BYRD SAILS U. S. BUILT
PLANE OVER WORLD'S TOP
Yooag Nival Officer Relurns
To Base at Spitsbergen After
Dariaf Ftigbt Over Pole; Re
mained In Air 15 Hours and
3# Minute*; Same Trip Took
Admiral Perry Eight Months
New York, May 10.?An airplane
has flown over the North Pole for the
first time. *
The second successful polar expedi
tion, like the first, was American, led
by a man of the American navy, as
was the first trans-Atlantic airplane
flight
Lieutenant Commander Richard
Evelyn Byrd shares with Admiral
Robert E. Peary the honor of having
led the only expedition over the top
of the world. ? I
Commander Byrd sailed over the
North Pole yesterday in an American
built plane, the first of nine Arctic
expeditions this year to achieve its
goal. Only eight men have seen the
North Pole. Four were Esquimaux,
with Admiral Peary; one was Matt
Henson, Admiral Peary's negro fol
lower, and one Chief Petty Officer
Floyd Bennett, Commander Byrd's
mechanic.
Radio, and cable brought back to
the New York Times and St. Louis
Post-Dispatch news that the Byrd ex
pedition had made in fifteen hours
and th&ty minutes yesterday a trip
that took Admiral Peary eight
months by ship and dog sled. The
objective was achieved 33 days after
the expedition sailed from New York
for King's Bay, Spitsbergen. Peary
was out of contact with civilization
<29 days.
s The news brought congratulations
from President Coolidge, Secretary of
the Navy Wilbur Secretary of War
Davis, and from fellow explorers.
* Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ells
Worth, whose Itailian-built dirigible,
ttc Norge, is at King's Bang to ct
tempt the same flight, were among
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Corvnander Ryrd completed the
flight over the Poie six days earlier
..than he had planned. He hi 1 expect
ed to look for a landing place in
Peary Land and establish a base, but
decided at the last-minute to risk ev
erything in a non-stop flight. He
King's Bay yesterday at 1:50 a.
nw Greenwich time, and sailed until
a bubble sextant, an instrument of
his own invention, informed him he
was over the Pole. He made observa
tions and returned, readying King's
Bay at 4:2? p. m.
His plane was a three engined
Fokker, named Mias. jerfphine Ford "
for the daughter of Edsel Ford, who.
'with John D. Rockefeller, Jr., wus a
financial backer of the backer of the
flight. . /''
VHjhahnur Stefasson, veteran Arc
tic (sxplorer,' said here that he felt
soto Commander Byrd's report of the
flight would bear o.ut a belief that
Arctic flight is much more dangerous
than any .other kind, Amundsen fail
ed to ready the Pole by a plane last
year, s
Byrd's feat is regarded by Stefans
sion as clearing the way for his more
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1, 3^0,000 Tors j?
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j... British Labor Leader (
r Britain Iks paralized in the
greatest strike in industrial hist-.
017. A conservative1 estimate
places the number of striking
Workers at 5,000,000. This is a
picture of J. H. Thomas, labor
reader who will figure prominently
L. any negotiations for peace.
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FOR RX8.&L
Assets Incaease $11,000,000
Over 1924. Steady And"
Sub&ancial Growth. ?
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Raleigh, May 12.?The mark
reached at the dose of 1025 was the
high water mark of the business j*
North Carolina but a similar gain is
expected to be recorded this year and
recording to Indications the dose of
more than one million dollars in ex
cess of 1924. '?
? However, the gain in assets for the
year 1925 was riot as great as in 1924
when building and loan - association
resources leaped fourteen million dol
lars. The average increase in assets
per association during 1925 was Spear
cent as against an average increase
of more than 40 per cent durlng-1924.
The increase in assets for the state
during 1925 was 15.8 per emit as,
against an. increase of 26.2 per cent
during 1924. .
Comparative .figures showing^ bote
North Carolina building and loab as-,
iodations grew in 1925 follows:.
Total assets 1925, $81,188,545.40;
1924, $70,248 991.13. W'PP
Mortgage " loans 1925, $73,014,
392^2; 1924, $6331036036.
Serial shares, 1925, $61,526,68634;
1924, $4733ST79434.
* Gross profits 1925, $4 635,406.59;
1924, $3304372.90.
' Net profits 1925, -$5,592,675.71;
1924, $2372370.90. * . :
Ledger profits, 1925,^^>4^28;
1924. $5,730 432.18.
Ledger assets-1925, $79,552,168.68;
$10385387.45;
19S4, -$1433335465.fe^^Sr.^
Average focreaa*: p? association
: .1925,* ?<*<*?* |924, fmmtm
State increase 1025 15.8 per eant;
1924, 26.2 pe^r ^^29^6;
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Discover ^tto^
- the restorations*the ??<*
ft-- rr * ' ' ? ; ii i"i VeelVnTifT ttVIpti ??!
r I homes of alleged German Fod^fl
I LAM&JIOl a -1
-?v.- A- '?'??.??' 4 2
to ajt^Ap"
*?her tobacco products $800 090,000 :
ind her fcirniturt output $300,060,000 1
is placed before the great finunriai
interests' of the country in/a signed (
aitide by Governor McLean appear- i
ing thfa week in th E2ectrical. World, i
a trade magazine reaching more than i
100,000 readers. ^ c: i
And so, again, is the story of Notth j
Carolina's progress told to the world. \
It follows closely the articles appear
ing in the Electrical World, a trade ,
magazine reaching more than 100,000 '
fearers.
. Aiifrso, again, is the story of North ;
Carolina's progress told to* the world.
If follows closely the ahfclen appear
ing in t$vNatjonalGeographic mag
azine and t&e-New York Sun.
The edition of. the Electrical World
which carried governor Mclean's
statement was prepared especially
for the eonventl^of the National
Eleetrie Light association which meets
in Atlan^c CitTwS 18. In the same
issue are; signed articles by bankers,
utility'?exjfecutive? m\ industrial lead
ers. The;issue is somewhat ofaNao
ional bird's eye vie wr and North Car
olina holds the distfcctibn of being
the only state singled out for special
Telling of tlus stag's achievements,
Governor McL^fm writes:
V the indufetriat development in
)*orth Caroling, a/stately only re
cently \descriBed as one which has
_?l' %:il:
J-What the release of this store of
clean, economical and reliable power
ias meant to North Carolina is re
lected m what Ndrtfe Carolina, indus
try' has achieved. ;} >& ?
ESSS^Sj
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so little friction recognized the ne
fcacmiTU 1
Btlifllpff ?
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With $l,500,0^^^gl
Ifci&i<fff BefeM. Con^J
^t. yj.. tfei* i?yy." Q>iBi
MiloW bright into port "roaring
irunk and obstreperous," none of
whom admitted he was an officer, W|
day were held on the steamer Donnet-1
ta with a $1*500,000 liquor cargo, ac-1
cased' of piracy.
Another ship, the Atalanta, de-1
scribed as a 55vfoot power boat, with I
?an. armored super, structure, was free !
today after a pitched : battle last
Blight near Atlantic City with patrol I
Boat 113. The Donnetta was captur-J
ed Monday night by the coast guard 1
cutter Seneca, ami brought into .New 1
work last night where it was anchor
?d by the Statue of Liberty and the j
hatches sealed. jfl
I' "Cowrt g&afd&tmSfl called ft thebig-1
Connected with a' bootleg ring- of Port A
Chester N Y I
The ship flew the American flag, |
but no ships papers nor officers cre-1
fcyftfote were found on '-it?/ which A
?iriagn 1^ nhdfey a technical classifica-11
tion of piracy guardsmen said. Com
mander jptdl
B^'fthen he pulled alongidde; the I
iDoftnfetta at seahe.gbt a gigantic I
wjaift of alcohoM content* which 1
?would have staggered a theatre ?
said champagne was flowing freelyl
land members of the crew - were on I
deck drinking from pitchers.
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Weil Known and Respedlod to
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Ev, ?fliOirniuIIIlj'fwwvvw , el
1-^Meiiriiic lor 45 Years ,:/?
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Dr. G. C. Edwards^, 38, died at his
home in Hookerton Friday M night
about 12 o'clock, after;, an illness oil
about three PP Br.y^W<l8|
St! practiced medicine ta tho vicinity!
of Hookerton for 5 years. Horns,
member of the Masonic order. . He
graduated from old Trinity college
BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE
HAS BEEN CALLED OFF
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Arthur PUgh Tdte Premier Bild
win and His Cabinet Tbat
i British -Workers Have Bees
[ ^Ordered Back on Job; Union*
p Throughout Island Notified
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: London, Mayl2.?The great Brit
ish general strike was called off to
:iay. The leaders.of the Trades Un
ion Congress, which initiated the
movement in sympathy with the
striking miners, visited Premier Bald
Win and his'cabinet ministers at No.
10 Downing street at noon and -an
nounced that the strike was over.
This action was taken, Chairman .
Arthur Pugh said, in order to enable
resumption of the negotiations tat
settlement of the miners' grievances
which negotiations the government
had declared could not,be resumed
while the general strike lasted. The
Trades Union Congress forthwith dis
patched telegrams to this effect to the
affiliated unions throughout the coun
try.; : I
jThe individual unions before acting,
must await definite instructions from
their own executive councils. How
ever, it is expected the T. U. C. in
structions will have quick effect and
that" the wheels of industry, stalled
since a week ago last Monday mid
night, will begin to turn again almost
immediately. '
? The conditions on which the gen
eral strike was called off are as fel
lows:.
The government subsidy to the:
coal industry will be resumed tempo
rarily.
2 The lockout against the miners will
be withdrawn.
; A wage board will be established
to revise the miners wages, with the
understanding that* there shah be no
revision without sufficient assurances
that the'measures recommended for
"reorganization of the mining industry
by-the-Royal Coal commission shall"
be put into effect.
The official statement of the sat
for war/ the of tiro admir
alty, the minister of health and the
secretary top mines, received the ?
memlfers- of the general council of the
Trades Union Congi-eM at 12:5!0 to
day at No. 10 Downing street. - *
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'Effecting All Southern State*,
Will Go Into EffetS op Ma;
? '15th! 15 25p.c. Inc.
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Atlanta, May 11.?Increase of from
15 to 25 per cent in insurance rates
on several classes of property in aft
the southeastern states will go into
effect on May 15, the Southeastern
Underwriters' association announced'
here today through the Georgia In
spection and Rating Bureau.
The increases were decided upon
several days ago at a meeting of the
association at Pinehurst, N. C. While
the bulletin announcing the increases
did not give the reasons for lite de
cision, it was learned hero , that the
fine insurance companies, composing
the association have had the increases
under consideration for some time,
The contention was advanced, that the
!fire loss ratio throughout tiro South
east made the premium income insuf
fyient and inadequate,
i-" All fire insurance companies, ex
cept those conducted as mutual com
panies are included in the aaaodatkMlT
Under the now rotes assessments
all buildings in urids and towns not
under full protection of theL J mbllf
fire department and water supply
will be advanced 15 per cent. The
equipped with automatic sprinklers,
ore not subject to the increasef^jfi v"
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.?1,'Mcif !-\J r -"n f? ninety He ?
t 7th for all liat
v i? ) ' home town, and
tr. !.'.t out of its way
ft t?;. nt veteran statesman
* hftreturns. Uncle Joe is
in cne.best of health.. He nlakes
his daily trip. to his bank and is
never without liis stogie.
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Says The Farmer Can't Stand
Much More Help Like That
He Has Been Getting
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Will Rogers, national humorist, in
one of his recent Bull Durham "ads"
had the following to say about the
help "the fanner is getting from con
giesa itheie is so much truth and W>
.little "ad" in the article that we are
giving it front page space):
Congress .say they are^hripmg the
leggers.
An^ when they get tiinrtigfi advis
ing, there is just one thing will help
the farmers. That is, eliminate some
of the middlemen and let the two ends
meet. The consumer and "the pro
ducer are two men in America that
'ha^e never even seen each other.
Cut out the middle and tie the two
end3 together.
When a steer starts from the feed
pen to the table, there Is about ten
to take a bite out of hira before he
reaches the family that pays for hint.
Who wears the best clothes or
drives the best car, the fellow who,
raises a bushel of wheat or the work
ing fellow who goes up. to buy a sack
of flour? Why, neither one of them.
The ones in between these have their
private tailor and ^straight eights.'
The government just told agricul
ture,'You are in a hole.' They didnt
"offer to pull them out, but they did
say, 'We will get down in there with
you.'
I want to tell you right here, 1
don't know what would have happen
ed to the poor farmer if it had not
been for his old friend, "Bull" Dur
ham. It's, the only thing he has been
absolutely atie to rely upon. And I
wont him to know that myself and
Bull Durham bre' with him right to
the poorhouse door.
"WILL ROGERS."
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Argument With Law
: .
New York May sophisti
cated Eve of b Broadway Edeh ar
gued a matter of clothing with two
policemen in court today. She was
told by to. return to court Friday
with Her costume so that the magis
trate wight render a ;decision. The
modem Eve fs Mis* Beryl Halldy,
who .was arrested last night by two
patrolmen who witnessed her dance
in an Eden scene at the JOfoductiop,
"Bunk of .1926." She testified that
during the -dance she wore a long
.wig, a dancer's belt, a brassiere and
tha|^^a^no^d any cos
journed to permit time for. produc
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