pace, asking adoption of
the McMichael paper, said: “As au
thor of the original resolution call-;
ing for investigation of the highway
department—which was adopted the
second day of the session—and as
author of the pending substitute:
which was unanimously adopted by
the committee, I now ask you to
adopt the house resolution of the
gentleman from Marion instead of
mine. My personal convictions in
the matter have not changed. I
think the McMichael resolution con- j
tains improper references and !
charges. I am still of the opinion
a man should not make such \
charges, declare them to be true and
then sit in trial on his own charges:
but I want an investigation, full and
fair, of every detail of management
of that department. The chairman
and the chief engineer have appeal
ed to us for an investigation, fully j
and impartial I believe my people
want such an investigation. This is i
no time for form or words. The!
two houses are disagreed, and for
my part I am ready to yield and
adopt the house resolution. If the
expenses and operations of the de
partment are proper, the charges
can soon be dispelled, and the cloud
raised by the house resolution can
be lifted.”
The house now has the senate
resolution for investigation of the
agricultural department, which con
flicts with a similar one offered in
the house, and it is quite likely a
similar solution will work out on
that divergent proposition, by the
house taking the senate proposal as j
the senate today did the house pro
posal.
i
TEXTILE TRAINS
Charlotte, N. C„ July 31.—Three j
special textile trains, to be loaded j
exclusively with products of Carolina {
mills, will be operated by the South- j
ern Railway, beginning tomorrow, {
says an announcement made today j
from the Southern’s offices here.
Two of the trains will run from |
Greenville, S. C., one to Potomac
yards and one to Pinner’s Point, Ca-, j
and the third will be operated from (
Spencer, N. C, to Cincinnati, Louis
ville and East St. Louis: No ship
ments except those for points out
side the south will be handled on j
these trains. 1
Jefferson Representative
Makes a Record
Harris of Louisville Takes
Teachers Stand in House.
Hon. B. V Harris, representative
from Jefferson County, is making i
quite a record for himself in the
house. His speeches have been wide-:
ly quoted city dailies with
favorable v / . and bills intro
duced by hr.’.' V / eing widely dis
cussed. / \
BICHMOI
BY II CLOUDBURST
Just How Many Thousands
of Dollars of Damage Can
Not Be Stated With Any
Degree of Accuracy.
Richmond, Va , July 31. Thou
sands of dollars damage, just how
many thousands could not he stated
with any degree of accuracy early
today, was caused by a cloudburst
and electrical storm here last night
during which the local weather bu
reau reported l.\\ inches of rainfail.
Scores of persons were rendered 1
temporary if not permanently home
less; stores, residences, manufac
turing plants and other places in
the low lying sections of the city
were flooded and much damage was
done to buildings, hridges, railroad
tracks, roads and streets by the
water which reached a depth of ten
feet in front of the Union Station.
At other points 15 feet were re
corded, according to fire depart
ment officials who were occupied
for more than six hours in rescuing
scores of persons from their homes. ,
So far as could he learned early to
day no lives were lost, although one
man is missing and estimates of
the damage range from 9250,000 to
9500,000.
The rainfall, more than two
inches greater than the previous
high record of 5.13 inches establish
ed in 1910, caused Shockoe creek,
long a cause of much worry and
many damage suits against the city,
to overflow its hanks and flood
many buildings for several blocks
away. Several fires broke out at
the height of the storm, causing
much damage before firemen, who
were giving their attention to rescu
ing persons marooned in their
homes by the highwaters could be
gotten to the scene of the blazes.
CANNIBALS KILL 3 W HITES
Faisi, Solomon Islands—Three
Frenchmen Were killed and eaten by
cannibals on the west coast of Ma
laita Island in July.
The Great Oak, That
From a Little
Acorn Grew
Founded over 27 years ago, with a
capital stock of only $1,500.00, this busi
ness has grown, and grown, until now we
have a drug business second to none in this
section of Georgia.
While public confidence is the foundation of
this large and growing business, public con
fidence has been generated through unvary
ing SINCERITY on our part.
Our customers know that we could not af
ford to lower our standards of conducting
this store, when we have this proud record of
27 years of SINCERITY to uphold.
Hie Louisville Drug Cos.
The Store
Louisville, Georgia.
“Going Since 1896—Growing All the
Time.”
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE?!
BALTIMORE FLOOD
RESCUES ITS CRESIi!
H
Rescue Parties Fight througl.l
Darkness, Rising Waters t<'j
Save Families Whosi.J
Houses Were Marooned. ,- j
Baltimore, July 31.—After causin *
exceedingly heavy damage to prop*!
erty. the flood which swept,
counties west and northwest o j
Baltimore, reached it c crest earl; I
this morning and slowly started t J
recede. '3
The flood was caused by cloud-’C
hursts and a series of thunderstorm 1 1
causing the Patapsco River to over 1 !
flow its hanks late yesterday after f
noon. carr> ing bridges and
before it and driving hundreds
families from their homes.
Rescue parties fought through thql
darkness and rising waters to sav.jj
families whose homes were maroon,,!
ed. Town after town was throwigj
into darkness making work by res I
cue parties very difficult. ij
In addition families were forceea
to abandon their homes, others whej
sought refuge on upper floors har. j
to be rescued by neighbors. Barn.'!
and livestock were swept away iKi
the swiftly flowing current. Mill 4!
and power plants were flooded am I
their machinery wrecked. WhoH j
sections of railroad tracks were tori' , j
up and whirled away. *]
WELL KNOWN YOUTH '
IS HELD IN AIKEN
Charged With Conspiracy tc
Violate Dry Law.
Aiken, S. C., July 31.—Christie'
Lanham, well known white youth of
North Augusta, was arrested by U*
S. Deputy Marshall A. .T. BobelskjL
late Monday night and placed ir
charge of the Aiken sheriff on :
warrant issued by the government
officials. Young Lanham is chargee*
with “conspiracy with divers per]
sons to violate the prohibition law.'*
It seems thai the youth mounted!
a motorcycle on July 20 according
to the charge, and dashed off to a
camp of distillers to sound warning:
of the approach of Federal Officer
Fooshec and others who were about?
to raid the moonshine camp, en- i
abling the distillers to make escape
The lad was winner of a recent
exciting motorcycle race, and is?
prominently connected in Aikenl
and Edgefield counties. He was
permitted bond this morning in the
sum of 9800 by U. S District Com
missioner Thos. R. Morgan, Mark?
Baynham of North Augusta acting
as bondsman. Young Lanham de-*
nies the charge against him.