r I COLLECTS
OST $6,000,000
«S APPROXIMATELY $250,030 LESS
THAN THE BUDGET
ESTIMATE.
INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR
Uncollected Franchise and Corporation
Taxes Now in Hands of County
Sheriffs.
Raleigh. |
Revenue collections for the year ]
1923 of $5,760,267.93, or approximate
ly $250,000 less than the budget com
mission's estimate of $6,000,000 for the i
year, were reported here by State j
Commissioner of Revenue R. A.
Doughton. In making public his re- i
port Mr. Doughton expressed the opin-!
ion that the total collections, when
several outstanding items were col
lected. would equal and perhaps ex
ceed the figure set by the budget
commission.
He stated that the collections had
been greater on every item than*' the:
commission had estimated except the
inheritance taxes, which fell short ,
by $276,000.
There is due the department, as
sorted the commissioner, a consider- j
able amount of inheritance tax which
is in process of collection, and when
paid into the department will very,
materially reduce this decrease as
compared with the previous year. j
The collections of the department 1
for 1923 exceeded those of 1922 by ]
more than $2,500,000, but Commis- ]
sioner Doughton explained that this j
was in large measure due to the fact ;
that the 1923 legislature transferred
from other departments to the de
partment of revenue the collection of
certain classes of revenue. The fig
ures shown for 1923 included $10,
220.20 license tax collected by the
department, but paid directly into
the state treasury. An item of $22.
791.27 uncollected franchise and cor 1
poration tax was shown in Commis
sioner Doughton’s report, the indivi
duals making up this amount being
now in hands of various sheriffs
throughout the state for collection.
The statement issued with the re
port expressed as the opinion that the
license taxes under schedule B. of the
revenue act. collected by the depart
ment of $4,180.29 is materially in ex
cess of the amount of this license
tax. which has heretofore been col
lected by the sheriffs of the counties.
The amount of $418,029 covers the
tax collected by the department from
June 1. 1923. to December 31. 1923.
only, the tax collections from January
1 to June 1. 1923, having been col
lected by the sheriffs of the counties.
“It is also the opinion of the de
partment that the corporation fran
chise and public service corporation
privilege tax collected for the year
1923 is in excess of the amount col
lected for the year 1922."
Worth Portrait Given to State.
In the presence of four generations
of his descendants and a distinguish
ed company of citizens the portrait >
of Jonathan Worth. Financial Pirec
tow of the commonwealth during the
Civil War and Governor from 1865 to
1868 was formally presented to the
State of North Carolina and placed
on the walls o fthe Executive Offices.
Presentation of the portrait on be
half Mrs. Adelaide Worth Bagiev, of
Washington, and Mrs. Elvira E. Mof
fit t. of Richmond, two surviving
daughters of Governor Worth and
other lineal descendants was made
by Associate Justice W. A. Hoke, of
the State Supreme Court, and ac
ceptance by Governor Cameron Mor
rison. whose maternal granfather
was closely associated with the Whig
leader for many years in the General
Assembly.
State Building Breaks Record.
Ample testimony to the prosperity
of North Carolina cities and towns
is borne by the money spent in build
ings during 1923. Almost without ex
ception. building operations without
precedent since the World War are
reported, and even at the height of
prosperity before the war. there was
never as widespread construction
work carried on in the state as in
the year just gone.
Charlotte heads the list with five
and a quarter million dollars in build
ings and Asheville is a close second
with $4,500,000 while Raleigh kept
step in big company with $3,800,000 in
buildings alongside Greensboro, which
reported $3,500,000 in buildings. How
ever. Greensboro claims a place high
er up owning to the fact that a new
17 story skyscraper has just been
completed, which was started In 1!II2.
—
Notaries Public Commissioned.
The following notaries public were
•commissioned by the Governor:
George H. Bender. Jacksonville; Mrs.
"Lois Boawright. Asheville; Robert M. j
Carr. Wallace; E. L. Chappell. Belvi
«iere; Mendon Davis. Pungo; Gladys
V. Harris. Goldsboro; John S. Morton,!
ttorth Harlowe; Burke Little. Raleigh; j
Pohn H. McCoy. Red Springs; E C. j
Smith, Rocky Mount; T. B. Wilson.1
Elizabeth City; George W. Springle.
Raleigh; W. F. Shaw, Holly Springs;
B. T. Woodall, Winston-Salem.
New Corporations.
Southern Distributing Company.:
Hamlet, to do a general retail and
wholesale grocery business, operate
and install self service grocery
stores, known as Jiffy Stores. Au-.
thorized capital $50,000 with $300 sub
scribed by W. E. Coulbourn, H. B.
Moore. M. V. Moore, all of Charlotte.'
South Ashe Street Social Club, Inc., I
1112 South Ashe street, Greensboro. |
;o conduct and maintain a social
club for the amusement and recrea-'
ties of its members to promote so
eUl Irtorett
New Offensive on Boll Weevil.
Covering those counties which had
light boll weevil infestution this year
and which will probably have their
first heavy damage by the pest in 1924,
the Division of Entomology of the
State College and Department of Ag
riculture has planned a series of sev
enteen meetings to rthe northeastern
section of the State to better acquaint
the cotton farmers with the habits
and control methods of the weevil.
According to Director B. W. Kil.*ore
of the Agricultural Extension Ser
vice, these meetings will be under
the supervision of W. Bruce Mabee.
extension entomologist, who will be
assisted by workers from the Division
of Agronomy and from several co*i i
mercial concerns that have taken an '
interest in the movement.
Among those who will assist Mr. j
Mabee is G. M. Garren of the Division |
of Agronomy. Mr. Garren will prt*
sent the cultural methods of growing
cotton under weevil conditions. He
will show from the experiments c»n
ducted by his co-workers the best
varieties of cotton to use, the kinds
and amounts of fertilizers best suited,
the proper spacing distances for chop
ping cotton and the planting dates for
producing a crop of mature bolls be
fore the weevil gets in his deadly
work. Mr. Garren is especially well
fitted for this work having had several
years of experience in doing extension
work with field crops .over the entire
State.
The Division of Entomology has
done considerable work in conducting
experiments and demonstrations look
ing to a direct control of the weevil, j
A number of demonstrations have
been carried on by \fr. Mabee and a
number of scientific studies have been
made by Dr. R. W. Leibv. The results .
secured from these studi<% have been
very gratifying and will be presented
at the coming meetings by Mr. Mabee.
As arranged by the Division of En- !
tomology. the seventeen meetings
will be held as follows:
January 15. Louisburg; Jan. 16,
Henderson; Jan. 17. Warrenton; Jan.
18. Halifax; Jan. 19. Jackson; Jan.;
21, Wilson: Jan. 22. Nashville; Jan.
23. Tarboro: Jan. 24. Greenville; Jan
25, Williainston; Jan. 29. Windsor;
Jan. 30. Aulander; Jan. 31. Winton:
February 1. Gatesville; Feb. 2. Ed
enton; Feb. 4. Hertford and Feb. 5
at Elizabeth City.
Each of the meetings will begin
at 10 30 a. m. and in those counties
where there is a farm agent, this
worker will be in charge and act as
chairman. Mr. Mabee states that
there is much interest in the boll
weevil over all this northeastern sec
tion and indications are now that good
crowds will greet the party represent
ing the College and Department.
Progress in Tick Eradication.
“We are making good progress in
eradicating the tick from eastern
North Carolina under the zone plan
legalized for us by the last General
Assembly." said Dr. William Moore,
chief of veterinary work for North
Carolina State College and the State
Department of Agriculture, in a state
ment issued. “On our recommenda
tion the secretary of the United States
Department of Agriculture has releas
ed Bertie. Camden. Gates. Hertford
Perquimans and portions of Dare and
Beaufort counties from quarantine. I
This was made effective on and after
December 31 by order No. 285 of the
bureau of animal industry and sign#!
by Secretary Wallace.
“We will be ready to begin work
in zone two beginning with the new
year. I^ast year, at the height of
our work in the first zone, we had
about 75 men employed as inspectors,
range riders and supervising veteri
narians. The government furnished .
us experienced veterinanrians to su |
pervise the work in each county and
with the exception of a few’ herds of
cattle on some local farms and some
other wild, or semi-wild animals in the
swamps the first zone has about been
cleaned up.
Besides, cleaning up the tick in
those counties realesed from quaran
tine. Dr. Moore said he and his co
workers had found it necessary also
to clean up large area that had been '
reinfested due to ticks coming back j
from infested counties. He said
however, that the tick will be pushed (
into the sea within three years if |
the people will co-operate in the
movement. Fourteen counties infest- |
ed with the tick remain in eastern .
North Carolina.
I
Special Session of Solons Expected.
Governor Morrison's conference
with members of the Corporation Com
mission was followed by a statement
tn recent news dispatches to the ef
fect that he had abandoned his boat
line scheme.
While the report of the Governor's
decision to let the flotilla rest in peace '
came from sources that could not be i
questioned, his explanation is of such
a character that members of the Gen
eral Assembly in the city believe now
he will ask for an extraordinary ses
sion of the lawmakers to convene in
Raleigh not later than February 1.
Tucker Expects to Seize Liquor.
District Attorney Irvin B. Tucker j
announced that he has asked the At- j
torney General of the United States
for instructions in regard to 2.218
cases of fine whiskies taken from the
schooner Kawasind at Wilmington and
that he anticipates that a libel will
be filed against the ship and its cargo.
The Kawasind was grounded in the
sand at Frying Pan Shoals. 17 miles
off shore on Friday, December 21 and
was towed to Wilmington by m coast
guard vessel.
New Corporations.
Tunis Heading and Stave Company,
of Tunis, Hertford county. Authoris
ed capital stock is $150,000, with
$110,000 subscribed by Thomas A.
Walsh and Norris Walsh, Pittsburgh.
Pa., and Lyman Dickerson. Tunis. The
corporation will manufacture cooper
age stock, lumber, iron, copper, etc.
Leaksville Brick Company, of Leaks
ville, authorized capital $100,000, wit>
$300 subscribed by John Smith and E.
D. McCall, of Leaksville, and O. C.
Gammon, of Stoneville.
I—First ambulance plane to be used in the navy air forces. 12—American scout cruiser Ilaleigh, just com
pleted. during her trial spin. 3—How tourists are welcomed to a village in the Swiss Alps, where the winter
season has opened.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Sale of U. S. War Material
to Government of Mexico
Loudly Protested.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
SI'Ill’Ll.'S war material is being sold
to the Mexican government, the
lirst shipments of arms and ammuni
tion having already been received at
Mexico City. President Obregon sent
u special emissary to Washington to
ask this favor, and the granting oi
it was approved by President Cool
id ge on the recommendation of Sec
retary of State Hughes, though the
amounts to be sold will be far less
than Obregon requested.
Opposition to the transaction has
promptly appeared in both house and
the senate and is not confined to the
Democrats, though the opponents of
the administration perhaps are loudest
in their denunciation. Representa
tive Fairchild of New York. Republi
can, jumped to the front with a joint
resolution to write into the permanent
law of the country the prohibition of
the sale of arms or ammunition to-any
foreign government, which was the
policy of the late President Harding.
“The sale to the Obregon govern
ment is astounding,” said Mr. Fair
child. "I am surprised it should ever
be thought of. There *s no essential
difference between furnishing firearms
and furnishing men to lire the arms.
This act constitutes just as much
interference and amounts to just as
much slaughter."
Senators Norris, King and others
were only a little less outspoken in
their opposition to the sale, and Sena
tor Hiram Johnson In his Cleveland
speech Thursday, opening his Ohio
campaign, did not neglect to include
the episode in his indictment of the
administration. The Democrats have
evolved the theory it is a political
move, pointing out that the diplomatic
pence with Mexico is to be used in the
coming election as one of the great
Coolidge accomplishments. If a revolu
tion upsets the government that has
just been recognized, that recognition
could hardly be counted as an admin
istration asset.
It is understood Secretary Hughes
takes the stand that political difficul
ties in Mexico, Central America and
South America should he settled by
the ballot rather than by the bullet ;
that this government should at no time
encourage revolutionary movements
that seek the overthrow of regularly
constituted governments, and should
not reject appeals for aid similar to
the one made by the Obregon govern
ment.
There has not yet been anything like
a decisive battle between the federal
and revolutionary forces in Mexico,
but both sides are exceedingly active.
The former, according to dispatches
from Mexico City, are now advancing
on Vera Cruz from the south, west
and north. The rebels have defeated
the army of General Cardenas in Jalis
co, that commander being wounded
and captured and General Navarro
being killed. Cardenas was lured into
a trap and the resulting .fight was
bloody and desperate. This was the
most serious reverse the Obregon
forces have sustained and opened for
the insurgents communication between
Guadalajara and the Pacific ports. The
rebels announced Thursday that they
were beginning an advance on Puebla
and Mexico City from Vera Cruz.
IT'S n poor week for news when there
is not some trouble in the Balkans.
Last week came up to the mark with
the prospect of warfare between Jugo
slavia and Bulgaria. Of course they
are always at swords' points, but now
the situation has become acute. On
Wednesday the Bulgarian government
gave permission for the return to the
country of ex-King Ferdinand, who
was responsible for dragging Bulgaria
Into the World war on the side of
Germany. At once Jugo-Slavia sent
to Sofia an ultimatum protesting
against this action and also against
the secret Increase of the Bulgarian
army and alleged Bulgarian menace to
Aegean ports. Serbian troops were
mobilized on the frontier and were
I said to be ready to seize the rich coal
region about Bernik which Serbia
! covets. Bulgaria wants an outlet to
the Aegean across Grecian Thrace, and
Serbia wishes to gain possession of
, Saloniki to make up for the loss of
j Fiume to Italy. In order to save that
port it may be that Greece will feel
j compelled to support the Belgrade ul
i timatum to Bulgaria.
In Greece the stage is set for the
establishment of a new form of gov
ernment. On Wednesday, after Colonel
Blastirns. chief of the revolution, had
delivered to the national assembly a
vigorous justification of his actions
and retired to private life, the cabinet
resigned and all powers were handed
over to the assembly. Next day M.
j Venizelos arrived to assist in settling
| the country’s affairs, and was given a
tremendous ovation. As to whether
Greece shall be a republic or a mon
archy. Venizelos has said he favored
a plebiscite but his republican sup
porters and most of the army officers
insist this shall be determined by the
assembly. British influence, which is
’strong in Greece, is supporting the
royalists and the Bank of England has
just refused to float a Greek loan
mainly because of opposition to a re
public.
THERE is no longer any doubt that
the big French dirigible Dixmudo
was lost in the Mediterranean during :
a storm, for the body of her com
mander and fragments of wreckage
have been picked up by fishermen. The j
disaster has caused much of a political
scandal in Paris, the air ministry be
ing bitterly attacked.
In this connection it is worthy of
note that Captain McCrary, com
mander of the American dirigible
Shenandoah, is outspoken in his op
position to the plan to use that airship
in arctic exploration next summer. He
believes it to be unsuited in construc
tion, equipment and cruising radius
for such a trip as has been planned.
The builders of the Shenandoah do not
agree with McCrary, but they advocate
the use of hydrogen to obtain greater
bouyancy and advise making a direct
dash from Lakehurst to the polar re
gion instead of the long detour by way
of southern California.
CONGRESS has resumed work after
the holidays and the house ways
and means committee is again strug
gling with the treasury tax reduction
bill. After this has been disposed of.
which may be about January 15, the
committee will take up tlje soldiers’
bonus measure. Chairman Green be
lieves no part of the revenue measure
should be reported until after action
is taken on the bonus bill. The Demo
crats have not yet decided on their
program in relation to the revenue bill,
but the farm bloc through Representa
tive Dickinson of Iowa has offered a
| compromise, agreeing to accept a cut
in surtax rates from the present maxi
mum of 50 per cent to a maximum
somewhere between 37 and 42 per
cent. lie thinks nearly all the Repub
1 Keans In the lower house except the
j La Follette radicals would support
such a reduction and that many Demo
i crats also would favor it.
_
Representative upshaw has
made up his mind that liquor drink
, ing by congressmen and high govern
ment officials must stop and that there
I must be no more leakage of booze
from the stores of foreign diplomats
into bootleg channels. Consequently
he lias embodied these ideas in a
resolution and introduced It in the
| house, following with a speech In its.
support. He thinks the State depart
ment should “respectfully request that
all foreign governments discontinue
sending to this country diplomatic and
| consular representatives who exert a
| demoralizing influence upon our official
and social life by dispensing from
their residences and offices intoxicat
ing liquors prohibited by our laws to
American citizens." He also suggests
that all federal appointees be required
to make a pledge of total abstinence
and that all intoxicated congressmen
should be ousted.
NOW Leonard Wood. Jr., son of
Hen. Leonard Wood, and his as
sociates in four oil companies are un
der fire because It Is said many ex
service men lost money r>y investing In
the stock of the concerns. The federal
government is inquiring Into the mat
ter. and It also may be aired In con
gress when Congressman Frear’s de*
mnntl for the investigation of the ad
ministration of General Wood in the
I’hillppines comes up. it is likely tli€
latter inquiry will l>e enlarged to in
clude tlie actions of both of the gen
eral's sons.
OKCRETABY OF LABOR DAVIS
^ has transmitted to the senate and
house immigration committees a draft
of a new immigration bill providing
for extension of the quota restriction
to all countries in the western hemi
sphere. and for various mpditications of
the present entry requirements. The
Italian government has made repre
sentations against a ^proposed pro
vision that would restrict each nation's
quota of immigrants to 2 per cent of
the number of its native born citizens
in this country in li>90. This stipula
tion Italy describes as an unjustified
discrimination to the detriment of a
friendly nation.
ON THE eve of the assembling of
the new parliament the British do
not know just what to do in the mat
ter of a new government. King George
has demanded that the Labor party be
given its chance, notwithstanding the
declaration by its leader, Ramsay Mac
Donald, that the monarch’s right to
dissolve parliaments should be curbed.
But the prospect of a Labor or Social
ist government is having a bad effect
on tlie money market and the pound
sterling has had a decided decline.
Consequently there sprang up last
week a strong demand for some sort
of a fusion of the Liberals and Tories
to keep the Laborltes out of office, and
as it seems impossible to find any
other Conservative leader willing to
take the Job, it may be that Baldwin
will be induced to hang on to the pre
miership with the promise of Liberal
support, though he *is represented ns
eager to resign. In the Labor party
there is growing friction between the
intellectuals, who include Its leaders ]
in parliament, and the trades union
ists, who assert they have done most
of the work of building up the party
and therefore are entitled to most of
the offices If the party tnkes over the
government.
PREMIER YAMAMOTO of Japan
and his cabinet resigned following
the attempt on the life of the prince
regent, and Viscount Iviego Kiyoura,
president of the privy council, was
asked to form a new government. He
announced two days later that he was
unable to form a ministry as he could
not get the support of any political ,
party in the diet.
FRANCE and Belgium have sent to i
Berlin identical replies to the latest
German note, and their tone is quite
conciliatory, the German government
being assured that the two countries
are willing to co-operate with the Ger
mans in establishing a system of ad
ministration in the Ruhr and the
Rhineland. The armies of occupation
already have been greatly reduced, and
only sufficient soldiers will be left in
the Ruhr to preserve the customs 1
boundary for the application of taxes
on exports for the reparations account. :
The chimneys of the Ruhr are smok
ing ngain. for the German and French
industrial magnates have entered in
to agreements independent of their
governments and are exchanging coke j
and iron ore.
Henry M. Robinson, the Los Angeles
banker who is the third American
Representative on the reparations com
mission's committees of experts, con- ;
ferred with Secretary Hughes and the !
President in Washington and is now
on his way to Europe.
E\V. CI.ARKE. "Imperial giant." !
• has issued a call for a national i
congress of the Ku Klux Klan in At- !
lanta, February 2fl. He asks the klans- :
men "to gather together and prayer- I
fully consider methods to eliminate
existing evils, or else to follow the ex- 1
ample of the founder of the original j
Ku Klux Klan, and have the courage |
and manhood to devise ways nnd
means for the Immediate disband
ment of the organization."
DESPITE the protest of Secretary
Hughes, the Turkish government
insists that full customs duties must
he paid on the vast quantities of food,
clothing and medical supplies that
Americans have contributed free for
the destitute In Turkey. Consequently
the Near East Relief has withdrawn
entirely from Turkey.
MAKES COLT OF OLD HORSE
Veterinarians Give Old Dobbin Ration
of Tikabipa artd Surprising
Result Follows.
Old Dobbin Is not going to hasten
to the honeyard. Goat gland9 and
monkey glands may bo reju vena tors of
man. but when Pegasus begins to fade
Just give him a ration of tikabipa and
he will become as frisky and lit as any
colt In the corral. The army veteri
narians tried It on “Nifty,” who won
about ready to depart for the happy
hunting ground, and now he Is the
apryest nag at the Presidio.
Tiknbipa is a product of the Philip
pines and Is made up of most every
thing from coconuts to rice chaff.
However. Its composition is not so im
portant as Its virtues. If. when taken
as a steady diet. It will make an old
horse young and put coltish notions
Into an ancient equine. It has many
merits and vast poralbilitles.
Anyway. It places the horse several
gallops ahead of the man who would
| he rejuvenated. Now that the secret
I Is otit coconuts and rice may become
more popular foods In quarters other
than where Old Dobbin’s feed box
stands, and the monkeys and goats
may go on unmolested and with their
full allotment of glands.—San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Next Generation.
A first class school with an expert
high-minded teacher will raise tbr
standards of living In the next gen
eratloa.
PLAN 1469 10
GET BOK AWARD
i -
PEACE PLAN ENTAILS ENTRY OF
AMERICA INTO WORLD
COURT.
AUTHOR IS TET UNANNOUNCED
i -
May Hold Plebiscite Next Month tc
See if America Wants to “Out
law War.”
New York.—The American peace
award announced that plan number
1469 had been adjudged the best oi
22.165 entered in competition for the
$100,000 offered by Edward W. Bok,
Philadelphia publicist, for the best
practical plan by which the United
States might co-oeprate wtih other
nations to prevent war.
In it essence this plant proposes,
first, that the United State immed
iately should enter the permanent
court of international justice, endors
ed by the late President Harding, and,
second, without becoming a member
of the league of nations, at present
constituted, should offer to co-operate
with the league, under certain con
ditions, as a body of mutual counsel.
The identity of the author is un
known to the jury of award and policy
committee, except one delegated mem
ber.
The authoriship will not be disclos
ed until a nation-wide referendum has
been taken to determine whether the
plan meets with the support of Ameri
cans. This probably will not be until
early next month.
Fifty thousand dollars is awarded
the winner immediately. The rest of
the prize goes to him if the country
gives the plan its support.
Announcement of his $100,000 prize
was made by Mr. Bok July 1, 1923.
The flood of peace plans immediately
began. Conditions of the award were
made public July 22. The seven
judges were named September 16. On
November 15 the contest closed with
22.165 plans from 22 countries before
the jury. The day before Christmas
Mr. Root indicated the winning plan.
Mr. Bok's award was followed by
the action last week of Edward A.
Filene. Boston merchant, in offering
$50,000 for a European competition
for the best plan for restoring proper
ity to the wrar stricken continent. Mr.
Filene frankly credited his action to
inspiration received from the Bok
award.
Fire Drives 125 Into the Snow.
Cleveland.—Close to 125 persons,
many of them women and children,
were driven into snow sovered streets
with the thermometer hovering near
zero, when fire destroyed a home and
damaged two apartment houses.
Six adults and five children driven
from their beds by fire resulting
from an explosion in a coal furnace,
shivered in their night clothing and
barefooted in four inches of snow
with the thermometer eight degrees
below zero while neighbors rescued
thess from the porch of the! rhome
in Woburn avenue.
This was the lowest temperature
here since 1918. when twelve below
zero was registered.
Two Burned to Death.
Macon, Ga.—One negro was frozen
to death, a white girl and a negrees
were burned to death while trying to
keep warm as a result of the low tem
perature. ^The mininmum tempera
ture was eight degrees above zero,
reached at 8 o'clock.
Dorothy She, 11-year-old daughter
of County Engineer S. R. Shi. died
from burns received early in the day
when she was hovering too close to
an open grate, trying to keep warm.
The girl’s father and her grand
mother aleo were badly burned in try
ing to beat out the flames that com
pletely enveloped the girl.
At Forsyth. Ga., Fannie Jordan, 90
year-old negress, was burned to death
when her clothing caught fire from a
grate.
Woman Leads Robbers in Hold-Up.
New York.—A well-clad young wo- |
man and a man confederate held up
the manager and five clerks of a ;
Brooklyn grocery store near closing
time and got away with $680, the day’s
receipts.
The woman, her face partly muf
fled in her fur coat, entered the store
alone and asked for a box of eggs.
As the manager turned to fill the or
der, a man walked in. pistol in hand.
He aimed it at the manager and the
woman whipped a pistol from her coat
and covered the five clerks, forcing
them to hand over the money.
Body Blown Through Brick Wall.
Roanoke, Va.—D. J. Smith and his
17-year-old son. James Smith, are in
a critical condition at a local hospital
as a result of an explosion of a hot
water boiler in their home.
The father was blown through the
brick wall of the basement by the
blast. The son. standing near the j
boiler, was knocked unconscious an^ |
was severely scalded by the boiling
water that poured out. The boiler
Itself was burled a distance of 40
feet smashing windows in the adjoin
ing house.
Twin Boy a Killed in a Motor Crash.
Mount Holl, N. J.—Mrs. Charles
Swain is lying ill in her bedroom in
Ignorance of the fact that her ten
year-old twin sons were killed in a
motor accident.
The twins, Charles and Edward
met death in a toy express wagor
that had been given them by their
mother on Christmas. The boys were
on the way to a store for their mother
when the wagon was struck by an
automobile.
The twins wefo hurled into the
and died a short time latar.
DOINGS IN THE
TAR HEEL STATE
NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA
TOLD IN SHORT PARA
GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE
Spencer.—Stricken with ptomaine
poison as a result of eating during
the Christmas holidays, Murphy Cad
dell, a brother of H. C. Caddell and
Miss Kate Caddell. of Spencer, died
at the home of his mother, Mrs. 1.
H. Caddell, near Carthage.
Asheville.—L. H. Jones, of Ashe
ville, armed with a mid-iron, won
the annual New Year’s one-club han
dicap tournament of the Asheville
Country Club here. His net score was
76. Dr. P. R. Terry, of Asheville,
was second with a net score of 77.
About 40 players were in the tourna
ment.
New Bern.—Two solid-copper moon
shine stills, five gallons of their pro
duct, and 6,000 gallons of beer were
the fruits of a raid a few miles south.
of Vanceboro made by Deputy Sheriff
W. H. Whitford. Mayor Stonewall
Jackson and Chief of Police W. H.
Smith, of Vanceboro.
High Point.—A moonshiner who
was prepared to help reduce the
aridity in this section around New
Year had his plans disrupted by lo
cal officers, who discovered his 30
gallon copper still north of High Point.
The apparatus was found in the
packing house of A. M. Stegall, only
50 feet from his dwelling.
Wilmington—An unknown negro
moonshiner has a back partically fill
ed with bird shot and Sheriff George
C. Jackson has a unique liquor still
the result of a raid led by the sheriff
upon a moonshine outfit located in a
boggy swamp in the Rock Hill sec
tion of New Hanover county.
Charlotte—The Board of Home Mis
sions and Church Extension of the As
sociate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Synod, meeting here, appropriated
$15,000 toward erection of « church
of the denomination in Tampa. Flori
da. It was reported that members of
the church in Tampa were working on
plans for a $25,000 structure.
Wilmington.—A coroner’s jury in
vestigating the death of J. S. Har
grove, whose body was found on an
islolated street Saturday night reach
ed a verdict that Hargrove came to
his death from a gun shot wound
inflicted by Arthur Cox. the negro
under arrest. Cox, who was arrest
ed immediately after the killing, is
held in the county jail.
Wilmington.—A suspender buckle
saved the life of J. W. McKoy here
when a negro fired a pistol point
blank at his heart at a distance of two
feet. The bullet penetrated McKoy’s
vest, struck the buckle, passing com
pletely across his chest between vest
and shirt, and tore through his vest
on the opposite side.
Winston-Salem.—The auction ware- '
house have sold 30,984,359 pounds of
the 1923 leaf tobacco crop at an aver
age of 20 cents per pound. While no
figures have been given out, it is esti
mated that the co-operatives have
stored in their warehouses here more
than a million pounds of the weed.
It is generally estimated that at least
75 per cent of last year’s crop in the
Piedmont section ahs been marketed.
Durham.—Dr. W. P. Few, president
of Trinity College, and Prof. R. L.
Flowers, stated that the rumor that a
$40,000,000 hospital plant was to be
located here, under the sponsorship of
J. Buchanan Duke, millionaire tobac
co-king, was without foundation, ac
cording to their information. They
didn't deny, however, that the estab
lishment of a great hospital, with
numerous county branches, might not
eventually be located in Durham.
Burlington.—About the best news
the traveling public has heard recent
ly is that the work on the approaches
to the bridge at Haw River has been
completed and the terrible detour has
been discontinued.
Edenton.—“Come and get me," were
the last strangled words of Lee Umph
lett as he sank beneath the water off
the third time. He was drowned ofT
the old Norfolk Southern railroad
docks.
Elizabeth City.—Alexander E. Jones,
Pasquotank farmer, given a prelimin
ary hearing here on a charge of mur
der growing out of the killing of
Alfred Ferebee, negro, was bound
over to Superior Court in $15,000 bail.
Asheville.—After two unsuccessful
attempts to reach Asheville in his
airplane to spend Christmas with a
young lady friend. Captain N. H. Hale,
army aviator, of San Antonio. Texas,
landed here for a belated holiday visit.
Shelby.—Mr. Lee Smith died sud
denly in his home in South Shelby.
Mr. Smith had just been out and wit
nessed the passing of the funeral pro
cession of Mr. Joe Owens, returning
to the house where the final summons
came immediately without warning.
High Point.—Miss Myrtle Walker,
well known young lady of this city,
was injured in an automobile accident
near Hopewell. Va. Her father was so
badly injured in the same accident
that he died. Her mother also was
hurt but her conditions is not serious.
Wilmington. — Approximately forty
million gallons of gasoline and kero
sene were moved through the port of
Wilmington by the Standard Oil Com
pany in 1923 and the outlook for the
coming year. 1924, are that mammoth
amount will be increased, according to
J. Laurence Wright, manager of the
local distributing station.
Monroe.—J. E. Broom, of India*
Trail, has filed suit for $20,000 against
H. H. McLendon and Mrs. Margie L.
McLendon, of Wadesboro, alleging
damages to this extent when struck by
an automobile driven by Mrs. Margie
McLendon on March 23 last.
Wilmington.—Persistent effort o*
the part of the Wilmington and Fay
etteville chambers of commerce, and
interested individuals, has resulted 1*
the government's appropriatlong
money tor a preliminary survey to as
certain the feasibility of constructing
a third lock and dam on ths uppat
Cape Fear river.