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GREENSBORO. N. C. THURSDAY, MAY 4,1916. .
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MEETING Ot
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„lV.n MATTERS ANDOIAER BUS-INESS
BEFORE THE BOARD
MONDAY AND TUESDAY. ►
The county commissioners held a
day
ference *
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Its
and
hnsT meeting Monday and Tuesday.
though not a great deal of business
importance was transacted. Mon-morning
the board held a con-ith
the tax-listers of the
intv and indulged in a general
discussion of the law in regard to
listing property for taxation.
A former order for the extension
i West Lee street from the city Um-
,0 connect with the ureensboro
High Point road at th> fair
ounds was changed so as to con-form
to the new route adopted for
the road.
\ delegation headed by Mr. Ceasar
Coae asked that the extension of
Summit avenue through the White
Oak mill village be made a concrete-asphalt
highway from the North Buf-falo
bridge to Jordan's branch, a
distance of about a mile and a half.
The beard agreed that the work
should be done as soon as the finan-ce?
of the county would permit.
The commissioners decided that
the county would pay half the rail-road
fare of Confederate Teterans In
lh»> county who may attend the re-union
to be held in Birmingham,
A!a.. May 16-18. Veterans who may
desire to avail themselves of this as-sistance
are advised to notify Mr. O.
!I. McKinney. of Greensboro, or Mr.
A. M. Idol, of High Point.
An election was ordered held in
the South Buffalo special tax school
district Tuesday, June 6, on the
question of issuing bonds to the
amount of $10,000 for the purpose
oi erecting and equipping a new
school building. D. C. Aldridge was
appointed registrar and A. M. Lewis
ar.d Cicero Moore poll-holders.
Jurors were drawn for the civil
term of Superior court to Convene
June 12 and the criminal term be-coming
June 19. Following are
those drawn for the civil term: Wes-ley
M. Anderson, P. M. Rumley,
Lawrence Bowman. W. R. McKin-ney.
M. C. Shaw, P. W. Coble, J. J.
Mitchell, L A. Andrew. A. Y. Bond,
W. S. Jo be, C. P. Elliott, J. K. Oz-ment,
C. F. Osborn. S. A. Layton, J.
II. Medearis. G. P. Jobe. W. S. High-fill,
D. P. Huffines, J. Ad. Harvie. C.
R. Bowman, F. S. Whiteheart, J. D.
Walton, M. L. Gordon. T. G. Shelton.
The jurors tor the criminal term
We: 11. R. Gerringer. D. E. Wago-ner.
C. H. Ilinton. W. H. Tro.xler,
Jack Lowe. K. L. Clapp, W. J. Wy-rick.
Robert L. Arnold, O. C. Reeec,
C. L. Peeden, Thomas M. Starr, P.
W. Smith. C. F. Lowman, A. L.
Phibbs, E. Sternberger, E. J. Low-dcrmllk,
J. n. Keece, T. G. McLean,
J- R. itoss. C. T. Weatherly, W. L.
Mourn, \V. p. May, p. M. Pettit, J.
M. Hobbs, C. H. Ireland. Thomas
O'Connor, B. E. Frazier, George A.
Short, S. S. Higgins, A. W. Scoggins,
ii-irke Paschall, J. N. Peacock, W.
W. Stanford. K. s. Wilson, W. A.
Branson, J. B. Apple. J. R. Sullivan,
•■ W. Peoples. D. V. Cassady, W. J.
Edwards. R. T. Chappie and A. C.
Clinard.
Report of Health Officer.
The county health officer. Dr. W.
-'■ Jones, submitted the following
"Port for the past month:
'County home—There has been
one death at the home since last re-i,
. Tl,ere is °ne >oung negro wh-J
quite sick and has been confined
J her bed for some days. Only six
MM have been made to the home
luring the month.
'Workhouse—He
»<»ut as last
J» only one case requiring" att'en-
"* and he was brought to Jail.
,.s *ils a case of blood po.son of
and ,, ' WlUch WM operated on,
Hie boy was able and anxlous t0
—uni to the workhouse in about lt>
Jail—Here there has been an ex-
- amount 0f work during the
Tins was partly due to hav-
'- amoved some sick men ^ ^
l-'.n,r, Ule Camps and workhouse.
| "tee„ visits have been made to
»I1 during the month. There is
ions r
n\negro in ,0 Jail who is in a ser- «s condition.
« has been an extra amount of
the L?. neBro wh0 wa8 st™<* in
«rridnT' ' ** and Wh° •"
able ,n h covering and is now
,anCe be Up and at »ork with assis-
>oZZ TT° at tIle camP near Gib- oav'"e has had pneumonia and Is
G W. BARBEE DEAD AS RESULT
OF AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT.
Mr. G. W. Barbee, an aged and
well known citizen of the HUladale
community, died at St. Leo's hospi-tal
yesterday morning as the result
of injuries received in an automo-bile
accident Monday afternoon. He
was returning home from a trip to
Greensboro when his sntomobile
overturned at a point in the road
about half way between Guilford
Battle Ground and Hamburg.
The car, a light machine, struck
a stone, skidded and turned turtle,
falling down an embankment about
ten feet high. Mr. Barbee and Miss
Notre Johnson, who had accom-panied
him on the trip, were pinned
beneath the car, but extricated them-selves
with little difficulty.
After reaching home Mr. Barbee
began to suffer a good deal and it
was decided to bring him to Greens-boro
for an examination. At the
hospital it was founu that his inju-ries
were of a very serious nature
and that an operation would be nec-essary.
An operation was perform-ed
in an effort to save the life of the
injured man, but Mr. Barbee surviv-ed
only a few hours.
Mr. Barbee was 72 years old and
is survived by two daughters and two
sons^—Mrs. R. W. Winchester, of
Hillsdale, with whom he had resided
for several years; Mrs. H. B. Taylor,
of Winston-Salem: A. W. Barbee. of
Guilford College, and L. L. Barbee,
of Lexington.
The funeral took place today at
Guilford College and interment was
made in the Friends burying ground
at that place. The services were con-ducted
by Rev. Albert Peele and Rev.
Dr. Thomas Newlin.
WORK OF SUPERIOR C001T
MURDER CASE SET FOR TODAY
—SPECIAL VENIRE OF lOO
MEN SUMMONED. . - *
CARLOAD OF BLOODED PIGS
ONE HUNDRED DUROOJER8EYS
SHIPPED FROM KIMBALL
FARM TO MISSISSIPPI.
A special venire of 100 men from ' Few of the friends and acquaint-which
a jury is to be selected for ■hoes of Mr. A. B. Kim ball may be
the trial of Monroe Johnson, charged taware of the fact that this busy and
with the murder of Carl Preddy at Psuccessf ul Greensboro lawyer, is also
the White Oak cotton mill March *», interested in farming, but such is
appeared in Superior court <thi» he case. He and his brother. Mr.
morning at 10 o'clock. The trial 8
this case may consume the remaind-er
of the week or it may be con-cluded
tomorrow. Many witnesses
have been summoned, and if all of;
them go upon the stand and are su
jected to lengthy examinations, the
[W. R. Kimball, own a fine farm in
jGranvtlle county, near Oxford, which
;they are developing along modern
^nd scientific lines. Years ago they
mve up the cultivation of tobacco.
e staple crop in that section, and
gan to specialize on hogs and cat-re
everything is
report. There has
Miss Johnson is suffering from
severe bruises and shock received in
the accident, but her friends will be
glad to know that her condition is
not serious. ««•»
Will Protect Defense S<rrets.
Washington, May 2—Senator Tin-man's
bill to prevent disclosures of
national defense secrets was ordered
favorably reported today by the sen-ate
naval affairs committee. Under
the amendment any person guilty of
communicating or attempting to
communicate to any foreign govern-ment
information of any kind relat-ing
to defenses of trie United States
would be imprisoned for not more
than 10 years. Anyone who sought
without proper authority to procure
information regarding the national
defenses or consented to receive such,
information from unauthorized per-sons
would be punishable by a fine
of not more than $1,000 or by im-prisonment
for not more than one
year or both.
recovering slowly, not able yet to
be out.
"Clothing and shoes—Some days
ago an article appeared which, to
say the least, was not very compli-mentary.
This was in regard to two
boys who came from one of the
camps t-o the city barefooted. If the
statement as made is correct, it
should be investigated, and if not,
the foreman should be exonerated.
"I was at the camp near Frieden's
church two days before the boys in
question were turned loose. _ I went
to the camp with Will Hiatt, arriv-ing
some time before dinner, and we
both remained until after dinner. I
saw every man in the gang, and not
one was at that time barefooted,
with the exception of one who had a
sore foot and was confined to the
cage.
"I also saw the boys in the city
barefooted. These same boys I saw
two days before with shoes on. They
no doubt needed new shoes and hit
upon a practical and easy plan of
getting them. When a man puts on
the clothing of a convict, his own
clothes are placed in a sack and la-beled,
and these sacks are kept un-der
lock and key at Andrew's camp,
and when a man is released from one
of the camps he #>umes for his cloth-ing,
etc.
"Thirteen visits have been made
to the camps located at the old ball
ground on Church street, Burnett's
chapel. High Point, Oak Ridge and
Frieden's church, near Gibsonville.
"Twelve visits have been made to
the hospital.
"Charity calls, 16: office calls,
22; microscopic examinations, 2;
examination for insane. 3; hook-worm
treatment, 4; disinfections, 3;
lectures, 4; examinations for feeble-minded,
2.
"Infections: Typhoid, 1; measles.
24; diphtheria, 2; smallpox, *." .
pays to raise only blooded stock.
The Kimball farm breeds Duroq-
Sersey hogs for the market and a
Iready sale is found for every animal
khey can spare. Tuesday there pass-ed
through Greensboro a carload of
il00 Duroc-Jersey pigs shipped from
the Kimball farm to Lexington,
Miss., for distribution among the
members of the boys' pig clubs of
that state. It is said this was the
largest shipment of pigs ever mad 3
by any farm in North Carolina. The
Messrs. Kimball have been unable to
fill two or three other large orders
for pigs. They have on their farm
at the present time between 500 and
t>vv iJuroc-Jersey hogs and pigs.
The farm is in charge of Mr. W
R. Kimball, who has developed Int.)
one of the most successful stock men
In the country. So far the Messrs.
Kimball have been content wiJi c
comparatively small herd of reg!i*cr-ed
cattle, but it is their purpose to
ilop this branch of their business
extensive lines,
^ra 2,000 acres of land, but
about 400 acres to cul-putnres
for their hogs
_-YTJie remainder of the
land is rented or leased to tenants
trial will necessarily be prolonged^ f,e- The venture has proved highly
The defendant was formally a**( Successful. They permit nothing but
raigned in court Monday andthroug% Registered cattle and hogs on their
counsel entered a plea of not guilty^ farm and have demonstrated that it
Judge Cline then set the hearing for
10 o'clock this morning and ordered
the sheriff to summon the special
venire. Johnson is represented by
E. S. Parker, of Graham, and F. M..
Parrish, of Winston-Salem. Judge
W. P. Bynum is associated with So-licitor
Bower in the prosecution.
Byron Bradley, who was involved
with Gilbert Newell in the theft of
$547 from the office of the North
Carolina Public Service Company in
the early hours of Sunday morning,
April 1, was tried Monday and found
guilty. Young Newell was a witness
for the state and told how he and
Bradley had planned and carried out
the theft. He made no effort to shield
himself and assumed hi» full share
of responsibility for the crime.
It will be recalled that Newell,
when tried In the Municipal court,
was given the advantage of a sus-pended
sentence under a statute giv-ing
judges power to make such dis-position
of certain cases where the
defendants are under 18 years of
age. • ■ ' r .
After hearing the evidence In the
Bradley case. Judge Cline ordered
Newell into the enstocy of the -sher-iff,
this action being taken upon mo-tion
of Solicitor Bower, who stated
that there was doubt as to the juris-diction
of the Municipal court in this
particular case. Yesterday the grand
jury returned a true bill against
young Newell, but it is hardly prob
able that the case win be reached at
the present term of court. Newell
is at liberty under a bond of »400.
A case charging A. G. Burchfield
and D. II. Cable, of High Point, with
subornation of perjury was thrown
out of court after the judge had
heard the evidence.
Barrett Hyams, a young white
man, who has been in trouble with
the law on numerous occasions, was
sent to the roads for 30 days for
beating a ride on a train.
Ben Moore, colored, was fined $25
and the costs for creating a disturb-ance
at a public school and for an
assault with a deadly weapon.
Charles Mobley, white, a shoemak-er
of this city, who was arrested a
short time ago for the theft of a
number of chickens, was found
guilty in three cases and sentenced
to the roads for 16 months.
Lewis Gray, white, was convicted
of stealing a pistol from C. M. Glass,
keeper of the workhouse, and mak-ing
his escape from the place, where
he had been sent to serve a term. He
was given an additional sentence of
eight months.
John Champion, colored, was
given a sentence of two and a half
years on the county roads for the
larceny of a diamond ring valued at
$250.
Henry Grissom and Jule Fagg,
white men, were found guilty yester-day
afternoon of the theft of about
$200 worth of automobile tires from
an automobile company in High
High. Sentence has not yet been
pronounced.
A number of other cases charging
vagrancy and similar minor infrac-tions
of the law have been disposed
of.
The following are members of the
grand jury for the present term:
Julius F. Ross, W. H. Chilcutt. Wil-burt
Amick, I. F. West, W. A.
Smith, J. G. Hodgin, C. A. Ward, B.
H. Hoskins, W. T. Pegram, B. A.
Jordan, J. R. Dillon, Lucien Moore,
J. C. McNalry, Branson Gray, R. W.
Ellison, John F. Ross, J. M. Hobson,
W. G. Wagoner and E. F. Gamble.
TWO FIREMEN INJURED
WHILE FIGHTING A BLAZE.
Messrs. Ed. Webb and George R.
Shaw, volunteer members of the
Greensboro fire department, were
painfully Injured yesterday after-noon
while fighting a Are at the
home of Ed. Caldwell, colored. In
the southern part of the city. They
were on the second floor of the res-idence
holding a line of hose on a
fire in the roof when a chimney fell
and covered them beneath a pile of
brick.
Fellow firemen rushed to the as-sistance
of Messrs. .Webb and Shaw
and quickly released them. Both men
were carried to St. Leo's hospital and
given medical attention. It was
found that Mr. Webb's Injuries were
of a rather serious nature. There
was a deep cut in his head and sev-eral
painful bruises about his body.
Mr. Shaw was more fortunate,, es-caping
with a few scratches and
bruises. He was able to leave the
hospital last evening.
The fire destroyed the Caldwell
home and an adjoining one-story
residence, resulting in a loss of
about $1,000. The burned houses
were situated on Johnson street, in
Warnersville.
COMPULSORY MILITARY
SERVICE IN ENGLAND.
Barbecue For the Veterans.
Through the Daughters of the
Confederacy, Mr. W. D. McAdoo has
invited all the Confederate ve'terans
who may attend the Memorial day-exercises
in Greensboro next Wed-nesday
to be his guests at a barbe-cue
on his property near the Coun-try
Club. The barbecue is to ho
served in connection with a sale of
lots to be held on the property tha
day. In addition to providing sn
abundance of eatables for the vete-rans,
music will be furnished by the
band of the Atlantic Coast Realty
Company, which is to conduct the
sale.
Mr. McAdoo has also donated IJ
the Daughters of the Confederacy a
lot upon which it is hoped to build
a chapter home in the not distant
future.
London, May 2.—Premier As-quith
announced today to an expect-ant
Parliament that the government
had at last agreed on the much-dis-puted
recruiting question and had
decided to introduce a bill for im-mediate
general military compulsion
for the duration of the war.
The premier claimed that the con-dition
he had all along stipulated
as the only justification tor such a
step, namely, the general consent of
the nation, now had been obtained,
as proved by the speeches delivered
in the house of commons l?st week,
wi»a-iu.WH, providing Mr-*!* eiUwar
sion of military service was intro-duced
by Walter Hume Long, presi-dent
of the local government board,
and later was withdrawn. Mr. As-quith
added that the ministersagrecU
that the needful men could not be
oDtained by the existing machinery",
but that they were available and
could really be spared from the in-dustries
essential for the successful
prosecution of the war.
Having given details of the na-tion's
success in its prodigious effort
in raising 3.000,000 men for the
army and navy, the premier express-ed
confidence that the bill proposed
would end, once for all, the prolong-ed
controversy and, in a general
statement of the war situation, chal-lenged
the house to indicate if the
government had lost the country's
confidence.
To Erect Fine Office Building.
Mr. A. J. Klutz is having plans
prepared for an eight-story office
building he will erect on the corner
of South Elm and West Market
streets, on the site now occupied by
the Greensboro Drug Company and
the building in the rear of that struc-ture
on West Market. The lot fronts
34 feet on South Elm and 98 feet on
West Market, and it is understood
that the building to be erected on it
will cost from $80,000 to $100,000.
The first floor of the building wid
be devoted to the drug business and
the remainder to offices. The build-ing
will probably be ready for occu-pancy
by next summer.
Mr. Bickett Here Hon. T. W.
Blckett. one of the candidates for
the Democratic nomination for gov-ernor,
spent last night in the city
ind left this morning for Leaksville
'o deliver an address at
commencement there.
Socialists Won't Fight.
Arthur E. Reimer, presidential
candidate of the Socialist labor party,
in a speech at a meeting held to rat-ify
his nomination in New York
Monday night, declared that, in the
event of this country becoming in-volved
in war, he and his followers
would "block the manufacture and
transportation of munitions to the
troops in the "field," and would tell
the capitalistic classes to do the
fighting themselves.
That sounds like the vaporing of
a Socialist, doesn't it?
VOL. M—NO. 3«
6ERIAHY REMAINS SILENT
DELAY IN REPLY TO AMERICAN
NOTE IS OCCASION OF
SOME CONCERN.
A report sent out from Berlin yes*
terday states that the German reply
to the American note on submarine
warfare has been completed, but
there is no Intimation as to what It
contains. It is said the reply will be
handed to Ambassador Gerard today
or tomorrow.
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Belgian Relief Ships Sunk.
London, May 2.—Two vessels un-der
charter by the American com-mission
for the relief of Belgium,
the Swedish steamship Fried land and
the British steamer Hendonhall,
have been sunk within two days.
A wireless dispatch received today
at the North Foreland station from
the Dutch steamship Bavaria IV an-nounced
that the Friedland was sink-ing.
This Swedish vessel sailed from
Portland April 14 bound for Rotter-dam
and had 7,000 tons of wheat on
board.
The British steamship Hendonhall,
which yesterday was reported sunk
while bound from Portland and
Louisburg for Rotterdam, also has
been chartered by the Belgian relief
commission.
Two weeks have passed since th*
United States despatched to Ger-many
its note demanding that an
abandonment of present methods of
submarine warfare immediately be
declared and effected, and the state
department still is without any defi-nite
information indicating that tha
demand would be complied with.
As the days go by and no reply
comes from Berlin, and Ambassador
Gerard sends no word regarding tha
attitude of the German government,
an air of grave concern is becoming
manifest in administration circles,
Publicly officials continue to preserve
an air of optimism. Privately no at-tempt
is made to conceal a contrary
feeling, and this feeling is certain to
become more pronounced unless
some definite news Is forthcoming.
It is felt that the very length of
time which has been consumed by
the German government in prepar-ing
a reply In itself indicates that
the communication will not take tha
shape of a simple response to the di-rect
and clear-cut issue raised in the
American note. It is feared that the
reply is likely to assume an argu-mentative
character which can
scarcely be regarded as meeting tha
requirements of the United States.
Persons In close touch with affairs
at the German embassy, however,
continue to express themselves as be-ing
positive that Germany will make
concessions to the United States
8M^g.<wag*^>^a^9K^sW of diplomatic relations!"^It Is felt la -•'
German circles that Germany cer-tainly
will agree to abandon opera*
tions objectionable to the United
States, at least pending negotiations
on the subject. In this connection
it is pointed out that there even is a
possibility that instructions to this
end already have been issued to sub-marine
commanders, there not hav-ing
been reported during the last
few days attacks which could be
complained of. It is reiterated that
all messages from the Berlin foreign
office clearly indicate Germany is
most anxious to preserve friendly re-lations
with the United States.
Mr. Gerard has made no report
whatever respecting his conference
with Emperor William, but it is re-alized
that his absence from Berlin,
probably without his code book, and
his probable reluctance to Intrust
confidential communications to the
Germ in military telegraph, may ac-count
for this.
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TEST OF PREPAREDNESS
ORDERED BY MR. DANIELS.
No More Monitions For Mexico.
The war department has instruct-ed
the commander at Fort Mclntosh,
Laredo, Tex., to stop shipments of
war munitions to Mexico. A half
million rounds of rifle cartridges
held by customs inspectors will be
taken in charge by the local military.
The order is taken to mean the
a school I prohibition of exportation of mnni-
I tlona to all parties in Mexico.
Federal Aid In Road Work.
Federal aid in roads, in so far as
the first session of the sixty-fourth
Congress is concerned, hangs in the
balance, to be decided by the ability
of the friends of the measure to
bring it to a vote. If the good roads
bill can secure a yea and nay test,
the prediction is made that it will
pass by. a standard majority, for
there are those who would hesitate
to go on record against federal co-operation,
though not inclined to ac-celerate
progress to a vote.
China Buying Supplies Here.
Pittsburg. May 2.—With author-ity
to spend $1,000,000, N. C. Chu
and Gee Sing Sam, Honkong brok-ers,
arrived in Pittsburg today to
buy tools, hardware and builders'
supplies for use in China.
Because of the war, it is said,
China has -been unable to get need-ed
steel goods delivered.
To test the nation's preparedness
for communication in time of war, a
telephonic, telegraphic and wireless
demonstration has been arranged by
which the naval stations on the At-lantic
and Pacific coasts and the bat-tleship
New Hampshire, at sea, sim-ultaneously
will be in touch with
the navy department.
The demonstration will begin at 4
P. M. Saturday and continue until
Monday, and during the- entire time
the department will be operated on
an actual war basis.
The test was arranged at the re-quest
of Secretary Daniels by offi-cials
of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company, who have
agreed to place their service at the
disposal of the department without
cost.
It marks an undertaking never be-fore
attempted by any country, the
maintenance of instantaneous com-munication
with all its naval sta-tions.
Standard Oil Profit- Double.
Profits of the standard Oil Com-pany
of New York for 1915 were
more than double those of the pre-ceding
year, according to the annual
statement just issued. Net earnings
of $15,761,663 show an increase of
$8,025,744, the surplus increasing
from $1,736,000 to $9,761,663 and
the total surplus from $16,701,691
to $26,463,254. The total surplus
is now more than one-third of tha
company's entire capitalisation.
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