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ESTABLIS£H^5* »•* GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, MARCH 29,1915: VOL. 94—NO. 25
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF Fi£
MATTERS OP INTEREST TO THE
HEADERS OF THE PATRIOT
FAR AND NEAR.
Mr. Rankin Better.—The condi-tion
of Mr. Will R. RanKin, who has
been seriously ill at his home on
W'CSt Market street for several
weeks, is considerably improved.
The Next Court.—The next term
„f Guilford Superior court will con-reae
Monday, April 12. and continue
for two weeks for the trial of civil
actions. It will be followed by a
week's criminal term.
fraud Alleged.—Robert Landreth
was the defendant in a case tried be-fore
Squire Collins Friday charging
fraud in a horse trade. He was Held
for the April term of Superior court
under a bond of $100. '
ilied Yesterday.—Mr. William A.
dales died at his home on Warren
•street yesterday morning at 7
o'clock- He was about 75 years old.
The body was carried to Burlington
for the funeral and interment.
Condition Serious.—Dr. W. P.
Lawrence, of Elon College, continues
in a critical condition at St. Leo's
hospital, where he has been a patient
for several weeks. Very little hope
is entertained for his recovery.
To Give Demonstration.—Mr. E.
H. Anderson, the Guilford county
farm agent, will give a pruning and
spraying demonstration on the farm
of Mr. J. A. Coltrane, near Guilford
College, tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock.
To Go to Cincinnati.—Mr. T. N.
Winslow. of this city, who holds a
position in the income tax division
of the internal revenue service, has
been transferred from this district
to Cincinnati and will leave in a few
days for his new post.
youth in Hospital.—Frank, the
15-year-old son of Rev. and Mrs. F.
I.. Townsend. is a patient at St.
Leo's hospital, to which place he
was carried Saturday for an opera-tion
for appendicitis. His condition
Is not enns'dered alarming.
Recovering Nicely.—The friends
of Mrs. Robert R. Reitzel. of Liberty,
will learn with pleasure that she is
recovering nicely from a serious op-eration
she underwent at St. Leo's
hospital last week. She expects to
be able to return home soon.
Mrs. Mar.v York Dead—Mrs. Mary
York died Saturday night at her
home three miles north of the city.
She was 34 years old and is survived
by her husband. Mr. John York, and
three young children. The body was
carried to Sophia. Randolph county,
for burial.
Death at White Oak.—Mrs. Mar-tha
Young, an aged woman, died
Friday at her home at White Oak.
She is survived by four sons and a
daughter. The funeral was held
from the residence Saturday after-noon
and interment made ir the
Proximity cemetery. Rev. G. M.
Trent.of Reidsville, conducted the
.-ervices.
No More Recruits.—The United
States army recruiting station in
Greensboro will be closed Wednes-day,
along with all the other stations
in North Carolina and South Caro-lina
except the one in Charlotte. It
is announced that the stations are
to be closed on account of the fact
I hat the army is now recruited to its
full strength.
Mr. Daniels Can't Come.—Hon.
Josephus Daniels, who was to have
delivered an address at the Y. M. C.
A. tonight, at the inauguration of a
membership campaign, has notified
ihe committee that, on account of
more pressing engagements, he will
be unable to come to Greensboro at
'his time. He hopes to be able to
-'ill a date here later.
Aged Woman Dead.—Mrs. Sarah
M. Smith died yesterday at the home
of her niece, Mrs. Oscar Williams,
on West Sycamore street, at the age
of S4 years. After a funeral service
• 'inducted by Rev. J. D. Miller, of
s'- Andrew's Episcopal church, the
body was carried last nipht to Whit-
"es Mills, Va., -vhere the interment
>'il! take place today.
Military Inspection—The Guilford
,:ra;s. known as the third company
«'f the coast artillery of the North
Carolina National Guard, underwent
the annual inspection by representa-tives
of the war department and the
New Revenue Officer.—Mr. R. K.
Blair, a well known druggist of
Charlotte, has been appointed a dep-uty
collector of internal revenue for
the enforcement of the new anti-nar-cotic
law and will have his head-quarters
in Greensboro. His terri-tory
will embrace the fifth internal
revenue district. The position pays
$1,600 a year, with an allowance of
$800 for expenses.
Special Services.—Rev. Ellison R.
Purdy, of Wilmington, O., one of the
leading ministers of the Society of
Friends in this country, conducted a
series of meeting at the Y. M. C. A.
at Guilford C""..„«! last week. The
services are said to have been of an
inspiring nature and were greatly
enjoyed by the students. Mr. Purdy
is pastor of the second largest
Friends church in America.
Closing Exercises.—The colored
schools of Guilford will hold their
sounty commend m.-nt •; the court-house
Thursday, April 8 the exer-cises
-o begin it 11.341 u. m. There
will be an oratoiical contest and an
industrial exhibit will be displaced
:n 'he court house aiiuex. Following
a basket dinner at the baseball park,
representatives of the schools will
engaged in athletic sports and games.
Mrs. Farrington Dead.—Mrs. J. S.
Farrington died Friday morning at
3 o'clock at her home about 11 miles
north of Greensboro. She is surviv-ed
by her husband, an infant child,
her parents, six brothers and one sis-ter.
The funeral and interment tjok
place Saturday at noon at Sharon
Baptist church, in Rockingham coun-ty.
The services were conducted by
Rev. W. H. Wilson, assisted by Rev.
T. B. Johnson.
Died in Montana.—Mr. John
Henry Stratford, a native of Guil-ford
county and a brother of Mr .W.
O. Stratford, of this city, died on
the 15th inst. at his home in Bil-lings,
Mont. He was in the seventy-eighth
year of his age and had made
hfs home in Montana for many
years. Soon after the close of the
Civil war, throughout which he
fought bravely as a Confederate sol-dier,
he went to Florida. Later he
moved to Missouri, and after re-maining
in that state for a while,
settled in Montana with a brother,
Robert A. Stratford, who died in
1912. He was never married.
Damage Suit Moved.—In the Su-perior
court of Lee county Saturday
an order was made removing the
$15,000 damage suit of Miss Loula
Riley, of Sanford, against Ellis,
Stone & Co., of this city, to Chatham
county for trial. The order of re-moval
was made on motion of coun-sel
for the defense and the case was
set peremptorily for the first Mon-day
in May. It will be recalled that
Miss Riley was formerly employed
by Ellis, Stone & Co. as a clerk,
leaving the service of the firm last
December after having been charged
with shop-lifting. After instituting
the damsge suit. Miss Riley was in-dicted
for larceny, but the warrant
was dismissed after a sensational
trial in Municipal court.
Trip to Asheboro.—About 30
Greensboro business men composed
the party that made a trade-boost-ing
trip to Asheboro Friday. The
visitors were given a cordial recep-tion
by leading citizens of the capi-tal
of Randolph and made to feel at
home. Upon their arrival they were
driven to the court house and for-mally
welcomed in brief speeches by
Rev. J. Ed. Thompson, Mr. E. E.
Moffitt and Mr. D. C. McCrary. Af-ter
visiting the graded school and
being shown over the town, the visi-tors
were conveyed by automobiles
over several stretches of Randolph's
improved roads. Upon the return to
Greensboro the party made a short
stop In Randleman and visited the
cotton mills of that place.
Young Man in Trouble.—C. E.
Harrington, a young man about 28
years old and claiming Washington,
D. C, as his home, was arrested here
Saturday for passing worthless
forged checks, and in default of a
bond of $500 he was locked up to
await a preliminary hearing today.
Harrington passed one of his worth-less
checks for $20 on Crawford &
Rees and another for $12.50 on John
T. Rees. The checks were passed
early in the week, and immediately
afterward Harrington left the city.
He returned Friday night and regis-tered
at a hotel under an assumed
name. The police officers have
MISSION ATTACKED BY TURKS
SIA'TY-FIVE MEN TAKEN FROM
AMERICAN AND FRENCH COM-POUND
AND HANGED.
Washington, March 26.—Alarm-ing
reports of atrocities, including
the hanging of 60 men taken from
the French mission and five from
the American mission compound at
Gulpashan, Persia, stirred the state
department today to further efforts
to 'obtain protection for American
misionaries and refugees in the vi-cinity
of Urumiah, Persia, where a
Christian massacre.
■ Ambassador Morgenthau, at Con-stantinople,
has been appealed to
twice by Secretary Bryan in the last
few days to urge the Turkish govern-ment
to send protection to the im-periled
district, and It was learned
tonight that the state department
had received assurances from the
Turkish government that protection
would be rushed to the scene.
It was learned through the Brit-ish
embassy that the British consul
at Tabriz, Persia, not far distant
from the Urumiah' district, acting in
conjunction with the American con-sul,
Gordon Paddock, had appealed
to Russian commanders in the region
near Tiflis to send soldiers to rescue
the Christian populace. The Russian
generals, it was said, were awaiting
orders from Petrograd.
In view of present efforts of the
American government to have Turk-ish
troops sent to the region, it was
regarded as probable here that no
further effort would be made to get
aid from the Russian soldiery. In
view of' hostilities between Russia
and Turkey, aid from both sides
would be impossible. It was sug-gested
also that the consuls at Ta-briz
were moved to be cautious in
getting troops into the district, for
fear their coming might precipitate
a massacre.
The state department tonight had
received no official notice of out-rages
at Gulpashan, a few miles from
Urumiah, as reported to the Pres-byterian
board of foreign missions
at Naw York from native Christians
in Tiflis. Secretary Bryan received
an appeal from the Presbyterian
board during the day urging him to
do everything possible to relieve the
situation.
'We are not prepared to announce
what we may or can do in the mat-ter,"
said the secretary. He gave
assurances, however, that the de-partment
was doing everything it
could. Instructions, he said, had
been sent to several American con-suls,
but nothing had been heard
from any of the consuls directly.
Word was received by the British
embassy as well as the state depart-ment
that the Turkish government
had issued orders for the saving of
the Christians.
JAMES R. COBLE ANSWERS
THE FINAL SUMMONS.
Mr. James R. Coble, a highly es-teemed
citizen and a member of one
of the best" known families in Guil-ford
county, died Thursday at his
home in this city. He had been a
chronic sufferer from .isthma for
years and had been in feeble health
for several months. Recently he suf-fered
an attack of lagrippe and ap-peared
to be recovering when a re-lapse
iput him back in bed and re-sulted
in his death.
Mr. Coble was 70 years old and
had led an honorable, active and use-ful
life. He had made his home in
Greensboro for the past six or seven
years, moving to this city from his
farm In the Alamance church section
of the county. He is survived by his
widow, five daughters and two sons.
The children are: Mrs. J. D. Sted-man,
Misses Lena. Anna, Margaret
and Ruth Coble and Messrs., Paul
and Norman Coble. He also leaves
.two brothers and five sisters, who
are: Messrs. D. H. and D. T. Coble
of Greensboro Route 6; Misses Ele-nora
and Anna Coble, Mrs. Kate
Fields and Mrs. C. A. Kime, of
Greensboro, and Mrs. C. H. Hardin,
of Julian.
Mr. Coble had been a member of
Alamance Presbyterian ciiurch from
his youth and a deacon of the con-gregation
for many yeais. The fu-neral
and interment took place at
this church Fritiay morning at 11
o'clock, the services being conduct-ed
by the pastor, Rev. Dr. E. C. Mur-ray,
assisted by Rev. S. M. Rankin
and Rev. C. E. Hodgin. The pall-bearers
were: Messrs. Martin Glass,
R. A. Gilmer, Henry Andrew, John
Andrew, John Cox and H. F. Coble.
SUBMARINE STAYS AT BOTTOM
NAVAL DISASTER IN HARBOR OF
HONOLULU—CAPTAIN AND
CREW DROWNED.
High Point Enterprise Sold.
Mr. J. J. Farriss, editor and pub-lisher
of the High Point Enterprise,
has sold the paper to Messrs. W. A.
Hildebrand, E. B. Jeffress, A. L.
Stockton and J. P. Rawley, of the
Greensboro Daily News, and it is an-nounce*
thȣJ*^_J^temen yUl
take charge bf the property April 1.
It is the intention of the purchasers
to make a number of improvements
on the paper, and with this in view,
additional equipment has been or-dered
and will be installed in the
course of a few weeks. An up-to-date
telegraphic news service will be
a feature of the Enterprise under the
new management, which plans to
give High Point a first-class local
dally paper in every respect.
It is understood that Messrs.
Stockton and Rawley will be in
charge of the paper—Mr. Stockton
as editor and Mr. Rawley as business
manager.
Mr. Farriss, who has been engag-ed
in the newspaper and printing
business in High Point for a num-ber
of years, will devote his atten-tion
to his job printing plant in the
future.
One of tbe worst submarine disas-ters
in the world's naval history oc-curred
Thursday, when the United
States submarine F-4 was trapped at
the bottom of Honolulu harbor un-der
at least 35 fathoms of water and
her commander and the 21 members
of the crew drowned.
Three other submarines of the
same type were with the F-4 when
she dived. They noticed that she did
not reappear promptly, but thought
nothing of it until several hours had
elapsed. This is the first occasion of
the loss of life in the operation of
submarines by the United States
navy.
The ill-fated submarine was lo-cated
late Friday afternoon. Res-cue
vessels dragging the ocean bed
with grappling hooks chanced upon
the stricken craft at a depth of 300
feet. Making fast to the F-4 the
naval tug Navajo and the steamer
Makaala began to tow their find to-ward
shallow water. Quantities of
oil came to the surface, proof that
it really was the lost vessel. Soon
afterward a submarine marker buoy,
discovered far below the water, re-moved
all doubt that the F-4 had
been found.
For more than an hour the tug
and the steamer struggled with their
unwieldy burden. Soon afterwards
it became apparent that it would be
impossible to tow the submarine
near enough to shore to bring her to
the surface and a hurry call was sent
to the naval station for a wrecking
ship.
Naval construction experts agree
that the tremendous pressure of the
water at any depth below 50 or 60
feet offers a serious handicap to any
efforts to provide safe exit from a
sunken submarine.
The stay of a submarine below
water is limited by the supply of
exyg«a. In endnrance tests 24 hours
has been the limit. There is danger'
of development of leaks under the
high pressure at unusual depths.
JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL
WINS TWO DEBATES.
Representatives of high school*
all over the state met Friday night
in triangular debates under the
auspices of the High School Debat-ing
Union. The subject of the de-bate
was the desirability of the
United States government adopting
the policy of ship subsidy. Each
school entering the contest had two
teams, one representing the affirma-tive
and the other the negative side
of the question.
Both of the teams of the James-town
high school were victorious,
winning at home over Siler City and
at Asheboro over the high school at
that place. The debaters at home
were Ivey Cashatt and Newlln Hod-gin.
Those who went to Asheboro
were Hervie Williard and Clyde
Ridge.
By winning both debates James-town
will participate in the final con-test
at the University of North Car-olina
on April 9.
Pleasant Garden met Carthage at
home and was defeated, but won tbe
debate at Monroe. The debaters at
home were DeWitt Reynolds and
Carl Brown. Shuford Reynolds and
McAlister White represented the
school at Monroe.
The Greensboro high school lost
both sides of Hie debate, being de-feated
at Raleigh by the high school
of that city and at home by Char-lotte.
OVER ONE MILLION TAX
BLANKS WILL BE REQUIRED.
btate Friday night and made a most,. , ,
•reditable showing. The inspection i^L^ R , Ha"lneton was
Mas made by Capt. A. Craig/ Jr.. of j ™**J» BaU>™°« about three
•»e Vnited States army, representing :>CarS a6° f°r pa88ing worthless
'he war department, and Col. Thom-as
L- Stringfield, of Waynesville, tne
general inspector of the North Caro-lina
National Guard.
Report Received by Presbyterians.
New York, March 26.—All the
men at Gulpashan, a large village
near Urumiah, Persia, have been
shot by Turks, the women violated,
an American missionary beaten, and
65 refugees taken from the French
and American missions, have been
hanged on gibbets erected in the
mission yards, according to a cable-gram
received here today by the
Presbyterian boaid of foreign mis-sions.
A cablegram came frjm four na-tive
Christians in Tiflis. Three of
them, and perhaps the fourth, were
naturalized Americans, i he message
follows:
"Gulpashan destroyed. Its men
shot, women violated. Sixty men
taken from French mission com-pound
and five from American mis-sion
compound hanged. Allen beat-en.
Massacre imminent. Implore
state department that consul at Tab-riz
proceed Urumiah. Hanging pole
erected in French mission yard."
The message was signed by Jesse
Yonon, E. O. Eschoo, Isaac Yohan-nan
and Paul Shimman, all of whom
are known to the board. Eschoo and
Shimman, both Americans, left this
city for Urumiah five weeks ago,
proceeding by way of Norway and
Petrograd.
This missionary Allen, referred to
as having been beaten, is E. T. Al-len,
who was born in London, On-tario,
and became a naturalized
American. Mr. Allen has been in
the service of the board since 1891.
He was sent to Persia in 1911.
Submarine Located.
Honolulu, March 28.—The sub-marine
F-4 has been located outside
I lie i:ar'.or, it was announcea t-»
night.
Portions of the superstructure
have been brought to the surface.
The dredge California will shift
moorings, tugs will criss-cross in all
directions and an attempt will be
made to lift the submarine.
W. C. Parks, a civil engineer, has
started construction of an immense
diving bell, a 54-inch castlron pipe
seven feet in height, fitted with a
plate glass port. The. diving bell is
expected to be ready for use tomor-row.
Lev! M. Scott Property Sold.
A portion of the Levi M. Scott
property, on Fayetteville and Arling-ton
streets, was sold at auction Fri-day
for an aggregate of $16,192.
The lot on which the brick residence
stands, with a frontage of 62 feetj
on Fayetteville street, was purchas-ed
by Mr. L. Richardson for $6,630,
or $105.50- per front foot, this being
the highest price paid for any of the
property. Mr. Richardson purchased
an adjoining lot for $"3 per front
foot. Messrs. J. E. Tomlinson and
W. E. Phipps purchased the lot on
the corner of Fayetteville and Ar-lington
streets, with a frontage of
26 feet on Fayetteville and 104 feet
on Arlington, for $2,730. The ad-joining
lot on Arlington street, was
purchased by Mr. Phipps for $50 a
front foot. Mr. J. B. Stroud paid
$73 per foot for a lot with a front-age
of 26 feet on Arlington street.
Several lots were left unsold and
will be offered later. This property
is considered as among the most de-sirable
real estate in the city.
checks. At present he seems in a
fair way to become a member of
Guilford county's road-building
force.
Abolishes Death Penalty.—The
senate of Tennessee has passed a
bill to abolish the death penalty in
that state.
Death of M. D. Kirkman.
Mr. M. D. Kirkman, one of the
best known citizens of southern Guil-ford,
died at his home near Pleasant
Garden yesterday at 12.30 o'clock.
He was 69 years old and is survived
by his widow, four sons and one
daughter. The children are: Messrs.
Adger, Clark, Norman and Stacy and
Miss Leila Kirkman.
Temporary Injunction Granted.
Judge Thomas J. Shaw has signed
a temporary restraining order in the
matter of James A. Turner and wife
vs, the city of High Point and the
North Carolina Public Service Com-pany,
which stops work until the
hearing on the extension of the
street car line in High Point to con-nect
with the Carolina and Yadkin
River railroad. The hearing will be
held in Greensboro April 12 before
either Judge Shaw or Judge Lyon.
The North Carolina Public Service
Company is building several lines in
the city of High Point, to cost about
$100,000, to connect various manu-facturing
enterprises with the Caro-lina
and Yadkin Valley railroad, and
it proposes to haul freight cars over
the lines. This seems to be the chief
objection to the work. The people
are not opposed to street car lines
for passengers, but do not want lines
for freight in front of their property.
One million and two hundred
thousand copies of a special blank
for tax abstracts must be printed and
gotten into the hands of the tax-list-ers
in every township of each of the
counties in the state by May 1 by
the state tax commission; and Sec-retary
A. J. Maxwell is giving spe-cial
attention just now to the perfec-tion
of the form for these blanks
before turning them into the state
printers for their enormous task of.
printing this rmmenge order.
There will be a number of new
•features to this new abstract blank
form to conform to the provisions of
the new machinery act passed by the
recent legislature. For one thing,
there will be a feature that will show
the number each of horses, mules,
cows, hogs and the like instead of,
as in the past, merely' the number
and value of all classes grouped.
This change is especially for the pur-pose
of furnishing something of a
census return as to the livestock in'
dustry of the state.
Tbe ta.wllsting is to be gotten un-der
way May 1 and will continue
through the greater part of June. As
soon as the commission gets out the
1,200.000 abstract blanks there will
be prepared and issued the township
and county tax-book forms for the
permanent book records of the valu-ations
and taxes. The commission is
preparing to make good its pledge to
the finance committees of the legis-lature
that it would make special ef-fort
to get all the properties in the
state subject to taxation on the
books, and to get them on the most
equalized and full value basis pos-sible.
Commencement Speakers Secured.
The commencement exercises of
Greensboro College for Women will
be held May 23, 24 and 25. The
commencement will open with the
baccalaureate sermon, which will
be preached in West Market street
Methodist church Sunday morning,
May 23, by Bishop James H. Mc-
Coy, of Birmingham, A!a. The an-nual
sermon to the Y. W. C. A. will
be preached by Bishop James At-kins,
of Waynesville, in the college
chapel Sunday evening. The grad-
To Pension Widowed Mothers.
The New 'York legislature has
passed a bill to provide pensions for
needy widowed mothers. The bill
provides that child welfare shall be
appointed in every county of the
state and in the larger cities. The
boards would have the power to
pension any widowed mother who is
deemed to be the proper person to
care for her children. In any case
where the mother is not deemed a
proper person to care for her chil-dren,
they may be committed to a
charitable institution. In granting
the pensions boards could allow only
as much money as would be required
to keep the children in an institu-tion.
The funeral and interment will
U*e place this afternoon at 3 o'clock j -ting exerciseswillj£ »m*
at Tabernacle Methodist Protestant
church, of which Mr. Kirkman had
been a member for many years. Rev.
T. M. Johnson, the pastor will con-duct
the services.
the college chapel Tuesday morning,
following which the literary ad-dress
will be delivered by Dr. Henry
Louis Smith, president of Washing-ton
and Lee University.
Wants Shooting Explained.
Acting upon a report from the
American consul at Hamilton, Ber-muda,
and inquiries by counsel of
George B. Montgomery, Secretary
Bryan has written a letter to the
British embassy formally asking for
an explanation of the recent shoot-ing
and wounding of M.\ Montgom-ery
by a British (-entry at Hamilton.
The British ambassador already
has personally called at the state de-partment
to express his regret at
the incident and to promise any
proper reparation after investiga-tion.
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