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Concrete Paving Record Set In Last Six Months Expanding Use of Automobile and Resulting Traffic .Con gestion Main Factors in Enlarged Municipal anil Itural Paving Expansion Programs Ry J. C. HOYI.K (Conrlsht. 192*. Br -ni* Alun t<) New York, July 10. ? Tin* expand ing use of the automobile and its at tendant traffic congestion has re sulted in establishing a record fur concrete street and highway produc tion In the last six months. Over 48, ? 000,000 ? Rflugrn yards of concrete * pavement was placed under contract 4>etween January 1 and July 1. ac * cording to the Portland Cement As sociation. That is equivalent o( 4. 800 miles of 18 foot pavement. The largest previous amount rontynrind ? for In & (similar period was in 1922 when 45,000,000 square yards were -awarded. ? ? ? ? The most notable gains were ac counted for b> city streets, as Is nat ural, since it Is in the cities that traffic congestion is greatest. Four teen million square yards, equivalent to 800 miles of 30 foot wide pave ments were contracted for up to Ju ly 1. This Is more than was placed two million square yards more than was awarded in the first half of 1923, the best previous year. About one fourth of the concrete street pavement arranged for. Uii< yeai Is in 68 cities of lOu.OOi pop ulation or over. New York, Chica go, Baltimore, Milwaukee. Detroit, Los Angeles, Seattle, Aalanta, In dianapolis. Cincinnati. Kansas City, and other large centers now are en- 1 gaged on pretentious paving pro-' grams. On January 1 this year about 5800 miles of concrete ^street averaging 30 feet in width were under contract and contractors carried over from 1923, 400 miles which had been, contracted for but not laid. When all the contracts now signed have been completed there will be abou* j 7,000 miles of concrete city streets in this country. There were 25,627 miles of con-; cret*1 highways averaging 18 feet | wide in use at the beginning of this) year and 2500 miles which whenj completed will make the grand total of concrete highways well above 30,-' 000 miles. The activity which will prtrrtril ?t-, road construction during the re-! maind-r of the year can only be es- j timated but there has been some fall-' ing off in building construction 1 t'his, wit ft the release of labor from, * tome other Industries and its ab (sorption by highway construction, is (having a tendency toward lower i coats. Public improvement bonds now are bringing better returns and I being more readily absorbed by in i vestors and altogether the prospect ! Is bright for continued activity in road work. 1 Cement prices have been fairly | stable and there is evidence of n | tendency to remain so. Since all j Portland cement ia m a h ?* nmlpt -a pstandari! government specification, i competition and demand and supply" I are the .prime factors in fixing prl-^ ices in any individual locality. Co-. Intent mills nmst dispose of their i output steadily in order to operate I successfully. A slackening of de-j 'maud on any section has a tendency to bring a cut in quotations by those concerns best able or most anxious! to supply that territory: Their com-j or abandon that territory since pri?\? on a standard made product is th?i ! controlling influence with the buyer. A continuing' demand for road work would, therefore, have a tendency' toward keeping prices fairly level in most localities, since the drop 'a building construction has not been acute. August usually marks the high1 mark of production In the cement' rind UWFy-awl - it is probably that ov-"| er 14.500.000 barrels will be pro-j duced next month with the annual! out turn for the year closely ap proaching. if not exceeding, the 137.-! 377,000 barrels made in 1923 which | was valued at $207,000,000. j The continuation of highway and. bridge construction with attendant consumption of cement, is indicated} by estimates concerning the bridge j over the Delaware River at Philadel-I pliia which will be completed in 1926. When engineers first drew plans for the bridge, they figured ' i the structure would take care of in terstate vehicular traffic for many years to come. A recent survey of. automobile traffic in that section however ha Bhown that the bridge probably will not be able to accom modate the increasing traffic beyond ' 192S. ? Allot In r ? bridge ? ot ? a~ tube i j the Delaware already are being dis-< cussed. Lure Of Radio Credited With Capture Desperado Big Bill O'Connor, Notorious Kol)'i>'r Cli;?f:-in h:;J Under world Bad IVIun, Captured When Could Not Mcsist Temp lation to Provide Himself With Expensive ISadio Set By U C. OWEN (Copyright. IMI. By Th# A4*ant?) San Francisco, Cal., July 10. ? Toi the lure of the radio and his tong-j ing for Its charms as he hid In soli tary loneliness from a city wide po-l lice hunt today is being credited ? j and blamed ? the spectacular cap-i ture here in a desperate gun battle) of "Big Bill" O'Connor underworld bad man, robber chieftain of the no torious California "daylighters" and for the past two years scourge of a score of big city police departments both in the east and the west. Credit is being given by police of ficers who, through his purchase of a high priced radio aet, were able to trace O'Connor to hla hiding place in an apartment house here. Blame li being voiced by Big Bill himself who as lie lies desperately wounded under close police guard, profanely laments the fact that he ever permitted him self to become such an ardent radio; fan. O'Connor, who with members of his "daylighters' gang Is wanted in almost every big city of the country. I and who in the last year has pulled off more than a half million dollaisl worth of bank and jewelry store holdups in California alone, had been hiding in San Francisco for two months. The police knew he was here, but he was too elusive to be caught. That is, be was too wary, until police detectives McLaughli.* and Leo Bunner who are radio de votees themselves, found out that Big Bill was a rabid "tuner in" on the! nightly wireless programs. A month ago, Jimmy Blanton, member of! OPTICAL SERVICE DR. J. W. SELIG OPTOMBTRT8T :? Main 8t. ? Kll??be(b City; TWKRt.Vonn SAVINGS tit SAFK HONDA. Hm at for fall O'Connor's "dayllghtcrs" was mys-j terlously bumped off In an exotically furnished apartment house here | where he too was hiding out between Jobs. Underworld gossip said he haJ been shot to death for double cross ing members of his gang, and that Big Bill O'Connor did the bumping off. Searching for Blanton's slayers, detectives Bunner and McLaughlin came upon another apartment Just across the street from the scene of Blanton's murder that had been oc cupied by Big Bill. O'Connor was not there however. He had fleu just a few minutes before the detec tlves arrived. Behind him however, he had left one of the most complete land costly radio sets obtainable, t J | gether with other evidence that Ue | was a radio (an. I Since then detectives had watched anil Checked ail sales ol Uigh prices | radio sets. They knew O'Cottno:* I was still in San Francisco and that he would buy only the best set ob tainable. Also, they figured tha: venturing from his hiding place would be regarded by hint as tool dangerous and that he probably would order his new radio by tele-! phone. I In the month since Hianton's mur der, McLaughlin and Manner checked ' up on bales of 87 high priced radio sets by phone. All 87 clues failed .to lead them to O'Connor. Big Bill, it seemx. was repressing ardent de sire* to tune in on K. G. O.. Fairmont Hotel, and other fine programs which! are given here every afternoon and; nighi Deprived of his radio, O'Conno; in the meantime worked up a new bandit urge. Two weeks ago he slipped out of his hiding place wltli two ennffderatr* pulled off -a~ flUO.tiUO Jewelry store robbery dow n town. Then he returned to his hid ing place. Early Monday afternoon McLaugh lin and llunner started oat to run) down the eighty eighth clue. It wus a telephoned order for delivery ol : an JSih) radio set from a very re-; spectable apartment house on Sixti. street. Information which they ob tained made tin in think 'they had a . wrm-tf-wttttrr -cttre at last-: ? This was ?confirmed an liour after I li t* deliv ery of the radio, when they saw Big Hill' on the roof of the~* apartmeiil! house arranging aerials. Affer thai came his arrest, hut not until more than a hundred shots had been ex changed and O'Connor had be?-n wounded five times. From his police guarded hospital bed. O'Connor with a desperate gria admits that his radio complex in al most as highly developed as his pro pensity for taking other people.* money unlawfully. "1 overlooked a bet, though, wheu I phono ? for them to send up a set" he savs. "1 could probably have walked down town In broad daylight and got it myself without beinK pinched." Among numerous Pacific coasi banditries with which O'Connor Is" charged is I he $251). Oon holdup o ? the. Provident ? Hank and ? Loan ? As sociation of I^os Angeles. Police say the evidence in this case is strong enough to send him to San Quentln prifton for a long term of years. Hut maybe Rig Hill's tenure there will no*, .be so unhappy. For they have a ra dio in the San Quentin "Hig House" -now. KL\N OltGAMZKIl IS ? fcrtjrmrrcTT of asswi T Raleigh. July 10. ? W. V. Guerard. former organizer of the Ku Klux Klan In North Caiolinn, was acquit- 1 ted late yesterday ot a charge of se cret assault on Hayes Henry, a no- j gro. The Judge directed the verdict. HERE IS YOUR CHANCE We've just received another big lot of Palm Beach Suits, Straw and Panama Hats, from the factories at closing out prices. These are of the best colors and make, as to Suits, and the newest shapes and colors as to Hats. And we can save you big money in the price of them both. C. A. COOKE PHONE 114 Standard Pharmacy THEY WILL SEND IT. ALKRAMA Today Viola Dana in "The Social Code" Also "Telephw^ Girls" S-rU. ,? Announcement Extraordinary McCABE & GRICE HAVE PURCHASED THE BRAD FORD BUILDING. THEIR HOME FOR 24 YEARS. AND NOW THE FUN HAS JUST BEGUN. THIS STOCK OF MERCHANDISE MUST BE UNLOADED. THERE WILL BE DRASTIC CUTS ON ALL MERCHANDISE. THIS STORE HAS TO BE PAID FOR Aivn for THF NFXX SIX WEEKS WE WILL THROW OUT MERCHANDISE AT BELOW MANUFACTURERS' COST. BELOW YOU WILL FIND A FEW ITEMS ON SALE. THESE ITEMS ARE ONLY A FEW WE CAN MENTION. REMEMBER EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE OF THE ENTIRE STOCK MUST BE SOLD. ?> hales oi .)(> \ 60 IX I nhleaclied (litlloii, sale price, per vd . I le 2,000 yards of Hill lllarlird Cottons, salt' price, yard 18c 36 inch Indian Head, linen finish, sale price, per yard 25c 9 x I Pi'iipiwll llnhlcachcd ami Rlcai'licd Sheeting, im iiKib'jipd, per yard I8e 20 dozen Pcppcrcll Rlraohrd Sliwtn, 9x1 size, each SI. 3*) Lonsdale Cambric, during this great sale, at per yard 2.V 20-ineli Mercerized Napkins, during the sale, each I2^c 2, OOP yards, 32-i ttell (? millions, the 2.) c grade. sule price 1 5c 10 pieces of 72-inch Table Damask, the SI grade, per yard (Wo Extra large size Turkish Towels, the 30c grade, sale priee 20" Dimity Bed Spreads, size 63 x 90, sale priee, each SI. 79 Dimity Bed Spread*, size 72 x 90, sale price, each SI. HO ? Dimity Bed Spreads, size, 81 x 90, sale price, each S2.I9 Dimity, valued at from 30c to 35c, sale priee, yard 20c 36-inch Pure Linen shrunk from 15 inches, SI grade, sale 75c Gotham (.old Stripe Stockings, all shades including hlaek inid while SI. 69 50 dozen Ladies llose, the 50c grade, sale price, per pair 39c KM) dozen pure Silk Stockings, the SI. 50 grade, sale price, pr. 98c 30 dozen lace stripe Silk llose, the SI grade, sale priee, pr. 59c 10 pieces of Tub Silk, guaranteed fast color, S ' .15 grade 75c 100 yurds pure Silk Summer Itipple, the S2.25 grade, sale SI. 39 500 yurds Crepe de Chine, all shades, the S 1 .50 grade 9B< 2 pieces Satin Back Crepe, hlaek and navy, S I grade, sale $2.25 Men's" I'ure Silk, Interwoven Hose, sale price, per pair 62c 100 dozen Men's black Half Hose, sale price, per pair 8c Men's $3.50 genuine Broadcloth Shirts, with or without collars, sale price SL98 300 Ladies' Dresses, the entire stock will he closed out at less than cost. Just 12 Linen Dresses left. Yours during sale at, each S3. 75 699 Men's Salts made by Schloss Bros, J. J. Sc hoe II em an, Heller, Hennian and Thompson. These suits will he sacrificed. All remarked. 1,700 Pairs of Shoes must lie sold. We have put the knife in these. It will pay you to buy your next Winter's shoes and save from 33 1-3 to 50 per cent. ?100 pairs WOS Bed Booin Slippers, sale price, per pair 79c ^ This is no ordinary sale. We are compelled to move this stock. We must pay for this building in August. You will find merchandise from this stock Lower than the wholesale market. McCABE & GRICE THE M SY STORK SINCE 1890
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