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^Chef Is Flyer •—-1 Flying is ‘'pie” lor Gaston ' 'J'ayolle, French war ace and now a ; *hef in a New York hotel. Fayolle, pictured here at work, Is planning a (light to Paris ami return over the #aine route which Lindbergh took. Fayolle has several medals be* mowed upon him hy the French government (or his (lying record Muring the war. Apply a little carter oil to leat> r Turin lure and rub well to keep it from cracking. WE ARE ■ CLEARING THE DECKS Our building' has been used to The Charles Stor The balance of our stocks have been sold The Paragon Department Store. es air j To ( WE MUST MOVE The Charles Stores archi tects are here tins week— We must go. BUT Before we move and turn stock over to The Depart ment Store we (fre going to give the buying public a few more davs to buy at OCR WONDERFUL RE MOVAL SALE PRICES. HURRY, FOLKS, W E MUST CLOSE S A L E ROOM AND GIT. I THE PARAGON FURNITURE CO. BIGGER AND BETTER I 1 Our store will be bigger i land better than ever be 'I'fore after August First After that date vVe wilTacftf a complete line of Furni ture and Home Furnish* 3 infrs i In Order To Make Room | For our new lines we are t [forced to dose out our ( -present Basement Stock--* .You well know what this stock consists of and when iyou come to this sale Fri day, July 20th you will find hundreds cf new items— Greatest values ever offer ed in Shelby. Every item I must go at once—LOCK, STOCK AND BARREL. h r 31, THE PARAGON DEPARTMENT STORE Raskob Inherits Gary’s Mantle I I Recognized As Mpnk<*<m:«n of Hi* Business; Regan at *5 S YVerk • New York World) l A medium sized muscular men with a clear ruddy skin, finely (shaped iiead. plentiful brown ami I (tray hair, deep brown eyes In a i luminous face, long acquilwie nos», (.sensitive whimsical mouth, whose ! countenance is magnetic and br j speaks surety and strength, a close jjwrsonal friend of Governor Smith, a man who thiti,vyears ago wasnt worth a nickelr who made eighty millionaires in four years, a man you would pick out of any crowd— that is John J ttaskob, who is to run the Smith-Robinson campaign as Chairman of the Democratic Na tional Committee. He is chairman of the finance com mittee of the General Motors Cor poration and director of corporations employing more than 300,000 Moreover, he is vice president of the Association Against the Prohibi tion Amendment and that is why he can say with a good deal of consist ency of purpose that Prohibition will be the major issue of the 1928 campaign. An Unusual Career Raskob's career has been in its own way as unusual as Governor Smith’s, Probably nobody in Niag ara County. New' Yo"k, would have given a wooden nickel for his chanc es to win prominence back in 189a when an Alsatian immigrant, who was a cigarmaker. died in Lockpor: and left a soli and widow Johnny Raskob look >d at the world and found it much wider than th» cigarmaking ’'business Se lie en rolled in Clarks Business College and learned stenography, and when he got out he found a job at $5 pe • week, which caused the Lockpoit folks to pull their beards and ob serve that this Raskob boy was ar; up-and-coming young fellow and might some day be making as much as *40 a month. , However, John Rascob never was j satisfied with mere affluence and it was not long before he applied for a raise to $7.50 and got it Even that did not satisfy him and he looked afield, writing to an old chum. Sterling Bunnell, who had gone out to Ohio and was “showing promise according to the local papers. “There’s a man in Loran," wrote i Bunnell back, "named Pierre S. du Pont, who Is president of the John son company, and he is looking round for a secretary. You might write him.” First Letter to du Pont Thereupon John Rascob addressed a letter to Mr. du Pont, setting his own value at the staggering sum of $1,000 a year. When Lockport hear 1 about that there was more shaking of heads and pulling of beards. The idea of a mere stripling asking for something over $80 a month. But it must have been a good letter for Mr. du Pont wrote back for the young secretary to pack his bags and come on. and that was the com mencement of an association that has been as prosperous for Mr. du pent as for Mr Raskob. Raskob was just twenty-one when he went to Lorrain, O. A couple af years later du Pont bought a street railway down in Texas and the sec retary was named treasurer at a sal ary of $3,000 Next, Pierre S. du Pont moved to Wilmington, Del,, acting as Treas urer of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours company, and Raskob was made as sistant treasurer, finally becoming treasurer himself. and the vice president of the great chemical in dustry. Things went on very well for the Lockpoit boy. But his great stroke came in 1913 when he per suaded Pierre du Pont to join him in the purchase of 3.000 shares of General Motors stock, and as it turned out. the purchase gave the | two men control ol the great cor | poration. for about 160.000 shares l were evenly divided between two groups which were fighting for con | trol and Raskob and du Pont held the balance of power. Du Pont says today that he only bought the stock to stop Raskoo bothering him about it. Not Sure It Was Luck t It may have been luck, says Raskob, 'but who knows? We might have got in any way.” In any case these two men became so important in the affairs of General Motors that du Pont was made chairman of the board and Raskob became a di rector. Later on they bought large blocks of the stocks and Raskob was elected to head the financial com mittee, where he has since presided. Today Raskob more than anybody else occupies the position which the late Elbert H. Gary held for so many yeirs as the spokesman of big indus try. A word from him can send the stock market up or down. It was for Europe, he expressed the opin ion that General Motors stock would go to 300, and for days afterwards the stock climbed spectacularly. “They say that Carnegie made thirty millionaires over a period of years" he has said. “Well, we made eighty millionaires in four years in General Motors. “In 1923 we put into execution modern ideas of the relationship of capital labor and management, mak ing management as important as either, and working on the principle that brains should buy capital rather than capital should buy brains. “We induced eighty of our senior and junior executives to go into debt to buy General Motors stock. We got them to pledge themselves to buy $33,000,000 worth. They put up $5,000,000 and borrowed $28,000,000. That stock is worth today $253,000, 000, or so. All obligations hare been paid off and every one of those men. even the Juniors who cnly put In $25,000, are millionaires. Mow Principle Works “The reason the stock got so val uable and made these man million aires Is that they became owners and worked their heads off for suc cess. "It is a great principle of indus trial success today, that principle of making brains and brawn a pavt owner of your business, and therebv gett ng them to put all of their energy and intelligence and loyalty into the job. We help our laboring men to save and to invest in Gen eral Motors and we have no labor troubles. Not a drinking man himself! and the father of twelve children, rang ing in age from live to twenty-one. Mr. Raskob has been active in op posing the present prohibition provi sions. Only recently he explained his views in a public letter which concluded a* follows: "The menace of prohibitory laws is the spirit of intolerance underly ing their adoption and this is bound to result in rebellion. t 'Certainly I, as a citizen of the United States, am entitled to my opinions, as long as they arc hon estly conceived. "I have never owned and. as far as I know, none of my relatives, friends or associates owns any interest in any brcwry or distillery or is inter ested financially in any way. shape or form in this liquor question. As one of the chiefs of the ciu Pont company and its subsidaries and as chairman of the finance committee of General Motors, ’fie-* president of the General Motors Ac ceptance Corporation, director of the Seaboard National Bank of New York and of other corporations, John Raskob is one of the busiest men in the world, always cn the 3c between Wilmington and New' York and Detroit, but he finds time for spert. Both Mr. Raskob and his wufe— he married Helena Springer Green, of Maryland, whose family descended from Thomas Green, seccnd gover nor of Maryland—are Catholics and have been always active in religion. Last February he gave $500,000 to ward a fund of $1,500,000 for the church in Wilmington, pledging an other half-million if the other mem bers cf the diocese raised the bal ance. He is the father of twelve children, the eldest a bov of nine teen, was killed in an automobile ac cident only last week. Queen at Last This little daughter of the ex Kntpress Zita of Austria will never 1 t-et the crown to which she was horn. She cot another one the other day. however, when citizens of the little Spanish village of Le nueite. where the former Austrian royal family now lives, made her (lucvu of a rural uu». Too much sugar will prevent jelly from jellying. Tomato juice improves meat soups or stews. The Aviator Absolute dependability is aviation’s first law and that is why I use dependable Champion Spark Plugs. Champion is the better spark plug because if has an exclusive silll* mamtc insulator spe cially treated to with stand the much higher tentpesatures of the modem high-compres •ion engine. Also a new patented solid copper gasket-teal that remains absolutely gas-tight un der high compression. Special analysis elec trodes which assure a fixed spark-gap under all driving conditions. CHAMPION Spark-Plugs Toledo, Ohio 6tS if Stem MAKES DARING ESCAPE Transatlantic Pilot in Thrilling Exploit While War Prisoner. New York.—Capt. Herman Koehl, pilot of the Bremen, In the role of i leading spirit In a vain Httempt to escape hy n number of German offi cers from a prison camp in France is tbe subject of an article recently published hy the Mnnchener Xeueste Nachrichfen. This story apparently was written by a fellow-prisoner. It runs us follows: “At the time of the lively spring battles of litis, when everything was running under high pressure i on the western front, there was tie-1 llvered one evening to the officers’ prison at Montoire, in the heurt of France a Wurttetnburg captain of engineers, “At least that’s what he looked like. He was escorted by a small detachment of Frenchmen, with j fixed bayonets. There had been a 1 little comedy, too. Before the Her- ! man officer could enter the barbed wire . Inclosed courtyard, with Its comfortless barracks and horse stables, be must go through tbe of fice of the interpreter. There each German officer was sen relied for ar- 1 tides that might aid in an attempt to escape and was catechised about his personal service affairs. The 1 armed guards sat along the wall. ! The Interpreter, an elderly captain, Inquired about the prisoner’s height and the number of his children. A Bombing Aviator Arrives. “After this formality, tiie new ar rival entered tiie prisoners’ quar ters. A number of eager prisoners . were already lined up against the j barbed-wire fence in expectation j of meeting a possible regimental : comrade or of getting the latest news from the German front. But this time somebody quite unusual arrived. One saw a short, strong ly built man. with clearly cut fea tures and with the order of Four h» i Merlte around tiis nock. It was soon learned that he was a bomb- j ing aviator named Koehl. “He was shown into bis box, a 4 by (i meter room, with a field cot, j a chair, a table and a small bureau of the most primitive sort. With many other German officers of alt branches of tbe service, he bad to live in tbe big stables of a former breeding farm. At tins nine rue prisoners or Barrack L 3 were busy with a plan j to escape. A number of them who could not become reconciled to prison life and preferred to be in the German trenches or lighting in the air were engaged in digging a tunnel In order to gain their free dom by an underground route. After repeated attempts, they bad become convinced of the impossibility of get ting through the double lines of wire and past tiie pickets. Consequent ly, the road must be underground. It was estimated that one would have to tunnel from fifteen to twen ty meters. “Koeld at once became the lead er of the committee on flight. A short, wide plank was neatly re moved from the floor under a bed-, stead and a bag of sand was fas tened to the under side so that the Frenchmen, in tapping the floor, would not have their suspicions aroused by u hollow sound. “Then the working hours were fitted. Some prisoners stood watch, others laid to carry hags of sand i and still others had to toil under- j ground. Nude as Adam, with only bandages around elbows to protect them from the coarse gravel, one ; Jay on the ground and burrowed like n mole. At first two meters straight downward, then a direct tunnel toward the wall of the stock- ! ade. Scratched Gravel. “The Loire flowed close by the camp so that whenever the river rose a little one was lying In wa ter. And so one scratched out the hard gravel witli an iron leg of a bedstead or a can, loaded it. onto a little sledge and dragged it back ward to the foot of the shaft, where ■ i| was put into tiny sacks and point- ; M up. Then its was distributed In all sorts of places--umler the floor* that ,lay a little higher, in the roof i rafters that could, only lie reacted through tlie ceiling* In watering cans out to the humus covering of the garden. “After nine meters had been dug the rear part of the gallery fell in while a man was working at the head end. lie was buried alive. There was a fever of activity, and after wild digging his feet were reached. Soon lie was dragged out unconscious. He came to himself and lay on the bed while others were already at work bracing up the passageway against further j cave-ins. After an hour's rest the ; rear-end victim was again doing his j bit with the others. "There surely were plenty of min ing engineers and underground con struction experts on the job. All tbe cross-pieces and back parts of the closets and table drawers were used, but the fronts were left un touched, so that the French would not get suspicious. In short, every thing available was used. The only tools were table knives. And the work went slowly. “Many n day the advance was not a quarter of a meter. The tool makers constructed tiny mining lamps out of tin cans, for there were no candles to he had, and, as after a long period of tunneling It became difficult to breathe and even the lamps gradually went out. It became necessary to build an airpuntp out of water pails placed upside down. Its piston, which was pierced with air holes, was held firm while c worker moved Its cylinder tip and down. The air was carried to the digger at work through pipe? stolen from the heaters. Captain Koehl at Work. "And Koehl worked with the rest, now as a digger, now as dirt car rier, now as watchman. Suffering Love A Lake View (III.) hi go school pu pil defined a passive verb as “used when the subject is the sufferer, a. 1 ant loved.’ ” , oy^Aoi iiift mi fur ruiurr (SWumWIfl OK THE TimWcS IS EXPENSIVE FOR ENGLAND Custom* Official Osclarss That Halt Million Dollars in Rcvenu# Is Lost Annually. London,—Half a million dollars In revenue is lost annually by the British government its a result ot smuggling Into London by way of the Thames, according to the recent estimate of a customs otlleial. Although the smugglers and their accomplices ure said to In no way approach the American bootleggers when it comes to despen.te tactics, it is believed that only 10 per cent of l hero are apprehended by the au thorities. The authorities have admitted that the job of apprehending smug giers ii not an easy job, despite sar castic criticism of (lie futile effort? of American prohibition officers, and considerable study Is being given the matter of checking the evil. Since the ships which come nf the Thames usually carry the same type of cargo for the same con signees time after time, it is a Com paratively simple matter for the smuggler to get articles ashore. Goods which may he sold at a great profit In Kugland, such as perfume cigars, brandy and jewelry, art merely lowered over the side of tbs ship to lightermen friends who nr* regularly on hand to take deliver) of the overside cargo. It is pointed out that these latter may easily secrete smuggled goods on board their barges, which no cus toms official will ever search unless acting on Information. The barge is loaded and towed to some private wharf where the lighterman brings the pan el ashore and disposes of it at a profit which varies according to tire nature of the goods smug gled. This profit is split on a “fifty fifty” basis. The manner of approaching the smuggling problem will Ire decided within the nest two months, but il is as yet unknown whether the dras tic steps contemplated will include a careful and minute examination of ships, the Imposing of new pen alties, tire placing of great responsi bility upon the seamen themselves or all three. London Firm Building Speedy Armed Boats London.—High speed armed mo tor boats are being built here for an umynmed foreign power, according to the spokesman for John Thorny, croft company, the builders. Two other boats of this type which nave been completed for tht Dutch East Indies to serve under the Dutch naval flag, are an im proved development of the famou* coastal motor boats first used in the war. It is understood that those now building are not beiig constructed for the Dutch navy. The pur chaser's name has not been dls closed. The boats are 55 feet long ano do not weigh over 15 tons loaded. They are powered oy two 375 horse power engines and are capable ol doing 38 knots. Their beam is 11 feet, and the draught when station aty about 33 feet 3 inches. When under way a single step hydroplane lifts tlie bow Wear ol the water and they do not draw more than a few inches. Because of their high speed and shallow draught, they are particularly aduni ed for crossing mine fields. Two torpedoes, fitted with a spe dal releasing gear for dropping them astern when the boat is trav eling at full speed, are the chief fea tures of their armaments. They also carry Lewis guns and depth charges. The latest addition is the installation of a smoke screen form ing apparatus. A crow of three men is required to operate these bouts. Rebuked Parishioner for “Ungodly Strut” Portland, Maine.—The New Eng land preachers and church deacoap of np earlier day were frankly out spofepn. Even in their prayers they (lid not hesitate to become personal. One of these Puritanical exhortors named Moody was ordained pastor at York,.Maine, In the year 1700. A village blade bad publicly called at tention to some fine new clothes the minister was Wearing, so the pas tor stnged a “come buck.” In his prayer he said with a continually rising inflection, "And, O Lord! we pray Thee, cure Ned Ingraham ol that ungodly strut!” In dry spells it was not unusual to pray for rain. One Maine min ister is credited In ftie town rec ords with this phraseology: “O Lord, Thou knowest we do not want Thee to send us a rain which shall pour down in fury and swell streams and carry away our hay cocks, fences and bridges; but, Lord, we want It to come drizzle drozzle, drizzle-Urozzle for about a week. Amen!” Daughters of Peers to Dance for Hirohito Kyoto, Japan,—From the daugh ters of prominent peers eight young women have been chosen to per form the gosechina mal, or sacred dance, before Emperor Hirohito at the coronation ceremonies here In November. They have begun rehearsals at once for the ancient classical dance, which Is always performed at the enthronement of u Japanese ruler. Only daughters of peers between tiie ages of seventeen and twenty six may take part In the dance. The household department makes the se lect Ions. Special dressmakers appointed by the imperial household will make the dancers’ kimonos, wbTch will be crimson, embroidered with gorgeous dowers and birds. Biting Farewell From a story: “I’ve had a de lightful evening,” he said, as he bit her good-night.—Boston Transcript. fzm&m IN r_r 17 i i iiir WORLD OF SPORT ONG LAYOFF WON’T HELP Tl'NNr-V AMD HF.F.NF.Y REALLY HAS A CMA'fCH CHAMP IS CONFIDENT HOWEVER, AND SHOULD WIN BY PHILIP MARTIN ONK of the things thnf ranges in the realm of possibilities is n ■lefory liv Tom Keeney, the rugged challenger, in his coming fight with Mr. f'.ene Tunney at the Polo Grounds in New York on July 2fi. While the hip New Zealander is noi the favorite fo win at litis time and probably won't b<- when the zero hour arrives, you can't pet away front certain conclusions of numerous ones wise i:t the racket. ’ Granted that Tunney is biyPol and better than ever, as some of the boys are .savin*, and probably 25 per cent heftier with Ills punch ing, you can't side-step tlie fact that lleeney is one of those birds who fatten on punishment, and that Tunney lias boxed but 20 rounds since he won that title on a certain rainy night in Philadel phia two years ago this Septem ber. I lee in y is a tough baby. Don't forget that, and don't overlook the fact that this will be a 15-round bout. Gene hasn't stepped a 15 rotmder in some years. It is doubtful whether Gene can ship the New Zealander down and there is some question whether lie will he able to step lively for ) ;> rounds. On the other band, Heoney. lumbering fighter flint In- is. will tie hard put to combat the speed of Tunney. He doesn't Hit so ter ribly hard himself and lie'll learn when be faces Tunney that it is much hauler to hit a fast-moving chin like Tnnuev* than one of | these slow moving ones he has hasted 1" p; evtons fights here. • * . rpHEtiK prevails at Speculator, A N Y where Tunney la train tug, ns atmosphere far unnTlil ^Gra« . T*ftM7d(top> nntl '.Tom irom irp pnz^'ii^niinK bur one which, nevertheless!! breathes absolute confidence that'. Hip outcome or tho July 26 bout] will be a Tumiey victory. \ Tunney Is confident he will wltti; He was confident In the same man*; ner before the first Dempsey fighl although only one ar two writer*! thought be would weather the atlj tack of Dempsey. He was equally confident last; year. And you know he won hottf times just about as he said he would win. although In his light of last year there occurred a seventh round episode which had not been reckoned on. UN'.VEY, in talking with one »t 1 the writers at Speculator re cently. said he lost his ternpeY last September and that explain!* why he was knocked in that sill'*- posi tion in the seventh round. *’ * “Yon can't get angry iw this business.” he explained. "'Hut I was angry at Dempsey for that open letter and wanted to knock him stiff, and I forgot everything. And 1 got knocked down.” Perhaps those are not the words Mr. Tunney used in telling of that incident, lint, anyway, it surhs up what he said. rpflK Mg New Zealander, natur ally, thinks lie will win*, He couldn’t express any other belief lor the public perusal. He bases his belief on his rug gedness, his ability to take pun ishment, his—well, the fact that he lias been fighting consistently in recent months and Tunney hasn’t and winning means more to him. than it does to Tunney. We shall see *, Hut who do think will win? & Well, since tt ought t* *m imt&.iwm like—Tan ner (In * wkl»pew>^T • * * Cbstruc’.ivc Legislation I'ililntsferh.'g in parliamentary ; procedure is the milbtatioti *»’f time I in various ways'. usually by j speeches, in prevent ai t ion on a measure hefo*< a legislative body. Affording; fo an answered question in TJhertT. Importance ot 1 odays Tooay is a king in disguise. To day always looks mean to the thought less—in the face of a Uni form experience that .nil good and great and happy actions are made up precisely of these blank todays. —Ralph Waldo 'Emerson Oil Under Ocean? (Geologists Bsiy that the sourer beds of most oil fields are marine In origin, deposited millions of years ago. Through the ages oil of these sea deposits was eoiioeutnifed into pools that are now eing drained. Therefore it seem:* no reason whv tile in#(J of tlu- OCOA'i should not lie a -nuiTe of ftnure oil supply 6..-.-= -- QUEEN CITY COACH LINES FOR ASHEVILLE. 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