EARLY ACTION ON
TAX CUT IS PLAN
WOULD RELIEVE INCOMES OF
(12,000 BY LOWER SUR
TAX-
Plymouth. Vt.. —Enactment of a tax
reduction bill before March 15, wherv
first payments of the new year are
due, was promised to President Cool
idge by administration financial lead
ers.
Substantial reductions in the Income
tax rates, both surtax and nor.mal. as
well as elimination of many of the
miscellaneous taxes, were declared
possible after a conference here be
tween the executive. Secretary Mellon,
Senator Smoot, Utah, chairman, of the
finance committee, and Representative
Tilson, Connecticut, who will be the
republican floor leader next session.
Estimates of the treasury were pre
sented by Secretary Mellon, ami the
tax program began to assume definite
shape. Mr. Mellon made no definite
recommendations, but Chairman Smoot
and Mr. Tilson later declared for a
cut in the surtax rate, applying on in
comes of sl2 000 and over, from the
maximum of 40 per cent to 20 or 15
per cent. They also proposed a reduc
tion of the normal rates from 2 to 1
per cent on incomes of $4,000 and un
der, from 4 to 3 per cent on incomes
between $4,000 and SB,OOO. and from
6 to 5 per cent on incomes over that
amount.
Early action on the tax reduction
bill, which will be the major domestic
Issue before the next Congress, is pre
dicated on the plan of Chairman
Green, of the bouse ways and means
committee, to call that committee to
gether in October for consideration of
the measure. President Coolidge will
leave to this committee and treasury
experts most of the work of drafting
exact terms of tax legislation.
If the committee has prepared its
bill by the opening of Congress in
December, Representative Tilson said
he would give It the right of way on
the house calendar, believing It can be
sent to the senate by the first of the
year. This would leave two months
for action by the senate and for Iron
ing out of differences between that
body and the house.
Buslneas Flnar Than Laat Year.
Washington.—Further eArly reports
on business conditions to the depart
ment of commerce Indicate substantial
increases over July. 1924. in most lines,
including production of pig iron and
steel ingots, unfilled steel orders, pro
duction of sine, value and area ol
building contracts awarded, dellverlei
of tin. receipts of wool at Boston, load
ings of freight cars and sales of lead
Ing ten cent chain stores Orindingt
of corn for glucose and starch manu
facture were less than a year ago.
Compared with July. 1925. lncreasea
occurred in tine production, tin deliv
eries. receipts of wool at Boston and
In awarda of concrete paving contracta
and of building contracts, measured in
area. Declines occurred from June In
the production of pig Iron and steel
Ingots, unfilled steel ordera. the value
of building awarda. grindlngs of corn,
loadings of freight cars and sales of
ten-cent chains.
French business interests are be
coming less healtant. and some signs
of renewed cofldence in the stability
of affairs are now being manifested.
Among the leading causes of this
trend are the favorable balance shown
by the budget, and the moderate sue
••ess of the gold loan. A complete re
tbrn to optimiam is however, retarded
by the further riae In note circulation
and the still onset tied statua of the
French foreign debt. Production in
the heavy industries continues at a
high level, but purchases are still re
stricted to immediate needs.
Ferg* New Superpower Link.
Harrisonburg. Va—A new link in
the proposed superpower chain of the
southern Appalachians was forged
when four Independent companies of
the Shenandoah valley merged to form
the new Shenaadoah River Power com
fany.
The merger la said to involve more
than It million dollars. The proper
ties will be operated by Ives and Dav
idson. New York. The majority of
the atockholders of the four old com
panies hsve transferred their holdings
to the new corporation.
The merged companies were: Way
era Cnve Light and Power company,
the Valley Light and Power company
of Woodstock: F. A. Shank company.
Tlmbervllle and T. A. Andrlrk com
pany. New Market.
These plants supply virtually all the
light and power to small communities
In northern Augusta. Rockingham and
Shenandoah counties
c
New Ceurt Ruling In Whiakey Caaea
New York.—Federal agents »ast
procure evidence of actual sale of
liquor before they obtain search war
rants against private dwellings, under
a ruling of Fedoral Judge At well, of
Dallaa. Texas, presiding temporarily
In the court
Judge At well revoked a anarch war
rant under which the home" of Daniel
Mnaajlle. in the Bronx, waa raided.
Prohibition Agent Koehler. who pro
cured the warrant, said hn aaw bar
rel# of liquor loaded from the pram
inns on truck*.
• MOTHER AND SON •
• ' ARE FOUND DEAD •
• •
• Camden. N. J.—With skulls •
• crushed, the bodies of Mrs. Cath- *
• erlne Audia and her three year old •
• son, John, were found partially •
• buried under a pile of coal in the *
• cellar of their home here. •
• Both mother and child had been •
• murdered with a bloodstained •
• mallet which lay near the bodies. •
• The mother was dead when the •
• bodies were discovered, but the *
• child, while unconscious, was still *j
• breathing. The boy died shortly • j
• afterward, however. *
BEER FLOOD FLOWS IN EAST
READ PRE WAR "HOPS" DISPLAC
ING WHISKEY, SAYS
DIRECTOR.
j
Washington.—A rising tide of real, j
prewar beer is flowing through the i
east, challenging every effort of the
prohibition department to check Its
circulation and is rapidly displacing!
hard liquors as the major commodity I
of syndicate booHeggers, according to \
Prohibition Director Merrick.
Three carlods of beer seized by pro-1
hibltion agents from Mr. Merrick's of-1
flee, bringing the total seizures dur- j
ing the past 30 days to 6,000 barrels, ;
valued at SIOO 000.,
The increase in beer trafTic is trace- •
able to the manufacture of real beer
by supposedly defunct breweries, 10-,
cated in the main in New Jersey and '■
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, the !
director said. A competitive famine j
of hard liquors due to the disposal of j
the rum fleets was declared to be an->
other factor giving impetus to its
popularity.
"Investigation by agents has disclos- I
ed that the greater part of the beer |
flowing into eastern cities is coming r
from breweries located in and about
Scranto'n, Pa.," Mr. Merrick said, "but 1
we have seized considerable beer con
signed by freight from New Jersey j
and Massachusetts.
To combat the new situation, special !
Investigators have been assigned to j
"mop up" offending districts in the
middle Atlantic states, Mr. Merrick
said. Special attention will be direct- j
ed toward the security of freight cars.'
by means of which most of the bever-1
age is shipped.
Little beer Is trickling over the bor
tier from Canada, the director said, j
Investigation of seizures, however,
have shown the location of the beer
manufacturing centers are not confin
ed to the east he said, murh of the
illicit beverage filtering into the east
from Chicago. The flow Is in both :
directions.
Threatened Mellon.
Kansas City, Mo.—Will K. Reele, In
surance man and for years a crusader'
for prohibition ,was arrested here and
admitted authoriship of an anonymous
letter threatening the life of Secretary '
Andrew W. Mellon of the treasury.
The letter charged Mr. Mellon with
treason in connection with the enforce
ment of prohibition and was mailed
July 31.
Another Auto Murder.
Manhattan. Kans.—Fears that Wil-4
liam Herrington, Kans..'
had met a fate similar to that of A. j
R. Clawaon. motorist, who was killed ,
by a pedestrian he befriended, were 1
expressed here as police began an In i
vestigation of Sangwin's disappear
ance His touring car was fouad >
abandoned here Saturday night with- :
out a license.
Take Suspected Runner.
Miami, Fia.—J. H. Home was placed'
under $2,000 bond and A. T. Home
lies In a Fori Lauderdale hospital fol-!
lowing the capture of the men on
board a fast motor boat alleged to
have been a rum runner. The capture
was effected at New River Inlet, near
Fort Lauderdale, by members of the
coast guard patrol working out of
Miami.
Bear* Asks Fer Big Sum.
Washington.—The shipping board
asked for |22.600.000 for the coming
fiscal year and was told by the budget
bureau It need not expect more than
$15,300,000
For the present year the appropria
tion ia $34,000,000. and last year it
was $30,000,000
Of the total requested 122.000.000
would go to tbe fleet corporation and
$540 000 to the board it*elf. President
Palmer bad a*ked for only lis 000 000
for tbe corporation, but not a member
of tbe board aupported hi* entimate.
Commlaaioner Usaner wit tbe only
ane of tbe els member* pre*ent who
refused to >(,(• for 522.000 »ofl and he
favored f20.000.000
Three Dead From Gun Weunda.
Ronton —George H. Curt in*, of the
Weat Roxbury district, bit wife. Mary,
and their daughter. Marjorie, are
dead and mother of their children be
hoved to be dying at tha City Hoapttal
of bullet wounda In the head. A
daughter. Dorothy, the only member
of the family who eacaped Injury, told
the police her brother «hot the ether*
In a fit of depreaaion and committed
aulclde
George H. Cnrti*. Jr.. 20. aad Mar-
Jorle. aeren, were ahot while they
alept. their slater* aaid.
SNAPS PICTURES
OF fiIFLE BULLS
NEW ELECTRIC APPARATUS
TAKEU SERIES OF PHOTO
GRAPHS.
Washington.—By working out elec
' trie-ally timed photographic apparatus
'the bureau of standards has been en
abled to take a new series of photo
graphs of rifle bullets, and time the re
; lease of gas and sound waves from
; the weapons used.
The first result of the operations,
described by Philip. P. Quayle, has
been to throw new light on the theory
of ballistics, oa which military ex'perts
have worked in developing weapons.
Mr. Quayle fcets his photographs by
the light of an electric spark which
has roughly a duration of a millionth
of a second. With new and speedier,
typV3 of plates ii is thus possible to
get a number of entirely separate pic
tures of each bt llet, though the pro
jection is. speeding at the rate of 2,700
feet per second. The sound wave, the
disturbances in the air from the bul
let's passage, ana the gas blast be
hind the bullet, are recorded on the
plate.
One ordnance theories to fall
before the evidence of the photographs
is that the speed oi a bullet from an
army rifle increases foi»some distance
after it emerges from the muzzle.
The blast of the explosive gases in
its fear was supposed to accomplish
this ecceleration, but Mr. Quayle's pho
tographs show the projectile drawing
swiftly away from th» gas within a
few inches from the muzzle.
Likewise, another of his photographs
"demonstrates the futility of attempt
ing to silence a revolver by attaching
various contraptions to the muzzle."
A sound wave on firing was found to
be propagating itself merrily from
the junction of the revolver cylinder
and the barrel, well back of the muz
zle.
Glorious Fourth Sent 111 to Grave.
New York. —The results of a survey
of casualties of this year's Fourth of
July celebration by the American
Museum of safety and the National
Committee for the Prevention of blind
ness. given out shows that 111 were
killed and 1,030 injured. The analysis
is made of reports from 500 cities in
36 states.
A majority of the victim? were
children. Approximately 800 of the
casualties occurred July 4, white more
than 200 were recorded before and
after Independence day, some as early
as June 24 and others as late aa July
23. Only 30 of the casualties occurred
in connection with public celebrations.
Of the deaths, 3 of the victims,
mostly children, lost their lives as a
result of their clothing being ignited
by so-called harmless sparklers. Six
| very young children are reported to
i have died of poisoning from eating
i firecrackers.
Optimism Rule* In Trade.
New York.—Further Indications of
i recent improvement in business came
j'to light last week, with no adverse
factors developing to chill the cheer
|ful sentiment prevailing in most lines
, of trade.
Commodity prices were somewhat
i mixed. Despite record-breaking gaso
jlne consumption there waa a further
I easing of gasoline prices, particularly
along the Atlantic seaboard. In reflec
' tion of the apparent desire of refiners
to reduce surplus stocks. Further re
ductions are expected by the trade
next week unless there should be a
marked falling off in crude production.
; Steel centers report expanding mill
operations, with producers apparently
.more Interested in maintaining pres
ent pricea than raising them. The de
crease of about 170.000 tons In the July
unfilled tonnage statement of the Unit-'
ed States Steel corporations, which
was made public early In the week,
was slightly larger than had been ex
, pected. and brought orders on hand to
| the lowest level of tike year
rade Growing,
j Washington —The more than 115.-
000.000 Uurease in American exports
tb Mexico in 1924 over 192.1 represent
ed heavier purchase of a variety of
goods. Including fuel and lubricating
oil dlstilltfte. gasoline, automobiles
and tires, the Mexican embassy point
ed ont In a trade analysis made pub
lie. Mexican imports from this coun
try this year totaled 5135.07 C 703
American money
The embassy's analysis declared the
expanded buying due to increased in
dustrial acticity. larger use of auto
mobiles. heavier exports of certain
products, and improved purchasing
power of the population because of
stable conditio**.
Politic* Cause* RIM in lln| ting.
Oaatning. X T.—Bight prisoners
were looted np In aoiitary confine
mant and two more were in the hoe
pltal na a reaalt of a riot la the Slag
King mea* hall which threw the prlaon
Into aa uproar. A*ked what atarted
the uproar, one attache replied: "Why
prlaon politic*, of conroe. Tbe com
batanta on oae aide beloaded to the
Tammany' party that iron the recent
political election in the priaon and the
other fellow* belonged te the Cheeee'
party that loet.~
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. C.
'• FIRE IN HOTEL •
i» . COSTS THREE LIVES. *
•• . •
I. • Long Branch. N. J. —Two fire- •
11 • men and a 16-year-old girl were •
I • burned to death, two other fire- •
| * men and two women were injured, •
; • and 600 guests were routed from •
[ * their rooms, when Are destroyed •
* the dining room and servants' *
* quarters of the New Atlantic hotel •
* in Ocean avenue. The damage *
* was estimated at between $30,000 •
. * and $40,000. *
II * A ship some distance at sea *
J • sent in the alarm after observers *
! * aboard bad seen the smoke. •
.j • Leona Allen, of New York, a *
j * waitress, was suffocated when she *
I * returned to her room to get her *
! * clothing and money. ♦
* The two firemen, Wilbur Lloyd *
I • and Raymond Dinan, were killed *
I * when the roof of the dining-room *
* fell as they were fighting the •
•'flames from above. Two. wait- •
* resses were injured before they *
* could escape from their rooms. •
%RMANY ASKS FOR PROPERTY
i
REQUESTS UNITED STATES TO
SURRENDER WAR-TIME
SEIZURES.
! Washington.—A formal communica
tion pressing for the return of Gar
man propety seized by the United
States during the war has been pre
sented to Secretary Kellogg by the
'German ambassador.
j No comment wjs available at the
state department beyond admission
'that the communication was being
; considered. The memorandum is un-'
l derstood to point out that, in view of
: the status of the operations of the
Dawes reparations plan and the bene
j fit to be derived from those payments
!by the United States, the time ap
-1 pears appropriate to take up for set
( tlement the question of German prop
erties still held by the Washington
government.
!n the absence of the text of the
I German communication or any state
| ment as to the present attitude of
{ the Washington government .it is not
possible to say what change in the
j situation as to disposal of German
| property is forecast by the reopening
lof diplomatic correspondence on the
question.
The policy of the United States k at
the time the peace treaty with Ger
i many was put through clearly was
, stated so far as the sequestered prop
erty was concerned. A joint resolu
tion adopted by Congress and made
part of the treaty declared this prop
erty should be retained by the Waßh
-1 ington government until all private
; claims of American citizens against
i Germany arising out of the war had
| been settled satisfactorily.
Since the ratification of the treaty,
the administration consistently has
held that, in adopting the. resolution.
. Congress took out of the hands of the
executive branch of the government
authority to deal with disposition of
the property. Congress, it has been
! contended. must declare its will as to
what shall be done with sequestered
German property before action can
be taken.
4i Arretted in Buffalo Raids.
i Buffalo, N.' Y.—Forty-nine persons,
! including one woman, were arrested
|in a series of raids on 28 downtown
j and East Side saloons, hotel and clubs.
jThe raids were conducted by prohibi
tion agents detailed here to make a
secret investigation from headquarters
in New York City. Much liquor waa
I seized. The defendants were arraign
ed on charges of possessing snd sell
ing liquqor, and maintaining public
nuisances.
India Places Ban on U. S. Cotton.
London. Because shipments of
American cotton may be harboring
I boll weevil stoways. the government
of "British India has Issued a baa. on
cotton Importations from the United
States, to take effect October first.
I Bombay ia to be the only Indian port
where American cotton can enter the
country and arrangements will be
made there to have all such shipments
fumigated on special barges at the ex
pense of the importers.
,Twe?uarris and One Prisoner Killed.
Salem. Ore. —In a riot at the Oregon
•tate prison, James M. Holtnan and J.
Sweeney, two guards, were shot to
death, and "Oregon" Bert Jones, no
torious prison brewker and highway
man. waa killed. Three other men are
known to have sained their liberty
is a dash over the walls ia a hail of
bullets from the rifles of guards. The
three who esc sped are Tom Murray.
Elaworth Kelly and. A. S. Willows
Pre-arranged plans were carried into
effect at fc:SS o'clock when a break
waa made for the prison srseasl and
guns were secured.
Ope rater Sticks te Key and Dies.
i« Pittsburgh—Facing death from a
sudden illneae Karanaugb Jacoba.
night telegraph operator tor the Pitta
bnrgb and Lake Erie Railroad at Moa
' oagahela, a ear here, threw oa the red
| signals to stop all traias a few miau
tea before he fell across his key.
 dead, from an attack of acute iadiges
' tion. Tralaa oa die division were b»Jt
e* for more thaa -aa hour latii aa
) otlnc operator coald be seat to anaa
the wire. Jacoba - body waa found at
ihia tfesk by police.
COTTON SUPPLY
BEING REDUCED
EXPORTB DURING THE YEAR
REACHES NEARLY EIGHT MIL
LION BALEB.
Washington.—The total supply 01
cotton for the cotton year 1924-1925,
ending July 31. was announced by the
census bureau to have been 15,635.674
bales and the distribution was 15,824.-
304 bales, which is 138,630 bales more
than the supply due principally to the
inclusion in all distribution items of
the "city crop" which consists of re
baied'samples and picking from cotton
damaged by Are and weather.
The supply was made up as follows:
On hand August 1, 1924, total 1,555,-
514 bales, of which 721.589 bales were
in consuming establishments, 673,925
tales in public storage and at com
presses. and 160,000 bales located else
where, including cotton for export on
shipboard but not cleared, cotton be
ing transported coastwise, cotton in
transit to ports, interior towns and
mills, cotton on farms, etc. Net im
ports totaled 303.183 bales, and gin
nlngs for the 12 months were 13,776,-
977.
The distribution was as follows:
Net exports, 7 886.500 bales; con
sumed 6.191.349 bales; burned 26,000
bales; on hand July 31, 1925, 1,610,456
bales of which 866.259 were in con
suming establishments; 514,196 in pub
lic storage and at compresses, and
230,000 bales located elsewhere.
Eleven Killed, 169 Badly Injured.
Miens, France. Eleven persons
were killed and injured in railway
disaster when a crowded Paris-Calais
express of twenty caches of merry
makers bound - for the seashore piled
up and burst into flames just as it
swept into the Amiens station.
The train is said to have been go
ing at 60 miles an hour instead of hav
ing slowed up outside the station, as
the rules require. The passengers
were mostly in third-class sections and
so far as is known, no Americans were
among the dead or injured.
Nine bodies, five of them women,
have been found, some of them badly
burned.. It is feared others are still
in the wreckage.
Two of the injured men died short
ly after they were removed to a hos
pital and Ave others are in a critical
condition.
The engineer escaped unhurt and hia
mental condition is being examined.
Mrs. J. P. Morgan Dead.
Glenn Cove, N. Y.—Mrs. J. P. Mor
gan, wife of the international banker,
died in her Long Island home from a
"cardiac collapse" after being 111 of
sleeping sickness for two months.
No relatives were at the bedside.
Mr. Morgan, informed at his Wall
street office that his wife was very 111,
left before noon by train for Glen
Cove. He was met at the station and
rushed by automobile to the Morgan
country home at Matinecock Point, on
East Island, which lies a short dis
tance off the mainland of Long Island.
He reached his home three hours
after his wife's death.
Guards were at once stationed at
the causeway connecting east island
to Long Island and none but relatives
and close friends of the family were
allowed to approach the home. A
doctor and tw 0 attendants were at the
bedside when Mrs. Morgan suffered
the cardiac collapse
Mrs. Morgan was stricken, with
sleeping sickness July 14 while attend
ing church services. Several days
later it was announced aha had pass
ed the crisis and was steadily Improv
ing but she never entirely emerged
from a ttate of coma.
Bandits Get $20,000.
Dayton, Ohio.—A robber held up six
employes of the North Dayton branch
of the Dayton Savings and Trust com
pany and escaped with approximately
$20,000. The hold up man apparently
had been hiding in the basement of
the building all nig^t.
Rockefeller Gets Money.
New York. —The Mate of the late
William G. Rockefeller will be reim
bursed by New York state to tbe ex
tent of 1327.5 M undef an order Issued
by Surrogate O'Brien. The sum cov
ers taxes paid la New York 'on prop
erty located in other states.
Canadian Rebbers Active.
Winn'pog. Man.—ln a daring day-
holdup of the cashier of the Wla-
Railway company, flvo
robber* obtained a payroll pouch coa
taining $87,478 and esi-aped In an au
tomobile. The cashier was beaten into
unconsciousness.
Great 39 Story Edifice Planned.
Chicago.—A S9-story structure coat
iag I4O.OM.fHX including a coaveatioa
hall, a hotel of 4MO rooms aad aa
office building, to be called the Acro
polis. la planaed for Chicago.
It will cover the city block bouaded
by Michlgaa Avenne, Roosevelt Road,
Eleveath Street aad Wabash Aveaue.
The hptel will probably be the moat
uaiqnelr sitae ted la the world, perch
ed at the top of- the 21-otory offico
bulidlag aad exteadiag up to tbe Sttft
toor.
TO MANUFACTURE
CONVICT SUITS
PENITENTIARY TO SUPPLY UNI
FORMS TO COUNTIES IN THE
STATE.
Raleigh.
The manufacture of convict uniforms
.'or the county prison camps will, be
undertaken by the state prison, which
signed a contract with the Bessemer
Sales Agency, of Charlotte, to supply
it with uniforms to be sold to thie
counties.
The sales agency, which furnishes
suits to most of the county camps,
has been buying from the state manu
facturers. Under the contract entered
ftato, the state prison will put its 49
tiromen inmates to the task of making
the uniforms, the sales company to
supply the material.
It was estimated that the average
population of all the county camps in
the state will 'tun to 4,000 and each
prisoner requires about five suits a
year. The state prison has been mak
ing its own uniforms all along, but the
arrangement with the Bessemer Sales
Agency will call on it for a greatly
enlarged output.
The contract was authorized by the
prison board pf directors. The direc
tors, it was announced following the
meeting, are still engaged in a survey
of industries in search for a practical
line of manufactures for the state
prison. They are desirous of estab
lishing a few industries if they can
avoid lines of work that will be com
petitive with private industries in the
state.
Unless some special work can be
found, many prisoners will continue
idle, and the prison will be unable to
get on a self supporting basis. Prior
to the last legislature prisoners could
be worked only on the state farms, in
quarries and on the roads. There is
authority now, however, to set up in
dustrial works.
Lose Millions By Bank Failure*.
Losses through bankruptcy in the
Eastern Federal Judical District of
North Carolina during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1925, were approxi
mately -four million dollars greater
than the bankruptcy losses during the
preceding fiscal year, according to the
report on bankruptcy cases recently
compiled for the past fiscal year in the
office of the Clerk of the United States
District Court here.
Total amount of liabilities involved
in the 224 cases concluded during the
past fiscal year were $10,531,711. Cred
itors realized $1,331,345, or about
twelve and one-half cents on the dol
lar, leaving net losses of $9,200,366.
The referees' costs during the past fis
cal year continued to be among the
lowest in the entire nation, according
to S. A. Ashe, Jr., deputy clerk. The
costs were only $126,473.
During the fiscal year ending June
30, 1924, 213 bankruptcy cases were
concluded. Liabilities of failing con
cerns were $6,747,039. Creditors real
ised $729,489, or about eleven cents on
the dollar.
State Lew in School Rank.
New Hanover county leads all rural
school systems and Greensboro all
city school systems in the State ac
cording to a statistical measure of
school efficiency prepared by the
State Department of Public Instruc
tion. On the same basis. North Caro
lina ranks forty-eecond among the
State school systems of the United
States, it was stated.
The figures were compiled by W.
H. Pittman. chief clerk of the State
Department of Public Instruction, for
publication in the August 15 Issue of
State School Pacts, the official publi
cation of the department. The com
plete figures will be given in the pnb
llcation which appears Saturday.
On the basis of 100 per cent, the
average for school systems of the
State is 56.0 while the average for
the school systems of the twenty-four
largest cities is S3.C. The State aver
age for rural school systems is 50.1
and for all city schools. >l.l.
Pamlico is second among the rural
county systems while Durham is close
behind Greensboro in the city systems.
Snrry and Cherokee rank lowest
among the county systems while Hen
derson and Moorcsvllle are lowest
among the cjty systems. A feature of
the ranking of the city systems is
that Charlotte, the second largest city
in the slate, ranks fourth from the
bottom anon gthe systems of the 24
largest cities.
Wake county ranks thirty-fifth
among the rural county systems of
tbe State while Raleigh is sixth among
tbe city school systems.
The measure of school efficiency is
determined on the beeis of tea academ
ic and Inane ial factors.
Nstarie* Public Commission**.
The following notaries public bare
been commissioned by Governor Mc-
Loaa: t. V. Dawson. Gnsensboro; M.
V. Blevlns. Crumpler; Miss Pearl
Bewmaa. Oreenwood: Miss Ava Chap
man. High Point: U W. Cherry. Ashe
vlUe; T. G. Culton. Greensboro; J.
Hal GUbreath. Asheville; L. D. Mines.
Whitakers: Fred M. Scott. New Bern;
Miss Mary Spencer. Carthage; J. T.
Stover. Rutherford College; L. W.
3nmmoy. Roamaa; Gray Wheeler. New
Bern; C. O. P. Hughey. Raleigh,
State Had 299 Killing* 1924.
North Carolina contributed more
than its quota to the crime wave of
the nation touring the past year. 293
deaths being designated as homicides
in returns made on death 'certificates
filed with the State Board of Health
for 1924. Chicago, with a record of
more than a murder per day for the
year, may have led the country, but
this State ranks well up in the fore
front.
Typhoid fever not so long ago was
a large factor in the death rate of the
State. It has been one of the causes
of death against which both state and
local health authorities have waged a
major offensive. Now murder and
automobile accidents each levies a
greater annual toll of human life than
does this once prevalent and dreaded
disease.
The records show more than double
the number of negro victims amon
the homicides as compared with the
whites. The distribution is 94 white,
201 negro, and four Indian.
The homicides are divided into four
classifications. Of the total, 235 were
killed with
other piercing instruments, six were
babies killed closely following birth,
and 11 were killed by other means.
Thousand* Need Sanatorium Cure.
"Prom 2,500 to 5 000 people couid l>»
benefited in North Carolina with prop
er Institutional care for tuberculosis."
declared Dr. G. M. Cooper, acting sec
retary of the State Board of Health, ia
commenting on the statement of IJr.
P. P. McCain, superintendent of the
State Sanatorium, that 36 patients now
at the institution would have to be dis
charged in the near future because of
insufficient buildings, beds and main
tenance funds.
Dr. A. C. Bulla, Wake county heal h
officer, declared that if any Waka
county patients are discharged there
is no place in the county to care for
them.
With regard to the 48 prisoners for
whom beds are reserved at the State
Sanatorium. Dr. J. H. Norman, prison
warden and physician, declared that it
is against the law for the State's
Prison to keep tubercular patients at
the plant in Raleigh. Dr. Norman did
not deny that there was room at the
State's Prison for tne patients but said
the prison could not properly care for
them and keep such prisoners separate
from other prisoners. He added that
the Legislature bad authorized such
prisoners to be turned over to Sana
torium because of the fetter facilities
for treatment at the latter place.
Tobacco Raisers Suffer Big Los*.
Drought during the month of Juljr
cost North Carolina tobacco farmers
alone $8,288,000, according to esti
mates of the dam&ge done this one
crop in the State contained in report
made public by the joint crop report
ing service of the United States and
North Carolina Department of Agri
culture.
Concerning'general conditions in the
State, the report says:
"Dry weather has been a most dis
couraging factor to farmers in the
Piedmont and Mountain counties dur
ing July. The Coastal districts have
fared better, had good rains
ranging. Iroift rather dry in the south
ern to wet in the northern coastal
counties. The best conditions in ths
State are to be found in the Central
Coastal Plains, where few damaging
factors have occured this year. Dry
weather hit the State just at the time
when good rains would have been
most helpful. Crops were beginning
to mature, cultivation was the best in
years, and stands, while lrregsiar,
were fair. The drought checked the
growth of plants which are maturing
before the fruit has reached full de
velopment.
Pert of Museum Opened.
Featuring the display of "the larg
est blockade still In captivity," a
North Carolina product; mastodons
teeth, excavated in Jones county and
other curios of Tar Heel interest, the
first floor of the State museaum. which
has been closed since tbe spring of
1922, was reopened to the public Mon
day. Announcement to this effect was
made by H. H. Brimley, State curator
of the State department of agriculture,
under the direction of which the mu
seum operated.
Curator Brimley announced that the
reat of the museum would be reopen
ed in about four months.
The floitag of the museum, which
waa visited by perhaps more sight
seers in Raleigh than any other public
place, was made necessary by tbe
tearing down of the old agricultural
building, on the site which a new
building has been erected. The mu
seum I* housed In this modern fire
proof structure.
The whiskey *tiH on display had a
capacit/ when in operation of «•>
gallons. It it solid copper, with sold
ered Joints and was captured in North
ampton count* by federal prohibition
•Cents who presented it to the Stat*.
Ceunty Read* in Highway Maps.
Plans for the Inclusion of well maia
taiaed county highways in the next is
sue of North Carolina road maps pre
pared by the State Highway Comm:*-
sioa are b*lag mad* by H. K. Wither
spoon, aaalatant to th* Stat* H «h
--way Commiss.oß. who has cnaige of
th* work.
Letters are being mailed to tb*
chairmen of th* road governing bodies
of ever? county In the State ask in*
the type aid cond tlon of the Improv
ed roads that ar* maintained by tMm
count!**.