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TWO DIE, ONE HURT, IN WILMINGTON BOOTLEG WAR
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Officers Find Second
Body inSearching For
Slayer of Another Man
Mim* Ttet VMM Mu,
WkabCvttM Shst, Hm
m- Chance
Awe-forall^io^t
PROBABLY OCCURRED
Om mt Dm4 Mm Had Lms
LM «f Nil— *f Pwpfe Who
HaS Bought Whiskey
WILMINGTON, Feb 34—<*">—T«»
lun, of Wilmington, and 811 m Hill,
•aid to be from Charlotte. wars atot
*to deetb today and Pet# Rally, alao
oT Charlotte. probably (aUlly alaabad
with, a kaUa and wonadad with a pla
tol In Wbat Maw Haaorar officer* de
clared «u i frM for air bootlegger*
war. beginning Id the eerly iaor*|M
Irmtlam*
Taro a*a bare baa placed In Jail
la connection with the laying, but
officer* aarly tonight ref Med to give
their name* or enyNßtettor they ware
white man or*to#f roea.
Jl Later aa effort* to lacata the alleg
ed clayey became more Inteaaa, of
ficer* said they war* searching for
Warren Moore, of Naw Hanover conn
t». In coneetion with tto flaying of
Bvaaa and Hll&ftd th* wounding of
Kelly. f
Tto body of Evaas waa found In th*
Pcetl* Hayne section thl* morning.
While aharifr* officer* were March
ing for hi* slayar. they cam* upon
Hill * tody. It waa fonad thl* attar*
boob 11 miles from where th* remain*
of Evans war* discovered.
MU’* tody waa atUI warm whan
ft waa found. It was aald to have
fallen from aa automobile as two
men hurried to tto city with Kelly
Who was wonadad at the same time
Hill waa killed.
Deputies attached to the Sheriffs
id floe, shortly after Hill’s body was
discovered gave chase to a man in an
satomoblle they believed to be the
slayer.
In HlM’s pockets was * lodg list of
name*. Officer* after examining the
list, aald the names evidently were
those of persons to whom wlskey
had been sold. Another list contain
ed name# that were believed to to
luoe# of customers from whom mon
el for liquor waa due.
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BANK ROBBERS
TAKE $50,000
81s DagperaAors Uae Machine
(Sum and Shnifans in Dar
ing Hold-Up
KANSAB CITT. Mo.. Teh 24—(AN
—Armed with two •üb-machi’te nun*
three sawed off shot gun* and several
45 automatic*, a band qf bank rob
bers estimated at 10 to II In number
today shot up th* city bank here and
\ ft?) C. Kemper, president In an-
late today after a
check up said th* amountwaa cover
ed by Insurance. «- *
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BOND SEARCH
•, WILL RESUME
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Government Hopes to Find M#e
About Continental Trading
Company
WASHINGTON. Teh it—(AN—Rc
> opening its enquiry tomorrow, the
Donate Teapot dome committee will
reach Into new field* In It* effort to
throw the full light of publicity upon
the operation* of the Continental
Trading Company of Canada.
On* of these fields. Chairman Ny*
xetd today. Ilea In Canada. Whether
tto Naw York branch of thq Dominion
Bank ot Canada became th* agent
of the Cons i*ntal In the United State*
and aa aucli Is liable for the income
tax on th« 13.050,000 of profits which
tto corporoation made In profits in
oil deals (n this country may he de
termined. _
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THE GOLDSBORO NEWS
BEAD IN THE MORNING WHILE MINDS ARE FBEBH—READ BY BUYERS BEFORE THEY, BUY.
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Thirteen Bodies Are
Recovered From Mine
JBNNY LINl). Ark.. Feb 24—C«*>
—Mtnww number 3 and 1* of th#
Mama Coal Company here nave up
th* last of their dead tonight and «
13 Identified bodV*. mtAe evld- I
, ance of a ga* ey plosion at »:Sa
a. m in tto tnnnel* were lu Fort
Smith morgue*.
FUGITIVE IS
TAKEN HERE
Jack Beaumont Will Be Return
ed to Winstou on Charge
Violating Narcotic Act
Jack Beaumont waa arrested here
yesterday by United BUt*e Deputy
Marshal Honeycutt of Kaialgh as be
ing a fugitive from Justice and last
night returned to th* elate capital
tq, be turned over to authorities of
tto -Western District Federal court
of North Carolina. Beaumont waa
arrested Iq Wtnatou-Balem February
10, 19*7, on a charge of having nar
cotic* In his possession for the pur
pose of isJe Federal narcotic agent*
here said, arraigned for a prelimin
ary bearing nnd allowed to go under
*SOO bond pending r trial. Ha (ailed
to report when hi* cm# was called
and a search had been conducted for
him.
Narcotic Agents L. Ford and W. R.
Turner, who cam* lq Goldsboro aonUL.
'time ago In connection with their du
lled In enforcing th# Harrlsoo antl-
Set. identified Beaumont as
th* .q>*n wanted In Winstan Salem
end notified the department which
ordered Deputy lloncycutt to make
the arrest.
The agents said that Beaumont had
been encountered In Wllaon and otb
er Eastern Carolina cities. In Golds
boro he had posed as a paralytic, and
those who had known him expressed
surprise .when he - was taken for th*
Winston Salem count.
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PINK THINNING PROJECT
• DURHAM. Feb. 24—fAN—Twenty
! eight farmer* ot Durham county *t
-1 tended a pine thinning, demonstration
held on the farm of J. C. Nichols In
White Cross community county agent
W. I. Smith report*. On# half an acre
ot pine for*et- waa thinned under th*
direction of R. W . Grantor, exten
sion forester at State. College.
The meti who attended aald that
they would also thin <iut alt diseased
stunted and deformed trebl) fn their
farm woodlots and leave the straight
-healthy trees, to mature for' 1 ilinfiFr
Detndfcstrations In terracing and or
chard management were alao held
during the week,.Mr. Smith said.
Legislators Will Be Asked
Attend Forestry Meet Here
[Member* of the legislature will be
Invited to attend the ananal* conven
tlon of the North OaroHns Forestry
, Aaaoclatlon in Goldsboro In Septem
ber. It waa decided here yesterday at
a conference at which Col. Joseph
tlyde LJjaJm of Chapel Hfh, director
of th*M#>restry Association, took up
with Lionel Well, a director of the
Association and chamber of commerce
officials (he proa ram to be presented
Accompanying Col. Pratt on hi* rlslt
to Goldsboro and participating In the
conference was Mrs. Keeves. aasts
tant secretary of the Forestry Aaeo
t lation.
A* now planned the convention to
be held here will eclipse any previous
convention of the Aaaoclatlon. Demon
stratlons lu forestry will be conduct
ed in Wayne oounty forest* and a com
prehensive display of forestry pro
ducts will be arranged.
The t’hape' 111 l man coaslders that
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LOCAL BOY SETS NEvTAMERiCANRECORD
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SHORT COURSE
ENDING TODAY
S«VMi ,CMHtIi«H Send Reprtmn
taiivew t« First llay’a
Coaraea
Sevgn counties were repredsnted
at the beginning vs short course
for Eastern Carolina poultry raisers
I her* yesterday.-Poiltry experts con
ducted claeses in the morning and af
ternoon and last night the second an
nual abort course end* today.
Counties represented yesterday
were: Martin. Johnston, Sampnon.
Wake. Craven, Duplin and Wayne. Th*
attendance record Is expected to In
crease today.
Last night's session was featured
by tbs showing of a moving picture
film Illustrating correct poultry rais
ing procedure and by a ta|k by Dr.
A H Kerr on the relation of poultry
raising lo (he other activities of the
farm.
Those' taking part In the conduct
ing of course* are: R. 8. Dearstyne
H. S. Wtlfong, W. F. Armstrong, and
Dr. B. F. Kaupp of the poultry de
partment of State College; E. W.
Gaither district agent; and Dr. Wil
liam Moor* of Raleigh, state veter
inarian.
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NATIONAL U 4 ARII UKTX RATING
Raleigh, Fob. J - (JP)—The statw de
tschment of the North Carolina Na
tional Guard, comprising a personnel
Os twenty two men commanded by
Captain Charles G. Barden, was in
r pec ted late Thursday afteruouu by
Federal and State army officers and
rtcelvtd the highest rating given.
FINDSPEARLS .
BUT IS LOSER
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Cook Auctions JkwejN To Get
Money to Pay Attorney
Fees
CHICAGO. Feb. 34.—<A>)-P#t#r
Kjrrlakos, eretwhilpl bootblack and
wrestler and now a cook; today with
a morose sigh expressed the hope
that he would And no more 120.000
string* of pearls
Hla statement was made Juet aft*%
he had seen the pearls he found last
May auctioned off to pay the fees of
attorneys whore he hired to gain pos
session of thorn for him.
Th# oook. then a bookblack. found
the string of 128 graduated peat I*
set with a diamond clasp In the un on
station. Ha tried to sell the bead*
for 53.60 but found no buyer. Final-'
ly he took them to a Jeweler and
who noted the value and called the
police. Kyriakos was arrested for
•tenting the pearls but no one ever
claimed them or reported such a theft.
“He .stuck to hla story of finding
them and was discharged only to find
the police had the gem* which Anal
ly were turned over to the public
niiglijM|y. ■ / -
i the Forestry Association Is oHtvely
promoting one phase of North Caro
lina interest-forest preservation and
- reforestation—which Is of great Im
portance and he, together with other
i official* of the Association, hopes to
stimulate some general public Inter
-1 eat In the meeting to be held here,
i September was named as the month
fur the convcntlou but dales were not
finally fixed.
The last meeting of the Association
was In High Point and several hun
dred delegates were lu attendance.
Upon requests of Col Pratt. Governor
A. W. McLean named delegations
> from to represent the state at the
i gathering and many towns of the
> lommbnweallh sent official delegates,
men appointed by the mayors of the
i town*.
It la the first time. It was said yes
terday, that the bmly has held a con
vention in Eastern Nortb Carolina.
GREW IS LOST
AS SHIP SINKS
oCt
Meagre Details Available Can
coming Fata of Italian
Stamper ,
DEAL England. Feh. 24 </P>—Ser
ious lo** es Ilf* was (eared from
the alnklag tonight of the Italian
steamer Alcantara after collision
with the Russian Cadet training ship
I'nvarlsch. The. collision occured In a
denes fog which blanketed* over
straits tonight. The other steamer*
were reported standing by.
The only account ot the tragedy was
pieced out from a aeries of brief m#*-
rag** received by Lloyd* North More
land radio station front the British
-teamer Moldavia.
The Moldavia reported lhat after
rearchlug tho vicinity of the crMb
lor an hour and a half. It had found
only one man who died shortly after,
a* that It was convinced that no one
bad escaped alive fromJ.be sinking
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A NOL PROS IN
FLOGGING CASE
Dozen Wnke County Men Go
Home Free When Court
Thrown Cano Out
RALEIGH. Feb. 34 — (/f) —Assault
charge* against a dos*n men In con
nection with the flogging of E. A.
Jones. 63 on# armed country merchant
un<M|l” serro help** ware Jhrown <*H
'tt superior court lata today when
th, stats suggested a verdict of not
rullty.
ladtv'dual case* charging assault
v/ere nc.l prost-il by the slate.
,' The s.nt • 11|>; i *ed It* ptwron In
I the trial lUo third »0 cat sect on alth
the flogging lu pointing ont that Janes
contradicted himself several times In
relating, details of Use beating admin
istered to him and -Sam Green, negro
by a band of 75 masked men. w.- iriog
he aald. K K. K. robes on the night
t.f December 13, 1928”
Court adjourned until Mondff. The
state announced eases Dr.
J.,R. Hester, one of the dejjud|auta
In the trial ending today. Baird Pool
In conectlon with inother flogging
tnd A. L. Daniel, would be called
that of Will Dean. °
' The defendant* went home tonight,
their cases closed. Jone* Went back
to hla. country store near Wake' For
est, looking the part of a broken man
w<th nothing to say. The Chatham
county -Jury was discharged.
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CAL MAY BACK
FLOOD CONTROL
Under Certain Ctmditlons Would
Favor Federal Government
Doing Work
WASHINGTON. Feb. * 24—(A>>— As
Dongress neared s shpwdown today In
the flood control fight It was dis
closed that President Coolldge would
oe willing under conditions 10 ftaVe
the Federal government shoulder the
expense of protecting the lower Mla
slppl valley.
He feels, however, that it .Is a
question for Congress to determine
after agreement lie* been reached
as to the type nnd scop# of protest Jpg
to be afforded fa addition lie hold*
that anythin* th* Federal government
does without fluanclaJ assistance from
the local com mu n I ties should lie con
fined to the ares flooded last year.
Fight to Finish
In State of Ohio
COLYtMRUS. Ohio., Feb 34 (Ab
—U. 8. Senator Frank 11. Willis
and secretary of commerce Hoover
today declared It a finish fight for
control of Ohio's delegation to the
Kansas City rouvetnlon anil for popu
lar endorsement of Ohio's voter*.
FIRST QUEEN
IS NOMINATED
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Some Young Woman of Wnyn
la Going to Win S2SO In .
Gobi At Exposition
The fret town to enter n candidate
in the Senior tjweens’ contest for th*
Sixtho Annual Eastern Carolina Re
position. is Rocky Mount, Mias Susie
Jonca ha* been selected -to bear lbs
title of “Miss Rocky Mount" nt the
Mg annual event.
Miss Jones Is one of Bsstern Caro
lina's most beautiful young Udien
and thousands who visited, th* Bu
tern Caroling Rsposltlon at Rocky
■Mount last year, will remember Mia*
June* as being on* of thA local can
didate*. She was a close contender
for first pine* In the content laat year
from Rocky Mount last year And It,
goes without saying that Eastern
Carolina "queens'' wll have eome
keen competition from Rooky Mount's
representative.
The rules sad regulations govern-
Vrtg thl* rear's content are now be
ing mulled out from headquarter* of
th* Eastern Carolina Chamber of
('.ommerce in Klnaton and in Indica
tion* nr* that there will to more
candidates entering from more towns
thl* year than at any other Exposi
tion held yet. ”
Th* two winners this year; one from
Wayne county nnd ona from towns
outside of Wayne county will to giv
en $350.95 In gold. All candidates
will be presented on tha opening af
ternoon, April 9th and again that
‘jMnht- The voting clone* on tto open-,
tng night and the winners will to ans
nounced In time to get Into the Mo
t*ot picture m the winner*. All the
candt late* will to shown In the
picture as they er# presented. .Only
» no day of th4 coutest, th# man
igement Mya, thla year. Th# Queens
will bo crowned Thursday sight this
year instead of Frdiay as has been
ihe custom heretofore The aged of
Fie Queens this year have been re
do erd to IS year*. Heretofore tto eg*
ha t been 17. Junior Queens ages run
fiq-.a 8 year* to 12 year*.
ANNOUNCER GUARD HBTENWTH
WASHINGTON, H*b. 24 —(A*J—Pre*
tnt strength o fth# Country's Nation
al Guard unljs feder/ly recognised,
th# -War Department annotiheed to
day total* 154.093 officer* and men.
HUNT BLAMED
BY HICKMAN
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Stale Contends Murder nf Drug
gist Is Proved on Young
Hunt
U>B ANO ELKS, Feb. 24 —UP)—A
confe*ekNi by Wm. E. Hickman put
ting the blame for the killing of
C. Ivey Thoms, druggist/ on the
Hntunders of his ro-defendgut, -Welhy
Hunt, was Introduced today at the
joint murder trlal of the two youth*
Attorneys for Hickman contended the
confession was the last link of n chain
of ' evidence fixing dlreck responsi
bility for the killing
One Injured When Truck
Turns Over Three Times
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I'HIM I I I.
Eugene Ballanger. 1« year old white
boy, sustained a fractured arm and
uijurin abuut the head and hip; Hob
Corp, while man oscaped Injuriaa, and
a two-ton truck waa completely
wrecked In an accident near Plke
vllle yesterday mornlnit.
Oore. a driver for Jeffreys „ and
f-ona, «M approaching Hlkerill# with
I a full load of fruit. A negro driving
a Ford turned suddenly into thehlyh
*ay n front of the bln truck, and Mr. I
Oore vt-ered to the left to escape
smashing the small car. The huge
machine slipped off the highway to
the post dirt and turned over three
tlmea before settling to rest,
plete wreck.
BOY IS KILLED 1
IN EXPLOSION
Top of Head Blown Away When
Gorbide Tank Bursts When
Tested Out
A tragic accident occurred near
Rethany church Wednesday morning
In Johnston county about eight q
clock when a carbide tank exploded.
Instantly fll»1«g Valton Hodge, a ftf
teeen year old boy, and 0 slightly In
juring Yale* Creech, aged 33. eon of
Mr*. Alll* Creech, aay* the SmHhfield
Herald
According to information received,
the light plant wm charged iMt week,
but failed to give a bright light, and
Mr. Creech assisted by young Hodge
wm working nt th# carbide tank when
It exploded. A piece of tto tank
struck (be boy In tto forehead above
kta eye*, taking off M»e #ntlr*-top x»f
hla bend. Death wCi toeUntaneoM.
Mr. Creech . wm allghtly burned nnd
on# eye wen painfully hurt, but bin
injuria* were uot considered serious
The Hodge boy’n father died eaver
#l y*lf* ago nnd hln mother tod mar
ried again, it* wm living *t tto home
of Mrs. Alll# Creech nnd attending
Glendale high school. Ha wm In the
ninth grade.
Th# fnneral wm held yesterday af
ternoon nl on# p'cloch nt Rqthnny
Baptist church, conducted ttf tto
pMtor, Rev. W. D Btauclh Interment
took place in th* cemetery at tto
cherrh.
The deceased la survived by
mother, on# brother nnd three aim
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SHOOTS HEITfAYI
PAST POLICEMEN
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Relieved Hhe, With Uo«Rpunie*L
Headed For Hlfh Petal
With Whiskey
. WABHINOTON. Feh. 54— <AV- A
girl, riding beeld* a man la an auto
mobile believed to bear n cargo of
liquor from Southern Maryland for
High P#lnt N. C-. shot bar way by
two Bjotorcycl# policemen her# to
day and eacaped. q , '
Tipped that wm #n
routo to North Carolina, oftfcar# etA
tlotted themeelvea near th# district
line early today and when the cat
approached th# driver Ignored the
command to. halt, ran Into on* mot
orcycle nnd knocked It over nnd
rpeeded up to shout 76 miles an hour.
Two officers followed and Ike girl.
In nearing position, shot a rain ot
. bullets nt the pursuers who emptied
their revolver* but failed to hit th#
tleelng car. The police had been lu
fermed that the couple had been
making regular trips to High Point
with liquor *
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TO VOTE ON BILL WEDNESDAY
WASHINGTON. Feb. 24— UP)— An
agreement to votelText Wednesday on
th* Bw4ng Johnson Boulder Canyon
dam bill and all pending amendment*
was reached today by the Senate tr
t igatlon committee.
jP>e driver of the Ford did pet atop
to offer aid to those In the accident
which was said to have caused.
Hia name rould not be learned yea*
terday.
The triple somersault scattered ban
anas and other fruit up and down
the highway and the miracle waa that
both Mr. Oore and fife Ballanger
youth, who waa riding With him. were I
not Instantly killed A small hole waa
knocked in the hark of the hoy's head
The News was told by a brother, and
lie was unconscious for- about an
hour. After he wae examined at ” a
local hospital, however, It was said
that hi* Injuries ware not so serious
as to require hospital treatment.
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PUCK FIVE CENTS
Makes Fire In ■
41*5 Seconds
Clips S*f Seconds Os PvftYtft—
Tl»s Mods Firs Fim m
Flint sad Stool
Scout wards, II vsnr old
•on o( Mr*. J A Mwords «( ttt I
John street. *“« • new Amerleae rw
ord among ley Scents for making
tlr* by the um of (list ssd «ml la
the Spout rally hold horo Pmrtor
T, according u> notification resolved
yesterday Iron Ooorso W. Mhtor.
chief of tbs registration karoos of the
national Bov Scout Connell Os Ana*
tries to W. V. River*. aoost eases*
live.
Young Edwards klaltod a lira Mr
4 and 14 seconds and tSn MS gra
clou* American raoord aa raaordaO
in tha office at Mr. Mer M * nod
44 atconda Edwards’ MM M two- .
fifth* of n aanond fenttar Ums nag
i word previous report**. -3"
Tha font setting n saw AsmrlraO
high mark for Bov Boost tin making
work w*a parformad kg Ttowarde lo
fa Wayne County SM*t rally I* wMM§‘
ba compotad aa a mamkar at Um tram
sponsored by the FI rot MSW ehnr*h
J. C. Pate la Scostmaatar of tMa
troop.
Young Edward. to tha itaond mam
bar of tha ti'oop apoaaorod Ip tko
First Baptist church to aehteea BO*
tloaal distinction. DarW Lilas, SOW
i student at Waha Forest Oyll—to
thaa saoooaofnllv completed tools ana
eaaary to wla all marM hadgaa She
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that tha oonsaM swards. 7
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TORCH KILLER
NOT CAPTURED
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B[fw mev
GsiHy Party In Simps
BVAHNAROSYIUfS, N. J., lhk
14— (MT- Tha torch killar of IftoS
Margaat Brown still was at largo to
night
Biota troopara said daring tha day
that hl*j Identity waa known, that hd
WEE E middle EE Ed DroftSElOßEl EMUS
™ m wsiwwsw anew me^m^m#.
cf high social standing. hat Inter pro
aecntor Bergen daatod that anything
definite waa known a boat the kttlor.
«ORH BY BAMIUttI
TOKYO, Feb. *4—<^V—The great
eat eruption of the Aaamayama trtt
cano la atgkt years occurred yesterday
afternoon. a
‘ A deafening roar aeeomyaated the
disturbance and largo kealdara wars
thrown from tha crater doing mack
damage to property.
No caaualttoa were reported.
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WALKER IS NOW
ON WAY HOME
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Tells Wigßlon Folks Bd One
4 Simply to Got Bsttor
Ac* sail tod I
WINSTON-SALEM, Pgb. J|.—(4P>—
( oncltiding g tour of a wook os tha
south with aa addraoo before MS
citlieae at noon today. Mayor Jamas
J. Walker of Now York City, boardod
his private car at 4:SI o’clock thto
afternoon and began hie retwra
journey to Manhattan.
He told the people at tha leads—
"l come to yoa with so mtoatos. haft
as one Americas ettlsea risking Am
erica* territories hi the hogo thgfl
I will know them better sad they vflfc*.
know me bettor.’*
1 Adding that scores of moo who
rams from other statao have "toads
gotto" la New York Skyer Welker
said. “Really, I caaaot think of Mel
two native bom New Terrors eke
have s mounted to anything, my salt
lo one other whom lam Sat ftiisOi
ted to mention. “Thane Waa appta—4
aesA omm man ** UsawwmAe Eha—
■nu mmu moinss kiime nf
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