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JOSEPHOSV*ym
,-RKTABY OF NA> ^HONOR
CilKST AT BANQUET OF
LOCAL V. M. C. A.
' \ vigorous campaign is being con-
,,,-Md in Greensboro for the pur-
,,-e of raising $40,000 to tree the
v unfr Men's Christian Association
, debI A canvass of the city for
' .u was begun Tuesday to con-
, for eight days, and at the close
\ esecond day's work yesterday
';'. £, announced that the sum of
; ,ji3 had been subscribed. It is
Sieved that the amount desired «ffl
' ' be»n pledged oy the end of the
:,;:ioll designated fof the campaign.
>'L campaign was formally
, led at a banquet in the Y^M.
• A building Monday evening. Hon.
,'.."epli us Daniels, secretary of the
Lv, being present as the guest of
Over 200 men attended tut
Mjquet. which was presided over by
v . J. E. Latham.
Secretary Daniels was introduced
,,. Mr. Latham and made a splendid
(Lech commending the Y. M. C. A.
K i appealing to the people of
G-eosbon to lift the burden of debt
trsm the local association. He spoke
in part as follows:
■•It feels good to be at home, but I
must confess some disappointment
a- l looked upon the board which
r= j have erected here and saw it 011-
e; with generals, colonels and cap-uns
and did not see a single ad-iLral.
ensign nor blue-jacket. This
•r. lined me to believe that the pro-grim
was made up by Methodists,
E; scopalians and other great 'arm-
].: of the Lord- and that the Bap-lis*.
with their characteristic mod-es'.-,
didn't demand the right to fix
;.-• program; for while there are
...... .iy 'armies of the Lord- there is
on '•' one "navy of the Lord.' I think
*.:- addition of a few admirals would
sr-atly improve it. There is sonie-i
» in the psychology of nomencla-
Witta the whole world, except the
['.-. led States, at war we cannot have
„: organization whether in the
<-..- reh or without nowadays without
irr us of militarism or unless we dis-c
-r measures of mobilization. The
•i "'I 'preparedness' has come to be
irr. used in all lines and we are
-■: king the definition. When I went
to Yashington I remembered that all
pi. • forms wanted an 'adequate navy'
ar.. i interested myself in trying to
;:- over what an adequate navy is.
f .ie wanted one bigger than that of
Gv-'-ai Britain and they wanted it 'be-fo
• breakfast.' Others thought the
oi • ft'e have at present is too big.
What I tliink is the definition of
--- ulequate navy is to carry out a
pr -ram which will guarantee for
ti • country's first arm oi defense the
-' -ngth to secure men in their
!-• ".es so that they may be forever
'■■■ from invasion. I finally found
t! definition. I believe, and I think
•ay be found in harking back to
-r--"-" principles and to pioneer days,
will remember the Hoosier
St:, olmaster in the days when it was
v>" difficult to keep school in cer-ta
portions of Indiana. The big-
P>: hoys always turned the teachers
(1 and after six had gone the doors
'■'• shut and the decision reached
"' ave no more school.
'■« was then that a pale-faced
" from an eastern seminary
'-■ -d up and asked for the place as
• ier. He was less than 100
Po:nds in weight but the committee
-'" looking him over said: 'You
<! • have it if you want it,' but warn-im
of the fate of his predeces-
"■*■ The young man answered, 'It
' e school or uo bread' and he
•--"-.ed up on. Monday. All the big
■' - turned out and had front seats.
- new teacher walked in, tacked
~ target up in front, stood back
'■it the bull's eye every time
» seven shooter. He then laid
a bowia knife and said, 'This
-'>ng will opened with prayer.'
ica-the
-ie told the canvassers
a".'..., y must g0 out t° success with
••p" son'etliing more than prayer.
:'Paredness is on every tongue,"
"■ '■aid, and emphasized his belief
work the association does in
''"''r|ng youths for life.
. believe every man who is born
,; ,he world with good health i
L .'" .s,,<*eed and will succeed i
-•ts in lj
'CAM" MORRISON TO ADDRESS
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
Mr. Cameron Morrison, of Char-lotte,
one of the most Influential
Democrats and best speakers in the
state, has accepted an Invitation to
be present at the Guilford county
Democratic convention on Saturday,
April 22, and make an address. This
announcement is a guarantee that
those v.-ho attend the convention will
hear something well worth while.
Mr. Morrison not only is a most
pleasing speaker, but is well in-formed
on public questions and
party history.
Mr. Morrison has taken a promi-nent
part in the affairs of the Dem-ocratic
party in North Carolina for
many years and his ■ voice has been
heard on the stump in every section
of the state. Along with Judge Wal-ter
H. Neal ana a few orher intrepid
leaders, he bore a prominent part in
organizing and conducting the fam-ous
"red shirt" campaign that re-deemed
the eastern part of the state
from negro rule. Mr. Morrison has
never sought office, though he has
been importuned to become a candi-date
for governor, congressman and
other places of high honor. He was
appointed a judge of the Superior
court by uovefnor Craig, but declin-ed
the office.
The convention will meet in the
court house at 11 o'clock, and in ac-cordance
with the established cus-tom
in this county, every Guilford
Democrat who attends will be en-titled
to a seat and a vote as a dele-gate.
The convention will select del-egates
to the state, congressional and
judicial conventions, name the coun-ty
executive committee and transact
such other business as may come be-fore
it.
Mr. Dalle.n Opposed to New County.
Mr. Carter Dalton, of High Point,
who is a candidate for the Demo-cratic
nomination as one of Gull-ford's
representatives in the lower
house of the next general assembly,
has an advertisement in this issue of
The Patriot making clear his atti-tude
in regard to any suggestion as
to a division of Guilford county. He
is opposed to the formation of a new
county, with High Point or any
other place as the county seat, and
pledges himself to work and vote
against, any bill that might be intro-duced
looking to that end. His posi-tion
on this question will be of inter-est
to the people of the county gen-erally.
Mr. Dalton also states that he is
not the candidate of any faction in
High Point, but will exert himself to
allay factional feeling and strive to
represent the best interests of all the
people. Mr. Dalton is strongly en-dorsed
by many of the leading Dem-ocrats
of High Point.
Young Man in Trouble.
L. E. Robbins, a young white man
who came to Greensboro recently
from Durham and was supposed to
be engaged in the sale of religious
books, was released from jail Tues-day
afternoon under a bond of $200
for his appearance at the next crim-inal
term of Superior court to an-swer
the charge of obtaining money
by false pretense. He was convicted
in Municipal court of passing worth-less
checks and sentenced to the
roads for four months, but gave no-tice
of an appeal and spent a day
and night in jail before giving bond.
K .ins posed as a young minister!
student and proved a good character
by several Durham people, includ-ing
two ministers. He attempted to
place the blame for the bad checks
on his wife, but Judge Brown was
convinced that he was not frank in
his statement.
THE COUNTY GOMMEHCEMEMT
PROGRAM OF EXERCISES TO BE
CARRIED OUT SATURDAY
{—OSS GRADUATES.
Arrangements have been com-pleted
for the county commence-ment
to be held In this city Satur-day
and the occasion promises to be
a delightful one in every respect.
The exercises will be held in the
Grand opera house, beginning at
10.30 o'clock, and a cordial invita-tion
Is extended to the public to at-tend.
Since the report of 215 seventh
grade graduates was published in
Monday's Patriot County Superin-tendent
Foust has received the
names of 23 others who have com-pleted
the grammar school course,
so there will be 238 pupils of the
county schools to receive certificates
showing them qualified to take up
high school work.
The program of the commence-ment
exercises follows:
Invocation, Rev. Dr. Melton Clark.
"Weaving Dance," by children of
the Revolution school.
Song, "Carolina," by the audience.
Recitation and declamation con-test.
"Spring Chorus," by the seventh
grade pupils.
Address, by Dr. Howard E Rond-thaler,
president of Salem Academy
and College.
Presentation of declaimer's meda.
by Dr. W. T. Whltsett.
Presentation of reciter's medal, by
Mr. Charles H. Ireland.
Benediction.
The preliminary contests in reci-tation
and declamation will be held
Friday night. The contest in reci-tation
will take place at the State
Normal and Industrial College and
that in declamation at the county
court house. Following are the en-tries
for the two contests: J*
Recitation.
Greene township—Etta Clapp.
Madison township—Annie Dame-ron.
Clay township—Katharine Hunter.
Gilmer township—Ruth Boone.
Center Grove township—Bessie
Wilson.
Morehead township—Annie Leth-coe.
Sunnier township—Bertha M.
Whittemore.
Bruce township—Norvella Lloyd.
Friendship township—Edith Rey-nolds.
Jamestown township—Esther Hol-ton.
Oak - Kidge township—Minnie
Phillips.
High Point township—Frances
Smith.
' Declamation.
Madison township—Willie Lam-beth.
Gilmer township—Worth Hender-son.
Fentriss township—Connor Ken-nett.
Center Grove township—Phil
Winchester.
Morehead township—Walter Daw-son.
Sumner township—Jesse Tate.
Bruce township—Dewey Trogdon.
Friendship township — French
Smith.
Jamestown township — Mayne
Bundy.
Oak Ridge township—Reginald
Whltaker.
Deep River township—John Cude.
High Point township—Clarence
Clinard.
BLOCKADE STILL TAKEN
IN GREENE TOWNSHIP.
Sheriff Stafford, accompanied by
Deputlea Phipps and Bowman, made
» raid in Greene township yesterday
and captured a blockade still that
was running in full blast. One ar-rest
was made. Three or four white
men and two negroes were grouped
around the still nad did not observe
the officers until the sheriff was in a
few feet of them. Sheriff Stafford,
who was in advance of his two depu-ties,
reached for the man nearest
him and laid hands on M. M. Coble.
The others made a break tor liberty
and succeeded in getting away after
giving Deputies Phipps and Bowman
qfcite a chase.
1 Coble denied all knowledge of the
ownership of the still and claimed
that he did not even know the men
who were around the place "with him.
He asserted that he "just happened"
to drop by the place and had been
there only a few minutes when the
officers arrived. Coble gave bond in
the sum of $500, with Thomas L.
Coble, his brother-in-law, as surety,
for his appearance before Squire Col-lins,
in this city, tomorrow morning
at 10 o'clock for a preliminary hear-ing.
The officers brought the still,
which is of 12 or 15 gallons capacity,
to Greensboro.
A peculiar fact in connection with
the still was that It was operated
about half a mile from a stream of
water. It was located on a hill, in
a cluster of pines, and water was
carried to it from a house a short
distance away. There was a well
worn path between the house and
the still, but the occupant of the
house disclaimed any knowledge of
the presence of the blockade outfit.
VILLA'S DEATHANNOUNCED
SUSPECTED THAT REPORT MAY
BE RUSE TO THROW THE
TROOPS OFF SCENT.
Is Francisco Villa dead? This
question has been reopened, with the
de factos asserting their belief that
the bandit has been killed in action,
while officials at Washington are in-clined
to suspect a ruse on the part
of the friends of Villa, who may
hope, through circulation of such re-ports,
to throw the Americans off
the scent or to get them to give up
the hunt entirely.
Three places report the death.
Funston refuses to comment.
Queretaro, Mex., April 11.—The
war department announced today it
had reason to believe Francisco Villa
had been killed in action, and that
searching parties had been sent out
to find his body.
tin
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• Daniels explained the applic
"f his story to the case of t
■ A. He ranvacee
i if
»»* with fair opportunity.
shipwrecks and failures of life
'"OSS who had ill-formed plans
' "■ Men so often do not build
••"araotJ'ra and lives as they
'heir homes. If 1 could speak
Concrete Bridge.—The county is
placing material for a reinforced
concrete bridge that is to be Duilt
across Buffalo creek, a few miles
east of the city on the Gibsonville
road.
to every boy in Greensboro, and I
would love the privilege, I would say
to him 'Make a blue-print of your
life in your formative years before
the burdens and cares and wrong
impressions come into your head.'
Every man here tonight would love
to have had that blue-print of life
in I: is youth. No man plans a life
without spires and splendid form and
ample sweetness and beauty."
Mr. Daniels said that one could not
go out among the young men of
Greensboro and tell whose life would
shine brightest in the world, but that
if they were all given a better
chance, more of them would be en-abled
to make their lives shine.
Death of Henry A. Wilson.
Mr. Henry A. Wilson died Monday
night at St. Leo's hospital, following
a month's illness of pneumonia and
•Duplications. Wnile it was known
that he was a very sick man. die
news of his death came as a great
shock to his friends. He was '66
years of age and is survived by his
widow and nine children. The fu-neral
and interment took place at
Midway Presbyterian church Tues-day
afternoon at 1 o'clock, the ser-vices
being conducted by Rev. E.
Frank Lee, the pastor. Mr. Wilson
had been a member and officer of
this church for a number of years.
Mr. Wilson spent most of his life
on a farm in the Midway church
community, but a few years ago he
gave up farming and engaged in the
mercantile business a short distance
north of the city. He resided on
Summit avenue extended.
General Pershing's Headquarters
at Front, April 10.—10 P. M. via
Mexican Telegraph to Juarez. April
11.—Renewed reports have been re-ceived
here by General Pershing that
Francisco Villa is dead and burled.
These reports are unde' investiga-tion.
Meanwhile, the hunt for the
Villa bandits is proceeding with re-newed
vigor with the arrival at the
front of General Pershing.
GERMANS VIGOROUSLY
ASSAIL THE FRENCH.
Columbus, N. M., April 11.—
Lieuts. H. A. Dargue and E. S. Cor-rell,
of the aero corps, returning here
today from a flight to San Antonio.
Chihuahua, 330 miles south of the
border, said that reports were cur-rent
among the natives in the vicin-ity
of Santa Ana that Villa was dead
of blood-poisoning caused by his
wounds.
San Antonio, Tex.. April 11.—In
the absence of official information.
General Funston ' today refused to
comment on press dispatches con-taining
a rumor that Villa was dead.
The. armies of the German crown
prince around Verdun still are rig-orously
on the offensive against the
French.
Having delivered an attack along
the line from "Le Mort Homme to
Cumleres, which netted them m few
small portions of French trenches on
the east of Le More Homme, the
German commanders rested their In-fantry
here, but in the region of-
Douaumont-Vaux, northeast of Ver-dun,
threw their men in large num-bers
against he French trenches.
Here they met with short-lived
success, for the French in a counter'
attack drove the invaders from ad-vanced
sections of trenches they had
captured and in the operations took
about 100 German prisoners. -^
While the Douaurnont-Vaux &U
tack was In progress the Germans
had not overlooked the line between
Le Mort Homme and Cumleres and
covered the entire region with an In-tense
artillery fire, probably prepar-ing
for another attack by infantry.
Along the remainder of the front
in France and Belgium, there were
only artillery bombardment. In one
of these^—north of the Alsne—the
French guns caused serious losses to
a strong German column on the
march.
Russian Gains Aftalnst Turks. I
In the Russian theater an attempt
by the Germans to take the offensive
in the region of the Ikskull bridge-head
was stopped by the Russians.
The big guns of both sides have been
busy at various points elsewhere
along the front.
The official communication reports
Russian gains against the Turks in
the region of Erzerum. Unofficial ad-vices
are to the effect that the Turks
have regrouped their forces and now
are resisting stubbornly the three
Russian main lines of advance Into
their territory.
More Men in Navy Than Ever Before
More enlisted men are in active
service in the navy now than evef
before in the country's history. Sec-retary
Daniels announced this week
rhat the enlisted personnel for the
first time had reached the 54,000
mark.
"There are now 54.011 men in the
enlisted personnel," said the secre-tary,
"showing a net gain of 6,664
since March 4. 1913."
Another Vessel Sunk.
German undersea boats continue
their destructive assaults on entente
shipping, the latest reported sunk
being* the Italian steamer Unione.
The British steamer Ellaston is miss-ing
and is thought to have been de-stroyed
by a Teuton submarine. The
Ellaston carried no guns, it is an-nounced.
VILLA BAMHTS ATTACK
AND DESTROY A TOWN.
Stiff Advance in Wages.
Boston, April 11.—Wage advances
which will put the pay of textile op;
eratives in many of the mills in New
England and New York state on the
highest basis in the history of the
industry were announced today. ,
The American Woolen Company,
employing 25,000 operatives, issued
notice of an advance of 10 per cent.
The Arlington mills, of Lawrence,
and the affiliated Merrimac mills,
whose product is both cotton and
worsted, announced an advance to
approximately 6,500 operatives.
Killed Over a Dime.
Henry McAbee, a farmer about 40
years of age, was shot and killed in
front of his own home near Spartan-burg.
S. C, at a late hour Monday
night by Tom Taylor, a neighbor of
McAbee and a mill employe. The
shooting is said to have been the re-sult
of a quarrel between the two
men over a debt of a dime McAbee
was alleged by Taylor to owe him.
The coroner's jury indicted Tay-lor,
who is in jail.
Breadstuff Exports Decrease.
Washington, April 11.—American
breadstuff? exports, which broke all
records the first year of the Euro-pean
war, are shown today by the
bureau of foreign and domestic com-merce
to have declined steadily in
recent months.
In February foodstuffs shipments
reached the value of only $38,700,-
000, against $64,000,000 the same
month last year. Breadstuffs the
last eight months totalled $266,-
500,000, compared with $358,250,-
000 for the corresponding period of
the year before.
Eight months' exports of meat and
dairy products are given as $160,-
870,000 against $104,000,000 for
the corresponding eight months a
year ago. Livestock shipments In-creased
from $344,000 to $2,250,-
000.
Marshall to Run Again.
Washington, April 11.—Vice Pres-ident
Marshall, again the running
mate for President Wilson, and Sen-ator
J. Hamilton Lewis, temporary
chairman and keynoter at the Dem-ocratic
national convention, is the
prospective arrangement, according
to many Democratic leaders gather-ing
here for the meeting of state
chairmen Thursday.
Senator Lewis announced today
that talk of his possible candidacy
for the vice presidency had been dis-pelled
with the determination of
Marshall to run again. The United
States senators are to be elected in
Indiana this fall, and the presence
of Marshall's name on the ticket
will aid the party's "candidates, it is
believed. Hence the withdrawal of
Lewis.
Dr. J. I. Foust, president of the
State Normal and Industrial College,
Is recovering from an cttack of la-grlppe
that kept him confined to his
home for several weeks.
El Paso, Texas, April 12.—A band
of Villa followers, numberingseveral
hundred and possibly a thousand,
have sacked Sierra Mojada, five
miles across the Coahuila line and
SO miles east of Jiminez. destroying
many thousand of dollars' worth of
American property and looting the
town of everything of value.
This news, which may prove to be
of the highest importance, as it is
believed possible Villa himself was
among the raiders, was received here
today by the representative of one of
the largest —luerican mining con-cerns
in Mexico and is accepted by
him as authentic.
The belief that Villa himself may
be directing the operations of the
bandits is supported by a report re-ceived
today from Ojinaga stating
that Colonel Rojas. the commander,
had information that Villa had
doubled in his tracks and was 200
miies southwest of that town.
Sierra Mojada is 140 miles east of
the nearest point at which American
troops are known to be.
SUBMARINE ACTIVITY
CAN'T BE PASSED UP.
Woman Elected Mayor.
Sawtelle, Cal., April 11.—Mrs. El-len
French Aldrich, formerly of Day-ton,
Ohio, will be the first "woman"
mayor of Sawtelle. In yesterday's
election she received the largest vote
polled by candidates for places on
the board of trustees.
According to custom the candidate
with the largest vote has been elect-ed
president of the board, with the
title of "mayor."
Washington, April 11.—The sub-marine
issue between Germany and
the United States was discussed in
all its phases today at a meeting of
President Wilson and his cabinet.
A general outline of the future
course of the American government
Is understood to have been agreed •''" '
upon, although final decision was
postponed pending receipt of the
German note, now on .-Its -wayv re- ''-"'
garding the Sussex and other ■ mer-chant
ships which recently have1 met
disaster, and additional evidence In
the same cases collected by Ameri-can
diplomats and due here Thurs-day.
It is known through advices from
Ambassador Gerard that the note
will deny that any German subma-rine
torpedoed the Sussex and dis-claim
blame In connection with other
attacks about which the ambassador
has inquired. Consequently any re-ply
that may be sent probably will
not deal exclusively with any one
ease or group of cases.
The cabinet remained in session
more than two hours today. Later it
was said that the members stood as
a unit in believing that the recent
accumulation of attacks on vessels
without warning, coming after a pe-riod
of comparative lull In subma-rine
activity, could not be overlook'
ed.
Snowstorm in Watauga.
A press dispatch from Boone, Wa-tauga
county. Tuesday says:
An unusual snowstorm has been
on in this section for nearly three
days and nights. The average fall
is about 6 to 10 inches, but the snow-is
drifted in some places to several
feet. The temperature Monday was
down to 25. There are fears that
the fruit will be killed.
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Says Mexico Will be Dependency.
Professor Albert B. Hart, of Harv-ard
University, predicted in an ad-dress
before the navy league of the
United States, In Washington, that
within five years Mexico will be a
dependency of this country. He said:
"Within five years the so-called re-public
of Mexico will be to the United
States in the same status as the re-public
of Cuba."
Leaders of Diaz Plot Executed.
El Paso, Tex.. April 11.—The
three leaders of the Diaz plot to
seize Juarez and overthrow the Car-ranza
garrison there last Sunday
were executed by the firing squad
in Juarez early today. They were
Nlchaloa Chavasarria, Jo* Inei Bor-nel
and Flo/eacio Hernandez, f<fcfct
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