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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1928 PAGE FIVE EXACT STTUATION IN UNTFED STATES TOTALLY UNKNOWN Neither Side of Presidential lars percen Campaign Ready to Speak of Majorities Charlotte, N, C., Oct, 31.--Presi- dential politics still is a whirliglg of argyment and speculation in N. Carolina, with experienced politic- ians disagreeing whether the final turn will give the state to Smith or Hoover. Neither side is disposed to speak in terms of large majorities, and both concede that certain under- currents still make it difficult to put the situation into exact fig. ures. The point of departure of all cal- culations is the fact that North Carolina, as in no other southern state, the friends of Governor Smith face a double handicap. Not only is the presidential nominee dp- posed by a longz-influential demo- cratic leader, in the person of Sena- tor Simmons, but this is one state of the southern sisterhood where the republican party is no neglig- ible quantity. In the last two-way presidential division, in 1920, Hard- ing received 232,848 votes in this state, to 305,447 for Cox. This is one state, too, in which the republican organization has not been agitated and disturbed in the midst of the campaign by a revam- ping process in the interests of "lilly-white" southern republicans, In North Carolina the party has been under white leadership for many years, There were some fac- tional differences after the Kansas City convention, but they were ad- justed with dispatch and the state- wide machinery turned determined- ly to the task of gathering in these twelve electoral votes for Hoover, The anti-Smith democratic or- ganization, being much newer, has not gone into battle with the same coordination of effort, nor does it number among its personnel any- thing like as great a number of ex- perienced politicians, There has been some public talk of religion and white supre.nacy, but more of prohibiton and immi- gration, the two issues on which the anti-Smith people declare the nominee has bolted the platform, The republicans have made .insis- tent use of the tariff issue in their appeals to the now-extensive manu« facturing industry of state, North Carolina stands virtually alone among the southern states in the lack of fusion between the re. publicans and the anti-Smith dem- oerats, Each organization has not only maintained its own identity, but the leaders say there has heen ne co-operation between them, Each makes its campaign in its own way, with its own speakers and its own These and other elements in the impossible to in- A other state south of border bas North Carolina's of republican vot- ot! state except Ala- bama, where the normal republican vote is mot a serious factor, democratic official of senatorial Tau Ampaigeing against the party « In Georgia, for instance, the campaign has brought together in Smith's. support elements of the state been while states like Virginia and South Carolina, , the anti-Smith movement has brought down upo) its head the 'concerted condemma- tion of the ranking leaders of the party. . There is no question that the Smith emocrats of North Carolina have made a powerful resistance against the double attack, and now they insist they have the upper hand, although the opposition does not concede it. Much work still is to be done on both sides. The republicans and demoerats both are reaching down into their county and precinet organizations just now to determine the points where con- centration is needed. In the course of this process both have probed into the unmeasured reservoirs cf a new-reeognized 'silent vota2™, whose voice on election day-- if heardiat all---will be an important factoy' in swelling the chorus for Hoover or Smith, Equatorial Belt Is Splendid Summer Resort Says Explorer New York, Oct, 31.--Contrary to popular belief, the equator is a delightful summer resort, says Carveth Wells, who has just arrived in New York from Central Africa, where he has been for three months as & member of the Massee Epedition to the Mountains of the Moon, sent in June by the Chicaga Geographic Society, "The climate of equatorial Afri- ca is as delightful as that of Ber- muda," he declared. "It is temner- ate the whole year round, Tho greatest discomfort we had was from snow and hailstorms, but ev- en when our feet were being chilled by the snow we were compelled to wear sun helmets and spine-pads to avoid sunstroke, The Mountains of the Moon, which the Massee expedition set out to explore, were well known to the ancients. Ptolemy mentioned them in his geography, but until twenty years 'ago scientists have always disputed their existence, It was im- possible, it was sald, for snow-capp- ed mountains to exist on the equat- or. Even when Stanley, in 1888, British explorer, sald that he had seem them the scientific world was incredulous. The cause of this mystery, said Mr. Wells, is that they are only vis- ible to the eye for a few hours every 3 or 4 months. For the rest of the time they are shrouded in mist and clouds. It was not until 1906, when the Duke of Abruzzi set out to discover them, that the existence of the Mountains of the Moon was generally acknowledged. It was in the tracks of the Duke of the Abruzzi that the Massee exped- ition followed. At the summit they found the Duke's visiting card in a tin, With it Mr. Wells placed his own card and Mr. Massee, vice- president of a soap company, who financed the expedition, left a cake of soap. . Acording to Mr. Well's account, the Mountains of the Moon are a paradise for Scotsmen and canar- ies. Heather, which flourishes on the moors of Scotland to a height of 9" or a foot, grows there 50 feet high. Groundsel, beloved of canaries, grows to twenty feet. Parsley grows nine feet high, and Mr. Wells found lohelias in the snow ten feet In height. At the equator, too, one can have straw- berries and creamy all the ygar round, though there are no mam- moth strawberries. CAVES NOW USED FOR THE CULTURE OF MUSHROOM SPAWN Sulivan, Mo,, Oct. 31,--Taking advantage of the even temperature of caves in the Missouri Ozarks, farmers have developed mushroom culture to an art. In the rooms of one of the larger natural caves near Sullivan there are more than 5,000 lineal feet of mushroom beds, They are pro- lific in production of the edible fungi and farmers are realizing comfortable profits 'from both mushrooms and spawn. Until ree- ently the latter was obtained al- most solely from French and Eng- lish manufacturers, Although subject to various in- sect attacks and generally difficult to grow, mushrooms have been pro- duced commercially in cellars and buildings prepared especially for their culture. Where caves are ac- cessible, the difficulty and cost of culture is materially reduced. Num- erous experiments were made in the Ozark caves without signal suece™s until farmers learned how to con- trol the air currents, A scientific study of the temperature, air cur- rents and underground streams which eourse through parts of the cavernous rooms was undertaken with successful results and the beds became profitable. It was found that rock walls, built around the beds, were the best protection against the strong current of wind that frequently swept through the caves, The mushrooms are grown from spawn which is sprinkled into the finely pulverized dirt and begins sprouting three or four weeks later, COL. ROOSEVELT HEADS EXPEDITION TO EASTERN ASIA Second Zoological Under taking Will Be To Seek for Rare Animals Chicago, Il, Oct. 31. .--- Col Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt will head their second zoological expedition for 'the Field Museum of Natural History Nov- ember 10, it was announced here by Stephen C. Simms, Director of the Museum, With Suydam Cutting of New York, they will seek rare animals in unexplored mountains and jung- les of Southeastern Asia. The scien- tists will survey the region lying northward of Indo-China along the gorges of the Mokong River and abutting the borders of Burma, Siam and Yunnan. The latter objective of the ex- pedition will be sought by a second party under the leadership of Har- old Coolidge Jr., a young mammal- ogist of Boston. He will be accom panied by Dr, Jesselyn Van Tyne, assistant curator' of birds at the Museum of Zoology of the Univer- sity of Michigan, Dr, Ralph KE. Wheeler of Cambridge, Mass., who will be medical officer and assis- tant naturalist, and Russel W. Hen- dree of Brooklyn, N. Y., recently returned from three years' work in South America as a zoologist, Funds for the expedition were largely donated by William V. Kelley, president of the Miehle Printing Press and Manufacturing Company, Chicago, and in conse- quence the expedition has heen named the William V. Kelley- Roosevelts expedition to Hastern Asia of Field Museum. The first part of the expedition, under the Roosevelts, will sail from New York to India. There they will assemble equipment and proceed to the Yunnan border. They hope, in| the Yunnan hills, to shoot speci- mens of a large deer of an uniden- tified species which is known only hy native reports. Another trophy will be the t2kin, described as a "eoat-antelope'" never secured by civilized hunters. Young Coolidege's divizion will ail Dee. 22 from Vanenuver on the Empress of France for Hong Kong and then will take another ship for French Indo China, Ad- vance food sunplies for this com- pany were sent out six months aro and have heen slowly pnshed un 1.000 miles of river to various posts on the interior Lincoln was a rail splitter and Hoover splits infinitives. Clearly, as the Boston: Tarnscript remarks, an indication of a Hoover victory.-- Border Cities Star, 90 PER CENT. OF IODINE DRUG IS NEVER USED Washington, D.C., *Oct. 31. Though United States fears of for- eign monopolis controlling essen- tial products, have beem lessened lately, the commerce department has found that the popular drug, iodine, seems to be controlled as to price and production. In the case of coffee, potash, sisal, gutta percha and several other commodities, the department has found that producers' orgam- izations are meeting fair success in holding up new prices. Most of the known world re- sources eof iodine are located 'in Chile, where it is extracted in gon- nection with the production of ni- trates for fertilizer. Fer three years, the department's research showed, the controlling association has maintained a price of $3.89 a pound upon its output. The American investigators re- gard as most significant the fact that 90 per cent. of the iodine brought to the processing plants along with the nitrate ores either is thrown away or not extracted. The 10 per cent. saved, it was dis- closed, is sufficient to supply the world's demand at the price level now maintained, -and though the monopoly is not regarded as very important, the policy drew sharp comment from the American inves- tigatons, "If the Chilean industry ever becomes interested in furnishing large supplies of iodine at moder- ate prices, there is little question but that the surplus of iodine would find a market and that new uses would develop," says a department bulletin. '"This is the general rule whenever a rare chemical becomes cheap and abundant. Until its n- expensive supply «ds guaranteed however, research will of necessity be limited and the' possibilities of iodine will be comparatively unex- plored." House Fly Is Enemy Of All Poultrymen Atlantic City, N. J., Oct. 31, -- The eelentific poultryman of to-day recards the common house fly as one of his greatest enemies, so much, in faet, that he carefully screens the brooder houses to keep files away from his chickens. The house fly, research has shown, is a so-called intermediate host of the poultry tapeworm which cavges great loss to the Industry. Chickens become infected with this parasite after eating flies, so the poultryman has joined the war against them. All of which was brought out be- fore the New Jersev Poultlrymen's Ascociation in a talk on *'Confine- ment Broodin~," hy Professor T. B. Charles of New Hampshire, who predicted that large numbers of commercial poultrymen would ad- opt the new chick rearing method. INSIDE STORY OF MAIL ROBBERY TOLD (Continued from Page 1) open-eyed wakefulness by court of- ficers, Highlights came Yate in the after- noon. Then it was that Mrs. McPhee was called as witness. She lived at 40 Laing Avenue, She knew Findlay McLeod Sr. some five years ago. Alex McLeod, his brother, had roomed with her for about eight years. When Mrs. McPhee took the wit- ness stand to give evidence, Crown counsel suggested that she be given "protection" and to this the court agreed, Whereupon the witness testi- fied that on June 21, at 1225 am, a for Alex McLeod and, told that he was out, had left two parcels to ue given to Alex to give to Findlay Mc- Leod Sr. The visitor had also stat- ed that he would see Findlay McLeod so witness understood, "two months from now." Mrs. McPhee stated that she had put the two parcels on the dining- room table and at that time did not know what was in them, She heard Alex McLeod come in later, told him of the parcels, and in the 'morning found that one had disappeared. Lat- er, she stated, Alex ay taken away the other parcel. On the Friday night following, said she, which would be June 22. Find- lay McLeod Sr. had come to her home aad was later joined there by his wife and Findlay McLeod Jr, S to McLeod She had spoken to Findlay McLeod Sr. alone, said she, and recalled the occasion as follows : "I said, 'Two parcels were left for you! He just shook his head, nodded. I told him the man was going to see him in two months. He said: 'All right." "He"asked me," Mrs. McPhee con- tinued to testify, "if he could bury the maney in the yard, And I didn't know what to say. He said he'd make it worth my while." At this juncture in the testimony Crown Counsel wondered what had become of the parcels. Mrs. McPhee said, "Alex had brought back one parcel," The Crown wanted to know what she had decided to do in response to Findlay McLeod's request. And the witness stated, "I don't think I de- cided to do anything." The Crown pressed questions. Had she iven Findlay McLeod permis- sion to bury the money? "Didn't Want Him to" "I told him," replied the witness, "that I didn't want him to." 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