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?f ?*4|? ^^^D SEM|. WEEKLY. u m! grist's sons. Pubiiih. . $ Jjamilj $eirs|>a|>er: 4?t the jjromotion of the political, Social, Jgricultural and tfommerria! Interests of the ^eopl?. ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, 8. C., 1JJE8P-A.Y, JUNE l:{, 1932. NO. 47 VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS ? i Brief Local Paragraphs of More ox Less Interest. PICKED DP BY ENQOiKER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things, Some of Which You Know and Some Yoli Don't Know?Condensed for Quick Reading. He was sitting in a convenient place on the street yesterday morning rather early. He looked badly and he felt * badly. He had been drinking 'shine, made out of corn and manure and goodness knows what else, the day before and he was paying for it. A man came along and said, "Good morning." He did not return the greeting. "V> ny aiun c yuu rcpiy iu mm ? greeting?" inquired a friend who was standing near him. "Couldn't do it," said he, "it hurts my head too much this morning to raise it, and say, 'Good morning.' " Plexico Going Good. Blake Plexico, son of Mr. M. E. Plexico of Yorkvllle, who has had great success during the past several years as a driver .and trainer of race horses, is still going good. Young Plexico got his start as a race horse trainer and driver at the stable of James Brothers in Yorkville, and since leaving here has been in the racing game in manyparts of the country. He writes his father from Akron, Ohio, under date of last Friday: "I won a nice race over at Sandusky, O. It was a $1,000 purse and she trotted in 2:08, not only breaking the track record for trotters, but established a new record for trotters for the month of May. Last year was the first time a trotter ever beat 2:10 in May; but this year my ma -e beat this record, making a wotld's record over a half mile track." Wants Yorkville In It. The Shelby Amateur Baseball club which has been organized for the season of 1922, is still anxious and hoi>cful of forming either a four or six club league and wants Yorkville in it. A. B. Suttle, manager of the Shelby club, writes Mr. Harry E. Neil, who managed the baseball tfam here last summer, as follows: "We are going to organize a circuit of from four to six towns and would * like very much to have Yorkville come in. Lenoir, Lincolnton, King's Mountain, Shelby and Oafney are interested, so with your town I feel sure that we can get four towns, if not six. Shelby, King's Mountain and Lenoir arc already playing, so if we can get just one more town we can start in a week or ten days. 1 certainly hope that your people will be interested, and * that you can give it enough time to get started." Just Like l neir nusoanas. "Humph, been hearing a lot about what the women will do in politics; been hearing that they will turn every election through their own individual votes and all that," spOke a retired politician this mornuig. "Nothing to it. Nothing to Take that town election in Yorkville last Wednesday. If 95 per cent of the w/>men who have husbands aad who participated, didn't 'vote just like their husbands voted I'll eat my, hat. And the single ones voted just like their brothers or fathers voted. Of course they did. Don't tell *? me that a majority of the women or any great number of them are going contrary to the way their men folks vote." To Conquer the World. He has just received his sheepskin from one of the leading colleges of this section and his "A. B." degree. He's at home resting for a few days before he sets out to conquer the world. He was talking to Views and Interviews the other day about it. "I'm disappointed," lie said. "1 wanl to teach and the best offer I can get is $125 a month for an eight months ' school." "Well, isn't that lai\; enough?" was the query. "Why man, no," he replied. "I'vi been in college four years and I hav< an A. B. degree. The idea of my beinj able to command a salary of only $12! a month." "Sure," was the reply, "carpenters spend four years at their trade am few of them get over $25 a week thesi days straight time. So do machinist: and others. You are doing fine." "Well, I am not going to teach fo $125 a month now, that's a fact," re plied he of the sheepskin. Believe It Or Not. King's Mountain Battle Grouni June 12, 1975.?While walking aroun the grounds here today, John Joelsor a guest at the famous summer place ^ "Hotel Revolution" here, came upon large piece of copper fashioned in th shape of a great bowl. The coppi bowl was pierced in several places evidently by bullets of a large calibn Mr. Joclson brought the curiosity t the front veranda of the delightful lu til. where it was viewed with much in tercst by the several hundred guest none of whom could make heads < tails of it. Mr. Joclson explained that it ha > been found near a small branch in far ,'rom the spot where the body i Colonel Patrick Ferguson, leader the British forces in the battle i , King's Mountain lies buried. He su that the relic was covered over by di and debris and lie was attracted to by the glitter of the sunlight upon small portion of it that was exposed. A student in historical research CLOVER NEWS BUDGET Reported That New Spinning Mills is to be Known as the Hampshire. BASEBALL TEAMS TAKE A CODPLE More Deaths Than Births' in King's Mountain Township During May? Other News and Notes of the Metropolis of Northern York County. (By a Staff Correspondent.) Clover, June 12.?While "there is no official announcement to that effect forthcoming as yet, it is understood nnn mill fn ho Wlnthrop college, who was among the I hotel guests who saw the find, sug> seated that in all proability it was a cauldron used by the British forces in ' cooking while they were encamped on the mountain in 1780 before the Americans took charge there. It was the concensus of a great many others that this was probably the case. Among the guests at the hotel, however, was an old man and who recalled the time when numerous moonshine distilleries were destroyed by prohibition officers operating in that section. Since most of the guests had never tasted liquor, yrhich has disappeared entirely from this country, the old gentleman's theory was received with interest. Going to his room he returned with several copies of The Yorkville Enquirer of the year 1922, in which accounts were given of the seizure of "moonshine stills" in the battlegrourtd section. The articles went on to recite how the officers shot holes in the bottoms and sides of the captured copper boilers, making'them unfit for further use. Following this explanation all agreed that the copper bowl found by Mr. Joelson had once held the beer from which liquor was made in those days. The discoverer presented the queer looking vessel to the Winthrop historical student, who will place it in the Winthrop Museum at Rock Hill. AID TO EDUCATION One of the Most Useful Instruments of Human Race is the Newspaper. Extension of the educational influence of the press has been advocated hy John J. Tigert, commissioner, United States Bureau of Education, as a means of safeguarding the school system of the nation. In an interview with a representative of the American Publishers conference in Washington, last week, Dr. Tigert declared that his observations on a recent trip throughout the county showed the need for a general public awakening, which may be achieved only through the instructive character of newspapers and magazines. He paid tribute to the press as one of the most useful instruments of the human race in the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge. The commissioner stated that the enlightened press of today is a necessary force in moulding minds and manners of young citizens because publications are an invaluable asset to education in building up respect and reverence for law and government, r Dr. Tigert has been advised that his appeal to the press of the country for its support cannot achieve its full response until there has been a reduction in postal charges on second class matter originally imposed as a war measure. The publishers insist that their activities in promoting education are handicapped by these discriminatory taxes on reading matter. Describing the helpfulness of newspapers and magazines, the ^Federal , commissioner said: "There is no single factor that can do so much for the promotion of pub-, lie education in the United States jy* can the press of the country. I have just returned from an extensive trip through several of the far Western , states and 1 have been telling the peoI pie of those states that what is most needed, today is not larger salaries for teachers, or more consolidated schools, i or longer school terms in the rural districts, or better school buildings and equipment but an enlightened | public consciousness of our educational system. ' i "TVinr. ia oi-Usnt 1 r, .. * t'vi v v? iu ovnic i'Kivtii a reactionary tendency regarding our schools and the only way in which this can he successfully fought is through a general' public awakening , ! and understanding as to what our public schools really mean to our , American democracy. The press can render inestimable service to the cuuse . of public education if it will take an active interest in educational matters. "There cam be no 'liver' topic for ^ | newspaper? or magazine than that which affects tin- future life of the 2^ 1 million boys and girls in America, j When it is remembered that last year | far more was spent on cigars and cigj | arettes than on public education, and ?i nearly as much on paints and powders, I sl it is evident taat the public schools of this country are not quite so ex penJ slve a luxury as some of its critics _ , would like to make out. Surely, the ! welfare of our children is not dear at I this price. I j "With the aid of the limelight of the ' press it will bo much easier to ovarii | come the difficulties that still exist in many parts of this country in the way of giving to every American bov and el 1 i Sirl such opportunities for that kind land degree of education that will best ^ fit him or her for a life of greater usefulness in our great democracy." o ' ' ? Houlton, .Mass., June 8.?Carl A , Sutter and his wife, who as the "ModI s_ orn Adam and Eve" had been living the simple life in the woods of northern Maine for some weeks, were arl(] rested by game wardens today, eharg?t I td with violating the state game laws According to the wardens, Sutter arte ,,f his wife killed deer and partridge it ?f | the closed season. They will he ar raigned in municipal court here tomor row. "Adam and Kvc" undertook ti it spend six weeks in the wilds witlurn a clothing, weapons or utensils. The; claimed to have killed a deer in a pit fall trap set by "Adam." I Hell lilt' IJUVV ?U,UUV ojmiu.v ...... built here by persons interested in the Hawthorn Spinning Mills, will be known as the "Hampshire Mills." M. L. Smith, general manager for the new mills, and John It. Hart, at/torncy for the mills, left Saturday for the East, where they will have a conference with the stockholders relative to the new mill project here. It is understood that Mill Architect J. E. Sirrinc of (Jreenville, has about completed plans for the mills and it is expected that upon the return of Manager Smith, a beginning of construction work on the mill will not be far off. Clover business men especially, are anxious to sec the beginning of construction work on the big mill, since it will mean an additional payroll and a large one at that turned loose iu Clover weekly. * Clover Wins Two. Both of the mill baseball teams of Clover won victories here Saturday afternoon. While the Hawthorn team was playing the Ozark Mill team of Gastonia on Hawthorn field, the Clover mill or "Old Mill" team was playing the Hex Mill cf Gastonia, on the Cldver Mill diamond. Hawthorn defeated Ozark by a score of 9 to 8; while the Clover mill won over Rex 10 10 z. jtsoin iearns nave uitii umivi *<**ly strengthened lately and each of therrf presents a much stronger line-up than the average amateur team of this section. With two local baseball organizations at least one game a week on the home lot is assured. Follies Come Back. 1 The Palmetto Follies of 1922, amateur minstrel show extraordinary, comI>osed entirely of home talent, played to another full house in Smith Brothers' opera house here Friday night, following their opeun? performance on Thursday night. The exhibition of mistrclsy was jnst as good, if not belter, than it was on the opening night, the large audience from Clover and the Kiirrminrlinir eonntrv enjoying every minute of it. In fact it was the concensus of opinion that Neil O'Brien or A1 Fields in their balmiest clays didn't have a thing on Jim rape, Sam McCall, Will Kudisill, Vic Hambright or a dozen other stars in the Follies and many wonder why such stellar performers should hide their lights under a bushel. Vital Statistics. There were 10 deaths and 6 births in King's Mountain township during me month of May, according to the report of tQdmund Ford, registrar of vital statistics for the township, which includes the town of Clover. Mr. Foyd is also registrar of vital statistics for Bethel fotirtuihin whom there were J deaths and 8 births during the month of May. Looking Clover Over. News that Clover is going to have another large cotton mill, continues to attract people from far and near look ing for busimss locations. There were several here the past week looking for locations for various kinds of enterprises. Need for additional business buildings becomes more apparent every day. A well known business man said Saturday that unless several business houses were built in the near future the town was going to be unable to attain a great amount of growth that it wfluld enjoy otherwise. Fgrd. Gathering Materials,. Construction work on the new brick store building which M. L. Ford & Sons, well known furniture dealers expect to build on King's Mountain street is expected to begin within a few days, lirlck for the building and | other materials have already been | purchased. and a member or ine m m stated Saturday that construction would begin as soon as the necessary materials could l?e gotten together. Death of Little Girl. Jeannette, aged 20 months, little daughter of .\J?\ and Mrs. Walter J. Hcamguard of the Bethany ncclion. [died on Saturday following a brief ill" j nesa. Interment was in the cemetery |at Bethany on Sunday, following funeral services conducted by Kev. W. I'. (Jrlcr. Personal Mention. Prof. James P. Sifford, principal of j the schools at Newton, N. C., during j the |>ust school year is spending a 1 few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Sifford. Prof. Sifford ex. poets to go to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Ilill this slimmer for ; special work, lie has been re-elected principal of the Newton schools and . I will return there in the fall. -| I'rof. and Mrs. Thomas Less lie Wil. I son of Raleigh, N. C? are visiting tin I { fatflily of the former's father, Mr. J. .1 1) Wilson in Clover., Prof. Wilson is ar - i instructor in the North Carolina Stat 1 College at Raleigh. :? Herbert Smith and talis I'.ohinson t J students at Trinity College, Hurham y I N. C., have returned to their respeetivt - I homes here for the summer. | Miss Alleine Hohinson, a student a Winthrop College has returned to her home here for the summer. James and Rupert Page, students at JSrsklnc College, Duo Wost.^have returned tn? their home in Clover. Miss Ducile Huggln, who has been teaching near Goldsboro, *N. C., during the past school year has returned to the home of her parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Huggin here. James and Mack Huggin, students at Wofford College, j Spartanburg^ arc also hoidfc. t , WALK ON HOT COALS Hindus Dance on Glowing Bed of Fire. When a Tamil Hindu recovers from a serious illness he (sometimes makes a vow to do soirtething entailing discomfort and ipain to himself as a sort of manifestation of gratitude combined with self-sacrifice and selfabasement, relates the North China Herald. 4 These vows take different forms, such as rolling over and over on a hard metalled road, lashing himself or being lashed on the back or wearing a hair shirt, hfit walking over live coals is the niteons most commonly chosen by the atvotee, this being very often accompanied by other forms of self-torture. The particular day in the year re? #Krv not/incr Ikoun ivtwu iu Bl'I VfU ?U? Uivr ??ijs -vi. wnvuv ? vwu ?m the occasion of a religious ceremonial, which is know* to outsiders as the Fire Walking: Festival. Tuesday, July 19, vas the festival day^last year and the Hindu ^emple was crowded. The ^Tamils present were not those of the ooolie class only. There were shopkeepers, traders, merchants, clerks, and the number of cars outside ' testiflcw to the wealth and position of some of thoMC present. A little after 5 o'clock in the afternoon the image of the goddess to whom these vows are paid was" brought to the templo in procession, those who had vows to pay being among the immediate escort. Placo was made for these as the procession entered ,lhe telnple grounds and ap proached the "lire." The fire consisted of ^ bed of live coals about 78 feet long and 6 feet broad. Although It was not glowing ?water having been thrown over It from a little tronch nt one end?still one felt the heat somo feet away. The first man to get over carried a "pagoda" on his head weighing about twenty pounds. He danced over the coals in slow, measured steps. This tnethod was followed by the others also. There was no stepping over the coal gingerly. Each foot came down If miinnr frnrl n foment floor. The "tiro" was not "walked" over once, hut three times. As each person left the coals he made a circuit of the temple and then entered it. The first man to fret through the ceremony dropped at the temple door as he gave up his "pagoda." THOUGHTS OF THINKERS. Some of the World's Greatest Men Leave Word Monuments. A * burnt child dreadeth the fire.? Lilly. It is a pleasure to grow old when the years that bring decay to ourI onlfnu ? !nnn iho nrraxrwri t v nf our country.?Lytton. I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate to see a load of bandboxes going along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything to them. ?Hazlitl. It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is h n great depths, and tlie way to seek it does not appear to all tlie world.?Coetlie. We lead but one life here on earth. We must make that beautiful. And to do this, health and elasticity of mind are needful; and whatever endangers or impedes these must be avoided.? II. W. Longfellow. Simplicity in character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.?l<ongfellow. The fatal blow at war will not be struck until the money profits of war are eliminated. .More potent than peace treaties, more drastic than the sinking of navies nnil the demobilizing of armies, would be the simple act of i providing that any future war shall i he profitless.?Ford. The wise man is but a learner in fact, spelling letters from a hieroI graphic book? the lexicon of which ' lies in eternity.?C'arlyle. Affections are lint the shadow of (lod's wings.?Alacdonald. The brief source ol' self-happiness is flic act of making others happy.? Loth. Religion is' the best armor a man can have, but it is the worst cloak.? Ibinyan. To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of incut, sleep and exercise, is one of the best precepts I of long lasting.? Macon. Learning inaketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and . Serving as an ornament to riches.? i Cicero, j (live lieoause you love to give?af 1 the flower pours forth its perfume.? , Spurgeon. The richer the man. the more h< hates to spend a half dollar for a new 1 pair of garters. NEWS OF HOCK HILL Mysterious Night Raider Is Still a Mystery to Police Officers. RADIO OUTFIT ^FOR INFIRMARY Mayor Johnson Goes Farming on Sat- | urday First Time in Forty-five Years?Three White Men Charged With Frame Up on Alex Long., Jr. -'-Other News ahd Notes of County Metropolis. (By a Staff Correspondent.) Rook Hill, June 10?Rock Hill's mysterious "Mr. Raffles," a burglar who lias entered a house here every night this week was still at. large today although had the aim of H. R. Powell, a railroad man who lives at the corner or Saluda and Johnston streets been a little better about mmnight last night he would now be in a local undertaking parlor. As It was Powell believes that he hit the burglar since ho* fired at him several times at close range when he attempted an entrance into Mr. Powell's home about midnight, Friday. The burglar came into the house l:y a window several fiet from the ground and a box was used to reach the window. The window was near Powell's bed and he awoke just in time to sec tlje bulk of a man coming in. According to Constable John Hayes, Mr. Powell first thought to engage the burglar in personal combat; but decided it would be better to use his pistol wnicn was handy. As he fired the intruder dropped to the ground and ran. Two more jhots were fired at him. There was blood on the window sill this morning and it may be that the burglar was hit, while on the other hand, he might have cut his hand while unlocking the window screen. Other residents of that section were awakened by the pistol shots and officers were soon on the scene but they could find no trace of the man. Robberies and attempted robberies from the same section of the city have been reported every night this week, it is said and examination of the ground in the vicinity of each burglary has showed marks of a^crutch. Officers believe that "Mr. Raffles" as the mysterious intruder is known, is using a crutch as a blind. A few days age he is said to have been chased by a dog .mo me way no nein up nis cruicn anu ran itf proof positive to the officers that he is no cripple. Ho far few articles of value have f>een stolen. Because of the hot weather many people in the city are sleeping with their windows open and even with screens up, making it comparatively easy for the burglar to effect entrance. The mysterious burglar is the talk of the town now and officers are busy on the case. Narrow Escape for Long. If Alex Long, Jr., well known young man about town had had a roll of money on him Wednesday night when he was held up by two white men and had resisted, there is reason to believe that he would very likely have been murdered on the Cherry road. As things turned out young Long did not have any money and Clarence Whisonant, Oliver Crisp and Perry Bateinan, alleged to he members of Rock Hill's underworld population are held in bond on the sum of $1,000 on charges of entering into conspiracy and assault with, intent to rob \while a charge of impersonating an officer is also lodged against Bate man. According to the testimony at a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Wingate, Clarence Whisonant induced young I/ong to go out in ling's automobile on the Cherry road with him to meet another party. Wheu they had gotten cftit on the road two white men stopped their car claiming to be officers and demanded a bond for speeding. Long pleaded that lie was without funds but would go and get some money. He got in touch with Officer Boyd who arrested Whisonant and Bateman and Crisp were arrested later. Police officers discussing the incident today said that they had little doubt but what Long would have . been murdered if he had chanced to have had a good sized roll on his person and had resisted. Crisp, Bateman and Whisonant arc expected to stand j trial at the July term of the court of I general sessions for York county. Went After Private Stocks. State Constable W. W. Rogers who recently threw a tit into the blind tiger element of Rock Hill when he was rcl sponsilde for several arrests and for j the confiscation of a large quantity | of liquor also did his Itest to get a line on wioso hoik imiians wno neat no' in the sale cf the stuff lint who generally keep a little on nan/1 for themselves and their friends. Said a prominent Rork Hill business man | today: , "You know that fellow Rogers came \ into my plane and I don't understand yet why I didn't give him a drink. He I rej resented himself as a salesman, I ! selling certain articles that I use in | my business. Finally when I told him that I didn't need anything in his line . 1 e said something about feeling badly and that lie would have to remain in Reek Hill until t> o'clock and would like very much to have some litiuoi and could I put him next. He also i nre?1 over several Rock Hill people ' who are s: id to deal in liquor, saying that ho had boon to sco them and that they were out of it. I told him that I supposed he could got almost any of the transfer drivers to get him some. At the time I told him that I had a gallon of 'shine' in my place of business. It is a wonder I didn't offer him a drink. I usually offer a drink to anybody who comes into my place and who looks likejhey would like to have one. Hut kdiuu't do it and I guess it is better. He was a smoothe bird? that fellow. No doubt about that." Monuments to Soldiers. Frank Roach Post of the American Legion will erect monuments to the memory of Soldier Frank Roach for whom the post was named and to James Lynn, a Rock Hill boy who also lost his life in the World war, Post Commander Thomas \V. Huey said today. "We don't propose to erect anything elaborate," Commander Huey ???'? "L..* ulwiflij f,d UUl pictlll illiu ouaiia MO a memorial to the two boys. WS can't afford anything elaborate because we need about all the money thnt the post treasury can got hold of to take care of distress calls that come to us from ex-soldiers. Almost every day there arc one or more cx-soldiers of the community who appeal to the post officials for financial aid. Just yesterday an ex-soldier came to us with a request for transportation to bring his wife and child from North Carolina." Commander Huey said that the post would realize between $.100 and $600 as its share of the receipts following a two week's appearance here of Jack King's Comedians who came under the auspices of the American Legion. Much Cotton in Warehouse. Further evidence of the unwillingness of farmers of Hock Hill and the community to sell cotton on a rising iu ffinrwl lit thn that whlln the price has been going' up all this week not more than 200 bales of cotton have been sold this week, according to Rock Hill buyers. The buyers were offering 22 cents a pound today for strict middling but little was offered at the price. A Rock Hill warehouse man estimated today that there are at least 10,000 bales of cotton In Rock Hill warehouses. Practically none of the cotton that has been sold on the Rock Hill market in the last several weeks has been taken fr6m the warehouses, according to the warehouseman. Went to Farm on Saturday. "I visited my farm on Saturday today for the first time in forty-five years," said Mayor J. H. Johnson. "Never before in all the forty-five years that I have been farming have I gone to'my farm on Saturday. Hut today my hands were busy cutting wheat and oates and I wanted them to stay right at it. I told them to work as long as they could see and that I would bring their money to them. And I did." Radio for Hospital. Dr. W. \V. Fennell plans to equip the Fennell Infirmary with a large radio according to Max Bryant, radio salesman. The big radio station will be installed at the Fennell Infirmary as soon as the equipment can be secured and it will be the first hospital in the south if not in the country so equipped, according to Bryant. Two patients in the infirmary, Mr. Bratton Hughes and "Sonny" Phillips, both of whom arc devoted radio fan? have small receiving outfits in their respective* rooms in the infirmary and are having a great time of it while convalescing from illness. - . ?. BOY AND THE DOG. Kansas Editor Indulges In Excoriation of City Council. A boy who would take a stray dog to the city pound to be killed, for a quarter, is too mean to live himself, declares William Allen White, author and editor, in a statement in his paper, the Errii>oria Gazette. Mr. White's protest in behalf of dogs was evoked by an offer of 25 cents a head for animals brought to the city pound by boys. "What's the matter with this city administration anyhow?" inquires the Kansas author. "Were they never boys? Here they are, advertising to give boys 25 cents for each stray dog brought into the city pound to be killed. Doesn't the city administration know that the boy who would deliberately bring a stray dog to the city pound to be killed for two bits ought to be killed himself? II/IMI L IIIVJ l\II"w 11111 L UUJ O <ll V IIVJI so hard hearted? Don't they know that the average boy would rather earn two bits mowing a lawn, with a straight string of boys to march by him to the i swimming hole, than sec a stray dog killed? "The advertisement had in it the meanest inference about Emporia boys that ever has been piade. "Think of the kind of boy who valued a quarter above the life of a dog? a stray dog?any dog on earth!" ? Florence, June 9: Judge S. \V. (! Shipp in the session court here this afternoon refused to grant Edmund I> Bigliam a new trial and sentenced hin ; to be put to death in the electric chaii , I July 14. Bighain was convicted ol ! murder in connection with the killini: J of his brother, Smiley Bigham, and i; indicted for murder also for the death: * of his mother and sister and the loti I tor's two adopted children. The wlude. . sale murder took place on the Digharr iplantation in January, 1921. THE MOUNTAINS WALKED Greatest Earthquake Calamity if Which There Is Record. TEN GREAT CITIES IN THE SHARE-HP Belated Report of Remarkable Catastrophe?Physical Geography of a Large Area Completely Changed? Great Lor.s of Life and Property. "One of the most appalling catastrophes in history and, perhaps, the most poorly advertised calamity that has occurred in modern times," is the way the National Geographic Magazine describes the earthquake in Kansu, China, "Where the Mountains Walked" Though the tremendous shaking-up occurred in December, 1920, the story is only now beginning to spread beyond the narrow defiles which guard, the entrance to Kansu province, mays the article. ' Mountains that moved In the night; landslides that eddied like waterfalls, cravasscs that swallowed houseB and camel trains, and villages that ware swept away under a rising sea of loose earth, were a few of the subsidiary occurrences * '' / Ton Large Cities Shaken. Mr. Josef W. Hall (Upton Close), who visited the earthquake area under the auspices or*the International Relief committee, has brought back one of the first accounts of the devastated country and the strange things that happen when the earttr turns itself into a contortionist. The area of destruction, 100 by 300 miles In extent, contains ten large cities, besides numerous villages. One of tho most dramatic episodes of the disaster was the burial of Ma the Benevolent, a famous Moslem fanattc, and 300 of his followers, just as they j had met in conclave to proclaim a noiy war. The cave in which they had feathered was sealed by a terrific avalariche, while the group knelt on their prayer mats. J, ^ Watchman Alono Escaped"By some miracle, the watchman at the entrance to the cave escaped with his life, but the others were burled,so deeply that, despite months of digging over an area of a mile, the Moslems have failed to recover the bodies of their leaders. "In another district Mr Hall and his party found that a whole mountain topped by a temple iha? slid Into a valley. ?A little beyond they found that a road bordered by poplar tree? had ridden the crest of a slide for three-quarters of a mile, without apparent damage to the trees or even to the birds' nests in their branches. One astonished peasant looked out of his window in the morning to find that & high lull had moved onto The'"homestead, stopping its line of march within a few feet of Caught In Jam of Slides. The most appalling sight of all was the Valley of the Dead, where seven great slides crashed into a gap In the hills three miles long, killing every living thing in the area except three qien and two dogs. In a small town on the highway two strangers had put up at the inn on the evening of the disaster. In the,terror and confusion that followed the earthquake, the landlord completely, forgot his two guests. It was not until several days later that he remembered them, and. when, after considerable digging, their room was brought to light, both men were found ajive'Stupefied by the shock, they knew nothing of what happened and imagined that they had slept through an oMinary night. The landlord, however, in spite of remonstrances, did not neglect to - i-.j collect room rent for tne run periou their stay. j Dragon Waggles His Tail.. The subterranean dragon of Chinese cosmology, who according to th^iorth^ west China tradition, waggles his tail every three hundred years, this time played havoc, such as was never before recorded with the face of the earth and the habitations of men. Likely no other earthquake in scientific annals ever changed the physical geography of the affected region to the extent of the Kansu cataclysm. , The remoteness of the district in which the earthquake occurred oannot but intrigue interest. Although the concurrent quakes in Chile and Salvador, the tidal wave of Yap an'd the eruption of Mt. Asama, Japan, are all history, the Kansu disaster Is still news. What actually happened In this frontier province of China is only now, i through the reports of the relief investigation expedition of which Mr. , Hall was a member, being made known : in any comprehensive way, even in **? China's capital and port cities. | Had the quake disaster struck sevi! oral hundred miles to the north, west i or south, the loss of life would have j been negligible. As it happened, it se. lectcd for destruction, in the agrlcultui rally rich, terraced loess country of the southern half of the affected area, the most populous portion of the province; iand to the north, although this part is ; principally uninhabited grazing land, J several of the largest 'Mohammedan . I Chinese cities, which were leveled. r! r ?Tnkio, June 8.?Admiral Kato, who < played an important part in the Wash; ington arms limitation conference as a ! member of the Japanese delegation, to i day was considered as the man most ) likely to be named as the new Japla nese premier. S" ?