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THURSDAY, MA7.CII 3,
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Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., Sends First Message
From Liberia To Rubber Company's Own
Station In Akrez Daily Reports On
Rubber Groivlh To Folloa)
Kr. and Mrs. Harvey S. Fire
. stone, Junior, now in the African
jungles, today broadcasted the first
message sent from the special ra
dio station recently erected on the
.Firestone rubber plantation in the
interior o? Liberia, on the West
Coast of Africa. The message
. vias received at a similar station
on the roof of the': Firestone fac
tories at Akron, Ohio.
This marks a new era of com
munication with the inferior of in
.accessible countries. Heretofore,
the method used was to send foot
messengers through jungle trails,
. taking days to get in touch with
the outside world. Broadcasting
hw Tadio direct from one continent
to another thus give3 the Firestone
Tire & Rubber Co. a great advan
tage in developing its million acres
of rubber lands thalrwcreirectiTed
from the Liberian government.
Although these properties are lo
cated over 5,000 miles from the
Firestone headquarters at Akron,
Ohio, it will now be possible , to
' .send reports every day by radio
from the Liberian plantations to
Akron.
100,000 Acres Laid Out
Mr. Firestone, Jr., has been in
Liberia since early January. In
!Ms first report by radio today, he
isaid that the Liberian government
,okiaJs were enthusiastically co
. operating with Firestone in the
company's great undertaking to
'make Liberia one of the important
Tabber-growing countries of the
world, Mr. Firestone said that
during the first year two 50,000-
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150 miles south "of the" Du on" the
sCavalla river.
Firestone-engineers in the same
tine had constructed over 75 miles
. of roads and had built and cstab
; lished headquarters on the two
! plantations, with housing facilities
if or the resident staffs of 118
. Americans. Power plants for the
development of electric power,
: light and refrigeration had been
built, as well as hospitals and
trade stores for the benefit of the
Americans and also to supply the
; needs of the 15,000 natives who
are employed in clearing the jun
gles and planting rubber trees.
1,500,000 Trees Planted
During the past year, according
vto Mr. Firestone's -first radio re
port, over 1,500,000 rubber trees
have been planted on a total of
over 15,000 acres of cleared jungle
lands. This is a record in rubber
plantation wprk. It is the largest
number of trees set out and acres
planted by any single company in
th same leng-h of time. And Mr.
JFirestone stated that the rate of
, progress : jn -clearing - land - and
planting rubber trees is being con
stantly increased.
Mr. Firestone reported that the
i; steamship sent over for service
'had! been placed in commission
. akyqg the Liberian coast and is
. now linking up the Firestone plan
tations and the coast towns of Li
l beria. He expressed the hope that
! Fireritoie will soon have its own
Vessels operating directly between
New"' York and Liberia, making the
Atlantic passage in less than two
Tveeks. When this is done, it will
not only give Firestone an advan
tage ef from two to five weeks in
time as compared with other rubber-growing
cruntic:, but will
abo greatly reduce the cost of
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gineers, soil experts and foresters.
Now that the Liberians, for the
first time in the history of the
country, have a system of good
roads, they are suddenly becoming
enthusiastic . about motor trans
portation, and they all want to
ride in automobiles, trucks or
tractors. As a result, Monrovia,
the capital 6f Liberia, has estab
lished a traffic squad to police the
traffic on its principal streets.
When the Firestone company went
into Liberia, there were no roads
in the country, and only one auto
mobile. This wa3 owned by the
President of Liberia, who had very
little occasion to use it because of
the absence of good roads.
When Mr. Firestone arrived at
the Du river plantation, he was
greeted as the "Great White
fGhief .by many - thousands -ol Hre
stone native employees who had
erected a great arch of leaves and
ferns at the entrance of the prop
erty and lined the road on both
sides as he drove . through eleven
miles of the . plantation to head-k
quarters.
$3,000,C00 Loan to Liberia
Mr. Harvey S.. Firestone, Sr.,
has successfully arranged a
$5,000,000 loan in America for the
Liberian government. This places
Liberia on a firni financial basis,
and permits the 'development of
roads, schools and public buildings.
The 118 Americans comprising the
Firestone technical staff are help
ing to organize the 2,000,000 or
more native Liberians and give
them remunerative jmployment
which had riot been hitherto avail-
and willing to work in an organ
ized way. This has made possible
the tieanng and i)lantinerof-such
ajarge acreage during the jast
year and has undoubtedly had a
very appreciable effect in the re
cent reduction in the price of
crude rubber. v
European newspapers have car
ried many articles deriding Fire
stone for going into Africa to
plant rubber. They claimed the
soil was poor for rubber growing
and that the natives would not
work. The British government
now realizes that Firestone's Li
berian enterprise is anything but
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a folly. It is conceded by every
body that Firestone has made the
I greatest-- rubber development - ever
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Kpany in the same 'length. "of -time,
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dle East have vigorously expressed
themselves along this line. Cey
lon has voted to abandon rubber
i cstviction entirely. In Singapore,
traits. Settlements,.. 47 out of 72
rubber growers .have voted to
abandon rubber' restriction or to
modify it so it would not be ef-
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ber restriction in the Britisk Par
liament, rubber was selling roimd
42 cents a pound. WJthm a few
weeks it dropped about 18 cents
a pound. Since a variation of 1
cent a pound means a diiferenee of
over $8,000,000 a year to Ameri
can rubber buyers, the decline
from 42 to 24 cent3 a pound will
mean a Bgyhgnl5O,tr0Ol000 a "
year to -America if the present -price
is maintained.
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Garner-Conley
On Friday eeniug at 8 o'clock
lliss Lois Virginia Garner and Air.
Cbarlcs C. Conlcy were united in
marriage, t!ie ceremony being per
formed by the Rc'. J." A. Flanagan,
pastor of the Presbyterian church.
The wedding was somewhat ' of a
surprise to the friends of the young'
couple. Mrs. Conlev is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Chas V. Garner, of
Route 'lwo. Mr. Conley holds a re
sponsible position with the Perry
Jones Chevrolet company. The young
couple plan to make their home with
the brother of the groom, Mr. George
Conley, pn the Cartoogechaye road.
P. T. A. Meeting Postponed
The P. T. A. meeting has been
postponed until -the second Friday in
April when election of officers will
take place. The teacher, Mrs. Harris,
will entertain at that time. .
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina, Macon County.
'.
Whereas, power of sale was vested
in the undersigned trustee by deed of
trust executed by E. J. Carpenter and
Eula Carpenter, . dated the 14th day
of June, .1926, and registered in the
office of the register of deeds for
Macon county in B. & L. book No.
1 of mortgages and deeds of - trust,
page 14 to secure the payment of the
sum of .$1,000.00 paybale to Macon
County Building & Loan association
at the maturity of the Seventh Scries
of the capital stock of said Macon
County Building & Loan-association, -and
said deed of trust - stipulating
that the makers -of said deed of trust
would, on Saturday of .each week,
pay to the Macon County Building
& Loan association the weekly in
terest upon said sum ot $1,000.00, nt '
the rate of six per cent per annum,
until the Seventh Series, of stock o;:
the Macon County Building & Loan
associatio should become due, aiuf also
stipulating that the makers of said
note would, on Saturday of each week,
pay to said association, the weekly
installment of $2.50 on Ten shares
of the capital stock of the associa
tion, until the same should reach the
par value of $1,000.00, and in the
event, of default being made in the
payment of said weekly interest and
of the weekly dues on Ten shares
of the capital stock of said associa
tion as aforesaid, that all sums due
and payable, 'whatever the nlate of
maturity expressed therein, and the
makers of said deed of trust now
being in arrears. of payments in the
sum of $47.08, under the terms of
said deed of trust, and said associa
tion having declared the full sum of
$1,000.00, in ad it ion thereto, due and
payable :
I will, therefore, by virtue of the
power of sale by said deed of trust
in me vested, on Monday, the JOth
day of April, 1928, between the legal
hours of sale, sell at the court house
door m Franklin, North Carolina, at
public auction, to the highest bidder
for cash, the following described prop
erty: '
Beginning on a white oak stump,
S. 76 E. 18 feet from a white oak
corner at corner of wire fence, thence
N. '20 K. 100 feet to a .post oak with
old marks; then N. 59-37 E. 165 feet
to a stake, 30 feet South of the
center of the highway; thence S.
75-30 E. with South side of highway,
107 fget to a stake beside a dead
maple; thence S. 33-28 W. 237.4 feet
to -a-point Jn the. Camp (jround.road.;
thence N. 75-05 W. to the beginning,
containing 1.01 acres.
Also Ten shares of the Seventh
Series of the capital stock of the
Macon County Building & Loan as
sociation, in the name of E. J. Car
penter. This the 26th day of March, 1928.
GILMER A. JONES, Trustee. 4tA19
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina, Macon County.
. By virtue of a power of sale con
tained in a deed of trust from II. G.
Brown to Mrs. M. M. Brown, to I).
P. Cabe, trustee, dated 30th day of
November, 1920, and registered in
book No. 30, page '330, records of
Macon county, and - given to secure
two promissory notes in the sum of
Three Hundred and Fifty ($350) I hi
lars due and payable on the 30th day
of . March, . 1927, and default, having
been made in the payment thereof
and the said notes having been de
clared due and payable, and having
requetcuLlhoaindersigned ' to' exercise
the power pfsalc. 1 will oh Monday
the 30th day of April, 1928 .between
the legal hours of sale, at the court
house door in the Town of Franklin,
sell "at " public auction "for cash, to
satisfy said notes and 'deed of trust
the following described land : 1
In .Smiths' Bridge , township,' Macon
county, beginning on a white oak near
a smal branch, runs East 14 poles to
a chestnut oak; thence South 46 poles
to a dogwood in Sam Howard's ij1Ie ;
thence West with bis said line 14
poles to a black oak; thence North
46 poles to the ( Beginning, containing
4 acres more or less.
Also another tract r Beginning on
a black oak iii Sam Howard's line;
thence North 70 ' West 42 poles to
Dillingham's line ; thence North 23
poles to a dogwood ; thence South
70 East 42 poles to a Spanish oak ;
thence South 23 poles to the, Begin
ning, containing six acres more or
les. Being a one-half interest in the
above named parties of . land.
This the 26th day of March. 1928.
V. P. CABE, Trustee. J & J4tA19
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