North Carolina Newspapers

SET 20 FOR NEXT MEETING 'TENTATIVE LIST OF PROJECTS . WOULD ADD 111 MILES OF r PAVED ROAD. o Raleigh. Twenty new highway projects which will add 111.05 miles of hard surface roads and 87.96 miles of improved dirt road to the State highway sys tem will be let to contractors at high way letting on October 13, according to tentative list of projects made pub lic. The twenty projects will cost ap proximately $3,500,000. The tentative list of projects fol lows: Project 164. Nash and Edgecombe counties, 16*9 miles of paving on Route 40 from the Tar River north to the Halifax county line. Project 1990. Wilson county, 10.18 miles >of grading and bridges from Wilson to the Nash county line on Route 91. Project 111-B and 117-B. Camden and Currituck counties, 11.S3 miles of paving between Camden and Sligo. Project 241. Johnston county, 12 miles, of grading and bridges from the Wilson county line toward Smith field. Project 242. Johnston county 13.24 miles of paving on Route 10 from Smithfield to the Wayne county line. Project 347. Cumberland county. 9.5 miles of p?ving from Fayetteville toward Dunn on Route 22. * Project 354. New Hanover county, 7.59 miles o fpaving from Wilmington to Wrightsville Sound on Route 2. Project 394. Robeson county, 12.38 miles of grading and bridges from Lumberton to Boardman on Route 20. Project 496. Warren county, 8.5 miles of grading and bridges between Macon and Littleton on Route 48. Project 487-B. Wake county, 9.9 miles of grading and bridges from the end of project 487-A to eastern corpor ate limits of Wendell on Route 90. Project 523. Davidson county, 14.5 miles of grading and bridges from th? end of project 523 extended to the Forsyth county line on Route 64. Project 642. Iredell county, bridge over Rocky Creek on Route 76. Project 6040. Anson county. 7.53 miles of paving between Lilesville and Pee Dee River on Route 20. Project 514. Caswell county, 12.08 miles of paving from Yonceyville to the Virginia line on Route 14. Project 583-B. Rockingham county, five miles of top soil between Liberty and Stanley on Route 60. v ,?'? - Project 1350. Halifax Gounty, 14.9 miles of paving from Halifax south to the Edgecombe county line on Route 40. Project 753J3. Stokes* county, 11 miles of grading and bridges from the end of project 753-A to Danbury on Route 89. (; > Project 809. Burke county, 7.35 miles of pavjng from the eastern city limits of Morganton to bridge east of Valdese. Project 825. Cleveland county, 10.13 miles of paving from Shelby to the Rutherford county line on Route 20. Project 948. Haywood county, 4.5 miles of grading and bridges from the Haywood county line to Canton on Route 10. .) $135,000 Buildings For State Prjson. The erection of a new group of brick and concrete buildings at a cost of ap proximately $135,000 at the Caledonia prison frm has been authorized by the state prison board, it was stated by Superintendent George Ross Pou of the central prison here. Plans for the Caledonia plant are now being drawn, to be submitted to the prison board at its next meeting, which will come on October 13. Bids for the contractions are then expected to be called for. , \ The prisoners on the Caledonia farm are now housed in three seperate stockade groups. Two of these, the superintendent said, are nearly 25 years old and "all are fire traps." The third was built last November as tem porary structures, Mr. Pou said. The new plant, which will house new prisoners only, will do away with the present stockades, and will house about 600 prisoners, the superintend ent said. It will contain sanitary dormintories. County Agents Meet Ja> uary 5. The next short course and confer ence of the county and home agents of the Agricultural Extension Service of State College will be held at the College during the ten days beginning January 5 and lasting through Janu ary 14 according to a decision reached at the regular monthly conference of extension workers held at State College. ' 'f - Summerville Heads Road Construction. 'W. D. Summerville, State Highway Commission engineer, has been pro moted to the position of State con struction engineer to succeed C. N. ?Cannor, who has been appointed chief engineer of the Mexican Federal High way Commission." Several highway engineers i-j. have gone to Mexico to form the engineer ing organization of the new Federal Highway Commission which , will build 2,000 miles of highways through out the country. State Perfect* Loan For Roads. The state of N(*th Carolina borrow ed $13,000,000 from New York bankers to finance highway construction and in stitutional improvements. The money was obtained on short term notes, dated September 15? ma turing January 15, and bearing an in terest rate of 4 l-8jper cent. Gover nor McLean and Treasurer Ben Lacy arranged for the big loan on a recent trip to New York. In addition to the $13,000,000 loan, the state has outstanding to mature January 15 ahort term notes amount ing to $10,000,000 so that the total obligation January 15 will amount to $23,000,000. At that time, if the mar ket is favorable, state bonds will prob ably be issued to fund the notes. If the market is unfavorable, the state will continue to finance construction and improvements on short term paper. The money borrowed will be used fo^ the following purposes, Governor McLean announced: I $5,000,000 to renew a ">note for the same amount given for money borrow ed on September 20, 1923, for highway bontls, authorized by the ^^legisla ture. ) $5,000,000 to provide temporarily for highway construction1 authorized by. the highway bond act of 1925. ^$3,000,000 to provide funds tempar arily for permanent improvements un der the institutional bond act of 1925. These notes, the governor said, "will be refunded by the issuance of bonds whenever the bond market is favor able." The $10,000,000 of notes previously include an item of $5,000,000 borrowed for highway construction purposes un der the bond act of 1925 and $5,000,000 in renewal of a note given for money borrowed on August 7, 1924, to provide funds for the special school building fund authorized by the 1923 general as sembly. , The t^n million dollars provided in the negotiations for highway construc tion represent the total amount for that purpose authorized by the last general assembly. Another issue of ten millions was authorized for next year. Send Libraries Free to Schools. With schools opening throughout the State, many demands are coming in to the North Carolina Library Com mission for free traveling libraries, and during the past few weeks 153 cases, each containing 40 selected volumes1 or a total of 6.123 volumes, have been sent to widely distributed points in the State, according to in formation from Miss Mary S. Yates, who is in charge of this branch of the Library Extension Service. < These traveling libraries are really little public libraries. Miss Yates ex plained, and contain books for children as well as grown people. In a typical library nearly one-half the books are novels, about one-third are children's books, and the remainder are popular and readable books of biography, trav el agriculture, household economics. The librray may be kept three month at a time wit hthe privilege of renewal for the same length of time. Thus any community, . however re mote. can always have a supply of books. V * This department also offers what are called "package libraries'' which is a general collection of books, phamph lets .clippings, etc., on a wide variety of subjects. Debate libraries come under this head, and are used exten sively in the spring when the annual debates are scheduled. Last year. Miss Yates stated, the Library com mission was unable to purchase ma terial on the triangular debate, but the service will be continued this year. "The debate is over and I won. I sure do like your stuff," one en|huslas. tic boy wrote after making use of some of the Library Commission material. These libraries also include study club collections, collections for recita tions, declamations, pageants, plays, and material for all school celebra tions. In addition there are special collections on agriculture, household arts, child welfare, the South, etc. As in the case with traveling libra ries, package libraries are sent abso lutely free to communities, schools, etci* The borrowers are required tp pay only the postage both ways. Mrs. Lillian B. Griggs, executive secretary of the commission, calls at tention to the new features of serv ice that have been recently added. "Our first picture collections were sent out this year," she said. "This was an experiment we had long wish ed to try, and their enthusiastic re ception and constant circulation prov ed the need of this service." A collection of music books have also beea added to the library, and plans are being made to send records with the music books. The commission is looking forward to a wide circulation this year. Last year ten libraries were sent to one county. ? To Save State Large Sum. Governor McLean hopes to save the state approximately $6,500 a year by removing all departments occuplng leased office space in Raleigh to the old state Institute for the blind. While no leases will be violated, the governor said, they will be can celled where agreeable with lessorfe, and no new leases will be made. Thousands of feet of floor space Is available In the old blind institute, a block from (the capital, which was vacated a little over a year aco by the blind Institute. i )? ' ? c <? I i . ? \ i . OK PUKE 302 MILES All HOUR - \ ? | i i FIVE MILES MINUTE ACHIEVED BY LIEUTENANT AFORD . WILLIAMS. Mitchell Field, N. Y.j7- Flashing through the air at the speed of 302.3 milse per hour, Lieut. Alford Williams, U. S. N.f looked over the side of his plane and saw below him on Mitchell field the white blur of a huge cross which told him that he had gratified a life-long ambition, and set a new unofficial world's speed record. The airship, weighing only 2,200 poundB, which supported Lieutenant Williams in his comet-like flight, was the new Curtiss racer with which the navy hopes to win the Pulitizer race in October. Climbing from the ground in steep spirals, the plane poised hawk-like at 3,000 feet for just a fraction of a mo ment, and then dived toward the earth. Down it plunged, motor roaring, and at increasing speed until, when barely 300 feet from the ground, with perfect precision the plane flattened out and the racer shot ofT on the straight-away one-kilometer course for a world's record. "It was my one hope and ambition to travel five miles a minute," Lieuten ant WiHiams said after landing. "Be fore taking off I mentioned this confi dentially to W. D. Gilmore, and he ar ranged to show a white cross from the field if I attained this speed. Going at a speed like that creates a sensa tion of keen delight. "Even before I saw the white cross I knew I waB traveling far faster than I had ever traveled before. From the way I felt I could stand a speed of 500 miles an hour as easily as 300." Lieutenant Williams said the air ship balances perfectly and that the faBter it goes the more sensitive the controls. The ship was built to aver age a speed of 255 miles per hour be fore being accepted. Lieutenant' Wil liams later put the ship through ac ceptance tests attaining an average speed of 268.2 miles per hour. Powered by a Curtfts V-1400 motor the plane measured 22 feet from wing to wing tip, nineteen feet, eight and one-half inches in length, and stands eight-feet and one-half inch tall. So sheltered is the cock pit that it would be impossible for the pilot to free himself in time in case of acci dent For this reason a wire, similar to the rip-cord of a parachute, is ar ranged so that a tug on it automati cally opens the cock pit and* leaves the pilot free to jump. The speed attained by Lieutenant Williams, although unofficial, breaks the world's record set by a French aviator. Adjutant Florentin Bonnet, of 278 miles per hour, last December. Inspectors Seek Anderson. Washington. ? Postofflce inspecta throughout the country, recognized as forming one of the most effective sec ret service organizations in the world, have been directed to inake every ef fort to apprehend George "Dutch" An-t derson, pal af Gerald Chapman, notor ious bandit, and fugitive from the Atlanta penitentiary. Lest the recent report that a body found at Dubuque. Iowa, was believed to be that of Anderson, lead to a gen eral impression that he was dead. Rush D. Simmons, chief postoffice in spector, requested all postmasters tc give the widest possible circulation to information that examination by in spectors who know the fugitive, dis closed that the report was erroneous. ' Wilis Richmond Big Sum. Richmond.?Bequests to the city of Richmond, philanthropic causes and individuals totalling $2,000,000 were made public When the will of Mrri. Sal lie May Dooley was probated in the circuit court of Nelson county, at Lov ingston. Under terms of the will the city of Richmond will receive "Maymount," the Dooley estate here, to be used as a public park; $500,000 for the city public library; and $500,000 for tho construction and upkeep of a crippled childrens' home. The Doley estate is valued at $700,000. In addition Mrs. Dooley bequeathed $250,000/to the Virginia diocese of the; Episcopal church and further directed that Jewelry valued at $50,000 be sold and the money turned over to Rev. W. Russell Bowie, former rector of the St. Paul's Episcopal church her to be used for foreign missions. Personal effects and about $235,000 in money are distributed by the will to relatives of the deceased. Mrs. Doloey was the widow of Maj. James H. Doleoy. She died at her home in Nelson county September 5. 1 Chinese Area Under Flod Waters. Peking.??n area of 1,000 square milee, including 900 villages, has been flooded, probably with large loss of life ,by a break In the bankB of the Yellow River Lunchenghslen, 50 miled west of Yenshow-Fu, in Shanghai pro vince, it is stated in messages reach ing the famine relief authorities here. No figures as to the number of victims are yet available. The break is a wide one and caused a change in the course of the river. DOINGS IN THE TAR HEEL STATE NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA TOLD IN 8HdRT PARA GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE Lenoir.-<-The twenty-sixth semi-an nual session of the Caldwell County singing convention will be held at Harris' Chapel on Pearland and Caja mountain road Sunday, October 4. Burlington.?E. L. Graves, 59, long a resident of Burlington, and one of the best known and highly respected citizens, died at Rainey hospital, where he Underwent an operation two weeks ago. I Bonlee.?Raymond Howard Brooks, the five year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Angus Brooks, died here at the home of its parents following an illness of five months with meningitis., Greensboro.?The North Carolina state board of examiners of trained nuraes will hold examinations in Ra leigh, October 21, 22 and 23. Applica tions for examinations may be procur ed by writing Mrs. Z. V. Conyers, P. O. Box 1307. Greensboro. Rocky Mount.?Appointment of J. P. Warren, of Hazard, Ky., to the newly created position of city engineer was announced in a formal statement is sued by Mayor L. L. Gravely. Winston-Salem.?Jessie V. Boyles, 57, died at a local hospitol after an illness of about two weeks. Attending physicians pronouncing death as the result of poisoning which originated in an abscess of the arm. ^ Greensboro.?Committees of busi: ness men representing Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, met at Sedgefield, near here, to make arrange ments to Induce the postoffice depart ment to name a spot convenient to the three cities for a step on an air mail route. !.. I Charlotte.?The city of Charlotte added a woman, Mrs. Eloise Brown, to its police staff, as war on mashers is begun. Her duty is to see that the 'streets are made safe for young worn en, some of whom have been insulted lately by mashers. Shelby.?Rewards totalling $150 are now out for Dillard Deane and the masked men who freed him from the county chain gang camp here. The last reward offered is by the ^ounty commissioners and offers $50 for the capture of the masked leader and $25 each for the other members of the party. Concord.?Warrants charging trans portation of liquor have been issued by local police officers for Marvin and Dewey Mayberry ond Everett Martin, of Elkin, as a result of the destruc tion of a Studebaker car -by a South ern passenger train here. Five 5-gallon tins, four of them full of liquor were found by officers after the car Was struck by the train. Greensboro?Licenses of two physi cians were revoked by,the State Board of Medical Examiners meeting here, on account of charges of violations of the narcotic laws. The charges were made by Federal agents and have been aired in the courts. , Statesville.?Funeral services for Milard F. Nash, prominent citizen of Shiloh township, Iredell county, who wos instantly killed on the Buffalo Shoals road when he was run over by an automobile driven by two ne groes, were held at Pleasant Hill Bap tist 'church. A j Fayetteville.?The First Presbyter ian church of Fayetteville will cele brate the 125th anniversary of its or ganization on November 29 and 30, according to announcement made by officials of the church. A number of prominent speakers will be on the pro gram of the observance. Durham?Final rites for Tommie Thompson, 29, of 1113 West Main street, who was killed when a motor truck in which he and two oUiers were riding overturned on a short street leading to the New Hope Valley road near Forest Hills, was conducted from the home. Kinston. ? Authorities thrbughoiV this scction are seeking Walter Wood, a negro, alleged to have broken into the dwellings of E. E. Daugherty. Will Richordson, Dan Beddard, Jacob West and Thomas Dnnn, the last named a , negro, in and around Dover. Wood is described as a desperate character and an ex-convict. Rocky Mount.?John Burgess, pos tal clerk, was shot through the abdo men here when he attempted to frus trate the efforts of four white masked bandits to rob the locol post office. The bandits escaped. Burgess, at a local hospital, said that he was shot with his own gun in the affray. His condition is regarded as serious. Raleigh.-?The North Carolina Orph an association will hold its annual meeting with Superintendent Barnes, of the Methodist orphanage, Raleigh, on Wednesday, September 30, it is an nounced by officers of the organiza tion- " 1 , . Shelby*?The "older boys" confer ence'of the Hi Y club of this district will be held in Shelby Friday, Satur day and Sunday, October 16, 17 and 18, it has been announced here. Over 200 boys in the district from the Ten nessee line to CharlbttB will be In at tendance according to Y. M. C. A. j officials. J -V ; ' A " Ralelgn.?Indications are that th% displays of fruits, vegetables and other horticultural crops will be larger tban usual at the North Carolina State fair this year. Wilmington?Announcement is made by David H. Scott that a location for the fertilizer plant to be erected near this city has been secured and that work will be started on construction ? of the factory in the near future. Burlington.?William Poteat, negro youth, 16 or 17 years old ,was drowned in Haw River between Haw River and Swepsonville ^hen he dived from a boat in mid-stream. Rocky Mount.?Last week's sales on the loeal tobacco market, acording to official figures obtained from E. G. Johnston, Sr., secretary of the tobacco board of trade, totaled 1,576,346 pounds which brought an average of $15.60 per hundred pounds. Raleigh.?A campaign to provide North Carolina with millions of baby chicks annually from certifified hatch eries inSide the state is being launch ed by the state department of agricul ture, through its division, of markets, it has been announced. Burlington.?Three of five convicts who escaped from the Alamance coun ty road gang, several days ago, have been captured and returned, and the recovery of the remaining two is ex pected soon, it was stated by Sheriff | C. D. Storey. | Charlotte.?The Charlotte Cotton ! Oil Company has been chartered with $150,000 capital by John T. Stevens and Fred E. Culvern, of Kershaw, S. C., and T. E. Hemby, of Charlotte, who have purchased the property of the Elba Manufacturing Compmany. Wilmington.?During the 31 days of the past month there were a total of 117 births, 69 white and 48 black, re ported at the office of the health de partment. During the same period there occurred in the city and county a total of 55 deaths, 41 in the city and 14 in the county. Greensboro.?Contract was let hei-e by the Foor Robinson chain of hote's to add five stories to part of the O. Henry hotel here making an addition of 60 rooms. Frederick Moser of this city was the successful bidder. Reidsville. ? Robert Woolens, 28 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Wes Woolens, of Monroeton, seven miles south of Reidsville, was killed at Brunswick, Ga. His? death resulted from injuries received in an airplane accident. Statesville.?W. H. Tarpley, of At lanta, Ga., died in a local hospital as a result of injuries received while engag ed in erecting a cotton gin at Bear Poplar, Rowan county. He was thrown by a revolving pulley against a con-1 crete fiaar. Raleigh.T-"The Moulat Mitchell As sociation of Arts and Sciences" which Thomas Dixon and , associates have incorporated for the purpose of build ing a summer colony of creative art ists, scientists, authors, educators and patrons of the arts, received its charter from the secretary of state and the actual constitution is now under way. , , Madison, N. C.?Gov. T. G. McLeod of South Carolina addressed more than a thousand people here at a record breaking rally cf the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative association, which nearly filled its warehouse, while local merchants closed their stores and farmers from Rockingham and many adjoining counties applauded good news of the tobacco associatidn's pro gress in South Carolina. Selma.?Mrs. B. A. Henry was bitten by a mad cat while she was in her back yard dressing a chicken. The kitten had recently taken up at the home and the children had petted it, no one suspected that it had rabies. Oxford.-^Andrew Jamieson, chair man of the Red Cross relief commit tee, announced that $2100 has been raised so far for the sufferers from the recent hail and wind storm in Gran ville. Active committees are at work in all the precincts of the county who are soliciting not only cash but also clothes and provisions. . Henderson.?The directors of the Community Young Men's Christian As sociation have voted to inaugurate a campaign for a $125,000 building here to house the activities of the associa tion. This action of the directors fol lowed a series of conferences with members of the National Council of the Y. M. C. A. during the past several months. " " . 1<J ?. . High Point.-r-Purchase of a site of over 42 acres for High Point's new half million dollar high school, was announced by members of the school board. The property is in the north western section of the city and was deed to the school board by W. G. Jones for a consideration of $120,000. Greensboro.?The congregation of Forest Avenue Baptist church, in this city; contemplate the erection of a building on a new site, it was learned, to cost, all told about $250,000. The chhurch was founded in 1905 and ii on the edge of the campus of North Car olina College for Women. .> Asheville.?While hundreds of peo ple were crowding the down town dis trict, a bold thief broke down the screen door at the box office of the Imperial theater, shoved the attrac tive cashier aside, grabbed several rolls of money amounting to $400, ran across the street apd/nade hi& escape. Gastonia/?Local officials of , th# Manville-Jenck8 Company, owners of the Luray here, deny that the plant has been sold to Henry Ford at a fig ure between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000, it being rumored here that the auto mobile king is using ft to make tire fabrics. ) . (Copy tor This Department fL. I American Le;lcm Vws ?2^ LITTLEFIELD GETS RESULTS FOR, Friends of Raymond jjji say lie once had Intentions o?, Ing (he profession of civil ?w as his life work. "Shonij have changed his :niiul," "lie would have been infinity, ful, for he is always engine^ thing or other to a succeatf^J liletion." ' The latest engineering fwt J ! him credit was tin* building 4 department of Rhode Islt-ad J j American Legion Into one J j strongest beams in the nation] ture of the Leirion. This *aj during his administration ? Legion work l^ts been a ly favorite objective for Mr field's engineering genius. M serving the legion as a chant] Raymond B. Littlefitld ber of James Stanton post t Legion, Central Falls. R. 1 served In post offices until tl*i| Job canie in 1928 when at is partment convention lie was a department adjutant, which <fr lield for one year. Indication; efficiency and popularity as i ment adjutant is revealed by t* cldent of his election to tte ment coftimandership by accta at the department cntimtim ? gust, 1924. He is at preset se as alternate national executive mltteeman. ) The same gradual steps Aft him from just n bud Lepunn: the department comrtmndaBcy,s lowed in the great adventure of 1918. He enlisted In (he Rhod(l National Guard on May 23,1SH served In that organization ,*i: of private, corporal and *! Then came the World war, a went overseas with the Seven? Art. C. A. as a sergeant maK he served in the line of advattf was recommended for a coEJ when the armistice wsis signd Mr. Littlelield was born In '?* Central Falls, R. \\ liere'he n ucated In the public school* Junior World's Series for Boys' Ball Td Holding of a junior world* for boys' baseball teams thftfl the country under the ausi American Legion will be I'M ? the national convention of tl* _ at Omaha from October 3 national Americanism connc* Decision to this effect ?a- * following a recent conference ^ Legion officials and Muj- '^n\, fith, commissioner of the Wetf ference. \yho offered bis Vs"' working out the idea. , Recent developments cess for the plan, if it's the national Convention. ^ Kenesaw M. I^andis. b.^ ^ rioner of baseball. pla?e<l 1? approval on tlie l'!an boys' league. ' ,f .1. A. Butler, a niembK .* ? of the National A;iiat,'ur J' soclation, and Allai; Legion's community and^';i ment bureau, are co-opera ?? Ing out the details of t?? Waters conceived and : details of the pl?n of the J - ball league for possible - by the legion. ; * The present Iii^ntb-n ^ w the organization ot ,, for boys of fourteen ? ^ .11 parts of .he to Frank Clay Cross- ^ Americanism di^ ships will be staged b> , states and regions, '<?? ^ national contest to ><? . ^1/ at nafionai c?nvent'on* . ' ss' In the junfor world s be ca'.fed. the *'J,* P* of the Mississippi champion of the N? The junior world s,,rl ? ture of a ;r"eral plau ^ tivlty in sponsoring < ? ()B xivuy iu tutu< greater active partWl'' jD of the genera) PllD