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. -j aV October 29, 1923 M° nd ■ ■■ r |,, means ill Alleged Con <**s,soo# Baii .fftrK s ai(i in be the pri %«■ L. • Ini 'T7;a7t,.n 15. Means, for-, , , m( j indicted with i>r mH " !L ! unit legging and us- L- 1111 'f',',' 7. fraud bootleggers, ap 07bP» a ' lv Knox in the Federal *Li w 7pniav. and has held L.-rict ' " u 'h- pieadwl not guilty bi "\ i ,,7- a> r»«H> South Clin-. M f*' Y lI,S i>7 k Ridge. 11l- He was !; Avenue. ( Martinson gave a vVI 1 | i,(i for houses at 205 j Kivington Street, *• : VI , M not guilty and 11-aim i(N rs! hails on Monday. ,a- ! ' address as 003 Six to '' £: . \ \V. Washington, I). >, ''. ri( . li Jarneeke to court. 7’’ h.'f.a-e and his counsel, ' i,, T 7;7. ) 7 |t Felder, who appeared I'oJeae! Cy r ,.iterated his state ;,*• • I:irl, '7 AI.- t 77 was innocent. and that sent th ;i: ; ’/Y m: "higher up*.” would isi'jii\>i>er time, ami would ¥ I,M , , .. on „n-v. I Felder refused to give any de fu,ri-' -mry. hut intimated that tiih";' obtained by i- ** il '' 11, T artmeiit of Justice agent )W' , -7. H * ty" bootlegging in Y" ‘ j( (hps*. n. one of the meu ac . -;- a ,-v with Means and t wliKkv out of bonded ir ' ' ;1 ~ I it to bootleggers. ? ' 1 , . ~,i hei-ause they testified ; ; ' 1 r . jury, surrendered yes* F , ' ~die: imlietment which has |' r ’ . i-liii'i him here. . I*rohi ** vv . re hunting for Johnson 1 , “7,1.7 jndi.-tuieiit at the time he i! 7..e> v ing before the grand jury. Xhc ( aharrus Fair. 11,.,'e-v ii I*■ Ktitorprise. I*7 (-. (ll ‘nt> and south Iredell in ‘ iuuidreds of visitors to Wl .,.|< to see the exhibits at 1 ; t j witness the-high class 7 " yji rejoiced that Cabarrus lT!!<-'•■' j,r"gn —ive men backing the r ];;(ve made it the success *',7.ved t>‘ be. The exhibits in live '7 ,■ : 111 i* *. poultry.: manufactures, * v ibnnestie art, etc., while not so 7 i- suMf fails, quality made up for 7 Jctieieix-y in quantity. . Mr. Joe ;li „| ids assistants are to be con- B*t7ated on tin* big show. The nomi y* t ,, the visitors was a feature v dis* u>>ed and approved. <Xf ..., that Coney Island midway was ,vi rv that held hundreds for the jjjj,. -in,,, aiuuscments till of which were * | , r „„jlilv enjoyed.. Ir demonstrates; t i !a t a fair is a practical fa’hire s r< amusements are not permitted. [V , j,ive a big noise and there are .. 7au«i' wii > never indulge in any sort re free amusements except at a fair mi they will travel many miles to see .j;, aitrartioii., of 4 midway. On the li eld Cabarrus, with the assistance ~? lii-iitlibors. pulled off a tremendous «»;;•. I»,, it again, boys, we are with W\ iii" AiCuide Harris, student at S.«- ; College, i- spending several day* : iv. Sin will he an attendant in lit- V Haiti' wedding here this ONE YEAR FREE! We Will Give The Progressive Farmer 9 • —and — The Concord Times Both For One Year For Only $2 The Price of The Times Alone The Progressive Farmer is the greatest farm paper published and every farmer should have it. _ - This offer will be good for 60 days only* from June 15th, 1923. ' This offer is open to both new and old sub- , scribers. If you are already taking The Times, all you hat e to do is to pay up to date and S2.QO more for another year and the Progressive Farm h er will be sent you a whole year absolutely free of charge. 'y. . / * If you are already paid in advance to The I lines, just pay $2.00 for another year, your sub scription will be so marked and we will send you tiie progressive Farmer a full year. Address ! THE TIMES, Concord,. N. C * * » -V * * * . - * * • % RABBIT HI NDERS CATCH NEGRO BANK ROBBERS Two Negroes Found in Catawba Bank When Young Woman Opens Building. Newton, Oct. 24.—The town of Ca tawba, ten miles east of Newton, was the scene of- an exciting attempt at bank robbery early this morning, Mrs. Ed. Smith, formerly Miss Mabel Gillelfmd, is the heroine who frustrated the plans of two negroes and'the rabbit bunders of the community beat Jin* officers of two' counties and four towns and the New ton bloodhounds, in the eaptuie of the would-be robbers. About 8 o'clock this morning/ W. It. Walker, cashier of the Peoples Bank, and Mr*. Edward Smith, bank clerk, went to open the bank. Mr. Walker discovered that lie had left his keys at home, and started back to get them. Mrs. Smith had a key to ttye back door and entered it without waiting for Mr. Walk er. Slip lvptieed that the floor was un accountably muddy but without suspect ing that anything, was wrong opened the closet door to get kindling for starting a fire. There, sitting on a box just inside the door, was a big negro with a pistol point ing in her face and j.ust back of him was another negro. Both’ had big. blue handkerchiefs over their faces. The brave little woman grabbed the cloth off the nearest negro to try to identify him. He knocked her down and with a threat ordered her not to scream, and then they ran past he!* and went out the back door, but she raised the alarm a*i they went and Charles Kufty and others saw the negroes running and . got the direction they were going. The officers of Newton, Hickory aut] Statesville were at once notified but be fore any of then! got on the ground—and all were there iu a remarkably short time—the men and boys of the town and couutry round about were in hot pui> suit of the negroes. They overtook the big yellow negro, who put the p : «toi iu Mrs. Smith's face, about one-half mile down Lyle's creek in a clump of bushes. The negro fired on the crowd, but missed and then the shotgun detachment opened up. Beverly Watts put a load of buck shot in the negro's legs and he surrendered. T;fae other negro was captured farther down the creek. * N The negroes were brought to New ton jail about 11 o'clock today. The big mulatto gave his name as Willie Wil son. of Middletown. Ohio, and the other, a slim negro about 21 years old, said he was John Jones, of Seattle, Washington, but Catawba recognized the latter as a Host left Catawba'several years ago. All examination of the bank showed that the negroes had entered during the night and that their first purinise was to get into the vault. They had made a hole with a pick about half way tlifi>ugh the wall and came to a wive that they evidently thought was con nected with an alarm going, and changed their plans. They concealed themselves in the closet to wait till the money was brought out atul then overpower the bank ers. but the course of >Jrs. Smith upset their plans and they decided to get out as quickly as possible with some small change they had found on. the counter. The condition of Mrs. ■W. L. Black weldor. Ivho has been critically ill for several days, is reported by relatives to he very jnticli improved today 1* STATE METHODIST PROTEST AN T CONFERENCE 1 To Meet at Thomasville October 31 to November sth. Thomasville, N. C., Oet 26—With much important business to transact, i the North Carolina Conference of the | Methodist Protestant Church will con- j vene here Wednesday, October 31, for its USth annual session. The conference will s continue in session through No vember 5. The attendance is expected to number betw active ministers, nnd equal number of lay delegates and a number of special conference visitors present. --- Routine work of the conference ses sion will include the reading of reports, election of officers. ordination of ministerial supplying of pastors for vacant charges, the superan nuates. financial matters and the selection of six pastors and six lay representatives to attend the quadren nial meeting of general conference to be held iu May, 11)24. Special matters to be considered in clude the opening of the New Methodist Protestant College at. High Point, the work of the Children’s Home located here and the needs of the board of church extension. The new commuu't.v church erected by (’• F. Finch as a memorial to his late wife, will be tlurcenter of the con ference session. Dr. A. (1. Dixon, of Greensbor#, nV president, will preside at all meetings. Dical committees rapidly arc com pleting plans for the entertainment of ministers and delegates who will attend the conference. All of the delegates ami the will be placed in private homes, it lias been stated by entertain ment committee members. Other officers of the conference be sides Da. Dixon, the president, are Rev. ('.«W. Bates, Henderson, secretary; Rev. N. M- Harrison. Jr.. Greensboro. as sistant secretary; Rev. S. W. Taylor. Burlington, treasurer: Rev. H. F. Sur ratt, Whitakers, statistical secretary; C. B. Way Thomaswille. conference re porter. Negro is Ap*pouitc<l as Notary Public. Raleigh Nows and Obsevver. The appointment of a Hertford coun ty negro as a notary public has greatlly puzzled the people of that section of the State, according to reports received here from Aulander. The negro thus ap pointed, it is stated, was J. It* M caver. of Hertford. Inquiries at the office of the Governor resulted in the statement that if a negro had beeu appointed it was an oversight. No, protests have come to the office concerning this appointment. Charlotte May Taie in the Rest of Charlotte Township. Charlotte, Oct. 25.—A movement is on foot to extend the city limits to coin cide with the township limits. Mayor Walker is favorable to the move. The city limits now extend two and half miles from Independence square. Bids have been asked by J. H- ('utter. who is to erect a modern theater on West Trade street, to be submitted to architects by November 1. The building will be three stories. I)r. and Mrs. .T. M. Grier, win have been making their home iu Newtotnvare now liviug in Lenoir. « THE CONCORD TIMES ANOTHER L.IQVOR PLOT. i Editorial in New York Time^. Another “gigantic conspiracy” is spread before the public in the indict ments made by the Federal Grand Jury here- The extent of the transactions in to which the defendants are accused of plunging would be “startling” if any thing could startle nerves too well ac customed to what used to be sensational. The Dry* haven't lgst the habit of hon est indignation ad such cjiarges. How is it with the Wets? Isn't there something irritating to persons, with too much smack of t*lie old Adam in the mere men- , tion of “oOIkOOO cases of Kentucky Bour bon"? They may pretend to believe that the story is romantic. Perhaps it is: the defendants assert their innocence and are to be held guiltless until convicted: and the Government is not always suc cessful in establishing the “plots” which it “unearths” so diligently and frequently. The sociologist is stirred not so much by the asserted magnitude of the “con spiracy” as by the antecedents and per sonality of the gentleman from North Carolina charged with being the princi pal. Mr. Gaston B. Means is a salient character, entirely able to take care of himself. His merits attracted the atten tion of Mr. Daugherty’s Department, of Justice, which employed him as a special agent for nearly a year. He came to this town in tin* summer of 1P22 to spy out the working of prohibition in this region. According to his counsel, he re ceived “definite instructions to investi gate thoroughly the rich aristocratic peo ple who were engaged iu the bootlegging business in New York City.' Certain “rich aristocratic*’/ bootleggers were seiit to dink as a result. Assistant Cnitede States Attorney Clark speaks of Mr. Means' “very efficient work” for him "in several important investigations." But now the efficient special investigator is_ accused of conspiring to commit more than one hundred violations of the A ol stead act: and. apparently, it is tin* Gov ernment theory that he begun to bootleg about the same time that lie began ef ficiently to investigate bootlegging. Mr. Means' counsel darkly intimates that his client got on the track of “high officials" in the Internal Revenue Bureau, who had him recalled to Washington to choke off his dangerous inquiries. , If this theory look romantic, at least ij may be expected that Gaston Means will make the fur fly. But there is a moral tagged to his story. When Mr. Means came to this town, lie brought letters of introduc tion and reccommendation, one from Mr. Wayne IV. Wheeler. General Counsel of the Anti-Snlpon League. Now it is clear, and the case of Mr. Means may be an other proof of it. that be thou as pun* as snow, thou shah not escape calumny if thou be a prohibition agent or investiga tor. A wise man won't recommend any body for th**se tieklist posts. "The use by the Federal Goveermnent of political sources in choosing prohibition agents" was lamented \by former Governor Allen the other day.' The Civil Service League has long lamented it. Mr. Wheeler and otlicrgraudees of the Anti-Saloon League, who were willing to invite Congressmen to support the Volstead act by offering them Ibis prospective patronage, now agree thut the prohibition enforcers should be selected by the merit system, and not by tin* reeonnnenedations of Congressmen "keeping the boys from having cold feet.” When Congressmen find out that this patronage is dangerous to themselves, they will give it up. The mere good of the service, may not interest them. Their own good does. If every time a Feder al prohibition agent is “'caught' with the goods" the name of his patron is pub lished. Congressmen will soon get sick of having any hand in these sorry spoils. DR. I). M. LITAKER HAS SKKIOIS MISHAP Party Returning From Conference N’ar - rowly Escape Death When Car Skids in Sand and Goes Down 13-Fcot Em bankment. Statesville Daily. I)r. and Mrs. I). M. Litaker. Rev. IF W. Fox, nastor of Race Street Methodist Church, and Rev. C. S. Kirkpatrick, pas tor of the First Methodist Church, of Hickory, narrowly escaped death or seri ous injury about N :30 Monday evening when the car in which they were riding, with Mr. Litaker at the wheel, skidded in the .sand on a curve and plunged down a 12-foot embankment., at a point 12 miles from the city.- 011 the Winston-Sa lem highway. They were returning from the Methodist Conference there. The car struck the bankroll the op posite side of the embankment, remain ing upright. Mr. Litaker.suffered severe bruises about the chest, bavin*, been ; forced against the steering wheel, and | Mr. Fox lacerations about the face and i head. Mr. Litaker, who occupied a front ! seat, and Mr. Kirkpatrick were unhurt. The car. which was owned by Mg. Litu ker, was not seriously damaged. FORD FAVORS PRESIDENT (OOLIDGE, HE SAYS Wants to See the President Exert Full to Get Dry Laws Enforced. ; Detroit. Oct. 2!i.—Henry Ford favors ; President Coolidge. but lie is more stroug- I ly iu favor of a strict enforcement on the i Volstead Act. he made it known yester ! day. 111 a statement, the automobile man- I ufacturer, asserted that he believed the i President could dry up the couutry if ; he wanted to. i “If he does' I'm strong for him." Mr. 1 Ford declared. "The President knows ;it is the right thing to do. He also | knows the women of the nation are go- I ing to have a lot to say if he doesu t I act.” i Our Special Fair and Industrial Edition. ■ RutUerfordton Sun. ; The Concord Times issued a Fair and ; Industrial edition last week of 52 pages r that reflects much credit on that paper 1 and shows its ability to issue a Metro ■ politan newspaper. « The Cabarrus County Fair came in I for special mention. The history of the • Jackson Training School and its won ; derful \\ork for humanity is a special ■ article by Mr. J. I*. Cook, editor of The f Uplift. Agricultural wealth, schools. ■ Kannapolis, the largest unincorporated • town in the world, and the \\ iscassett : mills each have a section. » Editions of this nature art* calculated J tp dq much to boost and jidvert’se our \ State and the given county and*city tto J the outside world. Editor J. B. Kher ; rill and his corps of workers are to be I highly complimented on # this edition. 5 blisses Mary Webb and Lucy Culpep g pec. of the Salisbury schools, are spend •* ing the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. A. ; S. Webb. E.E OF CTRIBUTION EDISON MARSHALL .t> ©umI.BROWN ecOHPANV,I929 ■■ IH —————M—— ——o BEGi'N HERE TODAY Ned Cornet, -who is engaged to marry Lcnore Hardenworth. Is ship wrecked with her and they take refuge on an Island. With them is Bess Gilbert, a seamstress. The island is occupied by a brute named Doomsdorf and his Indian wife. / The master of the island takes Ned and the girls prisoners and bids them build a cabin for themselves. He gives them an old stove. Lenore if allowed to remain, with the squaw and help with the housework, but Bess and Ned are made to labor an til they both fall unconscious. When the cabin is completed Doomsdorf announces that he means to have his slaves do his winter trapping for him. Bess and Ned are •tarted on different routes. Ned has a fight with a bear. ISOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Ned did not wait to catch the full force of that blow. His powerful thighs, made iron hard in these last bitter weeks, drove him dut and up in on offensive assault. His long body seemed to meet that of the wolf full in the air. Then they rolled together into the drifts. The wolf wriggled free, sending home one vicious bite into the flesh just under the arm; and for a breath both contestants seemed to be play ing some weird, pinwheei game in the snow. The silence of the everlasting wild was torn to shreds by the noise of battle —the frantic snarling of the •wolf, the wild shouts of this mad man who had ust found his strength. Then fpr a moment both contest ants seemed to lie motionless in the snow. The wolf lay like a great hound before the fireside —fore legs stretched in front, body at full length. Ned lay at one side, the aui mal’s body between his knees, one arm around his neck, the other thrusting back the great head. The whole issue of life or death, victory or defeat, was. suddenly immensely simplified. depended solely on whether or not Ned had the physical might to push back the shaggy head and shatter the vertebrae. Time stood still. A thousand half crazed fancies flew through Ned’s mind. His life blood seemed to be Starting from his pores, and his heart was tearing itself to shreds in his breast. yrßut the wolf was quivering now. Its eyes were full of strange, unworldly fire; And then Ned gave a last, terrific wrench. A bone broke with a distinct crack in the utter silence. And as he fell forward, spent, the great white form slacked down and went limp in his arms. XXIII IN a little while Ned stripped the pelt from the warm body of the wolf and continued down bis line of traps. He was aoie to think more coherently now and consider methods and details. And by tbe same token of clear thought, he was brought face to face with the fact of the al most Insuperable obstacles in bis path. Plans for freedom first of all seem ingly had to include Doomsdorfs death. That was the first essential, end the last. Could they succeed in striking the lift from theiFThasrer. they could wait in the cabin until the trader Intrepid should touch tPeir island in the spring. The difficulty lay in finding an opening of attack. Doomsdorf’s rifle was never loaded except when it was in his arms, and he wore his pistol in his belt, day and night. For his hopelessness, Ned had noticed, half inadvertently, that he always took precautions against a night at tach. The squaw slept on the out side of their cot and would Jbe as difficult to pass without arousing as a sleeping dog. The cabin itself was bolted, not to be entered without waking both occupants; .and the AERIAL FOHTS A NEW , TYPE OF DEFENSE Aerial Battleship to Be Operated With out a Liviug Person ou Board. Loudon, Oct. 20. —A chain of forts high above London —forts unmanned, but controlled by a master mind far beneath, and bristling with guns that weave a curtain of death through which no enemy can -penetrate! While this seems like a fantastic dream, many nia'y live to see it realized, and marvel anew at man's ingenuity. The aerial flirts may consist of a number of helithoplam s. which are to ordinary planes what the modern express locomo tive is to the engines used in the early days of the railroad. They will do things which only a few years ago seemed Utter ly impossible. „ Invented by a Frenchman, who has lived in England for twenty years, the helithoplaue can move forward, rise ver tically to any height, maneuver, hover, and descend gently to the ground. And it can do all this without carrying a pi lot. It can be controlled from the ground. Thus far the method of control is by means of wires. But now that means has been found of running, for seven hours at a stretch, a battleship without a living person on board, it is confident ly believed that the same means—wire less control—can be applied to an ae rial fort. The sea miracle took place recently ten miles off the Isle of Wight, lu the trials | the battleship Agamemnon maneuvered in amazing fashion, going ahead, swerving ! to port cur starboard, zigzagging at vari ous speeds, sometimes dropping to ten knots, at others rising to. fifteen knots, and all the time the. -'-umau hajids that ! controlled her movements were never 1 nearer than a mile from her. It was a ; wonderful wireless installation that en jabled the feat to be performed success fully. The experiment was in many re- Ispects similar to that conducted by the three prisoners of course slept in the pewer cabin. Ned was working that part of the line from, his Twelve-Mile cabin over the ridge toward the Forks cabin — hi 3 old rendezvous with Bess. He was somewhat late in crossing the range today. The blazed trail took him around the shoulder of the ridge, clear to the edgp of a little, deeply seamed glacier such as crowns so many of the larger hills In the far North. Few were the wild creatures that traversed this icy desolation, so his trap line had been laid out around the glacier, following "the blazed trail in the scrub timber. But today the long way round was particularly grievous to his spirit. More than a mile could be saved by leaving the timber and, climbing across the ice, and only a few sets, none of which had ever prtned especially produc tive. would be missed. Without an instant’s hesitation he turned from the trail straight over the snowy summit toward the cabin. The cut-off would save bim the an noyance of making camp after dark. And since he had climbed it once be mmm 1| By 'll. —U his Long body seemhd to MEET THAT OF THE WOLF FULL IN THE AIR. fore, he scarcely felt the need of extra caution. The crossing, however, was not quite the same as on the previous oc casion. Before the ice had been cov ered, completely across, with a heavy snowfall, no harder to walk on than the open barrens. He soon found now that the snow prevailed only to she summit of the glacier, and the descent beyond the summit had been swept clean by the winds. Below him stretched a half-mile of glare ice, ivory white like the fangs of some fabulous beast of prey. Here and there it was gashed with cre vices—those deep glacier chasms into which a stone falls in silence. For a moment Ned regarded it with con siderable displeasure. He decided to take a chance. He removed his snows hoes and ventured carefully out upon the ice. It was easier than it looked. His moccasins clung very welL -Steadily gaining confidence, he walked at a faster pace. The slope was not muob on this side, the glacier ending In A abrupt cliff many hundred feet in height, so he felt little need of espe cial precaution. It was, in fact, the easiest walking that he had singe bis arrival upon the island, so he decided not to turn off clear until be reached the high ground just to one side of the ice cliff. He crawled down a series of shelves, picked his way about a jagged promontory, and fetched up at last at the edge es a dark crevice scarcely SO feet from the edge of the snow. The crevice was not notch oner American navy with the old German bat tleship Ostfrie.sland. The success of these experiments is be lieved by experts to have brought war by wireless appreciably nearer. No longer need ships be manned' by heroes be sent on those forlorn holies Vhich. while they redound to their country's glory, leave in their wake a number of widows and fatherless children. No longer need men go to certain death that the cause in which they believe shall ultimately tri umph. How different might have been Mm* story or Zeebrugge had wireless naviga tion reached its present stage a few years ago. Ships, mauless. but well primed with high explosives, might'have been di rected tj that port, and the same results accomplished with the loss of so many heroic lives. Scientific experts predict that war in the air can be carried on by wireless as well as war on the water. As a com plete helithoplaue, fitted with an engine of 100 horsepower, capable of lifting a ton weight and of rising to any height, could be built for from $12,000 to 15.- 000. it would cost only comparatively small sum to make them in sufficient numbers to put an aerial ring around any city. If these machines were con trolled by wireless —and. having regard to the successes at sea. that seems well within the bounds of possibility—no ene my could get i»ast suAi forts. The prob lem of defence aguiust air attack would be solveiL _ v Masons to Conduct Educational Program. Asheville, X. C.. Oct. 20. —Ten sand dollars will be expendel during the next year by North Carolina Scottish Rite Masons on a State [ educational program, it was decided at tbe confer ence at Washington, uncording to local [Masons who attended the conference. I The evening services at the Central Methodist Church will be held at seven o'clock hereafter for the coming months. PAGE FIVE five feet wide at this point, and look ing along, he saw that a hundred yarcs to his right it ended in a snow back. But there was no need of fol lowing it down. He could leap it at a standing Jump: with a running start he could bound ten feet beyond. lie was tired, eager to get to camp —and this was the ser 6 hour. Ho drew back three paces, preparatory to making the leap. All the wilderness World seemed ta be straining — listening. The man leaped forward. At that instant the North gave him some sign of its power. His first running step was firm, but at the second his moccasin failed to hold, slipping straight back. He pitched forward on his hands and knees, grasping at the hard, slippery ice. He slid rather slowly, with that sickening helplessness that so often characterizes the events of a- tragic dream; and the wilderness seemed still to be waiting, watching, in un utterable indifference. Then he pitched forward into the crevioa. He was not io die at once. There was still hope of life. He fetched up, as if by a miracle, on an icy shelf ten feet below the- mouth of the crevice—with sheer Valla rising on each side. ’ XXIV TV TED knew what fear was, well J. v enough, os he in the dark ened chasm, staring up at the white line of the crevice above him. The shelf on which he had fallen was scarcely wider, than his body, and only because it projected at an upward incline from the sheer wall had he come to rest upon it. Xt wan perhaps 50 feet long, practically on a level ail the way. The wall was sheer for ten feet above hjm; beyond the shelf was only the impenetrable dark ness of the crevice, extending ap parently into the bowels of the earth. Very cautiously. In imminent dan ger of pitching backward into the abyss, he climbed to his feet. He was a tall man, but his hands, reach ing up. did not come within two feet of the ledge. And there was noth ing whatever for his hands to cling to. If only there were irregularities in the ice. With a surge at hope he thought of his axe. This tool, however, had either fal len into the crevice or had dropped from his shoulder and lay am the lee - above. But there remained his due knifes. He drew it carefully from hie pocket. Already he felt the icy chill of the glacier stealing through him. the cold fingers of death itself. He mast lpeo no time ty going to work. He began to cut. two feet above the ledge, a sharp-edged bole in the ice. He finished the cut at last, then started on another a foot above. Ha Liewed out a foothold with finl care. He did not forget that the hand holds. to which his fingers mad cling, wen yet to be made. They had to be finished with even greater skill than the footholds. Very wise ly, he turned to them next. Be made the first of them as high as he could reach. Thee he P*|t «e* in about a foot below. Three more footholds were put in at about 11- inch Intervals between. Placing the knife between kh teeth, be put his moccasin Into the first foothold and pulled him erg up. It did not take long, however, to convince him that the remaining work bordered pnctioaUy on the Im possible. These holes in the tee were not like lrregutuitleß in stone*. The fingers slipped over them: It was al most impossible to cling on with both hands, much less one. But with all his might, be tried to tree his right hand to procure hie knife. He made It at last, and at a fright ful cost of nervous energy succeeded in cutting some sort of *v gash in the icy wall shore his heed. Blending eO close he ooukt not look up, it. was impossible to do more than hack out a ragged hole. And because fife lay this way and no ether, he put the blade opctf more between hie teeth, reached hie right hand Into the and tried to pull htw—lf up again. But disaster, bitter end nernpWfo> followed that attempt. Hie nwhtsg hands failed to hold under the strain, and he dipped eO the may beck to his shell Something sang against the Ice wall, for hetew Ida Mrs, Motley Died Suddenly Kannap olis. MoprcsvMle Enterprise. Mrs. Martha Francis Motley, aged 7<» years, died unexpectedly at the home of her half-sister, Mrs. Harvey. Rodgers, at Kanuapoils, Saturday night, where she was visiting. She had been sick only about two hours when tin* summons came. : She was subject to spells at her heart following indigestion. Mrs. Mot ley was before her marriage a Miss Wil leford. and was reared in the Prospect neighborhood, bur for a number of years had made her home with her son, Mr. Dolph Motley, of this city. The re mains were brought to the home of her son late Saturday night and were con veyed to Prospect, where they were laid to rest Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock, the funeral service having been conduct ed by Itev. G. H. Liiigle, of the Lutheran G-hurch of which she was a member, and Rev. W. E. West, pastor of Prospect, from which church she transferor lu-r membership when she moved to this city to make her home. The deceased is survived by two sons, Mr. Dolpli Motley, of this city, and Mr. William Motley, who was been away from here for the past five years and whose present adores is unknown. Mrs. Rodgers is the only other immediate family relative now liv ing. Over Half Million at Theaters Dail> New York. Oct. 25.—The daily thea ter attendance of New York /ity is esti mated l at <577.M0 in the 1922 anuu:.l reort of the department of liceus's is ! sued today. The borough of Manhattan, i Brooklyn and the Bronx have a total of '174 theaters and 498 motion pictfire houses- Much interest is - being manifested in two calves which were born recently on [the farm of Mrs. Irvin Early in No. 4 township. "(Juile a number of persons. have visit-d the (pirn of Xlrs. Early to to sec the calves.
The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.)
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Oct. 29, 1923, edition 1
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