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2 NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE— Jitneys are ruled off the streets of Huntsville by deci sion of Alabama public service com mission. FLORENCE. —Work is started on excavation for approaches to Wil son dam over which three highways •will be brought together across Ten nessee river. 'MOBILE.—Dr. Calvin Norris, for many years members of local health board is dead, lie was life long resi dent of Mobile. MONTGOMERY. Robert M. Chambless, twenty-three,' railway clerk, charged with murder of Alon zo H. Graves, of Speigner, is dead. OPELIKA. —East Alabama Hatch ery, for custom hatching of eggs, is being organized hero. OXFORD. —Mrs. John Bailey, of this place, turns over to Salvation Army at Anniston fruit jar contain ing 1,450 pennies which she has saved since January!. I HUNTSVILLE.—Judge O. Kyle, of Decatur, is holding circuit court at Huntsville. TROY.—Marzy Smith, of Elba, • and Tom Fowler, employed at Rhodes’ sawmill, are charged with killing Will Wells, negro, and at tempting to burn his body. GOOD WATER. —Tin bucket bri gade prevents several buildings from being destroyed by fire. Home of 8. H. Wooddy is badly damaged. MOBILE.—State docks commis sion will purchase twenty-inch suc tion dredge, to cost approximately $270,000. Dredge will be used in building docks and warehouse on Mobile river. MOBILE.-—Mrs. Susie Hodd holds burglar at bay with pair of scissors until police arrives. DECATUR. —Deputy sheriffs lo cate and destroy “community’’ still near. Cold Springs. According to these officers, proprietor was distill ing for neighborhood and took part of output as hise pay. DECATUR.—Judge William T. Lowe, of Morgan county law and equity court, and Miss Pearl Butler, of Pulaski, Tenn., are married at home of bride. GORDO.—Rev. J. L. Ray, well known Baptist minister, dies at home here. SELMA. —Thomas Jefferson Davis, well-known citizen of Selma, is dead. SELMA.—Captain Thomas Craig, 28, who saw service in Mexico and France, dies here fro maccidental gunshot wound, self-inflicted. DECATUR. —Health statistics show but little illness throughout Tennes see valley. MONTGOMERY.—George Fleming Mobre, of Washington, D. C., grand orator of the grand lodge of Ala bama, addresses state Masonic meet ing here. TUSCALOOSA.—Robinson Brown, attorney, gives up practice of law and accepts position as agent for State university. He will have charge of coal lands and other properties. MOBILE.—Books and records Mobile county board of revenue* showing claims filed by Sheriff Paul G. Gazalas or his deputies for seizure and destruction fees under state pro hibition laws, will be taken to Mont gomery for trial of sheriff on im peachment proceedings. ALABAMA ClTY.—Alabama City will sell $50,000 worth of bonds to retire floating debt on December 19. GADSDEN. Harry Rowell and Charles Cochran, 18-year-old boys, are sentenced to six months each at hard labor, on charge of decoying two girls under age away from their homes. ALABAMA CrnC— John R. Gil breath, 64, prominent citizen, dies here. GADSDEN. Short time after children are dismissed for day, school house in Ford valley, near here, catches fire and is destroyed. ATTALLA. Jim Haynie, L. & N. brakeman, and his brother, Bob Haynie, money lender, of Anniston, are convicted of decoying 16-year-old girl from her home here and given twelve months each at hard labor. BIRMINGHAM.—Handsome home of Chappell Cory, at Roebuck Springs, is destroyed by fire. Loss $13,000, with $4,000 insurance. » TALLADEGA. Talladega's new $500,000 water system is put out of commission when bottom drops out of 2,000,000 gallon storage reservoir, emptying water in three minutes. Cost of big concrete bowl alone was SIOO,OOO. MONTGOMERY - M. J. Bray dies, following accident in which auto was demolished by Central of Georgia train. BIRMINGHAMr~Drought whirl has lasted here for 69 days is broken by fifteen minutes’ rain. TUSCALOOSA. Gravel road 2G miles long is completed from Tusca loosa to county line through Coming. TUSCALOOSA. Mrs. Mary J. Davis, 82, dies at her home here. FAYETTE. Work commences on new state highway from here to Winfield, where road connects with Bankhead highway. SOMERVILLE. —Terracing school for Morgan county will be held here December 10-12. GREENVILLE? Confederate square is being beautified by mem bers of United Daughters, of Confed eracy. OPELIKA. Following two weeks of criminal court here 22 persons are sentenced to penitentiary, ten for distilling. JASPER. Jasper awards $75.- 000 paving contract to Howard Bowdry, Birmingham contractor. MARYLEE. James Harrison Berry, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Berry, is in hospital at Jasper with one hand blown off. as result of dynamite cap explosion. SELMA. ln address here. Dr. W. C. Blassingame, of Montgomery, declares 40 per cent of population dies before age of 20; that one-third of remaining number are “not fit” and must be cared for by others. MONTGOMERY - - State law enforcement department reports seizure of six stills in Lee county. GADSDEN. Louis Duncan', of Gadsden, is killed in automobile ac cident at Tuscumbia. Remains are interred here. SHEFFIELD. Colbert County Medical society adopts resolution to build bos* rial for Sheffield, Tus cumbia altd Florence and doctors and nurses pledge SIO,OOO of what ever amount required. MONTGOMERY. Supreme court overrules application for iehearing in case of W. H. Taylor et al versus Harwell G. Davis et al involving constitutionality of act creating state budget commission, and so-called “double salary” system. MOBILE. Mayor Harry T. Hartwell asks Governor W. W. Brandon to call special session of state legislature to provide assist ance for educational system and THE ATLANTA TRIWEEKLY JOURNAL I for state roads, and for necessary enabling legislation for needs of Mo -1 bile. ALTON. L. S. Russell, 65, presi dent of Russell City Manufacturing company, of this place is seriously i injured in Birmingham when heavy • truck runs over him. ’ RALEIGH. Though facing gun in hand of unidentified mould-bo holdup man, who was demanding all cash on hand, William Stronach. 1 grocer, jokes with intruder, who ■ flees when Stronach finally calls loudly for police. RALEIGH. average of r those taking state pharmacist board • examination .s made by Charles J. Sisk, of High Point. HIGH POINT?—-Edward Gurley, ’ 16. radio fan. picks up HB2 station at Lausanne, Switzerland, using three.- f tube set. He hears piano concert, i Later he picks up London station . 2LO. 3 RALEIGH. Office of state high way commission is advised by tele [ gram of election of Frank Page, L North Carolina highway commission er, as vice president of American Highway Officials’ association, in ’ convention at San Francisco. i RALEIGH. Judgment in super - ior court directs E. L. Travis, form er chairman of state corporation com mission, to pay within six months $2,500 to Mrs. Nannie Smith and ' Mrs. Fannie W. Smith, alleged to L have been fraudlently obtained from them. GRAHAM. Alamance county’s . new $250,000 courthouse is dedicated at ceremonies presided over by Judge, J W. A. Devin, of Granville. Several 1 addresses are delivered. RALEIGH Senator A’arser and Representative Murphy confer on possibilities of tapping new source of state revenue to meet expected increase of about $3,000,000 annually in state institutions’ needs. Other members of budget commissions art absent and decisions are deferred. WILMINGTON. After making $25,000 bond, Thomas E. Cooper, president of defunct Liberty Savings bank, sentenced to eight years on New Hanover county roads or repay depositors $165,000, goes to Mullins, S. C., to visit relatives. Cooper has entered appeal. ELDRIDGE?—’GirIs’ dormitory at Eldridge academy burns. Loss, $25,- 000. Girls rooming in building lose most of belongings. ALBANY. George W. Russell, local merchant and farmer, butchers hog which nets 592 pounds. CULLMAN. —~W7 F. Bozley, for number of years well known brick manufacturer at Birmingham, dies at home here. TONEY. Jefferson Baites, six ty-six, merchant, well throughout Madison county, dies aft er several years’ illness. MONTGOMERY?”— Mrs. M. J. Bray is instantly killed and hus band seriously injured, when train strikes auto near here. BESSEMER. Drive to raise $125,000 for Y. M. C. A. launched at banquet attended by over 400. ALBANY. State highway, be tween here and Moulton, paved with Morgan county asphalt, is completed. MONTGOMERY?=Training school for negroes in Autauga county is destroyed by fire at loss of $12,000. MOBILE. Three Sunday school classes adopt resolutions commend ing Attorney General Harwell Davis “for his efforts to enforce law and urge him to continue efforts to re move any and all state officials who ' fail to diligently perform' their duty . to enforce all laws.” HUNTSVILLE?- ’b. L. Eslick, 55, dies at his home here after an illness of several months. ANNISTON. - Dr? J. F. Love, of . Valdosta, Ga., is conducting a series of revivals at Christian church here. MONTGOMERY?- Maj. AV. C. Heath, of Monroe, N. C., member of ; North Carolina legislature, with oth er members, visit Kilby prison to study Alabama penal methods. TUSCALOOSA. Cold weather forces Tuscaloosa’s curb market to basement of county court house. SOUTH CAROLINA COLUMBIA. Mortimer N. King and Frank Harrell, young textile workers, are electrocuted at peni tentiary here for murder of Major Samuel H. McLeary, U. S. A. Both ■ go to deaths confessing sins and ■ expressing cofidence in salvation of ' Jesus Christ. COLUMBIA. - Judge Memmingen directs verdict for Texas Oil com , pany in suit brought by state al leging discrimination in price of gasoline in favor of certain oil deal ers. ROCK HILL. Dead bodies of Mrs. Frank Simpson. 28, young mar ried woman, and J. T. Cornwell. 34, are found in automobile parked on highway near city. Pistol in Corn well’s hand indicates that it was case of murder and suicide. Both leave children, Mrs. Simpson also 1 husband. CHARLESTON. Assistant dis trict attorney, • prosecuting case against Former Mayor T. T. Hyde. • of Charleston, charged with violat ing federal banking laws in connec tion with failure of defunct Com- ■ mercial National bank, of which he was president, attempts to show that when bank was closed, President Hyde and members of his family owed institution approximately ’ 8500,000. i COLUMBIA. Charter is issued by Secretary of State Blackwell to AA omen of Ku Klux Klan. CLINTON. Store and auto garage of George J. Ellis is burned, with loss of $35,000. COLUMBIA. South Carolina state health department may soon be furnished with new serum to fight scarlet fever, according to an nouncement here by Dr. J. A. Hayne, state health officer. CHARLESTON. Seventy-five Charleston merchants are sum moned before state tax commission here, W. <2. £>uerry, chairman pre siding over session, to demand expla nation of charges of violating state ' stamp tax law. SPARTANBURG.—R. H. Outlaw “ releases seven carrier pigeons here, and they fly to Greenwod in two i hours and twenty minutes. E. G. I Steele, of Greenwood, is owner of birds. MANNING,—F. E. Bradham • ' ed count.v superintendent of edue.i --1 lion, outlines program which he de clares will make schools of Claren don county second to none in state. FLORENCE.—Miss’ Will Lou Gray, supervisor of adult education of state board of education, makes speaking tour of Pe Dee section of state, in interest of ••’.ay by’’ schools. SL MTER.—L. C. Bryan is in stalled new commander of Sumter post American Legion. Cl IA RLESTO N?—Foreig n t rade (’mice port of Charleston for No vember is ? 3.500.0Q0, nearly thr®-' million less than same month last year. COLUMBlA.—Southern Railway appeals to United States supreme court from verdict of circuit court granting Mrs. Kate B. McAlister $16,920 for death of busband, en gineer, killed on train in yards here. CLlNTON.—Citizens petition city council to float bonds for $235,000 foi st reet paving. MANNING. —Farmers market bu reau here reports weekly shipments of chickens to total valuation of ap proximately $150,000. Shipments are made each Wednesday. COLUMBIA. Supreme court af firms verdict of circuit court in case against Mrs. Alice Young and Miss Emma Stroud, aged sisters of Clin ton, S. C., who appealed from sen tence of one year’s imprisonment each after conviction of assault and battery with intent to kill upon Mrs. Katherine Young, daughter-in-law of Mrs. Alice Young. GREENVIIYLE. Marshall Moore, Jr., young high school student, is found dead in bath tub at home of prominent parents here, asphyxiation apparently being cause. Gas heater found extinguished in room. NEW BROOKLAND. Charlie Driggers. M. D. Spigner and Henry Martin, youths, are. sentenced to fine of $206 or term of 60 days in jail, each, for theft of whisky from local calaboose. COLUMBIA—Wateree Power com pany, subsidiary of Southern Power company, of Charlotte, chartered in this state, with location in Kershaw county, is granted authority by sec retary of state to increase capital stock from $7,500,000 to $11,000,000. COLUMBIA.—Miss Myrtle Keisler and Raymond Cooper are killed, Miss Keisler instantly, Mr. Cooper dying later, when automobile in which they and two others are riding strikes Southern-railway train at highway crossing three miles north of city. Mrs. Ida. Parr and E. C. Elders are improving at hospital. UNION.—Work on new Fair For est hotel here is stopped, because j subscribers are not meeting subscrip tions to stock. COLUMBI A .—Dr. LeGrande Guer ry goes to Charleston to preside over 37th annual convention of Southern Surgical association, of which he is president. DARLINGTON. John Barfield and Bink Brown, white, and three negroes, prisoners, escape from county jail here by crawling through hole in wall from which they sawed bars, but few hours later one of ne groes, Bill Hammond, returns, crawl ing back through hole by which he escaped, declaring- it is too cold on outside. COLUMBIA.—FinaI papers for dedication to forest service of 20,000 acres of Camp Jackson area, here, are turned over to Secretary of Wat- Weeks, according to information re ceived here from Congressman H. P. Fulmer. COLUMBIA. —Safety of school children when traveling in school busses is one subject before county superintendents of education in state gathering here. COLUMBIA.—Wade Bellew, es caped convict, is brought back to state penitentiary from Central, where he was arrested by J. W. Julian, chief of police. ANDERSON.—A. H. Gilbert, 74, dies at home here of daughter, Mrs. J. E. Sullivan. LAKE CITY.— W. L. Whitehead is elected mayor of town, defeating Dr. M. D. Nesmith by majority of 78 votes. , CHARLESTON—Edward T. gare, prominent citizen, age 84. and Louise Fleming, nurse, are overcome by gas fumes in room where gas heater was burning and quantity of oxygen was reduced. SUMTER. —Train strikes car here. One negress, Jemima Walker, is in stantly killed; three other negroes escape with only slight injuries. CH AR LESTON.—PIan of giving pupils of public schools one hour each week of religious instruction is put into operation here, churches of city co-operating. SUMTER.—O. L. Williams Is elected president of newly-organized furniture manufacturing company here. Company plans to have plant in operation by spring. SPART A N B U R G. —S tree t railway company here, owned by Barstow in terests of New York, petitions state, railroad commission fot‘ permission to institute ten-cent fares. Hearing is set for December 18. ' UNION.—John Whitlock, of Union, dies at age of seventy-four. YORK.—Large delegations of V. M. C. A. boys attend district “Older Boys’ conference” here, with Dr. W. D. Melton, president of state uni versity, as chief speaker. GREENWOOD.—Officers have no clue as yet to Rufus Kirby, young white man serving two-year sen tence on chaingang for theft of automobile, who escaped third time in nine months. . WOODRUFF.—Members of state railroad commission hold hearing at Spartanburg, on petition for Increase of local telephone rates. GREENVILLE. Proposal is made that business men hire dirigible Los Angeles for Greenville “booster trip” to Panama and Mexi co City. LAI ’RENS.—Suit for $50,000 is brought against Charleston and Western Carolina railroad for death last summer of Rev. and Mrs. W. P. Rochester, killed when automo bile was struck by train ort Laurens- Greenville division. S’nit is brought by W. T. Kennett, of Union, admin istrator. ABBEVILLE. Walter Sherard gives fox chase for Rev. and Mrs. F. O. Lamoreux and Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Bauch, of Chicago, guests, with long string of fine hounds, but fox makes getaway. COLUMBIA. —Banks of state de mand new state cotton warehouse I receipts, according to State Ware house Commissioner J. C. Rivers. COTA’M RIA.—J. C. Long. of Charleston, is elected captain of 1925 football squad at University of South Carolina. DILLON. —Rev. J. J. Stevenson, ■ Jr., of North. S. C.. is dismissed i from Methodist church by South ; Carolina Methodist conference, in session here, on ground that he is “unsound” on doctrines as to virgin tilth of Christ. SPARTANBURG - Leon C. Palm er. executive secretary State Sunday Schyol association, resigns to become secretary of Brotherhood of St. Arwiews. of Episcopal church in United States. ROCK HlLl..—Emory A. Holler dies in nospital in Columbia and is buried here. CHESTER.—Robert L. Hicklin | dies at home at Richburg, near here. ! f;- Unwin g stroke of paralysis. Was prominent planter. COLUMBIA. - J?~G Walker, for-| ■ r,- ’mayo-- f>f Charlo’te. bemmrs Columbian, heading J. O. Walker, Inc., new Ford agency here. EASLEY. —Roy Nally, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Nally, of Easley mills village, reported as murdered in Abbeville, Ga., turns up at home here after trip to Florida. Body is found in river near Abbe ville, Ga., was wrongly identified, it seems. NORTH CAROLINA • ASHEVILLE. —J. Alvin Ensley, 29, merchant and aiderman, of Sylva, is instantly killed and L. H. Gedney, of Asheville, is seriously in jured when touring car goes over mountainside near Asheville, to which city they were traveling. RALEIGH. —Governor Morrison announces that, applications for clemency hereafter must be in writ ing and no appeals for clemency, ex cept in death sentence cases, will be heard at least until after first of year, and possibly not then, owing to heavy work of completing work of administratioji ending early in Jan uary. RALEIGH. Magistrate Thomas Parrish, central figure in sensational liquor and contempt of court cases, is painfully injured when struck on head with blunt instrument by per son he refuses to name, during dis cussion of case in which he sent Mrs. Louise Price to jail for 30 days for alleged contempt of court. ASHEVILLE??=DetaiIs are an nounced practically completed for lumbering development in Graham county involving expenditures of $4,- t'oo,ooo and acquisition of 180,000 acres of timber lands to be cut over by H. C. Bemis Lumber Co., of Pittsburg. First railway line into Graham county will be built by this company. RALEIGH.—After being /informed that Columbus county is required to support ten children of George Spivey, Governor Morrison paroles i Spivey, who had four months of 18- month term to serve. WINSTON-SALEM. Samuel J. Cain, 55, living near Pilot mountain, takes own life by blowing off top of bead with shotgun after telling fam ily good-by. No cause for act is learned. M ILMINGTON.—British steamer Destelia clears with 5,000 bales of cotton for Bremen, Germany. WARSAW.—“UncIe” Tom Parker, 94, widely known negro minister, dies few days after suffering stroke cf paralysis. MAXTON.-—Loss estimated at $35,- 000 is caused by fire of unknown origin which destroys McKay Mc- Kinnon’s livery stable, stables of Neil A,lford and several nearby build ings. Flames threaten business sec tion of town but are controlled by help of Laurinburg and Lumberton firemen. SALISBURY.— Senator Overman indicates he would favor bill before senate allowing various states to sue federal government for refund of about $300,000,000 in direct taxes im posed soon after Civil war. LEXINGTON.— Albert Myers, six t.v-five, farmer is convicted of man slaughter in superior court and sen tenced to three and one-half years in state prison for complicity in slay ing of nephew, William Ward. HIGH POlNT.—Lindley Kennedy, twenty-one, of High Point, dies? at local hospital few hours after bein-’- injured in automobile accident at Glenola, when car in which he and •James Cullen were riding crashed into another car standing at filling station. Cullen will survive his in juries. G REENSBORO.— Glenwood Park sanitarium, large wooden structure ns badly damaged by fir e on second floor, which i s wrecked, lives of fif teen patients being endangered. Loss is placed at $15,000. RALEIGH.—C. U. Harris, of Wake county, leader of senator supporters or Governor Morrison’s port develop ment measure in August special ses sion, which was defeated in Novem ber referendum, says he will offer at January meeting of assembly bill authorizing issue of_ $3,000,000 in bonds for development of state port? H J LI-51. —■ Miss Doro- tny brazier, prominent in younger soma! set, j s released from custody after trial in city court on charge! of manslaughter growing out of death of Frank von Borries, retired woolen manufacturer, fatally in jured under automobile wheels. 55 ILMINGTON.— J. Thaddeus Gar vey, 6<, retired Atlantic Coast Line conductor, widely known among states railroad men. dies after pro longed period of Jailing health. RALEIGH.—North Carolina fire losses for month of October amount ed to $381,981, compared with $323.- oc>3 in October, last year, accord n o i epoi t of Insurance Commis sioner Wade. Heaviest single loss was m guano factory fire at Wil mington, being $75,000. RALEIGH.—OnIy $5,000,000 of S,ate .- s authorized $20,000,000 issue of highway bonds is sold on trip * n ? e w York by G °vernor Morrison Si - nna n< e rt' SU !? er Ga< ’. v - Remaining when 0 ’ °/’ f iSSUe wi " he offered when bond market becomes more • atiSiactory. Ronds sold bear 450 per cent, interest rate. These offi cia Is borrowed $5,000,000 for sv nionthg at 3.<5 per cent. w.'a V |!hv"^; TOX;L ' V ' ,!lf ' r wverai ft"2 i “ W ' Ulsapßeared 7, ~ eks ago, whose business immediately was declared in bank in'xp'’ v ld ,' vho was later arrested \vn X V l° rk ’ retut ’ns voluntarily to 55ilmmgton to face 1? fraudulent dealings. chai = es of ioHtt- L m IC^ r ~'X hile dem °crati c ma- N?temh2 V ate ln ffenpra! election -Xotembd 4 was about 1 10,000 votes fi Li r a ‘ ty r>ollin » 294.270 votes, of ual figures just compiled show that m- aS la ’ ooo lesS! th an in 10”0 Republicans total of 191.7.-,.? votes "as 45,000 less than in 1920. Den i and s of employ ers throughout state are reported emnk> eady J ncreaaed by <ate federa; * Mdo.vment service, calls for work aYd balance betwen common am. skJled labor, showed sharp in crease beginning in latter dav s of November. Shortages in several sections are reported. RALEIGH.— Thomas E. Cooper former president of defunct Lib erty Savings bank, of 55’ilming ton. under conditional eight-vear road sentence, must repav deposit ois ..10.000 in cash, or whatever ad ditional amount may represent thei> posses, according to interpretation of i Chlff’n H- 1 4- Grady s sentence bv 'Chief Bank Examiner Ijatham. ASHES ILLE.—Wages fr 70 crafts in Asheville have been increased eight and one-half per cent in past years, accordins: to report of i state-federal employment service of ! flee. CHARLOTTE.— Plans for fOur story and basement community house building are announced by of- I ficials of Tabernacle Associate Re | formed Presbyterian church. Plans fc r raising sion.non to finance struc- ture are discussed and campaign will be put on within short time. RALEIGH.—A. W. McLean, of Lumberton, governor-elect, on first visit to state capital since election, ASHEVILLE—Wages for 70 crafts Morrison on state affairs. WILMINGTON. T h o mas E. Cooper resigns membership on New Hanover board of education, meet ing one of conditions imposed in sen tence in superior court after con viction of violating state banking laws in connection (with failure of Liberty Savings bank, of which he was president. Tie faces eightyears on county roads unless another con- CROPS Os AMERICA WORTH 12 BILLION WALLACE REPORTS WASHINGTON, Dec. B.—Pros pects are that the gross income from farm products of the nation for the crop year of 1924 may reach $12,000, 000,000, compared with $11,500,000, 000 in 1924 and $9,550,000,000 in 1922, the agriculture department states in its annual report made public here today. The report was prepared under the direction»of the late Secretary Henry C. Wallace and is presented to the president in The report declares that American agriculture is in the best position it has been since 1920. Prices of many crops are at the highest point in four years, and costs of production have declined from the high point of the depression peroid. This year’s rarvest was in many respects the finest in five years. Though not the greatest in volume of products it was the best balanced and represented the best income. The showing of 1924, the report says, brings agricultural prosperity nearer, although the improvement it represents has not yet lasted long enough to produce any marked bet terment in the finances of the farm er. Decline in Acreage The total acreage in all crops in 1924 is estimated to have been about 370,000,000 acres. This was a decline of about 3,000,000 acres from the’ area planted in 1923 and a decline of 6,000,000 acres from the area planted in 1919 when the last census wa staken.. In the main, says the report, the year will bring increased income to the surplus grain producing regions, to the corn belt, and possibly to the cotton states. The tobacco, fruit, vegetable, and dairy producing states probable will not contribute much to the estimated increase in the gross agricultural income of the year. The gros sincome from agricul tural production in the United States for the crop year 1924-25 may be $500,000,000 more than that of last year. Returns on the estimat ed present value of farm capital from this income, if operating costs were not greater than those of the crop year of 1923-24, would amount to 3.8 per cent. This return, the report notes, is much below the aver age return to other capital. It adds, moreover, that production costs for 1924-25 may turn out to be slightly greater than those for the preceding year. Notable Improvement Nevertheless, the showing is de clared gratifying when compared with that of the last few years. The report continues: “Nature has beep good to most of the wheat farmers of the United States this year. She has given them large yields per acre and a to tal crop larger than that of last year on a reduced acreage. Reduced yields in foreign countries have brought about a market situation in which the American farmers are re ceiving higher prices for a larger crop. It seems reasonable to ex pect that the price farmers-will re ceive for this year’s crop will aver age about $1.15 or better for the year. At this price the cash income from t|?e wheat crop, as estimated October 1 would amount to about $<800,000,000 compared with approx-, imately $570,000,0000 last vear.” N. Y. Woman Fails To Declare European Gems; $ 120,000 Fine NEW YORK. Dec. B.—Mrs. Irving I. Bloomingdale, wife of the treas urer of the department store of that name here, must pay a fine of $120,- 000 to recover undeclared jewels I valued at $60,000 taken from her baggage when she returned from Europe November 4. The affair was kept from the public until today be cause of efforts to effect a compro mise, but United States Appraiser Kracke admitted today the jewels are being held. Mrs. Bloomingdale left town with j her husband yesterday, refusing to | comment on the seizure. The tip came from special agents of the treasury department in Paris, who were advised by a jeweler that the New York woman had made con siderable purchases at his shop. A string of exceptionally matched pearls was the principal articles of jewelry seized. Arriving here, Mrs. Bloomingdale left the pier. A maid who remained behind to check the baggage denied knowledge of the pearls and later protested, according to customs of ficials, that they had been purchased in this country. New Gold Stampede Follows Discovery of Rich Vein m Yukon DASVSON, Y. T., Dec. B.—A mild stampede to Glacier creek. 60 miles west of here, has resulted from an assay of ore showing forty ounces of gold to the ton in a well defined vein discovered by George Kennedy, I well known prospector of the terri ; tory. Kennedy said he traced the vein for several miles. A RELIABLE COUGH REMEDY 55’hy experiment with unknown remedies for that cough or cold when you can secure FOLEY’S : HONEY AND TAR COMPOUND? It is a safe and reliable remedy for j the relief of cough*, colds, hoarse : ness. Eqt: illy beneficial for young ami old. Mrs. Anna Cornell, Bridge ! ton. N. J., states: “I bought FOLEY’S HONEY AND TAR COM • POUND for my cold and find it I great.” Insist upon the genuine. Re fuse substitutes. Sold everywhere. (Advertisement.) 30 W c Wilt send a STERLING razor on 30 da\s tnal. If satis facton. costs S! 97. If not. costs nrthine. Fine Horseh'de I Strop FREE. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1921. dition, repayment of $175,000 to bank's depositors, «is met. FA Y ETTE VII ?LE?—U nusi ia 1 trib ute is paid “Uncle” Charlie Williams, negro sexton, when his funeral service is conducted by Dr. W. E. Hill, pastor, in First Presbyterian church, which Williams served many years. ROCKY MOUNT.—State Senator W. Long, of Roanoke Rapids, dis cussing political issues in address, declares opposition to federal child labor amendment and expresses hope state legislature will favor at January meeting tax policy “len ient toward capital.” Exclusion Can’t Break Ties With His Country, Says Japanese Pastor “Not even the hasty action of con gress in passing the Japanese exclu sion act can sever the ties of affec tion between the United States and Japan,” declared the Rev. K. Tsu mashima, pastor of Blanche Con gregational church, of Tokio, in an address before the adult Bible class of the Martha Brown Memorial Methodist church Sunday morning. He is in Atlanta attending the Fed eral Council of Churches. The many things the United States has done for Japan were enu merated as reasons why Japan and America will continue on friendly terms. “American warships rushed in with food, clothing, shelter and med ical supplies when the Japanese earthquake took its toll of 150,000 lives and $10,000,000,000 in property damage,” he said. Mr. Tsumashima explained fur ther that an American persuaded Japan to open her doors to Christi anity and to the world seventy years ago; that Japanese young men and women have obtained their education in the. United States; that America sent the first missionaries to Japan, and that it was President Roosevelt who brought the war to a close be tween Russia and Japan. “This union of east and west wa.s wrought by God,” he declared, “arid 'what God hath joined together let no man put asunder.’ ” Policeman Shot Down, Bandit Chapman Is Identified as Gunman MOUNT VERNON, N. Y„ Dec. 8. Rowland Bennett, policeman, who was shot and robbed of his revolver while patroling his best Saturday night, yesterday identified the rob ber from photographs' of criminals at headquarters as Gerald Chapman, no torius mail robber and escaped con vict who has been hunted by police, throughout the east as a suspected murderer. Chapman is accused of shooting and killing a patrolman in an attempted robbery of a new Brit ain, Conn., department store October 12, the police said. Convicted of participating in a sl,- 500,000 robbery of a mail truck in New York in 1921, Chapman was sen tenced to serve 25 years in Atlanta penitentiary. He escaped in March, 1923, after serving six months. Cap tured after a pistol fight with a posse, he again escaped a few days later from a hospital in Athens, Ga. Blast Wrecks Plant Os Kansas Newspaper COFFEYVILLE, Kam, Dec. B. An explosion early today wrecked the plant of the Coffeyville Daily Dawn, a morning newspaper, and I two adjoining buildings. 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After unsuspecting farmer reports to visitors unusual condition among goats, cattle and fowls, who appear intoxicated, dep uty sheriffs are advised and' three stills- are captured in Toisnot swamp,| thee goups of moonshines making their escapes. SECRECY ENVELOPS OFFICERS’PROBEOF BIRMINGHAM CRIME BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 8. While it was said at the office of Solicitor Ben Perry today that the state was satisfied with its progress in the inquiry into the slaying of Mrs. Annie Lou\Edwards, wife of a I Fairfield physician, last Tuesday, no announcement was forthcoming as to when a preliminary hearing would ■ be granted Dr. George T. Edwards, husband of the woman, who is held in connection with the case. Mean time, Dr. Edwards was reported by the warden of the Bessemer jail as 1 sleeping well, eating three full meals a day and enjoying his pipe together with visits from scores of friends. Neither the prisoner nor his chief attorney, George Ross, had anything to say. Secrecy has surrounded the move ments of investigating officers from the outset, but today the veil was drawn closer and every move made was under cover. It is known, how ever, that official inquiry is being made into the domestic life of Dr. Edwards and Mrs. Edwards Hnd into the habits of the physician. A negro servant in the Edwards home was questioned at length yes terday. The name of this servant was not divulged. Official cogniz ance was also taken of reports that other servants had access to the Ed wards home and that some of these latter persons knew something about the use of drugs. Under the law, Dr. Edwards must be granted a preliminary hearing not later than Thursday unless a con tinuance of the case is agreed upon or ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction. Solicitor Perry left his office hur riedly this morning in his automo bile. 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