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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
Mobile—Thomas M. Cleveland, j
charged with murdering Stephen
Lossing, aged citizen of Mobile
county some time ago. goes on trial
for fourth time, after three mis
trials.
Montgomery —Lieut. Col. Charles
Jtf, 'Danforth, is appointed air com
mander of fourth corps area, in
cluding Alabama and eight other
states.
Hartselle —Citizens here will sub- j
scribg money with which to equip |
vocational department in new school ,
building being erected.
Heflin—Citizens nt this piece are
requesting Alabama Power Com
pany to extend power lines from
Oxford, to supply cotton mill to
be built here.
Columbiana—When Elijah Pardue
attempts to wed Miss Leola Hughes.
15, girl's father has Pardue placed
in jail. But Pardue makes bond
and gets out of jail in time to wed
on schedule time, despite parental
objections.
Tuscaloosa —Jack Mallette, who .
broke out of jail here some days |
ago, is still at liberty. His mot her.
Mrs. Margaret. Mallette, of Muncie,
Ind., charged with aiding her son
to escape by taking him 12 hack
saws, is in jail in default of $2,000
bond.
Camp McClellan—Over 900 mem
bers of officers training corps, rep
resenting every state in fourth corps
area, arrive for six weeks training.
Montevallo—J. P. Lowery, state
adjutant of American Legion, or
ganizes post here with 20 charter
members.
Uniontown. —First, cotton bloom of
season is brought to town by W. L.
DeSear and placed on exhibition.
Manchester —Leading citizens of
Walker county are making plans
looking to building big cotton mill
here.
FLORENCE. —Alabama Press as
sociation in annual meeting here
formulates plans for establishment
of permanent camp on southern
coast. New officers of association are:
W. R. Jordan, Huntsville, president: J.
S. Benson, Scottsboro, first vice, pres
ident; J. Z. McLendon, Luverne, sec
ond vice president; M. B. Darnell,
Florence, third vice president; S. W.
Stanley, Greenville, secretary-treas
urer; R. T. Greer. Sylacauga, editor
Alabama Press; Frank Willis
nette, Birmingham, historian; N. S.
Doster, Prattville, orator; Miss
Frances Golson, Wetumpka, poetess.
SELMA. —Major James L. Loving,
United States engineer, announces
he will not recommend use of gov
ernment barges for pontoon bridge
across Alabama river here, while
old bridge is being repaired,
TUSCUMBIA.—James M. Graham,
director state tuberculosis bureau,
completes ten days' campaign in Col
bert county in connection 1 with coun
ty health department.
MOULTON.—M. B. Mackey, man
ager of Lawrence County Farm Bu
reau, makes public data, showing
Lawrence county farmers have saved
much money by buying and selling
through the county bureau.
TUSKEGEE. ~???*Dr. Griffeth, in
charge of government hospital here
for disabled negro soldiers, is only
white doctor left at institution. All
other doctors are negroes.
MENTONE. Several thousand
Sunday school workers as
semble for several weeks' program.
GAXOSA. —Fire of unknown origin
destroys building here in which post
office is located.
GREENVILLE.—AII church de
nominations will co-operate in Meth
odist Sunday school conference, to
be held here in September.
COLU—I ANA.—Egg Marketing
association organizes second unit
here, first unit being organized at
Wilsonville.
GOOD WATER” McLeod Lumber
company, operating large lumber
mills here and at other points in
south hnd west, closes mill here
and may not resume business, it
is announced.
MONTGOMERY??? Alabama Off!-,
dal and Statistical Register for 1923,
published annually by state depart
ment of history and archives, is
just off press.
PRATTVILLE. Under auspices
of Autauga county farm bureau sev
eral hundred farmers and families
hold picnic here.
GREENVILI IL—?Entry of Ala
bama Power company’s electric lines
into Greenville will cause industrial
•boom, leading citizens say.
MONTGOMERY.—In raid by of
ficers on Joe Adams’ store at. Pic
kett Springs, ordinary gasoline curb
pump is found pumping white corn
whisky, instead of gasoline.
MONTGOMERY>Hay crop is
short this year in black belt, owing
to exceptionally cold winter, accord
ing to C. W. Rittenour, of Alabama
Farm Bureau Hay association.
TALLADEGA?—Tuscaloosa. Pres
bytery wins loving cup for best in
dividual points at Presbyterian
young people’s conference, held at
Shocco Springs.
TROY. —Dr. Coleman C. Daniels,
pastor of Methodist, church here, is
transferred by Bishop Candler to
IF BILIOUS, SICK!
TAKE NO CALOMEL
“Dodson’s Liver Tone” Straightens You Up Better Than
Salivating, Dangerous Calomel and Doesn't Upset
You—Don't Lose a Day’s Work—Read Guarantee
You're bilious! Your liver is slug
gish! Tot* feel lazy, dizzy and all
knocked out. Your head is dull,
your tongue •* coated; breath bad;
stomach sour ant? bowels constipat
ed. But don't take salivating calo
mel. It makes you sick, you may
lose a day's work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
■which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it up. Thai's
•when you feel that awful nausea and
cramping.
If you want to enjoy the. nicest,
gentlest liver and bowel cleansing
you ever experienced just take a
spoonful of harmless Dodson's TJxet
Tone tonight. Your druggist or
THE ATLANTA HU-WEEKLI JOthNAL
' First. Methodist church at Pensa-1
I cola, Fla.
TALLADEGA. —Chamber of com
merce takes on new life, and elects
George A. Sanford, of Memphis, i
Tenn., secretary.
GUNTERSVILLE?-First year of
commercial strawberry production in j
this county proves success. Eight |
carloads are shipped.
ALBANY. —Albany city council
i adopts new traffic code. Among
I other things new laws say', “no ve-
• hide will be allowed to race with
I fire engine.’’
DECATUR. —Turtle weighing 73
pounds is caught in fish net in Ten- ,
nessee river here. Its head is almost 1
as large as that of man.
SYLACAUGA. Benjamin John
son, city electrician, installs city
electric fire alarm system.
ANNISTON.—Owing to threats of
lynching, C. M. Myatt, and Frank
Welcher, young negroes, charged j
with assaulting white child near
Alabama City, are removed to Bir- !
mingham.
GADSDEN. —Widow of Booker T.
i Washington is elected president of
Alabama. Federation of Negro Wom
en clubs, at meeting here. |
GADSDEN. Flaming crosses,
such as used by Ku Klux Klan, mys
teriously appear at night in front
of county court house, Catholic
church and where rural highways
enter Gadsden.
MONTGOMERY. After three
years service as navy recruiting of
ficer here, C. A. Gardner, is ordered
back to sea. He will be on U. S.
Savannah, submarine flagship.
JACKSON. Work commences
here on brick business block for
McCorquodale Brothers, on site of
building recently destroyed by fire.
BIRMINGHAM. Announcement
is made that Southern railroad will
soon commence work on $400,000 of
fice building.
MOBILE.— Bayou Batre will
soon become third incorporated town
in Mobile county. Mobile*' county
is believed to be one of few coun
ties in south with 100,000 population,
and with only two incorporated
towns.
LINEVILLE. Mrs. Martha
Watts, 102, oldest resident of Clay
county, dies at home of her daugh
ter, Mrs. James Arnold, near here.
She used to relate many stories of
her girlhood association with In
dians.
HARTSELLE. —Mrs. Madge Wood
all, member of pioneer family, dies
after short illness.
MONTGOMERY. Rain falling
into kettle of boiling asphalt at
Hodgson and Jones Asphalt, com
pany’s plantcauses mixture'to over
flow. setting fire to building and
causing damage of SSOO.
FAIRFIELD.—Citizens of Fair
field will vote on $300,000 school
bonds.
WYLAM. —Steel Cities Chemical
company is making changes and re
pairs in its plant here, costing $50,-
.JO, _
BESSEMER.—FormaI opening of
handsome new home of Bessemer
Trust and Savings bank will take
place June 21.
JONESBORO. — Rev. A. B. Rat
son, 68, prominent Baptist minister,
dies here.
BIRMINGHAM,—Edward N. Cul
lum, 66, retired real estate dealer
and prominent citizen, dies.
MOBILE. —Market news bureau,
established here recently by United
States m.-.ket bureau, will be dis
continued about July 21.
ANNISTON. — While playing golf
, at Country club, Charles R- Bell,
president of Commercial bank, is
struqk in face with ball and his
nose broken.
MONTGOMERY.—Over half of
$25,000,000 worth of state highway
bonds, authorized by constitutional
amendment, are sold.
SHEFFIELD. —Citizens of Shes
. field subscribed $1,733, to pay inter
est on Colbert county hospital in
debtedness.
MONTGOMERY—D. T. Ware,
” member of state legislature from
’ Randolph county, is urging special
’ i session of legislature in interest of
j public roads.
, ' ALBANY. —Chamber of commerce
I entertained several hundred farmers
. at picnic here.
TALLADEGA.—Carson Smith. 7.
son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Smith,
s swallows part of toy balloon and
j dies of suffiocation.
YORK. Six Sumter county
youths are under arrest here, charg
ed with setting fire to plant of Rum
ley Planing Mill company, causing
’ loss of $30,000._
BIRMINGHAM.—Court action is
I taken by B. E. Stevens, trustee in
* 1 bankruptcy, for Walker Consolidat
’ ed Petroleum company, to collect
j $222,560,46 alleged due company on
promissory notes given for oil stock.
BI RM ING H AM.—Dorot h v White.
22, of Philadelphia, Pa., is arrested
1 for appearing on streets dressed as
t ! man.
SAMSON. — Walter Wilson, farmer
I near here, brings first home-grown
e ! watermelons to market.
-> i RAGLAND.—Summer school for
: dealer sells you a bottle of Dodson's
Liver Tone for a few cents under
my personal money-back guarantee
; that each spoonful will clean your
' * sluggish liver better than a dose of
nasty calomel and that it won't
make you sick.
Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver
medicine. You'll know it next morn
ing because you will wake up feel
ing fine, your liver will be working,
your headache and dizziness gone,
your stomach will be sweet and your
' bowels regular. You will feel like
' working: you’ll be cheerful; full of
■ vigor and ambition.
, Dodson’s Liver Tone is entirely
. ' veegtable. therefore harmless and
can not salivate. Give it to your
■ children.—(Advertisement.)
adults is organized near here, and
eighteen men and women have en
tered.
COLUM RANTA. —Central of Geor
gia railroad files condemnation pro
ceedings in local courts against
lands in Shelby county near here,
for purpose of straightning their
track and lowering their grades.
ONEONTA. —Service chib and citi
zens are asking Alabama Power
company to build transmission serv
ice line into this county.
BIRMINGHAM.—Gen. J. E. Hew
lett, well-known Confederate, is
elected brigadier for Alabama in For
rest’s cavalry corps, one of sub
organizations of Confederate vet
erans.
BESSEMER. — Remains of Mrs.
Myrtle Croker Reynolds. 22. who
dies at Montgomery, are interested
here.
M. J. Zirkle,
68, dies at home of relatives, and re
mains are sent to home at New
Market, Tenn.
WEAVER STATION. Louis
Clark, young farmer, is acquitted of
killing Jim Moore, negro farm hand.
CENTER VILLE.- —While Commo
dore Stewart is riding in wagon dead
tree falls on him, crushing skull
and causing death.
FAIRHOPE.—Chamber of com
merce is planning to get railroad
built into this resort and will co
operate with Mobile to bridge Mo
bile bay.
BIRMINGHAM?-John M. Bibb,
75, for more than 50 years super
visor of bridges and other construc
tion for Louisville & Nashville rail
road, is dead.
DEMOPOLIS. Miss Theodosia
Burr Vaughn, 80, member of promi-
Tient family, invalid for several
years, is dead.
’ BIRMINGHAM.—AIabama. Watet
company will spend $300,006 on im
proving their plants at Bessemer,
Anniston. Attalla, Jasper, Albany,
Decatur. Irondale, Dora, Greensboro,
Russellville, Boaz, Albertville, Girard
and Leeds.
HUNTSVILLE??? Attempting to
prove that his faith as “holy roller”
would make him immune, to bite of
rattlesnake, may cost Buddy Sim
mons, of near Hobbs Island, his life.
SOUTH CAROLINA
SPARTANBURG. News is re
ceived here that Carolina, Clinch
field and Ohio railroad has made ap
plication* to* interstate commerce
commission to issue $1,000,000 of
equipment certificates, proceeds to
be used for purchase of locomotives,
prior to lease of road to Atlantic
Coast Line.
DARLINGTON. Farmers ship
carload of poultry, schedule arrang
ed by J. M. Napier and Mrs. J. S.
Mclness, demonstration agents.
LAURENS. —"John D. Miller, col
ored, convicted of absconding with
SSOO of funds of local lodge, of which
he was treasurer, is sent to gang for
two years.
ANDERSON. John W. Thomp
son. 81, and Marshall P. Smith, 78,
both Confederate veterans, die with
in few days of each other.
CHESTER. County Democratic
executive committee votes down pro
posal to put. selection of county man
agers in primary.
SPARTANBURG. O, S. Lindler,
chief of police of Clinton, charged
with murder in connection with kill
ing of George Tucker, is placed on
trial for. second time.
HESTER. Mrs. Lottie Daw
kins, 77. dies at home of son, M. T.
Dawkins.
( OLLMBIA. —ln case before
state railroad commission brought
by H. H. Russell against. Southern
Public Utilities company, power con*
cern is directed to furnish power to
consumers in rural districts at same
rate as to urban users.
Spartanburg”— Rev. j. d.
Henderson is installed pastor of Sec
ond Presbyterian ch in ch here.
MULLINS. Ransom J. Williams
is sworn into office as new mayor.
COLUMBIA. William R Mar
ion, prominent young attorney, dies
at home here after desperate illness.
SPARTANBURG. Cedardale
Alice Korndyke Posch, seven-year
old Holstein cow, owned by V \l
Montgomery here, wins state pro’
duction honors for month, with 2.-
213 pounds of milk and 93.9 pounds
of butter fat.
MARION. A. S. Allen. charged
with killing twelve years ago of A.
F- Byrd, is found guilty of man
slaughter and sentenced to serve
six years in state prison.
COLUMBIA. Eight hundred
persons are innoculated against ty
phoid in one month, according to
local health officials.
CLEMSON COLLEGE. Fifty
Clemson students receive “black let
te,.‘o for success in sports during
1923-24 session, and five are present
ed two letters each, Charlie Robin
son, Gilly Dotterer, Pat. Harmon,
Gary Finkles and E. C. Sease.
COLUMBIA. Mayor W. A. Cole
man is appointed sergeant-at-arms
of national Democratic convention
i t oopen in New York June 24.
COLUMBIA.—John Rates, one of
most prominent planters of central
South Carolina, dies at home near
Wateree, Richland county, after ill
ness covering many months.
CAMDEN.—U. S. Senator N. B.
Dial, candidate for re-election, would
’’run for presidency if he had as
much egotism as Byrnes,’’ says J.
J. McMahan, candidate for Dial’s
seat, his reference being to Congress
man Byrnes, also candidate.
GREENVILLE. —Sam E. Hender
son, department store owner, who
mysteriously disappeared from here
J me 4, being found week later in
Hoopeston, 111., is brought back and
is in dazed condition, answering
questions only incoherently. War
rant charging him with forging
wife’s name to check on which he
secured $5,500 before leaving, is
withdrawn by bank.
ORANGEBURG.—Verdict of S4B,
507 is granted Finance and Guaranty
Company of Baltimore in suit
against B. B. Williams et al., amount
I alleged to have been due on mort-
• gages, notes and other papers.
COLUM BlA.—Governor McLeod
an tounces be will not interfere with
death sentence to be inflicted on
Sharlie Simuel. Spartanburg negro,
I scheduled to die in chair at state
• penitentiary. Friday, Jure 20. for
murder of Lemuel Long, another
negro.
DILLON.—McCallum McSwain,
, son of Dr. and Mrs. T. C. McSwain,
of this place, dies at Chattanooga,
; where he was in newspaper busi-
I ness. and body is brought back here
, tor interment.
COLUMBIA. —Chamber of com
I merce names committee to handle
: plans for new million dollar hotel.
• Already several finan 'ial concerns
I have offered to finance it and local
’ plans are considered. Harrv Cary
I heads committee.
LAURENS. —Mrs. Maggie L. Todd,
65, dies here suddenly.
WA LTERBORO.— Capt. J. E.
Moore, prominent in business and
in affairs of county government,
veteran of Spanish-American war
and head of prominent family, dies
at home here.
EDGEFIELD. —James B. Minic,
prominent, planter of Pleasant Lane
section, dies suddenly while sitting
on front porch. He is seized by se
vere pain near heart and in few min
utes falls over dead.
| SUMTER. Bootleggers drive fast
i automobile wildly through streets of
•city, chased by motorcycle officers,
'and causing consternation to pedes
' t.rians and motorists, finally escaping
ion highway towards Columbia.
BISHOPVILLE. S. L. Austin, of
i Bishopville, who died in Baltimore,
I is buried here.
! SUMTER. Margaret Ottherine,
j three-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Airs. Wilbur Prescott, of Concord,
section, is brought to hospital here
to have removed from throat nail
which child swallowed.
AIKEN. Commission of public
works lets contract for new city
! standpipe to R. D. Cole Manufactu
ring company, for $19,800.
GREENVILLE.”— J. L. McAlister.'
65, mill, worker, dies on way to hos
pital in automobile which ran him
down, driven by Tom Carpenter, son
of prominent family. Carpenter is
I exoerated of all blame.
GREENVILLE?-??MHfe of Deputy
' Sheriff J. C. Williams ’exhibits horn
! ed toad which she brings from Texas.
GREENVILLE?"??'J. H. Honour,
; 62. having served as mail carrier for
! thirty-five years, retires from serv
: ice.
GAFFNEY. Mrs. L. T. Ligon
dies in Asheville, few weeks after
death of daughter there.
SPARTANBURG??- City nf Spar
tanburg votes to employ city en
gineer.
GREENVILLE. Southern Power
company bring condemnation pro
ceedings against Etta Mills and G. T.
' Gillespie to get lower price on rights
' of way for power lines from Green
ville to Greenwood.
LAURENS. Richard Walker
steals horse anl escapes from chain
gang. He is recaptured and placed
on trial for larceny of livestocks, and
two years are added to sixteen re
maining months of original sentence,
i SPARTANBIJRG??L. A. Odom,
j attorney, announces candidacy for
legislature.
Sx’A RTANBURG.— Four new play
■ grounds open same day, with Mrs.
t S. N. Burts director.
. —School board sells
$50,000 of ponds new school.
GREENVILLE.— We don’t want
any more bobbed-hair girls working
! as cloth inspectors at large American
! Spinning company cotton mills here,
says W. C. McAbee, overseer of
.cloth room. “They bob their heads
about so much trying to keep hair
out of their eyes,” he says, “that
they can’t keep eves on their work.’
( HARLESTON. Governor Mc
| Leod and R. Goodvvyn Rhett, chair-
• man state highway commission, are
a tnounced as sjteakers for celebra-
i tion marking opening of Santee
i river bridge on July 22.
SPARTANBURG.—Second trial is
. ordered of case against O. S. Lindler.
; chief of police, of Clinton, charged
i with murder of George Tucker, in
i lower section of county last Novern
-1 her, whom Lindlar alleges he was
trying to arrest on liquor charge.
ORANGEBURG.—Campaign to ft
nance $50,000 Masonic temple pro
ceeds satisfactorily.
ORANGEBI RG.—Office of grand
i commander of Masonic body of
| state is conferred on Dr. W. R. Low
man at home here. At recent state
Masonic meeting- at Aiken he was
elected, but was ill in Ba’timore hos
pital at time and could not have
honor bestowed formally.
CHESTER.—Miss .Mar.v Crawford,
aged woman, dies at local hospital
from stroke of paralysis.
< LEM SON COLLEG E.—Prospects
are good for successful watermelon
crop this year, says Dr. W. D. Moore,
i plant pathologist, but now is time to
• spray plants against disease, he de
clares.
NORTH CAROLINA
ASIIEVILLE—Agricultural situa
tion in state and nation is chief
present problem and solution must
be found and made effective before
| prosperity ca nbe restored says Hugh
i Mcßae, of Wilmington, wealthy
planter and authority on agricul
tural problems. He declares eco
nomically unsound nation s policy of
directing principal efforts to build
ing up industry.
WII MINGtON-?MiTs Lucj Swan i
•ind sister. Miss Estelle, are painfully
hurt when their automobile is struck
by another driven by Fred McGray.
negro, who surrenders to police to
answer charge of reckless driving
JEFFERSON—Dr. .1. W. Colvard,
67, of Jefferson, well-known among
physicians of state, dies at. hospital
at. Richmond, Va., where he had
gone to attend graduation of son
at Richmond Medical college. Ho
practiced in Ashe county 40 years.
RALEIGH— Second Democratic
pr imary is declared necessary to de
termine nominees for lieutenant-gov
ernor, commissioner of laobr and
printing, commissioner of agricul
ture, and attorney-general.
ASHEV II,LE—So-called “farmer s
friend” who urges farmer to raise
smaller crops and hope lor higher
prices is not only not farmer’s friend
hut menace to nation's sound eco
nomic position, says c. P. Blaekwel:,
of Clemson Agricultural --ollege,
Clemson, S. U., addressing joint con
i vention of Southern and National
j Fertilizer associations, who explains
' reasons why sCtith should grow large
cotton crops.
i CHARLOTTE—CharIotte chapters,
j United Daughters of the Confed
j eraey, are making elaborate prep
| orations for entertainment ot North
• Carolina Confederate veterans,
| whose annual reunion will he hell
j here. September 16-18. Six hundred
| or more veterans are expected to
i attend.
GASTON I A—Deaver Fl a nnigan
' recent student at Presybterian col
'■•’ge. Clinton, S. son of Mr. and
I Mrs. G. D. Flannigan of Rowling
I Green, is drowned in South Fork
i ■ iver near Laboratory, after recom
; ing exhausted w hile seining. He
• struggled from grasp of father, at
; tempting to rescue him. Long
• search re« ,- Tts in recovery of body.
ASHE VI LLE.—“Despite existing
freight rates, state is prospering ex
ceedingly and opportunity knocks at
our doors, for North Carolina is at
tracting more favorable attention
than any other state in union.” John
D. Biggs, president, tells North
Carolina Bankers’ annual conven
tion.
SHELBY.—Needle works it way
. out through flesh of leg of M. C.
! Ellis and physicians express opinion
' he probably accodently swallowed it
many years ago.
REIDSVILLE. —Mrs. Erie Robin
son. 27, is seriously injured and has
narrow escape from death when run
down by freight train. She is taken*
io Greensboro hospital, where ampu
tation of foot may be necessary.
I WILSON.—Mrs. J. W. Brinkley
loads 14 children, guests at child’s
party, in her car; starts to drive
I hern home, and collides wuth motor
truck, all ot children being badly j
shaken up.
WAKE FOREST.—Wake Forest I
college board of trustees elect .1. A. |
Campbell, of Buie’s Creek, president
of board, succeeding Judge E. W. .
Timberlake, of Wake Forest, and M. '
I L. Kesler, of Thomasville, vice presl- i
dent, succeeding C. A. Norwmod, ot j
Goldsboro.
, ASHEVILLE.— Board of directors
|of Order of Railway Conductors,
meeting in July, will be invited to
i designate Asheville as place for hold-
I ing 1925 triennial convention, one of
• largest meetings of labor.
KINSTON.—Tried on charge of
Jabduction resulting from taking
; granddaughter, aged three, into her
i home to dress injury, Mrs. Nannie
j Emory, elderly resident of West
i Kinston, is acquitted. Charge was
• preferred by C. A. Wilson, child's
| father.
| CARTHAGE.—Judge Thomas J.
Shaw, of superior court, orders sale
of Randolph and Cumberland rail
road, now in receivers’ hands, and
names H. F. Sewell, of Carthage,
and R. T. Lawrence, of Lumberton,
as commissioners, date of sale to be
determiner later.
RALEIGH.-—Council of state ap
: proves Governor Morrison’s proposal
• to call legislature into special ses
sion to consider authorizing referen
dum on governor's stateowned ship
i line and port terminals proposition.
| and governor announces August 7
will be fixed as date for opening of
session.
ASHEVILLE. —Mr. and Mrs. Mar
cus Erwin instruct navy depart
ment to send to Asheville for inter
ment body of their son, Ensign
Marcus Erwin, Jr., one of the 48
members of the crew of T”. S. S. Mis
sissippi killed by explosion in tur
ret during rifle practice off Cali
fornia. coast. Erwin graduated last
June from Annapolis. Father is
member of state house of represen
tatives.
CHARLOTTE—C. Lane Ether
edge, wealthy auto dealer, is elected
president, and Dr. J. P. Matheson,
wealthy hospital ownei;, is vice pres
ident of Charlotte Speedway, Inc.,
capitalized at $300,000, which ex
pects to build brick and concrete
speedway near here and hold 200-
1 mile automobile race August 16, un
der auspices of American Automo
bile association.
RALEIGH. —Council of state sell**
$1.0,000,000 issue of highway and
public improvement, long-term 41-2
per cent bonds at $5,000 premium, to
yield 4.48 per cent, dated January 1,
1924, to First National bank of New
, York city and associates.
CONCORD.—Luther M. Barrier.
60, well-known and prosperous farm
er. dies suddenly whila resting on
porch of home.
RALEIGH. —Flotation of $2,000.-
000 sixty-day note, bearing 2 1-2 per
cent intrest, lowest rate for which
j state ever obtained money, is an
i nounced by State Treasurer Lacy.
First National bank of New York
city buying paper.
i ASHEVILLE. —“Cotton continues
I to be the money crop of Georgia.”
j because that state has solved boll
• weevil problem, and spirit of apti
! mism prevails throughout Georgia,
i North Caiolina Bankers' association,
i in convention, is told by J, S. Ken
nedy, vice president of Atlanta, and
Lowry National bank, of Atlanta.
GASTONIA. —Products valued at
$55,433,000 were produced last year
J by 97 textile mills in Gaston coun
ty. which consumed '903 bales of
cotton dally, and had daily payroll
! of $33,865, according to chamber of
I commerce industrial survey. These
mills are capitalized at $36,600,000.
DURHAM.—Mrs. Cyrus T. Thomp
|son, Jr., of Raleigh, wife of promi-|
nent insurance man, is in serious con- •
Idition at local hospital, suffering
I from injuries sustained in automobile
; collision.
HIGH POINT. New Hampshire
■secretary of state, in letter to eham
hor of commerce, asks for informa
tion on policies for industrial devel
i oprnent.
ELIZABETH CITY. Yictor Mee
jkins, of Elizabeth City, announces
j history of Roanoke Island soon will
i be published.
SHELBY. Federal Judge E. Y.
Webb, of western district, sails July
19 for London, accompanying daugh
ter, Miss Elizabeth Webb, one of five
American delegates to world student,
activities conference. She is only
woman delegate and only southern
delegate.
RALEIGH. —State Senato? Charles
U. Harris, of Raleigh, renominated
by Wake county Democrats, an
nounces candidacy for president pro
tern, of senate.
DURHAM. Blackwood Construc
tion Co., of Durham, is awarded con
j t ract for construction of Durham’s
million-doilar hotel, work to be un
| Jertaken immediately.
RALEIGH —R. W. (Sport) Weaver,
lof Raleigh, escapes from convict
j camp, where he was serving two-year
! sentence for violating prohibition
laws.
WINSTON-SA I,EM’—Total of sl,-
; 390,020 was collected by city last
I year, according to report to alder
[manic board, which shows gain of
[5200,000 over previous year.
RALElGH.—National N>gro Fi
. nance corporation, of Durham, with
[ $1,000,000 authorized capital, lj
chartered by secretary of state. In
corporators are R. R. Moton, presi
\ dent of Tuskegee institute, Alabama;
[ Fred Moore, of New York City; C,
I C. Spaulding, of Durham, and others.
ROCKY MOLNT??After attacking
[ Charlie Price, who two days previ-
I ously married step-daughter despite
[ vigorous protest, slashing him seri-i
i ii fly with knife. Emmett Koonce.
37, textile worker, ’“pently ot Kins
ton. blows out brains with shotgun
while standing on street corner aft
er inneffectual pursuit of Price and
bride, inveigled into Koonce home,
police report.
CHARLOTTE.—News is recciven
here of death at Lexington, Va., of
Dr. J R. Howerton. 54, professor
of philosophy at Washington and
Lee university, former pastor, 1896
to 1906, of First Presbyterian
church here, where relatives reside.
CHARLOTTE.—Not guilty is ver
dict in Mecklenburg superior court
in case of Raleigh Erwin, 18, mem
[ ber of prominent Gastonia family,
j charged with manslaughter, result
of death of S. R. Nivens, bit by
automobile.
RALEIGH.—Nort? Carolina Assn
< iarion of Insurance Agents holds
annual cor.' ention, June 1? 20.
DURHAM. —More than 600 women
are ateeding summer school at
Trinity college.
CHARLOTTE??More than $250,.
000 will be needed to pay interest
this fiscal year on city’s bond issues
and $191,900 as part payment on
principal, officials announce.
CHARLOTTE. — Board of trustees
of Queens college, Presbyterian in*
stitution for young women, author
ize, campaign to raise $450,000 fund
for endowment and construction of
dormitories.
MURPHY. —Dr. George W Truett,
noted Baptist minister, native of
Murphy. Kill deliver series of lec
tures here, this summer.
EDENTON.—Ferry across Chowan
river between Emporia and Eden
house is placed in operation, con
necting four of state highway sys
tem’s important trunks. Concrete
bridge costing $2,000,000 is proposed
by commission to later replace ferry.
FAYETTEVILLE. Perhaps 25.-
000 persons are expected to attend
July 4 military and sports celebra
tion at Fort Bragg, which is being
arranged by joint civil and military
committee.
GOLDSBORO.—Ten-story Wayne
National Bank building is completed.
JEFFERSON. —Survey is being
made by Norfolk and Western rail
road with view of extending branch
line from Deep Gap to Darby.
RALEIGH.—State and federal de
partments of agriculture are co
operating in study of cost of pro
ducing cotton in vicinity of Benson,
N. C.. with view of obtaining ac
curate information.
SALISBURY. —Second Presbyteri
an church building is dedicated, ser
mon being' preached by Rev. C. B.
Heller, pastor for ten years.
GOLDSBORO—J. J. Padgett, car
penter, is seriously injured by fall
from scaffolding on new Community
building.
CHAPEL HlLL—With E. D.
Broadhurst, of Greensboro, presiding.
North Carolina, university class of
1899 holds reunion, about 50 mem
bers being present at banquet.
PURCHASIiyG AGENT
ADVISEU FDR STATE
IN SLATES REPORT
Recommending the establishment
of more efficient methods of han
dling the state's finances, that Is, of
I disbursements, purchase of supplies
for all departments and institutions,
and the method making appropria
tions, the. state auditing department
has submitted its first, annual report
to Governor Walker. The report, pre
sented by S. J. Slate, state auditor,
' embraces a wide range of subjects
! and its recommendations are based
lon a. study of conditions as found
j by the auditors in their investigations
1 since the establishment of the de
i partment at the last session of the
legislature.
Mr. Slate recommends that the au
diting department be charged with
the issuance of state warrants, de
claring that unless this is done, the
auditor will be unable to prepare for
the payment of large appropriations.
The appointment ot a. purchasing
agent is also recommended, it being
declared that the state could save
upward of $50,000 annually by pur
chasing its supplies through one
agency. This system would entail
the standardization of various sup
plies for the several departments and
institutions.
Special Funds Advised
All money collected for the state
should be paid into the treasury at
frequent intervals, says the report,
and special funds should be made
out of all fees, licenses or taxes al
located for special purposes.
The auditor emphasizes the need
for the legislature to realize thaat it’
is not only the custodian of the
state's money, but is charged with
the duty of maintaining the state's
credit, and should impress upon the
various departments and institutions
the necessity of living within the
available income.
Self insurance for every institu
tion owned by the state is recqm
mended by Mr. Slate, who point?
out that this system is used to ad
vantage by many states. Under the
self insurance plant, the state sets
aside each year the amount of money
it would pay in insurance premiums
re-investing the fund from year to
year and paying out of it all losses
sustained by fire. He calls atten
tion to the fact that within the next
year or two Georgia will be paying
between SIOO,OOO and $125,000 in fire
insurance premiums. This sum, re
invested from year to year, would
be ample to sustain the self insur
ance plan, he declares.
School Warrants
Change in the system ot handling
school warrants also Is recommend
ed by the report. At‘present school
warrants amounting to approximate
ly $3,000,000 annually are discount
ed far in advance. It is proposed that
the governor be empowered to issue
short term notes for $3,000,000 and
that his borrowing power be in
creased to that amount. Then the
public schools could be paid from
month to month as is done with the
other state institutions.
It 's also recommended that the
governor and treasurer should have
rhe power to use whatever funds
may be in the treasury to meet ex
penses, whether or not those funds
are .specially allocated.
“It is bad policy for the state to
have possibly a million dollars in
the treasury allocated for certain
purpose® and then for the state toi
have to borrow $500,000 and pay in
terest on the same,” says the re
port.
Maintenance of public buildings,]
and particularly maintenance of the t
state capitol, which is falling badly |
into disrepair, constitutes one of the ,
important recommendations of the i
report, which also urges the legisla- [
ture to provide additional facilities
for the auditing department.
Practice Shot at Barn
May Have Been One
That Killed Neighbor
GREENVILLE. S. C.. June 18.—
Marvin Hawkins, 38, suburban mer
chant, was shot through the head
and instantly killed while working in
his garden here Tuesday. C. F.
White, local insurance agent, who
was last seen with Hawkins before
his death, was held in the county
jail for several hours, only to be re
leased when R. A. Norris, neighbor
of Hawkins, told officers he believed
Hawkins had hern killed from a
■stray bullet fired from his (Norris’s)
pistol.
Norris reported to Sheriff Rector
SATURDAY. JUNE 21, 15)24.
CHAPEL HILL. —Alumni associa
tion of North Carolina university
"has passed from stage of ‘pulling
university out of hole' and now can
plan to prevent university from ‘get
ting in the hole,’ ’’ says address of
Daniel L. Grant, secretary, mailed
to 11,000 association members.
ASHEVILLE. Farmers’ federa
tion sets June 28 as date for formal
opening of six-story, $125,000 ware
house. Top floor will be devoted to
milk-feeding of chickens, beingequip
ped for feeding 2,500 friers. Fed
eration expects to do $750,000 busi
ness this year.
SALISBURY. Checks totalling
$150,000, representing 20 per cent
payment to depositors of defunct
Peoples National Bank of Salisbury,
are mailed by Receiver J. E. Fouts.
SALISBURY.—Henry* Foard, 70,
well-known farmer, dies after suf
fering stroke of paralysis.
RALElGH.—Proposed child labor
amendment to federal constitution
recently enacted by congress is op
p ised in resolution adopted by Lions
clubs’ state convention after vigor
ous debate.
CHARLOTTE.—J. E. Dy P returns
home after atetnding annual con
vention at. Richmond, Va., of South
ern Retail Furniture Dealers’ asso
ciation, of which he was elected
president and which will meet next
year at Raleigh, N. C.
FAYETTEVILLE—J. W. Young,
traveling salesman, of Greensboro,
•N. C., is found dead in bed at hotel
and coroner's jury holds his death
caused by dilation of heart result
ing from excessive drinking of flav
oring extract.
ASHEVILLE. North Carolina
Bankers’ association, in annual con
vention, elects S. A. Hubbard, of
Asheville, president Thomas H.
Shipman, of Brevard, Frank F. Fa
gan, of Rocky Mount, and E. E.
Jones, of Charlotte, vice presidents;
H. G. Kramer, of Elizabeth City,
and Paul P. Brown, of Raleigh, re
flected treasurer and secretary, re
spectively.
OLOmCKOBVCASE
BROUGHT TD FORE
IN DAUGHERTY RUIZ
■ ■ ■
WASHINGTON, June 18—Offi
cials of the department of justice
continued today the defense of their
administration before the senate
Daugherty investigating committee
with the Old Hickory Powder com
pany case, at Nashville, Tenn., as
suming a position of prominence.
John W. H. Crim, former as
sistant attorney general, was re
called, while Henry W. Anderson,
head of the war transaction section
of The department, and his assist
ants, also were examined on the
subject.
George W. Storck, an accountant
for the department of justice, who
was assigned to a preliminary in
vestigation of the case, declared he
had reported to Mr. Crim that the
government should recover between
$5,000,000 and $20,000,000 from the
Dupont Engineering company, if it
obtained evidence which he said was
in existence. ITater, he said, he
found his confidential report in the
possession of attorneys for the Du
ponts.
Mr. Crim flatly denied that he
had furnished or caused to be fur
nished to the Duponts the Storck
reports, as did Mr. Anderson.
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon
tana, the committee prosecutor, and
Senator Jones, Republican, Wash
ington, read extracts from Storck’s
testimony, given the committee sev
eral months ago, in which the ac-‘
countant declared Crim and Ander
son were present at conferences
with the Dupont representatives in
which Storck found out that the Du-'
pnts had his memoranda. The two
witnesses both said they considered
Storck mistaken, although Crim
said he considered Storck ‘‘one of
the best men in the government
service.” *
Crim told the committee he had
regarded Storck’s findings “as most
serious," because the "people in
volved were powerful.” He said he
endeavored just before leaving of
fice to get the case organized for
prosecution. The furnishing of the
information to the Duponts about
what the government was working
up was “precisely what Anderson
and I were trying to prevent,’’ he
said.
Anderson explained the system
adopted in the department of jus
tice for considering civil suits in
war fraud cases. His own attention
for many months, he said, had been
taken up with the preparation of
the chemical foundation proceed
ings.
Arkansas Legislature
To Vote on Child Labor
Law in Special Session
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 19.
Arkansas probably will be the first
state to pass on’ ratification of the
child labor amendment recently sub
mitted by congress.
The general assembly will meet
in extraordinary session next Mon
day, with ratification of the new
amendment one of the seventeen
subjects submitted by the g<»*ernor
for consideration.
Action on the ratification proposal
probably will be taken next week,
while legislation for relief of the,
public schooTs of the state is being
framed.
Boston Woman to Win
Psychic Power Prize
NEW YORK, June 19.—A Boston
woman, unknown to the public, has
been giving remarkable exhibitions
of psychic power, and not improb
ably will be awarded the $2,500 prize
offered by the Scientific American,
for proof of 'genuine psychic phe
nomena, J. Malcolm Bird, secretary
of the magazine’s committee on i
psychic investigation, announced [
yesterday.
The woman. who*-e name is not
disclosed, never has exhibited her
powers in public, or for money, Mr.
Bird said.
“Her demonstrations are infinitely
more convincing than any of the
others,” he stated. "If she wins the
prize I think her name must be
made public and a public demonstra
tion given.’’
that he had fired a pistol in practice
at a small building in his own yard
at the approximate moment when ,
Hawkins fpll dead, nearly two hun
dred yards away. Norris wag not
arrested.
PROSECUTION RESTS'
IN TRIAL OF PHILIPS
ON FRAUD CHARGES
WASHINGTON, June 18. The 4
prosecution rested today in the al
leged lumber fraud conspiracy case
and counsel for the six defendants
made separate motions for an in
structed verdict of acquittal. Justices
Bailey excused the jurors until Mon
day morning and allowed counsel un
til tomorrow morning to prepare
their arguments.
Justice Bailey asked government
counsel for a. statement tomorrow of
the evidence on which the prosecu
tion seeks to hold John Stephens, of
Jacksonville, Fla., who was a part
ner with John L. Philips in the con
tract with the United States to dis
pose of the surplus lumber, and Er
nest C. Morse, former director of
sales of the war department X
Justice Bailey also suggested that
the indictment seems to charge two
conspiracies, one to obtain a con
tract by which Philips and Stphens
were to sell the lumber and one'un
der which they were to get secret
profits, and another by which the ac
cused conspired to obtain the release,
by collusion with department agents,
of lumber as surplus which was need
ed for governmental '
less it was claimed that all
fendants conspired, the justice sara,)
he wanted counsel for the govern
ment to be prepared to argue the
question if there were not two con
spiracies charged.
Bolivar T. Reamy, of Heflin, Va.,
was the last witness offered by the
prosecution. He was a former army
officer and acted as vice chairman
of the ordnance salvage board at De
troit, Mich. He told of visiting
Philips at the latter’s apartment in
Detroit, anri testified Philips told him l
he was getting half of the profits on.
the resale of the lumber but. had
“to take care of the boys in Wash
ington.” Philips told Reamy to for
get. the conversation and the witness
"would be taken care of.”
Impeached Governor’s
Wife Enters Texas i
Gubernatorial Race
TEMPLE, Texas, June 18.— (By
the Associated Press.)—Fighting for
'•vindication of her husband at the
hands of Texas voters, Mrs.’ Miriam
A. Ferguson, wife of former Gov
ernor James E. Ferguson has launch
ed her candidacy for the democratic
nomination for governor.
Her husband was impeached in i
1917 and barred from holding public
office. Mrs. Ferguson formally l
opened her campaign yesterday with I
an appeal to citizens of the state
to support her in order that the
family name may bee leared. (
She announced she was adopting
the platform announced by her hus
band before th e courts ruled that
he could not be a. candidate.
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Rutherford Candidate
For Congress m Sixth 1
FORSYTH, Ga., June 19—Colonel .
Samuel Rutherford, of Forsyth,
formally announced Wednesday as
a Candidate for congress from the
Sixth district to succeed J. Walter
Wise, of Fayetteville. Mr. Ruther- J
ford has represented Monroe county
in both branches of the general as
sembly and is a member of the low
er house now. He is a well-known
lawyer, former banker and has
large farming- interests in this sec
tion. '
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