The Greensboro patriot [February 27, 1922]

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MAN IS DEFEATED IN
HIS CASE AGAINST BOREN
Jl KY DECLARES BOKEN DIP NOT
TRESPASS SO NORMAN GBTS
NO DAMAGES
A verdict in favor of-R. Bt Boren,
concluding the trial of the »100,0»0
suit against him, brought by his
brother-in-law. Dr. G. W. Norman,
was returned by a Guilford Superior
court jury Saturday afternoon at
1.5:30 o'clock.
The jury, which deliberated on
(the case from 10:45 a. m. until 5:30
[p. m. answered only the first isne,
J which was "Did the defendant tres-
Ipass u- un the lanidi of the plaintiff
as alle-id in the complaint?" The
answer .vas no.
It x" ::s not necessary to answer
(the sc.ond issue, which was, "What
[damages, if any, is the plaintiff en-titled
to recover?" E'nce the Jury
[deckr 1 that Mr. Boren did not tre&-
[pass ii;-on the lands c-f Dr. Norman.
| the latter does not get any part of
the damages sought.
Immediately after the verdice was
announced. Judge R. C. StrudwlcJc,
one of the attorneys for Dr. Norman,
afkeil that the verdict be set aside
and a new trial granted. Judge B.
F. Long, presiding, set Monday,
.March 20. as the date for a hearing
I <on that motion. ■'"
Dr. Norman alleged Chat Air. Boren
was guilty of improper relations
with his wife, Mrs. Maggie Norman,
and that he had alienated her af-fectlons,
those charges being the
bases of the suit.
The jury was composed of W. W.
Hunter, foreman; R. A. Sockwell, J.
W. Scott, M. D. Taylor, J. H. Lee, C.
M. Cook. M. m. Southerland. C. C.
J( hnson, W. W. Morrison, C. P. Lo-man.
S. F. Johnson and W. Y. Bevill.
Conductor Crawford Freed.
"T Salisbury, Fob" 24~TJpon pay-ment
of the costs, R_ B. Crawford.
Southern railway conductor who suo-mltted
to a charge of manslaughter
last week, was freed here Thursday.
iHe killed D. S. Hinton, a Southern
engineer, in the Y. II. iQ.' A. lunch
room at Spencer; •on December '5
when Hinton made uncomplimentary
nemarks concerning his" wife.
Davenport President.
Statesvilte, Feb. 24.—&. C. Horn-aUlay,
of the facirRy of Trinity col-lege,
lias been elected president or
Davenport college, at Lenorr.
Woman Shoots Husband.
Asheville, Feb. 24.—Mrs. Alice
Bald-win Is held in Jail here without
bond, while her husband, Preston
Baldwin is In a hospital, believed to
be dying. The woman shot him In
front of their home near here.
Bold Holdup.
Goldsboro, Feb. 24.—Last night
Alex Dav's, a GoMeboro man, was
several miles from this city In his
automobile when two negroes Mates
him to let them rfcie. Davis agreed
and they bad not gone far, wber.
they held him up at the point of a
pistol and took $60 and a gold watch
from him and made for the wooes.
One of the alleged robbers was cap-tured
today.
After SbemweU.
•Raleigh, Feb. 24.—Governor Mor-rison
may take a band In the case or
Baxter Shemwell, It became ' known
here today: Insurance Commissioner
Stacy Wade is calling .on the gover-nor
to demand action on the part of
Big crowds attended the case the Davidson county authorities.
The Blue Sky stock law is being in7
voked In an effort to get Shemwell
out of Asheville, where he now re-sides.
VOL. 101. NO. 17
CURB MARKET EN]
BUREAU AND UNI
FOR SCH001
!D BY FARM
«M COUNTY TAX ,
jALSO MEETS FAM
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- Airship Victims- BorlM.
Newport- News. Vic.',. Feft 24.—An
business kere-and at (Norfolk and
/other surrounding 'communities was
enanentot • today, daring the public
funeral eeTvices B*ra 'ttere for the 84
In Session Here the Farmed Go on Record as Oppos- TteHB* of ** «*Mfor •*** ■*•»
ed to Proposed Changes! in Federal Farm Loan
Law—Mr. McGill Advocates 5weet Potato Stor-
Houses—Seer«*l*y Payne Speaks.
which began MoroJay afternoon.
Mr. Boren testified Thursday that
he told John X. Wilson, a local attor-ney,
that he thought Dr. Norma=
was trying to blackmail him. He said
that he went to Mr. Wilson's office
in response to a telephone call In
November, 1920, and Mr. Wilson
told of the accusation against him
and also told him that Dr. Norman
wanted him to pay him enough
money to buy a home in another city
Suspect Freed.
Concord, Feb. 24.—Harvey H.
A4ams, detained here voluntarily:
for 36 hours as a suspect, in the
William Desmond Taylor murder
mystery, left Concord yesterday af-ter
the local police officers were as-
Adoptlon of resolutions indorsing
the proposed establishment of a curb
market In Greensboro for farm pro-ducts,
passage of another set of res-olutions
in advocacy of ttfe county
unit of school taxation, and' ~ adop-tion
of a motion providing for vig-j
orous opposition to certain proposed
changes in the federal rarm loan
bank system—these were notable
features of the meeting of the Guil-ford
County Farm bureau In the
courthouse here Saturday.
Much attention also was devotes
to the question of production, stor-age
and marketing of sweet pota-toes.
An unusually interesting ana
instructive address was delivered by
W. W. iMcGUI, of Raleigh, of the
e'T-te department of agriculture. (Mr.
McGIM explained In detail ways and
means of storing sweet potatoes.
Disease Several Problems.
While the attendance at the meet-ing
was not large, those present ex-ercised
a very lively Interest in the
various problems which were con-sidered
and leaders of the bureau
are confident that the session will
prove a profitable one. The meet-ing
was called to order by County
Farm Demonstrator E. B. Garrett
John A. Young, -who litfta_a__
distance east of Greensboro and who
is president of the bureau, presided,
while the secretarial work was per-formed!
by M. R. Doggett, of Brown
Summit, secretary of the bureau.
One of the most interesting speak-ers
was I. N. Payne, of Statesvllle.
secretary of the State Federation o»
Farm Bureaus, who called attention
to Che proposed changes in adminV
L
the army- dirtglBre' Rornn. iDu-rtng
the brief services conducted by army
chaplains and' severa-r of tfts local
ministry, airplanes from Larrgley
Held flew-over the greanchf «Y Caet-no
Park to drop floral tribute on
the row of-flagdreped caskets.
tion of the federal farm loan act.
Under these suggested changes,
Mr. Payne feared', the farmers would
have little Influence in the affairs of
the farm loan organisation'. ' It fa
proposed to vest the federal farm
loan boanjl with greater power anc
to curtail the authority of the C!sT-rriers
themselves, it was stated. The
secretaries of the local association.
If the changes become effective,
could be removed by the federal
bbard. Provision also would be made
for discontinuing the business or
various local . associations and a
number of other changes which Mr.
Payne thought "would prove ihl'mt-cal
to the best Interests of the farm-ers
are- proposed-.
Sold Too Infrequently.
It was stated) by Mr. Payne Chat
the closing of the federal ■farnvtoan
banks was due to the fact that tne
government would not martfet fed-eral
farm loan bonds often enough.
The farmers should control the or-ganization,
he felt, and 'he was earn-estly
opposed to the proposed chang-
Inqub-y Into Wreck.
Washington, Feb. 24.—-An Inquiry
by the army afr service Into the
whole quest ion', of the military value
<of llghter-thanafr craft If expected
to grow out of the (Roma disaster.
Officers of the air service said today
such an inquiry would be necessary
OFFICERS ARE CHOSEN BY
. PAMT-T^HBR COUNCIL
MHOH SENTIMENT FOR OOtTNTx"
UNIT OF SCHOOL TAXATION
-/ 'SHOWN AT jAiaarowx
-With a large number of represen-tatives
from various clubs In.attend-ance
the Guiirord county counetl of
the parent-teacher clubs isuteasion at
Jamestown, nig* school last Saturday
elected officers lor the new year,
■heard reports as to the progress of
the work, listened to several most
interesting addresses sad* made, ten-tative'
plan* for development, of the
work along increasingly ambitious
lines. . -
The following officers were elect-ed:
-Mrs. C. O. Burton, of Pomona,
president; Mrs. Alice Simpson, of
South Buffalo, vice-president, and
Mrs. W. G. Ragsdctle, of Jamestown,
secretary. Mrs. B. N. Mann, form-tirer/-
upset tratntog and operating
programs for that branch of the ser-vice.
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In accordance with the provisions
resolutions unanimously adopterf
the bureau Saturday the county
,. demonstrator will write to.the
united States senators and congress-men
from North Carolina, asking
them to use their Influence to defeat
the proposed changes in the admin-istration
of the federal farm1 loan
law.
The bureau also adopted resolu-tions
in opposition to the propose-!'
levying of a sales tax as a means dr
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Out Railroad Men's Pay.
Chicago, Feb. 24—Another pay
slash, this time hitting 10,000 rail-roadfliremen
and oilers, was made
'by the United States rallroaidi labor
board yesterday, when It announced
rales, eftsettve Ma rob 1, eliminating
extra pay-until after the 1Mb-hour
and setting up a "split trick" of
eight hoars within a spread of
without any overtime pay.
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' Against Sales Tax.
Washington, Feb. 24.—A proposal
to finance the soldiers bonus by a
sales tax is understood to have been
rejected today by the special sub-committee
of tb» Republican mem-bers
of the house ways and means
committee.
and tor the support of his family un- .sured D>. a conductor on tne South-tll
he could build up a .practice. He!
GIRL KILLED BY AUTO, -DIES IN AUTO SMASH
■Vr0",,,, ,*!?.*,„ lc<\ / ernra,fway that the man held here™- j^ Farrhurton of Robert McPherson Killed
tl B| ht to the test dollar he had,! WE8 .eaKy Adam8i „r RichmonQ, Va., """ ™* * T^ZTWSLT W>,or, Tor H,"tC won! Tnln.
Mr. Boren said he told Mir. Wilson.
Ho drilled ever having any im-proper
relations with Mrs. Norman
or ever making any improper pro-posals
or even of thinking about such
a thing. He said he attended Muir's
and not Edwardi F. Sands,
butler-secretary to Taylor.
former
Dies From Burns.
North Wilkesboro, Feb. 25.- nMiss
High Point Dead After
Cr?.sh
Miss Lena Fanington,
"j Point, died a
car In wihich
of High
When Car Hits Tele-phone
Pole
Robert iMcPherson, aged 25, of
tew minutes after a j <*»•«»«•, wnsTSstamllr ktBad, ltd
she and Miss Ethel j Horace Hamilton, of thic city, and
_ Asks Recall of Harvey.
Washington, Feb. 24.—A resolu-tion
designed to -bring about the re-call
from England of Ambassador
Harvey was Introduced here by Rep-resentative
jiRyan. Republican,. Nevr
York. The measure proposes a con
grersional investigation of state-ments
made bjr the ambassador while
abroad with a view to Saying him
detached from his post In London.
chapel Sunday school every Sunday °race ****• 16 »•"■ oW- me aauPQ- Brown were being driven at a high. W. M. Pyrtle, of Reidsville, were
morning in May, 1920. \ ter of Mr- *nd Mrs- R- L- ■"•• of rate of speed by W. T. Everhart, of, P"lalu-Hy lrart about 7:30 o'clock
Mrs. Boren testified that she and Morav,an Fa»8- di«^ at n«r nome Thomasville. on the HlgH Point-1 Saturday night when an automobile
her husband agreed to light the suf Fr,day mtyTnln^ trom,» DUrns recc,y- , Winston-Salem road was wrecked ,««» **<* they were_rldlng left the as-no
matter what It cost ** whea ***,n in a ffre a weCk **° Saturday night. Miss Farrlngton's «*»" «» «»•» M***1 •**■•» «««"-
slon. Just at the city limits here, and
Rev. L. L. Carpenter, former pas-tor
of Forest Avenue Baptist church
here, testified that Dr. Norman came
to him and told him euch a matter
could be settled only oy a.suit or r
sun. He abo testified that he wrote
a letter to Mrs. Norman and receiv-ed
a reply in which she stated that
God had forgiven her and she ex- j
rected to lead a better life.
A large number of character wit-nesses
were put on the stand, giving
Mr. Boren a good character.
The case went to the jury a little
before noon Saturday. A night ses-sion
was held Frii-iay in order to get
| through with the argument of at-torneys.
The argument started
Thursday afternoon. P. W. Glide-well,
of Reidsville; W. M. Hendren.
of Winston-Salem; and F. P. Hob-
! neck was broken. Miss Brown was
925,000 Memorial Gift. 1 painfully but not seriously injured.
Durham. Feb. 28—Angler B. j Evepnart waB arreMted and .placed
Duke and nis sister. Mrs. Anthony I ,„ Ja„ at mgh poInt> ,,„.„. tne
: J. Drexel Biddle, formerly Miss Mary
i Duke, nave given 12 5,000 te the
Trinity college gymnasium to be
erected as a memorial to the Trin-ity
college men who gave their lives
In the work* war.
struck a felepbpne pole.
Pyrtle, who was driving the ma-chine,
was carried from the hospital.
Asheville Man Electrocuted.
Asheville, FebT 24.—A newly in-stalled
electric, sausaee grlnde
claimed the life of J. W. Pace, "30
proprietor of a meat market, when
he started the machine early * this
morning. The wires became crossed
and he was electrocuted.
uight -there. He was released Sun- »«•«" having 'his injuries attended to,
day morning under a $2,500 bond. | »nd placed to the city jail, charged
He will be given-a preliminary hear- "it* murder. Hamilton, who was
Ing some time this week. ! »ko carried to the toospttal for atten-
From information obtained byjtlon- went «rom there to his home.
wn0IThe Injuries the two men received
,-, ached the ,c,n, of the accident a! WOTe sustained on their hands and
legs. s •
Deputy Sheriff J. F. Wagner,
Dies at Age of 104.
good, Judge R. c. Strudwick and' Winston-Salem, Feb. 24.—Mm.
Juige W. P. Bynum spoke for Dr. Nellie Hunt, widow of the late An-
Norman and A. L. Brooks, O. L. drew «unt, wiho die* in 1887, pass- to"rWJ wilh~ rJ^"
Sapp, " ._.._..
short while after the car was wreck-ed,
it appears that Everhart was
driving at excessive speed and in
turning a curve he lost control or
.the automobile, which ran into the
yard of George Penny and struck a
fence. The two young women were
; thrown from the car. Everhart
clung to the, stearing wheel.
i It is said that Everhart and Miss
Brown had been out riding etxJ'.
meeting Miss Farrington, Invited her
She* bad been
The three men, according to the
story Pyrtle told the police, were
driving into Greensboro after a drive
on the Burlington road. He said thct
ED. Broadhurst and R. R. ed away yesterday at OW. Davidsot iQ ^ w Qn,y % few minutei ^en
Mng ior the defense. county, nearing h«r l»4tb»birthday.
Judge Long charged the jury at Mrs. Hunt retained all her menu.:
length. He reviewed the evidence faculties until the end. She was
closely and charged the Jury that it able to sew and thread a needae up
must be the juidlge as to the truth-
-ulness of witnesses.
to a few days ago, when
taken ill.
she was
IRISH PF.OPLE WILL GET
TO VOTE OX CONSTITUTION.
Dublin, Feb. 24.—General satls-
(actlon seems to be felt in Southern-
It was smashed. . - ■
Miss Farrington, who was 18 years
old, was the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. L. Farrington. She was
buried this afternoon at High Point.
Everhart is the son of S. L. Ever-hart,
a well known farmer, who live
about five miles west of Thomasville.
Breach of Premise Suit.
mWilmington, Feb. 24.—Salt for
-5,000 damages Was filed In Super-' . """" ~~~~ ^~Z T~
lor .court today by Mrs. Ada V. Per-1 Wanted to Barry Co-nty.
ry, a nurse, against Cleveland Reev- Tom Marshall was turned over to
Ireland, over yesterday's surprise de- es for breach of promise. Mrs. Perry Mount Arry officers here Friday by
cislons of the Ard~Fhe!s for a three alleges that Reeves persuaded her to Greensboro officers. They took i-im
months- adjournment, at the end o divorce ber bus-banks, from whom^he back to Dobson, Sprry county seat
which the people will be asked t^ was separated, under promise or where he is wanted on charges o*
vote on a constitution as well as on marriage and now refuses to discuss breaking into a store and Jumpln.
the Anglo-Irish treaty. -matrimony.. .- "hood".
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ing from the opposite direction -he
turnei to the right and was not able
to get, back in the road, thus hitting
the telephone pole.
Other information given the poltco,
however, was to the effect that Vae
car was being driven at a rapid rate
of speed and that the driver lost con..
troi of his machine in turning a
.because loss of the Roma bad en- *rly of Guiltondl county but who is
now teaching In Wilson county; is
the retiring president, while Miss
Ida Minis formerly served as secre-tary.
Morning and afternoon sessions
were held and at noon members of
the domestic science department of
the Jamestown school served an ex-cellent
lunch.
Mrs. W.4G. Ragedale, president or
the Jamestows parent-teacher club,
presided. At the morning session
reports from the various local clubs
were submitted, showing that grati-fying
progress had been made In the
work during the past year. One
point, however, which Mrs. Ragsdale
emphasized was that the attendance
at the council meetings should be
larger. In that way even better re-sults
could be obtained.
Mrs. R. W. Sinclair, of Salisbury,
president of the state federation of
parent-teacher clubs, spoke at the
morning session, which began at M
o'-deefc. ' »e tallceS iiKprestlnjly of
the relationship between parents and
teachers, making a plea for har-monious
work. Their interests are
largely mutual and through concert-ed
effort maximum good may. be ac- ,
complished, she pointed out. Mrs.
Sinclair also stressed the Importance
of close co-ordination of the work
of the state and local organizations.
Superintendent Thomas 'R. Foust.
of the county school system, deliver-ed
a timely and instructive address
concerning problems which confront
te parent-teacher clubs. He was.,
confident that they would prove of
great value in promoting the welfare
of the schools and of the people gen-erally.
Mr. Foust answered a num-ber
of questions.
Marked interest In the proposal to
allow the people to vote upon the
question of a -uniform system of tax-ation
for the schools of the county
was evidenced'. The people of the
Jamestown section appear to be
heartily In favor of the proposal,
which would provide for the pay-ment
of the same amount of tax in
the various districts, exclusive of
the cities Of Greensboro and High
Point, and equal eharint; of the bene-fits.
It was indicated that the pat-rons
would like to nave an oppor-tunity
to vote tor the county unit
system of-school taxation In the early-future.
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Officers were elected in the after-noon.
Mrs. Burton, the new presi-dent,
took the chair ami ex-pressed
her appreciation of the honor con-ferred
upon her. She predicted con-stantly
expanding usefulness tor the
organization and invoked the whole-hearted
co-operation-i)f all members
of- the orp.iniation. Mrs. Burton ex-pressed
the hope that four meetings
of the county council could oe held
Mils year. -
The next meeting will probably be
held! before the schools close and at
that session a definite program of
future activities will be outlined.
Denies Balloon Fanlty.
Hampton, Va., Feb. 24.—Positive
denial that a letter was written by
Lieut. Clifford E. Smyths to his home
in Chicago following the flight of
the Roma to Washington In which
It has been alleged the officer de-scribed
certain faults in the balloon
and declared It would be an act or
"criminal negligence" to fly the ma-chine
again without repairs, wsa
made tonight by Robert M. Smythe.
father of the dead- officer,
Long Lived Family.
■Nashville, Tenn., Feb. -24.—John
F. Franklin, George C. Franklin, 72
and Dr. J. H. Franklin, 74, came to
Nashville today to arrange for the
funeral of their father, John
Franklin, who died et his home
near Bowling Green at the age o*
104. Franklin died suddenly, after
working all nl-ay on his farm.
OAKES TO BE PUT
TRIAL THURSDAY
D. B. Oaks, former policeman of
while he was passing a machine com- this city,, will be placed on tri .-
Thursday, March 2, at Graham, Ir
Alamance Superior court, charged
with the murder of Tommy Robert-son
In Rocklngham county on the
evening of-May 4, 192x.
.Robertson was killed in Rocklng-ham,
just across the Guilford coun-ty
line, while he was being pursued
after Policeman Tom McCuiston had
slight curve. Police said that none'1'**® killed by a shot from a liquo>
of the three appeared to nave been *•" »" Greensboro occupied by Rob-drinking.
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The car. belonged to McPherson.
It was completely wrecked T-he
ertsoA, Girl Talley and Lewis Ed-wards.
Edwards was captured the
same evening, and is now serving Is
right wheel struck the po'le and part» *««"» .*■ Pr«ooa following hfe tria!
of the machine, were thrown several 'here for..murder. Talley Is still a.
feet from the wreck.
McPherson leaves bis widow and.
two children; his mother, (Mrs. D. C.
McPherson, of White Oak; a brother;
Tom McPherson.' of Phoximlty; four
sisters, Mrs. Will Carter, of Kerners-ville;
Mrs. CIsrsnes Fou?t, of Jajneor
town; M'-s. J. Z; Moors, of White
large. <i.
Cat Maa's Throat.
- James Hunt, wanted in Oran'gr
county on a charge of cutting r
man's throat, seriously wounding
him, was given to Sheriff Lloyd, o.
Orange, Friday, who took him back
Ok, and. Mrs. Ma" Parrlsh, of Po- Huat was arrested1 here ThareCaj
TO BUILD KSS PLANT AT
* ASHBORO, STARTING SOON.
An Ice plant-will be built at Aah-boro,
work starting in the near ftf-ture,
according to W. B. Ross, of the
Piedmont Ice and Coal company of
this city. The plant will have a ca-pacity
of 25 'tons daily an% It wl'i
cost about $20,000. It Is expected
that it will.be in operation by- June
1. A coal yard. wiH also be one
ated. Associated with Mr. Ross are
C. T. Rose and K. V. Kennett, both
of this city, and Arthur Rcos, Jos
ROM sod Free Rose, of Ashboro. -
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