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TWELVE PAGES--3 CENTS BRISTOL. VIRGINIA-TENNESSEEt THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26,. 1929. TWELVE PAGES-3 CENTS li ALLEGED SLAYERS OF FEDERAL OFFICER ARE CAPTURED IN TEXAS NERO COLT FIGHT 1 ENDS IN DEATH Of MOE WOUNDED fl DENOUNCE FLEXIBLE TARIFF PROVISION PRINCE Of WALES TO WED ONLY FOR LOVE, WRITER SAYS I Tropical Storm Will Strike In Florida This Morning; Citizens Preparing To Avert Disaster Cyclone Expected to Hit Coast At Daylight; Pea. pie Amply Warned Harding's Simple Faith Led to Packing of Commission, It Is Charged Biographer Says He Will Not Be Forced Into a Convenience Marriage SHIPS WARNED AGAINST APPROACHING HURRICANE Furious Gunfight Occurs When Detectives Seek Kidnappers RACIAL STRIFE IN CHICAGO THREATENS Tear Bombs, Shotguns BAHAMAS LASHED BY HEAVY WINDS HOOVER RAPPED FOR HIS INTERFEREIkE NOT ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT BEING KING I I Rich Woman TO Jail I I.

0 lir; 4,,, a ,4,,, i ,,,,4. I 'p. t. csk A ,1014 tt) If I 0 4,1, 0 i li 4 TIN-A, i-tZ 'w ettio? SAN ANTONIO, Texas. Sept.

25 (AP)Charged with the murder of prohibition officer Charles Stevens, who waa fatally wounded when attacked by ati armed gang on the Pleasanton Road, miles from San Antonio, early this morning, Joe Hoebrecht, believed to be the King San Antonio bootleg circle. Will loaded In county jail along with Alice Smith and Pedro and Louisa Qualardo tonight. Early arrest of Linn Stephens, believed to have been implicated In the shooting fray was expected by authorities. Peace officers all over Texas are searching for one of the four cars seen at the location on Pleasanton Road in which some of the gangsters were believed to have escaped. Information concerning the shooting was obtained in a written statement from Mrs.

Gualard. She told of her husband being employed a gang of men and said Bhe and her husband had gone to the scene of the shooting early 'today, where they met several men who gave Gua lard a rifle and told her to stand in front of a car and pretend to pick up cabbage which the gang had obtained for the staged affair, when a car approached. When Steven's car stopped the Senator George Says President Should Not Have Broke His Silence When Issue At Stake U. S. Weather Bureau At Washington Reports "Something Wrong" Ai Nassau, Bahamas Realizes There Are Good Points to Both Sides of Question As to Whether King Is Best And Fire Hose Used To Disperse Cultists Who Fire On Officers ROANCrICE, Sept.

25. (Ai) Warnings sent broadcast today by the hydrographic bureau at Washinton to hydrographic offices. at Norfolk and other places along the coast, advising shipping of a hurricane, caused shipping to take immediate precautiona The U. S. Weather bureau issued a northeast storm warning with the area lying between Jupiter and Jacksonville as the center of the disturbance and followed this with a hurricane warning from Miami and Jupiter, The latter warnings were sent broadcast at 2 o'clock this afternoon and it was then that shipping begaa to take notice.

The warnings stated that the "tropical disturbance between MiaMi and Jupiter had assumed a hurricane velocity" and was moving in a northwest direction. With the approach of the hur 25. todaybyIng at Wash- offices. at along the of a hur- take im- bureau is- warning een Jupiter center of licnved this ning from The latter oadcast at and it wa.4 La to take that the ween Mia- a was mov- iction. the hur- ricane the barometer began fallb at various points along the coast, Norfolk included.

Savannah reported a falling barometer of .09 points in four hours, and at Cape Henry the fall was .08 points in seven hours. At 8 o'clock this morning the barometer at Cape Henry stood at 3.12 and at 8 on clock this afternoon it had droppel to 30.04. Observer B. F. Newsome, at Cape.

Henry stated that there was nothing alarming in the barometer changes and that it would not be dangerous unless there was a fall of 10 points in about two hours. He said a slowly falling barometer did not Indicate any great disturbance in this immediate section. High seas and strong winds preazsumed 'vented the crew of the wrecking tug Resolute from boarding the stranded Swedish steamer Carl Gerhart at Kitty Hawk, N. C. WASIIING'MN, Sept- 25.

(AP) A prediction that the tropical storm, probably of hurricane tensity, headed toward Florida from the Bahamas, would not strike the east Florida coast before daylight tomorrow was made tonight by the weather bureau. The bureau said that the storm apparently passed over Nassau in the Bahamm some time during the day, but that it had received no reports from there, indicating that wireless communi cation had failed. "Something is wrong at Saseau," the bureau added, explain ing it had asked for a weather report from there but had received none. MTh. ALEXANDER PANTAGES (Turn to page two.

column two) JODI FINDS MRS. MIMES GUILTY TOWN UNDER WATER; CITIZENS RESCUED MIAMI AND COAST READY FOR SUN RUSSIANS INCENSED BliCHINESE ATTACKS I Rich Los Angeles Woman Must Go To Prison For Killing Japanese LODJN, Sept. 26. (Thursday)- Prince of Wales. according to a biography published today, "regards the sanctity of marriage so seriously that he will not be thrust into a marriage of convenience," and he is not yet in love.

W. and L. Townsend, the authors, say, "It is not easy to define his royal highness outlook upon marriage. It is certain that he regards the sanctity of marriage so seriously that he will not be thurst into a marriage of convenience." Continuing their. analysis of the state of heart and mind of the year-old heir to the British throne, the authors may, "retaining the best of so-called old fashioned beliefs in his creed of modernity, the is a firm disciple of the belief that there is no use in marrying without love.

Because he has not yet experienced that emotion In its true- intensity, the prince does not get married. That is all there is to Amused by repeated rumors' of his supposed, engagements, the prince is reputed to keep an album in which he pastes clippings, from newspapers on that subject. The biographers do not support the popular idea that the prince if of nervous disposition although they say he Is undoubtedly high strung. Not Enthusiastic Toward Being King "The shyness with which he is credited, however, is something of a- myth." Alluding to his trick of fingering his necktie and occasionally looking ''s trifle bowildered or confused," hey say that such things are not confined to shy people and add. "the circumstances under Avhich the Prince lives are not calculated to engender that reposeful poise which was pomibly desirable in the spacious victort7 an daYs The authors devote a chapter to Boats Used to Carry San Marcial, N.

Residents From Flood Area Decisive Counter Action Will Be Taken By Red Army, Soviet Says WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. (AP) Denunciation of Ihe flexible provisions of the tariff bill resounded in the senate today as an aftermath of Hoover's statement urging retention of the principle in the Hawley-Smoot measure. Senators LaFollette of Wisconsin, a Republican independent. and George of Georgia.

a Democratic member of the finance committee. attacked the president for "breaking his long silence" on the tariff question when the most Important flexible provisions were at issue and flayed the principle wIth vigor. LaFollette Attacks Flexible Provision. A majority of the P711 ocrats hope to repeal the flexible Prostsions with the aid of the Republiefin PIP nators from the farm states. In a speerh lasting nearly three hours, "Young Bob" talrollette traced the history of the operation of the flexible claim since ita enactment in- 1922 and aseerted "intrigue," political influence of Presidents Harding and Coolidge and cabal had destroyed the usefulness of the tariff commiaalon end resulted in tragic failure of the flexible provisions." The president, he said, had not spoken to indicate whether he approved the pending bill or that the measure complied with his "ambiguous" message to the special session hut had "violated the admonition" of Senator Watson.

of Indiana. the Republican leader, only to indicate he desires retention of the flexible provisions." Senator George said Mr. Hoover had spoken only twice on important pending legislation and both times against the interests of the farmer. He contended the president had taken a decided stand against agriculture when he opposed incorporation of the debenture plan in the farm bill. (Turn to page two, column one) 1 't 1 i Fil I 1 1 1 1 i I I I A111815QUFIRQUE.

N. Sept. 26. (AP)Fifty four persons. the last remnants.

of the population of San were rescued by boat from the flood-stricken town this afternoon. A motor boat dispatched from Elephant Butte lake removed the refugees from the eating house and the Santa Fe Railroad station where they had been marooned since yesterday by flood waters of the Rio Grande. Six at a time, the refugees were taken to a train waiting two miles below the town to convey them to El Paso. TS No loss of life WWI reported, ample warning having been given of the flood danger. Many persons left San Marcial before the bunting of a dyke along the rain-swollen Rio Grande yesterday sent a torrent 7 to 10 feet deep pouring through the town.

A destructive flood last month carried away adobe structures but left several scores of frame buildings to be claimed by the present high water. Water stood five feet deep on the first floor of the Harvey house this morning, but the flood was receding gradually tonight. The Santa Ire Railroad yards wore under water and a locomotive and several cars could he seen overturned. (Turn to page two, column seven) i i CHICAGO, Sept. 26.

(AP)The spark of factional dissension in a mystic -cult flared into a .1 furious gunfight in Chicago's negro 1:, quarter today and for a moment the city feared an outburst of 14 racial strife. A detective and a r' negro were elain. Two policemen were wounded probably mortally and three negro cultists were lees seriously wounded. i of detectives patrolled the PoPttious negro section throughout the afternoon and 850 uniformed' polioe wore dispatched to keep order. i Beyond the apparent auppressed ex-' citement, however, no violence was' reported.

i The fight started shortly 'before noon when a squad of police march. ing into large apartment house' on South Parkway near 42nd street In queet of the kidnapers of Charles Kirkman, who styles himself grand view' Bey of the Moorish National Science Temple of America. Kirkman, I perhaps because he aspired to the throne made vacant in 'June by the! rt death of the "chief protector of Islam," was torn from his break ii fast table this morning by four' 1 cultists and carried away. i The detectives were sent to the South Parkway address on a tip. They battered at the door and a burst nit gunfire answered.

Detectives Jesse Hulte and Stewart Mei Cutcheon slumped to the floor, both with bullets in the abdomen. The police retreated and called for reinforcements and a book and ladder company. Ladders, were thrown up to the second story window and tear bombs were tossed in. There vitae a rush for the stairs. a fussillade of bullets anti Sergeant William Gallagher fell mertally wounded.

The police sent volleys of revolver bullets back into the buildini and when Its occupants were finally subdued one cultist lay dead and three wounded. Two women and four men were arrested, and two others escaped in the mad rush from the i gas-trilled flat. Kirkman. the kidnap leader was found in the Hultz and '510Cutcheon was not expected to live. The dead negro was not Identified and only one of the trio wounded was known at first.

He was Eugene Bey, ney" being the title affected by mem. bers of the cult. Most of the queries of police into the nature of the occult order net oaly sullen silence on the part of the frightened negroes. They learnt ed, however, that it was founded several years ago by Drew Ali, who called himself a moor. The cultists met regularly in their "temple," situated on South Parkway, the former grand boulevard whose great stone front houses were the homes of wealthy white residents I until recent years.

Their orship 1 was always conducted in the Moorish, tongue, and their leader preached always that they were negroes. but lineal descenri. ants of the Moorish nobles. Following the arrest and questioning of eeveral suspects late today police announced that Ira Johnson, "shiek" of the cult, confessed he shot Sergeant Gallagher, but claimed he shot in defense of the cult and of hie own person.1 Two other negroes, D. Francis i Jackson and his son, D.

F. jape- son, were being queetionert.1 The oider Jackson is "guarrhan of 1 the Garden of Allah." t. i Captain Leo 1. Do le. aasistant i adjutant of the Illinois 'national' guard, tonight ordered additional! guards' placed around the armortee On Chicago's south side.

The actioti was taken to prevent members of I factions in that section from miek- 1 ing a possible attempt to seize the 1 huge stores of weapons and am- munit ien stored in the haiming.s. i The eighth regiment, a negro out' oocupies the armory a short distance from the scene of to- 1 day's outbreak. Efforts to hold protest meeting thwarted by police i who ordered the negroes to return! to their homes, No further attempts 1 were made to meet and quiet set-1 I tied over the troubled area. I i i TELLS HOW SISTER KILLED HER CHILD By TUb ASSOCI A TFA) PRENS Amply warned and resignedly ready for whatever eventuality, residents of the lower Florida east Coast last night awaited the advent, of a tropical cyclone roaring in from the Bahamas. Weather bureau warnings, broadcast by telephone, courier and newspapers went to the remotest communities with word that the disturbance apparently of hurricane intensity, would likely strike the southeast Florida coast near Miami.

The population hastened to make all necessary precautions to avert disaster if the storm should prove severe. With that done, there was nothing to do hut wait, and watch the descending barometers that presaged the coming of the phenomenon. Preparations for the winds were on the largest Reale ever. Merchants and householders boarded up windows and doors and set their properties in shape. for a blow.

and boats sought the safest anchorage. Emergency relief bodies were organized in Palm Beach county and factMee gathered for caring for refugees. Medical units were organized, and details of men were Rent out to bring in reports from the probable area following the Mom. Upper Bahamas Lashed by Meanwhile, the tipper Bahamas felt the lash of the winds, with the British steamer nomira helplessly aground on Great Abaco Island, the lives of her crew of thirty in the balance. Outside ports were unable to come to their assistance with a breeches buoy and the men raced death although only a atone's throw from shore.

Fearful that the storm might strike with force in the Lake Okeechobee region where a hurricane last September took more than 1,800 lives, many residents of the lake shore comrminttlea fled to higher Officials of the Everglades drainage association however, PAM little danger since the lake level Is said to be four feet lower than last year. The weather bureau was unable to deterinine the exact intensity of the disturbance or predict probable wind velocities, other than that it apparently was attended by hurricane winds. The bureaus in the various dtiee and all newspaper offices in the area were besieged by telephone calls from the real-. dents. seeking information, True Cyclone In The Bahfunm From Havana, Father Guiterrez Lanza of Helen observatory, said that the Bahaman storm had developed into a true cyclone.

He said precautions should be taken In Palm Beach, where last year's hurricane struck with fury. POLITIES NOT FIELD FOR CHURCH-DENI MOSCOW; Sept. 25. AP) The Soviet government, incensed by continuing attacks along the Siberian border by Chinese soldiers and Russian white guards, tonight issued another grave warning to Nanking that a repetition will meet with immediate and decisive counter aetions by the Red army. A.

note to this effect handed the German embassy for transmission to China. A few days ago it WW1 announced that the Soviet union was prepared to maintain throughout the winter on the 7slanPhurian border he extensive armies assembled there following dismissal by the Chinese of Russian officials; of the Chinese eastern railway. It was stated that Russia was. prepared to increase these forces if necessary. In its present note the Soviet government said that despite its previous warnings neither the Nanking nor Mukden governments had taken any measures to prevent assaults or to disband the Russian guards organized by Chinese authorities.

"Instead of making a serious effort to terminate these actions, the Nanking government resorts to distorted information respecting the actual situation on the frontier and dares. without and foundation, to protest against alleged aggressive actions by Soviet troops. The statement cites 2S cases of attack on Soviet territory between September 10 and '23, in several of hit'h Red soldiers and peaceful vitrzeos were said to have been Tt -also called to the attention of China alleged acts of robbery and terrorization of Peaceful Soy flt citizens by hands of white guards. 11,000 CHINE5E DETAILIM NFTW YORK, Sept, 25. (AP) Nanking made publi here today by the 1Kuo Min News Agency raid that Chinese minister Chiang TsmPing at Berlin had informed by the German forPICT, office that more than 1.000 Chinese were under detention in Soviet territory and that wholesale arrests were continuing.

The minister requested the Nanking government to remit funds for the' releese of the famines of those arrested. Mrs. Hattie Stone Accused By Her Own Kin At Murder Hearing Virginia Conference Bishop Again Deprecates Action Some Pastors Weather Bureau Broadcasts Warnings Over Radio, Telephone MIAM Sept. 25. (AP) Miami Miami and cities along the east coast between this city and Jupiter, 90 miles away, are ready for the storm.

Weather bureau warnings broadcast by radio, telephone, messengers and newspapers reached into every nook and rorner of various cities, spread into the back country and gave all ample opportunity to prepare. The storm was described by latest advisory reports as of hurricane intensity. Persons appraised of the storm's movement toward the east coast hastened to make preparations and take precautions. So-well have preparations been carried out that If 1 the storm proves severe Indications are that disaster will be averted. Never before has an area threatened with a severe storm prepared so carefully as have the populations of the various cities and country involved.

Floating craft of all kind have been sent to the safest anchorages available. Merchants and householders have boarded up windows and doors and have generally taken precautionary measures. Emergency relief units have been organized in Palm Beach county and tacilities created for refugees if there be any. Medical units are ready. Details of men have been sent out to bring in reports from the probable area of the storm.

Fort Lauderdale In Weakest Foeition 'Port 'Lauderdale seems to be occupying the weakest posttion ot the coastal area between Miami and Jupiter. The barometer there had fallen ten one-hundredths of point between 5 p. m. Wednesday. In Miami the barometer after rising.

from 29.75 to 29.77 between 4 and 5 declined to 29.715 'by six D. m. Want Palm beach and farther north materially strengthened their positions by registering slight rises. Dade and Palm Beach oounties and the cities of each made extensive preparations to meet all contingenolea Water reservoirs in Miami were filled to capacity and city trucks with their drivers were 'made ready tor emergency use. Calls were issued in both counitem for graduate nurses willing to answer summons to do relief work should it become necessary.

The harbors both in Miami and Palm Beach have been cleared of small craft. The Pan American Airways announced that all its planes had been sent to Havana. The steamship Shawnee, of the ClydeoMallory lines remained tied to the municipal pier awaiting further reports of the hurricane. The British freighter Dorni ra, aground 10 feet off the shore of Abaco Island. Bahamas, tonight continued to withstand the buffets Of a fury-laden tropical storm that had thrown the vessel within lee feet of the island only to erect an 91, SHE SENDS BRAIDED RAG RUG TO FLORENCE AND HER HUSBAND LOS ASIGELDS, Sept.

26. (AP) Mrs. Lois Pantages, wife of the theatrical, magnate was convicted of manslaughter tonight by a jury which heard her trial on a charge of second degree murder. The of five- women and seven men made no recommendation for leniency. The sentence for manslaughter is fixed by California law at from one to ten years in the penitentiary.

Three women -jurors wept as the verdict was read. The N'ordiet vas retuned at o'clock. Mrs. Vantages had been charged with the death of Juro atokumoto. a Japanese gardener, as the result or an automobile accident.

The wealthy woman was alleged to have been driving while intoxicated when her automobile collided with the machine driven by the Japanese. Although Mrs. Vantages was charged with second degree murder. the ji.ey, under irfstructions given by Superior judge Carlos Hardy, returned the manslaugnter verdict. While in the court room today' the jury Informed the court that One of the crucial points the body was considering was the "vile alleged to have been uttered by Mrs.

l'antages shortly before the collision. Shulec Involved In Contesupt Proceedings Part of the testimony re-read for the jury was that of Harry Lade-brink. He had testitied that when he offered to aid Mrs. Pantages as she stalled her car shortly before the collision, she turned upon hint obsence language. Judge Hardy read slowly through Godebrink's testimony.

Then paused as he came to where the witness quoted the vile epithet. "You needn't read the answer." said William Cummings, foreman of the jury, indicating that the NN on is were clear in the minds of the jurors. Mrs. Pantages, who was with her attorneys at the counsel table. flushed and then paled as Judge 'Hardy paused in his reading.

1urther brief patio were read of bedebrink's testimony in which he had related his obaervations of the woman's asserted drunkenness. observers noted that foreman Cummings of the jury and Ira Gay, juror number 12, were taking copious notes from re-reading of the testimony. The observers sae in it an indication of a division among the jurors in their effort to reach a verdict. Gay, a theatritai agent, had been named by the Hey. Bolt" Shuler.

in a radio speech as the man who would hang the Shuler is involved in contempt of court proceedings as the result of his insinuations which were declared baseless. Mrs. Pantages collapsed as the verdict was read, and Dr. E. C.

Fishbaugh, her physician was summoned. The woman was hysterical and apparently completely unnerved. She was removed from the courthouse to an adjoining room by members of her family where physicians joined her. TM REn LA ND, Sept. 25 P) Bishop Collins DenTlY, of nopd.

president of the you forence of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who in his open in addreos to the conference last night inveighed against the pa rtiolpation of the church polit iC14 Again today deprecated sii-h action on the part of riu. i iriters, declaring that he church on the eastern shore of Maryland was disintegrated several years ago -when it became entangled in pol it ica Bishop Denny this afternoon spoke to the deleaates of the conference which embraced parts of Virgin la, Maryland and Pennsylvania, following a business session In the morning. at which Harry M. Canter, of Winchester, wait PLYMOUTH, Vermont, Sept. 25.

(AP)A belated wedding gift was given Mr. and Mn. John Coo lidge here today by Mrs. Hamlett M. Moore.

91, a cousin of John's grandfather. Colonel John Coolidge, who sent the honeymooners a brakled rag rug. On the day the CoolMges were married at Ilainsville, the aged woman started making the rug. By nlightfall she had finished It and she placed it carefully aside to await the opportunity of giving It to John and his bride, the former Florence Trumbull, daughter of the governor of Connecticut MACDONALD LEAVING FOR U. S.

SATURDAY (Turn tr) page two, colunui five) 11111.AIR. Sept. 25. (Ar) Accuser and emoted sisters-in-law and formerly Intimate companions. faced each other with drawn aces across the narrow enclosure of the bar of circuit court today in the murder trial of Mrs.

Hattie Stone. Mrs. May Baker on the witness stand testified that Mrs. Stone had admitted to her that she poisoned her 15-year-old George Stone to get money to leave the state with Jamea Aberts, boarder in the Stone home. Then Mrs.

Baker herself went under a withering cross fire of questions from defense counsel delving Into her own past, and sat with rigid features. taking advantage of the court ruling that she need not answer. Tht (lay also saw completion of the -state's case. after Mrs. Baker her siege on the witness olarid the opening of defense lence in which tables were turned and some of the defense witnesses were subjected to the play of, the splotlight on their private lives.

The defense- called 16 witnesses to testify that. Mrs. Stone Alia a "good mother" to the boy. The day closed w4th a new angle of the attack of Mrs. Baker, an Involved hypothetical question put to former-Judge William H.

Harlan, in which the defense sought to show that Mrs. Baker, being an aunt of George Stone, would profit from his Insurance and inheritance if his mother should be barred from them by the accusation that she killed the boy. Court adjourned for the day, however, with this question unannounced while the jurist studiel the law on the subject in preparation for tomorrow. Ferguson Accuses P. Of Intending to Place All Negroes On Polling Books LONDON, Sept.

26, A P)A cabinet eaunell was bold for two hottrs this morning and again for two hours this afternoon to clear np btunness prior to the departure on Saturday of Prtne MiMster illernsay MacDonald, for Amertext. The general belief tonight was that chancellor of the exechequer, Philip Snowden, will be acting premier for the next few weeks. (Turn to page two, column three) IIA-MBONii MEDITATIONS OT Alley CONFESSES SLAYING MASSACHUSETTS WOMEN rKuNIL BoB HAP To FAY-) A FINE BouT SOMP1N NoTHuz As' wELK IPEAH LAK HE "MK DE 'VIcE oNe DEse ArAH USt1ER-5E (Turn to page two, column two) THREE VOLCANOES MAY ERUPT SIMULTANEOUSLY GRAUSTEIN EVIDENCE DENIED BY LA VARRE GREENFIELD, Sept. 25. (AP)District Attorney Charles Fairhurst announced tonight that he had obtained a confession from Martin Strobel.

67, that he killed Mrs. Mary Stotz. 56. at her home hi Turner Falls early today. Mn.

Stotz was found dead in herthome by police, a bullet through her head. Strobel was located In a nearby hotel room with a razor in hie band and his throat slash B. AND O. TO SPEND BIG SUM FOR EQUIPMENT WAGGONER ARRIVES AT NEW YORK PRISON I STAUNTON. Sept, 25.

AP) -State Senator Samuel h. Ferguson Appomattox. addressing a Joint meeting of the city and county democratic committees, here today, declared "if put in control of the government of Virginia, the repu'olican party would put every negro in the state on the registration or polling books. and thus threaten white supremacy in the state." Ferguson, who is chairman of the tenth congreesional dietrict democratic committee. continued did it once and they will do it again.

I come from what was known as the 'Black Belt' of the state and I appeal to all democratic voters of this section of the old commonwealth to prevent the recurrence of this horrible experience." The senator urged democrats to be active in behalf of the party's ticket between now and the election in November, charging committeemen "to R'et busy, to work. to sacrifice time. money and al-fort to carry the obi DnnitW for democracy. There is a big 'oh before us." "The outlook is good in the cities of the strsP, and they will do much better than they did last year." be said. Senator Ferguson saki he believed there were only two congressional districts In doubt, the first and the eighth.

He asked fdr a democratic victory in November by a majority of WOO Votes. He believed. he said, there were 140,000 dependable democratic votes in Virginia. but "we want more than these 140,000 votes on November fifth. The senator saw no national aspects and issues in the gubernatorial campaign and refuted clahns he said had been made by republicans and anti-Smiths that such vas the case.

"There is no Catholic issue; there Is no wet and dry' issue. It is a fight for what the democratic goy-. ernment of this state has accomplished as against what the coalitionists promise to make effective," he concluded. Walter E. W.

E. Moffett, members of the use of Delegates from Staunton tubd Augumta county, and William H. awe, Rta'e "nator front the same area, also Apoks. ed. WEATHER Nni).

Hawaii. Sept. 25. (AP)-- Volcano logien Thomas 'A. laggard, announced today that there was a poosibility of a simultaneous eruption of the three volcanoes Ktlauea.

and Hualalai mi Hawaii Jaggar's announcement came aa the climax of a 24 hour period during which 150 earth shooks had harried the populace of the Kona district of the island. Jargar. who hats stildied Hatwatfa volcanoes irany years. said: "You may expect an eruption, on the weat flank of RualalaL within a month. It is imposslhle to say definitely where lava will reach the surface.

It may he from Hualalai. Mannaloa or Kilauea, or from all three. 'Most will be for Hualalai." 1 I-AwYti 14 It 1 I I A il I 4 i I- 'I ri 4 ,) NIACCIN. Sept. 25.

(AP) d----, William LaVarre testified in fed- i era court hero today that A. 1 7 11111 4-8 i Graustein, president of the Inter- I 116, national Paper and Power Company 11. I iii --v was frnistahen in some his testim 1 ony 0 tb 1 as to financing of the four I ill 1 a southeastern newspapers. The were bought by IA- I ki Varre and Harold Hall with ap- I proximately $870,000 furnished by A if 7. i the International Paper Csompaily, 't II )1; ,4 a subsidiary of the International 1 4 r- Lk i 1 Paper and Power Company.

of which Graustein also is the 1 1 president. Grau4n was on the stand all of yesterday as witness i 1., tor Hall. The involved are i the cord, Spartanburg Cottontail 't -xio Prorniff, Spartanburg Journal and the Augusto, Chronkle. 1 112.9. bz Tb1.1 int4 2- II ----8 I I 1 If .,..5 1 to fil 1 JR 1 1 I I or 0 1 1 NN 1 4' vote, 1 1 1., -T le i LUa2uslit.

tlz9. bz Ibl bq WASHINGTON. Sept. 25. (AP) An application for authority to Issue equipment trust notes amounting to $13.500,000 was filed with the InterstateCommerce Comrnerce Commission today by.

the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The application said the issue would represent not more than 75 per cent of a total estimated expenditure of for 2,000 seventy-ton steel gondola cars 000 seventy-ton steel hopper cars, 3,500 fifty-ton steel box cars and 50 seventy-ton steel passenger coaches, some of which already had been contracted for. Tho is would be payable at the rate of 8900,001) annually. NEVI YORK, Sept- 25. (AP), Charles Delos Waggoner Telluride, banker whose manipulations obtained for him a credit of $500,000 from six of New York's largest banks, arrived today and I was held in $100,000 bail on a charge of using the maids to defraud.

The email, bald- ini11-looking preeident of the hank of Telluride wax unable to furnieh the hail and wee tAken to the federal holime et! detention. hile.ANTUCtiY: Cloudy probably occasional ShOWerill Thursday and Friday. cooler Friday or Friday night. TNNESSEE Showers Thursd.ty and Friday. cooler Frbbar north portion.

IRINA; Clouk with showers in south ald west portions Thursesy I irlday showers with cooler in north.