FORTY PERSONS KILLED
IN EXPLOSION
me axpmm wwrK at 11:S0 s.
tat th# ordinance salvage plant.
The nitration works M been leaped
to the Awwlw company for lraa>
mant of army TNT to bo naed aa
agricultural fertiliser.
Kg Building »«w« Up
Tha building, two atoriaa high, >00
feet Ion* and of hollow tile construc
tion. was literally blown from tha
earth along with tbe men belie red
to have been within tt. Tha shock
was felt for 80 miles, shattering win
dows. lifting roofs and toppling chim
ney* in many cities. On Staten Is
land buildings rocked aa if In aa earth- j
quake.
pony's celluloid novelties manufac
turing works which wnrnifcd tha
TNT plant and rased aa if by shell
firs the encircling dwellings of M
employees whoso little settlement waa
known aa the town af Nixon.
T*V, |U'L « I IB Vl ukaflASAfl amjI MBMH
I nroJljfn WlllXcrrQ FOOTS •TK1 C f UUI -
plod aili upon piles of flimsy cel
luloid ahsfti hi every one of the Ninaa
buildings—showered eariiers, biasing
TNT and boiling arid broadcasted by
the fere* of the explosion. The bhue
flames of the highly inflammable ceL
luloid with which all the structures
wore filled, burst forth on tha hoela
of the Mast like a huge blowtorch,
cutting down everyone and everything
within a radius of several hu-wired
feet.
Tin screams of man and girts |ia
n®0 wwii try IIMI Jflnlc!», v«ulflM Oj
falling walla of tOe, or caught be
neath aorara] pipe Unas which show
ered fhem with nitric arid, mingled
HI - _# 1- 1„.„ — _ J
wiin rnw or nouNwirHi inn cniiurfii
whose dwellings only a few feet fM
the celluloid works, came tumbling
down upon them.
WnJZZZZZ among"mt" WiU
mi'i daughters iwh article* of cbtk
lift ptlVOMl MMMIltMfl Mid
irt works that may lun tiilwuiJ to
their mother. the tnt wife of the
former president.
Under the will, Mr*. Wilson is to
retain the estate during her Ufa, and
the unexpended portion at bar death
la to ha distributed among Mr. W(U
•on'i daughters.
The will waa op wad February It,
according to a notation on the snrel
»pe, in the presence of Mrs. Wilson,
Margarvt Wflsoa. Eleanor Wilaon Me
\doo, W. G. McAdoo and N. W. White,
the attorney* who Mad it.
The will reads:
"I will and dseiae my pieyity, real
■ay debts that may constitute a data
jpon it at the thite of my death, to
■y beloved wife. Edith, for her life
time, with the rsquaat that aha distri
ct te amon^ my daMghten each
articles of clothing. Jewelry, personal
urnament or art material aa may
Imee been the peAonal belongings of
their mother, and with the direction
that my daughter, Margaret. shaO re
tain out of the faitnma of nay estate
w long as she lesaahts unmarried the
mm of $2,560 annually unleae that
amount ahoold at any time exceed one
third of the entire annual incsmi of
ny eats to; hi which ease rim shall re
-eire one-third of the tncoaaa.
"Upon the death of my beloved wife,
Edith, it ia my will and diietllen
iheuld she die without iaaae that the
whole of my eetate, real and personal,
>r so much of it aa shall remain tmqx
sended or undtapereed, shall taeart to
■y children, share and share alike,
and if aha should die leaving laana.
liar child shall inherit share and share
alike with my daughter*."
The document waa dated May >1,
1917. It waa witneesed by Helen
ffoodrow Bonae. a cousin of the tista,
tor, I. H. Hoover. chief usher at tta
White House, and Ralph M. Rogera.
formerly an aahsr there. Mr*. Wilaon
I* named aa aaacutiU.
On the envelope which contained the
■rW to written hi the handwriting of
Mr. Wilm the worfci
Taut will and tetawit of Wood
row WitooK."
U first
in* Fotfcas by giving
In its special report tit* Grand Jury
stated much in tha hursaa lequiiad
further tnrmtigation, but ilnra this
was outside the jurisdiction of tJtfs
Federal Court tt suggested the Gov
-mment push the investigation where
ft had jariadiction.
Th«*Grand Jury (aid:
"Incidental to the investigation of
matter* of which this Grand Jury had
iurisdietioa certain other fiaeta not
directly pertaining to tha Veterans'
Bureaa wars developed by counasl
for the Goven»ent which wa regard
of groat importance.
"Thar* is no jurisdiction of than
in tha Northern District of Illinois,
M w» an assured by Mr. Ota ha
will lay thsai before tha
«»ration.
friend* to him to explain that I could
not treat him any differently than I
hare treated others. Me has aeen fit
te decline renmn ination on thoae
terms. So far Mian concerned, that
nettlee H. Be may have his place yet,
bat only ea that condition."
Got. Phdnt explained that %ia
decision to exact soch
made known in his maogaral i
"I found that all over the State
ofieials, sworn to obey the lew. were
breaking K ooenly ant
•aid he. "Therefore, to hrhtr
to them the fact tha} obedience te the
law la not an academic hot a very Hen,
pe -sonal pled;rs. What is man than
that f wW eenthwe to baft anon H
and will apoloyise to nobody for do
World News Briefly Told
FLAPPER BANDIT JAILED—
Dorothy Koftn, bobed-hair flappei
hutft, after a four day carnival «J
rr in wttfc Iwr lover Paul Wortlj
sobbed oat bar bitter story k> Phila
delphia's central police station. 81m
was captured whan ah* and bar com
pan ion attempted to hold «p a afcx
store. Worth shot a politsmsn aa hi
DANIELS WRITING BIOCRAPH1
OF WILSON—Jooophoa Daniels whe
ia bain« carried aa Democracy1! dart
•toad to" ramp in the Praaidaetial met
ia now hi Philadelphia writtof a lift
of Woodiow Wilson." Daniel's friendi
confidently hope to sea him captun
the Democratic convention. Bat tlx
North seams to bo mm
than the 8ooth wKh hia
COURT ACTION IN OIL LEASH
- Special counsel in the oil lease scan,
dsls announce that court action vfll
he taken this weak to prevent tlx
further drainage of oil from naval
reserve oil lands leased under
tionable title. AnnuUment of
made by Albert B. Pall as Secretary
of the Interior to the Doheny and
Sinclair interests wfH bo naked foe.
Criminal action sgainst ths prtaci
Ms In the oil scandal must a wail
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DID MElHtSELAM MB PRE
MATURELTT—The yearly cm* at
sickness ia the If 8. slants to ovw
two bim«M, s< curding to Dr. DarHnr
too ef New Ysak.
one skeald Hva 1M :
ed that
«d W the oM
.
nutted in a bill tw before the
HOUSING AND HANDLING
FARM.FLOCKS
«d by
' ' m a i
Tide woo
til to It* after the how
by • Vote of Ml to IBS
to rsinaert In the bill the «
tt.000 and to »i* per cent above I* •
099. It bIm «ooU rat bj ma fourth
the present aorta* rate.
87 1-2 par cent on
S200.000. Me tecnaae in
prsonal tax exemption* will
be allowed.
far a flat reduction at tt
on all peraonal Hi iwi taxea payable
tbia year. Two uneuceeeofal efforta
were Bade to eliminate tbia previe
rate chance* carried in the
bill will aot tii an effective utfl
tax paymenta are wade next
inrom* and profit* of 1*14,
thoee m4) h the rariae ieviee which
woold |C n'o affect >0 day* nftor
raacttaenl of the law.
la addition to the now iacoase tox
major provision* of the bill
A » per cent
earned hwotcii. all incomes miAr
fS.MO beinjr defined m earned for
pni|o*M of this r*di»-t<oa.
Repeal or reduction of tuny of the
mlarellanroua or exciae taxea. wrote
in* about $129,000,000 hi revenue an
nually.
Tightening of the limitations of
capital loaa and gross income reduc
tiona which. H ia estimated, will yield
about MO.000.000 revenue annually.
IncTaaae* in the eatate tax ratee
of about m per cant
Institution of a rift tax with the
same ratee aa carried hi the eatate
tax.
, Creation of • heard of tax appeals
to daeide tax dieputee bofoeu the
treasury and tax payers.
Opeataff of the income tax retime
to biopeetia* by certain
House Isadora admit that the bill
undoubtedly arfll be altered in impor
tant particulars by the sonata, The
QBCIIIVV rCCOru ™OW Djr WUICll WW
Mellon ratao wore rejected today, how
erer. makes It certain. they say, that
rerardlees of what eenate aeatimswt
may be the lieaam schedule will not
be restored to the MIL
While Presidsnt Coolidge has ex
pressed himself as stmnfly in favor
of the Mellon ratao his attitude to
ward the compromise accepted
by the house has aot been
White Rome officials we*
able stirred by the publication of a
story that Mr. CooNdje was wflHar
to accept the compromise, and H wm*
no such
By thia
will be ratood. Two crop* will he
rMM by the HM ground. that to.
• crop of chiekena and a crop of
com or fruit. Tbo i
the
be Mid of the
plant
in ndthnM field* I* not l»
t erf ere with
*
for*.
through the day will hi
• year void
fourth* to one toa of
liter and at the tame
. the 1
i they i
enrae furnishes
and protects the cro|p.
York Brpei
that e*eh esse !
tly benefit the grand on which they
run at leaat $11 a year.
The straw and other litter used hi
the hooaee for scratch material, after
it become* of no farther nee fW
■cratch material, is valuable aa a fer
tiliser en the fiolda and help* to i
the homos which to netdad fat I
for the boat crop production.
One hundred hens wiB
from 900 to 500 pounds of oyster i
a year some of which poo* back to the
act aa
consuming hundred* of ;
sect* in the comix of a ;
protecting the crop* from
they also pick op waste (rain
other food material.
It has been found by
at the Weat Raleigh plant and at tka
Edjpwomb, Pender and Iredell THt
farms dninc the past year that tho
coatjof raiaing ben* aa
rant* condition* is only
half aa aaach aa on the Initial e* ato
t hod whore the haoa are mstriital hi
their ranee and everything to I
and carried to
PoaHry on
one-fourth ef a mile to
always returning to their osra
at night, thua i
?of
Pfesideo^^^tion