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<TM ' 1 | ^ J Watch Label on Your Paper 7|T iTf [ I I fH The Date on the Label is the s-sr-?*- mijF iJlU0U 1i|FXaiU* p>r Kp-,wi"* , ^ FST VBUSHlVn 1894. THE DILLON HERALI), DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MORNINO, JUNE 26, 1919. - VOL. 28. NO. 82. ' ] F*r THE WOLF OF WALL STREET. How David Lamm* Worked Coup for Fortune. ? ?? Richard Spiljane in Philadelphia Pub_ lie Ledger: No tears will be shed in downtown New York over the affirmation by the United States circuit court of appeals of the conviction of David Lamar, better known as "The Wolf of Wall Street.' ' He has a cunning that is wonderful and a skill in some matters that is uncanny. At times he has used men of the highest probity as pawns in the promotion of his schemes. One *?** '? ?..ffm show the illustration win oumv^ -- man's adroitness. There was a coal strike 15 or 20 years ago which was fought with extreme bitterness. The coal people would not recognize the union leaders, and the union leaders had their forces so well organized that production was paralyzed. The stock market was affected seriously. One day John Mitchell the union leader was called to the telephone in the Hoffman house. After somf preliminary precaution, the speaker said: "I am Mr. Morgan, I wish you would come to my house in Madison Avenge tonight at 8:30. I shall have several men there with whom you now are at war. If you desire bring y several of your associates, not more than three or four. Let us see if dispassionate exchange of views can not bring some settlement to this senseless quarrel." Mr. Mitchell said he would be pleased to accept. Later Mr. Morgan was called to the1 ~ '" * * - L ~ I telephone and this is tne message ue received: 'This is M,r. Mitchell of the coal miner's union. I believe if you will | use your good officers to bring about a meeting of myself and my associates and of the gentlemen representing the leading coal interests a way be found to settle the strike. I promise nothhig except our willingness to discuss this serious trouble hian fashion and without prejudice. If you say so my associates and I will be at your Madison Avenue home at 8:30 tonight." "Very well: be there," replied tyr. Morgan. That evening three or four of Mr J Mitchell's associates rang the bell of Mr. Morgan's house between 8:15 and 8:30 and were admitted to the big reception room, where some presidents of great coal railroads and some b+gl coal operators had assemtaed. A de-j lightful dinner was served and there ^ were wine and cigars after which the! f gentlemen began to talk. They were not so bitter or unwilling to make concessions while they sat in friendly companionship, and a little after midnight they came practically to an agreement. Then Mr. Morgan in asking all present to be at his office at 10:30 in the morning to ratify in writing the agreement, said he wanted t0 express his high regard for Mr. Mitchell and let all know it was due to his suggestion that this statement had been made possible through bringing the conflicting parties together at his home. Mr. Mitchell protested that the credit was not due to him, but to Mr. Morgan from whom the suggestion came. J. P. knitted his brows in surprise. Then he said, "Huh," and let it go at that. While the conference was on a man stood in the shadow in Thirty-sixth street watching the Morgan house. When the party came out he was close by while they were shaking hands and bidding each other goodbye, and saying the'd see each other again at 10:30 in Morgan's office. The man who had been watching hurried to a telephone office and did some calling to London, where the stock market opens hours before it does in New York. ' In the morning there were mysterious rumors that the coal strike was settled in a secret conference. The afternoon before just before closing, there had been heavy buying of coal shares. There was heavy buying also at the opening this particular, morning. At 10:30 a. m. there was a wild whooping in Broad street. John Mitchell and party and the coal railroad men had got together. Then the market boiled. In a shop in New street a man watched the ticker and gloated. Thousands and ten thousands were coming into his possession every few minutes through the rolling tape. They started an investigation for Mr. Morgan's information. "It was the Wolf," they reported to the great banker, k Then and not till then did Mr. MorL gan begin to understand how Mitchell B thought Morgan suggested the conferQ ence and Morgan thought Mitchell proposed it. MMfe Lamar always worked alone. That M perhaps, is one explanation of how he Bp got his name of the Wolf, the lone wolf. He made few friends. He gambled heavily and lived extravaoantK' Mo niavpd no favorites. When W 1 O"""' r?1 ? ? Von Rintelen came here with a big bribery fund to promote German propaganda and prevent munitions from being shipped, Lamar was one of the first to grab him. What Lamar did to that fool German's bank account was a wonder. Von Rintelen went to jail. Lamar after using every lecal device to keep out, is going there also. There is some talk of Bryan's becoming a candidate for lh< 'I're-udoncv in 192$. / RACY LETTER FROM OVERSEAS. Ma.j. J. V. Malcolm Writes Interestingly of His Experiences in Europe. Dr. Joe Cabell Davis is in receipt of the following unique letter from his friend, Maj. J. V. Malcolm, who has been in Europe since the beginning of the war: Berlin, May 29th, 1919. My Dear Friend, Dr. Joe Cabell Davis, Probate Judge of the Probate ( Court of Dillon County, Champion iiun rnrower or ine u. ?., Traveller of some Note, Cuban Campaigner, Haig and Haig dispenser, Would be Pigeon Raiser, Husband of a charming lady and wonderful Cook, Boon Companion of Biff Bethea and Jim Carmichael, Ex-Bleasite, present politics unknown, Greetings: , , I have thought of you often, old scout, but have been working so hard to make good in the work to which I have been assigned to from time to time in my wild fight for the Freedom of the World and relief of suffering humanity, I have about quit writing lett^B to any one except the Madam, and very little to her at that. You perhaps already know that I was transferred from the position of Chief Accountant of the Red Cross at Paris to that of Comptroller of the Red Cross to Great Britain with , headquarters at London. I worked there like old Harry for about eight | months, made good, so the public auditors who went over my records have said, end when this commission to [Germany was formed for the purpose j of giving aid to the poor Russian (prisoners here, I came .with it as Comptroller of Accounts with a comj mission as captain. A very short while after arriving in Berlin, I was [made secretary of the Commission, i handling all personnel and later was made general office manager and di-J rector of the Bureau of Transports-: tion, all places not being big enough for one man at the head of each. , Of course when I got to be the whole show like that, I had to fly the stripes !of a Major, but for your information, there is only one other place higher than mine in the Commission and I assure you that I have no designs jon that. Now to get from the sublime to the [ridiculous. Doc, I am really working hard, my time being divided between jthe office here and the outside officii scattered around over Germany, i Get down your map and follow me around a bit. I have been to Stettin, Madgeburg, Dresden, Chemnitz. [Zwickau Hof, Bayreuth, the home of Wagner, Nurnberg, Erlangen. Bamberg, Gera, Leipzig, Halle, Wittenberg, the home of Luther, Dusseldorf, Coin, Coblenz, Mainz and Weisbaden. Most of the places are those in which our outside offices are located and the others are just towns of historical interest which I visited I hv onmKinc n littlp DleaSUl'e With business. I am going to Danzig next week and from there to Palond to ,look over the books and records of I the Polish Commission located at j Warsaw. This trip was requested by I the Comptroller at Washington, and II am very happy over it, for I feel .that it is a direct approval of the two [years work that I have done for the A. R. C. I don't put much up against a Commission in the Red Cross, for jmost anybody can come over with a [big one tacked on, but when the big (gun over there says the webfoot from the sands of Dillon County is 0. K., it makes my niggardly heart swell with pride, for I don't know of any others from our states who have been able to climb very high in this organization. We have had quite a little excitement from time to time in Berlin, Steitin, Dresden," Madgeburg, and Nurnberg since coming to Germany, and I have gone to bed and waked up quite often by the music of machine guns, trench mortars and rifles, knowing that it was a case of dog Jeat dog and none of our precious boys were biting the dust as a result of coming into contact with a Boche bullet. Everything is quiet now tho' and whatever demonstrations do come up, they all look like stage work put on to make some effect on the peace terms. I would gladly lay down my life any day, should such a sacrifice on my part be necessary, bring ja half million doughboys up here and 1 occupy this the proud Prussian part TV,? ninct wnnriprfll 1 | Ul ut*i man > . a i?c ?*?v?v ?. .? j sight in the world to my mind would i be to see our own crack cavalry galloping down the streets of Berlin, putting the fear of God in the hearts of these kultured devils. I have been ! stared at so much Doc, I fear that I am going mad some day and bite a | few dozen of them. We are required to wear civilian clothes in the evening, but I don't think that anything is going to happen. Give Miss Vieve Huggins, Jack Watson, Bruce.Hargrove, Jim Sprunt Muller, Gordon. Biff, A. B. Jordan | John C., Verne, Larkin, John Sprunt, Uncle Nick, Vick McLean, Crip Hasel den and all the balance of the boys my best regards, ?nd tell them that I am coining back to Dillon some (day to renew old acquaintnces if not to live. Give my very best regards to Mrs. Davis and if you think there is any! thine left for that thick hide of yours I and it can penetrate to your miserable old breast, just take it unto yourIsolf front otie whQ would almost give | his l ight artn to walk into your darned old office and be greeted with I "Hello Dink." Yours, J DINK. (jasper invaded by BOLE WEEVIL. Sixty Per Cent, of Cotton Reported Infested and Farmers Begin i Fight. Ridgeland?Jasper County is facing one of the most serious problems ever presented in this section? jthe boll weevil. Within the last j few days some of the largest farmers | in the county have estimated that at | least 60 per cent of the cotton planted is at this time infested with the I weevil. In soiiie instances fields with cotton about two feet high is Ibeine consumed the nwnoro QtoHnor i that they are unable to find any j squares that have not been punctur;ed. Some of the farmers are even 'plowing up their cotton and putting in com and peas, with the hopes of j making at least a crop of hay on what had always been their best cotton land. Other farmers are preparing to fight the weevil and are making preparations to put a poison solution on the cotton stalk under the ; direction of, the county farm agent. While most of the farmers expected that the boll weevil would put in jits appearance in large numbers this ,year, none expected that much damage would be done until the last of July or the first of August and therefore planted their crop earlier than usual hoping to make the crop before the weevil got started in its work of destruction. It is thought that the excessive humidity has caused the weevils to start sooner than usual as for the past two weeks it has rained almost every day. Under the present outlook, it appears that the cotton crop, which is practically the only money crop planted in Jasper County, will be curtailed between 60 and 75 per cent. 0?i THE DROWNING OF W. B. SMITH AND SON. Further Details !of Tragedy in Which Former Dillon Citizens Were Victims. j The Herald's Mallory correspondent sends a clipping from a Kansas paper | which gives further details of the I drowning of W. B. Smith( a former Dillon county man, and his five year old son: s j Editor Herald?Some weeks ago the jnews of the death of Mr. W. B. Smith land his son Berry reached here. Yhe telegram was too brief to convey any ' idea of the sad tragedy but I am en1 closing a clipping from the Kansas jCity Star which gives a fuller account than had previously reached here, j Mrs. Smith has written relatives here that she will leave for Conway | next week for the final interment. In the interval between the drowning and the burial the bodies were embalmed and placed in a vault for one month to allow Mrs. Smith time to dispose of her husbands interests preparatory to making her home in South Carolina permanently hereafter. | The clipping is as follows: : "William B. Smith, of Dodeon, Mo., Ian employee of the National Shoe Co., and his son, Berry, five years old, ,were drowned May 25th, at 5:30 p. m., on the Blue River, one half mile south of Dodson on the DodsonGrandview Road, when their canoe capsized. C. H. Finkle, of Dodson, the oldest occupant in the canoe, reached : the banks of the stream safely. | Berry's hat blew off in a sudden !gust of wind and as he made an attempt to secure it the canoe turned I over. The bodies were recovered two hours after the accident occurred. The fire department pulmotor was of no avail In saving t'ne two lives. James Hickerson, of 2014 East Eighty-second Street, Hiram Rader cf Marlborough and Raney B. Barrett, of Dodson, all dived for the bod les. L.oran Mcuoy of Dodson, recovered them by working the stream with a pole in a boat. The bodies were taken to the Freeman & Marshall undertaking establishment. The bodies will be sent to Conway, S. C., for burial at Lake Side Cemetery later, i W. B. Smith was 33 years old, was married t0 Miss Nellie Berry, of Kansas City, Mo., March 13th 1913. i He is survived by his wife Mrs. Nellie Smith of Dodson, Md., father and mother Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Smith, of Conway, S. C., three brothers and one sister as follows: J. R. Smith, Sellers, S. C.; Mrs. J. N. Hayes, Conway; J. E. Smith, Mallory, S. C.; F. B. Smith, Conway, S. C. He was well known in Dillon, Marion, Florence and Marlboro Counties. o Mystery Cleared. The minister met Tom, the village ne'er-do-well, the other day and, much to his surprise, shook him hear_ tily by the hand. "I'm so glad you've turned over a new leaf, Thomas," said the good man. "Me!" returned Tom, looking at him dubiously. ( "Yes?I was so pleased to see you at the prayermeeting last night.'" j "Oh," said Tom, a light breaking in on him, "so thot's where I was, is ii ; O Farmer's fleeting. The fanners of the county are cordially invited to attend a meeting at the Farmers Warehouse at 4:"0 o'clock today; June 26th. Mr. H. Harrist conimissioner of agriculture will address the meeting. I A. V. BETHEA, Pres. | LARGE CROWDS ATTEND REVIVAL MEETINGS ' Dr. Dew, the Well-Known Evangelist, j Preaches Twice Daily at Baptist. Church. I . Much interest is being manifested in me revival serv-ces at tne uapusi I church. The ser/ices began Sunday I morning and 'will continue through i the week and into next week. Large [crowds are attending the services both afternoon and night. Dr. Dew is j very much encouraged by the interest manifested in the meetings. Although Dr. Dew is a native of Dillon county J and has been preaching for nearly j30 years, this is the first time he has preached in Dillon. He has held meetings in other parts of the county, but this is his first appearance in I Dillon. Shortly after entering the ministry Dr. Dew went to the Middle West 'where he spent many years in evanjgelical work. He returned to his native section several years ago and has charge of evangelical work in the south. He is a strong and forceful preacher and has a national reputation as an evangelist. He preaches twice daily at the BapI tist church, the afternoon service bel ginning at 4:30 o'clock and the night service at 8:30. Prof. Matteson of Columbia is leading in the singing. Dr. Dew's subject last night was "Wh^it Four Men Said: The first man said, "Let me alone, I am going to Hell;" Second man said, "I will take my chances;'' Third man said, "You die like a dog or hog and that is the last of you." The Fourth man said, "By the grace of God I am going to heaven." His subject for Friday night will i De r ire union uevns." On Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock there will be a mass meeting and "The Breaking of tfye Alabaster Box,'* which is a unique service and to which everyone is cordially invited. | o CAXOE UPSET DROWNING TWO. Bodies of W. B. Smith and Five Y'eai Old Son Hecovered From the Blue. i Horry Herald: William B. Smith, of Dobson, Mo., an employee of the National Shoe Co., and his son, Berry, five years ,old, were drowned May 25th, at 5:30 j p. m. on the Blue River, one-half mile south of Dobson, on the DodsonGrandview Road, when their canoe capsized. C. H. Finkle, of Dodson, the other occupant of the canoe, | reached the banks of the stream jsafely. Berry's hat blew off in a sudden gust of,wind and as he made an attempt to secure it the canoe turned over. Tfhe bodies were recovered two hours after the accident occurred. The fire department pulmettoi was used, but was of no avail in ! saving'the two lives. James Hickerson, of 2014 East Eighty-second Street, Riman Radei !of Marlborough and Raney B. BarI ~ e t\? 11 J i a c ? ICll> Ul UOU6UU, ail UIVL'U 1U1 lilt bodies. Loran McCoy of Dodson, re[covered them by'working the stream with a pole in a boat. The bodies were taken to the Freeman & Marshall undertaking establishment. The bodies will be sent tc Conway, S. C., for burial at Lake Side Cemetery later. W. B. Smith was 33 years old was married to Miss Nellie Berry, of Kansas Citv, Mo., March 13th, 1913. He is survived by his wife, Mrs Nellie Smith of Dodson, Mo., fathei ;and mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. D Smith, of Conway, S. C., three brothers and one sister as follows: i J. It. Smith, of Sellers. S. C.; J , N. Hays, Conway; L. E. Smith, Mailory, S. C.; F. B. Smith, Conway; S C. He was Ayell known in Dillon Marion, Florence and Marlboro Counties. The date of his burial will be announced later. o Fork. L. G. Rogers erf Florence spent Sun i day at home with his parents, Mr and Mrs. J. 0. Rogers. | H. P. DuBose and little flaughtei Sadie are visiting relatives in Lamar '! Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rogers and bab> who have been visiting relatieves lei I Sunday for Greensboro, N. C. Mrs Rogers was accompanied home by hei sister, Miss Lucile Bethea. Oscar Rogers left Sunday for Char lootnn nrtifiro ha u,-ill ha -rnnp SPVPral days on business. Mr. and Mrs. Carrol Miller and baby spent Tuesday and Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. H. J. DuBose. Mrs. Zack Edwards, who has been very ill, is now convalescing. Miss Sue Nell Still of Lamar is vis iting her sister, Mrs. H. J. DuBose There will be an ice cream suppei at Fork school building Friday nigh! June 27. The money raised will go fot the improvement of the school build ing. The public is cordially invited o Services at the Methodist Church Main street Methodist church, Dr Watson B. Duncan, pastor. Sunday school at 10 a. in.. Mr. W. Harry Muller. Superintendent. Preaching a! eluding sermon of the series on "The .Model Home." This will be the concluding sermon of the series of "The Home." Owing to the revival meeting at the hBaptist church, there will not be any services in this church at tin levelling hour. Public cordially invited to all services. THE BETHEA CASE UP THIS WEEK. i , Former Lt. Gov. of S. C. Sues Columbia Record for $100,000. Columbia, June 24?The case of [ Andrew J. Bethea, formerly lieuten: ant governor of South Carolina, - against The Record, the local after_ i noon newspaper, for alleged malicli ous libel, is scheduled to commerce i in the Richland County court here toi morrow. Mr. Bethea is asking for ;i $100,000 damages, ij. The suit grew out of a series' of | articles printed in The Record during I the first of the year which alleged1 i that Mr. Bethea had no authority to ] . wear a major's uniform which he | | naa aonnea ai tne time ne received | ^is commission as major in the chemical section, ordinance department reserve corps, United States army. It was charged that as Mr. Bethea wast in an inactive status'in the army, the! regulations prohibited him wearing I it, and by so doing he was acting il-j legally. The series of articles like-1 wise alleged that Mr. Bethea was ordered to Camp Jackson, and there made <o "disrobe."' Mr. Bethea denied all the allegations in The Record's articles and countered by claiming that he was al-1 lowed to wear the uniform under the | regulations. o? Sel lers-Mu rdock. The following from a Schnectady paper will be of interest to many Dillonites: "The wedding of Miss Isabelle Mardock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Billington of Detroit, Mich., and William M. Sellers, son of Mrs. P. B. Sellers, of Dillon, S. C., took place Saturday at the parsonage of the Albany Street Methodist church before an assemblage of friends. Rev. Lewis E. Carter performed the ceremony. ' The bride wore a georgette crepe grown and white leghorn hat and ' was attended by Miss Kathleen Hermitage of Saratoga. The bridegroom was attended by E. G. Ritchie of] this city. After the ceremony the bridal party left by automobile for Camp Linger Longer at Ballston Lake ' where a dinner was given them. The i table was decorated with cut flowers and evergreens. After tomorrow Mr. ' and Mrs. Sellers will be at home at 231 Avenuea." > The groom is a son of Mrs. P. B. Qoll&fC nf Tallinn Ua. o ' uvttvig wi x/ittvu. iic 10 a giauuaic Ui . Clemson and for the past several years has been with the General Electric Company at Schnectady. i o I First Tobacco Came in Monday. | Reports from different parts of the i county indicate that early tobacco is maturing rapidly. The first load of the season came in Monday. They were brought in by the following far mers: F. L. Sitton, Sitton A. Bethea s and W. G. Harrolson. There are what may be defined as two tobacco crops i this year. The early settings are maturing from one to two weeks in ad vanca while the late settings will be from seven to ten days late. Hereto fore the warehouses have opened ' about July 10th, but a well-known toj baceonist who has spent several sea sons on the Dillon market and knows |crop conditions in this section says ' they will do well to open this year by the loth. There is very little of the early crop to be marketed. o In Honor of Prof. Haukniglit. j | A very elaborate social event in Latta was the farewell given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Bauknight in the) Latta High School building last Tues- j day evening from 8:30 to 10:30. The, halls were tastefully decorated for . i the occasion and it was here that Prof, and Mrs. Bauknight met their hosts of friends who came to speak their appreciation. Mr T. A Manning Jr nresided as toastmaster. Rev. Hdwell of the Presbyterian church responded to the . toast "Our School'* and spoke of the | many favorable impressions that he had received of the aggressive and ..thorough work done by Prof. Bauk night during his superintendency of 1 the Latta School. Mr. Bauknight was called on and spoke of the unusual kindness shown him and his family during their seven years stay in Lat. ta and of the interest he had in the I school and children of this community. Mr. E. B. Berry responded to the I toast "Our Town" and spoke in forcer ful terms of the influence that the work of the Bauknight Period, in ( our school and town, would have in ,the future history of our town. Mr. _|L. A. Manning, Jr., then spoke in appreciative terms and delivered to Mr.! ; Bauknight a present from the men I . of the town, stating that the* women ; were not going to outdo the men in j showing their appreciation and good will to Mr. and Mrs. Bauknight. The ' ladies presented Mrs. Bauknight with handsome and valuable presents. Delightful refreshments were served by the ladies to the large number of friends present. Mr. and Mrs. Bauknight have lived in?Latta for seven years, during which time Mr. Bauknight lias been superintendent of the school. During: ' bis stay in Latta. Mr. Bauknight has! been a very valuable asset to the town I ' and community and his host of menus! are sorry to have such a good man 1 leave us and our community. Mr., Itauknight and family will go to An derson County where lie will de agricultural work. MllS. ANNIE M. BETHEA. Good Woman Passes t? Her Reward After a Long Illness. | It will be a matter of regret to many to learn of the death of Mrs. An_ nie M. Bethea, who passed away I Thursday morning at the residence of ,her daughter, Mrs. W. T. Bethea, after a lingering illness of several months. Mrs. Bethea was the eldest daughter and second eldest child of the late Rev. Joel and Nancy Allen and was born in tho Brownsville section of Marlboro County, October 22, 1843. A few years before the War between the States her father moved to the "Free State" section of Marion County and here reared and settled his famll.. " aiuuiia mm. Soon after the * war she was married to Dr. Andrew Bethea, a physician of the same section, where he settled and practiced his profession. There they began life j auspiciously but their plansvwere soon * cut short by the sudden death of her husband. Mrs. Bethea was thus left alone with five children, but struggled on heroically and reared them on the farm and educated them. After they had reached maturity she gave up housekeeping and for several ( years had been living with her children in different parts of the State, all of whom are now living to mourn her death, and are located as follows: Mrs. P. F. Kilgo, Greenville; Mrs. W. T. Bethea, Dillon; H. A. Bethea, Latta; Dr. P. A. Bethea, Darlington; and Ex-Lieut. Gov. A. J. Bethea of Columbia. Besides her children, she is survived by the following brothers and sisters: W. B. Allen, Latta; the Rev. J. I. Allen, Dillon; D. E. Allen, Hartsville; Mrs. J. F. Allen, Mallory; and Mrs. P. S. Dew, Latta. Early in her childhood she united with the Brownsville Baptist Church and was a member of the Baptist church at the time of her death. She was a lovable character and had many friends who with a large famHy connection mourn her loss. \ The services were held at 11 o'clock Friday morning, at the residence of her daughter,, Mrs. W. T. Bethea, being conducted by the Rev. W. C. Allen, pastor of the First Baptist church and the Rev. S. J. Bethea, pastor of the Little Rock Methodist rhnr^h rails turned and spread. The engine left the track and buried its wheels ir. the ground, with the monster locomotive resting at an angle of about 45 degrees. The tender was lying at right angles with the rails. Trains were detoured by way of Wilmington. ^ t l)r. Duncan to Speak. Dr. Watson B. Duncan will go to Mullins on Friday where at 8:30 p. m., lie will deliver the Literary Address for the Commencement of the Mullins High School. ine Interment was made at Dojthan cemetery where she was laid away beside the grave of her husband who passed away many years ago. o X?RTH STAR LED CAPT. ALCOOK London, June 20?"The good old north star showed our way." j This tribute from the lips of Arthur W. Brown, Captain Alcock's American navigator, at a luncheon given this afternoon by the Daily Mail in ? honor of the winners of the trans- ^ atlantic flight contest, revivified the lurking spirit of Columbus to which previous speakers had alluded, and it made Brown kin with the old Genoan, inasmuch as the two aerial explorers, lost in the clouds 11,000 feet aloft, were guided by the same star that pointed the way to America 427 years ago. I Whatever may be the epic news from Germany this afternoon, no audience anywhere listened to a more dramatic story than was this first true land complete account, rendered before 5000 person in true Yankee acIcent by the slender, black-haired stripling in the blue uniform of the Royal Air force. ? It was all the more dramatic be vuuse i-eviousiy captain Alcock had talked for 20 minutes and told absolutely nothing that had not been alIready printed. His mind was concentrated on the engines, but Brown's roamed the heavens, and through him the luncheoners followed breathlessly one lone man's groping for the true course In the midst of baffling mists and steet. | About 1 a. m. the Vickers-Vimy 'plane was totally lost at a height of 15,000 feet, not knowing the drift and not knowing the course. Said Brown: "My instruments did not record correctly. Then, for a precious haV hour, the cloud-floor overhead parted, and I saw the good old north star, and the Vega, just as Columbus must have yearned toward the same staT$, and I corrected our course." The listeners were again stirred when Brown told how, as dawn was due, he told Alcock to climb to 11,000 feet, so as to give sunsight, and how painfully the plane labored through the white desert. Then a brief sight of the sun gave the "directional line'' and Brown ordered the machine to low levels. This boy's words compressed, as Ambassador Davis ptrt it, Columbu's many weeks of peril intra ,16 hours. ? Bn<l Wr^ck Near Hamer. * N There was a bad wreck near Hamer Friday when a freight train plunged into an open switch and tore up half a dozen box cars. The freight was running about 30 miles an hour and as it swerved int~ the switrh the