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The daily times., 1922-03-02
MARY PICKFORD
WILL NOT PAY.

New York, Mar. 2.-Mary Pickford
does not have to pay Mrs Cora Will
kening any part Of the $10S,000
which Mrs. Wilkening said was due
her for getting the film star a raise
in pay to $4,000 week. This was
the verdict of a federal jury return
ed last night and unsealed today be-
fore Federal Judge Mack.
Neither Mary nor her husband,
Douglas Fairbanks, were in court
when the verdict was announced. Her
counsel rushed to the telephone to
acquaint her with the verdict.
Counsel for Mrs. Wilkening filed
notice of an appeal.
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INCREASE IN
! PUBLIC DEBT,

Washington, Mar. Increases of
more than ninety million in the pub
lie debt during February were an
nounced today
On February % the total debt
stood at $23,478,667,789 as compared
with $23,3S8, ,544,236 on Jan. 31st.
The increase in the debt was largely
accounted for officials explained by
issuance of approximately $610,0O0,-
900 during the month while govern
ment securities retired approximated
$511, 100000. However officials be-
would go on during March when in
stallments of income and profits tax
were due.
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BEGIN TRIAL Of
BANK PRESIDENT
FOR EMbEzZ[|NG
PRELIMINARY HEARING
Treasurer Lacy, Who has Been
Seriously Ill In New York for
Ten Days.. is Gradually. Inn
proving; Construction Work
is now Under Way for 500
Additional Miles Of Road.

(By Max Abernethy.)

Raleigh, Mar. 2.-Preliminary
trial of r. G. Allen, former president
of the City Bank of Raleigh and more
recently the Central Bank and Trust
Company, who is charged with mis-
mfsapplication and
embezzlement of the banks funds be-
fore the doors were closed 10 weeks
ago by the State Banking Depart
ment is underway before a magis-
trate's court here today, having be-
gun yesterday.
Chief Bank Examiner Clarence
Latham was the States first witness
and he told that Aliens account was
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The daily times., 1922-03-02
NAVY CRUISES MAY
SOON Be STOPPED
Ships in Asiatic Waters and the
European Destroyers Force
Would be Only Ones not
Affected.

Washington, Mar. 2.-Shin,s IN the
Asiatic waters and the European de-
stroyers force will be the only vessels
excepted from the order contemplated
by the navy department temporarily
stopping all cruising should Congress
insist upon limiting the naval fuel de-.
ficiency funds to the $1,000, 600 sug-
gested by the house appropriation
committee in the pending deficiency
bill.
Every other war craft and trans-
peJrt or other auxiliary with the exS
ception of those vitality necessary In
supplying food for the men would ba
ordered to remain at anchor or at
dock until further notice.
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MARKETS
COTTON.

New York, Mar. Cotton fu-
lures opened barely steady: May
17.95, Oct. 1915, Dec. 1888, Jan.
16 20.
New York, Mar. Am opening
decline of 13 to 16 points in the
cotton marked today was due, to Ii
quidation and scattered selling pro-
noted by easy Liverpool cables. Act
i've months soon showed net losses of
IA to % points with May selling at
1885 and July at 17.10 but there
was considerable buying for trade
and New Orleans accounts which
caused rallies of several points.
The daily times., 1922-03-02
WON'T FAVOR
RECIPROCITY ACT.

Washington, Mar. 2.-Wm. S.
Fielding, who came to Washington
several days ago in the interest of
a general tariff reciprocity agreement
between Canada and the United
States has been advised that Con-
gress does not look with favor upon
such an arrangement
Mr.. Fielding has been in conference
on the subject with Chairman Ford
ney of the house ways and means
committee who today expressed un-
alterable opposition to putting into
force of the 1911 reciprocity act.
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THE FIFTY DOLLAR !
SERVICE MANW|LL |
GET CASH BONUS
ACCORDING TO PLAN
Other Service Men to Receive
Adjustment Certificates ON
=. -
Which they can Buy \ Sum
Equal to Fifty Per Cent Of
the Total Adjusted Service
Pay on Dollar a Day Rate

Washington, Mar. 2.-Unanimous
agreement to eliminate the cash fea-
ture OF. the soldier bonus except in
the case of men whose adjustment
service pay would not reach $50 was
reached by the sub committee from
the Republican members Of the house
ways and means committee.
In lieu of cash for the other SER
vice men it was agreed to add new
provision to the bonus bill in which
the men accepting adjustment certi-
ficates could buy Immediately on
those certificates sum equal to so
per cent of the total adjusted service
pay computed at the rate of 81 per
day for domestic service and $3.50.
for foreign service 4
This official statement Of the agree
ment of the sub committee was re-
ported by Chairman Fordney.
''The sub committee consisting Of
Chairman Fordney, Messrs Green.
Longworth, Hawley, Treadway and
Compley has tentatively agreed upon
and prepared a provision to be sub
mitted which in substance contains
the following.
'The elimination of the cash fea-.
ture of the bonus bill where the
veterans are entitled to more than
$50 adjustedAeryice pay but adding.
new loan provision to the adjusted
service certificates title which will
enable the holder to borrow from
any national bank or bank and trust
company incorporated under the laws
of any state SO per cent of the sum
of the adjusted service pay prior to
Sept. 80, 1925. This date was fixed
because after that time the bill as
originally drafted by the committee
provides for a larger percentage OF
loans by the government and has not
been changed by the sub committee
Chairman Fordney' said this plan
was expected to meet with general ap-;
proval since it enabled the soldier
that may be in need to obtain cash
Immediately after the issuance of GER
tificates; would relieve the treasury
of any large cash payments, and
would place no additional tax burden
upon the public.
The daily times., 1922-03-02
DEATH
OF MABEL DIXON.

Danville, Va, Mar. Harry Ber-
man, who has been investigating the
death of Mrs. r. M. Bliss. whose
stage name in New York was Mabel
Dixon, has asked the district attorney
of New York to have rearrested Mar
tin ]. Ryan, who drove the dying girl
to the hospital, also for the deten-
tion for Interrogation of Mr.. Bliss
who has not been heard from sineSe
his wife's death. Berman says he<nas
also asked for the Indictment l'oI
relative of Mrs. Bliss by m riage.
The daily times., 1922-03-02
PLATINUM
IS STOLEN.

Davidson, Mar. 2.The chemical
laboratory at Davidson college was
entered Sunday night and robbed %
platinum apparatus used at analyti-
cal work valued et $1,000 it was an
nounced yesterday. According to col
1ege officials the Intruder was appar-
emily familiar With the laboratory.
The daily times., 1922-03-02
OATS CLOSED.
May AZ IA, July 43 7-8.
STOCKS.

New York, Mar "a few special
or selected issues were substantially
higher at the opening of today's stock
market but leaders reflected further
selling pressure Chandler Motor rosf
II 3-8 and General American Ta6E
AID Hartman averaged l poinS ad-
" Pces but secondary steels. eqrip'
nj nts and foreign oils eased fractP pm.
al with tobacco and motion picttre
The daily times., 1922-03-02
WEATHER.

For North Carolina, rain this after
noon and probably tonight, somewhat
colder tonight on the coast, Friday
generally fair, colder in southeast
portion, fresh possibly strong shifting
winds becoming northwest.
The daily times., 1922-03-02
ANOTHER MAIL ROBBERY.

Kaukakee, ILL.,, Mar. 2.-Four reg
istered mail pouches each filled to
capacity and believed to contain re-
gistered mail was stolen today from
the Illinois Central baggage room.
The daily times., 1922-03-02
SHIP SINKING.

Boston. Mar. 2.-fhe Norwegian
freight steamer GrQ6 LOTT was report
ed sinking abouON ~ miles south
east of Cane Rak@Iadio messages
received henH life boats
The daily times., 1922-03-02
GENERAL NEWS

A resolution has been introduced in
the house by United States senators
and representatives from Virginia
urging the United States to- purchase
Monticello the home of Thomas
Jefferson. and the 700 acres of land
surrounding it.
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The people Of Durham are support
ing project whereby the to.sr. will
Fave a handsome new hote.. Accord
i:.g- to the plans the new hote. will
cost 4 $50 .00e and wl1 be a modern
Luilding calling for. 200 rooms with
baths.
The daily times., 1922-03-02
N. Y. COTTON OPENED.

Mar. 1920, May 17.95, July 1913,
Oct. 1915, Dec. 1888
The daily times., 1922-03-02

Governor Morrison of North Caro-
lima was the first guest at the Wander
bilt Hotel in New York TO receive
one of this hostelry's newly equipped
suites with the radio. telephone
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WILL PROBABLY REDUCE
ARMY 10 ia

Washington. Mar. 2:Rl
the size Of the regular a.
600 enlisted men has bs
[afIeed npon bym11l
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12 O'CLOCK MARKET.

Mar. 1927, May 1909, July 1928,
Oct. 1864, Dec. 16.48.
Spot Cotton Wilson market 16 1-2c.
The daily times., 1922-03-02
WHEAT CLOSED
CORN CLOSED.

May 146 IA, July 122 7-8.
The daily times., 1922-03-02
N. Y. COTTON CLOSED.

Mar. 1880, May 1909, July 1877,
Oct. 16. 69, Dec. 16 SO.
The daily times., 1922-03-02

May SO 3-S, July SO 7-8.
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slider to have any bearing on that
point either. Many of the Rats
plans, begun in the past, as he,
BILLY Kane, had only too good rea-
son to know, had reached their
climax since the Rat himself had
been away. This was probably
one of them. Certainly it had
been begun more than two weeks
ago, as both Shaky Liz and the
Cherub had said, and that was be-
lore he, Billy Kane, had assumed
the Rats role, and, therefore,
quite logically it seemed, before
the Rat had gone away. 1t was
not that-once started, the unholy
quartet to whom the Rat had en-
trusted his dirty work was quite
capable of carrying it through to
its detestable conclusion but it
seemed strange that, adventurous
as the Rat was and much as he
undoubtedly desired to get the
Woman in Black out of his way,
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here" He glanced at the car.
"But you can't get through here
with that car because this bit of
road don't connect-see? You'll
have to go back a bit the way you
came"
Billy Kane held his watch under
the lanterns light. There were
neither the five, nor the four, nor
the three minutes that he had
dared hope might still remain. 1t
was already ten o'clock!
"Can I get down from here on
foot-it's shorter this way, isn't
it," asked Billy Kane between
closed teeth.
eyes, sure, you cam" said the
man. "But you won't find no one
there. They was expecting some
barges in, but they haven't come
yet, and"
Billy Kane had already swung
away from the other, and was max
ing for the river.
"Thanksr' he called out over his
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1t seemed strange that the Rat, in
executing a plan like this, would
give, not one, but four outsiders
a hold on him, for if their tongues
were ever loosened it meant the
death house in Sing Sing for the
Rat to a certainty. Nor did the
fact that they themselves were ac-
completes wholly justify this SEEM
ing lapse from cunning on the
Rats part. Accomplices before
now had been known to turn
States evidence! 1t was queer!
The Rat probably had a very good
reason-only it seemed little
Billy Kane shrugged his Shout
ders. Enough of that! He was
peering out of the car now with
growing anxiety, and with the real
ization forcing itself upon him that,
if he had not actually lost his way,
he at best had a very confused
knowledge of his exact where
ahouts. His lips frightened. 1t
was growing late, too; it must be
getting perilously near ten o.
clock He had had no doubt but
that, from the address in the direc-
tory, he could easily find the place,
and he was still sure it was farther
on; but the quarter here was out
rageously dark, and a plethora of
turnings, that seemed to be moth
ing more than private trafficways
for various w h arr s and ware
houses, made an exceedingly nasty
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Shalzy Liz. She shook
herself suddenly free,
and with crooked fin
gers clawed like a
wildcat at the
Cherub's face.

The minutes passed. A sense
of helplessness, of impotency, that
brought cold chill to his heart,
was upon him now. Down here on
the river front he was hopelessly
lost. There was no light in the
ran1shackle car that he had appro-
priated-it wasn't equipped with
ANYTHING that even approached a
modern device. He stopped the
car. lighted a match, and looked at
his watch.
Ten minutes of ten!
Ten minutes! There were ten
minutes left! He started the car
arain mechanically. There were
ten minutes between her and a
trap-door that opened into the
siIyerv streak of water out there,
whose shimmering now had lost its
beauty and seemed like the hide
Gus, insinuating, silky movement
of some ghastly reptile. Ten min
utes stood between him and that
trap-door; and he, fool that he was,
had lost his way! And yet he
could hardly blame himself; the
East River front at night was
but what did it matter whether he
blamed himself or not!
A low cry of bitter hurt came
from his compressed lips. 1t
wasn't only the Woman in Black!
Her deadly peril now, the almost
certainty of her death, brought
him, in an overwhelming surge of
anguish and fear the consciousness
,...-,..:u,,, roa.rra Sarvic~ Irc Great Rritsfy
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shoulder, as he ran. "I'll leave the
car here till l get back"
He heard some reply from the
other, but he could not make out
the wopds. Whatever they were,
they were inconSequent now. He,
Billy Karte, unless by some miracle,
was too late to warn her-and too
late perhaps even to save her. He
knew fear now as he had never
known it before, but it was not
fear for himself. And he knew a
passion that seemed to find its
roots in the very soul of him. If
he was too late at least there
would be a reckoning, come what
might! His lips twitched in
queer, distorted smile. It was
strange! This fear and this pas
sion, though they were supreme
within him, seemed curiously I'M
cool and calm now, and his brain,
as though dashed into virility by
some powerful stimulant, was
working swiftly, incisively, leaping
IN flashes from premises TO conclu-
sions.
1t was certain that they were al
ready there, but there was still a
chance that they had not yet had
time to do her any harm. E:nd it
must be his wits, not laundering
force that would be its own I'M
doing, that must turn that chance
to account. He must play the Rat
now In exactly the same way as,
when back there in the tenement,
the thought had flashed across his
mind that he might have played it
in the old hag's room. The
chances of success, it was true,
were hundredfold simmer now
than they would have been then;
but now it was forced upon him as
the only way, and then it had
seemed an unnecessary and I'M
calletl-for risk to take. It was the
one way now. 1t might fail, but it
would gain him access inside that
dark, looming building across the
open stretch of brick-and-sand-
strevn yard where he was running
now; and once inside, if it were not
already too late, there must be
sorne way out for her. And if it
we're too late-Well then, the
ChNrub, and Gypsy Joe, and
CLARKE Mum would not have to
press the Rat for payment for
their work!
Again the distorted smile flick
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complication. He nosed the ma
chine along, his face growing more
set and anxious every moment. 1t
was black -black-nothing
but a cursed blackness. If there
were only someone about some
one from whom he could ask direc-
tons! But there was nothing, no
one, only the black, looming shapes
of buildings, and even these were
becoming more scattered now; and
the only signs of life were the
whistles and churnings of pass
ing craft on the river.
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summation tonight he did not con-
ne would have dared to do this.
What she held over the Rats head,
he, Billy Kane, did not know; but
ne knew the Rat was we'll aware
that, in event of her disappear
ance, certain evidence would be
forthcoming against him within
twenty-four hours. That had been
her protection, a protection with
which she had appeared to be
thoroughly satisfied, and she had
taken occasion more than once to
give that warning to him, Billy
Kane, in the belief that she was
warning the Rat himself. There
seemed to be only one answer then
to this move on the Rats part. In
some way, unknown to her, he
must have come into possession of
that evidence, or in some way have
rendered abortive the means by
which. in event of her disappear
ance, it would be brought to light
The car ratified and tangled
along. 1t was a miserable con-
traption, seedy, and badly down at
the heels, but so that its engine
functioned he asked nothing bet
ter. He was near the river front
now, and in the region of ware
houses and buildings that, remote
from the bridges and the regular
trend of traffic, showed no lights
at night, and where the streets
were utterly deserted, and where
occasionally he caught glimpses of
the river itself like a silver thread
under the moonlight. He ran still
more slowly. now, studying his loca-
ton with all possible care. kegler's
dock, according to the directory,
was still farther on, of course, but
he realized that, well as he knew
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his New York, this was somewhat
out of the ordinary radius, and
that it would be all too easy to
miss his way.
He shook his head a little in per-
plexity. There was another thing
one of the little details. Shaky
Liz, Gypsy Joe, Clarke Mum and
the Cherub were not in the ranks
and the Cadger, and Cannot, for
of the Crime Trust as Red Vallon,
instance, were, and where the Rat
might naturally be expected to
work upon a basis of mutual trust.
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there came to him the glimpse of
mans figure rushing wildly out
through the store @door into the
street; and then another yell, that
vas echoed from different direc-
tons along the street. The car
took the first corner on little bet
tor than two wheels. The yells
died away behind. At the next in
tarsecting street Billy Kane turned
again, and thereafter for a few
blocks zigzagged his course, until,
satisfied that he had thrown any
immediate pursuers off his track,
b.. headed again over toward the
Last River.
And now as he drove more
quietly, confident that he need no
longer fear the element of time,
his mind harked back again to that
scene in the old hays room, and
there came a puzzled frown fur
rowing his forehead, and a queer
strained look into his face. 1t was
not so clear after all. The picture
M the large was there. The pa
1nDt, cold-blooded winning of her
confidence in order to lure her
without suspicion or hesitation to
her death was clear enough, as
vas also the hideous betrayal of
hat confidence, a betrayal that
lIlmbed the depths of human in
amy, and whose INSCRIPTIONS in
-onWty and vile cunning was so
Epjcal Of the Rat; but the details,
Naminpd more critically, seemed
somehow foggy and obscured, and
sneucd to hint at something he did
NOT quite understand. 1t was not
That it was evidence of the Rats
r"turn. That thought did not
roubIo him, for certainly he, of
all others, who had so uncercmoni-
"uSly possessed himself of the
RATS den and all the Rats be-
"ugings, should be the first to
hoow Of it if the other had put in
IN appearance again; and the fact
mat the plot had reached its con-
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that it was the woman he loved.
He remembered the abhorrence
and contempt she held for him in
those steadfast, fearless brown
eyes of hers, and he loved her for
that adherence and contempt. It
seemed to typify her, as somehow
she seemed to typify a purity and
courage that was soul deep-for
that contempt and adherence was
for the man whom she believed to
be the Rat, who in turn typified
the dregs and lees of all that was
vile. But he, Billy Kane. was not
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the Rat, and some day, as he was
conscious now, he had hoped to
stand before her in his own per-
son, and with his own name
cleared. His hands gripped on the
steering wheel until it seemed as
though the taut-drawn skin would
burst over the knuckles. He re-
membered the poise of that dainty
head, the curve of the full, white,
rounded throat, and he saw her
now in- No! He would not
let his brain complete that thought.
1t would drive him mad. He was
already in a state bordering on
frenzy, almost out of self-control.
Ten minutes! There could be very
few of those ten minutes left now!
A cry came from him again, but
this time one of sudden hope. To
his right, from large building at
the head of one of those traffic
ways that led to the river bank
itself, he caught sight of a lighted
window. In an instant the ma
chine was tearing forward in that
direction; and in minute more
he had leaped out, and was pound
ing frantically with his fists at the
door of the building. This wasn't
Kegler's, he knew that; but here
was some sign of life at last in the
deserted neighborhood.
A step sounded from within. 1t
seemed to drag. 1t seemed as
though it were covering some in
terminable distance inside there.
And then the door opened, and an
old decrepit man, who perhaps held
down a sort Of pensioned night
watchman's job, lantern in hand,
stuck out his head.
give lost my way" said Billy
Kane quickly. "Can you tell me
where Kegler's place is?"
"You mean the sand docks?" in
quired the other.
Yes" said Billy Kane.
The man stepped out from the
doorway, and pointed back along
the river.
That's it over there" he said.
"The one beyond our wharf down
Rfrhta Reaer1eA
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cred on his lips. He had his bear
ings now, both literally and men
tally. He ran without caution,
making almost unnecessary noise,
and reached the door of the build
ing; a building that, he could dis
Germ now, made the shore end of
long dock, and which, according
to the old watchman's directions,
was obviously Kegler's place.
The building was in utter and
complete darkness. He dismissed
the possibility that she was still
anywhere without, still waiting for
the Cherub's arrival, as too i'm
probable to warrant the waste of
even a second, and mGking still
more noise at the doc. now, he
tried it, found it unlocked, pushed
it open, stepped inside and closed it
behind him. A quick, startled ex-
clamation, from a long way off, it
seemed, reached him, and then a
sibilant whisper:
"Who's dat?"
"Clarkie-Gypsyw Billy Kane
called softly. care you therc?"
"Gawdw a voice calculated
hoarsely.
A light went on somewhere over
Billy Kane's head. He was in a
short passage that was fanked on
either side by what were evidently
the business Offices of the concern,
and at the end of this passage now