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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
SOUTH CAROLINA
COLUMBIA. D. D. Witcober. of
Darlington, is elected president of
South Carolina, state fair al annual
| meeting of association here, succeed
£;• ing R. M. Cooper, Jr.
SPARTANBURG. Mrs. Agnes
Johnson, pretty seventeen-year-old
| woman of Travelers Rest, is acquited
r-' ’ in circuit court here of charge, of
killing husband, Wesley Johnson,
July 23. 1923.
RIDGEVILLE. W. R. Brown
ing, of Ridgeville, is adjudged in con
-11 t< mpt of court and sentenced to fine
of SSO or ten days in jail, charge in
7. volving sale cotton pledged to
co-operative cotton marketing asso
ciation, in face of injunction by
$’ Judge Townsend restraining him
| t; om disposing of cotton.
MARION. Rev. G. T. Gresham,
seventy-five, of Gresham community,
dies at home, following stroke of
apoplexy.
NEWBERRY. Otto Klettner,
’ • one of best known men of Newberry,
E does here, after illness of ten weeks.
COLUMBIA. Columbia clearing
house committee, composed of E. W.
Robertson, August Kohn and Frank
I’ierson, returns from Richmond,
where Columbia’s claims for location
of proposed federal reserve branch
bank were presented to directors of
g Richmond bank. Wilmington and
Greensboro, N. C., also had commit
j tees presenting claims to directors.
| GREENWOOD. Thomas C. Tur
ner, Greenwood county’s first clerk
of court, dies at Hartsville. Funeral
I Is held at Ninety-Srx-
MARION. Dr. Rupert Blue,
K surgeon general at large of I'. S.
public health service, visits relatives
K- here, before sailing for Europe, to
take up work of sanitary inspector
at ports of embarkation, with head
quarters at Paris.
CHESTER. Mrs. J. B. Bigham,
well known woman of community,
dies at home here at age of 58.
GREENWOOD. Mrs. P. E.
I- Horne dies at home of parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Goldman, here after
B brief illness.
E . COLUMBIA. Establishment ot
r graduate school of engineering at
University of South Carolina, here,
by Prof. L. S. LeTellier, of The Cita
del, in address at annual reunion of
$ engineers alumni of university, held
. here.
PROSPERITY. Rev. S. W.
Hahn, pastor of Grace Lutheran
church, here, resigns to accept call
to church in Winston-Salem, N. C.
NEWBERRY. Mrs. J. M. Fos
ter, eighty-one, dies at home here
after three weeks’ illness.
GAFFNEY. J. E. Sarratt, prom
t inent farmer living near here, loses
barn by fire, two mules being burn
ed to death. This is second loss of
: barn by fire suffered by Mr. Sarratt
in three months.
BAMBERG. Midway Lumber
company purchases from J. F. Smoak
one of largest poplar logs ever seen
in this section, being 43 inches in
diameter, ten feet in length.
AIKEN. —Congressman James F.
Byrnes returns from Ohio and West
Virginia, in which states he deliv
ered series of addresses in interest
of candidacy of John W. Davis.
SPRINGFIELD—John N. Glea
ton, well-known farmer, dies at home
near here at age of fifty-two.
CHESTER. Brainard school,
large negro educational institution
here, loses dormitory by fire, entail
ing loss of SIO,OOO.
CHARLESTON. —Plans are made
for extensive celebration of Navy
day, October 27, with distinguished
| navy officers present.
SPARTANBURG.—-Policeman A.
J. Lee is cleared of murder charge
for J. S. Williamson. Lee, police
hian, killed Williamson at boarding
house in November, 1923, when Lee
attempted to arrest Williamson, who
g was charged with being drunk.
Fight ensued.
“ JuYNCHBURG.— Maiiney Lumber
Company, here, loses large plant by
Tire.
TIMMONSVILLE. Edward H.
Lowman receives word of death of
brother, Edward Lowman, at Shreve
. port, La.
X-SUMTER.—J. T. Kennedy, well
kltown man here, dies of heart trou
ble, falling at front door gj home,
;; expiring immediately.
LANCASTER—Dr? J. E. Rut
ledge shoots large chicken hawk in
•" act of pouncing on chicken. Bird
measures 39 inches from tip to tip.
COLUMBIA. —Two hundred vet
erans of Spanish-American war gath
er in annual reunion here, with ad
dresses by Governor McLeod, Sena
tor-nominate Cole L. Blease ami
if Congressmen Fulmer, and Dominick,
and other prominent speakers.
SUMTER.-Mr? and Mrs. W. O.
■ Cain, of Privateer section of Sum-
ter county, celebrate ‘‘golden wed-
U ding’’ anniversary.
GREAT FALLS/—W. T. Jackson,
loading citizen, dies at home of son,
L. C. Jackson, following wife to
grave by 18 months.
AlKEN.—James T. Corbett, white,
is acquitted of charges of bigamy
preferred by Mrs. Mary Corbett, of
Columbia, and Mrs. Heath Corbett,
of Warrenville.
GREEN VI LLE.—Suit for $50,000
plus attorneys fees of $5,000 is
brought by Moore & Mcßee, proprie
tors of filling station here, against
Gulf Refining company, alleging cut
of prices of gasoline, lower than
price in Georgia, in violation of Clay
ton federal statute, which forbids in
terstate discrimination.
C H A R L E S T O N. Hazing is
abolished at the Citadel, state mili
tary school here, students all volun
tarily signing pledge to refrain here
after from hazing.
CAMDEN.—Camden and Kershaw
County Chamber of Commerce holds
annual banquet, with Dr. D. W.
Daniel, of Clemson college, as prin
■ipal speaker.
SPA RTA NRl’llG. — Workmen be
gin repai’s on city’s street car
tracks, preparatory to resumption of
street car service bv new owners of
utilities. W. S. Barstow & Co.
GAFFNEI . Officers discover
twenty gallons of whisky stored un
der pulpit of Providence Baptist
church, netr city.
AIKEN- -William T. Brown, of
A:|<en. fargier. is placed on trial, on
charge <■: killing neighbor, Willie
Rush. 1.i.« July, in dispute regard
ing dain between adjoining lands.
GAFFNEY. Gaffney post of
American Legion has asked Governor
McLeod to furnish name of person
who informed him that gambling was
allowed fair here under auspices of
post. Governor had instructed
Sheriff J. G, Wright to investigate
charge that gambling had been al
lowed.
SPARTANRU Rg77_ Spat tanburg
ounty highway commission selects
onfe of payed road to Greer, which
will connect there, with paved high- ’
way from Greenville.
SPARTANBURG —L. E. Fike,
well-known insurance man, dies here
following sudden illness.
SPARTANBURG. —Case against
M. E. McGwinn, charged with mur
der of Henry Clowney. in Zion Hill
section of county, is called for trial
here.
SPA RTA NRURG. —Coroner’s jury
finds that Sanders King, killed when
car driven by W. L. Walker, ot
Cedar Springs, turned over in high
way. came to his death as result of
accident. No one is held blameable.
COLUMBIA.—Major John B.
Jones, collector of internal revenue,
makes public names of income tax
payers of state.
NORTH CAROLINA
KINSTON.—Charge of manslaugh
ter is preferred against Roy Mayo,
of Pinetop, as result of killing of
Rose Galligan, 17, negro girl, un
der wheels of automobile.
RALEIGH. Case of Planters
Bank and Trust company, of Free
niont, which obtained judgment for
$13,000 on note given by Thomas
Felton for stock in Fisheries Prod
ucts company, of Wilmington, now
in receivers’ hands, is ordered re
tried by state supreme court which
holds, in opinion, that, for pur
poses of civil actions, non-compliance
with provisions of blue sky law by
sellers of stocks renders note given
in payment voidable but not void.
GREENSBORO.—With completion
of final stretch of hard-surface road
on route 70 from Greensboro to Vir
ginia line, motorists now may trav
el 160 miles from South Carolina to
Virginia line through this state on
paved road.
HIGH POINT.—Mrs. C. W. Tillett,
of Charlotte, head of Daughters of
American Revolution in state, de
livers address before meeting of local
D. A. R. chapter members.
CHARLOTTe77a7~ B. Wingfield,
60, prominent insurance man, dies
few weeks after suffering stroke of
paralysis.
CHARLOTTE.—Rev. W. A. Lutz,
since 1916 pastor of Holy Trinity
Lutheran church, announces resig
nation to accept pastoral duties of
Brunswick, Ga., church.
SALISBURY. —J? O. Sprinkle,
well-known business man, of Char
lotte, is killed, Clyde Weatherly is
seriously injured, and H. M. Dum
bbell, Jr., and W. W. Fielder, Char-*
lotte business men, are injured
when speeding car leave sroad and
crashes into tree. Injured men are
brought to local hospital.
CHAR LOTTE.—Mrs. W. B. Lind
say, prominent in church and civic
affairs of Charlotte, is elected pres
ident of North Carolina Woman’s
Christian Temperance union.
ROCKY MOUNT.—United Daugh
ters of Confederacy of state, in twen
ty-eighth annual convention, hears
report of gain of 728 new members
in year, increasing membership to
10,875. Mrs. Josephus Daniels, of
Raleigh, delivers address.
ASHEVILLE. —Judge J. Bis Ray,
of Burnsville, N. C., member of su
perior court bench, dies at hospital
at Baltimore, Mr., where he had
been under treatment.
LOUISBURG. Body of Louis
Kline, one of best known merchants
of city, is found, balnket-wrapped, in
garage at home. He evidently had
committed suicide by cutting throat
with razor and then firing pistol bul
let into brain. He had been in de
spondent mood and under care of
nurse.
WILSON. Fayette Owens, of
Wilson county, is instantly killed
when run down by car driven by
Larry Coley. Witnesses say Owens
was partly intoxicated and Coley
was speeding.
CHAPEL HlLL.—Medicine is de
claed first choice of professions by
107 of 774 members of the freshman
class of University of North Caro
lina.
G.YSTONTA.—Declaring they have
chance to unseat Congressman Bul-
I winkle. Democrat, Republican party
is conducting vigorous campaign in
Ninth district.
GREENSBORO. Miss Ruth
, Y oungo4, school teacher, is found
dead in bath tub and coroner re
turns verdict that death was due to
apoplexy. Body is sent to home at
Clayton, N. C.
RALEIGH. Former Governor
Henry M. Allen, Republican, of Kan
sas, guest of Governor Morrison,
Democrat, declares he is astonished
Morrison should be compelled to
make state-wide campaign to im
press importance of water transpor
tation upon electorate and says Wil
liam Allen White, Emporia ecjltor,
anti-klan independent candidate, will
defeat both Democratic and Repub
lican nominees for governor of Kan
sas.
J'^^NGTON’. —First strike of tex
tile null workers of year occurs here
•It Wenonah mills, when all weave
• oom employes refuse to submit to
10 per cent wage cut. Management
nail agreed to increase operating
schedule from three to four davs per
week. * K
CHARLOTTE.—AR?. Sarah Dobv,
90. native of York. S. C.. wiYuiv
known, dies at hospital after lon
period of declining health.
«’■' 'COLLEGE-Board of
trustees of Guilford colleeg in ses
sion with institution’s advisory com-
I h< 72 S - rpcomi>! '’ndations for
$-00,000 additulnal endowment em
ployment of 30 additional instructors,
I construction of dormitory and gym
inasium to cost $85,000.
GREENSBORO.— Western North
C arolina conference of Methodist
j Episcopal church, south, votes to
.meet at Broad Street Methodist
chuteh, of Statesville, next yaer.
| GREENSBORO.—Rev. Tom P.
r niison, pastor of Methodist church
.at spencer, one of state’s most prom
inent labor leaders and vigorous ad
vocate of La Follette-Wheeler inde
pendent ticket, withdraws from west
ern North Carolina Methodist Epis
copal conference. after Bishop Den
of Richmond, Va„ presiding,
‘ ~ nrn he nu,st sive up politirii
activity or resign ministerial udties.
WILSON— John Pratt, negro, ss
ln -i ail in connection with
eatn of i t y: n i,angley. aged 3. son
of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Langley, who
ivv as run down and killed while plav
mg in the street near home, bv car
driven by Pratt.
RALEIGH.— Edward F. Lewis at
•ends Sunday school on one thou
sandth consecutive Sundav, which
esmbhshos record of perfect attend
an.e for 1.1 years and 12 Sundays.
CONCORD—Martin Bost, convict
ed of slaying Jesse J. Vanne• berg
another prominent Cabarrus eountv
.farmer, is taken to state prison at
La.eigh to serve seven-year term.
BURr.INGTON.—I7 T. Rudd. 45.
carpenter, is taken to hospital after
sustaining broken neck in 25-foot fail
fall from scaffold it Gibson cotton
mill. Physicians say life rests on
extent of injury to spinal cord.
CUMNOCK. —Development of coal
properties near here is forecast in
announcement that. Thomas G. Fear,
Pennsylvania, operator, will arrive
within few days for personal survey
of fields.
GREENSBORO—In effort to pre
vent members of freshman class
rfom eating between meals, Greens
boro college officials forbid seniors,
privileged to leave campus, from
bringing edibles from teashop near
campus. Indignation meeting of
students follows, and protest is sub
mitted to faculty.
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‘ TARBORO. —Financial summary
iof woman's auxiliary of North Caro
lina synod of Presbyterian church
shows $412,000 contributed to benev
olences included $274,391 to foreign
missions; $127,856 to home missions;
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143.
RALEIGH. Cooperative crop
'reporting service reports September
I.sales of tobacco at 84 markets in 38
towns, totalling 60,128.200 pounds at
'average price of $19.G6 per hundred-
Iweight, included 16,079,000 pounds
[sold at Wilson; 9,177,780, at Green
ville, and 8,839,000, at Winston.
CI lARLOTTE77C P. Adams. 55,
prominent planter of Bennettsville.
S. C.. dies at hospital where he had
been under treatment.
CHARLOTTE. State's advance
ment in educational matters in past
20 years and importance of further
I progress is stressed in address before
meeting of western North Carolina
teachers by A. T. Allen, state super
'intendent of public instruction,
i CHAPEL HILL.~Mount Zion Bap
itist association, including 52
Ichurches, with membership of 12,000,
;one of two strongest associations in
j state, re elects Walter M. Williams,
i of Burlington, ipoderator.
HICKORY.—Rev. Julius 11. Shu
; ford, retired minister of Reformed
'church, who has devoted recent
years to writing, falls dead at Kings
Creek, in Caldwell county, while
posting letter at R. F. D. mail box.
MONROE.—Miss Annie Lee, presi
dent of woman’s auxiliary of Ameri
can Legion for this state, has ap
' pointed Mrs. Sam H. Lee. of Monroe,
as department secretary-treasurer.
RALElGH.—Executive committee
iof state Sunday School association,
jin semi-annual meeting, votes to hold
1925 convention at Greensboro, April
28-30. D. W r . Sims, general superin
tendent, reports holding of 53 Sun
day school conventions irt past six
nionths and that work is more en
thusiastically' supported throughout
! state.
, GASTONIA. —James W. Wilson
dies suddenly of apoplexy while at
Work in office of Lowell cotton
; mills.
MlLTON.—Captain John L. Irvine,
91, commander of 45th North Caro
lina regiment in War Between the
States, dies after long period of de
clining health.
LENOIR.—Isaac M. Meekins. Re
publican nominee for governor,
speaking at Granite Falls, cites al
leged differences of from 1° to 30
cents in price of same school books
in this and “adjoining state.’’ in
'support of contention that children
of this state are required to pay high
prices for books, continuing attack
which has brought vigorous replies
from Democratic party in state.
SPENCER.—Barbecue at River
side park, on Y’adkin river, ends in
free-for-all fight in which I.ewis Wal
ton. grocer, of spencer, is danger
ously stabbed in chest and man
named Gore receives serious stab
wounds, all inflicted by persons not
identified.
HIGH POINT—PauI Freeman, 17.
student, of Pomona, is brought to
hospital here from hospital . at
Greensboro, where he was taken,
suffering rfom concussion of brain,
injury being sustained in football
game at. Greensboro. Sister, Miss
Livinia Freeman, is assistant super
intendent of hospital here.
SALISBURY.—China Grove school
district sells $50,000 issue of 5 1 /i per
ORIELS MAY NOT i
TALK IN OIL PROBE:
HMDS IL
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27.—Though
two former secretaries of the navy
were present when the government's ,
lease-cancellation suit against the ,
Pan-American Petroleum and Trans- ,
port company went to trial last !
Tuesday, neither of them had yet |
taken the stand as the battle for ,
control of the Elk Hills naval oil ■
reserves swung into its second week
today.
Testimony by Josephus Daniels, ;
secretary of the navy under Wood- :
row Wilson, had been looked for ■
early in the trial, in view of accusa- >
tions made against him in the open- !
ing statement of Frank J. Hogan,
chief defense counsel, to the effect
that during Daniels’ administration
the Standard Oil company was per- i
mitted to drill wells at the boundary
of naval reserve No. 1 and to drain
the resources of that territory with- •
out molestation. It was announced ■
last night, however, by Owen J. '
Roberts, of government counsel,
that it was by no means certain that i
Daniels would be called, as “until ;
the ease is further advanced it wi’l
not be possible to determine wheth
er his testimony will be needed.”
The other former secretary of the
navy, who attended the opening ses
sion of the trial, was Edwin Denby,
during whose administration the
Pan-American leases and contracts
were awarded. He also is here await
ing call to the witness stand.
Taking of testimony was to be re
sumed in federal court today at 2
p. m., with Edward C. Finney, as
sistant secretary of the interior, on
the stand. Finney, who was hold
ing his present position when Al
bert B. Fall was secretary of the in
terior, testified last week that Fall
began almost immediately after tak
ing office in March, 1921, to seek :
information on naval oil reserves,
although it was more than two I
months before President Harding
transferred control of the reserves
from the navy department to the
department of the interior.
Fire Damages Residence
AMERICUS, Ga.. Oct. 28.—Fire
early today in the home of J. E.
Hightower, prominent Americus mer
chant. did damage estimated at $2,-
000. The fire was discovered in an
upstairs apartment occupied by J.
Lewis Ellis. A quantity of water ,
poured into the burning structure
added to the loss sustained. High
tower carried adequate insurance, i
although a portion of the furnishings
belonging to Ellis was uninsured. i
cent school bonds at premium of
S3OO to Toledo brokers, proceeds of
which will he used to build school
at China Grove.
HICKORY.—J. Monroe Miller, 77,
farmer, dies at home near here aft
er several months of illness.
SALISBURY. Ninth District
Medical society meets October 30,
with Rowan County Medical so
ciety as host. Physicians from
about 15 counties are expected to
attend.
I EIGHT BOM SHIPS
CAPTURED IN CHASE:
FLEET IS SCmO
BOSTON, Oct. 27. —The rum rows
off Cape Cod and Cape Ann were
i scattered today as a result of their
j first major engagement with the
j prohibition enforcement navy and
eight prizes were tied up at docks
I here and at Gloucester and New
; London, Conn., with more than a
score of prisoners. The coast guard
cutter Tampa yesterday brought into
Boston harbor the New Foundland
two-masted schooner Marjorie E.
! Bachman, rum laden, and five
I American motorboats. Another mo
torboat was taken into Gloucester
and one into New London.
I The eight prizes, with their crews
and contraband liquor, valued at
j SIOO,OOO, represented a week's oper
’ ations of the Tampa, assisted by a
squadron of fast rum chaser* off
j Block Island, Cape Cod and Cape
< Ann. The captured vessels were
; taken in a running battle Friday in
which the Tampa used her threc
inch guns and pursued a scattering
rum fleet for more than an hour
near Stellwagon Banks, 20 miles off
! the coast, at a point half way be
tween Capes Cod and Ann. In the
fleet of rum ships were more than
a dozen vessels, according to coast
guard officers, including several
British and French crafts. A num
ber of American motorboats plying
between rum row and the shore
were surprised by the raiders.
Some of the speedier vessels dis
regarded warning shots from the
Tampa and on these the smaller
boats of the enforcement fleet open
ed fire with machine guns and
rifles. Numerous chases proceeded
l in the haze of the early morning,
j None of the rum vessels returned
j the coast guard fire. Officers said
that. more of the rum fleet could
have been captured had the coast
guard force been willing to fire di
rectly at their quarry.
The Marjorie E. Bachman is a
new vessel, registered from St
Johns. N. F. She carried SSO cases
of liquor, valued at $30,000.
NEW PAVING AT DALTON
DALTON, Ga., Oct. 28.—William
Eowe, Jr., of Augusta, has been
.awarded a contract for 1,800 addi
; tional yards of asphalt paving on
I Selvidge street. The work will go
forward with his other paving con-
I tracts now beine carried out here on
Thornton avenue, Cleveland and Sol
' vidge streets.
CHARLOTTE.—W. W. Rankin,
79, farmer, Confederate veteran,
well-known, dies suddenly while su
pervising construction of new home
at edge of this city.
WHITAKERS.—J. K. Boone,
middle-aged, commits suicide by
shooting himself with pistol. Act
is attrbiuted to poor health.
SPENCER.—RaIph G. Simedson,
ninth grade Spencer school boy,
third party supporter, challenges
Mrs. Edwin C. Gregory, of Salis
bury. vice chairman of Rowan coun
ty Democratic, executive committee,
to debate political issues.
MOUNT AlßY.—Surry county of
ficials and voters are thrown into
state of intense excitement when
Raleigh newspaper correspondent
SHENANDOAH RESTS AT HOME
AFTER OPENING NEW VISTAS
TO U. S. ARGONAUTS OF SKY
Record Flight Proves Storms
and Mountain Ranges Hold
No Terror for Giant Dirigi
ble Cruisers
(When the navy air cruiser Shenandoah
was hauled to earth to Lakehurst, N. .1.,
after her trail-blazing flight to the l‘acifie
coast and return, Junius B. Wood, selected
by the navy department as the sole news
paper correspondent to make the trip, laid
aside his role ot reporter-to-the-world-at
largtf and again became the special corre
spondent of The Atlanta Journal and the
Chicago Daily News. In today's exclusive
dispatch he presents a graphic description
ot ihe epochal flight and tells of the many
lessons the navy learned from it.)
BY JI NILS B. WOOD
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal and the
Chicago Daily News.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—That
the air is an uncharted void was
thoroughly realized by the officers
who piloted the navy airship Shen
andoah on its pioneer voyage across
the United States and return. To
those who had previous submarine
duty the experience was similar to
navigation under trackless waves.
Following a course, even by day,
over populated parts of the country
dotted by towns and criss-crossed by
highways, railroads and streams was
difficult, while by night clustered
lights of villages, the distant glow
of others on the black horizon and
occasional flares of automobiles or
locomotives passing far below told
little of the location.
At times fogs by day covered the
sarth like a frozen sea, and clouds
veiled the moon at. night until the
familiar earth 3,000 feet below was
indistinguishable.
Air Lessons Learned
Records were made on the cruise
and lessons were learned.
One lesson was that charts or
maps, beacons or signboards to guide
the traveler are all for voyaging on
the surface, whether of water or of
land. Except for the route of the
transcontinental mail flyers, the
United States is largely uncharted
for aerial navigation. In the course
of its cruise twice around three sides
of the United States, only one city
was sighted with its name painted
on a. roof in massive letters which
could be seen from the sky. Each
town was different by day and each
was a different silhouette against
the black ground at night, but there
are no charts of the air to identify
the landmarks.
The cruise of the Shenandoah
demonstrated that the Rocky moun
tains are not a barrier to airships be
tween the Atlantic and the Pacific.
It also demonstrated that despite the
gales which eddy around their peaks,
and head winds which are liable to
he met across the plains and along
Ihe coast, an airship, much as it. is
buffeted by Ihe elements, can make
the journey faster than an express
train.
Voyaging by airship is in its in
fancy. and, as it improves, as have
other forms of transportation, larg
er ships will be built, time will be
reduced and signs will look upward
for the visitor from the skies as
others now do for the traveler on the
surface.
New Mooring Masis Planned
If the enthusiasm of the Pacific
coast for the Shenandoah is echoed
in other parts of the United States,
mooring masts will spring up like
flagpoles. Every city will have a
mooring mast for air liners. In San
Francisco, a movement already has
been started. During the voyage
hundreds of requests came to Lieu
tenant Commander Zachary Lans
down, captain of the Shenandoah, to
fly past or linger over different cities
and villages. One city seriously ad
vised that the failure of the Shenan
doah to make a visit might embar
rass the administration at the com
ing election. As many of the re
quests were acceded to as possible
without delaying ths vovase.
If all had been granxe'r, rne Shenan
doah would be zig-zagging across the
United States for the next six
months.
Conclusive demonstration of the in
fluence of winds on the speed of the
ship and the handicaps enforced in
return for the safety factor from us
ing non-combustible helium gas is
given by the record of time between
different ports.
The detailed figures in hours and
minutes, showing the net time in
flights between the cities, the actual
time "until making fast at the next
mast and the time at the mast in
each city, after leaving Lakehurst.
N. J., October 10 at 10 a. m., are as
follows:
Figures on Flight
In Flight In Air Moored
To Fort Worth. 36:45 38:05 10:41
To San Diego.. .39:14 41:14 128:15
To Camp Lewis. 47:15 57:55 1 6:55
To San Diego.. .39:55 47:35 23:25
To Fort Worth. 36:25 37:22 8:06
To Lakehurst .35:28 36:27
* T0ta15235:02 258:38 187:22
Th e outbound voyage was made in
123 hours and 14 minutes while the
return voyage required only 111 j
hours and 47 minutes. If prevailing!
winds had been as usual from the (
west the difference would have been .
greater.
They are uncertain at this season I
of the year, and suclden changes fre- i
quently changed the ship’s speed,'
from 35 to 75 miles an hour, or vice
versa.
The difference between the net;
sailing time between ports and the'
time between landings was due!
either to the difficulty in locating
the mast on account of fogs or lack
of signs or r ; u e to the use of helium.
About ten per cent of the sailing
time was used in this way. It
amounted to 23 hours and 27 min
utes. The quickest mooring was
made in 57 minutes on the return
voyage to Fort Worth.
Cost of Helium
Helium at a cost of from $55 to'
S6O per 1.000 cubic feet is too pre-'
clous to valve in gasps of hundreds;
of thousands of cubic feet in order
■ finds someone in legislature had in
i eluded Surry county among those
; authorized and required by special
| law to operate Australian balloting
! system. Representatives of county
'in legislature deny this responsi-
. ! bility.
KINSTON.—William Grady, one
time Duplin county planter, pleads
guilty to manslaughter and is sen
. fenced from two to five years in
. | prison for killing his son, Romulus,
i 19, during drinking spree.
! DURHAM. James Farris, of
■ High Point, is elected president of
senior class of Trinity college.
GASTONIA.— Mrs. Eliza Devine,
I 70, dies at hospital, where she was
' | taken after being hit at railway
I crossing at. Gover by Southern rail
: \ way passenger train.
to make a landing. Hydrogen gas
lis comparatively expensive. In or
i der to save helium, landing must be
: made in the chill of darkness when
I the ship is heavy. For the same
reason, departures of the heavily
j loaded ship are made in the morn
ing after the gas had received the
: superheat from the sun. But. for
this, the Shenandoah could have
i dropped down to a mast, resupplied
itself with gas, fuel and food and
been away again in two or three
hours. In the long stop in San
Diego 120 hours were used in mak
ing repairs. The lifting buoyancy
of helium also is around 10 per cent
less than that of hydrogen, reduc
ing the carrying capacity of the
ship to that extent.
The Shenandoah further is bur
dened by 20 per cent increased
weight to secure structural stability.
Shenandoah made history. It blazed
the way for aerial navigation in the
future by showing that the highest
of mountains are surmountable. Com
forts, improvements and new meth
ods will come as they have to the
automboile ana aeroplane in com
paratively few years. The voyage
just completed is considered by aero
nautical authorities as conclusive
demonstration of the safety and con
venience of airships for passenger
and commercial transportation.
(Special Cable to The Atlanta Journal and
SHENANDOAH AND ZR-3
REST SIDE BY SIDE IN HANGAR
LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct. 27.
America’s two .great dirigibles, the
Shenandoah and the ZR-3, berthed
together in a hangar that could ac
commodate a third big airship, were
seen today by more than 50,000 vis
itors.
The Shenandoah returned to her
hangar after a trip of 9,000 miles to
the I’aeific coast and back.
Commander Zachary Lansdowne,
at his home this afternoon, said the
continental cruise proved that ex
penditure of large sums for hangars
was unnecessary. They are no more
to an airshin than a drydock is to a
steamship, he said, being merely
places to go for overhauling and re
i pairs.
The successful use of mooring
masts shows that a dirigible can be
away from home as long as she
must, he continued, expressing also
his opinion that a second hangar on
the Pacific coast would be sufficient
for all needs.
Captain Anton Heinen, Zeppelin
expert, employed by the navy during
the first months of operation of the
American-designed and constructed
Bhenandoah, has inspected the re
turned airship and declared that
Commander Lansdowne had proved
himself to be one of the greatest air
ship pilots of today.
Funeral of Victims
Os Alabama Shooting
Held at Meltonsville
GUNTERSVILLE, Ala., Oct. 27.
Large crowds attended the funeral
of Dr. Curtis Johnson and his three
victims, his wife and two members
of her family, which was hied Sun
day at Meltonsville.
Mrs. A. O. Caston, the physician’s
mother-in-law, who was wounded,
was reported as improving today at
! a local hospital. Her condition is
i gravely, however.
Dr. Johnson had become estranged
from his wife for several months,
j Saturday morning he went to her
parents’ home at Meltonsville, and
I after a conversation shot and killed
her.'g lie then killed her father, A.
O. Caston, and her sister, Miss Jes
sie Caston, eighteen, and wounded
her mother. ♦
Kneeling before his wife’s body,
Dr. Johnson then turned the pistol
on himself and committed suicide.
He was a brother of State Senator
Johnson.
Ten District Attorneys
Ousted for Dry Laxity,
Attorney General Says
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. Four
United States district attorneys have
been asked to resign, and six others
have resigned since last July as a
result of failure in most instances to
enforce the prohibition laws, Attor
ney General Stone said today in ref
erence to charges of lax prohibition
enforcement.
The statement was made bj' Mr.
Stone in amplification of the letter
of Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt,
assistant attorney general, made pub
lic recently, in which she said at
least ten district attorneys were in
different towards prohibition enforce
ment. This letter was written last
July, and he said since that time
steps had been taken to dispense
with the services of ten district at
torneys. He did not name them.
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Reconstruction hospital today suffer
ing from a strange toxic delirium re
sulting from the breathing ot gases
in the Bay way plant of the Standard
Oil company at Elizabeth. K. j‘.
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mysterious malady, Walter Dymock,
of Elizabeth, died at Reconstruction
hospital last night. No announce
ment of the fatality was made by the
hospital authorities. The first vic
tim, Ernest Oelgert, Jr., also of Eliza
beth, died there before he could be
removed to the hospital.
T. L. Lewis, superintendent of Re
construction hospital, early today re
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cerning the condition of the sur
vivors of the mysterious ailment, and
made no announcement of the death
of Dymock. News of DymOck’s death
was obtained at his home in Eliza
beth.
The Standard Oil company issued
a statement which said that the men
had become “seriously ill” while at
work in the Elizabeth laboratory last
week. For weeks, the company’s an
nouncement said, these five men had
been experimenting with chemicals
and gases “in an effort to find a
substance which could be success
fully used with straight gasoline to
overcome certain inherent difficulties
of motor car operations.” <
Dr. Joseph Funk, who treated Oel
gert, reported that his death was due
to contiitued inhalation of a gas used
in connection with ethylene, which
recently has come into wide use as
an anaesthetic.
William McSweeney, Herbert Fu
son and William Grerge, all of Eliza
beth, remain in Reconstruction hos
pital. With Dymock, they were
taken there Saturday after Oelgert
had died. The gases were said to
have affected all similarly—they lost
weight, had hallucinations and de
lirium.
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struction hospital and a consultant
of the Standard Oil company, said
that the poisoning is entirely new
to science. Insomnia, he said, was
one of the first symptoms, and low
blood pressure also was noted. The
effect, he added, is somewhat simi
lar to that which sometimes follow
ed the use of certain poison gases
during the war, but no special meth
od of treatment has been evolved.
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substance with which the 45 men
employed in the laboratory had been
working was a fluid which, when
mixed with gasoline, was designed to
retard the combustion rate of the
fuel. All the workers were under
daily medical obszervation during
their employment in the laboratory,
the company statement said, adding
that all laboratory workers were un
der instructions to wear gas masks
at all times when they conducted ex
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TIFTON, Ga., Oct. 28.—Mr. Wil
liam Augustus ratton died at his
home near Brookfield Saturday fol
lowing a stroke of paralysis. Mr.
Patton was born in Bibb county 81
years ago and came to this section
about 32 years ago. He had been
married four times, his last wife,
who was Miss Donie Hambrlch, of
Macon county, surviving him. Fu
neral services were conducted at
New River church Sunday," Rev. J.
A. Cox and Rev. J. C. Moore offi
ciating. Mr. Patton was a veteran
of the Civil war and a member of
the Brookfield Baptist church. Four
children by his first wife, and four
children by his third wife, survive
him. •
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