KmELH
|s Elder And Companion
forced Down In Atlantic;
■picked Up By Dutch Boat
pffi
fa MESSAGE
Forced
ft Down. Says Radio
Kje, and Landing
Bade Near Vessel.
IS 1 KNOWN
B Relaved From
fthips as Plane’sßa
■fdild Not Send Mes-
BerLons distance
M 15 i/p) V message to
ftl „f .be Associated
WZ this afternoon from
Filler, the aviatnx, told
5t eea beside the Dutch
Pftlich said that she
■George Haldeman were
Bftiat the landing of the
WT-:. trhile en route to Haris
■ !ork had been caused by
lifwhich did not give
T.< t he tanker, was re-
R!! e Paris office of the
4:33 P. m- The
■ radioed from the
■>tothe steamship Bayano,
Kd it to the wireless sta-
Ktizzrs.
■bv the steamship Baren-
E broken oil ’ine.
Kad myself o. k." 'Signed
ML at which this message
eiren as “8H 6 M"
■ probable these figures (8 :06
Kii bwa garbled in transmis-
Hft< also the possibility, hew
■ the message might have
KLin relay from the steara
■„ < The Bayano, a Brit
■ ; p .'t rhe Barhadoes in West
■ September 21st for Avon
■E^lacd).
Be! 4e sa'ety of Miss Ruth
■ her companion aviator,
Edeaan. cane to turn gloom,
■hpowing anxiety was oaus
■jpirtion that the American
Bipae to join other missing
BLtv planes -which carried
Bmii'ts to graves in the At-
Bitrdcame that the craft had
Hi!; landing in the sea, its
fctime limit was up, and the
h several hours overdue at
Bwrding to Captain Halde-
Icnate.
Bri had been received from
ftttaOir! since Tuesday night
H steamship saw her -winging
BoTtrhead, barely started on
Bstil from New York to
Bid {one well, the American
ft hare made her final battle
ft aments early in the day.
Bn assault on fog-blanketed
B which drove Commander
BWiea back after the big
ft* sT *r the country. The
plane, but more
ft tiaa the American Girl,
■J the sea, and its crew lived
■•thrilling tale.
I h Dutch Tanker.
■ H Oct. 13.— UP) —The
ft Mrendrecht is a Dutch
by the P. T. Van Om
ftopany of Rotterdam, ac
-871 steamship companies.
ft 10 " or Poration of America
ft® 8 * 1 was bound from Val
ft/’ Houston, Texas,
ft* Ow'd* liourget Field.
ftP. trance, Oct. l3._op)__
ft®* 1 northwestern France
ft * at tbe time set for the
ft“ e coast of Ruth Elder’s
ft c^ane - American Girl.
hours after the
ft. ‘ ew or k the mist was
WZZ U Ii0l "' set Field '
■tA 1 fentr-st breeze was
■ war it away.
ftS' ors wbo went up declar-
Bdf„( < r > Ilot (>e Seen rom
ft Os 500 feet.
a ‘ ail _ plane to Amster
■u ' s <lail r plane one-half
■tßf! p a f er Wa iting vainly for
■ H was lost to view
ft Minute.
Bl;/ 103 * r °P , ''rt issued at
tbe risibilit -V at 1,000
■j. , a m De. A:; east wind
ft. ‘ * ' l -0 miles an hour
Ej* auSf s Concern.
By J rau( >, Oct. 13.—0 P)
Alncr ‘ ( ' a n Oiri was
concern at 2 o’clock
ftpiKed Dch time * as fort y
Bi w Slnr< ‘ the plane left
ftWnv4 D l there was no
ftite al °ng the coast
■ NkeH »!" :rs away.
|wV P 0,1 Azores.
KQ ;*• ,/P) - T >« Ra
|t » Ss . Ainern-a announced
ft*, ‘ by wireless
Bn Olympic, that the
ft* 0 f r , r< “ r:fir "''lit had picked
ftofftl* ‘{ rn " n °'da tie, Amer
k;J". •officials said.
t) V * n fri< ' an tlirl picked
Ba
ft*ndreeht the
left p l ; r ' ndon
J iotter dam Oeto-
B^ en a* a’nnr ' a - S- llor PORi
ft,tth«PreSer,?’ mat - Iy
■ resent time.
I
the concord times
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
FACTS ABOUT THE STATE
TO BE SHOWN IN EAST
Exhibits From State Will Be Shown
at Agricultural Museum in India.
he Tribune Bureau,
. Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Oct. 13.—Information on
North Carolina will form a part of
| the exhibit at the new agricultural
museum in Kilshapur, India. It was
► sent by the State Department of Ag
. rieulture upon application of the di
-1 rector Dr. Balkrishna.
In this small State with a popu
lation of 8,000,000 we are having one
agricultural museum in the capital,
which has a population of 60,000
souls,” he write. “The museum is to
be opened by Hig Excellency, the
t Governor General of India. Your
pamphlets, reports and handbooks will
- be of very great help to us for im
proving our agriculture and rural in
dustries. I shall be much obliged if
! you will kindly send whatever litera
ture you can and include our museum
, in your free mailing list.”
Another interesting letter was re
-1 ceived from Brandon Trussell, of Sim
mons College, Boston. “I am making
a special study of North Caroline
Harvard,” he wrote. “I am from
North Carolina. Harvard is anxious
for me to' make a study of the re
sources of North Carolina.”
Referring to the information he
asks, he writes:
“I will see that these things are
, turned over to the Harvard library
and placed with the other North Car
olina section of Harvard University.”
From Bristow, Oklahoma, came a
, letter to the Department from a school
girl, who said she was making a spec
ial study of North Carolina and its
agricultural resources.
Information also has been sent to
the University of Indiana Extension
Division for circulation in package
libraries that are sent to the Indiana
public schools.
I
THE COTTON MARKET
Opened Easy Today at Decline of 7
to 11 Points Under Selling.
New York, Oct. 13.— UP) —The cot
ton market opened easy today at a de
cline of 7 to 11 points under selling
which appeared to Include consider
able hedging by the south and liqui
dation by some of Tuesday’s buyers
who may have been influenced by
dications that the cold wave over the
holidays bad not been accompanied
by killing frosts. • -• ■>'
December eased off to 20.45 and
March to 20.75, net declines of 12 to
19 points under initial offerings, but
bqying on a forecast for light frosts
in the Carolinas, Georgia and Ala
bama helped to steady the market
around these prices. At the end of
the first hour the market was back to
about Tuesday’s closing quotations.
There also seemed to be Borne trade
buying.
Gotten futures opened easy. Oct.
unquoted; Dec. 20.55; Jan. 20.56;
March 20.85; May 21.04.
P. AND N. MAY ASK
EXTENSION OF TIME
No Word Received From Attorneys
WTio Are Drawing Up Exceptions
To Examiner’s Report.
Charlotte, Oct 11. —No word has
been received in Charlotte today from
Northern railroad in the preparation
attorneys for the Piedmont and
Northern railroad in thhe preparation
of exceptions to the adverse report of
the Interestate Commerce commision
examiner on their petition for exten
sion privileges.
W. S. o*ls. Robinson, chief counsel,
conferred there today with Cameron
Morrison, legal aid; W. S. Leej presi
dent of the-Piedmont and Northern,
and Mark W. Potter, of New York,
special counsel.
Interstate Commerce commission
rules provide 20 days for the Pied
mont and Northern to file their ex
ceptions and 10 more days for the
opponents, chief of which is the South
ern railway, to file replies.
The exceptions will constitute an
appeal to the ruling of Haskell C.
Davis, examiner, who presided at the
recent hearing in Charlotte.
Reports which followed Mr. Rob
inson’s departure from North Caro
lina, however, indicated that the peti
tioning. company may seek an exten
sion of time to prepare for the hearing
on exceptions.
Carringtons in Limelight Again.
New York, Oct. 13. — UP) —The New
York Sun says today that Campbell
Carrington was married here on Wed
nesday to Mrs. Anna Walsh Carring
ton, the divorced wife of his brother,
Colonel Edward O.- Carrington. The
brothers gained notoriety last March
when the colonel was arrested on a
charge of beating Campbell with c
cane. Later the colonel’s wife ob
tained a divorce.
Yale has the firs authentic record
of college football in America in an
annual freshman-sophomore match,
which became an institution in 1840.
Every Tom, Dick and Harry
reads the classified page—and
so do Mary, Alice and James
and Bill. The classified ads are
the medium through which the
people sell or rent things to one
another. If you have wood for
sale, if you want to buy garden
tools, if your son or daughter
is looking for a position, if you
want to sell or rent your house,
use the classified ads.
PHONE 78
lOTHEfi REJOICES
DAUGHTER IS SAFE
Sobs Choked Voice of Mrs.
Elder as She Gave
Thanks That No Harm
, Had Befallen Daughter.
Anniston, Ala., Oct. 13.— UP) —Sobs
chocked the voice of Mrs. J. O. Elder
here today as she gave thanks that
no harm had befallen her adventurous
daugher, Ruth Elder, trans-Atlantic,
avlatrix.
The girl flyer's parents, sisters and
brothers were gathered in a news
paper office here this morning anxious
ly awaiting reports of their daughter’s
progress across the Atlantic in the
plane American Girl.
Throughout the night they eat in
their little home not caring to sleep.
Anxiety was written on the faces of
all.
“I knew Ruth would be found safe,”
the mother exclaimed when she was
told of the landing. The father, stand
ing aside, turned his head and wiped
away a tear. Smiles on the faces
of brothers |ind sisters replaced the
troubled expressions which plainly had
shown their misgivings during the last
few days.
New York, Oct. 13.— UP) —Informed
by the Associated Press that her hus
band and Ruth Elder were safe after
a landing at sea, Mrs. George Haldc
man said “Oh, thank yoil so much.
I knew they would be all right.”
Mrs. Haldeman and the backers of
the flight, H. E. Cornell and T. H.
McCardle, all expressed great relief
and joy that the flyers were safe.
“That oil line breaking is the sort of
luck that might happen on any
flight, I suppose,” said Mr. Cornell.
<4 Of course they will be disappointed
that they didn’t make it, and so are
we, but we are glad they are safe.”
SUMMERALL RETURN
CAUSES SPECULATION
No One at Washington Knows Any
thing About His Recall From the
Pacific Coast.
Washington, Oct. 13.—< A *)—The in
dicated return of Major General Sum
morall, chief of staff of the army, from
an interrupted tour of inspection on
tbe Pacific Coat left war department
officials puzzled today, both Acting
Secretary MacNider and the acting
chief of staff asserting they had no
knowledge of any orders recalling him
to Washington.
It was said no message from Gen
eral Summerall, telling of a change in
his plans had been received.
The only course of possible orders
recalling him, other than from the
war department, would be either from
Secretary Davis in Columbus, 0., or
from the White House. With Presi
dent Coolidge in Pittsburgh today, no
information was available at the
White House.
The possibility suggested in dis
patch e« from the Pacific Coast that
General Summerall had been recalled
because of a speech delivered Tuesday
in San Diego in which he is said to
have severely criticized the govern
ment policy in connection with hous
ing of troops created widespread in
terest among army officers and of
ficials.
The chief of staff is known to hold
positive views on that subject and had
exhibited recently a considerable de
gree of frankness in expressing his
opinion publicly, although up to this
time he has avoided anything ap
proaching a direct conflict with con
gressional or administration policy in
handling the army housing problem.
Should it prove that President Cool
idge has intervened directly because of
General Summerall’s remarks in San
Diego, and recalled him to Washing
ton, the situation wou'd be almost un
precedented in army history. As a
rule, where the President desired to
take such action, White House .in
structions to the secretary of war
would accomplish the purpose, the ac
tual orders to the officer involved be
ing sent in the name of the secretary.
DAY OF REST FOR
COLONEL LINDBERGH
Spends Most of Day In His Hotel
Room at Spartanburg.
Spartanburg, Oct. 13. — UP) —A day
of rest was ahead of Colonel Charles
A. Lindbergh, New York to Paris
flyer. Today was one of two days a
week provided for rest during his
tour of the country, under the auspices
of the Guggenheim Foundation.
Tomorrow morning will leave
for Greensboro and Winston-Salem to
be the guests of North Carolina.
Colonel Lindbergh brought to an
end last night, three days crowded with
festivities and ceremonies at Jackson
ville, Fla., Atlanta and here. He had
no announced engagement of any kind
today and is expected to spend the
day quietly in a local hotel Where he
and his party have a suite of rooms.
The Guggenheim Foundation, it was
stated, has decreed that Colonel Lind
bergh have two rest days weekly,
Thursday and Sunday. On these days
he is to be kept from the public gaze,
and allowed rest and quiet.
German Plane Off Again.
Brunsbuettel, .Germany, Oct. 13
VP) —The Heinkel hydro-airplane D
-1220 which arrived here yesterday
from Warnemuende, left for Amster
dam at 9:45 o’clock this morning in
continuance with its attempted flight
to the United States byway of the
Aaores.
CONCORD, N, C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1927
WORTH $20,000
fipUMOW HI aBsB
Mrs. Caroline T. Warner in
the Hant Hospital Roxbury,
Mass., has filed suit against her
sister-in-law for alienation.of af
fections^
REED IS ACCLAIMED
BY MISSOURI PEOPLE
Great Ovation for Senater At Demo
cratic Rally Held Yesterday.
Scdalia, Mo., Oct. ' 12.—United
States Senator James A. Reed, who
only seven years ago was repudiated
by a state Democratic convention be
cause-: of his anti-Wilson utterances,
today was acclaimed at a state-wide
Democratic rally and barbecue here
as the .party's local presidential stand
ard bearer in 1928.
Senator Reed was given ovation
after ovation as he delivered an ad
dress denouncing the Republican na
tional administration and declaring
“the time is ripe and rotten ripe
for a change.”
The senator’s speech was accepted
as the opening of a campaign to ob
tain for the next Democratic national
convention a Missouri delegation in
structed for Reed. Between 10,000
and 15,000 persons, from all sections
of the state, were at the coliseum at
the state fair grounds to hear him
speak.
The action of the state Democratic
committee last night in unanimously
indorsing Reed for President and urg
ing him to file again for the senator
ship, so he might continue to represent
the state if he should not receive the
presidential nomination, was in strong
contrast to the attitude of his party
in 1920. He then was refused the
privilege of representing Missouri as
a delegate to the Democratic national
convention and was denounced from !
one end of the Btato to another as be
ing no longer a Democrat.
MAN AND WIFE FOUND
IN BURNING RESIDENCE
Officials Undecided About Fate of Dr.
F. F. Blair and His Wife.
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 13. — UP) —
Dr. F. F. Blair, former state physi
cian, and Mm. Blair, were found shot
to death early this morning, lying on
the floor of their burning residence.
Firemen breaking in to extinguish the
flames discovered the bodies. .
Dr. Blair was shot through the
back and Mrs. Blair had a wopnd that
apparently pierced the heart. Be
tween them lay a pistol with two emp
ty chambers. In another room was
found a similar weapon with two
empty chambers. Coroner Russum
/early today was undecided whether
the deaths were due to murder or to
suicide.
Heigler Freed of Cash Theft.
Asheville, Oct. 12. —Carl Heigler,
17-year-old stenographer who was ar
rested in Lenoir recently when he
alighted with a box containing about
one thousand dollars in cash which
he is alleged to have taken from the
offices of the Carolina Power and
Light company where ho was em
ployed here, was released this morn
ing in police court,
THE STOCK MARKET
Reported by Fenner & Beane.
(Quotations at 1:20 P. M.)
Atchison
American Can
Allied Chemical 135%.
American Smelting 168%
American Tel & Tel. 184%
Atlantic Coast Line 193 ,/
Baltimore & Ohio 121%
Bethlehem Steel
Chesapeake & Ohio 207%
Chrysler „ ■ sz — .
Corn Products Vft- — 00%
New York Central 164%
Dupont 336%
Erie r
St. Louis-Francis. RR. 112%
General Electric 136
Gold Dust 07 %
General Motors 137%
Gen. Ry. Signal 140
Houston Oil 1*3%
Hudson Motors 71%
Mo.-Kans. & Tex* 45%
Kennecott Copper 74%
Kans. City. 6ou. Ry. 64%
Lorillard 37%
Mack Truck 107%
Mo.-Pacific Pfd. 56%
Montgomery-Ward 82
Nash Motors 87%
Packard Motors 47%
Penn. RR. 66%
Phillips Pete 39%
Producers and Refiners 28%
Reading RR. 114
“B” Rey. Tob. Com. 148%
Rock Island RR. 107%
Sears Roebuck 75%
Southern Ry. 134%
Std, Oil of N. J 39
Sou. Pac. RR, 123%
Studebaker Corp. 56%
Tobacco Products 95%
Union Carbine 128%
Vicks Chemical 57%
Westinghouse Elec. Co. 83%
West. Maryd. RR. 61%
Yellow Cab and Truck 32%
Wool worth 183%
U. S. Steel 145% J
Coca-Cola !?6%
vS
Fair Weather I
Day At Dist
Bright Sunshine Greeted
Thousands This Morning
as They Prepared to En
joy Fair Today.
RAIN YESTERDAY
KEPT CROWD DOWN
The Singing Contest To
morrow and Auto Races
Saturday Are Chief Fea
tures for Rest of Week.
Cabarrus County Day at the Fair
dawned bright and clear. An aura of
sunshine, and freshness dispelled the
rain and slush of yesterday, which
causedt he handful of would-be spec
tators to play hide and seek with the
sun, and v the “Big Parade” to the big
gest day of the season was on.
Forgetful of routine habits, unmind
ful of everything but the chance to re
freshen old friendships and to make
newacq uaintances, hundreds upon
hundreds of the sons and daughters
of C'abarus joined the holiday throng.
Business in the city is at a standstill,
in most instances, while the day is be
ing observed as a half holiday for the
occasion.
Constant showers fell all day long
yesterday and kept the attendance at
the second day to the lowest mark it
has seen in the whole five years.
Friday will be Rowan and Mont
gomery Day and will also feature the
Inter-County Sing : ng Contest, popu
lar feature that made such a popular
hit in its inaugural a' year ago. All
nine of tho counties in the district
have entered choirs and their selec
tions will be rendered in front of the
grand-stand Friday afternoon begin
ning at 3 :C0 o’clock.
Saturday will be the last, but by
no means the least day. The feature
events for this closing day will include
the first automobile raceß that have
ever been hold at a Cabarrus Fair.
Profeeional dirt track drivers from all
parts of the country have announced
their intention of entering and the six
races should provide thrills galore for
the onlookers. These events have
been sanctioned by the Contest Board
of the American Automobile Associa
tion.
Registered A. A. A. drivers who
have signed entry blanks include Bob
Robinson, Doug Wallace, Ray Keech,
.Jean Mandeloff, Harry Lewis, Gil
bert Wassner, Joe Fresco, Cliff Hen
derson, Jim Morehead and Myron
Fultz. All of these men will pilot
their special racers in -the competi
tion for the purses that have been
offered by the Fair Association.
The soggy, heavy track, that caus
1, ed all the horse races scheduled for
yesterday to be called off, dried oat
sufficiently under today’s blistering
son to assure the customary speed and
excitement to the harness events of
the afternoon.
Four races will be run today, be
ginning at 1.30 o’clock. The other
event, postponed from yesterday, will
be put on Friday’s card.
Rested from their forced holiday
yesterday, the members of the free
act companies will be at their best
for Cabarrua Day. As on the open
ing day they will amuse the crowds
in the st4nd§ with their high class
comedio and acrobatic stunts. Per
sons who saw their first exh’bitions
are unanimous in declaring that they
have the best series of free acts that
have ever been shown in this vicinity.
The judges completed their work on
Tuesday and Wednesday and the prize
ribbons created renewed interest in
the exhibits, livestock and poultry.
According to Jhe officials, there are
more entries this year than ever be
fore, the Berkshire Hog Show hav
ing drawn an astonishingly large quan-1
tity of pure breds. The winners will
be announced in these columns with
in the next few days.
Visitors have been loud in their ac
claim for the exhibits in the big halls.
The variety and quality surprised
those persons who visited the fair for
the first time this week. They are not
accustomed to such exhibits at a coun
ty fair.
The crowds were exhuberantly joy
ful at the decided change for the bet
ter in today's weather. Where twen
ty-four hours ago it looked as though
the Fair program might be knocked
into a cocked hat for the rest of the
week, it now gives promise of the
most perfect ever.
ELECTROCUTED MAN
REVIVED BY FIREMEN
Apparently Dead, Counter Shocks
an* 1 Inhalators Are Used on Him
With Success.
Cincinnati, Oct. 9. —Apparently
dead from the effects of an electric
shock, William G. Stillwell, Jr., 23,
was revived by niembers of the life
saving squad of the Cincinnati fire
department today. Stillwell was re
moved to a hospital where physicians
reported he would recover. The n re
men, summoned to a station of the
Union Gas and Electric company,
found Stillwell to all appearances
lifeless. His heart had stopped, they
reported. By means of counter shocks
treatment and use of inhalators the
firemen gradually brought the vic
tim’s heart into action.
Lutheran Brotherhood of America.
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 12.—Many
delegates are arriving in Milwaukee
to attend the biennial convention of
the Lutheran Brotherhood of America,
the sessions of which will begin today
and continue until Saturday. The
convention promises to be the largest
and most Important held by the or
ganization since it was formed in 1917
to meet the spiritual, social and phys
ical needs of Lutheran boys in the
military service.
The chief business of the coming
convention will be the reorganization
of the Brotherhood so as to place it
under synodical control, the new name
proposed being “The American Fed
eration of Lutheran Brotherhoods.”
ForCaba 's
iict Fair \ re
PROPERTY SHOULD £
TAXED AT TRU \ aLUE
It Is Believed Tax Rate Could Be Cut
in Half If This Were Done.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Oct. 13. —The average tax
rate in the state of North Carolina
could~-be materially reduced, perhaps
almost cut in half, if property sub
-1 ject to taxation were taxed at its true
, value instead of at some mythical tax
rate which at present prevails in most
counties now.
Upon this broad fact, both Dr. Fred
W. Morrison, secretary of the state
tax commission, and Leßoy Martin,
secretary of the state board of equali
-1 zation, are agreed. But how to bring
about a revaluation of the property
within the state on a true basis is a
different question! and one with which
the tax commission is wrestling now,
and with which it will continue to
wrestle for some mofiths to come.
However, the fact still remains that
despite all the talk about high taxes
and high tax rates, that much of this
is attributable to a misunderstanding
of the underlying factors of taxation.
For experts have found that as a rule
where there appears to be an exces
sively high tax rate, this rate is al
most always based upon a fictional
valuation usually far below the actual
true valuation.
For example the tax rate in a cer
tain city in Illinois is 70 cents per
SIOO valuation —an admittedly high
, rate. But investigation by tax ex
perts showed that this rate was based
on a valuation of only about 50 per
. cent, of'the true value of the property.
, Thus, the rate in reality was but 35
. cents per SIOO valuation, which is not
an excessive rate. In fact, the av
erage tax rate over the entire United
I States, based on true and not mythical
. valuations, has been found to be be
i tween 20 and 30 cents per SIOO, and
nearer 20 than 30 cents —not an ex
cessive amount.
In North Carolina, the assessed
value of all property, both real and
personal, as fixed by the state board
of assessment, is put at $2,700,334,-
695 for the year 1926. But it is gen
erally agreed that this figure by no
means represents the value of the real
1 and personal wealth in the state.
1 According to the United States cen
sus report for the year 1922, the total
real and personal wealth in North
Carolina that year was estimated as
amounting to more than $4,000,000-
000. A more recent estimate made
following a survey of the StateaiLd
quoted in the Blue Book of the South
ern Manufacturers Record, fixes the
, estimated value of all property in the
state at about $5,000,000,000, and a
. similar estimate taade by the South
ern Railway economists and experts
1 places the valuation, which in both
cases is given as a minimum and con
. servative estimate, at about the same
figures. Other d*timates less care
fully made have gone as high as $6,-
000.000,000.
Thus It can be seen that if taxes
were levied on this basis instead of the
valuation of $2,799,334,690, as at pres
ent, that a substantial cut in tax rates
could be made in most of the counties
of the state —since there is no state
wide tax on property.
There are but three states—Penn
sylvania, Wisconsin and North Caro
lina —for which there is not an esti
mate of the true value of all property
for the year 1926 and in a large num
ber of states this estimate *is used as
the basis for fixing the tax rate. In
Maine and New Hampshire, this es
timated value is taken as the true
value and the taxes are assessed Ira a
100 per cent, basis. * In Vermont the
real and personal tax is assessed on
65 per cent, of the estimated valua
tion, and all other taxes at 75 per
cent, of the real value.
In all there are seventeen states
which assess their taxes on a 100 per
cent, basis against the estimated true
, valuatfon in the state. These, are
notably northern and western states,
however, most of the southern states
using only a fractional valuation.
In Virginia, for instance, the real
and personal property tax is assessed
against a valuation that is only 40
per cent, of the true valuation, while
in South Carolina the tax is assessed
against a valuation of only 25 per
cent, of the true value. In Florida,
only 50 per-cent, of the true valua
tion is used. In Kentucky, real prop
erty is assessed at 80 per cent, of its
true value, and personal property at
only 65 per cent.
FOUR AUTO RACES
SCHEDULED FOR STATE
Concord, Wilson and New Bern Get
Approval of A. A. A.
Charlotte, Oct. 10. —Automobile rac
ing appeared to be coming into its day
in North Carolina with the receiving
here of announcement from the Ameri
can Automobile Association at Wash
ington that within 30 day four au
thorized racing events would be held
at three cities in the State.
With purses ranging from SSOO to
SI,OOO and aggregating $2,200, the
schedule of the North Carolina races
was given as follows:
October 15, Concord fair grounds;
October 22, Wilson fair grounds;
October 31, New Bern fair grounds
track; November 5, New Bern fair
grounds track.
With Our Advertisers.
The J. C. Penney Co. is now offer
ing fall and winter coats styled and
priced to please. Prices range from
$14.75 to $39.75. See a new ad. to
day.
Belk’s is ushering in the newest
fall coat styles. See ad. today. Coats
priced at $9.95 to $39.50.
Suits and sweaters for boys and
youths at Eflrd's. See ad. today lor
attractive prices^
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance
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Berman, wizard of the Julian
Petroleum scandal, handled $67,-
000,000 according to reports, is
now broke and has surrendered
in San Francisco.
TWIN CITY IS READY
FOR COL. LINDBERGH
Final Plans Made For Noted Flier's
Reception After He Arrives There
Friday.
Winston-Salem, Oct. 12.—Winston-
Salem has completed preparations to
day for extending a generous welcome
to Colonel Lindbergh when he arrives
here in the “Spirit of St. Louis” Fri
day afternoon.
The final conference of various com
mittees appointed to arrange details
1 for what is expected to be the greatest
reception Winston-Salem has ever ac
corded a visitor, was held this after
noon. Following the conference it
was announced that everything is in
readiness to welcome the famous avia
tor.
Three hundred ex-service men have
volunteered to serve as special of
ficers in aiding police and national
guardsmen in handling the crowds.
Plenty of parking space, it is an
nounced, will be available near the
airport, bnt nobody will be allowed on
the landing field when Colonel Lind
bergh lands.
The famous aviator's first act after
landing in Winston-Salem will be* to
dedicate in a brief ceremony the new
Miller Municipal airport, recently
erected here. The land for the air
port was provided by the county and
funds for its equipment were given
by Clint Miller,l ocal philanthropist.
Colonel Lindbergh will spend the
, night here, leaving in his plane for
Richmond, Va., Saturday morning at
, 0 o’clock.
NEWSPAWK BOLD
IN GREENSBORO
Greensboro Record Is Purchased By
Richmond and Tampa Men.
Greensboro, Oct. 12.—Sale of the
entire capital stock of the Greensboro
Daily Record to John Stewart Bryan,
publisher of the Richmond News-
Leader, and 6. E. Thomason, publisher
of the Tampa TYibune, was announced
here today. The price was not given.
The new owners took over the opera
tion of the Record today and announc
ed the appointment of Raymond
Ilahne, formerly of the Chicago TrK
bune, aB general manager to succeed
Major Edney Ridge.
Mr. Thomason will be publisher.
There was no announcement as to
who would succeed Arthur T. Taylor,
the editor, who retires.
Announcement of the sale was made
by Julian Price, president of the Jef
ferson Standard Life Insurance Com
pany, former owner.
Mr. Bryan and Mr. Thomason are
joint owners of the Tampa Tribune,
and the former is president of the
American Newspaper Publishers’ As
sociation, having succeeded Mr. Thom
ason to that post last year.
ANNUAL MEETING OF
* TRUSTEES CONCLUDED
Greensboro College for Women In
Excellent Condition, Report Says.
Greensboro, Oct. 12. —Concluding
the annual sessions; the officers and
trustees of Greensboro College, main
tained here by the Methodist Episcopal
Church of the State for the education
of women, report the institution to be
in excellent condition and to face a
very prosperous and successful year.
The reports of the president, Dr. S.
B. Turrentine, and the treasurer and
business manager, Rev. ( W. M. Curtis,
were heard and endorsed by the trus
tees, with resolutions of appreciation.
All officers and directors of the
institution wene re-elected. Charles
S. Wallace, of Morehead City, Is
continued as president of the trustees,
John A. Young, this city, as chairman
of the executive committee, and Dr.
Fred Peacock, High Point, as chair
man of the endowment fund. Greens
boro college now has slightly over 800
students.
Will Fly Over Charlotte.
Charlotte, Oct. 13.—OP)—Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh will fly over
Charlotte, at 10 a. m. Friday en route
to Greensboro and Winston-Salem, ac
cording to information obtained today
at the Chamber of Commerce. C. O.
Kuester, * business manager of the
Chamber, obtained Wednesday from
Colonel Lindbergh at Spartanburg his
promise to extend air greetings to this
city on the next jump.
Man Dies After 87 Hours Sleep.
Washington, Oct. 12. —Samuel S.
Dalton, 53, died here today, aft*r
sleeping without interruption for 57
hours. Deaths followed a mysterious
illness which doctors bad been un
able to diagnose definitely. They were
of-'the opinion, however, that it wae
neither sleeping sickness nor paraly
sis; and that an abscess on the
brain might have been the* cause.
Call for Bank Statements.
Washington, Oct. 13. C4 s)—Comp
troller of the currency today issued
a call for the condition of all na
tional banks at the close of business
on Monday, October 10th.
PRESIDENT VISITS
PITTSBURGH TODAY
TO IKE ADDRESS
'Rides About City and lib
Greeted by Crowds Who
Gather Along Sidewalks
to Pay Honor to Him. *
IS GUEST OF *
SEC. MELLON
During the Afternoon the
President Will Deliver
an Address at the Car
negie Institute.
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Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 13. — UP)—len
der an overcast sky, President Coolidge »
went sight seeing by antombile todv
before going to Carnegie Institute Th»
speak late in the afternoon at the
Founders Day celebration there.
Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of t£e
Treasury, was the President's host
for the day, and led him and Mrs. Cool-
Idge on their automobile trip of more
than an hour about the city, soon,
after breakfast, which was served at
the residence of R. B. Mellon, brother
of the Secretary.
The route led through the heartVof
the business district and enthusiastic
crowds at most points waved a wel
come to the President as he made hi:
way toward the Block House, frontier
barracks of old Fort Pitt, at the
“Forks” where the Allengheny and
Monongahela rivers join to form the
Ohio river.
Referring to the motor trip as a
parade, the Pittsburgh newspapers
had published in detail the proposed
route, and a good part of this busy
city took time off to get a glimpse of
Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge.
AGED COUPLE CHARGED
WITH THREE MURDERS
Bills of Indictment Are Returned
Against Mr. and Mrs. Harris Hayes
In Georgia. ,
Blakely, Ga., Oct. 12. —Indictments
charging Mr. and Mrs. Harris Hayes,
prosperous 60-year-old farm couple,
with murder in connection with the
deaths of their sons, James and Amos,
and their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Gladys
Hayes, 16-year-old widow of Amos,
were returned by the Early county
grand jury today.
The true bills were returned after
the grand jury hod spent several dkys
in investigating the deaths of the thjee
persons in the Hayes household under
mysterious circumstance within a few
tveeks.
Mr. Hayes is held in jail here and
Mrs. Hayes has been held at Cttth
bert since their arrest some weeks
ago, charged with poisoning Mrs.
Gladys Hayes.
The prosperous couple were arrested
when an examination of the viscera
of Mrs. Gladys Hayes showed traces
of poison. Following their arrest,
suspicion was cast on the deaths of
their sons, and their bodies were dis
interred and an examination of the
vital organs showed traces of poison.
ELEVEN ARE HURT
IN BUS ACCIDENT
Accident Occurred About Two Miles
Out of'Princeton; Hit Big Truck*
Goldsboro, Oct. 12.—Eleven per
sons enroute from Raleigh by bus,, re
ceived minor injuries and numerous
cuts and bruises when the bus struck
a heavy tiuek, reported to have
been parked by the side of the road
tonight.
The accident occurred two miles
out from Princeton. One of the in
jured was A. W. Allen, coroner of
New Hanover County aad assistant
pressman on the Wilmington Star,
Mr. Allen was cut about the head in
being thrown against the seats.
The bus, turning upon its aide,
threw all passengers about roughly
and some rarrowly escaped seriout
injury.
Mr. Allen was brought to Golds*
boro and taken .o a hospital where
he received medical attention. . ?•
Carlton Precies, of Faison, als6
was slightly injured.
FLYER MARRIED
IN THOMASVILX2I
Ruth Elder’s Companion Flew Away
With Bride Following Ceremony.
Thomasville, Oct. 12. George
Haldeman, who is the companion of
Ruth Elder in her flight to Paris, was
married to Virginia Lufsey, of Lake*
land, Fla., in the home here of Dr.
J. W. Peacock, on Salem Street in
1020. Haldeman having come up from
Florida in his airplane for his bride,
who was Dr. Peacock’s niece.
The marriage was quite a social
event of the town, many friends being
present. After marriage Haldeman
and bride hopped off in his
circled over High Point while the
chimes at Wesltey Memorial Church
sounded out until the happy flyers
heard the pealing notes. .Then th«
plane pulled off in a southerly direo
tion and soon disappeared in the di»
tance.
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THE STOCK MARKET.
Prices Opened Irregularly Higher at
* Opening of Market Today.
New York, Oct. 13.—C4*) —Stoel
prices open irregularly higher at tin
opening of today’s market. Houstbi
Oil showed an initial gain of 2 points
and Chesapeake & Ohio 1 point
American Waterworks, new stock fel
back 1% points on first sale. Quota
tions on bank stocks were transferret
back to the bond tickers today.
wmrn
Fair and cooler tonight, light froi
in extreme west portion; Friday fail
rising temperature in interior*
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