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L July 29. — UP)—
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K the Georgia coast
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pne which thunder
tida east coast since
damage and destruc
i .property, eommuni
(■rops which may run
dollars.
reports late last
storm center near
Bst about. 50 miles
tville, Fla.
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ching storm, was re-
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lorida coast line.
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$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
it passed up the Florida coast, but
l it caused property damage estimated
. in Cue millions. Palm Beach’s loss
k was estimated at .$2,000,000, that of
: Stuart. Fla., at $250,000 and Miami’s
' at SIOO,OOO in addition to damage to
| shipping, telegraph and telephone
wires and crops at scores of places.
1 Reports of damage where the storm
had passed caifte in ns crippled wire
facilities slowly were restored. A
message from Nassau via Miami fix
ed the damage there at $5,000,000.
The hurricane hit Nassau after it
came up Out of the Carribean Sea
| and before touching the lower Flori
da east coast.
A message received by the Munson
line in New York from ttie steamer
Munamar at Nassau, said that place
was wrecked by the hurricane.
Miami's damage was principally to
the avocado pear crop. * Palm Beach
suffered heaviest in the loss of more
than a score of yachts and small
craft which went down when a pier
gave way. Fashionable resorts and
hotels were flooded by water blown
from Lake Worth.
Dayton Beach experienced damage
fto light and power lines, disrupted
telephone service, uprooted trees,
washed out highways, wrecked beach
; concessions and damaged small pleas-
I ure craft. After a night without
lights the power service was restored
today.
[ A rum running vessel was reported
ashore several miles north of Or
mond.
One man was billed in Sanford
when a tree crashed into the bunk
house and crushed the cot on which
he was lying.
Warning to Seek Covfr
North of the storm and in its path.*
warnings were issued to persons and
vessels to get to places of safety.
Brunswick, Ga., sent a messenger to
St. Mison’s Island and the visitors and
residents there rushed into the city
by every available means.
The Georgia national guard en
camped for summer maneuvers on Ty
bee Island near Savannah, was or
dered into barracks at Fort Screven,
when its camp was flooded by the ad
vance rainfall.
The North Carolina national guard,
in camp at Fort Moultrie on Sulli
vai}*?T Island, opposite Charleston, S.
r»rder©*| into burr neks.
Charleston warned nearby islands
and summer resorts by tolling fire
bells and displaying hurricane sig
nals at the customs house.
Women and children were brought
from the summer resort at Tybee
Island to Savannah on a special
train.
Brunswick warned ships to seek
safety by means of rockets. No re
ports have been received yet from
the motor boat Zuleta with 25 per
sons aboard, which left Miami Sun
day for Bimini in the Bahamas.
Charleston reported late today that
the barometer reading was 29.85 wind
velocity. 38 miles. Rain was falling
and there was an unusually high
tide.
Savannah's baronfeter at the same
time was 20.70 with a wind velocity
of about 36 miles an hour, and Bruns
wick’s barometer was 29.44, with
wind velocity of 25 miles. The tide
was running high all along the Geor
gia coast.
Tampa said the west coast of Flor
ida experienced only slight damage,
but reports from scattered points
along the Gulf of Mexico and as far
inland as Lakeland, Orlando, Arcadia
and the south central part of the
state indicated that winds had dis
rupted wire services.
A heavy rainfall was reported from
Titusville, on the east coast.
Wire companies sent repair gangs
into the storm areas as soon as
storms permitted and while crippled
facilities continued, the companies
were hopeful of restoring qommuni
eation to isolated points before Ynany
hours. *
MUCH NEEDED RAINS IN*
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
Farmers and Manufacturers Alike
Are Expressing Relief.
Marion. N. C„ July 29— UP)—
Western North Carolina this week
has had one of the most beneficial
rains from the standpoint of time
liness, in a generation.
Farmers and manufacturers alike
are expressing relief. The strea'ms
i had beqn low, threatening both the
water supply for power purposes and
that for water system. The crops
were in serious shape and farmers
saw ahead of them, hard times un
less the rain came.
The two months drought has been
broken, streams are filling up and
crops are reviving.
“It is safe to say that this is the
most ne’eded rain within the memory
bf our oldest citizens,” declared J.
W. Pless, prominent attorney here
today.
“The recent drought extended
throughout .the mountain country and
the last few days of it were marked
by the highest temperatures ever re
corded in the higher altitudes of
North Caroina.”
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Court Martial For Coast Guardsmen.
Washington, July ,29. — UP) —Court
martial of twelve enlisted coast
guardsmen, and one non-commission
ed officer, on charges of misconduct,
was ordered today by Capt. D. F. A.
DeOtte, acting commander of the
guard. The order was an outcome
of an investigation of charges of rutn
\ running by guardsmen along the New
j Jersey coast.
; R. EDWAROHALL
CHARGED WITH THE
: DEATH OF HUSBAND
t
| Was Arrested Late Last
Night For Alleged Part
in Murder Committed 4
Years Ago.
TWO DEATHS ARE
CHARGED TO HER
jls Also Accused of Killing
Mrs. Eleanor Mills, the;
Singer in Her Husband’s
Choir.
Somerville, X. J., July 29. —OP)—
Airs. Edward Wheeler Hall, widow of
tlie sla n rector of St. Johns Episeo-.
pal Church in New Brunswick, was'
in the county jail today held without
bail, accused of the murder four years
ago Os her husband, and Mrs. Eleanor
Alills, tvife of the church sexton, and
singer in the choir.
Mrs. Hall was arrested late last
night at her home. She spent nu>.->c
of the night in a reception room on
the first fioor in the rear of the jail.
Mrs. Edward Carpenter, her cousiu
and Russell E. Watson, attorney*
were with her. Mrs. Hall sat quiet
ly, but Mrs. Carpenter paced the jail
corridor nervously most of the night.
Airs. Hall had gone to bed when
Capt. J. J. Lamb of the state police
arrived with three Jersey City officers
to arrest her on warrants sworn out
by Prosecutor Francis Bergen, of Som
set County.
Airs. Hall dressed .and came down
stairs and asked to se# the warrants.
After reading them she asked to be
allowed to telephone her attorney, and
permission was granted. She remain
ed at the house with the officers until*
the arrival of Watson. She was theu
taken to the jail.
Mrs. Hall branded her arrest as
“ridiculous,” but would say nothing
more. Her cousin and attorney refus
ed to talk. Nothing was forthcoming
from the authorities to explain what ;
new’ evidence in the' ; mystery had
brought about the arrest.
GREAT INCREASE IN OUR
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES i
iflimt Haw Been Started in 18
Months 199 Projects in 76 Coun
ties.
Raleigh, July 29. — UP) —Dollars
have been turned into school bind
ings since the last general assembly
and the result is a gVeat increase -in
educational facilities in 76 counties ;
of the state.
The 1925 general assembly author
ized the third special school building ,
fund of $5,000,000. During the IS ,
pionths which have passed since the
legislature adjourned, there have been
started 199 projects in 76 counties, j
A majority of these buildings have
been completed and Superintendent
of Public Instruction A.T. Allen ;
hopes by the 1927 general assembly
that all will be. completed and filled .
wit'll school children.
“I says Mr. Allen, “that •
the fund wrll be in school houses with ;
children in them by the time of the
next general assembly, and I know ,
95 per cent, of them will.”
Explaining why only 76 counties
shared in the distribution of the fund, ,
Mr. Allen states that either they did
not apply, could not at the present
time stand the extra debt or had
made other arrangements. In some
counties also, the county commission
ers did not approve the terms upon ,
which the State would advance the
funds.
The money is advanced to the coun
ties for a period of twenty years by
the State and the county is required
to pay the interest on carrying the
loan. Some of the richer counties
are able to handle their building prob
lems without the State aid and this
is particularly true of the counties j
having greater sources of revenue.
With Our Advertisers,
Read the new tire ad. of the Yorke
& Wadsworth Co. and see the big
values offefed.
See list of grocery specials at the
Parks-Belk Co.’s. Fresh peaches right
from the orchards is one of the spec
ials.
The Bell & Harris Furniture Co
offers you its semuees in planning the
furniture and furnish : ngs for your
new home. This store has just added
many new suites, splendidly designed,
to its stock.
Only four days left of the July
Clearance Sale at the Parks-Belk
Co.’s. These will be made the banner
days of the sale.
Drunken Driver Gets Long Jail Term.
New York, July 28—A sentence of
six months to three years today was
imposed upon the first drunken auto
mobile driver to be tried under the
section of a new State law Which
takes out of traffic courts the trials
of second offenders.
Lionel Webber, the man sentenced,
had served five days in November for
driving his truck while intoxicated.
It was testified that in the recent
case he had endangered the lives of
school children by reckless driving. *
Judge Afclntyre branded Wegber a
“potential assassin.”
Attractive windshield advertise
ments for tfie Cabarrus County Fair
have been received. The ads. are
printed on heavy yellow cards equip
ped with snaps so they can be hung
over the windshields of automobiles.
Persons desiring them can get them,
from Dr. T. N. Spencer,
CONCORD;NTcTTHURSDAY, JULY 29. 1926
BOTH FACTIONS II
FOR BITTER FIGHT
I ‘ ■ 'i
\ _____
iAs Result of New Relig
i ious Regulations Which
! Will Go Into Effect Sat
j urday Night.
I SOME SUPPORT
I FOR PRESIDENT
(The Labor Body, Senators
| and Other Organizations
Are Backing the Gov
ernment’s Program.
Alexico City, July 29. (/ P)—Sharp
alignments are being formed between
the factions supporting and opposing
the Mexican government's religious
regulations which go into effect Sat
urday at midnight.
The regional confederation of la
bor, prominent labor body in Alexi- ;
eo. and deputies of the labor and so
cialist parties, groups of senators and
various organizations of federal emi
ployees have issued manifestos de
claring 'their support of President
Calles’ program and ordering parades
and demonstrations Sunday.*
The church authorities refuse to
sancrion counter demonstrations of
the Catholics, but the plans of the
league for defense of religious liberty
for an economy boycott are believed,
to be continuing. After the arrest
of three successive sets of directors,
however, the present management is
proceeding most cautiously and giv
ing little outward evidence of its ac
tivities.
Meanwhile the Catholics are mak
ing the most of the church ceremoni
als while they may, for the priests are
to be withdrawn from the churches
Sunday by order of the Episcopate,
in protest against the government's
regulations.
GENERAL FUND NOTES
State Will Soon Pay Out Approxi
mately $400,000 as First Annual
Payment.
Raleigh. July 29.— UP)— Within the
next few days the State of North
Carolina will pay out approximately
$400,000 as the first annual payment
os ( the general fund notes Issued a
year ago to care for all outstanding
obligations when the State went on a
“cash’’ system of accounting.
_The general assembly of 1925 voted
to adopt the executive budget system
which provided for paying off all out
standing obligations at the close of
the fiscal year on June 30, 1925. this
being one of the measures of the fis
cal scheme of Governor McLean. The
amount of bonds issued to care for
these obligations was $9,438,000 and
under the measure adopted by the
general assembly $400,000 was to be
paid from the general fund each year j
until the bonds were discharged.
Slightly more than that figure will be j
paid this year and the remaining j
amount will be about $9,000,000. The
budgetary plan of the State now pro
vides that from current revenues each
fiscal year, this amount shall be paid.
The money was set aside at the
close of the past fiscal year on July
1, 1926, to pay the installment due.
However, it was necessary that the
deal be consummated in New York
City where the bonds were sold and
the parties there holding the bonds
were notified early this month that
the State was ready to pay off the
installment. The transaction will be
completed as soon as the papers are
in shape and the cancelled obliga
tions received from New York.
Not Part of the “McLean Economy.”
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, July 29.—Economy in gov
ernment is all right, but when the
electricity is turned off from the door
bells at the governor's mansion, it is
carrying it a bit too far.
This was what newspapermen
thought this morning when they stood j
upon the porch of the executive man
sion for some ten minutes, taking
turns in pushing the door bell, be
fore Governor McLean finally saw
them, and explained that the door
bell was temporarily out of commis
sion . He denied that it was part
of the “McLean economy” program
and stated that part of the recent sur
plus would be immediately expended
in putting the door bells in order.
He was assured that the gentle
men of the press would be most ap
preciative.
Cannot Abolish Police Force.
Warren, O, July 29.—0 P) —Judge
C. M. Wilkins today granted a tem-|
porary injunction restraining the city
council from abolishing its police
force.
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* DAVIS TO WORK *
FOR NEW RULE *
* FOR DEMOCRATS &
* *
New York. July 29.—OP)— *
John TV. Davis has joined a
■fc movement for abolishment of
Democratic national convention X.
rules which were largely respon-
sible for his being the party's &
•R presidential candidate in 1924,
* instead of Alfred E. Smith or *
tK Wm. G. AlcAdoo. Davis is op-
•fc posed to the two-thirds and unit
rules. He intends to work for
* majority in the 1928 convention.
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t Two Real Sky Pilots j
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;\j' Dr. John Roach Stratoh and Dr. Norris, old co-workers in revivalist
where photographed together in flying togs at a Texas flying field
trio re going up in a plane. Dr. Norris is charged vritli shooting D. E.
lripps, millionaire Texas lumber broker, wiio was killed in church.
* % ™e cotton market
Opened Steady 1 Point Lower to 1
Point Higher.—October Off to 17.78.
Xew T York< July 29. — (A 3 )—The cot
ton 'market was somewhat irregular
early today. It opened steady, one
point.lower to one point higher, and
after displaying temporary strength
due to rumors of an impending bul
lish crop report by one of the lead
ing local and southern houses, during i
which prices rose 6 to 8 points, above J
the previous close, reacted sharply. I
Selling by local interests based on
the clear, warm weather in the south-
I west and less apprehensions over the
| tropical storm weakened the market
| 12 to 16 points under the top, Oc
j tober falling to 17.78 and January to
17.80, representing 3 to 7 points net
loss by the end of the first hour.
Cotton futures opened steady. Oct.
17.85; Dec. 17.75; Jan. 17.55; March
18 05; May 18.15.
Air. and Airs. Sterling Brown are
moving today into the E. H. Browm
house on South Union street.
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Under No Obligation To
Pay Reconstruction Bonds
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh. July 29.—North Carolina
is under no moral obligation to pay
the so-called “Reconstruction Bonds”
passed by the carpet baggers legisla
ture immediately following the Civil
War, and those in England w’ho are
clamoring for payment of these bonds,
have nothing upon which to base
their claims, according to a state
ment which has been issued by Gov
ernor McLean as the result of this
talk.
“The situation in England and
France today, the unfriendly atti
tude that has grown up towards the
United States, is most serious, and
I am unable to see where it is lead
ing. At any rate, it will take gen
erations to overcome it. The atti
tude shown by these nations, howev
er, is an outstanding example of hu
man nature, when it gets in a tight
place financially and is unab e to pay
its debts,” Governor AlcLean said.
“It has been my experience that
when a man is unable to pay a debtor
, what he owes, he always gets *mad
at him and tries to discredit him.
But when he is able to pay. and does
so, the man he borrowed from is his
friend and benefactor.
“Now France and England are ex-
the traits of the man who
can’t pay 'and won’t, with the result
that they are trying to discredit the
United States as the result of their
personal feelings.
“This feeling has given rise to the
tn’k that the bonds isssued by the
southern states during the recon
struction period should be validated
and paid, as an offset in the reduc
tion of the British debt. Press
statements say th.it British subjects
hold upwards of $12,800,000 of these
so-eaPed bonds jof North Carolina
aione.”
The bonds referred to are the old
special tax bonds which purport to
have beerv-=isssued by the reeonstruc
tion legislature composed of carpet
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NEW BALE OF COTTON
AT 80 CENTS POUND
Spirited Bidding on Floor of New
York Exchange for First South At
lantic Bale.
New York, July 28.—Spirited bid
ding on the floor of the New York
cotton exchange after the close of
trading today featured the auction of
the first bale of the South Atlantic
i new crop cotton, which was knocked I
J down to Paul Pflieger for 80 cents a
j pound, or S4OO. Bidding started at
50 eents a pound and rapidly ad
vanced. The proceeds of today’s
sale will be given to New York City
charities and the bale will be shipped
to Liverpool where it will be re-auc
tioned for charity. The cotton was
grown on the plantation of J. C.
Getzen, of Webster, Fla.
Charlotte lost the third straight
game to Greenville yesterday, Wilcey
Moore winning from Everett Beasley
1 to 0. Knoxville again defeated
Asheville, giving Greenville a ten
1 gameriead in the pennant race.
baggers who were at that time quar-'
tcred upon the people of the State
and who werq helpless and under the j
control of federal troops.
There is absolutely no legal or mor- j
al obligation on the part of the State i
of North Carolina to validate these
bonds, the governor said in further
discussing the matter, and ttois has
been made plain every time the op
portunity has been presented. While j
he does not believe there is any moral j
obligation resting anywhere for the j
payment of these old special tax j
bonds, because the circumstances un
der which they purport to havr been
issued, made them void from the be
ginning,. yet if any obligation does!
exist, it does not rest upon the State)
of North Carolina, the governor said. I
The present crisis in French finan-'
cial circles is due to the refusal of,
• the French government to admit the j
existence of the French debt to the
United States and the failure to in
clude it in its budget. Hence when !
a settlement was finally made, it bad ■
to be shown on the books and in t'ne
budget, with the result that the budg
et failed to balance and the franc
tumb'ed to its present status.
“The whole trouble resulted from
the French trying to dodge a deficit
which existed, but which they tried
not to admit existed. This course
was fatal, for a deficit always has to
be recokened with. Great Britain,
on the other hand, , admitted its debt
from the beginning, and despite the
terrific financial burden the British
are carrying, they are making more
progress toward a solution of their j
financial problems than any other na
tion* in Europe,” the governor added.
Cancellation of foreign debts by
the United States would really be of
more economic value to the country
riian collection of these debts, the
governor believes, but says this course
is not practical because of a number
of other considerations. All of the
debts have been scaled down greatly,
however, which amounts to partia j
cancellation. I
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J. B. SHERRILL. Editor and Publisher
BOBBERS GET MUCK
CUSH IN DIR W .
j HOLD UP ON Tltj
Said to Have Taken $65,-
* 000 in Cash From Bag
gage Master on Balti
more & Maryland Train.
THREE MEN IN
PARTY AT TIME
Money Was Thrown From
Train and Is Believed to
Have Been Picked Up
Later.
Salisbury. Mass.. July 29. OP)—
Train robbers obtained' $65,000 in
cash from the baggage master of a
Boston & Maine train at the Salisbury
Point Station today. The money had
been sent by the Federal Reserve’ Banlt
in Boston to the Powow River Nat-"
ibnal Bapk of Amesbury.
It was reported that three young
men appeared in the baggage ear just
before the train stopped at the station
and forced the baggage man to throw
off the bag containing the money.
The robbers covered Wm. Jordan,
the baggage man, with p’stols and
and three registered mail pouches
were thrown off. ' Police believe an
automobile* was waiting in the heavily
wooded sectiou that surrounds the
tracks at that point. The baggage
man was thrown from the train while
it was still moving. He rushed to
Salisbury to give an alarm.
The robbers pulled the bell cord of
the train and before it had stopped
leaped from the car and escaped.
The train carried but three cars, an
American Express Co. car on the rear,
one passenger coach in which were 10
or 12 passengers, and a combination
baggage and smoking car. The ban
dits were passengers in the smoking
compartment, and made their way
without difficulty through the «kx>r in
the partition that separated them
from the baggage section. *
Officers of the Federal Reserve
j Bank in Boston sa'd it was custom
j ary to send a similar sum of money
jto Amesbury every week, and since
| the train carries no regular mail ear
| the pouches were sent ijv the baggage
1 car. The money was believed to be
foe pay roll purposes.
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Discharged Prisoners Get Jobs at $175
a Moiidi.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, July 29.—1 f you were
making nothing working at the job
you had, how would you like to wake
up next morning and find that you
j were getting paid $175 a month for
the same work?
Well, that is the experience of a
number of the members of the State
prison honor road camps, when as a
result of their good records, they win
paroles from the governor.
Just this .week Kenneth McNair
was paroled from a road camp. The
next morning he was still at the
camp, but not as a prisoner. He
was asked to stay with the camp by
Ziegler Brothers, contractors, who
employ most of the honor camp men
whenever they are released or pa*
roled. This one contracting firm has
more than 200 former prisoners in its
employ, most of them men from honor
camps, and they say they are the
best workmen of all.
McNair has been acting as assist
ant bookkeeper, so when he was pa
roled, Ziegler Brothers offered him
the job permanently beginning at
I $175 a month.
' “So it can he seen that it is worth
while for a prisoner to try to make
j the honor grade and become a mem
i her of an honot road camp,” prison
j authorities say.
Big Money Looms For Jeff After
Lean Years.
Burbank. Oal.. July 29. —C 40 —Jim
Jeffries, after years of financial re
i verses, seems at last about to come
■ into “Wg money.”
j , Oil has been found on some of his
; property and his friends —many of .
them notables —whom he has enter
tained lavishly at his ranch, despite
his lean years, are optimistic that he
will yet become wealthy.
The heavyweight crown that Jef
fries wore was only gold plated. He
j did his fighting—hard and often —be-
fore the days of fat purses. He met
| life size men with fighting hearts
i but this was too early in the game
|to reap riches.
, His largest <ing purse was the
j loser’s end of SIOO,OOO that he got
• for returning to the ring against
Johnson in 1910. Hia defeat upeet
plana for a world tour that was to
have netted him $50Q,000. On re
tirement he bought a case in Los
Angeles but luck still was against
him. He fell back on his ranch.
Friends he had lent large sums
failed him. At one time in his finan
cial straits it looked aa though be
I would lose everything.
| But when things looked the word
I he made a deal with real estate peo*
I pie whereby his was subdivided
1 and he realize a profit of a quarter
! million. #
j Recently oil was brought in on
'isome of the land left him and as it
flows his bank account is expanding
toward the sixth digit.
The Number 8 Township Sunday
School Convention will be held at M*.
Gilead Lutheran Church, August 13.
A program will appear later.
The least expensive thing aDout
marriage is—the marriage.
HALTI •KES DEBT
JjfflTPUt
HIS HELPED WM
New Italian Under Secre
tary For Foreign Affairs
Says Italy Will Stick to
Her Bargain.
SETTLEMENT OF
GREAT BENEFfIP
Says No One Knows Wtatf
, Lira Would Be Worjfo
If Debts Had Not Been
Settled With America*
Rome, July 29.—(A*)—Italy has nob
the slightest intention of asking revis
ion of her war debt settlement with
the United States, even if other Eu
ropean nations do. This declaration
was made to the Associated Press on
(.behalf of the Italian government tq
day by Din no Grando, under secjre
tai-y of foreign affairs.
“We are satisfied in every respect
with the settlement.'’ Senor Grundy
said, “and are concerned only vviifi
meeting the payments which we are
sure we are competent to do. * -
“We made a bargain ami we are
going to stick to it. particularly since
we are convinced that .it has had il
tremendously beneficial effecUon oyjr
finances.’
“Critics say the settlement has
helped the value of the Lira but the
government answers that it is impos
sible to judge what would happefi to
the Lira if we had not settled pljf
debt.” . -
The government, he said, was look
ing forward eagerly to the visit of An
drew W. Mellon, the American Secre
tary of the Treasury, who would he
given every possible honor. Secretary
Mellon, he added, would meet Pre
mier Mussolini and Finance Minister
Yolpi, and “although his visit is ob
viously net for business purposes, it
is natural to assume that finance will
be discussed.”
TO DECIDE MATTER OF
DODGE AUTOMOBILE TAX
Hearing to Be Held Latter Part of
This Week or Early Next Week.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh. July 29.—TTHcTfer or riot'
owners of Dodge automobiles will
have to continue to pay S2O for a
license plate in North Carolina, or
whether the cost will revert to $12.50,
which has been the cost in the peat,
will probably be decided at a hearing
the latter part of this week or the
first of next, it was learned today
following a hearing of several hours
duration before R. A. Doughton, com
missioner of revenue, Attorney Gen
eral Dennis G. Brummitt and Leslie
R. Ames, chiet^ engineer, highway com
mission. At this hearing represen
tatives of the Dodge Corporation pre
sented figures and affidavits tending
to show that the actual horsepower
of the Dodge automobile was not in
excess of 24 horsepower. No deci
sion was given by Commissioner
Doughton. but a second hearing was
granted for the- latter part of this
week, at whirls time it was indicat
ed a decision Avould be announced.
At this final hearing it is expected
that Frank Page, chairman of the
State highway commission, will he
present.
The Dodge company was represent
ed by W. C. Conghenour, of Salis
bury; H. H. Craig, of the Dodge
company in Greensboro, and by C. fi.
Mura rat, Raleigh. At the hearing
Mr. Craig presented sworn affidaylts
from engineers of the Dodge company
covering diplacement measurement® Qf
25 Dodge engines taken in the rega
in r course of production. Os these
24, twelve were found to be a f*w
hundredths below 24 horsepower, five
slightly more than 24 horsepower
while the balance were exactly 24
horsepower.
The engineers explained that It
was very difficult to get exactly the
same diplacement in every cylinder,
owing to the fact, that as each cylin
der is bored out, the boring tool be
comes slightly worn, with the result
that each successive cylinder bored
is a trifle smaller, though the differ
ence is but a thousandth of an inch.
This may make the horsepower vary
either a trifle more or less than 24.
The contention was, however, that the
aim of the company is to turn out a
24 horsepower motor which should
require a class E license at $12.50
instead of S2O, as is now the case.
Four Arrests in Mellett Case.
I Youngstown, 0., July 29. —(A*)—
Three men. Greeks, arc under arrest *
here, chief of police Kedgin Powell
said today in connection with the
murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton
publisher. He said they are held on
ly on suspicion for Canton autbori-l
ties.
A woman, the wife of one of the
men, was also held.
Doty Appeal Rejected.
Beirut. Syria, July 29.— UP) —The
appeal of Bennett J. Doty, of Mem
pris. Tenn.. from a sentence of eight
years’ imprisonment at hard labor for
desertion from the French foreign leg
ion today was rejected unanimously
by a higher military court.
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THE WEATHER
Rain tonight, Friday showers;
s’ightly warmer in west portion.
Fresh possibly strong southeast and
south winds. Jv, , „
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