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HOPEFUL START 111 LEAGUEJHEEJIN6 BELIEVES WORLD PEACE CAN BE PLACED ON 80LID FOUNDA TION. Geneva.—With a hopeful start mailt in setting the supreme problem •of European security, the sixth assembly »f tbe League of Nations took up its work in an atmosphere of confidence and with the conviction that world peace can be placed on a solid founda tion. This spirit of optimism dominated ihe discourses delivered by Paul Pain leve. Premier of France, who called !he assembly to. order and by Senator Raoul Dandurand, of Canada, whom the assembly elected its president. The same spirit seemed to radiate both inside and outside the assembly j hall as statesmen from 50 lands estab- j llshed "their first contact of the I *ion to review tbe world's affairs. M. Painleve made one thing clear I at the starfe. This was that when ; satisfactory security had been acblev-J ed by the negotiations between tbe allies and Germany and other desir able regional guarantee pacts have , been erected, the council of the League of Nations should invite the powers to a conference looking toward the'! reduction of armaments. Incidental ly, he emphasised that cooperation for the maintenance of peace must have its root in the League of Nations. M. Painleve characterized the nego tiations with Germany as an effort-to bring about agreement or arbitrations treaties in conformity with the rove, nant of the League, of Nations for the maintenance of peace. He explained that the result of the negotiations, if they succeed will h* to bind certain nations which are members of the league, by obligMions similar to those provided for In the Geneva peace pro tocol. Tbe protocol. M. Painleve ssld. has failed of ratification chiefly because of the refusal of* some powers, includ ing England, to accept the system of penalties against an aggressor state therein provided. He boldly suggest ed a way out of t\'s difficulty con cerning the protcol by counselling 'ho creation of a modified protocol, which would not Immediately bind all the countries of the world by the sams universal formulae, but would include a series of regional pacta between states which ar% perhaps prone to con flicts leaving all other members of the league bound by the general obliga tions of the covenant. 54 Killed in Week-End Accidents. Chicago.—Automobile mishaps wera responsible for more than one half of the 54 accidental deaths reported throughout the country over the week end. Following close on the total of 2J credited to automobiles, were 12 deaths caused by floods. Ten were due to drowning, three to a' tornado and one to a wreck. More than 100 were injured. A cloudburst in Washington State cauaed a gloom that took 12 lives, and a tornado at Brownstone, 111., killed three persons. A Ijoulsvllle * Nashville passenger train crashed Into an open switch at Stanford. Ky.. and the engineer was killed. Five persons were killed when a Illinois Central train struck sn auto mobile near Rlvea, Tenn. Four hunts men failed to beat a train to a grade crossing near Chicago and two wera killed. Six deaths were due to auto mobile accidents In New England, while 13 were reported In Xew York State and Xew Jersey. There were drowned near Wagoner Okla.. when two brothers went to th» aid of a third. One was drowned at Hpringfield and six in Xew England Five middle western States reported 44 automobile deaths for last week. 7S-Year>Old Farmer la Married. Clarkaville. Tenn.—John W. Denton. 75. « tenant farmer of New Providence, near here, baa been Inarrled for the aeventh time. Denton Is tbe father of seven children and granfaiber ot thirty-six. His latest bride Is Mra. Willie Arm strong. 30 yeara old. a widow wltt Ave children, tbe youngest of whom It a boy 3 months old. Chinese Severely Beat American. London.—-Daring the rioting 1c Shanghai, says n dispatch to the Dally Mall, an American. C. C. Elrod. was severely beaten by Chinese who pene trated a Jsectlon of the French settle ment. Elrod was rescued The extent ol his injuries ia not known. Twe Fire-Fightem »« r " to Death. Maryville. Tenn —Two men have toet their Uvea fighting forest firei Mar the camp of the Babcock Lumbal company, in the Smoky mountains ol Monroe county, it became known They" am William O raves and Frank Copplnger. They wera trapped in a fresh outbrsak of tames after the ir« had apparently been brought undei control. J. P. Murpby. auporintendent of th« lumber company,, went to the aceiw tpltfe rescue party. familial mmrm raacoad - / » CLOUDBURST FLOOD KILLS • • TEN AND WRECKS TOWN. • • • • • Wenatcbee. Wash. —With the • • flood waters slowly subsiding, the * • toll from the cloudburst which * • swept the upper-Squillichuck can- • • yon, stood at 10 dead, nine injured * • and one missing. Two hotels and • • five bouses were wrecked by t«he • • flood. • • • A roaring wall of water 12 feet • • high swept down from the can- • • yon upon the Great Northern rail- • • road terminal at Springwater, • • picked up five dwellings in its • • 100 yard path, tore them to splint- • • ers and hurled the three-story • • Spring Water hotel, a frame struc- • • ture, 60 feet across the street. • • The building crashed into the • • Terminal hotel, wrecking It. • » The disaster came without warn- • • ing. Occupants of the hotel build- * • ing were? caught and carried down • • with the torrent. For the most • • part, the victims were occupants * • of the dwellings. • DIRIGIBLE WRECKS, 14 KILLED HURLED UPWARD BY WIND. SHEN ANDOAH PLUNGES TO EARTH. Caldwell, Ohio.—America's pride of I the air, the Shenandoah, lies scatter ed about the rugged bills of southwest ern Ohio, broken and twisted —only a memory. In her plunge to earth during the early morning hours she carried to tbelr deaths her commander. Com mander Zachary Lansdowno, of Green ville. Ohio, and 13 other otTicers and enlisted men of her crew of 43. Caught is a line squall while at tempting to ride out a severe storm, the giant ship's massive framework broke in twain more than half a mile up in the heavens and plunged in sep arate parts to tbe ground Eclipsing many of the tales of dis aster which have been written of the sea. men hung on to girders and pieces of rigging of the parts of the monster as they floated through the air. Most of them saved their lives by jumping as the parts of the giant gas bag neared the ground. After battling the elements for sev eral hours, the huge aircraft suddenly sbot upward to an altitude of approxi matelFc 6,500 feet from a 3.000-foot level Where tbe dirigible buckled amidshlp. The pressure and twisting was so great that it broke the ship in three sections. The control cabin, swung beneath j the fore section of tbe ship proper, broke away and crashed to the ground while at an alttltude of several thou sand feet. It carried most of the crew who were killed. Released of the control cabin, the foresection measuring about 150 feet and bearing seven survivors, free-bal- I looned for more than an hour and finally was landed near Sharon, 12 miles from wbfre the control cabin crashed near Ava. The main section carrying 2« sur vivors landed with a crash which sent several of the crew diving through the outer covering to the ground A mid dle section of some 15 or 20 feet set tled down in pieces'over the country side? The Wurtten Dead. Those killed in the control cabin of the Shenandoah were: Lieutenant Commander Zachary Landsdowne. Greeneville. Ohio, cap tain of the ship. • Lieutenant Commander Louis Han cock, Jr.. Austin. Texas, execuive *of fleer. Lieu. J. B. Lawrence. S, Paul, Minn. Lieu. A. R. Houghon. Alston. Mass Chief Petty Officer George O. Sch nltter, Tuckertown. N. J. Machinst's Mate James A. Moore. Savannah. Oa. s Chief Rigger E P. Allenv. W. J-ouis. Mo. Others killed were Lieut. K W. Sheppard. Washington. DC. , Rigger Ralph O. Joffray. St Machinist Mate B. B. O'Sulllvan. Lowell. Mass. Machinist Mate W A. Sprattley. Ve nire, Ills * Chief Machinist Charles H. Broom. Tom's River, N. J. Machinist Mate C. P. Maxsuce. Mur ray Hill. N. J. . Machinist Mate James W. Cullinaa. Bingham ton. X. Y. Just where the men not classified were when the ship cracked and when they fell Is the subject of conflicting stories by survivors. Those Injured are: Chief Gunner Raymond Cole. Lima Ohio, cut and bruised, thougfht not to be fatally Injured Rigger J. P. McCrathy. Freehold. X. J., suffering Yrom Injuries and cuts. He may die. Two Killed and One Hurt. Winchester. Va.—Two men were in stantly killed and a young woman probably fatally injured when struck by a speeding automobile. The trio had stopped their automo bile to repair a -tire when they were ttrack by the parsing car. The names of the dead were given as Calvin Finchsm. SS. Rappahan nock County and Oscar Dodson. 2# Madieon County. Their necks were broken and skulls fractured Mlaa Emma Pingley'a leg «u broken and suffered Internal Injnrlea. II AUGUSTA BALI PLAYERS KILLED » • rnmmmm — MANAGER HUHN AND REIGER PERISH IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT. Camden. S. C.—Tragedy befell the Augusta baseball club near here when Manager Emil Hubn and Frank Reig er. third baseman, were killed in an automobile accident. I Five other members of the club, oc cupants of the car which Manager j Huhn was driving, were painfully bruised when the machine skidded Into a ditch and overturned at at sharp curve. The bodies of the club's manager and Reiger were brought to Camden by President Wolfe, who was traveling in another car and arrived at the scene of the nccldept about 40 minutes after the crash. The scene of tbe accident is about fourteen miles north of Camden. - party of ball players was re | turning from Charlotte to Augusta, having left that City late in the after non. after defeating the-«ornets, 6 to 5. in a thirteen inning contest. The players are Cliff Haury. pitcher; pitcher. Catch er Livingston; Kenneth Sedge wick, pitcher and Joe Buskey. shortstop. They were brought to a hospital here, where their injuries were treated. Each was discharged within a short time after his arrival at tbe hospital. The crash accurred on a rather "wild" section of the road, and assist ance did not come Immediately to the dead and injured, it was understood. Mr. Wolfe arrived in his car about 40 minutes after the trag&dy, but other passersby had arrived a short time previously. In the meantime, the in jured players were assisting one an other, and had succeeded in removing the bodies from the wreckage of the overturned machine. On hi» arrival. Mr. Wolfe took charge of the situation and arranged for the removal of the two bodies to Camden without delay. The injured players were placed in other machines and brought here in haste fpr medical attention. Cause of Wreck Not Known. Columbia. S. C. —According to Co lumbians who visited the scene of tbe accident where Emil Huhn. manager and Frank Reiger. of the Augusta South Atlantic League i>k«eball club, were fatally injured, the failure to see the curve ahead was responsible for the accident. v It is said that some negroes were standing near the scene when they saw the car coming, and one of them is said to have made tbe assertion that from the way the car was coming the driver was apt to miss the curve. The colored men said he then turned to talk to another one in the party, and then they heard tbe sudden ap plying of the breakes. followed by the noise of a crash. The negroes rushed to the overturn ed car. The motor of the upturned machine, which had completely swerv ed around and %as facing back toward Charlote. was still running. - ' j August Postal Receipts Less. Washington^—August postal receipts totalled 125.034.541 at the 60 selected postofflces of the country. was an Increase of $2.539,243. or 1.2S per cent over August of last year, but a decrease of $722,402 from tbe re ceipts of July this year. Every one of the 50 postofflces showed Increases over August last year, the three largest offices—Xew, York. Chicago and Philadelphia—re porting lit*. IS 43 and 10.12 per cant, respectively, while for August last year each of these offices reported a decrease in receipts as com parti with the prvkous August. Jacksonville. Fla.. led tbe list with a gain of 33 35 per cent. Richmond. ' Va., was second with 17.31; Fort Worth third with 25.55, Detroit fourth with I 20.54. and Baltimore fifth with 20.18 Los Angeles bad the smallest percent age of increase. It having been three quarters of one per cenL Bullet-Riddled Pair Murdered. SL Louis.—Two bullet-riddled bo dies of an unidentified man and wo man were found In a three-room cinb house near Lake Hill. St. Louis coun ty. They were unclothed in a bed. The man about 38 years old. was pene trated by five bullets in tbe breast and one in tbe hand' The woman about Ilk.years old, was shot in the chest and neck. Coroner Bopp and deputy sheriffs made an examination of the efftcts found In tbe bouse. Illinois Tornado Kills Two. Springfield; ills.—Two tourists. Mm Frank Kvel and daughter. Ashley, Ohio, were killed and five persons ser iously injured when n tornado hit Browatown. a village of 500 population eight mllea east of Vandalia. the tele phone operator n Vandalia reported Ut the SUM Journal by long distance lelephnne. The operator said the tourists were killed when ike garage of Elden Mc- Cormlch baa demolished by the wind. The garaga is located on tbe national trail- . v ■ THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. C. • six KILLED INSTANTLY • !• ON GRADE CROSSING. • ' • • • Rive*. Tenn.—Claude Warren, a * '• farmer, living near Beardsontown, • • Tenn., bis wife, two children, his • • mother-in-law* Mrs. J. C. Cade. * I • and Tim Curl, were killed near • • here, when an Illinois Central pas- * I*. sengST train struck the automo- • • bile in whicfc they were riding at a * • grade crossing. A two-year-old • I* daughter of Wallren escaped un- • • hurt. All of the six were killed • (• instantly and their bodies badly • j* torn by the crash. The body of * j* Curl was found several hundred • • yards down the track. The auto- • • mobile was sulintered. * SAYS SITUATION CLEARED CALLS ADDRESSES MEXICAN CONGRESS; RESULT OF WARNING. Mexico City.—Addressing the open ing session of congress. President Calles said the situation between th% (United States and Mexico, growing out of the warning given Mexico last June by Secretary of State Kellogg, had been cleared in a friendly spirit I and that Mexico and the United States were .proceeding along the path of \ cordial and sincere understanding, i (The warning of Secretary Kellogg i was contained in a formal statement j issued June 12. It was said the Unit- j ed States could not countenance viola- j tion by Mexico of her international ! obligations or failure to protec Ameri- j can citizens). "Mexico," President Calles said, in j his address to congress, "will continue j to the utmost to maintain this cordial- I ity and develop a friendship based on mutual consideration and respect." j j President Calles declared the pros pect hopeful that Mexico would re- j ; sume the payment of her foreign debt, j The government, he said. intends to j resume payments "within the shortest : possible period consistent with cer-! tain unavoidable national needs, which must be fulfilled first." The president recommended that Congress enact legislation restricting the issuance of permits to foreigners , and foreign corporations to own land. j water rights and sub-soil rights, mean ing mining property in Mexico, "in ; order to avoid possible friction with , foreign governments" until article 27 of the constitution fully is interpreted. | This article regulates foreign owner- of property in Mexico and vests : sub surface ownership of minerals, : including oil, in the government. Officer Slain at Sumter. Sumter. S. C. —W. A. Howard, rail- j road policeman of the Atlantic Coast 'Line railway, was shot and killed in' the railroad yards here. A coroner's j Jury charged an "unknown negro" with the shooting. The slayer, after shooting the offi cer. turned and attacked him with a [ knife. Howard's head and chest were so badly mutilated that it was impos- | sible to ascertain bow many times he was shot, officers reported. A negro woman, who ia said to have witnessed the shooting, stated that Howard was chasing the negro and gaining on him when the black sud- | denly turned and fired four or five ; tHnes at the officer. Howard fell and the negro rushed upon .-him and stab- ; bed him a number of times with a knife, the woman said. Europeans Craving American Apple*. ! Chicago.—Craving for American ap- ! pies Is spreading. The United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics re ported that 70 countries are receiving i , shipments of American apples and that ! last" year's export record of more : than 15,000 carloads may be surpass I ed , | Indications are that the many varie ties of American apples available dur ing the remainder of 1925 will be of I good sise and of better quality than last year. The English apple yield is : scarcely half of a full crop. The con tinental European apple crop also is reported to be very light. Further more, the Canadian apple crop Is less than last season. i | Virginia, one of the chief United States sources of apple supply for ex- ! port, is also short this but the , ; deficit Is more than made up by galUs in Washington and New »ork States. Present prices for apples are slight- j iljr lower than a year ago Kills Herself to Escape Testifying. V Columbus. Qa. —Informed that she 1 would be required to appear In police ' court as a witness against a soldier .at Fort Banning, near here, on charges 1 of disorderly conduct tied by her fatb 1 er. Elroa N'orris. 1(. shot and fatally | wounded herself. Booster Picture For the Capital. Washington.—The department of ' commerce Is going te produce a boos ; ter film for the National Capital, i ■ The expense of producing the film. ' which will depict the beauties of the ■ capital and Its pablic buildings, will 'be borne by the local Chamber of | Commerce. The chamber is arrang i : lag for its nation-wide distribution a* -1 part of Ha drive to advertise the real dendal advantages of Waahiagtea and > i the department in leading Its facilities iter srodutint the tlm. Km ILL PROBE GREAT DISASTER BOARDS OF INQUIRY AND IN QUEST NAMED;*! TRAGEDY ' l CASTS PALL. Washington.—A beard of inquest and inquiry for the Shenandoah disas ter was appointed to convene as early as possible at Caldwell, Ohio. The board comprises Momdr. Jacob P. Klein, commander of the Los An geles and executive officer at Lake hurst; Conjdr. S. M. Kraus. chief en gineer officer at Lakehurst; Lieut. William T. Minnick of the medical corps, now on duty at Pittsburgh, and Lieut. William Nelson of the construc tion corps at Lakehurst. The wreck of the Shenandoah, Mr. Wilbur declared, was a Iragiv demon stration that dirigibles as well as bal loons are merely bubbles of gasrin the ■ atmosphere with comparatively enevlopes, ruptures of which must bring disaster. "It was one of those accidents which we must anticipate and attempt to avoid,'' he said. The loss of many officers and men \ whom he knew personally, he added, j made the catastrophe a very personal j one to him. Declaring. "My heart goes out to the families of the men who have been ! killed." he expressed pleasure that the J men who were saved "conducted them selves ia-mich a way as,to be a credit | to themselves and the navy" by man j euvering the parts of the airship jjvhich remained afloat for a time and later rendering assistance to the in jured. Both Mr. Wilbur and Admiral Eber- I le. chief of naval operations, sent mes ' sages of sympathy to Lakehurst for 1 transmission to the bereaved families. The secretary also received a message expressing "slncerest sympathy and condolence" from Dr. Hugo Eckner, director of the German Zeppelin com pany, who brought the Los Angeles to this country. # Apart from any policies the navy de -1 partment may recommend in the mat ter of further use or development of i lighter-than-air craft, the disaster to j the Shenandoah, coming after the wreck of the ZR-2 at Hull, England, in 1921, and the destruction of the army dirigible Roma at Hampton Roads in i 1922. both with heavy loss ?f life,'is . generally regarded as lessening con siderably any prospect of obtaining extensive approproations from con ' gress for this branch of the service. Two Lives Lost in Two Accidents. Greensboro. N. C/—Two persons lost 'i their lives near here, the result of ac- I cldents, while another was badly in jurtd. Cicero Thomas, aged .44. fell beneath a'tfain and Jesse Stevenson, aged 17. was drowned when pinned : under a highway commission truck j when it plunged from a bridge into a j creek. Thomas, of Ramseur, fell beneath a train at Vandalia, five miles south of here. Both legs and most of the lower part of his body \\"e crushed off, but he lived half an hour, recognized peo ple around him pnd talked some. He had left here an a mixed train of the Atlantic and Yadkin." headed toward Sanford. The box car in which he was beating his way was shifted to a sid ing at Vandalia, and he attempted to catch the train the engine, with j some other cars, was backing down I hill to get the other cars. He caught | a car but was thrown under tho wheels. Jesse Stevenson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayborne Stevenson, of Mc- Lesnsvllle. Guilford county. was i drowned when a state highway truck in which be was riding went off a bridge six miles from here, on the Greensboro-Gibsonvllle road. Tho j heavy track, loaded with dirt, went through the railing and turned over. Stevenson was In the water thirty minutes, his hesui pinned under the water.. In sddition, injuries from the weight of the truck upon him were ' severe enough to hsve caused desth later if he had not been drowned, was 'the belief. Southern Offers Silver Trophy. Atlanta.—To encourage the produc ; tlon of more and better corn in the . south, the Southern railway system will offer a hsndsome silver cop, to be competed for snnuaily and awarded to the grower of the best ten ears of corn, In Virginia. North Carolina. South Car olina. Georgia. Alabama. Mississippi. Tennessee or Kentucky and exhibited at any one of IS leading state and district fairs. Details of the plan were announced by Roland Turner, of Alanta, general sgrelcultnral agent for the Southern. IS Blocks Burn in Bhreveport. Shreveport. La. Mor* than 15 blocks In Shreveport's residential sec tion destroyed by Bre while firemen looked on helplessly because of lack of water dn* to the bursting of the dtjr main. The fire was gradually eat ing Its way toward the buainess dls trict and was sweeping throngh a ne gro residence section. Damage was estimated nt (hat hour to be more than ISM.MO All of the Are fighting sppsratus ef the city rssiaadsd. hut the firemen tbesisalvos fcsOTM. INCOME TAXES 111 NQRTHJMiIM R. J. REYNOLDS LEADS WITH THREE -ANP' ONE-HALF MILLIONS. Raleigh. Three North Carolina corporations pay more than one-third of the Federal income taxes from North Carolina, it was disclosed when the tax assess ments for North Carolina were opened to the public by Collector Gilliam Grissom. These corporations are the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.. Winston-Salem, which pays income taxes totaling $3,- 523,774.15; the Atlantic , Coast Line Railroad Company, Wilmington, which pays income taxes amounting to sl,- 292.96?.24, and the Duke Power Com pany, Charlotte, which pays incomes taxes amounting to $508,008.68. Fifty North Carolina corporations paid Federal income taxes last year of ten thousand dollars or more, and the aggregate income taxes paid by these fifty corporations is $6,713,091.77. The total Federal income taxes col lected last year by Colector Grissom was $15,850,039.28. while the total amount of income tax reported this year up to and including August 31 is $13,329,710.15. Fifty-two individuals in North Caro lina pay an income tax of ten thou sand dollars or more, the highest be ing by W. N. Reynolds of Winston- Salem, whose total tax is $243,085.00, while the second highest is a tax of $112,349.38, which is paid by Charles A. Cannon, of Concord. The total income taxes paid by these fifty-two individuals aggregates $1,727,677.60. If the taxes pa:d by these individuals is added to the ag gregate of the fifty corporations, it makes a otal of $8,440,769.37 or more than half of the total sum of taxes collected from 29,510 individuals and 1,829 corporations last year. In addiion to the 29,510 individuals assessed for taxetf this year, there were 43,577 others reporting incomes but with exemptions that did not make them liable.- There were 3.980 corpor ations reporting to Collector Grissom. who were not liable for taxes. There are 2,750 individuals and cor porations in North Carolina that pay a Federal income tax of a hundred dolors or more this year. Automobile Revenue Shows Increase. Collections by the Automobile Li cense Bureau of the State Department of Revenue during August totalled $896,954.46, according tp report made public. The collections this year show a gain of $117,196 over August, 1924, when the total was $770,758.46. The principal gain this year is in th 6 gasoline tax, which was increased from 3 to 4 cents by the last General Assembly. The gain is $111,213.09. The collections last month were as follows: Automobile licenses, $372.- 834.34; gasoline taxes. $510,085.12; and title fees, $14,035. The collections in August, 1924, were as follows: Automobile licenses $367,716.43; gasoline taxes. $398,872.- 03, and title fees, $13,170. Governor Comments on, Drought. "This situation forces to our atten tion the fact that North Carolina must adopt a broader policy of forest con servation," declared Governor McLean when the sefjousness of the shortage of water in' Western North Carolina due to. the extendi drought was brought pointedly to his attention by the forced postponement of the open ing of the State School for the Deaf at Morgan ton. The postponement of the opening of the school for the Deaf was made necessary in order to make its water supply available for the State Hospital for the Insane at Morganton. Both in stitutions could not operate upon the present water supply. The water sys tems of the two institutions can be connected and all the available water given to the State Hospital. Since the students of the School for the Deaf are at home where they will not be affect ed and State Hospital must con tinue to function, the management of the two institutions agreed to post pone the opening of the School for the Deaf. Qowrnor M>'letn declared that the polSr of forest conservation in North (jaroima is a matter of preserving /he , forests we have rather than any re forestation policy. He patricularly emphaissed the importance of prevent ing forest fires. State Forester J. S. Holmes inform ed Governor McLean that extremes of drought and flood can be to a large degree prevented by proper forestn tion. McLean Paroles Three Prisoners. Three prisoners were paroled by Governor McLean and four petitions for parole were declined. The gover nor's actios was taken on the recom mendation of Pardon Commissioner H. H. Sink. ' The three, mep paroled were Eddie Phillips of Forsyth coantj; Jim Creech, of Forsyth county WiM McAllister, qf Richmond county. The parole of Phillips was recom mended by the sheriff-and other coun ty officers ft Forshyth. Good Cheap Road Now Great Net J. Research to provide moderate priced highway which will meet the demands, of traffic is being carried on by the Highway Research Board of the Na tional Research Council through S- S. Steinberg field representative, who is now in North Carolina making a study of the earth roads of the State. Char 1m M. Upham. State Highway engineer and director of the Highway Research Board, declares that a-rtseap serviceable road is the most important problem now confronting highway engineers. Only 15 per cent of the highways of America are of hard surface construc tion, according to Mr. Steinberg, while the other 85 per cent are roads of chetfp construction. Since this is so it is manifestly impossible to build hard surface roads to all communities and opening, up all territory in this country, he 'declares. By building good moderately priced roads the mileage for any expediture will be vastly greater than if expen sive hard surface roads are construct ed, he declares. The highway Re search Board is seeking to determine the best moderately priced roads. Mr. ' Steinberg is conducting the "Earth Road Investigation" of the board. research work that has been done in North Carolina under the direc tion of Mr. Upham leads the whole country," declared Mr. Steinberg, More Births-in State Than Last Year. The number of births in North Car olina continues to grow, while the deaths are on the decrease. This is rhown by figures compiled by the state bureau of vital statistics. The first six months of this year show ed an increase of births over the same period in 1924, and the comparative figures for the two periods show that there were fewer deaths in the state during the first half of this year. The bureau's figures show a total of 42,030 births in N'orth Carolina dur ing the first half of 1924 as compared with 42,197 for the same period this year, the increase being 167. The deaths during the first six months of 1924 numbered 17,746. Deaths the first half of ttiis year to taled 16,828, a decrease over the same period last year of 918. Of this number of deaths —for both periods—the bureau estimates that 3,000 were infants, that is. babies tin der one year. In other words, of the 42,030 babies born during the first six months of 1924, 3,000 of~them are dead now. And not less than 250 of the mothers of these 42,030 children born during the first six months of last year, have died during """the year, the bureau figures show. Pou Makes Second Appeal. George Ross Pou. superintendent of the State's prison, issued his second letter to the chairmen of the boards of county commissioners of the hun dred counties of the State in an effort to secure orders for convict clothing for county convicts, which is now be ing manufactured at the prison. Fall convict clothing for the Wake County prisoners was made at the State's Prison, and the Wake County road officials state that they are much pleased at the saving effected and the quality of workmanship, according to Mr. Pou. Clothing made by the prison is sold by the Roster Sales Agency, of Charlotte. In his letter to the county officials Mr. Pou states that there are now 300 convicts at the State's Prison not gainfully employed and "unless these prisoners are placed upon a revenue producing tfasis," he declares, "the prison cannot be self-supporting." Will Teach About North Carolina. That teaclkng North Carolina is go ing to be quite popular in the public schools this season is indicated by the numerous requests for maps and other information a'.>out the State received' by the Department of Agriculture dur ing the past few days. Numerous teachers have applied for copies of the agricultural map distributed by the department and of "North Carolina, the Land of Opportunity." Teachers throughout the State seem interested in teaching the rising gen eration facts about North Carolina, with especial emphasis on the State's agricultural opportunities. However, a number of calls have been received for "anything of Interest about Xprth Carolina." Cotton Association Wants Crop. State prison directors at their meet ing in Halifax county on the Tillery of Caledonia farm, will be asked to mar ket the state farm's cotton crop through the Co-operative __Cotton Growers 'association with headquar ters at Raleigh. The state will raise from the Hall fax farms upw'ards of 400 bales if the promise of today holds. New' Corporations. The following certificates of incor poration were issued: Amendment to charier of the Penn sylvania Lumber Company, increasing authorised capital from SIO,OOO to $50.- 000. Realty Company, Char lotte, with authorized capital SIOO - and $25,000 subscribed by V. I. Outhery, T. B. E. Spencer, John F. Durham, Jno. C. Shepherd and L. D. Souther land, all of Charlotte.
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