The Greensboro patriot [June 26, 1916]

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GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY. JUNE 26,1916.
; MANDAMUS PROCEEDINGS
BROUGHT AGAINST CITT.
etarv Laus.ng.
=■'■ "',.;,:..,.i...(,. that the state
■'■■;,.. |V..,,V..; a communica-
■--■ . . facto goveramer"
;l Carrizal tight w.
'"' ;.',',,,!; of orders to attac:
. |.j ,; moving otherwis
ivernment
ras
attack
ise
.....,; . ^f. border personally
,,, General Carranza to Gen-
ETTreviuJ •li"1 :,J rl"' la!ler com"
,lled w General Pet-shing.
...i Secretary Lansing re-
.."..'•. ■> the de facto government
;,II:I, statement "as to
'".;,-, of action it has determined
.. iiviica the usual diplomatic
'".,.; -and not through subor-nsi'Jwry
officers."
IT, Mexican communication is
l-s'raed. Secretary Lansing states,
Lt formal avowal ".' deliberately
j. , din aeains; the forces of
|.-1 ted States now i;< Mexico and
■j. -,.:.;;> ise :i. attack without
t:,;:,•:■ \ whenever they move
|. • present position" despite
L (rj wily mission on which they
! ■:.,,.,: end »-::,•'. is reaffirmed
itt American rej >inder.
i;-:.-.! Carranza is required to
>•..:..self 13 record formally, and
:-... language o! Mr. Lansing's
iticu thai force will le
I . nee. Apparently, iiow-
:... ft'; s;.ii in :. troverr.ment is
:..•'.' ilia! the iio facto govern-
UJ !.. ii :. ; evade responsibility
^: rei . tvorlii ii war is forced up-
•::.-. foiled States.
Mrdrun \ote on Cla&h.
10. Just _:. Mr. Arredondo, repre-
■■Jssilie i • fuel ■ Mexican govern-l-
ivered :.h official communi-pion
to this government relative to
i fed) '■-.'•!, L'nited States cav-
V: rranzs forces at t'arrizal
ft'-Ol :.: aMi!: follows:
1»o directed by my government
■<■' excellency, with ref-
■ ■ '■ "'" Carizal incident, that
tilef executive through the
| W department, gave or-
"s ID Gen. Jacinto L;. Trevino, not
»*■<!.:: American forces from Gen-
•iPetstoj's column to advance
sbutu, nor io move either
from the points they
•'!• and to oppose new in-
I • Aresricitj soldiers into
T "fltoij. These orders
■:• Ceaeral Trevino to
Ciei.eral Pershing,
| '' ; ''"-■ < ■- receipt of the
• • * ri iative ;':.e;-c-to. On
" "- your excellency
|" .ii forces moved east-
';■" '-\ 'roni its base, not-
I !' : -' above orders, and
I. w ":' Mexican troops at
tu ' \r" '' I'hihuahua. As a
I * Weounter, several men
. .j','. '; '-:l;"'; and ivound-
Anicrican soldiers were
L r»'t«l sta»«»- Reply.
1 2t"n "•!"« of the Uaitea
,,';;.■;;-. ^retary of
1 . . ; '- "day telegraphed
L. A. Wachter, who is engaged in
the bill-posting business here under
the name of the Dixie Advertising
Company, has instituted mandamus
I proceedings against, hte icty of
Greensboro and the three city com-
; missioners, in which he prays the
rcourt to direct the commissioners to
; issue license to him to do a bill-post-ing
business in the city of Greens-boro
from June 1, 191C, to May 31,
1917— The summons is returnable
before Judge Thomas J. Shaw,, in
Creensboro, on July 3.
This is the newest chapter in the
controversy which has been waged
between the Dixie Advertising Com-pany
and the city commissioners for
the last six weeks. The storm cen-ter
is a bilboard on Summit avenue.
Two of the city commissioners have
recently discovered that this is a
nuisance and dangerous to travel, on
account of its being near the railroad
crossing, and are determined to have
it moved. The defendant contends
that the board is on private property
and is securely maintained and ques-tions
its being dangerous to travel.
The commissioners a few Veeks
ago passed an ordinance making it
unlawful to maintain & billboard
I within one hundred and fifty feet of
any railroad street crossing. This
ordinance, designed for this particu-lar
case, has been called into use
i against the advertising man, and he
| has twice been arrested under it. In
| one care, on appeal from the Mnni-
| cinal court, the jury found him not
I guilty, desoite the court's directions
I that a verdict of guilty he returned,
j if the jury believed tile evidence.
In May the commissioners passed
an ordinance requiring persons in
j the billposting business 'o make ap-
! plication for license to the board in
i session, and upon Mr. Wachter's ap-
I plying for license, he was refused
promptly. He then tecdare.1 i.: ;
money to the city clerk for license,
and it was again refused. A warrant
.was then issued for Mr. Wachter for
doing business without a license, and
this case is on appeal to the civil
court.
In his complaint Mr. Wachter sets
out the corporation of the city of
Greensboro, and the provision of its
charter and ordinance applicable to
the billboard controversy, and also
charges that he has been refused li-cense
unlawfully and arlrtrarily, and
asks the court by mandamus to re-quire
the defendants to issue the li-cense.
Mr. Wachter is represented by At-torney
Charles A. Kines.
THOMAS C. M'COY TO ANSWER
CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY.
The United States District court
here Friday took up one end of the
famous whiskey conspiracy cases of
Little Rock and Jacksonville, in
which John Casper, formerly of
Winston-Salem, is rervmg a nine
years' sentence in the federal peni-tentiary
at Fort .Leavenworth, Kan-sas.
The matter considered here
was whether or not T. C. McCoy, of
Asheville, who is wanted in Jackson-ville
and Little Rock, should be 3ent
to one of these places. McCoy is a
defendant and alleged co-conspirator
with Casper and others in the big
whiskey frauds.
The matter was heard by Judge
Boyd in the capacity of a committing
magistrate. Following the introduc-tion
of testimony and argument of
counsel. Judge Boyd ruled that the
defendant should appear for trial on
the conspiracy charge. McCoy was
required to give a bond of $3,000
for liis appearance at the December
term cf United States District court
in Jacksonville, Fla.
After McCoy had been indicted in
Jacksonville he was released by the
United States commissioner at Ashe-ville.
following an investigation that
lasted a week. He was arrested
about six weeks ago on a bench
warrant issued by Judge Boyd, who
was presiding over a term of court
in Asheville at the time. The hear-ing
was adjourned from Asheville to
Greensboro.
AMERICANS _WERE TRAPPED
TWO TROOPS OF CAVALRY PRAC-TICALLY
WIPED OUT BY
THE MEXICANS.
The two troops cf the tenth cav-alry
under Capt. Charles T. Boyd,
practically were wiped out by the at-tack
of the Mexican forces under
Gen. Gomez at Carrizal. June 21, ac-cording
to indications given in a
fragmentary report received by Gen.
FUnston from Gen. Pershing.
Gen. Pershing's message stated
that seven survivors in all, including
those who arrived las* night, have
reached the taain column. All were
enlisted men; but the report did tiot
say whetherithere were non-commis-sioned
officers among them.
Accordinggto the stories of the
survivors, aJ outlined in Gen. Per-shing's
report,' a mounted force of
Mexicans made a charge from the
flank of the'American troops at the
conclusion of a parley between Cant.
Boyd and Gjen. Gomez at the same
time that a machine gup opened fire
from the front as Gen. Gomez reach-ed
his lines.
Capt. Boyd had ordered his men
to dismount-as the machine gun
opened fire and the combined effort
of the Mexican garrison of Carrizal,
which had almost surrounded the lit-tle
American force under cover of
the parley sought by Gen. Gomez to
discuss whether Capt. Boyd should
he allowed to pass through the town,
The United States government | Legislative approval of President
took-steps Friday to provide for de- Wilson's use of the national -aard
pendent families of soldiers who re- in the Mexican crisis was vo'ed al-spond
to the call for arms when the. most unanimously by Qn houso Fri
BOOM by an almost unanimous vote j day in adopting a resolution declar-passed
the Hay resolution, providing j Ing the existence of an ere- gency
for an appropriation of $1,000,000 and giving the president a free hand
to draft as federal soldiers all
guardsmen willing to take the re-
The senate is expected
The Little Rock indictment was stampeded the horses.
brought before Judpe Boyd at Ashe-ville
last fall ar.ci McCoy was re-leased
because the warant had not
been properly certified.
Appearing as counsel for McCoy
Friday were Thomas Settle and Mc-
Kinley Pritchard, of Asheville; A. E.
Holton, of Winston-Salem, and w.
p
Att
the prosecu
Attorney Fred Botts, of Florida.
McCoy was formerly in the reve-nue
service and made his headquar-ters
in Greensboro for several years.
He is weil known in this section of
the state.
No details were made known to
Gen. Pershing as to whether the
Mexican charge was checked.
Fate of Men Sciileri.
With their mounts gone, caught
without means, of escape, ringed
to be used to take care of families
whose bread-winners are called to
arms. The bill provides that $50 a
month shall be paid to such families
as come under the above heading.
Furthermore, the house amended
the army bill so that the term of en-listment
of national guardsmen will
not extend to longer than three years
from the time they eater the federal
service. The Hay resolution as orig-inally
drafted would have compelled
state militiamen to remain in the
service ss long as the authorities
want them. Representatives Claude
Kitchin, Webb, Page, Doughton,
Stedman and Godwin, also a num-ber
of others, got together and had
the resolution amended so that the
men who are now leaving their
homes for the front cannot be com-pelled
to serve more than three
years, and their term of enlistment
with the federal forces shall expire
immediately after the present emer-gency
is over.
The step taken to provide for
the families of men called upon
to leave their homes for the front is
the first action ef the kind ever taken
by this government. It is sure to
iiave the effect of flooding the re-cruiting
offices with men who desire
to enlist, but up to this time have
felt that they could not do so in jus-tice
to their families. The only n en
quired oath,
to concur.
As introduced, the resolution
merely authorized the president to
draft guardsmen "whenever in his
opinion an emergency exists wh'ch
demands the use of troops in addi-tion
to the regular army."
As soon as the final vote on the
resolution had been taken it was
sent over to the senate, where it ar-rived
just as adjournment was being
taken. It was referred to the mili-tary
committee with the announce-ment
that unanimous consent would
be asked to consider it.
A proposal to authorize the presi-dent
to draft members of the naval
DUuua in time of emergency also was
introduced in the house today. It
introduced In the house. It was
attached to a naval militia pay
bill and would give authority for en-rollment
of naval militiamen as "na-tional
naval volunteers" whenever
the President should see fit to call
on them.
. Bynum, of Greensboro. District the little detachment is believed by son ohjected t0 the appropP,aUoil
ttorney Hammer was assisted in officers l-ereyto have been sealed. It cause he said tna, Us pass w(
ic prosecution by Assistant District is feared that only the most stupen- exclude ar.no anfi mn..™. „. ,
TWO KIMESVIIilE MEN
• IN BELLIGERENT MOOD.
to vote against the bill were Huddle-son,
of Alabama, and Meyer London,
abo.it on three sides with the fire of ,the socialist> ot New York Lo
an overwhelming force, the fate of does not beliove jn w and Huddle
be-vould
exclude sons and grandsons of Con-federate
soldiers from receiving any
benefit from the bill by reason of a
law passed soon after the civil war
which excluded forever Confederate
soldiers or their heirs from receiving
pensions or bonuses from the federal
govern mnet.
Chairman Hay, himself a son of a
PIG CLUB BOYS IK)!.I) AN
1NTERESTING MEETING.
t . ""ttunication to Mex-
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ted
ction
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[ J: -'-■■ 0O»f Jjune, by Mr.
I •::„... '','-' instruction of your
h^i ::;:::,!t.u b»twd««
X ■■■..,. ]"': '■' deliberately
ffctojj ■ ■' the forces of
'"' • 'n Mexico, and
vocation '!!!* t:'em wlth-rfrom
in..", -'*liever taey
fc-.,„. „;•;;, ^ent position in
S>8ent'tw' CtS f"r wl,ich
notwithstand-bjects
not
k IW' ti.M , lV" ■ ;:■>-.,!„. . ,:,°se oi.ie
I
olve
:■ tie
''" "uantfrri-endly
s,ven,t! intention
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C^irl.." the United
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><*«■„Z'*1 ffiara««fers.
fe^n, *• '"before, by
C"**ofth mand the »«-
1 e^n,4:'? "riS0,ie« taken
ttos*:. :.\arri»l. together
James and G. S. Patruin. brothers,
precipitated what is described as a
^near-riot at Kimesviile Friday night,
and as a result of threats to "shoot
up" that usually quiet village.were
incarcerated in jail and Saturday
face.. Justice of the Peace Collins on
TAR HEEL TROOPS TO GO
TO THE BORDER AT ONCE.
The understanding in Washington
is that the war department will send
the North Carolina troops to the
Mexican border just as soon as they
are mobilized and ready for the trip.
An order just sent out is inter-preted
as meanine that all state
guardsmen now being gathered to-gether
in concentration camps will
be moved -to the border as rapidly as
transportation facilities will permit.
The following order has been sent
to the heads cf the various military
organizations:
"The secretary of war has ordered
department commanders to send to
points designated by General Fun-ston
eacli regiment, separate battal-ion
or other separate organizations
the moment it is reported by you as
reasonably ready for service. Or-ganizations
must not delay departure
on acocunt of shortage in field trans-portation,
as this will be sent to the
designated points."
In other words, as Adjutant Gen-eral
Young reports to his superior of-ficer
that the North Carolina organi-zation
or any part of it is ready to
travel, orders will be issued designat-ing
what point on the border the
troops are to be sent to.
As things look now, the stay of the
troops at Morehead City is to be a
short one. Indeed, it is possible that
some of the companies may not go
there at all, but will be sent imme-diately
to the Mexican front.
dous luck, backed by desperate valor,
could hare ijct'-lcated Captain P.oj d's
men from the trap. The reports from
Mexican sources place the number cf
itilled, including two officers, at from
IS to 40. It is reported 17 were
taken captive into Chihuahua City.
The reports from General Pershing
stated that the stories of the surviv-ors
were confused and did not con-form
in all details with the report
made by the first arri"els from the
battlefield. Gen. Pershing reported
that there was a scene o£ wild con-fisicn
when the Mexicans opened fire
and their cavalry charger The strag-glers
apparently were ci.; off in an
effort of ('spt. Boyd to extricate his
the charge of an assault and drunk- |Men from ,he jaws o{ „,„ {rap which
enness. .was closing on his command or fkd
It seems that the two brothers be- , hefore tlle outcome of the -,a He
came infuriated over being discharg-; could he learned.
ed from the cotton mill at Kimes-viile,
and after one of them had pro-cured
a pistol they went to the mill
threatening to shoot Superintendent
White. A crowd gathered around
the belligerents and it is said there
was much talk of a threatening na-ture.
In some manner the revolver
in the hands of one of the Pat rums
was discharged, the bullet narrow-ly
missing a child.
Some one telephoned the sheriff's
office of the trouble, and Sheriff
Stafford and Deputy Phipps hurried
to Kimesviile by automobile. When
the officers arrived the trouble had
blown over, though it was feared
there might be another outbreak up-on
the return of the Patrum broth-ers,
who had gone away from the
mill. After a short search the men
were found in a body of woods near
by. Both men were drunk and prac-tically
helpless when placed under
arrest. They were brought to
Greensboro-and committed to jail.
At the hearing before Squire Col-lins
Saturday morning both defend-ants
were adjudged guilty. The ex-perience
cost James Patrum $18.50
and G. S. Patrum $13.50.
Goldsboro Machinists Strike.
The big machine plant of Dewey
Brothers in Goldsboro was forced
to shut down Friday on account of a
misunderstanding between the man-agement
and all of the machinists.
Including several of the apprentice
boys. They held a short conference,
put on their coats and walked out.
The trouble, it is said, grew out of
working a non-
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"user?,. ~e , • •HtJrJO'»!.eU' n■/■i't•ed States
a'-d to ia;orm
that the government of the United
States expects an early statement
from your government as to the' the management
course of action it wishes the govern- union man. The workmen belong to
ment of the United States to under- ] the machinists' union and would not
stand it has determined upon, and stand for it. It is rumored that an
that it also expects that this state- ' effort wil be made by the manage-j
ment be made through the usual ment to secure a new force, with the
■ diplomatic channels, and not through \ exception of the foreman, who did
subordinate militaV commanders." not take sides with the machinists.
The accepted percentage of wound-ed
io those killed in modern warfare
would piaca the wounded at from ^r,
to '■(> at ti.e lowest estimate. The
strength of the two troops. G and K,
is not known here but .; is estimated
that they culd not e\:eed 130 men.
Blowing for those rick and on de-taehed
servt'e. With on'- seven sur-vivors
reported as arriving at the
main column, the nur ber of those
accounted fir at least speculatively "»
pitifuly small.
STATE HOSPITAL PROBE
HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN.
The investigation of the manage-ment
of the Central Hospital for the
Insane terminated Friday with an
admission by counsel for the prosecu-tion
of the charges against Supt.
Albert Anderson and the manage-ment
of the institution that they
had failed to make out a case.
This admission came when, at the
conclusion of evidence for the de-fense,
a call was made for argument
by the prosecuting counsel.
They wanted time to get three
more witnesses, whose testimony it
was insisted could be only cumulative
and Chairman Aydlett would not
hold the case open. They wanted
Alexander Webb, chairman of the
board of internal improvements. Mrs.
Duvall and Mrs. Strickland, formerly
connected with the institution.
Counsel for the prosecution,
Douglass & Douglas and Mr. Ashby
Lambert, admitted that they had
An interesting mee-ing of % the
boys' pig club of the county was
held in the rooms of the Chamber of
Commerce Saturday morning and
was attended by 45 of the 60 mem-bers
of the club. Announcement
was made of the prizes offered in
the state-wide contest and also a
number of special prizes to be com-peted
for by the members of the
Guilford county club. A number of
business concerns in Greensboro and
High Poin.' have offered premiums to
be awarded at the Central Carolina
fair ip October.
Encouraging talks were made to
the boys by Mr. T. E. Browne, who
has charge of the pig club work in
house that the bill would not affect
any man or men whose family was
dependent. He assured the members
that the Southern families would
share equally with ell other sections
of tlie country.
Confederate veteran, assured the the state; Mr. E. H. Anderson, the
county demonstration agent; Mr. F.
C. Boyles, cashier of the American
Exchange National Bank; Prof.
Thomas B. Foust, county superinT
tendent of schools, and Mr. Garland
Daniel, secretary of the Central Car-olina
Fair Association.
VERA CRUZ IS THRONGED
WITH AMERICAN REFUGEES.
The streets of Vera Cruz are
thronged with American refugees
seeking quarters in the different
hotels and rooming houses. Many
of them will occupy benches or walk
the streets at night, because the most
available quarters were occupied
long since.
A special train of eight box cars,
carrying Americans and their bag-cage,
arrived in Vera Cruz after be-ing
ou the road for nearly 36 hours.
The train was in no way molested by
Mexican officials or the populace
while en route.
United States Consul W. W. Can-ada
has advised the state department
of trouble at Del Carmen, a port on
the east coast of Mexico, and in re-sponse
to his call the gunboat Wheel-ing
was sent to Del Carmen. The
Wheeling took off betwene 30 and 40
Americans. All Americans at Puerto
Mexico were ordered to board the
snips in the harbor.
Orange County Family Feud.
Lonnie Allen is in Watts hospital
at Durham, in an extremely preca-rious
condition from the effects of
the perforation of a lo.ad of No. 6
shot and Bunn Wilson is under a
S500 bond as the result of a family
feud among Orange county farmers
that terminated in a fusilade of fire-arms
that narrowly averted the
wercking of three lives. The affair
occurred Friday afternoon at the
home of Bunn Wilson, who resides in
the southern extremity of Orange
county. The wife of Lonnie Allen
had left him and gone to live with
her brother, Bunn Wilson, and as a
sequel to a series of threats, Allen
told his brother-in-law that he was
going to see his wife or die in the at-tempt.
He leveled his gun, where-upon
Mr. Wilson emptied a load of
shot into the abdomen of his assail-ant.
Allen shot twice in the mean-time,
the last ball from his rifle go-ing
wild as he Ml to the ground. The
stray bullet grazed the neck of his
wife, who was standing in the door-way.
Deport Villa's Wife - The unfortnnate duel ha„ ,
El Paso Tex June 24-Mrs. gin 80me thiny ^ ago wh(m ^
Francisco Villa, formerly Miss Luz ; wife of Allen left him and went back
Jova del Torres, arrived here yester- i home to „ve ghe c,aimed
day. saying sto had come trottHa- ilusband was a heavy drlnker and
vana, and was deported to Juarez by treated her badly.
city police.
As she was escorted to the Rio
Crande international bridge she car-ried
her year-old son. Francisco Vil-la,
Jr., in her arms.
"I don't mind being deported,"
she said. "I was on my way to Chi-huahua
City to see my mother, and
I don't Intend to leave Mexico again.
I don't like America or Americans."
30,01)1) MILITIAMEN ARE
ALREADY IN CAMPS.
More thap 30\000 of the 128,000
national guardsmen of the depart-ment
of the East, comprising 22
states east of the Mississippi and
District of Columbia, were In mobi-lization
camps Saturday night, six
days after the call was issued, ac-cording
to the report forwarded to
failed to make any case and with- ~""~~~~~~~"^*"^~
drew the charges—thus bringing to ! Sou,h America **** Intervene.
an abrupt close the hearing which it! The Chilean government has been . the war department by Major Gen-had
been thought would require at in active telegraphic communication eral Wood, commanding the depart-least
another day. I wjth the governments of Argentina, ment. Of this number Massachu-
' ! Brazil,* Ecuador and the United setts contributed 8,000 and jfew Jer-
Mr. L.M. Ammen, of the under- States regarding the possibility of in-^ey 5.000^
taking firm of L. M. Ammen & Co.. terventiqn of all the American na-J. North Carolina will have approxl-is
on a business trip to Northern tions to bring about a peaceful solu- mately 3.000 troops mobilized w.th-
Cltiea. tlou of the Mexican situation. < In the next few days.
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