PAGE SIX
BIG LIGHT INSURES
AGAINST AIR ATTACK
Makes Reading Easy Forty
Miles Away.
New York.—A 2,000,000.000 candle
power searchlight, the largest in the
world, with a light intensity SO times
as great as all the lights on alt New
York city’s Great White Way com
bined, was shown to the public for
the lirst time recently at the Electri
cal and Industrial exposition. So pow
erful is this searchlight that a man
40 miles away could see to read his
newspaper by it, and those operating
the light can clearly discern objects
at a distance of five or six miles. .
At least 10.000 persons crowded
around the exhibit of the coast artil
lery on the third floor of the expo
sition to look at this remarkable
searchlight and to listen with awe
while Lieut. F. A. Mitchell, U. N. A„
recounted the wonders that it could
perforin. ,
Among the most interested specta
tors was Arthur Williams, president
of the electrical exposition and vice
president, commercial relations of the
New York Edison company, who'point
t(i out. incidentally, that the first in
candescent lamp —perfected by the
great Edison exactly 47 yea's aa
had a light intenrity of 10 cai.it.e
power,
Mskss City Saf2.
The Sperry searchlight is pa;*; ....
exhibit which Lieutenant J'itcholl he
insures New York city against
at., '.'.visibility of such aerial attacks
hnvo'* >n London Paris
d the Wor’d war. Against The
am* aircraft devices on display at the
IN etrieal exposition, I.:er.trran c
A' 1 ’ " said. “Zeppelins would stand
no uiuiice at all and smaller aircraft
Terr little.”
The 2.000,000.000 or.r.dlo-*>'"V / 'r
searchlight, the construction of which
was completed just a few months ago.
represents an improvement over pre
vious models, not only in regard to
power, but especially because of its
resistance to hard usage and its con
venience in handling. Carried on a
truck from which the current is sup
plied by a small generator, the search
light is so perfectly balanced a
child could direct it.
Another anti-aircraft device now on
view for the first time at the expo
sition is a height-finder, dccc; Ij:i] by
IJefstenant Mitchell as one cf ;n:;t
Important recent developments in 1 lie
field of anti-aircraft fighting. This
height-finder, an adaptation of the
range-finder, is manufactured by tire
French government. There are only
eight in existence, and the United
States has four of them.
* *■. C?.n Planes.
* StffT another device is a great lis
tening machine, one of several with
which the United States is experi
menting. By means of this instrument,
which resembles a gigantic spray of
faster lilies, painted drab and lying
on i : fcs; side, the annroach of orp>- ctr
he detected ten and twelve
mites- away.
Discussing flic enormous s*rides in
an work made since the be
ginning of aerial warfare. Lieutenant
Mitchell said that in 1914 the French
.- r *o Avgiug down one plane for
jIJ.OOO shei’d firecl, while at Urn
close of the war. the United Spates
anti-aircr" 4 '? forces were shooting
down one plant* for every GOO shells
fired. In recent tests at Fort Tilden.
lieutenant Mitchell said, our gunners
scored one hit in every twelve shots
against the flying targets,
t “"iTS-m it is - considered.” „he said,
"tnaf a battery of threednch anti
aircraft guns—the most efficient
weapon against the airplane—can fire
GO shells a minute, which at,the rate
of one fatal hit* for twelve shots,
means slightly better than four hits
every minute, you can see that, as
the anti-aircraft men figure it. Zep
pelins have no chance at all and air
planes very little.”
Pole Cat Sole Resident
of Town That Was to Be
Lofton, Texas. —The sole resident
of Lofton is a polecat: the sole struc
ture of ttie “city” is a white sign
hearing the word “Lofton,” reared
high over the plains.
But despite this paucity of citizens
and absence of buildings Lofton ap
peal's on all good Texas maps, is on
a good railroad, has a first-cl ass high
way at its front door mid is distin
guished b.v a grussy lawn that covers
die whole town.
The town, in fact, is one of those
K i hopes that sometimes spring from
the coming of a railroad. The ground
was laid off ns n lownsite, hut tho
town never materialized. That wav
1.1 years ago. The railroad was bailr.
the highway was constructed, the
town was named, but nobody settled
there except the beautifully striped
cat. This animal has been there so
long that he is accepted as an insti
tution and remains a solitary ruler of
his domain.
Yodling Loci Art in
Switzerland Mountains
Lucerne —Yodling is a lost art in
Switzerland. Shepherds and farm
bands look askance at American tour
lists who ask them to yodle. A party
of. tourists “visiting Switzerland re
peatedly asked natives for a yodle or
two. None responded. They all looked
jmzzled. Suddenly. Just around a bend
on the main road, came the thrilling
notes of ft perfect yodle and the vis-
Eors hurried to get. a glimpse of the
performer. He proved to be a lusty
Amerievm tourist.
KEW GARDENS OWE
DEBT TO GEORGE 111
Director Tell* of Great Aid
Given by King.
Washington. —King George 111, ths
royal bogey man of early American
history, may not have “known his
oats” in the matter of colonial poli
tics, but he was no fool when it came
to knowing other plants and securing
the best scientific and economic re
sults from them, according to the tes.
timony of Dr. A. W. Hill, director ol
the Royal Botanical gardens at Kdw,
England, who is touring the United
States on a series of visits to Amer
ican botanical laboratories and gar-i
dens.
The Kew establishment, now the
largest botanical gardens In the w T orld,
was Initiated by the mother of George
111, who set aside two adjoining pah
ace gardens for this purpose; but it
was George himself who, through his
friendship for the early English bot
anist, Sir Josiali Banks, really gave
shape and purpose to the donation and
started the immensely profitable prac
tice of making Kew the headquarters
j for the transplantation of new and
! valuable tropical species from one
! British colony to another.
, Since that day, Doctor Hill states,
practically every important transplan
| tatiou of plant industry in the British
empire lias passed through Kew.
! Among these have been-the establisli
‘ ac:,t of ti e I'aca rubber industry in
Malaya, the transfer of the cinchona
quinine tree from South America to
India and the East Indies, and the
development of the vast cocoa planta
tions in West Africa.
But King Gerrgc and the botanists
of Kew must not be given credit for
starting the business of plant intro
duction, though they were the first to
make a science of it, Doctor Hill says.
In early post-Columbian days the
Spanish galleons plying between Mex
ico and the Philippines frequently
carried valuable plant species from the
new world to the old, and vice versa.
But before the Spaniards there must
have been other unrecorded voyagers
among the brown-skinned peoples of
the Pacific, for there are many plants,
notably the coconut and the banana,
whose wide distribution cannot he ex
plained on any basis other than hu- *
man carrl. j?.
Ccliczlz 70 Serves
In Eulogy of Lincoln
Springfield, 111. —Campaign songs. .
l.ynms of praise and funeral marches,
more than 70 in number, eulogizing |
Abraham Lincoln, have been collected j
by Georgia L. Osborne, librarian of the
Illinois State Historical library.
“The first songs in honor of Air.
Lincoln.” Miss O. borne said, “were
campaign songs, including ‘Freedom’s
Call.’ ‘We See the Break of Day’ and
‘A Campaign Seng for Abraham Lin
coln.’
“A number of the songs were writ- j
ten in negro dialet. the most famous ;
of wi-.rii were 'i’se <»n de Way,’ “I>e
Day ob Liberty’s Coinin’/ 'When Will
Dis Cruel War Be olmr/ and ‘(Jib Us
Darkies lie? t.’ Other songs were writ- .
ten in negro dialect, the most famous ,
their troubles and their hofne* and faith
in Lincoln.
“Strangely, one of the ballroom
gems of ISO.) was named 1 ‘Tfie Lincoln J
Schottiscli/ the same year fftrrt the |
funeral marches were written for the
nun tyred president.”
Numbered among the songs rrrifrm |
after Air. Lincoln’s death were “The j
Nation in Tears.” “A Nation Mourns* j
Tier Martyred Sop.” “The Death Knell •
Is Toiling” and “Best, Noble Chief- j
tain.”
Fire l/iacowie
Smoke for Firefighters
Minneapolis, Minn. Minneapolis
firemen may soon lo:-e the appellation,
of “smoke eaters,” for they now have'
a machine that literally “eats” the- |
smoke for them at fires.
The device resembles the “steamer”"
type of fire engine. It has a
like apparatus with' a suction fan at
tached to a huge hose, about 15 indie*
in diameter.
The hose is run into smoke fillet*
rooms and the smoke drawn out. It
has proven especially successful iit
fighting stubborn basement blazes,
wliere there is much smoke but little*
fire. *
Extra Hazardous
New York.—Rodeo riding is listed
by insurance Companies near the top
of hazardous occupations. Men en
gaged in polo, pugilism or aviation are
held better risks.
0 GO <XKX)-0-CK>C
g One Fir Tree Jtump S
g Makes Home on Aulo 9
6 Mcmtesano, Wash. —A tour in o
V a Douglas fir log is under prep- X
6 aration by E. W. Wade, who is O
x making an automobile body X
6 from a giant tree. O
x The apartment plan calls for
O a combination bedroom nnd liv- 9
x ing room with two folding beds. A
9 two clothes closets, n combined 9
X kitchen and dining-room and o
9 china closet. The log homo Is 9
6 to be electrically lighted 6
9 throughout and have electric 9
6 cooking appliances. The stump o
9 measured 9 feet 4 inches x
5 across and is now 1® f®©t long, g
v weighing 4,250 pounds. 6
6 When complete the house goes 9
9 upon a truck and trailer. 6
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ABBEY TOMB FOR <
BONES OF KINGS
Edifice in France Sacred to
I Italian Royalty.
!
Hautecombe, Savoy. —Seldom visit
ed by its owners, the titular rulers of
Italy, the abbey of Hautecombe on the
shore of Lake Bourget in France, H
as sacred to them as any spot in their
own country.
Within the stately walls of the an
cient abbey no fewer than 43 mem:
bers of the royal house of Savoy, 21
of whom wore crowns, lie buried. The
most recent royal visitor to the tombs
of his forbears was Prince Umberto,
the Italian crown prince.
The abbey of Hautecombe was
founded by St. Bernard in 1135. In
the old abbey an apartment is kept
ever in . readiness for the king of Italy,
but It has neVer been used by the Ital
ian royal family. A few years ago
the king of Italy visited the abbey in
cognito, and it was only some days
later that Ithe monks learned that the
visitor they had shown around the
monastery was its royal owner, for
Hautecombe is the property of the
Italian crown. , I
The 43 royal 1 tombs in the chapels
and crypt of the abbey date from 11G2,
when Aime-Germaine de Zoeringen.
second wife of Umberto 111, was laid
to rest, to 1549, when Marie-Christine
of Bourbon, dowager queen of Sar
dinia, was buried here. As the visitor
looks abound’ lie' reads on the tombs
the names of Umberto 111, county of
Savoy, 11S9; Beatrix de Genevois, wife 1
of Thomas I, *1257; Peter 11, 1268, who
was uncle to Eleanor, wife of Henry
111 of England, and bis brother Boni
face, 1270, who was archbishop of
Canterbury, England. Amadeus VII.
the Red count, who died in 1391 ;
Philip 11, 1497, and Charles-Felix of
Savoy, king of Sardinia, 1831, are oth
ers buried here.
Charles-Felix of Savoy, king or Sar
dinia, purchased the abbey of Haute
combe in 1524. When he visited it In
that year the abbey was almost in
ruins. lie bcrjght and restored it i
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Left-Handed Children
Normal, Survey SLsws >
Philadelphia.—Because there are so ,
, many Tommies and Marys who hare
grown up wielding an awkward pen
cil In the left hand, the;dcparthient of
commercial education of the; board of
public education has begun to look i
into tlie subject seriously. As a re- j
suit some most interesting conclusions 1
have been drawn in a recent reporf
I of “Handedness"! prepare! by John!
G. Kirk, dfrectcjr bf the department. !
That ancient [piece cf wisdom,
wfticij scientists, o T dnotheii generation
propounded to the effect thAt changed
writers become stutterers, has been
proved a superstition. And the strange
phenomenon of the youngster who cp.th
scribble with the “wrong hand” better
than with h.fs rightJs being-explained 1 i
away as a Frnbit that can readily be* j,
changed without either mental'or phy
sical harm to tlie' -- »•».■* I;
ft is because city school hqnds be- •'
sieve that the reft-liarided child is so- j
dally and vocationally handicapped in
a right-handed 1 world that will
be made in the early grades of Phila
delphia schools' to teach the child to
write tlie “naftrfal way,” of left to
right Instead- od from right- to left,
■which produces “Tnfrror writing.”
, Tarzan of Mules Fasts
47 Days; Mulish as Ever
Washington.—The traditional tough
j ness of the army rattle again was up
! held in a report received by the War
department from tf"r Forty-second in- |
fantry in Panama. i
During the recent monomers one of j
tiie outfits mules broke loose and
strayed into the jungj'e.
A native found hint 47 drrys later in
a 10-foot pit on the edge of the jungle.
The mnle apparently had stumbled in
| to the hole the day. ft ran away and
i had spent the whole period without
food and only such radtmva&er as may
have trickled in.
When found the anijmal was a living
skeleton covered wfiii ticks. It ■ was
, taken to camp and now Is reported to
. be as fat and sassy, as; ever.
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(President Harding Bike £; ij
Marion, Ohio.:—lT. I>. Keeler, 9’ '
a local bicycle dealer, lias in 9, I!
his possession $ bicycle owned 9' ||
by the late President Warren G. o f
Harding. £
Keeler plans- to present the 6
9 wheel to the Harding Memorial r
o association when the Harding: 6
9 museutn is erected. x'
o The late President rode thus Q
x wheel nearly a; quarter of a cect- ?
p tury a&o. Today it is just as 9
9 he used it. 9
6 President Harding bought the 9
§ bicycle in 1889, when bicycling S>
0 was the greatest outdoor sport. 5
6 Harding turned to> auto- $
9 mobiles he* gave the bike* to liis 9
6 chauffeur* who rode it for five X
% y ears - it was stored in 9
X an old barn, then it was given X
j 9 to a grocery clerk, Louis Den- §
x uig ‘ 1 5
9 Dennig gave the wheel to 9
9 Keeler in 1920. It was exhibit- X
» o ed the summer of Hard- 9
• 6 ing’s Presidential campaign and 9
! X in the fail of 1920 was taken $
! X Chicago and exhibited anion- 6
! § show at tte <*>«»*» CKte I
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THE CHATHAM RECORD
Snowbound on remote farm,
gets relief from acute neuralgia
Snowbound and alone on a remote
farm, miles from a doctor, a plucky
Canadian woman . endured for hours
the racking agony of acute neuralgia.
“The pain in my head was driving
me wild,” she writes, “when I hap
pened to see a bottle of Sloan’s Lini-
I ment on the dresser. I gave it a trial
and in no time tlie pain was gone. I
I slept peacefully the rest of the night.”
Sloan's gives quick, genuine com
j fort to every kind of muscular pain
because it doesn’t just deaden the
nerves. It helps the body to throw
off the conditions that are causing the
i pain. *
No need to rub. Pat a little Sloan s
on lightly. A healing tide of fresh,
germ-destroying blood begins;tingling
through the aching place and the pain,
swelling, stiffness are quickly relieved.
So clean and easy to use, too. All
druggists—3s cents.
One Dollar Bill Buys ;und
sack of salt at Bland’s store. ..LL ..I
• inuTICE OF LAND SALE!
By virtue of the powers c f sale
contained in a certain Deed ci Trust
executed by C. A. Powell to -he un
dersigned Tiustees, and duly record
ed in the registry of Chatham Coun
ty, North Carolina, in Book Gid, page
it>7 et seq., default having been inaue
in the payment of the note secured
thereby, and the holders thereof hav
ing authorized the foreclosure there
of, we Will expose to public auction,
for cash, at the Courthouse ooor in
Pittsboro, North Carolina, at 12:00
o’clock noon, on,
i MONDAY, THE 3RD DAY OF
JANUARY, 1927,
; all that certain tract or parcel of land
lv*ng and being in Williams Township,
Chatham County, North Carolina;
more xUiiy acscfiDed anid defined as
i follows, viz: L ; ' ; v
Beginning at a birch on the banks
of New Hope; thende up News Hope
to a pine, W. A. Ellington’s.-corner;
thence west with W. . A.vEUington’s
line to corner in W< R.j Wynn’s line;
: thence south with W. F. Wynn's , lip.e
! to a pine stump in W. F. Wynn’s, cor
ner;: thehce east with said Wynn’s
and W. F. Stone’s line to the first sta
tion, and containing 70 ; m«rc
j or less. •A ‘
This 2Gth day of''Novernbfer, iG^6;
WALTER Dr SILEfV ~
WADE. pAltßEß;£;***
: ’ V trustees.
Keeping up with the South
!•> r..'.* ‘ , ‘ . •
THE growth of the South in recent years is one of the
outstanding developments of the nation. It is seen by the
:! following facts: :
In 15-year period, 1910-1925, the coal mined in the states of the
-j.-. Sooth served by the Southern Railway System has increased 65 -
per cent; the pjg Irpn production increased 14 per cent; active cotton .
■' ■ - spindles increased 53 per cent; and the total value cf mineral pro
: ; "D-.i’ I .'. duction increased 205 per cent. ..
In the two decades, 1900-1920, the value of farm property in these
states increased from approximately $2,500,000,000 to more than
; yih $10,000,000,000; *
: . ... And in the 20-year period, 1904-1923, the value of all manufactures
. - „ produced in these states increased from about $1,200,000,000 to
almost $5,000,000,000.
; - • <*!•:
Such has been the growth of the South. The growth of
the. Southern Railway System in the same period also is
impressive. *
» • v-’ ;
In the last twenty-five years the total investment in the Southern
Railway System has increased about $375,000,000 —from $400,000,- .
000 in 1900 to $775,000,000 in 1925, CN
The total freight traffic handled by the Southern has increased f t
about 250 per cent. /
• The ability of the Southern Railway System to supply ade- f J
quate transportation to the growing South has been a vital
i factor in the healthy economic development of the states {
served by the Southern.
ij JBMVir day on the. Southern about
Southern
RAILWA Y( (eEffi\SYSTEM
— -
< we Southern tkt South
V. .'•--LAND v
- , ST A TE
. h A the power
'LL > .gment now
A;fV v- ior Court of
h- V • ii, Carolina, en
loo \. Bank of Pitts
boro’; Union Wholesale Lumber
Jomp&A ' the undersigned Commis
ion . o'er for sale to the high-
Ma ‘ i cash, on Saturday, the
-:Bth day of December, 1926, at 12:00
i >’cfcc? Uv hi front of the Court
house e-.f in Pittsboro, North Car
olina, a that certain tract or parcel
of land lying and being in New’Hope
Township, Chatham County, North
; Carolina, bounded on the north by
the lands of J. C. Stone, on the east
by the lands of Moses Clark et als,
on the south by the lands of Carey
Moore and James A. Thomas, and
more particularly described as fol
lows : Beginning at a stake on the
Raleigh road, corner of J. O. Stone
l and C. p. Moore thence south 65 de
grees east 49 poles to a stake; thence
north 59 degrees east 83 poles to
a white oak, pointers; thence with
Clark’s line in a sovtheasterly di
rection and with a spring branch to
.;a stake on said branch, and in J. E.
‘fSliiss’s line; thence north 87 degrees
west 159 poles to a stake; thence in
a south arid easterly* direction and
with Buffalo Branch to a stake on
said branch; thence south 3 de
grees east to a stake in R. E. Harris’s
l:-ne; thence west with said Harris
line 180 po.es to old Islandford road;
thence with said Old Is’andford read
to the Raleigh road; thence up said
I Raleigh road to the Beginning point,
1 containing 278 acres, more cr less, and
being the lands former.y owned by
the - late Rebecca Lambeth. SAVE
AND EXCEPT, HOWEVER, from
2 the- operative of this deed one acre
t heretofore sold off by Rebecca Lam
. beth to Alvis Gilmore et als, Trus
_ toes, for a schooihouse site, which
. said deed is recorded in the office of
2 tie Register of Deeds of Chatham
l County in Book AO, page 318.
j This November 16th, 1926.
■WADE BARBER
Commissioner
SILER & BARBER,
j A ttys.
} ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having this day qualified as ad
ministrator of the estate of
i Willis A. Burns
, deceased, late of Chatham county,
; NT. C., I hereby notify ail persons hav
> ing claims against the estate to pre
sent them duiy proven to the under
s signed on or before
s THE 30th DAY OF OCTOBER, 1927,
’ or this notice will be pleaded in bar
> of their recovery.,
if ; All persons indebted 'to the estate
* are requested to make immediate pay-.
• ment.
s This the 30th day of October, 1926.
C. M. EDDJNS, Administrator.
- V. R. Johnson, Att’y.
UR. J. D. GREGG
At Bonlee Monday. Tuesday, and Wed
hesdav of . each week.
. \t Liberty Thursday, Friday, and
Thursday; December 9, 13 ,
No Engine Funcs
in Buick Closed
Cars!
In tlie 1927 Euidc,the new
Vacuum V entilator pul! s en
gine fumes and gases from
die crankcase and t-ecu
them outside the car.
This vital new Buick im
provement does aw:y y,v-,
ncwdoucod ore. I: adds pre * •
luxury 7 and pleasure t 3 en
closed car <
Tli ddxu timVemi later ccfvcs
anodicr very important .■pa”-
pose- v / .tJ 1 1, c.
pers Lave u d t.y
condense and cduti tl.c c'f.
Owners of 1217 LiLcLs rre
advised to drain their ermr.
case oil only 4 £.’uriiw
the year .
Lor luxury,and for c
own a l>uick.
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FLINT, MICHIGAN
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