ASSOCIATED
.PRESS
DISPATCHES
VOLUME XXVI
BPflfiKOiE)
IN TRAFFIC WRECKS
DURING PUST WEEK
Total Was Four Less Than
For Previous Week.—2o
More Hurt Than During
the Week Before.
GRADE CROSSINGS
ACCIDENTS MANY
Eleven Persons Killed in
North Carolina and 11
Others Were Injured in
the State.
(By the Associated Press)
Forty-two persons killed and 27S
injured was the traffic toll reported
in eleven Southern (states during the
past week, a survey conducted by the
Associated Press reveals. That to
tal was four fatalities less and twenty
more than the injury toll for the pre
ceding week.
Six persons were killed in grade
croaking accidents. Five young girls
met tragic deaths near Gastonia, N.
0.. yesterday when a light truck in
which they were riding was demol
ished by a passenger train of the
Southern Railway. A sixth girl
member of the party wag horribly
mangled, but lnte reports last night
said she was still living.
The sixth grade crossing fatality
was reported in the vicinity of Nor
folk. Va. Nine persons were injured
at Orlando, Fla., last week during
the tropical hurricane that swept the
const sections, when a train crashed
into a motor bus at a crossing.
Two trainmen were killed in Geor
gia and Florida resulting from train
wrecks caused by washouts.
Two then were killed at Lynchburg,
Va.. yesterday when the plane in which
they were passengers crashed to the
ground. The pilot of the plane es
caped by jumping as the craft neared
the ground.
Included in Florida’s report of four
persons killed and sixty-six injured,
were six men injured when the Ital
ian steamer Ansaldo San Giorgio
Secondo was caught in the hurrican's
path. The injured men compised
t’nree members of the ship’s crew, and
aliens being deported out of the jjnit
ed Stales.
The unusual number of persons in
- 4j#Slia~F.o*id a was attributed to thg
hurricane and the attendant increased
• danger of traffic of all descriptiqns.
Norl’li Carolina led all southern states
in the number of fatalities with elev
en, and reported eleven persons in
jured. Florida was second with six
in fatalities, and Virginia third with
five.
A tabulation by states for the week
includes:
Virgin, five killed, twenty-two in
jured.
North Carolina, Eleven killed, and
eleven injured.
South Carolina, two killed apd five
injured.
With Our Advertisers.
Last month of summer. For low
est eoal. prices see the experienced
coal dealer at K. L. Craven A Sons.
Phone 74.
On Tuesday. August 3, at 11 a. m.
F. M. Youngblood, assignee, will sell
to the highest bidder the stock of gro
ceries, fixtures and franchise of the
Plggly Wiggly Store here. See ad.
TFe newest fabrics in shirts that fit
at Hoover's.
Buy coal now and save. See ad. of
A. B. Pounds, i
The Yorke & Wadsworth Co. has
just received a big shipment of A and
B batteries for radio, and also auto
mobile batteries for small cars.
See the line of walnut bedroom
furniture and Bell ft Harris’.
You-can have Frigideire installed
in any ice-box you select or you can
buy Frlgidalre complete with cabinet
at very low cost. See ad.
Specials for this week only at the
Yorke ft Wadsworth C0.—30x3 tube
nt $1.50 and 30x3 1-2 tube at $1.60.
They are first-grarfe Pathfinders too.
The Citizens Bank and Trust Co.
will act as trustee under your will.
Sge ad.
There will be at once a final clean
up of all remnants, odds and ends and
slimmer merchandise at the I’arks-Belk
Co.’s.
North Carolina Day at the Sesqui-
Centennlal.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Italeigh, Aug. 2.—Confirmation of
the change in the date of the North
Carolina day nt the sesquicentennial
exposition from October 6th to Oc
tober 11th. has been received from
the exposition officials by Governor
A. W. McLean. The governor stat
ed that he heartily approves the plan
of Henry L. Stevens, State command
er of the American Legion, to make
North Carolina prominent in the big
parade that is to be held on October
11th in Philadelphia. Governor Me
. Lean suggests that chimbera of com
merce and other civic organisations
give hearty support to the American
Legion in ita plans to advertise the
''state at the sesquicentennial.
Circle Meeting Tonight.
The Evening Circle of the Wom
an's Missionary Society of St
James Lutheran Church will meet
tonight at 8 o’clock at the home of
Miss Elisabeth Hahn on East Depot
street. i
The meeting place has been chang
ed from the home of Miss Mamie
lil
The Concord Daily Tribune
- t ~ Nortk Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
Catholics Willing To
Let People Decide On
New Religious Plans
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THE CARROLL CASE
l
| 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 proaecution of
its cnee seeking to close the H'ghland
Hospital in Asheville, operated by
Dr. R. S. Carroll, ns the result of
I he cancellation of hia license to prac
-1 tier in the State following th“ pie
ferrmg of charges of gross immor
ality against him before the State
board of medical examiners recently.
Th'o snag consists in whether or not
the judge of the Wake superior court,
when the case comes to trial, will
permit the introduction of the record
of the proceedings before the State
board of medical examiners, or wheth
er the court will Insist that the wit
nesses that testified then will have so
appear as witnesses.
If the court permits the introduc
tion of the record of the secret hear
ing before the medical board, well
and good for the State and the de
partment of -public welfare, which
has caused the suit to be grougbt.
But If the court insists that these
same witnesses must appear in per
son nt the trial that appeared before
the medical board in secret session,
it 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 the office of the attorney
general here is silent on the question
alid declined to discuss any phase of
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 iiis patients than before, j
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
patients concerning matters of an in
timate nature, and the names of the
witnesses were carefully guarded, so
that they would not be made public.
And under these conditions, a num
ber of former patients were persuaded
to testify who otherwise probably
would not have done so. '
when these same women wit
nesses are called upon to take tile
witness stand in an open courtroom,
with a throng of curious onlookers,
they nre 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 to differ on
just what can be done in the case,
.some iiolding that the case can be
decided on the record of the hearing
before the State medical board, oth
er# 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 oil the rec
ord, with argument by attorneys from
both sides, without the necessity for
hearing before a jury. But whether
the suit filed in Wake county to close
the sanitarium-can be as eisly dis
posed of remains to be seen.
Solicitor F. Don Phillips, failing
to convict Nevin C. Cranford of
murder, has announced plow for try
ing him on charges of assaulting
woe ten, from which the injured man
is said to have died.
Five Killed and One Injured
When Train Strikes a Truck
Gastonia, Aug. I.—Five giria were
killed and one was seriously injured
at Gambrill’s grade crossing between
Gastonia and Bessemer City this af
ternoon shortly before 6 o’clock when
a Ford truck iq which they were rid
ing was struck and completely de
molished by Southern passenger train
No. 45, pulled by one of the npw 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 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 pawing of the train. The truck I
was described as crossing the north
bound and on to the southbound
Witnesses to the wreck describe
:
Will Enter Truce With the
Government Until Peo
ple Express Themselves
by Plebiscite.
: CAPITAL IS QUIET
i AS ANY SUNDAY
: A Big Labor Parade Was
Held But There Was No
Demonstration Made by
Catholic Adherents.
Mexico City. Aug. 2.— OP) —An an-
I noiincement that the Catholic Episeo-
I pate is willing to enter a truce with
i the Mexican government until the
Mexican people are able to express
themselves by a plebiscite on the re
-1 liffiouH controversy and the discovery
of a plot to assassinate President
Cnlles were the outstanding features
of Mexico's first priestless Sunday.
I Notwithstanding the greet parade
of the regional confederation of labor
i which required two hours to iiass a
given iHiint. the day was a peaceful
one as the capital eyor has known.
Wh'le the marchers passed the pal
ace wlie're President Calles, sur
rounded by his ministers stood waving
his handkerchief in answer to the
cheering, members of tile faithful were
kneeling in prayer in various churches,
beseeching an amelioration of the sit
uation brought about by tile govern
ment putting into force its new relig
iious regulations.
All the Catholic churches without
priests nt the altars were open for
prayer and mediation except the
great cathedra! and several of the
down town places of worship, past
which the parade made its way. Doors
of these were closed in the fear that
I seme 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
no actual trouble developed. The
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. It was suggested it
should run for a reasonable length of
time to -give the iieople a chance to
vote oil 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 Sbe
Could Solve tlie Hall-Mills Murder
Mystery.
Chicago, Aug. 2.— OP) —Mrs. Vir
ginia Dorothy Deleon Harding, wife
of a Milwaukee filling station employe,
who came to Chicago with the asser
tion that she was preparing to solve
the Rev. Edward XV. Hall and his
choir singer. Mrs. Eleanor Mills, was
among the missing today. She had
cheeked 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
herself held in connection with the
slaying manifested little if any inter
est. Mrs. Harding had found it dif
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
(he 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
ear, 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
declared 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.—O. 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
emotionless norse code ticked off the
story of a truck wreck at Gastonia,
N. C.
“Five girls killed,” the item read
—just another of the so-common holi
day fatalities.
“The dead are Bertha Wright, 16.
her. sister, Laura, 20,” the copy read,
and then a break and the sign:
“TMore)” as another point interrupt
ed with what-seemed to the con trot
editor a more weighty, item.
Telegrapher Wright took the inter
vening item and then completed that
from Gastonia.
"They are my sister,” he ex
plained. “one of them lived with une
most of Uie time since mother died.
I’m afraid I’ll have to •f* for re
lief so that I can go thsre”
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CONCORD, N. C-, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1926
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T COTTON STATISTICS
Given by H. G. Hester, of New Or
leans Cotton Exchange.
“ New Orleans, Aug. 2.—OP)—Secre
tary H. (i. Hester, of the New Or
| leans cotton exchange, announced to
-. day the commercial crop for the ear
\ ending July 31st amounting to 15.
' 614,707 bales, an increase over last
' year of 016,351, an an increase over
‘ the previous year of 4.324.310: and
* an increase over 1022 nnd 1023 of
4,331.001 abates.
Southern consumption which he
stated at 4. 778.026 bales, Mr. Hester
‘ says, indicates an increase of 308,808 I
1 bales, compared with last year, and
an increase compared with the year
' before last of 703,508.
The consumption of cotton incind
■ mg ljnters in the southern states is
' the largest ever known.
Mr. Hester makes the world’s con
i sumption of American cotton 15,165.-
000 bales, and the amount carried
over at the close of July 5,362,000
bales. The world's consumption, said
the secretary, has never before reached
the 15,000,000 bales. He makes the
years exports including shipments to
Canada 8,252.103 bales, practically
' reaching last year’s total.
LADY ASTOR AND FOUR
CHILDREN IN AMERICA
Noted Woman Spys She Wants Her
Children to See America..
Boston, Mass, Aug. 2.— (4 s ) —Lady
: Aster, 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-ill-law. at
whose summer home at Dark Harbor,
Me., she Is tospend threq weeks. Lady
Astir said sfie intended to guide her
children about Harvard thiiversity
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 leaye England.
Women Can Help in Enforcing the
Law.
(By International News Service)
Atlanta, Gn.', Aug. 2.—The enforce
ment of law depends principally up
on the public sentiment for or against
that law, and the courts nnd judges
nre 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, to'.d 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 the 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.
Bt. 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 as an example to deter other
men from “p'.ayiug around” with
married women.
Heads University Women.
Amsterdam, Holland. Aug. 2.— OP)
—Dr. Ellen Glenditsch, of Norway,
was elected president of the Interna
tional Federation of University Wom
en today. Prof. Winifred Cullis, of
England; Mine. Nelly Schrieber, of
Switzerland, and Prof. Joanna Wes
terdyk, of Holland, were chosen viee
presidents.
Dr. Glenditsch is one of the world's
most fanipus women scientists. She
specializes in 'radio activity, and lias
often worked with Mme, ('uric in the
latter’s famous radium laboratory in
Paris.
Miss Annie. Smoot has returned
from Greenville, 8. C., where she has
been visiting her brother, ,T. Watson
Smoot. She wan accompanied home
by J. Watson Smoot Jr., who will
spend some time with his grand par
ents, Dr. and Mrs- J. E. Smoot. j
i i PHERSON INQUIRY
! AGAIN HALTED FOR
! LACK OF EVIDENCE
:J ———
District Attorney Says
New Evidence Is Too
Vague to Be of Value to
Grand Jury on Case.
EVANGELISTAND
FRIENDS HAPPY
They Claim Move Shows
Strength of Arguments
They Have Offered as to
Kidnapping of Woman.
Los Angeles, Aug. 2.—</P)—Tlie
Aimee Semple Jlcl’lierson disappoar
| mice case investigation has been dis
| continued again by I)'strict Attorney
i Asa Keyes because lie declares "it
I would cost the country thousands of
I dollars to convict anyone of perjury.’’
j He also said he considers new evi-
I dence obtained at Carmel an ocean re
sort north of here as too vague to be
of value.
Abandoning the inquiry brought ex
pressions of joy from the Angelus
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
tune she disappeared from Oeeou Park
Beach May 18 to nppar in Agun Prie
to. Mexico, .Tune 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 last grand jury in
quiry being .launched Thursday on re
ports from Par in el 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 HUSBAND
Somewhat Opposed to Men Agsking
His Wife to Take a Bide.
(By International News'.Service)
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. '2.—Thomas
Pike is one man in Memphis who
doesn't believe in any modern stuff
of wives running around with other
men.
In fact, Thomas just won't stand
for Pile suggestion to be made to his
wife at (ill.
Two men arc in a hospital here
irecove'ring from severe bruises be
cause they asked Mrs. Pike to take
a ride in an auto with them.
Pike, seeing the two meu 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 Pike'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.
Xo arrests were made. The guns
were not found. In the melee, Mrs.
Pike was severely bruised when ac
cidently struck by her fighting lius
‘ band.
28 ILL AS RESULT
OF TAINTED FOOD
Score Poisoned by Wedding Cake and
I Eight Others When They Ate Bean
in Basement.
f j Chicago, Aug. 2.—OP)—Twenty
eight persons were ill here today as
a result of eating tainted food. A
. score were poisoned, supposedly after
i eating a cake at a wedding celebra
tion. Eight others, two women and
six children, were poisoned when their
i curiosity tempted them to taste a cu
rious bean found in the basement of
their home.
i Physicians said all would recover.
The wedding celebration wag in the
home of Tony Manrillo. Among those
I stricken were Manrillo, hi? wife and
their five Children. The party was
■ in honor of Amico Manrillo and his
i bride of a week, both of whom were
1 victims.
' Police Asked to Aid in Search For
Boy.
Charlotte, Aug. I.—An appeal lias
been made to the Charlotte police to
1 aid in the search for Reid Henderson,
' 15, Bingham Military Acadepiy stu
-1 dent, who disappeared Monday.
Young Henderson is said by his
father to have left home after a
“jacking up" for too free’y spending
1 money. The father left here tonight
. for Spartanburg to continue his
* search for the lad.
f The tennis match between Liv-
E ingston Easley and H. . Phillips was
■ played at the “Y” eosrt this morn
i ing, Phillips winning. The matches
between Ed. Morrison and Robert
i Bell, and Robert Dick and Nevin
M Sappenfleld will be played this after
tl noon from 5:30 o'clock until dark.
* The second round of the tournament
i will start tomorrow.
Violent Earthquake Recorded.
I Foetiza. Italy, Aug. 2.—(A>)—Avio
* lent earthquake lasting three hours,
i the eenter estimated to be 11,000 kilo
* meters (5,502 miles) away, was re-
I corded on the eeismognip'.i at Prof.
■ . Raphael Bendandi’s observatory here
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\>f FRANKS.BOmUON. LORRAINE GOUI/D, i
LADY ASTOR ' HARRY HAR3TZ
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 ths
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 ap
tlmost unbeatable lead for the season auto racipg champion*
(hip.
McLEAN FEARS HE IS
GETTING TOO SOFT
Imperative That He Get Plenty of
Exercise and Be Out Doors.
Raleigh. Aug. 2.— (A*) —Governor
McLean is afraid the constant con
finement attendant upon his guberna
torial duties is not the best tiling 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 lie 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—lie 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 ns a daisy.
Xow, 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 liis trip to
Blowing Bock this week he was on
Blowing Rock last week lie was on
the road for 21 hours, had no rest
and no sleep and stopped only occa
sionally. .Yet, at rhe end of the
trip he felt better than if he hud
spent a day in the office plugging
away on matters of State. He be
lieves this can be accounted for by
the fact that ho was able to give his
mind n 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. I.—Robert F.
Thompson, 54, widower and father
of five children, was arrested at Mt.
Vernon early today and confessed,
county officers say, that lie assault
ed and strangled Gertrude D'Ostroph,
pretty 10-year-old Coshocton girl, at
a secluded spot along the Walhort
ing rivdr 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 in a
path where it could be found.
Fearing violence from threatening
crowds at Coshocton, )>olice 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
i Baleigh Aug. 2. —Following the
; resignation of Solicitor ,T. B. Swain,
i of the nineteenth judicial district,
. Governor A. W. McLean has ap
; pointed G. I.yle Jones, of Asheville,
: to fill out t'.ie unexpired term of Mr.
Swain. The appointment was first
tendered ■ Robert M. Wells, Democrat
ic candidate for solicitor of the ninc
■ teenth district in November, because
, of the press of private affairs, he de
clined.
Caleb Trexler has resumed his work
■t the Gibson Drug Store after en- 1
joying week’s vacation.
ADVERTISING
NORTH CAROLINA
Senator Simmons Sets Forth ; His
Ideas in Unmistakable Language
Greensboro, Aug. 2.—Senntor-'F.
51. Simmons has some definite ideas
about the project for advertising
North Carolina to the nation at large.
Following liis 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. lie 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 I’iie organization commit
tee of North Cnrolinians, 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
Opened Steady at Unchanged Price*
to Decline of Six Points.
New York. Aug. 2.—(/P)—The cot
ton market opened steady today at
unchanged prices to a decline of 6
points under renewal of the realizing
movement which develoiH-d after
advances of last week and which were
probably promoted by talk of better
weather in the western belt. Decern
ber sold off to 17.61 and March to
17.85 at tlie opening but the market
was steadied by coverng 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.!) for March with
active months showing net gains of S
to 6 points by the eqd of the first half
hour. Private reports published this
morning made tlie condition of the
crop 60 5 per cent compared witlir
72.6 per cent, a month ago. and plae
ed tlie indicated yield at 14,193,000
bales.
Cotton futures opened steady: Oc
tober 17.65; December 17.63"; Jan
uary 17.71; March 17.85; May 18.00.
Apples Raked on Tree.
Lenoir. Aug. 2. —Around tlie toot
of Warrior mountain the sun iH bak
ing apples on the trees.
T. 8. Setzer, who lives in that
section, about five miles out on tie
1 Lenoir-Bi owing Rock highway,
’ brought to The News-Topic office a
sample of the sun’s baking. It was a
red June apple, and was cooked as
nicely and had all the flavor of an
apple baked In a stove.
He bad quite a number of these
' cooked apples and nays there are
1 many on the trees now ’ about half
■ cooked.
The King's will meet to
-night at 8 o’clock at the Hotel Con
• | cord. The meeting will be the regular
{one for August
THE TRIBUNt |
PRINTS MU 1
TODAY’S NEWS TOC>SB
NO. l%p;
L ftNTs LEADING IjJ
DEATH OEBARONEfj
Miami Police Officers
Light in Mystery of SlifH
cide of Baroness Boyces®
Garrett Friday. 1
HUSBAND SAID HE 11
ATTEMPTED SUICpfH
Was Found in a
North of Miami Wi|j(| §9
Piece of Heavy
Wrapped Around NegfMl
Mimai, Fla.. Aug. 2.—C4>)—4
oner's jury today inquired into t||H
chain of events which culminated
day night in the death of the
ess Royee-Garrett, and the arrttpoH
her husband, Baron Michael
Garrett, formerly of the Riigsigjjt'
Tiie Baroness leaped to her <)eg|i@9
from the eighteenth Hoor of tlie Jasgfej
ionnble Everglades Hole!. The
clasping a piece of heavy twine w*»j
found by police in a dense' fjiipjnHH
north of Miami where he said
about to hang himself. ■
A suicide pact of seven years
ing entered into between the tvytj MSB
ter the Baroness, a noted singwj
lost a $5,000,000 heritage in t§£ njrc®
heval following the war, and tppuwf? a
with Boisheviki in Russia
couple to iilan death. ' 1
The Baron today expressed
pointnieiit that his youthful Wife hss| a
not died with him ns she had pfgdQH
ised. J
The couple met in a Russian mijjrji
itary hospital where the
recuperating from amputation
leg lost in tlie war. They fpl) jjrm
love, tied to America, and for
years the Baroness appeared if) mjpfl
sieal entertainments in the EafelM j
“Friday morning m.v wife told mej
the time had come to die,” tlie
told police, "tlmt she could not g'SajW
or fight any longer, and that
die together as we had lived
er. I told her to wait until mom-M
ing and we would go out to t ocoanufM
Grove, get in a boat together, tie tem
rope around our necks and die.
this was decided we were both jorafl
“My wife told me she would not owl
cross with me' if T went ottt amCl
stayed late. She said this is thelasiS
day on earth for you to smoke and■
play billiards and have a good timeu-jB
so you go out. You catch the last:l
car back home, but be sure tq bqjtis
n newspaper before you come. 4m
will spend our last night together
prepare to die in the morni|*iȤ|| I
The Baron played billiards fronfl
shortly after noon until late at night®
He learned of his wife's death ygjg
lie bought a newspaper. 1
He purchased a piece of twijjy UHM
walked on crutches to the
tree, but could not climb. He j
ed bus and lode to a tangled
a few miles north of Miami vkejjH
he remained throughout SaUirday„a
Here lie was found by’ police—
his efforts to climb trees to
self attracted attention of rositteqlißßM
Judge J. L. Webb to Retire at Tcrtgl
Charlotte, Aug. I.—Judge JamefiS
L. Webb, of Shelby, with four venffiW
■ * "(i In.- pre—nt term oyjH
judge of Superior Court, said
t harlotte Saturday that he wdjjll
not he a candidate for re-elecllon3
again, but will exercise his priviiCgM
of retiring and doing emergency
cial work at tlie end of liis tefcig.
The State law provides 1 hilt ju£s]
ists, who have been on the SupefMlM
Court bench for twenty
havt reached a certain age. may
tire on a salary, holding thi'in.selyfißH
available for special terms. 4
Judge Webb is one of the mdMH
in point of service of North (>ay&*ji
linn jurists. His health, he
excellent, but he feels that after' fopsJ
more yeans of tlie Superior tlpulCT
circuit grind, he will be entitl§l
I'ghler Will. ||. I. 11-cigliefi .to tMM
Greensboro district until January 'l,l
but has been ho’ding court ill hia j
home the past week. I
Noted Jewish Author am) Phut®
London, Aug. I.—lsrael Znngwillpl
noted playwright and man of ietten®
died today. ]
He had been under treatment in jm
hospital at Midhurst, Sussex, for tsvAj
months, but his condition did not b(s3
come serious until about a weeds ogovl
when lie gradually became worshjl
The direct cause of death was ffiveiH
as pneumonia. |
Morse Improved Today. .
W. Morse was recovering today fcpaß
what was described by his family M
a slight shock suffered yesterday ffl
In -i.a.in. i hmii" Ih'H'. Tbc aMjj
financier was stricken during the atwai
die forenoon and Was uncanscio(l^3H
Mrs. F. L. Keller, of WnuktgMH
111 . is visiting friend and
in the St. Johns neighborhood Sjß
A chui-ch in Clinton,
. paid S44<MK) to an engineer iltiH
. minuting an acho which tor 29 yeaßfe
■ had marred the church services, T |