North Carolina Newspapers

B sH KKKILL, Editor and Publisher. "vOLl’M E XLVIII- ym Earthquake Occured In Soutiicrn California Last Night .. ,- r p Tier of Southern uuntie- in State Rocked ; Quaker East Night From U to 20 Seconds. fRE tTEST DAMAGE G INSAN BERNARDINO Three Men Hurt When the T Root> Ka!! I nHall of Re ror(k Damaged.—V\ alls iiid Sidt*"'o!ks C racked. i ,1 il> 28.—The en t',il forma counties tinpiake of from ,/ duration ,at S i . Bernardino. •u<- \v:V caused. ' \ tn.tiior ;it 1 a. m. injured >«*riously at ' iv Jjvin.i when roofs fell in. al . t„. a no reports of . \va< caused to prop ■ r.tt'ciMs running* cast tin- greatest sufferers. ■ :l . o. u.i- tlit* extreme north j , :i . artliQinike reports nu .uni San lU**go tin* farth -|j., extended eastward. . ’ . ai la No serious' R. i :.,init o the Hail oT Kfr . r.Hirt- house {group. ■ .'v ijimagtal tons of rock being f, mi the balls. T(. falling ilebrjs erasbed through nisi* adjoining. <rit tin.rge Fisher. who was liihcr r*miners were thrown-in* . . : ,, r iiNiicd into the streets part pj.ite gilt's windows in a ri| |,, r „f places were shattered. \Vis and >:dewalks at numerous ; vj.iewalks were eraeked. ;• luiiaieations were cut off. ,_ u t<> tin- pandemonium. Street '•'Went iiin w *'ii a number of wires I Hi.!' on l.'idetlees tllrougllotlt. tlu* cin tnmlded hut. S- • ! tio'ii-attil bricks were knoe.k»*d mi; ■: the Santa Fe machine shops, and I: was other damage t.. that plant. A nail of liiM from falling bricks bung ..ver Sa: I'.ernardino for five binutes af ter til., tirst shuck. At tin southern Cailforina state lios ■ita a 1 ati. where approximately . 1...* Qrti«s»er d iiic flU.li A Mo! to building. In one wing much plaster fell. Tlie patients were terror ize. bur were Quieted by attendants. Sewra: -mailer buildings were damaged. 'N" "ti' was injured. PKOTEMs IMKKASKI) \KM \MKNTS K\ I'KNDIT IRE 'lnlkitdd Says These Kurin the Beg ill - ning nt Another Race for Armaments. ‘ ■'i'l"ii. .1 ui> ilt> the Associated l‘r.svi _.i Kati:se\ M.tel tunald. leader ■' v o[i|Misiti,tii in the House of Coin toda.i moved a resofution depre- Wifigthe increasing expenditures in mil migs Ii lie asserted iF beginning ul another race for He urged the government " :! *’ iidinediat. steps to call an in-, ‘mianoii.-! e 'iifrnner for the limitation armament.- TIIHKK MEN INJI red WHEN ItOII.KK EXPLODES ii I’lant of >. Milton I,umber Co. ‘ n WilmingtPm Exploded Today. - - "1.. .In \ -j;; Tjliree men were '‘‘riouslv. when a boiler ’.' n;T "t 8 Hilton r.timber v .V' > mill here exploded at iwnmig. The building was •ortion of the boiler cired yards into the l.eaks were blamed Vlinlier Thirty.. • ■ ~ „ _ . tutteeti , s J „!,„ hy fur This Man. "I'least* don’t give •*. East s: ‘ ■*" -1R and my wife ... ' 1 " Ve me somet llillg " ' :I :,| id.mobile license d**- : in automobile WLs llf p • '" r !,i " «♦’«’ big. The • i !>!■.! re m without oom- Visit Alaska. . Himl’iijf ,' i . ,i V —President visit to Alaska '••.i;. | . ' u " weeks from ■ in the soil of : - j] - ' Ho, murine partx V ' ' : ' ‘’ig the presi '"’ii.'i fo r y 1 "‘1 ( " !, t "f the harbor i c '' !> and Seattle. w _ “' n| "|iialw Tremors Are Kelt. An enrth -.1 , '.' '‘HV and of two " rr H 4.*.uhj ~ .''d to have oc !r '.iii Washington. (Georgetown f,., j ' l'"* disturbance ' "‘"t incev, ' with the ittiltl llt ■' | 10 o’clock , lrt ‘ n '' ('em ~ - p '• .he. V...’ 1 a Divorce. . ' 1 ■ ■ Associated p r " :l ' gr;.. ~, j'_ , " "••nail. The tlsTuc :>r hud..,. •, ’’ " r "'' itet’c today '*• '■•:. k. Tre ,, “ •ahr j* ' r,lt * tided States ' Mr. ! ■ filling toy bal >4,,"', Iti the Minneap- Youi s * v ” r ,l sill glp sea -4.000.000 of the gas * ' bubbles with j v »i»cix i,y soho<)i oiiii ? s,r «*t Wrl * r a i Tbp v are ■ iiar Ee T " au, l fi'om school THE CONCORD TIMES. [ ESCAPING INSANE CONVICTS RECAPTURED . Escaped Last Night From Insane Hos- I pita! at Chester. Ulionis. Chester, 111., July 2.’L—(By the Ax * sociated Press).— Fifteen of the forty ' one insane convicts who last night es caped from the state hospital for crim ( inal insane here had been recaptured i this morning. ) Acting concertcdly in contradiction to the frequently expressed theory that in ; ' sane persons cannot act itt unison, the frenzied madmen escaped by battling I down a section of steel mesh wire fence after killing one of their, own number and seriously wounding two guards. The superintendent of the institution sus tained a fractured arm in attempting to h.TTd hack the convicts. I Th<* dead convict is William Jackson, ' negr... convicted in Chicago on a mur der charge. It was asserted today that lie was stabbed to death by fellow con victs in a general fight preceding the es cape. and not by guards as previously reported. One of the guards injured is j | not expected to recover. BIG LOSS TO TOBACCO IN GREENVILLE SECTION Early Reports Place the Damage at Oc.no-Ilalf Million Dollars. Greenville, N. C„ July 2M. —Many | , acres of tobacco were reported to have been damaged by a severe rain and bail story in this part of the statelate yes terday and last night. The storm criss crossed over an area of apprpximately l."» miles, according to reports received , here, damaging cotton and corn as well I as tobacco crops. No official estimate of the loss had been made today but re port indicated that it would be high. Much Damage in Wayne County Also. Kinston. July 2ft.—Farmers reaching here today from Wayne County say to bacco. corn and cotton crops were badly, damaged in a section of that county late yesterday by a terrific Jutil and rain storm. THE AMERICAN GUNBOAT PAMPANGA FIRED UPON While Patrolling the West River in Chi na Protecting American Interests. Canton. July 22 (By the Associated Press i.— Previous to the recent cap-' tore of Wu Chow by the constitutional ists. the U. S. gunboat Pumpanga while -patrolling rite Wt. » niver protectii g Am erican interests was tired on by artillery anti vijles at I losing bv Wwaugsi tj-oops. although the ship was Hying two large American Hags. It is the first time in the history of the West River that an American gunboat has been fired on. The Pantpanga itt self defense was forced to return the fire of the attack ers. Some difficulty was experienced in maneuvering-the ship. The action last ed about ten minutes. There were no American casualties. BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE Speakers Bring Messages of Progress of Baptist Work Since dose of War. Stockholm. July 2M (By tlieli Associ ated Press). —The Baptist World Alli ance in here, offered congratula tions to King (Gustav today upon the fact that during his reign full recogni tion of religious liberty had been emot ed in Sweden. It voted to lay a wreath on the grave of (Gustavus Adolphus. Speakers from every seetion of Ku roju brought messages on the progress of tie* Baptist work since the close of the war. Washington. Montreal and Shanghai are applicants for the next session of the Congress. CRISIS APPROACHING In the Turkish-American Treaty Nego tiations.—Trying po Harmonize Views. Lausanne, July 28 (By the Associated Pdess).- —The Turkish-American treaty negotiations are approaching a crisis. By Thursday of this week when Ismet Pasha says lie must leave for Angora, it will be known whether the treaty will be signed or the negotiations broken off. Each delegation has sent lengthy dis patches to its government seeking to har monize its view’s on the diverted points if 1 his is possible. . . The Morse Ship Frauds Trial. Washington. July 23.—After abandon ing their plans to call Attorney (General Daugherty to the witness stand, defense attorneys in the Morse ship' frauds trial made an expected shift in the linenup of their witnesses and announced that Charles M. Schwab would appear tomor \ row. At the same time it became known ‘ that ill health had been given by the Morse counsel as their reason for* not going through with their plan to ques tion the attorney general. Is a Local Political EmhrogHo. Manila. P. 1., July 23 (By the Assn ’ ciaied Press).—The split between Gov ernor (General Leonard Wood and Man uel Quezon which resulted i nthe resig -1 nation* of all the leading officials of the Philippine government has developed in ‘ to a local political partisan embroglio : with the democratic party supporting (Governor Wood and the colleetivisti par ty opposing him, according to leader? I here today. Dies ja*> Result of Burns. Hickory. July 23.—Mrs. Coy Walker. ' 22. died in a local hospital today of burns suffered when oil exploded in a cook stove at her home June 28th. She is survived by her husband and one child. * The report of the Board of Education t of New York City for the term just end jcd shows that not only did a higher percentage of girls received their di -1 plomas, but that in twp school districts ? out of the forty-eight the. girls made a 1 perfect record by graduating 100 per . cent. PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS MR. JOHN C. LESLIE DIES SUDDENLY IN NEW YORK Manager of New York Office of Cannon Manufacturing Co. Dies at His Home. Mr. John C. Leslie, manager of the New York office of the Cannon Mills, died suddenly at his home at No. 1) East 1 80th Street. New York, according to a long distance telephone message today re ceived here about 1) o’clock by Mr. Jos. F. Cannon, of this city. He had just returned from a trip to Lake Placid, where he spent last week with his fam ily, who had been spending some time there. Mr. planned to spend this week in New York and'return to Lake Placid next week for a further stay. So far as is known lit* had been in his us ual health. | Mr. f ,eslie. who was about r>B years of age, was a native of Concord, the son of the late Milas B. Leslie. His early life was spent in Concord, and he was en gaged with a number of businesses here before leaving Concord in 181)0. among them being the mercantile establishments 'of Martin Phifer, and Cannon & Fetzer. ;lu 1800, he left Concord, going to Chai*- • lotte where he opened a mercantile bus iness, with Mr. B. F. Rogers, known as Leslie & Rogers. After several years in (’hariotte he moved to Albemarle, where he was made Secretary and Treasurer of the Wiseassett Mills, of the Cannon 'Manufacturing Company. This position jht* hold until the Cannon Mills opened I up an office in New York, in 1000, when jhe was* transferred to that office. For Isi number of years before his death be 1 had been the manager of the New York 'office, which \vas the main selling office for tin* Cannon Mills. He was a man 'of splendid business ability and held a 1 position of great responsibility. Mr. Leslie is survived by his widow and one daughter. Miss Emma Ross Les lie. of New York City. Five sisters, all lof Concord, also survive, its follows j Mrs. XV. L. Bell. Miss Bettie Mrs. II at lira Leslie Ross, Miss Lena M. Les lie. and Mrs. A. H. .Istnett. Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made. KILLS WIFE AND TWO BABIES. SLASHES SELF Ophir Dugger, Columbia. Tenn.. in Fil of Melancholia. Slaughters family - . Columbia. Tenn., July 22. —Mrs. Ophir Dugger, aged .3(5, her two children, a boy of four stud a girl of two. are dead and Ophir Dugger, the husband and father, is dying in the Kings Daughters Hos pital here tonight as the result of a sud den fit of melancholia on the part of Dugger today. Dugger, according to the sheriff, who made personal investigation, used a razor to cut the throats of his wife and two children and then turned the weapon upon himself, indicting wounds from which he i« dying. Tile tragedy took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Jacobs, tit Carter’s Creek. Mrs. Jacobs is a sis ter of the slain woman. According to Jacobs. Dugger, who came to this section recently with his family from Plainsville, Texas, had been in Nashville for a week searching for work. He returned from that city only a few days ago and stated that he had been unable to secure a job. working only one day of the week in Nashville. Ja cobs stated that Dugger bad brooded over his inability to secure employment and that this is believed to have affected his mind and resulted in today's trag edy. After cutting the throats of his wife and two children, Dugger used the same razor to inflict three ugly wounds upon himself, slashing his throat, cutting his abdomen afcross and also slashing his left arm. lie was removed to the hos pital here, where tonight attending phy sicians stated that he was not expected to survive the night. YEGGMEN WRECK OFFICE BUILDING IN HIGH POINT Thieves Attempt to Blow Open Safe in Office of YV. A. Davis. High Point. July 23.—The office of YV. A. Davis, local wholesale feed dealer, was wrecked abouf 4.30 this morning by thieves attempting to blow open his safe. The attempted safe cracking was evi dently the work of a novice. Dynamite or other high-explosive was used. The yeggmen were afraid to return for the ('.JO inside the .safe. The office was • reduced to debris and the ceiling was blown a wav from the walls of the office. ! ‘ I ' i Family of Cats Develop Rabies a*, the Same Time. Monroe. July 22. —Six cats a'l de veloping rabies at the same time a few days ago has taught their owner. Rev. K. \\\ Hogan, of Buford township, that one cat is a plenty for any family. Some weeks ago Rev. Mr. Hogan's fam ily milk cow developed rabies and the ■entire family of seven has taken the pasteur treatment. The cat experience on top of the other trouble is more than the minister cares to endure again and lie will in the future get along with fewer cats. Federal Agents Make a Big Haul. Federal Agents D. F. YVidenhouse, T. M. Haliburton. J. L. Moore and L. G. Trexler made a big haul in the western part of the state last week. They cap tured ten men and three large distil leries, and seized four automobiles, a coop of chickens, a crate of eggs, two pistols and 51 gallons of whiskey. Sev en of the men were bound over to court, and warrants have been issued for the other three. This was a big week’s work, and the best part of it is that the men were captured along with the stills and liquor. Parks-Bdk Co. Offer Specials For Thursday Afternoon. The Parks-Belk Co. in a page ad. to day offer many bargains in their big Twelfth Anniversary Sale now going on. Among these specials are many for Thursday afternoon. Read the ad. and see what they have to offer. Don’t forget to secure a ticket for each 1.00 worth of goods purchased at this store, as the tickets are good on a chance at ten big prizes to be giveu away. CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 23, 1923. THE TIME TO BEGIN FIGHTING THE BOLL WEEVIL Cotton Grower Urged to Watch Their Cotton Closely From Now On. Raleigh, July"'2.3—'"The time to begin lighting tin* boll weevil by poisoning the cotton with calcium arsenate will soon be at band, and cotton growers are strongly urged to henceforth watch their cotton closely, and when ten per cent, of the squares are found punctured, an application of dust should be made,” Di ll. YV. Ltjiby of the boll weevil labora tory declared in a statement issued here tonight. The ten per cent, point was reached in many cotton fields in the southern counties of the state where si full investigation is due this' year. Dr. Leiby said he thinks, about July 2<)th. The entomologists of the state’s cur eulio and boll weevil laboratory here are keeping a close watch on the de velopment of the weevil, Dr. Leiby stated. He said they art* breeding each day several hundred weevils from fallen squares collected in cotton fields in the southern counties of the state. ‘’These weevils.” continued I)r. Leiby. “aVe tin* progeny of the over-wintering weevils thsit attacked the squares soon after the cotton began squaring in early spring. They are now emerging in numbers from squares which have not been collected, or which have been over looked in the field, and puncturing the squares very rapidly so that in some fields it will not be long before ten per cent, of the squares-will be punctured. YY’hen the grower finds after examining several hundred squares in different parts of a field should again be examined and if the infestation still runs over ten per cent, a third and fourth application should be made at intervals of five nights. A series of four applications of the dust poison when made accord ing to directions will keep the per rent age of punctured squares low and the cotton wil meanwhile mature the early and mid-season formed bolls.” The entomologists working here at the boll weevil laboratory have many pairs of weevils in cages, the females of which deposit an average of about six efitis per day in as many squares. They find that tin* eggs hatch between three and four days after they are laid, and that the square drops from the plant when tin* grub is more than hstlf grown or about eleven days after the egg is placed in the square. Approximately twenty days are required at this season of the year for a grown weevil to de velop from the egg. Extensive poison ing experiments are also being conducted both in the laboratory and in the field, which prove beyond a doubt that the dry calcium arsenate when dusted upon the dew-moistened plants will kill the weev ils within several hours after they drink the poisoned dew. The drinking of the dew, Dr. Leiby explained, is a habit of the weevil. ”I>r. Leiby stated that an appreciable nujnber of the larger cotton planters in the southern counties of the state are prepared to dust to lin’d the weevil in check, one well known company manu facturing cottton dusting machinery hav ing sold 20 dusting machines in two counties. Many other cotton farmers will use mule drawn and Saddle back two-row dusters, while still others will use band dust guns." The general im pression now prevails among those who are not prepared to dust that the.ento li’oligists have .over emphasized the pos sib'e damage by tin* weevils this year in sections where tin* injury is due to be full unless precautions are taken,” Dr. Leiby stated. "This has always been the case for the tirst year when the weevil is present in full force, and such mistaken farmers will have to lose a crop before they accept the advice of tin* entomologists.” Dr. Leiby pointed out thaf th'e ap parent lull in the activity of the weevil is to be expected at this time of the year, but that many punc tured squares in the cotton fields of the southern counties of the state are quiet ly furnishing .food for numerous grubs which will develop into weevils. In recent weeks, Dr. Leiby said he has not failed to find punctured squares in every cotton field lie has examined, al though the owners of these fields in many instances declared that they had been unable to find any work of the weevils. Here and there, however, Dr. Leiby as serted, there are big cotton growers who are waiting to begin their weevil fight by dusting according to the approved methods when the time arrives. \ Hottest in 38 Years. New York, July ~22.JThe warmest July 21 since 1885 directly caused three deaths in the metropolitan district yes. terday, and an elderly woman, trying to keep cool, fell from a window and was killed. Many persons were overcome, in-, eluding one on the beach at Coney Island. No relief is in sight. The temperatures reached 94 at 3 p. m. INTERESTING ITEMS ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA. Gastonia, the county seat of Gaston county, is the cen ter of the textile industry of thhe state. Gaston county has within its borders more than one hundred active cotton mills. \\ inston-Salem is the center of the State’s Tobacco products industry. This city is also the greatest in popula tion with Charlotte as a close second. Charlotte is the state’s leading industrial center. Asheville, in the “land of the sky,” is the tourist center of North Carolina and one of the leading tourist cities east' of the Mississippi. Every summer, thousands from many sections of the country visit this mountain city. Pinehurst* with its many golf links, is the mecca of win ter golfers aid sportsmen. Polo, golf, tennis and many oth er sports form a continuous program through the fall, Yvin ter and early spring months. High Point is the center of the furniture industry of North Carolina and is fast becoming one oi the important furniture manufacturing centers of the south. THE COTTON MARKET * Prices Forced Off From 32 to 45 Points. —Reports of Some (Good Rains in * Southern Texas. y N»*\v York, July 2.3. —An active and weak market characterized the opening session on* the.new cotton exchange this morning. Reports of some good rains in southern Texas, in connection with weak Liverpool cables induced hea,vy commission house and local selling which forced prices off 32 to 45 points at the st;irt. Pressure continued sifter the op ening with July selling at 2(5.00, Octo ber at 23.07, and December at 2.3.70, or 47 Un.sß points net lower. Cotton futures opened easy: July 2(5.25; October 23.30; December 22.80; January 22.(50; March 22.’8. New Board Room Opened With Smash in Prices. New York, July 23. —The opening of the new board room of the cotton ex edtange today witnessed the heaviest bus iness in many weeks with a smash in prices that carried the level of the lead ing positions off HO to 70 points, or $3 to 88.50 pet* bale, under closing prices last Friday. BUSINESS MEN WARNED TO PAY LICENSE TAX Penalty of 20 Per (Gent. Will Be Levied After August Ist Under the Law. . ltalcigh, July 22. —YY’timing to profes sional men of the existence of chapter 9(5 of thfc revenue net requiring the. pay ment of a license tax prior to June l has been issued from the office of Rev enue Commissioner 11. A. Doughton. “A large number of licenses for the practice of certain professions and car rying on of certain businesses have been issued, but there appears to be a large number of parties listble for this tax who have not made application and re ceived tin* necessary license," it was stated at Commissioner Doughton’s office, ’’Unless these applications are.received and tax paid prior to August .1 tin* pen alty of 20 per cent as levied in tin* rev enue sict will be added to sill taxes after August 1. The department, therefore, urges all liable for the tax to make their applications priod to this date." HELL’S KITCHEN GROUCH HAS HIS LAST QUARREL Stabbed to Death YYith Screw Driver After Aimsing Children. New York. July 19.—Brawls, frequent sutd violent, go to make up daily life in Hell’s Kitchen, but no man can appro priate unto himself all the quarrels of the neighborhood; each must have his share. C.irmile Diseullo. who cooked when hi* was not fighting, was known in a dis trict noted for its toughness as "a most quarrelsome man.” Day in and day out lit* fought with his neighbors. Today In* elrised Mrs. Margaret Daly, n cripple, about tin* tenement in whi *h he lived. Later lit* chased a band of kids and slapped their faces. Then he enjoyed his last -quarrel. Three men, remonstrating at his actions, dragged him into a doorway and stabbed him to death with a screw driver. That is tin* way Hell’s Kitchen acts when it is mad. Tonight the police are looking f »r the man who kil ed him. They are de taining as a material witness the father of one of the boys he slapped. The father, in whose rooms two revolvers and it box of cartridges were found, as serted he was upstairs blowing a whistle when the stabbing occurred. -*«• Prominent Cotton Men of England \ris iting Charlotte. Charlotte, July* 21. —Arno S. Pearse, general secretary of the international federation of Master Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers’ association, with headquarters at Manchester, England; Arthur Foster, chairman of the finance council of the Empire Cotton Growing corporation, and the chairman of the fi nance council of the North Lancashire Cotton Spinners’ and Manufacturers’ as sociation. with headquarters at Preston. England; and F. A. Tomlinson, manag ing director of trie newly established Manchester Raw Cotton Company, lim ited with headquarters at the Royal Ex change. Manchester, and capitalized at more than a million pounds, more than ,$5,000,000, are in the city for several days. Messrs Pettrse and Foster were in Charlotte in 1919 when they stopped here vftli other noted figures of the British textile world and others en route to New Orleans to attend the first world’s cotton conference. YY'ith Our Advertisers. Lancaster tires, ‘‘the tires of greater mileage,” are sold here by the Yorke & YY’adsworth Co. (edar Oil Polish, 50 cents a quart, at the Ritchie Hardware Co.’s. Three-piece beautifully designed cane suite. See new ad. of the Concord Furl niture Company, Hiram Johnson Will Not Commit Himself on Arrival P. V. NEESE FALLS OUT WINDOW AT SALISBURY District Manager Business Men’s In surance Company in .Serious Condi tion. Special to Greensboro News. Salisbury, July 22.—P. Y\ Neese, dis trict manager of the Business Men’s Insurance. Company, of Greensboro,, with headquarters in this city,-fell fropi his office window on the second floor of the YY’allaee building to the.cement pavement on Innis Street this morning. He was severely injured about the head and this evening the Salisbury, hospital reports him as being in a serious condition. R. R. Doughty, one of Neese’s agents, and T. J. Cates, special agent with the same company, were arrested by police men shortly after Neese fell from the window, they being reported as having been in the room just before the acci dent. Cates was soon released on a small bond but Doughty is still being held be cause of his condition. Roth Neese and Doughty are reported as having been badly under the influence of whis key. Business associates of Neese have been looking after him fyr several days and this morning he was turned over to Doughty to look after for the day and both are said to have gotten badly under the influeifee of booze before the acci dent occurred. NOT GUILTY, SAYS JURY Alleged Women Floggers at Lumberton Acquitted anti Released. •Lumberton, July 21.—“ Not guilty" was the verdict returned by# the Su perior Court jury at 4:35 o’clock this afternoon on each of the three counts of kidnapping, secret assault and assault with a deadly weapon against Mike Law son. John Hedgpeth and Jule Brogden. charged with being leaders of a band of 18 hooded men who took Mrs. Hattie Purvis and Mrs. Mary A. YY’atson from the home of the former at Proetorville on the night of April 14th last, and gave them a severe flogging on their naked flesh. Only pne ballot was taken. The jury was out 50 minutes. 1 Solicitor T. A. McNeil anouneed that a nol pros with leave would be entered in the charge of burglary in the first de gree. contained in the bill of indictment, and that charge was dismissed and the defendants, who had been in jail since Friday of last week, when they were ar raigned. and prior to that time for more than two months under $15,P00 bond, •were free men. Thus ended the most sensational and the hardest fought case in the history of Robeson county. Since the case was called at 10:45 last Tuesday morning, the court room had been packed every moment of the trial, and every inch of the ground had been closely contested by an sible array of counsel on each side. SCHOOL OF MISSIONS To Hold Its Annual Meeting at Juna lnska Beginning July 26. Lake Junaluska, N. C.. July 21. —The School of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which will hold its annual summer school beginning July 2(5 and continuing through August 9. is the next event of importance on the program of Methodist activities at Lake Junaluska, it is announced by the Rev. A. C. Zumbrunnen. D. D., Ph. I).. Secretary of the Home Cultivation De partment of the Board of Missions, under whose auspices the school will Im* conducted. Dr. Zumbrunnen is dean of the School of Missions. The school will be conducted in the new Mission Building, completed last year by the Board of Missions at a cost of $150,000. The evening platform meetings will be held in the auditorium on the lake front. “The summer school of Missions, at Lake Junaluska offers four valuable things," declared Dean Zumbrunnen. "namely, information, inspiration, recrea tion and association, and these points will have special emphasis and include a carefully prepared four years’ course of study on spoil subjects as Bible Study, History of Missions; the Philosophy of Missions; Missionary Pedagogy and the study of Mission fields. ■’lnspiration will have a prominent place in the school. This is the purpose of die morning prayer meeting and the platform meetings each night, when the best inspirational speakers that could be secured will have charge. “In the field.of recreation which will 'be stressed, Junaluska has much to offer in the way of rowing, swimming, fishing, tenuis, golf, horseback riding, and moun tain elimbinb. This year there will be a special director of recreation who will have charge of the program in this re spect." The announced purpose of the school is to help train an adequate missionary leadership, for the 65,000,000 with whom the Methodist Episcopal Church is working in home and foreign mission fields. The curriculum is as follows: The Child and America’s Future; The Missionary Message of the Bible; Social Aspect of Foreign Missions; the Mission Study Class Leader; Why and How of Foreign Missions; Dramatics and Pag eantry : Outlines of Missionary History ; The Missionary ; The Principles of Teach ing Missions; The Missionary Program and Organization of the Local Church and the International Aspect of For eign Missions. A Missionary Pageant will be the closing feature of the school. Sea Going Tug Goes Down. YVilmington. July 23.—The tug Juno of YY’ilmington, went down in 10 feet of water off the Beaufort Bar laste yester [ day afternoon during a thunderstorm, ac ! cording to long distance telephone ees- I sages received here today. ’ James Copeland, engineer, of YVilming iton, was lost, but the body has not been recovered, , $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. F i rv foday on From a Trip to Europe.—Later May Have Something to Say. WILL MAKE SPEECH WEDNESDAY NIGHT His Friends Expect a Report and Statement From Him at That Time. —Is Cheered by 2,000 People. m New York. July 23.—United States Senator Hiram Johnson, of California, boomed by his friends for the Republi can Presidential nomination in 1924, re turned from a tour of Europe today on the Leviathan, and refused to indicate to news reporters or the crowd who gathered to greet hina whether his hat was in the ring. Johnson enthusiasts professed to see two good omens in the incident of the home coming. One was the fact that in the little fleet of craft that went down the Bay to meet him was the tug Me nominee. . The other was the fact that whileJie didn't shy his hat ihto the ring a capricious wind shied it for him into t lie Bay. The Senator only laughed, however, when lie was asked to comment on the cmens and declared: ‘ I will not be interviewed on domes tic politics at this time. Later I may have a little to say.” Friends of the Senator indicated they expected an important statement from him Wednesday night when he address ed the testimonial dinner arranged in his honor. Senator Johnson was taken aboard the municipal steamer Macomb and landed at the Battery. He was cheered there by a crowd of more than 12.000 persons as lie entered an automobile to take him to the Waldorf. To reporters who pressed him for some indication as to how he feels for “Johnson for President,” he had ever the same answer though he phrased it differently—that he wasn’t going so be # interviewed ou that subject today. ALLEN CHASED OUT OF STATE IN. 1919 North Carolina Department of Welfare Withdrew License From School Ueaii. li.ileigfi News iiWT . Investigation in 1910 of his school at Franklin. Macon county, by the N. C. State Board of Charities and Public Welfare caused H. B. Allen, who was arrested last week in Los Angeles charged with white slavery, to transfer his institution tp Virginia whenhe lie tied last February, public welfare offi cials here declared last night. Suspicions of Mr. Allen's conduct of the Macon county school were aroused % in the mind of .the board’s representa tive making the investigation. Allen was told that it was necessary for him to have a license from the Board of Charities and Publice Welfare in order to operate such an institution in North Carolina, whereupon he removed his es tablishment across the Virginia line to Sabot, Va. Last February when Allen’s school was broken up by Public Welfare Com missioner Frank Bane, of Virginia, on account of its questionable management and Allen tied to California, a represen tative of the N. C. State Board of Char ities and Public Welfare went to Rich mond and brought back five inmates of school who were from North .Carolina. These five children were placed in pri vate homes and institutions in this state by the Board of Public Welfare. BABY FALLS BENEATH WHEEL AND IS KILLED Unobserved, Two-Year-OUI Climbs to Running Board and Drops W’hen Car Starts. Gastonia. July 21.—Pauline West, two-year-old daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. W. West, was almost instantly killed this evening when she fell from 1 lie running board of an automobile and was crushed under the‘rear wheel of the machine driven by Mrs. R. E. Rhyne, wife of a prominent physician here. Mrs. Jthyne had taken Mrs. West and her ehildnn to ride and had brought them home. Some of the children had gone on into the house. While the two ladies were talking the little girl, un observed, had climbed to the running board on the opposite side from her nnother. As Mrs. Rhyne moved away from the curb, the little one fell off and was run over. It died on the way to the hospital. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon. Fifth Trunk Line Out of New York. New York, July 21. —Plans for a fifth great trunk line railway to connect New York and Chicago have been worked out _ by officials of the New York Ctntral rail- road, it was announced tonight by Pres ident A. 11. Smith, The route, approv al for which will be sought from the Interstate Commerce Commission, would be 40 miles shorter than the present New York Central route and shorter than any of the other three trunk lines between the two cities with the excep tion of that of the Pennsylvania Rail road Company. The line would include existing separate short routes from Ash tabula. Ohio, to New York ; the Central railroad of New Jersey, portions of the Philadelphia aud Reading and the Frank lin division of the New York Central with the construction of about 9.*5 miles of new track to take the place of ex isting lines, a part of which are owned * by the Pennsylvania system. Among the Egyptians cats were re garded with the utmost reverence, and their mummified remains are frequently found in the same tombs as their wor shippers. NO. 5.