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5TABUSHED tw! GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 16,1816. VOL. 95—NO. 94
LOSES ON APPEAL DBDICATIOH OF MONUMENT
,(>IHT HOLDS THERE
KKlHmlXTBI-^OK
*AS,-Br;K\>lM>«° MAX-gjtagmaa.
of Greensboro,
°..; (.a4e i„ the Supreme court
|T J, when the court filed an
fcS'reportlng no error in the
W . „• rhe Guilford Superior
r^ndins him suilty ot emDezzle"
lr .sentencing Mat to a prison
KJ three years. Chief Justice
El Clark wrote the opinion of
E «ot» Xnattan Allen
COMMEMORATES ORGANIZATION
OP PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
ar. .t»M.>iate Justice
1, dissenting opinion concurred
Si«oci»te Justice Hoke.
"j (or embezzlement as the man-
":
o!,,e Greensboro branch of the
ft case Threshing Machine Com-l,_
m June. 1914. according to
f-He»ee. while Klingman was in
,, active management of the busi-
'' te »as informed that on July
,jj|, bis connection with the firm
Immediately he -went
headquarters
"t
|ns later
ll.
| solid cease
Racine. Wisconsin.
|jlJKorapan>. and stated that while
|„ did not consider himself an em-
IKiller, yet he had sold property be-
I oisin? to :he company rained at $5,-
Hl.
He promised to return to Greens-
|0 and furnish a statement of the
pperty sold and the proceeds used.
Mai be went to Seattle. Washing-
„, irliere he changed his name, and
illoied bis hair and beard to grow
d He was located in Seattle, ar-
,s:ed.and brought back to this state
ate requisition papers.
Hie indictment charges the enrbez-ilaient
of two checks, one of $55.85
ni the other of $1,050. for the sale
I automobiles. The checks were
'pet by Dr. E. C. Braslngton, of
Soaib Carolina, to H. C. Bowden,
rattling salesman of the company,
uitransterred by him to the defen-4
Jut Klingman, it was testified, en-lorsed
the smaller check and depos-it
lo bis personal account. It
drawn out on personal
(Jttk. The larger check was cashed
ud used in the purchase of a check
tor 11,366, which the defendant re-mitted
to his company, requesting
HKti.tf5.S5 he credited to the sale
i ■ automobile previously sold to
', L, Bland, which he had reported
»U tor cash.
Tie contention of the defendant
m that inasmuch as ' J. I. Case
Pwhins Maching Company had re-pM
the money arising from the
on sale there had been no
lifralement.
"There has been a previous em-
Ifcnlement." says the court In the
Matty opinion, "by the defendant
f wt remitting the proceeds of the
1 * the machine to Bland: and
1 'his second embezzlement was
* in the sale of another machine
"lagton. the fact that the de-
P« used part of the proceeds In
5 to the machine company irhat
0 received on the Bland ma-
P« W not condone the embecxle-
1"' the money received lor the
** sold to Brasiagton. The dp-
"' simply committed two em-
B"ts instead of one. and used
!****• <* the latter to make
•vithout the knowledge or-con-
« W« Principal. the first embez-
" of the proceeds of the sale
An event of special interest to
Presbyterians throughout the state
took place at Alamance church yes-terday
afternoon, when a monument
erected to commemorate the organi-zation
of the Synod of North Caro-lina
was dedicated with appropriate
and impressive exercises. A large
congregation was present, including
a number of visitors.
Rev. J. N. H. Summerell, D. D., of
New-kern, moderator of the Synod of
North Carolina, delivered the dedi-catory
address and prayer, in his
address he spoke of the important
part played by the Presbyterian
ohurch in the development of the re-ligious
and educational life ot the
country. He made an earnest plea
that the Presbyterians of today stand
firmly by the principles from which
the church drew her influence and
power in the past.
Following Dr. Summerell's ad-dress,
which was delivered in the
caarch, the congregation repaired to
the monument, a short distance away,
where the formal dedicatory exer-cises
took place. Rev. A. W. Craw-ford.
Chairman of the monument
committee, presented a historical
sketch of Alamance church in Its
early days and presented the monu-ment
to the moderator, who accepted
it in the name of the synod and led
In a dedicatory prayer.
The monument stands on the site
of the first Alamance church build-in-;,
just below the cemetery and in
the bend of and overlooking tlie road
as the present church is approached
from Greensboro. It is of a beautiful
gray granite, standing on a concrete
foundation two high high to which
the earth has been mounded. There
are two bases, one six feet square and
the other four feet, and each one foot
high. The main Mock is three feet
square and five feet high to the point
of the apex. The north side of the
monument, facing the road, has the
inscription:
"In the church
on this spot
The Presbyterian Synod of
North Carolina
Was Organised
Oct. 7th, 1813."
The reverse side, facing the ceme-tery
and present church building, has
the inscription:
"First Alamance church building
(About) 1762-(About) 1800.
Second Alamance ohurch building
(About) 1830-1844."
TO TEST EMT-H)UR LAW
SUITS WILL BE BY EACH RAIL-ROAD
IN EVERY FEDERAL
» DISTRICT IN COUNTRY.
pet Justice Clark termed It a
nt """application of funds to
»P another defalcation.
«r appeals from Guilford were
yesterday as follows:
■»'»Ston vs. Southern Railway
I »iy; no e"or.
' T5''3* * W. Railroad
*K no error.
&vs Brotherhood Locomo-
^neers; no error. ^
^n-Ooldsteia: no error.
Stori
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Mbinj,,
01 WaPDiDR9.
on.
are
Watte
ion•eau
Nov. is.—storm
>■>■" displayed from
9 to Boston, the weath-announced
tonight; *A
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""• the anneuncomsnt
H> ,.' mo7iQ6 nortneestward
"*ftom" be atte»"«* toy freak
'A'UntT Mt eales oB *» «"W-V^
H^^^"*"* Bag-
Athene^ hours.
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'Ince 1873.
15.—For the
'•old f0r,. good middling»
■ tod»y
,10<:ent» «» the local
I
> ™8n 2.200
Ktk»' price.
bal«* changed
ARTHUR EVANS RILLED
BY SOUTHBOUND TRAIN.
Wlnston-Salem, Nov. 14.—Appar-ently
in a moment of absent-minded-ness,
Arthur Evans, aged 32, an em-ploye
of the Forsyth Dining Room
Furniture Company in the suburbs
of the city, stepped in front of the
Incoming southbound passenger train
at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon and
was instantly killed, the body being
horribly mangled. The accident oc-curred
near the plant toward which
Evans was walking on the south-bound
tracks. Hearing the approach
of the train, Evans stepped from a
sidetrack, on which he was walking,
directly in front of the locomotive.
It is believed he thought he was
walking on the main track and in-tended
stepping onto a sidetrack.
Dr.. W. N. Dalton, county coroner,
held an Inquest over the remains, the
accident being declared unavoidable."
Evans was unmarried.
EXPORT OF WAR
SUPPLIES INCREASE.
New York, Nov. 14;—Exports of
war Bupptiee for the nine months
ending September 31 amounted to
$»»7,970,000. or more than 25 per
cent of the country'* total export
trade,- according to figures published
here today by the Journal of Com-merce.
The value of explosives. sent to
belligerents was more than $500,-
000. and automobiles, hones and
mutee, metal-working machinery and
wire ranked Mxt in that order.
According to a table published
covering <w»r supply exports since
the movement began In January,
1915, their value for the twenty-one
« c
S2 per ©eat of the country'* total «-
port*. Mora war aappliea. were seat bard,
abroad daring the towt atae maths
of thta year tnaa Chroafao»t 1H»..
New York, Noy. 15.—Suits filed by
railroads against the federal govern-ment
to test the constitutionality of
the Adameon eight-hour law also are
expected to result in the interpreta-tion
of the statute If it be upheld,
the railroad managers comprising the
national conference committee of
railways announced in a statement
here tonight.
Suits designed to test the validity
of the law and to restrain the gov-ernment
from putting it into effect
were filed in this city today by the
New York Central and Erie railroads.
Similar suits are to be brought with-in
the next few days by each rail-road
in the country in each of the
federal districts it traverses, accord-ing
to HHisba Lee, chairman of the
conference committee. Mr. Lee le-sued
a statement at the end of the
committee's three-day secret session,
explaining the railroads' program in
their fight against the law. The state-ment
follows:
"Two questions are involved in tbej
appeal by the railroads to the courts
for light on the Adams on law:
"1. Is the law constitutional?
"2. If it is constitutional what
does it mean?
"Opinions have been expressed hy
eminent authorities that the law to
unconstitutional and there are con-flicting
opinions as to how the law.
It constitutional, should be applied.
"Therefore, the railroads must, aa
a matter of duty, ask the courts if
the la* is "within the power of Con-gress.
It. is a duty they ow», not
alone to the owners of these proper-ties,
but also to the public that pro-vides
the revenues for the payment
of wages.
... "If the lawtis declared constitu-tional
'if* is expected that the courts
will make clear its meaning/and fht
railroads, it Is unnecessary to say.
will faithfully follow the instructions
of the courts.
"In the bringing of suits through-out
the country the railroads have no
desire to delay action or to resort to
technicalities.' The railroads are
anxious to have a speedy decision on
the points at issue. These separate
suits are necessary to protect the in-dividual
Toads. A single suit would
protect the Individual road only In
the particular Jurisdiction within
which the test case was Drought, and
would leave all roads subject to pros-ecution
In other jurisdictions. '.
"The railroads have chosen what
seems to he the shortest and most
practical method of reaching an early
decision, and, in the meantime, avoid-ing
a multiplicity ot prosecutions
and suits.
"The railroads earnestly desire to
take the right road, and It is for this
reason that they have asked the
courts for light to show them the
road."
MEXICANS MASSACRE WOMEN
CARRANZA TRfJOPS AT CHIHUA-HUA
TO BE PAID OFF IN
SILVER.
Situation Is Not Changed by Official
Returns.
Washington, Nov. 15.—Incomplete
canvasses of the vote In. several close
congressional districts today brought
no changes in the unofficial election
results, which indicate, that 217 Re-publicans
and 212 Democrats and six
of other parries have been elected to
the 65th Congress. Representative
Doremus, chairman of the Demo-cratic
national committee, stiJl
claims, however, that Democrats will
make gains in the final returns in
six or seven of the close districts
which apparently have> elected Re-publicans
by small majority. Speaker
Clark and other Democratic leaders
also confidently expect to cut down
the Republican plurality.
Laredo, Texas, Nov. 12.—An'indis-criminate
massacjVe of nearly 100 wo-men,
children anjjl Carranza soldiers,
who were travelbig on a train near
Contreras, state frf Moselos, which
was attacked by)fcapata followers, is
reported in Mexico City newspapers
received here trftlay. After the at-tack
on the train the dead lay In
piles beside the! cars, the papers
state. '°
Only one perskn, so far as known,
escaped death art the hands of the
bandits. He waACapt. Antonio Prie-gos.
I
The attack ocitarred November 3.
The passenger wain, covered by a
military train, eight kilometres, was
halted in a mountain wilderness af-ter"
the military Irain had been allow-ed
to pass unmolested. For fifteen
minutes the Zapatistas kept up the
slaughter, slaying men and women,
who prayed for aercy. and killing the
babies who accompanied their moth-ers,
the papeU declare. Soldiers
aboard the paBsenger train were
without their a&outrements and un-able
to offer aa# resistance. Among
the list of dead!given In the Mexico
City papers Is Che name of Col. Oa-rido
Alfaro, i^q. majors and three
captains.
When the reflet train reached the
scene of the attack several hours af-ter
it occurred the Zapatistas had
scattered into the hills.
T—:—
Money to Pay His Troop».
El Paso, Tex.; Nov. 14.—A special
train left Juarea today, carrying Gen-eral
GonzaQes and an escort of 100
men and. 500,000 pesos in silver to
Chihuahua City, Andreas Garcia, in-spector
general of Carrania consu-lates,
announced, ■ The mones was to
pay the. Csw^tsnfc troops'1 under Tre-vinWs
command, Mr. Garcia added.
Mr. Garcia also declared he had
received word from General Obregon,
minister of war, that 5,000 Yaqul
Indians of General Obregon's old
command were being sent north- from
Mexico City under General Tala-mantes
to Torreon- and would-, take
the field against Villa in the state of
Chihuahua. An equal number of
Yaqui-and Mayo Indians from Sonera
also were marching across the moun-tains
to Chihuahua state upon, orders
from General Obregon, Mr. Garcia
said, and he said there would be 40,-
000 Carranza troops participating in
the campaign against Villa before the
eud of November.
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THE REPLY A FLAT REFrUSAL
ENGLAND
WITH
WILL NOT COMPLY
ANY SUGGESTION
ABOUT BLACK LIST.
EXODUS OF NEGROES - -
IS ON LARGER SCALE.
Cold' Weather Cause* Desertions.
Denting. N. M:.. Not. 15.—-Sixty
men have been arrested on charges
*#£*•. 'twas announced toda* k*#w,hert ^.L,.. .;ector vam
SSWS?^? .!!-!"? {^tonight.W fcemocrstic teaders
pemlng. The men. it i. understood, 5g£K£l *•• "Krwly augment-are'
from the first provisional iarea-try
brigade, stationed at Port Bayard,
N. M.,"and are deserting because of
hardships due to cold weather.
Hugh** Going Back to Law.
Washington.. Nor. 14.—Mr. and
Mrs. Charles S. Hughes bare .leased
their Washington residents at the
months was fl.«17.845.»0«. or about Icorner of Sixteenth and Fourth
■treats to Mr. and Mrs. Leaia Laxa-at
Hacaaawttl
UMF la K-w Tart, - %
Washington, Nov. 14.—Exodus of
Southern negro laborers to Northern
states ts assuming larger and larger
proportions. ,
About 120.000 colored people, la-borers
and their families, have gone
North.
The'migratory movement promises
to become even larger next year If
the European war continues and Ital-ian
and other white labor from Eu-
•ropa is*kept on the other side of the
Atlantic. .. . , ; ■" - .
Op,,,i0,,8 are divided as to the ef-fect
on the South. Some believe it
Will be beneficial.
Demand for men in munitions
plants, in mines, and in railroad re-pair
and construction is largely at
the bottom of the migration. Large
numbers of alien white laborers have
gone kack to Europe because of the
war. -Charges of migration for po-litical
seasons are not taken serious-ly
by investigators.
NO' REPUBLICANS
FROM CALIFORNIA.
8aa Francisco,. Cal., Nov. 18.^
Prediction tfiattasulowestDemocratic
eleatoc in Oaiiforxda will run ahead
Ing returns from county clerks.
j" "The difference win be about 600
In favor of the Democrats," said Sid-ney
M. Van Wyoh. Jr.. chairman of
the Democratic campaign committee.
." Available returns were considered
in themselves not an index of the sit-uation,
proportionately, because they
ware from smaller counties, most of
which had given WHsoo good major-ities.
They showed the lowest Dem-ipcrat
14.71♦ ahead a* tW highest
Washington, Nov. 15.—The British
reply to the American protest
against England's black list policies
delivered to the London foreign of-fice
on October 10, and held secret
by the state department was made
public today.
The reply Is a flat rejection of all
the American contentions. Same
features of the note are expected to
draw a reply from this government.
The state department is expected to
remind Great Britain that the admin-istration
of the neutrality laws of
the United States permits no criti-cism
from a belligerent power.
One of the features oi the note 1s
the charge against the neutrality of
the United States. Sir Edward
Grey declared that "German . busi-ness
establishments in foreign coun-ties
have been active agents for the
purpose of espionage." If there were
any real basis for the charge, it
was Indicated, Great Britain long ago
made the matter a subject a diplo-matic
protests. Exception was taken
at the state department to the effort
of Sir Edward Grey to revive in his
note the submarine controversy be-tween
the United States and Ger-many.
The note as a whole was far from
being conciliatory. There was an
intimation at the department that if
England should apply the blacklist
with due regard! for the right of cit-izens
of this country the chances of
the dispute becoming critical would
be diminished.' -
Sir Edward alleged in the note
that there had been bases of supply
for German warships and miscreants
employed to destroy factories engag-ed
in making munltionsfor ships en-gaged
in carrying supplied required
by the allies.
Gray then added: "I am bound to
observe what I do not think will be
denied that no adequate action has
been taken by the government of the
United States to suppress ' breaches
of neutrality of this particularly
criminal kind, which I know they are
the first to discountenance and de-plore."
The state department Is expected
to take sharp issue with what it prob-ably
will construe as an -obvious ef-fort
to revive the submarine contro-versy
between this country and Ger-many.
Sir Edward Grey in the note
deolared that ten British merchant,
vessels had been sunk, without warn-ing
Involving the loss of life and he
added:' "-Probably ..other vessels
were sunk without warning.
It was regarded as probable that
the state department would await
evidence of British Intentions in the
further applications of the blacklist
policy before either replying to the
note or notifying President Wilson
of the exhaustion of diplomatic re-sources
vainly in an effort to secure
respect for American rights. State
department critics said that the evi-dent
object of the note was to reveal
to the state.department the, British
government annoyance and at the
same time to broadly intimate that
the American government might
have practically what it had asked
for.
The following passage at the con-clusion
of the note caused surprise:
"Suspicion and' insinuation, which
would construe so simple an action
(the blacklist) as an opening for se-cret
and'unavowed designs on neutral
rights should have no place in the
relations between two friendly coun-tries."
Officials said it disclosed a feeling
of resentment on the part of the
British government which had not
been exhibited in such a marked de-gree
before. It contained a sugges-tion
that they thought of possible dis-turbance
of the-jfriendly relations be-tween
the two countries If such sus-picions
and Insinuations continued.
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-: Arizona Still in Doubt.
Phoenix. Aria., Nov. 15.—The iden-tity
of Arizona's next governor is
still in doubt. At Democratc head-ouarters
today It was saM Governor\
Hunt was leading by 17. votes. The
Republicans clatmed Thomas Camp-bell's
election by a plurality of at
least 150. . The official count will be-gin
aeat Monday. ,^%
UnoeVrtai rntarnrwitk 12 precincts
give Oaanrtttli a lead ot lit
BLAME ON THE MIDDLEMEN
PRESIDENT URGES FARMERS TO
! INCREASE OUTPUT—KIRST
SPEECH SINCE ELECTION.
in^Kaa^-JZjIaas
Washington, Nov. 14.—President
Wilson blamed middlemen for the
high cost of foodstuffs here tonight
In a speech welcoming to Washing-ton
the convention of the National
Grange, the first formal speech he
has delivered since the election.
Urging the farmers to Increase their
output, the president said:
"We ought to raise such big crops
that circumstances like the present
can never recur, when men can make
as if the supply was so short that
the middleman could charge for it
what he pleased. It will not do to be
niggardly with the rest of the world
in respect to its food supply."
The president did not mention re-cent
petitions for him to declare an
embargo on exportation of foodstuffs
from the United States to the rest of
the world and did not refer even in-directly
to the outcome of the presi-dential
election. His address was In-terrupted
frequently by applauce
from the farmers attending the fif-tieth
anniversary convention of the
founding of the grange.
"It seems to me," said the presi-dent,
"that some of the most inter-esting
problems of our life and of the
life of the world lie before us, prom-lems
In connection with which the
farmers of the United' States will pay
a part such as they have never played
before.
"It goes without saying that the
physical life of the nation has al-ways
depended upon the farm. It
goes without saying also that to a
large extent the physical life of the
world has drawn Its sustenance from
the great aress of farm land in the
United States. We have sent food to
all parts of the world, and the Amer-ican
farmer has contributed to the
h-Mfe of all the countries of the world.
Bit yon know that as our own popu-lation
has increased, the proportion
In which we could help foreign coun-tries
as contrasted with our own has
decreased and there are problems
that are comparable with the prob-lems
of statesmanship lying ahead of
the farmers ot the United States.
"In the future we have got to bring
more of the area of the United
States under cultivation than is un-der
cultivation now. We have got
to increase the product at every point
where It Is susceptible of being in-creased;
i
"One of the things that has moat
Interested me about what has been
done recently by legislation for the
benefit of the farmer is the question
why it was not done long before. It
is astonishing that the assets, the
valuable, available assets, the visible
assets of the fsrm should not have
been available as a basis of credit In
the banks on the same terms as the
assets of commercial undertaking
and manufacturing Industry. Cattle
are Just as visible and tangible as
goods In warehouses and goods on
trains. • • '•
"We have liberated the credits of
the banks and we have mobilised
through the department of agricul-ture
the scientific intelligence of the
world. With that combination,
every nation in the world ought to
come to us to learn how to raise big
crops. We ought to raise such big
crop* that circumstances like the
present can never recur, when men
can make as if the supply was so
short that the middleman could
charge for It what he pleased. It will,
not do to be niggardly with the world.
In respect of Its food supply.
"I wish that all problems of gov-ernment
were displayed In as dear
lines of duty as this problem of gov-ernment
In regard to how the fanner
ouwht to be treated 1s displayed. I
wish, for example, that foreign af-fairs
were as simple as agriculture.
The great satisfaction about what
yon have to discuss is that when '
once your-duty la determined, we>
have got a great force of intelligence
to go forward In the line 'of duty. '
"The thing that makes a free coun-try
vital Is the large number of peo-ple
who get together to do impor-tant
things without asking the leave .
of the government to do them. The
striking thing about a great country
Ilka <he United States is that 1F the
government neglected everything,
the people would do it: that yon do
not beckon to the people of the
Uaited Statea they command you to
to on. and things that are aegleeted
they have gat plenty of Bruias to get
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