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CHAPTER FORTY-SIX


In characteristic fashion,
Mike lost no time in making
friends. There was a bank.
er's wife on board who fell
especially hard for the little
heart-bruiser from the Siam
ese border. When she learned
my business she lost no time
in announcing that she wanted
a cub just like Mike for a
pet. Would I take her order?
A small order like that is al
ways a nuisance, but why argue
with the lady? Once I in
furiated a woman who, with
much ceremony, ordered a
monkey of me, by giving
her the name of dealer to
whom I'd just delivered 500
and suggesting that she take
the matter up with him.
1 figured that the bankers
wife would change her mind
about wanting a tiger cub if
she spent a little time with
Mike. Mike was mighty
tame tiger cub as tiger cubs
go, but with the passing Of
each day he was growing frisk-
ier and rapidly approaching
the stage where novice
would not find him easy to
handle. The third day out I
was nominated for poker
game and it struck me that it
wouldn't be a bad idea to turn
Mike over to the bankers wife
while I tried to earn an honest
penny at jackpots. To this
arrangement the lady readily
agreed.
The game was at its height
when the bankers wife, Mike
in her arms, came tearing into
the salon looking as if she'd
been in a hair-pulling match.
"Take him!" she shrieked.
"He's gone mad!"
Not Alarmed
"Set him down." said the
captain of the ship. who saw
nothing alarming in the situa-
ton. Besides he probably held
cool hand and didn't want
to be bothered.
"He won't let me put him
down." walled the woman, still
holding the cub.
BY this time 1 had gone to
the lady's aid for 1 knew just
what she was up against. One
of Mixes tricks was to resist
being set on the floor when he
felt like being held. He would
twist and squirm and pull his
hind legs clear of the floor,
holding on with his front
/ claws. Only a person expert
enced n handling animals
knows what to do in such a
situation. I soon got Mike
away from the lady and sold
him the idea of sitting calmly
beside my chair.
Not until l had done this did
I get a good look at the bank
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CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 2
Surely no child ever had a
more romantic beginning than
Val. No child of the theater
knew more about makeup and
the subtlety of color and line.
Watching the beautiful Mille
dress was a liberal education.
No gamblers daughter ever
jumped from silk and lace to
gingham and patches, and back
again, with greater nonchalance
than the daughter Of Millie
Macfarlance. Nothing surprised
her, changes came so quickly
in Miles heliotrope scented.
carelessly hospitable rooms.
Millie was VaPs God, her
ideal of everything that was
gracious and lovely. Mile was
the Fairy Princess, and jim At
kinSon was the Prince for
whom they had been waiting.
After Jim came there was a
long period of comfort and Sc
curity. Val almost forgot the
paper cartons of cooked
spaghetti, and the sour-faced
landladies who we're tired OF
waiting for the rent. For a
whole year they lived in an at
mosphere Of quivering, ldylltc
happiness. Millie loved her
sailor with all the warmth and
tenderness of a gay and gener-
Gus nature. and he adored her
silently and unselfishly, asking
little, giving much.
His only worry was for Val:
"It isn't quite the right life
for the youngster," he would
say sometimes, watching the
child uneasily out of clouded,
sea blue eyes. might have
the wrong influence on her,.
you know, when she grows up"
"Oh, nonsense!" Millie would
cry gayly, ruffling his thick,
dark hair with one hand, VaPs
downy topknot with the other.
BaniSheS Fears
Millie never had any mis-
givings any more. There was
time. just at first, that she
had worried. That was when
she realized how completely,
how fully, she could forget the
little girl.
It frightened her sometimes,
this dark, swift tide of her pas
sionate love tor Jim, sweeping
her into deep. uncharted waters,
making her forget everything
that had mattered before. Even
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WILD CARGO
-Bv FRANK BUCK

er's wife. The upper part of her
dress, where she wore a silk
flower, was torn. 1 had for
gotten to warn the lady that
Mike was a poetic lad and al
ways made a bee-line for flow
ers, real or 4rtificial. 1t seems
that Mike had also managed to
drag along with him a Spanish
shawl he had found in the lady's
room-and while it wasn't ex-
actly ruined when I disentan-
gled him, some of the flowers
on it looked a bit the worse for
wear.
Announcing, in a manner
plainly suggesting I was being
punished, that she had decided
to cancel her order for a tiger
cub, the bankers wife made a
naughty exit. 1 was sorry the
lady's clothes were messed, but
managed to be philosophic
about it. It's no use trying to
tell women not to make pets
of tigers and such. I've never
been able to make one listen.
They've got to find out for
themselves.
The Game Resumes
We went on with our poker
plying. And then Mike did me
a real favor. He got restless
and decided to jump on my lap,
in the process spilling the cards
in my hand and those of the
man next to me in all direc-
tionS. Then, for good measure,
he slapped the captains cards
all over the place and succeeded
in creating misdeal. At the
time l was in pretty deep on
a four-fluSh that I had romanti-
cally tried to fill was looking
for a spade and drew a heart
and I suddenly found myself
liking Mike more than ever. The
colored design on the backs Ct
the cards probably reminded
him of flowers. More than ever
felt that both man and beast
should have a real interest,"
might say violent intereSt-in
natures pretty blossoms.
When I arrived in Manila I
arranged to have Mike share
my room with me at the hotel.
Aside from bowling when I left
him alone, he behaved like a
gentleman. Antrim, the perfect
Continued on I'd Comic PaRe)
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v AhQ W 7o1
AS z, Mrs. Shepard made an
opening bid of Four Diamonds.
AS frequently happens with an
ambitious partner, Y carried
the bid to Six Diamonds upon
three sure tricks. A doubled
the bid. AS it afterwards turned
out, he did this upon general
principals, but when he made
an opening lead of the King of
Clubs, it appeared as If he also
held the Ace of Hearts, perhaps
the Ace of Clubs of that suit.
Dummy's Ace won the open
ing lead. Why did z discard
the Duce of Spades, instead OF
letting go a Heart? The intui-
ton was right, it seemed at the
moment the incorrect play.
Dummy led a Trump, and the
Eight won the trick for the de-
clarer, leaving the Six as an
entry to Dummy, if desired.
Nearly all players would have
attempted SiX-odd by squeezing,
but that would have been i'm
possible. The way play went it
was perfect, but unusual.
Y's King of Spades won the
third trick, and the declarer
ruffed a Club for her fourth
trick. Dummy was put in the
lead with a Diamond, and an
other Club was ruffed by z.
Then Two Trumps were led,
Dummy discarding the Nine of
Spades and the Three of Hearts.
B discarded first the Four of
Hearts and then the Six Of
Hearts, giving the impression
that he did not have the miss
ing Ace. A discarded two low
Clubs. The ninth trick was
won with another Trump lead
A let go a Spade. Dummy's
Seven of Hearts was discarded.
B discarded the Eight of Hearts.
q led the Ten of Spades. The
Ace won the trick in dummy.
The Jack of Hearts was led
back. B stoically played the
Nine. Without hesitation z put
up the King and won the trick.
How did the declarer know that
the missing Ace lay at her right
and that a finesse of the Jack
would have caused her to lose
two Heart tricks? Such things
happen in the game, and with
players who have all along
properly located the missing
cards, but without any definite
tangible means of doing so.
Having won her necessary
One Heart trick. Mrs. Shepard
spread her hand, claiming full
fillment of her contract. Of
course it would have been the
same had B jumped with the
Ace of Hearts, when that suit
was led through him. In rear
ity BIS play gave him the only
chance to defeat the contract.
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The Rhymins
O ptimist
By ALINE MICHAELIs

By ALINE MICHAELIS
New Joys
New joys will bloom while years
go by,
AS roses greet the smiling sky
With every glad, recurrent June,
And linnets pipe their happy
tune.
New joys will stretch their ten
drills out
To creep and climb and tWine
about
Our lives, till all is fair and
bright,
While Wintry doubts and fears
take flight.
New joys! Then yield to no dis,
may
When these now cherished
pass away,
For all things change and all
are fleet,
Most evanescent are most
sweet.
All, trust the future; 1t will
bring
Glad days that shine and
hours that sing,
Days even as dear and priced
as these
That now weave glowing tap
estrieS!
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paddIe-whee doors, down the village street, even to
my Sunday picnic, Janet Shirley, Rosamond Susan
paper-do?" l think that's why it rained on me at
my picnic-beceuse many little girls had asked for
paperdolls, and hadn't gotten hem For months this
has gone on, with patient little ghosts of girls stand
ing about, waiting KIND little ghosts, too for they
plimentary and sweet to the lady who had neglected
them. 1t has gotten too much for the 'lady-so she
has buckIed down and made "the DOLL"
1t seems that GILL;" the last and only doll / made
for my good children, is all out. No wonder!
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lady made of newspaper, thin thing can be, bent
to M kneeI, and what not, to suit her little mistress
So here is "Gloriette."
Go along Romance, and sit ye in the hammock in
the moonlight Wait in the office Sir Love,
ESQ., And the other adult affairs that trouble and in
terest must wait while the artist little shamefacedly,
makes a paper doll! -
This is for most especially "Audrey W." of Mil
waukee.
generally for all the of the "Dear Infants
And oh yes, l glad to know you II years
old Audrey. NELL BRlNkLE1.
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Handy Hints

Checks have been drawn
back into favor. A very smart
and different suit is in blue
and white checked woolen COM
bined with dark blue woolen.
The checked material is used
for the skirt and for the cuffs
and collar of the jacket. The
rest of the coat is of the plain
blue wool and it is buttoned up
the side to q Aigh '4eckline.
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Fashion Flash

DON'T GO AWAY without a
light silk coat for wear at night
when an evening wrap is not
desired. A charming model is
in heavy, slightly crinkled silk
crepe in black. 1t has a tiny
turnover collar and cuffs, a
nodded waistline and tie
fastening in front. Grand for
afternoon wear, too,
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This and That

Just before the semiformal
outfit is the new black and
white satin suit that can go out
during the day and still play
its part after dark. A new
model of very lustrous black
satin has a short matching
jacket. with sleeves that have
turnback white satin cuffs
caught with onyx and brilliant
links. It's white satin waist
coat also has the same decora.
tive buttons marking a double
breasted effect.
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They got at last, too high, the group of letters
marked by your artist friend-"The Dear Infants"-
and so to the winds with adult things for the
They got my mind. They invaded my Dreams
where l saw huge paper-dolIs towering teeteringly
over me, dancing Imply with wavering legs up and
down my bedfoot. AT the movietcket-windOw slid
in 5oeent piece and said to IT. tFan'fjxed silver
solemn and accusing little rounded faces blackete
brownette golden, and russet haired, stood between
my eyes and the landscape wherever looked. Little
girl pursued calling in and out Of elevators
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VALENTINE"
True Love or a Jazz-Mad
Career Is Her Problem
The story so far:

The story so Tar: ,.,u..
Valentine the shy dreamy daughter OF Mnie
nature spoiled
by poverty ie acquaintance but best
of all her daughter Atkinson the captain The
girl feels very captain Then he suddenly
Me that he OveShe but never dared nope
that you'd with things like they are le returns
his
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By Livingston
Contract
Bridge
BY E. v. SHEPARD
Is 1t Intuition?

How great a part does in
tuition play in locating missing
cards and in determining how
to play holdings correctly? A
few players appear born with
uncanny intuitions. Can other
players become highly imbued
with that rare gift through
training? I have seen George
King start to play a hand on
a definite plan. He has made
a single lead and the players
have followed suit with non,
committal cards. One glance
at those cards and he has
switched to another method of
play. Why he shifted his plan
no player knew, but invariably
he was right.
Mrs. Shepard never played in
tournaments, because they bored
her, but she possessed to a re-
markable degree ability to
locate important cards, even
before any act had betrayed
what any player held. On No
vember 7, 1881, she played the
following hand:
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-09-02
One Fifth OF
South's Farms
Are Mortgaged
Southern Magazine Complies Statistics
OF Farm Mortgages
Total Value OF Southern Farms VIII
Exceed Ten Billion Dollars
While Existing Mortgages Only At-
proximste Two Billions Dollars

The Southern Agriculturist, wide
ly circulated farm paper Of the south
says that we are talking entirely too
much about what we have lost, and
too little about what we have. South
ern farmers are not bankrupt. The
farms of the overwhelming majority
of southern farmers are absolutely
free from any sort Of mortgage.
According to the census of 1881,
4o3,203 southern farms carried some
sort of mortgage. But 1880 south
ern farms were mortgage free.
Doubtless a very large number of the
farmers whose farms are mortgaged
are not seriously handicapped by the
mortgages. In many cases, perhaps
the owner is within one or two or
three payments of freedom. The NOR
tgage represents progress when it
means that a hard-working, thrifty
farmer is paying for his farm on the
installment plan, and we may be sure
that many of these mortgages are Of
this nature.
The total value of southern farms
is $1o,67o,614,o51. The total amount
of m~ortgaged indebtedness of south
ern farms is only about six per cent
Of their value.
The total value of the farms mort
gagged is $1,s47,525,s95. This neans
that the mortgaged farms are carry
ing on an average of a mortgage of
IS per cent of the value Of the farms.
The value of the unmortgsged
farms of the Southern States is S.
823,088,156. This means that only a
little more than one-ffth of the farm
land of the South in value is under
any sort of mortgage.
Almost one-third of the farm-mor-
tgage Indebtedness of the South is in
Texas.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-09-02

THE joys of camp life-as Camp
Fire Girls know them-take in
many activities. "Roughing" it in
the out-of-doors, playing games with
the crowd, writing letters home
and reading letters from home-are
part of them. But there r other
things, too, which come under the
head of joys.
The work of the camp, for ex-
ample, keeping "house," and cook
ing. Camp Fire Girls learn, under
expert instructors, to take care of
themselves, and to do worthwhile,
practical things.
In one of their biggest camps, at
Lake Cohasset, in Hartman Inter-
state Park, New York, they even
make jam and jelly for the camp
pantry. Naturally, in camp, the
girls follow the short-boi1 method
of jelly making and by using
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HOSIERY ENDS

AS intermediary, Governor Max
Gardner persuaded 5000 hosiery mill
strikers and p High Point seamless
hose manufacturers to submit to the
verdict of an arbitration committee.
Decision was made to return to work
on ba.is of July l pay, with slight
adjustments upward. The mills had
been idle for two weeks.
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YOUNCE IS ACQUITTED

George Younce, formerly solicitor
of the 18th Judicial district, was &C
quilted in Davidson Superior Court
Friday, of perjury in a first coro-
ner's inquest when he denied know
ledge of how Sheriff James A. Leon
ard came to his death. In a second
inquest Younce admitted Leonard
was shot in a scume as Younce tried
to take a pistol with which the sher-
if was shooting at two other men.
Younce was acquitted last spring Of
m~anslaughter.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-09-02
TEXAS HITS
HEAVILY

With wind velocity of over 70
miles per hour, a tornado struck the
Texas coast near Galveston, Satur-
day night, and moved southwest
causing terrible destruction. Seven
teen are known to have been killed,
50 more injured and huge property
loss caused.
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How Black rau9ht
Holds its Popularity

A LAXATIVE made from highly
approved, medicinal plants yet
about the least expensive laxative
you al find: Thedford's Black
Draught.
There's no expensive %contafner
for you to buy when you ask your
dealer for Black-D raught. And its
light weight has saved freight bills
in your favor. Black-D raught is
right with you in economy. It
brings prompt, refreshing relief
to sufferers from constipation
troubles.
Don't put up with sick headache,
sluggishness, gas, dizziness, bad
taste in the mouth, biliousness, coated
tongue, bad breath, distress after
meals, when due to constipation, but
take T%hedford's Black-D raught.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-09-02
SHOOTS TWO AND SELF

Just after his suspension as a men,
Der of the international Baby Chick
association had been announced at
Milwaukee, c. A. Norman, of Knox
vile, Tenn, backed up to a wall and
said s'this is the end" He drew a
pistol and fired at Secretary R. v.
Hicks, President Charles L. Sawyer
was killed as he tried to save Hicks.
Hicks fell to the floor with two bull
let wounds, and Norman then turn
ed the gun on himself and died from
a hot through the head. Hicks is
given a chance to recover.
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ON FORE
CLOSURES

= When $50 business leaders confer
red with President Hoover, Friday,
relative to opening of credit and
stimulating industry and employ
ment, a 60-day moratorium was an
nounced on mortgage foreclosures
until the federal home loan banks
can open business.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-09-02

EDUCATIONAL LEADER DIES
DR.. George T. Winston, 79, sue
cessively president Of the state un-
iversity, Texas university, and N. c.
State college, which last post he left
in 1908, died in a Durham hospital,
Friday night.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-09-02

DEAVER TO DIE IN CHAIR
Ed Beaver, Fl, was sentenced to
die September 50 in the electric chair
following his conviction, Friday at
Whiteville, of the murder of Isaiah
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News Briefs
(Coutinued from page one)

(CONI1NHea from Page 0HeJ
wore FRAUD CASE
The jury in the case of the vote
fraud charges on trial at Wilkesboro
took recess over Sunday, returning a
verdict on Monday of 10 guilty,
thus acquitting eight democrats
charged with frauds. The case has
revealed a bad situation in Watauga
over the 1880 elections, in which
both republicans and democrats como
in for reprisals and both are said tc
be responsible for the bad situation
there.
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GUILTY OF DEADLY ASSAULT

Bert Owens and Mrs. W. E. Fren-
oh were both found guilty by a
Guilford jury, of the deadly assault
and almost fatal wounding of ".
e. French. February j.. Owens was
given IS TO 20 years in state'd prison
but sentencing of Mrs French was
deferred for a week.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-09-02
EXECUTE NEGRO SLAYER

Nord Donnel1, convicted along
with Leory Lee of the murder of R.
B. Andrew, Guilford county mer-
chant, died in the electric chair, Fri
day, protesting innocence and de-
claring Lee fired the fatal shot. Lee
enjoying a 3o-day reprive, insists
Donnell did the shooting.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-09-02
AMELIA SETS NEW MARKS

Amelia Earhart, only woman who
has made a solo Atlantic flight, ad-
ded transcontinental speed record and
a distance flight record for women
to her accomplishments, when she
landed at Newark, last week, after a
19-hours nonstop flight from Los
Angeles.
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SO GET LAW LICENSES

The state Supreme court, Friday,
granted 1O1 licenses to practice law,
two by comfy from other states, and
50 to those successful in a class of
~ taking examination on August
y.
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bond.
REBELLION LEADER SENTENC-
Ripe Grape Jelly
cups q lbs.l Juice

General Jose Sanjurjo, leader of the
recent rebeiii6n against h Spanish
republic, was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment last week, although the
popular demand was for a death SEN
tence.
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) BOYS DIE IN ACCIDENTS
BENJAMIN DENIM, s, Goldsbor

Benjamin DENIM, &, GoIdsboro,
was killed Friday when an unused
electric light pole fell on him, crush
ing the skull. Near Wilmington, on
Friday evening, Clarence Marlborough
7, was killed by a hit and run driver.
The boy was playing with a toy cart
on the side of the highway. Robert
Hall, II, was fatally injured near
Murphy, Friday afternoon, in the
o%verturning of a a occupied by
him and three Others.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-09-02

STAFFORD IS CONVICTED
Joe Stafford, %, was convicted at
G%oldsboro, Saturday, for the murder
of his wife and was sentenced to die
October 7. The murder was done
April 4.
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FATAL AUTO WRECK

Norman Hopkins, Fl, Asheboro,
was instantly killed and Bessie Baul-
din, badly hurt in the o%verturning of
a car. At Mayodan two cars collid-
ed causing the death of Sanford Ad-
kins, u, Mayodan, and injuring
three others.
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ANGRY FARMERS FREE MATES
A thousand angry farmers threat
ened to storm the jail at Council
Bluffs, Iowa, last week, where IS
farmers were held for picketing roads
and blocking delivery of produce.
Officials hastily released the men on
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-09-02

100000 IN ENGLISH STRIKE
Around 10000 textile workers in
the English mills of Lancashire went
on strike Monday in protest 70 a 10
per cent wage cut.
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DOORBELL IGNITES GAS

A caller pushed the doorbell Of a
Norfolk apartment, Sunday. The
electric bell set off a gas explosion
which wrecked the apartment and
killed Annie c. Enright. Other apart
ments in the building were badly
damaged.
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DOttie0 rrult pectln turn out perfect
patches in a jify.
Here is their recipe for grape
jelly.
Ripe Grape Jelly
cups "a lbs.) Juice
7k cups (3A lbs.) sugar
" bottle ~ cupl bottled fruit pectin
To prepare juice, stem about g.
pounds fully ripe grapes and crush
thoroughly. Add " cup water,
bring to a boil, cover, and simmer
10 minutes. Place fruit in jelly
cloth or bag and squeeze out juice.
Measure sugar aud juice into
large saucepan and mix. Bring to
a boil over hottest fire and at once
add pectin, stirring constantly.
Then bring to a full rolling boil
and boil hard II minute. Remove
from fire, skim, pour quickly. Par
ATTN hot jelly at once. Makes about
II glasses (6 fluid ounces each)..
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Most Farms Are Mortgage Free It bulationS Shows

Hester after a quarrel over watermel-
on thefts.
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PERILS OF PROHIBITION

links: How did poor Givvins be-
come cock-eyed?
Blinks: From keeping an eye On
his beer and the other on the door.
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JUDGE MAcRAE DIES
Cameron MacRae, Sc, Asheville
Superior court judge, died of heart
failure at Fayetteville Sunday.