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- ’ * THE PEOPLE. BARNWELL. 8. C. STREAM OF BODIES TAKEN FROM RUINS LITTLE CHURCH THROWN OPEN AND USED AS FIRST AID STATION. Graphic Description of tbs' Pitiful Scene of Mangled Dead and Living Is Given by Eye Witness. Washington.—Kecovered from the wreck and horror of the mined Knick erbocker theater, a pitiful stream of mangled bodies, dead and living, (low ed all Saturday night and Sunday into the lower rooms of a Christian Sci ence church a few hundred yards away. At the first word of the disas ter, the place was thrown open to these stricken folk and the hundreds of others who came to search for their dead or Injured. And as the full weight of the losses became known, the dead monopolired the space, crowding the injured in the all-too-gmsll rooms. It was merely a first aid station for those taken crushed, but alive from the wreckage. They were carried on stretchers over the slippery pavement with lines of soldiers keeping the crowd far back. Doctors and nurses and women •ager to bring their sympathy and cheer to the suffering or bereaved waited In the church. They tenderly washed away the gray dust of the crumpled concrete, the grime and raked blood, blackened sometimes by hours of waiting pinned under the de bris until the rescuers cut the victim loose. Bandages were snnlled and the Injured were whisked away to hospital or home But ^the dead lay long in double rows in which they stretched across the floor, lay until a tearful relative or friend a husband or wife or father or mother, recognised the crushed form at last Dp and down these aisles of the d’ad walked those whose fears had drawn them here because of aome ope missing in the family circle * Women already weeping In cer tainty of what they must find sooner or later beneath the kindly blankets that shielded the sleepers msde the Joomer of sorrow tnlnv times before they found what they sought Men with working faces leaned to draw bark the coverings and th»n gasped wtth short lived reMef as they moved oa to the next hud (led form Rome of these seekers came wtth the d*rt and grime of the wreckage upon them ■till Rome had passed through the crash of roof and balcony only to leave a dear one dead In the Unxled mass They bad worked hours wtth the reeruera to find that one. nsly Ut re turn now and then for a hurried trip to the chamber of death Eleven Husbands and Wivea. Eleven, ttmee death struck down hnshend and wife, aide by side They died as they had sat to see the swift picturing of the film Rut many other times it was only the wife or husband Who perished -and the survivor must make the ter ribie pilgrimage of recognition in the grim chamber of the dead The times when children were taken were sparingly few Usually the big theater has been in Its earlier houra uX a Saturday night the gathering place of a host of young * aters who come with their parents lor the week's amusement. But the atorm that wrecked the Knickerbocker kept moat of the little folk at home that night. Up the long path, trodden through ' heavy snow, that ran from the Im promptu morgue to the Knickerbocker, ' struggled the stretcher squads, army and navy men chiefly. Commissioned officers of the military services held j the doors of the church entrance, and with exquisite gentleness and sympa- they sifted out those who sought their d»ad from others drawn by morbid curiosity. Above all there was quietness at the church in spite of the urgent and never ceasing activity Of the losers in the Knickerbocker disaster, neither the physically hurt nor the bereaved gave voice to their suffering, and it was the testimony of the first who reached the theater that the outcry there in the ruins was little and soon •tilled. Died In Rulnt. Some of the victims were alive when the reseqe work begun, but died before the saving hands could reach them. One girl child pinned under k beam died with both hands in those of an army officer who ^as those of an army officer who was dt^ rectln her releagse. One man, pin ned beside his dead wife was freed from pain with hypodermic needles and survived the long night to a safe removal. ( A moment after the crash, Father John Floerch, priest of a nearby church, entered the ruined theater. Knee deep in the snow that covered all for the benefit of the, dying around him, he gave general 'ab-' solution and the final rites of the church to the dying. Then he helped In the rescue work. Notable was the speed of the Red Cross organization, whose local chap ters forced their way to the theatei •It# across the city whose transpor tallon lines jiad been para tried the ■bow and set np canteens for the hospital facilities for the ambnlanoee for the deed the in Jared who had to raagh DELEGATES PLAN NEW CONFERENCE List of the Identified Dead In Washington Theater Catastrophe -/ UNITED STATES, JAPAN, ITALY, j ' GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE TO BE REPRESENTED. J. S. TO NAME TIME-PUCE Preparations Will Begin Immediately Upon Conclusion of the Washing ton Negotiations. Washington.—The ground work for another international conference to re- > write the laws of whr for the subma rine and other nevT agencies of at tack on land and sea, was completed by the arms delegation. % Under a resolution adopted by the armament committee, preparations for the new conference will begin imme diately upon conclusion of the Wash ington negotiations. The United States, Great Britan, Japan, France and Italy wilf he represented, and the American government will select the exact time and place of meeting. I The first step toward revision of warefare regulations is to be taken by a ‘'com miss ion,’’ presumably com posed of international law experts without plenipotentiary powers, but the resolution provides that after they have agreed the five governments shall "confer as to the acceptance of the report and the course to be followed to secure the consideration of its rec ommendations by the other civilised , powers ■’ It is Taken for grajited $iat questions of national policy as well as legal considerations will enter into the final decisions reached, and that the whole problem of the sub marine. one of the storm centers of the Washington conference, will be reopened when the power* face each other once more about the council table It is possible that the tentative agreements reached here both a* to submarines and poison gas will be passed along in their present form to provide a basis for the renewed discussions The armament committee adopted the resolution at a short meeting call ed while most of the other activities of the conference were waiting on a de cision of the Shantung controversy, i The far eastern committee likewise met and readopted Ita recent declara tion on the Chinese radio sitnatlon. at the tame time entering oa the record supplemental suggostlona of the pow ers and of China on which no unani mous agreement couM be reached. Washington, Jan. 29. — The identified dead ia„the Knicker- bocJieP-theater catastrophe are: * Former Representative,.. A J. Burchfield, formerly of IfitUourg, Ph Miss Helen Barchflcld, daughter of the forme** senator. Archie Bell, formerly of Vine- land, N. J. Cuauncey C. Brainerd, Wash ington correspondent of the BrouJfc-- lyu Dauy Eagle. Mrs. ^hauncey B. Brainerd. Wilfred Brosseau, North Adams, Mass., student of Georgetown. Guy S. Eldndge, Salt Lake City, burother-in-law of Senator Smbot, of Utah. Oscar G. Kanston, Chicago, his* wife and two daughters, Helen and Anlyn. Cutler LaFlin, Jr., aged 16, Chi cago. Miss Nannie I^ee Lambert, for merly of Asheboro, N. C. John W. Murray, The Plains, Va. W. B. Summon, of Wyoming, sthdent of George Washington uni versity. W. L. Schoolfield, Danville, Va. Laverne Sproul, aged 17, Chi cago, nephew pf Representative Elliott W\ Sproul, of Illinois. Lewis Strayer, Washington cor respondent of the Pittsburgh Dis patch. H. Conroy Vane, Fredericksburg, Va. William Waiters, Brooklyn, N. Y. student at Georgetown univ- v^rsity. Mary Ethel Atkinson. __ Joseph W. Beni. William <> Hik^e. Thoma* R. Berne. Mrs. Daisy Carvey Bowden. Albert Btiehler. William XI. Candy. Mr*. D. H. Coveil. Mr*. C. M. Crocker. Vinson W Dauber. Thomas M. Dorsey. Mr*. Helen DorscB. A. C. Kidridgs. V H Ernest. MrC. Farr. Chrtallan Felge. John P. Fleming. Miss Mary Lee Fleming. Tbomaa Fleming. G 8 Freeman Mr*. Clyde V Gearhart. /■' F. H. Hall. Douglas Hillyer. William G. Hughes. Daniel K. Jackson. Miss Elizabeth Jeffries. John M. Jeffries. Howard W. KneesL L. L. Lehler. LeRoy Lehmer. Mrs. LeRoy Lehmer. Wyatt McKimmie. Julian McKinney. •» " Ernest E. Natellio. , Mrs, Norman E. Martindale. , Misk Agnes Mellon. j - Mrs. Jean Mirsky. Miss Veronica Murphy. Miss Vivian Ogden. D. F. O’Donnell. Miss Lois Price. / Miss Marie Russell. / Mrs: Cora C. Sigourney. Miss Marie H. Smith. 1 Victor M. SCurgin. Mrs. Gertrude Taylor. William Tracy. Miss Glayds Thomas. Charles Cowles Tucker. Mrs. Charles Cowles Tucker. Jacob Urdong. Mrs. Jacob Urdong. i » Louis F. Vellyntlne. Mrs. Louis F^, Vallyntine. Miss Mildred Walford. • John L. Walker. Capt. Wm. E. R. Warner, quar* terninster corps. U. S. A; Mrs. William E. R. Warner. Mrs. Charles M. W’esson. wife of Col. C. M. Wesson, ordnance de partment. IT. S. A. Ivan J. While. MUs Margaret Dutch, Luding* ton. Mich. Mis* M. C. R kle. XIrs. Virginia Ferrai’d. sister of Julfo Rlanchi. • G'lhtsrnniNn minis ter to the United State*. Scott Montgomery. William A. Walters. D N. Wa«*h. Jack McKimlie (brother Wyatt XIcKImliei. * Christine Thompson. Thomas Lamhv. Mias E M \Val*h. Kirkland Duke. Esther Foater. Russell Xfalne. Mr* CarHe Parson Albert Baker. Mis* Frame* Rlkln. Dr Jamea F Shea. W, N Crawford. EARLY ACTION ON F RESOLUTION' PASSED INSTRUCT ING WAYS AND MEANS COM MITTEE TO FRAME BILL. NO ^POSITION TO MOTION Declares that Once Reported the Measure Will Be Given Right of Wayln the House. '“'Washington.—Early ’action in the house on a soldiers' bonus bill was forecast when republican members at a caucus adopted a resolution instruct ing the ways and m&ans committee to frame a bonus bill and declaring that once reported the measure should be the continuing order of business until passed. No opposition to the resolu- {tion developed, it was said. While ways of raising necessary i revenue for a bonus were discussed, it was said no instructions were given the ways and means committee as to what revenue raising provisions should be placed in the bill. Members were generally of -the opinion that jit would be advisable for the com mittee first to thresh out this point, and have the republican memhersbip of the house privileged, after the bill ia reported, to caucus again, particu larly on that feature of the measure. Sentiment was expressed, it was YOU CANT TRUST CALOMEL AT ALL It’s Quicksilver, Salivates, Causa* Rheumatism and Bone v . Decay. r \ said, in favor of making the cash pro- f twentj-Nve. visions of the bUl less attractive and ' mofhw * t , * 1 URGE CHINESE TO ACCEPT GENOA MEETING POSTPONED Far Eastern Committee Debates With out Final Action the Wlreli Facilities of China. PROLONGATION OF WASHING TON CONFERENCE GIVEN AS REASON BY YTAllANS. Would Be Impossible to Assemble So Large a Gathering as Contem- pieted for Genoa in Six Weeks those providing for insurance and borne and farm aid a more desirtbie option Several members were said to have urged that ra*h payments be somewhat reduced *o that more vet- J ernas will be inclined to take advan tage of other benefits. Thla, It was »Mid. would requlr* less init'al revenue. Incidentally several ways of provid ing necessary revenue were suggested, among them a sales tag, issuance of , bonds secured by the foreign debt 1 and use of interest paid In bf nation- Indebted to the United States. Chairman Fordnry. of the ways and means committee, assured his col- j leagues that his commuted would art | with the prospect ritat they would be brief and that tfte bill would be report ed very Harvey te Talk With Poincare. Parte —It was reltlhly stated that George Harvey. American ambassador , to Great Britain, will tail Premier , Polnrare during hla brief sojourn In Paris oa hie way from Cannes to Lon don. that the United States may yet consider being, represented at the forthcoming economic conference at Genoa, provided France will consent to full partlrtpatioa In that gathering. The next dose of calomel yon takm may salivate you. It ittSay shock your liver or start bone necrosis. Caiotnel is dangerous. It is mercury, quicksil ver. It crashes into sour bile like dynamite, cramping and sickening yon. Calomel attacks the bones and shonltl never be put Into year system. If you feel bilious, headachy, consti pated and all knocked odt, Just go t<F your druggist and get a bottle of Dod son’s Liver Tone for a few- cents which Is a harmless vegetable substitute for dangerous calomel. Tftke a spoonfttl and if It doesn’t start your liver and straighten you up better and quicker 'than nasty calomel and without making yort sick, you Just go back and get yoor money. Don’t take calomel! It can not bw trusted any more than a leopard or n wfld-cat. Take Dodson’s Liver Tonw which straightens you right up and makes you feel fine. No salts necen- sary. Give it to the children becausw It Is perfectly harmless and can not salivate.—Advertisement* Hi* Inquiry. ^ “Paw,". began little Lester IJver- more, who Is of unusual width betwixt the eyes. **lf,n man fifty years old mar ries u girl of,seventeen, and his son. marries the glri’i that make'the old ma i he son-in-law of id* own son and tbn fatlier-in-Iaw of himself, ami—say. Paw, enn I go to the pirture show to night if I won't ask any more ques tion* V* “)>*!*• yelled XIr. Livermore.- Kum- ma City Star. is GET COLOR INTO YOUR PALE CHEEKS If Your Face is Your Fortune^ Don't Look Like a Bankrupt . Robbers Kill Caabtar. Pittsburgh Five men walked Into the First National Rank of Crafton Washington.—The aid of President a suburb and after killing Harold Harding baa been enlisted by the Moss, assistant eashier. forced five arms delegates to bring Japan and rlerks and a woman customer Into a China into agreement on Shantung | vault They robbed the bank of ap- Taking a direct hand in the Wash- Washington.—Postponement of the proxtmately Sin 000 In cash and ne ington negotiations for the first time, assembling of the Genua conference, gotiahle securities and escaped in an the President urged the Chinese to set for March I. will be necessary, it Ihtion of the country IS yean of age Small Number of Bachelor*. Washington--The proportion of married men to the |o(al male popu- automobile toward fhe open country. THOMAS GETS 18 YEARS: OUT ON 120.000 BOND Concord. N. C —Bond in the sura of $20,000 was arranged here for O. G Thomas, and he was given his freedom pending the outcome of his appeal before the gupreme court. The bondsmen are C. W. Swlnk. Cdfcrord; C. E. and J O. Lowe, of Kannapolis. A sentence of 18 year* In the state prison wa* imposed upon Thomas, found guilty of second de gree murder for killing Arthur J. Allen, by Judge J. Bis Ray. Notice of appeal to the supreme court wa* given by Thomas' attor ney*. and Judge Ray fixed the ap pearance bond in the *um of $20,- 000. In sentencing Thomas Judge Ray declared that his decision had been infltieiic'’d by his sympathy for the wife and mother of the defendant, “who have sat faithfully by Tils side.” "At first I intended to give the prisoner the full limit of the law.”’he stated, “but I feel a great sympathy for the wife and mother, and I cut the sentence to 18 years.” accopt the latest compromise offer sad was aald. In Italian official circles be- a ,d over Increased from S&.8 per rent thus remove from the field of c-on-i cause of the prolongation of tbe to 69 2 per cent la the ten years pre- troveray a subject which haa become Washington armament meeting. ceding the 1920 censes, according to a serious barrier to the progress of i Even If all other (actors were fa- a compilation of martial statistics the whole conference. vorable. It was said. It would be prmc- made public by the c-entua bureau. Whether the move is to succeed ap- tlcally impossible to assemble so The bureau believed, however, that pears to rest largely with Peking ^rge a gathering as that contem- thla wa* probably more indicative of a The Japanese already have Indicated plated for Genoa in the six weeks re- change in the age compoaition of the informally their. willingnesa to make m<l l Q ‘ D K before tbe tentative date, population—an increase in the per- the principal concessions proposed, Tbe difficulty has not been lessened, rentage of males between 16 and 2S and the President approached the Hallan spokesmen said, by the delay years of age due to increased immt- Chltfese only after the Japanese am-, un the part of the United States to gration—than a growing propensity basaador had informed the state de partment that his government wai ready to accept a tender of good of fices. The settlement plan aponaored by Mr. Harding deals only with tbe re turn of the Tsingtao-Tsinanfu railroad. formally announce their attitude to- of matrimony. ward the projected gathlring. J Of thl total m^le population of Members of the Italian delegation 53.900.431 ahovp the 15-year clasatfl- do not tfFsitate to express the opinion cation, the census figure* showed 21.- that the proposed conference could 849.266 married. 1.758.308 widowed, be expected to accomplish almoit and 235,284 divorced, the tatter figure, nothing without the participation of however, including non-divorced and the great credit nation of the world, repiarried: The divorce total showed substantially all other questions hav ing been agreed upon in the seoarate C,(,8e connection between' the Wash- an Increase of 20 per cent in its ra- ington conference and that in Genoa tio to the total population during the was seen by some delegates, who de- 10-year period, constituting six-tenths dared there could be no effective of one per cent of the latter against exchanges between Japanese and Chi nese. . Under the proposal Japan wquld abandon -her proposition for Who does aot want red lipa. a | d*ar, healthv compieziuo and brtgkC 1 flashing eyes? Some people have such wonderfully good health nothing srema to hurt them. Others could so easily have Sow color and more strength and vigor If | ’bey would help nature with Gude’s 1‘epto-XIangi.n. It la a splendid irou tonic that physicians have prescribed for thirty years. It Is not an experi ment. It la n«t merely a temjN*rary help, because It makes plenty of red blond and. as everybody knows, red blood Is the only sure foundation of permanent health and strength. Get I’eptn-Xfangsn of yoor druggist—and take It a few weeks and see how much l»etter you feel fcnd look. SoM In liquid and tablet form. Advertisement * Domestic Science. Selhy—Won't you dine with me? Grime*—Thank you. I’ve Ju*t dined! I have l*een home and had my regnlqy niftir uf apples, apricots and u*|Him- gus. Selby—Isn't th.it a rather mid <<m>- blnatlon? Grtnies—Well, you see. my wife went to n. douiestie science school and had to leave lifter . the first week —before she- bad reached the second letter of the alpbnbet! €♦ a loan to China, and the latter would Pining and rearrangement of Euro- purchase the road with treasury notes payable at option 5 to 15 years hence. North Carolina Negro Released. Hamilton, Ont.—Matthew Bullock, American negro, wanted at Norlina, Considers Doctor Work. Washington. — Dr. Hubert Work, first assistant postmaster general, as a matter of formality, has submitted his resignation along with that of his chief, Postmaster General Hays. 1 ean budgets, considered a necessary preliminary to any successful read justment of European economic con- five-tenths In 1910. Housing Projects Will Be Sold. Washington. — Shipping Bpard war time projects at Wilmington, Del., N. C., by authorities on a charge of Chester, Pa., Bath, Me., Groton, Conn., Inciting i lot, was released by the im migration authorities.—An Immlgra- lion board first ordered Bullock de ported but the government oa an ap peal, reversed this finding. v . i - Nelly Bly is Dead. New Ydrk.—Nellie Bly, newspaper woman, who achieved fame by a spec tacular trip around the world in rec- jut brick or brick and stucco construc- ord time, died at St. Mark’s hospital, tion.'^wijl be sold at auction. and Essington, Pa., whose total orig inal cost approximated 111.650,000, will be sold by auction within the next few months, it was atated by Sidney Henry, commercial manager of the Emergency Fleet corporation Union Park Cardens, at Wilming ton, Del., comprising 503 dwellings, one apartment house and two stores Urges Appointment of Farmer. Washington.—Apopintment of Dr/ Alva Agee, secretary of the New Jer- Superphone Gives Absolute Secrecy. Washington —The "‘superphone/’ an Thousand Injured. London.—A cable dispatch to the ditions, until positive steps have been Evening Star from Rome says it is taken toward reduction of naval arm- reported there that fresh disorders aments at least. Unless such reduc- have broken out in Cairo, Egypt, ra tion is assured, by the Washington suiting in 190 persons being killed and conference, it was declared it would more than 1,000 others injured. British be useless to hold a conference in | troops, the message adds, quelled the Genoa for economic reconstruction., insurrection. “ Ford Offer Reported. . Washington'—Legal officers g)f the war department completed the final j government Loans. Washington. — The Boston and Maine railroad applied to the inter draft of the contract which Secfetary i state commerce commission for a loan Weeks will send to j^mgresa with frojn the government of 15.000,000-to comments” • attached covering the run fbt^!3 years. The money will be proposal of Henry Ford for the pur- used to pay off a note of like amount chase and lease of the government The Atlanta. Birmingham ft Atlan- properties at Muscle Shoals, ^ Ala. tic raRfoad also aslted for a govern- Final touches were given the docu-iment lofin of $816,000, offering the ment after, it had been carefully government ■ receivers’ certificates as studied by Mr. Ford’s representatives security.. The application said the here and said by them to be a very money would be used to pay off exist satisfactory ^.presentation of the of fer. —. - Training of Men la Planned. Washington."'— Training of 3.000 ing short term Indebtedness held by banks. apparently simple attachment for tel officers and 20.000 men In each of Preserved Greens Cause Five Deaths Boise, Idaho.—The death toll stood at five In the family of Charles W sey state board of agriculture, as a ephones which is said to assure abso- th*» nine army corp* areas during the rsmhridxe Idaho &a a result member of the Federal Reserve Board, lute sdcrecy of'cOvnrnunir^Dn and rummer ts planned by the war 1 , was urged upon President HardLng^by egrity from maJLe.d-MUHnrnJL Brigadtee -Gettrsl Wffr- ot botuBuus poisoning "Senator Frellnghuysen o? New~Ter*«y possible multiplex telephonr.'was dem- Lasajter informed the house preserved greens at a b and Dr. E. W. Kemtner. professor of onatrated in the office of ^he chief economics at Princeton university; *cignai officer of the army. It wa* the appointment to b« contingent upon «hown that one telephone line to the of pending legislation ia- w tilch “superphonea ' were attached creasing the membership of the hoard could be used tor a number of cob t6 eight Seaxtor Frellncbuysen at vernatloes almuluaeooaly and.that no the White House declared his belief pair of speakers eenld hear or tM*r military committee. x Outl'nring the Deportment, General from eating birthday dinner for Harriet Tuttle, youngest member of the War of tbe family Two daughters and Lassiter said three som are dead and the father is DANDERINE Stops Hair Coming Out; Thickens, Beautifies.- 85 cents buys a bottle of “Dandaa Ine” at arty drug store. After one ap plication you can not find a partidd of dandruff or a failing hair. Beside* every hair shows new life, vigor, brigtab ness, more color and abundance.—AA vertisement * Quick Wealth. ^“Yes-; he mrnle a ruftuiic out of am Idea.” ilou cntpo4^ "Jn*t ms as he saw that ' o**lt-n hosiery u<>uld be in vicpe ho he troops would be aaalra d aot only not expected to live Mias Bessie | forward with a woolen to the oae mala r^mp which the War Clare. 16. a guest, and Russell Tuttle ! ’*** effect —LoulaxUhp Cs Department desires to ret*la to aach another soa. who sfeao partook of the °nL corpa area, but to a a ember of other potaonosm veertab et. have net yet of the - «!