Established in 1883.
VOLUME XXXIV
CROOKS PLANNED
TO FLOOD ALL LAND
WITH BAD MONEY
Money of all Countries
Made on Printing Presses
Found by Officials
1,000 Members of a Gang Maintain'
their Headquarters in a Basement1
in the Italian Quarter of New
York City.
New York Associated Press Dis-'
totch of Feb. 21st says:
ecret services operatives have rour.-'
ded up 6 1 counterfeiters involved in
a plot of international scope whereby
between one and ten million dollars
Kin spurious money has been dumped
into the trading marts of many na-j
tioas. !
A nation wide hunt is being carried
on, it was discovered for the
capture of 1000 members of a gang
which maintained its headquarters in
a basement in the I tali tan quarter ofj
New York.
Government operatives in Detroit
Chicago, San Francisco and other
large cities, with the details of the
elaborate plot at their finger tips,
are prepared t.o raid counterfeiters
dens in the foreign quarters of their
cities. Police of bouth and Central
America and western Furopcan nations
have been informed of the
haunts of the foreign agents of the
gigantic crime ring.
The plot was bared after the capture
last night, of three nu n alleged
by the authorities to be the leaders
o'( an organization with international
ramifications and the discovery of the
printing presses which turned out
hundreds of thousands of United
a o?,i ion Km* A??_
erican silver quarters gold pieces Au
strian kronen, Italian lire, internal
revenue stamps and certificates, postape
stamps, water marked prohibition
papers, whiskey and champagne
bottle labels, and bogus drug and
liquor permits.
Raids in Manhattan, Brooklyn,
Long island City and New Jersey resuited
in 28 arrests in the last. 24
hours and ended successfully an
eignt months' search for the interna^
tional gang leaders, Joseph A. Pal ma
chief of" the special service sqad of
the internal re^er l'rt depart*nent, announced.
Thirty six prisoners had
beer, taken in secret raids during the
last two weeks, bringing the total to
61.
The raided places were found, Palms
said, stocked with bundles of
$! 10,000 in counterfeit American
m >n 'y, tens of thousands of dollars
worth of postage stamps, whiskey 'labels,
revenue st snips, bogus coins,
as well as piles of memoranda, press
moulds and dies and a number of engruving
boards.
Twenty four of yesterday's roundup
victim we its' arraigned before
Federal Commissioner Hitchcock, and
held in ban ranging from $2500 to
$2.),000. 'ihrit wen sent to Newark
fr arraignment.
The counterfeiters, Palnia as-cried
wore ciostvy asj.c. auu wiin era;.
er> 'i drugs and ii; <i rum. Ti. y
bougp huge quantities of drugs and
liqm r from smugglers and resold
the contraband in American ..-iea
while they paid the smugglers with
counterfeit money.
Patma declared thousands of dollars
in bogus money found i.s way
into foreign ports, especially in Cuba
ar.vi the Wosl Indies, through members
of the boat crew in the rum fleet
which, hailing from alien ports, sojourned
oiF the New Jersey coast for
? nearly a month.
The headquarters and manufacturing
plant of the gang, Pal ma reported,
was in a basement at 29 Cornelia
Street In* the heart of Greenwich
village. There were seven
whole ale distributing agencies in
New York City and surrounding territc
*y. the principal one in Broome
Street, a stone's ti.row from police
headquarters.
ri he traffic was' organized on an
elaborate business basis, with wholesaler
and their agents, retailers and
their gents, hired gunmen, and liaiBBWI
one. vi S.
Each bianch of tb trade operated
independently, the necessary contracts
being maintained through the
liaison officers.
Italian and Jewish colonies were
said b> the secret service agents to
have been the particular victims of
the counterfeiters who with few exceptions,
were themselves of Italian
and southern European origin.
Investigation of activities of the
^ang, Palma explained, began late
in August when the treasury departdecided
to' suppress reported traffic
in, bogus money.
1'aiina saia tuai wnen tne suppos,
ed sources of supply were traced t<
New York, it was discovered thai
each place was guarded by a scon
of gunmen; most of them ex-convicti
Agents surreptitiously bought bogus
money at 50 cents on the dollar.
As the rate diminished the agent'
knew they were approaching th<
.source of supply. The manufacture
it was found, sold at from 17 to 2(
cents on the dollar.
When the plant in Cornelia stree
was captured the presses were fount
dismantled and those men alleged t<
be the directors of the intemationa
scheme were caught. They wen
I>ario Jrlaiolatest and Antonia Fotior
of BrookTyn, and Vitor Migliorini, o
New York. Maiolatesi, it was state*
was arrested eight years ago ani
given a short sentence for havinj
)c W
Non-Partisan Family Newspaper. I
BOONE.
ROMANCE OF KING
I TUT IS REVEALED
BY TEACHER
I Woven in Marriage Scarab is Lov?
otory ot rharoaii ot Lgypt
Say* Dr. Lutz
FATHER MARRIED PLEBE
San Francisco dispatch of the 21st
The tangled skein of the thread ol
romance thai ran through the bach
ground of the life of Tutankhamer
buried these thirty centuries in hit
tomb in the Valley of the Kings
Egynt, were unfolded here today b>
H. t. Lutz Egyptologist of the Unil
versify of California.
Dr. Lutz produced the marriage
scarab of Amenhotep and Tii, whici
rests on a shelf in a case in the Anthropological
museum of the alTiliat
ed college, a branch of the university,
which he claims is the on!\
amenhotep scarab in America.
"Woven in its herioglyphics is ii.<
story of a great love of a Pharoah el
Egypt," said I)r. Lutz. "Amenhoni:
i was the father of Tutunkhamcn and
to understand Tutankhamen one n>u>l
know the story of his father Kmj!
Amenhotep arid his love lor Tii whom
he made Queen of Egyiit.
1 "Tii was not the mother of Tutankhamen.
Amenhotep called the magnii
cent had a harem like the kings be
fore him, and Tutankhamen was the
son of one of his inferior wives. Foi
Tii was his first wife, his queer., ai
though she was a commoner, the dau
giiter of a captain who probably leo
mercenary troops.
Tut - .lKhamen however, married tie
thur'i daughter of the son of Amen
hotep and Tii. His life lines were
thereby doubly entwined with the
fortunes of the king. his father, who
dared to marry a commoner. PerhapJ
it make.s the relationship a littld
dearer to say that-Tutankhamen mar
ried the daughter of his half broth]
er. This half brother, Amenhotep tin
fourth, more often called Akhenator
thus became the father-in-law.
"Those who cannot easily visualize
family trees may get lost in this
Egyptian genealogical forest when
it was the custom for sister ani
brother to wed, but no one who has
ever glowed to a romance will find il
difficult to follow the story of Amen
hotcp and Tii.
"Amenhotep waited until he became
king ana then married Tii anc
made her his first wife and 11 on<
could undo tba marriage. At th<
time of the marriage .Tii. was* k ~ad>
in waiting at the court.
The fruit of this union according
to Dr. Lutz, Akhenaton the father oi
Tutankhamen's wife was a half mat
genius known as a heretic king, wht
proclaimed one God instead of many
He had seven daughters and tin
third daughter became the wife o:
Tutankhamen and he succeeded t<
the throne through her.
"Tutankhamen accepted t.he reiig
ious doctrine of one God while he wa"
i under l..c inHuence of Akenaton'
' said l)r. Lutz, "but later broke* awal
from it.
"it was the custom of That poriot
to ha v marriage scarabs made ant
the one now at the University o
California is one of the few out o
all those that announced the weddinf
of tins king to his iove Tii. He du
not attempt l<f hide lier identity. Hi
:s too magnificent for that. Perhap
he was proud of the fact that he ha<
u;.:vd to sniu*h convention. So he in
.s< ribed on the scarab the name o
. her father and mother and thes
names proclaimed the fact that sh?
. is a commoner."
LAST OF BALAKLAVA 600
FAST RIDING TO DEATI
j
j London, Ont. Feb. 23.?Thoma
| W. Shaw, who claims to be the las
survivor of the famous light brigad
is riding for the second time "inti
j the jaws of death."
| But the venerable cavalryman?
91 years old?has not between hi
knees the proud charger which dash
ed upon the Russian battery at Bal
aklava in 1N54. Under him is a whit
. sheeted hospital cot from which doc
Stors say he w ill never recover.
After his charge with the gloriou
. Six Hundred, Shaw felt upon hi
! brow the soothing hand of Florenc
j Nightingale?a memory that wa
t SUA iiiost cherished possession. Ac
tonight, upon his solitary ride int
"The Valley of Death," the soft fir
ger of the mighty band of Daughtei
Nightingale gave the world, are tou
ching his brow, but the oh. soldie
!'' does not feel them.
His breath is coining in agonizin
rro TV...
a nt c1iu 1.1 iicui.
counterfeited internal revenue stamp
, The overt act charged against th
. group arrested yesterday was th*
[ Benny Sorentino, on December 9tl
. gave to Gabriel de Fiore, sever;
counterfeit bank notes. Sorentint
it was stated is out on bail, ok
; charge of raising checks, mad
t against him in New Jersey. Palm
5 said he was on parole on a murdc
5 charge.
} Sorentino, Polma said, was Agci
for John di Rosa, who kept a whob
i sale distributing place in his coflfe<
> house, in Broome street, near polic
I headquarters.
j "The way we broke the counte
feiters' defense," Palma said, "ws
t by the discovery that Sorentino wa
j to deliver $10,000 to George Jacksc
y and Salvatore D'Angelo of Pittsbui
{land Michael Trantier and John G;
dstna in a house ~in Brockl'ii. O,
e agents were on the spot antf caugi
I j all five. During the raid last nig]
jj in Long Island City, we ,arrest<
I John and Ernest Jaicopine, who wei
II managers of a printing shop calli
i ' the Radio Press."
><votcd to the Bc?i Interests of Boai
WATAUGA COUNTY, NOi<TH. CARC
ENGLAND HAS COXEY
S ARMY AS JOBLESS
GO TO LONDON
?' LONDON?Not since the hard
times of nearly .*10 years ago when
Covey's army of unemployed marchi
ed upon Washington fro.n all over
j our middle we-t, has any great cap- ,
itai of a civilized nation seen anything
like London has been experiencing?an
invasion from Scotland
and northern England of the unemt'
ployed
;! Several thousands have put in an
t : appearance. bra\ ;r g the hardships of
; a traniD over rainsoaked fields, far? ,
. ing cold, hunger, lack of shelter, and
probability ol ar.roi-t as vagrants.
Some v.aiked 500 miles coming
i from North Scotland. Many are
. married men who left their wives
. and children behind. Thcii object
wis to focus attention upon their
lot and to force an early meeting
| of Pari fame rit to deal with the un.
employment problem.
There are about 1,300.000 people
, i out of work in Great Britain. The
( country gives many of the workless
. j?n unemployment dole. Although it
runs into millions of dollars per year
i i the dole in many ' rises hardly keeps
i body and soul together
.! In the last meetings of Parliament
i after Bonar Law became prime min.
J ister, the big labor representation in
'the House of Comni". - in.d.ited tr.at
i the legislature sho-r.d not adjotrrn
.; until something more had been done
. I for the work!ess. N vertneless Parliai!
inent was prorogued tw-tr. r'eb. 1.
i It was then J.he nun upon London
i v.as decided Upon. Many say cora.
munists are back of the thing. But
the regular trades Union movement
, is aiso interested and on a recent
> Sunday decreed that the day should
, ivtRiwti .\ui:u2ihi unempioveii
>1 Sunday." Over 1 >00 meetings of pro.
i tost were held all over the United
. j Kingdom.
: j The most interesting and most cru
i i cial meeting was held in London in
famous Trafalgar Square. The spea.?!
kers addressed the crowds from the
si Nelson monument. Things were done
; ithere without police interference, that
1 ] would have led to wholesale arrests
s in American cities.
?! Many Communist Organi?ations
- participated and brought their red
iiags along. Before George Lans-bury
- a labor member of Parliament ad1
dressed the meeting, the crowd s^r.g
? "Tne Red Flag." Lansbury lar.g too.
? The meeting passed a resolution
j denouncing the parliamentary huJi_
{day as a manifestation of indifferj
ence to the chronic suffering of the
I j thousands of men, women and chil1
dren affected by hnemfrioyment.
>! They demanded that the govern.
S ment treat the situation as a national
b! emergency and either take steps to
f secure employment or else provide
> j for them a proper standard of ma>n[
tenance.
v 500,000 GERMANS
' NEAR STARVATION
il ?:?
1 High Coil of Living Blamed bj S ?f
! cialUt Conditions oa.d to hi* a?
f ' Bad As During War.
i i Berlin, Feb. 22?-There are ain. >i j
l; ' a half miilion people Li : Hn act
s who are on the verge of stwvai: uj
1 tin* rosnil to?? ?.is>> rlI'M ric,
- the value of the Gerr.ia, mark : i
f the failure of prices in Germany to
l- drop, fc-uch was the substance 1 ^
e j statement made in the Reichstag
! Deputy Moses, u Socialist.
"Conditions this winter, ' he
"have gradually grown to be a> u
i as they were in the worst p. rioti . f
i the war during the blockade in 1916
s|and 1917- There is no blockade
t| against Germany now. There is pk ne
ty of food, but it is too expensive,
o | The government must take immediate
: action to prevent hunger among . ie
_ i working people, while the profit' 1 rs
s | who are responsible lor the high 1 |
j ces, indulge in excessive eating ...:d
l_ ! drinking.
e it is reported in several new :i- J
_ pcrs that unemployment ^hrs ?.. e
ithan doubled in the last two wecX. .
&' "As the result of the . u-t
;s inent's financial adventure, which ;as^
sent the mark up thousands of p< tsj
s in a few days, the prices of Get ::: i
a industrial products have risen a; 1 c|
J tho.M' iii the world market*' . i!
k. w riter in the organ of the Chr ;n!
3 Labor Unions. "That means iiiah -ty|
i_jto export to foreign countries ;ndj
,r I consequent unemployment, :< ay j
j nothing of the direct effects of 'it*}
French coal blockade. This f rt?
j the Government should have c J-j
- I ered before launching its camp.i-.gn J
?; to stabilize the paper mark."
Innumerable other severe critic nsi
R|of the Government are being m:.dej
b j throughout Germany, the newspapersi
*1| pointing out tha tit is impossible forj
b j a workman to live decently on he,
a I present wages with prices higher .
le' than before the war. ev.?n when nc-l
** ured in gold marks. The most sample |
T suit of clothes now costs 500.OOO;
marks, or three times the monthly j
it wages of a skilled laborer.
t
:e IDENTIFIED i
A ma:? called at a village -F-j
r- ice for a registered letter which hej
is knew v ould he awaiting him. ) he <
is letter was there, hut the clerh le-l
?n i murrea at handing it over, as h r.*<ij
g'no means of identifying the caller.!
a-1 The caller took a photograph of 'u'.m--;
? self from his pocket rciiin^Sung ~.
tit "I think that ought to satisfy you
ht as to who I am."
sd The clerk looked long and earnestre
ly at the portrait and then said:
id "Yes, that's you, right enough and
here's your letter.?Kansas City Star
a Mt
ie, and Watauga County, "the Le?<
>LINA, THURSDAY MARCH 1,
SLAVE WILLS HOME
TO SON OF FORMER
MASTER
Leaves His All In Millionaire Son of
His "Old Marster."
\V\ W. Fuller, New York millionaire
and former general counsel of
the American Tobacco Company, is
the sole heir named in the will of
William J a me.-. McAllister, 91-yearold
negro, and one time servant of
the Fuller family, who died in Wilmington
Saturday from the effects
of burns received when he fell into
r* fire place at his home. The principal
item of the estate is McAllister's
bumble C<;tt2C?' of Eran>-U? ?*-???"*
In the days of slavery, McAllisters
wife belonged to Mr. Fuller's
father, the late Judge Thomas C.
F iller, and he was also a servant in
the household for many years during
and after the civil war. The
attachment formed then has existed
ever since, and the aged negro was
always the first person in Fayettevi;:%
whom Mr. Fuller went to see
he visited his native city every
v? -\ ?r.
i i.e v.-iJl, which furnishes a striking
proof of the bona which linked
the tw races of the old South,
read- as follows:
!. vil.iarii James McAllister, do
ra:?ke this my last will ar.d testament
"i give, devise, bequeath my en:
: estate, real, persnoooooshrdhthh
ti? " e tr.te, real person and mixed to
friend William \\. Fuller of Isew
"i ork.
T do this for th reason that I
have no children and my wife is
dead, and Willie Fuller has always
helped me when I needed it am! h.i>
hren my nearest ar.d best friend. My
wife, now deceased, belonged to his
father and mother, it was my plcasur
to be near the family during
and after htc war and the intimacy
that sprang up then between me
and Mr. Willie, then -i small boy,
has been continued through life,
when I have been in trouble and
needed either help or advice, I knew
where to turn., ar.d Mr. Willie never
failed me.
"He may not ever need my little
home, 1 pray not but he wiJ) know
better what to do with it than I,
nnd in this I want to show my appreciation
for what he has done for
me.
"I nominate and appoint him the
said W. W. Fuller, as executor of
this my last will and testament."
WHISKEY KILLS
YOUNG GIRL
MACK LIPPFORD HF.LD BY THE
JURY FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION
AS TO DEATH OF THE
GASTON!A WOMAN
Gastonia, Fob. 2 ?- Mack Lippford
jitney driver was held without hood
by the coroner's jury for further in
. .>t:?*rat"on into the death of Mamie
Turner ('nrrijean who it is ' ? ! Y- -ci
died f poisoned whi key furu-s.hcn
h?w by Idppforiji
Koli-^itpr Carpenter G <hcjin^l
and intimated ha _ .
order an autopsy in ?
definitely determi.neBSfg bed
death.
pon lit at 2 :313
ifTsi Ithj ;-'"h, !>
the jury ! . n: only ore <. a?
Connie Sl.pddr.rd M.Y Gr .
She testified in effect as r.ijtaw.s;
T was at Mrs. Twiner'.- home between
T and 8 o*c! - k tat rijiht.
Mam. vot out a fruit hr of ii.juor
ard jraw me a drir.k. f ? k a sninB
amount. Sh" ?;<><k * nl-.d > i i\. >' .
Just ;?ftor w.? had taken the vrhi key.
Mack Lipf.gji . ..ixte in He asked
for hi? M-h:. V.-\. Sh te)-: hi -, -he
was jy??ir:e m * . : ? "t and srive I
ham thr* e <:->]; > Xti* i*. Tipf-rd !eu.
A little '?-* ; he J "a: a.i 1
took ;:;v.rl * : h:<r drink. k' i.' v.\i;
some i.i a eorr-cvw- ^-vUie *o t
home with r?;- 1 ?eft :hnu: s o<\ k.
' b d- t"-1- -.-% ? '
I v'o* r f.?n? -ad vtomfe
;rettin?: t*o*?k v. Hon I ;t. . 'rUeve
:f I had r?v vcsTidte'i! -.
oniy a small drink . ?s . i/ADs. rMB&h
""hilt *h^ jj '. "
WW p-OTi'.-it " : * * *:y . ." .'
t'c Cwrr'tr*r X:' ' enn she * -??>. ?
to hav dieU .. ;r- * " . ;v ?
cl'.ihiitj* ! "IMfi- ion-' ' x 1 * ; ? fcv'u-;.
CTilcifflo T-hlt -iu ; .. d5 c.d
cenvuteiims.
* Tht? h.-dy ve. a*' c<\ * ;
TJndortakj- tr <V.*np .r .' . ; by or
vlrr of the fiT- .in?i later v *i? mc?v
ed attain to hiiwe' v. n ? ?> v ,-f?r|
oner's j- rj com? .' nv - i
tiou.
Basket ~i?!i Grrae?
ftt School lias V/ect
rv _ -/ -
v?n w- min I'm-'
the Tr***r-ir-?r h ->k . ? .. .5&<:
1 has played - t.A 1
j Chr>tma-. Ji. c\ r b>:< .
ar.fi hoy - tea* i/.-v - : 0:
Fri?:'a" . * rt- % -* - >i
the S'l? Pari - ' t>. . . . :f
iflrr'-.?ri at *> ? % r *. sv*?:
t -.?r? ' : i ?* *.'1T: <
I K - , .? "
I O .k Ki - '- - : .
ltoclror* '' < iyo -w01
j fr>i:; * r.t:* y* > -.-v..
the 1m* si -i... ?-t.
True ccor.owy the ft art
rrith self .FiivsT^t 't of the farm fair
fly.
HI#tv>
Jo r of Northwevtern Carolina."
I 923
ACCUSED MAN
BACK TO JAIL
For.f Buchanan Lodged in Prison at
Cakersville to Answer a Murder
charge Officers looking For Others j
Accused?K art sell Disappeared in
March 1922.
Bakersville. N. C. Feb. 24.?Fonz
Buchanan was today lodged in the
M l hell county jail where his
brother Grady Buchanan hay been
held for thep ast two weeks and
| both are charged with being implicated
in the alleged killing and cremating
of the body of B. L. Hartsell,
wealthy New York club man
who disappeared in the Pigeon Roost
! section near the Tennessee line in
March 1921.
Greene Buchanan father of the
Buchanan boys, is reported in hiding
in the section near the Tennnc.
i see line and the sheriff and deputies
of this county are seeking to locate
hi in. Several days ago Lynn Buchanan,
brother of Green Buchanan.
; who is not involved in the case,
wa. in Bakersville, and is reported
to have made the statement, after
I was I rougbt back i?> Mitchell,
fr. -n Jonesboro, Tcnn. wher he was
am ted and held in jail unti1 today,
thai Green Buchanan woui dcome in
and surrender.
"Big .foe" Buchanan for whom a
war-ant also in . been issued bearI
ing ;he tame charge s as those made
against the other Buchanans, is
.. ml to b<- in the Pigeon ltoost section
ami deputy sheriffs art making
efforts to >orate him. On ac;
ount of the section being so moon- 1
taiiious, 1 'eating him is a difficult
; i k. "Bill ' Rainwater, the fifth;
number of the alleged gang that
a a -inated the club man while he
\ a hiking from Bedford, N. V. to
: Jasper, Gn. is said to be in the
wc.-i and officers have little hope of
locating him.
The warrants for the five men
wire sworn out before Magistrate.
I . 1>. Crngnules of this city, by M.
. V. Lewis, a citizen of the Pigeon
I Roost section, who said there has
been unearthed new evidence. This
, thev decline to give.
| The same five men were arrested
i in December 1921, charged with
: murdering klartsell, robbing him,
1 C- * t. - -
; ami m>i ourymg tne nody, then
excavating it and destroying it by
burring. At preliminary hearings
held before Magistrate Cr&igrailes,
however, no evidence was found sufficient
to warrant holding them further.
The wife of a jailer at Johnson
City at that time testified that
she heard Rainwater, while in jaii,
remark that he would go to the electric
chair but others would go with
him.
! Extc sive investigations have
been made of the Hart sell disap_
tpcarance, ali without definite result.
Rainwater and the Buchanan boys
j are alleged by authorities to hear
j bad re-potations. They appear for a
: time o . one . of the state iine,
then on the o'her
ITEM"" t : C M THE
T Ait iiNG SCHOOL
1
kCJPwr '.ISttt pwV.*: ... iy >; the School
Rale :gi'i ..t iY..- writing iook
t'5>e t s of the school
: ti. >- .? " on.
" en Yk. but is better we
i an g-lo
S i sp? a . t x erases were given
i - Appalachian Train _1
. oi during the past week. On
.i * rum. 1 rulings were given j
I 22nd Professor Greene made |
| a ta.K of interest on Washington, and
; -mother day Professors Wright
' and Smith gavv some songs that were
[ wed received.
hlhL_ J. M. Moretz 011 che 21st gave'
| j dinner to her boarders in;
roiv..- ration of her birthday. It
p. >: :r&k 5 a pleasant occasion for;
- : "(i --.at. The following toast was,
ig:\- > ce h-:r^
' "}-!.- i the one whose oiirthdav
?- ^ebT-m-.
A;;. .i? live to enjoy ir. uiy more, !
I Ahc . . .. tained by lurid li!;
. ... i l.-e last of .the rolling years)
* ay :.t i a: .-weei song without j
' v ' niter <f Commerce'
. .nosi intviv.-i ing meeting Sat-'
Epu.*>'i. >> oign'.. S >me ft 2 ward steps were j
ri taxen i?>r eijw goad of this section, j
</'.< ti:gs the movement;
- \! J semi a delegation to i
s^2f- 11 railroad |
i Motion, it would seem that!
1? .: <f this ought not to be nec
i oked the right light, *
1 I The stale hn- helped build roads in j
'(. i.e. sections of its territory that
"j\?. not more promising than this1
"; < <h?ii is, if as much. In view of this
*| ::<! thcr facts it seems strange that
lm i sme newspapers would have
{*} face to oppose the opening up
t ;? t-oii of their own state that
j ?s teeming with the resources this
-; . t. v.1
k I t.. - KX--IM li>, UI.W VIIC ?. U1 i?u
; m... . more development. Their der.
? c : reward may come to them.
*J. M. DOWNUM.
Mr. i lowers to Address
Farmers
- Mi. Lj. Flowers of Hickory has
engaged to make a talk to the
< re. r o\ Watauga County at the
House at one o'clock Monday.
1 >. 9 on the conservation of food.
; M . iowcis has een in the canning
pi?' . '.n a liuiu'ocr of years and
ar? authority on the subject,
i 7. feel re that he can give us
; so:r.e val'JC.ble information and hope
s | that he may have a good audience.
H JNO. B. STEELE
H. NEAL BLAIR
Published Weekly
NUMBER IS
CACHE OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES
RAIDED
.N NEW YORK HOUSE
Machine Guns and Gre.
nades Part of Big Find .
SLEUTHS AMAZED
IN i*. \v YORK Feb. 21. Associated
Press Dispatch.?The seizure of 75
cases of hand grenades and high explosives
being unloaded from truck
in the Chel?ea pier district tonight
led to the discovery of 100 more cases
which had been secreted in a river
front lodging house.
A few minutes ->ty arid federal
author!*?-- uncovered ir- the same
building 200 ritf* - 20 ma hine guns
and large quantities f steel jacketed
machine run ammunition in belts
The explosives in h- ?r?? packing cases
were addressed to "S. C. S ,
New V??rk M and to "'Arthur heibintrer.
202 thirtv-fourth street."
All were labeled "precaution. higo
explosives?handle w.th care."
Kdv nrd and Patrick Tfowey, brothers,
who claim d to own th" moving
' an whence fho explosives in huge
parking cares, were being skidded
along ? nlanl: into the basement were
arrested as -vn Toseph fVBuryno,
proprietor of the lodging house.
Two others engaged in unloading
the munitions when a potrolman became
-uspicious and summoned police
and secret service agents escaped
\ half do ten tenants of the
lodging house were also taken to
headquarters to he questioned.
The Howoy brothers claimed to
have hauled the seized cargo from
a red brick warehor.se on river street
Hokoken. N J. at the instance of the
two men who escaped and whose
names thev claimed not to know.
Authorities of everv division of
the local and federal police system
surrounded the property where the
seizure occurred and immediately began
ripning open the packing cases
in the lodging house "arsenal." The
found hand grenades, rifle grenades,
smokeless gunpowder, safety cartridges.
machine gun rifles, ammunition,
iron bombs and quantities of iron iod
the purpose of which was not known.
Pandemonium ensued at the lodging
house when the police and federal
agents swarmed around and be_
gar. breakingvmon the packing crates
revealing their contents, and ransack
ing the place for more. Women lodgers
ran screaming to the street, and
stood, with a few hundred other spectators.
outside the armed cordon
thrown about the building
The investigators were frank in
expressing surprise at the recklessness
with which the explosives had
been handled and stored The grenades.
some dozens of them, all
primed, wer?- in black leather bags.
Hidden behind cmde partitions the
rifles and machine guns wore found,
and ?oantily covered by layers of
coal the ammunition.
Tenants of the lodging house said
they had seen the same truck deposit
a load in the basement last
night and at?other times, as long
ago as last September.
Tons of explosives were housed in
the building, the authorities learned
?enough to blow up a fair sized
city, as they put it. Tenements adjoining
the sailor*? Inn were -.speedily
emptied of eeupants. as the
news spread, and it was not until
lonsr after midnight, when it was sasured
the notice would guard the arsenal
carefully and remove it at daybreak
that the tenants went to bed.
Two hundred detectives and secret
service agents kent the water .front
section of ''Old Chelsea" awake tonight,
in a search for war explosives
and for persons who owned the
"arsenal.**
The whole district in the neighborhood
of Eighth Avenue and West
Twenty Fourth Street was kept in a
tumult. The authorities, working
in squadrons, ransacked every basement,
every tenement and every attic,
and questioned all persons who
by reputation was listed at headquarters
as "susDieious characters."
The tearful reouest of residents
near the lodging house the "arsenal"
first discovered and its content
f trench grenades, machine guns,
rifles, ammunition, high explosives,
! bombs, cast iron "pipe mortars*' and
pistol cartridges was removed from
j its basemer.r hiding place to the buj
reau of combustibles.
LAST RESOURCE
Thomas L. Chadbourne the head
of the new billion dollar steel combination
was talking about Russia at
the Lawyer* Club in New York.
"Russia" he said, "knows she will
: have to get rid of the Bolshcv?*? <sv!
entually. Eventually?why not now
Well it's because Russia is like little
Willie
"Little Willie fell seriously ill but
refused to take the medicine the doctor
had prescribed. His mother before
bis repeated refusals, lost all
hope.
" 'Oh' she wailed, 'my boy will die
My darling boy will die.'
"But from his sick bed little Willie
spoke gently.
44 'Don't worry mother. Father will
be home soon and he'll make me take
it." :?Ottawa Citizen.
A Catawba county club boy made
over $500 with a small flock of sheep
in three years. The money and the
sheep are his own.