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Leased Wire. Associated Prist Service The Weather Fair tonight and Sunday; tie variable winds. VOL. XVII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1927 SIX PAGES. NO. 186 TYRRELL COUNTY PREPARING FOR BRIDGE OPENING Structure (Costing Nearly $100,000 over Scupper nong Hiver will Link Tyr rell With State COLUMBIA GROWS Crowing New Bridge Sep tember 7 Viftitora Will See Attractive Town With Many New Building? Columbia. Aug. 6.?Plans are rapidly going forward In Tyrell county for celebrating on Septem ber 7 the formal opening of the new bridge crossing the Scupper nong River at Columbia. This bridge. costing nearly 9100.000, is one of the outstand ing and badly needed improve ments recently made In this sec tion of North Carolina. Loading to this bridge Is a 16 foot con crete road extending from the Washington county line near Creswell. With this bridge com plete*^ from Columbia to Raleigh Is approximately 160 miles, all of which Is hard surface except a few miles of Improved dirt rbad in Washington and Martin counties. On crossing this handsome bridge one enters the newly pared Main street of Columbia and finds many improvements be ing made In this progressive little town of about 1200 people. One of these is the new filling station of the Standard Oil Company, cost ing several thousand dollars; an other is the school building annex containing an auditorium, home economics, and agricultural lab oratories which would do credit to a much large town; still other improvements are two modern up to-date drug stores, two new bar-, rel factories, and a newly im-| proved hotel, ttie delight of the traveling public. Columbia and Tyrrell County, through the following organisa tion are eagerly planning this occMion as a fitting tribute to the state officials and others who have made this bridge possible: W. J. White. Mayor o< Coluro bia, general hiarman; C. W. Ta tem. chairman executive commit tee; J. O. Brickliouse, chairman -finance committee; Mrs. W. H. McClees, chairman serving com mittee; W. D. Cox. chairman pub licity committee; Mrs. W. S. Car awan, secretary-treasurer; R. L. Spencer, chairman progrsm com mittee; A. J. Cohoon, chairman committee t?n arrangements; W. J. | White, chairman traffic commit tee. C. W. Tatem, present member of the North Carolina Legislature, and chairman of the executive cotaimittee for the bridge celebra tion, la. devoting every effort to ward mating this one of the blg . gest celebrations ever held in this secUon. Four Spring Chicks Cost Local Man His Auto fly a mild stretch of the Imag ination. four spring chicken* may toe nuId to hare cost Mr. and Mrs. Will Harrison, Selden street, an Oakland sport roadster. 1926 motif I. on the Newlaad Hlghwsy noar Hlnton's Corner Friday nlieht. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison were re turning from a trip to the home of acquaintances In Newlsnd township. and were bringing four youthful broilers back with them, destined for Sunday dinner. They noticed smoke In the ear. and Mr. Harrison alighted and looked un der the hood. All was as It should be. The nmoke steadily grew In volume, and appeared to be Isau Ing from the resr of the car. Mr. Harrison lifted the rumble scat, aad flames leaped almost Into Ms facs. The entire rear of the auto-1 mobile waa afire. With th<r assistance of other motorists who happened along, Mr. Harrison succeeded In keep ing the flames awsy from the front of the car by throwing dirt on It; hut the remainder of It waa virtually destroyed. The loss Is psrtlally covered by Insurance. The four spring rhlckens were saved. While the battle to con trol the flamos wss on. thsy cacklcd lively appreciation of the work of the lire fighters. HHK lll'XH rem MIPfATK rROM IX)*H HTAIl KTATK Oalveston. Tegaa Aug. g ? CAT) ?Texas, one of |be first ststes to elect s woman gwvernor, msy have the distinction of electing one of the first woman aenttors too. Mrs. Mlnnlo* Fish#* Cunning ham of Oatvsten. secretary of the National Democratic Women's Ex ecutive Commute* snd ehalrman of th?* Pan American Conference Committee, has announced her In tention of running for that office. Mrs. Cunningham would oppose Jh.. i.T-PKcnt sr-naloi Karu K M iv fyald of Austin. Harold Bell Wright Has Desert Boaf Before Harold Bell Wright entered the ministry and began writing novels he was a carpenter. Btlng also a fisherman and having his estate near Tucson. ArU.. a long way from the water, Wright de signed and built the water flivver shown above. He nees an out board motor when chasing the flnnlea, and he ohaaes them all over. ,He takes the boat with him wherever he gosg, and first launched It,' In the Gulf of California. ? Raleigh Has A Day Of SuicideAnd Murders Halclgh, Aug. 6.?'(AP)?Two murders, a suicide and an attempt at sulcido, which almost proved (successful, called for Investiga tion by authorities today aftor a day of shooting in and near Ra leigh. i)orsey St. Cl^* Hamilton, 47, Norfolk painter, lay In a local hospital with a bullet wound In hi* head after shooting his wife, who had filed divorce proceedings, five times when ho surprised her at the home of relatives near here. Hamilton's attempt to end his own life failed, physicians saying he "had an even chance to recover." Karl Richardson, 29, 111 and worried, read a letter from his young wife In which she declared they could not be re-unlted, shot himself through the heart at his mother's homo here. Lynn Brown, suffering a crushed skull after an alleged J rock battle, died after five days, of lingering on. Two other ne groes were charged with the slay ing. Resentment against the wife who had filed suit for divorce In Virginia alleging non-support and cruelty, Coroner Waring learned, caused Hamilton to follow her from Norfolk to Raleigh. A letter Alleged to liavo been written by Hamilton to Charlie Harward yes terday was apparently definite In iU statement of Intent to harm the woman. Tho letter accused Mrs. Hamilton and the daughter, Mary Harward of misconduct. Tho letter also read "please wire my lister, Mrs. J. K. Kvans, Clifton Forge, Virginia, 46 Brussett street." A f5,000 Insurance policy, paid up by Hamilton, wu found In his suitcase, and had been changed to favor Hamilton's sister, Mrs. Kvans and a brother, A. B. Ham ilton, also of Clifton Forge, from the original beneficiary, Mrs. Dor iey Hamilton. Mary, the step daughter of Hamilton, was the central figure In the coroner's investigation. Bhe made It clear her mother was suing for divorce. She said her mother had not lived with Hamil ton since last Christmas. Hlnce that time, the daughter said, the mother bfcd lived in Clifton Korge and Reldsvllle. The girl herself it?tr>d she had attended Virginia reaehers College at Farmvllle. French Forbid Any Parade In Protest Paris, Ah* f.? (AP)?Tba French Cablnrt today dor id ml <i> forbid any public demonstration* In favor of 8arcn and Vamrttl In cluding tho labor, aortallat and rommunlat UNUu and parada scheduled for tomorrow, Huge Butter Beans Possibly Caused By Sun Spots Maybe it'a the sun spot* that havo been giving astronomers so much concern. Possibly, it might be attributed to the rumblings of next year's Presidential elecUon, Just beginning to be heard. On the other hand, it may hare been caused by tbe increase in th<> County tax rate, which is giving the taxpayers generally something to ponder about. At any rate, whatever the rea son this ha>t been a year of mon strosities First, it was hen eggs of unprecedented sixey Then there were giant cucumbers. Next oame mammoth tomatoes. Then a gigantic beet. Now the humble butter beans have entered the competition. Hor man Meads, caretaker at the post office, dropped into the dfflcec of The Dally Advance Saturday morning with two immense bean pods, the larger of which measured eight and one-half inches In length, and contained six beans, obviously of the familiar "aucco taah' variety. Mr. Meads stated that the bean* were grown In the garden of his homo on Goodwin street, In the Euclid Heights suburban dlatrlct. They were grown from everyday aeeds bought from an Rlitabeth City firm, he said, and were given; the name sort of attention that he has bene giving beans ever since he was a small boy in Hound Neck. "What nextT" the curator of Tho Advance museum queried to' himself, aa he added the beans to his collection. New Premier '?n Tn ItboTH I ta I ho pr? ri?r of Chin*. At l*?*t k* <ru to ?ppolnt*d kj Chang Tao-lln. on* i?? th? w*r lord!. *t Ik* Arm etbl Sam-4 hlmwlf Chin*'* l?*d?r RUSSIAN IS HELD FOR BOMBING OF SUBWAYSTATION Had Picture of Exploaion and Pamphlet Entitled "Life Hi?tory of Traitor'* in H? Po?**e?ftion SCORE WERE INJURED Hundred Train* Thrown Into Confusion in Dark ened Fume-Filled Tunnels and Window** Shattered New York. Auk. f.?<AP)-4~ Maurice L. Bieiel. a 30 year obi dentist. was held without ball to day oharged with suspicion of Im plication tn the bombing of the Twenty-eighth Street Station of the I. H. T. subway shortly before midnight. New York, Auk. 6.?(AP) ? Moirls Scigei, described by pollce as a Russian, and who had % pic ture of an explosion and u pampb let entitled "The I.lfe History of a Trultrfr." In his poasesalon, was taken to police headquarters this morning for questioning In connec tion with .Investigation of tb?* bombing of two subway stations. Two bomb explosions?attribut ed by a traction official to Sacco Vansettl sympathisers ? shortly before midnight, wrecked stations on each of New York'a trunk line subway*. At least a score of person* WQT9 injured, two of them seriously, hundreds on trains outside the immediate area of danger were thrown into confusion In tho dark ened, fume-filled tunnels, and window fronts for blocks In the streets above were shattered. Thfi-cxpluaione jiccurre<L within about ten minutes of each other, tho first demolishing the north bound station of the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Company at 28th street and Droadway and the second the north bound station of ithe Interborough Rapid Transit | Company, at 28th street and Fourth avenue. I At the scene of the flrst blast four persons were Injured suffi ciently to require medical atten tion, ana of th**n>. on uaMwtMM J man, being thrown from tho plat form tg the tracks. He was taken Ito a hospital In a serious condi tion. At least 14 persona were Injured at the scene of the second explosion. Police declined to assign any motive for the bombings and Thomas P. Rrophy, chief Are mar shal In charge of the Are depart ment's InvestiKStlon, would mere ly say the blasts "probably were caused hv Infernal marh'net." Other AitmU Marie New York. Aug. 6.? (AP)?? Two men found In the Kastslde subway of the Intcrh.->roiiKh Com pany were taken Into custody to day. One of the men. who gave his name as Stanley Zuke, 27 was found .by.a motorman In a track walker's dugout, a recess In the walls. The motorman slopped his train and took him lo the plat form where he was Joined by a companion. Chester Clablowsky, also 27. They aald'they were res idents of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Zuke said that his hat had blown off while waiting for a train and he had stepped onto the tracks to retrieve it. A. It. Merrltt, superintendent of transportation of the Interborough Company said he was confident the explosions were set off In sympathy for Sacco and Vanxettl, radicals sentenced to death In Boston for murder. He said he was ssngulne that they were not planned as a labor reprisal to the recent strike. Police Commissioner Joseph A Warren personally took charge of the situation and immediately or dered all policemen on Vacations recalled and all impending vaca tions cancelled. Broken windows caused a burg lar alarm to be turned In and the responding special protective squads added to the confusion on' Broadway. Three hours after the. blasts, the tracks nsd been cleared end were ready for the morning traf fic rush. fhnrrh is Wrecked Philadelphia. Aug. 0.?(AP)? The Emanuel Preabyterlan Church was hsdly damaged earlv today by ? n explosion which police attri buted to a bomb hurled through a basement window. No one was hurt. The Rev. Kdwsrd H. Bowman, i pastor of the church, la out of the city. Neither members of his con gregation nor his wife could1 offer an explanation of the explosion. Mrs. Howman said her husband had never discussed radical actlv-j Itlos from the pulpit and that there waa no dissension In tho church. A heavy police detail guarded the church and the Bowman home throughout the night. Now that Rumania haa a ? ? year-old king. politic# probably will attain rljht up, with o?pry I body taking a hand In ihe later ) prcUtlon of th? royal wlahe*. HO, hum! Wo wonder how his 1 hijchntM ?k?? braad and J?n? Mayor Of Baltimore Rushes Shirtless For His Home' Cincinnati, Auk. 6.? !AP) ? ' Without a shirt, and with only half of his faee shaved Mayor Wll-j Ham F. Brosnlnjc of Baltimore: made bis way from a treat-bound Baltimore and Ohio Hallway | train to an eastbound one at Wln * ton Place on the outskirts of Cln iclnnatl today when Informed that | an attempt had been made to! i blow up hia home wit!:, a bomb. ? Baltimore. Md.. Auk. b.? (APi |?An attempt wan tnade to blow Hip the hom ? of Mayor William I (BmenlnK in Northwest Baltimore .by a bomb thla morning- Th?* 'house was set on flrei and flremen ' found another bomb Inside the dwellings. ! The terrlflc explosion shook the ;entlre aeetlon. No one wan in- ; Jured. The hous?> was daniaired j slightly by the Are. | Mayor Broenlng la absent from; ; the city. His wife, son. and tfangh \ ter. the remaining member* of 1 the family, were In the house. "The- bomb exploded under tliej back porch which was demolished, i STATE ONCE MORE LEADS IN BABIES North Carolina Product-it targe Crop of Anglo Saxons in 1926 Raleigh, Auk. 6.?(AI>) ? North Carolina, for the seventh {consecutive year, leads the nation | lu babies. i Not 6uly that but in pure Anglo ! Saxon heritage. 4_ Ihi_8tate Board of Health to u day had completed its tabulation "for 1926 for the Federal Census * Bureau, showing a birthrate of 2K.8 per 1,000. population, rom j pared with 29.7 In 1925 but the i decrease In the birthrate is drop . ping accordingly all over the ' country, reports from the Federal | Bureau reaching the health board show. Utah, West Virginia and Flor ida follow closely ol North Caro ^TlnaTs rradle, with percentages of .26 and lower. North Carolina's foreign born popuUtWw la but two-ieutha of one per cent. Ilirths In the State In 1926 to talled 82,459 compared with 83.700 in 192!?. In 1925 thero were 57.905 white babies born and 25,279 negro and 517 Indiana. Last year 49.434 white babies', 7,628 negro, 252 Indian babies were born, attended by doctors, and 7,431 whit*, 17,397 negro, and 317 Indian births attonded by mldwlvcs, and 1.039 Illegitimate white births, 3,344 negro, and 46 Indian*. The number of counties with no lllftftltlmate white births wero i eight. Dare, Gates, Hyde, Jones, I Northampton, Pamltoo. I'arqulni ans. Warren, while Swan and Yancey had no Illegitimate negro I birth*. \ Births in counties in tho Albe marle District for 1926 were as follows: Camden, 115; Chowan, 3 33; Currituck 13ft; Dare, 102; Hyde, 169; Pasquotank 144; Perquim ans. 265; Tyrrell, 143; Washing ton, 303; Gates, 288; Bertie 679; Hertford. 458. NEGHO I'KEACHEIt ENDS his Lire WITH <;un Wln*ton-8alem. Aug. 6.? (AD Hev. William II. Koflenbrough, 30, negro preacher, who ended hi* life Friday afternoon by firing tho load from a single-barrel shot . gun Into his left Hide, Just below 'the It* art, is said today to have I been the first negro suicide that j has ev^r occurred In Wlnston-8a , lem. Ilosenbrough had been In III j health and this I* given as the I cause of his rash act. 'School M arm " to Fly to Honolulu me biplane Miss Doran, In which Miss Mildred Doran and Auggle Pedlar plan to fly to Honolulu In competition for the 116.000 flrat prlie offered In tho race scheduled for Aug. 11, la pictured above. Below, left to right are Auggle Pedlar, her pilot; Mlee Doran. and W.^F. Malloaka, owner of the plane. Pedlar and Mlaa Doran took %, off at KUnt. Mich., for the Paclflo coaat aeveral days a*o./ m Perilous 'Diversion' Scored Heavily By Court A sport somewhat similar to tho old timo children's game of "black thorn come across." but attended by decidedly Kroater hasards. was the subject of a dis sertation by Trial Justin* Sawyer In Recorder's Court Saturday morning, In disposing ?>f a truffle case against a young motorist. Tho defendant .was illnluHsodv there being a decided element of doubt as to whether he had vlo lated the law. lie was charged with having driven past the traf fle stop light at Mnfti?and?itoad streets before tho green "go" sig nal was on. hut contended that the IlKht changed to green Just after ho crossed the stop line. Trial Justice Sawyer described flu a perilous practice the way in which automobile drivers dash wildly across the street intersect I tlon thero when the light is "on tho yellow" In its transition from Kreen to red. Thus far. there have been no serious accidents at that Intersection, but lie predicted that there would be shortly, un less the drivers Improved theii ways. In conclusion. Mr. Sawyer of fered a vigorous reminder that tho yellow light shone merely fi permit traffic to rlear up, and did not give anyone the right to cross the Intersection outright. "Wait for the green," ho counselled, "and live to a ripe old age." CHURCH CRTS PLATES MADE IN JERUSALEM Wlnnton-Salom. Aug. <>.?(AP) ?North Presbyterian Church has' received a set of offering plates made in Jerusalem of "Olive Wood, all hand made and polished and, with the word "Jerusalem"! burned in the bottom of each1 plate. They are a gift from Frank S. Johnston, of this city, who Is now touring the Holy Land. Mr. Johnston graduated four years ago from Davidson College, with high honors, winning the gold scholarship medal over *7 men, and after teaching two years went to Union Theological Seml-j nary at Richmond, Virginia, to prepare himself for the ministry. 1 Pop May Be Next To Reach Pole !r Pop fltinn to h?- the third man Iii all history to trek through the Antarctic wastes and reach the flouth Poll-? The lam explorer to accomplish 'the perilous fi-at was Captain Robert V. Hcott. left, who reached hta k?>hI Jan. 18. 191after a Journey by steamship and sledg*-. Itoald Amundsen. right, wa* the flrst ever to nee the exact "bottom of the world." He fought through th?- Ice fl?-|ds and found the |mli> Dec. H. 1911 Now. Pop and Captain Olaf IliMOH am planning h Kintlar daub. Aa a matter of fact, Pop dot>*n't rfellsh th?- prospect of privation and hardablp very much, hut he'a determined to prove to Mom that he la aa eonrageons and strong aa any of the explorers. Follow the atory every day on the editorial Lfiftxe of Th# Pally Thla la' Just thf kind of weather for polar expeditions. Large Rattlesnake Fails To Impress Visitor In City anakr hadk I>Ih Hwan song the oth er night in a narrow iwamp run, an lengthening shadows presaged Ike udvi i?t of Bight. He aanK merrily enough, an rattlers do when they art* exuberantly In qunt of idmture. Dennla Overman, farmer, llvet close to the run where (he.buge |N<l>tlle wan dlnportlng hlmaelf. Mr. Overman hoard the aong and, a liltlo coh^hiidunua Of tflC anoHo family generally. picked up a small ntfck and went to look for *be concert 1st. lo I few wlwwt?, the spirit of the anake waa on Its way to (he happy huutlnK ground of 11h forefathcra. St ?? wart Twlddy, driver of for blre automobiles hofo, panned Mr. Overman'* home Saturday morn ing on bin way home from Nor folk, and Haw the snake. He Mopped and wbm permitted to brlDR the reptile hero. where It wiiii viewed curiously hy hundreda. A tape meaaure wielded hy Her bert Peele, editor of The Dally Advance, revealed the length of .the rattier an 6 feet, 3 Inchon. Mr. Twlddy quoted Mr. Overman an having declared the rattler had Khrunk up a OOtipIO of feet wince ! IiIn demise. He had Iff rattles find ?i button, and thus la credit ed with hnvlng attained the age of 17 yearn or thereabout. One In the crowd giving Hln Snakeshlp the once over appeared not greatly Impressed. "Humph!" he murmured, al-i moat Inaudlbly. A newnpaper man stood at hln elbow. "Perhaps you've seen a larger rattlennake?" he ventured. "Yen, air," he spok? up quickly. "Forty yearn ago ? or maybe It wan doner fifty?I killed one that had twenty-seven rattles. Ho wan the hlggeat one I ever naw. It wan when I lived In Flertle Coun ty." Pressed for particulars, he re called thst rattlera were fairly numeroun In Ilertle In thone dayn; hut there wan nothing enpeclally out of the ordinary, ao far an he rem "inhered, about the killing of that hlggeat of all rattlcanakea In thla part of the country. H?- In troduced hlmaelf aa D. ft. Miller, S3 yearn of age, and now a real dent of lower Perqulmana County, living about six miles south of Hertford. ftattleanaken are exceedingly scarce In I'asquotank County. On sn avorsgo. one ? year In report ed killed. It haa been many yearn, however, slneo one ao largo aa Mr. Overman's victim hsn been alaln In the*e parta, according to all accounta. COIjONEL COX l.lkKI.Y i BK STATE COMMANDER * Wln*ton-8al?*m. Auk ?. ? (AP) - Thp moil IlkHy candidate for Htate Commander of the Amerl j can (<?>?!on U Colonel Albert \?. fox, of Raleigh, prominent In leg lon and politIcral affair* through! oat the Htate, according to rum or* at the harberue held by the Clyde I lolling Poet of the Amerl-j ran I<egion at llolton'a Pool laat i night. According to thoae who neem to, know the undercurrent of legion j politic*. Colonel Coi la the onlyj man being groomed for the hlgh eat pout in the orgnnlaatlon In] North Carolina. Bo far. no other1 name, haa been mentioned for; State commander and the State convention to be held In Waahlng ton. N .C.. la only afcoyl one week t ?way. I FILE MOTION FOR NEW SACCO AND VANZETTI TRIAL Counitel fur Condemned Men Also Petition Gover nor AI van T. Fuller for Stay of Kxecution NEW EVIDENCE FOUND Petition Declare* That Slate Fire-Armit Expert Has Changed Testimony; Other Arguments Made ! Boston, Aug. 6.? (AP)?Coun . sel for Nicola Sacco and Barto 1 loraoo Vanzcttl today filed In the | Norfolk County. Superior Court at Deadham a motion for a new trial I for the two men and Qetitloned I Governor Alran T. Fuller, fo* a I stay of execution. The petition for a now trial al leged prejudice on the part of Judge Webster Thayer, who pre sided at the trial and who retard previous motions for a new trial. It also asserts that new ovldence has been found to the offoct thai . holes'In Sacco's cap which Judge Thayer had said were Important to the case wero made by Chief of Police Galllvan of Hralntree. A third ground Is the allegation that William H. Procter, a Btato flra arms expert, has changed his tes timony. Tho petition to the governor *sks for a stay of exocutlon "for <a reasonable tlmo" In order to per mit counsol to prosecute motions for a new trial. Meanwhile, Arthur D. Hill, chlof defense counsel, went tq Suffolk, county courthouse here with the purpose of conferring with Chief Justice Walter Parlay Hall of the Superior Court regard ing the assignment of a Justice to hear the motion for a now trial. It wus understood thut the mo tion would bo based largely in al legations of new evidence. Mus manno took with him to Deadham the affidavits of nine witnesses who appeared bofora Governor Fuller Inyfria personal investiga tion of Jflo case which resulted In 'his jiwroiyto refuse clemency to the two mon. These witnesses were Robert fiaooUaly ?f 4.New -Yofffc, Frank P. Sibley, a reporter for the Boston Globe; John Nicholas Beffel, Now York; Elizabeth R. .Bernkopf. a former reporter; Lois B. Rantoul ellas Field, Herbert B. Khrmann, George U. Crocker, and Jeremiah F. Galllvan, former po lice chief of Bralntreo, where the i murders of which the two man j were convicted occurred. Khrmann fllod his petition for a stay with Herman A. MacDonal*, the governor's secrotary In the ab sence of tho governor at his sum mer home In Uyo Beach, Nsw Hampshire. Athur I). Hill, chief counsel for tho defense, conferred with Jus tice Kdward T. Iiroadliurst of the Superior Court at tho court house In Boston today nnd upon leaving said that Justice Broadhurst had refused to uct on his request that a stay of exocutlon bo grunted by that court and that some Justleo other than Judge Thayer be as signed to hoar the motion for si new trial. Fatigue And S hots Both Caused Death Of Negro Says Jury Rocky Mount. Aug. 8? (AP) ?Tho last chapter of the attack of a 12 year old girl at Bailey near here Sunday morning had been written today. A coronor's Jury last night round that Tom Brad shaw, negro, alleged attacker, mel his death "from shot from a shot gun of some unknown porson and from evor-exertlon and fatigue while trying to evado arrost." No further action will be tak en, officers said today. I>r. O. Flecher Reeves, performed the au topsy. The Inquost had been con tinued from Tuesday. Rewards totaling f400 posted Jointly by Nash County and by the State reverted to the treasuries to day with no claimants as It had been stipulated that the negro be delivered to officers allvo. Coroner G. C. C. Collins told tho Jury he could not find any witness to the fatal ahootlng. CITY I'l/A.N PltOVII?KH FOR TWO SKW TOWflft Paris, Aug ft.(AP) "Beau tiful Paris" will be "llgly Paris," If city sonlng and other Improve ment* aren't adopted immediate ly, says M. Chardon, member of Ihe Academy of Moral Krlouce*. Chardon has submitted a plan of modified city zoning to th?- miinlc* I pa I council. Chardon's greatest plan, ho pver, and'one that has already ro relved sound support. Is for the ' ?rectlon of two new towns In ?h? j rlclnlty of Paris, one of thsm for I 'actorlcs and workshops and tha I iITier to Bf exclusively r^identlafc |
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