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VII. NO. 175. S. FRIDAY EVENING.

JUIY 30, 1S26. tina, AM Irt-Wm ly fcaiuae. aamaaassBsaasMawiMiiiM iiiiiiifrMeijijattfitJ OnraM trawr aa AM ef hUrk a. U.S. I iiiu o- PICTOHIAL CAPSULE NEWSPAPER Discuss Plan OHIO ISlftOOS i CATHOLICS OFFER UP DEVOTION FOH LAST TC.IE IN MEXICO TODAY AS CHURCHES CLOSE TOMORROY tY I i -w- i I A L.

(l j. aad darkness aad the goverameat would wla. ha said. All Catkoltea la tha couatry srs to be disarmed la accordaars with aa order Issued by Attoraey Cleaeral Ortega. Besot Ortega said this move waa coasrqueace of reports that Catholic groups meeting secretly at alght aad that the authorities were fearful tkt gatherlag were for the purpose of offerlag opposition to tke religions taws.

After mora tkaa a fortnight of at-teadaace a dob masses the faithful agala today crowded churches, rath-edrals aad thrlaei throughout the republic. (Continued -O Pas tUs.) 3 CAR! f' "lJSv" i IA37Y: AJTOR. crankiin Riiulllon. rnentv of the French debt settlement. 'wti ih.

to Washlnlton. STAGE: Mrs. Uorraine Mbnvllle Gould became Aiherlca'a richest actress wim im lum, her share of to estate of her father, sabestos 80CIAL: Udy As-tor, American-born member of parliament. Is on her wny to the United c.i. i.m.tin.

pnitTS- Harrv Harts held an almost unbeatable ihvwsjimhu. lead for the season auto racing rhampiohshtp. Columbia-GreenvilleHighway SOUGHT BY POLICE IN Canton AutiioHtica liV lieve They Have No Wbllc Given By A.ttpsxeyi Man Know Caatoa. July I( (AP A couatry wjds aearch 1 begua today for Eugsae McDermott. it, CTevaUBf.

ad aa prlaotpal la the mwtjer of Do ft. Ucltett. Caateti pi-HUtr. v. 1 Detective Or Slater', kesdfng the Stark county Investigative, rtfuted deslgaate Mcpermott aa (ha ma aought ag'-tkt gay nil." -ir'v.

Pictures of MrDeratott are, to he broadcast thrauchotit the eouatry today aB polle pfa-' tloBB aad detective ageaclea and 4e all newg pleturtj; aerf lca. Slater admitted' this afteraoo that ma ia being held I Jail chy' near Caaton la coaaecUo With the nlurdar Inrestlgatloa. ThJ nrlami-r this morning BoslUvely bjrgllfled the plctare of MoDerraott, as that of a Btaa wb Caatou.at pa lime he to -flo joh," Slatof aald the prtaonar'waa being held to protect blmtrom injttack. With th bard aanouncemtuirtbaw McDermott was bought for light by laveetlgator I aplte otlbe fact that earlier la th day tb 4l deaee.agaJnaV "th trigger maa i Aecordlae (a ia line VA.I.V.Mil.UMk.l- ry rtvMi xpm tin of th mtfr.r. k.J u.nrA re- arks coistricd teaa k( waa to hava part Wldiktly a murder coaelravjy.

'i A In Industry ihaaghat, July, Tha lot of Cbtoeae- womtg. It JmprrTlBg. Thty are emantctpitlag themseivtt front tboiuandl Of years of customs which relegat4 then to household aeclusloa, ft their husbandk were wealthy, aad drudgery the lleld( ft wedded to men. Receat surveys of economic oondl-ttoat thow that many feankg tad tb-er eoaeeru are employ-lag wotne of th middle aad higher classes aad that mady art becoming member of learasd prefeetloaa. Maay Shanghai aM employ Chia- ete girl aa ttudoat clorka.

training them for, positloat at (teBogrtphert aad teeretarlea. Young women ctetkal te th tstoa-Uhtaeat of thee wh knew Chiba a declda ago, are winmenly tritd tn commercial kdutet of ngmereua cities. Womea are adding gtiatly'to tha wealth of tit couatfy. i 1 Factory aad tilll work Tit largely doae by Chlhete womeh la portt iuck Caatoa. Hankow, Tlcatsln.

Shanghai ad Hongkong, where, white Influence la telt in! the Btautactare of jute aad-healerV aad la weavlag of eottoa,) In native village dad In agricultural distHrtsV women's progress la continte tht patient and exketlng aaye and.datd-Ing of atlk worms, or' work la rata and mud with tied tllUcfg: tht field. Four Hundred Dead inJaalilds rr" Tokyo. July 3e. (AJ) The. toll of dead end miavlng U.

Ue terrlfte floods which have ravaged 'Mllgit prefecture, on the west oaatot th mala lalaad of placed at 499 today as nu me rout corpa of relief workers entered the stricken district Already disease reported to kave followed la the wakt the wa ten of Shlaano river; adding to tha misery of th population. bodies have bee recover ed la tbe Tillage of ttLtj tMe place having boras the bruat of tha disaster where 50. heats, were washed awtx.7:' i la the whole flooded area about houses vrr submerged while thousands of acres of rice wera flooded aad tbe crop For Removins AnnsEmbarsjo Into Mexico Waahlaglon July JO. (API Jle- mnval of the emlmrgo which torblda shipment of arma Into Mexico under cons Werat ton here aad Preatdewt Coolidge will be aaked to "decide whether auch a step shall be taken. There are ladlrajlona that aoana time may elapse before a dorlsloa Is made.

Meaatlma tha Statt Department rerases to disclose Us views on the subject, meeting all taqulrlea with the terse statement thai tha embargo still la la effect. Rxtreme cautkm has resulted from the tact that removal of tha restrta- imna naa come ap ror ueclaloa at time whea the situation In Mexico perbapa aa tenaa aa when tha embargo was proclaimed In 1(24, and now la complicated by religious Issues "be tween government and charchaa of that couatry. Cpofirmatioa that tba question of cancellation ta ander coualdtratloa came aa a sarprlae to niplomatlc Washington. The recent modification 'of tha em bargo which permitted American ax- portera to make ahlntaeats of' sul phurlc acid to Mexico, without obtain ing special pnrmlta was said at th time by both tha State aad Treasury Drpartmeata to be entirely without relation to tha embargo order aa whole. Statementg to that effect -wwra made at the State Department and re-iterated at the Treasury Department.

Reports from Tamplco as lata na yesterday that jtbc-embargo 'With drawal was under consideration (net with similar The embargts order was Issued In 1924 when the, De La Huerta revplu tton was la progress and waa design ed principally to prevent America arma reaching revolutionists. It Pro hibited any private" arms ahtpaVent into Mexico from the United SUUB. At the same time the Wsshtagtoa government Itself gave direct sdpport to the Mexico City govsrtment selling to It several thousand senrtce rlflea aad soma and miliury alrplaaeaj New York Centrei'ifB? Seeks to Ccntrcl -i v. Additional Ucsda ii j' ia I i 1 Washington, July SI. (Apjj- Tbe New York Central applied to the Interstate commerce commission today for authority to acquire control by ninety-nine years of the Cleveland Cincinnati, Chicago aad St.

LoUit, known aa the B(fi Four Permlsison also waa asked to' ac quire by lease tbe Michigan Central and the Chicago, KeJamatoo Saginaw railroad- la another application tbo Bi Four requested permlsison to acquire by lease tbe Cincinnati Norther and the Evansvllle, Ihdlafeauoll and Terra Haute. Thse roads now aye operated on the Dig Four tyetem. Tbe arrangement proposed, th) application said, would result I op erating ecoBomlee, Increased afll clency and Improved service. The Big Four hat a mileage of 1.39$ In Ohio, Illinois, Iadiaaa Michigan and Missouri. The New York Central already owns (4.IS1 ahareaof the Big Four preferred stock with a par value of $1,448,100.

or 84.494 percent of the total outstanding aad 431.411 ebare of common with a par value of 1 4 2, (41,100 or 91.308 percent of the total. Raymond Humphries Held for Murdering a Woman in Florida fit. Petersburg, July AP) Raymond Humphries, was held In Jail here today following the shooting to death of Mra. Maude Brutoa, 30, late yesterday. Witnesses said Humphries visited the house where Mrs.

Breton lived and after a brief talk drew his pistol. She raa, they aald and he pursued her through the house, shooting her twice. Humphries waa aald to bare been infatuated with Mrs. Bruton, who was divorced. Hi was said to baye wife and four children living la Spartanburg, 8.

C. Mrs. Bruton was the mother of two children. V' A warrant charging first degree murder. Issued In the court of Magistrate L.

O. Ramsey and signed by Constable Charles J. 81ms, wpa nerved ou Humphries today. There was a marked conttaat between the prisoner today and hit unconcerned bearing whea arretted yesterday. The accused man lay on his cell bed, weak aad abaklng, and was hardly able, to talk to oncers.

A bearing Is scheduled for tomorrow. SUFFER SEVERELY LI One Hundred and Fifty Persons Missing Many Are Dead Damage at $8,000,000 Reports Today Show Nassau, Capital, Is in Complete Ruins Had Meager Warning Kaa3au. New Provideacc lalaad. Babamaa, July 3.AP Ravaged by wind aad ware, with mora than 150 persons julsslag. tkt Bahama Is- landa remained virtually faolated from the outside world today wklle aaxlous residents took further count of the loll of destruction from the trorsr hurricane in the recorded history of the Ulands.

The majority of those misalag are believed to have been drowned with the aponge taking fleet which has not been.aeea since It act sail three daya before the West Indian hurrl-imtn st ru' tha Islands on last Monday alght. Several daya must elapBf belore the official toll of death and snlpptirg and property 'damage is known. While conservative estimates place the damage at $8.000,. 000, reports hare not been received from several lalaads of the group and communication with them may not be established days. Capital Kalas.

Nassau, the beautiful capital of the Babamaa group, with a population of more than 11.000, presented a pic-lure (of Uesolaiioa Debris dora uprooted trees, wrecked bosses and splintered boats washed up by the waves, cluttered the stately driveway a of the ancient city where virtually all business has been suspended. Abandoning efforta to repair her rata, Nassau tamed Brat to. search for the missing sponge fleet and. to ascertain (ha conditions on other" islands nndef. her admlnts-traJJ Jhe oarer fsmnda of the group are known to hare suffered greatly, njit msidc the far- flung line or Islands had bapka and toward the coast of Florida' the chief, "damage daa at Nassau and the Isle of Qua Kay.

40 miles from Miami. Only three nnhlng smacks were left In Nassau harbor from CO craft which were moored there Sunday. Between 1M and 200 sloops are missing with tbo sponge fleet. Har bor officials estimated that at least 5 vessels were destroyed at Nassau and other Islands, not counting the sponge boats, some of which possibly found shelter on Isolated bank or bear uninhabited Islands. Only Short Waning.

Nassau had meager warnings ol the advance of the The Tropical Radio Station near Miami radioed weather re porta Sunday ben brisk winds and a rapidly falling barometer Indicated tba approach of storm. The wind steadily In creased la velocity throughout the day and at midnight a gale lashed the Island, tearing housea from their foundations and uprooting trees. Wires war blown down nnd tbe public utility plants damaged to such' aa oxteat that the city was plunged. Into darkness. government record showed the wind reached Its velocity peak at.

130 miles an hour Monday morning. Churning the harbor Into a seeth ing mass of waves, the hurricane piled waters high over tha wharves Into Bay atretL a block Into the rat r. Soon agale awpt dowa from tha northwest, meeting the on rush of Ibe Caribbean, nnd ahlps were lifted high from their moorings and seat onto the wharves. Several wera blown to sea. Among the vessels known to have sunk 'Id the harbor here was the $0 ton yacht fsoceles, formerly the Shamrock IV.

Sir Thomas Upton's famous American cup challenger. It Ilea UBdef 40 feet of water beside numerous small craft varying from sail boats to small yachts. Ham Baals Destroyed. At tha Island of Gun Key. eight larga rami runjuing bontn.

heavily laden with liquor, were' dashed to pieces by the waves. Tbe crews escaped, rowing ashore In small boate at tbe first approach of the hurricane. tCeatinuad.oti Pace Pvar.i Boris of Bulgaria to Wed Giovanni, Italian Princess July $. IAPI ftcu ter'a Oeteva correspondent says he learns from Sofia that tha betrothal of King Boris of Bulgaria, to Pria cess Olovanna. third daughter of the Italian soveralgas.

"Is considered an URRICAE Mexico City, July (API Catholics throughout Mexico today offered tip devotions for the laet llaie 'wader the leadership o( their prieeta fee fop Ike govcrament'a aew regula-tloaa go tato effect tomorrow. Under laatructlona front Archbishop Mora Del Rio. priests will with draw from tke ckurckea tomorrow la protest against the government's religious measures. Tk withdraws1 waa originally plaaned for Sunday. Prealdent Callvs ia a speech last night dec laird that tha hoar wai approaching for a final fight to deter-mlae tha triumph of revolution or reaction.

The atruggle was between light SEEK EX-TROOPER Hall-Mills Case Again to Front Bribes Are Alleged Point Pleasant, N. July 30 (API Chief Justice William M. Cummcre today tuled that Mrs. Edward Wheeler Hall might be released In $7,509 bull on each of the two charges of murder for which she was arrested on Wednesday night. Somervllle.

N. July SO. (AP) William Phillips, factory worker has Jolaed Mrs. Edward Wheeler Ha)l la the county Jail, where she Is being held without ball today, accused of th murdor four years ago of her clergyman husband and Mra Eleanor Mills, wife of the sextoa In her husband's church. Phillips? who waa a alght watchman at the New Jersey College for Woman.

acv JUocka from the Hall home whea the bodies were found, was arrested last night as a material witness and held la $5,000 ball. He Informed Investigators four years ago he had scea Mrs. Hall aad her brother return homo on the alght of tht elaylngs. 8tate officials today sought at least two other persons on the basis of what tbey ear is a mass of new evidence. new evidence is held secret, 'however.

Trenton, N. July It whs learned hers today that a warrant Is out for the'' arrest of former State Trooper Honry Dickman, lone band investigator assigned to continue the Hall-MHIa Investigation after all other troops had boon recalled from the case In October, 1922. Dickman ia wanted on a bad Chech charge Involving a Jersey City hank and on suspicion that he bat knowledge of who killed the Rev. Dr. Edward E.

Hall aad Mrs. Eleanor Mills. The search that baa been going on for him ever slaee he disappeared la June. 1923, Is bow uuder way with fresh vigor. Dickman left behind three months pay due him from the constabulary and nearly $100 In expense money payable Jo tint.

For seversl months before he disappeared reports came to state police headquarters here that he had large tarns of money and took trips to Canada and other distant point a. The elate police believe Dickman learned the Identity of the slsyer or slayers, and was bought off with a. large sum. Somervllle. K.

July 30. AP) Application for the release of Mra. Francea Stevens Hall, held In Jail here for the double murder four years ago, of ber clergyman husband aad Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a singer In his choir, was made today. This was announced by prosecutor Bergen of Somerset county.

Tt Hearing on tha application will be held this afternoon before Chief Justice Oununore at Point Pleasant. The bearing will nut be public, Mr. Bergen Secrecy, hr said, would attend the hearing so that tha Justice's summer home would not be; flooded with reporters. Mr, Bergen said he would not oppose the application. v-' ippravV trtdirt rtaaa.

Washington July SO. (API Army engineers approved today an appll ration by the Atlaatie Coast Una Hallway for permlssloa to close navigation for a two month period tur opening between tha draw of the rompany's bridge over the Ashley titer at Draytoa Hall. 8. while the structure Is bclni rebuilt I fl ARRESTED ill CASE a. DISCLOSES NAMES OF CONTRIBUTORS Moore Shows Where Frank L.

Smith Got His Money -V Chicago. Jaly 30-(APi Allen F. Moore, campaign tusnacer for Frank I Smith, successful candidate In the Illinois senatorial primary, decided today to furnish the senate campaign funds committee names of all contributors to the Smith political fund, f. Moore disclosed that Clement Studebakcr, of South Bend. had contributed $20,000 and former Representative lea C.

Copeley, of Aurora, III, had given $35,000 in two installments. Other contributors Included Daniel Scuyler, Chicago attorney, Eugene Pike, Judge Stransky. of Chicago, $500. aad Nick Kachavois. on behalf of Greek merchants of Chicago.

$1,000. The Smith manager said, that Stodebaker met him In tha CongPcts betuV bora aw the occasion of the Indiana dinner last whiter, aad stated he wss very much Interested in his friend, Frauk Smith. "He asked me to call at his office, which I did, and be gava $10,000, Later be gave another $10,000," said Moore. In making known his decision to give 'the names of the contributors. Moore aald that some Of the men for "social, political and business reasons" bad requested him not to reveal the contributions.

Moore told the committee that the only obligation Imposed upon him by 8iulth In the campagn was that "I vss not to obligate him in any way." The Illinois republican national committeeman bald he knew, nothing of the report that Smith managers had offered Charles Sceadry, of East Louis, president of the Illinois roreign Volets League, $4,000. for the support of that brgaalxatlon. "In going through pjy filet I came ecross an unanswered letter from Scendry under date of Jaly 22 of this year, asking for a conference with ine." Moore said. "My secretary received it and threw It in a basket." The witness added that if the matter bad come to his attention he ftould have told Sccudry that Smith already bad the support of the foreign voters and so did not need his assistance. The little black memorandum book to which Moore referred when be llrsf appeared Monday was hsnded to the committee.

It was ia cipher, (Continued On Pace PtvO Startling Evidence in McPherson Case Official Declares Loa' Angeles, July 30 APt Mrs. Almee 8emDle Mcl'her- soa's demand tor 4 "showdowa" ia tha Investigation of her disappearance case has bee a graated. District Attorney Asa KeyA declares the demand will be met with presentation of "new and evidence be-for the grand Jury, which, recoa-vaes next Tuesday. The graad Jury also will be asked to eoasider wketkr any of the wit-aesses at" the previous session, including the Los Angeles pastor, were guilty of perjury. Mra.

McPherson Is supported la her demaad for a complete Investigation of her 35 day absence from An- gelua Temple, of which ahe Is pastor, by her mother, Mra. Minnie Keaaedy and other temple leaders. Her follow ers maintain the paator was kidnap pad at Ocean Beack. May taken to Mexico and ktld for ransom by two men and a woman aad that she finally escaped and after hiking serosa the desert re-appeared exhausted at Agua Prleta. carosa the border from Douglas, Arlxona.

KARKV HARTS' in Good Shape Work to Be Intensified Between Now1 and This Fall: Columbia, 8. July 10. (AP) Work on the Columbia-Greenville state highway will be Intensified' be tween now and fall, according to I statement made this morning bv Chrles II. Moorefleld, chlof highway engineer of the state highway depart ment. road between Prosperity and Newberry Is now being worked on said Mr.

Moorefleld, "and the work 11 showing sutlafactnry progress The contractors will finish that up In the Then we will 'surface treat' the of tbe road be tween fountain Inn and Laurens In September. This work will done in tha same way that the road be tween Mauldln and Fountain Inn was treated. "Tbe road from the end of tbe pave ment at the Richland county line to Prosperity, to connect with the pav Ing now bring done between Prosper Ity and Newberry, will also bo sur treated. All of this work wll hi finished during the fall. "The auction of the highway be tween Newberry and Clinton "will not ne worked on at this time as there are no funds available for aucb work In those Pord 63 Years Of Ace Detroit, July 30.

(AP) Henry Ford, was S3 years old today. Ills usual custom has been to make no special observance of tbe annlver tary and associates said nothing had been planned for today. Mr. Ford returned to his Dearborn home a few days ago from an outing on the Great Lakes. BANKER AND MERCHANT, HE SEEKS BAR AT 78 YEARS fit.

Paul. (AP)-giiccesB(ul as a banker and merchant, Knute Mo at the age of seventy-eight years, as plres to become a lswyer.s He recently took th state bar ex amlnatlon. He la the oldest pernor. to apply for a lawyer's certificate la I nesotu, w. Mo put his children through the University of Minnesota before en terlng a local law co)lega to prepare blniwlf for an atorneyship.

Cotton- Situation Bad la England Oldham. July 30. I AP) A sensation has been caused through out Lancashire by the announcement that for the first time In its history the cotton -trade is obliged to resort to foreign source for credit. A local spinning company has obtained an advance of 60,000 pounds from an American trust, company to avoid making a tall on ita stockholders. It is rumored that other companies contemplate similar steps to meet the altuatlon, which results from thi prolonged' depression.

Will Be Put mm LEAD 10 TEXfiS IK EXPflBT FIELD Figures Show a Slight Decrease Oyer Same Period Last Year July 80, (API Al though showing a decline of nesrly ts.000,000 from the ngures of the tame period last year, New York, with fl95.510.O7t in eiports regain ed the lead from Texas In the out going merchandise shipments during the. first quarter of 1926, the com merce department today announced. Texas exports declined nesrly to a total of for the quarter, duo chiefly to decreased shipments of cotton and lewer prices for that commodity. Total eiports for the quarter were valued at $1,098,8:1,213 as compared with $1.250,7 for the first quarter of 1925 and $1,381,440,318 for tbe lust quarter of that year. Of the first ten states In the ex port column, only foun Michigan, California, Ohio aud Virginia, sh9w-ed gains while New York.

Texas, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, New Jersey and Illinois suffered losses. Michigan's gain. $18,000,000, was the largest. Kx ports by southern states and territories for i the Wrst quarter of 1924 st compared with tbe corre sponding period last year were: rirnt First quarter im ,37,390,493 S2.2K9.833 Quarter. 1925 States-Louisiana Virginia Georgia X.

Carolina 9.755.(B2 23.795,380 15.449,586 22.032.038 19,102,495 11,01921 Mississippi n7.1MM.a45 Maryland .14.173.194 Arkaasas Tennessee Alabama. 8 Carolina Kentucky Florida .11.152,158 $.592,290 ",248,235 (.171.855 9.275.673 7.699.973 7.27.73( A fiolent 'Qtuke St. Melmer. Jersey Channel Is) aada, July 30. -(API Many of tha largest buildings here were rocked for several seconds by the 'most violent earthquake todav ever felt among the channel Several chimneys collapsed.

Thus tar no casualties bav been reported. accomplished fact.".