HANGED TWO
0
la Miueari For Robbing and Murdering
WiUiani Foi, a Fanner.
NEGROES ARE LEAVING
Charlraton. Where the Mob Took
the Prisoners from Uie J nil and
Lornciicd Them in the Presence of
a Largo Crowd Including Many
Wotnon and Children.
Au exodus in the negro population
of Charleston, Missouri, is reported
to be in progress, following
the double lynching on Monday
when Robert Coleman and Sam
Fields were hanged by an infuriated
mob for the murder of William Fox,
& Mississippi county farmer.
?<io shots were fired on either side.
In the crowd which packed the court
house yard in front of the jail were
ti&lin-ttgy, W0V..P0 UCHBWOMT
many women and children, and the
officers feared on that account to resort
to shooting. On the outskirts
of the crowd were several automobiles.
their occupants standing on
the seatB to better watch the attack
on the jail.
Seemingly the mob waited only
for a leader. About 4 o'clock in the
afternoa a man seemed to take
charge and the crowd rushed forward.
A concerted rush was made
at the jail and in a moment the
front fence of the yard was trampled
down.
The sheriff and his men were
brushed aside. There was no turning
back then, even had the leaders
been so inclined, for the hundreds
In the reer were pushing forward
shouting for the lives of the negroes.
A railroad tie was shoved
forward as a battering ram. The
mob shouted with increasing rage
as the door went down and the
crowd pushed into the building.
Another door was in the way. This
was smashed in a second and the
crowd surged upstairs to the second
floor where the two negroes were
confined.
Those in the yard?the women
#and children?could hear the Bounds
of a sledge hammer as the lock was
kuocked off the cell door. In a few
moments a shout announced that
the lock had been broken.
Coleman was dragged forth and
lynched In the jail yard, while the
crowd cheered. A man climbed up
a treo and put one end of the rope
over a limb. The negro was jerked
up and soon swung clear of the
crowd.
While Coleman dangled, another
body of men rushed from the jail,
dragging and pulling the other negro,
Sum Fields. A rope was placed
around his neck and the mob,
shouting, started west along Court
street.
The negro said lie would show
the men where he and Coleman had
hidden the revolver they had used in
shooting William Fox, whose death
the crowd avenged. Tlio men in
charge after a short parley decided
to take the negro to find the revolver.
The rope still about his neck
and drawn tightly by his captors,
Fields was thrown into a carriage.
Followed by the mob on foot, in
carriages and automobiles, the vehicle
containing Fields started to the
scene of the sliootlug, half a mile
south of town.
After going part of the way the
negro told the captors he "guessed'
after all he could not find the pis
lull
A stop was then made and Fields
was jerked out of the carriage with
out any preliminaries, the rope was
tossed over the limb of u tree and
Fields was strung up.
Next morning his body was still
swinging. The body of the other negro
was cut down by several persons
who wanted pieces of the rope at
souvenirs.
The crime which a mob avenged
by lynch law was committed aboul
ten o'clock Saturday night. The mo
tlve was robbery.
OltACKKK CAUSES FIRK.
Exploded Among Straw in Ram Wit I
Serious Results.
A fire which will amount to ap
proximately $300,000 destroyed
buildings, made 3 0 families home
less and wined out the business aiu
residential section of ^Benton, Col
umbla county. Pa., occurred Monday
An exploding firecracker thrown ii
among the straw in the barn of CJeo
Croaaley was the cause of the fire
The fire broke out at about thre<
o'clock In the afternoon and It wa
not until late that night that aftc
aid had arrived, that the flames wen
got under control.
Had Needle in Heart.
At Bandgraf, W. Va., Mirand.
Weeks died suddenly and her hus.
band was arrested on suspicion o
having caused her death. An au
topsy revealed a cambric needh
piercing the woman's heart. Then
was no scar on tho body to shov
that the needle had punctured th<
skin and the man was released.
KILLED IN WRECK
NINKTKEN PKRSONS MKT DKATH I
ON AN OHIO RAILWAY.
The Twentieth Century Limited I'm- 1
senger While Itounding Cune
Crashes Into Freight.
Nineteen persons were killed outright
probably fatally hurt, and half i
a dozen were seriously Injured iu ]
a head on collision between a frieght j
and prassenger train on the Cincin- |
nati-Hamilton and Dayton railroad i
at Mlddleton, Ohio, Monday. Of the
killed, eighteen were passengers,
the other victims being a member of
the passenger train crew.
The trains were the Cincinnati
section of the Twentieth Century ,
limited on the Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Chicago and St. Louis railroad, ( Big
Four) and the second section of a
freight train on the Cincinnati, Ham- ,
llton and Dayton railway.
The latter was attempting to make
a siding to give the passenger train
a clear track, when the flyer, trav- (
ellng at a rate of fifty miles an
hour, flashed around a curve and ,
crashed into it. i
\ misun',ei standing of ord?'>
caused the disaster, which was one
of the worst that that section of j
the country had ever experienced.
Pilot engineer George Wald had
received oredrB to wait at Post Town
three miles north of Middleton. and
a siding station, according to railroad
officials. The freight train was i
to have passed him there, but was i
late in pulling out of Middletown
Instead of the seven minutes margiu
which Wald thought he had to reach
Middletown. the time was less than ,
five minutes. The ftist section of i
the freight had taken the siding at
Middleton and Conductor John Wea- i
ver, in charge of the second section,
trie.' to reach the north end of the
same siding.
Before his train had cleared the i
SWiiCQ points me p??Ht-u(;er vi?iu
rounded a curve screened by the
thickly wooded lots on each side of
the track. The engine crews had
time to jump and all escaped Berious
injury.
The crash when the trains met
was terrific, the freight train was
made up of gondola coal cars, flat
cars and box cars loaded with lumber.
Directly behind the passenger locomotive
and the tender was a combination
baggage and smoking car
followed by a day coach and a chair
car. All the dead and injured were
in tJhe first two cars, there being six
i passengers in the smoker and twenty-one
in the day coach.
Every seat in this coach was torn
from its fastenings, the roof was
thrown to one side and the heavy
weight of massive timbers hurled
with awful force struck among the
men and women in the coach. Even
before the crash came rescuers were
running to the wreck from the Middleton
station, some three hundred
yards south of the accident. Calls
for assistance were sent to Dayton
and Hamilton. Relief trains were
made up at each of these places and
the injured were placed upon them
and sent to hospitals in those cities.
there being no such institution in
Middletown.
FLIES OVElt THE OCEAN.
Curtiss Takes Flight of Eight Minutes
Above Atlantic.
Glenn H. Curtiss made an eight
minute tight over the ocean at Atlantic
City, N.J., at 6.3G Tuesday night.
The trip included a flight along the
, entire front of the city about a mile
off shore, and l,f>00 feet above the
ocean. '.The successful flight was
I the second one attempted, the first
resulting in a mishap that nearly
I sent Curtiss into the ocean. While
he was attempting to make a turn
( from the beach to go to sea an air
} current caught t.he plane and dropperl
it within ten feet of breakers.
I Curtiss made a quick turn and drove
t his machine on the beach with such
force that a wood standard along his
seat was snapped.
INtT'MBKXT LOSES Ol'T.
i Faison Nominated for Congress in
Third N\ C. District.
Dr. John M. Faison, of Warsaw,
) Dubl'n c< unty, N. C.. was Wednes
day nominated for Congress by the
1 Democratic Convention of the 3d N.
- C. district. The Convention, which
was held at Goldsboro. began Tues[i
day. the nomination l>eing made on
the 4 4 7th ballot, after an all night
i. session. There were five candidates
e in the race, one of them being the
s present Congressman, Charles E.
r Thomas, of Newhern. Dr. Faison is
e about sixty years old. and is a practicing
pysician. While active in politics,
he has never held office.
a Detective Fatally Injured.
City Detective W. M. Collins of
f Augusta. Ga., was fatally injured In
- a runaway Tuesday afternoon. Mr.
d Collins was in a buggy with Policep
man A. J. Matthews and another
v man. The horse bolted, the buggy
e was overturned and Mr. Collins was
thrown violently against a tree.
DISPATCHER BLAMED
<X>R THK WRKCK OF THK BIG
FOUR PASSENGER.
[Revoked Order to Passenger Train,
but Failed to Rewnd Same One
to Freight, Causing the Accident.
Interest in Monday's disastrous
wreck of the Dig Four's New York
Flyer at Middletown, Ohio, in which
more than a score of lives were sacrificed.
was transferred to Cincinnati
Tuesday. A statement from J.
IV. Hall, pilot engineer of the llig
Four passenger train which crashed
into a freight train of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton railway,
placed blame for the wreck on train
dispatcher Smith, of the latter system.
at Dayton.
In this he was partly confirmed by
E. A. Gould, general superintendent
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton.
Mr. Gould was unwilling to go
further than to say that, "some such
reason was responsible for the accident,"
but railroad men about the
headquarters of the two systems ascepted
the explanation of Wall as
contained the gist of the case.
Wall's statement follows:
The engineer of the freight train
showed me order No. 60 supposed to
have been used after our train (the
Dig Four limited) left Dayton, and
to have been handed to ub at Carlisle
between Dayton and Middletown.
This order gave the freight
till 1.07 to make tJie siding at 1'oasttown,
north of Middletown.
"Smith revoked that order so that
it was not delivered to us at Carlisle,
but failed to revoke the same
order issued to the freight. Our
train made up some time after leaving
Dayton and this brought us to
the Poasttown siding earlier than
1.07.
"We had no warning of anything
In the way and supposed we had a
clear line.
Wall also exhibited four train orders,
not one of which gave any indication
that the flying passenger
train was to meet any other train at
Poasttown or any other siding between
Dayton and Cincinnati. These
orders, he said, were all, he had to
guide him the day of the wreck.
Local officers of the Big Four are
not yet willing to account officially
for the wreck. "A misunderstanding
of orders" was mentioned by
some, but whose misunderstanding
it was, they were not prepared to
state.
With the definite identification of
the four unnamed bodies in Middletown,
all the nineteen unidentified
are acsounted for. Two more died
Tuesday, one at Dayton and one at
Hamilton. These were John Pankin,
Springfield, Ohio., and Evelyn
Lloyd, Round Point, Maine, and their
passing made the death lisi 21. Four
others are scarcely expected to survive
their hurts.
CUT I/fist nnvivii
Jim Jeffries Made $117,000, Willie
Johnson Secured $l'2O,G0<).
Jack Johnson was $120,600 richer
when Jim Jeffries went down for the
last time in Monday's fight. He took
CO per cent of the $101,000 purse
which amounted to $60,000, a nonus
of $10,000 and he sold his picture
interests for $50,000.
Jeffries took a fortune out of the
defeat at Johnson's hands. He received
4 0 per cent, of the purse,
amounting to $40,000, the bonus of
$10,000 and he sold his picture interests
for $66,666, making a total
of $117,000. The owners of the
picture films are calculating on a
million dollar s profit.
SKVKKK STOK.MS.
Lives Are l.ost and Damage Wrought
in Minnesota.
Western Minnesota and eastern
South Dakota wera visited Tuesday
evening by severe wind and electrical
storms, which may have caused
loss of life and great damage to cities
and farming communities. The
storm seems to have followed a we'I
uv.mcu )>aiu wl-ni ui .tKKHSOIl. WITC^
aro d*wn west of this point. U?I
ports indicate that one or more tornadoes
have swept through thd
i storm area and a report from Watertown
says a circus tent was blown
down and the stage destroyed by
tire. One man was killed and several
injured.
WBXT OVKK VKIWiK.
Automobile Plunged from Ilridge into
Creek.
As a result of an auto plunginc
front a bridgo into San Pedro creek,
15 feet below, at San Antonio, Tex.,
Wednesday, one person is dead and
four injured, two probably fatally,
The machine turned turtlo as it foil
into the water. The dead are: Mis*
Dot Miller, buried under the wreck;
body had to be chopped out with
an axe. Probably fatally injured:
Dorothy Miller and Kttie Lehert
Fred Hums and Jim Johnson, the
latter the chauffeur, were slightly
injured.
I
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SWEPT INTO SEWER
A MAX LOSES HIS LIFE BY A
VERY Ql"KKR OCCIDENT.
Frank A. Reynolds IMsjtpp^-nrs in a
Cave-in of the Karth and Ls Swept
Into River.
While talking to William Okaes,
a fellow employe, Frank A. Reynolds.
an oiler in the Rig Four
yards, suddenly disappeared in a
eave-in of earth and despite efforts
of railroad employes, two companies
of the fire department and the life
saving crew, was carried into the
Ohio and drowned.
Reynolds and Oakes, the former
with his oil can in hand, were standing
in the yards at Preston and Main
when the cave-in oceured. Reynolds
was precipitated into one of the
large sewers that empties in the
Ohio, scarcely two blocks away.
Oakes, who narrowly escaped, rap
quickly and gave the alarm, returning
in a short time with a loug
piece of hose.
This he threw into the sewer, and
ulthough he could not see Reynolds,
a vigorous tugging on the hose notified
the rescurers that the man was
still alive. The men above the
ground were preparing for a hearty
pull, when there was a further caveiu
followed by mufiled cry from Reynolds.
A detachment of the fire department
arrived on the scene, but
the continued falling of the ground
made any attempt to rescue hazardous.
The life saving crew made a rush
trip up stream from Fourth street,
and after watching the sewer pour
its muddy volume for a few minutes,
detected a stream of oil. showing
that the man's oil can was emptying.
Despite the crumbling of the
earth, which increased the opening
to 20 feet in width, the fire department
and a large party continued
their efforts and were rewarded
about noon by finding the dead bodv
of the other. It was taken out at
the cave-in. Many trains of the nig
Four and Chesapeake and Ohio pass
over the sewer daily and a freight
had just passed, when Reynolds sank
to death.
Hl'ltAL CA1U11KK8 MJKKT.
Tliey Had a Rig Time at the State
Convention.
With the election of officers, an
address by Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General DeGraw, an address
by Congressman Finley, a good roads
discussion, under the auspices of
the Columbia Record's good roads
tourists, nad the transaction of routine
business, the State Rural Letter
Carriers' Association of South Carolina
held a busy session Tuesday
morning, reaching final ajourmneiit
shortly after one o'clock that afternoon,
with the singing of "God Me
With You Till We Meet Again." The
session has been oiu- of pleasure and
profit, and has been by far the best
in the history of the Association,
from the point of atien ence, and
from point of interest and enthusiasm
shown in the organization. The
visitors were made to feel at home
in ."\ewnerry, and ituy have gone lo
their homes ethusiastic in praise of
Newberry's hospi t a 1 i t y.
Florence was selected as the next
meeting place. President Thos. E.
Wicker, Secretary Paul K. Crosby
and Treasury \rt.hur W. Hill were
unanimously reelected. Mr. E. W.
Cromer was unanimously eected vice
president.
As delegates to the next annua!
convention of tne national assoeia!
op, which meets at Litrle Hock in
Sepn mher, the conventh 11 elected
Miss Florence K. Livingston, Messrs.
Paul K. Crosby. Stanley A. Hurcli
and F. C. DeVoe, Miss Livingston
"headed the ticket."
TO KESOKT 'SO CO! UTS.
i
Picture Syndicate Says They Will
Protect Tlieir Interests.
That t.he moving picture syndi
oate, owning the Jeffries-Johnson
tight flints, will resort to the Cour .of
the several States to deteiinim
their right to produce the pictures
was indicated at Philadelphia Thurs
day. when one of t.he heat knowi
moving pirtwe men in the country
mill Iiciis a niK iil'cresi Ml . I?P K\ II
dicate, said (hat tlie agitation aga'l'.r
the displaying of the pictures w\u.'<
be fought. He said that too niucl
money had !been invested by th?
syndicate, which represents weiv
different interests, to stand by nr..
see the fight pictures prohibited with
out making a contest to determim
the right of city authorities to st<>)
the display. The pictures, it wa<
further announced would lie piacei
on public view in New York, Boston
Philadelphia, Chicago and sev.era
other cities on duly 18.
Italiy Found l iiinjurrd.
A seven-months-old child, wai
i found in a corn field adjoining thi
scone of the Big Four wreck a
Mlddletown, Ohio, Thursday morn
Ing. The child had been Lhere slnci
It is believed, it was hurled then
by the collision.
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OFFERED BIG PLACE
COMMISSION Kit WATSON OFFERKD
HIOHEK POSITION.
Sflfcted Without Knowledge of Solicitation
h> National Government
to Fill Newly Created Position.
A epecial dispatch from Wrightsvllle.
N. C., to The State says E.
J. Watson Wednesday made the following
statement in answer to a
question as to an offer of a federal
appointment:
"I really do not care to say anything
about it, but 1 always try to
be frank, and since you ask the dirrect
question, 1 will tell you that
it is true that on Monday last, by
one of the cabinet ofllcers, without
any soliciting on my part, or even
an intimation of the possibility
of such a thing until 1 received
a wire from Washington, 1
was tendered one of the most attractive
positions in the gift of the
nutional government at a salary
larger than the assistant secretary
of any of the departments, larger
than any of the governors of the
States, save Tennessee and in effect
better perhaps than that of United
States senators."
Asked as to the position itself,
Commissioner Watson said:
"I do not feel at liberty to state
that exactly. However, the duties
would be in the nature of those of
a special representative of the Washington
government and of a purely
constructive and non-political caracter,
being in execution of a rcri'ircly
developed determination in
the part of the government to push
with especial v'gor American trade
and commerce into the furtherest
sections of the world. The duties
would be in line with those to which
I have devoted my every energy in
South Carolina, hut with the world
for a field, and would carry the
man discharging them first for some
years to the Orient?China, Japan
and Mongolia?and then to South
Africa and other countries. The duties
of the position would be such
too, as to enable one to accomplish
much for the texile industry of the
South as well of the country at large
and perhaps to do n great deal on
all matters pertainiug to cotton,
which great American agricultural
jproduVt would receive, under the
policy adopted, most particular attention.
The fullest exploitation of
American manufactured products in
world's regions wherein they are now
unknown would be a leading line of
duty."
Asked still further about the offer,
Mr. Watson said:
"I was totally in the dark that
I was even being thought of. and
had no intimation until a telegram
came to me last week, while I was
attending .1 farmers' union meeting
and I went to Washington.' where 1
found that Representatives Burleson
of Texas and Lever of this State
had suggested my name in connection
with the position when inquiries
were being made about congress
as to a man equipped for the service
desired. After the cabinet
meeting on Monday, last, after a verj
brief interview with me, the cabinet
officially tendered the commission
to me without regard to indorsements
or any tiling else, and
was rcadly to make the appointment
then and there. I -was allowed a
reasonable time to consider the matter,
at my request, owing to it*
far-reaching effect upon my own future
and upon the work which I
have been devoting my every energy
in my home State.
"What are you going to do about
it?" was asked.
Mr. Watson said. "That I can not
yet tell. The offer, coming in tins
form and being an offer of a position
of grave responsibilities fret
fioni the influence of politics, anc
being of the same constructive char
acter as work in which I .have beer
I engaged, is extremely altering, ant
the salary makes it alluring. Or
t.m other hand my whole soul it
wrapped up in the work of my owi
' State. This work is developing a
an astonishing rate, and I am not
s? eking the fruits of untiring laboi
- on every side. The work I havt
i wanted to do in South Carolina ii
t not yet done, but it is on the high
ising tide, and I should hate it
, abandon it. Hut 1 am a poor mat
- a .d the Statu pays scarcely a livini
i under present conditions, but thei
and there art; many things to bi
taken into consideration, and I an
giving them the most careful con
1 sideratlon of my life. As yet
i noncstiy don t Know wJiat I will do.
It is learned that the salary con
siderably exceeds $r?.o(? > a year witl
all expenses in addition.
Killed by Fall.
? The l?ody of .1. W. Scruggs, wh
? died Wednesday night from the el
1 fects of a fall from the third stor
. of his hoarding house in Augusts
t was taken to Mitehel, (la., for burial
Nothing iH known as to the caus
of t.he accident. Me retired earl
and about two o'clock next niornin
s a policeman stumbled over his bod
? lying on the pavement, ."?() teet be
t low his bed room window.
if your husband is kept iritatetl
i jno jo joqjoni otfj oq piuoqs no
beating the ruga.
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DEFIES ARREST, j
Bamberg Conoty is Greatly Stirred Orer
a Sensational Case.
j
FAIL TO MAKE ARREST
Of J. J. HukIk'.m, Who Had llecn .
Convicted of A-vault on Ills Wife,
Hut Whose Sentence Wh* Commuted
on His I'roniMe ol U?hk1
Behavior.
On September 17, 190G. J. J.
Hughes, of Bamberg county, pleaded
guilty to the charge of assault and
battery and was sentenced by Judge
G. W. Gage to serve six years in the
Penitentiary. The assault w.vs upon
Hughes's wife, and appeared a most j
unprovoked and aggravated one. |
On July 6. 190S. Governor \nsel I
commuted his sentence for the remainder
of the term on conditii>n
that he would not commit a like offense
again, and the Governor's action
was approved by a large majority
of the people of the county.
Hughes reached home of July 7,
1908. ami up to a short time ago
had been living peacably and apparently
happily with his wife and chil- j
dren on their farm, a few miles '
south of the county Beat. I
Sometime ago it was rumored that
he had again commenced to drink j
and abuse his wife. who. by the way,
is a most estimable lady.
It is reported that a drunken spree
on last Sunday culminated in Hughes
making a savage attack upon his
wife with a gun. It is said lie
knocked her down with it, splitting
her forehead open for several inches
and otherwise injuring her, so
thflt fh<? Ciri'lAO" -- ? -
.v> . I?.cn VI a nui KrQII WCI'B
necessary to dress her wounds. It
is also said that he attempted to
shoot her, and would have succeeded.
but for the interference of a
negro who knocked the pun up as he
was about to pull the trigger, thua
saving the lady's life.
Mr. Hughes's brother, who was
largely instrumental in securing the
commutation, came to town and reported
the matter, and Mrs. Hughes
also wrote a note asking for protection
and that her husband be arrested.
Clerk of Court C. B. Free swore
out a warrant and Deputy Sheriff T.
J. Uentz went down Sunday evening
to arrest Hughes. When they got
there, it is said, they found the
Hushes home dark and no one venI
tured near the house. On Monday
Deputy Sheriff ftentz. accompanied %
by \V. M. McCue. constable for Magistrate
H. 1). Free, again went to the
1 Hughes home, when tJhey found him
' standing in his front door.
Hughes spoke 10 them and told
' them that he liked them pretty well.
' but that they must not get out of
their buggy if they did not want to
die; that -he had served two years
> ' in tlie penitentiary and he would
rather tlie than go back there again.
The deputy sheriffs considered jdisr
cretion the better part of valor and
concluded not to alight from t.hoir
vehicle, as it was evident that lie
was armed and meant wJiat lie said.
I They reasoned and talked with
Hughes, who finally proposed that,
i I ho would go to town with them if
I they would get his wife to accompany
him to town. Then they went
j to a neighbor's home to which Mrs.
I J Hughes had tied. t>ut hy the time
' they got there Hughes had written
a note and sent it there, saying he
' had left, so this plan was frustrated.
The deputies spent the remainder of
t the day riding around and looking
* for Hughes, hut they said they did
not get in sight of him again. It
* is said that Hughes is still at home.
1 but defies arrest.
Sheriff Hunter is a one-legged
1 j Confederate Veteran and depends enM
tlrely upon his deputies for making
1 I arrests. The facts have been comi
municated to the (lovernor and the
1 people are awaiting with some anx'
ieiy the outcome of the matter. There
r are many who fear for the safety of
'* Mrs. Hughes, but it is not genera ty
2 thought that Hughes will do her
3 harm unless he is under the iufiu
ence of liquor.
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> WILL I'SK HIS INFUJKXC/K.
Lovernor Ansel to ILs-ommend Suppression
of Pictures.
I Governor Ansel has agreed to use
his inuuence to prohibit the exhi"
bition of moving pictures of the Jefh
fries-.lohnson fight. He has addressed
Jhr> fnllnuiiiir
- vni?a Kioftiaui u William
S. Shaw, the general secretary
of the United Society of Christian
o Endeavor. "Your wire received. Yes.
I will join the other Governors in
y recommending piohihition of moving
i, pictures of Jeffries-Johnson fight.'
I. The following telegram had been ^
o received by Governor Ansel from
y Mr. Shaw: "Race riots and murders
g in many places followed the any
nouncement of Johnson's victory In
- prize fight. These results will be
multiplied many fold by moving picture
exhibitions. Will you join the
I, Governors in recommending the pro^
hlbitk n of the detnora'izing shows
i on boiuo of our young people?"