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ifeaplane Will Go Next To Lisbon 1 Ho Complete Traris-Atianiie Flight Ponta Del Gada, Ma:* 20 (By the Associated Press).?i-ieut. Comndr. {Albert C. Bead, in 'command of * the ^Ijalmerican seaplane NC-4 expects to 'f^Start for Lisbon at -6 o'clock tomorro w ^morning. He hopes to reach there oe Jfore dark. ?If all is vrgdl with the night, an 3oyernight stog wfti be made at Lisbon .|and the NC-4 " will proceed to Ply mouth, weather permittiiis. The-NC-4- was^ overhauled here to :day and took on a f?ll supply of fuel. ?-* The commanded by Lieut. ||gtanratir. P.NV1?. Bellinger, sank off ^?Mrvo ibis- afternoon. The heavy seas ?ifshade towing -impossible and the Unit ^ ^States destroyer Fairfax stood by iting ior the weather to moderate, it the body of the machine fihed water and the wings were brok en?. This combined with the |weight of the engine caused the plane ...to"settle many fathoms deep. "Exceptionally bad weather which -was totally unexpected, was the sole \xeason for the failure of ah three of She. American navy's seaplanes to ny -v^ffcom Trepassey, N. F., to Ponta Del jGada on schedule time," said Com ^mander John Towers tc the corre spondent of the Associated Press to -night. The man who commanded the overseas flight in hi3 flagship NC-2 and the members of his crew who haci >eceived a severe buffeting both from the storm overhead and the turbulent jsea when the plane was damaged Sat urday in alighting on the water, were :inuch refreshed tonight after having ^regained sleep lost while bucking the : a|erm for .16 hours and being adrift ^S^ hours or more, entirely out of com munication with the world. ^^?'Individnally," said Commander .Towers, "the members of the crew of the NC-2 virtually gave up hope of being rescued Saturday night but col lectively they showed no signs of :J*fcar and 'carried on' until they arrived ;Jh port here Monday and heard the .forts firing salvos in welcome and ^gltnessed the scene pf general jubila ,'^tibn over their escape from the sea. "Having run snort of fuel and en countering1 a heavy fog the NC-3 came " ?bwn at 1 -clock Saturday afternoon in order that we might obtain o?r .gearings. Ttoe plane was damaged as it .reached the water and was unable again to rise. While we were drifting . the 205 miles in the heavy storm the high seas washed over or pounded the plane and the boat began to leak. So ...fast did the water enter the boat that the members of the crew took turn in : bailing the hull with a small hand pump, while others stood on the wings in order to keep the plane in balance. Meanwhile we were steer ing landward. "That our radio was out of commis sion was not known to the crew until our arrival here. Communication had been cut off since 9 o'clock Monday morning owing to our having lost our ground wire. "We ate chocolate and drank water from our radiators. This was our only means of subsistence. The crew smoked heavily in order to keep awake while we were drifting. No one of1 us obtained more than four hours' sleep after leaving Trepassey until Ponta Del Gada was reached.'' ?iTne hands of all the members of the crew of the NC-3 were badly swollen as* a result o? their heroic work at the pump. Otherwise they did not under go any suffering except Lieutenant Commander McCullough, one of the pilots who had a rather severe attack of seasickness. The men have fully recovered from their trying experi ence. "The NC-3 encountered heavy clouds fit i o'clock Saturday jnormng." Com mander Towers said. "The lighi in strument, on board tailed and we fad ed the plane above the clouds in order to get the benefit or * moon light reacting of the instruments, "Tvc kept in tigm uf the NC-4 un til early daylight Saturday and with the NC-1 until shortly alter vtayiient. ?Ail the planes were flying in forma |tion but the NC-1 and NC-4 were Idemeaih the clouds pari, of this time ihecause their light instruments were ^ood.r ? i I "The 1 had no difficulty in be ing e-uici.eti by star shells, search lights iand^mcse from tne station ships un ! til we reached Sation 14 --'nich was . net seen. "1 assumed that we were off our course but did not know on ? which ; side and began flying a parallel course in ~hat I thought was the di rection of Corvo. Shortly after day light we encountered a heavy fog, rain equaiis and high winds, ail of which I continued until the NC-2 went down j upon the water. I "Eefore alighting on the surface of j the sea my calculations showed us to be in the vicinity of land but with only two hours' fuel supply on hand and with the weather clearing it was decided to land and ascertain our ex act position. "Our radio kept on sending mes sages, assuming that the torpedo boat destroyers were picking them up. We did not know the radio was useless and that the destroyers had not been receiving the messages, j All the crew thought the sea would j moderate but the plane was so badly j damaged in the high billows that we ; were unable to rise again. : /"We were" GO miles southwest of j Pico^when we alighted, the position i being where he had figured we were j before coming down. The clearing of j the weather proved only temporary ? for later a storm came up and con tinued for 48 hours. With both lower j wings wrecked, the position tons lost [and the hull leaking and the tail of ("the machine damaged, the plane was j tossed about like a cork. ? "In order to conserve the remaining J170 gallons of fuel, we decided to 'sail' landward, hoping to sight a de-' stroyer on the way. But we did not pass a single ship until we reached Fonta Del Gada. Off the port we de clined proffered aid by the destroyer Harding, which had been sent out to meet us, and 'taxied' into port under our own power. "During the two days' vigil of seek ing land or rescue ships we fired all our distress, signals, none of which apparently were seen. 'Without informing the ere v.- of the fear that I had that we would be lost, I packed our log in a waterproof cover, tied it to a life belt and was prepared to cast it adrift when the NC-3 sank. t "The nervous strain was terrible while we were drifting and the men smoked incessantly. This was the only thing that kept them awake. "I believe a trans-At?anti? flight is practicable without a stop with planes a little larger than the NC type. The engines of all three of the planes worked perfectly and could have run for 6,000 miles more if there had been sufficient fuel on board. 'Wire trouble in the instrument board was the only mechanical defect experienced by the NC-3." Cotton has been selling on the lo cal market during the past two weeks more freely than since last fall. The demand has been for long staple cot ton especially and a number of farm ers who have been holding for a long time have closed out. The price has ranged between 32 and 40 eents: ac cording to grade and length of -tapie. Wants Information Dabbs Askq Affidavits as to SeH i ing Seed I To ihe Editor of The State: I wish to state that l let my seal run 8-way with my pen when \ cHii j ojsed ih- food administration so ae i vereh in my Atlanta letter. 1 out J m- ..df in the unreasonable attitude of 1 7 farmer friend of the Olaota sec jtion when he held the chambers of j commerce to blame for not securing! better treatment of the farmers. La-;?.1 year when such prices were paid and reported to the food administration the buyer was made to pay the stabil-! ized price and make good to the jseller the difference. I sm asking all thos%e who soli ;seed for less than $CS wagon, or $71 ! car lots, to state the facts giving name of buyer, amount of seed and the price paid together with the ejr j cumstanees- surrounding the transac tion, all duly sworn to, and forward' I the same to me. I will take pleasurej j in transmitting same to the food ad-; iministration I was assured in New j Orleans by an official of the Intev-j {State CotTon Seed Crushers* Associa ition, and by ]\ir. Calvin, who repre sents the farmers in Washington that such :i course will most probably j result in tin- payment to the grower.*; j of the stabilized price. Farmers who jdo not take the trouble to do this (should be debarred from making any ! further complaint. And until such {information is in the hands of the j food administration and it has a rea sonable time to act. 1 wish to suspend j judgment on the. matters at issue. Just before leaving New Orleans last Friday I had a very satisfactory i talk with Mr. Aspregan. a big inde pendent refiner. He has a refinery at 'Portsmouth, Va., and has bought :\ [site in New Orleans to build one for ' the Gulf States trade. He has been ;the one man in the Washington meet lings that always said stabilization ! would work out. He told me that :seed should now be selling for $75 to :$77. if the food administration would ; remove all restrictions and that seed! lean now be sold at $77 for October de livery and that he looked for $S0 :c ] $i00 for seed next fall. I wish this given.the widest public ity for it bears out the advice I gave to sell no seed before the. stabilized price even if one had to carry them over into next season. It is because of these conditions that T have been iso incensed when I have heard of farmers selling seed below the price I agreed upon. Any buyer who does not make good to his trade when he sells the seed, has taken advantage of either the ignorance or the neces sity of the farmers. That stabilization has been to the interest of the crushers, refinerfe and not to that of the farmers seems to be true, for Colonel Claffy and I have been asked as the farmers' represen tatives our opinion as to a continua tion of price fixing. If we could have more voice in the fixing of prices in the interest of the farmers we might be willing to continue price fixing. ] I do think a better understanding J>e Jtween the farmers and the trade Will be for our mutual good. E. W. Dabbs.: Mayest'iiie. NOTICE Farmers, and seed buyers who still j have cotton seed to sell should write (immediately to the Food Administra tion, Columbia. S. C. giving their postofficp and shipping, point, num ber of tons 'of set-ci they have for sale. They will list lots of seed ami inform the mills about them. ,< G. A.'EEMMONj'' Food Administrator for Sumter Coun ty. Showing the World What 600,000 f Owners Know A stock Modrl 90 Overland touring car again proved its stamina by smashing completely the world's non-stop high gear record. This test was made in Oklahoma. The car was sealed in high gear and the shift lever was removed. Not once was there the slightest mechanical trouble, the least hesitation, or the faintest break in the smooth, even action of the Overland motor. This standard car is ait exact duplicate uf the Model 90 we will be glad to show you. OVERLAND SALES COMPANY West Liberty Street Sumter, S. 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That's why we sell theiiL Fire Sweeps Mobile 1 Oldest Section of City Suffers Loss of $750,000 Mobile, Ala., May 21.?Fire believer! ' to have started in .-? trash pile swfpi through nine and a-half blocks of the; oldest section of the city here late to day destroying about 200 houses and j I a hall' dozen stores. Tin- property i loss was estimated at $750,000 and it ! was said about 1,500 persons, mostly | employes in the industrial plants hero were left homeless. ! A citizens' relief committee was I formed and every effort was being : l being made tonight to lake care ofi [the homeless. Xo one was kille?! and i I only one man was seriously hurt, ac-? ! cording to the best information ob ! tainable. The flames raged for more than | (three hours, swept along by a strong I [northwest wind and for a time ? ap-j I peared certain that millions of dollars j of property, including docks, ship ? [ yards, railroad shops and other in-i I dustrial plants would lie destroyed. I The fire was checked however-, at the j [ western boundary of the Alabama I T>ry Dock und Shipbuilding Co'sj [plant. At on<- time a shift in the wind 'threatened the business section of the: j city. Firemen were almost helpless: J against the fire until it hum! itself j {out. The high winds were believed re-j (sponsible for ihe flames from ??> trash j pile igniting a fence. From that ;i frame store ca.ughi tire and before spectators realized what had hap t pened the fire ^..i beyond control. Permanent Pastures Produce Pros I pcrity. ? Clemson College. May 21.?"Now is The time to truck thai sod hound Her-j Jmuda pasture with ;i two horse turn j I plow when it i--- too wet to do other] plowing." says H. K. Sanders. Conn ty Agent :it Chester. "Plow up !-?': of the pasture (his spring, 1-" next j spring, and 1-2 the following spring.! I This will give ycidr caule pasturs all j' the time while plowed sod is growing: i(iiit again. .Just try it and watch, the grass take new life.'' ' A permanent pasture means more 'livestock. More livestock means a : richer soil. A richer soil means a ! I lore prosperous people. : We have people who fight Ber i luda prrriss and hole to hear iL [mentioned. They will hoot at the ;very idea of sodding it in their pas tures. But, if Kentucky could grow ! Blue Grass as South Carolina can grow Bermuda, the State of Ken tucky could almost feed us free of charge. Too many of us have a few strands of wire running around a few bushes and hitter weeds to try to fool cows by making them think they have a pasture, but we are really fooling ourselves. Cut down the hushes, plow up the land and soil and seed it to grass. To start a new pasture on culti-1 vatcd land plant it in corn, drop a1 Bermuda sprig in the drill three or four feet apart. Cultivate the corn; and the grass will come on fine and i !><? ready two or three years earlier! than if sodded on ground and not ? ? tilt ivatcd. If you van not sod this grass with J your corn, then break a few acres i with any ordinary plow. Lay off in I four feet rows and drop a sprig! of grass every four feet, covering with; at y suitable plow. Next September take four bush-! els of bur clover seed per acre, sow j broadcast and run a disk harrow over it. Sow three pounds per acre; Of white clover at the same time.) Then in February scatter one bushel per acre of Lespedeza - and: harrow in with ;i spiked tooth har- j row. you will then have ;t base for! ;i permanent pasture in the truest; sense of the. word. "Why don't you go into politics?" i ??Can't afford it." replied the can-; lions citizen. '"It has become almost . j rj custom for a statesman to leave of-; fice a poorer man than when he on-1 tered it. And I'm in debt now."?! Washington Star? j Cotton Market Strong I Buying Wave in Middle of Day Sends Active Months Up On Rumor New York, May 20.?President Wil son's message recommending a revi sion of the war taxation and the re turn of telegraph and telephone lines i seemed to stimulate buying in th? j cotton market today and there was I very sharp advance during the After noon with all deliveries making new high ground for the movement. May contracts sold at the 31 cent fovel while October advanced from 26.5)9 j to 28.12 and closed at 28.03, with the general list closing very steady at a ! net advance of 85 to 93 points. j The market opened steady at an ad j vance of four to six points on relative* I ly steady cables and reports of fur ther rain in the South. There was scat tered Southern realizing at the initial prices which was probably pro moted by prospects for clearer and warmer weather and prices sagged off risht after the call with July selling at 2S.60 and De cember at 26.52. A few May notice? were reported in circulation which helped to unsetle the tone of the mar ket but houses with Liverpool con nection were good buyers of July and there was also buying of that delivers believed to be for French accounts to cover hedges against cotton ready for shipment. This helped to absorb the early offerings and the market soon turned firm on trade buying of new crop months and covering on com plaints of grassy fields or continued bullishness from the goods markets. Demand became more active and ex cited after the publicaion of the pres ident's message, particularly in the ease of brokers with Wall Street con nection, with July selling up to 29.75 and December to 27.64 in the late trading, when the general list showed net gains of 85 to 98 points. The Close was between a few points of the best.