The Greensboro patriot [September 20, 1917]

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HUNDRED MEN ANSWER
,.TV |»KB CENT OF QUOTA OF
'" .,TY AND CWCWf* GO TO
CAMP.
yjty-elgM youna>g men of Greens-
. 7 a>'d thirty-two from rural Guil-
. -1 gathered at the court house yes-
! lay afternoon at 2.30 o'clock in
Ipoiise to the call of their govern-
. it, being the second contingent to
rrora the county to Camp Jackson
\ 'olumbia. About thirty more are
tumbled in High Point. All of the
",., will leave this afternoon to Join
,".'twenty-eight men who went two
ks ago from Greensboro, High
-. ;nt and Guilford county to Camp
,. kson. These two contingents
, ke up lialt of tlie numoer wno are
7- ,-o from this county. Thus far all
v-» have gone have been white men,
hi;: it is probable that the next lot to
.- will be nearly all negroes. The
.-■. ireri soldiers will go to a different
;. iP-
-lie 100 men who went from the
,.•; - and county today were a fine
<ing bunch of young fellows. They
---! at '-.30 yesterday in response to
n ices sent them, and again at 5.30
-. ..teniay and 11 A. M. today for roll
Most of those whose homes are
•;- :he city spent last night with their
-.-• itives. while the boys from the
r.try were given quarters at the
; el Huffine. Members of the two
b rris made encouraging talks to
-. - young men. Nearly all of them
.. -e willing to go—the only regret
T ressed was on account of loved
0.-.-S they were leaving.
i Monday's issue of The Patriot
J - published a list of those from
: - city who were called to go to-
. Those from the rural section
. the county were the following:
(iley Shoe, Mabra W. Richardson,
J, vies A. Poole. Ernest Pearson,
E oert S. Dick, George F. Foust, Ira
K rkman, Robert A. Hawkins, Larel
A Gray, Lewis C. Waynick, Ernest
f. Shaw, Charles' G. Clapp. Harrison
• pie. Pesse E. Wade, Pinckney Gor-i,
Roy Anderson, Gaither M. Kel-
■.ii. Jesse L. Coltrane, Elmer T.
F •'.el, Wilfred R. Atkins, Rufus A.
In.old, Harrison W. Rumbley, Mar-
: - R. Frazier, William Arthur Fryar,
Gi Ilier C. Welker, Arthur B. Marley,
Carles G. Holt, Ernest E. Whitesell.
V." lter A. Coble, Cyrus A. Brown.
<". ie G. Idol, Edwin J. Shepherd and
$-.- ner Baldwin.
Vnen the young men met at 5.30
;--terrtay afternoon for roll call, an
ir.--resting exercise took place on the
c rt house lot. This was the pre-
.- nation to the 100 young men of
c .iifort bags by the Greensboro
<■ ;pter of the Red Cross. Short and
appropriate talks were made by 6ev-
'*• I present.
More Men Called.
The hoard for rural Guilford de-
■ id Monday to call 43 additional
~;i (o stand the physical examina-ti
"i and complete the quota for the
*--:. draft. This call was necessitat-e
■ Jy exemptions made by the rural
* -rd.
•"he men who have been called to
st;.nd the examination are the follow-liarles
B. Frazier, High Point R.
'red Kaleigh Johnson, Jamestown
Henry J. Kasey, Brown Summit.
Harley L. Westmoreland, Summer-field
R. 2.
Ira Nelson, Brown Summit.
Clarence F. Garrett, Jamestown.
Charlie P. Heath, Greensboro R. 2.
Joseph B. Gann, Stokesdale.
Charlie M. Coble, Julian R. 1.
Cletus M. Ward, GulMord.
William E. Terry. Whitsett R. 1.
Barker L. Pegram, Stokesdale.
Herbert E. Wyrick, Gibsonville.
James W. Staley, Julian.
James W. Powell, Stokesdale.
MORATORIUM FOB
DURATION OF WAR.
m C0ITIMPT 8F COURT
MEANS HAS REFUSED ORDER OF
JUDGE BOYD TO SURRENDER
MRS. KING'S PROPERTY.
PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
GREENSBORO, It. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, RM7.
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1.
•;nry ('. Perrett. Whitsett.
ienry L. Amick, Julian R. 2.
•verett O. McDaniel, Julian.
• ('. Wagoner, Gibsonville.
• illiam R, Kirkman, Greensboro
Washington, Sept. 17.—Legisla-tion
to protect the civil and property
rights of soldiers, in effect a mora-torium
for the duration of the war in
behalf of the men who are serving
their country on the firing line, may
be placed upon the administration's
program for this session of Congress
as a necessary element of the raising
of a citizen army.
The "soldiers' and sailors' civil
rights bill" to carry out this purpose
already has been introduced in both
house..-, having been framed in the
office of Judge Advocate General
Crowder. Secretary Baker, It was
learned today, has under considera-tion
recommendations that the entire
weight of administration influence be
brought to bear to obtain early en-actment
of the measure.
To save soldiers and sailors from
all kinds of legal injustice during
their absence from home, the meas-ure
would enjoin the carrying out of
certain civil court actions until after
the close of the war, and establish as
a legal excuse for failure to carry
certain contracts, the fact that a man
is in the military service.
It is proposed that creditors suits
against officers or men may be held
up and judgment by default denied,
the trainers of the bill recognizing
that a man In the army or navy
would have no pDportuntty to make
hls'aefenee In1 fSHffJWllflfl*
for its proper hearing through coun-sel.
If such a judgment rested against
a man at the time of his enlistment,
the bill would prevent its execution
through the sale of his property dur-ing
his absence.
It would set aside the statute of
limitations so that a debt owed to a
soldier might not be outlawed in his
absence; It would prevent the evic-tion
of his family while he was away
if they failed to pay the rent; it
would protect him against the ordi-nary
results of defaulted payments
on business mortgages and keep him
from being sold out in his absence;
it would insure any rights he might
have to public lands although his
service at the front had prevented
him from completing the legal
acquisition of the property.
Another element of protection the
bill would accord to the fighting man
would be as to his life insurance,
which could not lapse through fail-ure
to make any payment. His prop-erty
also would be protected from
sale for taxes and in every other
way which the legal experts of the
•war department have been able to
devise all civil rights and interests of
men in the military service would be
safeguarded.
CRIMINAL COURT BUSINESS
JUDGE HARDING HAS DOCKET
OF MANY KINDS OF CASES-—
1 SOME OF SENTENCES.
Concord, Sept. 18.—Gaston Bul-lock
Means, former business man-ager
of Mrs. Maude A. King, the
wealthy New York widow who met
her death near this city on the night
of August 29, may within.another
aay face charges of contempt of
court in consequence of his refusal
today to comply with order of United
States Judge James E. Boyd, issued
yesterday at Greensboro.
Phil C. McDuffie, of Atlanta, repre-senting
Mrs. Anna L. Robinson,
mother of the dead woman, is on his
way to Greensboro tonight where it
is understood he will apply to Judge
Boyd tomorrow for contempt pro-ceedings.
The order to restrain
Means from disposing o* any of the
property of Mrs. King was served at
a late hour last night and he was or-dered
to turn over to an Asheville
trust company as trustee all of the
property he has which belonged to
her.
One of the attorneys representing
Mrs. Robinson said today that Means
"Judge Harding made a splendid
injpression upon these in attendance
upon criminal court this week. His
cimrge to the grand jury was timely
and attractively presented. He had
several ca.ses against boys, and these
he? disposed of with mercy and pa-ternal
advice. The grand jury was
composed of the following:
JO. E. Mendenhall. of High Point,
foreman; E. M. Brown, J. A. Groome,
J.j A. Hall, J. R. Edmunds, C. E.
Stkrr.iJ. R. Ozment, W. D. Brown,
cJo. Reynolds, L. A. Finch. R. R.
Gimbier, E. G. West, G. F. Winfrey,
Jde W. Barber, A. M. Brittain, J. E.
LedmOn, W. H. McLean.
iDr. G. W. Norman and Bob Tatum.
thfe latter a negro, pleaded guilty to
a^ault charges. The negro accused
Df. Norman of slapping his wife, and
Df, Norman charged Tatum with an
assault on his person. Both admit-ted
the facts alleged. Dr. Norman
saj-ing he slapped the woman during
an altercation about certain state-mante
she had made concerning his
Gulley led to a jury verdict of not
guilty. The indictment charged that
Gulley struck his wife.
Wiley Lambeth, a negro, drew the
only sentenced passed by Judge Har-ding
yesterday. He was given six
months on the roads when convicted
of having whiskey for sale.
Hence Caldwell was on trial for
teeping o disorderly house when the
court adjourned yesterday.
Early yesterday morning the jury-in
the Walter James case reported a
verdict, finding the defendant guilty
of bigamy. The jury spent the night
on the debate. Counsel for James
insisted again yesterday; that his
client was the victim of mistaken
identity.
This morning the case in which
Ruth Byrd appears gs the chief pros-ecuting
witness will be tried. She ac-cused
two young men of drugging
and assaulting her.
had turned over part of the effects, jcmldren.
but that a large part was still to be| {Tatum looked up the physician and
introduced the subject of t'.-.e diffi-culty
between Dr. Norman and the
w|»man. The negro denied that he
sought a fight. He said he saw
omer R. Johnson, Kernersvllle.
ddison B. Robinson, Jamestown.
■ -ussel R, Waynick, Gibsonville.
'Iwin J. Sampson, Guilford Col-
-awience Dick, Gibsonville R. 2.
'inies Joyner, Jamestown.
obert E. Thornton, Jamestown.
inifis R. robb, McLeansville.
harles B. Massey, Gibsonville.
*bu C. Gray, Colfax.
'i Rankin Brown, Gibsonville.
J".lliam A. Curtis, Julian.
obert C. Gorrell, Greensboro R.l.
■• >seph i. Robertson, Colfax.
dgar E. Davis, Greensboro R. 2.
rnest E. Clapp, Whitsett R. 1.
Ernest E. Baldwin, Gibsonville.
Lesley Lambeth, Brown Sum-re;-.
ilmer S. Atkins, Kernersvllle R.2.
l'ex A. Florance, Summerfielfl
I. Percy
R. 1.
Burnsldes, Greensboro
'Jeo M. Faucett, Brown Summij.
What Three Acres Did.
(Durham, Sept. 18.—The story of
the farming venture of Bedford Hill,
who lives out on the Roxboro road,
just before approaching Little river,
stands out in bold relief when .con-trasted
with broad acres and mini-mum
production per acre. Mr. Hill
seeded three acres to old^field peas
last fall and from a fruitful harvest
marketed $101. Then he sowed this
same acreage in wheat and this fall
garnered 80 bushels of choice stock.
He is now selling it for seed wheat at
$3 a bushel. The crop of peas this
fall will likewise prove productive.
As a cash crop, Mr. Hill Is selling to-bacco
for an average of $35 a hun-dred.
surrendered. Among other things
Means has given up are various pa-pers,
together with a check for more
than three thousand dollars sent to
Mrs. King by a Chicago bank as pay-ment
on a trust fund. The attorney
stated, however, that the cs-sh which
Means told Attorney McDuffie he had
on hand, amounting to 550,000 or
$60,000, had not been given him by-
Means, nor would Means state where
it could be.
The action on the part of Means
came today after a consultation of
several hours with his counsel, the
chief of whom is Judge Frank I. Os-borne,
of Charlotte, brother of As-sistant
District Attorney, James W.
Osbern*. of New-Y4rtL N***^
Judge Cline May Act.
Whether Judge E. B. Cline, of the
Superior court, will take any further
action over the refusal of Gaston
Means to comply with an order from
him last Saturday has not yet been
learned. He is again in Salisbury,
where he is holding court, after
spending the week-end at his home in
Hickory.
Helden Clement, solicitor for this
judicial district, is expected to arrive
in Concord tomorrow to begin active
work, looking toward the reopening
by C. B. Ambrose, of the department
of justice, who is on leave from the
department to aid in the prosecution.
Mrs. J. B. Foraker, who came to
this city several days ago. seeking for
Gaston Means, will leave tomorrow
evening for New York. She will have
another Interview here tomorrow
with Solicitor Clement, according to
as appointment made today by tele-phone.
She will then go to New
York, where she is to meet District
Attorney Swann, who Is conducting
the Investigation there. She stated
that she was anxious to find Means,
In order to adjust some business mat-ters,
and she also wished to see Mrs.
Melvin, sister of Mrs. King, since she
was always a dear friend of the two
women. Mrs. Melvin is still a guest
at the Means home, as is also Miss
Anna Dolan, the Red Cross nurse,
who came here Saturday.
CARLOADS OF BOOZE
TUMBLED INTO BAY.
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FARM LOAN ASSOCIATIONS
BEING RAPIDLY FORMED.
Hogs Bring Fancy Price.
IGoldsboro, Sept. 18.—Several days
ago Mr. Charles Lutes, a Wayne far-mer,
shipped a car load of hogs to
Baltimore, there being 88 in the lot.
They were the pigs from 10 sows,
being about 10 months old. Their
average weight was 150 pounds and
tbey sold for ♦lS.SO on foot. Alter
paying all expenses of shipping these
hoge netted $2,109^0, which
Robert DonneirG?eeosUroT'£ amounted to 15 cents a pound on
-nomas H. Ellington, Greensboro. toot-
Washington, Sept. 18.—More than
4,000 farm loan associations are in
the process of organization in the
United States to borrow money un-der
the federal farm loan act accord-ing
to a statement Issued by the fed-eral
farm loan board today. Twelve
hundred of these organizations are
already completely organized and
chartered and loans are being made
to the farmers who compose these as-sociations
at a reasonable rate. The
amount borrowed by each association
averages about $40,000 and should
all of the 4,000 associations now or-ganized
borrow at the same rate
those already chartered over $150,-
000,000 will have been loaned by the
12 federal land banks within a year.
Nearly $20,000,000 of loans were ap-proved
by the federal loan banks and
the amount of loans actually made
during August approximated nearly
$4,000,000. The total amount Of
loans actually paid out to farmers
up to September 1 is $7,716,18*.
This represents approximately throe
months of actual lending: ^_
kftlfe in the hand of Dr. Norman and
struck him in self defense. Dr. Nor-mari
said Tatum cursed him and ap-plied
objectionable epithets, causing
Ms advance upon him. The court
fl*ed the men $25 and the costs each.
" The costs were assessed against J.
Hi Cornwell. a white man. who
pleaded guilty to the charge of com-mitting
an assault with a deadly
Weapon upon J. H. Johnson, of Sum-n*
r township.
iFOr carrying a concealed weapon
Green, a negro, was fined $50
the court -costs. He. pleaded
guilty to the charge.
Harry Bondurant. white, a 17-
year-old boy, pleaded guilty to the
charge of embezzlement. Judge
Harding gave him a lecture, and sus-pended
judgment on payment of the
costs.
Manslaughter was admitted by C.
C. Barnhardt for his client. Will Ran-kin.
in the court Tuesday. The so-licitor,
J. C. Bower, signified to the
judge that the plea was satisfactory'
to the state, and the case was han-dled
in a brief time. Rankin was
sentenced to two years.
He killed Joe Speaks at the de-fendant's
own home, following an al-tercation.
It was in evidence that
Rankin and the deceased felt into
dispute over a game of cards and
Rankin ordered Speaks from the
house. He said Speaks threw rocks
at him and he shot in the affray. A
circumstance which corroborated
Rankin's story and greatly aided him
in his case was the fact that a brick-bat
was clutched in the hand of
Speaks when his body was picked up.
Both defendant and deceased were
negroes.
The Comer family was in court
Tuesday. Mary, Amy. Matilda, Hel-en
and Dora were convicted and
Agnes was acquitted, of the charge
of assault. John Johnson was also
iponvlcted of assault' in the same
fracas. They were fined the costs of
the court. All the defendants were
negroes.
Sylvester Lockhart, a negro, was
tried on the charge of the larceny of
automobile tires from C. W. Jen-nings
and was convicted.
Charles Troxler and Thomas Ben-ton,
negroes, pleaded guilty to lar-ceny,
and paid the costs.
Growing out of the loss of $300 to
$400 worth of merchandise from the
Hart drug store in High Point, sev-eral
criminal charges reached the
Superior court yesterday. It was
proved to the satisfaction of the jury
that Lee Bryant, a young negro, dis-posed
of some of the stolen goods,
but when It came to fastening the
guilt of larceny upon Will Thompson,
another negro, was acquitted.
This result Influenced the solicitor
to accept a nol pros in the indictment
against A. T. Kennedy and Atwood
James, negroes, who were charged
with receiving the stolen goods.
Mat King, a negress, was acquitted
of the charge of retailing.
J. J. Isaac, white, was tried on the
charge of stealing clothing in High
Point. The judgment was not pro-nounced.
The case of assault against Zeke
Douglas, Ariz., Sept. 18.—More
than 500 carloads of whiskey, cham-pagne
and other wines, valued at $3,-
500,000 were dumped into the bay at
Guaymas, Sonora. under orders of
the state authorities on August 28,
according to a statement by Ives G.
Lelevier, Mexican consul, here. Pho-tographs
of the scene and official no-tification
of the action were received
:>y the consul today.
The beverages were the accumula-tions
of shipments to Sonora, seized
by the state since the abolition of the
liquor traffic January 1, 1915, and
the stocks on hand, which were taken
over when the prohibition decree be-came
effective. Information to Mr.
Lelevier says that so far as the au-thorities
are aware, there is not a
drop of intoxicants in the state.
The message to the consul says
that P. Ellas Calles, chief authority,
is determined that liquor never again
shall be permitted within the state.
SENDS MESSAGE TO,
AMERICAN SOLDIERS.
New York, Sept. 18.—Major Gen-eral
Pershing has sent a message to
American soldiers through the New
York Bible Society, which was made
public today. The message, which
will be inserted in the small khaki-covered
Testaments given to the men,
follows:
"Aroused against a nation waging
war in violation of all Christian prin-ciples,
our people are fighting in the
cause of liberty.
"Hardship will be your lot. but
trust in God will give you comfort.
Temptation will befall you. but the
teachings of our Savios will give you
strength. Let your valor as a soldier
and your conduct as a man be an in-spiration
to your comrades and an
honor to your country."
ONLY EIGHT SHIPS OF ANY
SIZE WERE SUNK LAST WEEK.
London, Sept. 19.—British mer-chant
ships of 1,600 tons and over
sunk by mine or submarine during
the past week numbered eight, ac-cording
to the admiralty report to-night.
Twenty ships under 1.600
tons were also sunk and one fishing
vessel.
The foregoing number of vessels
of more than 1,600 tons is the small-est
sunk by mines or submarines in
one week since Germany began her
intensified submarine campaign last
February, but the number under
1.600 tons is the largest for any
week, but one, since mid-February.
The total number of ships sunk is
the largest since the week ending
June 24.
LUMBER PLAIT IS FLIIDED
WATER WAIST HIGH IN HOMES-WOMEN
AND OIILDREN ARE
.SAVED BY BOATS.
Wallace, Sept. 17.—Saturday
morning after the rains of Friday
and Friday night the Camp Manufac-turing
Company's plant was flooded,
also the farms through which Rock-fish
creek runs. The br:d;es over
the creek .were entirely washed up,
cutting oft all travel to and from
Wallace.
About 6 o'clock Saturday morning
a rise of water was noticeab'.e as tie
workmen at the lumber plant startad
to their work, and rose very rapidly,
the mill dams above the site having
broken.
One workman as he started from
his house found that he could not go
down the front steps on account of
the water being so high. He went ill
and told this to his family. When
he went to the back steps he found
them the same way. and within <a few
minutes the water was almost -waist
deep in the house. The water rose
the same way in other houses.
Leaves Homes in Boats.
The women and children were the
first to be taken from their homes
this being done in boats and on
rafts, built for the purpose. Before
many families could be moved from
their homes the water was rushing In
the windows at such a speed as to be
more than waist deep. Mrs. John
Camp, whose husband i3 superintend-ent
and general manager of the plant,
realizing the responsibility resting
upon her, her husband being In a
Northern city upon business, first
sent her two-year-old daughter and
sister, Miss Olive Webb, of Fort
Smith, Ark., who is visiting her out
of danger by some of the rescuers.
She then donned her bath suit. The
water by this time was waist deep in
her home and then with what little
assistance she could procure, tried to
save her household goods and furni-ture
by piling them out of reach, of
the water.
This however, proved futile as the
water almost overflowed the house,
reaching far above the windows. She,
as three hundred others after making
every effort to save her furniture,
had to «lose her door and leave it all.
J. A. Campbell, cashier for the
company, who was in the office at
the time, preparing his payroll and
money envelopes, this being pay day,
on seeing how rapidly the water wan
rising phoned for the assistance
which was necessary in order to save
the books. Before aid could reach
him, however, it became necessary
for him to leave the building. He
held the bag of money with one hand
and the two most important bookrt
with the other, he having to leave
the other books; as he did not have
time to put them in the safe, and
managed to save these by holding
them high over his head, as the iratef
was by this time breast deep.
Negro Drowned.
One negro man was drowned Sat-urday
afternoon. With Mr. Frank
James, an employee of the company,
and a negro,, the deceased was In a
boat, assisting in carrying the fami-lies
from their homes, when the boat
overturned. He was caught, it is
thought, in the underbrush and
grass. Mr. James made a heroic ef-fort
to save the unfortunate man,
but his feet became tangled In his
coat, which he had taken off and la'.i
in the bottom of the boat, and it was
with great difficulty that he escaped
with his own life.
Many of the employees, white and
colored, owned hogs, and a great deal
of trouble and care were taken to
save these for them. The second
stories of some of the homes were
converted Into pig pens, and many
were taken to dry land by the men
of Wallace, who labored heroically
to save human lives, stock, and other
goods.
Miss EUlott Burned to Death.
Shelby, Sept. 18.—Locked in her
room yesterday afternoon at the
Southern hotel. Miss Jennie Elliott,
daughter of the proprietor, Thomas
E. Elliott, received burns at 4 o'clock
from which she died five hours later.
Miss Elliott is supposed to have
struck a match to burn some papers
in the fireplace when an outing gar-ment
she was wearing caught Are.
enveloped her body In flames and
burned her limbs and head so severe-ly
that she was rendered uncon-scious.
Her father heard her screams At 'n»rt. **•■ <ro° Much.
Md on finding one door locked, went A military writer states that the
to the other through which he gain- pay of RossIan soldiers Is 88 cents a
ed entrance and In' trying to save her, month. Judging from what they fere
received a bad burn on his hand. She doing now It would bo a good Idea to
was buried this afternoon at Zoar deduct at least 88 cents of their com-churctr.
[sensation.—Wilmington Star.
War Deficiency Bill Passes.
Washington, Sept. 18.—The $7,-
000,000,000 war deficiency bill, car-rying
huge appropriations for the
army, fortifications and shipping
board, passed the house today by a
unanimous vote.
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