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ALL THE KEV3 TC:AY By I ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE Consolidation of Tha Evening Newt and Tha Rrieburg Rtview DQUGtCOUNTY An Independent Nawapaper, Published for th Best Inttrtsts of th People. . OCCASIONAL RAIN VOL XXVI .NO. 328 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG. OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1925. VOL. XIII NO. 229 OF THE EVENING NEWS POSTAL RATES WILL CONTINUE AHOTHEH YEAR Congress Defers Revision to Permit Ample Time for Careful Study. AIR EUREAU O. K-'D Tax Reduction Measure Is On Way to Enactment Christmas Recess to Be Taken. (AMoebttd Ptcm Leurd Win.) WASHINGTON. Dec. 11. Con gressional action wpa completed today on a resolution to authorize continuance of existing postal rates until the next session of con gress convenes next December. The House adopted a Senate res olution to continue the existing rate structure to enable a further study ot ita effect on postal reve nue. The new congress took Its first actual step today toward carrying into effect the recommendations of President Coolidge's air board. A bill by Senator Bingham, re publican, Connecticut, for encour agement of civil aviation, was re ported by the senate commerce commission. The bill provides for a commerce department bureau of civil aero nautics and an additional assistant secretary of commerce to co-ordinate all government facilities for the development of civil aviation. Provision is made for lighting airways and air porta, licensing of commercial pilots, inspection of commercial craft by government In spectors and special weather re ports for aircraft. Grinding On Tax Bill. Debate on the tax reduction bill In the House today again develop ed bi-partisan support for It. in creasing hopes of leaders for its passage next week. Hepresentatlve Garner of Texas, ranking democrat on the ways and menns committee, which framed the bill, told the house he expect ed It to pass the measure by De cember 19. General debate will continue under the rules until to morrow night. On Monday the bill will be taken up for amend ment. Representative Treadway of Massachusetts, a republican mem ber of the committee, in opening the debate today, lauded general provisions of the measure. He said prohibition enforcement would not be affected by the proposed reduc tion In alcohol taxes. Congress was asked today by Re presentative Bloom, democrat. New York, to solve the domestic servant problem. He Introduced today a bill to lift immigration restrictions ' on European women, established beyond nuestlo nln the careers of cook an housemaid. Sentiment among livestock men of the west Is for modifications of the regulations covering the graz ing of cattle on public lands. Pres ident Coolldge was told today by Senator Oddie of Nevada, a mem ber of the senate public lands com mittee. A decrease in grazing fees also is urged by the cattlemen, the senator added. The House todny adopted and sent to the senate a resolution for a Christmas recess from December 22 to January 4. Tl LEADS TO TROUBLE ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.. Dec. 11. Pinellas county officials were continuing Inquiry today to deter mine who Is responsible for the presence of 39 quarts of whiskey and three gallons of tine rum in a Sereno Hotel room yesterday. The whiskey was seized by Chief Depu ty Sheriff Strickland In a raid on a room used as a lounge or recep tion room by delegates attending the convention of the Investment bankers of America. No arrests were made np to a late hour last night In connection with the raid and seizure of the li quor. Strickland declared that he would seek a warrant for James A. Coad. executive vice president of the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce, host of the conrenOm. Mr. Coad last night denied knowl edge of the whiskey. Friends of Mr Cod said If he arrested tarould fnlsh a nWllofWollar bSuuV Ml .ARA WOMAN'S -17. . (LC lKJl-- 1 . "1 . . w A Si . "sued woman was res- w Niagara Kiver a a. above the Americt. a. She was seen to run tt. , jrI. the park near the falls And later was discovered in the water, floating toward the cataract. Employees of the state re- servatlou waded out and brought her to shore. She was sent to the hospital. The woman refused to identify 4 herself. QUINTET IN JAIL Attempted Sale Tipped Off to Police in Portland and Arrest Follows 3 Ex-Convicts. (AMoctitH F Lcued Win.) PORTLAND, Ore.. Dec. 1L Five men were held in the county Jail here today or investigation in con nection with the robbery of the bank at Shedd. Oregon, Tuesday. Officers were also trying to deter mine whether the suspects had any connection with the holdup of the Troutdale bank yesterday. ThA mon vnro armafpit ln.t nlffht at a home In Portland, where six years ago three men were caught following the holdup ot the Clare tnont Tavern. , The sheriff's office gave out the names of the men held in jail as Wallace Witzel, an ex-convict out of Oregon penitentiary: Mike Welch, an ex-convlct out of Walla Walla penitentiary: Columbus Jim my Murray, an ex-convict out of Walla Walla: Charles I. Griffin, a former Inmate of Monroe, Wash., reformatory, and Vincent Murphy. Try to Sell Stolen Bonds. They were arrested as the result of a report to the district attorney's office that Murphy and Murray had tried to sell S5700 of the bonds tak en from the Shedd bank. Witzel, Welch and Murray are the direct suspects, according to deputy sheriffs. Griffin was ar rested, they say, because he was in the house with the others. Sheriff Frank Richards of Al bany Is expected to come to com pare fingerprints taken at Shedd with those of the suspects. The name of the person to whom the bonds were offered, according to the district attorney's office. Is being kept secret It was stated, however, that the man made a list of the offerings and found all ex cept one bond to be fine securities easily negotiable. About tlO.000 was stolen from the Shedd bank and these securi ties were listed among the losses, the local authorities said. James Ogle, Walter ("Dutch") Banaster and David Smith were ar rested at Murphy's place Novem- hr 99 1014 mil sentenced to life ni their nlea of nilllv that they mid Cunrn T! Perl nor and J. Newt Burgess In the robherv at Ctnremnnt-Tavern, November 21. 1919. Since thev were sentenced. Ogle has been shot and killed bv a prison guard during a bull pen riot. The report that led to the er rests was made by John L. Ether Idge, bond dealer, to whom one of the men, caling himself Mnrnhy, tried to sell the stolen securitl-s. He told Mnrphv he would rive his decision Saturday night, then In formed the officers. Only $32r.n of the $10,000 Shedd bank loss was In the form of ne gotiable securities, according to the local authorities, who suspect that the men may have been In other robberies that yMded bonds. FAST BOXI EXPECTEDTOSMIGHT A large crowd Is antlcpated for jthe boxing card to be presented 'o - intgnt oy tne xoscourg ooxing com f. about r cuea to ' . 'Ok "i mission at (1:30 o'clock In the arm- nnld participate In any legitimate ory. The fact that Ace Boles, pop-1 disarmament conference, but he be ular Marshfleld boxer, la to meet ,il(TP(j lhB ,m w not rtiri , Charlie Dundee, a local favorite. In prraent for such a conference to jthe 10-round main event, is expect- pmve successful, jed to bring out many ardent and The premier did not believe that interested fight fairs from Rose- Russia would enter such a confer jburg and the Coos Bay district. tence and he also feared that cer The S-roond semi-final between ;taln European countries were not Ryan and Wlllams. the former of j yet ready. iRoaeburg and the latter of Coos The Japanese government head I Bay. will also be an interesting said Japan wanted the United jtnateli. IState to participate In any such Promoter Clongh also promises .conference caled. L'wo fast preliminary bouts be- War With Amarlca Absurd. tween local favorites. o A TO fut snVcgra Work Mhs I. O. O. F. degree team leaves tomorrow for Myrtle Creek ito aid the Odd Fellows of th place In initiation work. MOT I 0 I MEANS END CIVILIZATION British Statesman Sounds Warning at Conference League of Nations. NEED MUTUAL TRUST Turkey Demands Hand Off in Mosul Japan Says Idea of War with U. S. Absurd, (Ajtociited r Levi Wire.)' GENEVA, Dec 11. Aa invita tion for the United States to par ticipate in th. work of Drenaring tor the proposed international dis armament conference under the auspices of the League of Nations probably will be dispatched to Washington as soon aa it is signed by Signor Scialoia, president of the League's council. The council has spent some time in drawing up the invitation, as its leaden are eager to frame a com munication which will be most like- ilv to obtain the mllnhnrntlnn nt tha I Washington government. The pre sent tendency is in iavor ot send Ing the United Slates a simple in vitation to become a member of the League s preparatory commis sion. The general Impression in Geneva Is that League leaders, al though honing that the United States will undertake full fledged official membership in the commis sion, would accept any form of col laboration the Washington govern ment relt It could extend. In this connection it Is recalled that American ambassadors to Switzerland have participated In the role of observers and helped to elanorate the text or the draft con vention for the control of the traf fic in arms and that the United states participated In the arms traffic conference. ' GENEVA. Dec. 11 The Turks have made known that they will have no part In any further discus sion by the council of the League of Nations on the dispute between Great Britain and Turkey over the Mosul oil region. The commission which is endeavoring to formulate an agenda for an international dis armament conference, Is proceed ing with its task. Viscount Cecil, the British states man, in an Interview with The As sociated Press, has outlined the dlf- .flculties in the way of solving the disarmament problem and the ba sis for hopes that they finally will be successfully surmoifnted. The chief obstacle to disarma ment was the desire for security, cause of suspicions and jealousies of nations, he said. Some amellor- latlon In this spirit has been brought about. I "The more nations become In the Ibablt of referring disputes to pacl- "c sememem, ne sain, - me less they will regard one another as po tential enemies." Dire Warning Sounded. Recalling Lord Grey's statement that the world must disarm or per ish. Lord Cecil said: "A future World war would al most certainly destroy civilization. That Is why the peoples of Europe are demanding so Insistently that their governments agree to a scheme of disarmament." I.ord Cecil said the first factor making the outlook for disarma ment brighter was financial. Next came the obligation of the "allied" and associated powers" In the Ver sailles treaty to further a general scheme of disarmament and their assurances to the former enemies that their dlsamament was only the first step toward a general reform In that direction. He emphasized that assurance was explicitly re pealed at lyicarno. Japan Says Tim Not Ripe. TOKYO. Dec. 11. Premier Tako todav discussed with The Associat ed Press the subject of disarma iment. ment, snvlellsm, America and ;ninn, and declared japan gladly ) So far as any future Japanese- Amerlran war was concerned. Pre- .mler Katn declared It to be an ah- snrdltT and physically Imprartlca- ble. He was sure Japan never would resort In wsr over the oties- tlnn of Immigration and anyway he (Continued on pe tlx) Convict Tom Murray Not to Hang Next Friday; Supreme Court Writ Allows Time to Pass on Appeal (AanrUtrd Ptms Uutd Win.) SALEM, Ore.. Dec. 11. The state supreme court, Just after noon today, granted a writ of pro bable cause to Tom Murray, con vict convicted of the murder of Guard John Sweeney in the prison break of August 12 and sentenced to hang December 18, after listen ing to arguments on the motion of Will R. King, Murray's attorney. and District Attorney John Carson for two hours. The writ signed by Justice Rand, automatically stays the execution of Murray until the supreme court passes upon the appeal, which will be perfected and filed within the next few days. The chief points argued by Mur ray's counsel were that the state haa no authority to execute him for murder of Guard Sweeney un til he has completed service on the 20-year term he Is serving In the RESTRICTED TOO Comptroller Asks More' Freedom for Them to Halt Decreasing Resources. (AawicUted Fmm LcuH Wlrf.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. The National banks throughout the country are feeling more and more the restrictions laid aTounii them by federal statutes, and greater freedom for them was described as Imperative in the annual report of J. W. Mcintosh, comptroller of the currency, made public today. The comptroller cited detailed statistics to show an Increasing exodus from the national banking system -aatk, ne predicted it would continue un til the national banking laws are amended. To accomplish the needed re lief, Mr. Mcintosh strongly urged enactment of the McFadden bill, a measure which was passed by the house last congress but which nev er was reached by the senate. "It is a well known fact," the re port adde'd, "that many National banks are anxiously awaiting enactment of such a bill as that which failed at the last session or congress. If they cannot at this time obtain some such amendments to their charter powers as are therein proposed, there will be a still greater exodus from the na tional system."- Mr. Mcintosh said that although the resources of the national banks had steadily Increased from year to year and the condition of the In dividual hanks remained strong, the relative Increase nevertheless In the total resources of the nation al institutions had been slowly falling off as compared with the re sources of state banks and trust companies. He mentioned that during the forty vear period end-1 Ing with July 1. 1924, the totnl re-1 sources of national banks had fl-j len from 75 per cent of the total j banking resourcea of the country to about 47 per cent. The last IS ; months, he said, had witnessed a ' farther shrinkage In the proportion of the total resources held by the I national banks. The report says: "The Individual national bank Is always ultimately able to take rare . of Itself In meeting the competitive condition due to more favorable state laws by giving up lis nation-1 nl charter and vnlnir Into Ihp Blnti. ! system. But the gradual loss of national banks and the consequent ' decrease In relative resources of j the national banking system Is of primary concern to the national government not onlv because the national banks for the loplral and permanent basis of the federal re serve system hut also because on ly through the national banklne svstem can there he maintained throughout the United Slates a stsndanllzed system of hnnklnr subject to the vlsitorian powers of the federal government and sub servient at all times to the will of congress." DIPLOMACY TO TAKE PLACE OF FORCE IN PLACATING RIFFS MamrlatM Pna TaaM Wlf EL ARAISir. Snanlsh Mororro. rw. 11. Ahd-KI-k'rlm. Illfflan chieftain, and his entourage sre encamned at Alt-Kemara In the Benl t'rriagMel country about 1 5 miles from Aladlr. his former ca pital, which 'he etiamioneri before. the advance of Spanish forces. He K reported to have reproarh ed some factions of the llenl t'r rlaguel and Reel Boeova trlhcs for having facilitated the landing of the Spaniards st Alhucemas, Meanwhile nnlltlral advance designed In bring about the sur render and subsequent disarma ment of all trlheiini'n are being made by both the French and Spanish authorities and. It Is slid, with Increasing success. penitentiary for bank robbery: that Murray was tried on the mur der charge without being removed from the state prison by a writ of habeas corpus; that in the killing of Guard Sweeney he was acting in self defense, which plea was ruled out by the lower court and that part of the testimony Introduced by the state in Murray's trial was a statement made to the district at torney by Murray In the prison, and that said statement was taken without Informing the defendant of his rights or telling him that he was addressing the district attor ney. I Judge King also took exception to remarks made by the district attorney during the .trial In the,low jer court, arguing that they were irregular and Inadmlssable as evi dence and htat they tended to In fluence the Jury against the de 'fendant. Oil COUNTY ROAD Reedsport Prisoner Makes Attempt to Escape and in Confusion An other Disappears. A double break for liberty by two county prisoners employed on Ihe road gang yesterday afternoon resulted In William Stoneman of (Ilendale making his getaway, while Wm. Goodman of Reedsport failed to elude the guards and was retaken. The prisoners were taken from the Jail recently upon authority of the county court, and have been used for road work on the Mt. Mebo-road, being employed 4 be tween the hours of 8 a. m. and 4:30 p. m.. then being returned to the jail at night. The county court authorized the appointment of a guard over Ihe men, but the priso ners apparently are taking advan tage of the fact that a guard Is not warranted in shooting at a man escaping from a sentence Imposed for misdemeanor. : Goodman , yesterday slipped away from the other prisoners a Bhort distance ami then started to run. The guard started In pur suit, and In the confusion. Stone man, who had been standing In the edge of a timbered area slipped out of sight. Goodman was mak ing rapid progress toward a safe getaway when a county truck bore down uion the scene and blocked the road wo that he was recap tured. Stoneman. however, had evidently made good use of the time and was apparently far. far away by the time Ihe search for him was started. Stoneman was sent up from Glendale. where he was arrested and convicted on a charge of pos sessing liquor. He was serving out a fine of $.100 havlng'no fund.? with which to pay the fine. Goodman, who was retaken, was sent up from Reedsport on a liquor charge, and was given a fine or $250 and 20 days in Jail. This was his second attempt at escape. He was placed on Ihe Mill creek road gang following his sen tence, but got away and escaped to North Bend, where he was lo cated some time later anil brought to Kosehnrg to serve out his time. A prisoner Arthur Itay, also of Reedsport, succeeded In escaping a few days ago and no trace of him has been found. BERLENBACH GETS SECOND CHANCE AT DELANEY TONIGHT fAMnrtotM Prnt Iiw r.) NKW YORK. pnr. 11. Taul npriVnWh of Atrln, N. Y.. 1ifc.it heavvwHitht champion of (tin world, faro th fcrnnlpxt tout hft fvr him known when h mpt .l'k Ff1ftny of HHd (report. Conn., innlKht in tha MHdiunn 8qtirA rlnr, tic flrnf rhfimni'nMhlp ron left in th niw sport arna. Morn thnn 20.IHI0 p4rxnnii am .'uriipiwl to Rttfrif. thin enftHKf mint -rhpdiilrd fr 15 rminriN tr u (If rjulon. DIhim'V knwknl oirt Kprlpnlwh in four round" at th old Cardan in nrrh Th Antoria champion l n mwh 1mprnd hoiT. When he met IielfHiey the power of hi f it wan great, hut he had not developed method of definite HKslnnt the nharp n hoof In it ImHIwi of the HrliiKPport man, Ie1nner stand tip ntralKhl, nt time drop ping hia firm to hit aide. hU -ncd rarrytnit him out of daniter. NKW YORK. rer. 11. Vaiil Uerlrnharh will have an advant age; nf vrn and one half ponnda when he defenda Ma worlda liarht heavyweight title tnnlrht aaainat lark fe1aner at Madlunn Kntiare harden Iterlenharh araled 1 7 T . one; and one-half ponnia under the limit thin afternoon, while Delaney weighed 166. INE r TO Government Hunter to Slay Predatory Animals Asked by Sportsmen. ONLY $750 NEEDED County-Court to Be Asked to Provide Fund Sys - tern Said to Be Efficient. An appropriation of $750 to be taken from the county bounty fund and to be used In cooperation with the atate and novernment In the employment of a federal hunter to aid in the eradication of predatory animal, will be asked of the coun ty court by local sport men and b toe It men. The tax leafrue at lta recent meetloK recommended the appropriation of $500 for this pur- pone, but aa coo irf ration cannot be obtained with an appropriation of less than $750 the court will be asked to aet aside that amount from the bounty fund. The bounty tryst em Is obsolete In nmuy count leu. In fact, Joaephlne and Douglaa counties are the only' two counties lit the alate now us ing the bounty system exclusively. In spile of the fact that these counties have been using this sys tem fur years, and have spent hun dreds of thousands of dollars In bounties, predatory animals are more numerous than ever before, proponents of the government hunter system claim. The annual loss on poultry, sheep, hogs, and rattle as the re sult of the activities of predatory animals, ranges from fifty to one hundred thousand dollars, It Is claimed. There Is no estimate of the tea rue slaughtered, but It Is generally conceded that each coy ote and wolf will kill on an aver age of one fleer each week. As the wild game lire of Douglas county Is one of Its greatest as sets sportsmen maintain that every safeguard sheuld be provided to prevent the killing of game ani mals by wolves, coyotes and cou gar . Thirty thousand coyotea have been killed In Oregon In the past two years, according to the statis tics of the national wool growers association, but In spite of this large number killed the number or animals fn many counties has not decreased. Kach coyote. It Is esti mated, does damage during his lifetime of more than $50, while each wolf and cougar costs $500, The bounty system. It Is alleged, has failed to get results. In spftf of the fart that over one million dol lars was expended In a period nf 10 years. The government hunter system, which has been in use only a comparatively short time, has proven very efficient and good re sults have been obtained in coun ties where proper cooperation is given. The state Is spending thousands of dollars to propogute wild game life. It Is claimed, while stockmen are Investing thousands of dollars carh year In bettering their herds anil flocka. In view of these ex penditures an appropriation of $750 to destroy piedalory animals la well justified. It Is maintained. I nder the government hunter system the county and slate runds pay the salary of a full time hunt er, while ihe government pays all expenses. The man does nothing but hunt down predatory animals, using poUon wherever possible, so that his work will be more wide spread. As he does not claim boun ties on the animals killed, he rids the county ot many animals at a low cost. f JOHN JACoTaSTOR MEMORIAL PLANNED BY GREAT NORTHERN POIITLANI). Ore., Ilec. 11. Plans for a memorial to John Ja cob Aator, founder of Astoria, Captain llobert Gray, discoverer of Columbia river, and the lewls and Clark Kipeditlon, to be built by the (Jreat Northern Hallway and Vincent Amor, were accepted here today by the I'ark commis sion. The monument will stand 10 feet high and will cost In the neigh borhood of lloo.iMM) according lo Kalph lludd, president of the Ureal Northern who arrived here this morning In his special ir. 1'he monument will be erected on Toxcomb Hill, In the center of John Jacob Astor Memorial Park. Work will he Farted in February and the unvellln" will be on July 22 when the Great Northern an nual historical petition reaches here from St. Paul. WANTED HUNTER TURKEY MARKET TAKES ADVANCE TO 46 CENT.PRICE The turkey market advanr- ed today to- 48 cents, with one firm offering that price for delivery on Tuesday. Re- ports received from the north were that buyers were meet- Ing the advance and that birds are being purchased on 46 cent base throughout the county. Many orders are continuing to pour In upon local buyers from outside wholesale firms, and appar- ently the market is quite strong. The 48 cent price is for number 1 stock, with an 8 rent drop on numler 2 birds. Receipts so fur have boen light, and it Is evident that the majority ot growers will hold off their birds un- til next week in spite of the early buying now In pro- grecs. Firing Squad Will Record Last Chapter of Legal Battle of Nearly Two Years. SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 11. Sentenced to face a firing squad on January 15, 1926, Ralph W. gey bolilt, spent last evening In his cell making a woman's beaded purse. The youthful murderer he Is 24 years old late yesterday heard the words pronouncing hut doom utter ed for the fifth time. lie was con victed by a Jury In the IHah dis trict courlon April 1, 1S24 for the murder of Patrolman David H. Crow! her on October 23. 1923. Var ious court actions have carried the case along since that time. Beyboldt expressed hope that he might see his father and moth er, who live at Defiance, Ohio, be fore he dies, but declared that he hardly thought that they would come here. He hears from his father regularly, and last week when Ihe warden of Ihe peniten tiary carried lo him the news that the elate board of pardons had de nied his last appeal for clemency. he also handed the condemned man a letter from his father. . "And It was only a two-page let ter, when I usually received an eight-page letter," plaintively re marked Heyboldt. Seybolclt said he had a wife and baby at Westervllle, Ohio, and that he had never heard from his wife nor seen his child. Through Maizes of the Law. Seyholdt was arrested at San Bernardino. California, aeveral weeks after Crowther's body was found some distance west of this city. He was brought back, tried anil convicted by a Jury on April 1. 1914. On April fifth sentence was first pronounced. June 4 was the dale fixed. An appeal to Ihe supreme court automatically acted as a alay for Seyholdt. The case was argued anil lost. On April 25. execution was set for May 29. On May 2 Governor George H. Dern granted a reprieve and on August 22 the hoard of pardons again refused to commute Ihe sentence. For tne third lime, on August 2. Seyboldt heard Ihe dath sentence pronounc ed. This time the court named September 11. A writ nf certiorari arted as snolher slay because h-ss than 30 days separated the two dales anil execnllon was again fix ed for October 23. Acting Governor H. Crockett granted another re prieve enabling Ihe boBrd of par dons to review new evidence. For two days last week the board heard witnesses and read af fidavits but refused furlher cletn eni'V. "I'm not through fighting yet," said Hiyhnlilt. FRENCH MINISTER WOULD PAY AMERICA AHEAD OF ENGLAND PARIS. Dec. II Finance Min uter l.nui heur told Ihe f Inline ml committee of the Chatnlier of De pnlli'S loilay that It was necessary lo lliinlilnte France's dfbt lo Am erica before, that owed to Great Britain. M. Kniii-heur expren.-ed the de sire of the government lit innke fleral reforms and ataihllin- the franc after the settlement of the Inter allied debts. The minister received a cold welcome from the deputies. BROTHER OF POLICE OFFICIAL FACING MURDER CHARGE COIIMNG. N. Y., Dec. II. Michael I Fnrlght. '0 m laborer of r'amphell. hrolher of Police rommlil"ner lib-hard K Knrlghl nf Vnw York, was formallv charg ed Sub murder. flrt degree, this afternoon lit connection with the death eterdsv at the Knrlgh farm or Tlninlhv Shay, also a la borty on the farm. TOLL OF DEATH AIMERS TOTALS S3 44 of Victims of Alabama Horror Are Negroes, 9 . , Are White Men. J 50 BODIES TAKEN OUT, Worst Disaster of 17 in 2 Years That Have Caused 7 1 6 Lives Cause - j Not Determined. " j .1 (ocbUd Ft t W BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. Dec. 11 With a death list or 53 believed to have been definitely determ ined, rescue workers were making efforts today to remove thra bo dies remaining In Overton Miaa No. !, which wis partly wracked by a gaa explosion yesterday. Tha bodies remaining In the mine are those of two white men and one negro. Of tha bodiea already re moved. 43 are negro and seven white. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jec 11. Twenty-six bodiea were brought from the Overlon mine number 1 thia morning, bringing the total re moved to 48. Mine officials and rescue workers believe that five bodiea still remain in the mine, but have abandoned hope that tha men would be found aliva. Mine officials expressed the be lief that the total death list would not exceed 53 as they estimated that, all bodies except five had been recovered, --- ReaeiM v arewa worked all night and continued their labors today, hoping to re move, before nightfall, the remain ing bodies. The explosion waa one of the worst of Ihe 17 large ones which, since 113 lives were taken In the Virginia mine disaster In IMS, have killed 718 mine work ers In this slate. The Overton mine la the proper ty of the Alabama Fuel and Iron company and la considered by fed eral and state mine officials one nf the best equipped In the Alaba ma field. The blast did not wreck the air machinery and this aided the rescue parlies. The cause of the blast probably never will be learned positively. Some of the mine workers believed it waa caused by a miner striking a match, which Is forbidden, or by a "windy" shot. It is believed that most of the bodies unreenveret) are those o( negro workes. Relative of the vlrtlma were not allowed to view the bodiea. Identification was being carried out with greatest difficulty. Some may never be Identified. Wearied watchers kept Tlglt about the pit's mouth through the night. Rain began falling at day break, but women hoping to find I heir loved onea yet alive, never ! budged from the guard lines, One woman who beard the blast yesterday, while she waa about her household djities and knew Ita meaning, had never fnr m moment left the mouth of the pit. She hugged her baby to her bo som through 'the night to protect It from the cold. ANOTHER TURMOIL MENACES IRELAND; PARTITION CAUSE DUBt.lff. Dec. 11. The Irish re publicans, whose representatives In Ihe Dail Elreann signed a declara tion last night, declaring unalter able opposition to the partitioning of Ireland, now are contemplating the possibility of securing a refer endum en the London boundary agreement. It Is believed, however, that be. cause of their numerical minority in Ihe dall and the senate, they will be unable to fulfill the necessary preliminary condlllona. Before a referendum Is possible there mu.-tt be a demand by two fifths of Ihe members of the dalt or a m sjorlty of the aenale. TI'llhFVH .TKl ItV HUMS .NK.Vr W FF.K. The Kconomy Market la IoiIhv notifying the turkey growers of the county to bring their blrd In on nnf VYcdnetirtay and Thnrsdsy, Dcrenieiir ID and 17. - Tha Farm Bureau Cooperative 4 4 Kxchange asks the growers to 4 nuke deliveries to their firm a on Tuesday. Iieceniber IRth, Instesd nf the lUth as prev- Inusly announced. Both s firm announce they have 4 a larva number of ordera to be tilled. 1
