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Vol. LXX1I No. 1291 ' ^ pw Copy
FUNERALS FOR
THEATRE VICTMJ
Washington, Jan. 31 (By the As
ciated Press).?Washington to<3
held the first of its many funer
for the 97 persons who perished S
urday night when the roof of 1
Knickerbocker motion picture theai
collapsed under the weight of snc
Services were announced by a nu
ber of churches and other organi;
tions. Social functoins and busim
conferences ceased in honor of 't
dead and the theatres, again in opei
tion, sheltered meagre audienc<
while hospital staffs continued
treat the more than 60 injured st
confined.
A number of official and unoffic
investigations also got under way 1
day and others were announced.
Meanwhile, late today, anoth
l JJJ: ** a\ _ i -t * " '
nuuuing, one 01 me long sneus 01 i
freight depot of the Baltimore
Ohio railroad at First street ar
Florida avenue, collapsed two mi
utes after eight men who had be
employed in it during the day h
checked out. No one was injure
Damage to the shed and the freig
it contained was estimated at $21
000. The structure, one of the wal
of which gave way, it is believed d'
to the effect of melting snow on t!
Sloping roof, was built in 1904. Fir
men and police immediately begi
an investigation.
Edward H. Shaughnessey of CI
oago, second assistant postmast
general, who was one of the most s
riously injured in the Knickerbock
collapse, was reported steadily ir
proving tonight. His wife and t\
daughters also were injured.
The funerals today included that
Madame Virginia Feraud, sister
Dr. Julio Bianchi, Guatemalan mini
ter under the Herrera regime, in S
Paul's itoman Catholic church. H
body will be sent to Ventura, Cal.,
rest beside that ot her nusoana.
Secretary Weeks sent flowers
the families residing here of the se
en war department employees wl
were killed in the catastrophe ai
letters of condolence to those not li
ing in the city.
>- ~ "MS mortal aerrlceg ware held to A
in the press gallery of the capitol 1
the Washington correspondents f
L. V. Strayer of the Pitsburg Di
patch and C. C. Brainerd of tl
Brooklyn Eagle, and the law class
of 1924 at George Washington ur
versity held similar services in hon
of two of its members who we
killed. Georgetown announces th
its memorial services will be held t
morrow at St. Patrick's church,
number of other churches made sin
lar announcements.
The city commission today turn
over its investigation of the disast
to Col. Charles Keller, engineer cor
missioner, and the building inspec
or's office. The federal grand ju
and the coroner's jury visited tl
ruins of the theati'e today and it w
1 .1 1.2 iU
aniiuunceu nicy wuuiu tuuuuvt tuu
ough investigations to determine
possible the cause of the accident ai
whether any individual was to blanr
Payton Gordon, district attorney, r
quested the war department to a
sign several army engineers to a
sist the coroner's jury in its enquit
The Capper resolution proposir
an inquiry into the disaster was r
ferred tonight by the senate to i
District of Columbia committee 1
request of its sponsor who said t!
committee desired to make a sun'
of the inquiries already ordered ai
to determine further the scope of t
senate investigation.
Senator Calder (Republican)
New York urged that the inquiry
broadened so as to determine wh
additional building code should
adopted to insure further safeguar<
Washington, Jan. 31.?The roof
the Baltimore & Ohio railro
freight depot at First street a
Florida avenue northeast crashed
late today. Eight men had jt
checked out for the day and no o
was injured.
The snow had been practicaly 1
moved from the slate roof, it w
said, but it was possible, it was ad
ed, that the supporting brick pie
and oak beams had been weakened
the accumulation of snow from t
recent storm. But little freight w
there at the time.
The crash came unexpectedly
in the case of the Knickerbock
theatre, the roof giving away siidde
ly and coming down with deafenii
crash. A great mass of debris fill
the interior of the structure, whi
is 400 feet long and 40 wide and o
story in height.
President of Trust Company
Indicted for Larcei
Boston, Feb. 1.?Max Mitchell, pr<
ident of the defunct Cosmopolit
Trust Company, is arraigned on i
dictments charging larceny of i n
lion and five hundred thousand d
lars. He pleaded "not guilty" and w
released on $50,000 bond.
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SENATE PASSES
IS GASOLINE TAX
so- After an all day debate running unlay
til 11 o'clock last night the senate '
als pased the gasoline tax bill with
at- amendments making the tax on gaso- '
he line two cents instead of 'one as pro- '
tre vided for in the original ways and *
>w. means committee measure and another 4
m- amendment eliminating kerosene from *
sa- the bill. '
;ss The vote was reached at 11 o'clock 1
;he after the upper ho"se had spent the 4
a- day and night in attempting to amend
es, the bill and the senate finance com- (
to mittee's amendments. An effort to *
;ill tave off final actibn on the measure 1
was attempted by Senator Bonham of
ial Greenville, he twice moving to po^;- *
;o- pone the debate until this morning. *
Both motions were lost. c
ier This action on the part of the up- 8
he per house makes two new revenue T
& measures to get by the senate within c
,d the past two weeks. While a deter t
n. mined effort to defeat all the rev- r
en enue measures or so to change them 4
nd that no material relief will be given e
d. is apparent, but this has been fought ^
ht off by those senators who are con- 1
vinced that some means of reducing '
Us the tax on visible property must be
ue found. f
At. ~ A A J A- C
he v/iic ui uif impuriHiit a murium en us ^
e. adopted was that one-half of the tax c
an on gasoline shall be returned to the
counties for the building md main- *
,j_ tonance of roads, the amount to be t
,,r returned to be on the basis of the t
e. taxable property of the county. F
er Senator Padgett's amendment to devolve
all the duties of collecting the 1'
vo tax and enforcing the law in every J
way on the department of agricul- t
ture instead of the tax commission s
c? was killed by a close vote. h
ls It was Senator Padgett's amendment
to exempt kerosene from any tax a
er and strike out the one cent on this *
to commodity that was adopted. a
Senator Young's amendment to
tc have the reports made before the 20th fi
of each month instead of the tenth a
was adopted.?The State. ?
t arrested' for :
embezzlement i
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or New York, Jan. . 31.?Richard N ],
Berrien, 47, charged with embezzle- p
he ment of $45,000 In Atlanta, Ga., was \
es arrested today in a Broad street brok- y
er'a office. He was taken in custody n
or at the request of Fulton county, Georre
gia, authorities and held on a techni- t
at ?al charge of being a fugitive from t
o justice. r
A ?,
?i- . Atlanta, Jan. 31.?R. N. Berrien, 9
Jr., sought throughout the country on i
ed a warrant charging larceny after t
er trust of $42,000 in school warrants for s
n- which he was acting as broker was t
:t- arrested in New York today, it was
ry learned at the sheriff's office here. 1
he Governor Hardwick will issue extraas
dition papers tomorrow and a deputy
ir- will be sent for Berrien at once, it
if was stated. He left here last fall about
nd the time the warrant was issued and
le. later officials received a letter from
e- Washington purporting to be signed v
is- by Berrien in which the writer said r
,3- he had made a business connection in v
y. a large city and if given time would ?
>g repay the money. The search was
e- continued, however, and the arrest
[ts was made when a detective recognized 0
by Berrien from his picture.
Z HATFIELD'S WIDOW *?
- MARRIES AGAIN '
^ Williamson, W. Va., Jan. 31.?A
marriage license was issued here to,a
day to Mrs. Sid Hatfield, widow of the I
former chief of police of Matewan, S
and Sylvester H. Pettcry, a state f
trooper, stationed at Matewan. The t
?* wedding will take place at Matewan t
a(! tomorrow night, it was said. Mrs. 1
" Hatfield's fust husband was C. C. Tes- <
in terman, mayor of Matewan, who was
shot and killed in the pistol fight bene
tween residents and private detectives f
in May, 1920. Shortly thereafter she
*e- married Sid Hatfield, chief of police
as at the time of the fight. Hatfield was
Id- killed last August on the steps ot
ira the court house at Welch.
by '
he Mine Workers Willing
ns To Stand With Railroads
? / i;
as Indianapolis, Feb. 1.?The United (
;er Mine Workers of America are willing ,
!n" to unreservedly pool their interests
with the railroad organization, and ]
e<l stand with them in resistance to the
eh proposed attacks upon their wage
roe schedule, John L. Lewis, international
president of miners, declared in making
the announcement that an invita- 1
tion do participate in the meeting with 1
miners had beon sent to officers of 16 1
?f , i
major organizations of railroad work?
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6S- .
an Mrs. Mary Rice Feaster of Green- I
in- wood, accompanied by her two chil>11
dren, is visiting her mothor, Mrs.
ol- Lewis M. Rice, who for the past week
ras has been quite sick, but is now im- (
proving. . ' <
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THREE INJURED T
IN AUTO CRASH
Thomas Dowling of Timmonsville,
his wife and her nephew, Joe Temple,
14, are at the Columbia hospital where
Jiey were taken at midday ye'sterday
ifter the car in which they had started
for Timmcfnsville had been bumped
>ff the road by southbound Seaboard
.rain No. 301 at Blaney as the car was
;rossing the track. Blaney is about
nidway between Columbia and Camien.
None of the three is supposed to be
langerously injured at the hospital,
he wounds being confined to bruises
ind cuts.
It appears from available informaion
that the automobile was going
oward Camden on the Columbia-Cam len
highway and that a store on the
ilde of the thoroughfare hid the
lorthem stretch of track from view
?f the driver. The car, which is said
o have been traveling at about 12
niles nn hour, was almost across the c
rn rV wlion fT>o nnur 4-1***
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mgine struck the right rear wheel, vhirling
the machine around in the
oad, crtlshing two wheels and turn- i
ng it over.
The train is scheduled to stop at n
he station and was probably going t
ilowly or otherwise a much more seri- t
>us accident may have resulted.
Passengers and crew soon extricatd
the party from the wreck and the !
rain brought them to Columbia where
hey were taken to the Columbia hoslital.
.
Mrs. Dowling told attendants at the .
tospital that the car engine fell on .
'oung Temple, while she herself was .
hrown through the windshield, she ,
ustaining an ugly gash on the fore- .
tend and numerous bruises and cuts.
Mr. Dowling, who is 67 years of
,ge, refused at first to retire upon ,
caching the hospital and walked .
iround until about 6. o'clock when he ,
egan to feel badly and consented to .
;o to bed. He is somewhat bruised
md cut but is not thought to be dangerously
hurt, though the car was
esting upon him when removed by
escuers. * . .
Joe Temple sustained cuta and ^
iruie^s about the face but ia not '
bruifht ti I n intimnltr lnfnfnri
le had given no signs of such up to t
ast night. The boy's father, Joe Tern- ^
ile, Sr., was an engineer on the Atantic
Coast Line railroad and was :illed
in a wreck just out of Savan- ,
i ah.
The party left Columbia shortly afer
11 o'clock yesterday morning for _
heir home in Timmonsville from the .
esidence of Mrs. James A. Summerett,
sister of Mrs. Dowling, 23?C jr*?rk 11
treet. Mrs. Summersett had been visting
the Dowlings and they had
irought her home Sunday and had .
tarted again for Timmon*ville yes
erday morning. ^
MASKED MEN
FLOG EDITOR ,
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Drumwright, Okla., Jan. 31.?R. L. r
iloore, editor of the Drumwright Post, t
vas seized by a band of six masked t
nen last night, taken to a thickly g
wooded spot .a few miles shouthwest ii
f the city and severely flogged with a
lack snake whip, police said today. t
Moore said he asked the members t
f the band why they had seized him, g
iccording to the police, and was told t
( was because he had been printing
adical editorials advocating over- t
hrow of the city, county and state r
rovemments. I
Auxiliary Meeting r
The Woman's Auxiliary of the
'resbyterian church will meet in the
>unday school rooms at 3:45 Monday
iftemoon, February 6. This will be
he last opportunity to meet obliga- <
ions on Haichow Fund and Mountain <
Mission Work. All members are re- j
lues ted to be present.
Mrs. B. B. James. ^
Regimental Band to
Hear Billy Sunday
The following business houses of
he city will furnish transportation for J
he First Regimental Band on the .
tpccial train tomorrow to hear Billy J
Sunday at Spartanburg: Bank of
In inn r.ififena Matinnal RonV
>lson Bank & Ti*ust Co., Wilburn Dry 1
[Jooda Co., The Battery, Union Hardware
Co. and Eagle Grocery Co. 1
Five Sack* of Mail
Stolen by Armed Bandit*
Chicago, Feb. 1,?Five sack* of 1
nail, believed to have been registered, 1
were stolen by three armed bandits '
who stopped the mail clerk en route
'rom the depot to the postofflce, ac- 1
wording to police report*.
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Panama Canal Not
Affected by Earthquake <
Panama, Feb. 1.?The Panama (
Sanal was not afTected by the earth- <
luake yesterday. <
TARIFF BRINK
HIGHER HOCE
Philadelphia, Jan. Sl.^jhe Ajgier
an valuation plan, as tli
sending tariff bill, willdtetm |igki
srices for commodiiies v*fcd mjlke
mpossible for this crmxwy to mark<
ts agricultural product^abroa^K^l
>ur W. Stewart, presidwb of the Nt
ional Association of
>f America declared toAyat.^he oj
ning session of the or?nsatiott'a.ar
mal convention. *' 31
"I hope a way mayj^^fannd," h
laid, as suggested by iMjUunt Hare
ng, that will make fo^wutiity an
ilas^icity so that ra{|t2s&Mf$be a<
usted to meet unus\uj|. jfcn<l changin
onditions which ?th norhe accurate
y anticipated at this ttjjh
In accordance with jptojew rulin
hat no freakish or s^mdienal suit
ould be shown at'exhibi
ielp in connection wfcH^SMfenventioi
he fashion committeajrtonight rule
ut several garments tv&fce lines wer
tot in keeping with tlHfcihjkm ntanc
irds of the associatjoijy JPne of th
uits disbarred had pochKffaps sharp
y pointed at the end, atnMBther wa
m evening suit with "aiftpnne" lapel
Che exhibit will be v^'iW' the publi
omorrow for the ftrat tw&i the hit
ory of the organisation;*.
The clothes for sprify^will be dc
igned, the fashion cdvfaittee sail
o be easy to wear. The Jack coal, ir
luding the one and twg&mtton vari
;ty, and the ample trojjjfcr will pr<
lominate. The trouaar "wmf is rapidl
osing its popularity andHnth its pass
ng the suspender agaftAHQ come int
ts own. Demonstration at the e>
libit showed that loo^mknd cufflec
rousers soon become JKftlas* whe
lependent for suppcra^fefc! tbe be
ilone. Extreme pointi^B^els, am
n fact, everything: fl^mc wa
rowned upon by tfajPaBfr maker
Hues and browns aWwBb the lead
ng shades for spring.!!
The fulV dress coat naflg&ld by th
ommittee to be tbe ojjs BgreUt cm
nent for affairs Iodic
vear evening dregs. .y.
he Wm. Wallace Chapter, U. D. C
teld its first meeting of the year i
he high school auditorium with Mr
I. F. Alston, Mrs. J. T. Bradley, Mn
L. B. Brannon and Mrs. W. II. Bui
is as hostesses. Much business ws
ransacted, after which the historiai
Irs. W. W. Alman, took charge of th
iterary program. The program con
nemorated Lee and Jackson and cor
isted of: * ?
"A Talk on Lee"?Dr. Kilgo.
"Parents of Lee"?Mrs. J. I
Arthur.
"Matthew Fontaine Maury"?Mrs
E. S. Reaves.
"Sword of Lee, Father Ryan"?Mia
ifabel Garrison.
Mrs. T. C. Duncan and Mrs. J. V
.fixson gave splendid reports on th
latesburg convention. Wm. Wallac
eceived honorable mention for seven
hings at the convention and won th
nnner for the third time for th
rreatest increase of membership dui
ng the year.
Wm. Wallace will continue the tes
ile scholarship, and one of the daugl
ers who wishes her name withhel
:ave to the chapter the first quai
erly payment. '
Mrs. C. H. PeakeXtjajy hair man c
he silver tea commifHe, reported
?eat little sum from the tea held i
ifrs. Foster's on January 19th?
rWO FRENCH
SOLDIERS K1LLEI
Berlin, Feb. 1.?Two French so
liers were killed and 25 wounded i
lisorders in Silesia, acordir.g to r<
>orts received here.
iVILL ELECT
POPE TOMORROW
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Rome. Feb. 1.?The sacred colic?
vill convene tomorrow in conclave f(
he election of a new pope. The Ita
an, French and Spanish governmem
tave informed the Holy See semi-o:
IciaUy that they have no desires in ti
natter. .
r wo Witnesses Remain
In Arbuckle Tria
San Francisco, Feb. 1.?One ph;
tician and one handwriting expert ai
;he only remaining witnesses in t)
rial of Roscoe Arbuckle for mai
daughter.
4o Apoliglee are
Due Safe McAdo
Washington, Feb. 1.?Measures tal
?n during the federal control of rai
roads calls for no apologies,, yniliai
3. McAdoo, wartime director genera
declared before the senate intents
rommeroe committee today.
' 'ma '
'begins discussion
s on bonus bill
1- Washington, Jan. - 31.?Discussion
ie of the long pending soldiers' bonus
r bill was renewed today at both ends
it fit the capitol. Before the house ways
st and means committee, which by
1- agreement of Republican leaders in
I- congress reopened hearings on the
rs measure, officers of organizations of
>- former service mon urged immediate
i- Action on the bill and in reply to
questions said the problam of raising
ie the necessary funds was one for conl
gress to solve. In the senate Repub-J
d lictfn leaders frustrated attempts by
! the Democrats to add the bonus bil!
B to the allied debt refunding measure. I
5- After a brief but heated debate, the
senate adopted, 42 to 28, 9 motion
? by Senator Watson (Republican) to
58 lay on the table an amendment offered
by Senator Simmons (Demo
crat) of North Carolina incorporat d
ing the "five way"" adjusted compen>e
sation plan.
The amendment would have provide
ed that the bonus be paid out of the
interest on the foreign debt and that
18 if this should prove insufficient the
8* secretary of the treasury should islC
sue certificates' of indebtedness to be
redeemed out of -future interest payments,
or with the approval of the
nrpsidpnt. to soil so mnpli nf tVio for
eign bonds as might be necessary.
J" Later the senate rejected, 42 to 21,
an amendment by Senator Jones
' (Democrat) of New Mexico which
y carried the "five way" plan but had
no provisions for raising funds.
? In offering his amendment, Senator
Simmons declared that when he
IS
had proposed the bonus bill as an
^ amendment to the tax revision- measj
ure he had been told that it was the
* desire of the majority to act on the
bonus in connection with the debt fe.
funding bill but that now the Republicans
had decided in party confer[C
ence that the bonus measure should
^ be acted upon separately. The North
^ Carolina senator went on to say that
tjto administration had now decided
that it would not be feasible to use
f -the interest on the foreign debt for
i * -Tn??-11*"
^ the ways and means committee had
B proposed a tax on gasoline, Senator
3> Simmons said this would place the
whole bui-den of the bonus on users
IS of that commodity and would be class
v legislation in its worst form.
ie Opposing the amendment Chairman
McCumber of the finance comt_
mittee declared it had been decided
to have the bonus bill originate in the
house because it would be a revenue
). raising measure and that everyone
knew that adjusted compensation leg3.
islation soon would be enacted. He
deprecated what he called the injecis
tion of party politics into the question
and said he objected to attaching
J. it.to the debt refunding bill, that it
ie might not provide funds for immedi:e
ate payment to the soldiers.
' EFFORT TO CHECK
r- FLU EPIDEMIC
New York, Feb. 1.?Seventy-five policemen
have been assigned to special
duty with the city health department
f~ enforcing the house heating and sanitary
rules in an effort to check a
* further spread of the influenza epi.
demic.
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Agreement on Far
Eastern Resolutions
Washington, Feb. 1.?The adoption
\ of the Far Eastern committee reso"
lutions affecting China and formal announcement
and adoption of Shan1
tung agreement between China and
in Japan ^featured the first part of the
2- arms conference session today.
Secretary Hughes, in presenting the
naval treaty, said the original American
proposals as to capital ships had
been adopted substantially except that
tr retention by Japan of battleship Mut
J su had been permitted by the United
States' right to complete two dreadfe
naughts of the West Virginia type,
>r whereupon the battleships North Da1
kota and Delaware are to be scrapped.
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f. Charlotte Postmaster Dead
Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 1.?J. H. Weddington,
for nine years Charlotte's
postmaster, died here today.
A TODAY'S COTTON MARKET
Open 2:40 p. m.
v. March .. .. .. ...16.00 >6.38
re May .. .. .. .. .. 16.41 16.10
ie July .. . : 16.00 15.84
it- October .. .... .. 15.58 15.40
December . . 15.50 15.23
, Local market .. j. 16.00
? Mrs. Jack Humphries will leave
this afternoon to visit her sister. Mrs.
^ Cotinife in St. Matthews and before
^returning home will visit jier mother,
m Mrs. May in Charleston.
A, v ... .
te Diamonds are now;. cut and polished
by machinery.
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BOSTON NEGRO S
SLAYS POLICEMAN
Boston, Jun. 31.?Renzy Murray, a
62 year old negro, who stood off 60 ^
policemen for more than an hour ^
early today in a gun battle that centered
around his South End home, y(
spent tonight in jail, charged with a*
the murder of Patrolman Daniel Mc- a<
Shane. The policeman, shot by the at
negro from a win'dow of his stronghold,
died at a hospital at noon. Two w
hundred shots are estimated to have
been fire before Murray was captured.
P
William Jackson, a negro who live:- bi
in the same house, and Julia Scott, a
resident of the neighborhood, were in m
hospitals tonight suffering from bul- ^
let wounds and a five months old
baby was suffeving from bums sus- a'
tained while on its bed in an upper vc
room of the Murray home. The fire Pf
which nearly consumed the mattress or
is believed to have been caused by
powder flashes from Murray's revolver.
co
The trouble started when a woman ^
lodger left the house to tell the police U
that Murray had threatened to shoot or
her. McShane and three other police- a<
men accompanied her back to the res- co
idence. They found the door barri- ca
faded and Murray shouted an invitation
to them to come to a window.
They did so and McShane started to a*
climb in. He was greeted with three ot
shots from the negro's revolver and UI
dropped to the sidewalk with a bullet
in his abdomen. sf
McShane's comrades promptly sl
summoned assistance. Lieut. Dunlap
ordered out the reserves, sent several n
patrolmen from their beats to the- ce
scene and directed the dispatch of
two riot guns to Murray's barricaded *j?
dwelling. Meantime, the fire depart- *
ment had been summoned and was
prepared to bring out the negro by ..
the ude of high pressure nozzles. ,
From both front and rear the police 5
fired several volleys into the house ^
but Murray refused to come out.
Two patrolmen who worked their ^
way through the house finally found
him in the attic and brought him w
do^^sta^s. ^ ^ ^ fi,
crowd which had gathered loudly
threatened Murray. There was a g.(
rush in his direction and it was with
difficulty that ho was landed in the
patrol wagon. f0
At the station Murray told the police
that he had saved one bullet for yj
himself and another for his wife, at ai
her request, but that when they got rj
into the attic his courage failed him. cc
When arraigned for the murder of a(
Patrolman McShane, Murray ex- af
claimed: g,
"Murder! Who did I kill? I did
not know McShane was dead." ^
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RORS RANK
| iuv/aw A/mm tn
SECOND TIME >
Cartersvillc, Ga., Jan. 81.?Enter- T
ing the Bank of Cassville for the second
time within a week, robbers made
away with approximately $12,000 last
night, according to word received here
today. ?
The loot consisted of Liberty bonds, ?
county warrants, notes and other papers
but no cash, it $vas said, as the c<'
robbers apparently made no effort to E,!
enter the money safe. -The previous
visit resulted in nothing more than 1
tampering with the vault combination c
and officials said they thought the p(
J first robbers were amateurs and last re
I night's visitors professionals. <
Officers of the bank, which is at
| Cassville, seven miles north of here, (t
announced that the theft was- covered i
i by insurance and depositors would not al
! be affected. 'f
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PATRICK GIVEN J
LIFE SENTENCE Y
v<
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 31.?Throwing ^
her arms about him and weeping bit- r(
terly, Mrs. Alice Murrell, In open
court today demonstrated her love for p
the man who murdered her son. The m
dramatic moment came. immediately o1
following the verdict of the jury find
ing Carson Patrick guilty of the mur- ^
der of Shaw Murrell on Christinas eve. w
The verdict of the jury was that the
defendant was guilty of murder with
recommendation to mercy of the court.
Judge Hammond immediately sen- ^
teneed him to life imprisonment. r ^
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Fifth Session of Arms
Conference Met Today q
Wnshignton, Feb. 1.?The fifth open tl
session of the arms conference met for ?\
the presentation of naval limitation t]
treaty and special treaties limiting the
use of suburbs and poison (as. Sec- \
retary Hughes began with a resolu- ci
tion adopted by the Far Eastern com- u
mittee providing for a withdrawal of ii
foreign post officers and troops from a]
China. p
ENATE PASSES
REFUNDING BILL
Washington, Jan. 31.?The bill aulorizing
the refunding of the $11,)0,000,000
foreign debt into securies
maturing in not more than 2.r>
sara was passed tonight by the sene.
The vote was 39 to 25. Final enitment
of the measure must await
ljustment of differences between the
>use and senate which is expected
ithin a week or ten days.
Three Republicans?Borah, LaFoltte
and Norria?joined with the solid
emocratic minority in opposing the
11.
Under the terms of the bill a core. ission
of five members, hemic,) b.,
e secretary of the treasury, would
ive authority, subject to the approvof
the president, to refund or conrt,
und to extend the time of the
lyment of the principal on interest,
both, of the foreign debt.
The date of the maturity of the oblations
accepted by the commission
uld not extend beyond June 15,
'47, and the interest rate could not
less than 4 1-4 per cent. Bonds of
le foreign government could not be
icepted for those of another, nor
uld any part of the indebtedness be
ncelled.
The life of the commission would
s three years from the date ?of the
tproval of the act and the members
her than the secretary of the treas y
would be appointed by the presisnt
subject to confirmation by the
nate. During its life the commison
would be required to make anlal
reports to congress at the beginng
of each regular session in Deimber.
Only members of the cabinet and of
ingress would be appointed on the
>bt commission, according to Senator
'atson (Republican) of Indiana, who
Id the senate during debate today
at, although he was not authorized
r the president to make such an an>uncement,
he nevertheless knew
at this was the president's intention.
Aside from the section in,at
interest on the refunded debt 1
>t leas than 4 1-4 per cent whie'
as added ?s nr amendment from th
lance committee, the only important
tange made in the bill., by the aenr.tr
hich Would have given the
jn authority to settle and refund anj
aims which the United States here'ter
might have had against "any
reign government."
Efforts to add a soldiers' bonus prosion
to the measure: to limit the
ithority ot the commission in deierng
interest payments and to require
>ngressional approval of the bond
freements failed. The senate did
lopt, however, an amendment by
jnator Walsh (Democrat) of Massamsetts
requiring the commission afr
the conclusion of each refunding
jgotiation to report the results to
le senate. Senator Walsh explained
lat the object was to give "pitiless
iblicity" to the work of the comission.
UUKIMd KtTUKI
TALES OF HARDSHIP
Friesco, Calif., Feb. 1.?More than
hundred persons stranded by Calimia's
recent record snow along the
idge route had been rescued or ac unted
for according to a special disitch
from representatives of t' ?
riesco Republican. The resue litres
had provided thirty stranded r.u
mobile parties with food, they r?>irted.
Many tales of hardship were
dated.
Wilson's "Five Big Deeds"
That Woodrow Wilson has already
:ome back"?to use an expressive
id, perhaps, inescapable "Americanm"?is
made more evident every
ly. His policies are being approved
v the strongest of all approvals'?
nitation, even if the imitation is of
in rattier groan uuq nwhwaru.
In addressing a meeting in New
ork in celebration of the first annisrsary
of the Woodrow Wilson Founation,
Hamilton Holt made the ar sting
assertion that anyone of five
reat achievements of the former
resident "would assure him a foruioat
place in history." W may be
f more than passing interest to now
se what Mr. Holt set down as these
ve immortalizing achievements. He
lid, according to a report we quote
:om the New York Times, that these
reat deeds were:
"The coalescence of the heretogen>us
ideas in connection with the war
ito one idea?democracy; his statelent
that in the war we wanted nothig;
the driving of an effective wedge
etween the Hohenzollems and the
erman people; the first outline of th
a sis of peace; and the expression <.
ve thought that the nations shoul
ubstitute cooperation for cornpetion."
While he dooa not specifically naa.
Ir. Wilson's inspiration and actoo
reation of the league of Nations, thi..
remendous achievement may well bt
nplicit in the phrase, "the nauon*
hould substitute cooperation for
etition.?"Columbia State.