j
i
i
'i Year, in Advanc
“FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH.’’
Single Copy 5 Cents.
TT
A
PLYMOUTH, N.C., FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1925
NO. 39
VOL. 36
DOINGS IN THE
TAR HEEL STATE
NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA <
TOLD IN SHORT PARA- <
GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE \
Mooresville.—Chief of Police O. L.
Wocdside. assisted by “Bonnie Knn
mons, captured a 1924 model Hudson
coach with 85 gallons of liquor as it ;
■was attempting to pass through tins
city. , _
Salisbury.—Kerr Kluttz, news boy.
age 12 died as a result of injuries sus
tained when he was thrown from a
truck in which he was riding.
Lenior..—Contract has been award- |
ed for the construction of a big piant
and water tunnel for the Blue Ru-Se
Power Company near Saluda. The
consideration named in the contract,
it is understood, 13 about $1. ,00,000.0 ).
Salisbury—Five men were arrest
ed, three automobiles confiscated and
fifty gallons of liquor destroyed as a
result of two days' raid near Taylors
ville by federal prohibitio nofficers
working under A. B. Coltrane, state
•director.
W lisuu.-*. . -
Harding, the latter an expert, visited
the farm of Mr. Wilier, located near
this city, and found a great many
squares punctured and a number o
eggs, and Several boll weevils over a
limited area. ,
Salisbury—Delma Morris, /.2 years
old died following an operation tor
appendicitis. The funeral was con
ducted from the home of Fred Coggins
and the body was taken to Albemarie
for interment. Surviving are me pa
rents and two brothers.
. Salisbury—A young white man. Jim
Conners, was convicted m county
■court of an assault, the-charge against
him being that ho unduly whipped ins
18-months-old baby. He was given a
suspended read sentence of eigh
months. .. .
Reidsville.—J. W. Gillie, Jr. the,
14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M .
Gillie died as a result of injuries and
Shock sustained while taking a cow
to pasture. Ho was dragged for a con
siderable distance and was badly in
jured about the body. A local physi
cian, however, declared tliatf shock
icaksetl the youths death.
Lenoir.—One of the largest families.
■ speaking from a standpoint of avoir
rdupois, is that of Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
McGowan, who live four miles east or
here. In the family are Mr. and Mrs.
•McGowan, ten children, six girls and
lour hoys. The total weight of the
--family is a littie over twenty-two hun
dred pounds.
Salisbury.—Main Street Methodist
(■congregation is to erect a new house
,’of worship at J cost of $85,000 exclu
sive of site and furnishings. The
-present church site on Main street
wall be disposed of and the new build
ing will be on the corner of Church
and Chestnut streets a block from the
present church,
Kinston. — Heavy infestation of
Jones county cotton fields by boll
weevils was reported here. Patches
near Maysville were said to be over
run by the insects. The crop had at
tained a nearly perfect condition be
fore they appeared in large numbers.
Heroic steps are being taken by farm
ers to prevent heavy damage.
Spencer.—The burning of a cancell
ed morta-gge in the presence of a large
congregation featured the dedication
of Trading Ford Baptist church near
Spencer, when an all day program was
given. Members of the congregation
clapped their hands for joy as the
smoko of the burning notes ascended
from the altar in the church.
Red Springs.—Rev. G. M. Hamel
pastor of the Red Springs Motohdist
church, came to bis death in a swim
ming pao-1 at Lakerim Beach. Lake
rim Beach is located on the Raeford
Fayetteville highway about 8 miles
from Fayetteville. The water at the
point where the body was recovered
was not more than four feet deep.
New Bern.—Marjorie Binson, K>
year-old daughter of Mrs. Annie Brin
son. of Arapahoe, was drowned at
Wilkerson Point while bathing with
friends. A telephone message received
here said Alton Belgania, who could
not swim, narrowly escaped drowning
when he attempted to save the girl.
Elizabeth City.--The body of Leila
Jamieson, 10-year old daughter of An
drew Jamieson, prominent citizen of
Oxford, was brought up from Nag’s
Head on the Trenton and taken to
Oxford for burial. The little girl was
drowned in the -sound at Nag’s Head.
Morghnton.—Ralph Bailey, 17 year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bailey
of Glen Alpine, and an employee of
the State Hospital, was drowned in
AM:cry’s Lake four miles from Mor
- ton. The young man had gone in
■ thing with three other young peo
ple, attendants at the state Hospital,
and stepping into water over his head
and being unable to 3wim he was
frowned. * Bi B •
LOSS BY fflE IN
NORTH CAROLINA
DURING MONTH OF MAY 156
FIRES OCCURRED; TOTAL
DAMAGE $361,475.
Raleigh.
The total property loss by fire in
North Carolina during May was $361,
475. it was reported by Insurance
Commissioner Stacy Made. Property
at risk, said Mr. Wades report, was
valued at $1,431,070, on which there
war insurance aggregating fPS06.920.
During the mouth 156 fires occurred,
and of these 17 involved a loss of $5,
000 or more each, aggregating $232,
058, leaving for the remaining lo2
fir#s a loss of $129,417.
Some of the larger fires were: Tan
nery bark and sheds at Morganton,
$80,000; store and contents at Burling
ton, $19,000; apartment at Shelby,
$18,000; store and contents at Smith
field, $12,500; dwelling and contents
at Ayden, $10 300; dwelling and con
tents at Wadesboro, $10,000; four
dwellings at Hamlet, $8,150.
During the month there were 103
fires in dwelling houses involving a
loss of $S6,332 for town and $29,093
for rural dwellings. Three negro
children were burned to death in one
of these fires near Lumberton.
Chief causes of fires were listed as
follows: Sparks on shingle roofs 47;
unknown. 41; oil stove, 8; electricity,
and “carelessness,” 7 each; adjoin
ing building and gasoline isgnition, 4
each.
There were no fire damages report
ed in May in the following places;
Rocky Mount, High Point. Thomas
vilie. Albemarle, Mount Olive, Sanford,
Weaverville, Middlesex, Warsaw,
Granite Palis, Furpiay Springs. Zebu
Ion, PinetopS Bryson City, Jefferson.
Marshville, Aberdeen, Elm City and
Franldinton.
Buses Carry 69,331 Pupils Daily.
North Carolina school children num
bering 69,391 are transported 40,765
miles each day by 2.000 school buses
in 95 of the 100 counties of the State,
according to estimates by the State
Department of Education.
The figures are based on actual re
ports front the GS counties participat
ing in the equalization fund and esti
mates on the remaining counties us
ing school buses for the transporta
tion of children. Actual reports show
that in the school year 1922-23, a total
of 31,544 children were carried daily
by S58 buses; and in 1923-24, a total
of 48,251 children were carried 26,354
miles daily by 1,318 buses.
in 1923-24 the most recent period for
which figures on bus transportation
other states are available, only India
na hauled more children and the per
pupil year cost of $13.57 in North Cai
olina was the lowest in the Union.
The year cost per truck in North Car
olina is only $496.
The average daily mileage of the
school trucks is 20 miles. The use
fulness of the trucks is shown by the
fact that there are in the State 842
rural schools.
School buses were first used in the
State in 1915 by Edgecombe and Pam
lien counties, both of which claim tho
honor of being first.
Increase in State Prisoners.
An appeal to cities and counties to
take advantage of the new law passed
by the General Assembly of 1925 per
mitting them to hire and work State s
prisoners was made by George Ross
Pou, Superintendent of the State’*
Prison.
Declaring that the population of the
State Prison has nearly doubled in the
last four years an'1 that the increase
has been at an even greater rate for
the past two months, Mr. Pou issued
the following statement to the press:
“The population of tho State’s
Prison on June 22 was 1,387 prisoners.
This is an increase of 658 prisoners
in a four year period. During the
month of May 6-1 prisoners were com
mitted to the State's Prison and 21
prisoners were released, causing an
increase in population for tlio month
of Mi^y of 43 prisoners. From June 1
to -Tune 22nd there were committed to
the State’s Prison a total of 45 pris
oners, while 24 were released; an in
crease of 06 prisoners in 52 days.
County Loan Approved By Court.
Counties may continue to make
loans to the State Highway Commis
sion for tho construction of highways,
the Supreme Court held in an opinion
handed down.
The decision reversed Attorney Gen
eral Dennis Brummitt and Judge
Frank Daniels and upheld the conten
tion of the State Highway Commis
sion. The question was brought to
the front by State Highway Commis
sioner John Sprunt Hill, of Durham
who considers the policy of making
loans in advance of legislative appro
pratloji 5 wrong pne-^&w — i
33 Years Ago ;
W ashington
County
Items gathered from issue of
The Roanoke Beacon published
Friday, July 8, i892
Mrs. Jos Tucker has been
visiting relatives in Monticello
during the past week.
Little Miss Estelle Forbes
of Roper, was visiting her
grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs.
r\. M. Johnston, tni^ wrt lei
Work on the Episcopal
church has been delayed,
owing to bad weather.
Efforts are being made to
establish a creamery here. ^
Irish potatoes 25 per bushel I
The firm <J Woodard Jk
Everett, dealers in Lquors fiasi
been dissolved. Mr. Everett
will continue the business,
CHAIRMAN GREEN OF HfStlSc
FREDICTS NEW LAW BY
JANUARY.
Washington.—The house ways and
means committee will meet October
19 to draft a revision bill Chairman
Green announced, adding that it woule
hold public hearings for two weehs_.
and would have a bill ready for con
gressicnal consideration in December
He predicted the house would pas
the bill before the Christmas holidays
and that it would become law in tinn
to apply to taxes due next year.
Arrangements have been made b;
Chairman Green for a force of tree
sury experts to cooperate'during tn
summer and early fall with expert;
employed by the committee in go;::;
over technical features of the revenue
law and in preparing for consideraiioi
by the committee of proposals desig
nated to improve and expedite adinn.
istrative work.
Recent suggestions looking to tin
elimination of dual taxation on the
part of states and the federal gove;n
meat received support in ’-lie an
nouncement by the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States of the re
suits of a referendum dealing with tli
question.
The constituent organization hole
ing membership in the national chain
ber voted overwhelmingly in an ex
pression of opinion that the fedeni
government should repeal its piosem
estate tax, should refrain from impor.
ing estate and inheritance tuxes n
ino future, and should join the rep
referendum report to members of the
ing their taxation system.
"Death taxes have, by an unbroken
series of precedents, been recognized
as exclusively a field for state taxa
tion, except in time of war erner
gency ” the committee submitting the
referendum report to emmbers of tlu
chamber contended. “At present,
state taxes on inheritance and estate,
are numerous and burdensome.
Those taxes form an appreciable
part of the current revenues of many
of the states, the committee found
and their imposition by the federal
government firings about “multiple
taxation of estates and still further
confuse a situation which already is
ehoatie due to tho conflict of stilt;
laws. “Federal income from such le
vies.” the report added, “has nevei
formed more than insignificant poi
liens” of its total ordinary revenue:
and “is no longer necessary in ordi
to balance the national budget..”
In setting for a general principle o.
coordinating national and state ta:
•systems, the committee asserted tlun
C.11U don growing out of dual taxa
l0n was particularly obvious in rein
Ion to corporations, income and death
ixes.
FOR ’ Five shares Pec«
pies I *v k' st. clc C r -’•'< !!, for
cash. Let me have an offer A.. L
Smithson.'
Charitable Brot
herhood Pic-Nic
The Plymouth lodge No. 3,
Charitable P.’-otherhood is now
planning for their annual pic-nic
which will be held in conjunction
with other lodges of this secticn.
It has been customary in lilt
past to hoi ! a barbecue and bas
ket pic-nic on Sattei thwaitt 'a
iawn about two miles fioih here,
but this year the members are
planning to hold their annua]
outing at Ocean V.ev>, Va. Cl
lodges of this section have been
visited and much enthusiasm hat
jeer; manifested at all meetings.
The date will be decided upon
.onigilt, anc^it is highly probable
.hat there will be a sufficient
lumber to take the trip to justify
.tie Norfolk Southern railroad
company to operate a special ex
..ursion train. It may also develop
that non-members of the lodge
will be permitted to lake advant
age f i suecial i a v
LOCAL NEWS
Mr. Carlos Brown of Norfolk,
i.3 the guest of his patents on
Jefferson street.
Mrs. Matthew Davis spent last
eeiv in Beiiiciven voting re
.olives.
Mrs. Frith Winslow of Littleton
who has been the guests of hei
mother left Saturday for Llert
ord.
Mrs. Fannie Ayers, Misses
Louise Ayers and liuth Norton
spent ti e week-end in Hertford.
Messr I .ank MidgettEverett
Burgess. J. ft. White and L. A.
Peal c inpriscd a fishing party
t Norf i., this week.
Mrs. J. R. Campbell, w ilh her
chi orer, has re u ed Horn
Como, where she was called on
account cfiheciiical illness of
her father.
Mrs. J. K. Rcil has returned
from a visit to relative s in Ayden
. Mrs. H. V. Austin is visiting
in MurfreasLoro, Tenn.
Miss Margarett Moore of
Smiihfield is the guest of her :
■iatei, Mrs. T. L. Bray.
Mr. Bren ke Read and family
have moved into their home re
cently pu: ( h =sed from Mr. T. L.
dm ilh. |
Mr. W. H- Clark and family
have recently move d into a newly
purchased home r n Main street
iL;v W. G. Lowe i ccupb d his
pulpit Sunday after having Leen
away some time attending the
Duke University summer school
for preach is.
.1 r. and Mrs. 0. li. Lv n ; t
t. noed the Pharmaceut.cal c«.n
vco tion held at Blowing Rock.
Mr. Rufus Swain, a former
ciLvt n of this con ty, was mar-.
ried last week in Raleigh to Miss
Pauline Gaidner of Smitl field.
First Cotton
Blossom
The l rst cotton bless: lr. of the
season was eport* d ;o us last
Sunday,
'I’h ’ b]<) ; v.\ came f « m the
crop of Mr IE\ K i ' one of
uv nest onterprisn g young
farm ■: >t.
Since writing the above Mr,
G. K. H u-'-i - ! as reported a bio
ssem grown by Mr. W. W.
ph. Ips on 1111 :■ > 26 b, • ’ d r e by
Mr Luther few; i;i which bios
souk d on ,’u' e J’Oth.
Mr. Hubert Owens, employed
; by the National Handle Company
was painfully injureU—about, the
face last Friday morniag while
at work His w un-ris were dr< ■ -
ed by Dr. T. L. Bray, and as we
go to press ho is rap.tl y recov i
ing.
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS Or THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Foreign—
The Oreek governin'' uniSer the
premier: hip of Michnia.opouloi has
been deposed and : rev ov-rrment
under military con1 :\oi • ; ; 1 in
stalled in At’ j-*j, moral Pan
golos as dit. :•! or Vi: cii’SVV s
intend tor.; . ,■■ simil ir
to that of the the Unit
ed States.
The government ,»f C> i has or
dered J. Pennino, i.s . -t marble iri
duslVialist, to execute tot turn cat -n
honor of General Maxis 3 Cm \z. lead
er of the Cuban armies of ir.d pend
once.
Eighteen persons are repor, d dead
and two seriously burned in a fir. that
destroyed 360 native dwellings in the
Egyptian town of Abu Hammad.
Germany has announced to Moscow
her definite intention of entering the
European security pact, which implies
joining the league of nations, thus re
pudiating the Russo-German agree
ment to pursue identical courses rel
ative to the league.
The German reichstag was the
Scene the other day of considerable
excitement when a large number of
persons owning depreciated German
government bonds, war loan/*jmd oth
er slate securites, forcibly made their
way into the chamber.
M. Caillaux, premier of France, in
his expressed determination to have
France’s 1925 budget voted before the
first of July, has already made a great
step forward, Paris newspapers an
nounce.
The situation in Canton, China, re
sulting from anti-foreign agitation is
1 ven more intense. Chinese are said
to have threatened to attack the for
eign settlement at Shameen, but sc
far no attack has been reported. For
tifications, however, have been erect
ed in the British and French conees
tions,
In Shanghai, China, extra police
have been provided for street duty,
following receipt of reports that Chi
nese reds wore planning to massacre
foreigners. The authorities have re
quested foreigners to keep on the main
thoroughfares, and the night police
patrol has been 'increased.
At Hong Kong, China, the govern
ment of Canton has issued an order
forbidding further attacks against
Shameen, the foreign settlement of
Canton. Arrangements are being
made for a mooting to discuss the
situation. The remaining foreign
women and children from Shameen
have arrived in Hong Kong.
It is announced in Shanghai, China,
that the body of Quartermaster E. B.
Kersey of the American destroyer
Pope, has been found floating in the
Wrung-Po river Kersey is reported
to have been on shore leave.
Washington—
Secretary of State Kellogg and
Szechenyi, Hungarian minister, have
(signed a commercial treaty between
the United States and Hungary at
the state department.
Officials of the ku klux ltl9.il an
nounce that they propose to ask the
president to address a gathering of
that organization which has been call
ed to meet in Washington on August
the eighth.
Fifty-one second class postoffices
were moved up into the first class,
while 10 first class offices were
dropped back in the second class a3
a result of the annual readjustment of
postmasters’ salaries announced.
'1 lie department of justice has an.
nounccd that petitions were being
drawn, requesting a rehearing by the
supreme court of t'1® Maple Flooring
end ('mu nt Manufacturers' Protective
association cases.
Thirty major radio broadcasting
stations in 19 states have been in
vited by the war department to co
purate in the- nation-wide defense day
roadcasting program between 9 and
.; so p. ni , eastern standard time, July
and acceptances have been received
Mm 13 stations situated in Massachu
setts, New York, Washington, D. C.,
Pennsylv ima, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa,
Minnesota, Utah and California.
| Wheat Crop Hurt By Disease.
Specimens of a disease of wheat af
ir.gr lb crop in Davie county, have
been sent to Dr. F. A. Wolf and were
identified as “take-all,” a destructive
wheat disease found in Australia about
*•'» y >rs ago, it was announced.” This -
; disease,” stated Dr. Wolf, "was first,
i found in North Carolina in 1923. CoK
lections were made about the same
time in 1923, near Lineolnton. by
County Agent J. G. Morrison, and near
Statesville, by County Agent It. W,
Grabber. It has since been found in
restricted areas in three other coun
ties. The collection made in Davis
county by County ^gent. Evans, makes
the sixth county of this state in which
“tot-o-all” jg now known to occur.
“This disease is very destructive,”
continued Dr. Wolf. “It has certain
features which will enable any wheat
grower to recogniea it with consider*
able accuracy. The grower will find
the affected plants in well-defined
spots to be dwarfed or shrunken.
These plants may be only six to ten
inches in height, while normal plants
are about four feet in height. Many'of
the affected plants will die prematurely
or remain green until harvest time.
The heads are always poorly filled,
while the lower joints are dark or en
tirely blackened and surrounded by a
layer of delicate brown threads. These
threads are a part of the causal fun
gus and imbedded in them are the
brack fruit bodies of tlie fungus The
roots are also blackened and somewhat
decayed.”
.Dr. Wolfe explained that investiga
tions were now under way by tits
M:yth Carolina Station, cowperating
with the United States ©apartment of »
Agriculture. These 'studies have j
shown that oats sr.d rye are immune >
to the trouble :wd that certain varie*
ties are immune.
Dr. Wolfe . fifed the: the studies
now being r.id it. y develop varieties
of wheat that 1 w , ha grown with
safety in the infect-'d soils. j
“This fungus," lie continued, “will
attack wheat, barley, spelt, qu
grass, cheat and number of t>
cultivated grasses.’'
.
Auto Bureau Shows Saving.
A report made to Governor A. W.
McLean and State Auditor Baxter
Durham shows that collections were
increased and expenses decreased in
the automobile bureau of the State
government, during April and May of
this year, the first two mouths that
the transfer of the bureau from the
Secretary of State to the Department
of Revenue was effective.
The bureau, which collects all auto
mobile license taxes and all gasoline
taxes was made a part of the general
revenue machinery of the State which
is presided over by Commissioner R.
A. Broughton on April 1.
The report shows that from April
1 to May 31, 1R25, collections totalled
$1,107,868.31 as against $769,570.21 for
the same period in 1924, or an increase
of $338,289.07.
For the two months of 1925 expenses
amounted to $64,774.83 as again t $83,*
583.05 last year, or a decrease of ?18,*
808.23, or over 30 per cent.
Salary Eody is in Last Stages.
The Salary and Wage Commission ap
pointed by Governor McLean nmior >-n
act of the General Assembly pro f d ;,g
dractic powers, Is now working on thu
final stages of its report, which is ex
pected by July 1.
Lists of all employes have been f-v
nished the heads of departments, the
lists showing the tentative class!;-,ra
tions adopted by the commission sill
the heads of departments being re
quested to recommend a maximum a-ul
minimum wage for the classifiesth n,
together with a wage for the'emp! .: i
and to state the salary now paid j
employe and the salary paid on Jai.a
ary 1. 1925.
S. L. Rogers, secretary to the cc ■
mission, has been ill at his home 1 i
Franklin, Macon county. Julian
Price os Greensboro, chairman of '• :;
commission has succeeded Mr. R r
in active charge.
Officers Cut Up 120 Stills.
Federal officers working under Pro
hibition Director Coltrane, whoso
headquarters are in this city, destroy
ed 129 stills iu North Carolina during
the month of May, confiscated 25 auto
mobiles and did away with 136,185
gallons of malt liquors and much other
material used in the making of liquor.
It is estimated that the liquids and
mash poured out wrere sufficient for
the manufacture of 20,000 gallons of
whiskey. As a result of the activities
of these Federal agents, S5 arrests
were made and 200 prosecutions filed.
Checks Not Good For Auto License.
The annual distribution of license
plates to North Carolina’s nearly 400,*
000 automobile owners begun Monday
by the state automobile license bureau
and its 59 branches.
Letters have gone out to all of last
year's purchasers inclosing application
blanks and announcing that no checks
will be accepted in payment. Last year
the bureau was giveu considerablf
trouble by returned cheeks.