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I'" i/P) The eot gß | steady t<>- g^W lr in of m t,, is points local selling pro gß : '”!;i'.v.-,\ , asy Liverpool Wm^ r \ Ci in 111.l’T and May BH M-t 1 1 1 • 1 iiir.s of 2(1 to H"b" 1 11 •> 1I TL~ brought a re- H^R'" v,,, 'ii’i; trade buying. gß' bn- in.uikct. and at mid- BR "1 ■> n points from the gß*' ' I H iiiainttiitied. |B' ! " I TP) —(bit toll B t'U! "!y st inidy. Dee. SB . M,nr. 1t).54 ; .May gß' lh.iai. I. I K Iwo M( n Attempted to' }j fr Husband Alive. . Tex., i), — Mr*. Jose -1:1 .lud an unnaiu'sl in jail here today 'uv'M ljtaml a story al -1,11 a told by tile worn-' ." an ti, u s them iter V! ’’ ! iirn .lost* Valensu- ' ;• 1 1••inptiup; to learn of livings they be f‘"i !! <cinii:il;ited. I a a Pinner member of the “ ( aivery, is in William 1 here, still under r' 1 ’ the burns alleged to MH-eive.i in the torture ago. If* ' n lidity of Bonds jr e , e - —(4 s )—Testing of f 1 die STo.OOO state fair J'he-1 i as t summer, will ■ meeting of the State ■ ooejptv to make plans ■ !:, >r. Win a. Graham. I of Agriculture. THE CONCORD TIMES J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher Congress Opens With Many Important Problems To Be Faced During The Session SENATE’S CONTROL I NOT YET CERTAIN. Due To Number Os Demo crats In Senate The Re publicans May Not, Be Able To Organize. j SMITH AND VARE READY FOR FIGHT It Is Certain Big Fight Will Follow When Effort To Seat Them Is Made On Senate Floor. Washington. Dee. s—(/P)—Con gress assembled today for the first session of its 70th term. Facing a host of problems as im portant as any since the war. and beset by internal political eruptions. I the legislators approached a long j avenue of endeavor that will bring ! them to adjournment in the summer. J just in time for the nnrfv conventions i and the following Presidential cam- I pai?n. With the day to itself in prepara | tion for receipt tomorrow, of Presi | <lent Coolidge’s message, and tin* hnd j get recommendations on Wednesday. Congress devoted its first day to or ganization of its two chambers. A two-fold fa reap was the Senate's ! prospect, bub the House, with a sub stantial republican majority, anlici pa ted little difficulty in putting over | it'i urogram of re-election of Speaker Nicholas Longworth and other party officials over the Democratic ticket , headed by Finis J. Car rest, the min j ority leader. Republican leaders were not so op timistic in the Senate, where a small group of western independents. be cause of the one vote majority of the old guard over the Democratic niein | bership. held the whip hand in decid- I rug whet her Senator Moses, of New ! Hampshire, or Senator Pittsmau. Democrat, of Nevada, shall be Presi dent pro-tem. With the organization program and the light over the seating of Senn tors-eleet Frank L. Smith, of Illinois and Win. S. Vare. of Pennsylvania, in the balance, leaders of both partie; conferred before the session opened with the independents. hoping to smooth the way to agreement. Vice-President Dawes rapped for j order in the Senate exactly when the hands of the Senate clock came to gether at noon. As usual, the func tion of opening the House session fe’ to Wm. Tyler Page, the House e erk. who presided pending the election o' the sj*eaker. Vare and Smith, whose right t" sit in Senate is contested because >f their campaign expenditures, were both on the floor when Senate came to order. Vare came in with Senator Reed, of Pennsylvania, and Smith with Senator Deneeu, «>f Illinois. The members of botli houses bowed their heads as the chaplains offered the opening invocation. Immediately afterward in the House, the roll of states was called, a ceremony occupy ing a half hour. When they presented themselves to take the oath of office. Smith and Vare ' were stopped by a-resolut ion presented j by Senator Norris of Nebraska, dcclar ! ing them unfit to sit in the Senate be- I cause of the scandal surrounding their primary campaigns. On motion of Senator Curtis, it was agreed to post pone further action until t*Rorrow. The Senate also put oft until later the election of its secretary and other officers, around which another storm, is threatening. A western republican in surgent group of five who want guai antees as to farm relief and other leg islative subjects still were deliberating this afternoon whether to bolt the re , publican slate of senate officers and turn a majority for the Democrats. The Senate remained in session onl> m minutes, and the leaders will at tempt overnight to smooth out some ot 1 their difficulties in private. _ The House, which had no troubles, lingered much longer allotting time out of its first day s sessron so re-elect Nicholas Ixmgworth, of Ohio, as speaker, and to perfect other Retails ; of its organization. D«-p-S»at«l U>v« For IFH,I».V •>«»«■ London. l>oc. 3.-The '*■*“** h “ S o'i built is ca lining a great neat ot discussion in British golfing c.rdes. V -ift of $30,000 from adminng American ,olfer» for ns- uL bmo - ing a home for Bobby Jones m At lanta has been widely remarked th discussion finally finding its wn> m to print. I The current issue of “Golf lUns trated” in a full P}«e ."What We Think of l t he Jones, Householder, . * Rritish open champion and * _ can amateur titleholder. is the victim of m\ American hero worshipping } public and is wi ling to wager when Bobby blusbingly muraeN .thanks for the gift, be , mU ™^ ed a wish to heaven that peopm would not do these things. I Yale’s 14 to 0 Victory over Har- EfSWaKWfSS 1903. W. J. Scott, Insurance Man of Durham, Found Frozen To Death In Icy Stream Durham'. Dec. 4. —Submerged be neath the water of a little creek with ! paly his head above the surface, the body of W. ,1. Scott, insurance agenl of this cify. was found this afternoon on the lower end of South sireet. Some time during the early part of last night, while trying to make his way to the city, he stumbled into the water and was frozen to death. With the discovery of the body, hidden from sight by the water, the sleet and snow which covered him causing members of the police de partment to search twice before it was found. Sin*riff „.,hn F. Harwnrd ami Coroner W. P. Sneed were called to the scene. Examination of the body failed to reveal any marks which might lead to the belief that the man had met with foul play. No verdict was given by the coroner pending a more complete investiga tion tomorrow. Being an insurance agent. Scott was on his regular Saturday night WARRANTS ARK ISSUED FOR SCOTT DIIjLINGHAM Asheville “Financial Wizard” Charg er With Violating “Blue Sky” Law. Asheville. Dec. 3. —Violation of the “blue sky" law was charged in war rants placed in the hands of Sheriff Laurence IW>wn today for the ar rest of Scn\, Dillingham, alleged "financial wizard." At the same time an injunction was secured in Superior eourt to pre vent the disposition of any property belonging to seven corporations al leged to have been sponsored by Dil lingham. A temporary receiver for the companies was appointed in the order signed by Judge Roy 1.- Deal. The warrants asking for Dilling ham's arrest charge him with selling securities not registered in the cap ital issues department in Raleigh, and with selling securities through companies not .licensed to sell them. Meanwhile a country-wide search is being conducted for Dillinghai)). who for tiny past three weeN* has been mysteriously missing'from Ashe ville. Authorities believed Saturday that he was in Cuba. He is said t». have left tin* city with all the records of seven companies together with the securities issued by the com panies. With Our Advertisers. Mid-winter fashions- just a step ahead of the mode at the Cray Shop Coats at S2!U>. .$34.01) and $30.50 mu’ ach is worth from $lO to $25 more than the price this shop is asking. Holiday frocks at $lO and up. Cal at this store to see the attractive goods* Women who have shaped around find the coats at the H. C. Penny Co. are exceptionally smart. Im press latest style tendencies and are unusually low priced at from $14.T0 to $30.75. C. Covington has a number of bar gain specials enumerated in new ad. in this paper today. Read it care fully. Do you want something for her Christmas gift? Then read new ad of the Starnes-Miller-Parker Co. Blankets are needed at this time of the year and they make excellent Christmas gifts. See the new ad of Efird's for prices on the well-known Chatham blankets. Belk’s is having a* timely sale of blankets and bedding. Read with out fail new ad today to get price pa rtieulars. To Bar the Costermonger. London. Nov. 30. —A new law hn«- just come into operation is thought likely to hasten the extinction of one of London's most picturesque figure, the eostermonmonger. Under this law the Home Secretary has power to pro hibit street trading where it is likely to obstruct traffic. This, many people believe, spells the doom of the coster monger. for London traffic is increas ing to such an extent that this powe of prohibition may soon apply t* practically every place where a street trader could make a living. Shopkeepers, too, are often hosti.e to the costermonger, though in some eases thev have found that to get rid of street traders didn't pay. In one instance the shopkeepers in a certain street succeeded in getting the costen turned out. But their own receipt went down. The housewives of tin neighborhood liked to do all their shop ping in one place, ami as they pre ferred to buy certain article* trom street pedlars, they went where the latter were allowed to do business. For the Olvmpie Winter Fames b. ginning at St. Moritz. Switzerland the second week of February, a new jump has been built at great expense, and its construction has given occa sion for some furious thinking on the part of the ski experts. Several al terations deemed advisable have been made since the jump was tried out last year. - Particopatiou in the Olympic yacht ing regatta and in a challenge maten for the Scandinavian Golf Cup. to getber with the Spanish-American trans-atlantic race means that Amen oan yacht* will he quite completin'; in Kuropeau waters next Summer. CONCORD, N. C„ MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1927. collecting trip, visiting policy hold ers for payment of money due on the policies. That he was unwell was indicated by information given 'officers by Roberta Blackwell. Fargo street ne gress. after In* collected her insur ance. Mr. Scott complained of weak- 1 ness and as he was leaving the house collapsed. He was carried into I In* house and revived after which the assistance of two white men, passing hy was sought in getting to town. Scott offered them one dollar to bring him to the city, according to the information in the hands of the police, but they declined to give him a lift for less than three dollars. Complaining of a weakness in his knees, Mr. Scott started alone to wards the city. That was the Inst seen oF him alive. The exact cause of his death had not been determined today, although the,coroner is of the belief lie met with no foul play. FORBES TELLS OF POKER GAME AT WHITE HOUSE | Harding. Hayed. Daugherty, Ned Mc- Lean and llimself Among Those Playing. New York. Dec. 3.—The New York World will publish tomorrow an ar ticle purporting to reveal the “inside story of the Ohio gang” and intimate ; details of the Harding administration, j written by Colonel Charles R. Forbes, ] former head of the United States I veterans bureau, recently released alNi ter serving part of a two-year sen- | fence for defrauding the government j on hospital contracts. Forbes' story, which wilf appear , also in the Sr. Louis Post Dispatch, j broadly sketches tin* Harding regime from the pre-sena torial days of! Harding until his death. Covering j his Washington experiences, Forbes tells of a poker party at the White | House, describes* $75,000 in hills of j large denomination lying on a table in the defatrtment of justice offreAs. declares Dr. Sawyer. Harding's per sonal physician, proved a "perniciious meddler" in the government affairs, and asserts that the late President finally was '’betrayed 'by his friends." Describing the White House poker game Forbes writes: ‘‘The poker party was held the fol lowing evening in the library of the White House. It was like many sim ilar parties held there. We played at a rectangular table in the north end of the room. On this particular occasion the President sat at one end and Will Hayes, who was then the postmaster general, at the other. The others there were Albert Lasker, at . that time chairman of the ship ping hoard; Harry Daugherty, Ned Mrs. McLean and Mrs. Harding. Mrs, Harding did not play —she often sat with us at poker games but never playing. 1 remem ber that it was very hot and that Al bert Lasker took his coat off. display ing red suspenders two inches wide. I won s.‘>l)7 and Will Hayes won. The losers all paid up promptly. “During the game Ned McLean an nounced that Jack Johnson, the prize fighter, was to be discharged from the federal penitentiary at Leaven vorth. and either Ned or Albert Las ker exclaimed : ‘Why, his old mother used to work for me and he has a fine of SI,OOO hanging over him and can't pay it.’ Ned McLean said: ‘Albert, I'll give SSOO and you give SSOO and we will pay his fine.’ The President spoke up. ‘Don’t let that worry you: I'll remit the fine,’ and . the game went on." As to the late Harding himself Forbes declared he is “satisfied" that Harding received none of the spoils of alleged administration graft and was honest in performance of his duties. “Warren <4. Harding.” Forbes writes, “was a much misunderstood man. If lie erred in the administra tion of his high office it was sole ly out of an excess of loyalty to friends whom - the world now knows to have been faithless. I am confi dent that 'before lie departed for j Alaska he had begun to suspect what ( these men had done to him and to | the country, and that this suspicion i contributed to his untimely death.” ! “On one occasion,” Forbes’ story says. “I saw in Jess Smith’s office in the department of justice building $75,000 in SI,OOO bills. The wind blew them off a table onto the floor and I helped to pick fhein up. Jess said they belonged to Daugherty.” Case Tried With 11 Jurors Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 3.—When one of the jurors, IT. H. Spreles, 32, carpenter, dropped dead during the noon recess of a case in circut court here recently, the litigation was tried with 11 jurors. Judge A. B. Pittman ruled that 11 men would do rather than start the $20,000 damage suit over. Mrs. W. B. Scott, an Englishwo man, baa won a French trophy awarded to the fastest woman aut > driver. Mrs. Scott learned the game from her husj>and. who is oue of the famous racing drivers of Europe. Re cently she registered 124 milts an hour for three laps, the second ‘‘aste't time ever made at the lirookla.4' track. • WOMAN. DEAD AT 103. IIAD ILUR 7 FEET IX)NG (By International News Service) * Willows. Calif, Dee.. s.—'Resi dents of this community are nouming the passing of its most remarkable e'tizen, Mrs. Jane Hamilton, who died at the age of 103. The hair on the head of “Grandma" (as sjie was known to her neighbors | was seven feet long, attributable to her belief :hat "bobbed hair on girls is crim inal.” Born in Missouri 'n 1K24. she sad lived in California since 1000. ‘‘the was a personal friend of Gen eral Grant. General Lee and Ab raham Lincoln. She possessed a phenomenal memory and delighted her friends and neighbors on many occasions with lucid accounts of ‘her experience in the Mexican and C.’vil wars. OFFICERS TIIINK MRS. BRYANT NOW IN MIAMI Miami Police Talked With Mr. Bryant This Morning and Are Searching There For His Wife. Asheville, Dec. s—(4 s )—Mrs. Peggy Bryant, estranged wife of W. Wal lace Bryant, who is being sought on a charge of kidnapping her two young daughters. Marjorie. aged <>, and Frances, 4. is believed to be In Miami, Fla., officers announced here today. Miami police talked with Bryant, who is a patient in a local sanitorium early this morning, and are seeking the woman. An arrest is momentar ily expeeted. officers said, j A woman answering description of : Mrs. Bryant with two small girls left Florida East Coast station nt Miami Beach yesterday for a walk on the platform. They failed t*> get back on the train in time and were left. Miami police said £icy were informed that the woman and ohild ! ren were given a lift into Miami by j a Mr. and Mrs. John Miller. i TRAINS CRASH I J Passenger and Freight Collided Near {Mooresville Without Serious Damage j Charlotte. Dec. 5. — (A 3 ) -Southern i Railway, passenger train No. 14, [ northbound, and freight train N<>. 55). southbound. collided head-on near j Shepherd, a few miles from Moores | ville yesterday, but without serious I results. J. S. Bert man, division su,|>erin- I tendeut of Winston-Salem, investigat ed and reported that both trains were traveling at low speed when engineers sighted one another, and that the freight was -brought to a stop b< lore the collision. A. L. Harman, district claim agent hero, said the only dam age consisted of broken pilots the engines, and that no one was injured, Duke University Prepares Program For “Duke University Day.” Durham. Dee. 5. —-Duke University io making preparations far appropriate observance of “Duke l niversity Day.” on December 12. in which alumni all over the country will take part. The third anniversary of the famous indenture created by the late James B. Duke was signed December 11. 11)24, but at this date falls on Sunday this year, official observance will be made on Monday. At the university fitting exerciw* will be held during the morning, while during the day alumni will meet at Winston-Salem, Elizabeth City, Ral eigh, Durham, Greensboro, Salisbury, Asheville, Hickory. Charlotte, berton, Newbern, Wilson, Greenville. New York, Richmond. Washington. Norfolk. Atlanta and Birmingham. | Prominent Duke alumni and uni-1 versify officials will speak at dinners to be in the evening at various eitie*'. R. E. Thigpen, alumni secretary, is working on the complete program for the day. THE STOCK MARKET. j Reported by Fenner & Beane. (Quotations at 1.30 P. M.) Atchison 108-L American Can Allied Chemical American Smelting American T. & T. ITIFg Baltimore & Ohio Bethlehem Steel Chrysler Corn Products 66 New York Central 104 *■(> Dupont j Erie 64*;-& Fle'shman 08*;* St. Louis-Francis. R. It. 111?-* General Electric 132 1 * Gold Dust 2 71 General Motors 121)1* | General Ky. Signal 122 Va j Houston Oil j Hudson Motors 68Vj Mo.-Kans. & Texas 43*]* . Kenneeott Copper 82 Kans. City Sou. Ity. 05 Liggettj, & Myers 122 Vi Lorillard __4 35>V-i i Mack Truck 100 Vs ; Mo.-Paeific. . Pfd. 115 Vi , Montgomery-Ward 110 Vi * Nash Motors 07 Packard Motors 52 Pennsylvania Railway 0->V-2 Phillips Pete. 40% Producers and Refiners 25 Reading Railroad 110 “R” Itey. Tob. Com. 157% Rock Island Railroad —1 100 Sears Roebuck 08% Southern Railway 163 Vi , Stand. Oil of N. J. 30% j Southern Pac. Railroad 122 Vs j Sou. Dairies, Pfd. 21 Studebaker Corp. 58% Tobacco Prode. 109 Vi , Wabash Railway 69 * Westingbouse Elec. Co. 01% Mest. Mrvd. R. R. 52* Wool worth , 100% P. S. Steel - 146 Total Taxes Lev : / r “'“‘ St3tGLflStl6&|< Average OFFERS PRIZE FOR UNUSUAL CORN EAR Hard To Find Ear Os Corn With Row Os Grains In Odd Numbers. Raleigh, Dec. 1. — It is as hard to an ear of corn with the rows oi grains in odd numbers as it is to find a human being born with an unusual number of fingers. "In fact so unusual is it to find such corn that 1 will give a prize of SSO to the first farmer in North Carolina who sends me in a norma ear with the grains in an odd num ber of rows." sa.Vci Dr. B. W. Wells head of the department of botany at Stale College. "Any normal ear ol corn of any variety always has ■.s grains in an even number of rows. If one does not believe this, let him get some ears and count the rows. After he has cheeked up a few thous and. he will become convinced” The reason for this, states Dr. Wells, gocis back so the young eyr. When it is not as big as one’s fin ger and is only a mass of growing tissue, carefully tucked away in the green shucks, one may see a num ber of ridges forming- Each of rnese ridges splits into two parts to form two rows of corn. This is an inherit er habit. The primary grain prom inences develop two spikelefs with the two resultant grains all along the ear. This is the secret of tin* whole matter, declares the botanist. The habit of developing these ev en rows of grain is as fixed as that habit in the . human species to hurt five fingers on the primary arm ex tension and if is as easy to find corn with an odd number of grains as it is to find a human l>eing with nine or eleven fingers. Dr. Wells believes that farmers will find many other interesting facts about the crops they grow <>r the plants and trees on the farm if they will observe some of tin* habits of these plants. Some of tin* informa tion will <»f course have no practical value in solving farm problems but the study is interesting and enter taining and adds greatly to one's store of knowledge which may even tually Ik* of service in tin* farming enterprise. MIDGET STARTS SUIT TO RECEIVE DIVORCE 24 Inch Plaintiff Says Wife Was “Cruel” And Even “Barbarous” At Times. Jacksonville. Fla., Dec. 5. (INS) —A Lilliputian divorce suit is pend ing before the Circuit court of Duval county and it's no small matter, ac cording to the plaintiff. Ike Matina, who is twenty-four inches tall, weighs 30 pounds, is 20 years old and mokes big black cigars nervously. Matina has filed suit for divorce against his wife. Margaret, wno is 23 inches tall, weighs 26 pounds and is 25 years old. They had been mar ried a year and Matina charges Mar garet was ‘‘cruel and inhuman” and even "barbarous" at times. Ike is a member of the famous "Mike and Ike" vaudeville sketch and a Florida property owner. His wife, he declared, will* not. contest Ids suit when it comes up for trial on January •> Among many complaints filcu L»y Ike about his 23-inch wife is that she gave Silent Cal Coolidge, presi dent of these United State-. the "cold shoulder" when they were in- . Ivited tio be guehts at the White House. Ike and Mrs. Matina said she was "too sleepy” to keep an ap j pointment with the president. Al Jolson. With A Severe Cold. Is Going To Asheville. Syracuse, N. Y., ecD. 3.—-When Al Johnson closes his three days en gagement in “Big Boy” here touay it became known his company’s en gagements in Erie. Pa-, Youngstown and Lima. 0.. Fort Wayne and In dianapolis have been cancelled due to a throat ailment from which he is suffering. It is said that Jolson nau contracted a severe cold during re hearsals Monday. He will go tomor row morning to consult bis own pny sieian and Monday will leave for Asheville. N. C. Remus Will Not Testify. Cincinnati, Dec. 5. — i/P) —George Remus served notice on the court to day at the renewal of his murder trial that he would not testify in his own behalf. Remus was addressing | the court in connection with a mo- I tion he had made to investigate what jhe termed libelous statements in news story sent to New York news ; paper last week. Contempt Charges Being Aired Washington, Dev. s— (A 3 )—Another i of seemingly interminable legal fights that have, grown out of the leasing of .Teapot Dome and Elk Hills naval re- I serves was brought into eourt today when Harry F. Sinclair, Wm. J. Burns ! and four associates were haled into court in contempt charges. Sinclair, in answer filed today, moved for dis missal of the case because of lack of jurisdiction. This Is News. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. S.—(INS) —When a dog bites a mau it may not ,be "news” under usual cireimraam cs. but when a football mascot mrt> a I‘policetnau because bo thinks the lat | lor is a rooter for the opposing team, that probably is “newt*.” [ Local reporters thought so anyway, i for Birmingham papers carried sto ries about. Sargeant Ellis of the local force being bitten by the bulldog mas cot of the Howard college team. $2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance Taxes For State, County And School Amounted To $84,305,702 —Average $29.43 INDEBTEDNESS IS HALF BILLION State Gets No Property Tax But Just The Same Property Paid High In Other Taxes Assessed. The Tribune Bureau. Sir Walter Hotel. BY 4. (’. BASKERYILL Raleigh. Her. 7. —The total taxes levied for all purposes in North Caro lina in 192(1, both state, county and school, amounted to $84,207,702. or a per capita tax burden of $‘211..70 for every man. woman and child in the state. Os this $20.70 per capita titx. only $0.42 was for schools. The amount of taxes paid on property, to county governments for all purposes, was $77,012,221. which amounts to -st ]>er capita levy of $10.0.7. The total indebtedness of the State of North Carolina, including sill its subdivisions—counties, (six districts, sch oo 1 districts. etc. — in 1020 amounted to $477.847.(5*0. of which only $(10,0(12.170 or 14.7 per cent wsts for schools. This is one-sixth the' as sessed valuation of the state. These are probably the most inter esting— and most startling—facts re vealed in the study of taxation, and the distribution of the tax burden in the state, especially with regard to education and the support of schools, just comnlede and released by the State Educational Commission. The report., which is supplementary to the report issued almost a year ago. covers some 277 pages, and analyzes taxes and taxation, the amount de rived and for what purposes, county by county, and district by district. More than a year has been spent ill the compilation of the study and its editing by Dr. Fred W. Morrison, executive secretary ,of the Education al commission, and who is now also secretary of the State Tax commis sion. ’• ’ In an introductory statement, on the first page of the report, the Com mission makes the statement that tin equalization of assessments for tax purposes is essential to any reform, but that the commission does not ■‘pretend to believe that the valua tion among the several counties is equalized either at its true value or at any given jier rentage of its .true value. Neither does it believe that (he valuations are equalized or even ap proximately equalized among the townships of a given county nor among individuals in a given com munity. The commission restates here its belief that until the assessing of property is undertaken• under the supervision and control of the state and is continually revised and kept up-to-date, there is no real hope of achieving any practical equalization of assessments either among indivi duals or local governmental units." As is well known now. no taxes have been levied against property in North Carolina for "state purposes since 11121. and at present all taxes, levied against property are by coun ties. cities, towns and special tax districts.- which include school dis tricts. Yet in 11120. the amount of taxes paid on property, within the counties for the support of county, city, town . and school projects, amounted $77.012,2221, of which amount 47.0 per Cent was for schools, and 72.4 for purposes other than schools, while, the total amount of revenue collected by the state for state purposes, including highways, and none of it derived from a tax on property, amounted to only $27.- 824,424. Exclusive of the automobile license ami gasoline taxes, which go to the highway fund, the general fund revenue from which the running ex penses of the state government are paid, amounted to only $11.(548.744. In discussing the $2(5,117(1.208 spent for schools in 1112(5 by the various counties —47.0 of the total revenue produced from taxes on propony— the report of the commission states that of this amount $17,221,021. or (54 jmw cent was levied by counties for the support of the six months school term and only $0,728,087, or 2(5 per cent of the total, for extending and supplementing the six months term. The city and town property taxes levied in 1020. exclusive of school taxes, amounted to $12,100,722 on an assessed valuation of $1,202,087,877. (If course the counties which have no 1 large cities or towns do not compare with the large industrial counties in the levy of city and town taxes. Five counties re[*ort no city or town in them levying a pro>perty tax. These counties are Camden. Currituck, Hyde, Mitchell, and Tv tell. On tic other hand, cities in two count its— Charlotte. in Mecklenburg and Greensboro in Guilford —raised more than $1,000.0011 each by property tax for the support of the muuici|«tl government. The city "f Durham in Durham county levies a tax which is equal to 48.2 per cent of the total tax levied in Durham county. A major league baseball record that has stood unbroken for 33 years is that of rbe Pittsburgh National* in scoring four home run* in a sing.- inuiuj. < N, m IU HAVE PERISHED IN ST. LOUIS FIRE 1 Seven Other Persons Were Dangerously In jured In Fire That Burn ed Part Os Hotel. OTHER BODIES MAY BE FOUNf). More Than Thirty fifcalf Girls In The Building Were Led To Safety— l Number Os Rescues. St. Louis. Dec. 7. — (A) —Font? women were kmnvn t• • have been kill ed and 7 persons dangerously injur ed in a fire early today which des troyed the rear section of the ltuek- I inglinin Hotel annex, with a loss esti mated at *170.000. J‘oliee feared other bodies were in the ruins. • ( The dead were: Mrs. Luthei Hi (Vmiii. Miss Bessie Groat. 22. M iss Marie L. Susanka, 47. A Mis Fraser, a teacher. Three nurses, two of whom jumped from windows -fin the fourth floor, were in critical condition. They were Miss Myrtle Morris. 20: Miss Alice (Gresham. .‘sl: and Miss Bertha Lee, 21. There were 118 guests in the two sections of the annex when the fire was discovered shortly before 55 a. in. Many ran to the streets in night clothing. Others had to he rescued front rooms by firemen with gas masks ltecuii.se of the dense smoke. Among those sleeping in the hotel were .‘52 girls, pupils at the Central Institute for the Deaf. They were led to safety. The hotel faces Forest Park. CAROLINAS EMERGE FROM SHEET BLANKET* Clear Weather Mills Snow and Sleet; in Most Sections of Two States. Chariote. Dee. 7 (A) —The Caro lina* today were emerging from blan ket iug of sleet and snow that cov ered. virtually a very section but with some secCotis facing the menace oT rising streams as the result of tlm snow and rain that preceded it. The weather bureau at Raleigh forecast flood stage for the Tar Riv er at Rocky Mount late today. fit the meantime the Neu*e river is three feet above the Hood stage tit Smitb tield and another foot rise is predict ed for tomorrow. At Fayetteville the Cape Fear is two feet above the flood stage. The Roanoke at Weldon today stood at .24 feet, four feet above the flood stage, with two or three feet more expected. The weather bureau, how ever. said Pttle damage would result, from the rises. Along Albemarle Sound the storm which raged for three days was re ported abating. Some damage to telephone ,-ind j lower wires was re ported. Two shiii* were reported ashore of! the coast, and four sailors had leym drowned. From of her s«*c tiotis of the state came reports of two met! freezing to death and tlit* drowning of another mail. There were four deaths from automobile ac cidents over Sunday. Today the situ was struggling so break through clouds. Two inches of snow that greeted Charlotte yesterday had aj/Tns-t dis appeared today, but up tffthe moutt rains the snow reportod\ ten inches deep at Blowing Rock still\l:iy on the ground. THE STOCK MARKET Prices Moved Irregularly Higher Today at Opening of The Market. New —York. Dee. 7. (A*)- —Prices moved irregularly higher at the old ening of today's stock market. Al though some of tie- leaders such n* General Motors, fell off a point of so at the opening, various otber*_ were strong at the start, notably coppers. Greene f'unauea quickly sold two points higher, and Miami Copper op ened at a new peak. P« r nt gains were made at tin* outset by General Railway Signal. Northern Paeifit*, Tiinkin Roller Bearing. Frisco and Soo Line. Cliarlotte .Man Killed b.v Robber. Charlotte, Dec. 7. — (A 3 ) —15.'.1. (>ver ton, 17 years old. was killed early to day by a robber who crushed bis head with a sledge hammer. Killing occur red at the plant'of the Charlotte Bund l'd Warehouse company. The body was found by a negro em ployed by the company when be came to work this morning. Overton had sll Ml in his |M»eket, and this and his watch were missing. Gov’t. Aids In Road Building. Washington. Dec. 2.—Over (54.201! miles of highways throughout the country have _ been constructed with the a ill of the Fedcrill Government. Secretary of Agriculture .Jardine disclosed in his annual r«*- port today. Fair tonight with light frost. Tues day increasing cloudiness, not so cold in north portion. Fresh northeast ( and west winds. NO. 44
The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.)
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