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TRY TO ARREST COX
PARTY FORSPEEDING
PLAN BY REPUBLICANS TO EMBARRASS
GOYERXOR.
I Much Rest for Candidate.
Senator Owen Confers With Nominee
Regarding Alleged Impairment
oi Federal Reserve Act.
Columbus, Aug. 15.?An unsuccessful
attempt to arrest Governor
Ccx and his party for spooling and a
harmless accident to one of the cars
of newspaper men accompanying him
.furnished excitement today in the
motor trip of the Democratic Presidential
candidate returning from
Wheeling.
The attempt to arrest the Governor
and his party was declared by Roy
E. Leyton, Adjutant General of Ohio,
who accompanied the governor, to
have been planned by Republicans to
embarrass the Democratic nominee.
Gen. Levton said a warning of the
feeis sure 01 isryan support.
Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, a
friend of William J. Bryan, and a
candidate for the presidential nomination
at San Francisco, arrived here
today to confer with Governor Cox.
Senator Owen said he was not an
emissary of Mr. Bryan but felt sure
the Nebraskan would support the
party ticket. His conference tonight
with Governor Cox, according to the
senator, was to give information supporting
Governor Cox's statements
that plans have been laid to impair
the federal reserve act.
Senator Owen declined to make
public his information. He also discussed
other financial subjects with
the candidate.
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BRING BEAD MAX TO TOWN.
Broken Neck Causes Death of Salley
Farmer.
Salley, Aug. 15.?Mike Corbett, a
white man about 45 years old, was
brought to town this afternoon in an
automobile dead, his neck having
^ been broken in some mysterious way.
Mr. Corbett lived a few miles from
Salley just across the Aiken county
line in Orangeburg. The body was
brought to Salley by Tom Heron, Bill
Huggins and Ruben Schofield. Because
of conflict in the stories told the
three men were placed under arrest
and are held tonight in the jail at
Salley. The men said they found Mr.
Corbett dead by the side of the road.
Further questioning developed some
conflict in the statements and the
three were held for investigation. The
car with the dead man arrived here
about 5 o'clock.
Mr. Corbett was a farmer and is
I survived by his wife and three chil|
dren.
L Raed The Herald, $2.00 year.
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plan had been received yesterday
At Jacksontown, Ohio, about 12
miles east of Columbus, the Governor
and his party /ode siowly through,
diregarding outsire.tched arms of a
shirt-sleeve man, and also a large
group of persons gathered theie.
Within a few minutes two motorcycle
officers stopped the cars of the governor
and press correspondents, declaring
all under arrest and demanding
their return to Jacksontown. Governor
Cox identified himself, but the
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officers said they had orders from
Jacksontown authorities to arrest ail
four automobiles of the party "no
matter who they contained" cn
charges of speeding.
Cars Ordered to Proceed.
"You can reach me at the executive
office at Columbus any time,"
Governor Cox replied, ordering all
the cars to proceed and leaving the
officers busy taking down car numbers
on the fly.
Soon afterwards, during a heavy
downpour and in a jam of automobiles
on a slippery road, one of the
norc WQc fnmpd HI) an
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embankment and on an interurban
road bed, partially overturning, to
avoid striking other cars ahead. Occupants
were shaken up but crawled
out uninjured and were brought here
in the Governor's car.
Despite the two incidents, the governor
obtained much rest on the ride
s
from Wheeling where he concluded a
series of five addresses last night.
West Virginia Democrats who accompanied
the governor expressed pleasure
with the vigor of his attacks upon
the Republicans, especially with his
charge that Senator Harding proposes
a separate peace with Germany.
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I MOISE AJUMY WOKMS EXPECTED
j Entomologist Tells of Different Pests
and Their Activities
"The fall army worms are maturing
rapidly and in about four or five days
they will again have disappeared and
gone into the ground to pupate, from
which in about ten uays later the
moths or millers will appear again,
and if weather is favorable and forage
suitable another generation may develop,''
says Phillip Luginbill, United
States entomologist of the Columbia
office. "However, as a rule the third
generation does very little damage,
partly from the fact that plants by |
then are maturing rapidly and getting
too tough for the worms to eat," Mr.
Luginbill adds.
"Considerable damage has been
done by this generation of worms, not
only in this state but in other southern
states as well. The damage done
was mostly to young corn, sorghum
and grass growing in pea fields and
in some cases the ?peas themselves
were quite badly cut. Reports have
come in that the worms were damaging
cotton considerably, and after
investigation it was found that the
grass growing between the rows of
cotton was recently plowed up. The
worms had been feeding on this grass,
and when destroyed they went to the!
cotton. Injury to cotton consists primarily
in cutting leaves and branches,
farmers claim that they
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ate the blooms and bored considerably
in bolis, although it is quite possible
that they contused this worm with
the boll worm," Mr. Luginbill says.
"Farmers should avail themselves
of the opportunity of getting acquainted
with this worm. It is here
every year, some years more abundant
than others. This year they have
been more abundant than any year
since 1912. Other years they appeared
in injurious pumbers only in
spots. This worm is not the cotton
army worm that had been so destructive
to cotton in 1911, nor is it the
true army worm, which periodically
appears and wreaks havoc to crops.
This worm does not as a rule march
or move in a fixed direction, like the
other two army worms, but rather
spreads out from an infested grass
area when the grass is eaten in all directions.
It is primarily a grass
worm, feeding on grass and grasslike
plants," the entomologist says.
"Everyone should learn to distinguish
this caterpillar from all others,
especially from the army cotton worm
and the true army worm. This caterpiller
when about grown is grayish
on the baqk, with three white stripes,
one in the middle and one on either
side. In front of the head there is a
white mark resembling the letter Y
upside down.
'"Nature is assistyig in the control
of tnis pest in the form of enemies
which prey on the worms. The most
important one at this time is a fly resembling
somewhat the house fly. This
fly lays eggs on the back of caterpillars,
which hatch in a few days
into white maggotlike larvae. These
maggots live inside the worms, thereby
killing them. Some places 50 per
cent, of the caterpillars bear eggs.
These eggs can be seen by the unaided
eye. They appear about the size of a
small pin head and are white in color,
somewhat oval in outline," according
to Mr. Luginbill.
DOLLAR DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN.
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Every Democrat Asked to Give at
Least $1 to National Campaign.
The Dollar Democracy campaign is
making excellent progress according
to reports reaching state headquarters.
The organization of the cam,
paign to secure funds for the election
of Cox and Roosevelt has been completed
in 34 of the 46 counties. Reports
received from Gen. Wilie
, Jones, state treasurer of the party,
indicates that several thousand dolI
ioro Qir^dv hpen contributed by
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loyal Democrats. Contributions have
been received from practically every
r county in the state.'
, Thos. P. Cothran, state chairman
i of the executive committee, is anxious
for the canvass for funds to be
} completed as soon as possible. Mr.
. Cothran in a statement issued calls
. attention to the fact that a great
amount of money will be needed for
the national campaign and that it is
, the duty of every Democrat in South
, Carolina to contribute as much as
, one dollar. Of course larger sub;
scriptions will not be refused.
Reports received from national
j headquarters are very encouraging
and there is every hope of party success.
The Republicans it is pointed
out will spend large amounts of
vmoney in on effort to carry all doubti
INCREASED RATES
CONTRARY TO LAW
STATE HAS AUTHORITY IX INTRASTATE
TRAFFIC.
Wolfe Gives Opinion.
Railroad Commission Can Not Permit
Intrastate Passenger Rates
Over Three Cents Per Mile.
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The increase in intrastate passenger
rates, which the South Carolina railroads
are expected to ask from the
state railroad commission, can not be
granted according to Samuel M.
Wolfe, attorney general. Such an increase,
Attorney General Wolfe says,
would be a violation of state law,
which provides that the state railroad
commission shall not permit a passenger
rate on intrastate traffic in ex
cess of three cents per mile. The
| present fares have already reached
this limit and the proposed increase
therefore can not be granted.
Xo formal request for the increase
in intrastate rates had been received
by the railroad commission up to last
night, but members of the commission,
in preparation for action on the
request when it is made, conferred
with the attorney general yesterday,
Mr. Wolfe giving it as his opinion that
in the absence of further legislation
the commission can not permit a
passenger rate in intrastate traffic in
excess of three cents per mile. The
interstate commerce commission
might in a war emergency assume
control of intrastate traffic, the attorney
general thought, but under
normal conditions the regulation of
such traffic and conditions was entirely
in the hands of the state authorities.
Hearings on the increases in both
passenger and freight rates in intrastate
traffic will be held by the railroad
commission when requested by
the companies, according to H. H.
Arnold, member of the commission.
The increase in passenger rates, Mr.
I Arnold, said. WOUiU ue reiuscu,
! under the ruling of the attorney gen|
eral the commission is without authority
to grant it. There still remains,
however, he pointed out, an
appeal to the interstate commerce
commission before whom the
roads might argue that the action
of the state commission in refusing
the rates is a violation of the transportation
act of 1920. tfhis act
guards against rates that cause "any
undue or unreasonable advantage,
preference or prejudice as between
persons or localities." Authority is
also given the interstate commerce
commission to enforce a revision of
such rates, "the law of any state or
the decision or order of any state
authority to the contrary notwithstanding."
YEGGMEN ROB POSTOFFICE. |
$20,000 in Currency Obtained at Fair-!
mount, N. C.
Fairmount, NT. C., Aug. 11.?Yeggmen
robbed the pos^office here early
this morning of $20,000 in currency
and several hundred dollars in postage
stamps. The money belonged to
the Bank of Fairmount, having been
sent by insured mail. People near the
building were awakened by the explosion
and when they ran otft the
robbers ordered them , to retreat,
which they did, when several shots
were fired. The robbers escaped in a
o+rOnn automobile, which they aban
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doned a mile from town.
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Rats in the United States destroy
$200,000,000 worth of property annually.
In Denver there is a mark near one
mile above sea level.
ful states.
-Gov. Cooper is very much inter
ested in the campaign and urges that
every voter in the State support the
party liberally.
Joe Sparks, financial director of
the campaign has received the following
letter from Wilbur Marsh, national
treasurer: "May I suggest
that if a man can afford to give more
than a dollar it is only right that he
do so. The only test of helpfulness
in spirit is to give until you feel that
you have denied yourself by reason
of the gift. The campaign will cost
proportionately more than four years
ago, I know that the South Carolina
Democracy will do its full duty."
Nearly two thousand solicitors
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have been appointed in the state to
collect the dollars for Democracy.
Ti'ain Wreck Story Started Cox. j
New York, July 29.?Jimmy Allison
thinks he may have been a little
bit sore that night. He may even
have been a trifle harsh to Jimmy
Cox. He does not remember this ,
phase of the evening with accuracy.
He trusts not, becouse Jimmy Cox
might, perhaps, be the president of
the United States some time. It would
be embarrassing if the president said
some time:
"Remember that night you bawled
me out at Middletown."
This is the story of the time that
Jimmv Cox chiDDed first the egg. It
is the tale of his official hatching. Up
to that time he had been the correspondent
of the Cincinnati Enquirer
at Middletown, Ohio?that is, that }
had been one of his activities. A country
correspondent was not paid
enough in those days to permit him to
devote his entire time to corresponding.**
He had attracted the same sort
of attention in the Enquirer office
that other country correspondents
did. When he got scooped the telegraph
editor wanted to know why.
Then.came the work of the Second
Forty-five.
"Forty-five" was a known numbered
passenger train. People sst
their tin clocks by it. The Dayton
Cash Register company's employees
arranged an excursion, and the railroad
management decreed that the
special train should be known for the
day under the title of the "Second
Forty-five." Somehow the train dispatcher
forgot, or the telegraph operator
forgot, or some one else forgot.
At any rate, after the only known
"Forty-five" passed Middletown on
this fateful night the engineer of a
freight train pulled off a siding and
rumbled down the main track, quite
unaware that a second section of the
passenger train was approaching. A
dozen people or more were killed.
"I was the night police reporter for
The Enquirer at Cincinnati," said
Jimmy Allison, who for years has
been the New York man for the Cincinnati
Times-Star. "All this happened
after midnight. Cox had been
getting around Middletown at night,
as was his habit, and picked up the
news. He 'flashed* it to The Enquirer,
and 'Charlie' Hodges, who was then
the city editor, got me on the wire
;and told me to hurry up to Middletown
and take charge."
Allison was not unnaturally outraged
by this order. It came just as
he was getting ready to call it a day
and go home. He rode through the
brisk morning air to Middletown?on
a freight?inhaling indignation and
cinders. All the way he reflected bitterly
on the policy of a paper that
would entrust so important a post as
that of Middletown?where nothing
elst had happened since the memory
of man?to a green reporter, and
thereby cut into the recreations of a
regular newspaper man just when
that regular's playtime had arrived.'
He may have been crisp to Cox when
I he got tnere. cui ne nu^ca uui.
Cox had done all that could be
done. He had gathered the facts,
wired them to the Enquirer in time
for the city edition, sent in all the
names and street addresses of the injured,
and then made inquiries about
the wire. But one wire was open to
Cincinnati, he discovered, and at that
moment the reporter for the other
Cincinnati morning paper began to
snoop around. Young Mr. Coxv the
Boy Correspondent/ knew that he
must save the scoop for his own journal.
"So he put two or three pages of a
book on the wire," said Mr. Allison.
"He'd heard about that trick, you
know. Another Enquirer reporter,
during a strike in the coal fields, sent
most of the 'Lamentations of Job' on
one occasion, thereby preventing the
current Job from getting any news
through in spite if his anguished protests.
Anyhow, Cox did it. He held
the wire."
Allison did the story all over again,
of course, in that provokingly superior
way in which big town reporters
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though the small towners have all the
facts. The Cox story, which had been
sent to the Enquirer in hurried bits,
as he learned of a new fact or a new
name, had been rewritten by the office
genius into a compact and lurid story'
of the wreck. Allison remembers the
awe with which "Jimmy" Cox read
that story the next morning when the
papers came in. The facts were his,
of course
"If I could only learn to write like
that," he said dejectedly. "I'd never
want anything more."
When Allison returned to Cincinnati
"Charlie" Hodges called him in.
"Seems to be a pretty live wire,"
Hodges said, "that young Cox up at
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BLOW WITH PISTOL
MIKE CORBKTT KILLED IX VERY
STRAGE MANNER.
Near Springfield.'
Said That Companion in Car Tried to
Make Him Stop Singing?Hit
Him With Weapon.
Springfield, Aug. 16.?A coroner's
jury returned a verdict holding that
Mike Corbett, whose body was carded
to Salley in an automobile yesterday
by four men, came to his death
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hv a wound on the back of his neck
inflicted by Joe Higgins.
The dead body of Mike Corbett, a
farmer 45 years old, who lives about
six miles from here, was carried to
the town of Salley yesterday afternoon
in an atuomobile by Thos. Hereon,
Joe Huggins and Rubin Schofield.
The occupants of the car stated, it is
said, that they had found the body
in the public road a few miles from
Salley. Upon close questioning, it is
stated, their stories conflicted and
these three, with a son of Thomas
Herron, who was also in the automobile,
were placed in custody and separately
questioned at an inquest held
over the body by the coroner of Aiken
county today.
The young Herron boy testified that
they were all out riding in the car
and that Huggins asked Corbett to
stop singing, which he refused to do.
Thereupon Huggins, it is said, struck
him on the back of his neck with a
revolver and Caused Corbett to fall
over in the foot of the car. When he
made no effort to reseat himself they
examined him and found that he was
dead. An examination revealed that
Corbett's neck was broken and his
skull fractured.
According to the testimony all the
occupants of the car were under the
influence of intoxicants. The jury
found that Corbett came to "his death
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by a wound on toe u<ick ui tut; nctn
inflicted at the hands of Joe Huggins.
Huggins, Heron and Schofield
have been lodged in the Aiken jail.
Mike Corbett leaves a widow and
three children.
Middletown." No doubt Hodges was
smoking a pipe at the moment. He
usually was. "Got a cleaji scoop for
us. Held the wire, too. What do you
think of him?"
That early morning bitterness had
passed away from Allison by thai
time. He no longer remembered the
injustice to which he had been subjected
in sending him away from rest
?and recreation?at that scandalously
early morning hour, but recalled
the alertness of the young reporter
He told about it:
"I've given him a chance to come
down here," said Hodges. "It's up tc
him to make good."
Cox became the railway reporter ir
Cincinnati. Railway reporters ir
those days usually walked severa
thousand miles a week and talkec
mostly to brakemen. Now and then?
this was a long time ago and as a nation
we lacked the high and mightj
notions we have nowadays?a railway
reporter got a pass from some onz
and then sold that pass to some one
Oddly enough it was the railroads wh(
most bitterly complained when th<
pass issuing privilege was taken awa:
from them. Allison remembers that z
friend had a pass on the Queen anc
Crescent, which was in constant us<
when there was racing on at Nev
Orleans.
"The railroad never complained,'
said he, "until some one tried to car
ry a horse on it."
Cox would not graft passes and sel
them. He did what few other rail
way reporters had done at that time
and managed to get into the private
offices of the presidents and treasurers
and directors of the railroads and tall
to them. Then they asked him to com*
[ back. He became a very live news
'gatherer, thereby confirming the judg
ment of Hodges and Allison. At this
point Theodore Mitchell, now th<
chief agent by which the D. W. Grif
fith filming company takes the publh
into its confidence, may be introduce(
and sworn.
"Jim Faulkner brought me down t<
Cincinnati," said he, "and gave me ;
job on the Enquirer. The most vivis
impression I have of my first nigh
was of walking into Charlie Hodges'
office and of seeing Jimmy Cox sit oi
Hodges's desk and swing his legs an<
talk- confidentially to the eidtor. Tha
was a great occasion for me, you un
derstand."
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RATTLERS STILL ABOUT.
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Many in Mountains a Few Miles From
New York City Hall.
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One reads in Kansas papers that
they are killing off the rattlesnakes
out there, because "there isn't much
use in keeping them alive any longer,"
says the Boston Transcript. The
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rattlesnakes themselves may have a
different idea of the matter. It is
one thing to "kill off the rattlesnakes"
and another to get them killed
off. Massachusetts has not killed
off all of hers, after 300 years. A
few years ago the Nomad read in a
printed explanatory statement displayed
in the reptile house in the
Bronx Park Zological Garden, New
York City, that "no rattlesnakes are
now found within thirty miles of
New York city." Shortly afterward
the Nomad presented the custodian
with the rattles of a large rattlesnake
which had just been killed on
the Palisades, not three miles from
the city limits of New York. There
is no place in the whole world where
rattlesnakes are more abundant than
they are in the Ramapo Mountains,
near Sufferin, N. Y., about twentyfive
miles from the New York city
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hall. And though for many years
they have been regularly and professionally
haunted here?to be deprived
of their fan^s and exhibited in cages
or to be killed for their skins or their , '
oil?they do not seem to diminish in
number among the hot rocks on the
summit of the High Turne or along
the slopes of the Ramapos or the
Catskills. ,
The rattlesnake, of course, disappears
in a region which has become
a distinctly farming country. He
needs peculiar conditions for his development.
He needs hot sun in summer,
and the protective cover of dry
leaves, and he likes the crevices of
the rocks in which to rear his brood*
As he does not run away from attack,
he cannot survive in frequented fields.. 4 *
But in tne wooqs ana nins, or me
great stick, without the slightest
move on wastes where men's foot- .
steps are few and far between, he
increases and multiplies. And while
cur northern ratt'er must have hot
sun in summer, he nevertheless sur'
vives in climates where the tempera- If
ture falls far below zero in winter. , P
The rattlesnake is common cn the . \
shore of Georgian Bay in Ontario.
There are still a good many places in
, New England where one needs to
look out for him?needs to took out, ,
that is all, for the rattler, in spite of
centuries of persecution, remains the
perfect gentleman. He does not attack
unless threatened; he will not
run away; and he gives full warning
k before he strikes. He is generally
not averse to the unharming approach
of humans, often seeming to regard
the intruder with merely curious ini
terest. The Nomad has seen a curledl
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up rattler remain perfectly motionless
for a long time, while a fool terrier
barked at him not a foot away, \)
not deeming it worth its while to
strike the dog. The rattler is the
t most dignified of living creatures.
l But it is, and will always remain,
j the part of wisdom not to tread on
, him. And if one is in a rattlesnake *
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country, it is a wise precaution to
carry a long stick and keep a good
T watch on the path ahead.
7 It is an odd circumstance about a
s rattler's fangs that they will grow
again if cut out. The snake hunters,
5 who take the rattlers alive and sell
a them for exhibition purposes; follow
this method in their capture; they
l stun the snake with a blow, put a
, forked stick over him and then seize
him around the neck with the left
" hand. This forces the rattler's mouth
open, exposing his great fangs, and
, with his knife, the hunter now digs
out the fang and put the snake in a
Vvoo- whprft he soon completely re
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j vives, but is now harmless. This is
called "trimming" the snake.
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? By and by Cox became the private
3 secretary to Paul Sorg, the Middle5
town tobacco manufacturer, who later
c went to congress. Sorg died and Cox
3 went into the newspaper business and
5 politics at Dayton. It is presumed
" that he was backed in his first pur3
chase of a newspaper by the Sorg
3 estate. Dayton was a Republican
- stronghold in those days, but "Jnn3
my" Cox managed to be elected to
1j congress by the aid of the vote of the
Soldiers' Home. Get that. There
3 j should be an orchestra to stop with a
1J crash and a peevish man in the gali
lery to turn on a green light at this
t point. He was elected to congress by;
s the aid of the Soldiers' Home?Cox
* being a Democrat and the soldiers bei
ing almost bigoted in their republit
canism.
Then, after awhile, he was nominated
for the presidency.
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