jßMu'Mk Ll fe KILLED ■line WRECKS HIHO PAST WEEK K. J our Less Than Wm W ctk. 20 ■ Than During H'etk Before. H CROSSINGS ■■(■IDKNTS many seJ ih i' ; 1 p," Killed in jHh (Tirolina and 11 IH, W ere Injured in ■Bate. | !ie Associated Press) , p,> r v, i's 'Kiiled and 278 , t | J( . traffic 101 l reported out hern states during the s |H|i , " n \'di tube HH tit Bit Jam "in' win. ■ 1 r • ■ and WSm - i'-ik BK7>= JH v ' Ilf vj. jM ", m, ‘ et ti • limne of M in-pot BI . M " ri "t gro- Wm S; , r “ "f the THE CONCORD TIMES $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance. 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 ' * ***** I )“" r ; 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 Jjjr JHK \*f FRAKKUN. BOUIUOH 'i ■ B wimMi —. JilWisLf HB' M 1 f d 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. ~NO7TT