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PAGE FOUR • . .. | I' K| jgjggff. &** **'*"' ■■»- — —- i «—■ ~ ' '*"~' l I H I v ~. ~ • > ~y M & -.,_ r£ MI ■I fj * ~‘ " iMrwl ■'^■j^r>^' i liK^WK^W. ii to be here tomorrow when 1 "l|j| | V J ;?4|hfa^^9^^H eur iloors open! I "II vli^jJßr^K|^/jjr jj jj i.s I ijfcGu^H|^Hy THE CONCQfcb DAILY TRIBUNE ITU® COMET IS COMING. Pens- Win necke C o»*t tWO Come' i Close to Ksrtk Next Motoh. Washington, D. d., May 8. —The notorious ''Pons-Winueckte’s Comet will make a very close approach to the earth toward the end of next month. When it was here last, aix years ago, there was much absorb talk about the possibility of it colliding with, the earth. M a matter of fact, its nearest approach was about 13,- 000,000 miles. ’ \ On June 26th it will come within 4,000,000 or 5.000,000 miles of the earth. Rather than being, the 'ter ror" it popularly auposeil to be in 1021, it is about as harmless an object as could be found anywhere in the universe. It has been known for over a hundred years, and never seems to have been more "terrifying" in up perance than as a roundish patch of luminosity with a stubby sort of tail. More often than not, indeed, it has not even gloried in a tail. One might just as well talk of the impact of a tennis ball shateriug the Washington Monument as to sug gest this flimsy comet damaging the earth. If it did happen to bump mto us with its fuxzy looking head —and it is 10,000,000.000 chances to, one against it—what precisely happen? Why, nothing but wjiat the in habitants. of the earth would really enjoy—a very pretty shower of shooting stars, because the comet’s head (or centre) is made-of gritty, dust-like particles which, when any stray ones come our way from other comets, “shoot" across the sky in a vivid streak of fire. Indeed, this notorious "terror" is already beginning'to shed -some of its dusty specks along its liath, for at the time of year'when the earth is crossing its path a number of these specks are to be seen darting through the atmosphere as shooting stars. ’ ~v ; But what about the tall —if it should have one? A flat disappoint ment. with not even the picturesque effect of a head-on collision. A swash from the “terror’s" tail would have no more effect on the earth than would a swish from a feather. All the talk in I{l2l about poison gases and other horrors in the tail of thus eomet was 'simply stupid scare mongering. What is really of inter est is whether the eomet will make the nearest authenticated approach to the earth on record. „ If some past records are to be relied, upon, it certainly will not. for one, eomet in the sixteenth' ' century is said to have been only 720.0(10 miles from 'the centre of the earth. At any rate, however close the six teenth century visitor from space was to our globe, nothing happened —just as nothing is likely to happen on this occasion, except, iierhaps, a pretty little sprinkling of shooting stars which the comet has shed in its track. Astronomers in many parts of the world are preparing to take observa tions of the comet hn its nearest ap proach to the earth with a view to determining its exact, location ro that its futtire movements may be accurately charted. Efforts also will be made to measure the comet’s brightness ami to determine its com position. The tail of the comet—if it has a tail —will be most elearly visi ble, as the comet approaches nearest to the snn. On its nearest approach to the earth, which is scheduled for June 26, the eomet is expected to be clearly visible to the unaided eye. Indiana N “Bone Pry” Law Also Punishes Drinkers, (By Intei-natlonal News Service.) Indinnpolis. May !).—lf yoti drink in Indiana, don’t admit it. For «d --mifedoii of having imbibed makes one liable tp conviction for violation "of, the. State bone dry law. Judge James A. Collins of Mur if>H County Criminal Court thus rul ed recently in refusing to permit, « witness to reply to p question wheth er he had been drinking "quite heavily - ” prior to a certain event. "Should the wiliicm* reply •in the affirmative, he would incriminate himself under the Wright bone-dry 'aw and under the constitution, he cannot be compelled to incriminate himself," Judge Collins ruled. Nevertheless, sellers of malt and other beer-making compounds con tinue to conduct extensive advertis ing campaigns here. “Piggly-Wiggly” Invades London. London, May 9.—The "Piggly- Wiggly” groceries have invaded Lon don, I/ondonera do not know them by that name. They speak of them as very modern grocery stoves where everything' is ready |>acked and weighed and cus tomers can come in and help them selves, paying as they go out. The introducer of the idea in the metropolis is the famous Canadian airmail. Co). W. A. Bishop, who brought down seventy-two enemy p’ancs during the war. Col. Bishop is managing director of a company Ivhich plans to establish a chain of the .self-service groceries' throughout London and eventually to extend it to other cities of the United King dom. He oqmes of a family of manu facturing grocers and married the granddaughter of a big department store magnate of Toronto. ' *r Stanly MM Mack is Sold By Low , der. lUbemarle, May 7.—An important business deal took place' here when H. Luther Imwder. one of the best known roller mill operators in tbje section awl owner of 126 V shares in the Albemarle Milling Company, is ujd to hqve been , approximately I $15,000. * I Mr. Lowder does not know an yet Fr-ieSS sorrow aetmit* mam Been Maintained at Aver*,* of 20 Cents to Farmers. ' The Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, May 10.—The price’ of eggs to farmers has heeWnyuntained at an average of about 20 cents a doaen so f« this spring, as a result of the arrangements made"by the marketing bhreau of the State department of ag riculture to ship, eggs in'carload lots by express. This work has been made possible as a result of,the 25,00 ft re volving fund set aside for this work by former Governor and Mrs! Cameron Morrison. / ’’l .••/ ~ .'■ - j Before these shipments were start ed, country stores were paying the I farmers only about 15 cents a dozen. But as soon as the carload shipments; started prices advanced' to 20 cents' und have maintained at that point! since some of the shipments have been ' -going direct to New York and Phila delphia. When eggs • were aevert-tsed Tor at ■ Selinji on April 20th. in cooperation ] With the Kiwanis Club, the price, based on the New York market was 20 cents; and almost at once the local market \advanced to 25 cents. Vir tually similar conditions prevailed at Monroe and Wadesboro, with local buyers coming yp to the advertised price, after the notices of the ship ments were posted. Chambers of commerce, Kiwanie clubs, local poultry marketing ciatins, county and home agents und vocational agriculture teachers are as sisting the marketing service to as semble the shipments and secure the cars. This work could not be done be fore, since it was necessary to make good sized deimsits in order to secure cars and market thq, shipments. But the 25,000 revolving fund now takes care of this. The markets division is now plan ning to perfect poultry associations, or exchanges, in almost every.county this summer, to facilitate the assem bling, grailing, packing and shipping of eggs for local poultrymen. accord ing to George Ross, chief of the de vision. PRISON CAMP FOR INCORRIGIBLE CONVICTS Will Be Opened at Stokesdale Either Thursday or Friday. The Tribune Bureau , Sir Walter Hotel Itnleigh, May 10. —The prison camp for incorrigible- <'outlets will, be op ened either Thursday or Friday of this week at Stokesdale, in Guilford coun ty, it was announced today by George Ross Pon. superintendent of state prisons. This is a quarry camp, and about fifty prisoners, all C grade men, will be kept there. Among this fifty will be twenty or twenty-five of the ring leaders in the recent mutiny at Caledonia prison farm. Twenty of these men were brought from Caledonia to central prison and are being kept in solitarjK confinement there until time to sepd them to this new camp. Xhe routine at this camp, which will be iu charge-of Captain B. O. Snipes, will be mostly work and no play, and the prisoners Will all be shackled, Mr. Pou announced. The prisoners will be jiermitted to write but one letter a month; they will be allowed no spending money and no privileges, until, they show mi incli nation to behave themselves and prison rules. “A camp of this sort has been nec essary. for some time,” Mr. Pou said today, "since no other adequate meth od has been found with which to deal with the habitually Incorrigible pris oners. Nmv we expect to have one camp where we can really deal with three men, and thus improve the mor als all along the line.” As quickly as these “hard boiled” convicts show indications of straight ening up und a desire to do the right thing, the shackles will be removed, atul if their improvement 'continues they will be advanced in rank and sent to other camps. V Conditions are.now back id normal at Caledonia farm, the men having gone back to work as if nothing un nsfial had happened, officials tlitre re port. SAPP WISHES HIS ~ \ FATHER’S OFFICE Law Student Asks To Succeed llis Late Father As Railway Commis sioner. i Greenville, S. C., Newa. Allan M. Htapp, law student in the Univefflity of South Carolina, is mak ing overtures to members of the South Carolina Assembly with the hope of being elected State Railroad commis sioner to finish the uijexpi red term of his father, D. F. Sapp, who died sud denly April 29, it was set fqrth in letters received yesterday by members of the Greenville county delegation. “I have a sentimental and worthy anfbitinw to he elected .by the next Generalj 1 Assembly to fill out this un expired term, which will be approxi mately one year. It, after investiga tion,. you fine! I am competent and worthy, I will appreciate most sin eerely your support,” Mr. Sapp is, writing Assemblymen. ; s ~V‘' Mr. Sapp states he is 27 years of age, and will graduate from the law school this year. After that, he will set up an office in Lancaster, his native town, he states. 1 , i Members of . the local delegation made no coment sis to their attitude toward Mr. Sapp. The election will not take place until tlrt 1928 General Assembly, Aarly one year hence. No other persons, so far is knowu locally, have made It known that they wfah to he named to the office. , I elected ' county ' siiperilittmdotii; ’ of V , ’v, ,; y 1-J I GREENSBORO HOTflti SUED i FOR tflKMMtt , t. „ *SoSsir' *””** Charlotte, May 9.-The O. Hear , Hotel company and the Foor-Robin , son Hotel company will send thel agents and witnesses to the stand ii Mecklenburg Superior Court tomoi , row in an effort to combat evidenc 'given against them today by'J. 1 I Norseworthy, of this ettyj whd is ito , ing them for . $20,000 damages o i I chargee of< slander, fklse arrest am ' imprisonment. . '. j I Defeated, late .’today when Judge B. Finley, presiding, overruled a, mo | lion for non-suit at the court uzionol j testimony for the plaint®, the hote companies will endeavor to hatte I down the weight of evident* Intro j‘lured against them, j The plaintiff said he engaged g' rose i in the O. Henry Hotel at GreeUsbor I November when the illness he says he was suffer mg became more acute, he went dowi to the lobby and checked out sb h could go see a physician in Winston Salem., As he entered the lobby, s ac cording to his testimony the headhag. gage iban grabbed him, and called policeman, tyho arrested him for drunkenness. Norsed orthy said he was thruit, in to jail without a warrant and forced to remain there until the next day when, after a hearing in municipal court the judge dismissed him with a verdict of "not guilty. ,r Frank Kennedy, cr Charlotte, and John C. Busby, of Salisbury, arc at torneys for Norse worthy and T,. A Adams, T. C. Guthrie, Jr., both As city and Robert Deglrf es Greens boror, are counsel for the hotel com panies. COLLECTION FROM THE ANGLERS’ LICENSE *3,683.60 Indications Are That the The Tribune Bureau V *' Sir Wa|tgr Hotel Raleigh, May 10.—Collections from anglers’ licenses for April, the first mpnth of the operation of the law with some of' the counties not yet from tod,y reached ss,s 693.00 withjyrospecte that the amount will pass the six thousand* mark, ac cording to an announcement of the department of conservation and devel opment. ’ •' ‘ This by a mibstaiuTMl. margin the cat images of dppnrtmeut4H\ officials. who had looked toward ,a. revenue not to exceed $10(009 to the first year of the operation of the law. ladications are now that at the present rate the estimates will be passed. Although complete tabulations of re ceipts by counties are net yet avail able, reports show Buncombe well in the lead among the. counties in num ber of licenses issued hud tfce tptal and Craven. ’’ Assistant Director Jr K. Dixon es timates that approximately 3,000 sportsmen have already taken out li censes, and that approximately two thfrds of these are state licenses at two dollars each and most of the rest are county licenses at one dollar each. With the approach of the summer vacation season, the de]iartment heads look to a considerable increase in the number of imu-resident fishermen and a steady demand of North Carolinians for the licenses. They also expect the extension of provisions of, the law to cover all* types of fishermen in the mountain trout streams in many of the counties to add to the revenue from the licenses. OFFICER SLAIN AT ALBEMARIjf Chile of Police Troutman Accidental ly Shot irf Fight With Negroes. Albemarle, May 9.—Chief of Po lice Henry Troutman died at a local hospital as a result of having been accidentally shot this afternoon by Officer Dan Speight hen three bad negroes here being taken hear the bridge on the Swift Island highway. A hurry call reached the city that three desperate negroes had at tempted to hold up two of .three cars near the bridge and had shot at one man. Chief Troutman, with Of ficers Frank Criseo and Dan Speight, got in a car and rushed to the vicinity where the holdups had, been made. | They 'ran into the three negroes. Criseo got out on one.side of the car and Speight on the other. They took revolvers from tke negroes and hail placed one of them in the car. When the third one resisted, Officer Hpeight snatched the desperate ne gro's pistol and struck him on tho head- The revolver went off and the bullet scrock the vhief on tbo j*>v and neck, severing the jnglar "Vein. The officers rushed .the three Ne groes to puil and Troutman to a local hospital, where he died within «b-short while after arrival. Troutman was about' 50 year* tot ■ age and leaves a widow and sgflSf" •children. He hail been chief of J - jlicc of Albemarle for a number of (years and had made a model off lev. | Officer Speight, who accidentally shot Mm. is in a critical condition ’ from nervousness and worry. ! - - Union Suita v. Drawers. Some people prefer untnt suits because no shirt crawls up the back in Warm weather. Others prefer two piece suite because these do not bind at the crotch. Both types were goed customers for knit underwear mak ers who, in 1925, sold U .500,387 iffiaen union suits. 11,261.521 dozen shirtoand drawers. Total value was swayas’*"* “* UI , A Away? *•*,; equippfdt*fwr trade ingtreetiou of m?n without interruption toT thw- f tfivfls improved railroad service Und iu&m?
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