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Kinston Free Rress .11 HE- PUBLISHED TWICE A'WEEK--WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS VOL. 41. No. 79. KINSTON, N.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922 PRICE FIVE CENTS m-m i. 1 1 i ii in i. i. i.i i- .1. ii.

i.i HI BANDITS KILL MINT ADVANCE AGENTS OF MAYOR HOPES ALL-HANDS HAVE IRRY to Make Two Proposals Europe FRENCH HARD WORK AHEAD FEDERAL COLLECTOR FOR NORTH STATE BURNING IN (By the United Press) London, Dec. 18. President Harding will soon propose two international agreements which will replace much of the Treaty of Versailles, the Daily Sketch today stated. One of the agreements will be for the Allies, the other will include former enemies as well, the Sketch declared. Elihu Boot, the paper said, is at present working out reparations agreements.

The correspondent of the Sketch upon whose dispatches the statements are based cabled that he had interviewed representatives of every prominent banking house as well as "others in high places with precise authoritative knowledge" and learned that there, is to bea drastic scaling down of reparations. EPISCOPAL BISHOP SPEAKS AT COUPLE OF SERVICES HERE ASSEMBLY NOT ABLE FORECAST AFFAIRS Budget Committee, Highway Commission, Prospective Speaker Dawson and Others at Capital Fortnight Before Session (Special Capital Correspondent) Raleigh, Dec. 18. Advance agents of the General AssemlMy in Raleigh for the past several days have been tho Statd Highway Commission' with its recommendations tor the lirst ses sion, the budget committee which mot first today. Speaker John G.

Dawson and Alex Lassiter, principal clerk, who met Saturday, and the university trustees who convene Wednesday. Not any, nor could all. of tlicim give any outlii.e of what will be undertak en when once the assembly is here. t'erhaps the most promising measure presented is that incidcwtal recommendation of the legislative committee of the State Highway Commission, that grade crossings on railroads shall be abolished when the commis sion regards them no longer safe for public travel. The commission will put'up half tle money for such orders as it makes.

Notwithstanding which, few people expect the railroads to build tven half of these crossings. Two sets of ob' jectors will develop. There are legislators who think the roads should pay all expenses and there are others who believe the should have none ol it (today. The budget commission 'can ex plain very well why it is here it has to come. It meets and lays out the moneys and the calls for the coming two years, jlere with the (Legislature iust two weeks off, the committee is having fts first meetings.

It has had nobody before it and days of speak ing are necessary when tin? many in stitutional heads come before it. New Bern Mayor Says City is ThanUul for Aid Free Press Gave The Monday-was in- re- ceipt ot ttie following letter from the Mayor of New Rem thanking this newwaper for raising more- than for the fire sufferers there: "New Bern, N. C. Dec. 13th, 1922.

'Mr. H. G. Braxton, 'Kinston Free Press "Kinston, iN. C.

"Dear Sir: t)n behalf of myself and all the people of this community, 1 desire to jincerely thank you for the ready re-jponse and generous aid you have given us in the relief work, now being parried, on, to relieve the sufferers in the recent fire disaster here, ndi-mittcd to be the greatest conflagration in the history of the State. "Wihout your aid the task would have exceeded our ability to have fully accomplished the stupendous work confronting in alleviating the puf-t'oring in our midst Your generous contributions ami the magnanimous spirit which you have Shown have in- furred a debt of gratitude and app-re- tiuiiuu ui our t'mrre ciuucnsnip uiai will last for all time to come. "Feeling deeply grateful in terms of unmeasured gratitude for your aid, loyalty and I have the honor to be, "Sicerely yours, "EDWARD CLARK," "Mayor." ILLUMINATION NOVELTY HAS BIG POSSIBILITIES. Schenectady, Dec. 18; The use of Novagem "jewels," which became famous at the Panama-iPacific Exposition in lftl.5, for electrical fountains is believed by illuminating engineers here to be a particularly happy field for these gems as the resuJt of the elcctric'al show at Pittsburgh, which has just closed.

An electrical fountain in which 20,000 of the jewels were displayed beneath the rays of searchlights and amid falling waters was one of the spectacular nights the show. The installation was directed by W. D'A. Ryan, who introduced these jewels to the American public. LABOR DEPARTMENT CALLS WOMEN TO CONFER ON INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS.

(By the United Press.) Washington. 18. A women's conference on industrial problems, to be held in Washington under the auspices of the Department of Labor, 1, Davis for January 11. 12 and 13. The conference is to bo nationwide in scope and to bring together representative women from all walks of iife.

"It appears from census figures that approximately, one-fourth of the wage-earners of America are women. and apparently the proportion is increasing rather than diminish in jr." says Secretary Davis. Hays Says He WiO Not Take Charge Narcotic Situation at Hollywood (By the United Press.) if Los Angeles, Doc. 18. Will Hays today declared he will OF GOVERNMENT CAR Take Hundred Thousand Dollars in Federal Re- serve Money Mint Door at Denver is Riddled With Bullets in Fight (By the United Press) Denver, Dec.

18, Official reports Fay $200,000 instead of $100,000 was taken in today's bank car rubbery. The guard reported killed was dead, it was stated. A guard and the bank car driver were wounded. Denver, Dec. 18.

Bandits escaped with currency estimated at JlOO.tMio when they held up (the Federal Reserve Bank car in front of the United States mint today. One of the guards on the bank car was killed. Three bandits carried out the daring raid. The rdbhers, masked, stopped the car in front of the mint, held up the driv er and guards, seized the currency, leaped into a large curtained touring ear and sped away. One of the 'mint guards opened fire, riddling the back of the car in which it was Believed the bandits were hidden, The fire was returned by the bandits; One of the guards was instantly killed.

The door of the mint was riudled'witn bullets, Two Killed and Nine Injured in Accidents Arkansas Town Sunday (Kv the United Pivw.) Fort Ark, Dec. 18. Two men were dead and nine persons injured today as results of a series of nuto accidents Sunday, Charles Davis died from injuries received when an auto in which he was riding struck Mrs. Oscar Vanaman, seriously injuring her, the auto going over a 30-foot embankment. Jim Allen turned abruptly into the path of an automobile and was struck and instantly killed.

Five men were hurt when two cars crashed together. May- Combine Two Big -Rail Unions; Heads Confer at Cleveland (Bv the Unit-i P'oss Cleveland, Dec. 18. Plans were started today for amalgamation of the Brotherhood of Ixicomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, two of the big transportation unions. The combined memberships, according to present plans, will be known as the Brotherhood if Locomotive Enginemen.

A joint committee of both unions opened sessions today to devise methods by which the insurance and assets of the organizations can be successfully merged. Seek Missing Airman. Washington, Dec. 18. Concentration of sfi mail airplanes of the western division of the Air Mail Service at Salt Lake City and Rock Springs was ordered today by 'Postimaster-Generl Work to search, for Henry G.

Boonstra, mail pilot lost since Friday, when he overtaken, by a heavy snowstorm. Three Lives Lost When Cottage Burned at Ohio Point; 3 Others Hurt (By the United Press) Akrin, Dec. 18. A defective flue is believed to have been responsible for a cottage fire Sunday which burned to death the city engineer and two other prominent residents of Massilloiu Three other were seriously burned. Two adjoining cottages were destroyed.

The dead are Harold Howard, 58, city engineer; Frank Waggoner, 45, and Lloyd Hudson, 28. November Good Trade Month. Vashington, Dec. 18 Exports for the month of November established a record for 1922, the Department of Commerce announced. The value of exports totalled or 12 millions greater than in October.

No vember imports were $90,000,000 in excess of November last year. i When and Where to Qualify for Yoting on 9th The registration books for the school boads election to be held January 9 are at the grand jury room in the Court-house, first floor, second door on the left of the main corridor. The registrar is George E. Haskitt. He is the one registrar in the district.

All persons wishing to qualify must seek him out. The books close December 30. A complete new registration Is required. The registration hours are: All days except Saturday and Sunday, from 12 to 2 and from 4 to (i p. On Saturday the registrar will be at his station all day.

i. Sk.ii SHIP EASTERN SEA American Destroyer Saved 482 Heroic Performance of United States Sailors. Six Women and Children IxRt in Disaster (By the United Press) Constantinople, Det. 18. At least 28 persons, including three children and their mothers, were drowned, "burned or crushed to death in the disaster to the French hospital ship Vinslong in the Sea of Marmoro Ftj- day in which U.

S. gobs played a heroic part as rescuers of 482 survivors. The American' destroyer Bainbridge was quickly ni hand following the outbreak of flames on the French oet. Seeing the Vinslotig's peril, Commander Edwards shoved the Uainbridge's bow amidships of the Frenchman. A terrific explosion resulted.

In 40 minutes thj crew of the Bainbridge had saved 482. despite the terror and confusion from the explosion. Captain and 6 Members Crew of Lake Tug Are Believed Lost in Gale (By the United Press.) i Sault Ste Marie, Dec. 18. Twenty-seven men.

members of the crew of the tug Reliance, wrecked last Wednesday, lost their lives in the icy waters of Lake mariners today believed. The men declared it doubtful if Bailor rould have lived in the snowstorm and gale which swept the lake yesterday and last night. Sault St." Dec. 18. Captain A.

Williams, and six members of the crew of the tug Reliance have perished near Lizzard Island, oh the 1W 1 1 1 Ibelieved. Seven members of the crew who abandoned tba tug Wednesday When ahe ran on rocks and took to a lifeboat arrived here yesterday. They were all exhausted after a desperate battle through a blinding snow. Cap-it ain Williams and eix men planned to put out in lifeboats ThurttfSi'TEWr KJie survivors declared, but nothing had been heard from them. i Vnfl i Orientals Creep Into United States Result of Defective Statutes (By the United Press.) Washington, Dec.

18. Declaring that the present condition under the federal laws restricting Oriental immigration is "disgraceful," Secretary of Labor Davis in his annual report to Congress just made public proposed a thorough and comprehensive revision of the laws. The secretary asserted that plots for evading the law are innumerable and ci'ted instances of widespread (Schemes to bring prohibited Orientals into the country. He Raid: "It seems to me that the present with reference to Oriental labor under our law is simply disgraceful The pressure for entry into this country is tremendous and apparently well financed. The schemes and plans and plots for circumventing the law are most astute and clever and in numbers are beyond belief.

Oneof the first acts of the present administration of this ttepartlment was to cancel an arrangement, apparently innocent on its face, for bringing so-called industrial students to the United iStates for the purpose of stimulating trade relations between the two countries. It was discovered that those Who had secured this innocent-looking concession had planned to bring approximately 30,000 coolie laborers to the United States at a profit to the promoters of the plan of not less than $3,000,000." PROGRESS SELECTING ROADS FEDERAL-AID SYSTEM. Washington, (Dec. selection of the roads to compose the system of federal-aid highways which will reach into practically every county of the United States Is progressing Tap-idly, according to the Bureau of Public Roads. State and federal engineers have held numerous conferences during the past summier in all flections of the country.

Eighteen feet will be the miniimum width of toadway unless conditions justify a lesser widtih, and such cases must be given special approval. The systeim will consist of not more than seven per cent, of the total road mileage in any one etate. The total mileage of primary- and secondary roads will be approximately 187,000 males. Drag Canal for Body of Widow; Vanity Case is Found by Searchers (By the United Press.) Chicago, Dee. 18.

Fifty men dragged a canal today for the body of Mrs. Kate Mitchell Trostell, pretty young idow who. disappeared from her me December 2. Authorities redoubled their efforts after a vanity ase identified as the property of Mrs. Trostell was found on the canal nk.

Arthur Foster, rejected suitor, held the police. He is alleged nave told the police that Xros- suicide by jumping in- the riv er. But They Can't Shoot Pop-crackers This' Year, Either Happersville Busy Kicking Kinston Statutes in the Ribs Again Again lias Happersville thrust a thorn. into Mayor Mills Dapper's cuticle. Having a fair-sized svillage named for him has given the chief burgess of Kinston no great pleasure, from the start, Happersville, w4itlv Lfair assurance that the mayor of iu.

next door city cannot help it, has gone to selling fireworks. First Mayor 'Happer declared Kinrfton azure town. Soda water addicts and smokers chagrined by the act said tho color was blue. Then Happer said. Christinas here should be sacred and' not an orgy.

Ho banned "pop-crack- era." Last Christmas there was no such nuisance here. When his honor declared Kinston, should be a closed town on Sunday' Happersville drew a name and start-, ed a big and highly profitable Sunday "pop" business. It was only across the Caswell Street Bridge apd a nice walk. Today, the police stated, Happersville dealers Were selling fireworks to Kinston Jmys for holiday celebration. The police, apparently upable to cope with tha llap-pi rsville dealers, declared they would arrest ail persons caught violating th anti-fireworks ordinances within, jth Kinston municipal limits.

Peace on Karth, Good Will, Etc, Tho mayor Monday addressed tha following letter "to the citizens: "A majoWty of the principal cities and 1 towns throughout the South have put a ban on thy sale and ploding of fireworks during ths Christunas holidays, realizing that t'Jiristmaa is too sacred an event to be celebrated in such a manner. "Kinston, through its City Council, was not different from others in tak-ing this action. "Christmas of 1920 was a disgraca to our com.mmity. "Christmas of 1021 was far as the citizens were loyal the coun-' cil'a action, and entered tlio holiday season with the true Christmas sniril. "Merchants have told me that their sales last Christmas were hundreds' of dollars greater than at the 1920 Christmas, and ladies were shopping Christmas' eve who had not been- in, tho shopping district at Christmas time for several years on account of fireworks.

"I understand that fireworks are being sold across the Caswell Stroct Bridge out of the tity limits. "I hope the citizens will bear in mind that the law is still on the books and will toe applied within the city-limits. "I am sure that it will be only nee- essary to remind tha public of this fact, and that all will be as loyal this Christmas as last, entering the season with the true and joyous Christmas spirit. "Wishing each and every one a merry Christmas nd a happy New Year, i HAPPER, "Mayor." U. S.

Gobs Stage Two 4 Months' Party at Rio 'and Give City a Circus By MILES W. VAUGHN (United Press Staff Correspondent) Rto.De Janeiro, Dec. 18. The visit of the Unitod States ship Nevad to Rio will go down in the annals of th American colony as the g-iyeds and mi st successful two moutha party held on the shores of Guanabra, The big warship aiTived on September 5 and departed November 10. The time ii) Rio was one continuous party with the gcihii and marine detachment occupying the center of the all thu time.

And tike navy showed i'U appreci- at ion by coming through handsomely a very time it had a chance. "Nevada Day" at the International Exposition, arranged by the Comanis-sioner-genera-1 of the Unitad drew the biggest crowd of paid ad- missions of any one day since the 1 shiiw oiH-ned. lnciilentaliy it provided Brazil an opportunity to see roal North American football, played on a field built by American engineers, who are tearing down the Morro do Castollo. i "Nevada" boxers also caused thu m.uily art to increase tremendously in popularity in Brazil. CHINA'S FAVORITE STON NOW VOGUE IN OCCIDENT.

New York, Dec. 18. Jade, the most oiized precious stone of the Chinoso, la come into great vogue with west-mi women, says Carman Gardner, Wary, ih tiie Mentor 'Magazine. Even imitations of the rich green jadeite, the most highly valued va-icty are expensive. Jade is found in Mexico, Central America, New Zea-lanJ and others parts of the but the bulk of it comes frutm Turkos-tan.

Jade, said tho ancient Chinese, ia like virtue! is so hard, dirt cannot oi! nor friction injure it. Bier Ranee in Electric I ni rw Pittsburgh, Jc. 18. The largest irf -trk: incandescent ents ounng th following actneaj Kxpos.tioi-. two antomo.DiMc'a Motor, Square used in the root' a mou-mint, had dashed W-candlcpower The officers were a tiny guns.

lyvatt, a larnn 'nstruments Crissom Has to Take Three Million Dollars From Liquor Law Violators Income Tax Delinquents Also to Be Dealt With (Special Capital Correspondence.) Raleigh, 'Dec. 18. Collector Gilliam Grissom's office is makinir ready for that immense drive which the Washington government has ordered in the assessments against the many hundreds of men charged with lJleg al manufacture of liouor. Mr. Grissorn is hearing from folks to whom he has sent letters, and he is atsounded nt the opinions they hold as to their security from prosecution.

The enforcement of these assessments will be hard, but the collector means to go ami get thm. In all about $3,000,000 is involved, and the more prosecutions the bigger will be the amotint collected. Other Collections are arousing pop ular resentment. There are many in uividuals and partnerships in arroai-s on income They did not lwt, most of them, in the belief that they did not make any income. But a return is required, There are many thousands of these and the least the government can do is to take $5 from an individual and $11 from a partnership.

Collector Crissom is a little' fearful that his honeymoon is over and that serious business is ahead. His office has been wonderfully complimented on its work. COOK PORK WELL AND AVOID TRICHINOSIS. the United PreRS.) WoaJiitlirtin Tloo 1 9 "fmr nnWk well," is the advice of the United States Department of Agriculture. Failure to observe this important precaution is liable to toe followed by serious illness known as trichinosis.

This disease, which very painful and friWIUPnHv i fluaoH Kir a snjall parasite that sometimes occurs in pork. The trichina parasite is so Small that it can be seen only with a microscope, and is often overlooked even in the most careful microscopic examination, Hogs harboring; the .11.11 jiuia exactly the in appearance as otner pork. Wo practicable system of Imeat inspection has been discovered by which persons who eat uncooked pork can be protected from thp Hnnirnr nf IrL.Utn.ic iviiiiiu.iia. There is, however, one very effective means of preventing the disease. Cooking destroys the parasites.

Hence Dronerlv cnnkoH no ft ia Jifa rtn trichinosis car) not be acquired if the et.iipie ruie is lonowea or cooking-pork well before it is eaten. COVER NMENT TO ASSIST IN SHRINE MEET IN JUNE. in Th i council session of the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Nonth American, which will cocur in wasningron in June, l)Ti, is expected to brine- thn We largest crowd of sigh-seers which has ever invaded it. It is predicted, frnan requests for parking space for railroad cars, and reservations made in hotels, that more than 300,000 visitors wijl crowd Washington dur-inc Shrine week. Provision fnr i.nn foH and safety are made in a joint resolution inwoauceo in the Senate by Chairman Hall, of the Senate District Committee.

This resolution appro- Jews in Parliament. London. Dec. 16. Britain, hna 1 1 Jcwith members in its newly-ekjct- eu rariiameni.

six ct tnem are Conservatives, tiiree Lloyd Georgians, one AsfiuitTiian. nnH nne T.nhiir Tho Labor member, E. Shinweli, is the m-si jew to ever represent a Scottish constituency. Asheville Wins. Chanel Hill.

Dec. 18. nAsheviile Highs, West Carolina champions, defeated the N'ew Bern Highs here Saturday afternoon for the state football championship. The score was 12 to CONDUCT OF KELLER IS CONSIDERED BY Steps May Dc Taken to Compel Minnesota Repre sentative to Appear at Daugherty Hearings Stubborn 1 pBv the United Press) Washington, Dec. 18.

The House Judiciary Committee today took steps to secure disciplinary action against Representative KellcT. Republican, of 'Minnesota, because of his defiant refusal to appear to give testimony in support of his impeachment charges against Attorney-General Daugherty. A resolution was passed instructing Chairman Volstead to, appoint a committee to "make an investigation of what action can taken in etn-nection with the condivt of Roller toward the coiinni and House of )vprentntSvMt consideration of i of i'r HAYWOOD SAYS DR. STRATTf HAS NO SAY REGARDING HIM Was Evangelist for Calvary Church Bifore Critic Was 'Heard of, Declares And the Ku ux is Great Or-' ganizauoii I- (Special Capital Correspondence.) Raleigh, Dec. Oscar Haywood, North Volina preacher who has been in Gotfcm making Ku Klux speeches which! 'aroused the fighting spirit of Rev.

John Roach Strat-ton of Calvary Baptist Church, has sent a long" statement' to -the New York Wold declaring that Dr, Haywood's nositkmfas evangelist of Cat vary Church h.tti been unimpaired by reason of Dr." Stratton'a attack. Dr. Haywood prepared his state ment ut his farm in Montgomery County and sentjt out from Charlotte. He informs the Rev. Dr.

Stratton that tho position as was created for 'Dr. 'Haywood long before Dr. Stratton was 'known to the public. Mayor Hylan 'of New Yoik is also rapped' rather neatly. The North Carolina preacher desires to say through the North Carolina press that he has not been hurt and he animadverts somewhat on the tactics of a preacher who attended and wrote for "yellow journals" the Dnpsey-Carueiuiier nm furht.

stunts -which Dr. Haywood declares drove Rev. nuifci muai rum ansuc. iation with the New York Incidentally, Dr. Haywood declares the Ku Klux a great body! i (By the Unt(d Press.) i Lausanne, Dec.

18- Soviet Russia today gave notice of a counter proposal 1o. the Allies plan for freedom of the Straits of the Dardanelles and I'osphorus. Russian objections to the settlement as it stands are contained in 22 clauses to be submitted when the first commission of the Turkish peace conference meets this afternoon. The Uolsheviks through their representative, Georges T. Chitcherin, maintain that the Klack Kea should lie established as a closed Russian Jake.

MARTIAL LAW AT WARSAW. Warsaw, Dec. 18. With a number of Polish nationalists under arrest, suspected of having a hand in the plot to assassinate President Narutowicz, Warsaw fairly bristled with bayonets today as troops patrolled the streets. Martial law: is being strictly enforced.

Reports are in circulation that political opponents of Narutowicz's party are forming a "Fatcisti" organization to seize the government. LAST TROOPS LEAVE IRELAND Dublin, Dec. 18. British military rule in Ireland came to an end yesterday after 600 years. The final spectacle of the historic drama was: enacted when four transports Hpppt-d away from Lif leva's Quaysbound for England.

Mate 3 f.Tcrc Shopping Dnys ileferc WSJ Mm Head of East Carolina Dio-cese Visits St. Mary's and Christ Churches Union Service, at East Kinston Church The Rt Rev. Thomas C. Darst, bishop of, the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, preached to a large cogregation at St. Mary's Episcopal Church Sunday morning and at Christ Episcopal Church in East Kinston Sunday afternoon, the congregation of St.

Mary's participating. At the morning service Bishop Darst used us his text the ''Parable of the -Wisv and Foolish Virginia," treating the subject in lucid and com- reherisive manner, dealing first with the need for preparedness, the lamps it'll, no oil; formalism in religion without religion to fill the forms; morality withopt religion to make it f.hine; sentiment without sacrifice; knowledge of God without obedience to Him and enthusiasm without perseverance. "Practical application," said the speaker, God's message to us will be the means by which greater ends may be attained', and wien accompanied1 by sacrifice, right thinking, perserverance and a desire to serve, the punwses for which God'a church i established will be more wholesomely and effectively served." Bishop 'Ditrst confirmed- a at. the morning service. More Room Needed for Immigrant Stations at Four American Cities (By the Unit' Pres) Washington, Dec.

Citing overcrowding and lack of adequate facilities at the immigration imports throughout the country, Secretary of Labor Davis in his annual report just made public proposed immediate extension and enlargement of many immigration stations. At four of the larger ports, New York, Boston, Seattle, and San Francisco, Secretary Davis urged immediate reform. Discussing conditions at these ports, he said: "The station at Ellis 'Island is intended to normally house about people. It usually has 60 per cent, more than that ami at times twice that number to handle. The station at Boston woefully inadequate and has been ever since its completion There is no opportunity within the station for either hospital service or recreation.

he station bujluing used at the port of Seattle belongs to private owners and is rented for govern ment use. The station at the port of r- rancisco is lovateu on Angel Is'land in San Francisco Bay. Just why it should have been located where it is is a mystery to me. The island is many miles from the city and is wholly unsuitcd." Earthquakes Somewhere. Cambridge, Dec.

18. plight earthquake tremors were recorded on the Harvard Seismograph today, the announced. The tiHimors indicated a-disturbance about 1,021 miles away, in the direction of the West Indies. Commissioners Deadlocked. Ahoskie, Dec.

18. The Hertford County commissioners are deadlocked over the ehairmamhip. Twelve ballots have failed to break a 3-il tie. Bootleggers Have Spies on Border. El Paso, 18.

An organization of liquor and dope runners, known as "The Bootleggers' Protective Association," is said to be seriously impeding the enforcement of national prohibition laws along thii Mexican An extensive 'espionage system is maintained by in a atisii-ciaiion, it is saw. STATE NEWS (Special to The Free Press.) Greensboro, Dee. 18. Mrs. Edna Gleen is believed to have been drown-d winn an automobile went into Buffalo Creek from a bridge near here yesterday.

The man who drove the car came here and reported the accident. Ho was stated to be F. Alberti, a government employe, Disastrous Fire. Charlotte, Dec. 18.

The six-story Trust Building on Tryon Street here was destroyed by fire yesterday. The low was $140,000. The building contained a theatre n.nd a largo number of offices. Adjacent buildings wore ihimnr'i d. A heavy rain aided the at Hollywood, put will coounced today state and f13 his room with tney caii i in or ih, "My colony.