North Carolina Newspapers

4-POWER PACT 111 EUROPE SIGNED IT WILL NOW BE SUBMITTED TO GERMANY FOR SIGNING. Geneva. —Great Britain and France reached a complete accord on the prob lem of Eurppean security, and if Ger many, to whom the accord soon will be sent, agrees to the conditions, a four-power pact will come Into being based on tfie invilabllity of the Rhine frontier as are limited by the Versail les treaty. The pact will include Great Britain, France, Belgium and Germany. Italy is not included, though the text will be communicated to her out of cour tesy, and Poland and Czecho-Slovakia are not directly affected, though they will benefit by the operation of France's alliance_j«ritlr-»them. The next stetf In the negotiations will be the dispatch by France to Ger many, also in behalf of GreAt Britain and Belgium, of a letter replying to , Germany's offer to negotiate a pact of j guarantees for the German frontiers j bordering on France and Belgium. There are some indications of dls- j appointment in Polish and Czecho- . WSlovakian circles that their countriesl do not specifically enter the domain of 1 the proposed pact. It is understood that Great Britain agrees to come to the support of • France with her entire military, naval ■ and air forces In case France is at- j tacked or in case of any aggression j across the Rhine district. This con- j stitutes an elaboration of an obllga- ; tion already contained In the Versail les treaty whereby the allies agree to regard as a hostile act any infringe ment of the demilitarized zone be tween France and Germany. Great Britain gives birth to the old j Wilsonian tribarte pact on the ground | that her national interests demand peace In western Europe. de clines concerning Germany's eastern frontiers, because she realizes that j the Britain domains would not approve of such a committment. Foreman and Guard Get 20 Year*. Rocky Mount.—Sentences of 20 years each were given to W. C. Gulley and R. V. Tyler, foreman and guard, respectively, on the Rocky Mount road district, by Judge N. A. Sinclair, in Edgecombe court at Tarboro when they'ilubmitted to manslaughter as an outgrowth of the death of Joe Armstrong, negro convict, who died Thursday within 30 minutes after he had been whipped by the two men. The trial of the case offered one of the most striking instances of speedy justice in the annals of trie county. A grand Jury, summoned by special order of Judge Sinclair, re turned true bills against the men. who had previously been blamed for the { negro's death by a coroner's Jury, and at the some time launched a sweeping and vigorous Investigation, upon the Jurist'* lnstrictions, into conditions at the camp to which Gulley and Tylei were attached. To Inspect Shipment*. Washington.—A plan of inspection for Porto Rlcan fruit* and vegetable* to prevent the Importation Into con tinental United States of Injurious in sects, Including the West Indian fruit fly and the bean pod borer, ha* been decided upon by the federal horticul tural board. A quarantine ha* been ordered ef fective July 1 prohibiting entry of cer tain fruit* and vegetable* from Porto Rico, but grapefruit, orange* and other cltru* fruits, pineapple*, banana*, plalntalna, avocadoes, dasheens and onion*, may enter under certification, based on field and packing house In spection by representatives of the board in Porto Rico. Germany's Payments. Berlin. —Germany's reparation* pay ment* through the office of the agent general totalled 100,100,000 mark* dur ing May. Of this France received 42, (04,000 mark*, chiefly In deliveries ol coal, coke, lignite and chemical*. Eng land received 10,800,000 marka of which 7,800 mark* were credited to payments under the recovery act Other sums were devoted to vote var ious payments under the Dawes plan. Mine Gas Blsst Claims 17 Men. Sturgis, Ky.—Five bodies, three of them unidentified, had been found In the workings of the explosion-wrecked mine No. t of the Kentucky Coal Min ing company. All of the known vl£ tims were negroes. Twelve men re main in the mine and are all believed dead. A pocket of gaa, ignited by a miner's lamp. Is believed to have caused the disaster. Another rescue crew of picked men was being organised to reenter the mine to assist in the search for other victims. Mud in some plsces was found a toot and a half deep. 24 More Died of Heat. Philadelphia. Although the beat wave ot last week has ended. Its ac cumulataive effects were strong enough to cause 14 deaths, records at the coroner's office showed a total ol 1M persona have died in this city so tar §M result of the intense beat Thirty-five unidentified bodies remain ed in tbe city morgue. While tbe temperature was consid erable lower than it has been for sev eral days, weather bureau officials an nounced a probable return of the hot J FIVE RAILROAD MEN KILLED IN.GOLLJBION. Louisville, Ky. Five railroad men were killed and two probably fatally injured in a collision be tween two freight trains neai Paris, Tenn., according to lnforma tlon received at headquarters of the Louisville ft Nashville Railroad here. The engineer and fireman oc one train and three section hand were killed, and the engineer and brakeman of the other train inju. ed. The cause of the collision it not known here. KILLS 8 AND SHOOTS SELF VICTIMS WERE FIVE CHILDREN. HIS BROTHER, MOTHER AND » SISTER IN-LAW. Hamilton, Ohio. —Becoming violent ly insane, Floyd Russel shot and kill ed eight members of his family, ac cording to the police, who arrested him after he had shot and slightly wounded himself. His victims were the five children of his brother, his mother, brother and sister-in-law. Russel Is in a padded cell in the county Jail. The dead: Mrs. Rose Russel, 60. mother; John Lowell Russel, brother; Emma Russel, 35, wife of John Lowell Russel; Julia, 12, Robert, eight; George Francis, eight; Paul Lewis, three, and Richard, four months, all children of Mr. and Mrs. John Russel. Dorothy, ten years old. saved her self by hiding in bed when she heard shots. Russel then terned the weapon on himself, shooting himself in the left lung. After the shooting he riddled the bodies of several of the children with bullets. Police said he talked Incoherently about a mortgage on the house and said he would shoot the pictures off the wall. Russel Is 43 years old. Most of the victims were Sleeping. Marshall Buried With Simplest Rite. Indianapolis, Ind. —The body of Th'omaß Riley Marshall, whose gentle -appeals for more kindness and tolera tion endeared him to the nation, lies in the same cemetery wherein rest* the bpdy of James Whitcomb Riley, another Hoosier, who touched Ameri can hearts through his poems of home ly strain. .. Both men, gifted in the art of weav ing words into expressions ot whole some sentiments, lie not far apart on the rolling slopes of Crown Hill. Indiana, with simple but reverent cermeonies, laid Mr. Marshall at rest. The obsequies were fitting for a man whose spirit remained humble despite his elevation to the vice presidency of a great nation and to the govern ship of his native state. May Rescue With Nsvy Dirigibles. Washington.—A detailed plan for operation of the Shenandoah in the event the navy department should de cide to send it In search of the Amundsen polar expedition, has been submitted to Secretary Wilbur by Commander Lansdowoe of the diri gible. The plan was rubmltted with out recommendation and merely as a supplement to s report which had been requested embodying a typical plan of operation for either the Shen andoah or the Los Angeles If either should be needed for relief In an emergency of the MacMlllan arctic expedition this summer. Whisksy Trlsl June 17. Baltimore. —Trial of the 12 men in dicted for conspiracy to illegally with draw alcohol from the plant of the Maryland Drug and Chemical Manu facturing company here has been set for June 17, district attorney Wood cock announced. Plane Kills Two Flyers. Athens, Ga. —Hollis Camp, Winder, Gs., was killed, and Ben Eppa, of Ath ena. *eriou*ly hurt when the airplane Epps was piloting went into a noae dive and craahed into a bridge at tbe edge of a commercial aviation field on the outaklHa of the city. Tranafer Mine Bureau. Washington.—Tbe bureau of mlnea ■and the division of mineral resources ot the geologlcsl survey were ordered transferred from the Interior depart ment to the commerce department. Secretary Hoover announced bo would begin consultations at once with mining representatives on the bureau's course. Norte ♦end Airships. Oslo, Norway.—Tbe Norwegflb gov ernment at the request of the Aero club, which promoted Amundsen's flight, is despatching two naval scout sesplanes by the 4.700-ton steamer, Ingertre. placed at the government's disposal by the Great Norwegian Coal company, of Spitsbergen. Three Are Held For •laying Girt. New York.—With three negroes held In Jail m connection I with tbe murder of Florence Kane, sister of a detective, police are still uncertain as to the identity of the slayer. One of the negroes, n long armed giant, William Brassfleld. apartment house Janitor, who is known often to wear cotton gloves is accused of homi cide. Miss Klag was strangled. • Two young Brooklyn women who recently were attacked by a negro asroed that he had unusually long arms. TOE OUTLOOK REGARDED FAIR AR LOADINGS CONTINUE TO BREAK ALL RECORDS FOR THE YEAR. New York. —Emerging from a period f rather restricted spring activity usineas has entered upon its summer ycle with conditions in most lines of adustry generally described as fair. Conflicts of opinion have developed s to what the hot weather season olds in store. Some lines of trade, .otably the textile industry, have een promise of Improvement, others, Deluding motor manufacturers, feel hat the peak of their trade has lassed. Possibilities of a drastic recession in usiness which linve been more or less ommon in recent years, are conslder d remote. The extremely moderate -xpasion in trade activity this year tnd the absence of speculative ex esses are held to be adequate safe ;ards against sudden reaction?. The mpression prevails in the financial enters that business will continue its jricess of readjustment but maintain in even keel, with a fairly high aver ige of operations. The latest surveys of the steel situa :ion offered encouragement to this .•lew. The fact that for three weeks he country's steel production had leld close to 70 per cent of capacity, :he weekly review explained, might be aken as the measure of a nearly stab ilized market In contrast to the abrupt decline in operations a year ago. An >ther decrease in the United States Steel corporation's unfilled tonnage is ldmittedly in prospect when the May report is published this week, but the anticipated decline so far has occas oned little concern. Hopes that foreign developments would speed up Europe's recovery were not fully realized. With the es tablishment of a $50,000,000 exchange stabilization credit for the lira, it was felt that Italy had taken a long step toward a return to a gold basis and ultimate revaluation of the cur rency and had strengthened her posi tion for probable debtfunding nego tiations. France, however, was threat ened with another financial crisis as the franc dropped to the lowest level in more than a year and Germany was warned by the allies that she had fail ed to live up to all the provisions ot the peace treaty. The reorganization program out lined for tbe Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad last week provided a topic of obsorbing interest for in vestment mlrcles. Plans for overhaul ing the road's financial structure. Wall street generally agreed were es sentially sound and should permit an early ermlnation of tbe receivership. Inaure 60,000 Railroaders. Louisville, Ky.—Group insurance on the lives of more than 60,000 employes of three railroads,-for a total cover age of approximately $150,000,000. was announced by the Louidville ft Nash ville railroad. The other roads Interested are the Nashville, Chattanooga ft St. Louis and the Louisville, Henderson ft St. Louis. The policy will become effec tive July 1, or upon acceptance by 75 per cent of the workers. All employes ot the railroad* are In cluded in the insurance arrangement, the amount of protection being based upon monthly earnings. The lowest premium will be for SI,OOO end the Maximum tor SB,OOO, with additional accident benefits. The insurance will be issued npon a contributory* basis, the ro«d an nounced, the employee paying a uni form sum to tbe premium cost, while the companies will bear the remain ing expenses. Publish Sals of Planes. Geneva. —The proposed convention on arms traffic control was given more substance by the decision ot the inter national conference to accord full pub lic ov to international traffic in air planes. The military committee bad elimi nated aircraft from the original draft convention but the conference, acting on the theory that civil airplanes had a powerful military value because they could be immediately utilised for scouting purposes, decided to give publicity to all sales fnade to foreign governments. The French who led the fight for publicity were opposed by the J«p> anese and Italians, who contended that It waa unfair because It would not per-, mit non producing countries to accu mulate reserves of airplane without the world knowing It, whereaa air plane building countries could accu mulate an air force without the obtain ing of publicity. The conference also gare formal ap proval to special publicity for the tale of warships along the lines laid May Business Below April. Washington.—Most of the early cal filiations made by the commerce de partment ai >o the actual state of business during May Indicate a leaser activity than during April. Indices of production and prices in pig iron, wool, silk and locomotive work showed decrease and the cessa tion of high pressure business aUo was Indicated by the reports on mall order house sales. Moat of the records, however. Indi cated more active bnstneas than dar ing May IM4. v *. S- - .r -'Jr; »."y ■ - • THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. GRAHAM, N. C. S.OOO CHINESE DEAD IN QUAKE. Peking. Five thousand lives were lost In the earthquake and fire that destroyed" the town of foliful in northwest Yunnan March 16, according to Father Sal vat of the Catholic mission there, whose story of the holocast has just reached Peking. Taliful is almost Inaccessible ex cept by river from the gulf of Ton king .and the letter in question had been en route since March 20, when the earth shocks still were continu ing. The town itself wa» al most entirely destroyed, only tlje wall and a few houses remaining, the letter disclosed. Hundreds of people were trapped in the flames which followed the first - shocks. Four or-Ave neighboring towns also suffered severely. KILLS 39, MANY OVERCOME ELECTRICAL STORMS AND TORNA- DOES IN MIDWEST DO *- DAMAGE. New York. —Eastern states swelter ed again under a heat wave which in three days has caused 39 deaths in the country and more than 100 prostra tions. In the eastern states 12 have died and more than 60 have been over come. Eleven persons were overcome here, one of them BO seriously that he at tempted to slash himself to death on board the liner Maureania as she was about to put to sea. Chicago.—Freakish weather —from Los Angeles, where Nobles of the Mys tic Shrine were compelled to forego their parade because of a "most un usual" June rain, to the Atlantic sea board, which still gwelerted beneath a heat wave that has forced the ther mometer to unseasonable heights. Electrical storms and tornadoes have accompanied the heat wave in portions of the mlddlewest, resulting in numerous casualties and large prop erty damage. At Omaha, Neb., a large crowd at the Ak-Sar-Ben race track rushed mad ly to an open' field and threw them selves face downward in the mud when funnel clouds appeared Torrential rains followed on the heels of the heat wave in a number of localities, damage of $750,0P0 be ing reported from a six-inch fall at St. Joseph, Mo. The death toll from the severe wind and rain storm that struck the region around Minneapolis, Minn., re mained at five, with- communications being gradually reestablished. The storm dead total for lowa mounted to eight since Monday when reports were received of the deaths of three persons in a tornado that struck Adair, lowa. In Nebraska four persons met death as the result of small tornadoes and a general electrical storm Tues day night. The rains that followed broke the beat and provided badly needed moisture for crops. Deaths from heat prostration con tinued to be reported throughout por tions of the country east of the Mis sissippi. In Chicago, Charles F. Hylander, traffic manager of the William Wrig ley, Jr., company, collapsed in his of fice, and died a few minutes later, while R. M. Brower, 65, Rochester, N. Y., died of heart failure induced by the heat. President Warns Navy Class. Annapolis, Md. Peace "through reason rather than through force." faith in the desire of all peoples "to Indiana Town Bwept By Fire, do right" and sufficient military pre- Mount Airy> md.—For the third time pa redness to protect national liberty, jp twenty years thia village of 1,000 with the problem of defense 'borne by inhabitants was swept by a disastrous all our people." were urged by PresT- fire Eleveß bu udings were destroyed dent Coolidge in addressing the gradn- wltb eß tlmated loss of $200,000. atlng class of the United States Naval «|"he flames consumed a fourth of the academy. town. Including one of Its two banks. The President, who handed the an( j principal business enterprises, graduates the diplomas which made firemen sent from Frederick. Elliott them officers of the navy, told them cUy, Kensington and R&ckvlUe were (bey were ambassadors of "citiien- »j orced by Uck oI wjlter pre ssure to ship and righteousness" and remind water froln tanks of the Balti «d Ufem "as one responsible for U«e Jmore juilroad. With the tem natlonal defense," that the occasion for the vicinity reported at seldom wil larise when officers are Jus- during the afternoon, the beat de tifled "in asserting that other speci- Teloped durinc the fire was terrific, fled powers are arming against us. and Kxplolion ot MTe ral thousands cart by arousing hatred and suspicion, at- rld , a hardware store and Igni temptlng to cause us to arm against Uon o( t wo gasoline stations added them spectacular and harsardous effects. The line of 4SB graduates receiv ing the diplomas from the President was headed by Harry E. Hubbard, of Baltimore, Md., honor man. Rear Ad miral Louis McNulton. superintendent of the academy, presided, and Secre tary Wilbur also spoke, while Gover nor Ritchie, of Maryland, and ranking | officers of the navy were present. * At the conclusion of tbe exercises the President inspected the grounds ned his party then bad luncheon with Admiral Nulton, leaving immediately afterward by automobile for Wash ington. Mexico May Aboil ah Death Penalty. Mexico City.—A movement to abol lah tbe death penalty for murderers haa been begun by the intercession of '.or era or Sana, of Jalisco, In the caae of Rafael Recerra, convicted of homi cide by tbe Supreme Court. In a petition to the penal authori ties in this city he asks that the sen tence be commuted and points out that during the last month of his ten ure of offlee. President Obregon com muted the sentences of all prisoners held on such charges. EL GERMANY TO OBEY PACT SWEEPING DEMANDS FOR Dl» ARMAMENT ARE MADE BY ALLIED NATIONS. London. —Germany's failure to carry out the disarmament requirements of the Versailles treaty, were outlined In detail in the note the allied powers have presented to the Germ ah gov ernment, the text of which was made public here. The note was handed to Chancel lor Luther in Berlin by Baron D'Aber non, the BritiA ambassador, repres enting the council of ambassadors. Germany must comply with an ex tensive list of rectifications and de mands before the disarmament obliga tions of the peace treaty are consid ered fulfilled, Justifying commence- ment of evacuation with the first, or Cologne, zone of occupation in accord ance with the Versailles pact and the withdrawal of the allied eontrol com mission. The chief of these sweeping de mands includes radical modification of the reichswehr's general staff, re duction of the country's military forces to 100,000 men and suppression of short term enlistments. The military character of the security police must be ablUhed and the force itself reduc ed from 180,000 to 150,000. Whole sale destruction of industrial plants of the Krupps and a dozen other big con cerns which in their present state are held adaptable for the production of war materials Is demanded. After referring to previous coin- jnunlcations and the report of the con rol commission which established Ger many's shortcomings, the note states the allied governments "consider it of capital importance to place in the foreground of their argument that the defaults unless promptly rectified would in the aggregate enable the German government eventually to re constitute an army modelled on the principles of a nation in arms. "This would be directly counter to the treaty of peace," continues the note," under which German army waa to be used exclusively for the irifeiv tenance of Internal order and for the control' of the German frontier. It ia this circumstance which, while it de monstrates the importance of each in dividual default, renders the total of these defaults so serious a menace to peace." Heat Wave Kill* 175 in Week. Chicago.—From the Rocky Moun tains to the Atlantic seaboard, the country sweltered in the grip of a record-breaking heat wave, while weather reports held out little hope of immediate relief and death tolla and prostrations increased. Tabulations revealed that the hot weather and violent storms which ac companied Old Sol's heat jag, have taken a toll,of upward of 175 lives dur ing the past few days. Weather fore casts indicated that the sizzling tem peratures would continue. In many cities the boiling mercury climbed to new altitude records, caus ing additional deaths and proctrations, starting fires, causing the closing of some schools and interfering with busi ness. Upward of 30 deaths were reported in the "furance belt." In Chicago two fires were attributed to the sun's rays on combustable material and several schools were dismissed when the mer cury climbed to 96.4, a new high record for June 5. Two Killed In Auto Wreck. Raeford.—A seven-passenger Nub. en route from Badin to FayettevUle. occupied by three colored men, Are women and two babies, all of Badln, turned turtle over a 90 foot length '| down the highway four miles out from 1 Raeford towards Fayetteville. and Blma Kendall and Alex McLean were killed Instantly, and it la reported that James Ford died before he could be carried to the hospital shortly after the accident Senteced For Theft of Bible. Winston-Balem. —Charged with the larceny of a Bible from the Salvation Army and with malicious lnjary to personal property, the arrefct following the destruction of the Bible by the de fendant, Charles Pulaski, a ypung man claiming New York aa bis home, was given a hearing la the municipal court and waa aentenced to serve IS months on the county roads in the two eases. Six months waa entered In the larceny case and for the destruction of the property a sen ten ee of IS months waa imposed. MINGS IH THE TAR HEEL STATE NEWS NORTH CAROLINA TOLO IN - SHORT PARA GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE High PolnL —Carl Calne and Arthur Chilton, both erf Aaheboro, were ser iously injured when an automobile In which they were riding crashed Into a telephone pole near Jamestown. FayettevlUe.—With six Judges pres ent, including tor Justice of the Super ior Court, the bar association of the Ninth Judicial District held its annual meeting and barbecue at Lake Rim Beach near this city. The principal ad dress was delivered by Chief Justice W.' P. Stacy and all the members of the Supreme Court. were present ex cept Justice Adams, who sent his re grets. Elizabeth City—R. L. Gray, of the publicity division of the State Depart ment of Conservation and Develop ment, which has succeeded the former Geologic and Economic Survey "will be here to prepare articles on the Dis mal Swamp Canal, and on the seaside resorts of North Carolina, according to Secretary Job, of the Chamber of Commerce. Waynesvllle. —A conference on re ligious education will be held at Lake Junaluska July 15-18. Although the conference will be under the auspices of the board of education of the Meth odist Episcopal Church, South, it has been announced by Dr. Stonewall An derson, general secretary, that mem bers of two other denominations are at work on the program. Goldsboro. —Preston Sutton has re turned to his home in LaGrange after receiving treatment for a pistol wound said to have been Inflicted by Ramon LangstOn, his bed companion, during a * night-mare. Sutton was spending the night with Langßton, both of whom are young men hardly more than 21 years of age. Raeford.—A seven-passenger car en route from Badin to Fayette villa, oc cupied by three colored men, Ave women and two babies, all of Badin, turned turtle over a ninety foot length down the highway tyur miles out from Raeford towards Fayetteville and Elma Kendall and Alex McLean were killed 'Tißtaptiy and it is reported that James Ford died before he could be carried to the hospital shortly after the acci dent. ' Wilson.—After they had named Gen eral A. Smith, pf Ansonvllle, to succeed himself as commander of the North Carolina Department of the United Confederate Veterans and had selected Wilmington aB the meeting place of the 1926 reunion, the gray army evacuated Wilson regretfully, bringing to conclusion the most suc cessful of the State reunions that have been held since the survivors of the Confederacy were organized eighteen years ago. Redisvllle. —Otis K. Wilson, a young white man apparently 22 or 23 years_of age, was Instantly killed here by exti4. freight 4860, southbound. Wilson at tempted to board the freight at tha Southern passenger station when he was pulled under the rapi&ly moving tars and crushed to death. His body was badly mangled. Wake Forest. —Tuesday was regis tration day for the opening of the s l Ti mer law school of Wake Forest Col lege. Dr. N. Y. Oulley, dean of the school predicted that the enrollment would reach 30. The summer school work is Intended primarily to provide review for students who expect to take the next bar examination. The school will continue through August Z5. Raleigh.—The Supreme Court of North Carolina ordered docketed the appeal of the State Highway Commis sion and the county of Johnston from the Injunction granted by Judge Frank A. Daniels restraining the fulfillment of a contract for the loan of 1500,000 by the county for State roads, the money to be repaid out of any future funds that may become available for construction in Johnston county. Warrenton.—After packing his bag preparatory to a business trip to South Hill. Va., Edwin Boyd dropped dead at the home of his brother, Henry A. Boyd, here, from Angina Pectoris. Mr. Boyd woold have been 68 years old in July. * Funeral services will be con ducted from the Methodist church by the Rev. Dr. J. T. Gibbs, -assisted by the Methodist minister of South Hill. Rocky Mounts—The grand jury of Edgecombe Superior Court has been summoned to reconvene at Tarboro to take action on the death of Joe Arm strong. negro convict, who. according to the report of the coroner's jury, came to his death as a result of blown inflicted on his body and head by sticks and a whip in Che hands of V« C." Oftlley and R. V. Tyiar, road fore man and guard respectively, of the Rocky Mount road district pr'son camp. Ahsskie. —Sheriff Bis in ark Scull, of Harrelisville. continues very sick at a Norfolk hospital, where he was taken two weeks sgo for treatment. The sheriff is one of the county's most pop alar officers and his illness has caused ualversal concern among the people of the county. v Greensboro.—C. M. freeman, former Post mister of Troy, Montgomery coun ty. mast raise 9U400 of which amount he Is alleged to have embessled IUU the remainder doe on a check, or go te illwti Federal prison for two yearv Mse & Tales Webb, ordered In Fet •mlMgfart hire. STUDYING CROPS FROM AIRPLANES FIRST OFFICIAL FLIGHT 18 MADE FROM CAMP BRAGG NEAR FAYETTEVILLE. ' The first official airplane flight, to be made in North Carolina for the pur pose of estimating crops' took place near Ifayetteville. Plying in a g«veitn ment plane furnished by Camp Bragg officials co-operating with the federal department of agriculture, Frank Par ker, agricultural statistician for the stale department of agriculture, sur; veyed crop conditions in a large area of eastern and central North Carolina. Mr. Parker acted as the official ob server also for the bureau of agricul tural economics of the United Stfctes department of agriculture which mafla the experiment in co-operation with the state officials. The plane hopped off from Camp Bragg shortly after 10 o'clock and sqrj veyed first the area around Fayette ville. Crops in the country about Smithfleld, Raleigh, Sanford. Abedeen and then back to the army reserva tions. By special arrangement with the army air service, photographs were made of the crops at points be tween Dunn and Benson, Clayton and Raleigh, Apex and Sanford, and Aber deen and Raeford. These pictures* it was stated, will be used for compara tive study of the development of crops and for office research. An elevation of about 1,500 feet was found to be best for studying the crops. The flight was made at an average speed of about 80 miles an hour and it was possible, Mr. Parker stated to keep a strip about two miles wide under observation. It was said the flight was probably the first of several which will be made later on in the year. "The practice usually observed in crop estimating," said a statepent is sued here by department officials, in connection with the flight, "is to send out questionnaires to thousands of croporters and to tabulate their re sults. This requires a minimum of ten days. By the use of an airplane more dependable Information on certain fea tures can be secured over several hun dred miles and the results determined in the same day." Student Dives Three Stories. A tragedy which has cast a pall of gloom over Hampden-Sidney College and the entir& community occurred when Edwin H. Sanders, Jr., of Max Meadows, a student, dived headfore most from the third-story window of his dormitory and was killed. Sanders retired, having finished studying for a biology examination scheduled for the next day. In & "bull session" before retirment San ders gave signs of fear of not making enough work to return next fall and stated that his hope lay on the biology examination. It is believed that this worry brought on the nightmare which Sanders was subject to before enter ing Hampden-Sidney. Poe Favor* Ross as Member. Dr. Clarence Poe, who was succeed ed by George Ross as member repres enting the public on the board of directors of the Tobacco Growers' Co operative Association Issued a state ment in which he declared that he was offered the post by Governor McLean and refused appointment, recommend ing Mr. Ross and being, so far as he knows, the only one to make such rec ommedalon. Dr. Poe's statement follows: "Since I think' It unfortunate for all itnerests concerned that mislead ing statements have gone out regard ing Governor McLean's recent ap pointment of a Public Director of the *n«' , Growers' Asso ciation, I feel that the real facts in the case should be given publicity. "Governor McLean indicated to me, and I have no doubt sincerely, his de sire to re-appoint me. I personally urged him, however, to name Mr. George R. Ross and stated to him that if he would name so admirable aquip ped a man as Mr. Ross for the position I greatly preferred to retire. So far as I know no one else bad suggested the name of Mr. Ross. I had not spok en to Mr. Ross about the matter at air, fearing that he might say that he could not serve, whereas if the appoint ment came to him without previous consultation I felt that he might do so. 1 regard this appointment as one of the moat fortunate things that has happened to the Tobacco Growers'; Co-operative Association In recent tnonths. Director of the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Association tost Tuesday. Mr. Ross has these outstand ing qualification): "1. He Is a man of ability, charac ter and coifftage. "2. He was a member of the organ ization committee of the asosclatlon and a member of the association." Auto License Bureau Ready. , The staff of the Automobile License Bureau under actfng Deputy Commis- \ sioner of Revenue Sprague Silver are speeding up tn preparation for the is suance of license plates to the 350.000 automobile owners in North ra«.»—• . The licenses will go cm sale on June IS which la Ave days earlier than ever before although the work Is being done with less than half the extra help which has been used during the rush seasons la the past Raleigh.