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HIHO PAST WEEK
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H'etk Before.
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, p,> r v, i's 'Kiiled and 278
, t | J( . traffic 101 l reported
out hern states during the
s <arV t'v conducted by tfie
Press reveals. That to
• fatalities less and twenty
hr injurv toll for the pre- j
ins were killed in grade j
jrt.nts. Five young girls
deaths near Gastonia, N.
v when a light truck in
‘were riding was dernol
jiassenger train of the
Railway. A sixth girl
the party was horribly j
it late reports last night
s stjill living.
i grade crossing fatality
d in the vicinity of Nor
fVine persons were injured
Fla., last week during
| hurricane, that swept the !
L- when a train crashed l
|r btis at a crossing.
Lien were killed in Geor
gia resulting from train
1,1 bv washouts,
here killed at Lynchburg,
h when tip* plane in which
crashed to the
he piiot of the plane es
tpiug as the craft neared
i Florida’s report of four
Id and sixty-six injured,
■ injured when the Ital-
I Ansaldo San Giorgio
I caught in the hurrican’s
I injured men oompised
fcnf the ship’s crew, and
■eported out of the t’nitiF
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■da was attributed to the 1
■ the attendant increased
■Se of all descriptions.
■aJed all southern states j
Hr of fatalities with elev-!
■rted eleven persons in- '
Bida was second with six 1
Baud Virginia third with
Baby states for the 'week
■t Killed, twenty-two in-
Ha, Eleven killed, and
Bna. two killed and five
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Catholics Willing To
Let People Decide On
New Religious Plans
THE CARROLL CASE
The State May Strike a Snag in Pros
ecution of Case.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Aug. 2.—The State may
strike a snag in the prosecution of
its case seeking to close the H ghland
Hospital in Asheville, operated by
Dr. R. S. Carroll, as Che result of
file cancellation of bin license to prac
tice in the State following" th*» pie*
ferring of charges of gross jmmor
ali.y against him before the State
hoard of medical examiners recently.
Th's snag consists in whethc” oi* not
the judge of the Wake superior court,
when the case comes to trial. will
permit the introduction of the record
of Uie proceedings before the State
1 board of medical examiners, or wheth
er the court will insist that the wit
nesses that testified then will have to
appear as witnesses.
Ir the court permits the introduc
, tion of the record of the secret hcar
; iug before tli ; > medical board, well
i «nd good for the State and Jhe de
partment of public we 1 fare, wtoich
has caused the suit to be wrought.
But if the court insists thfht these
same witnesses must appear in per
son at the trial that appeared before
j the medical board in secret session,
jit will be another matter. And it
is evident that Dr. Carroll’s defense
attorneys will do all in their power
to obtain such a ruling from the
court.
Although toe office of the attorney
general here is silent on the question
1 and declined to discuss any phase of
i it, it is known that the State will
have a far more difficult time in get
ting the ten or twelve women who
testified at the secret hearing before
the medical board to come to Raleigh
to testify in open court as to the al
leged immoral relations of Dr. Car
roll with bis patients than before.
The hearing before the State medical
board was secret, the testimony was
given to a small group of profession
al men. accustomed to talking with I
patients concerning matters of an in-1
timate nature, and the names of the
witnesses were carefully guarded, so
that they would not be made public.
And tinder these conditions, a num
ber of former patients were persuaded
to, testify, * wbo otherwise probably
not have dune so. _/*%
Btff when these same women wit-1
nesses are called upon to take the
witness stand in an open courtroom,
with a throng of curious onlookers,
they are not likely to be so willing
to testify. So it is feared that if
the court insists on the personal ap
pearance of witnesses, it may be a
difficult matter to produce them, es
pecially as a number of those at the
former hearing came from a number
of other states, one having been said
to have come all the way from Mis
souri.
Legal opinion seems )o differ on
just what can be done in the case,
some "holding that the case can be
decided on the record of the hearing
before the State medical board, oth
ers holding that the whole affair will
have to be aired in the court.
It is generally agreed. however,
that the appeal taken by Dr. Car
roll from the decision of the State
medical board of examiners to the
Superior Court of Buncombe county
can be heard by the judge on the rec
ord, with argument by attorneys from I
both sides, without the necessity for
hearing before a jury. But whether J
the suit filed in Wake county to close '
the sanitarium can be as easly dis
posed of remains to be seen.
Solicitor F. Don Phillip, failing
to convict Neviu C. Cranford of
murder, has announced plans for try
ing him on charges of assaulting
wooten, from which the injured man
is said to have died.
Five Killed and One Injured
When Train Strikes a Truck
Gastonia, Aug. I—Five girls were
killed and one was seriously injured
at Gambrill’s grade crossing between
Gastonia and Bessemer F'lty this af
ternoon shortly before 6 o c.ock when
a Ford truck in which they were iid
ing was struck and completely de
molished by Southern passenger train
No. 45. pulled by one of the new Cres
cent Limited green locomotives.
Witnesses stated 'death was instan
taneous for four of the young women
and that they passed away before a
scream was uttered. The dead are;
Bertha Wright.
Laura Wright.
Inez Jenkins.
Williard Jenkins.
Annie Gertrude Cloninger.
Miss Ida Bess Cloninger, sister of
one of the dead girls, is in a local
hospital with both legs broken and
with other injuries.
The Misses Wright were sisters as
were the Misses Jenkine. Their ages
ranged from 16 to 20 years.
Miss Annie Gertrude Cloninger was
driving the truck which was a ve
hicle used in the delivery of groceries
from her father’s grocery store.
Approaching the railway crossing,
Miss Cloninger was said to have driv
en around another automobile which
was stopped beside the track to await
the passing of the train. The truck
was described as crossing the north
bound and on to the southbound
• track, to be dashed to pieces by the
* onrushing southbound train.
Witnesses to the wreck describe
Will Enter Truce With the
Government Until Peo
ple Express Themselves
by Plebiscite.
J CAPITAL IS QUIET
i AS ANY SUNDAY:
f A Big Labor Parade Was!
Held But There Was No !
; Demonstration Made by
. Catholic Adherents.
t
, Mexico City, Aug. 2.— (A 3 ) —An an
l nouncement that the Catholic Episeo-
I pate is willing to enter a truce with
‘ the Mexican government until the
-I Mexican people are able to express
■ j themselves by a plebiscite on the re
> : ligioua controversy and the discovery
!of a plot’ to assassinate President
. Calles were the outstanding features
of Mexico’s first priest less Sunday,
[ Notwithstanding the great parade
■ of the regional confederation of labor
i which required two hours to pass a
given point, the day was a peaceful
■ one as the capital ever has known.
I Wlrle Ihe marchers passed the pal
■ I ace where President Calles, sur
rounded by his ministers stood waving
his handkerchief in answer to the
cheering, members of the faithful were
kneeling in prayer, in various churches,
> beseeching an amelioration of the sit
uation brought about by the govern
ment purring into force its new relig-1
iious regulations.
All the Catholic churches witnout
priests at the altars were open for
l«ayer # and med.tation except the
j great cathedral and several of the
I down town places of worship, past
j which the parade made its way. Doors
of these were closed in the fear that
j some untoward event might occur,
j Dispatches from all parts of the
republic indicate that tranquility pre
vailed Sunday everywhere. Although
there was tense feeling at some places
Jno actual trouble" developed. The
I government had made strong military
preparations in advance to suppress
disorder promptly. The impression
of willingness to arrange a truce
with the government was made ex
clusively to the Associated Press by
the episcopate. Ji was suggested it
should rnn for.* rest sop ahl« bngth of
time to give the people a chance to
vote on the situation. Meanwhile the
episcopate would have the new relig
ious regulations, and the “anti-relig
ious persecutions” suspended.
MRS. VIRGINA HARDING
IS AMONG THE MISSING
Disappeared After Declaring Slie
Could Solve the Hall-Mills Murder
Mystery.
Chicago, Aug. 2.— UP) —Mrs. Vir
ginia Dorothy Deleon Harding, wife
of a Milwaukee filling station employe,
who came to Chicago with the asser
tion that she wan preparing to solve
the Rev. Edward \V. Hall and his
choir singer. Mrs. Eleanor Mills, was
among the missing today. She had
checked out at her hotel, and her
whereabouts was unknown, although
she was believed to be still in the city.
Officials were not inclined to take
her statements any too seriously, while
' those in New Jersey and Mrs. Hall
J herself held in connection with the
slaying manifested little if any inter-
I est. Mrs. Harding had found it dis
• ficult if not impossible to find railroad
fare to New Jersey, officials having
learned she had a penchant for trav
eling. She declared Mrs. Hall was
innocent, and she could prove it.
The annual reunion of members of
the Query family will be held Wed
nesday, August 11th, at Rocky River
Church.
the scene as one of horribly mangled
bodies and much blood. The motor
car, reduced to splinters. was scat
tered along the railway right of way
and the torn and bleeding bodies of
the four girls were strewn along the
track from the tremendous impact.
Persons standing near the track
dec I .a red'after the wreck that the girls
died in silence, no screams being
heard to come from the truck when
the occupants realized that death was
upon them.
A. P. Operator Takes Story Telling
About Sisters Killed.
New York, Aug. I.—C. T. Wright,
telegraph operator on the long west
ern trunk wire of the Associated
Press, “broke” for the fire time in
! many a long trick tonight when the
1 emotionless norse code ticked off the
1 story of a truck wreck at Gastonia,
X. C. [
, “Five girls killed,” the item read
\ just another of the so common holi
day fatalities.
} “The dead Bertha Wright, 16.
- her sister, Laura, 20,” the copy read.
i and then a and the sign:
“(More)” as another point interrupt
ed with what seemed to the control
- editor a more weighty item.
l Telegrapher Wright took the inter
t vening item and then completed that
c from Gastonia.
“They are my sister,” he ex
-1 plained, “one of them lived with me
e most of the time since mother died.
I’m afraid I’ll have to ask for re
e lief so that I can go there.”
CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, AUGUSTTTfIIiT
♦************♦:
* WOMAN GOING *
* STRONG IN EFFORT
* TO SW IM CHANNEL * \
* *>
Dover, England, Aug. 2. —(A*) '
—At 1 o’clock this afternoon j
five hours after entering the j
water. Miss Clara bell Barrett, of
New York, was twelve mi.es out
on a straight line between Dover j
and Calais in her attempt to
conquer the English Channel.
1 S’ae had thus negotiated half
| the distance is almost record
, & time and was still going strong. &!
Weather conditions were favor
able, and her chances of success %,
i seemed good. Should she sue
, ceed, she would be the first worn
j an to swim the channel. ;
si 4 '
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COTTON STATISTICS
Given by H. G. Hester, of New Or-!
leans Cotton Exchange.
New Orleans, Aug. 2.— UP) —Secre-
tary H. G. Hester, of the New Or
leans cotton exchange, announced to
, day the commercial crop for the ear J
ending July 81st amounting to 13, |
(514,707 bales, an increase over last I
year of 016,851, an an increase over!
the previous year of 4.824.310; and
an increase over 1022 and 1023 of j
4,331.001 bales.
Southern consumption which - lie j
stated at 4, 778,026 bales, Mr. Hester j
says, indicates an increase of 308,808 j
bales, compared with last year, and!
an increase compared with the year
before last of 703,508.
The consumption of cotton includ*
ing linters in the southern states is
the largest ever known.
Mr. Hester makes the world’s con
sumption of American cotton 15,165,-
000 bales, and the amount carried j
over at the close of July 5,362,000 j
bales. The world’s consumption, said •
the secretary, has never before reached j
the 15,000,000 bales. He makes the
year’s exports including shipments to
Canada 8.252,103 bales, practically
reaching last year’s total.
LADY ASTOR AND FOUR
CHILDREN IN AMERICA
Noted Woman Says She W’ants Her
Children to See America.
Boston. Mass., Aug. .2. — (>P) —Lady
Astor, first woman member of the
British parliament, arrived in Boston
on the S. S. Samaria today with the
announced intention of showing Amer
ica her four children who accompanied
her.
She was met at the dock by Charles
Dana Gibson, her brother-in-law. at
whose summer home at Dark Harbor,
Me., she Is to spend three weeks. Lajy- ’
Astor said she intended to guide her
children about Harvard University
and the historic points of Boston be
fore taking a boat tonight for Rock
land, Me. An elder son. she said, was
with Viscount Astor in California and
would join them later, while her eld
est son is now doing military duty
and could not leave England.
Women Can Help in Enforcing the
Law.
(By International News Service)
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 2.—The enforce
ment of law depends principally up
on the public sentiment for or against
that law, and the courts and judges
are "helpless unless they have the
backing of a healthy public sentiment
in their efforts, Federal Judge Sam
uel Sibley, of the Atlanta federal dis
trict court, told a meeting of women
called here to form a Georgia branch
of the national law enforcement
league.
, “Women can be of assistance in
enforcing the law by attending the
sessions of the courts and familiar
izing themselves with the operations
of the court machinery,” said Judge
Sibley.
“The various federal law’ enforce
ment agencies,- including Fhe prohibi
tion officers, the narcotic inspectors,
the district attorney’s office and bu
reau of investigation are always glad
to get information from law-abiding
citizens that will help make the laws
more effective.”
“In fact, so great is the territory
they serve, that they are largely de
pendent upon tips from the outside in
their efforts.”
Husband Tortures Fireman; Says
He Kissed . His Wife.
St. Paul, Minn., July 31 —Jealousy
over alleged attentions paid his
wife, led Walter H. Fletcher to beat
and torture Edward Horrigan, a city
fireman, yesterday, police declared
today,
Fletcher held Horrigan, his boy
hood friend, a prisoner five hours
while he burned, flayed and whipped
the fireman.
. Both Horrigan and Mrs- Fletcher
denied any wrong doing, but Fletcher
told the police that Horrigan admit
ted that he had kissed Mrs. Fletcher.
'Fletcher said the torturing was
done at» an example to deter other
men from “playing around” with
married women.
\
Heads University Women.
Amsterdam,- Holland. Aug. 2. — (A 3 ) \
—Dr. Ellen Glenditsch, of Norway,
was elected president of the Interna
tional Federation of University B om
en today. Prof. Winifred Cullis, of
England; Mine. Nelly Schrieber, of
Switzerland, and Prof. Joanna Wes
terdyk, of Holland, were chosen vice
presidents.
I)r. Glenditsch is one of the world s j
most famous women scientists. She i
specializes in radio activity. and has
often worked with Mine. Curie in the
latter s famous radium laboratory in
Paris.
Mis* Annis Smoot has returned
from Greenville, S. C.. where she has
• been visiting her brother. J. Watson
Smoot. She was accompanied home
by J. Watson Smoot Jr., who will
• spend some time with his grand par
ents, Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Smoot. ■
! MPHERSON INQUIRY
i AGAIN HALTED FOB
I LACK OF EVINCE
District Attorney Says
j New Evidence Is Too
Vague to Be of Value to
Grand Jury on Case.
EVANGELIST AND
FRIENDS HAPPY
j
They Claim Move Shows
Strength of Arguments
They Have Offered as to
Kidnapping of Woman.
Ix>s Angeles, Aug. 2.— (A 3 ) —The
I Aimee Semple McPherson disappear
| anee case investigation has been dis-
I continued again by D'strict Attorney
! Asa Keyes because he declares “it
i would cost the country thousands of
. dollars to convict anyone of perjury.”
JHe also said he considers new evi-
I deuce obtained at Carmel an ocean re
i sort north of here as too vague to be
j of value.
Abandoning the inquiry brought ex
! pressions of joy from the Angelas
Temple evangelist and her followers.
Mrs. McPherson declared she hopes
soon to be able to produce conclusive
evidence to substantiate her kidnap
ping story. In a sermon last night
she recounted experiences from the
time she disappeared from Oeeon Park
Beach May 18 to appar in Agua Prie
la, Mexico, June 23, and tell of being
abducted, and her escape from a des
ert shack.
The case has been opened and clos
ed a half dozen times since her dis
appearance, the lasf~ grand jury in
quiry being launched Thursday on re
ports tfrom Carmel that a woman
answering the description of Mrs.
McPherson had visited the resort dur
ing the time the evangelist was miss
ing. Depult District Attorney Joe
Ryan, who conducted the Carmel in
vestigation claimed he had found evi
dence that Kenneth G. Ormiston, for
mer radio operator for Mrs. Mc-
Pherson had visited Carmel during
the time the pastor was there.
A FIGHTING HtJSBAND
Somewhat Opposed to Men poking
wife to Tak%p «ide.
(By International News SefVTCeU'
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 2.—Thomas
Pike is one man in Meinphis who
doesn’t believe in any modern stuff
of wives running around with other
men.
In fact, Thomas just won’t stand
for t’ue suggestion to be made to his
wife at all.
Two men are in a hospital here
i*ecove t ring from severe bruises be
cause they asked Mrs. Pike to take
a ride in an auto with them.
Pike, seeing the two men in an
auto stop his wife near her home and
invite her for a ride, rushed to their
car. Swinging his first with deadly
accuracy, Pike literally “waded in
to ’em.”
Both men drew guns but Tike’s
speed with his hands made it im
possible for them to manipulate their
weapons.
Police were called and the two men
had already been sent to a hospital.)
No arrests were made. The guns
were not found. In the melee, Mrs.
Pike was severely bruised when ac
cidently struck by her fighting hus
band.
28 ILL AS RESULT
OF TAINTED FOOD
Score Poisoned by Wedding Cake and
Eight Others When Bean
in Basement.
Chicago, Aug. 2. — (.A 3 ) —Twenty-
eight persons were ill here today as
a result of eating tainted food. A
score were poisoned, supposedly after
eating a cake at a wedding celebra
tion. Eight others, two women and
six children, were poisoned when their
curiosity tempted them to taste a cu
rious bean found in the basement of j
their home.
Physicians said all would recover.
The wedding celebration was in the
home of Tony Manrillo. Among those
stricken were Manrillo, his wife and
their five children. The party was
in honor of Amico Manrillo and his
bride of a week, both of whom were
victims.
Police Asked to Aid in Search For
Boy.
Charlotte, Aug- I—An appeal has
been made to the Charlotte police to
aid in the search for Reid Henderson,
15, Bingham Military Academy stu
dent, who disappeared Monday.
Young Henderson is said by his,
father to ' have left home after a i
“jacking up” for too free’y spending
I money. The father left here tonight
for Spartanburg to continue his
search for the lad.
The tennis match between Liv
ingston Easley and H. . Phillips was
played at the “Y” eosrt this morn
ing, Phillips winning. The matches
between Ed. Morrison and Robert
Bell, and Robert Dick and Nevin
I Sappenfield will be played this after
' noon from 5:30 o’clock until dark.
The second round of the tournament
will start tomorrow.
Violent Earthquake Recorded.
Faenza. Ita’y, Aug. 2.—G4*)—A vio
lent earthquake lasting three hours,
the center estimated to be 9,000 kilo
meters (5,592 miles) away, was re
corded on the seismograph at Prof.
Raphael BendandFs observatory here
4 today.
Pictorial Capsule Newspaper
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VADY ASTOR
FOREIGN: M. Franklin Bouillon, enemy of the French debt
settlement, rejected the ambassadorship to Washington,
STAGE: Mrs. Lorraine Manville Gould became America’s
richest actress with the inheritance of her share of the
estate of her father, asbestos king. SOCIAL: Lady Astor,
American-born member of Parliament, is on her way to the
United States, incognito. SPORTS: Harry Hartz held aij
tlmost unbeatable lead for the season auto racing champion*
ihip. '
«. ,
MeLEAN FEARS HE IS
GETTING TOO SOFT
Imperative That. He Get Wenty of
* Exercise and Be Qut Dpors.
’ TNilelgh, • Arifr?*' 2.—t^U-Govcmor
McLean is afraid tlie constant con
finement attendant upon his guberna
torial duties is not the best thing for
his health.
Discussing his mode of living. Mr.
McLean says that in days gone by he
was a good man physically but since
being on an office job he is getting
soft. A big man physically, he feels
it is almost imperative that he get
plenty of exercise and be outdoors a
great deal if he is to keep in trim.
The executive does not care for
tennis, golf and such activities and
his idea of exercise is what another
man would term work —he likes wood
chopping and ploughing.
The governor recalls in his young
er days he would plough all day and
dance alll night at a country dance
and be on the job at sun-up the next
morning feeling fresh as a daisy.
Now. it is only on rare occasions he
) is able to get away and he does not
feel as fit at all times as in days
gone by.
He remarked that on his trip to
Blowing Rock this week he was on
Blowing Rock last week he was on
the road for 21 hours, had no rest
and no sleep and stopped only occa
sionally. Yet, at the end of the
trip he felt better than if he had
spent a day iu the office plugging
away on matters of State. He be
lieves Pi)is can be accounted for by
the fact that he was able tq give his
mind a complete rest and he was in
the open air.
WIDOWER ADMITS HE
KILLED LITTLE GIRL
Confesses to Assaulting and Strang
ling Child at Secluded Spot—Re
visited Scene.
Coshocton, 0., Aug. 1. —Robert F-
Thompson, 54, widower and father
of five children, was arrested at Mt.
Vernon early today and confessed,
county officers say, that he assault
ed gnd strangled Gertrude D’Ostroph,
pretty 19-year-old Coshocton girl, at
a secluded spot along the Walhort
ing river Friday night.
After killing the girl, Thompson
said he returned to Coshocton. The
next day. for some reason he was
unable to explain, he .said he went
again to the scene of the crime, re
trieved the body and placed it iu a
path where it could be found.
Fearing violence from threatening
• crowds at Coshocton, police met
Thompson’s captors and took him to
Zanesville for safekeeping.
Thompson was employed as a farm
hand.
Jones Appointed Solicitor.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh Aug. 2. —Following the
resignation of Solicitor J. B. Swain,
of the nineteenth judicial district,
Governor A. W. McLean has ap
pointed G. Lyle Jones, of Asheville,
I to fill out Pae unexpired term of Mr
Swain. The appointment was first
tendered Robert M. Wells, Democrat
ic candidate for solicitor of the nine
teenth district in November, because
of the press of private affairs, he de
. dined.
Caleb Trexler has resumed his work
! at Pae Gibson Drug Store after en-»
joying a week's vacation. j
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
JafiPwr «
LORRAINE GOUI/D ('
■V
HARRY HARTZj
ADVERTISING
NORTH CAROLINA
Senator Simmons Seta. Forth His
Ideas in Empistakahle Inruyige
. Greensboro, •' AUjfc 2i—-Benalnr F.
M. Simmons lias sonie definite ideas
about the project for advertising
North Carolina to the nation at large.
Following his action in endorsing the
proposal in early spring, the senator
has given the matter considerable
thought. In a recent letter to a
member' of the organization commit
tee of North Carolinians. Incorpo
rated, he sets forth his ideas in un
mistakable language.
“I am fully aware that we must
advertise North Carolina as a unit.
Os course different sections will prob
able continue to advertise, but I
think it is important that our policy
should be to advertise the state as a
whole. This does not, of course, pre
clude any section from advertising
its distinctive merits or advantages.”
The senior senator, formerly chair
man of the finance committee and
who has represented North Carolina
with years of distinguished service in
a state and national way, is now
spending his vacation at his home in
New Bern. He has kept in close
touch with the organization commit
tee of North Carolinians, Incorpor
ated, in its- efforts to raise funds
from all parts of the state to be used
in the proposed nationwide advertis
ing campaign. He has expressed
keen interest in the progress of the
organization.
THE COTTON MARKET
i Opened Sternly at CnHianged Prices
to Decline of Six Points.
New' York, Aug. 2. — UP) —The cot
ton market opened steady today at |
unchanged prices to a decline of 6j
points under renewal of the realizing
movement which develpjied after
advances of last week and which were
probably promoted by talk of better
weather in the western belt. Decern
ber sold off to 17.01 and March to
17.85 at the opening but the markel
was steadied by covering at these fig
ures. while apprehensions of showers
in the southwest probably brought in
little buying. Prices rallied to 17.71
for December and 17.1) for March with
active months showing net gains of 3
to 0 points by the end of the first half
hour. Private reports published this
morning made the condition of the
crop 00.5 per cent compared w : thr|
72.0 per cent, a month ago, and plac-1
ed the indicated yield at 14,193,000 1
bales.
Cotton futures opened steady: Oe-!
tobor 17.05; December 17.63; Jan-i
uary 17.71; March 17.85; May 18.00.)
Apples Baked on Tree.
Lenoir. Aug. 2. —Around the loot i
of Warrior mountain the «un is bak-1
ing apples on the trees.
T. K. Setzer, who lives in that j
section, about five miles out on the J
Lenoir-Blowing Rock highway, i
brought to The Newe-Topic office - a
sample of the sun’s baking. It was a
red June apple and was cooked aa
nicely and had all the flavor of an
apple baked in a stave.
He had quite a number of these
cooked apples and says there are
many on the trees now about half
cooked.
The King’s Daughter will meet to
j night at 8 o’clock at the Hotel Cou
‘eord. The meeting will be the regular
| one for August.
"IE INQUIRY INTO i
EVENTS LEADING TO:
DEATH OF BARONESS
Miami Police Officers Seek
Light in Mystery of Sui
cide of Baroness Boyce-
Garrett Friday.
HUSBAND SAID Hfi
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
Was Found in a Thicket!
North of Miami With «
Piece of Heavy Twtftfc
Wrapped Around Neck.
Mimai, Fla., Aug. 2. —GP)—A cor
oner’s jury today inquired into the {
chain of events which culminated Fri- j
day night in the dentil of the
ess Royoe-Garrett, and the arrest tot
her husband. Baron Michael
Garrett, formerly of the Russiaft W
bility.
The Baroness leaped to Uer dWttk
from the eighteenth floor of the fash
ionable Everglades Hotel. The Bkrivtl
clasping a piece of heavy twine was
found by police in a dense thicket
north of Miami where he said he WWB
about to hang himself.
A suicide pact of seven years stafrd
ing entered into between the two af
ter the Baroness, a noted singet, had f
lost a .$5,000,000 heritage in the up- |
hevnl following the war. and trouble |
with Bolsheviki in Russia caused the |
couple to plan dentil.
The Baron today expressed disap- |
pointment that his youthful wife hasi. f?
not died with him as she had protot
ised.
The couple met in a Russian mil- i
itnry hospital where the Baron was
recuperating from amputation of a.
leg lost in tlit' war. They Ml itt
love, tied to America, and for several
years the Baroness appeared in mu- j
sical entertainments in the Eart.
“Friday morning my wife told me
the time had come to die,” the Baron
told police, “that s'iie could not work
or fight any longer, and that we must
die together as we had lived togeth
er. I told her to wait until morn
ing and we would go out to Oooonnut
Grove, get in a boat together, tie a
rope around our necks and die. When
this was decided we were both joy*
fuL v .. , ; • ,
wifa told me she would not be,
croYcr with ifiF 'Tf out
stayed late; ' She - said this is the last j
day on earth for you to smoke and
play billiards and have a good time, ]
so you go out. You cdteh the last
car back home, but be sure to buy j
a newspaper before you come. We ■
will spend our last night together and -j
prepare to die in the morning.”
The Baron played billiards from ;
shortly after noon until late at night, j
He learned of his wife’s death when
he bought a newspaper.
He purchased a piece of twine and :j
walked on crutches to the noaeest
tree, but could not climb. He board- J
ed bus and rode to a tangled thicket jj
a few miles north of Miami where
lie remained throughout Saturday. if
Here he was found by police when
his efforts to climb trees to hang him- 5
self attracted attention of resident*. |
Judge J. L. Webb to Retire at Term ?
End.
Charlotte. Aug. 1. —Judge James
L- Webb, of Shelby, with four year’s
yet to serve on his present term as a
judge of Superior Court, said in;
Charlotte Saturday that he will \
not be a candidate for re-olectian :
again, but will exercise his privilege
of retiring and. doing emergency judi
cial work at the end of his term.
The State law provides that jur-j
ists. who have been on the Superior |
Court bench for twenty year* end |
! havt reached a certain age, in*jr re- T
tire on a salary, holding thcm«eJve»
available for special terms.
J udge Webb is one of the Oldest i
in point of service of North Caro-1
| lina jurists. His health, he said, i» ,
excellent, but he feels that after four
more yearn of 'the Superior C-onrt
circuit grind, he will be entitled to ‘
lighter work. He is assigned to the >
Greensboro district until January 1,
but has been bo’ding conrt in bio j
home the past week.
Noted Jewish Author and Ploy- I
Wright Dies.
London, Aug. I.—-Israel Zangwill, )
noted playwright and man of letter*, t
died today.
He had been under treatment in a ,
hospital at Midhurst. Sussex, for two
months, but his condition did not be- /
come serious until about a u'eck agojr!
when lie gradually became worse.
‘The direct cause of death was given
j as pneumonia.
Morse Improved Today.
Bath. Me., Aug. 2.— UP) —Charles I
| W. Morse was recovering today from -
J what was described by his family a* J:
• a slight shock suffered yesterday at
his summer home here. The afcdlf
, financier was stricken during the raid-V
die forenoon and was unconscious all>4
! day.
.. ,■'.a
j / Mrs. F. L. Keller, of Waukegan, ‘
111., is visiting friend and
in the St. Johns neighborhood tkisif
week.
A church in Clinton. Maas., has
paid $44000 to aji engineer for eli-jf
minuting an acho which for 21) years.,
had marred the church services,
1 ■ini', mm. i
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy tonight. Shower* in
west portion ; Tuesday showers. Mod-f
erate southwest winds.
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