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TWO NEWS OF WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD Outstanding Happenings of Week Gathered from Everywhere, Condensed for the Busy Reader. General Felix Kgnjsto.u Robertson. 88. the last surviving ^e^teral oi the Confederacy and the youngest man to hold that lank in either the southern or northern forces in tin* Civ?J v-ai. died at his home in Waco. Tex.. Friday. Seven inlands. Quebec, April - > ? A!! parts nvcvssaiv to the recon-, itl;m:r,?- the transatlantic inorro-; plane ^remfu u.re n Greenly island today.'and '.V plane was ;peeled to be h: the air ajrairi headed foi New Yit'ok betor*. the end of ih< week- The Xew York city relief plane,, stocked with spar e par Is and supplies at Lake Ste. A ernes, arrived here at ll:lu this morning*. The plain, was piloted by Brent Balchen. one of Commander Richard Byrd's transatlantic crew, and Major ames Fitzmaurice, the Irish member of the Bremen crew who came out to civilization's edge on the first rejief plane to ret aid. for his German comrades. Baron, von Huenfeld and Captain Koehl Washington. April 23. Ilarrv F. -Sinclair goes free. Tie has lost Teapot Dome. He faces nine months in jail for contemnt of the United States senate and for contempt of coiirt. But it took ! 2 jurors, who vere above the averaye. less than two hours t?> acquit him unlay on the charge of crminalk conspnang with Albert B. Fall to defraud the governmgjrft in the Tcan' i Dome oil ease. The sapuosedR hard-bpiied, cold, noker-fctj millionaire vepl with relief. Mrs. Sinclair, who has stood figuratively at his sidy throughout his lrrea.lt si ordeal, wa? hvstei I --and evidently did not arc abciP the rapine crowds whe .hovered around her ih the courthouse corridor ah- c she threw hci arms ,J>out her hiulcuid's neck, cry ng. "Oh my dear! my dear!" as lit aniv out of the ehamht r with th? foreman's "not guilty.'" !o vindicnU him. Kansas City, M-?.. April 2_\- T<?n Mix. bard rising hero ' the films, has "landed" i\ $2?.00<h000 twoyear contract. v/nich his representative;, .'obi) i>. Hill. last night was among the laigest p. history >>\ niovio'ioni between star and pro liieet\ The deal, Hill was corn smr.mat^d here between Mix and C. \y. Brown, vice president of b\ 15. O. a large boohing office ami producing corporation. Mix, who appealed in vaudeville here last week, is wo him; eastward to New York where he pad planned to sail for Argentina Juru Hie was under contract with an Argentine concern to produce pictures in that country to he distributed by the 1*\ B. O. corporation. That contract is abrogated by the new one and Mix will retnrp. to Hollywood on the completion of his vaudeville touv in June to begin work oh the first of eight picture?. Sofia. Bulgaria, April 22.?.More Than 125,00b homeless families in southeastern Ba If^aria Unlay endured misery, cold and deprivation in "error as intejgiiittefit earthquakes contained to rock the at read v de 1 siL'J . a^Mii cw icgu-'u. i iic govesninegu and volunteer agencies devoted every effort to tending; the more than S50 persons injured in the region around Philipyopclis. The utmost was being done to supply refugees with food. The death toll was variously estimated at between I3u and oOp. The do casta tier at Philipoy)oiis, industrial capital of Bulgaria, alone presented a. task of reconstruction which seemed almost hopeless. More than a score of villages scattered through the fertile countryside around PUilipopolis in what is Bulgaria's choicest granary were in a fearful predicament. Yhree-fourihs of the city was destroyed. New York. April 23.?The wholesale price of cigarettes was reduced to SC. a thousand hy three leading manufacturers today. The cut amounts; to 15 cents a thousand on the American Tobacco company's ''Lucky Strikes' brand and JO cents each on the "Camel" brand of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco company and the "Chesterfield" brand of Liggett and Myei*s. The first effect, other than to arouse in the mand of the man in the street the belief he will be able to buy these brands at the fate of two packs for a quarter, was to cause a precipitate break in the prices of tobacco company issues on the New York exchange. Stocks of Liggett and Myers and American Tobacco company dropped $9 to $12 a share. The Reynolds company "B" issue showed a loss of S3, while the stock of LoriMard and company, which announced no reduction, slumped $6.75 per share. Washington, April 22.?Four ma jor pieces of legislation, three of them directly ir, opposition with the administration's program, wilt be isp for decision this week in congress. Flood control and farm relief bills already passed by the senate in forms opposed by President Coolidge are expected to reach a final vote in the honse by Saturday with administration forces exerting every effort to revise the flood measure to meet objections raised at the White House. Tax reduction, another piece of legislation over which strong party differences exist, faces its German-Irish Air F i : A en r? fvVriii Eur* I .made. was accomplished t?y Capta j Jaim-s 1 r? Tirauri'.v and Frcih^rr who landed v.uhiy on Greenly Isln i'-r. in ihc puid t rs ihbm plain Br? adw?ird< end f u made the laudir : . f !< waited an\ious'\ ' o* . * .t :r n rrtday. X: first show down in the senate dump the week when tin finance commit lee acts on the revised house rcveniu bili. The ' 'iiith major measure l< come before coiigi'&ss during th next -ix days?the Swinj^Johnsoi Boulder Canyon dam bill- will b called up in tin senate in the fac of a threatened filibustei hy th senators from AriS&ma. Detroit Mich., April 1.-?Gat tain Gdoiue Hubert Wilkin.-. cetera Antic *\;doi*e?% and Lieut. (Air! P in A-Isoit, Ala-kail oik' have flow across the **top of the world" froi Point Bavow, Alaska, to SpitzJierger in a . message to the Dctroi News torf|iv. Wilkins reported th sLccd&i fu! arcomplishnnnf of th -.J'-" mile flight across (he Arcti ice pack in these words: "IJoaehe > nit /A.'ci'gen afti-r tlf) 1-l.' hours fi\ !Hg. One slop five days account ha weather." Later it was. learned th . stop was at Buedmansoeiro (!>ea .1 Man'-? Islam.! V miles from >va hard whence Wilk'.ns sent out hi ; radio mesravv. It w;ts Wilkins* thir 1 attempt to -pan tIk- Arctic waste and weird ?.f its successful eulinim. ta n eaivie after fear had heen on pressed that he \va? tost after ha-. in-_ left Point BarvOw. fie was- las heard from at Point Barrow raid this month, a hm his radio sent ou a tragiVu ntatv message ah??ut plan for a take-off shortly. Streams swollen !)y almost, uiiprt , ceden.teu rains wrought desfcructio . as they flowed to the sea Mnnda j through parts of Florida. Oeorgi: . Alabama. .Mississippi and Arkahsa* While ihe menace in Arkansas ' a .subsiding for t'ne time, at ieasl rivers were rising in the other $tui?h with the probability that floo crests would not be reached befor Wednesday. Thousands ?. r dollar damage to highways, crops and prof erty, In it no loss of life was reported Cotton crops suffered severely an unofficial estimates placed efts o replanting in the hundreds of thou sands of dollars. Several towns i'i ! Georgia ami Alabama were ma 1 voancd or overflowed in their hot ton | lands. Transportation and comma (ideation facilities wove cripple* through jrn-al areas of the soulheri coastal plain, washouts strandinj; aihs and making automobile t.vaf fie impossible between many points Small tornadoes visited Brur.swicl arid Sylvester, Ga.. causing heavj property damage hut taking no hn man loll. \VindsU>nns at many oth ev yiTaec-s aided the pelting vain tl destroy growing crops. Vvashingron. April 23.?Senat( and house seemed beiit today 01 locking horns with President Cool idge, the one over the foreign poli cy and the other over a domestic, is sue. Nicaragua and control of tht Mississippi floods were the hubs o the tXvo whirring political wheels. Ii the senate the Nicaraguan word battle raged mightily with the Biaim rider to the naval appropriation bill aimed at recall of the marines fron Nicaragua, undergoing momentar; revision by acceptance of proposal * modify its language before a vot' i was taken. As it. lay on Vice Presi | dent Dawes* desk tonight it was l>u a oatched and tattered ghost of th' original Blaine idea of demandini that the boys he out of the Nica raguan trenches by Christmas, xact ly what its effect would he in it new guise, agreed to by Blaine, no bod* seemed to know, although sue] authorities as.Borah held it woul nave none. In the house, Madden o Illinois, chairman oi the appropriu ! tions committee, shoutting" "you ma; | pass this bill; but not over a veto,' led the forelorn hoe crusade erf ad ministration [stalwarts to force th principle of state contribution lo th Mississippi flood control project ii the senate bill. He. was met by Nel son of Missouri, with an equally ve hement thunder of denunciation o White House intervention with mandate" to congress that it mus accept presidential views or ge nothing. More Sophisticated ] 14Dearest,-' he said rather sadly ] "it doesn't seem like the same olc i smile you used to give me." f,No, Jack," she returned, "this is a new one. I've been studying at a school of dramatic art." THE" WApVUGA DEMOCRAT?EV leroes Cross Atlantic \ - : i is; M" in Hermann Koch., cbici ?>?!ot, Col. i hrenfried Gn,nt)u: \<>n Hucnefedd. ind in neUe.lslc Stru*.l?. rear Labrat:.icn Irack of fuei caused by strong il; or Grrcnlv Island r.iccstary Milfor veus their while their fate >ril 13 - COST OF NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNMENT FOR YEAR 1928 > Washington. April 21.?The dev partraeni of bommeree announces a n summary of the financial statistics i* I of the stat* of Ncrth Carolina for ej the 5>cul ydai ending dune .'50. 1927 cjTev per capita :':tiun- for 1027 are | based on an estimated population of 1 2.877.000. r Expenditures Thi payments for operation and r nia:r't.nanet t/f the genera?, departv mont- . f .\< rth Carolina amotinted , I to $18.1 12,100, or $6.31 per capita. T "I (: ti I;:.: s $2,07.-1.30'*, appv>vtion^j .etits for education to the- minor (.I civii divisions of the stale, in i I P?- . (imnni'fltlv." ??? ? crtr.it:: nrtbi'. (i and maintenance of general cicpartmenti wa.- $5.75. and in 1HI7. sthe increased taei* capitia for J 1027 being principally due to in(j creased payments for operation and i maintenance of highways. The pay nur.ts for iteration and ma*nle(j ar.ee of public service enterprises in iv. 1027 amounted lo $9,952: interest on debt. $0,125,208; and outlays for ! permanent improvements, $22,'50i,k. 890. The total payments, therefore, f for operation and maintenance of ~ general departments and public serv\ ice enterprises, for interest and out> s lays were $ is.77'.'.:! 10. The totals include all payments for the year, whether made from current revenue? or from the proceeds of bond issues. 0 Of the governmental costs reporty cd above $24,534,293 was for high? t. ways. $4,20(1,>380 being for maintcnance and $20,327,007 for conis si ruction. t, Revenues Tne total revenue receipts were d $35,820,832, or $l&54 per capita, e This was $1,1,549,512 more than the ;s total payments of the year, exclusive ?- of the payments for permanent imI. ivrovements, but J 10,952,378 loss d than the total payments including fj those for permanent improvements. -These payments in excess of revenue ? receipts were met from the pfo coeds of debt obligations. Special > property and other special taxes rep resent 21 .5 per cent. of ." the total 11 revenue for :?2 7. 21:8 per cent for i 1026, and 50.2 per cent for I $17. r The increase in the amount of mopOBITUARY L William Franklin Greer was horn January 23, ISnO, and died April 5/ 132$; aged 77 years. Tie was mar-j ? lied co Martha Ann Isaacs July 11, 1872. They had ten children, seven ? boys and three girls, all are living 1 and were present, at the funeral. They are Henlc-y, Monroe, Charlie; Andy, John, Filmore and Cicero. % Mrs. John Issaacs, Mrs. John Oliver f and Mrs. Alfred Thomas. 1 Mr. Greer joined the Baptist church at Zionviile, December 25. B 1880. and for -IS years lived a coni sister.t. Christian life, y Like all men. Will Greer had his s weaknesses, but he assessed cera tain qualities lb;'.: were so positive - and noticeable that they are worthy t of being mentioned. Whatever he e undertook to do he did well. He ^ was one of the best farmers in the county. IIis fences were well Lnilt, his crops were well tended and his sj farm clean and attractive. Being a man of great energy he had a ccnh tempt for idleness and lazliioss. J Although for many years a cripple. 1*1 he did as much hard work as any . man. No man ever lived who was y more lionest Than Will Greer. What" ever he. promised to do, he did. He . was one of the tew men who never e lost the fine an of being a good e neighbor. He knew when to visit n and his fine sense of humor madp - him one of the most interesting con versa tlonalists to be found. The f clean life that he lived is worthy of i emulation. He was as free from dist sipation as any man who ever lived t! in this community. This clean life as a background made him a man of great courage. He was positive in his convictions and stood for the 1 ight even though he had to stand ' alone. It is a great heritage to have had such a man as a citizen, as a father, and a husband. No .man need fear the future who lived the life that Will Greer Lived. I. G. G. i ERY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. erty and special taxes collected was t 168 per cent from 1917 to 1926, but 1 there was a decrease of :>.l pel cent from 1926 t?> 1927. The per capita c special property and ottie** special \ taxes were S2.6S in 1927. $2.81 in 1926. and $1.20 in 192 7. ! Earnings of gvnerai departments, 1 or compensation for services vender- r c<: 5y state officials. represented i !i.2 per cent of the total revenue ? f 1927, 11.1 uer cent for 1926. . j and 20.4 per cent for 1917. c Business and non-business licenses ?. constituted 50.1 per cent of the to-js i " " " * i ^2 v. \m * 1 At the Pi I i 1^ Tues.-Wed. M & mm firs J5,r K E And *irrn (heri CHE2 and J f The greatest ob| transformed the the soul. The sc humanity. The curred during th< ! There are 685 p ipj scenes and 18 ac1 sies of the events j lion people unde of a long, tiresonr g * of dollars to see I ^ Enacted for th | ORIG MATINEE E H a p ? j Sp : now i | I; Our stock o |S tor inspection. I; Fertilizer D 5, Plows and I J j Paints and 1 j; Lime your ? Lime. Cement j special?on i Is BOONE EVERY! Slogan: "Pla i IVWWWVWYWWVAWWYWW ? al revenue for If21. 43.1 per cent ! in 1926, and 19.1 per cent fur 1917... ! se Receipts from business livens fc 'onsist chiefly of taxes exacted from j nsurar.ee and other incorporated I oi oinpanies anil of sales tax on gaso- $1 ine, while those from non-business| 91 icenses comprise chiefly taxes on i no tor vehicles and amounts paid for! fi jshingr privileges. The sales tax on * v gasoline amounted to 88,195,701 in , c; 927 and $7,160..516 in 1 926, an in-J w lease of IS.6 per vent. This in-j rease in the gasoline tax repre-j rc ents the greatest item of increase | is! Wi m i txiraorc istime T ioone, N. C. lay 1-2 ? Two VORLOS +- OLDEST ?jjl ssion pi T PLAYED AT M ibuqG ,WY^TlZ7 ^^ADOLPHan rncANt r!y since Ine year I GOG ?y SMIlf FASSNA H HE IN ROLES INHERIT! B w BP ^Hl generation TO GE^ flfl ff|) gP D.HfCTCn D UlU>J*Lj MMITR1 BUCHO ect lesson of the ages; the world. No other story so 1 enes of Calvary, showing 1 play represents only the e j last week of Christ's life eople appearing in this di ts. It represents Old Test, i portrayed. In 1910 a qu rwent the hardships and i; le journey, and spending it the play. e first time for Motion Picl INAL PLAYI ACH DAY AT 2:3a?NI lDMISSION 25c and 50c W.W.W-W.W.'.V.WAW.W ring Tim IS THE TIME TO PREP^ FOR PLANTING f Grass Seed and Garden Prices right. istributors of the dependai ^lanaivo oil iv^puii o V/* all 1V111UO. Oils, too. land for best results. 1 for Building, too. ie large Chick Brooder, S I HARDWAR HING IN HARD mt More, Grow More, Ha> APRIL 20, 1928 business arid non-business lice s. 1ndebt edness The total funded or fixed <K " itstandinjr June 30. ' il'27. was 1511.419,200. O?" this amount $!' 19.GOO was for higliwass. The net indebtedness (funded u xcd debt less sinking fund assets> as $1 17.vsl.29 I. or $51.4-1 i? ipita. In 19?C? the per capita debt as $42.0.3, and in 1917. $3.85 The increased per capita net debt ported for 1927 was due to bor.?i sues for highways and schools. ??^^anlanferiknfef^ If 0 I unary:i p ^ heatre i m [US are 1 m. Days Only JGEORGE Ij f>UT I: i "" - A EO FROM lERAT'.ON WETZKI | i story that has :ills and thrills God's love for vents that ocon earth. ama, with 76 iment prophe- ^ arter of a mil- Ifri [iJS nconvemences ^ tany hundreds ^ "* ae aii 1 cle tures by the _ tiO ERS GHT 7:15 jjj k hni I iug .V, 'MVWAVAW.V.W, J e ^RE ;[ Seed is open J < ^ :>le kind. ! We have the |j \ pecial Price < E CO. I WARE | /e More." WW. VAV.'WWiWWJWWi
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