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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
BON AIR. Dadeville Knitting
mills here are damaged by tornado
to extent of $40,00P- No one is killed.
SAMSON.—Miss Callie Johnson
dies from injuries received in auto
accident. Five other occupants in
car were uninjured.
SHEFFIELD —Sheffield company,
owners and operators of electric
street car lines connecting Sheffield,
Florence and Zuscumbia, and own
ers of other property, is sold to Ala
bama Power company for about $3,-
000,000.
FAIRFIELD.—Earnest Huggins,
thirty, shoots himself through the
heart.
LIVINGSTON.—Mrs. Bessie Aston
is freed of grand jury indictment
charging grand larceny. State at
tempted 'O prove she purloined sev
eral thousand dollars' worth of goods
from store wheie she was employed.
During trial. Mis Aston sat in court
room with her ten-months-old baby
In her arms.
GADSDEN —New county alms
house. costing $25,000, is completed
at Hoke.; Bluff and Mffe. Jessie Scott
is appointed matron
COLUMBIANA.—Rathbone Bible.
■ used in 1564 when order of Knights
of Pythias was organized, is on dis
play at K. P. hall here.
HARTSELLE.—W. N. Bullington,
forty-four, prominent citizen of Mor
gan county, who died at Albany, is
juried here.
MONTGOMERY?"—- Dr. Spight
Dowell, president of Alabama Poly
technic institute, appeals to Gov.
W. W. Brandon to call meeting of
board of trustees of institute, for
oonsideration of request of alumni
gathering at Birmingham recently
lor discharge of Dr. Dowell.
TUSCALOOSA. State universi
ty will close December 19 till Janu
ary 2 for Christmas holidays.
TUSCALOOSA. Mrs. Mary E.
Nichols, 75, widow of late Dr. A. B.
Nichols, dies after long illness.
SELMA. John Quill, Alabama
•iver packet, docks at Selrr.a after
being stranded on Mary Taylor
;and bar, due to low stage of river.
HUNTSVILLE. More than 700
line birds are exhibited at North
Alabama Poultry association show.
UNIONTOWN. Capt. -Emmett
Cilpatrick arrives home from France
ifter fourteen months. He attended
University of Paris where he wbn
legree of doctor of philosophy.
TALLADEGA. W. D. Smalley,
.veil known planter, is found mur
lered in his auto nine miles from
lere. Luke Ware, negro, supposed
o have been in automobile with Mr.
Smalley, is under arrest.
GADSDEN. Officers Wise and
mngley raid chicken fight near
iere, placing twenty men under ar
est.
FALKVILLE. William Black
veil ia badly injured when his auto
atches fire and plunges over high
mbankment near here.
GOODWATER. Ellis Thomas is
hot and killed from ambush near
vellyton.
DORA. Store and barn belong
ng to G. Mays are destroyed by
ire with loss of $35,000.
DORA. While Rev, Clyde Dodd
nd family are attending .services at
'hurch of God. fire destroys their
omo. Everything is burned, except
lothlng they have on and Rev.
)odcTs Bible. __ _
PARRISH. While moving house
ere, Samuel Fondren is instantly
died when structure falls on him.
LIPSCOMB—Work commences on
Jpscomb’s new city hall to cost $7,-
00.
ANNlSTON.—Contract is awarded
o pav© Main street in Oxford, one
f links in state highway now under
(instruction.
GOODWATErC— Mrs. Mary C
lag ley, 83. widow of late T. L, Bag
jy, dies at home here.
ANNISTON. Remains of Mr. ,
lary Waters, 7-1, who died at Besse
ler, are interred here.
BIRMINGHAM.—’’FaiIure of busi
ess men to serve on juries, unless
hey have other than business rea
ons, is one of greatest menaces to
ur free institutions,” Judge Joe C.
(ail tells men summoned to serve as
irors.
MONTGOMERY. Kilby peniten
iary is best prison in south, and
ne of best in United States, accord
ig to Dr, Hastings H. Harr, of Res
ell Sage foundation. New York, who
ispected it.
DORA.—Wet clothing worn by T.
I. Criss, electrician, causes his
eath when 550 volts of electricity
ass through his body while work
ig on electric sign at Suminiton.
DECATUR. Tennessee river is
ising after heavy rains above here,
.'his is first rise in many- months.
FLORENCE Generating equip
ment at M ilson Dam is now being
nstalled. Four units, each having
ornial rating of 30,000 horsepower"
re being equipped.
BIRMINGHAM. Southside Im
rovement and Development com
any lets contract for ten-story build-
Jg at Avenue C and Twentieth
treet to cost $300,00(1.
ALBANI’.—W. p. Hampton, state
tw enforcement officer, in hospital
ere accidentally shot through lungs
y another officer, is in serious con
ition.
MOBlLE.—County board of reve
ue urges building of Mobije-Grand
•ay highway- by state highway com
ussion.
SULLIGENT.—Miss Nell Jackson
opular school teacher, recovers
tom operation for appendicitis.
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Shopping Bag and am so well
pleased with it. 1 don’t think
there is a better premium
than this bag. I remain, with
many thanks to you.
“Mrs. Lula McDaniel,
Hazlehurst, Ga.
Tri-Weekly Journal
for eighteen months
and Three - in - One
Shopping Bag deliv
ered postpaid to any
address for only
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ber of the family era dear
friend.
THE ATLANTA TR’-WEEKLY JOURNAL
TUSCALOOSA. —Chamber of com
merce is trying to interest people in
peach growing on cut-over lands of
Tuscaloosa county.
JACKSONVILLE. —Catherine Si
bert, ten. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Sibert, is victim of open grate
fire.
SIIEFFIE LD —Civ i c o rgan izat ion s
of Sheffield. Florence and Tuscumbia
pledge their support to Alabama
Power company for development of
Muscle Shoals section since this com- ,
pany has purchased Sheffield com- i
i pany. For some time these cities :
I have fought power company.
GREENSBORO7=WaIIer brothers
purchase Borden estate of 367 acres i
and will farm it in connection with '
Hatch place of several hundred •
acres. ,
GADSDEN.—AdoIph Reich, prom i
■ inent young hotel man, is elected ,
' president of Gadsden Country- club. j
' GADSDEN.-^Guit - " States Steell
company is now running four open
hearth furnaces, as against only I
' one operated most of past year.
SELMA.—Mrs. James Rowell,' wife I
of James Rowell, prominent over- ■
seas veteran, is elected president of >
American Legion auxiliary.
MONTGOMERY. Dr. T. D. I
Folkes, chief of bureau of vital sta-I
tistics, states that during 1923 there I
were in Alabama 113 children under ;
five years whp were victims of open
grates.
FAIRFIELD. —City board of edu
cation authorizes letting of contract
ter erection of new school building to
cost not over $144,000.
. BIRMINGHAM.—Members of In
land Waterways corporation, head
er by General T. Q. Ashburn, inspect
Warrior river from Lock 17 to Bir
mingport.
MOBlLE.—Captain Leon Schwarz
is appointed sheriff of Mobile coun
ty by Governor Brandon, to fill va
cancy caused by resignation of for
mer sheriff.
JASPER. —Two-year-old babv of
Mr. and Mrs. Sonny '{Mayfield, of
Wrighttown, dies of buftns received
at open grate fire. '
SOUTH CAROLINA
GREER.—Hugh M. Barton, one of
oldest residents of Greer, dies at
home here at age of eighty-two.
ROCK MILL. —Miss Willie Tram
mell, twenty-two, of Ogden, near
here, who threatened to sue city for
$70,000 for alleged impolite remarks
on part of Chief of Police J. M.
Youngblood, as to her wearing
knickers on streets here, withdraws
suit.
SPARTANBURG. Deposits in
Bank of Duncan of $173,000, above
those of record, are declared to be j
disclosed by audit of county books, j
deposits being made by County j
Treasurer Miller, personally, to cred- I
it of county. Treasurer Miller is
president of Bank of Duncan.
SPARTANBURG. State railroad
commission orders railroads to lift
transit charge of five cents per 100
pounds on cotton warehoused here
and reshipped uncompressed.
SPARTANBURG.-- ,1. P. Fielder is
re-elected president of Spartanburg
county fair.
S1 ’ARTANI U R(Ba pt ist st a1 e
convention, in session here, adopts
resolution of sympathy- for 'l'. T.
Hyde, former mayor of Charleston
and former president of Baptist or
ganization in state, convicted in fed
eral court in Charleston of violating
federal banking laws.
COLUMBIA. Thirteen young
men are admitted by state supreme
court to practice of law.
ANDERSON. — Fire causes dam
age to extent of $10,900 to Anderson i
cotton oil mill.
SPARTANBI ■RgT’-- Spartanburg |
Y. M. C. A. is raided by officers Sun
day night and ten young men are
arrested on gambling charge.
COLUMBlA.—Gasoline tax total
ed $213,156 last month, according to
table just prepared by State Treas
urer Caider.
SIMPSONVILLE. — L. J. Jennings
dies at home here at age of sixty
five.
FLORENCE? William Mitchell,
who drove car that killed James
Forte, age five, and Benny and Hen
ry Joseph, who occupied car that
I ran down and killed Eddie Pearce,
1 eight, both tragedies occurring on
l same Sunday, are taken to Colum
i bia and lodged.in state, penitentiary
i to prevent possible, violence.
COLUMBIA. Governor McLeod
. goes to New York, to address nation
al association of insurance company
presidents.
FLORENCE. Edmund D. Big
ham, convicted of murder of brother
and charged also with murder of
mother, sister and sister's two chil
dren, is granted extension of time
for perfecting appeal to supreme
court, notice of appeal having stayed
execution.
GREENVILLE. English spar
j row’s nest chooked up ventilating .
• pipe leading from bath room and
I caused recent death of Marshall '
I Moore. Jr.. 17. who was found dead
I in bath tub, it is disclosed here.
SPARTANBURG? Dr. A. T.
I Jamison, of Greenwood, is re-elected
president of Baptist state conven- '
, tion at annual meeting here.
x >t<
i $150,000 pay ing bonds by vote of 271
’ to 94.
CHESTER. ‘Wiliam Henry Weir,
■ former Columbian, dies here after
i stroke of paralysis.
CHARLESTON. Hugh Francis
Guasa, naval officer, living at Navy-
Yard, here, is burned to death when
house in which he was sleeping is
destroyed by fire.
NEWBERRY?"— ~Miss Daisy M.
Berrie resigns as demonstration
agent for Newberry county and is
succeeded by Miss Ethel Counts, of'
Prosperity.
ALLENDALE Aliei
borrows $20,000 from state sinking i
fund commission at Columbia fcr :
school purposes.
MANNING. - . f Claren
don county anticipate biggest can- i
ning business for 1925 known since
canning ndi st i y st rted here.
GREENVILLE. Christie Benet.
;of Columbia, former football star'
: and coach, ami also former U. S.
senator, in address here, decries
practice of colleges in seeking men
of physical prowess.
COLUMBIA. —“ Rev. Richard T
Gillespie. D D. of Louisville. Ky..
is ex) • t Ito ass im< ities as pres
ident of Columbia Theological semi- :
nary here early in new year, ac- i
cording to announcement by Dr. *
Hugh R. Murchison, dean of insti
tution.
GREENVILLE. Following re
j duction of capital stock of First Na-
■ tional bank, in effort to tight tax
assessments, Jones Furniture com
■ pany takes similar action for same
' purpose.
NORTH CAROLINA
CHARLOTTE.—President Martin,
of Davidson college, recently dis
charged from local hospital after se
rious illness threatening aged man’s
life, is officially advised at J. D.
Duke's palatial home here of Duke’s
large endowment to Davidson and
declares surprise “knocked me into
cocked hat.”
G REENSBORO? -^- Mi s. Thomas
Chalmers, eighty-four, of Raleigh, is
I fatally injured, skull being crushed,
i when thrown from skidding automo
; bile onto concrete road. Body is
I taken to Raleigh.
MANTON. Liberty- consolidated
I school building, near here, is destroy
- ed by fire thought to be of incen
i diary origin. Building costing $28,-
I 000 was erected last year, and caused
i intense conflict between opposing
' factions over selection of site. Liti
> gation to close building is pending.
W1 NSTON-SALEM.—Robert. Critz,
1 former secretary-treasurer of R. J.
Reynolds Tobacco company, dies
I suddenly at. hospital of heart trou
i Fie. He was son-in-law of late R.
J. Reynolds, and retired several
I years ago on account of poor health.
GREENSBORO.—J. I>. Morton,
| white, wanted on murder charge for
i killing William E. Grimsley, Nor
i ton’s landlord, prominent Guilford
county- farmer, is under arrest at
: Metter, Ga., according to telegram.
SPINDALE.—Spencer mill begins
construction of $150,000 addition
with 200-loom capacity.
CHARLOTTE. —Miss Laura Deve
reaux, pretty Charlotte girl, who re
cently rejected Zeigfeld's Follies of
fer to retain case management, is
painfully injured in automobile col
lision.
GREENSBORO. —Mrs. J. F. Mc-
Cullough, sixty-three, widely- known
throughout state, former editor of
Woman’s Missionary Record of the
Methodist Protestant church, dies
after prolonged illness.
FAYFJTTEVILLE.. —Cornerstone
of new Cumberland county- court
house is laid with Masonic cere
monies.
CHARLOTTE.—Mrs. Frances M.
McCall, seventy-seven, well known,
dies after short illness.
RALEIGH.—Mrs. Jane McKim
mpn, director of state home demon
stration work, announces prize win
ners at Chicago live stock and agri
cultural exposition included Miss Sal
lie Herring, of Selma, third prize,
style contest; Miss Maude Rogerson,
third prize, bread judging,
WIN STON-SALEM.—H ea vy dam
age is caused by- forest fire raging
several days on Pilot mountain. For
estry service is preparing- estimate
of loss.
CHAPEL IHLlj.—Contract for
new Methodist church building to 1
cost $156,000 is awarded to Jewell
i and Riddle, of Sanford,
j JEFFERSON. Leonard Jones,
i Dewey- Osborne and Russell Caudill
I escape from jail and are recaptured
I several hours later at home of
Jones' grandmother by Jailor Ed
wards.
GREENSBORO.— I? E. Stout, by
stander, is s hot. and seriously wound
ed by Arch Austin, local negro, who
was engaged in fight with another
negro in Stout's furniture store.
Austin is being sought by- officers.
HICKORY. -Charlie Ha yes re
port s to police, disappearance several
days previously, of his daughter,
Miss Margaret Hayes, aged 16, and
tells officers lie knows no reason
for her absence.
RALElGH.—Campaign of negro
Republican leaders of state to block
efforts of I. M. Meeking, of Eliza
beth City, recently Republican nom
inee for governor, to obtain appoint
ment by President Coolidge to fed
eral district, judgeship vacated by-
Judge Connor, is disclosed in com
i munications received here.
GREENSBORO. John Martin
I Ryan, 7-1, dies suddenly of heart
! trouble at home near here.
BLANCH.— Rufus E. Powell, 6S,
prominent citizen, dies after pro
longed illness.
CHARLOTTE.—Miss Julia Alex
ander, militant suffragist and at
torney, recently elected to house of
representatives, declares she ex
pects to seek chairmanship of ap
propriations committee and member
ship on agriculture committee.
GREENSBORO. Telegram an
nounces arrest of Morris Bryson at
Clayton. Ga., at. request of .local fed
eral authorities who suspeqt Bryson
is one of two Transylvania county
moonshiners who fired upon and se
riously- injured Prohibition Officers
J. B. Draper and W. W. Owens.
GOLDSBORO.— Leaving wife and
two babies practically penniless, Char
lie Farmer, of Mount Oliver, surren
ders and begin serving ten-year sen
tence for killing of Deputy Sheriff
Pearsall in liquor raid.
CONCORD.— Dr. G. A. .Martin, pas
tor of First Baptist church, accepts
call to pastorate of Baptist church
' at Landrum.
CHARLOTTE. —Greensboro and
I Winston-Salem are badly in need of
; new passenger stations, says Fairfax
I Harrison, president of Southern rail-
I way system.
' SANFORD. — B. B. O'Quinn, of
i Mamers, celebrates 100th birthday
j anniversary.
CHARLOTTE.—SeveraI passengers
are more or less seriously injured
! when big fast-moving bus goes over
embankment near Albemarle in ef
j fort to avoid crash with three
. wagons.
M INDSOR.— Bertie County Cham
' her of Commerce is organized, with
J. T, Stokes named as chairman.
DURHAM. —W. H. Honeycutt. 61.
well known, dies after prolonged ill-
■ ness.
CHADBOURN. —Large group of
leading truck growers hear addresses
by state, federal and railway farm
I agents and name committee to con-
■ sider organizing co-operative assoca
! tion or joining Wilmington associa-
I tion.
! CHARLOTTE.—Mrs. S. E. Daw
son. 74. •mother of J.- B. Dawson, pub
lisher of two New Bern daily news
j papers, dies after prolonged illness,
complicated by recent fall causing
i severe injuries.
i RUTHERFORDTON. Conditions
i involving 15 textile mills in Ruther
! ford county are rapidly improving
j and hundreds of workers are again
i employed full time.
RUTHERFORDTON,—Cont ct s
awarded for construction of city
hall to cost $30,000.
W1 LLIAMSBURgT-Mis. Gertrude
Montgomery, wife of W. A. Mont
gomery, a son of late North Carolina
supreme court justice, dies after two
: day illness.
DURHAM.—Mrs William D. Car
michael. wife of prominent represen
tative of tobacco company, dies after
‘ suffering stroke of apoplexy.
WILMIXGTIIX.-About 1,500 mem
bers of Ku KI ix Klan in eastern
part of state attend outdoor cere
monial attended by many high offi
-1 vials of order.
SPARTA. —Editor F. A. Wrench,
of Alleghany Star, native of Georgia,
dies of pneumonia after short ill
ness.
WAYN ES VILL E.— J udge Ga ria ml
S. Ferguson, for 18 years Twentieth
district superior court judge, is re
ported by physicians to be in critical
condition due to general breakdown
and little hope is held for recovery.
WIIITEVI LLE.— Donald Mcßack
en. of Whiteville, one of most prom
inent members of tobacco growers
association, is enjoined from selling
tobacco outside of association and
Bank of Whiteville is enjoined from
taking Mcßacken's tobacco by
claim and delivery process.
DURHAM. —Plans for gigantic
construction program, including re
moval of many- buildings and con
struction of new ones, in addition to
general expansion of all depart
ments, at Trinity college, which
work will be started in 1925, are dis
closed at institution. Cost is not de
termined.
ASHEVILLE. Mrs. Rowena
Lockhart Cooke, 70, member of
prominent family, dies after long
illness.
MURPH Y.—County commission
ers are called to meet December 1,
for purpose of opening bids on $150,-
000 issue of highway bonds.
ASHEVILLE. Dr. Edward
■WiTEIL
ADOPTS IIES(ILIJTffI
OEPLOBING FLOGGING
AUSTELL, Ga., Dec. 13—Deplor
ing the action of a group of men
in beating Charles J. Shelverton, Jr.,
after kidnaping him from his home
Thursday night, the city- council of
■Austell, in special session. Saturday
[ afternoon adopted a resolution eall
j ing upon officers of the law to prose
i cute any guilty parties who mthey
[ may be abole to find.
The resolution refers to the alleged
action of fourteen men, who last
Thursday night enticed young Mr.
I Shelverton, son of a former mayor
| of Austell and prominent in the city’s
I affairs, into a waiting automobile
and after driving two and one-half
miles into the country, took him out
and beat him with a strop of the
kind formerly used in convict camps,
according to his statement.;
The resolution follows: 1
“Whereas, it has been called to
the attention of the mayor and coun
cil of the city of Austell, Ga., that
bn the night of Thursday, December
11, 1924, one of our citizens, Charles
I J. Shelverton, Jr., was taken from
I his home and brutally beaten by an
unidentified body- of men;
i "That, be it resolved by- the city
I council of Austell in special session,
1 December 13, does hereby' go on rec
ord as deploring such unlawful ac-
; tion and calling upon the officers of
! the law in lite city, county and state
l to do all in their power to appre
hend the culprits and bring them to
justice, and in order to promote to
activity- on the part of these offi
i cers, we, in behalf of the city of
[ Austell, offer SIOO reward for the
| arrest and conviction of these men. ’
Declaring that he recognized two
| of his assailants, but refusing to di-
I vulge their names until he is able
>to take out warrants against them,
; young Shelverton was recovering
today from the effects of the boating.
Young Shelverton’s body is bruised
and striped from waist to neck from
I.lows of a heavy leather strap such
tis was formerly used in convict
I camps. Wounds on his head were
i caused, he said, by blows from a pis
trol in the. hands of his assailants.
The authorities of Cobb county’
have offered a reward of SSOO for
■ the apprehension of the men and C.
| J. Shelverton, father of the injured
' boy, has announced that he will of
| fei an additional reward. Governor
Walker will be asked to offer a re
ward in the name of the state of
Georgia.
The community’ is quiet and there
are no indications of furtherMrouble,
although the attack on young Shei
verton is the subject of much com
ment and speculation. The young
n an’s family are thoroughly aroused
over the cccurrence and assert that
?li possible steps will be taken to ap
prehend the persons responsible for
the assault.
Young Shelverton states that he
was called from his bed late Thurs
day night by four men who asked
his aid in repairing an automobile.
Being a mechanic, he accompanied
them to the car, which was stand
ing near the Shelverton home, and
upon reaching it, he was enticed into
| tne machine which was driven away
i rapidly. The men produced what
I r-urportel to be a bench warrant for
' Lis arrest, the young man said, and
he was threatened with death if he
made any outcry.
Two more automobiles containing
ten men joined the first car at a lone
ly spot some distance from town, he
stated, and the party- got nut. drag
ging him into a clump ot bushes.
One man remained in the road as a
“lookout,” young Shelverton assert
ed. while the other 13 beat him with
the hevay strap, striking seven
blows each. He was left half con
scious in the bushes as his assailants
disappeared, but managed to make
his ways to a farm house, where
his injuries were treated and he
was taken home.
His injuries, though painful, are
net considered serious, and it ; s
thought that he will be out in a few
days.
Three weeks ago two young men
ot this community were bound over
u the Cobb superior court for an
a/eged attack on a girl. Young
Shelverton had been subpoenaed as
a witness at the trial of the two boys
scheduled for Monday- in the superior
i court at Marietta.
I He declares the men who attacked
him Thursday night accused him of
■ defaming the young woman’s char
iacter, although he did not testify at
j the preliminary hearing.
‘‘Chivalrous Gentleman,”
Judge Says, Freeing Slayer
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. Dec. 13.
Robert Ivory. resident of Clifton
Hills, was acquitted Friday' of the
i killing of Maynard Griffin last Au
gust. The verdict was directed from
| the bench by Judge Floyd Estill.
who commended the action of tn
, defendant as that of a "chivalrous
' gentleman." Griffin, according to th,-
! evidence, was shot to death in front
I of Ivory's home after the accused
j had tried vainly for more than an
i hour to persuade Griffin and Car
roll Bass to desist in their efforts
! to rob Jack Helton, a friend, who
was drinking.
I
«
O’Shea, dentist at Oteen Veterans’
hospital, is gravely’ injured In auto
mobile accident, and continues in un
conscious condition at hospital. Six
others escape with minor injuries.
HENDERSONVILLE. Fourth
annual apple show proves more suc
cessful than previous ones and repe
tition next year is declared assured.
CANTON.—-About' 150 additional
operativtes arc given employment at
Champion Fibre company’s plant
when machinery- producing 100 tons
of paper daily is placed in opera
tion.
ASHEVILLE. Congregation of
First Baptist church authorizes
purchase of site of Cherokee inn for
SIOO,OOO, on which houses of wor
ship to cost $500,000 will be erected.
Present church building and site will
te offered for sale later.
CHA RI .OTTE.—Building permits
of $883,413 for November represent
increase of $330,733 over October
and are $494,063 over same month,
last year, total for 11 months of this
year being nearly- $6,000,000, com
pared with $5,265,340 for same period
*ast year.
RALEIGH.—PoIice Chief J. W.
Biyan sends out notices that meet
ing will be called for early- in Jan
uary when temporary organization
of North Carolina association of
police chiefs will be made perma
nent.
POSTAL RATE INCREASE
OF $68,000,000 A YEAR
URGED UPON CONGRESS
Postmaster New Would Inc lude All Classes Except Let
ter Mail, to Provide Add itional Revenue to Meet
Proposed Advance in Salaries for Employes
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Ad
vances in postal rates, designed to 1
yield very- close tn the proposed,
$68,000,000 a year increase in the!
pay of postal employes, were sug
gested to congress today- by Post- |
master General New.
They would affect virtually all |
classes of mail except letter mail. ;
Simultaneously with the transmis- >
sion of the postmaster general’s rec- j
ommendations to congress, the pos
tal committee of the American ;
Newspaper Publishers’ association !
attacked the departmental measure, !
declaring the suggested increase of I
$10,876,000 annually- on second class t
mail, consisting entirely- .of newspa- !
pers and periodicals, would have the >
effect of doubling the rates on news- j
paper circulation going through the j
mails.
“This action by congress,” said a I
statement from the association, “will ;
have the double result of reducing
the revenues accruing to the de
partment and absolutely forbidding
the circulation of daily newspapers
in the mails.”
New Defends Increases
Announcing that his suggestions '
for advances were based upon the I
conclusions arrived at by the cost 1
ascertainment recently submitted to ,
congress, Mr. New in his letter
transmitting the rate proposals to i
(.'hairman Sterling, of the senate
postoffice committee, gave notice
that the department was prepared
to “explain and defend'’ this cost
ascertainment if attacked.
Specifically, the rate advances rec
ommended would yield $66,390,751) di
vided as follows:
Second class mail, newspapers and
periodicals, $10,876,000.
Fourth class mail, parcels post,'
$12,000,000.
Third class, circulars and direct
mail advertising, $18,000,000.
Postcards, $12,500,000, through in- j
creasing the rate from one cent, to,
one and one-half cents.
Registered letters, $4,000,000.
Money orders, $3,500,000.
Postal Insurance, $3,058,000.
Collect on delivery, $1,103,000.
Salary Bill Sidetracked
Before the postmaster general’s
recommendations were transmitted
to Senator Sterling, a third effort
to fix a date for a senate vote on
the employes' pay- bill, vetoed at the
last session by President Coolidge,
had failed.
Senator Edge, Republican, New
Jersey, proposed that the measure
be taken up on January 8 under
unanimous consent but Senator
Reed, Democrat, Missouri, objected
on the grounds that there was an
effort to kill the measure at this
session by hitching up to it the pos
tal rate increase measure. \ i
The New Jersey- senator, who has
had charge of the pay bill, subse- '
fluently announced in a formal state-i
• ment that he had washed his hands I
of the matter and it now was up
to those friendly to the bill, but who
have opposed unanimous consent '
agreements to lead the fiiht.
Meantime, the vetoed bill retained i
its status of a highly privileged com- ■
munication, resting on the senate ta-1
ble but not subject to- considera
tion because of the intervening unan
imous consent, arrangement for final
action on both the Muscle, Shoals
bill and the Isle of Pines treaty.
Details ot Changes
Details of the various changes in
postal rates proposed by Postmaster
General New other than as to post
cards, previously set forth, are as'
follows;
Secnod class matter.
No change in reading portion of
newspapers, now 1 l-2c a pound.
No change in reading portion of ;
periodicals classified as scientific, ag- j
ricultural, religious, fraternal, etc.. *
not conducted for profit, now 1 1-lc j
a pound.
Rate on reading portions of all nth- |
er publications .Increased from 1 1-2
to 2 cents a pound.
Rates on advertising portions of j
publications now subject to zone !
rates are increased 2 cents per pound
in the first, second and third zones. 1
and 1 cent a pound in fourth, fifth
and sixth zones. No increase in
seventh and eighth zones.
Rates on advertising portions of
publication now subject to zone
rates will apply to advertising por- •
lions of all publications, except
where advertising matter is 5 per
cent or less of* total printed space.
Recommendation that any publish
er or registered news agent may elect
to mail a oortion or all of the issues
of any- publications entered as sec
ond class mail under the rates rec- |
ommended for fourth class, or parcel
post, matter, such rates to be ap
plicable to each piece for each ad-j
dressee. This will enable publishers
and registered news agents to ship
large bundles of second class mat
ter to a single addressee at parcel
post rates.
Rates on t-ansient second class
matter are changed from 1 cent for
four ounces to 1 1-2 cents for each
two ounces up to and not exceeding
eight ounces and parcel post rates
to apply to weights above eight
ounces.
Weight Limit ( hanged
Third class matter:
Limit of weight changed to eight ’
ounces, and rates' increased from 1
cent to I 1-2 cents for each two!
ounces, excepting f ■ :s. ■ ita-
lOCU--S. seeds. etc v- hi- h V 1
carry the present rate of 1 cent for.
TUESDAY. DECEMBER Isl,
LAURINBURG.—After trials in
superior court, Judge Lane imposes
sentences as follows: Will William
son, negro, murder, first degree,
electrocution on Jan ry 23; Spencer
Gray, second degree murder, 25 to
30 years: Michael Morrison, negro,
World war veteran, decorated by
United States and France, second
degree murder, 20 to 30 years; Wal
ter Evers, 14, white, second degree
murder, indefinite confinement at
Jackson training school.
ASHEBORO. —Wilbur Curry, 15,
of Hamp, is brought to hospital in
serious condition after foot js blown
joss by- accidental discharge of shot
-gun, said to have been held by com
panion on hunting trip.
I AHOSKIE.—Edith Dildav, aged
| seven, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
j George T. Dilday, dies of lockjaw
| which developed two weeks after
child's ear was torn off and other
injuries sustained when run down
by motor car.
CH AR LOTTE.—Party of 100
Mecklenburg county- farmers visit
Union county- farms, near Marsh
ville, to inspect fields and obtain in
struction in growing and harvesting
lespedeza.
CHARLOTTE. —John Morrow, of
near Cornelius, telephones rural po
lice officers negro named Will Gas
ton, had run down Morrow's son,
who was taken to Davidson hos
pital in unconscious condition.
each two ounces. All matter now
I in third class weighing more than
! eight ounces will go at parcel post
rates.
| Fourth class matter; Proposed in
! creases in zone rates average ap-
■ proximately 2 cents per package for
I all zones, with increases averaging
'more than 2 cents per package for
I nearby zones, with a lesser increase
; in the sixth zone, and no increases
jin the seventh and eighth zones,
I with a provision that rates on books,
I catalogs, etc., weighing more than
! eight ounces, shall be 1 cent per
j piece less than the rates applicable
I to mei’chandise.
! Insurance fees.
Minimum increased from 3 to 5
' cents, with lesser adjustments in the
higher fees.
j' C. O. D. fees:
Increased from present 10 and 25
cents to 12, 15 and 25 cents.
Money- orders:
Present fees of 3 to 30 cents
changed to from 5 to 22 cents.
Registered mail:
Increased from 10 to 15 cents, with
3-cent fee for return receipt.
Special delivery:
Present 10 cent, fee for all matter
! tip to two pounds unchanged. All
matter weighing in excess of two
| pounds to ten pounds, 15 cents; in
! excess of ten pounds, 20 cents.
Meets Salary Increasflß
In transmitting the recommenda
i tions of Senator Sterling, .Mr. New’
( said it was obvious that the money
!to meet the $68,000,000 postal eni
; ployes’ pay- increase “must come
from somewhere.”
“The question,” lie said, “is wheth
'or it shall be assessed against the
I gen real taxpayer ot whether it shall
be obtained by providing increased
I rates for mail now carried at: a. loss.
It. is my belief that the latter is the
I correct method.”
[ “It will be observed,” he wrote,
■“that the suggestions affect every
! class of mail on which the depart
i ment now sustains a loss, as re
vealed by the result of the cost ascer
tainment just completed by direc-
I tion of congress.”
Calling attention that, the loss on
second-class mail—newspapers and
periodicals—is placed at $74,712,000
in the cost ascertainment report, the
postmaster general said that “not
withstanding this, the recommenda
tion for increases on second-class
calls for $10,876,000.”
“One million of this,” he added,
“is expected to he derived from
■ newspapers mailed by individuals
and not by publishers.
“In holding the increase to this
class within the limits named, the
department has been governed by
numerous considerations. It has
j been the traditional policy- of the
government to give publications the
I low rates, recognizing them as dis
tributors of general information. It
i always has and still does recognize
the desire of the public for daily
news and current information and
j reading matter.
Publishers Open Fire
Assailing both the postmaster gen
eral's recommendations and the cost
i ascertainment report, the publish
i ers’ association, in its statement,
i presented statistics to show that Mr.
> New's recommendations for In
creases on daily newspapers are
based largely- on the allocation of
cost in handling over the rural free
delivery routes, which cost $87,542.-
694 to maintain, and produce no rev
i enue.
"He does not propose an increase
:in postage on first-class or third
class mail or fourth-class mail to
meet this situation,” the statement
said. "With these classifications he
l pursues the policy of spreading their
I cost and their receipts over the en
! tire mail service, but having driven
i second-class mail out of practically
I ali of the post service except the
rural free delivery- service, the post
' master general pursues the policy of
! trying to make certain divisions of
' th esecond-class mail pay their cost
' or. the rural routes, while he ex
-1 erupts other divisions of second-class
mail from this necessity.”
The cost ascertainment report was
further attacked on the ground that
while the newspapers are large con
tributors to the revenues of the city
postoffices from “which they get no
ser\ice tn speak of,” a large por
tion of the expenditures on account
of the postoffice “arbitrarily are
| allotted to their account."
Montezuma Puzzled
By Disappearance
Os Wire Operator
MONTEZUMA, Ga., Dec. 13. I
Great concern is felt here for the |
safety of J. R. Crossby, Western I
Union telegraph operator, who has i
nor been seen since he left the office I
at 4:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon. I
It ;» presumed that he left town I
: in hi- c.ir. which was seen parked
‘ in front of the postoffice, but no one
• saw him leave. He telephone his
wife at 5:30 o’clock that he would be
! b.qme in a few minutes, and nothing
' has beet: heard of him since.
Mrs. t’ro-sby had been in Monte
zurra only nhout six months NUgh
hm'ing towns h<'.e beet notified of
. h.s disapnearareo.
I I
RALElGH.—Possibility of legisla
tion by assembly in Jlanuary meet
ing, intended to separate bureau for
deaf from -tate department of labor
and printing, is forecast by promi
nent. politicians after Commissioner
elect Frank Grist announces As
sistant Commissioner J. M. Robert
son will be displaced. ,
ROCKY MOUNT.—Unknown per
sons take joy ride in car owned by
A. R. Bobbitt and, after leaving car
by roadside, send him $2 to pay for
gasoline.
GREENSEORO.—Legionnaires ac
tively join newly inaugurated pub
lic movement looking to construc
tion of SIOO,OOO stadium to seat 10,-
000 persons, as memorial to World
war veterans.
RED SPRINGS.—Dr. C. G. Var
dell, president of Flora Macdonald
college, leaves for Kansas City, Mo.,
to deliver address before St. An
drews society of that, state, organi
zation of prominent persons of
Scotch descent.
WINSTON-SALEM. November
sales of tobacco at auction ware
houses total 9,143,182 pounds, price
averaging $26.28 per hundredweight,
bringing total sales for season to
20,077,666 pounds, season’s average
price being about 24 cents per pound.
SANFORD.—Dewberry growers of
this section organize co-operative
marketing association.
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HIS STORY DE KITE
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 14.—T0
dispell the assertions of Dr. Alex
ander McAdle, of Boston, that Ben
jamin Franklin did not discover elec
tricity by the’aid of his famous kite,
the Franklin institute today made
public a letter written by Franklin
to Peter Collinson, London, in 1752
on his experiments and observations
with electricity.
The letter follows:
“As frequent mention is made in
public papers from Europe of the
success of the Philadelphia experi
ment for drawing the electric fire
from the clouds by : - ns of point
ed rods of iron erected on high build
ings. etc., it may be agreeable to
the curious to be informed that the
same experiment has succeeded in
Philadelphia, though made in a dif
ferent and more easy manner, which
is as follows:
“Make a small cross of two light
strips of cedar, the arms so long as
. to reach to the four corners of a
large thin silk handkerchief when
extended: tie the corners of the
handkerchief to the extremities of
the' cross, so you have the body of
a kite; which being properly accom
modated with a tail, loop, and string,
• will rise in the air, like those made
of paper; but this being of silk is
fitter to hear the wet and wind of
a thunder gust without tearing. To
the top of the upright stick of the
cross is to be fixed a very sharp
pointed wire, rising a foot or more
above the wood. To the end of the
twine, next the hand, is to be tied
a silk ribbon, and where the silk
and twine join, a Key may bo fas
tened. This kite is to be raised
when a thunder gust appears to be
coming on, and the person who
holds th- string must stand within
a. door or window, or under some
cover, so that the silk ribbon may
not be v'et. and care must be taken
that the twine does not touch the
frame of the door or window. As
soon a.s any of the thunder clouds
come over the kite, the pointed wire
will draw the electric fire from
them, and the kite, with all the
twine, will be electrified, and the
loose filaments of the twine will
stand out everyway, ami be attract
ed by an approaching finger. And
when the rain has wet the kite and
: twine, so Hint it can conduct the
electric fire freely, you will find it
stream out plentifully from the key
on the approaching of your knuckle.
At this key the phial may be
i charged, and from electric fire thus
I obtained, spirits may lie kindled,
and all the other electric experiments
be performed. which are usually
done by the help of a. rubbed glass
i globe or tube and thereby the same-
I ness of the electric matter with that
of lightning completely demon-
I strated.”
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Ships From the Lakes
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storm played havoc with great lak p s
shipping during the night and to
day.
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Middleton, charged with the murder
of his son.
The evidence in the case was to
the effect that Middleton had pledg
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he would keep the boy, with whom
he had been having trouble, at
home. The boy was of a
penitentiary sentence upon the
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home one afternoon he found that
the boy had ran away. Finding
the boy in Hebardville he carried
him home and tied him to the ceil
ing of the room, administering a
whipping, from the effects of which
the boy later died.
Judge Custer sentenced Middleton
to serve from one to two years at
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