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2 NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS ALABAMA * ' SYLACAUGA. William Moody, p.young, son of William A. Moody, 4 '.editor of Sylacauga Advance, aeci y dfently shoots himself while out hunt ox ing. He is at hospital here in serious condition. ALBANY'. — Miss Novie Lawrence, ’ 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. N. ... Lawrence, is seriously burned when her clothing catches fire at open grate. DECATUR. New educational bill for Morgan county is declared un constitutional. This ousts members of new board of education and rein states old board members. TUSCALOOSA. —Remains of Sam uel W. Dubois, 48, who died in New York from burns received when ... apartment house burns, are buried , here. MONTGOMERY. State highway! ' ‘ commission awards contract to .1. Monaghan, of Pelham, Ga., to build bridge over Coosa river near Lees burg, for $62,681.50. ATTALLA. Attalla commences drive to raise funds for community Christmas tree. MOBILE. —Judge B. Connaughton, of Hamilton, 0., is arrested at Cin ' cinnati on federal grand jury indict t '■' nients found at Mobile. His arrest , makes nine prominent men now un der arrest on liquor charges return ed by Mobile federal grand jury. —e FLORENCE. Fire of unknown origin causes several thousand dol “ **lars damage to traffic, bridge across Tennessee river between Florence jtnd Sheffield. & HUNTSVILLE.—Race for distinc <?rtidn of being largest cotton produc county in Alabama now lies be- Madison and Elmore, accOrd- Ll-OTg to ginning figures. For many years Madison led. ... .MOBILE. — Remains of John Kel . logg. buried at Halls Mill in 1917, 't?are dug up and carried off by van dals. Scratched on tomb are nu , xnerals “$50,000.” Officers believe • ’-persons searching for buried treas- ure are responsible. RUSSELLVILLE. Mary, 5, • of Mr. and Mrs. AVill is burned to death when clothing catches from open grate. JIUBURN.-By laying 169 eggs in weeks ten White Leghorn hens, JXS©’ l -d by Hollywood Poultry farm, JjCKWoodville, led in national egg-lay demonstration in progress here. .'SJSfcEFO RM. T. Johnson, 22, charged with slaying of John Sparks, 14, is denied bond. TUSCALOOSA. —• Monroe Mor j, lou, 54, dies of injuries sustained in , . automobile accident, near here. HARMONY. Ruptured blood , vessel causes death of Alex McNeil, - well-known citizen. , UNIONTOWN.—Home of Mrs. A. , 8. .Corcoran is destroyed by fire at ■loss of $5,000, with $3,000 insur lance. SELMA.— Will Barris, of Rock . West, purchases ante helium home, j-’ qf Mrs. Angus McDowell here. Home ;.;'>.W tains much antique, furniture. 'E.—Springfield school :;;S’, yire anti .Sweetgum schoolhouse, lo ,“s'.'.'lt<d in this county, are both burn- within twenty-four hours. . .... HEEL!N.— Romains of A. A. Hay wood, accidentally shot and killed , by Fred Birmingham, " are interred h<ns’.:"J “ 1 HEFLIN.—Mrs. Ella Ross Moore, fifty-five, dies at her home here afU er long illness. '■ GADSDEN.— Iron furnace No. 1 of Sloss-Sheffield company, which . has been closed down for some time, ‘Will be blown in by January 1. ; ATTALLA.—Now city ordinance ' gives mayor right to suspend license J to operate automobiles (or from one ! to twelve months in case of traffic violations. < HAMILTON.—Saw mill of Frank 1 Morrow, near bore, is destroyed by fire of unknown origin. No insur ance. MONTGOMERY.—A. 11. Feagin is 1 appointed assistant division engi : peer of state highway department of Alabama. MONTGOM liTrY.—State highway ; commission agrees to build fourteen , mile stretch of Bankhead highway ’ in Marion county, between Hamil- 5 ton and Guin. j MONTGOMERY.—County super- < intendents of education from all ’ parts of state confer here on illiter- • ncy work next summer. TROY.—J. A. Killingsworth, sev enty-four, well-known citizen and church man, dies at his home here. HUNTSVILLE. —Fire, which start ed in coal bin in basement destroys ' Grand theater with loss of $20,000. r DEMOPOLIS.—John C. Webb, . compress and warehouse operator and one of largest land owners in Marengo county, dies here. MONTGOMERY?— H. L. Mims asks permission of Alabama public service commission to establish pub lic toll ferry on Coosa river, one mile north of Lock 12. ‘ DECATUR. —• Unlimited rock , asphalt found in Morgan county proves first-class. Southern Asphalt ■ company controls 2,000 acres asphalt lands, and will build factory at Flint. ’ MONTGOMERY.—Henry F. Reese. < of Selma, is elected grand master of J grand council of Alabama Masons, ’. succeeding Barry C. Creily, of Bir mingham. > —General W. L. Sibert ; completes his first year as chair . man-engineer of state docks commis { Mon. during which state has got j nearly all lands needed. ; FLORENCE.—Twenty-eight young I Women and three men receive di i 'fl omas from Florence State Nor- > mal school here. ; TUSCALOOSA—Body of Leath ! V illiams. who died at Breckenridge, ; Tex., is sent here for interment. , MONTGt )MERY - - Robert M. 1 <;hatnbless. charged with first de ! epee murder for killing Alonzo H. t Graves, is acquitted by jury. '• m N I'cA 11. LE. James Jones. ’ well known farmer of near Elk . wood, dijs after long illness. , MARION. Fire originating in 1 naming mill destroys entire plant ot < ■ L. Bailey I.umber eomapny. with • exception of commissary, with loss j of $60,000. BIRMINGHAM. Several Birm ingham dealers are charged with selling cold storage e ggs for fresh . eggs, in violation of state law. SELMA.—Dallas county board of ’. revenue contracts to lease county ; convicts to i’rutt Consolidated Coal ; < ompany of Birmingham, com- I mem ing De. ember ’ Wage scale ; runs from sls to $22.50 per month. • MOBlLE.—Charles’ Clark, owner j of dairy on Lot; toad near here, re- I pot:? to sheriff s office that 21 -row? vse-e stolen from his dairy dur- night. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL SOUTH CAROLINA — Moderate increase in attendance and marked increase ■in expenses of public schools of state are i eported for scholastic year ending June 30 by' Power YY. Bethea, statistician of state board of education. COLUMBIA.—Rapid fluctuations in prices of gasoline and coal will be investigated early in new year, with beginning of new administra tion of Attorney General Daniel. Fol lowing recent meeting of gasoline dealersr of state, price of auto fuel jumped two cents per gallon over night. ROCK HILL?— Rev. W. R. Alex ander, pastor of First Baptist church of Rock Ji ill. receives call to Baptist church, of Stanford, Texas. ANDERSON. Grady Evans is held on charge of shooting Thomas Bagwell, whom he wounded with pistol when tinder influence of whisky, not having seen Bagwell be fore. Bagwell will recover. COLUMBIA—State railroad com mission announces hearing in Co lumbia for December 16 on fertilizer freight rates. LIBERTY.— Home of J. P. Odell, prominent farmer of Flat Rock com munity, is destroyed by fire, with three outbuildings. CHESTER. —Chester county board c-f directors abolish rural police sys tem. GREENY ILLE. —E. A. Thomas, of Mountain City, Ga., makes efforts to reclaim body pf daughter, known here as Dorothy Dodson, who was mysteriously shot at home of friend at Greer in October. GREENVILLE.—SamueI D. Pat rick, well-known farmer of Dactis ville, Pickens county, dies in city hospital here after two years o f failing health. ROCK HlLL.—Merchants of Rock! Hill, discuss plan to establish “black-! list of poor-pay customers. , A^D^ SON -—Rev. E. C. White breaks his record in marriages for one month, uniting sixteen couples during November, he reports. Four marriages were performed one Sun day. NORTH.—J. N. Sistrunk dies in 1 hospital in Columbia, after long ill- I neSs. ROCK HILL.— Dr. D. B. Johnson, I president of Winthrop college, here, ■ is elected president of state Sunday! school association, to succeed Rev. ! Watson B. Duncan, Methodist min ister of Cheraw, who resigns be cause of “friction” between his de nomination and interdenominational Sunday school organization. GREENWOOD.—Che Ha Comba hee company, composed of Green wood business men, sells pine timber rights on 9,000 acres of land in Colle ton county, 30,000,000 feet of timber; being estimate of possible produc- 1 tion. J?OCK HlLL.—Emory A. Holler, i 55, of Rock Hill, dies at hospital in I Columbia. NEW BROOKLAND.— Four voting 1 men, Charlie Driggers, M. D. Spig ner, Henry Martin and Forrest I Walker, white, are held here on | charge of stealing 200 quarts of! Scotch and Canadian whisky and twenty-four gallons of corn whisky! from jail here. COLUMBIA.— Wade Bellow, who escaped from state penitentiary here early in 1923, when serving long term for killing chief of police of Easley, after having made two un-1 saccessftjj. escape. i s cap-1 t tired ar IWM an d brought back! to state prison Here. COLUMBIA.— Louis Well, 55, re tired merchant, dies at home here. GREENWOOD.—Fire of unknown origin destroys mess ball at Bailey Military Institute here, with loss of much government property, includ ing rifles, ammunition, tents and cooking utensils. DILLON.—South Carolina Confer ence ot Methodist Episcopal church, south, meets here, with Bishop Got lins Denny, of Richmond, presiding. WARE SHOALS.—T. P. Rook, Confederate veteran, dies at home of niece, Mrs. W. W. Gaines, here. }ORK.—Judge M. L. Bonham, of Anderson, presides over Civil court here. AI>BE\ TLLE,—Large feed and liv ets liarn here, owned |>y McKenzie A Johnson, is destroyed by fire, entailing loss of $5,000, including two 1 mules, several head of hogs and ! quantity of feed. COLI MBlA.—Slash pine is good prospective crop for South Carolina, { according to Henry H. Tryon, exten- | sion forestry specialist of state, who delivers address here. GABLE.—I nited States Senator elect Cole L. Blease and State Super intendent of Education J. H. Hope speak at opening of new high school here. 1 GREENY ILLE.—More than 10,000 gallons of whiskeys were seized by federal prohibition agents in state during November, according to re port issued here by Lloyd Il?Grandy, federal prohibition director for state. EASLEY.—P? IY McDaniels, chief ot police of Easley, loses barn near town by fire, with loss of two cows, several hundred bales of hay ami quantity of corn and fodiler. DILLON. New federal buildings heie to cost $75,000 and in Lancaster to cost .$122,000, are provided in bill before congress, according to advices here. BISHOPVILLE.—3Irs. Martha K. I. Brown, of this county, dies at home near here from apoplexy. CORONACA. Benjamin Franklin Mixon, 70, dies suddenly at home here. A LI.ENDAI.E. First National bank of Allendale closes doors here, j by order of comptroller of currency! • It is understood liabilities exceed as- • sets by $40,000. ; 81 AR I ANU RG.—Flans are com- i pleted here for 104th annual session of Baptist siate convention here De | eember 9-11, with Dr. A. T. Jamison, ! of Greenwood, president, in chair. < HARLESTON—Tristram T. Hyde, of Charleston, former rnavor ami for mer president of Baptist state con vention, is placed on trial in U. S. court here on charge of violation of national banking laws in connection vvith tailure of defunct t'omrnercial National bank, of which he was president. SPARTANBURG.- J. T. Dillard, ; grocer, dies in hospital, after being I found with shotgun wound in head on floor of store, and coroner's jur> declares he came to death at hands : of parties unknown. Earnings of Southern For November Decline NEW YORK. Dec. .6, A prelimi narx report of the Southern railway's ' earnings for November shows a de- I cline of 5902.455 to $15,775,000. com j pared with November U ( <st x , For the eleven months th-' total of SI 70. ■•'hi.t.'i was a decrease of $'1.2V''.277 I under the same period of 1923. NORTH CAROLINA PINEHURST. North Carolina ! Cotton Manufacturers’ association's ! president, E. C. Dwelle, of t'liar ! lotte, appoints committee of three 1 to negotiate with tobacco, furniture land other large industries of state j in effort to raise big fund to fight ; proposed federal constitutional ! amendment regulating child labor. I RALElGH.—Committee to inves- I ligate financial system of state edu- I cational system meets with A. T. I Allen, state superintendent of edu ' cation, when expenditures are dis- I cussed and several plans for rcor ganization of department's financial policy on which action is deferred. MOUNT AlßY.—Democratic party assumes control of Surry county af fairs, when officials succeed Re publicans, all county offices being now held by Democrats for first time in 32 years. RALEIGH.—One of principal sub jects for discussion at state Baptist convention meeting December 9 will be denomination's finances, includ ing windup of 75 million campaign and launching January 1 of new one-year program which calls state' : Baptists to raise $1,000,000 of south's $15,000,000 fund. YY'ILMINGTON. Thomas E. Cooper, facing eightyear road sen tence ' after conviction of violating state banking laws in connection with collapse of Liberty Savings bank, announces it is impossible for him to repay $175,000 to depositors, condition fixed by judge as alterna tive to road term. YY ENT WORTH. Roy Arring ton, of Surry county, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating injunc tion restraining members of co-op erative tobacco growers from sell ing tobacco on open market. CONCORD. Cornerstone is laid at Trinity Reformed church. WILSON.—Three filled and 14 j partly filled barrels containing wine 1 are seized in raid at home of Mrs.! Joe Johnson, near here. GOLDSBORO. Judge Barnhill, of Rocky Mount, charging YVayne coqnty .grand jury, says railroads cannot plead violation by motorist of law requiring, drivers to stop 50 feet from tracks is bar to recovery of damages in case of accident. i SHELBY.—YV. P. Hennessy, prom inent business man and poultry breeder, is elected president of new ly-orga'niZed Cleveland County Poul toy association. YY ADESEORO.—'Large bronze tab let bearing names of Anson county men and women in World war serv ice is unveiled December 4. Josephus Daniels, war-time naw secretary, of Raleigh, is on program for principal address. LENOIR. —Coyt Green, 13, son of farmer living near here, is gravely injured when run down by motor car driven by John Wilson! Boy is taken to hospital at Hickory after emergency medical attention is given. GASTONIA.— Mrs. Thomas W. Wilson, 57, widely known, former president of North Carolina Daugh ters of Confederacy and one of lead ers of state Daughters of American Revolution, dies suddenly after long period of declining health. RALEIGH.— Y’a nee Morgan, ne gro, is electrocuted at state prison few minutes after he confesses to spiritual advisor that he killed But ler Funderburk in Union county. Governor Morrison heard and denied appeal for clemency. Morgan. 23, is lirst to be executed in state this year and twentieth to be electrocuted in Morrison's administration. NOR’I II YV I LKESBORO.— Federal District Judge Webb hears trials of 102 cases in three days and 59 per sons are sent to prison and 43 are lined. GR E ENSB()11< I,—t 'ii izens’ commit tee of 1(10 on prison reform obtains coh.kent of Clarence Darrow, famous Chicago criminal lawyer, to deliver address before it at Raleigh and meeting scheduled for December 5 at Greensboro is postponed until early in January. Darrow also will address legislature, which will be in session tit that time. RALEIGH. - Governor Morrison holds hearing on appeal for commu tation in case of Austin Carter, of Reidsville, sentenced Io be electro cuted December 20 for killing his xx ife. Carter has been twice re in ieved. original date for execution | being September 26. RALEIGH. Governor Morrison refuses Governor Pirn hot's request for extradition of Frederi. |< Foltz, i arrested at Wilmington aijd wanted] in 1 ennsylvania for non-support of; family. Physicians tell Morrison that I Foltz is suffering from virulent tvpe I of tuberculosis. RALEIGH.—Ruth YVooley, aged o 0 ■ months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wooley, dies week after falling into tub of boiling water. YY ILMINGTON. Three fishing boats land cargoes consisting of about 80.000 barrels of menhadden valued at about $70,000. LI NN.—YY bile resting in mother’s arms en route by automobile to Ral eign to consult specialist. Odell, aged elevon months, son of Mr. and Mrs. 11. Strickland, dies suddenly. YV ILMINGTON.—Mrs. J. S. Bish. <>p. Jr., receives serious injuries and narrowly escapes being killed xvhen oxen of gas stove explodes when she tries to light burners. Kitchen is left in wreckage and Mrs. Bishop is rendered unconscious. GOLDSBORO? Gun battle be tween F. G. Hines, superintendent of convict camp, and B. F. McCarter, tai nun’, lix'ing near Sex’en Springs, results in Carter's left hand being shot off. , MIN S I ON-S A LEM. Veins of j good quality coal are discoxered in | YVainut Cove by workmen boring ! wells for town's water supply. 1 ,RA LEIGI I. Repot ts , lederal Internal Revenue Commis sioner D. H. Blair and National Com i milteeman John J. Parker. Repub j liean leader, of Winston-Salem and j Charlotte, respectively, are oppo ■ nents of I. M. Meekins, recent Re ! publican gubernatorial candidate , and favor appointment of District : Attorney- Tucker and 11. E. Seawell ; respectively, for eastern North CartD 1 lina district judgeship vacated by re -1 cent death of Judge H. G. Connor. I DI NN. —Sniithie McNeill, negress. ■ seventy-nine, is burned to death • when home of this semi-invalid is . destroyed by fire. i WINSTON-SALEM.—Coi | , disclose that sales on local tobacco 1 taihed 1 5.a00.000-pound I mark for season on November 22. 1 at close of week during which 2.414,- i 116 pounds of leaf were sold at aver age of $25.08 per hundredweight. ’ ’s iveragi is $23.10 p< r h n- I dredweight. i HENDERSON s olding > well erage being ' ' ight. Sea- : son s total sales are expected to I reach 6,900,000 SA LI SBC RY.— Board of trustees of Catawba college announce plans for building girls’ dormitory and beautifying campus, and hears re port. of committee on campaign for funds that $135,000 of $150,000 fund has been pledged. President Hoke reports half of s2oo.out) sought from Reformed church in north has been obtained. RALEIGH. —Citation for con tempt of court and action against William H. Sawyer, prominent local attorney, is dismissed by Magistrate Parrish when lawyer disclaims any intention of being disrespectful to court during trial of Airs, j.ouise Price. RALEIGH. —Mrs. Louise Price is sentenced to 30 days in jail for al leged contempt of court by Magis trate Parrish, before whom she is alleged to have asked officer “how much will it cost to beat hell out of the judge?” when she was on trial on misdemeanor charge. ROCKINGHAM. More than B BMlf F'Jffl OF 80 MILLION Olffl IN NOOSE Fffl BILL WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. Accept ing the recommendations of the bud get bureau except on a few items, the house appropriations committee today reported the annual supply bill for the agriculture department. It will be taken up by the house Tues day immediately after disposition of the interior department supply meas ure. The bill, framed by a subcommit tee, of which Representative Magee, Republican, New York, is chairman, carries $124,637,715, of which $80,000,- 000 would be available for road con struction during the fiscal year be ginning next July 1. The measure s total is $58,923,279 more than the amount allotted the agriculture de partment for the current fiscal year, but is $3,114,285 less than budget es timates. For roads, $61,000,000 more than the total in last year's bill is carried. This is $3,750,000 less than the allot ment recommended by the ‘budget. In addition to the amount carried in the bill, the committee's report pointed out that permanent and in definite appropriations for the de partment requiring no legislation to tals $12,340,750. Roads Main Feature The road construction item is the principal feature of the measure, which carries a total of $124,637,715 or $58,923,279 more than the amount available for this fiscal year. In ad dition there are permanent and in definite appropriations for the agri cultural department totaling l $12,- 340,750. Included in the measure were these appropriations: for acquisition of ad ditional forest lands $1,000,000; en forcement of the packers.and stock; yards act, $480,000; enforcement of! the grain futures act, sll 1,530; eradi-j cation of the foot and mouth disease, $10,980 (as against $3,5.10,980 appro-1 priated for this year), eradication of the pink boll worm, $300,000; enforce ment of the plant quarantine act,; $370,000; enforcement of the insecti-1 clde act, $163,000. Administration of the warehouse) act, $205,000; enforcement of the grain standards act, $598,940; en forcement of the cotton futures act, $.188,500; market news service on fruits and vegetables, $709,748; mar ket inspection of perishable foods, $348,755; crop and live stock esti mates, $472,910; marketing distribut ing farm products, $539,107. Protection of migratory birds, $149,345; control of the Japanese beetle, $280,000; control of the Mexi can bean beetle. $32,500; prevention of spread of the European corn borer, $383,630; preventing spread of moths, $740,000; soil survey investigations, $193,710. Bureau of chemistry, $1,497,188, in cluding $788,860 for enforcement of the food and drugs act; forest serv ice, $8,143,915, of which $283,000 would be for combatting forest fires and $426,900 for improvement of na tional forests; bureau of plant indus try. $3,834,638, of which $108,275 would be made vailable for western agricultural irrigation. $199,330 foi dry land agriculture. $130.050 for cot ton and tr ick diseases, $348,280 for blister-rust control, $48,630 for citrus canker and $128,325 for orchard dis eases. Dairying Industry Aided Bureau ot dairying, $484,3 10; bu reau of animal industry, $8,385,156, of which $40,520 would be for eradi -1 eating dourine, $431,363 for eradicat- I ing hogs cholera, $1’25,860 for other 1 diseases of animals, $699,451 for I eradicating the cattle tick, and in- I demnities for eradication of tuber -1 culosis, $2,578,000. Weather bureau. $2,343,192; farm | ers' co-operative demonstrations, tl,- I 308,540; co-operative agricultural ex ; tension work, $1,300,000; agricultu ; ral experiment station, $1,440,000. j Os the $255,440 carried for investi i gation of the insects affecting south- I ern field crops, which is an increase ; of $15,000 over the amount available I this year, the commtitee report said $7,500 of the increase is for investi gation of the cotton hopper, a pest ; which in the last two years has ' caused serious injury to the cotton j crop, and the remainder for the in ! vestigation of the Arizona cotton 1 weevil. The section carrying $80,000,000 for road work recommends t'hat $4,- ! 000,000 of this amount be tised for ! co-operative construction with states l of forest roads and trails. The rest would be available for federal aid to states for road construction. i No provision was made in the bill i for funds for the president's agri ■ cultural commission. It was explain ed that no estimate for the commis sion had been received from the budget bureau, ami that provision for it probably would be made in a deficiency bill. An appropriation of $107,200 for investigation of the deciduous fruit insects, the committee report pointed out, is an increase of $20,000 over this year's appropriation and is to be used for studying the blueberry mag got and insects affecting peaches. “Os the increase recommended.” i the report added, “SIO,OOO is to be used for investigating the codling moth or worm of the peach.” Balance of $122,700,000 1 Discussing the road appropriation item, the committee report pointed out that of the $540,000,000 to 1?° made available under federal high way act for federal aid to states for ; highway construction. $417,300,000 ; had been appropriated, leaving a balance of $122,700,000 to be cared ! for. The $76,000,000 of the $80,000,- ! 000 to be available for this purpose l next year, it added, would leave a Balance of $46,700,000 to be t iken up in the fiscal year 1927. The public roads bureau, 'he r-- , port said, estimated ext>en l:tures o.’ ; approximately s9<'.ni>o.fioo for the j fiscal year 1925. and as “there was $6,000 is received for sale on local i curb market of surplus produce of small farms of Richmond county during past year, including $3,000 for two tons of butter. Total sales’ included 25 tons of 73 varieties of produce. TROY.— William Richard Howell. G7, one of Montgomery county's leading residents, dies of Bright's disease. TROY. —Street improvement pro gram costing $280,000 is completed. RI ’'I"11 ERFOIIDTONMrs. Eliz abeth YValdrop, aged 93, widow for 53 years, who vividly remembered events in Mexican war days, dies after two years of illness. YY'ILSON. —Thurston Kemp and Charlie Overman, of Middlesex, are perhaps seriously injured when Overman's gun explodes when ho shoots at bird. They are brought to local hospital. . YVAYNESX’ILLE. —Dr. J. Howell Way, of Waynesville, president of La Follette Campaign Expenses $221,977; $225,936 Receipts * YVASHINGTON. Dec. 6. Expen ditures of the La Follette-Wheeler campaign committee to December 2 as reported today to the clerk of I the house, totalled $221,977, and re ceipts amounted to $225,936.50. W. T. Rawleigh, treasurer of the committee, and heaviest contributor to the fund, said, in filing the report, that receipts after October 30 were $27,853-05 and expenditures $40,- 446.40. Previous reports from the committee showed that before Octo ber 30 receipts amounted to $198,- 083.45 and expenditures $181,531.18. The report did not indicate whether the committee on December 2 had any’ debts. Rawleigh, a Freeport, 111., mer chant ,was shown to have contribut ed a total of $44,000. The only con tributor of more than SI,OOO besides him listed in the final report was Mrs. Dorothy Whitney Straight, of New York, who gave $2,500. A re port filed by the Stuben national campaign committee, showed that it has received $24,259.13 and had ex pended $21,331.61 in support of the La Follette-Wheeler ticket. Tax Refund Claims Allowed by Mellon Reach 137 Million WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. —Claims of 192.252 persons for refunds of taxes illegally collected, amounting to $137,006,225.65, were approved by the internal revenue commissioner during the fiscal year ending June , 30, last. An 8,000-page report was submit ted to congress today by Secretary Mellon, giving a list of the claim ants and the amounts of refunds ap proved. The amounts were described in the report as for “claims accrued pilot to July 1, 1920, $29,244.233.15; for 1921 $11,854,300.19: for 1922. $7,7i2,- 246.91; for 1923 $4,476,790.98, and 1924, and prior years, $83,658,654.42. The refund for 1924 included the re turn of 25 per cent of the taxes paid during the calendar year on in comes of .1923, as provided in the new revenue law. House Will Take Christmas Recess Os Only One Week YVASIIINGTON, Dec. 6.—Members of the house decided today that a one-week lav-off over Christmas xvas sufficient and without a dissenting vote adopted a. resolution offered by Representative Longworth providing for a. recess from Saturday, Decem ber 20, to Monday, December 29. Sen ate concurrence is needed. House leaders planned to limit the New Y"ear's recess to one day—Jan uary 1. ' Judge Stone Elected Commissioner in Cobb! MARIETTA, Ga., Dec. 6. Judge) J. M. Stone was elected county com- I missioner today over his opponents, j R. D. Delk ami J. J. Thomas. Judge I Stone received 1965 votes, with Delk 1 676 and Thomas 176. | tin unexpended balance ol approxi-1 mately $94,000,000 at the beginning of tho present fiscal year, and as suming that expenditures will ag gregate $90,000,000 for 1925, there I will be an unexpired balance of ■ $4,000,000 to be appliled to the sis ] cal year 1926.” j This $4,000,000, it is pointed out. would be available in addition to the total appropriation of $80,000,000 recommended in the bill- In testifying before the subcom mittee of the appropriation commit i tee, in charge of the bill, C. D. Cur tiss, assistant chief of the public | road bureau, said that the appropria ! tion of $80,000,000 would be required ! to cover the bureau's estimated ex penditures in carrying out the fed eral aid act in 1926. As to the balance of $94,000,000 on July 1. 1924, Mr. Curtiss explain led $90,000,000 would be required to ■ moot obligations due tn states ma.- ! turing in 1925, leaving an estimated balance of $4,000,000 on June 3. 1925. i Expenditures to date under the federal highway act were given in I the committee report as follows; I 1917. $34,337; 1918. $574,816; 1919, I $2,915,282; 1920, $20,340,774; 1921. ! $57 462,768’ 1922. $89,946,603; 1923. $71,604,503; 1924, $80,447,423, and ! 1925 (estimated). $90,000,000. The section carrying $80,000,000 for road work recommends that sl,- ! 000,000 of this amount be used for ' co-operative construction with states of forest roads and trails. The rest would be available for lederal aid to 1 states for road construction. No provision was made in the bill for funds for the presidents agricul tural commission. 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I KlNSTON.—Constitution on rec-1 ord scale will keep workmen busy i throughout winter. Building per mits to November 20 for years total $1,200,000 and large contracts are in prospect. CONCORD. • Lewis Earnhardt, 35, employe of oil company, is kill id when speeding automobile overturns near Midland. SALISBURY. Newly organized Carolina Rubber company takes ovei plant and affairs of defunct Paul Rubber company, which recently was sold tinder hammer by federal court order. Justus Collins, of Charleston, YV. Y'a., is president of new company. DURHAM. Bernard O. O’Mary, 65, dies at hospital few hours after being run down by automobile driven by L. T. Guthrie, of East Durham. Guthrie carried injured man to hos IECONSULDM. SHOT BV GIFIL. IS IN CHITOL CONDITION BELGRADE, Dec. 6.—A painful effect has been created in diplomatic circles by the shooting of Harry A. Davton, United States vice consul here, and the suicide of Anna Usu paitis, a beautiful young Lithuanian girl, to whim his friends say, he once was bethrothed. The vice consul, whose father is S' perintendent of highways in Ca tauga county, New York, is in a serious condition in a hospital with three bullet xvounds and vitrol burns, inflicted by the girl before she slash ed her wrists and bled to death at the Hotel Bristol. Dayton, who has been in the con sular service for two year.s wooed and won the young woman, daugh ter of a distinguished Lithuanian family, xvhile on the American staff at Kovno. She followed him to Bel grade when he was transferred. The vice consul’s friends assert that he attempted to end his rela tions with the girl and that she at tempted to kill him when she found a reconciliation impossible, after wards ending her own lite in his presence. CONDITION OF DAYTON IS REPORTED CRITICAL WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Harry A. 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