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Evening star., 1927-12-07
MISSOURI STATE LIFE.

NEW YORK, December Z P).--
Missouri State Life Insurance Co, St
Louis, has joined the ranks of the
first 20 insurance companies in the
country, with nearly $750.000 in life
insurance in force at the end of the
first nine months this year. New
insurance for the period was $10S,
S33,162, an increase of 40.6 per cent
over the same period last year.
Evening star., 1927-12-07
SOUTHERN PACIFIC.

NEW YORK, December Z R.-The
Southern Pacific has ordered 25,292
additional tons of rails costing $780,
900, bringing total orders placed re-
Gently to 94,S67 tons, at an outlay Of
$5.250,000. United States Steel re-
ceived 3S,563 tons, Bethlehem Steel,
1864 tons, and Colorado Fuel & Iron,
II $40 tons
Evening star., 1927-12-07
OIL WELL SUPPLY co.

NEW YORK, December R).-
Louis Brown has resigned as presi-
dent. of the Oil Well Supply Co, and
has been elected chairman of the
board. Walter c. Carroll was elected
president The changes will be effec-
tive January Is.
Evening star., 1927-12-07
S. A. |. EARNINGS DROP.
Directors Expected to Order Only
Bond Inter Payments.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, December Earn
ings of the Seaboard Airline Railway
for 1927 will be far smaller than they
were in 1926, when net income totaled
$3,17S.670. equal to $13.2S on the pre-
ferred and SAT- a share on the com
mon. Private estimates made on the
basis of the nine-month statement in.
dicate earnings of around S. a share
on the preferred and less than 81 on
the common this year.
Consequently, directors, at their
meeting this month, are not expected
to order anything but payment of the
regular interest rate on the adjust
ment mortgage 5s.
There remains about II per cent in
terest in arrears on these bonds, which
will have to be taken care of before
there can be any serious talk of divi.
dendS on the stocks.
Evening star., 1927-12-07
LEHIGH VALLEY EARNINGS.

NEW YORK, December 7 OP).-The
Lehigh Valley Railroad earned $2.65 a
share on the common in the first nine
months of 1927, against $6.26 a share
In the corresponding 1926 period. Net
income dropped to s3,220,39S, from
$7,583. .682.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22
Boxing in Durham Monday

The Durham post of the
American Legion will put on a
boxing exhibition at El Toro
Park next Monday evening,
July 25. The program includes
two 10-round bouts: Battling
Conway against Kid Peck and
AL Greenfield against Morris
Renecost. A. report to the Dur
ham post last week disclosed
that the fund being raised Tor
the Legion house had reached
$4,000. The three boxing exhi-
billions thus far have brought In
%i5U06' fife report mentioned
gifts from B. N. Duke, Jones
Fuller, and H. R. Gocdall.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22
Warren to Box Mayle
Carolina FavOrite Will Meet the In
dian at Fort Bragg Tonight

Addison tx. or Warren and
Chief Maybe of Fort Bragg will
meet in a return battle of four
rounds at Fort Bragg this eve
ming. The Carolina fighter and
Maybe fought in Durham, July
A, with Warren winning a new s.
paper decision over the Indian.
What the outcome of the bout
tomorrow night will be, is uncer-
tain. Warren declares that he
is confident that he can knock
the soldier out. The fight at
Durham between the two was
slow and full of clinches.
Chief Maybe represented the
American expeditionary forces
at the Olympic meet in Paris in
1924. Warren is the amateur
heavyweight champion of the
United States.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22
$4,7O4 for a Pathway
People Think MIR. SOrrell Sacrificed
That Much for Short Cut to Home

When w. B. Sorrell, the jewel
er, announced last year that he
was to erect a theatre on the
main street, between the Cate
and the Berman stores, the; viii
lage expected that the new build
ing would cover the entire front
age of his plot. But when the
excavation was put under way it
developed that he had left a
space of 8 feet between the the
atre and Berman's.
The last sale Of land on this
block of the main street was at
$588 a front foot. On this basis
the 8-foot alley is worth $4,704.
A citizen who asked Mr.. Sor-
sell why he had not utilized the
whole plot received the reply:
"Weil, | want a path when |
go home from work"
His home is on Rosemary lane,
and the alley affords a short cut
to it. If no alley had been left
the jeweler would have had to
walk around the block two or
three times a day. Although
there are four or five windows
on the second story level Of the
new building, overlooking the
alley, the opinion seems to be
prevalent that the main reason
- nR csu i.4A 4Lz eZ0A
WY MI OOfIcH tcIt lie P4g tVA
space vacant was to that he could
have 1t as a pathway.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22
End Term Begins Today
Summer School Starts Over Again /;
Probably 800 Students Will Attend

Glasses in the Summer Schools
End term begin today. This
term will have two Saturdays
with classes, July q and %.
The hourly period remains the
same during the coming term ex-
cept that the chapel period be-
tween II and IL 80 a. m. is elm
mated.
With no official estimate as
yet obtainable, the number at
tending the second term of the
summer school will probably
reach we'll over one thousand.
Last year 822 students were
here for the second part of the
summer work.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22
TO OPEN GRAHAM
MEMORIALON THE
18th OF OCTOBER
But the Big Social Room VIII
Be the Only Part Compile
ted by That Time
COMMITTEE HAS MEETING

The big social room on the
ground floor of the Graham
Memorial building will be ready
for its formal opening on Uni
Yersity Day, October IL. Thus
the celebration will miss by only
one day the birthday October
ID of Edward Kidder Graham,
in whose memory the building
was erected.
lnsutficiency of funds has pre-
vented the completion of the en-
tire structure. The rooms at
the ends on the ground level, and
those ON the upper floor. will
be finished later.
The announcement that the
social room would soon be open
ed was made after a recent
meeting of the Graham Memo
rial committee. At this meet
ing the following were present:
Leslie We'll, Charles T. Woollen,
William M. Dey, l.. K. Wilson.
r. B. House, A. c. Nash, and
J. A. Page. Mr.. Nash repre-
sented the architects and Mr..
Page the contractors,
A report was made on the
problem of furnishings and fix
lures. The design of the lights
was approved and they were
straightway ordered. A special
subcommittee, composed of
Messrs. Nash, Woollen, and
House, was appointed to consid-
er the question of furniture and
to make recommendations at the
next meeting of the full commit
tee.
The water mains and the heat
ing plant in the basement, ca
pable of serving the entire struc-
ture, will have been completed
by University Day.
Eventually two wings will be
added to the present structure,
which will then constitute the
central unit. The Graham Mem
orial is to serve as a social head
quarters for the student body.
In it will probably be quartered
d number of the most important
student activities, such as the
publications, the student council,
and the athletic committee.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22
Old Tree Must Come Down

One of the old oak trees on
what used to be called, in Civil
War times, the Fetter place
now the home of Vernon Howell
is being destroyed. This is
because of the attack upon il by
borers, and its consequent decay.
The axemen have had a delicate
job to perform, because the tree
stands near the house, and If
it were felled in the usual way
it might fall on the house and
crush it in. Therefore the limbs
udNC DCCu cut away OAtC W VHS'
The trunk still stands, but 1t will
probably come down before long.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22
ASPHALTSU SURFACE
MAY BE LAID ON
VILLAGE STREETS
Committee of Board of Alder
men Is Investigating a New
Method of Treatment
COST IMPORTANT FACTOR

The Chapel Hill aldermen are
considering a plan to lay an as
phalt surface on some Of the
streets of the village. The type
of surfacing under investigation
is much cheaper than the sheet
asphalt familiar to cities. 1t is
similar to that which has been
used by the highway commission
around Pinehurst and in some
other sections of the state.
No stone base is necessary.
After a street has been shaped
up" properly an asphaltic mix
ture is poured directly upon the
soil by means of a machine call
ed distributor. The first treat
ment calls for a half-gallon per
square yard of surface. This
sets overnight, and then "chets"
that is, stone particles of not
more than a quarter of an inch in
dlameter-are spread upon the
asphalt, and the street is opened
to traffic. Two months later a
second treatment is applied.
Thereafter the treatments need
not come oftener than once a
year.
Durham county has built
roads of this type, and the road
superintendent there says they
have given good service, He has
offered to do the laying here in
Chapel Hill, if the aldermen
want to make a test, at actual
cost. This will mean a great
saving, because it will relieve
the village of the outlay for
equipment.
At a recent meeting of the
board of aldermen the public
works committee, composed of
M. f. Hogan, G. M. Braune, and
B. S. Thompson, was. directed to
investigate the scheme and re-
port back to the board. These
three men are going to make a
visit to Durham county and ex-
anime some of the roads there.
Cost is the important factor.
The aldermen may decide that
Chapel Hill cannot afford such
an improvement at present.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22
Marriage Report Error
II. II. Williams Adopts Miss Bonner !;
Chase and Bell Witnesses

Letters from England to
Chapel Hill brought last week
the news that II. II. Williams,
professor of philosophy in the
University, had adopted Miss
Miriam Bonner.
This came as a surprise to
the people of the village, be-
cause it had been said on good
authority that Mr.. Williams was
engaged to Miss Bonner and
that the marriage would take
place in England.
The legal formalities incident
to the adoption were witnessed
by President Chase, who is on a
vacation abroad, and James M.
Bell, professor of chemistry, who
has been away for a year on
leave of absence.
Miss Bonner, originally of Cal
ifornia, was assistant professor
of English at the North Carolina
College for Women in Green's
.boro. Recently she has been
pursuing studies at Oxford Uni
versity.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22
The Glee Club, While in London,
Will Sing in Westminster Abbey

The University of North Car
olina Glee Club, in the course of
its visit to London next month,
will give a sacred concert in
Westminster Abbey, the most
celebrated building in Great
Britain and for centuries past
the burial place of the Kingdoms s
greatest men.
The invitation to the club to
sing there came as a result of
the deep interest which ~@Mr.
Houghton, the American ambas-
sador, has taken in the tour since
he first learned of the project
several months ago. His friends
in the British government, when
he told them Of the plans for
the North Carolinians' visit and
of the splendid impression they
had made when they sang in
New York and elsewhere, ar
ranged for the concert in the
Abbey.
Ernest R. Young, manager Of
the club as we'll as one of the
singers, went to Washington to
see the ambassador last winter
and told him of the projected
European tour. Mr.. Hough-
tons enthusiasm for the enter
prise was made evident at the
first interview, and he. has not
ceased since then to give advice
and aid in perfecting the pro-
gram. Mr.. Herrick, the ambas-
sador to France, has offered, by
correspondence, the same zeal
Gus cooperation. In each coun-
try, England and France, the
club will appear under the pa
tronage of the American embas-
sy. Secretary of State Kellogg
has sent Paul John Weaver, di-
rector of the club, letters of in
PRODUCTION which constitute a
sponsorship by the American
government.
The singers, thirty of them,
will sail from New York on the
Holland American liner, Menu
Amsterdam, Saturday, July 30.
They are scheduled to land at
Plymouth August 6, and go
thence direct to London, where
they will remain about ten days.
The concert in Westminster Alb
hey will probably be one of their
first appearances. Another will
be for the benefit of the Queen
Alexandra Memorial Hospital :;
one evening will be devoted to
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22
McCOrkIes Go to Texas

Mr.. and Mrs. T. Smith Nc
Corkle left yesterday for Mart,
Texas, where they will be for
the next six or seven weeks.
They are accompanied by their
cousin, Miss Katherine Storey,
who has been with them this
last year, The journey will be
broken by a few days stay in
New Orleans. Mr.. and Mrs.
McCorkle will occupy the Sides
home after they return to Chap
ell Hill in mid-September.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22

a broadcasting program; and on
another evening the students
will sing for the American Club
in Piccadilly.
The club moves on to STRAIT
ford-on-Avon on the 17th of
August for a stay of three days.
Here they sing under the aus
pices and for the benefit of the
Society for Rebuilding the STRAIT
ford Theatre, which is raising a
fund to replace the theatre that
was destroyed by fire. Possibly
there will be a concert at Ok
ford University, but this is not
yet definitely settled.
Paris will be reached about
the 22nd. There the Glee Club
will give concerts in the 5Ameri-
can Pro-Cathedral, st. Luke's
church, the American Students
and Artists Club, and Aeolian
Hall. Besides these there are
three other engagements in
France.
The return sea voyage starts
at Boulogne September 6 and
ends in New York September
13. The students will get back
to Chapel Hill for the opening
of the fall term.
The members of the club gath
cred in Chapel Hill last week for
rehearsals and for the series of
concerts to be given gefore the
departure from America. They
sang Monday night at the A.
& f. College in Raleigh, to a
crowd that packed Pullen hall to
the doors, and Tuesday evening
they were at the N. C. c. w. in
Greensboro. Two Virginia IN
stitutions, William and Mary at
Williamsburg and the State
Normal at Harrisonburg, well
coined them Wednesday evening
and yesterday evening. They
return to Chapel Hill this mcrn-
ing for three days Of intensive
rehearsing. In New York, from
7 to 7:30 next Wednesday eve
ming, the 9th, they will broad
cast from WEAF, with seven of
the country's largest stations
linked up, under the auspices of
the American Shakespeare
Foundation. Two short private
programs will be followed on
the 29th by a visit to the, Ori-
enta Beach Club at Mamar-
oneck, on the shore of Long
Continued on page tWO)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22
Neal Sees Big Fight

w. 3. Neal left by automobile
for the North last Friday. One
of the objects of his trip was to
see the Dempsey -Sharkey box
ing match in Philadelphia last
night.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22
Faculty Progeny's Diseases

Robert House, Jr., has the
measles and Eleanora Carroll,
Jra has the whooping cough.
Louise Wilson has the measles
and FOR this reason stayed at
WrightsviIle Beach with her
mother after L. r. Wilson re-
turned with his other two
daughters, Misses Elizabeth and
Penelope.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22
Mrs. MacNider Recovering

Mrs. Sophie MacNider was
seized with an illness last week
and for several days was in a
aa,.;oua co,, di4sar p.4 aimee
Monday she has been steadily
improving. I
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22
Chapel Hill Chaf


Weaver a few weeks ago about
the Glee Clubs tour in Europe,
and he told me of how they were
going to try to include in their
program many numbers that
were distinctively American.
Henry We'll, member of the
club, was at my home for dinner
the other day. He and l and the
two other persons at the table
were consuming corn-on-the-cob.
For a period of several minutes
none of us spoke a word-but
we were far from silent. AS the
succulent corn passed back and
forth across my face, with some
what the same movement as that
of a mouthharp, | recalled my
conversation with Mr.. Weaver,
and a valuable thought occurred
to me. Why shouldn't the Glee
Club give their European audi
ences a cOrn-on-the-cob chorus?
A recent visitor from the Brit
ish Isles informed me that our
manner of consuming corn-eX-
tracing the kernels from the
cob with the teeth, instead of
having it done beforehand in the
Htchen-Was quite unknown in
the Old World. If the club
management will equip each
member with a juicy piece of
corn at each performance, and
if all the thirty, at the wave of
the leader conductors baton,
will proceed to CRUNCH in unison
here will be a real American
novelty!
believe the word for corn is
maize in England; so, if my sug-
gestion is adopted, the printed
program will have to carry an
internretatiVa footnOta
What will the learned music
critics Of Great Britain and the
Continent make of this part of
the performance? No doubt, re-
calling what they have read of
the voyages of Sir Walter Ra-
leigh, they will take the corn
crunching as a revival of the
music of the American alb
origines.
1t is a far cry back to the
days when everybody VINO work
ed around the campus had his
home within the sound of the
college bell. Professors live in
Durham and drive over here to
their classes. And learned
yesterday that the negro jani-
tor of the Alumni building came
in by motor every morning from
Orange Grove, IA miles away.
C. 0. Spalteholz, the scientist
from Holland who was here last
week engaged in a search for
plants which might be used for
the production of rubber, said
to me: Il like Chapel Hill-it
is so clean" 1t is agreeable for
villager to hear his home thus
praised, but | must say | was
vastly surprised at this judg-
ment. But began to think it
overland decided | need not he
so surprised after all. Mr..
Continued on page sir)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-22
Much Ado about
Not Much

In connection with all the talk
of the cut of $1,000 in C. L.
Lindsay's tax assessment l have
been rejecting upon what a
small sum of money he would
save through the change from
the original figure.
Here is the situation. The as
SCISSORS put down. his property on
Cameron avenue at $4,000.
Through the uniform 10 per
cent. cut, agreed upon at the
commissioners meeting on Mon
day of last week, this would be
reduced to SIS, 300. SO that, by
persuading the county commits
sioners to change his assessment
to the $4,000, Mr.. Lindsay eff
fected a net cut of $4,000. The
combined tax rate, town and
county, is about $3.50 per $100
of assessed valuation. Multiply
$3.50 by 33 and you get $92.40,
WHICH is the saving in annual
taxes gained by Mr.. Lindsay
through shis enterprise in per-
suading the board to the cut.
This is based on the assump-
tion that the tax rate will be the
same this year as it was last;
it may be little different, but
not much). e.
Is this saving of $92.40 worth
all the trouble? | doubt it. Mr..
Lindsay is man of large means,
and certainly a difference of
$92.40 in his annual town and
county tax bill would not cause
him much inconvenience.
Consider the cost. There is
the time he spent going to Hills
boro and appealing to the COM
missioners. There is the SER
vice of his companion and advo-
cate, Mr.. Hughes, of Durham.
There is the time devoted to the
discussion by the three county
commissioners, who are paid by
the county's taxpayers for their
sessions. There is the time spent
by Mr.. Carroll and Mr.. Fowler,
the assessors; who are in duty
bound to protest against the
change of their figure as an in
justice to the other taxpayers of
Chapel Hill. Then there is the
transportation, as groups of men
fly through the country in auto
mobiles to argue about this piece
of faVoritism-the cost Of gaso-
line, and oil, and wear and tear.
Not TO mention the mental an
guish attendant upon all this
hullabaloo.
If time is money, as is gen
orally agreed, all this confabula-
ton and disputing mean a con-
siderable loss in dollars. Just
how many dollars, of course, no
one is able to determine precise
ly. But / feel sure, if this deter
mination could be made, the fig
ure would exceed the $92. 40 that
Mr.. Lindsay is trying to save.
And in the end probably he
won't save it, since the commits
sioners made the cut conditional
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-01
Hourly Sales on N. Y. Market.

II am.. 57o.6O0 II noon. $50, 700
pm.. 1,265.700 2p.m.. 1887. 800
Dividend rates as given in the above table
are the annual cash payments based on the
Unless otherwise noted extra or special divi.
dends are not included.
y. Unit OF trading less than 100 shares.
able, III common stock Plus $3.50 in
stock. Paid this year--no regular rate
%i3 60 quarterly. C Plus S "a in stock. d Pay
able, when earned; . PAYABLE in, cash or
stock. Plus l0fc in stock. Plus 1850
share in stock. Plus ST. a share In special
stock. Plus 60 in stock. j Plus 2q. in
in Class A stock m Plus so in stock.
Partly stock. Plus So in preferred stock
q Plus one-haf OF common stock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-01
HOLIDAY IN ENGLAND.

LONDON, August 1 (P).-All ex-
changes here and in Liverpool are
closed today, a bank holiday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-01

NEW YORK, August 1 R).--Bar
silver, 56as Mexican dollars, 42A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-01
FEDERAL TRUCK EARNINGS.

NEW YORK, August / R).-Fed-
eral Motor Truck Co. reports net profit
for the first half of 1927 of 1923, 500, the
equivalent Of rs cents a share on 430,-
1855 no-par shares, against $1,069,729
or S5.35 shore on 100000 shares of
$40 par in the same period of Las year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-01
POTATO MARKET STRONG.

CHICAGO. August 1 R.-Potatoes:
Receipts, 66 cars Saturday; "a cars
Sunday; on track. $50 cars: total
United States shipments, So cars; de-
mand and trading good; market strong;
Virginia barreled Irish cobblers, 3.00a
$50, according to copdition: Kansas
and Missouri stock ICish cobblers. $50
a1,75,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-01
PROFIT SHOWS GkIT.

NEW YORK, August ! LP).-Profit
of Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. and sub
salaries for the first half of 1927
amounted to s2,455,541, as compared
with $1,616,008 in the first six months
Of the previous year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-01
BUS FIRMS LARGE.

NEW YORK, August / (P.-Of 10
bus operating companies Incorporated
in the United States in July, six were
capitalized at 100000 or more, Bus
Transportation reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-01
Fishers Price Index

The following table shows the aver.
age movement from week to week
% of the wholesale prices of 200 rep.
resentative commodities from Dun's
Review and t2) of the purchasing
power Of the dollar:
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Foreign Weekly Index.

Crump's london Financial Times
index number for England: