North Carolina Newspapers

STIITE IS BEHIND. ID SUICIDE RITE AMERICAN RATE 15 PER 100.000 WHILE IN NORTH CAROLINA RATE IS ONLY 39. Raleigh. With the 1924 suicide rate in Ameri ca a little over 15 per 100.000 popula- Cion, North Carolina lags far and hap pily behind. with a rate of 3.9 per 100,- 000 population, according to figures for the State compiled by the State Board of Health. The suicide rate in Raleigh, however, was 6.5. The highest suicide rate per 100.000 population was in San Diego. Cal., where it was 45 2. Strangely enough San Francisco with 37.8 and Los An geles with 32.8, were in second and third places, giving uncontested hon ors to California. In North Carolina during 1924 there were 108 suicides, of which 94 were white persons. 13 negroes and one In dfan. Sixty-four of the total number of suicides used firearms to kill them selves. Ten of the 13 negroes suicides used guns Asheville led the State during the period with seven suicides. Charlotte was second with fonr. In Greensboro, Hamlet. Rocky Mount, Raleigh. Salis bury and Winston-Salem there were two sucides each. Kinston and High Point each had three suicides during the year. Kee Saved From Death Chair. Judge Thomas J. Shaw and Solicitor Porter Graves, two of the slowest trail officers to interfere with jury verdicts, saved Ernest Kee from the electrlg chair and the Forsyth boy of 19 years will get a life sentence at hard labor. The removal of Kee from death chamber will make apace for another condemned man. The prison is filling up with capital felons and it had been emptied after a record-breaking half year for the electric chair. There are only four men awaiting death days; but there are numerous men held for safebreaking who will later be sent back, condemned to death and then brought back to die. Announces New Advisory Board. An advisory board to make an inves tigation and survey of the scope of the work that should be undertaken in the future at Caswell Training School - at Kinston. was appointed by Cover n9r A. W. McLean. Members of the advisory board are: Dr. W. S. Ran kin. Raleigh, chairman; Dr Thomas W. Vernon. Morganton; Dr. Thurman D. Kitchin. Wake Forest; W. C. Dowd, Sr.. Charlotte; Gilbert T. Stephenson. Raleigh; Captain Nathan O'Berry, (roldsboro, Henry A. Page. Aberdeen, and J. O. Carr, Wilmington Deny Right to Sue State College. Contending that although the North Carolina State College has been de clared a corporation by statute it is still a mere institution of the State and therefore cannot be sued. Attorney General Dennis a. Brummitt and As sistant Attorney General Frank Nash filed a demurrer In the Wake County Superior Court to the complaint filed recently in the suit of Emmett Mc- Coy. negro janitor, for $5,000 damages for personal Injuries while working at the college. Financial Satement on Prison. Governor McLean announced that a detailed statement of the financial atatua of the State's Prison would be issued soon. "A public accountant, employed by ths State auditor's department, made aa audit of the prison at the same time sndlts were made of other insti tutions." he said. "His report Is in the course of preparation, and as soon •a It is completed it will be given out for publication." Priaener Gets Brief Parol*. Governor McLean has paroled Oscar Dacna. of Mecklenburg county, who waa convicted of prohibition violation at the July. 1924. term of court and sentenced to serve 18 months on the county roads. H* hss beea 12 months ia priaon. Governor McLean place* the clem ency on the (round of first offense and further on the perhaps fatal ill ness of (he prlaoaer'a father The parol*, however, last* only a few day* "Tfce prisoner Is to return to the ramp «n or before August U and give hlm aelf up to the sheriff A right to re voke tMs brief parole I* reserved by the governor. Otis Wright, of Cleveland county, •nd B. F Dlckerson of Wilson, are not so tacky. They are serving 1J and six months respectively for pro hibition violations and their petitions are decline*. Ta Abolish New State Salaries. It was officially predicted that the new schedules to be reported by the Salary and Wage Commission will not be approved by the Governor and pat into effect before October. » The prediction wis accompanied by the official announcement that Julian Price, chairman of the commission, will not return t* ta* Stat* from a business trip aatil August 10 and that the nut meeting of the commission will not fee held until after that gate. The report of the commission wan iue on Jply l, bat was delayed. K l; . i ! Building of Road* increasing. Noting wiiaf he termed "the efforts on the part of a few persons to -ro ate the impression that eonstructi % e progress has been arrested." Governor A. W. McLean issued a formal slate- I ment in which he declared that be | twe*p {40.000.00U and $45.000 000 wlfl | be spent in highway construction in the two year period beginning July 1, 1925, and that the sum id far greater than has been spent In any prior two-year period. The state issued $65,000,000 In bonds for highway construction during the Morrison administration, and added $20,000,000 under McLean. In addi tion, something over $7,000,000 was ob tained from the Federal government during the Morrison regime, and a smaJl amount from the surplus of auto mobile and gasoline taxes. The gasoline tax has now been In creased from 3 to 4 cents, and both it and the automobile tax have shown a steady increase. Governor McWaa estimated at the time of the legisla ture $10,000,000 would be available from this source and from Federal aid during the next two years, giving a total of $30,000,000. He stated that , the increase his estimate was due to between $10,000,000 and $15,000.0C0 anticipated from loans by counties. The total of such loans consummated and pending is already over $12,000,- 000. The statement by the Governor follows:' f "1 have been very much interested of late to note the efforts on the part of a few 1 persons in the State to create the impression that construc tive progress has been arrested. It is , manifest that those who are active I in trying to spread this propaganda are the very ones who oppose any effort to improve the methods of ad- , ministration of State government by ; reducing expenses wherever this can be done without injury to the public I i service. "Among other things charged by these critics is that there has been a slowing down in road construction. A few days ago I asked Mr. Frank Page, chairman of the Highway Com mission, to give me the facts as to the progress in road construction last year and this year. I quote the fol lowing from Mr. Page's statement to me: " "In compliance with your request I find that there is certainly no letting up in road construction In 1925 coin pared with 1924. " 'ln the months of April. May. and June, 1924, we paid out on construc tion projects $5,835,983.81. In ths same period In 1925 we paid out $5, 978,836.35. "•From January 1. 1924, to August 1. I*4, we awarded contracts for construction amounting to J7.245.97t, and in the same period In 1925 we awarded contracts for construction amountin gto $13,627,919.' "From all the Information I have the indications are that the State will spend for highway construction for the two-year period beginning July l, 1925, and ending June 30. 1927. between $40.000 000 and $45,000,000. This ia far in excess of any amount that has been expended for similar period in the past. I do not think, therefore, that the charge that there Is any let ting up in road construction is justified by the facts." 580.300 Flah Distributed in State. Kiah numbering 580.303 have been distributed from the atate's five hatch eries and there are 367,830 on hand, making a total of 948.130. said tha latest report at J. K. Dixon, chairman of the Fisheries Commission Hoard, made public by Governor McLean. These hatcheries were constructed at a total coat of $103,478 02 and operat inf expense* to July 1. 1925. were list ad aa totaling 17,731.40. "1 am very much pleased at th* output of Hah dlatributed from our hatcheriea thla year." wrote Chairman Dixon. In t letter of transmittal to the governor. "We could not expect to make a very good abowing the flrst Tear for the reaaons that It waa al most a pawning time before the baaa ponda ware ready for tha n*h and it waa difficult then to get brook stock; tha ponds were all new and. of ocurse without any growth of graaea or vegs-' tatlon whatever, which ia an Import, ant eaaentlal. I am told "We lost quite a lot cf rainbow trout at oar trout hatcheries because of some trouble with the water sup ply." wrote Chairman Dixon, "but I m glad to aay this has been remedied and we anticipate no further trouble from this source." New Charters laaued. Rex Cigar company. Shelby author lied capital tSO.OOO. with $1,10« «ab scribed by J. r. L H. I Bed ford and B H. Ledford .all of Shelby. C. H. D. Use Raleigh, bus trans portation; authorized capital IIOOOO* with S3OO yuhacrlbed by C. H. Dickey! Ina Andrews Dewey and Albert L Cox all of Raleigh. Carolina Have ftala. bile Raleigh has enjoyed only brief showers during the entire sum mer. the ralnfsl) at Moncure. in Chat ham county. 30 miles southwest of S.7« inches from j u | y 1S to July J,, a WM o f| cllU , y ri# !!!? I~l** 1 ~ l ** SU,#I w *»«her bureau. Of thla amount, Hg inches *ll on July !*' . i F ° r ,fc * •■ Ur « Poriod 11 to *'■ th « «Xai riatail at Raleigh was only 1.77 Inches. Vegetation is reported to b* drying ■» la some sections of North Carolina. 4 a* !• lack of rata. OUSTING MES WAS EXPECTED * BUT ORDER HIM OF POWER SURPRISINGLY DRASTIC. Washington.—Prohibition Comrnis sioner Haynes will he stripped of all authority over prohibition enforce ment September 1. His duties will he lodged in the 24 prohibition administrators to be appointed under the reorganisation of the 1 enforcement forces effective the first of next month, and be will act merely in an advisory capacity to as sist Secretary Andrews of the treas ury. An order authorizing the transfer of authority was issued by Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair, who un der the law, retains nominal jurisdic tion over the prohibition unit. Actual direction of administrators will be in the hands bf Mr. Andrews, who was ap pointed to the treasury with that end in view-. While the order had been forecast, it was much more sweeping than ex pected. It takes away from the com missioner all authority he had with respect to any matters relating to in toxicating liquors as well as all auth ority he has had in approving or dis approving acts of prohibition agents In the field. * Moreover, there no longer will be any requirement that copies of per mits, bonds or other documents re lating to the withdrawal, manufacture or other handling of liquors be for warded to the commissioner. These will remain in the possession of the prohibition administrators who will be stationed at 32 points in the United States, Porto Rico, and Hawaii. While the full effect of the order will not be felt until September 1, control of the manufacture, sale and use of specially denatured alcohol is to be transferred immediately from collectors of internal revenue to the present prohibition directors, who act in this respect as administrators. Auto Crashes Claim Life Toll. Washington.—The number of deaths caused by automobiles in 57 American cities for which statistics are being currently collected by the Commerce Department, totaled 418 during the four weeks ending July 18 as compar ed with 417 in the ' previous four weeks ending June 20. Automobile fatalities in the same cities from January 1 to July 18 num bered 2,511, while the total for the year 1924 was 4,992, and for 1923 it was 4,287. The population of the cities for which the figures are given is 26.821.000. From New York. 501 deaths from automobile accidents had been report ed up to July 18 this year and 76 for the latest four weeks period. Other cities with the heaviest death tolls from automobiles are Chicago, with a total of 299 for the year and 45 for the latest four weeks; Philadelphia 149 and 33; Detroit, 127 and 25; Los Angeles 122 and 14. New Bedford, with but two deaths in the year to date, has the best record among the cities of more than 100.009 population, while seven cities over the 100,000 mark. Bridgeport. Norfolk. Oakland. Oklahoma City, Spokane. Springfield, Mass.. and Tacoma had no automobile deaths at all during the four weeks period last covered by the report. 12 Killed In Accidents. Chicago.—A grade crossing accident at Moorhead. Miss, cost the life of Miller Duease. a planter, and his two grown sons and stood out in a list of week-end traffic accidents and drown ings which had caused a reported total of 12 deaths In central states. The Duease father and sons were killed when a train crashed into their automobile. Two drownings were reported at both Memphis. Tenn . and Marquette. Mich. Granville 8. Booker lost his life in Horn lake. Memphis, when lie vainly strove to rescue from drown ing his friend. Alfred Brogan. At Marquette I-eo and Timothy Decem ber were drowned In the Cbocolay river while on a Ashing trip. 1!. M. Tuck, of Plymouth. 111., a stu dent at the University of Wiaconaln. waa drowned In Lakf Mendoto. Wia. Traffic mishaps claimed three Uvea in Chicago and a fourth died after auffering more than a year from n form of insanity Induced by an auto blla crash. Hurled from his automobile aa It raced down the track at Milwaukee park. Ruben Toung. a youthful Mil waukee driver, was catapulted over another machine speeding at 80 milea an hour Into the field Inside the track. Little hope la held for his recovery. On* Killed, 3 Hurt In Roanoke Fire. Roanoke. Va —Sdwin L Moir, pre* I dent of Moir and Trout. Inc.. wholesale grocers, was killed and tHree firemen war* slightly hurt when the grocery plant was swept by Ore. Mr. Moir waa taken from the ruins of fbe building in the downtown district an hour after the Bre started aad died soon after ward at a hospital. Virtually every piece of Ire fighting apparatus In th* city, including two Are engines of tli* Norfolk 6 Western Railway, was call ed out t* Ight th* tr*. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. C. • BANDIT AT DENVER * ♦ KILLS THREE PERSONS. • » —— • * Denver.—City and county police • * authorities were searching for a • * holdup man whose revolver took • * three lives, two young women and • **a young man. when he was foiled • * in his attempt to rob them. The • • shooting occurred on an outlying • • boulevard. • • The victims were Mrs. Julia • * Stearns. 27, her sister. Miss Marie • • McCormick. 17, Fred Funkner, 19, • • Carl Perry, 21, was wounded in • * the shoulder. • * The robber, who is believed to • • be the man who has recently • * focused his activities on automo- • • bile parties," jumped on • • the running board at the slowly * * moving machine in which his four • * victims were riding and ordered * * them at the point of two revolvers • • to turn over their valuables. One • • of the men told him that they had * • no money. The bandit then fired • * into the machine several times, in- • • stantly killing Miss McCormick • * and fatally wounding Funljner • • and Mrs. Stearns. He then fled. •• • ••••ft************** SOU. FIRM BUYS BUAT LINE CAROLINA COMPANY OF CHAR LESTON WILL GET SIX VESSELS. Washington.—President Palmer, of the Emergency Fleet corporation, recommended to the shipping board that it accept an offer submitted by the Carolina company, of Charleston, S. C., for the purchase of the Ameri can Palmetto line, which it is operat ing for the board from south Atlantic ports—Jacksonville to Wilmington, in clusive — to "London, Liverpool, Bre men, Hamburg. Antwerp and Rotter dam. The Carolina company, if the board approves the recommendation. will pay $5,755 per deadweight ton for the six vessels it operates, each of which is 7,380 deadweight tons or about $276,000 for the line. It guarantees to maintain the service for at least five years Admiral Palmer pointed out in making the announcement that this is the first sale of a cargo line to the managing operator, and indicated bis pleasure that a southern company,, was the first to come forward with a definite, clear-cut ofTer to take over the government ships and maintain existing service. Some of the north Atlantic operators have been talking about coming in with definite offers, British Strengthens Fleet. London.—After much mention in de bate of the United States and Japan, the House of Commons has approved a cruiser-building progcam involving an expenditure of 58 00*0,000 pounds sterling. The former Labor premier, Ramsay Mac Donald, made strenuous efforts to secure passage of an amendment con demning the program but the govern ment's stand was approved when his plan was rejected by a vote of 276 to 140. He made the plea that it was unnecessary to inflict an additional expenditure of 58,000,000 pounds on already overburdened country, to this the argument that there was absolute ly nothing to indicate a war for many years. He depreciated any suggestion that the United States and Japan were possible enemies. Speakers also refer red to this phase of the question. Rear Admiral Sueter, superintendent of air construction, said that there might be friction between Japan and the United States and that "we might be dragged in. in the same way as America was dragged ito the great war.'' Eleven Chinese Strikers Killed. Ivondon. —An agency dispatch from Hong Kong says- that eleven Chinese strikers were killed at Canton by ibe bodygaurd of an official before whose house a mob had gathered demanding a daily cash strike allowance. Tr«* dispatch refers to "an influx of Ru«s slant from Valdlvostok at Canton" and says two Russian ships have arrived at Whampoa. (The character of these Russian ships is not indicated. There are large numbers 'of "white" Russians in var ious parts of China, where they fled from the Bolshevik regime in their own country. There are also "Red" Russians in China. The dispatch does not indicate whether the "Influx" at Canton is by "Reds" or "Whites.") S. A. L. Will Build 32 Miles. Miami, Fla.—Definite announcement that the Seaboard Air Line will extend Its lines from this city to Homestead and Florida City, a distance of 32 miles, was made by 8. Davles Warfleld. president of the railroad, in a tele gram received by the Rediand district Use Rum-Runner in Coast Guard. Wash!ngton. -The Department of Justice is prepar'ng to seek a court order permitting use by the Coast Guard of the British schooner Astra which was seised by coast guard run patrols last Winter. The boat has been conflsrated and her rrew convict ed of rum running and she Is held by the Federal Government at Savannah. Ga. It Is the intention of the coast guard provided the court agrees, to eaplov the former rum rnnaer la its fleet of coast guard boats now in use against the Muggftrrs. PLAN DEFENSE FOR WEST COAST NUMBER OF LONG RANGE RAIL WAY CARRIAGE GUNS PROVIDED. Washington.—The longdelayed pro ject of strengthening Pacific coast de fenses by placing a number of the most modern long range rifles at se lected positions is approaching actual execution. The war department is concluding arrangements by which one of the post-war 14-inch coast artillery mod els. mounted on a railway carriage, will be sent at an early date to a base in the Los Angeles coast defense dis trict. probably in the vicinity of San Pedro. Other big guns are expected to be moved gradually to west coast points. The rifle and carriage destined for the San Pedro vicinity now is at the army ordnance base at Aberdeen, Md. The gun is the largest mobile weapon in army service, and with its carriage weighs 340 tons. The railway trucks on which it will be moved across the continent are constructed with 14 axles each. Ordnance experts point out that nev er before in the nation's transport his tory has a movement of such com pactness of weight been attempted from coast to coast. They see in its trip a severe test of trans-continental rail facilities, including road beds, bridges, tunnels, and locomotives, and expect to gather valuable data bear ing on transportation problems and future rail movements of heavy ord nance in connection with national de fense projects. Army engineers are making surveys of sites near San Pedro, and when they have finally selected a base for the gun it will be started away from Aber deen. No route will be selected for the shipment, however, until after the gun's destination is decided. Officials of the quartermaster general's office and the federal traffic board will plan the movement. The army was authorized to make up a number of big ghns salvaged from naval craft scrapped under the Washington naval treaty. Some of these weapons are of the 16-inch type but for training army personnel. later date in fixed fortifications along the Pacific coast. It is expected that they will not be shipped by rail from the Atlantic, but will bfc moved ,by water, as a core economical method. In the case of the railway artillery pieces, however, it Is planned to use the land routes at all times, as this method ofTords opportunities not only of testing the continental rail systems, but fo rtraining army personnel. 12379,876 Bales Forecast. New York. —The cotton correspond ents of The Journal of Commerce place the present condition of that crop at 64 per cent as compared with 69.6 per cent a month ago and with 70.7 per cent as a five year average. These figures relate to the 12 lead ing producing states, as likewise does the indicated yield of 12,879.876 bales. Severe and prolonged drought, par ticularly in the Southwest, is respon sible for the decline In condition dur ing the month of July. Rains that have come in some sections during tie past few days will no doubt improve the outlook. Mississippi promises an exceptional ly large crop, and the outlook general ly in the East is moderately good. Weevils, fairly general throughout the entire belt, have been held in check by the lack of rain and the preponderance of hot, clear weather. Favorable weather ought to produce a good crop outside of Texas, where, the situation is more or less hopeless over larpe areas. King Opens Italian Prisons. Rome. —An amnesty decree of far reaching proportions, freeing all poli tical offenders, except murderers, and releasing from the jails prisoners of sll kinds, has been granted as an act of royal clemency and as a contribu tion to national pacification on the oc casion of the completeion of the quar ter century reign of King Victor Era maunel. It is estimated that between 10.000 and 12.000 persons will be affected. Under the decree, those guilty of political crimes will be freed, except when the motives were purely per sonal and when murder, even ulnten tional. was committed. Thus, those accused of implication in the Mat teotti murder are excluded. n>e de cree also releases criminal offenders in many minor categories, except when death resulted from the crimes. Those released will include men and women serving one year or lefcs. One Killed and Several Injured. Macon. Ga. —One man mas killed and a number of otbera Injured when the Southern railway's Macon Atlanta train crashed into the rear of a work train that was clearing up the wreck of the Royal Palm, earlier in the day. near Dames Ferry. 20 miles north of here. The dead: H. T. Mussel whit*, of Macon. Ga. The injured included: Robert Pitt man. Atlanta: E. H. Futral. Atlanta. Breman: P. H. Raspberry, ot Macon; IJ. W Thompson. Altnat; C Pace. • 4,000 TONS OF COPPER • • GOING INTO RADIO SETS • • • • New York. —Four thousand ton • • of copper will be used this year • • In the maufacture of radio sets, • • according to the Copper and Brass • • Research association. • • It was estimated the 1925 pro- • • duction would reach 2,000,000 sets • • and bring the total of radio sets in * • u»e to approximately 5.000,000, • • with a valuation of more than * • *500,000,000. • • "Public interest in radio appar- • • ently has continued. unabated," * • the association declared. "The • • manufacture and sale of radio re- • • ceivers has established a record • • for rapid industrial expansion." • HOTEL BANDITS 6ET SIO,OOO I . THREE PERSONS KILLED IN SPEC TACULAR DAYLIGHT HOLD UP. Chicago.—Four masked robbers who attempted to hold up the Drake hotel, exclusive Lake Shore Drive hostelry, | during the afternoon tea hour, pre cipitated a battle between the robbers, j hotel detectives and policemen that re- J suited in the death of two of the rob jbers and the hotel cashier. Another of the hold-up men was ' captured after a terrific battle in the hotel kitchen and a fourth escaped in an automobile with SIO,OOO of the hotels money snatched from the safe and till, while bullets whizzed his head. The robbery, one of the most daring of many years was perpetrated by men under the influence of narcotics, the police said after examining the cap tured robber and questioning hotel employes. The latter described the holdup men as "either drunk or ' dopey." One of the robbers was shot several miles from the hotel after he had commandeered a taxicab forced a wo man from the car, and commanded the driver, at the point of a pistol, to speed aWay with him. The taxi driver wrecked his machine deliberately to allow pursuing policemen to overtake him. The man captured gave his name as Jack Holmes and said he recently came here from New York. The rob ber killed in the taxicab chase is said |to be Eric Nelson, a former employe !of the hotel and the man shot in front of the hostelry was Tex Corts of Tex |as. The hotel cashier and head clerk, Frank Rodke, was shot in the abdomen and died later. • The four robbers entered the hotel, ascended to the mezzine floor where ■the cashier's cage is located and after I stationing / themselves at strategic points, suddenly donned masks and drew pistols oh 25 employes, mostly women. Two robbers guarded the em ployes, herded together, white two others ransacked the cashier's cage. American Woman Slain at Basel Basel, Switzerland. —The body of a | woman, believed by the police to be | that of Mary Bowen, was found in the i vicinity of Goetheanum. a suburb oI | Ba • 1. ! There was a revolver or knife wound extending through the heart and the opinion is the woman was murdered. She was about 35 years old. The police assert that papers found on the body Indicate she came from Berkeley, C*lif. The police used a bloodhound after the body was found in an endeavor to run down the supposed assassins of the woman, but without result. Some money also was found on the body. » Several Dry Director* Selected. , . Washington.—Striding forward with the construction of the treasury's nen prohibition enforcement machine. As sistant Secretary Andrews definitely has decided on aeven or eight of the men*to fill the posts of prohibition administrators under the reorganisa tion. Their name* were withheld, but it was said that they were regarded by the treasury aa among the beat avail able. and that eat-"a had agreed at a considerable persor.a! s:i r flee to join with Mr. Aadrewr in h'.r. e?3Tt to carry out the terms of the Volstead met. Willie the selection of the men for the posts of administrators has proved most difficulL Mr. Andrews has not permitted that to delay his considera tion of other features of the reorgani sation. He now proposes to build a first line of defense against smug gling of liquor. Ranaem Demanded For Doctor. Peking.—Consular advices say that ransom, in money and cartridges, has been demanded by the brigands wfao captured Dr. Harvey J. Howard of the Rockefeller hospital in Peking, more tbaa a week ago while he waa visiting at the Maachnriaa ranch of Morgan Palmer, a native of New York State. The amount of the ransom is aot specified and the whereabouts of Dr. Howard is not revealed. Tfce demand la said to have been forwarded to Samuel Sokobla, Ameri can consul at Mukdea. Mil PLAN TO REDUCE 11. S. TIU CHAIRMAN MADDEN CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT COOL IDGE. Swampscott, Mass. —A tax plan pro posing a reduction of the maximum surtax rates from 40 to 15 per cent slashes in the trt>rmal income rate and abolition of the inheritance, gift and misoalleanous taxes, was laid before President Coolidge by Chairman Mad den, of the house appropriations com mittee. Giving the executive his opinion as to what further economies could be ef fected in governmental appropriations, so as to make an appreciable reduc tion of taxes possible, the committee chairman predicted a surplus for this fiscal year of. $370,000,000. Of this amount he held $350,000,000 should be absorbed by lowering taxes, and $20,- 000,000 applied to a public building program* The President received Mr. Mad den's suggestions with interest, pay ing particular attention to his discus sion of the nation's finances and the j probable drain on the treasury during I the next 12 months, j Later it was stated at the shmmer | White House that while the President ! welcomed suggestions as to far j changes, particularly from congres sional leaders, he is holding his mind open on the subject until definite treasury figures showing how great a reduction is feasible are available. While Mr. Coolidge feels that it propertly is functioning and that he is willing for the treasury to submit its recommendations to Congress, .he is determined that the actual formula tion of a program must be left to the house ways and means commit tee which has been called to begin work in October. Before then, accu rate treasury data will be available and it was indicated that the ideas of the President and treasury would be in rather definite shape. Mr. Madden proposed a tax reduc tion program including elimination of I the miscellaneous taxes, a cut in the [normal and surtax rates to make the combined rate 20 per cent and the eli mination of estate and gift taxes. Under this scheme, the normal rate would be cut from 2 to 1 per ceiit on incomes under $5,000, from 4 to 3 per cent on incomes between $5,000 and SB,OOO, and from 6 to 5 per cent on incomes over SB,OOO. COMMONER IS RESTING NOW IN ARLINGTON Washington.—Beneath a peaceful grass-grown hillside William Jennings Bryan lies to sleep time away. No special guard keeps watch be side his grave. In common with the valorous company of soldier and sailor dead among whom he rests in Arling ton national cemetery, only the quiet tread of troopers on their regular patrol of the great field of the fallen resound above the Commoner's burial plot. j In common, too, with the veteran j dead about him, a simple, white paint led wooden market, placed at the head |of the graves, notes that here lies | William Jennings Bryan, colonel of in j fantry. The form and inscription of | the stone tribute to his memory that ! ultimately will replace that marker still Is to be planned by the grieving widow and the many friends who would do him honor. The long journey of the Commoner from the Tennessee village where he fell asleep ended under the tight drawn canvass of an army tent spread to shelter his grave from the driving rain that had fallen since morning to cease only a moment before the funer al party arrived at the cemetery. I Wkhin that "small inclosure there was no room save for the casket, wrap ped about with the glowing colors ol the flag the dead man had served in peace and the little group of nearest kin and a handful of the many friends of his three decades of stirring life. These and the ministers of the gos pel who said above him the rites for the dead, and who a little time before had given him the laat benediction of the church, alone saw the casket sink slowly down into the earth as the soft calling of an army bugle filled the sleeper to his long repose with the tender notes of "taps,"' the soldier requiem. Even the Borrowing woman who was his dearest care, and who had aat be side big casket throughout the funeral service in a Washington chnrch. did , not aee that laat acene of the career In wtoich she had so large a share. Grip ped by her infirmities, she remained in her closed motor car a hundred yards from the tented grave. j Leaf Tobacco On Hand July 1. Washington -Leaf tobacco held by manufacturers and dealers on July 1 aggregated 1.147.224.52 C pounds eom pared with 1035.C7~.862 on April 1 this year and 1.843.73C.85C on July 1. last year, the census bureau announced. Chewing smoking, snuff and export type* totalled 1.337,7*3.775 pounds compared with 1.522.217487 on April 1 this year and 1.327.851.727 on Juiy 1 laat year. Cigar types totalled 423.t75.04C pounds compared with 422.9CC.i72, oa April 1 this year.