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b> Attorney Gen-
Birr ho filed in the WOSt
|BfcUiTal court.
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A"oeiated with
Attorney General
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jo. tatter two rep*
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a series of 55 al-
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of the Atlantic* & Yad-
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to aeeount in full
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THE CONCORD TIMES
“Girl Crazy?”
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burg, la., shot and killed his father,
Rev. R. J. Vandervoort, and serf,
ously wounded his mother, he said
because his family life was one oi
continual “bickering,” and that hi
could not stand it any longer
Neighbors, however, say the boy U
:**glrj crazy,” and that he wanted th*
SII,OOO life insurance the father car
riecL Mr. and Mrs.
WILSON PROMISE IS
REDEEMED IN PLANS
Promise, Redeemed When
the Special Concessions
Were Made to Belgium in
Regard to Her War Debt
Wa>diington, - Aug. 20.— UP) —When
the American government recognized
Belgium’s claim to special treatment
in her payment of tb war debt. Sec
retary Mellon said today it redeemed
a promise of President Wilson, which
at the time it was made was so im
portant that it forestalled disruption
of the Versailles peace conference.
The Treasury Secretary who is the
head of the American debt funding
commission, declared that circum
stances were weighed carefully by the
commissioners and President Coolidge
in agreeing to the rate of interests on
all Belgium borrowed from the United
States during the war. Mr. Mellon
said the pledge of President Wilson
was made at a time when Belgium was
about to withdraw from the peace ne
gotiations, and that Secretary Hoover,
a member both of the Versailles con
ference and the debt commission, tes
tified during the debt discussions here
that the influence of Mr. Wilson's
promisg on the peace settlement, was
indisputable.
Wisconsin Election September 29th.
Madison, Wis., Aug. 20. — UP) —A
special election for United States Sen
ator to fill the unexpired term of the
late Senator Robert M. La Follette
will be held September 29th. Gov
ernor Blaine issued the call ’today.
The special primary to nominate can
didates for the office will be held
two weeks before the election, as the
law provides.
Trotzky Returning to Power
Warsaw, Aug. 20.— UP)— Advices
from Moscow report the return to
power of Leon Trotzky with the. ap
pointment of the former war minister
as chief of the economic council.
Flattery is the best cure for a stiff
neck. There are few heads it won’t
turn.
Christian Religion Fundamental
„ is the Organic Law of the Land
Nashville, Aug. 20—Of)—
The Christian religion is recognized
as fundamental in the organic law of
the land in an opinion by Justice
Brewer, of the United States -Supreme
Court, handed down in 18J- 111 V ie
case of the Church of the Holy Trin
ity vs. United States.
This record was called to the at
tention of Governor Austin Peay by
a well known Tennessee jurist in view
of the fact that the Tennesse governor
signed the bill which bars the teach
ing of the theory of evolution in the
public schools of the state and since
its adoption had maintained his funda
mental attitude on religion, in the
fight to have the law declared con
stitutional. , VT „„,
This case was an appeal from Aew
York State. The church made a con
tr”ct in September, ISS7, «.th an
alien residing in Enpand. by o
the preacher was to remove to
York City and enter into the service
of the religious organization as rec
tor. It was then claimed that this
contract was forbidden by Chap er
16223 Stat. at L. 332 and action was
commenced to recover the pena y P
EARLY WINTER HAS
PUT STOP TO THE
M' H ILL AN FLIGHT
Explorer Will Not Be Able
to V\y Over the Un
known Polar Sea on His
Present Trip.
PARTY MAyHbE
SPLIT UP SOON
Very Probable That One
Ship With Naval Avia
tors Will Return to the
States Soon.
Washington. Aug. 20. — (A*)— Early
approach of the Arctic winter has
forced the MacMillan expedition to
abandon its effort to fly over the un
known Polar Sea and may even lead
one of the two ships to return ahead
of schedule.
Although* officials of the National
Geographic Society said today they
had received no indication that the
party might split up and one of the
vessels precede the other in its re
turn, they however admitted it as a
possibility.
When informed of a report to this
effect it was said that if Commander
Donald MacMillan should decide up
on such a plan, it probably would be
to enable the^naval flying unit with
the expedition to leave the far North
before the closing in of winter
weather.
It also was pointed out that the
scientific work still to be attempted
in Greenland, Labrador and Baffin Is
land would not necessarily require the
efforts of the eutire party, and that
in view of this, a part might return in
advance. They were of the belief,
however, that if this were done there
would be only a matter of ten days or
two weeks in the time elapsing be
tween the arrival home of the two
ships.
THE COTTON MARKET
Easier During Early Trading, After
an Opening Decline of Frcm 3 to
9 Points.
New York, Aug. 20.— (A*) —The
cotton market was easier during to
day's early trading on a continued ten
dency to increase estimates of the
crop. Relatively easy Liverpool ca
bles and reiterated reports of an easy
spot basis in the eastern belt.
The market opened easy at a de
cline of 3 to 9 points. There was
some foreign trade buying and cover
ing at the decline.-but the selling
movement continued and prices show
ed net losses of about 7 to 9 points
at the end of the first hour.
Cotton futuresT October 23.30 : De
cember 23.53; January 23.03; March
23.29; May 23.G5.
New Deputies for DeMolay.
Kansas Cit. Mo., Aug. 18. —Three
new state deputies for the Order of
DeMolay have been appointed by Alex
ander G. Cochran, grand master coun
cilor, according to announcement from
headquarters here. These deputies
are Thomas J. Harkins, Asheville, N.
C.; Rev. S. Cary Beckwith. Charles
ton, S. C., and Marshall W. Wood,
Boise, Idaho., Each will have charge
of the order in his state.
All of tfiese men are members of
the Supreine Council, Ancient and Ac
cepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry,
Southern Jurisdiction. Beckwith is
widely known in southern religious
circles. Harkins is a prominent law
yer. “Wood is sovereign grand in
spector general of the Scottish Rite in
Idaho.
Since June 28th there has been no
connection for western North Carolina
for passengers leaving Concord on the
5 o’clock morning train. The Ashe
ville train now leaves Salisbury at
5 :20 a. m., whereas No. 13G does not
reach Salisbury until 5 :50 a. m. An
other train leaves Salisbury at 8:30,
reaching Asheville at 1:55 p. m. Those
who wish to do so may leave Concord
at 5:52 via Charlotte and Barber,
teaching Asheville at 1:55.
scribed in the act of Congress. The
statute prohibited the importation of
aliens to the United States to per
form any labor or service. The cir
cuit court held that the contract was
within the prohibition of this statute
and rendered judgment accordingly
and the question presented for deter
mination before tty* United States
court was whether the lower court
had erred in that conclusion.
The highest tribunal in the land
ruled that the construction invoked in
this case could not be held as cor
rect and reserved the judgment for
further proceedings.
Os a most interesting nature in
view of the Dayton evolution trial
and the pronounced stand for funda
mentalism taken by William Jen
nings Bryan and Governor Peay as
opposed to the liberal views on inter
pretation of the Bible upheld by
Clarence Darrow, scientists and oth
ers are the citations from constitu
tions of various states and the con
stitution of the United "States -quoted
by the justice of the Supreme Court,
The opinion said:
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PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
CONCORD, N. C„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1925
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flrs. Flora Meyers Gillentine, Murphreesboro, Tenn., hae I>een appointed
nember of the Tennessee text book cow .mission. She will purge school
books of evolutionary theories
WILL NO! ABANDON
SCHODLAT KINSTON
Governor McLean Certain
Caswell Training School
Will Not Be Abandoned
by the State.
Raleigh, Aug. 20. — UP) —Gov. .. A.
W. McLean in a statement fedmed
through the executive office last night,
declared the state is firmly committed
to care for the feeble minded children
of the state, and there is not reason
for believing the training school at
Kinston will be abandoned.
“In my opinion North Carolina is
just as firmly committed to the policy
of maintaining the Caswell Training
School for feeble-minded children as
she is to any of the other charitable
and correctional institutions,” said
the statefnent.
Governor McLean’s statement was
issued because of reports that “some of
the people of Kinston are greatly ag
itated over what they consider a pos
sibility that Caswell Training School
may be discontinued.”
“BILL NYE” ANNIVERSARY.
Elaborate Preparations Completed for
Celebration Next Week.
Asheville, N. C-, August 20.—r
Elaborate arrangements have been
completed for the celebration next
week of the seventy-fifth anniversary
of the birth of Edgar Wilson Nye
(Bill Nye) the great American
humorist. The celebration is to be
held in the old historic Calvary
church at Fletcher, near Asheville,
where Mr. Nye made his home dur
ing the latter years of his life.
The observance will begin with an
Edgar Wilson Nye memorial service
next Sunday. The principal features
will take place Tuesday, which will
be the anniversary of the humorist’s
birth. On that day an imposing
granite monument with tablet to
Nye, the Nye memorial window in
the church, the boulder with tablet
at his grave_ in the churchyard the
memorial flag staff, the gift of- Ashe
ville, and the Nye Memorial Shelter
by the roadside, will be dedicated
with appropriate ceremonies.
Following the services at the
church there will be a program of
exercises at Nye’s old home, Buck
Shoals, near Arden. Messages frdm
President Coolidge and the Governors
of Maine Wisconsin. North Carolina,
New York and Wyoming, the States
with which Bill Nye was most in
timately associated, will be read at
the celebration.
FOUR INQUIRIES INTO
EXPLOSION ON VESSEL
Forty Victims of Explosion Account
ed for and Four Other Persons Are
Missing.
Newport, R. 1., Aug. 20. — UP)
Four separate investigations were un
derway today to determine the respon
sibility for the tragedy from the ex
plosion of a boiler on the excursion
steamer Mackinac Tuesday night
which has claimed forty victims to
the present. Four other persons are
still missing and it is believed that
they may have pumped overboard and
drowned. Hospital authorities who
have saved many sufferers from seand
ing steam which enveloped the boat,
said the death list would probablj
exceed fifty. .
State boiler inspectors, who visited
the death ship yesterday, said the
boiler which exploded was cracked ind
in a weakened condition.
A woman’s curiosity is exceeded
only by that of a man who says he
hasn’t, any.
NOTED EDITOR AND
PUBLISHER IS DEAD
Victor Fremont Lawson,
Editor of Chicago Daily
News, Dies After Illness
of Only Three Days.
Chicago, Aug. 20. —C4 3 )—-Victor Fre
mont Lawson; one of the' Tftst >f the
American pioneer journalists, is dead.
The editor and publisher of The
Chicago Daily News died last night
at his home on Lake Shore Drive after
an illness of only three days of a heart
ailment from which he had suffered
in recent years.
Foremost among exponents of un
tained news, one of the founders of
the Associated Press, and owner of
one of the greatest newspaper successes
of the continent, his death marked the
passing of a premier newspaper figu
ure of the last century.
DAVIS SPRINGS HOTEL
IS DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Was Reduced to Ashes Within an
Hour at 2 O’clock Wednesday Af
ternoon.
Statesville. Aug. 19. —The well
known Davis Springs Hotel, near
Hiddenite, seventen miles north of
Statesville, was totally destroyed by
fire this afternoon. The fire was
first discovered on the kitchen roof
about 2 o’clock and without equip
ment for fighting the flames this pop
ular summer resort was reduced to
ashes within an hour. There were
nearly a hundred guests. The bowl
ing alley, garage and all nearby out
buildings were consumed.
The magnificent shade trees near
the building were charred. The flames
spread to the adjoining woods and
late this afternoon, when a newspa
per correspondent left, forest fifes
were raging from the ruins of the
hotel.
The original Davis Springs Hotel
was built twenty-one years ago by
Rev. R. L. Davis and brother, Jeff
Davis. Many improvements had been
made until this summer it became a
fully equipped hundred room hotel.
Last fall the property was purchased
by Dr. S. T. Crowson and H. T.
Kelly, of Taylorsville, who has been
proprietors during this -season.
The guests there today were from
many southern states. The property
had an estimated value of $40,000
with about $12,000 insurance. This
afternoon Dr. Crowson stated the
owners 'had no plans for the future
although he thought it likely will be
rebuilt.
Shop at Home anti Save Money-
Topeka, Kas., Aug. 20. - One
Topeka woman has become an urdent
convert to the “shop at home” move
ment. Having accumulated the
wherewithal for a new outfit of Fall
and Winter finery she journeyed to
Kansas City to do her shopping.
After arriving in the western Mis
souri City, however, she was relieved of
her purse by a pickpocket before she
had time to make her purchase. Upon
her return home she made her pur
chases at the local stores on credit
and now faces the prospect of saving
her pin money for the next six
months in order to settle the bill.
Denies Sartain and Rhiel New Trial.
Mobile. Ala.. Aug. 20. —04>)—Judge
Robert T. Irvin in federal court here
today handed down a formal order de
nying a new trial to Albert E. Sar
tain, former warden of the Atlanta
federal penitentiary, and Lawrence
Rhiel, of Columbus, Ohio, recently
convicted of conspiracy to receive
bribex.
temoon.
DEMOCRATIC FIGHT
STRUGGLE BETWEEN
HEARST AND SMITH
That Is Attitude of Many
New York Persons as a
Result of Actions For
Mayorality Nomination.
HEARST HATES
GOVERNOR SMITH
And For That Reason He
Wants to Put Mayor Hy
lan Over Because Smith
Is Opposing the Mayor.
New York. Aug. 20.— UP) —As for
the mayoralty campaign, plunged into
the rally stage today, the republicans
were on record as regarding the
breach in the democratic ranks as a
fight between Governor Smith and
Win. Ranolph Hearst for control of
the New York delegates in the next
Democratic* National Convention.
Views were expressed by Chas. D.
Hilles, republican national committee
man and city chairman.
“Hearst is consumed by his hatred
of Governor Smith,” Mr. Hiles said
yesterday in a speech in behalf of
Frank Waterman, organization repub
lican designee for mayor.
. “Smith is determined to unseat May
or Hylan and Hearst. A Democrat
ic leader of Staten Island is reported
as saying that this is a fight to de
termine who will control the Demo
cratic party in New York, and that
if Senator Walker wins in the pri
m Mies, Gov. Smith will name the del
egates tto the Democratic National
Convention in 1928, whereas if Hylan
wins Hearst will name the delegates.”
DISSE FOUND GUILTY OF
FIRST DEGREE MURDER
Jury in Case Deliberated Less Than
Half an Hour.—Want Verdict Set
Aside.
Richmond, Aug. 20. —( A 5 ) —Rudolph
Disse was fouud guilty by a jury in
Hustings Court here this afternoon of
first degree murder and septenced to
death in the electric chair for shoot
ing to death Henry Grady Carter on
.inly 29fh, last.
The jury deliberated less than one
hour and a half.
A hush fell over the court room as
the verdict was pronounced. Disse
did not change his expression, nor
did he move in his chair.
The form of the verdict was ap
proved by the commonwealth.
Defense Attorney Jas. C. Page
arose: i
“We wish to ask that this verdict
be set aside,” he said. “We ask this
on the grounds of misdirection of law,
erroneous instruction, exclusion of
instructions asked of the court, and
admission of improper testimony,” he
declared.
BACK TO NATURE*
Women Wearing Less Daily, British
Vicar Bemoans.
London, Aug. 20. —“Day by day in
every way women grow nakeder and
nakeder.” says the Rev. Richard
Free. Vicar of St. Clement’s Ful
ham.
“One need no longer scour the
European galleries in search of the
eternal feminine in undreiSfi uni
form,” said the Vicar. “Examples,
which rapidly become the rule, are
to be seen in every bus, at every con
cert and garden party, and in our
very streets and homes.
“Will the police have to be called
in, as they were on “account of the
Parisian ladies after the- French
Revolution?”
Dr. Howard in Bandit Camp.
Peking. Aug. 20.— UP) —Dr. Har
vey J. Howard, the American who
was captured some time ago by ban
dits in Manchuria at the same time
that they killed Morgan Palmer, for
merly of Plattsburg, N. has been
definitely located in a bandit camp
some 40 miles from Fuchow-Hsien.
Dr. Howard is reported to be well.
N. A. Blackwelder Returns Home;
Enjoyed His Trip Through West
N. A. Blackwelder, Cabarrus Coun
ty farmer who has been missing since
Saturday a week ago, returned to
Concord late Wednesday evening after
an 11-day glimpse “beyond the hori
zon” and was almost immediately tak
en to his home in No. 5 Township by
a daughter and a grandchild who had
come to get him wnen they heard of
his return.
His story was one of a desire to
to see beyond the narrow con
fines of Cabarrus county, of a desire
unrequited until he took fate in his
own hands and proceeded “to see the
world.” It mattered not to him that
he left behind him a wife of forty-five
years, children and grand-children who
searched vainly for some trace of him.
He wanted to get out and see some
thing.
In particular, he wanted to see Il
linois. Ever since he was a youth in
his early twenties, he had longed to
view that state. It had a fascination
for him that the Orient has for oth
ers. And yet, here he was, after for
ty years of longing, still at his farm,
still doing the same duties he had al
ways had. At 67, he was no nearer
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Here is Raleigh Valentine Reece,
who has been chosen to succeed John
T. Scopes as a high school teacher at
Dayton, Tenn. It’s a safe bet that he
is a Fundamentalist and won’t men
tion monkeys during tin* coming school
year.
DAYTONA REALTOR
HELD FOR INQUIRY
Coroner’s Jury Will Inquire
Into Death of Mrs. H. B.
Hunt and John Gobel Is
Being Held.
Miami, Fla., Aug. 20. — (A*) —A cor
oner’s inquest today will probe the
(loath by poisoning 4*f Mrs, H- B.
Hunt, for which John Gobel. wealthy
Daytona realtor, is being held.
Ait autopsy of the body conducted
by Dr. It. K. Jauden, county physi
cian, yesterday, disclosed evidence that
a powerful corrosive poison caused her
death. However, a qualitative analy
sis has not yet been applied.
Mrs. Hunt was arrested Tuesday
following a warrant sworn out by
Gobel charging grand larceny of a
diamond ring Gobel is then said to
have visited the jail, seeing Mrs. Hunt
and telling her he wa.s thinking of
withdrawing the warrant. He said
he wanted to fix things up and was
left alone with her.
A few minutes later the woman
came running out of the jail office,
police said, crying that Gobel made
her drink something.
Then she threw her arms.around
Gobel’s neck, asking why he did that.
Later, however, at a hospital just
before she died, she whispered, “Well.
I guess I did a good job of it.”
Gobel claims she was a dose fiend.
Agree on Customs Traffic Conference.
Tokyo. Aug. 20. — UP) —The interest
ed powers have virtually agreed on
their attitude toward the proposed
conference on the Chinese customs
tariff. The foreign office in a state
ment today said it had been agreed
that the tariff autonomy cannot be
granted China at present, the agenda
arranged by the Washington agree
ment must be first considered by the
conference, after which the delegates
will decide regarding the discussion
of any reasonable proposal China may
make.
It was generally agreed that no de
cision should be made at present.
Tiger Flowers, who is recovering
| from a recent operatiton. expects to
be able to meet Allentown Joe Gans
I at Grand Rapids on the night of Au-
I gust 21st.
Illinois.
Thinking k over though, Mr. Black
welder came to the decision that
something had to be done quickly if
he were to get away. His family
would, he knew, never consider let
ting him leave. If he had mentioned ■
it, he declared, they would have found
so many things that had to be done
that he knew he would never have
gotten away. He therefore decided to
pull out quietly.
Since Illinois had been the goal of
his ambition, he took note of the ad
vertisements and saw one in the At
lanta Journal which exactly suited
his purpose. It was to the effect that
machinists were wanted in Moline,
Illinois, at a salary of from five to
ten dollars a day. This, thought Mr.
Blackwelder, would give him a
chance to live well and make money,
in addittion to seeing the state he
desired to see.
Coming to Concord on Saturday,
August Bth. he made dll his plans.
When his daughter suggested going
home He told her that she could leave,
that he would return with one of the
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$2.00 ?. Year, Strictly in Advance.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS Os; :
COUNTY MEETING IN'
ANNUAL CONVENTION •
Sessions of Convention Are
Being Held Today at St.
Stephens Church in No.
7 Township.
BIG ATTENDANCE
DURING THE DAY
D. W. Sims, General Su
perintendent of the State
Association, Present for,
the Convention.
St. Stephens Lutheran Church to- |
day is the meeting place for the 1925 j
Cabarrus County Sunday School Con
vention. the opening session of wkif4i
was held this morning at 10 o’clock. .
Reports reaching Concord at noon \
stated that an unusually large at- *
tendance marked the morning sesaiqn
and indications were that the attend- *’
ance in the afternoon would be much
larger. .
D. W. Sims, general superintendent f
of tlie North Carolina Sunday School
Association, is present for the con
vention and his talks were to be among
the features of file day’s program. Mr.
Sims this morning talked on “Lesson
Preparation” and during the after
noon he was to discuss the subject,
“Reaching and Holding Adults in the
Sunday School.”
E. J. Sharpe, superintendent of the
adult division of the county associa
tion ; Miss Eugenia Lore, superin
tendent of the children’s division of
the association; R. P. Benson, \siee
president of the county association; j
and other persons who have taken a !
leading part in the work of the asso
ciation were heard during the morn
ing and afternoon.
Election of officers and presenta
tion of the attendance prize were to
be among the features of the after
noon session. The convention will
be decided on later by officers of the
association.
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PRISONER SAYS LIFE
WAS HARD AT QUARRY
Kan Away Because of the Poor Food
and Unsatisfactory Quarter*. *
Statesville, Aug. 19.—Louis Gibson,
Charlotte negro, who escaped from
the State convict camp beyond Ashe
ville a week ago, after sevring three |
months of a 15-year sentence for high
way robbery, is in jail here awaiting
orders from State officials. The pris- -
oner says that he was on his way to
Charlotte and had stopped at the
home of a negro in South Statesville
to get something to eat when the lo
cal officers apprehended him.
Gibson, who looks to be about 25
years of age, tells the officers, that
he began his sentence on the State
farni and while there he was given
plenty of food and satisfactory treat
ment; but when they transferred him
to the rock quarry in the mountains,
he allelges that he was put on a hard
diet and not enough of it to enable
a man to work hard all da£. He
stated that he ran away from the
camp on Monday of last week, the
guard firing several shots are him a»
he fled. His only reason fdr taking
chances on death in making his es
cape was the poor food and unsatis
factory quarters at the camp-, he said* *
n* > ~ _
FIND BODY OF F. P.
RAINWATER ON ROAO
Che raw Merchant Shot Four Time*.—
No Clue as to Who Did the Shoot
ing. .
Cheraw. S. C., Aug. 20.—G4>)—F. P.
Rainwater, prominent local merchant,
was found shot to death on the Socie
ty Hill highway about 7 miles from
here last night.
Four gunshot wounds were in hi*
body. A pistol was found near with
4 exploded cartridges which i* be- *
lieved to have belonged to the dead
mun. Rainwayer was found slumped
down in his automobile. The tragedy
was discovered when passing motor
ists saw his machine standing at the
side of the road, apparently unoccu
pied, and investigated.
One theory here is that the mer
chant was slain by rum runners Wbe
mistook him for a prohibition officer.
President ofT For Northampton.
Plymouth, Vt., Aug. 20. — (A*) —With
weather ideal for motoring, President
und Mrs. Coolidge left here today for
his old home in Northampton, Mam.
After an overnight stay there they will
continue to Swampseott, arriving at
the summer White House probably
late tomorrow.
J ■ .
15b not hurry; do not flurry;
nothing good is got by worry.
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SAT'S BEAR SAYS:
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday;
probably local thundershower* Fri
day and in extreme portion tonight;
somewhat cooler Friday.
NO. 13