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GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1916. VOL. 94—NO. »7
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Visiting MlnU-ter.—R»v. Donald"
Mclver, pastor of the Presbyterian
rhurcb of Burlington, preached at
Buffalo Presbyterian church yester-day
morning at 11 o'clock and at Mid-way
at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Plan Big Celebration.—The ne-
,roes of Greensboro are plar.ning for
i big celebration of emancipation day
on January 1. The exercises will
,ake place in the county court house
and will be under the auspices of the
■ ireensboro Negro Civic League. .
Move to Charlotte.—Rev. R. D.
siierrill and family have moved to
Charlotte, where Mr. Sherrill be-comes
pastor of Hawtnome Lane
Methodist church. Mr. Sherrill was
pastor of Ce. tenary church, in this
city, for four years, and he and his
family leave many friends in Greens-boro.
United State* Court.—The Decem-ber
term of United States District
court was convened by Judge Boyd
this morning at 10 o'clock and will
probably be in session for two weeks.
There are 47 cases on the criminal
.docket, and it is thought that they
win be disposed of in time for the
•civil docket to be taken up early next
Seriously I1L—Mr. Moses T. Staf-ford,
an aged and well known citi-zen
of the county, has been seriously
ill for several days at the home of his
nephew, Mr. W. J. Stafford, of Sum-merfield.
His condition was consid-ered
so critical Friday that relatives
were summoned to his bedside. Yes-terday
he showed signs of improve-ment
and hopes are entertained for
his recovery.
Mr. Davidson Returns.—Mr. J. A.
Davidson has returned from Balti-more,
where he spent some time in
a nospital for treatment. While still
a little weak from his long illness
and confinement, he Is greatly im-proved
and will soon be himself
again. The specialists who treated
him thinks he has recovered from the
stomach trouble that has bothered
him for years.
Endorse Bond Issue.—At a called
meeting of the directors of the Cham-ber
of Commerce Thursday after-noon
a resolution was adopted giving
the endorsement of that body to the
proposed issue of $125,000 of street
and sewerage bonds to he voted on
Tuesday of next week. A commit-tee
of business men was appointed to
assist in getting voters to register for
the election.
Rabbi Resigns.—Dr. J. Friedland-
«r, who has been rabbi of the Jewr
ish synagogue in this city for the
past 15 months, has resigned on ac-count
of the condition of his health.
He will leave in a day or two for New
York to place himself under the treat-ment
of specialists. Dr. Friedlander
came to Greensboro from Orange, N.
J.. and during his residence here
made many friends.
Court in Session.—The December
civil term of Guilford Superior court
was convened this afternoon at 2.30
o'clock by Judge M. H. Justice, who
arrived from his home in Ruther-fordton
on train No 36. The term
is for one week and will be followed
by a two-weeks criminal term. The
first week of the criminal term will
be presided over by Judge J. U
Webb, of Shelby, Governor Craig hav-ing
authorised an exchange between
him and Judge Justice.
Aged Man Dead.—Mr. Henry An-derson
Odell died Saturday afternoon
at his home on East Bragg street,
following a long Illness. He was a
native of Rockingham county and
had made his home in Greensboro
Board f>f Education.—In addition
to the routine business that came be-fore
the meeting of the county board
of education Saturday, a petition was
received asking that an election be
ordered held in the South Buffalo
school district on the question of is-suing
bonds to the amount of $10,'
000 for the purpose of erecting a new
school building. The board approved
the petition and it is expected that
the election will be ordered by the
county commissioners at their meet-ing
today.
W. «. Lenk Dead,—Mr. ^ W. H.
Leak, one of the leading citizens of
Kerners'ville, died at his home Sat-urday
night. He had been In poor
health several years and critically
ill for two weeks. Mr. Leak moved
from Guilford county to Kernersville
in "1873 and engaged in the tobacco
manufacturing business in which
he was quite successful. He Is sur-vived
by his widow, three daughters
• and five sons. Two of the sons,
Messrs. Frank and Hugl. Leak, re-aide
in Greensboro.
Rogers-Hayden.—Mr. Joseph Rog-ers,
of Winston-Salem, and Miss
Stuart Hayden, the daughter of Mrs.
Dorothy Thomas Hayden, of this city,
were married Saturday morning at
7.30 o'clock at Holy Trinity Episco-pal
church, the ceremony being per-formed
by Rev. Robert Ewell Roe.
Immediately after the ceremony Mr.
and Mrs. Rogers left on a trip to
Asheville and other places in western
North Carolina: Upon their return
they will be at home in Winston-Sa-lem,
where the greom is engaged in
business.
Robbed of 20 Cents.—Mr. Joe
Gardner was held up and robbed of
the princely sumof 20 cents at a point
near the Southern station Thursday
night. Gardner wais walking with a
friend when the hold-up occurred,
and having some suspicions of such a
happening, he had fortunately con-cealed
his money with the exception
of the 20 cents. It is understood
that the robber was not recognized
on account of the dim Sight Ht the
scene of the hold-up. although
enough was seen to be Mire that it
was a white man.
BATTLE GRODKD IDEAL PLACE
WELL SUITED FOR PURPOSES
OF PROPOSED MniTTARY
TRAINING CAMP.
GERMAN ATTACHES DISMISSED
TWO " DiPLOMATttC OFFICIALS
ARE OBNOXIOUS AND MUST
LEAVE THE COUNTRY.
Death of Mrs. L. W. Battle.
Mrs. L. W. Battle, who had been
in poor health for several years and
seriously ill for a month, died Fri-day
morning at her home on Tate
street. A funeral service was held
at the First Baptist church Friday
evening at 8 o'clock, conducted by
Rev. J: Clyde Turner, and Saturday
morning the body was carried to
Durham for interment. Mrs. Battle
was 69 years old and had made her
home In Greensboro for 12 years,
moving to this city frou Durham
upon the death of her husband. She
is- survived by three children—Mr.
Lee H! Battle, of Chattanooga, Tenn.:
Mr. Fred G. Battle, of Newbern, and
Miss Bessie Battle, of this citv, who
resided with her mother.
Prof. Foust's House Burned.
The residence of Prof. Thomas R.
Foust'. county superintendent of edu-cation,
situated on West Lee street,
was badly damaged by a fire that was
discovered a few minutes before 2
o'clock Saturday afternoon. The
flames made rapid progress and al-most
destroyed the house before they
were extinguished by the firemen.
Only a portion of the furniture and
other household effects was removed
and that which was not burned was
badly damaged by water and smoke.
The origin of the fire is unknown,
though It Is thought to have been
caused by a 'defective flue. Prof.
Foust carried $2,000 Insurance on
the house and $800 on the furniture.
The article in Thursday's issue of
The'Patriot in regard to efforts be-ing
made to have the war depart-ment
select Greensboro as the loca-tion
for the citizens' military train-ing
camp that may be established at
some point fn North Carolina next
summer stated that the use of ttje
Guilford Battle Ground had been ten-dered
to the government for this pur-pest.
It is not believed that a more
desirable location for the proposed
training camp could be found any-where,
and should Greensboro be se-lected
as the location of the camp it
would doubtless be on account of the
superior advantages*of the Battle
Ground.
Mr. Paul W. Schenck, president of
the Guilford Battle Ground Company
has written the following letter for-mally
tendering the use of the his-toric
battlefield and calling attention
to some of its advantages:
"Referring to the proposed mili-tary
encampment in North Carolina,
similar to the one at Pittsburgh, N.
Y., and to the suggestion that this en-campment
might be located at the
Guilford Court House battlefield, I
write to confirm my statement to you
that this suggestion has my cordial
approval, and, since talking with you,
I have consulted some of our direc-tors,
and am glad to state that they
favor the plan.
"It Is, therefore, my pleasure to
tender to you the Guilford battlefield
free of any cost for the purpose of
this encampment.
"There are some reasons, It seems
to me. why the suggestion to locate
the encampment at the Battle Ground
will be both practicable and appro-priate:
First—There are 130 acres of high,
rolling land, splendidly drained, and
with plenty of water; and there is an
additional tract of land of 80 acres
adjoining the Battle Ground which
could be had tree of cost, and very
probably even further tracts will be
tendered by the owners. The Guil-ford
battlefield has been cleared and
is very suitable both for camps and
for drill grounds, there being both
forests and open fields. Large bodies
of troops have from time to time at-tended
the celebrations, and its adapt-ability
for drilling purposes has* been
favorably commented upon by mili-tary
experts.
"Second—The battlefield is very
easy of excess from all points in
North Carolina. Special trains can
be run direct to the field. The bat-tlefield
is also reached by a splendid
macadam road from Greensboro, a
distance of five miles.
"Third—there is, of course, the
further reason why it is appropriate
for such a camp—on^account of Its
historic significance.
"Fourth—The Guilford battlefield,
while not actually owned by the gov-ernment,
is. In a way, really a na-tional
park, the national government
having erected monuments and "arch-es
on the battlefield costing $40,000,
and the immediate tracts of lands on
which these monuments are located
and which are a part of the battle-field,
have been deeded to the govern-ment.
"It the Guilford Battle Ground
Cora pans can be of any assistance to
you in this connection, we would be
very happy to serve you." -ey"
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Immediate withdrawal of Capt.
Kard Boy-Ed and Capt. Franz von
Papen, respectively, navul and mili-tary
attaches of the German embas-sy
In Washington, has been requested
by tbje state department. In making
formal announcement of this action
Secretary Lansing eaid the attaches
had rendered themselves persona non
grata1 to the United States govern-ment
by improper activities in con-nection
with naval and military mat-ters.'
The secretary acted with the full
approval of President Wilson, who
is understood to have determined
that the United States shall be rid of
foreign officials who make themselves
obnoxious by activity harmful- to the
best Interests of the nation.
The state department made its re-quest
Wednesday through Count von
Berastorff, the German ambassador.
Announcement of the fact was with-held
as a matter of courtesy to Ger-many
and to prevent the charge be-ing
made that the Jury trying the
warship supply conspirators of the
Hamburg-American Line in New
York had in any way been influenced
in reaching a verdict.
No reply has been received, but
none Is necessary, and it is taken for
granted that the ambassador will or-der
the attaches away as soon as he
has exchanged communications with
Berlin-
Official Washington is speculating
upon Jhe effect the action might have
on public opinion in Germany. In-formation
upon that subject, it was
said In high official circles, would be
awaited with interest.
It also became known that the de-partment
has under consideration the
case of Alexander von Nuber, Aus-tre-
Hungarian consul general at
New York, whose name frequently
has been mentioned with those of
Ed, in view of the attention attracted
by the case, officials reviewed hi» re-cord
and determined that now was a
good time to get both Captain Boy-
Ed and Captain von Papen out of the
United States. The state department
doe* not have to have legal evidence,
but can act, as it has done in the
cases of the attaches, upon the ques-tion
of .obnoxious conduct. The at-tached
need not. have been guilty of
violation of any law.
.pen's principal offenses con-of
sending a report to the Ger-man
war office by Archibald and
the interest he is said to have had
in fomenting strikes in munitions
factories. It was Van Papen who. in
a letter taken from Archibald when
the British authorities searched him,
made a reference to "these idiotic
Yankees." i
The view of German officials in
this conection is understood to have
been that the United States in taking
any action upon the papers found
on Archibald was using evidence
which was furnished by ihe enemies
of Germany, and therefore was im-proper.
Safe conduct home tor the offend-ing
attaches has not yet been re-quested
of the entente allies, but it
was said at the state department it
probably would be. It is assumed
that the attaches will leave the coun-try
immediately.
HAY BDILD ELECTRIC LIKE
PROPOSED ROAD TO CONNECT
GREEK8BORO AND SPRAY
BEING TALKED OF.
REAL ESTATE TRAJTSPERS
OF THE PAST FEW DAYS.
Boy^d. and VotoJBlpen In connection
>*ith actlvltraj -which - nuva- **«B
Deeds for the transfer of Guilford
real estate have been filed during the
past few days as follows.
John W. Walker to Mrs. William
H. Walker, a tract consisting of
6,500.square feet on Carrie avenue,
in the city of High Point, $1 and
other valuable considerations.
J. A. Mumford to Adora Adkins, a
lot 817 by 194.5 feet on Mitchell
street, In the city of Greensboro,
$375.
Isabelle J. Paschal and E. F. Pas-chal
to Esther D. Michael and R. L.
Michael, a lot 50 by 231 feet on West
Lee street, in thecity of Greensboro,
III* nn^other^ valuable copaUtora-
There is a revival of interest in the
rumored building of an electric car
line between Greensboro and Spray,
and while any negotiations that may
be under way have not reached the,
stage that will warrant an official
statement, it is believed by many
people that the road will be built.
The Southern Power Company inter-ests
are back of the movement, it is
said. The company has made a sur-vey
between Greensboro and Spray
tor an electric power line, and more
recently inquiries have been made
concerning righta-4M-way and other
privileges for a trolley line.
The building of the proposed road
would be hailed with delight by the
people of Greensboro, Spray and the
intervening country. That the line
would be well patronized goes with-out
saying. The twin towns of Spray
and Leaksvllle have no outlet by
rail to the south, and the proposed
electric road would relieve a situa-tion
that at present is a handicap to
the future growth and development
of that busy manufacturing center.
The textile mills of Spray and Leaks-vllle
would furnish a big volume of
freight for the new road. „
Should the road be built, it is
probable that a branch line would
be extended to Reidsvtlle from some
point between Greensboro and Spray.
The manufacturers and other busi-ness
men of Reidsvtlle are prepared
to give a hearty welcome to the en-terprise.
The road would traverse a good
farming country and act as a great
stimulus'to the section.
The business men of Greensboro
are anxious to give any aid and en-couragement
In their power to the
building of the road, which would
serve as a splendid feeder to this
city.
for the past 16 years. He was 65
vears old aand is survived by his
widow and four daughters. The fu-neral
was held from the home yes-terday
afternoon and Interment made
in Greene Hill cemetery, the services
being conducted by Rev. Dr. C. W.
Byrd. • _
H. G. Griffin Dead.—Mr. Henry G.
Griffin, who was Well -known in
Greensboro, where he made his head-quarters
for a number of years while
in the service of the Southern Rail-way,
died Friday night at a hospital
in Charlotte. The funeral and inter-ment
took place yesterday in Kin-ston.
his former home. Mr. Griffin
was about 48 years old and unmar-ried.
Mr. Griffin was formerly em-ployed
as baggage master on fhe
Southern between this city and Golds-.
boro, but tor the past year or two ne
had been In the service of the Nor-folk
Southrn road.
gays Villa Is a Madman.
Gen. Obregon. operating In Sonora,
Mexico, has sent the following official
message from bis headquarters to
Carranza:
"An officer who belonged to Villa s
staff informs us that Villa has lost his
reason and is now in a bad state of
mental unbalance.
"Alexandre Ceresola, commodore
of the former Mexican fleet, who sur-rendered,
declares that Villa has dis-armed
all his infantry to give arms
to his cavalry and disabled his artil-lery
to supply the calvary with
horses.
"At Magdalena we picked up 300
Villista wounded. The garrison of
Llano, composed of 260 men under
the command of Col. Valensuela, also
-urrendered. VlUa has in his flight
EndoneTall toBttg *oek to Ms
possession. We took two loeomo,
lives at lle*d»*«-a-"
German Plotters Sentenced to Fed-eral
Penitentiary.
New York, Dec. 4.—Dr. Karl
Buenz, George Kotter and Adolph
Hachmelater, of the Hamburg-Amer-ican
line, recently convicted of con-spiracy
to defraud the United States
government, were sentenced today to
serve one and a half years In the fed-eral
penitentiary at Atlanta. Joseph
Poppinghaus was sentenced to one
year. The Hamburg-American line
was fined $1.
Bail was fixed at $10,000 in each
case and was accepted from a surety
company
The trial of Doctor Buenz and his
associates was the culmination of an
investigation begun last winter by
federal agents into the chartering
and sailing of certain vessels from
American ports in August, Septem-frowned-
upon by the United States
government. It was said authorita-tively
that It had not bee"n decided
just what action. If any. would be
taken. It was intimated that the
state department also was consider-ing
whether any steps should be
taken regarding other higher offi-cia's
of foreign embassies in Wash-ington.
Complaints against Von Papen and
Boy-Ed were accumulative, dating
back to the early days of the Euro-pean
war. The case against them Is
peculiar, not being capable of legal
proof. It consists of an accumulation
of suspicious circumstances and con-iitions
which cbnnnected their activ-ities
with attempts to violate neu-trality
laws of the United States. The
accumulation was sufficient to con-vince
the department that the official
status of the attaches in the United
States should be discontinued.
Secretary Yanslng Is understood to
have given consideration to the at-tempts
to supply German warships
with coal, provisions and ammuni-tion,
and although no absolute proof
of the complicity of either of the men
in the passport frauds reached the
state department, a mass of testi-mony
accumulated to place them un-der
the gravest suspicion. The Stag-ier
passport case, falso affidavits
which were made In shipping matters
and the sending of reports to Aus-tria-
Hungary by James F. J. Archi-bald,
an American citizen, all were
among the matters taken into ac-count
by the department.
Mr. Lansing has stated that the
evidence in the Hamburg-American
conspiracy trial in New York did not
prove to the satisfaction of the de-partment
that Boy-Ed had violated
the neutrality laws of the United
States or that he had done anything
which at the time of commission was
In violation of the federal statutes.
In fact when the effort vas made to
supply the German fleet In North and
South American waters there was no
law on the statute books which per-mitted
prosecution for that action
It was only after the German fleet
had been driven from American wa-ters
and the activities of the Ham-burg-
American Line had ceased, that
Congress, during the closing days of
the last session, and at the urgent ra-tions.
T. F. Wrenn, trustee, to J. W.
Johnson, two lots in the plot of the
Carolina Loan and Realty Company,
High Point, for $2,000.
J. H. Montgomery tt> Miss Iris
Hammer, a tract of one-hail acre
fronting on the old Plank road, In
the city of High Point, for $5t>.
Virginia E. Ramsey to Hiram M.
Smith, lots 18 and 20 in block four
of Piedmont heights. Morehead
township, $10 and other valuable
considerations.
The Guilford Insurance and Realty
Company to Jessie McLean, a lot 40.6
by 136 feet on Carr street, in the city
of Greensboro, Morehead township,
$10 and other valuablo considera-tions.
B. King and wife to John W. John-son,
a lot 83 by 210 feet on Davle
street, in the city of High Point,
$800.
A. H. Jenkins to Eva J. Cox, a lot
50 by 150 feet on Park street, in
Snow park, city of High Point, $175.
A. E. Fordham and others to Mrs.
Ida H. Ector, a lot 100 by 242.5 feet
on Oak street, in the city of Greens-boro,
Morehead township, $1 aai
other valuable considerations.
J. A. Odell to Rosa Etta Atkins, a
lot on Prescott avenue, city OfGreens-boro,
$330.
YOUTH ARRESTED FOR
FORGING MONEY ORDER.
Business Houses Robbed.
The Proximity Mercantile Com-pany's
store at the Revolution mills
was entered last night by thieves,
who broke open the safe and secured
about $500 in cash. Z. V. COnyers'
drug store, on South Elm street, was
also entered last night, but here the
robbers were not so successful, se-curing
only about 60 cents to small
change that had been left la the cash
register. The thieves entered the
store through the rear 4oor and car-ried
the cash register out to an alley,
where it was broken open.
Richard N. Williams, a white youth
of 19 years, was arrested in High
Point Friday charged with forging a
money order for $50. He was brought
to Greensboro and placed in jail for
trial at the present term of United
States court. Saturday Charles Sut-tenfield,
who. it is alleged. Identified
Williams at the High Point postoffice
and assisted him in getting the money
order cashed, was arrested and com-mitted
to jail.
It appears that about six months
ago Williams called at the High Point
postoffice and, through a mistake on
the part of a clerk, was given a let-ter
addressed to R. M. Williams. The
letter was from a brother of R. M.
Williams, a soldier in the United
States army, and stated that In a few
days the writer would send his broth-er
$50. Richard N. Williams, who
is illiterate, carried the letter to Sut-tenfield,
who read It for him. He
then called at the postoffice dally and
asked for R. M. Williams' mail un-til
the letter containing the money
order was delivered to him.
After his arrest Williams made a
confession and told how he and his
confederate had cashed the money
order and then spent the proceeds in
a few days of riotous living.
Young Williams is from theStokes-dale
section and has been employed
in one of the High Point furniture
factories.
ber and December, 1914. ^ ^
It was charged that ttWt liniill,[^^^ tne'President. passed the act
concealing their purpose by false which makes such proceedings un-manifests
and clearance papers, wore
engaged to supplying provtaious to
German cruisers which wore raiding
entente commerce to the South At-lantic
lawful.
It is understood that while to the
case in -New Tort nothing actually
had been proved against Captain Boy-
No Desire For War to China.
The Chinese government has made
formal denial that it had considered
the possibility of joining with the en-tente
powers, or had been requested
to do so. The statement, issued by
the foreign office, says:
"The Chinese government has
never considered the possibility of
abandoning neutrality and joining
any belligerent or group of belliger-ents.
The Chinese government has
not received a proposal to that ef-fect
from, or opened such negotla-
Cannlng Club Girls Make 92.Tal.94.
The report of Mrs. Jane S. MeKim-mon,
state agent in home demonstra-tion
work, for the year ending De-cember
1 shows that 81 members of
the girls' canning club In Guilford
county put up 30,726 tins and glasses
of fruits and vegetables during the
past season. The money value of
these products' is given at $4,017.8-3
and the cost at 11,296.89, leaving a
profit of $2,721.94. The labor of tho
girls Is not included in the cost and.
the profit takes no account of the
products sold fresh ana used at
home, the value of which is stated
to be $481.35. The profit is a frac-tion
over $33.60 for each girl report-ing.
Extra Dividend of 10 f'er Cent.
In addition to regular quarterly
dividends of 1 3-4 per cent on prefer-red
and 3 per cent on common capi-tal-
stock, the R. J. Reynolds Tobac-coJCompuny,
of Wlnston-Salem, has
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leant, all payable January 1 next.
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