Anti-Nicotine Movement b On in The Nation be followed by om of tofeacro in tags. It is not the purpoM of pfoplt to ilk for ntiich Itfiilitioti it the present time, they assert that they ftrt winsai saltes, bat A brotdtr and more far rsarhlng mwit will come later if attkr methods art not effective. The Anti-Saloon Im|w bad a Wm pretention. and It baa grown to bo able In St yoara. , A quiet campaign to atop h| In public buildings in tho District of Colombia la now on as a mult of (ho pow-wow baro. Officials art be ing requested to pot ip "no smok ing- signa. Congressmen In sympathy with the program will introduce no-tobacco bills at tbo next aeaai-in. THis would aim at the cafes, and o»her assem bling places in the rjo'tal. Senator Benjamin K. TUlman, of South Caro line, proposed anf-sm«wm SaUe nu Frosn JaU And Oper ate n Him Waahiagtoa, N. C., March SO — lottpk A. Nwdkmu, traveling waa in a serious condition at a IomI hospital this mornini aa a result of a Mrioaa operstioa upon him early Sunday morning. The man waa tak en from the Martin county Jail by • band of men afUr he had beea Im prisoned charted with aa attack sp ec a younr |irl near WUiaaitw. The operation waa performed in a nearby woods after which he waa freed by the men. He waa found by Sheriff H. T. Robeson and a posse and taken to the boapital. The salesman waa accused of com mitting the crime against the young girl last week, at the point of a pis tol after he had taken her for a ride in his automobile. He was arrest ed Saturday and placed in the Mar tin county Jail which has bo Jailer, or other person to remain oa the pre mises all night. Early Sunday morning, stated Sheriff Robeson teat night, a hand of men came to his residence and demanded the keys to the Jail. He refused and they left while he sum moned a posse to aid him. Before the posse could assemble the men had broken into the Jail and secured the prisoner upon whom they carries out their design Everything was reported quiet in Wllliamston today. 8heriff Robeson though without any cluee to the Iden tity of the men, waa making a thor ough investigation. ' Ford Company Nets »47 On Each Vehicle Mad* New York. March SO —The Ford Motor Company's Indicated' earnings of mors than 1100.000,000 In 1MI represented an average profit of 947 en each car. track and tractor aian ufactured during the year, according to aa analysis of the report made la Mm financial district The actual ■ nsvifll M aaf|l» nrsa pwIH Owl vaufl RMV| nVwV »*■! . WRl probably lees aa a large part of the company's taeiaas was isilnl from OPEN CHALLENGE FATAL FOR ONE Hickory, March »—*cCoy Mtk. IS yeare eld, dtod at • local heapt Ul at aa early boar tMa wuralag, awl Sidney Jopiin, 21, l» not expect •d ta ttva aa a r—alt of • free tor at) fight, ata«rf at P**r1aw< iHinl houae, It mftaa from bar* Saturday night. Smith VM btaUi) to <1—til fy about tha face and body, and pby • ketone bold little bopa of Ma reeaa ery. Otbara malaad minor rata aad JopJIn. if ha recover*, wfil prob ably ba charged with tha arardar of today that thay would awaar ba ad mtniatarad tha blowa that killed tha yoath. Caldwail county officiate ware making aa brraetigaMon of tha affair today, it waa ■tatod. Oaear Smith, H, brothar of tha daad boy, la aaid to bar* started tha flirht whan ha gat up before tha crowd at tha ■rboolhouaa. which bad catharad for a baa auppar aad play, and amooacad that ha would lick anybody fai tha audtonca. Aim oat immadlataly, H la aaid, arvaral man ruahad Smith with knhraa aad cluba. Ha bald than off by aiaana of a twinging haaeball bat, aay ay* wit naaaaa and waa not injured. Hia younger brothar ruahad to hia aid and received tha blowa which aadad hia Hfa. Oaear Smith 1* daacribad by Ma tnwaaiata aa baiag aomawhat of a bully. Paraoaa on tha ground at tha time of tha fight daclar* that ther* waa no drinking to tha crowd. Smith juat atoted that ha wanted to fight, and Included everybody In Ma ehak lenga. Two JopHn boy*. Sidney and TarriB, ruahad in aad thay wan fol lowed by other*. McCoy Smith ruah ad to the aid of Ma brother, awl ha alao waa followed by otbara. Tha affair turned into • free far all. Many war* knocked aacoaecio— by cut br knlvaa. Pearland l« a saaall village on tlx C. * N. W. rslfawad between Hickory and Lenoir. 1U KkoolkoaM Is abort half a mile from the station and Is in a little woodland. Saturday night at Um time of the killing, a boa sap per had ban arranged aad practical Women fainted and many nisksd Cor the open when the fight ftarted. Tarn Million Chinoao Am Fac ing Starvation Chicago. March tt.—Mora than 10, 000.000 Chinese are reported to ho in want of food in eight provinces, where word from Bishop L. I. Birney of Shanghai, received by the Chicago office of the Methodist Episcopal Board of Foreign Missions, indicates 16,000,000 persons ware affected by the winter flood and famine in Nsrth and West China. Heavy toll of lifs continue* to be taken as a result of the eoaMlltion*, Bishop Birney repeals. The estimat ed property loss runs, Into hundred* of millions of dollars. ' Funds available, the International Famine Belief Commission reports, are insufficient to grant relief ta more than I 1-2 per cant of the vic tims. Coast Guard Seitss Rum R—in» Plant New York. March • Coast guardsmen ^reported tonight the seisure at soa near rum row of a H quor-carrylng airplane and crew. Patrol boats were said ta ha towing the plans and its crew to the customs house. The prisoners bars beeai detained aboard the coast guard daaUoyss Mojave, whoso offteer* seised the via plane and wll bo sent to the barge tomorrow morning. Hie de stroyer was believed to have boon cruising hi the vicinity of Firs la land at the thne of the seisure. According ta members of the coast guard son Ice here, the palsuiters said they were la distress when captnred. This wfl] bo the first time. It was said, that a seised plane has baaa brought to the barge office sines the coaart guard lagan Ha actliltlss against violators of ths navigation KITE CONTEST AT BUB* ( iBI/oTim A UliWCft LlFIGTOIf A 3UCtu3 out, Om or two of from sight hi ingness up thm, John nine flrat priu for altitude, C. G. WIIUmoi, flnt for moat attractive kit*, and Clifton Fox, flrat for speed in grttknc hia kite into tha air. Nnt tha sixth and Mv«nth gradee had their f*. Tha wind wh laaa will ing to Uft op tha gliders. Tha kids had to ran • littla farther and tha H||l a littla ahortar. In tha prisaa in thla event Bannatt, Charlia Hi H tha ■tart, tha breeae had eahnad. It waaat blowing enongh to ripple "» kite's tail," and it wh with difflenl tjr that anjr of than waa paraaadad aloft. In a vain effort to gat their kit* to "stick" hi the sky many of ack to the field direction of the golf they had finally quit Weeterdek King waa flrat. Ed PWraon and Aahby aleo in the order named. In tha mngliin fallen of practically all. If not nil. of le by the boya who i in aa hig that heavy to held ough t« the hoys with a big one had the his waieta, probably in to -go alone" if • wind carried his Ute off. Sportsmanship waa tha thing seen in the content hy a paper representative. School authorities wars highly gratified with the aoccaaa of the con test, the first one of the kind to ha held here. PORK SO COMMON IN CHINA RICH WILL NOT TOUCH IT Beef Considered Mora or Laa* Sacred and Ssldomi Uitd— Vegetables Eaten Freely. (Prom the North China Herald) Perk la the chief meat of the Chinese. It la used by practically aO classes of people in all part* of China. A meal without pork to oon ■idered to he unusually aimple, and with the exception of vegetariana, la uaed by slaves or vsry pear people *i»y Freeh pork la ryi a common food that wealthy r J will net even touch It Dy <•'New Tear feethrala tnd birth Ar wedding celebratioaa i whole draeaed hog or a half of It la often purchased and consumed by the family and their gossts. Lamb, however, may he substituted Tor pork, but beef to considered mora nr leea eacrsd and to very aeldnm uaed Tor food. The quantity of meat eatea la mall;, K la usually served eat kite •mall pieces and mixed with vegeta bles In a great variety of ways. Vegetablea are need more freely t»y the Chinees people than by Amer icana. la addition to the mwm ■nee seek aa potatoes, spinach, oah hage, radishes, and the like, many plants and weeds are rates which ue not naoalty considered aa food hi America. TVi radish lssves. atop hi Admiral Dewey at Hi* burial to Ar lington to Jane, 1917. A )iwnn( memorial to Admiral Demgr to tiw Cathedral will be undertaken by Mrs. Dewey an dCathedral offirtole, Mrs. Dewey and Cathedral officials. The body was taken from the Ar lington mausoleum at 1 o'clock aad placed upon aa army caisson. Ac rompanying the body wire Secretary Wilbur, Mrs. Dewey, George G. Dew u s f 1 m M aiMl "JT W vRICI||Of Mi MR ( "TWti >CK McLean Bugher, her grand nephew, and active naval and honorary pall Arrivtag at the gates of the Cat ha dral. the cortege passsd through a line formed by a company of marines and one of btae jacketa. The navy hand played "Nearer My God to Thee/Tae the caisson drew up to the entrance aad, between two rows of honorary pallbearers, the casket was borne Into the chapel. Mrs. Dewey leaned on the arms of Wilbur aad Sear Admiral S. Wood, retired. As the voices of the Bethlehem choir, sing' to«, -Son of My Soul," died away, Mrs. Dewey became faint aad eaOsd for a chair. After a prayer by Mab> of Jamee E. Freeman, Mrs. Dewey picked a twig from a chain of pin leavee formed about the pilars sur rounding the crypt, to the tribute to her ! ■MIW t f The answer to the two identical thsorstlcally according to Prof. Henry H. Donaldson, of the Wiator In*titute, who estimate* the rat population of this conn try at 120,000,000 or a proximately equal to the human population, which means that erery household In the United States supports, on the iiw age, one rat for erery mwabsr of the famny. Prof. G. G. Chambers, of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, has calcu lated an imaginary rat-breeding ex periment. Storting with • single pair, and assuming that all the off spring would survive and bread, at the usual rata of one litter in four months with aa average of sis young to a litter. Professor Chambers' fig ures indicate that at the end of 10 years the off-spring of this one pair would number 2,300,000,000,000,00ft 000, or two and three tenths quh> tillions. Fortunately for the reet of the world, conditions of food, ene mies, diseases and other hardships at existence prevent the practical real ization of such a rate of increase. The common rat la not native to the United 8to tee, but la an immi grant who art-War about IN yean age. While the estimate aa given shows a large Increase from the ori ginal settlers in some colonial bam or warehouse, Professor Donaldson shows that It la nothing to what might happen under Ideal chcam stancee. A worker In his laboratory, starting with a single pair of albino rata, raiaad UM in 18 montha. taw Goa*| pla Crop EmUniwW Lenoir, March itain and the Jonas ridge coun try are covered with a blanket of three inches at snow this morning. A hall storm visited this section yes terday and laat night snow fell in the higher mountama. It is not bellevad thst fruit will weather this cold •nap. C. L Proffltt. manager of tha Flat Manor orchards. Mowing Sock said today that there is no hope for the peach crop, and that a beans tonight wtt In all probability kflf Many Claimed To Be Slayer n g-1 — m. f • - 1 o* rraiaeni lbcodi pacta to be sb!» to M» tte arsnr»l iatic campaign. J. B. DUKE SUED BY FIRST WIFE ; Mrs. Ulluui N. Mm Sb« u StsH HW Wif • Dmrad Nwtfly 90 Ywi A|» Nrw York. March Ahhourh divorced nearly 20 nan ago by Jam*. B. Dote then -totem km* - Mm. Lillian M. Dote la sain* kte for —pa ration and maintaining that ate la still Us < Thin action was dlacloead vtea former Governor Nathan L Hilar, counsel for Date, moved to tte aait. Ha obtained • order from Supreme Coart Kalian and there effl te » te April 8. Mr. Doha obtained a divorce tte pintiff hi New Jareey to A yaar after it waa gmted te Atlanta, Ga. ' Mr. Miller tonight said that Mr. Duke's former wife carried tte caaa to tte court of last appeal la Mew Jersar and that tte validity of tte diroree is unquaationabla. It is understood that whan tte di roree waa (ranted Mrs. Date waa riven $600,000 by tte toterce m>( nato. In 192S ate lost $*50,000 rash and $60,000 worth of Jewelry in a j fraod rpfinaeied by Alfred E. Lind say, a broker. Dm* of Hydrophobia Fr Fsyettevflle, March 28.—Contract ing one of the nmt sad most dread •4 of diituw from nursing a pot doc which be refused to kill, Ale* ander Kennedy, overseer on a Cum berland county farm, died Friday from hydrophobia. The disease was positively identified at the state lab oratory when the stricken man was sent there from the KighsmKh hos pital in this city, there being no place far the curs of such cam in Sal eigh. Kennedy was brought back hers and carried to Us brother's home in seven ty-flrst township, t where his 'death took place. Dr. Hljrhsmith was convinced that tks #i*aa wms #>aks a# WsMlswss^Alkla m^em c«w wis one oi nyaropnonia wnfn Kennedy came to him Wedneeday and weat into muscular convulsion when given a drink of water. Uaad mm Raleigh, March ML—Spsed Cop Win Mangum met more than • match aear midnight of Friday when chasing • Hudson well filled with ttqaor, he ran into a smoke iwiw made kg the machine and was pot imt of ksriam until the ram runner escaped. Mr. Msngua did a good Job of rid ing. bat his machine was halted it struck a dense dood of m which issued from the eihauet of the fleeing ear. <-epu4 by tha roatodian of the *te tin'i tomb la aa (oOmn: "John WHkea Booth «hxlod hta por •wn tar 11 days. Ho waa M by Tbomaa A. J ed in dentists who identified ffllhp in the teeth of the body, which mmlm identification positive. Edwin B*dk claimrd the body and baried it in tin family bvjiif gromd at BaMwtf : in an unmarked grew." HOW IT HAPPKNKD