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jSTABUSh'V ^21 GREENSBORO. N. C. MONDAY. JUNE 12,1916. VOL. 95—NO. 47
%> v \ n INSURANCE MEN HELD
IS NOflU'* SUCCESSFUL MEETING.
HIM
'**»**££ WANT TO .UN.
■'r
,„ ,«, days o£ tumult, the Pro-
•W* rational convention, in ses-l
«* r, wo. Saturday nominated
l='oain ,-oU-elt for president
Fff£ hours later listened with. Li»* ,l io a messai
lie
:e from Oyster
|uipw!es'."'",0'UK! nut accept '"at
:J: Roosevelt's t'.eclination was . C*JS •'»"i! *"i,laced in ",e
|,o;:", .he progressive committee
Kheld until such time as state-
I '.".justice I'ugUcs. the noml-fe
the Republican party "shall
|,r- . ,, e committee mat it is for
Interest of the country that he be
J*Se event the committee shall
LttlWM that aid should be given
E*e Republican party in its fight
I ,. .;, the Democrats. Col. Roose-
It,'- refusal to make a campaign
Lto be considered final. It will then
fcaaihcrteed for the representatives
|i;e Progressive party to say
-Wiiier to endorse the position
liken by Mr- Roosevelt or whether
|,^v will name another to fight for
|te:r parly principles.
la profound calm the brief mes-
LK was quickly read. The proposal
L .ave liie naiional committee de-life
the question involved met hit-ler
silence. At the conclusion there
It a- a burst 01 applause, but of no
Vest duration or extreme intensity.
j.pie? R. • rr.eltl moved that the
tcDveittion accept Col. Roosevelt's
"proposals and refer them to the na-
|ior,al committee with power to act.
Chairman Robins hurriedly put
Ih? iiestion. A substantial vote of
ray**" followed, in a faint scattering
lt":ioes." In the confusion that fol-
Jowi as the delegates began to
|sar-; their seats and rush for the
exits, the motion adopted to ad-journ
was muffled ic a noisy tur-
Exeitedlr discussing t!:e dramatic
Jenoueaem of tiie tumultuous po-
Ifeil battle and Its possible effects
i the political history, particularly
lie Progressive party, the de'e-
»:ss departed with t'„e last words
KColonel Roosevelt and stirring pa-ptotie
airs by the band blended in
(to ««.
•.''-■•' John 31. Parker, of Louis-
•*--. -iis nominate,! for vice presi-
'.tbe selection being by acclama-
I ' 3t Roosevelt's running mate of
|w years. Governor Johnson, ofCal-l
';usi,i ro !>•. his name be
[ More ihe convention he-
| w,";iieinformation he had con-t^
f" we intentions of Col. Roose-
\ Ms"l his nomination.
l;-]T->]< Roomscarefally empha-
| ''oners natBiiwt that he
r-- > accept ;.,;- nomination "at
■"•" iime.'
! Jl» He h Out of Polities.
:, Dav->>'• Y.. June 11.—Tbe-
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• '*«« «* Polities. -I want
Fti»t j^ spaper men " he said,
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The nineteenth annual convention
of the North Carolina Association of
Insurance" Agents, which was held
in this city Thursday and Friday,
adjourned to meet next year in Ashe-ville.
The meeting here is pro-nounced
the most largely attended
and successful in the history of the
association.
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: President, W. E.
Sharpe, Burlington; vice presidents,
S. C. Ogburn, Winston; P. W.
Sclienck, Greensboro; secretary-treasurer,
Ray Johnson, Winston.
The following were elected offi-cers
of the newly organized insur-ance
federation: President, George
Montcastle, Lexington; secretary, W.
B. Merrimon, Greensboro; treasurer,
P. W. Schen\ck, Greensboro; chair-man
executive committee, C. W.
Gold. Greensboro.
Three set addresses were deliver-ed
during the second day of the con-vention.
At the morning session
Mark T. McKee, of Detroit, spoke on
"Insurance Federation," and David
Van Shaack, of Hartford, on "Work-men^
Compensation." At the af-ternoon
session, James H. South-gate,
of Durham, spoke on "The
Good of the Order." There were sev-eral
short speeches and discussions
of a variety of topics. At Friday
morning's session an insurance fed-eration
for North Carolina was or-gan'zed
as outlined by Mr. McKce.
Upon adjournment of the morning
session the visitors, more than two
hundred in number, were carried for
an automobile ride to Guilford Bat-tle
Ground as guests of the Cham-ber
of Cmmerce, and at 12.30 a bar-becue
was given by the Dixie Fire
Insurance Company, of this city. The
last social event of the convention
was a complimentary dance at tiie
Country Club Friday night.
The sessions of the convention
were presided over by Mr. Will.am
B. Merrimon, a well known insur-ance
man of this city, retiring presi-dent.
The entertainment commit-tee,
which provided such an elabo-rate
social program, was composed
of Phil R. Carlton, chairman; C. A.
Mebane, Fred M. Garner. Ralph B.
Colt, M. Robins and Max T. Payne.
THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH CALLS A PASTOR.
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I [^-- Hughes.
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The congregation of the First
Presbyterian church yesterday morn-ing
voted unanimously to- extend a
call to Rev. Dr. Charles F. Myers, of
Charleston, W. Va., to become pastor
of the church as successor to Rev.
Dr. Melton Clark, who is preparing
to move to Charleston, S. C. Dr.
Myers was the unanimous choice of
the committee of nine appointed to
recommend a pastor, and it is un-derstood
that he will accept the call
and come to Greensboro about Sep-tember
1.
Dr. Myers is 40 years of age and
has been in the ministry for 12 years.
He has been wonderfully successful
and is regarded as an ideal man to
take up the work of the First church.
He went to Charleston seven years
ago and took charge of a mission
church with 200 members and has
built up a strong church with a
membership of over 1,000. He is a
native of Lexington, Va., and a grad-uate
of Washington and Lee Uni-versity
and Princeton University.
Dr. Myers will come to the First
church as pastor at a salary of $S,-
600 a year and a manse furnished
by the congregation.
Tr. Unveil Vance Statue June 22.
Large numbers of prominent citi-zens
in every section of the state are
Planning to be in Washington Thurs-day
morning, June 22, for the cere-monies
for the unveiling of the
bronze statue of Zebulon Baird
Vance, which has been set up by the
state in statuary hall of the national
capitol as a representative of North
Carolina in this splendid hall -of
fame for American statesmen.
Judge W. A. Hoke. of the Supreme
court, chairman of the commission
for the erection of the statue, will
preside and the presentation address
will be by Clement Manly, for the
commission, and by Governor Craig
for the state.
The acceptance will be by Vice
President Thomas R. Marshall.
REPUBLICANS NAME HUGHES
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE IS
NOMINATED FOR THE HIGH,
OFFICE OF PRESIDENT.
Marries in Illinois.—Relatives
and friends in Guilford have learned
with interest of the recent marriage
of Mr. W. H. Ingram, of Colfax, 111.,
a native of this county.
Charles Evans Hughes, former
governor of New York, and associate
justice of the Supreme court, was
nominated Saturday for the presi-dency
by the Republican national
convention, in session in Chicago.
Charles Warren Fairbanks, of In-diana,
elected vice president with
Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, again
was chosen for second place.
Both nominations, made by over-whelming
majorities on the first bal-lot
of the day—the third ballot of
the convention for the presidency—
were by acclamation made unani-mous.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
presented by Col. Roosevelt as a com-promise
candidate, received seven
votes. Col. Roosevelt himself re-ceived
eighteen and one-half votes
scattered over twelve states.
The nominating ballot showed this
count:
Hughes, 949%; Roosevelt, 18%;
Lodge, 7; Dupont, 5; Weeks, 3; La-
Follette, 3; absent* 1. Total, 987.
Justice Hughes sent a telegram to
the chairman of the convention ac-cepting
the nomination. At the
same time he sent President Wilson
his resignation as a member of the
Supreme court and the same was ac-cepted.
A report of the nomination sent
out from Chicago says:
The nomination of Mr. Hughes
was made posible so soon by an over-night
break-up of the allied favorite
sons' combination which early this
morning released its delegates, prac-tically
all of whom were known to
favor Mr. Hughes when freed from
their instructions.
When the convention began busi-ness
shortly before noon the with-drawal
of the favorite sons was an-nounced
one after another and the
votes began flopping into the Hughes
column in solid blocks so rapidly
that the nomination plainly was as-sured
before the rollcall had gone
five states. When it got to Colorado
the drift was so apparent that a pro-posal
to make it unanimous was
made, but Chairman Harding ruled
that the balloting should take its
regular course.
Each addition to the Hughes col-umn
was greeted by yells of exulta-tion
from the rapidly accumulating
Hughes delegates and steadily state
by state the votes piled up until New
Jersey carried it. past the required
four hundred and ninety-four and
the remainder was only a formality.
In rapid succession as the voting
went on Dupont was withdrawn by
Delaware and his solid block .was
cast for Hughes. Illinois withdrew
Sherman, Ohio withdrew Burton,
Iowa withdrew Cummins, New York
withdrew Root, Massachusetts with-drew
Weeks. Practically all these
new votes were cast for Hughes, only
a few remaining in compliment to
the favorite sons who brought them.
Then one after the other. Senator
Weeks and Senator Lodge took the
platform, pledging loyalty to the
nominee and asked all their support-ers
to do likewise. Similar an-nouncements
were made from all the
favorite son delegations. The final
showed that Hughes had drawn his
votes from every state and every ter-ritory;
that Roosevelt's had been
scattered over twelve states; that
DuPont's five had come from South
Carolina; Lodge's seven from North
Carolina and the final three for Sen-ator
Weeks had come from Massa-chusetts
and Missouri.
White Man Succeeds Negro Recorder.
John F. Costello, Democratic na-tional
committeeman from the Dis-trict
of Columbia has been nominat-ed
by President Wilson to be record-er
of deeds of the district.
The nomination will eau33 wide-spread
interest, not only because the
president thereby declined to ap-point
a negro following a custom in-augurated
by Grover Cleveland, and
continued by every administration
since, but also because the nomina-tion
is just in advance of the district
appropriation hill, which carries a
provision tha* the district commis-sioners
shall appoint the recorder of
deeds.
The office of recorder has been va-cant
for two years, the president hav-ing
obtained the resignation of the
last negro occupant of the office, H.
L. Johnson, a Georgia Republican.
DROWNED WHILE TRYING
TO SAVE LIVES OF OTHERS.
Minor Hall, a young man 20 years
old, was drowned yesterday morning
in South Buffalo creek in an effort
to save the lives of two boys of the.
neighborhood, William Stanley and*
Hilllard Hodgin. The tragedy oc-curred
where ». new bridge is being
built on the Freeman's mill road,
about five milesMouth of the city.
Young Stanley and Hodgin were
swimming in a hole in the creek that
had been washed out by the recent
rains and got beyond their depth.
Hall and several- other young men
and boys were standing on the bank
watching the two swimmers, and
when their distress was noticed Hall
plunged into the water in an effort to
rescue them. He dived into about
15 feet of water and did not rise, his
clothing evidently becoming en-tangled
with some obstruction. His
body was recovered later.
Stanley and Hodgin were rescued
by seizing hold of a scantling passed
to them by those on the bank of the
stream. Hodgin appeared more dead
tnan alive when brought out of the
water and was revived after about
two hours' work by a physician. The
condition of Stanley was not no ser-ious
and he was revived more easily.
Minor Hall, the dead young man,
is survived by his widowed mother,
Mrs. M. M. Hall, three sisters and a
brother.
JESSE COLTRANE DEAD AT
ADVANCED AGE OF 90 YEARS.
Mr. Jesse Coltrane died Thursday
morning at his home in the Col-trane's
mill neighborhood of Ran-dolph
county, a few miles south of
High Point. He was 96 years old
and spent his entire life on the farm
on which he was born. He is surviv-ed
by two sons and two daughters,
who are: Rev! N. E. Coltrane, a
Methodist minister and a member
of the North Qarolina Conference;
Mr. Shubal Colti-ane, who resides at
the old famil/"nome; Mrs. Corinna
Kirkpatrick, of Missouri, and Mrs.
A. P. Tyer, wife of a well known
Methodist minister. Mrs. R. A. Mer-hitt,
of Greensboro, is a granddaugh-ter
of the deceased. Mr. Coltranes
wife died a number of years ago.
Mr. Coltrane, familiarly known to
a wide circle of friends as "Uncle
Jesse," was greatly beloved in his
community. He was a man of up-right
character and was held "in high
esteem by all who knew him. He
leaves many relatives in Guilford
and Randolph counties.
. The funeral was held Friday morn-ing
at Ebenezer Methodist church, of
which Mr. Coltrane had been a lead-ing
member for many years.
STANLY COUNTY BLACKSMITH
SHOOTS TOP OF HEAD OFF.
One of tiie most tragic deaths re-corded
in North Carolina recently
was that of Charles W. Furr, of .Mis-sion,
Stanly county. Thursday after-noon,
when the victim, who had the
reputation of being the most power-ful
man physically in the state, left
his wife and four little children in
an adjoining room, took a shotgun
from a corner in his bedroom and
blew off the top of his head. He
toppled over in a heap as his grief-stricken
wife and children, horrified
at the scene which met their eyes,
rushed out of doors and called for
help from the nearest neighbor.
The victim of his own rash act
was a giant in size, strength and
height. He was nearly six and a half
feet tall and weighed more than 200
pounds. He was a blacksmith by
trade and it had often been sa!d of
him that he could handle any three
men in the county together at the
one time. His muscles were like iron
and his strength phenomenal. The
dead man was 35 years of age, a ro-spected
resident of Stanly county, a
good farmer and citizen and one of
tne best blacksmiths in the state.
Visiting Relatives.—Mr. Richard
T. Wyche and his bride, who was
Miss Maude Arnbrister, of Okla-homa,
arrived Saturday on a visit to
the groom's brother and sisters, Dr.
J. E. Wyche, Mrs. E. Poole and Miss
Pearl Wyche. Mr. Wyche has won a
wide reputation as a story-teller and
is president of the National Story-
Tellers' League. He has lectured and
told stories in schools, colleges and
chautaquas all over the country. At
present he is engaged in writing a
book on the art or story-telling as a
means of entertainment and instruc-tion.
RUSSIANS DRIVE ENEMY BACK
FIVE DAYS OF FURIOUS FIGHT-ING
RESULT IN TELLING
VICTORIES.
Reports from Petrograd and Lon-don
say that five days of furiou^of-fensive
by the forces of General
Brussiloff has crumpled their oppo-nents'
lines from the Kovel-Sarny
Railway line to Bukowina, driving
ti.em back an average of 15 miles.
In the Lutsk sector the Russians
appear to have completely broken
through, turning the left flank of
the Austrian armies and the right
flank of tae German forces and cap-turing
Lutsk, the center of a number
of radiating roads and railways. At
several points the attacking Rus-sians
have crossed the Ikwa and
Styr rivers and further south they
are approaching the Stripa river.
The victories are attributable
largely to the avalanche of gunfire
which swept away dozens of tines of
entanglements and opened the way
for the troops, who swept through
in irresistible numbers. In some
places the Russian barrier fire cut
o- large Austrian units, which sur-rendered.
This accounts for the
large number of prisoners officially
reported captured.
tne operation began in the vicin-ity
of Olyka, where skirmishing has
been frequent lately. Both sides ap-peared
to have been feeling for a
weak spot in their opponents' line,
ine Russian advance from this
point, which is 25 miles from Lutsk,
was accomplished in two and one-half
days. During the long period
of inactivity the Austrians construct-ed
strong fortifications in this sec-tion.
The topography of the country
also formed strong natural defenses.
Military observers regard the ope-ration
as an extraordinary brilliant
achievement and emphasize the able
leadership of General Brussiloff, who
conducted the Carpathian campaign
and made a record for prisoners,
guns and munitions captured.
Lutsk is an important link,
strengthening the connection between
the southwestern region and the
northern section, and the possession
of it by the Russians is regarded as
a valuable step toward the recaptur-ing
of lost territory. The possession
of Lutsk is a direct menace to Lem-berg,
upon which place the austrians
now are massing their forces.
The prisoners captured are said to
be chiefly Hungarians and Austrians.
They include a very small propor-tion
of Slavs, who are chiefly em-ployed
on the Italian front.
Attacked While Celebrating.
London, June 9.—Reuter's Petro-grad
correspondent sends the follow-ing
concerning the Russian offensive
against the -^.ustro-Hungarians:
"Wounded Austrian officers assert
that the Russian .attacks against
their armies were totally unexpected.
On the eve of the attack the enemy
was celebrating the German victory
in the North sea with champagne
and cognac, but the opening of the
Russian* bombardment endeu ilit
festivities.
"From other sources comes t
tale of how Russians seized by sur-prise
an Austrian railway station
with its personnel. Fifteen minutes
later a military train with troops
and supplies arrived and all the
Austrians and supplies were cap-tured.
An hour later trainloads of
shells arrived and also fell into the
hands of the Russians.
"In one instance virtually a com-plete
Austrian division including two
generals surrenOered. The only per-son
to resist was a Hungarian Sister
of Mercy. She fired a revolver but
afterwards was disarmed without
difficulty." .
Front Broken For 94 Miles.
Information has reached the Rus-sian
embassy in Rome that the Aus-trian
front has been completely
broken along a length of 94 miles to
a depth of 37 1-2 miles.
The Russian advance, according to
the advices, now threatens to en-velop
the entire Austrian army in
the region affected, the Austrians
finding themselves attacked from
both the east and north.
Austrian Slav regiments are de-clared
to have been seized by panic
during*the first attacks by the Rus-sians
and to have surrendered with-out
any real resistance.
AMERICAN TROOPS MAY
BE SENT TO PEKINOf
A dispatch from Tientsin, China,
says that the United States troops at
that place have been ordered to hold
themselves in readiness to proceed
to Peking.
The dispatch also says the French
authorities already have sent a
strong force of native troops from
the French protectorate of Annam
to Peking. A delegation of officers
of the bodyguard of the new presi-dent,
Li Yuan-Hung, has assured him
of the fealty of the guard.
American Force in China.
Washington. June 9—Twelve hun-dred
men of the fifteenth infantry
under Col. Harry C. Hale, stationed
in Tientsin and along the railroad
between there and Peking, and a le-gation
guard of 330 marines consti-tute
the American military force in
China. It was said at the war de-partment
that Col. Hale might take
any nart of this force to Peking in
an emergency, without instructions.
He probably prepared to act as soon
as he heard of Presfdent Yuan Shi-
Kai's death.
State department advices front
Peking have indicated a remarkably
quiescent state of the Chinese pub-lic.
The foreign military comman-ders
of the international guards in
Peking have been in conference,
however, regarding necessary mili-tary
measures to deal with possible
disorder in connection with the in-flux
into the legation quarter of
large numbers of Chinese seeklnv
refuge.
HOUSE PASSES BILL TO
PROTECT THE PRESIDENT.
The house of representatives has
passed a bill introduced by Congress-man
Yates Webb, of the ninth North
Carolina district, prohibiting threats
against the president of the United
States. This bill is designed to re-strain
and punish those who would
threaten to take the life of, or in"
diet bodily harm upon the president
of this republic. It is the first and
highest o'uty of a government to pro-tect
its government agents in the
perform.'.nee of their puolic services,
from threats of violence which would
tend to coerce them or restrain them'
in the performance of their duties.
The bill provides that any person
who knowingly and wilfully deposits
or causes to be deposited for convey-ance
in tiie mail or for delivery from
any postoffice or by any letter carrier
any letter, paper, writing, print, mis-sive,
or document containing any
threat to take the life of, or to in-flict
bodily harm upon, the presi-dent
of the United States, or who
knowingly and wilfully otherwise
'nakes any such threat against the
president shall, upon conviction, be
fined not exceeding ? 1,000. or im-prisoned
not exceeding five years, or
both.
Russians Take More Austrians.
The capture of Lutsk, in Volhynia,
and also of a series of powerfully
HOUSE PASSES BILL TO
PAY FOR MAIL SERVICE.
The house of representatives has
passed the bill known as the star
route mail contractors b..., reported
by Hon. Edward W. Pou from the
house committee on claims.
The bill is of great interest to all
the Southern members of Congress.
The facts are that on May 30, 1860,
the postmaster general abrogated all
star route contracts in the Southern
states, and these contractors have
never been paid for service rendered
in carrying the mails from January
1, I860, to May 30. 1861, though
through all these years the amount
due these contractors for this ser-vice
has stood to their credit on the
books of the auditor for the post-office
department and has been the
subject of correspondence with both
the postoffice department and the
claims committee for the past fifty-six
years.
The bill carries about ,-25,000
for these contractors in the South.
North Carolinians will receive about
$30,000.
organized Austrian positions is an-nounced
in an official communication
given out at Petrograd.
In addition to the 40,000 Aus-trians
previously captured in the of-fensive
movement recently inaugu-rated,
the statement says there were
captured in last week's fighting 6:>
officers and 11,000 men. A large
amount of war material also was
taken.
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