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THE CONCORD TIMES
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher
SIXTY-ONE KILLED IN
STATE IN SEIPTEMBER
In Addition 343 Persons Were Injured
In 316 Auto Accidents Reported in
State.
Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel.
• By J. C. BASKERVILLE
Raleigh, Oct. 20.—Sixty-one persons
were killed in North Carolina in Sep
tember in automobile accidents on the
highways of the state, and 843 persons
were injured as a result of the 316
accidents reported to the Automotive
Division of the State Department of
Revenue, according to the report made
public today by W. C. Spruill, in
charge of assembling this report.
A steady increase in the number of
accidents, both fatal and non-fatal,
has been shown since the law requir
ing officers in all sections of the state
to report accidents to the automotive
division went into effect July 1. In
July 33 fatal accidents were reported,
in August there were 40 fatal accidents
and in September 61 deaths—more
than two a day for each day that
month.
“Though theee figures are becom
ing more appaling every month, there
seems little that we can do to stop
these accidents except to call the at
tention of the public to them, and be
seech automobile drivers everywhere
in the state to exercise more caution
and take fewer chances,” said R. A.
Dougliton, Commissioner of Revenue
and Motor Vehicles, in commenting
on the accident toll of the past month.
“That the majority of the accidents
occurred as the result of mere reck
lessness and utter disregard of exist
ing laws is shown by the fact that
out of the 343 accidents, involving
445 motor vehicles, 38 of the accidents
w’ere attributed to excessive speed, 68
to running on tire wrong side of the
road, 67 resulted because the cars
involved did not have the right of
way, 30 from ‘cutting in’, in attempt
ing to pass other cars in the traffic
line,” said Commissioner Doughton.
“There were 28 accidents attributed
to attempts to pass other cars on a
curve or hill—expressly prohibited by
law —and five of these accidents wore
fatal. There were 47 other accidents
that resulted from cars attempting to
pass on the wrong side, two of these
being fatal. Still 47 additional ac
cidents resulted from the drivers driv
ing ofE the roadway,
“Tie 4h*t J&ese proced
urene of his daughter, Mrs. ts is pro
fit her home in Asheville, 'jly 35 of
tfipn of Mr. Teeter remains uto faulty
meiliss Mittie Cox, of Chan cars in
volve Cox, of Albemarle, majority
of the*. Cox, of Badin.-rirom nothing
else recklessness and
utter disregard of the law, the com
missioner said. -
In analyzing further the. types of
accidents, the report shows that of
the 61 persons killed, 19 were as a
result of the collision of an automo
bile with pedestrians, 13 from col
lisions between automobiles, three
from collisions with horse drawn ve
hicles, and 9 from collisions with a
railroad train at crossings. Only two
deaths resulted from collisions with
fixed objects, such as telephone poles,
while 15 deaths resulted from non
collision accidents.
Though the largest number of ac
cidents occurred on Sundays, as was
the case in August, Friday maintains
its record for being an unlucky day
bv having the largest number of fatal
accidents, 14 occuring on Fridays,
though there were no Friday the
13th” in September. . Saturdays come
next, with 48 accidents recorded.
Neither can the claim be made that
the majority of the drivers involved
in accidents are young and L inexp ? ri "
enced, since the records show that
of the 445 drivers involved,
been driving for a year or more, and
that only 18 were under 18 ye ars of
age, 69 were between 18 and_24 years,
while 137 were between *2o and
vears of age, only &4 being above 50,
-which would indicate that the older
drivers are more cautious. The age
of 157 drivers was not given.
Though officers in all sections of the
state are co-operating splendidly in re
porting accidents, the figures for >orth
Carolina when compared with similar
figures in other states, would indicate
that only the fatal and major accidents
are being reported here, and that mapy
minor accidents are never reported or
recorded, according to Mr. Spruill.
Ober WUI No* Perform.
Wake Forest, Oct.
“Monk” Ober, Deacon halfback and
big factor in the prospective offense
which coaches were shaping for the
game with Davidson’ lldcaus at
Greensboro* Saturday, will not play in
that contest and may not appear in
aetijon before the middle of next
month, it was said
Ober, who suffered a leg injury,
got back into the workont this weex,
but the old sore cropped out again to-
Aseistant Coach Fred Emmerson,
who had charge of the squad toda y
owing to Coach Baldwin being called
to Summerfield, Mass., to attend his
father’s funeral, drilled the squad in
one of the hardest workout of the
season.
Washington Attorneys See Hopes For
P. and N.
Washington, Oct. 19.-—Attorneya
here who have practiced before the
Interstate Commerce Commission for
years are manifesting unusual i ater '
ost in the Piedmont and Northern
Railway company’s case.
One of them, Who has gone to the
trouble to look up the record, said to
day that at least ha’f of the recom
mendations of examiners have been
turned down by the commission, on a
final test.
Sports writers assigned to cover the
Cniversity of Michigan football games
in the new stadium will be .in luck.
An electric heater will be installed
in the press stand for each writer.
ADMITS RECEIVING
PROTESTS OKR THE
PAROLE FOR MEANS
The Attorney General Says
Several Persons Have
Made Protest in Letters
Sent to His Department.
REASONS ARE NOT
STATED BY HIM
Earl Carroll All Ready to
Leave But Papers Were
IJot in Mail Received at
Prison This Morning.
Washington, Oct. 20. UP) —At
torney General Sargent has been re
quested in letters received at the De
partment of Justice not to endorse the
parole of Gaston B. Means as recom
, mended by the parole board.
The Attorney General declined to
state the nature of the complaints or
from whom they were received, but
admitted he had received several. He
declared he had not completed his
review of th* Means case, and was
not in a position to say whether or
not the parole would be honored.
Means, who is a former Department
of Justice agent, is serving two terms
of two years each in the Atlanta
penitentiary for violation of the pro
hibition law and for bribery. He has
been eligible for parole for some time.
Carroll Waiting For Papers.
Atlanta, Oct. 20. — UP) —Parole pa
pers for Earl Carroll did not arrive
in the first delivery at the Atlanta
federal prison today, and Warden John
W. Snook indicated that it would
probably be mid-afternoon before the
Broadway producer would be re
leased.
The second delivery of mail occurs
around noon, and after the papers
are received there will be the formal
ity of signing the parole and checking
out with the record clerk.
■'Carroll was at the “honor farm”
where he served as librarian early to
day, but was to be brought to the
main prison ten miles nearer At
lanta during the afternoon.
STATE’S LAND GRANT
SYSTEM IS CLUMSY
Governor Wouldn’t Be Surprised To
Find He Had Deeded Away Capitol,
He Say s. %
Raleigh, Oct. 19.—“1 wouldn£t be
surprised to wake up some rirorfiTng
and find that I had deeded away the
state capitol,” was the startling state
ment of Governor McLean to news
papermen as they were ushered in for
their conference while the executive
was affixing his signature to grants
of land which were being presented
to him as a matter of routine by an
attache of the office of the secretary
of state.
In subsequent conversation Gover
nor McLean declared that his proph
esy was not entirely jocular as to
what might occur as a result of the
system under the North Carolina laws
for disposing of public lands.
“I am satisfied that no other state
has a system like it,” declared the
governor.
* “Under our system, if any one ap
plies for a grant of land it is adver
tised and if there is no protest the
grant is made. There is nothing trf
prevent duplications of the granting
of land which the state does not
actually own and those things doubt
less occur at times.”
■ 1 9
MASONS CONFER
HIGHEST DEGREE
R. W. Smith, of Charlotte Among
North Carolina*. Receiving Shrine
Honor.
Washington, Oct- 20. —Two hun
dred and twenty-six Scottish Rite
’masons Tuesday were elected to the
thirty-third degree, inspector general
honorary, and 436 were elected
knights Commander of the court of
honor in their respective states i>y
members of the supreme council, an
cient and accepted Scottish Rite of
the southern jurisdiction. H. Thomas
Harkins, of Asheville, inspector gen
eral of Scottish Rite Masonic bodies
for North Carolina, announced Tues
day a list of North Carolina men
upon whom the thirty-third degree
will be conferred here Saturday night.
They are: M. S. Fink, Greensboro;
M J- Harris, Albemarle; Eugene P.
Lee Dunn; Hubert M. Poteat, Wake
Forest; Charles A. Seifert, Newbern;
R. W. Smith. Charlotte and Henry
L. Taylor, Wilmington.
THE STOCK MARKET
Irregular Price Movements Occurred
at Opening of the Market Today.
New York, Oct. 20. — UP) —Irregular
price movements occurred at the op
-ening of the stock market today, with
recessions in the majority. American
Beet Sugar common and preferred op
ened at new lowb for the year, off one
and four points respectively, and (in
itial losses of a point or so were re
corded by Shattuck, Commercial Sol
vents, Dodge preferred and General
Electric. International Silver was
up four points at the outset, and Phil
adelphia Company established a new
peak, up 1 1-2. U. S. Steel opened
a point higher.
JACKSON URGED TO RESIGN.
Republican Leaders Want One Post
Vacated. Is Report.
Washington, Oct. 19. It was re
ported bere again today that repub
lican workers in the state are urging
Brownlow Jackson to resign as
state chairman. • .
There is no way to force Mr. Jack
son to give up 'one of the positions
if he see fit to hold it. No law pro
hibits the holding of the two jobs,
one for the salary and the other for
the honor and power it carries.
Accompanying this report is one
that Mr. Jackson will not quit euuer
post now.
CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1927
Says Many Defective Children
Attending School In State
. *
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Oct. 30. —There are ap
proximately 5,000 -children ranging
from low grade morons to high grade
imbeciles in the county and city schools
of the state, trying to get an education
in schools designed for normal minded
children, according to a recent survey
made by Dr. W. H. Dixon, superin
tendent of the Caswell Training
School for mental defectives. Dr. Dixon
makes this statement in an article ap
pearing in *tlie latest issue of Public
Welfare Progress, which appeared to
day.
While some of these defective chil
dren undoubtedly should be sent to
the Caswell Training School, or some
similar school exclusively for mental
defectives, Dr. Dixon contends that
many of these children could be han
dled in the public schools through
special classes, with properly trained
teachers. He contends that the State
department of public instruction
should institute in the state some
school in which teachers could be
trained for the teaching of these sub
normal children. Such a system would
relieve the regular school teachers,
whose primary duty is to teach normal
children, of the task of trying to teitch
these subnormal children along with
the normal ones and of trying to make
them keep up a grade of work for
which they are mentally unfitted.
“It has been my observivtion that
more time has to be taken* with this
(defective) group of children than the
average teacher can give,” says Dr.
Dixon. “Besides, most of the teach
ers are not trained to take care of
this type of children, and consequently
fail when they attempt to.
“A teacher must be specially trained
to teach this type of child. She should
also have a pretty fair working knowl
edge of psychology and mental testing
to determine the mentality of a sub
normal child. There are schools in
the state that have a sufficient num
ber of this class of children to form
classes that would warrant the em
ployment of a special teacher to take
care of the defectives and relieve the
regular teachers.”
The establishment of special classes
for defective children in the public
I MRS, GRAYSON IS NOT
WORRIED ABOUT MONEY
Although Flight) Often Postponed
Plenty of Money for Flight Still
Available.
Old Orchard, Me., Oct. 20. — UP) —
Neither money nor weather is worry
ing Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson and
her companions here as they wait-for
the first favorable opportunity to take r
off for Copenhagen in their monoplane
Dawn.
Frequent postponements of their
flight set early in September have not
affected the expedition’s plans, and
the vital factor of safety alone will
determine when the big amphibian
plane will wing its way eastward.
The 7 former Long Island real es
tate operator whose flying is backed
by Mrs. Aage Ancker of Copenhagen
and Aiken, S. C., made her intentions
clear when she announced that 600
more gallons of a special gasoline were
on their way from New York to re
place the fuel lost when two tanks
had to be emptied in lightening the
ship on its attempted start last Mon
day.
Cold ra#v weather seems to have
definitely precluded any possibility of
a start before Saturday or Sunday.
NOTED BOSTON HOSTELRY
TAKEN BY RECEIVERS
The Adams House, Favorite of Presi
dent Coolidge, May Be Closed Later.
Boston, Oct. 20. — UP) —When Presi
dent Coolidge returns to Boston he
may find his favorite hotel closed. The
Adams House, famous downtown
hostelry where he and Mrs. Coolidge *
made, their home when he was suc
cessively President of the state Sen
ate, Lieut. Governor, and Governor of
Massachusetts, has been petitioned in
to bankruptcy and counsel for the
creditors intimate that if its opera
tion proves unprofitable under a re
ceivership, its doors will be shut.
It was in his suite at the Adams
House that Mr. Coolidge was notified
in 1920 of his nomination for the vice
presidenev. While maintaining his
home in Northampton, he always stay
ed at this hotel when attending to his
official duties in Boston.
Other notables have frequented tli<f
Adams House —Theodore Roosevelt
often stayed there. Besides being
the scene of many political confer
ences, it was popular with the sport
ing and theatrical world.
STRIKE CALL BY I. YV. YV.
ANSWERED BY MINERS
Between 2,000 and 5,000 Workers in
Colorado Coal Fields Now Idle.
Denver, Oct. 18. — UP) —Work was
at a standstill in the northern Colo
rado lignite coal fields today as be
tween 2,000 and 5,000 miners an
swered an I. YV. W. strike call. f
At Trinidad in the southern Colo
rado field, a check of seven c<>l ' orad °
Fuel & Iron Company mines showed
that lcee than two per cent, of the
miners failed to come to work today.
In the AguFar and Walsenburg fields
early, estimates placed the number of
strikers at half the men.
Six members of the I. W. W. were
arrested for picketing n^ ar . A?
this morning, but no trouble has been
reported in any of the coal fields.
Three Best Men, No Bridesmaids at
This YVedding*
London, Oct. 20.—Three best men,
but no bridesmaids — that was ‘ the
type of wedding chosen by Cicely
Sylvia Molesworth, and Guy Walker
Ramsey. , .
Miss Molesworth declared she
would have no bridesmaids. Ramsey,
however, said he had three good
friends who would be “mortally of
fended” if they did not support him
at the wedding.
The three best men cut a pack of
cards to decide who would hold the
ring. The others assisted the bride.
schools would take some of the burden
off the Caswell school, and at the same
time give the higher grade defectives
as much education as they were cap
able of assimilating, and the
Caswell school to take care only of
the lower grade who demand institu
tional care, according to Dr. Dixon.
One objection to this arrangement,
however, would be that the home en
vironment of the child would not be
changed. In those cases where the
home environment is satisfactory, the
public school classes would be benefi
cial, according to Dr. Dixon, and in
most cases the child would probab'y
make better progress than if sent to
an institution. However, where the
home environment is negative, the
children should be sent to an insti
tution such as the Caswell school.
As the situation now is, the ma
jority of these mental defectives do
not make any grades at all in school,
but simply drag along as “repeaters”
for two or three years, and then drop
out of school entirely. Such an ar
rangement as suggested by Dr. Dixon
would enable the higher grade defec
tives to remain in school much longer
than is now the case, and would serve
to weed out the lower type, which
then could be sent to Caswell.
This plan advocated by Dr. Dixon is
by no means new, and is employed ex
tensively in other states, and most of
the school systems in the larger cities
of this state, such as Charlotte, Ashe
ville, Greensboro and Winston-Salem
and others already have special classes
for sub-normal children, jwhile a few
have classes for the unusually bright.
So far the State department of pub
lic instruction has not devoted any
particular attention, to this problem,
feeling that it was largely a local
problem to be handled by specific city
or county school systems, rather than
by the state, according to Dr. A. T.
Allen, state superintendent of public
instruction. At present it is impos
sible to segregate the sub-normal chil
dren only in schools sufficiently large
to warrant special classes, thus limit
ing this procedure almost entirely to
the city schools, -according to Dr.
Allen, though the problem ie rapidly
becoming one of statewide importance
and eventually must be handled from
a statewide angle.
FIVE RING CIRCUS
POSITIVELY COMING
Ringling Bros, and Bamum & Bailey
• To Bring Sacred YVhito Elephant
And Other Big Features.
Yep, youngsters, it’s really true!
Meaning that a rumor heard some
time ago is now confirmed by the
official announcement that the Ring- r
ling Bros, ahd Barnum & Bailey Com
bined Shows will positively Exhibit at
Charlotte, Monday, Oct. 24.
At that time the world’s first and
only five-ring circus will be within
easy reach of local sawdust fans. With
it will come the only genuine white
elephant brought to America. He
is “Pawah,” the forld-famed sacred
white pachyderm from Burma, who
will be the foremost feature of a
menagerie composed i)f more than a
thousand animals.
The 'big show is now a third larger
than it was when it last visited this
locality. Enormous new displays have
'been introduced such as ninety zebras,
camels and horses performing at one
time on a mammoth pedestal. On a
similar series of circular raised plat
forms thirty-two of the show’s forty
three elepfiants dance, run and per
form in unison with the topmost of
the ponderous aqtors twenty feet above
the ground. Prior to this gigantic dis
play five herds of elephants appear in
the five separate rings. At another
time the rings are given over to five
companies of liberty horses. At still
another juncture of the program two
hundred of the show’s 900 horses, each
ridden by an expert, are seen in the
brilliant maneuvers.
Os the sixteen hundred people car
: ried on tour this season more than
eight hundred are the world’s foremost
aerialists, barebacks riders, ground and
lofty gymnasts, high-wire artists and
superathletes. These are now seen
in extensive groups and troupes each
display led by its particular cham
pions, a new method of presentation
that is in keeping with the Ringling
Bros, and Barnum & Bailey 1927 plan
of extending acts in equal number over
the entire length of the mammoth
main tent. Little folks will be de
lighted to learn that the bringing of
a score of European clowns to Am
erica has increased the funmakers to
more than a hundred.
High Point College Students Make
Stage Equipment.
High Point, N. C., Oct. 18.—
Scenery and stage settings were being
made by the members of “the work
shop” for the stage of the High Point
college auditorium. The scenery will
be of a temporary nature in lieu of
the fact that the present auditorium
is only temporary and it is hoped
that a new and modern auditorium
will be built by the college in the
very near future. However tne
scenery as it is designed will add
much to the appearance of the stage
and will make it possible to present
plays with greater success.
The designing of the stage sets is
left entirely to the members of the
workshop. The scenery being made
consists of two different sets of
scenes with a stage room and en
trance on each side. Members of the
workshop taking art are painting the
scenery. Although the platform is
small, the equipment as planned
promises to be very flexible. It will
be especially adaptable to the pre
senting of one-act plays.
Adolfo Luqae’s YVife Gets Divorce
Quick.
Cincinnati ,0., Oct. 17. Mrs.
Adolfo Luque was granted a divorce
from her husband, the Cuban pitch
ing star of the Cincinnati Reds in
side of ten minutes today.
Mrs. Luque told the court that
when the Reds lost a baseball game
she was afraid to go home because
her husband let all of his pent up
wrath loose upon her.
Judge Charles Hoffman granted
the decree on. ground of extreme
cruelty and awarded, her ailmony of
$2,509
DO NOT UNDERSTAND
WHY MISS ELDER IS
DEVOTEE OF ELM
——
Women of Angora After
Seeing American Girl
Flier Ask Why She Tried
the Long Flight.
ADVISE HER TO
“CAPTURE” MEN
Miss Elder’s Beauty Is Said
to Have Caused Sensa
tion at One Port Where
She Left the Ship.
Lisbon, Portgual, Oct. 20. — UP) —
The women of Angora, Azores, won
der why Ruth Elder, who was rescued
when her plane fell into the Atlantic,
should engage in such a hazardous oc
cupation as flying.
“Why don’t you stay at home and
turn the heads of men, instead of fly
ing in the air and risking your life?”
one of th<* women asked her in Span
ish when the ship which is carrying
her and her co-pilot, George Halde
raan, to the European coast, stopped
at Andra.
Miss Elder’s beauty caused a sen
sation at Andra since her type is un
common there. The women were sur
prised with the ease with which she
wore *over her wind tossed curls the
seagoing cap of Captain Goos of the
tanker Barendrecht which rescued the
crew of the American Girl.
After the steamship Lima on which
she is a passenger was docked at An
dra yesterday Miss Elder asked the
way to the post office and mailed sev
eral letters, one of them to her hus
band, Lyle Womack, of Panama.
“HOME-COMING” YVILL
/ATTRACT MANY ALUMNI
October 29th Expected to Be Red
Letter Day at Davidson College.
Davidson, N. 0., Oct. 20.—“ From
present indications, the annual home
coming of Davidson College alumni
on October 29th will be greater than
that of last year,” said Ernest Milton,
alumr secretary here today, in dis
cussing the program, and the number
of alumni who will return for this oc
casion.
“We were greatly pleased at the
hundreds who returned last year,” he
said, “when Richardson Field was
dedicated and when the 4 Carolina
game- was played in the afternoon.
Although no dedicatory exercises are
scheduled for October 29th, an at
tractive program 'has been arranged
for the morning and the V. M. I game
in the afternoon will be one ot the
gieatest on the Wildcat schedule.”
The alumni office this week issued
invitations to all of its alumni to re
turn for this annual celebration, and
according to indirect reports which
have been drifting in. and expressions
of opinion to the alumni directors,
many will come to Davidson from a
distance. “Quite a number of David
son alumni will return from Georgia
and Florida,” said the alumni secre
tary, who recently visited associations
in those states-
A new feature of the occasion win
bo an alumni at 1 o’clock,
to which the alumni and their wives
are invited. This will be preccn.eti Dy
the morning exercises which will be
gin at 11 a. m., with a military par
ade on Sprunt Field, followed by an
adjournment to the stadium, where
brief exercises will be held, a repre
sentative group of alumni having been
selected for parts on the program.
They* will be representative as related
to classes and territory.
"All* of our efforts between now
and October 29th will be centered
upon making this celebration an
eventful one in alumni history,” said
the secretary in closing, “and local
alumni associations, class agents, and
the social fraternities are assisting in
getting alumni to return.”
THEXOTTON MARKET
Opened Easy at Decline of 10 to 12
Points Under Renewed Hedging.
New York, Oct. 20.— UP) —The cot
ton market opened easy today at a de
cline of 10 to 12 points under renew
ed hedging and liquidation etimulat-’
ed by lower Liverpool cables and bet
ter weathbr reports from the south.
Stop orders were uncovered on the
decline and the market waa unset
tled during the first hour, December
selling off to 19.85 and March to
20.10, or 28 to 32 points net lower.
After v selling off to 19.76 for De
cember and 20.00 for March under the
weight of early offerings, or about 38
to 41 points net lower, the market
rallied some 16 or 18 points from the
lowest on trade buying and covering.
The demand failed to broaden materi
ally, however, as the volume of busi
ness tapered off on the bulge, and
prices eased again lower in the morn
ing, while there were rumors of an
easy spot basis in some parts of the
South. Prices cold back to about
the earlier low with the market show
ing net declines of 35 to 40 points at
midway.
Cotton futures opened easy: Decem
ber 26.08; January 20.08; March
20.30; May 20.50; July 20.32.
Panthers to Play Soldiers Friday.
High Point, Oct. 19. —Coach Jack
Boylin and his Purple Panthers of
High Point college left here this
morning for Columbus, Ga., for wnat
promises to be one of the hardest
games of the season. Th«Tr meet the
soldier team of Fort Benning, Friday.
The team last year won the Presi
dent's cup by defeating the Quannco
Marines, and are reported to have an
unusually strong aggregation this
year.
The only basis for a comparison of
the.two teams lies in the fact that
both teams have played Milligan col
lege of Tennessee. Fort Benning de
feated Milligan by 20-6, while the
Panthers were able’ to win by the
scant margin of one touchdown. .
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance
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MINISTER QUITS
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James J. Walsh, minister ol
posts and telegraphs of Ireland
nas gone to Italy after refusing
to retain his seat in Executiv«
Council or participate in gen*
eral elections,
EEL WORM DISEASE v
IS CAUSING DAMAGE
Some Varieties of Sweet Potatoes in
State Are Doing Damaged.
The Tribune Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Ofct. 20. —That the nema
tode or eel worm disease is causing
heavy losses to growers has been dis
covered recently through the research
work of # Dr. R. F. Poole, of the bot
any department of State College.
In a scientific paper published b>
Phytopahtology, the leading plant dis
ease publication of the United States,
Dr. Poole and Robert Schmidt, veg
etable discuss in full how
this nematode disease attacks the dif
ferent varieties of potatoes. They find
i that this trouble causes heavy losses,
especially in the sandy soils of east
ern Carolina. However, they also
find that varieties like the Porto Rico
and the Jerseys are more resistant to
the disease than some others like the
Nancy Hall, Norton Yam, Southern
Queen and others.
Dr. Poole states in his article that
the largest area in commercial sweet
potato growing is planted to the Porto
Rico variety. However, there is not
a large - area planted to the Nancy
Hall, Norton Yam and Southern
Queen and there are very susceptible
to tbe disease. The infected area l*
not uniform over the state, however
but growers should he careful in se
lecting their seed' and save only those
potatoes, for planting next season that
are free from the appearance of the
disease.
Those varieties susceptible to the
nematode trouble will be found to have
knots and scabs on the stems, roots
and potatoes. Many of the potatoes
will be 'malformed and there will be
scabby areas followed by pit-like rots.
The Nancy Hall variety is especially
susceptible, Bays Dr. Poole.
Automatic Bath for Trains.
Paris, Oct. 20.—Trains on the Pans-
Lyons-Mediterranean Railway get
their daily bath in a huge tunnel-like
structure that does the work of two
hundred men. It is about the length
of a passenger coach, and is lined with
revolving brushes and powerful water
iete As the cars pass through they
are’ scrubbed by the brushes and
sprayed by the water Each car re
-mains only two or three nnnutes lu
the machine, a striking contract to
the time formerly taken by a small
army of men armed with water pails,
scrubbing brushes and rags.
A motor-driven “seasick chair”
which reproduces the roll and pitch of
a ship is used in France to test ap
plicants for naval and merchant
marine posts.
THE STOCK MARKET
Reported by Fenner & Beane.
(Quotations at 1:30 P. M.)
Atchison —. I&JMi
American Can 63
Allied Chemical 140%
American Smelting
American Tel. & Tel.
Baldwin Locomotive %
Atlantic Coast Line 100
Baltimore & Ohio I llTt
Bethlehem Steel -
Chesapeake & Ohio 209%
New York Central 160%
gr: %*
Fleishman r
St. Louis-Franc’.s. xxx
General Electric 127%
Gold Dust 64%
General Motors 132
Gen. Ry. Signal 130%
Houston Oil 167
Hudson Motors 67%
Mo.-Kans. & Tex. 45
Kennecott Copper 71%
Liggett & Myers 121
Lorillard 35%
Mack Truck lOl%
Moc-Paclfie Pfd. 57
Montgomery-Ward 78%
Nash Motors _ 83
Packard Motors 46%
Penn. RR. \ 65%
Phillips Pete 39%
Producers and Refiners 26
Reading RR. 111%
“B” Rey. Tob. Com. 147%
Rock Island RR. 105%
Sears Roebuck 72%
Southern Ry. 131%
Std. Oil of N. J. 38%
Sou. Pac. RR. 122
Sou. Dairies Pfd. 17%
Studebaker Corp. 53%
Tobacco Products _ / 93%
Union Carbine 128%
Wabash RR. ___ 72%
Westinghou.se Elec. Co. 80%
West. Maryl. RR. 59%
Woolworth 178%
IT. S. Steel 145%
ONKToIa - 122
SEEM TO PROVE j
FALL HAD SECRECY
ABOUT OIL LEASES
Trying: to Prove That Fall
Sought to Keep Bidders
From Knowing What He
Planned to Do.
SINCLAIR NOT
ONLY BIDDER
But It Is Charged That Fall
. Was Favorable From the
Start to the Bid Made by
Sinclair.
Washington, Oct. 20.—OP)—Intro
ducing testimony designed to show that
Albert B. I alls desire for secrecy as
to his negotiations with Harry F. Sin
clair for the lease of the Teapot Dome
went to the extent of misleading other
applicants for the naval oil reserve,
special government oil counsel con
tinued their assaults today at the trial
of the two men on charges of criminal
conspiracy.
Recalling E. C. Finney, assistant
secretary of the interior under Fall,
who testified yesterday, and Owen J.
Roberts, of government counsel, in
troduced letters written by interior
officials to inquirers about the lease
as early as February 25, 1922, C. B.
of Minneapolis, inquired
whether the lease of Teapot Dome was
in prospect. I inney replied that no •
lease had been granted, and that no
orders had been issued for opening up
the reserves to leasing.
, “ Did y°u have knowledge that Fall
was negotiating a lease with Sinclair
at that time inquired Roberts.
I did,” Finney replied.
Then why did you make such a
reply to Mr. Alpand?”
‘‘Because the policy wae not to give
out any information on the subject/*
‘‘From whom did you get that?”
I understood that was the secre
tary’s desire.” . ’
Defense counsel objected sharply to
witness' “understanding.”
From what source did your un
derstanding come?” Roberts pursued.
I was advised by the secretary him
self, and also by the contents of one
or two letters I saw.”
Tall fo.lowed this line of examina
tion very closely. t
[ AIRMAN FACES CHARGES . , A
OF DANGEROUS FLYING
‘ Army Airman Alleged to Have Done
Stunts a tLow Altitude Over At
lanta.
Atlanta, Oct. 17.—Lieut. George
F. Finch of the army air service went •
on trial before a eourtmartial at.
Fort McPherson today on a charge of
reckless flying.
The alleged offense took place
when he, in company with other
&rmy aviators, was piloting an army
plane to Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
In passing over Atlanta it was charg
ed that he flwv under 1,000 feet, the
safety limit fixed by the army, that
he flew “recklessly” and performed
several “stunts” in defiance of regu
lations.
Lieutenant Finch also is charged
with perjury, it being alleged that he
violated his oath in a . statement made
before Judge J. M. Graham, inspector
general, on June 16. The officers is
said to have told Judge Graham that
he was flying “around 1,000 feet”
when he passed over the Atlanta
home of Royal J. Miller May 1, and
this is held to have been perjury Dy
the prosecuting officers.
Capt. H. M. Elmendorf, comman
der of the planes with which Finch
was flying, said he gave the officer
permission to leave the group and
circle over Atlanta, his home.
Wood in House Building.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 20.—Stand
ard methods of usiDg wood in house
building will be shown at an exhibi
tion to be held in this city during
the coming week. The display Vill
be installed in the Washington Audi
torium as an adjunct of the Better
Homes Exhibition by the National
committee on wood utilization of the
department of commerce.
Tho national committee will en
deavor to show the most effective use
of forest products in house building.
Some of the main features will be the
demonstration of construction details
and how to eliminate many of the
usual flaws in frame construction
caused by faulty use of materials.
The committee also intends to dem
onstrate the use of treated lumber for
house construction. Such feature*; ns
end-matched lumber and short-length,
lumber will also be demonstrated. In
fact, it is planned to show the prac
tical application of the entire range
of efficient wood-using practices as
pertaining to the construction field.
With Our Advertisers.
, Don’t fail to read Covington’s Com
mentary in this paper today.
The Starnes-Miller-Parker Co. car
ries a large stockof the newst wrist
watches. Call to see the line before
buying.
Second October Coat Event at Fish
er’s through Friday, October 28th,
See ad. for prices.
The J. C. Penney Co. in a large ad.
today enumerates what they have for
t?old weather needs. Coats, dresses,
gloves, hosiery, In fact everything. See
the ad.
Twenty-two yards is the standard
length of a cricket pitch.
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