JJmE LI I
tonCropOf 12,682,000
|es Is Forecast In New
eportßy The Government
Itimate Alm «* t a
Kn Bali's Loss Than
Rous Estimate —The
■ition Is Bad.
hv BALES
Ready binned
■ ct a tc I’rior to Sep
l First Only 104
■ Had Been Ginned
■ the New Crop.
I ."7 ■ s. — [/P) —This
Kncrop f ” r *‘ ras [ ;U I “’‘
i...<? ninnl ba*t*s
■ nl(>lir of Agri.-ulture today.
■ . ,: v ,growth prior
K Ist 11 ’tail *• < 1 1,540.025
■tine roiiTt.i balos an half
■ exrludi:- Utiters, the een
■ announced.
■ .of tho department of
ba-ed <m the Septem-
Kdi'tion of the emp which
■ er cent, of a normal, and
■ nrv e-rit tat*- of abandoned
■ Septenih'T Ist. which was
■rw. or 4> !-vr cent, of
Ki)no acres in cultivation
■ Till' at. remr remaining to
Hhis season is placed at 4(4,-
■dition indicates a yield of
K lie r uere. A month ago
Bon was 00.5 per cent of
Beating a yield of 156.8
B a(r *'
H left on September Ist for
Bnditien "l - the crop on Sop-
B and indicated production
,’nO-peu;id hales by the
Hide:
Hovina. acre«s;
■ ttt per cent.; production.
H'aroiina. -.425.0(40 ncree;
■4S per cent.; and produc
-80.
■ prior to September Ist in-
Carolina. 104 bales;
Bum. 22.731 bales..
Bin hogs
■ BEGINS WITH SOW
■ fc.v i> Important Animal
■Farms These Days.
■n. 6.. Sept. 6. —The old
■is an important animal on
■blina farms these days.
■ the care given her, the
B profits Secured from her
■ this, the Agricultural
■Service ~f State College
■ed and nmv has ready for
■ extension circular 151
■in some detail how to
■ brood sow. The circular
Hood methods of feeding
■emeru during the periods
■ gestation, farrowing and
■tart rations to feed tue
these four ix'riods are
■nerhodh of feeding are ex
■tin points out that the
■terimi is one time that the
■ iron* assistance than is
■pmi her. An individual
■N with fenders or guard
the s.,w from erush
bmi pigs is rei'ommend
■ house needs to be proper
■* ’orated sn as to protect
■from eoh] winds and wet,
weather.
■following the farrowing
the sow and mark-
an- three other subjects
the teeth of the
that the pigs may
another and thus afford
for disease germs. The
■ ham teeth of needle-like
■N a small pair of pliers
lips or tongue.
■jision service workers feel
■creased interest in pork
■hi North Carolina will
■ circular very popular.
have been printed
order and while requests
■•‘''ate that this supply will
■hiausted, an additional
Sw ’ured if the demands
a reprint, Copies of
supply may be had tree
to the agricul-
Stale College.
■-FINANCING
■ K f -VLL is offered
Half liiHion Dollars
Certificates Included.
* s ;id- s.—More than
V, ;°Hurs of notes and
mdehtedness were of-
today in an
■! •.cptember 15 or imrd
program.
■ j' 1 , consisting of
K; OOin six
Bm r ' B:,t treasury cer-
an( j about
r u < a '' :i >' Ui( l a limited
Bpr? i!l '' i;i to five
P or <* nt
Brbc r V) a otfenn $ s are
certificates
m . ! ••'!» for the notes
f ,‘ ,:ir and accrued in-
HL.? f,x " l! ni'ge subscrip
at H)o I S.
■ t: ' 1 a 'h offering of
Sr-,-. " ill be ox
■ a , "r-y loan coil
. "h l>er cent
■ l •• augc to be
Hcrp'. , ten
m,, i hev r ‘ are sl.-
' outsfand-
B which is
th!. P n> '' that of
[B'lrrh, - |,r, ‘ ni:,lln - "’as sal'.l
■in ? « the treas
■j^Ptogram.”
■ the r^- ° f the rural
■il*. Q * : 1 'nted States is
THE CONCORD TIMES
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J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
l RATE ON COTTON SEED
l - LIKELY TO BE RAISED
Rates in This State Somewhat , Lower
Than in Other Southeastern States.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Sept. B—North Carolina's
\ rates on cotton seed are likely to be
raised by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, according to information
received by the Corporation Commis
sion here. Rate Clerk C. W. Womble,
of the commission, has gone to Atlanta
to appear before the commission and
present arguments for not increasing
the rates.
North Carolina’s rates at present
are somewhat lower than the rates in
the other southeastern states on cot
ton seed, but the commission takes the
position thaT the North Carolina rates
are fair, whereas the rates of the other
states are too high. It is feared,
however, that the Interstate Commerce
Commission will take the attitude that
the inequality should be eliminated by
raising the North Carolina rates.
It is not anticipated that the in
crease in rates will cause the reloca
tion of an£ factories or that it will
hurt the business of the cotton seed
manufacturers. It is expected, how
ever, that the increase will be passed
on to the consumer of cotton seed
products in increased prices.
According to I. M. Bailey, counsel
for the Corporation Commission, prac
tically all cotton seed shipments are
intra-state shipments, and very little
; eotton seed is -hauled for a long dis
tance. Practically all of it is con
sumed by factories located near the
sections in which the cotton is grown.
This proximity of factory to source
of siipp’y opens the v way for truck
transportation of cotton seed,sin case
the rate is raised unreasonably.
WILLIS CASE WENT TO
JURY THIS AFTEROON
Arguments by Counsel and Judge’s
Charge Completed at 1:30 Todhy.
Greenville. Sept. B.— UP) —The fate
of Airs. Ehel Willis and Henry Town
send, accused of the murder of Sheriff
Sam Willis, of Greenville county, was
placed in the hands of a jury in crim
inal court here at 1:30 o'clock this
afternoon.
Judge Milledge L. Bonham instruct
ed the jury to be taken to lunch- be
fore beginning deliberations.
Today is the sixteenth day of the
trial of the widow of 'the late sheriff
and his best friend.
Taking of testimony was completed
yesterday morning and arguments of
attorneys took all the remainder of
yesterday and up to shortly after noon
today. The charge of Judge Bon
ham took about fifty minutes.
COTTON UP TO LIMIT
FOLLOWING FORECAST
Rose 200 Points on New Orleans Mar
ket and $lO a Bale at New York.
New Orleans, Sept. 8. — UP) —The
government crop forecast sent all act
ive trading months bulging to the full
200 point limit on the cotton market
today.
The forecast was a full half mil
lion bales lower than the trade ex
pected. and October, the first month
called after the forecast was made
public, rose 195 points, from 22.15 to
24.10.
Up $lO a Bale in New' York.
New York, Sept. B.— UP) —The price
of cotton jumped $lO a hale in the
New York market today, following
the government September Ist fore
cast, indicating a yield of about 800,-
000 hales less than was predicted in
the estimates of August Ist.
Deputies Find Whiskey Mash Hid in
Churn.
Asheville, Sept. 7.—Because a
churn did not look like it had butter
milk in it, deputies from the office of
Sheriff Laurence E. Brown became
suspecting and investigated.
The utensil, commonly employed
to make buttermilk, was full of mash
in the proper condition to be stilled
into “mountain de\y” and R. L.
Brown was taken into custody- Some
copper parts of a still and other ap
paratus were also taken.
The officers visiting another sec
tion were surprised to see five men
break out of a small shack and run
as their car passed by. Stopping to
investigate the officers .found 40 gal
lons of whiskey hidden in the shack,
a man’s coat containing his name,
and outside a new automobile with
his name on the keys.
With Our Advertisers.
Belk’s announce th-e addition of the
Joncaire line to their toilet goods.
A special for SI.OO is offered'for one
week. See ad.
Let the Starnes-Miller-Parker Co.
help you to complete watch satisfac
tion.
Formal presentation of fall foot
wear at Efird’s. Many values will
be found here at attractive prices.
Shoes for the entire family at the
.T. C. Penney Co. in new ideas for new
and early fall wear. The prices are
unusually low for the quality of goods
offered.
Union Farmers to Tour in South
Carolina Soon. ,
Monroe, Sept. 7.—Farmers, bank
ers and business men of this section
are planning to join T. C. Broom,
Union county farm demonstrator,
Friday, on an inspection trip to the
South Carolina Experiment Station
at Florence, and the famous Coker
farm at Hartsville.
Tuesday, ha’f a hundred farmers
joined Mr. Broom in a trip to Shu
{ord’s farm in Catawba county, and
go gie sections of Union county.
SfNjohn, N. 8., plans to spend 14,-
OOOOOQ§i n harbor improvements dur
ing’ ® ve ye a ***
25 DEATHS FROM"
OCEAN FLIGHTS
IN PAST YEAR
New York, Sept. 8— UP)— The
death toll of trans-oceanic flights
aince the fall of 1926 will have
mounted to 25 if the Old Glory and
hqr crew of three are not found.
Eighteen persons including two
women have been lost at sea, while
seven were killed in preparation
for, overseas flighte.
T. F. McCREA IS
BACK AT MOREHEAD
Is Assistant Engineer of State Board
of Health.—To Look After Shellfish
Sanitation.
. The Tribune Bureau
> Sir Walter Hotel
, Raleigh, Sept. B.—T. F. McCrea,
. assistant sanitary engineer of the State
board of health, assigned to the fish
eries division of the department of
conservation and development, has re
• turned to Morehead City, where he
will resume the program of shellfish
sanitation in connection with the pro
, eduction of shellfish industry on the
North Carolina coast.
, Air. AlcCrea has returned to Alore
, head City in advance of the oyster
. season to prepare for the first market
of the bivalves on October Ist, be
, ginning of the new open season.
Before October Ist, Air. AlcCrea
will make an inspection of all of the
oyster beds of the coast and will make
a tour of the various oyster plants.
. The forthcoming season will be the
third during which Air.-AlcCrea has
been assigned to the fisheries division.
To the activities of the health au
thorities in conjunction with the fish-
I eries officials, a large amount of the
credit for the rebuilding of'the shell
fish markets during the last several
years is ascribed. The program was
, started at the time that the markets
, were at a lob ebb because of a gen
eral depression occasioned by a propa
ganda of national scope against the
, consumption of shellfish.
Air. AlcCrea declares that the out
, look for shellfish for the coming season
is the best for many years. The sup
, ply is plentiful, he says, and indica
tions are that there vrill be a good
market.
BULLS CAPTURE )
* STOCK MARKET
i. . *
Afore Than 50 Issues Crash Into Now
High Ground; Seat Sells For
$235,000.
NeW York, Sept. 7. —Bullish en
thusiasm ran riot again in today’s
stock market, more than 50 issues
crashing through to new high records
on a total turn-over of about two - and"
a half million shares.
The average of 20 leading industrial
shares, compiled by the-fllh߻Aa!lktl*d~
Press, was pushed up nearly another
point to a new peak at 178.74, as
against the year’s dow of 141.23, and
the average of 20 leading" railroad
shares advance nearly a quarter of a
point to 148.49, as compared with a
high of 149.56 established a few weeks
ago and a low of 125.58 last spring.
Another Seat Sale.
During the day arrangements were
completed for the sale of another stock
exchange seat for a record price of
$235,000 or $5,000 above the previous
sale and $65,000 above the year’s low.
The purchaser was Reginald V. His
coe, of New York, who acquired the
membership of Clifford Y. Brokaw.
Scats sold as low as $76,000 in 1924,
when the current “bull” movement
started. ( .
Continuance of easy money rates,
establishment of a new 1927 record
in freight car loadings in the week
ended August 27, and growig optimism
over the course of fall business were
the main factors behind the advance.
Ommission of the quarterly, dividend
of $1.25 on Gulf States Steel, due at
this time, was announced after the
market closed.
THE COTTON MARKET.
Opened Steady at Decline of 1 to 4
Points. —December Rallied 8 to 12
Points Net Higher.
New York, Sept. B.— UP) —The cot
ton market opened steady today at
a decline of 1 to 4 points in response
to rather easier Liverpool cables.
Trading was very quiet, most of it
being attributed to further evening up
in preparation for the government
crop report.
, A little Southern hedge selling was
reported here, but trade interests were
buyers of near months and after easing
off to 22.72 at the start, December
rallied to 22.89, or about 8 to 12 points
net higher. This bulge met realizing
or liquidation and was followed by
setbacks qf 9 to 10 points, the market
holding around yesterday’s closing
quotations at the end of the first hour.
The market was firm later in the
morning, the southern hedging report
ed ear’.y appearing to be absorbed by
the trade buying, while there was
evidently as much pre-report covering
as liquidation, and there appeared to
be some fresh buying for bom Trade
and speculative accounts. Prices mov
ed up to about 22:86 for December
contracts, or 19 to 22 points higher,
and the market was within a few
points of these figures when trading
was suspended to receive the govern
ment report.
Cotton futures opened steady : Oct.
22.40; Dec. 22.72; Jan. 22.78; Alareh
22.99; Alay 23.10.
Closing Figures..
• January 24.07, March 24.24, Alay
24 30. July 23.97, October 23.70, De
cember 24.00.
THE STOCK MARKET.
Some Stocks Reached Best Prices for
1927 During Today's Trading.
New York, Sept. 8. — UP) —Soaring
cotton prices, all options making an
extreme rise of 200 points, permitted
under the rules of trading, and con
fused fluctuations of stock prices were
the outstanding incidents in today’s
financial markets. Although a great
deal of selling was in progress at
times,’ being a combination of realiz
ing and offerings by the professional
element, the enthusiasm exhibited for
certain stocks was unabated, and a
number reached their best prices for
1927.
CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1927
Moy Dow, Boston’s Richest Chinaman,
Gave Away Most Os Great Fortune
By International News Service.
Boston, Sept. B.—Philanthrophy
that reduced an immense fortune to a
paltry $5,000 was revealed in settle
ment of the estate of Aloy Dow, tong
chieftain in Boston’s Chinatown for
many years and far almost a decade
known as the “Mayor of Chinatown.”
. As head of the powerful On Leong
Tong, Moy Dow was rated as one of
the wealthiest Chinamen in the United
States. His ventures in business were
always on a large scale and financiers
of the city rarely declined support to
any project which- he sponsored.
GARDNER HAS CALLED
COMMITTEE MEETING
Baptist State Centennial Committee
Will Meet September 15th.
Raleigh, Sept. 8. —Hon. O. Alax
Gardner, Chairman of the Baptist
State Centennial Campaign Commit
tee, has calred the first meeting of the
Committee to be held at Meredith Col
lege Thursday evening, September 15.
Three hundred are expected to attend,
■and supper will be served by the
Meredith College girls.
The Centennial Campaign is a move
ment among the Baptists of North
Carolina to celebrate the one hun
dredth anniversary of the* founding of
the State Convention in 1830, by rais
ing fund to clear their seven col
leges and schools from indebtedness
and to add new equipment which is
vitally needed in order to take care
of the rapidly increasing number of
students at these schools. The seven
colleges and schools owned and oper
ated by the Baptists of North Caro
lina are as follows, in order of their
founding: Wake Forest, Chowan,
Mars Hill, Campbell, Wingate, Mere
dith, Boiling Springs High School.
The meeting at Meredith on Sep
tember 15th. has been called by Mr.
Gardner for the purpose of explaining
to a group of leaders the plans for
the Centennial Campaign. To the
meeting are being invited the members
of the State Centennial Committee,
the trustees and faculties of the seven
schools, all the Baptist pastors and
many men and women of the churches
in the nixie Associations in the Central
part of the State, including Raleigh,
Central, Alt. Zion, Flat River, Tar
River, Johnston, Littje River, Beulah
and, Sandy Creek.
Dr. Charles E. Aladdry, General
Secretary of the State Convention,
will speak at the meeting, and other
speakers will be Airs. Wesley N. Jones,
President of the State W. M. U., and
Dr. Francies P. Gaines, the new
dent of Wake Forest College.
BOY OUTRUNS PONY
IN endurance TEST
Paul Simpson Steams Into Kinston
With Steed, Stopping in Goldsboro
To Rest.
Kinston, Sept. '7. —A dumb looking
Texas pony and a 22-year-old youth
staggered into this town early today
in one of the oddest races ever staged.
Both were very tired, but the horse
was more weary than the man, ap
parently.
Paul Simpson, Burlington boy, and
the pony left that upstate town, 172
miles from here, including detours,
at 9 Monday morning. They trotted
into Goldsboro last night, side by
side.
Simpson kept going in his long
, rolling lope, and careened into Kinston
at 2 a. m., one hundred and seventy.-
two miles in 41 hours was going some
and he was dead tired. He fell into
bed at a hotel.
The unnamed horse, ridden by Owen
Faucett, spent the night at Goldsboro.
The beast was prodded out of its
slumber early this morning and Fau
cett rode into Kinston at 6:30 and
looked up Simpson. The four men
accompanying the racers in automo
biles joined them. Both man and
horse rested here.
Time was no particular object. This
is an endurance race. If they stand
the strain they will have made 000
miles by the time they complete it.
The route is along North Carolina’s
“Main Street” to Alorehead City and
back to Burlington.
THE STOCK MARKET
Reported by Fenner & Beane.
(Quotations at 1:30 P. M.)
Atchison
Allied Chemical lootb
American Smelting 177%
American Tel. & Tel. 171%
Baldwin Locomotive 264
Baltimore &• Ohio 122%
Bethlehem Steel 66%
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chrysler
Corn Products *)<%
New York Central 161%
Fleishman
St. Louis-Francis. RR. 115%
General Electric 143
General Motors 250%
Gen. Ry. Signal l:>o%
Houston Oil
Hudson Motors /h
Mo.-Kansas and Texas 48%
Kennecott Copper _ 71%
Kans. C’ty Sou. By. 66%
Liggett & Alyers _ 122%
Lorillard 40%
Mack Truck l6O
Mo.-Pacific Pfd. 104%
AIo.-Pacific Com. 56%
Alontgomery-Ward 7B
Nash Motors 62%
Packard Motors 40%
Penn. RR. 60%
Producers and Refiners 25%
Reading RR. 117%
“B” Bey. Tob. Co. 146%
Rock Island RR. 111%
Sears Roebuck 75%
Southern Ry. 135
Std. Oil of N. J. 38%
Sou. Pac. RR. 122
Studebaker Corp. 57
Tobacco Products 100
Timkens Roller Bearing 126%
Union Carbine 141%
Vick Chemical 56%
Wabash RR. 73%
Westinghouee Electric Co. 88%
West. Maryd. RR. 67
Yellow Cab and Truck 33%
Woolworth 2 189%
U. S. Steel __ 150%
Coca-Cola * 123%
Always Moy Dow was a fried of
the needy whether they were of his
race or others. An Appeal for aid
seldom met with refusal from him and
his friends in recounting his many
acts of benevolence «ow clearly see
why his widow, Moy Dow Yung, will
find herself reduced from a position
of apparent wealth to that of the
humble class. ,
Debts of “honor” due him for loans
ranging from SSO to SSOO and made
in most instances to his white friends
may aid materially in increasing Moy
Dow -Yung’s heritage.
SIX MORE COUNTIES
TO FIGHT FOREST FIRES
*' Number Organizing Reach Advance
Estimates of Forestry Division.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Sept. B—With the num
ber of counties establishing forest lire
protective organizations already hav
ing reached the advance estimates of
; the forestry division of the department
of conservation and development for
the current year, at least six addi
tional have signified an interest in
the program with prospects that most
, of these will provide funds for the
purpose, according to W. C. AlcCor
mick,' assistant state forester.
At the request of commissioners and
leading citizens, representatives of the
department were scheduled Alonday to
meet the boards of these counties to
go over details of the program for for
est fire protection.
Counties which have been seriously
considering co-operating with the state
and federal governments by the estab
lishment of warden organizations in
cludes: Stokes, Mitchell, Wayne, Pen
der, Gates and Sampson. Represen
tatives of the department who were
scheduled to confer with the commis
sioners Monday are: Assistant For
ester W. C. AleCormiek and District
Foresters H. AI. Sebring, Lenoir; F.
H. Sipe, New Bern ; Linton A. Carter,
Windsor, and C. H. Flory, Fayette
ville.
Counties that have launched co
operative organization since July Ist
are: New Hanover, Greene, Wilson.
Bertie. Hertford and Jackson.
Previous to the beginning of the
fiscal year.on July Ist, the Str.te for
est service had estimated a maximum
of 34 counties in the protective area,
but the unexpected interest; of the ad
ditional counties in requesting that
representatives of the department
i meet with them to go over the work
has caused the original figures to b<
revised and provisions to be made foi
38 counties.
DECLARES MOfORISTS
MORE CAREFUL NOW
Driving Slower, as a Class, Since New
45-Mile an Hour Law Went Into
Effect.
Greensboro, Sept. 7. —North Cnro
lian motorists are driving slower, as
a class, since the new 45-mile pei
hour speeiTlimit into effect than
when the legal maximum was 35
an hour, Burton H. Smith, Charlotte
bueinesfi man, says after four trips
this summer on \vhich he covered near
ly 3,000 miles. ‘
“When our speed limit was 35
miles per hour it was lyothing to sec
any number of cars running from 50
to 75 miles, which was a common oc
currence,” Air. Smith wrote C. W
Roberts, vice president of the Carolina
Motor Club. “On four trips thiß sum
mer with a total mileage of approxi
mately 2,700 miles, I never was above
the legal speed limit, yet there w'ere
only four cars which passed me on
the road, proving that the 45-mile
limit is n success.
“As well as I could judge most of
the cars on the road now’ are run
ning around 40 miles an hour as
motorists are fast finding out that
this steady pace will cover as many
miles as one cares to drive in a day.”
In commenting on Air. Smith’s let
ter Mr. Roberts expressed the belief
that the increased limit, coupled with
the drastic statutes embodied in the
uniform motor vehicle code enacted
by the last legislature aimed at reek
>ss and careless driving is dnil.v prov
ing its worth. In this connection the
motor club official commended officers
in various parts of the state who are
waging a campaign against reckless
driving and flagrant traffic violations
on the highways, particularly in re
gard to parsing cars on curves and
as the crest of grades and excessive
speed at intersections.
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Mistaken for Jack the Ripper.
London, Sept. —John Burns, the
eminent labor leader and statesman,
has just told the story of how he was
once mistaken for Jack the Ripper.
Some women, wanting his help when
he w T as a leading figure in the East
End of London, saw him and ran after
him They yelled “.Tack” so loudly
that two policemen who had been sent
down from another division, thinking
he must be Jack the Ripper—the
White chapel murders having just
taken place—seized him. The women
immediately turned on the policemen,
and it was John Burns’ job to rescue
them from his irate admirers.
Cardinal Hayes’ Anniversary.
New York. Sept. B.—Cardinal Hayes
today received numerous congratula
tions on the of his thirty
fifth anniversary in the priesthood.
The Cardinal has had a remarkable ca
reer during the 35 years since his
ordination. He was appointed chan
cellor of the archdiocese in 1903, be
came auxiliary bishop in 1914 and
was elevated to the Cardinalate in
1019. As Archbishop he is admin- ■
istrator of the world’s largest diocese,
a Catholic community of nearly 1,-
500.000 persons.- He is the first
Archbishop of New York to he a na
tive of New York City.
An organization formed to help pro
mote aeronautics, similar to the Gug
genheim Fund in America, has recent
ly been established in London under
the of The National Fund for
the Promotion of Aeronautics.
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BEAUTY QU % \
* rfi
Senorita Maria Luisa
dra has been chosen queen of
beauty to reign over annual
Paloma festival at Madrid,
Spain*.
HEAVIER TEAM THAN,
USUAL AT DAVIDSON
Coaches Aro Trying Out Various
Combinations During Practice Ses
sions.
Davidson, N. C., Sept. 8. —Statis-
ts bear out the statement made
prior to the beginning of football
practice that Davidson College would
have a heavier, team than for sev
eral years previous. Monk Younger
has been running a tenative first
string team, with alterations during
the practice, whieh, however, do not
iffect the average weights.
Arrowood and Wearn, ends; Car
ion and Hhampton, tackles ; Laws and
Melton, guard; and J. Grey, center,
was the line, with Harrison, quarter;
Dick Grey and Sam Black, halves;
and Mutt Nisbet. fullback- This givbs
an average of 171 pounds lor vne
ine, and 152 for the backfield—a
'•earn average of 164 pounds, which
s five pounds more per man than cue
•hampionship team of last season.
During the practices numerous
institutions have been made. Hunt
has been running in as guard; Left
’vvldr?iffltf McConnell, tackles-;
McEaehern and Petterson, ends;
Wilson, quarter; Matthews, fullback,
>nd DeArmon, center.
“Fats” Laws is the only 200-
bounder on the Wildcat squaa, nuv
ng advanced to the exact weight of
207- pounds. McConnell. Hampton.
Garson, Leftwioh and Maulden are
‘ither near or over 185 pounds, while
Wearn is the only lineman of promise
hat weighs less than 160. Weara’s
veight’is but 144 pounds.
It will be noted N that Davidson’s
backfield is an exceptionally light
me, which is in accordance with the
‘actics of the two Davidson mentors.
They prefer them that way, which
means that the backs will be able to
make quick starts when the ball is
•>ut into play. Davidson’s backfield
vill be as fast, or perhaps faster than
usual. / "
The lack of experienced men in the
forward berths will be slightly offset
by the insertion of “heavier men.
Players who tip the scales at 185
pounds are raxe at Davidson, but this
vear is going to prove an exception.
HIGH COURT TO RULE
ON BAD CHECK LAW
Case Has Been Appealed From Hali
fax—First Fall Term Opinions
Come Next Wednesday.
Raleigh. Sept. 7.—First Supreme
opinions of the fall will cyme
down Wednesday, September 14, and
tn the batch wil( be several cases car
ried over at the spring term. The
court will not have an opportunity
in the first list to decide on the con
stitutionality of the 1027 bad check
’aw. but the case will be argued next
week. The state appeals in tins case
when O. Y. Yarborough, of Halifax,
is beneficiary of a judgment in his
favor.
The jury found a verdict against
the defendant Yarborough on an in
dictment charging him with giving a
worthless check. Judge Henry A.
Grady set the verdict aside. He held
that “the statute in question is in
direct vio’ation of the constitution of
the law. article one. section 16, in
that it denounces a« a crime the sim
ple non-payment of a debt, and per
mits the imprisonthent of a citizen
without finding fraud or false pre
tense. The Yarborough check had
been given in payment of a debt.
The Supreme court had passed on
the 1025 act but never had the is
sue squarely before it. The lssrn*, ot
constitutionality was never met.
There is apparently no way out of it
this time. The 1027 act makes it a
misdemeanor to give a check of any
kind on a bank in which there are
not funds to meet the paper.
No Automobiles There.
London. Sept. B—Recently the
Seigneur of Sark, who reigned over a
tiny feudal state, diedr an’d his daugh
ter has succeeded him in lordship of
the small Channel Island.
The forty landowners on the is’and
pay tribute to their overlord and the
forty indivisible farms have comedown
unchanged in their boundaries from
the time of Queen Elizabeth. The
.rent is still paid, not in cash, but in
kind. The new landlady will pre
side over the island parliament, called
the Court of Chief Pleas. Its mem
bers have for centuries been the hold
ers of the forty farms.
The Island of Sark has unwritten
law’s, but they are not vgry apparent,
and one of the farmers acts as police
man when required. The jail is mere
ly an object of curiosity; no one has
ever seen a prisoner there. And there
is not an automobile on the island.
i Year, Strictly in Advance
- -- ■■ . t-j. . . . /r.a
Have AboutAbandonedAU
Hope For Crew Os The Old
• Glory, Lost In Atlantic
♦
CUT PRICES FOR THE
CHARLOTTE RACES
First Time This Has Ever Been Done
For Such Races as Will Be Of
fered.
Charlotte. Sept. B.—Without pre
cedent in the history of champion
ship automobile racing, decision has
just been announced by the manage
ment of the famous Carolinas speed
way here at Charlotte that the ticket
prices for the great classic set for
September 19th have been cut to a
minimum to permit a greater num
ber of persons to be spectators when
14 of the most daring drivers in this
country and Europe roar away in a
cloud of smoke in the big events.
Because the September 19th elas :
sice will probably be races
of the 1927 A. A. A., racing season
on the nation’s great tracks, otnciais
of the mammoth mile-and-a-quarter
gracing plant desc’ared they wish ad
ditional thousands of the great sport
lovers of the South to see the spec
tacular events. Racing experts have
already predicted that sensational
speeds around 135 to 140 miles an
hdur will be reached by the gleaming
racing cars, each one of which costs
from'sls,ooo to $20,000.
Making ready for the dawn of race
day, the speedway has had the two
massive grandstands prepared for the
throngs which will flow through the
big gates when the opening bomb is
fired at 8 a. m., as a signal for the
army of ticket takers and ushers.
The immense bowl will be a riot of
color, festooned with the flags of all
nations, contrasting with the flashing
enamel bodies of the racing cars as
they thunder dow r n the fast straight
ways and swerve into the steeply
hanked, turns with flames and smoke
streaming from their exhausts.
Because interest has risen to a
keener pitch than ever before since
the great track of the South w*s
opened in the fall of 1924, all Char
lotte is ready to extend its hospitali
ty to the thousands of patrons who
will flock in by the special trains a»d
bj^automobiles.
COUNTY ADMINISTRATION
DISCUSSED BY JOHNSON
County Government Advisory Secre
tary Discusses Problems.
By Staff Correspondent
Boston. Mass.. Sept. .B.—‘-There can
be no doubt that county administra
tion in the -United States lacks uni
fication and the principal reason for
such lack is that there are too many
elective officers.” said Charles M» John
son, executive secretary of the North
Carolina county government advisory
commission, in an address delivered
before the National Association of
State. Auditors, Treasurers and Comp
trollers this morning at their annual
conference in the Hotel Statler.
Some of the problems presented by
Mr. Johnson demanding solution
in county affairs are: How to set up
government in the county, how to dis
tribute service justly, and how* to ac
count to the people for the taxes paid.
These maters are difficult and call for
good business management in the ad
ministration.
The essential factors in the secur
ing of the executive skill essential to
satisfactory public administration as
given by Mr. Johnson are: “County
officials of character and integrity who
will study the real needs of the coun
ty ; nnity of management; safeguard
ing income and expenditures; and the
setting up of a budget and the keep
ing of the expenditures within the
law.”
“County government and county ad
ministrative reforms may be brought
about and local self-government per
petuated,"” said Mr. Johnson, and he
told how it was being done in North
Carolina. The key to the solving of
these problems is through the state
guiding the counties, according to
Johnsdn.
Some of the services performed by
the county government advisory com
mission for the counties of North
Carolina, according to Mr. Johnson,
include the providing of forms for
making up budgets in various coun
ties, a uniform budget and accounting
classification, forms looking to the de
velopment of a uniform system of ac
counting in all the counties, and forma
for the transaction of the county’s
business, purchasing and similar ac
tivities.
Lexington-Mocksville Bridge wears,
Finish.
High Point* Sept. 7—The $150,000
br'dge which spans the Yadkin river
between Lexington and Mocksville
on highway No. 90, will be completed
by the first of November, according
to J. W. Mills, chief engineer of the
fifth district.
Mr. Mills and J. Elwood Cox, mem
ber of the highway commission, have
just returned from an inspection of
the bridge, and both are highly pleas
ed with the progress that the en
gineers r.re making.
The span will be 1.000 feet long
and 30 feet*wide, and made of re
inforced concrete. The piers have -al
ready been finished after 90 days of
work-
Johnston Man Slain in Row.
Raleigh, Sept. 7.—Otis Wall, farm
er of the Corinth Holder section of
Johnston county, today killed Rich
ard O’Neal, 40, following an argu
ment over a convict road gang near
Atkinson’s pond this afternoon, ac
cording to reports from that section.
Wall, it was said, charged trweal
with nearly striking some of the
working convict.* when he drove pa»;t
them in his automobile. An argu
ment ensued which climaxed in Wal!
striking O’Neal on tue head with an
automob.le jack* witnesses sard.
Death was almost instantaneous. ,
Wall had not been arrested at a
late hour tonight.
O’Neal is survived by his widow
and several small children. .
Time Set For Plane to Span
Atlantic Has Passed and
No Word Has Been Re
ceived From Her Today.
LAST CALL WAS
ONE FOR HELP
Several Ships Rushed to
Spot From Where Radio
Message Was Sent But
I Plane Was Not There.
1 . v
New York, Sept. Hope of
• the survival of the intrepid crew of
i the monoplane Old Glory sank today,
i The time set for the plane to span
i the ocean on her way from Old
Orchard, Me., to Rome passed with
■ no news of her whereabouts or the
■ fate of her pilots, Lloyd Bertaud and
James D. Hill, and their passenger
; Philip A. Payne, managing editor of
1 the New York Daily Mirror.
1 Old Glory should have arrived over
: Bordeaux, France, before Wednesday
1 at midnight, Eastern Standard Time,
figuring from the fact that she was
sighted 350 miles east of St. Johns,
> Newfounderland at 11:57 o’clock,
| Eastern Standard Time Tuesday night,
and that she had been making about
' 100 miles an hour. From St. Johns
! to Bordeaux is approximately 2,500
, miles.
j Twenty-four hours had elapsed at
, 3 ; 30 o'clock this morning since the
; liners plowing their regular trans-
Atlantic lanes in the darkness of the
, early hours of Wednesday picked up
* the despairing distress call,
“WRHP, SOS, 5 hours out of New
founderland, east,”
■ “WRHP,” was the plane’s radio
! call. Its owner is W. R. Hearst.
Searching of the tumbling wastes
of the Atlantic, 500 miles off the New
i founderland coast had brought no
[ sight either of the plane or of the
little rubber boat with which the
flyers were equipped against just such
an emergency as seems to have be
’ fallen them.
Captain David W. Bone of the Cun- '
■ ard liner, Transylvania, the vessel
nearest the spot who raced his ship
more than 80 miles to the estimated
i last position of the plane, reported
- regrtfully last night:
“Have searched area without result.
Feel little hope of survival in view
of rough sea at time of casualty.” He
was proceeding on his voyage, he add
-1 ed.
Captain F. G. Brown, of the Car-
I mania reported strong rain squalls and
rough breaking seas, and like Captain
■ Bone, considered therfi was “little
chance of survival of collapsible boat
under present conditions.”
While the Carmnnia and other ves
sels continued to scour the sea, Phil
1 Wood and C. A. “Duke” Schiller, who
had hoped to start from Harbor Grace,
■ Newfounderland, for Windsor, Eng
land, announced they would turn the
flight into a rescue expedition, taking
aboard a full load of fuel and start
ing an exhaustive search.
During the search for Old Glory
’ out over the Atlantic, where the Rome
-1 bound plane wag last heard from,
where Nungesser and Coli, the brave
' Frenchmen are believed to have gone
down and into whose spaces the Brit
ish St. Raphael with Princess Lowen
-1 stein Wertheim aboard vanished a
week ago, another plane was winging
its way to the east' unequipped with
a radio with which to summon aid
in case of emergency.
The Sir John Carling, manned by
Captain Terry Tully, pilot, and Lieut.
James Medcalf, navigator, left Har
, bor Grace, Newfounderland at 7:25
a. m. Eastern Standard Time Wed
nesday, and waft seen last flitting
, i across the Atlantic from Cape St.
Francis. 30 miles away.
* Will Not Use Plane for Hunt. «
Harbor Grace, N. F., Sept. 8. —(A*)
—The pilots of the Royal Windsor an
nounced this morning after they had
received reports of the fruitless search
for the Old Glory conducted during
the night by steamships, that they
had decided it was useless for them
to institute search with their plane.
Before they retired last night Phil
Wood and “Duke” Schiller had offered
their services to William R. Hearst,
sponsor of the Old Glory. This morn
ing, however, they were shown reports
of sevreal ships which searched for
hours without result, and the flyers
reverted to their opinion expressed
earlier than the Old Glory was now
“a needle in a bundle of hay.”
Discovery of a leak in tjie right wing
gasoline tank of the Royal Windsor
late last night will necessitate a care
ful examination of all the tanks. This
•with refueling will occupy most of the
day, but the flyers said they would be
ready to hop off tomorrow morning if
conditions are favorable.
Bir John . C’arling Not Sighted.
Belfast, Ireland, Sept. B.—(A*)
Every civic guard (police) station in
the south and west of Ireland was on
the alert this morning watching for
the approach of the Canadian plane
Sir John Carling, en route from Har
bor Grace. Nefoundland for London.
At 9 o’clock London, Queenstown,
reported that the rain which had been,
falling there earlier had ceased, but
that flying conditions generally were
unfavorable with very poor .visibility.
mmm
Moatly cloudy fonight and Friday, ,
probably local’showers in the west por
tion Friday; s ightly cooler in north
east portion Friday.
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