The News and Observer du lieu suivant : Raleigh, North Carolina • 1

1 Observer OF CITY IN WHICH PUBLISHED 1 THE WEATHER North Carolina: Fair Monday; Tuesday increasing cloudiness, probably rain in west. VOL. CXXXIII. NO. 89.

SEE ADOPTION OF LUXURY LEVY OR SPECIAL. SESSION General Sales Tax Not Regarded as Having Chance to Survive Senate THINK HOUSE WOULD AGREE ON LUXURY TAX If Senate Insists on Scrapping Sales Tax Idea, Lean Bill Deadlock is Looked For That May Require Special Session to Pass a Revenue Bill By CHARLES PARKER. A luxury tax or a special session. In either event, no adjournment before April 10. se third sembly That, day, of as is the record seen longest in enters its General eighty- well As- I informed as to status quarters, and possibility, law the handwriting on the wall.

When the Legislators put away their Round Robin and accepted the administration, road in gasoline bill with tax ef- its fective April 1 they had little idea that they would be paying the extra tax to drive their cars home from the Capital. Nor did it occur to them that there would be a commingling of the Easter bonnet and lily question with grave problem of extracting $28,000,000 million dollars to a from taxpayers best able year bear it. But these things have come to pass as a weary House gathers tonight at 8:30 o'clock to take final action on the revenue bill and send the Senate, which for a week it to done little more than wait for has it. Battle on Power. Although a battle looms on the third reading tonight when Representative Ewing, of Cumberland, ofof fers one his amendment kilowatt to lexy hour 'upon of electric energy, it the production would be surprising if the House it--or any other material amendment that would force the adopted back to its first reading.

The bill most House, hectic devoting, Legislative after one of the histhe revenue act, clearly evitory desire to be done with in to denced its session it held in between the extraordinary, o'clock Saturin order to pass the day morning bill on its second reading. The bill, unless all the omens are to the Senate, as it is written, and that includes a wrong, will go now general sales tax. the omens But just as surely do back from the Senate in that form, point out that it will never come on Senate hinges the date of question of how it does and the pass the probability of the adjournmenssion. Thumbs Down on Sales Tax. It is regarded as certain, as certain anything can be will regarded about as, what a Legislature do, will never adopt the that the Senate general sales tax, the so-called Day also regarded that the plan.

It is Senate lies between the subcourse in the of a luxury tax--the stitution called Hinedale plan--or the wiping tax whatsoever and adopof any of a compromise upon a larger tion hardly conceirable that, reequalizing fund. It is bill 011 Tuesday and three days an required for pasceiving the with were there no extended sage even that the Senate can pass argument, before Saturday. send it back to the That would for concurrence on Monday, House April is adopted, and 6. the first course the sales tax, the House is luxury tax is substituted for the exbut simple concurgeneral pected to concur, rence will take three days. Equalizing Fund.

Against If the second course in is adopted tax is stricken out and a sales favor of an enlarged equalizing fund nothing less than adjournment and the certainty of an extra session appears. on an equalizing fund the scrapping of the Compromise would mean MacLean law. One of the things regarded as this stage is that the certain at will not repeal the MacLean House law, and sometime, bill has got to be somehow, year there will be no funds a revenue the schools or the State, passed--else to run either looks like the luxury tax. government. So it The general sales tax, first pro posed as tax on chain stores, was the House on assumption that it would raise $9,000, adopted by 000.

Fear Overestimates. Revenue Commissioner MaxNow doubt that it can well expresses $7,000,000, and the luxury tax raise proponents have their figures which indicate it will raise only slightly above $5,000,000, whereas they point out upon the of several estimates, notably one by Tax Commis sioner of South Carolina, that the luxury tax will raise from $7.000,000 to $10,000,000. Were the Ewing plan of taxing electric energy production added, and it is estimated that it would at least $2,000,000, the school problem would be solved. That the plan, which is sponsored in the Senate by Senator Gravley, stands a chance of being added is indicated the close vote in the House on the White, of Robeson, amendment to reinsert the "recaptune clause" whereby earnings on Turn to Page Three.) The THE ONLY DAILY TEN PAGES Going Up Going Up New York, March expenditures of Federal. State and local government for the ending June 30, 1928, were $12,609,000,000, an increase of 3.5 per cent over the preceding year, the eighth annual.

report of the National Industrial Conference Board, released today, discloses. Per capita cost was $105.20 for 1928, as compared with $103.04 the year before. An increase of 300 per cent over 1913 figures was shown by the 1928 totals. The report said that the pub. lic debt was rapidly mounting and that governmental expenditures grew twice as fast as the national income.

Of the total, the national government spent 31.5 per cent, the states 14.5 per cent and the local governments 54 per cent. The government further advanced ex. penditures 10.7 per cent in 1 1929 and 6 per cent in 1930, the report stated. d. Highway construction was given as the major expenditure of states and towns in the 1928 total.

I SPEAKERS STRESS INDIAN AUTONOMY Unqualified Independence for India Keynote of Great National Congress GANDHI ON PLATFORM AS THOUSANDS CHEER Many Americans in Throng of Prohibition Also Emphasized in Resolution; Illinois and Ohio Men Join Gandhi in Drive for Freedom Karachi, India, March thousand delegates to the 45th annual session of the Indian National Congress met here tonight with complete, unqualified independence for India as their immediate objective. All day long the sun had beaten down on the vast open-air stadium, but Vallabhai Patel, the president, did not call the congress to order uitil after sundown. Mahatma, garment, Gandhi, sat with in 8 his flowing cabinet (n the platform. He said not a word, for this was his customary day of silence. The women filed before him, kissing his feet; and from the edges of the crowd thousands pressed forward toward Mahatma as though drawn toward the light of their newfound freedom.

There was not a single policeman in the crowd. Americans There. Many Americans were there and Patel was interrupted by a storm of cheers when he declared that the United States was in warm sympathy with this struggle for Indian freecom. In his and the speeches which followed the dominant note was a demand that Great Britain recognize India as mistress in her own house, without safeguards or reservations. "We cannot be content with the doctrine evolved at London, that a federation with ruling Indian princes rather than with states is the solution of Indian unrest," one speaker said.

He characterized Ganchi's creed of non-violence as a "principle which will triumph over steel and relegate brute force to rust." One of the first resolutions adopted noted "visible progress toward total prohibition," and summoned the congress to "continue the anti drink campaign with renewed vigor." Another asserted that "no constitution will be acceptable which discriminates against women in the matter of franchise." Other Resolutions. There was a resolution urging the release of all political prisoners not covered in the pact and another deploring recent race Gandhi riots at Cawnpore. The Congress declared in favor of a referendum among the Bermuses people on the question of separation of Burma from India. Tomorrow the congress will consider one of the most important matters of its program-ratification of the truce between Gandhi and the Viceroy. In his presidential address to the congress, Patel said: "The defense safeguards may mean retention of British officers or even privates, but we will never let our be controlled by the British.

(Please Turn to Page Three.) Roping 'Em In By WILL ROGERS. Beverly Hills, March 29. -Mr. Hoover just got back from Port Africa after a call with our little dark brown cousins. He told 'em he would see that they had the same opportunities we enjoy here, so I guess he is having Charley Otis Company, stock brokers, put in a branch down there.

That will give them a leisure class, and the rest, of 'em employment working for 'em. The President didn't think much of the Virgin Islands, he thought we were bunked on that deal. I think myself we were perhaps influenced by the title, we are mighty good colonizers. We ought to sell (or give away to some enemy) our island holdings, and concentrate entirely on the old headquarters ranch here at home. Yours, WILL.

News PAPER IN THE WORLD HAVING MORE TODAY. RALEIGH, N. MONDAY G. O. P.

TICKET IN 1932? NEA The most interesting of the present crop of political rumors in Washington has it that to young for Theodore Roosevelt, Vice-Presidency now in 1932, Governor of supplanting Porto Vice- Rico, being groomed run President Curtis in sharing the Republican President ticket and Governor President Roosevelt Hoover. The above photograph shows the as they were snapped when the Chief Executive visited Porto Rico last week. Fifteen Little Tots Now Enduring Bodily Torture Survivors of Colorado School Bus Tragedy Believed Out of Danger PAINFUL THAWING OF FROZEN LIMBS BEGINS Joint Funeral to Be Held For Heroic Bus Driver and Five Children Lamar, March small children patiently dured the torture of slowly thawing arms and legs in Lamar Hospital tonight while parents of their five companions who were frozen to death in a blizzard stalled school bus prepared funeral service. A blizzard of almost unequalled intensity sweeping over the bleak prairie of eastern Colorado held the bus imprisoned in drifts for 33 hours while cold killed one and then another of the children shivering in the vehicle as the driver struggled on foot in a vain search for aid. He also was frozen to death, a not far from the bus.

The survivors were rescued late Friday and taken to a home, then to the village of Holly, finally to the Lamar Hospital by plane. When the children regained full consciousness today and realized the horror of all that had happened since the start of their tragic journey from school last Thursday, many of them became hysterical. Doctors, who gave them every medical attention possible, said they believed no limbs would have amputated despite the severe freezing that all of the small passengers suffered. Joint Funeral. Parents of the five who died and relatives of the driver, Carl Miller, indicated that all would be buried in a joint cemetery plot on Tuesday.

A father of one of the dead explained, thus: "They died together, the bravest children that ever lived. So we will bury them together." in a single ward hospital. The surviving children, were placed None but nurses and physicians was allowed inside. Parents, weeping, gathered in the small ante They did not speak. A childish cry occasionally pierced the stillness.

Mrs. Marie Wadham, hospital superintendent, said the children were suffering now more than at any time since the chain of disaster started. They were dazed from cold and hunger before, but now the pain of thawing flesh was almost more than they could bear. Blanche Stonebreaker, 10 years old, with a hair ribbon still in her blonde hair, was in the most critical Her arms were frozen to her elbows and her legs above the knees. "She looks much better now," said Dr.

N. M. Burnett, "but she still is in a serious condition." Arms Outstretched. The body of the bus driver, Carl Miller, was discovered late yesterday, face downward, arms, outstretched toward the had been unable to reach. He had wandered apparently in circles through the blinding snow, only to die within' a few hundred feet of a ranch house.

Miller's body and the five children who perished, Mary Miller, 8, daughter of the driver; Louise Stonebreaker, 14; Orville Untiedt, Bobbie Brown, 9, and Kenneth Johnson, 7, were placed in the Morich, mortuary at Holly. All ministers in the surrounding teritory will aid in the joint services. They will be buried in Holly cemetery, under the same snow which claimed their lives. But while the tragedy of these six (Please Turn to Page Three.) and SUBSCRIBERS THAN POPULATION MORNING, MARCH 30, 1931 YOUNG ROOSEVELT SEEN AS POSSIBLE MATE FOR HOOVER Being Groomed By Political Rumor to Run For VicePresidency in 1932 DIVISION OF OPINION AS TO VOTE-GETTING Some Observers Doubt His Ability to Take New York From Gubernatorial Namesake; Hoover Returns to Washington After Voyage to West Indies President Hoover, showed a marked resemblance in gesture and style. He even held his hat in the way that everyone remembers of his father, the pictures showed.

Reports from the island indicate Roosevelt is leading a strenuous life as his father did, working from early morn to midnight, but concentrating on island problems, and not bothering with States politics except insofar as they affect Porto Rico. Firmly Entrenched. Vice-President Curtis, however, is regarded as firmly entrenched in the he wants the nomination. He refuses to discuss possibilities that he may be dislodged, or recent reports that he would prefer to be again in the midst of the battle on the Senate floor. But the old Indian warrior is getting along in years.

He is 71, although still vigorous and keen, and may last as long as Justice Holmes, still flourishing in his 91st year. Ha, like Justice Holmes, has no intention of retiring from public life. and his great popularity in his home state of Kansas makes him perhaps the best chance to capture that onee rock-ribbed Republican state for his party in a Senate race. Recent developments, including election of a Democratic governor, have made it By HERBERT LITTLE. Washington, March The most entertaining political rumor of this season when politics is mostly rumors is the one suggesting that Theodore Roosevelt is being groomed to run as Mr.

Vice-Presidential candidate in The reception which Roosevelt, as Governor of Porto Rico, staged for the President last week furnished most of the basis for the talk. If such an arrangement developed, it would be a climax and a decision battle, in the famed LongworthGann politico-social feud in favor of Alice Longworth. Mrs. Gann is Vice-President Curtis' half-sister and hostess and young Roosevelt is Alice Longworth's brother. A number of the sober political minds, however, see little vote-getting power in Roosevelt.

He was defeated for New Yorka position which his dynamic father won on his way to the White House. Can't Be Done. Roosevelt's strength would be as an offset to the Democrat new believed by Republicans most likely to get the nomination, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, of New York. But politicians believe young Roosevelt, despite his aggressive way of campaigning, could not take New York away from Governor Roosevelt in a Presidential contest.

In favor of the rumor's plausibility, however, is the political adage that the voters never forget a hero, but they turn quickly against a politician. A motion picture with an actor representing Theodore Roosevelt opening up the Indian territory in the early part of the century was cheered at a theater here last week. And some of the news pictures of young Roosevelt in action, speaking to the Porto Ricans in introducing President Hoover, showed a marked a battleground once again not so "bleeding" perhaps as in the Civil War days, but just as important right (Please Turn to Page Three.) Fred Burke Behind Bars In Little Michigan Town St. Joseph, March -Fred Burke, big city desperado and gang gunman, was returned to this small town tonight to stand trial for murder. In the hours of dawn an armored convoy roared out of St.

Josmotor, bearing him North. In the carly evening that convoy roared into St. Joseph, 15 hours later. Termed the "most dangerous criminal alive," Burke is wanted for the St. Valentine's Day massacre of seven men in Chieago and a score of other major crimes.

He will be arraigned tomorrow. The State of Michigan will demand that he be imprisoned for life for slaying Trafic Officer Joseph Skelly during a trivial argument a year ago. Hires Lawyers. Burke has hired lawyers in St. Joseph and Chicago to take up his defense.

Tonight he was in the strongest cell of the old Berrien county jail, behind double bars and three- bolted doors. Outside an expert marksman SLASH RED TAPE IN INDIAN BUREAU Ancient Administrative Structure Thoroughly Modernized, Says Rhcads Washington, March reorganization of the office of Indian affairs, "basically unchanged for over 50 years," was announced today by Charles J. Rhoads, "reform" Indian Commissioner. The new plans, which were characterized by one official as "cutting the red tape of a century," were recently approved by Secretary of Interior Wilbur. Chief objects of the reorganization were to substitute "experts" and professional men for "clerks," simplification of operations and elimination of abuses arising from bureaucratic management.

The administration of the nation's Indian wards has been under frequent and violent attack for the last 20 years, culminating in the past Congress in sharp criticism of missioner Rhoads, Assistant Commissioner J. He.ry Scattedgood and Governor Hagerman, of New Mexico. Rhoads and Scattergood, appointed to reform the Indian service, said today the reorganization constitutes their solution of the Indian problem. The plan, they said, was based largely on a detailed report made by Institute for Government Research. Five Divisions.

Five field divisions will be created: Education, agricultural extension and industry, forestry and irrigation. Each will be supervised by a technical or professional expert. The divisions will be grouped under two heads whose spheres are defined as "property" and "human relations." Simultaneous with the announcement of the change in administration came revelations of an extensive shake-up in personnel. Twenty(Please Turn to Page Three.) kept vigil and extro guards went on duty around the building. Skelly's father wanted to be one of these guards.

The white-haired factory foreman pleaded with officials to "just let me keep my eye on himI'll stay up all night." But his request was refused. Thousands of curious from this community of 8,000 and its sister city, Benton Harbor, stood packed before the jail, ignoring snow blinding sleet, to see Burke's arrival. They made no demonstration AS Burke was rushed inside. presence caused him uneasiness. Mindful of the angered citizens threatened to lynch him after the Skelly slaying, he had to be assured several times thay had gone away.

Armored Car. All the way on the wild ride from Missouri a machine gun taken from Burke on his arrest was trained on him. To forestall any attempt by Burke's friends to save him through an ambush along the road, he was (Please Turn to Page Three.) EIGHTY-THIRD DAY OF SESSION (Seventy-first Legislative Day) Senate meets at 8 p. m. House meets at 8:30 p.

m. to take up revenue bill on its third reading. Yesterday's Paid Circulation 39.487 TEN PAGES TODAY. PRICE: DAILY SUNDAY FIVE TEN CENTS FATHER AND SON TRAPPED IN CAROLINA COAL MINE; RESCUE ALIVE DISCOUNTED HERALD AIR LINE OPENING CLEMENT M. KEYS WALTER F.

BROWN Postmaster General Walter F. Brown and President Clement M. Keys, of the Curtiss Wright Corporation, visited Raleigh yesterday with the party going South in two large passenger planes which will return through Raleigh Wednesday for the formal inauguration of the New York-Jacksonville link of the air line that will then extend from Boston to Rio de Janerio. The visit yesterday was unofficial, formal ceremonies being planned to take place with the arrival of the first northbound plane at the airport Wednesday about 1:20 o'clock. Celebrities' Visit Heralds Opening of New Air Route Postmaster General Brown and President Keys Here in Monster Plane FORMAL CELEBRATION TO OCCUR WEDNESDAY Olsen Says Plans For Lighting Airport For Air Mail Nearly Ready The arrival of a giant airplane with Postmaster General Walter F.

Brown, and Clement M. Keys, president of the Curtiss- Corporation, its passengers, yesterday heramong alded Raleigh's ascension to an important place upon the air map of the nation, when next Wednesday Eastern Transport will inaugurate regular air mail and passenger service between New York and Jacksonville by way of Raleigh. The plane bearing the Postmaster General and the man regarded as the most important figure in the aviation industry today, Mr. Keys, who is also chairman of the board of North American Aviation, which controls Eastern Air Transport, was a Curtiss Condor, a luxuriously appointed 18- passenger, 1,200 craft of the type now in use between Richmond and New York and which is expected to be placed in use on the Richmond-Jacksonville division within a short time. It was the largest passenger plane ever to land here.

The, giant transport was accompanied by a Kingbird, six-passenger craft, which will go into service over the line Wednesday. Greeted at Airport. Although the planes arrived more than an hour ahead of schedule, a Chamber of Commerce Committee composed Mayor Culbreth, W. C. Olsen, chairman of the aeronautical committee, and Secretary H.

B. Branch and several hundred Raleigh citizens greeted the distinguished visitors, who had lunch at the airport. The visit was entirely unofficial, and had no connection with the formal opening ceremonies to be Wednesday when the first northbound planes arrive for luncheon. Leaving Washington at 10 o'clock, and stopping first at Richmond, the planes making the flight from there to Raleigh in 1:15 minutes to arrive at the local airport shortly after o'clock. After enjoying a leisurely luncheon, looking over the airport, and conferring with local leaders in aviation development, the official party took off at 2:20 o'clock for Charleston, where it will spend Monday.

The planes will go on to Jacksonville and prepare for the inaugural flight Wednesday. Officials Highly Pleased. Both Postmaster General Brown and Assistant Postmaster General W. Irving Glover, expressed themselves as highly pleased with the situation here. The postoffice department more than a casual interest in airport here, for Raleigh has, been officially designated on the New YorkJacksonville air mail route for which intermediate fields and beacons are now being erected.

Lighting Plans Ready. Mr. Glove: appeared especially pleased when informed by Chairman Olsen, of the Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee, that plans had virtually been completed for lighting the airport and he hoped to be able to have the project completed by August when the night air mail line is scheduled to begin through here. The day passenger planes will carry mail beginning Wednesday, and already more than 10,000 letters are waiting in the postoffice for dispatch on the first ships. These letters will bear a special cachet denoting the occasion.

Unusual Cachet. Assistant Postmaster General Glover said that there was more than usual interest among stamp collectors in obtaining letters bearing Raleigh's (Please Turn to Page Three.) Forty Miners Work Desperately With Little Hope That Men Trapped in Mine Near Sanford Are Alive AIR SHAFT SLIDE SUBJECTS WORKERS TO DANGER OF GAS Two Men Went Into Shaft at Coal Glen Saturday Night and Have Not Been Seen Since; Planned to Pump Out Water in Mine Caused By Heavy Rain; Was Scene of Worst Industrial Disaster in State's History When 52 Men Lost Their Lives in 1925 as Result of Explosion; Two Men Were Kill ed in 1929 Accident; Mine Has Been Idle For Some Months, But Reopening was Planned By CHARLES PARKER. Staff SEVENTY-SEVEN IN GUGGENHEIM LIST Duke University Professor Gets Special Grant For Study of Ethics New York, March Duke University professor and one native of North Carolina, now a member of the faculty of Agnes Scott College, Decatur, are among 77 scholars, novelists, poets, sculptors, painters and other creative workers who have, been awarded fellowships on John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 1931. The fellowships aggregate about $175,000, Henry Allen Moe, secretary. exid today in announcing the awards.

The foundation was founded six years ago by former United States Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim as a memorial to a son. Dr. Bennett Harvie Branscomb. professor of New Testament literature at Duke University, was granted a fellowship to work on a comparative study of Jewish and Christian ethics in the first and second centuries with special reference to social ethics.

The study will be carried on in consultation with European scholars. Dr. Branscomb was born in Huntsand was graduated from Birmingham Southern and College. He has a Ph. D.

from Columbia University. He is author of "Jesus and the Law of Moses." Dr. Mary Stuart MacDougall. professor of biology of Agnes Scott College, who was born at Laurinburg. N.

was granted a fellowship to make studies of the effects of ultra violet radiation upon protozou. She will work chiefly with Dr. Max Hartmann, of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, of Berlin, Germany. Dr. MacDougell was graduated from -Macon College and bolds degrees from the University of Chicago and Columbia University.

She has made important studies of effects of ultraviolet radiation in biology. Among the other fellowships was one to Dr. Thomas Whitfield Baldwin. professor of English of the University of Illinois, who is a native Carolinian. and a graduate of Erskine College.

The fellowships, which average 500 a year each, will be used to carry on research and creative work in the United States, Mexico, Scuth America and Europe. They bring the total number of Guggenheim Fellowships up to 372. Thirteen of the fellows the United States will go to "steron and South America, and 10 will come from Latin American countries to the United States. The list contains the names of seven American novelists, poets and dramatists, three sculptors and seven painters. Thirteen of the recipients are women.

For creative writing in poetry, prose and the drama, fellowships hare been awarded to the following: Maurice Hindus, author of "Hu- (Please Turn to Page Three.) Mopped Up New York, March to handle a mop has its rewards: A man with a gun yesterday ordered William Grouss, restaurant porter, to stop mopping and open the cash register. Grouss stopped mopping, but refused to touch the till. When the revolver only clicked, Grouss wrapped his mop around the intruder's neck and called a cop. Matthew Conway today was in the jailhouse. Correspondent.

Sanford, March 20 hours of tunnelling toward an obstructed air shaft, 40 rescue miners at 5 o'clock this morning felt they were appreciably closer to the relief or the recovery of the bodies of two of their fellows who have been trapped since Saturday night in the Carolina Coal Mine at Coal Glen. Whether or not the two, Laurence A. Huneyeutt, 38, foreman of the skeleton force of the mine, not now in operation, and Elbert, Huneyeutt, his 16-year-old son, still alive or will be alive when they are reached is a matter of debate. Experienced miners say there is a possibility that they may be brought out alive, though the chances are admittedly, not promising. And the majority opinion this morning is that the men are dead and that they will not be reached before 7 or 8 o'clock.

Went Into Mine. The two Huneyeutts, with B. H. Garner, went into the mine Saturday, night to work the pumps. Garner was working on the upper level at depth of about 1,500 feet and came out of the mine this morning without reporting anything amiss.

When the Huneycutts, who were on the 3,800 footlevel, did not return to their home, Mrs. Huneyeutt, the mother of ten children of whom the tombed boy is the oldest, made inquiries of Garner. Immediately an investigation started. A force of miners, hastily summoned, went into the mine, but at 1,100 feet they were driven back by. gas.

Work was started on the new shaft in order that the rescuers might proceed inside the mine. The elder Huneyeutt and his fam ily came to the mine four years ago from Montgomery county. There are ten children and the youngest three years old. Elbert, however, the oldest boy, though there are two daughters older. One of them-a step daughter--Mary Agnes Thomas, was the only member of the family who kept up the all night vigil the mouth of the shaft.

Elbert, according to members the family, was afraid of the mines, He had always been afraid of mina work. The Sunday shift was not his shift, though it was his father's turn to go into the mine. Ed Hicks, worker, who had been on duty four nights straight, urged the elder Huneyeutt to prevail on Elbert gO instead. The younger boy, with expressed midgivings went to work. This morning Hicks was working doggedly, if hopelessly, among the rescuers.

Cloudburst and Cave-In. The explanation is made that the terrific cloudburst storm, around 9 accompanied o'clock Saturday by night, cut off the power stopped the fan which blows the gas out the mine. At the same time, the heavy rain caused a slide in the air shaft. Work on a new shaft which i is pected to pierce the obstructed shaft at 5 o'clock had progressed more than 35 feet, but the workers, in their 20-minute shifts, with improvised windlass operated by automobile lifting the earth from the shaft, were encountering considerable difficulty. Shortly after one o'clock, 0.

Wakefield, former foreman of the mine and now in charge of the cue operations, hastily removed men from the new shaft when fresh in threatened them. But work immediately resumed with the prospect or three more hours of such labor lay before them, Ot 4 o'clock this morning the roof of the air shaft had been reached and had been pierced in two places, Only two men, at this point of crations, could work at the time. The day's operations had worn out two automobiles, first a Studebaker, then a Buick and at last a Hudson had been pressed into service to operate windlass. they With the air shaft pierced, the plan is to force fresh air through the mine and this process, it is estimated, will require an hour or more. The rescue operations are being carried on by the light of a hastilyrigged electric circuit with two bonfires for the benefit of the workers, who are suffering considerably from the cold.

Hardly more than a hundred persons were mine last night and this since the news (Please Turn to Page Five.) a is is at of a to 8 of exair an bis.