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SIX MONTHS HUE LOSS IS' EMMS BUT IT 13 IMPROVEMENT OVER FIRST SIX MONTHS OF LAST YEAR. 110 STORES ARE BURNED While the Loss In North Carolina Is Reduced From Th\t of 1921, That of U. S. and Canada Increased. Raleigh. The flre loss for the first six months of 1922 In North Carolina, according to official records in the State Fire Marshal's office, Is enormous, but Commissioner Wade shows that It is an improvement over the same period In 1921, and highly favorable when compared for the record for the coun try at large, for while the loss in North Carolina Is reduced $605,489 from that of 1921, that of the I'nlted States and Canada has Increased $27,- 931,300. The louses by months are as fol lows: North U. S. and Carolina Canada January .$1,080,350 $38,663,000 February 354,885 29,304,300 March 476,452 39 910,750 April 825,585 31,009,750 May 351,371 23.868,950 June 105,980 24,102,350 $3,198,623 $192,857,600 , During the six months, January 1 ito July 1, flre destroyed or injured the following classes of property to the number Indicated. In storage 44; warehouse and storage, .35; garages, 32; Industrial plants, 28; barns. 22; pressing clubs, 17; schools, 1; cafes. 14; hotels, 8; outhouses, 7; Passenger and freight stations and platforms, 8; newspaper and printing plants. 6; ginneries, 5; laundries, 4; saw mills, 4 ; hospitals, 3; barber shops 3; two each of banks, boats, service stations, churches, power and light plants, apartments; one each of tele phone exchange, Y. M. C. A., lodge roomß, wood yard, pumping plant, state building, stand-pipe, and toilet. Spafks on Bhingle roofs and defec tive flues caused 281 fires; unknown, 194; exposure, 91; oil stove explosion, 40; overhot stove, 35; cigarettes and smoking, 26; incendiary- 25; careless ness. 22; gasoline ignition, 21; short circuit, 15; defective wiring 15; child and match, 10; suspicious, 9; light ning, 9; eight each of spontaneous oombustion, lamp explosion, hot ashes, acldental. rubbish and trash; seven each of electric Iron, machine friction, engine spark; matches, 5; rate and matches, 4; open tires, 4; one each of wet lime, hot box, hot cinders, live coal on floor, movie film. Governor to Open Farm Convention. Governor Cameron Morrison will open the Farmers' and Farm Woraen'i convention with an address at noon Thursday, August 1, according to the completed program which Is now in press. On the program for the first d»y in addition to Governor Morrison, are some of the moßt noted teachers In agriculture, Including G. K. McClure, ,of the Farmers' Federation, which has been so .successful 1n handling the mar keting of farm products la Buncombe county, and John B. Hutcheson, direc tor of the Virginia Agricultural Exten sion «ervlce. The American Farm Bureau Federa tion Is sending one of Its best speakers In L. R Pollock, who will give Tar Heel farmers Information about the Farm Bureau Federation In solving marketing and legislative problems in other states. At the CIOB of the first day's pro gram comes lite big community sing after which there will be a social hour with music and free punch on the state college grounds. Railroads have announced special reduced rates for the three day con vention. Round Up Car* With Old Tags. With more than two million dollars collected from the owners of 136.0C0 passenger cars and i 4,000 motor trucks the license bureau of the department of state will send forth its deputies during the coming week to round up the remaining few thousand automo bile owners in the state who have not paid their tribute toward the mainte nance of roads In North Carolina. Registrations are atlM under 18.000 under the total for the previous vear, but J. E. Sawyer, who directs the li cense bureau, thinks that half that number will take care of the cars ac tually In use In the state. Severnor Paroles One. After having served 13 months of a two-yenr sentence for violation of the prohibition law. Mrs. Nellie Rhymer, of Henderson county was paroled by Governor Morrison on recommenda tion of Judge Harding, who tried the case, and J. E. Shipman. the solicitor. In consideration of newly discover ed evidence. Governor Morrison cave a respite of ninety day* to T. H. Brown and W. A. L. Smith, convicted in Mecklenburg superior court for manu facturing whiskey. The Governor Speaks at N. C. Stat«. "Men are teaching In North Caro lina today that damnable Russian doc trine that the law is a heartless and true) thing," Governor Cameron Mor rison told the teachers of vocational agriculture, gathered In annual con ference at (he N. C. State, as he turn ed aside a moment from his message on the home production of foodstuffs He promised that "as long as he may be governor he will do everything in his power'to crush the teachers of the doctrine that has drenched Kurope In blood." The IGovernor' took a whack at those who opposed his stand on the strike situation in North Carolina and the United States. Speaking of his letter In reply to President Harding's appeal for troops to help reopen the coal mines, he declared, "If Harding and the at Washington will let me run North Carolina, I will be per fectly willing to let them run the Unit ed States —if they can." Governor Morrison voiced his unal terable stand against "any group of citizens who erect a standard of in subordination in North Carolina and insist upon their right' to mob a man for no other reason than he has a job and wants to work It." "The future greatness of North Carolina depends a great deal more on raising chickens and hogs than on raising politicians and statesmen," the governor told the conference. Governor Morrison preceded his talk by a round-table discussion among the members of the conference and a talk by Robert D. Malthy, of the Federal Board for Vocational Ed ucation, Washington, D. C. Mr. Malthy contrasted the work of the county agents and the vocational teachers and said that there was a no-man'l land between the fields covered by the two branches of agricultural In struction, on which the teachers anil the agents would clash in the conflict to their scopes of Influence unless steps were taken beforehand to draw up ground rules so that the two par ties could co-operate _ instead of an tagonize each other. The governor was In complete ao» cord with the work being done by tin vocational teachers. "I know nothing," he said, "that will do more for the strengthening and upbuilding of the state than the teaching of real, scien tific agriculture. It ought to be mendously augmented In North Caro lina for It is a science that can bo easily taught." Governor Morrison said that he hoped to be able to present a definite plan for an enlargement of the'scope of agricultural teaching before thd next general assembly. "I do hope North Carolina will ner. er cease to be an agricultural state," Governor Morrison continued with earnestness, "for that state or nation which neglects the basic Industry of the world, will be the base a weak people., I care, not how proficient they may be In industry, merchantile enter prises or mechanics," In proof of this assertion he cited Instances of nations building up great empires on artificial foundations and then toppling when the real stress came, while other nations, not BO great and not so rich, but resting on the firm, plain foundation of a hardy rural population and a liberal produc tion of foodstuffs, weathered ttie storms of state which overthrew tholr greater neighbors. * But there are different brands of agriculture. Governor Morrison warn ed the'teachers. "The farmers of North Carolina have not been prosperous, they ace not prosperous, and they will not be pros perous until they change their meth ods of farming," he said. "We are very weak in the fact that we ralsa crops to Bell and not to eat. In tha broad, accepted sense of the word, wa are not a strong agricultural stnte, we ara nothing but world unsurpassed growers of cotton and tobacco." Governor Morrison declared that In order for North Carolina to seize the place that was hers In the agricultu ral world that she must devote more time to the raising of live-stock, poul t»y and vegetables In order that the money she recelveß from the sele of her cotton and tobacco may not go out of the state for "a side of white moat and a sack of musty Mlnresota meal." , The raising of cotton and tobacco aV>no Governor Morrison character ized as "speculation more hazardous [ than gambling In the New York ex change." "Sell your tobacco, and cotton," the Governor said, "eat your hogs and chickens and gardon vegetables and eggs, feed them to your children, un til we people In North Carolina are as strong and fat and sassy as our an cestors used to be." After his talk to the vocational teachers Oovernor Morrison was haled by a group of Alamance county farm ers, as he was driving Into town and stopped long enough to get out and shake hands with them and make them a short talk, emphasizing the value of raising more food cro^a. Robeson Man Get* Parol*. Upon representations that Merritt Quick, serving twelve months on the roads of Robeson county for false pre tense. Is feeble-minded and on condi tion that Quick accompany his brother out of the state. Governor Morrison granted the prisoner a parole. The parole waa recommended by B. 8. McLean, the solicitor who prosecuted the case. Governor Morrison declined to par don Marshall Wheeler, Vance county, serving IS months In the state prison for store-breaking. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. C line INDICTED BY FLORIDA JURY ALLEGED MEMBERS OF WELL OR GANIZED RING OF LIQUOR SMUGGLERS. OPERATING MORE THAN YEAR Chf.rged Wlth_ Plying Liquor and Chi' nese Trade Between Cuba and the United States. Pensacola, Fla. —The indictment of 16 persons alleged to be members of a well organized ring of Chinese and liquor smugglers that has been oper ating extensively between Cuba and the United States for more than a year, became known here after As sistant United States District Attor ney George Karl Hoffman had been notified of the arrest of Louis Ying, alias Quon Yick, a Chinaman, in Phil adelphia. Two indictments charging conspi racy were returned at a special three day session of , the United States court in Gainesville a week ago. C. P. Moore, of Crestview, Kla., for merly a private detective, and owner •of the auxiliary schooner Success, the' boat on which both Chinamen and liquor are alleged to have been smug gled, Is the first person named in each of the indictments. He is the brains of the alleged unlawful operations, officials say. Others who officials say were in the "inner circle'' of the alleged op erations are B. H. Sutton, ex-sheriff of Okaloosa county; Louis Ying, alias Quon Yick, of Philadelphia; Benja min Edmundson, of Pensacola; R. Church'well, ex-deputy under Sutton; Dorsey M. Rice, alias D. M. Richard son, Havana, Cuba; Charley Suey and Charlie Hong, Apalachlcola, Fla. The investigation was conducted un fer the direction of District Attorney Fretf Cubberly and his assistant, George Earl Hoffman, by G. Leslie Dar den, special agent of the department of .justice, and L. R. Cobb, federal pro hibition agent for this district. The Benjamin R-E, belonging to Captain Edmundson, one of the alleg ed conspirators, and the Jane, two of the fastest speedboats of this section of the coast, were immediately seized by the government. They are the boats, libels charge, that {net the Suc cess outside the three-mile limit and transported the contraband cargo into Choctawhatchee bay. The Success is in Cuba at present, it Is said, where she was caught attempting to smuggle liquor out improperly several days ago. She will also be seized, officials state, when she returns to the United States. Cars Run Wild, Wrecking Plant, Thomasville.-r-The finishing and up holstering department of Plant No. 3 of the Standard Chair company, was completely wrecked when ten freight cars running wild ran In on the Stan dard Chair company's switch and drove a freight car loaded with lum ber into the building, a three-story frame one. Three men were painfully hurt, and the damage to the plant and stock therein is estimated at $25,000. Fortunately only about seven of the 25 men at work were in the wing of the building wrecked, the others being in another part of the building prepar ing to go home. The injured are. Gross Hill, aged 21, who is perhaps the least hurt; Jim Hilton, 25, and a man with a family, who is suffering with internal Injuries; Mack Pape, 35, also a man with a family, is the more seriously Injured, sustaining a broken ankle and internal injuries. Promoters Defraud Many Colonists. Washington^—Warning against un official promoters of colonization schemes in South America was issued by the commerce department, which added that such promoters have been particularly active in the western states. Many Americans going to South America as colonists have found that they have invested their savings in land in the remote wilderness, the department says. "The reports hav» recently reached Washington," the statement continued "concerning the unhappy plight of a number of American citizens who have been inveigled by unreliable promot ers Into going to South America as colonists. Having invested their sav ings In land and in passage money they have arrived at their destination wtlh little or no funds, and have found that there purchases were In rernotq. localities without markets or mean* of communication. Disillusioned they have made their way back through the wilderness to the coast, singly oi In groups. Bandits Sack Town. Mexico Clt£. —Altaian de Jaurez, a village In Jalisco. was sacked by fo> lowers of Juan Carrasco, who killed two policemen and committed othei depredations. Frederico Arteso, operating in Du rango, is reported officially to hav« been killed In a clash with the defense police near Temascas, Governor Mar cla Vigil, of Oaxaca, says Marianne Uriel and ten of hli men have beei killed, Ula aald. The situation la llttl« chang*d though a regrouping of th rebels la seriously threatened. LARGE GAS TANK BLOWS UP WITH HEAVY LOSS Chicago.—A tank sixty feet wide and one hundred feet high, con taining thousands of cubic feet of gas, blew up at Twenty-fifth and Throop streets, a section inhabit ed mostly by laborers, injured more than a Bcore of persons, set fire to a dozen houses and caused many persons within an area of several blocks to be overcome by the poisonous fumes. The flames were brought under control by the fire department. The cause of the explosion was undetermined. The top of the tank blew off and witnesses said that simultaneously a tremendous sheet of flames shot upward. Within a few seconds houses were burning and scores of persons were flee ing. GIRL DIRECTED .SMUGGLING MRS. EDITH STEPHENS, 19 YEARS OLD, CHARGED WITH LIQUOR Captain Oman Testifies That Woman Directed the Loading of the Edith in Bermuda. New York/—A story of liquor smug glers loading their carfo in Bermuda under the direction of a girl and mak ing runs to the shores of Long Island Sound, gun lights and seizures by federal agents, has been revealed in the arraignment of Mrs. Edith Steph ens, 19 years old, in Brooklyn on an indictment charging conspiracy to smuggle liquor into New York from Bermuda. She was indicted as an accomplice of Antonio Cassese, wealthy tobacco merchant, who fled when a second in dictment charging a plot to smuggle huge quantities of liquor Into the country followed the seizure of two of Ills vessels. Cassese wa? charged with being the owner of the yacht Edith, captured by government agents here with 1000 cas es of liquor aboard last March. At the trial Captain Charles Oman of the l£dlth testified that the woman loading of the Edith in Bermuda and accompanied the cargo to New York. He said Cassese also was aboard. Neither was on the yacht when it was seized. Oman was sent j Inquiries directed particularly to to Atlanta for a year. The trawler root conditions revealed very-few com- Ripple was the second vessel to be plaints of lateral roots. A substantial captured by the government agents majority reported at least a fair tap after a voyage to Bermuda, when it root. * All this applies more especially tried to land a cargo of liquor in to cotton In the uplands and hill sec- New York harbor. The vessel was ta- tions. Lowland cotton and on the ken after a revolver battle with the j bottoms has not been as fortunate, crew. When Cassese learned of the | From these sections complaints have second seizure he fled, although out' been very general and poor tap root, on SSOOO bond in the first case. j rank growth, plants running to stalk Mrs. Stephens denied that she knew I and poorly fruited. Drawbacks such anything about the Ripple, although as excessive shedding, black rust, boll she admitted being on board the Edith 1 rot and Inability to cultivate because and making a trip on the yacht from ;of the sogginess of the soil, have all Bermuda. j combined to render the outlook very Meeting on Allied War Debt, Washington.—The first formal nego tiations for the funding of the allied war debt by the United States were to take place at a meeting of Jean V. Parmentier, refunding representative of France, with the American debt commission. M. Parmentier has had a number of conferences with Secretary Mellon, chairman of the commission and treas ury officials, when statements show ing the financial and economic condi tion of France, were submitted for the information of the debt commission. These statements have been analyz ed by the treasury's experts and M. Parmentier is expected to answer the questions concerning the French bud get operations, the exports and im ports of the country and the general resources of Franca with respect to her ability to liquidate the $3 500,000,- 000 war debt owed the united States. Maniac Finally Gives Up Fight Hinton, W. Va. • John Fredeklng. the Insane man who barricaded him self in his house and for thirteen davs resisted the efforts of deputy sheriffs and state police to arrest him after he had killed one man and wounded four others, appeared at the front door, threw up his hands and asked for a drink of water. Two troopers, who. with other offi cers. have resorted to every known means short of firing the house to dislodge Fredeking stepped up to the door, got him the water he craved and then led him to the .county jail. He re fused to awwer their questions and appeared to be dazed. Physicians were summoned from the Hinton hospital where they had been treating the men wounded in the firing of the past days, and dressed a bullet wound in Frodeking's right arm and another Injury to h'»i right shouldet. CanrrJVrt Shopmen Vote Against Cut. Montreal/—A strike against wages tuts Inaugurated among Canadian rail way shopmen was favored by 97 per cent of the voters in a ballot Just completed by the local unions. R. J. Fallon, president of division No. 4. railway employes department of, the American Federation of Labor, i followed the announcement with a tel egram to Premier King, making known the reductions. Definite action by the union will be withheld until the premier answers the message, Fallon told him. IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON PROSPECTS JOURNAL OF COMMERCE FINDS PERCENTAGE CONDITION OF 74.1. LOWLAND COTTON SUFFERS From These Sections Drawbacks Are Black Rot, 801 l Rot and Inability to Cultivate Soggy Coil. New York.—From a careful survey into cotton conditions, undertaken by the Journal of Commerce for July, it will be seen that generally favorably weather has brought about further substantial improvement. According to reports received by this paper, un der an average date of July 24, there has been an increase in percentage condition of 1.7 per cent to 74.1 per cent. 1 This represents the opinions of more than 1,600, competent correspond ents, and compares with an estimated condition of 72.4 per cent of a month ago, 71.8 per cent at the end of May, and a ten-year average of 75.3 per cent. More r, it is an advance of 6.3 per cent over July, last year, when cotton conditions had fallen as low as 67.8 per cent. In 1920 the per cent condition averaged 74.8 per cent, in 1919 70.1 per cent and 77.4 per cent the, year before that. With an exception, in 1920, when per cent condition advanced 3.8 per cent, It was the largest increase for July in recent years, and contrasts very favorably with the years 1919 and 1918, which sustained declines of 1.3 per cent and 5.7 per cent, respectively. In view of prevailing uncertainties regarding the cotton situation, very few correspondents are as yet ven- I turing upon predictions as to the size of the crop. Since the date of the replies the j weather has been especially favor- I able, which would indicate still bet ' ter conditions than those reported. This showing seems to bear out the statement made earlier in the season that the cotton plant can stand a good 1 deal of moisture without permanent ! injury. unfavorable. Furthermore, weevils, at the points in question, are already proving troublesome, although else where damage is thus- far compara tively slight. On the other hapf), the drought in certain parts of Texas threatens to somewhat reduce the favorable showing made by that state. Two Army Aviators Burned to Death. Mlddleton., N. Y.—Lieutenant Tracey Lyons, O. R. C., aviation section, U S. A., and Augustus Altemel? Jr., of of Port Jarvis, were burned to death when an airplane in which thay were riding crashed to earth. Breaking of the propeller caused the plane take a fatal nose dive. Explosion of the gasoline tank, co incident with the crash, sbsaithed both men and the plane in flames. The plane fell from a height of approximately fifty feet and about an eighth of a mile from where it started. Five Killed in Automobile Wreck. Detroit. —Five persons were killed and one injured when a driver of aij automobile occupied by the five, at tempted to avo.d a collision with an other machine and was crowded in front of a Detroit and Pontias interur ban car, just north of here. The dead are John W. Murphy, 45 years old, his sons, John W. Jr., 6, and James F., 4; Mrs. Josephine Gay, 50, all of Detroit, and Miss Marie Flan agan, 17, of Owosao. Nelson Ogden, of Pontiac, the mo torman, was badly cut 'by flying glass, the vestibule of the Interurban being crushed in by the force of thp col lision. The automobile caught fire and Mur phy's body was virtually incinerated. Witnesses laid the blame for the accident on the unidentified driver of the other machine, who disappeared after the accident. Marines to Chase Oil Squatters. Washington. Peraistent squattera on big oil reserva tion at Teapot Dome (Wyoming) are going to be "invited" to get off govern ment property by the United States .marines. Refusal of the aquatters to vacats a location 40 miles west of Caspar re sulted in the navy department, which has charge of the reserve, ordering a marine officer and aeveral enlisted men Bent from Washington to enforce i the govercment'a order to vacate. UAVPH MURRILL IS' REPORTED KILLED Berlin. Officials of the com pany operating the airplane service from Berlin to Hamburg are unable to explain the sudden plunge of the combination postal-passenger air plane near Boisenburg while on the trip to Hapsburg. The plane carried to instant death its three passengers, R. S. Murrill, of Char lotte, N. C., Albert Baurigin and Senior Consevergara, and Pilot von Betram. The supposition is that the pilot endeavored to make an emergency landing, but miscalculated his direc tion and landed in denße woods. The investigating commission has not yet returned to Berlin, but it is believed probable it will fail to es tablish the cause of the accident, as there is a complete wreck. It is explained by the officials that the wrecked plane was virtual ly a new one, its motor having run for only 44 hours. Von Bertram, a well known war aviator, made re peated trips from Berlin to Ham burg with a machine of a similar type. The identity of the American was established through an employe of the American military mi«ion in Berlin. BON-CLARKEN OPEN 10 POCLIG ASSEMBLY GROUND NEAR HEN DERSONVILLE TO BE A BUSY PLACE. Number of Prominent Men Will Speak There During the Next Few Weeks. Hendersonvllle, N. C. With two church conferences slated for August, 65 guests already within its gates, and plans being made for the erection of cottages on the property next sumlner, Bon-Clarken, the Associate' Reformed Presbyterian Assembly grounds, Inc., is in the full swing of its first session. Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Browriee, of An derson, S. C., are the managers of the property this summer. The beautiful old estate, formerly known as "Heidel berg Gardens," has received great im | provement since it was purchased by the leaders of the Associate-Reformed i Presbyterians, who obtained it during the past year as a permanent place for I the church conferences during the summer. Among these are a 25,000- gallon water tank, the installation of electric lights and modern plumbing, and new furnishings throughout. The property embraces a park, farm land orchard, a commodious hotel, and | several cottages. It is situated one i mile from Flat Rock station, three I miles from Hendersonyilje, four miles | from Kanuga Lake, and 23 miles from |Asheville. Though primarily for the ) purposes of the church, Bon-Clarken I hotel has been opened to the public, offering a splendid place to people j seeking a cesort place with Christian j influences. The Sunday school and young peo ple's conference of the A. R. P. church will be held at Bon-Clarken from Au gust 4 to 12. Bach day from 9 to 12 o'clock Bible classes sill be held, a Vesper service in the evening at 7 and an address at 8 o'clock by some outstanding man in the Christian world. The Bible conference is scheduled 'for August 13 to 21, and will bring delegates here from practically every southern state. Dr. McNaugher of the Alleghany Theological seminary, Alleghany, Pa., and Dr. Whaling, of Richmond, Va., will be the speakers at the conference. E. C. Stewart, of Bartow, Fla., who la, chairman of the board of directors m the institution, will arrive soon with his family to spend the remainder of the summer at Bon-Clarken. I The Kiwants Club of Hendersonville will hold its weekly luncheon at Bon- Clarken, thus initiating the hotel un der its new ownership and manage ment with a iAeeting of a Henderson ville civic organization. Whiskey Distiller* War on Officers. Louisville, Ky, Whiskey distillers from the entire country w&re assem bled here to "declare war" upon the national prohibition enforcement offi cers, according to statements of their attorneys. Support in the stand of the distillers in opposing the regulation of whiskey withdrawals from ware houses, when the liquor Is to be used for medicinal purposes, will come from the American Medical Association, it was claimed. Both organizations, ac cording to the announcement, have complained of the "arbitrary rulings placed on physicians and druggists by rhe national prohibition administra tion. Large Attendance For Peach Exhibit. flamlet, N. C. The second anual peach exhibit opened here with every indication pointing to its success. More than 3,000 visitors from New York to Florida are In attendance while the exhibits are numerous. J. G. Grant of Mcßee and J. V. Bmlth of Greer, were awarded first prixes In the Elberta peach class exhibits. Addresses oh various phases of the peach growing Industry by C. S. L'aUer, of Baltimore. Md.. and C. C. Newman, of Clem son College, were the features |of the nsprning session. JUSTICE GLARK IS HURT 111 WRECK FEARED FOR SOME TIME THAT SKULL HAD BEEN FRAC. TURED. X-RAY EXAMINATION. IS MADE Sclap Wound Misses Justice's Brain by Little More Than a Hair's Breadth. Raleigh, N. C. —While not seriously hurt, as examinations repealed, Chief Justice Walter Clark's escape from possible fatal injuries in the automo bile accident near Carthage was al most miraculous, according to an ac count of the mishap by his ion, John Clark. A scalp wound missed the chief Jus' tfce's brain by , scarcely a hair's breadth, and physicians making an examination at Rex hospital consid ered that its penetration for a frac tion of an inch deeper would have caused instant death. An x-ray examination was made to make certain the extent of his inju ries. Judge Clark was able to go home after the examination. According to the account given by friends of John Clark, the steering wheel locked, swerving the wheels and throwing the car down an em bankment. Justice Clark was thrown from the rear seat through the wind shield. He sustained a number of slight bruises and cuts a.bout the head in addition to the deeper wound. Mrs. John Clark sustained a deep cut in the tongue, making it neces sary for her to take nourishment through a tube, otherwise she was not seriously hurt. Her husband's inju ries consisted of bruises and cuts. The accident is the second narrow escape for the chief Justice. -Friends recall that some nine years ago only a rare presence of mind saved him from asphixlatlon by gas. An open Jet in a closed room fur nished a flow of gas in a room in the Clark house in which Justice Clark was caught unawares. Judge Clark was almost suffocated when he finally succeeded in cutting the .connection and reaching a window. Judge Clark's advanced age made his escape from more serious injury the more remarkable, in the opinion of friends. He is 70. He and his son and daughter-in law were returning to Raleigh after a tour of the western part of the state. Newspaper Men Visit Chimney Rock. Shelby, N. C. —After enjoying for a few hours the delights of Chimney Rock, one of the most wonderful spots in the southern Appalachian moun tains, made all the more wonderful by the artistic development work for which Dr. L. B. Moore has been re sponsible, the members of the North Carolina Press association turned their faces homeward, marking the final breaking up of the body which held its annual convention at Cleve land Sprlngß hotel near here. The trip to Chimney Rock thought from numbers of newspaper men ex huberant expressions of Surprise. Those who had not seen the place be fore admitted they had never had any true conception of the wonderful mountain scenery to be enjoyed there, nor had they any comprehen sive idea of the great development that has taken place here in the way of construction of dining room, danc ing pavilion, apartments for "cliff dwellers," etc., right on the precipi tate rocky face of the gigantic, Gibral tar-like mountain of stone, from which the "Chimney" Itself stands out not entirely unlike a protruding smoke stack. _ On the way to Chimney Rock, a distance of some 50 miles from Shel by along the Wilmihgton-Charlotte- Ashevllle highway, the editorial par ty stopped at Rutherfordton, "Tho Gateway of the Land of the Sky," and were given the most cordial and real ly exuberant welcome by the citizens of the Rutherford county capital. Blaylng Held "Not Accidental." Crewe, Va. —Following a verdict of the coroner's Jury, made public re cently. the fatal shooting here of E. R. Widkins, a Norfolk and Western yard clerk, and the wounding of George Marsh, a painter, on the night of July 1, by Detective Guard W. H. Bell, "was not accidental as Indicated by Bell." Commonwealth's Attorney Lee, of Nottoway county, announced he will immediately ask a grand Jury to bring in an Indictment charging Bell with murder. Irish Nationals Killed. Belfast.—The ambush of a party of Free State troops was reported from Glentles, County Donegal. They en countered a man dressed as a priest, who assured them there was no dan ger In the locality. Suddenly seven men emerged from behind a hedge and opened fire upon the national sol dieri, killing two of them. Four of the attacking party were captured during subsequent fighting. According to a report reaching here the residence of Lord Leltrlm at Mul ror. Donegal, was burnt*.
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